From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: dexen deVries To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2013 15:45:02 +0100 Message-ID: <3272499.rdNgRfybkm@coil> User-Agent: KMail/4.9.5 (Linux/3.7.0-l47; KDE/4.9.5; x86_64; ; ) In-Reply-To: <20130128142437.GA56383@intma.in> References: <20130128142437.GA56383@intma.in> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Subject: Re: [9fans] Why should I invest[tigate] plan9? Topicbox-Message-UUID: 0f3fab0c-ead8-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Monday 28 of January 2013 09:24:37 Kurt H Maier wrote: > Let me start out by saying I love this message. I thought fakepostin= g > had died, but clearly there are still some practitioners out there. > Here are a few hints: >=20 > - Nobody's ISP tells them what OS to run, even back in 1995. This > excessive detail deprives your message of the credibility it deserves= . 8<8<8< boring rant 8<8<8< my isp -- a local venture in poland -- did around 2008. they request we use ms windows on the router/gateway machine, instead o= f `some=20 strange os' -- linux. otherwise they won't take responsibility for the=20= downtime we were having. turned out, they forgot to whitelist our MAC=20= address. but hey -- it worked with their technician's ms windows notebook. 8<8<8< boring rant 8<8<8< --=20 dexen deVries [[[=E2=86=93][=E2=86=92]]] ``One disadvantage of the Univac system is that it does not use Unix, a= =20 recently developed program which translates from one computer language = to=20 another and has a built-in editing system which identifies errors in th= e=20 original program.'' - student newspaper