Im sorry, I am confused by your reply... either hippies are bad, or you dont like good music.... :)
On Mon, 2003-08-18 at 15:36, Jim Carter wrote: > Only Hippies listen to KLSU, though. > > :-) > > Jim > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Mat Branyon > Sent: Monday, August 18, 2003 3:27 PM > To: [email protected] > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [brlug-general] Linux In Louisiana (in the past few days) > > > I am enrolled in the honors intro to computer science class (why its at > 9:30, neither the professor or I can figure out), and everyone might be > pleased to know... we will be using Linux exclusively as our operating > system of choice. The lab that the class is in (the WANT Lab) is full > of dual boot machines, running win2kpro and RedHat Linux (9.0 for all I > could tell). > > We will start off using the GNU C++ compiler, then move on to a > commercial compiler. The name for the compiler wasnt given, but the > price was... upwards of $1,000 per computer. I am not sure, but I think > we will be accessing these via slogin on one of the sun workstations. > > Sounded like news you guys might like. > > On a side note, I was driving through baton rouge, listening to my > favorite radio station (91.1 klsu) sunday evening. It was their weekly > news show, and they were talking about the blaster worm. They mentioned > that it sucked because the only alternative was the mac, and that was > too expensive. > > So I called up during the break, and told the dj about linux (at which > point he was like "yea, i've heard of that before). They put me on the > show and I gave a short 30 second spiel about Linux (but forgot to > mention brlug :( I was put on the spot). > > So I'm sure that got out to a bunch of listeners. > > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part Url : http://oxygen.nocdirect.com/pipermail/general_brlug.net/attachments/20030818/61afeea1/attachment-0001.bin From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon Aug 18 16:51:49 2003 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jim Carter) Date: Mon Aug 18 15:51:46 2003 Subject: [brlug-general] Linux In Louisiana (in the past few days) In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Neither. It's been a running joke that Linux is for Hippies for a while. Jim -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mat Branyon Sent: Monday, August 18, 2003 3:45 PM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [brlug-general] Linux In Louisiana (in the past few days) Im sorry, I am confused by your reply... either hippies are bad, or you dont like good music.... :) On Mon, 2003-08-18 at 15:36, Jim Carter wrote: > Only Hippies listen to KLSU, though. > > :-) > > Jim > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Mat Branyon > Sent: Monday, August 18, 2003 3:27 PM > To: [email protected] > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [brlug-general] Linux In Louisiana (in the past few days) > > > I am enrolled in the honors intro to computer science class (why its > at 9:30, neither the professor or I can figure out), and everyone > might be pleased to know... we will be using Linux exclusively as our > operating system of choice. The lab that the class is in (the WANT > Lab) is full of dual boot machines, running win2kpro and RedHat Linux > (9.0 for all I could tell). > > We will start off using the GNU C++ compiler, then move on to a > commercial compiler. The name for the compiler wasnt given, but the > price was... upwards of $1,000 per computer. I am not sure, but I > think we will be accessing these via slogin on one of the sun > workstations. > > Sounded like news you guys might like. > > On a side note, I was driving through baton rouge, listening to my > favorite radio station (91.1 klsu) sunday evening. It was their > weekly news show, and they were talking about the blaster worm. They > mentioned that it sucked because the only alternative was the mac, and > that was too expensive. > > So I called up during the break, and told the dj about linux (at which > point he was like "yea, i've heard of that before). They put me on > the show and I gave a short 30 second spiel about Linux (but forgot to > mention brlug :( I was put on the spot). > > So I'm sure that got out to a bunch of listeners. > > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net
