[wplug] Stuff at Pitt

[Bryon Gill]

I went to Pitt for undergrad, and they did their mail through Unix
(eventually Solaris)- you would telnet from your windows box and use
pine.

I always thought it was funny that you could type "netscape" at the
command line and it would look like it was trying to do something.

But now I run linux and by ssh'ing into Pitt, I can forward the X
connection and a netscape browser appears on my desktop.  Lots of
people's first interactions with *nix seem to be through a telnet/mail
situation like mine, and they associate unix with Microsoft Telnet.  Ick.

Just some thoughts.  Sorry to clog your boxen.
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Bryon Gill (aka abe ferlman)


On Thu, 31 Jan 2002, kf3cr wrote:

>
> On Thu, 31 Jan 2002, Chris wrote:
>
> > I worked in the labs for 1 1/2 years.  Pitt has an agreement with MS to give
> > away the software.  Pitt "pays" for the CDs and can burn as many as they
> > want.  As for the Linux machines in the Masonic temple, they are RH machines
> > with Flat Screens.  They are pretty nice but I think that they are lacking
> > some software.  I feel that they should have put StarOffice on it.  The only
> > word process that I saw was gedit.  It's definitly better then the Sun
> > machines that they have setup, well at least for the average students.  I
> > never really thought about seeing if Pitt will hand out linux.  I could talk
> > to one of the Head people in CSSD and see what he says.  Oh yeah, You can
> > get them anytime, but you can only get one copy.
> >
> 	You can get StarOffice and a bunch of other crazy applications on
> the sun machines in the Beh lab.  Type "setup -list" to get a list of
> them.  I cant seem to figure out how to get staroffice to run at the
> moment, but I was using it last semester on the sun machines.
>
>
> > Chris
> >
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