[Az-Geocaching] Geeks and other essentials

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  ----> cute!

By the way, I'm not complaining/criticizing. I'm married to a
techie-nerd (actually, a "geek")...we use that term as a complete
compliment. If it wern't for the "geeks" the world would come to a
screeching halt. Or, the most complex thing we would do is join the
neighbors in a barn-raising!

:-) 

Trisha:  ---------> making the conscious decision to remain
semi-technology illiterate. I do fine with paper maps, my GPS, my
two-way radios (which I can program but not fix, my husband takes care
of that) and I swear everytime my computer hiccups. Or blinks.

HAve a great day and keep the world running!!!!


On Tue, 28 Jan 2003, "Mike Ingoglia" wrote:

> 
> :-)
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: <trisha@brasher.com>
> To: <listserv@azgeocaching.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, January 28, 2003 9:48 AM
> Subject: Re: [Az-Geocaching] The "Most Unsecure" OS
> 
> 
> > ....huh?...
> > 
> > 
> > On Tue, 28 Jan 2003, "Mike Ingoglia" wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > Message
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > This is why the Internet was pretty much founded on 
> > BSD based UNIX. Remember, LINUX isn't really UNIX, it's UNIX like. 
> > BSD based systems are tried and true and with other flavors of UNIX
> > still 
> > account for the majority of the Web servers on the Internet. Yahoo!
> > is run 
> > on FreeBSD servers, Hotmail (yes Microsoft) runs on FreeBSD servers
> > (they're 
> > slowly trying to change this... bad P.R., you know), Sony Japan
runs
> > on FreeBSD, 
> > Walnut Creek (the busiest FTP site in the world) runs on FreeBSD...
> > just to 
> > through this in, I believe Google runs on LINUX. If my numbers are
> > still 
> > correct, an Apache web server still (although just barely) has more
> > installs 
> > then all the other web server combined (I believe it's around 50%
of
> > all web 
> > servers run UNIX based Apache). Also, in defense of LINUX and the
> > other 
> > open source projects one thing you have to keep in mind is in mixed
> > environments 
> > the UNIX system is usually the one that's outside the firewall or
on
> > DMZ 
> > networks... it's pretty much out in the wind and therefore more
prone
> > to direct 
> > attacks. It is my opinion that UNIX is held to a higher standard
then
> > it's 
> > Microsoft counterparts. Although Microsoft took a huge step over
> > Windows 
> > NT when it introduced RRAS with regards to controlling open ports,
> > routing, etc 
> > it still has a lot of proving itself to do.
> > 
> > All this is coming from one of the first 
> > MCSE's... I was Microsoft certified before the rage of becoming 
> > certified. Many companies out there have tried to jump on the
> > bandwagon 
> > offering classes that basically allows you to memorize the
> > questions... also, 
> > the tests are exponentially easier then they were originally (the
> > Windows 3.1 
> > test was probably one of the most difficult Microsoft has made...
if
> > you can 
> > believe that!). I first became certified in 1994 so you can tell
I'm 
> > pretty much a Microsoft focused person. UNIX has always been a
hobby
> > of 
> > mine and something I've always used for DNS, firewalls, network
> > troubleshooting, 
> > etc. In fact, I'm building a new Apache 2.0 webserver in another
> > window of 
> > my computer right now (and... my desktop computer is running
Windows
> > XP... 
> > although it's behind my Cisco PIX firewall with strict firewall 
> > security)! I'm also one of the few people that have been
successful 
> > in getting a Microsoft webserver to be very reliable (maybe Brian
> > Lafrance, 
> > my coworker, co-conspirator with Team Leaplab, and our database
> > programmer 
> > might disagree :-) ). FYI: The Microsoft IIS server we run at the 
> > office has almost 500 websites hosted on it!!!!
> > 
> > Mike
> > Team Leaplab
> > 
> 


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