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- Path: sparky!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!rutgers!cmcl2!panix!oppedahl
- From: oppedahl@panix.com (Carl Oppedahl)
- Newsgroups: alt.bbs.internet
- Subject: Re: Internet Access in NYC
- Message-ID: <C0q43w.A2C@panix.com>
- Date: 12 Jan 93 04:21:32 GMT
- References: <16B4D534.AVERNON1@ua1vm.ua.edu> <C0Jr2I.9M3@well.sf.ca.us>
- Organization: PANIX Public Access Unix, NYC
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- In <C0Jr2I.9M3@well.sf.ca.us> andras@well.sf.ca.us (Andrew Raskin) writes:
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- >Panix is a public access unix which I used for a while before changing
- >accounts. The single biggest problem with panix is that Alexis (hi
- >Alexis!) is a dunce and I still feel ripped off for ever giving him my money.
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- >If you login to panix you find out that the Sparcstation 2 is there
- >sitting in a room, and panix is running on a Mac because they have not
- >figured out how to hook a Sun into the network. Ponder that, Panix runs on
- >a Mac because they cant figure out how to hook up a Sun, the most common
- >machine on the internet. And these are people running public access unix?
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- The Sun works -- I'm on it right now.
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- >Panix always has stupid problems with simple things that should work right
- >but never do, the second problem I had while there was that nothing is
- >secured properly. The privledges never worked right, crackers are
- >constantly in the system because the sysadmins are people who should not
- >be running a public access unix its that simple.
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- Well, it seems to be working okay for me ...
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- Carl Oppedahl
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