I love the users here in the labs...

[Zenmervolt]

The lab I'm working in right now is split between Unix machines and Windows machines. I'm sitting here watching a person using a Windows box to telnet into Unix, while sitting immediately next to the first of the Unix machines (which are all open because people are scared of KDE)...

Why would you telnet into Unix when you can just log onto a Unix box and have command line right there?

ZV

 

[bigalt]

i bet the average person who sits and uses the unix boxes is pretty stank nasty. i think i'd rather use one of the windows machines too.

 

[gistech1978]

why dont you ask him/her?

 

[vi edit]

Because the chances of having a female sitting next to you at a windows machine about about 100:1 over the UNIX boxes.

 

[Ikonomi]

Are you, the OP, using a Windows computer or a Unix computer?

 

[Zenmervolt]

Originally posted by: gistech1978
why dont you ask him/her?

Because I'm too lazy to walk all the way across the lab. (The green on black telnet window is easy to spot from across the lab.)

Plus it's their prerogative. I just found it amusing.

ZV

 

[Zenmervolt]

Originally posted by: Ikonomi
Are you, the OP, using a Windows computer or a Unix computer?

The operator machines are all Windows. Our print server management software is Windows only. Otherwise I prefer to use the Unix boxes. There's always room and they run faster.

ZV

 

[Ikonomi]

Originally posted by: Zenmervolt

Originally posted by: Ikonomi
Are you, the OP, using a Windows computer or a Unix computer?

The operator machines are all Windows. Our print server management software is Windows only. Otherwise I prefer to use the Unix boxes. There's always room and they run faster.

ZV

*nods, his curiosity satiated*

 

[gopunk]

perhaps because they want something from windows that unix doesn't have?

 

[isasir]

Originally posted by: Zenmervolt

Originally posted by: gistech1978
why dont you ask him/her?

Because I'm too lazy to walk all the way across the lab. (The green on black telnet window is easy to spot from across the lab.)

Plus it's their prerogative. I just found it amusing.

ZV

I bet if you were to ask this person if he knows what OS he's telnetting into, he'd probably guess Windows.

 

[neutralizer]

Originally posted by: vi_edit
Because the chances of having a female sitting next to you at a windows machine about about 100:1 over the UNIX boxes.

so true.

 

[Aharami]

cuz with windows machine, you can run other win apps along with the unix window (such as AIM, IE, etc)

 

[gopunk]

Originally posted by: isasir

Originally posted by: Zenmervolt

Originally posted by: gistech1978
why dont you ask him/her?

Because I'm too lazy to walk all the way across the lab. (The green on black telnet window is easy to spot from across the lab.)

Plus it's their prerogative. I just found it amusing.

ZV

I bet if you were to ask this person if he knows what OS he's telnetting into, he'd probably guess Windows.

a lot of the ones here dont' even know they're using unix... they think it's some sort of email program haha