Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/12/07

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Renewed website
From: Greg Locke <locke@straylight.ca>
Date: Tue, 07 Dec 1999 14:56:54 -0300

At 12:37 PM 07/12/99 -0500, you wrote:

>I saw some very appealing work... and then the site fell over.  The
>host still seems to be up (nmap says it smells like Windows NT/98/95)
>but the web-server stopped picking up the phone.  When will people
>stop trying to host web-sites on the wormeaten infrastructure pushed
>by Microsoft?  If you can actually manage to get work done in their
>desktop environment, fine, use it;  but NT and IIS are not a quality
>server architecture.  Ick.  And yes, the connectivity through
>kingston.net still seems to be there -- it must be the "software".

yes, indeed. I too am having trouble connecting again from here.
I'm sure it's because EVERYONE on the LUG rushed right over to have a look
and overloaded the server!!  ;^  ....just kidding.

thanks,
Greg Locke                           locke@straylight.ca
St. John's, Newfoundland.            http://www.straylight.ca
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