The free trials really are not bad alternatives at all.

@RAM. said:

@scottalanmiller said:

@RAM. said:

I'm not sure why we haven't switched to IPv6 sooner, sure its a little more complex in terms of proper notation and subnetting, but its more secure as a whole, and offers much greater scalability.

Because it isn't available. Almost no ISP gives you an IPv6 address. If we had good access to IPv6 for all of our home users we would switch.

We've been using IPv6 on our Pertino network for a while.

I was referring to the collective sense of the word "we" which incorporated ISP's

Ah ha

A classic Windows 98 Moment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKtGXPfabLQ

@ambarishrh said:

@StrongBad I like it, but I am still a fan of Amazon web services! 🙂

Glad to hear from another AWS fan!

@scottalanmiller subversion. we are still using it! Need to migrate all those to GIT. Currently on testing/training phase.

@Bill-Kindle said:

Since you have points history, any way to approximate the time I reach PC?

I can estimate that. I'll try to take a look.

Even here in our country photo's are little biased. It happen to me before i ordered the food because it looks great thought that the taste is delicious but when i saw the actual food sigh not the same in the picture.

That's the most classic DOS version. I had forgotten about the filesystem integrity issues of DOS 6.

@StrongBad said:

Did you get a chance to try it? I am interested in hearing feedback on it.

When I have time I will try it and let you know. Its on my to do list.

@Dominica said:

He thinks it makes him look smarter if he has a problem with Linux, because Linux is "hard". Windows is generally accepted as "easy".

I think in general techs can get frightened with they dont see a GUI.

@garak0410 said:

I always wanted a copy of OS/2 to virtualize. Tried a few times and never could get it virtualized. Just for nostalgic reasons...

I had some while I was at IBM. But even in 2000 they had basically transitioned away from it. But Token Ring was still going strong.

I'm from the Rochester LATA. No way to use a BBS there. You'd have to have been a millionaire to have afforded that.