Jacob H. Suter <jsuter@intrastar.net> wrote:
> The problem is with farms is that one thing goes down, its
> broken.  Lets say your central NFS server for /home and /var/mail
> die...  You're screwed.
   
   Why can't the same happen with a single box?
   
> Well "new crap" isn't that bad of a thing.  Forcing a school full of
> people to use outdated stuff is pretty shitty IMHO.  Students *do* pay
> for proper Internet access.
   
   But what if the "outdated stuff" is _BETTER_ than new crap? I claim that
proper ARPA Internet access is that through a VAX running Berkeley UNIX(R).
   
> How could I play my mp3's?
   
   That's the difference between a moderate and a radical. Being an
opponent of multimedia, I abstain from it and if I need to record music, I
use standard analog magnetic tapes.
   
   Sincerely,
   Michael Sokolov
   Phone: 440-449-0299
   ARPA Internet SMTP mail: sokolov@alpha.ces.cwru.edu