move to desert schools FCU. they use linux and and a few linux based tools
(such as MySQL (or so the techs over there have informaed me). the only place
where they use windows at all is some of the desktops in the front office.
Technmage
On Monday 27 January 2003 12:19 pm, you wrote:
> Actually it seems Saturday was the slow day. Despite my trying to
> eliminate the Evil Empires, constraints on my computing. My Bank
> (shamedly Bank of America) was hit and hit hard by this. While I do
> respect that I can use Galeon on GNU/Linux to do virtually every
> transaction fathomable online, I must say I am disappointed that this worm
> shut down their ATMs and online banking for nearly 12 hours on Saturday.
>
> :(
>
> ( http://sg.biz.yahoo.com/030127/72/36uj8.html ) Seeing how I'm an
> ARIZONA customer that had online banking to do, contrary to BofA's
> statement, I could not get to my online services from about 7am Saturday
> until 8am Sunday. Their webpage was up, but stated that overload would
> render the site unusable to please try back later. (Yes its time to change
> banks)
>
> -Derek
>
> Michael Havens said:
> > It does not seem like that from my perspective. Is that because my OS is
> > *nix? --
> >
> > :-)~Mike~(-:
> >
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