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Re: Funny Story



Steve Witt wrote:
> I don't know if this story is true or not, but I hope it is. A guy who is
> our sys admin said he read on a sys admin type mailing list that the crew
> of the International Space Station are having some computer problems just
> like a lot us down here on earth. It seems that the U.S. provided
> computers running AIX and Win NT. A Win NT computer is being used as an
> SMTP server. Apparently the crew are becoming experienced Win NT sys
> admins because they are having all kinds of problems with the SMTP server.

Yes, you can read all about it in the journal of one of the astronauts.

> The Russians brought computers running Linux. They seem not to be having
> SMTP server problems.

I haven't seen any evidense it's linux though, or any mention of what OS
it is.


OTOH, remember that debian has flown in space before..

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see shy jo



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