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Re: OT: M$ Proxy Server



also sprach Robert Vazan <robertvazan@host.sk> [2002.09.25.1826 +0200]:
> There are two problems:
> 1. "Transparent" proxy using WSP clients.
> 2. Authorization of web access.
> Which one is yours? I was thinking the first one. The link above
> solves only the second one.

Right. But web access is the most important to start with. And maybe
one can work from ntlmaps upwards...

> > simply because they get charged by volume according to the account
> > they use for authorization.
> 
> Now I am lost. Who is being charged for what? Students for web
> access? Students don't get internet for free?

nope.

> > consequently instituted the proxy server. the school is a M$ Project
> > school, so their experimental grounds, and Micro$oft is, once again,
> > actively abusing their power to drive the others out. Great.
> 
> Are they paying whole school? Only IT stuff? Just give software
> licenses? Or is it just that IT staff is MS-happy/Linux-unfriendly?
> If they are just providing licenses for zero/low price, then they
> aren't going to be important.

supposedly they funded two computer labs and students get discounts on
software.

> If they are all-from-MS, then ask them if they could kindly provide
> Microsoft Linux distro. :-) It's possible, it's legal, it's going to
> be popular, then why not?

;^>

-- 
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a good scapegoat is nearly as welcome as a solution to the problem.

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