All the talk over the past couple years about the shortage of numbers, and I have a Class C number that I can't use, and NSI won't take back. I grabbed it way back before CIDR days, used it for a year or so, now have cable modem access, and can't use it -- nobody will route it for me.
Actually, linux running SAMBA has repeatedly been tested as being a "better NT server than NT". I recall one study done by someone at DEC about 4 years ago. He tested a SAMBA machine (I don't remember the OS, but I'm fairly certain it wasn't linux) against NT (3.51 was then current, I think), DEC Pathworks, and the AT&T SMB server. The SAMBA machine beat them all hands-down. (Sorry I couldn't come up with a reference, but I read it on the SAMBA-users mailing list a few years ago.)
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All the talk over the past couple years about the shortage of numbers, and I have a Class C number that I can't use, and NSI won't take back. I grabbed it way back before CIDR days, used it for a year or so, now have cable modem access, and can't use it -- nobody will route it for me.
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Actually, linux running SAMBA has repeatedly been tested as being a "better NT server than NT". I recall one study done by someone at DEC about 4 years ago. He tested a SAMBA machine (I don't remember the OS, but I'm fairly certain it wasn't linux) against NT (3.51 was then current, I think), DEC Pathworks, and the AT&T SMB server. The SAMBA machine beat them all hands-down. (Sorry I couldn't come up with a reference, but I read it on the SAMBA-users mailing list a few years ago.)
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