[plug] Linux in The West

Fri Mar 19 01:39:10 WST 1999

The box is a toy of some research guy or annother, I can't remember his name.
It runs many different OS's from time to time. It's owner asks politely that
nobody make a huge fuss over it or he will likely be asked not to use it as
such.

This is what I gathered in the aftermath of Halloween I, which mentioned the
box, causing much contention as to the authenticity of the document (It was
running Red Hat 5.x at that point in time). A note found on the server gave
the general gist of who was running it and why.

Gavin Tweedie wrote:

> > > While we're here... http://www.netcraft.com/Survey/influence.html - why
> > > is egg.microsoft.com so high in the list, and why is it running Linux?
>
> Linux?
>
> [root at aurora /root]# telnet eggplant.rte.microsoft.com 80
> Trying 131.107.85.208...
> Connected to eggplant.rte.microsoft.com.
> Escape character is '^]'.
> asdfasdfasfd
>
> HTTP/1.1 400 Bad Request
> Server: Microsoft-IIS/5.0
> Date: Thu, 18 Mar 1999 07:06:58 GMT
> Content-Type: text/html
> Content-Length: 87
>
> <html><head><title>Error</title></head><body>The parameter is incorrect.
> </body></html>Connection closed by foreign host.
> [root at aurora /root]#
>
> not linux...more like win2000 by the looks...