Canadian version of Ubuntu

[Daniel Robitaille]

On 8/5/06, Chris Thompson <cthompsonx at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I can recall a few years ago that one of the products I was using (I don't
> recall which, but I believe it was a Borland product, back when Borland was
> an influential player) included 128 bit DES encryption. The product was
> available over the web, and as part of the download process one had to
> 'certify' that you were located in the U.S. or Canada.

you had to do the same to download Netscape: prove that you were in
the US/Canada to get the "high" encryption version; if you didn't  you
would get the lower-level international version.


> Oh, and - Viva Turbo Pascal! (if you are too young to recognize the
> reference, that refers to a Borland product circa 1985; their Pascal, C and
> Assembler products ran rings around the MS products at a fraction of the
> price.)

Ah the good old days;  I spent a lot of time writing code (mostly
games for BBS)  in Turbo Pascal.  All of them saved to floppies, all
of them lost a long time ago...

-- 
Daniel Robitaille