March 2002 - WLUG - wlug.mailman3.com

Re: [Wlug] Charter and MSN....

by Frank Sweetser

On Mon, Mar 18, 2002 at 08:33:16PM -0500, Brian J. Conway wrote: > > And who did it to me? Charter Communications....I wrote to > > Charter to get me out of passport ASAP. If they refuse, how's > > everyone feel about dsl? > > SpeakEasy.net is the _only_ way to go with DSL, and I'm sure if you search > the WLUG mail archives you'll come up with a dozen mentions of it (a > company with a clue, real services like static IPs, encouraging servers, > extremely reliable service, and so on). I'll leave it at that. =) Ditto. Decent pricing, full bandwidth, rock solid reliability, great online interface. The only complaint I have about speakeasy is that I couldn't afford them sooner =) -- Frank Sweetser fs at wpi.edu, fs at suave.net | $ x 18 Full-time WPI Network Tech, Part time Linux/Perl guy | Sam: What's going on, Normie? Norm: My birthday, Sammy. Give me a beer, stick a candle in it, and I'll blow out my liver. -- Cheers, Where Have All the Floorboards Gone

March 19, 2002

Re: [Wlug] Mandrake 8.2

by Brian J. Conway

> Has anyone tried this latest release yet? Does anyone know of a local > mirror for the ISO? Thanks! =) I just finished installing it on my laptop and getting everything up to speed after grabbing the ISOs and I can say that it is very, very slick. Someone else could probably give a better review, as I don't use KDE, Gnome, or the GUI configuration tools (WindowMaker and a lot of terminals for me). The only things I've run across so far is that a.) the AbiWord/AbiSuite package seems to have disappeared, though it might just be me missing it and b.) the vanilla kernel sources don't yet have DRI drivers for X 4.2.0, but the included kernel works fine with it. -b

March 19, 2002

Re: [Wlug] Charter and MSN....

by Wesley Allen

Every time I try to get out they KEEP pulling me BACK IN.....arrrghhhhh! On Mon, 2002-03-18 at 21:16, Clint Moyer wrote: > Would you expect otherwise from a company owned by the the > co-founder of Microsoft and it's 2nd largest shareholder? > > > > On 18 Mar 2002 20:14:14 -0500 > Wesley Allen <wallen(a)charter.net> wrote: > >Ummm, > > To say that I was pissed off would be putting it mildly. > > In the fall, > >Charter announced that they were beginning a > >"partnership" with MSN. > >Fine; but I realized that this meant that Charter would > >be trying to get > >all their subscribers on to .net. I don't want passport, > >I don't want > >.net. I wrote to Charter, calmly voicing my concerns and > >recieved an > >e-mail that NO CHARTER SUBSCRIBER WOULD BE SIGNED UP FOR > >A MSN PASSPORT > >WITHOUT THEIR CONSENT. Well, imagine my surprise this > >weekend when I > >recived a "congratulations" message for "deciding" to > >sign-up for > >passport! > > > >?!@#!!!@ > > > > And who did it to me? Charter Communications....I wrote > >to Charter to > >get me out of passport ASAP. If they refuse, how's > >everyone feel about > >dsl? > > > >Wes > > > >_______________________________________________ > >Wlug mailing list > >Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org > >http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug > > _______________________________________________ > Wlug mailing list > Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org > http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug

March 19, 2002

Re: [Wlug] Charter and MSN....

by Clint Moyer

Would you expect otherwise from a company owned by the the co-founder of Microsoft and it's 2nd largest shareholder? On 18 Mar 2002 20:14:14 -0500 Wesley Allen <wallen(a)charter.net> wrote: >Ummm, > To say that I was pissed off would be putting it mildly. > In the fall, >Charter announced that they were beginning a >"partnership" with MSN. >Fine; but I realized that this meant that Charter would >be trying to get >all their subscribers on to .net. I don't want passport, >I don't want >.net. I wrote to Charter, calmly voicing my concerns and >recieved an >e-mail that NO CHARTER SUBSCRIBER WOULD BE SIGNED UP FOR >A MSN PASSPORT >WITHOUT THEIR CONSENT. Well, imagine my surprise this >weekend when I >recived a "congratulations" message for "deciding" to >sign-up for >passport! > >?!@#!!!@ > > And who did it to me? Charter Communications....I wrote >to Charter to >get me out of passport ASAP. If they refuse, how's >everyone feel about >dsl? > >Wes > >_______________________________________________ >Wlug mailing list >Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org >http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug

March 19, 2002

Re: [Wlug] Charter and MSN....

by Brian J. Conway

> And who did it to me? Charter Communications....I wrote to > Charter to get me out of passport ASAP. If they refuse, how's > everyone feel about dsl? SpeakEasy.net is the _only_ way to go with DSL, and I'm sure if you search the WLUG mail archives you'll come up with a dozen mentions of it (a company with a clue, real services like static IPs, encouraging servers, extremely reliable service, and so on). I'll leave it at that. =) Brian J. Conway bconway(a)wpi.edu "I don't think Microsoft is evil in itself. I just think that they make really crappy operating systems." - Linus Torvalds

March 19, 2002

Charter and MSN....

by Wesley Allen

Ummm, To say that I was pissed off would be putting it mildly. In the fall, Charter announced that they were beginning a "partnership" with MSN. Fine; but I realized that this meant that Charter would be trying to get all their subscribers on to .net. I don't want passport, I don't want .net. I wrote to Charter, calmly voicing my concerns and recieved an e-mail that NO CHARTER SUBSCRIBER WOULD BE SIGNED UP FOR A MSN PASSPORT WITHOUT THEIR CONSENT. Well, imagine my surprise this weekend when I recived a "congratulations" message for "deciding" to sign-up for passport! ?!@#!!!@ And who did it to me? Charter Communications....I wrote to Charter to get me out of passport ASAP. If they refuse, how's everyone feel about dsl? Wes

March 19, 2002

Re: [Wlug] fyi - slightly OT

by Wesley Allen

"boogie"? On Mon, 2002-03-18 at 17:16, jeff wrote: > man, times are tough...money's hard... > > was wondering if any o' you cats know anyone who's hiring. > > i'm you're all purpose desktop support guy...and yes, i > really do like helping end users. > > mad skillz: installing (name it), some dns, some email, > html, javascript, php...blah blah > > you guys have always been cool and will continue to be > > i've been out of a job and bummed for like 3 months > now...no keyboards or call tickets or programming or > teaching or linux classes or anything for me :-( > > except what i boogie with at home! :-) > > thanks much > > -jeff > debian freak > lover of the RUBY language > tech instructor (part-time...and i mean VERY part-time) > very stressed/burnt out tecchie who just wants to have fun > _______________________________________________ > Wlug mailing list > Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org > http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug

March 19, 2002

Re: [Wlug] RE: [WPILA-Discuss] Gentoo Linux Distro

by Frank Sweetser

On Mon, Mar 18, 2002 at 05:35:26PM -0500, Josh Huber wrote: > Frank Sweetser <fs(a)WPI.EDU> writes: > > > Someone please tell me if I'm wrong, because that seems like a > > pretty hackish way to do things. > > Yeah, you're wrong. Please read what I posted, especially: > > "By default, after installing this package, the compilers will behave > normally. However, if the environment variable DEBIAN_BUILDARCH=pentium > is set, they will enter pentium optimized compile mode." Okay, that's not nearly so bad. I still prefer the rpm way, but that's a reasonable solution as well =) -- Frank Sweetser fs at wpi.edu, fs at suave.net | $ x 18 Full-time WPI Network Tech, Part time Linux/Perl guy | When I have a kid, I want to buy one of those strollers for twins. Then put the kid in and run around, looking frantic. -- Stephen Wright

March 18, 2002

Mandrake 8.2

by Tim Trachimowicz

Has anyone tried this latest release yet? Does anyone know of a local mirror for the ISO? Thanks! =) --Track

March 18, 2002

Re: [Wlug] PowerPC board

by Josh Huber

"Charles R. Anderson" <cra(a)WPI.EDU> writes: > Not sure, but isn't Linux already ported to PowerPC? Well, yeah...but porting to a new board is still a lot of work ;) ttyl, -- Josh Huber

March 18, 2002