[ale] Another bad linux/isp scneario...

[Thompson Freeman]

With the right publicity - you have made a monumentally good suggestion.

On Wed, 19 May 1999, Michael A. Smith wrote:

> 	I think that Microsoft and Intel have brainwashed another ISP.  Sometimes
> you feel like you're in the old USSR and Microsoft is the president of the
> Communist Party.
> 
> 	My cable company has the same specs but I luckily had an upgradeable
> motherboard and I was able to pick up a chip for about 50 bucks.  I think
> the issue is with their installers.  Most of them barely know Windows much
> less Linux.  Here's an idea.....  Maybe we could right up a document that
> tells the Cable companies how to set up their connections to Linux......
> 
> 
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-ale at ale.org [mailto:owner-ale at ale.org]On Behalf
> > Of Eric Webb
> > Sent: Wednesday, May 19, 1999 7:53 AM
> > To: ale at ale.org
> > Subject: [ale] Another bad linux/isp scneario...
> >
> >
> >
> > Well, after four days of trying to get a hold of Charter
> > communications in
> > the Coweta county area, I'm going cable modem.  But I have to
> > wait until I
> > build a Pentium box.
> >
> > Once again, the bowels of this windows-centric world forced me to bend
> > over and beg for their mercy.  They basically wouldn't even
> > speak to me
> > unless I had a P100+ with 16M.  This kind of precludes my 486 running
> > ip_masq, eh?  Oh, and forget trying to talk to a technician.
> > If I didn't
> > pass the first test, then there's no way it could possibly
> > happen, right?
> >
> > So, fuck them.  I am in the middle of building a box, and they will
> > install to it.  But that doesn't prevent me from re-arranging things
> > later.  (Maybe I should throw them a loop and have RedHat
> > running on it
> > when they show up.  Ooh, I know!  Make them install it onto
> > my '060 Amiga.
> > Hahahahahahahaha!)
> >
> > If Charter ever expects to grow this service, they're going
> > to have to a)
> > get more than one person to answer the friggin phone and b)
> > be a little
> > friendlier.
> >
> >
> > Eric
> >
> 

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