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On Mon, 2005-11-28 at 18:11 -0600, Dale wrote: |
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> Ognjen Bezanov wrote: |
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> > I dont want to have to come home and ssh in to restart everytime my |
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> > ISP reboots its M$ Servers. |
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> It's funny that you say that. One of the first things I asked my ISP |
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> when I was looking for one, what OS do you use? If they didn't use |
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> *nix, I was going to keep looking. It is very rare that I have any |
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> trouble either. |
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> Another thing I like about mine is the service. When I call them, I get |
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> a live human being that answers the phone. They don't have a automated |
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> thingy, just people. I have talked to the owner once and have actually |
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> had the guys that run the network to call me for help. I am the only |
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> one that runs Linux with the logs turned on and it gives them a lot of |
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> info if they are having any connection problems. I guess windoze |
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> doesn't. They call me and get me to connect and see what happens. If I |
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> can't connect, I call them back and read them the log files and the boo |
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> boo message. They had the login/password file get borked once. They |
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> said it was there but it was messed up. They took the one from their |
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> back-ups and up it went. We were surfing again. :) |
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> Ever consider switching ISPs or are you stuck with the one you have? |
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> I'll switch for DSL but that is about it. Dial-up sucks, 26K is all I |
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> get here. |
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> Dale |
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> :) :) |
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> To err is human, I'm most certainly human. |
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My wife says that we can try SBC DSL after the new year starts (when we |
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can afford it.) I just hope that I can get everything converted over to |
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PPP.... |
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