Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Dale <dalek1967@×××××××××.net>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [Way OT] dial-up, switching isp's and other thoughts.
Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2008 09:00:30
Message-Id: 48CF7593.6040707@bellsouth.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] [Way OT] dial-up, switching isp's and other thoughts. by Alan McKinnon
1 Alan McKinnon wrote:
2 > On Tuesday 16 September 2008 05:14:26 Dale wrote:
3 >
4 >> Iain Buchanan wrote:
5 >>
6 >>> Dale wrote:
7 >>>
8 >>>> Iain Buchanan wrote:
9 >>>>
10 >>>>> Are they monthly charges? Wow, that's about $150 per year. With those
11 >>>>> savings you could afford a domain and someone to host it! If you don't
12 >>>>> want a full blown web host, many places will just store your email and
13 >>>>> manage the dns for you. Then you could have
14 >>>>> dale@×××××××××××××××××××.com as your email address!
15 >>>>>
16 >>>> I have thought of having my own site and stuff but being on dial-up just
17 >>>> takes ALL the fun out of it. The dial-up out here sucks even on dial-up
18 >>>> standards. I get 24Kb which is about 3KBs/sec.
19 >>>>
20 >>> you don't need to have your own site just to have a domain name and an
21 >>> email address...
22 >>>
23 >> True, if I was going to do all that tho, may as well go all the way.
24 >> ;-) I also like to keep it simple. Simple is good for me most days.
25 >>
26 >
27 > Or, you could game the system:
28 >
29 > Get yourself employed with the most decent ISP in your area, the one with the
30 > biggest infrastructure. Make sure you work in the back end services team. As
31 > an experienced Gentoo user, you probably know more than 90% of the techies
32 > they currently employ so that shouldn't be too hard. A little tweak of a
33 > config here, and little vi of a file there and hey presto! own domain all set
34 > up and working
35 >
36 > :-)
37 >
38 >
39 >
40
41 And with my luck, some free jewelry. That would be hand cuffs. :-(
42
43 This ISP search is crap. They all say unlimited then limit it in the
44 fine print. That sucks.
45
46 Dale
47
48 :-) :-)

Replies

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Re: [gentoo-user] [Way OT] dial-up, switching isp's and other thoughts. "Conway S. Smith" <beolach@××××××××.com>
Re: [gentoo-user] [Way OT] dial-up, switching isp's and other thoughts. Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>