[ILUG] Just a test mail - Jesus I can't belive I got this to work !

[Stee Renwick]

Thanks John, 
what you said was very true.
Theres a lot of people out there ( in the linux world ) who knock gobshites
like me which can be be-littling, Still though I'm as happy as a pig in poo
with my progress ! !

On Tue, 29 Feb 2000, you wrote:
> How incredibly arrogant.
> 
> For a first-time linux user, there are numerous reasons why they might not
> be able to get ppp set up.  First of all, they could be (unknowingly)
> using a winmodem.  Second, it could be an ISA modem with certain IRQ/io
> conflicts (I've had experience of Linux being completely unwilling to
> believe me when I told it there was an ISA modem on a certain port with
> certain IRQ/io values, when O/FBSD would).  Third, and most important of
> all, is the psychological factor.  A lot of people don't believe they CAN
> get stuff like this set up, so they go into the situation believing they
> are going to fail.. and because of this, they usually do.
> 
> Mocking people because they can't do something that's become routine for
> you isn't big, and it's certainly not clever.
> 
> For shame.
> 
> - John
> 
> On Tue, 29 Feb 2000, John P. Looney wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, Feb 29, 2000 at 02:13:45AM +0000, Lars Hecking mentioned:
> > >  Tsk-tsk. I just can't get ppp to work from Linux, which is why I'm dialed
> > >  in from OpenBSD right now. No problem with NetBSD either ...
> > >  uhh, off-top
> > 
> >  This I cannot believe. The guide to "How Kate setup PPP on his home box".
> > 
> >  1) Click on gnome menu/Internet/Dialup configuration tool
> >  2) Enter root password
> >  3) Accepted found modem
> >  4) Typed in phone number, username and password
> >  5) Clicked "start"
> > 
> >  That's it people. If you can't get PPP working on RedHat 6.1, you should
> > blame the lobotomy that your parents got you for your fifth birthday, not
> > the OS.
> > 
> > Kate
> 
> 
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