From: John Malone (John.Malone at domain ireland.sun.com)
Date: Mon 10 Jul 2000 - 12:47:57 IST
* At 17:50, Niall O Broin wrote:
> No, I hadn't forgotten it. I've had to put it by for a while, but I'm back
> at it and I've got wvdial working now, which was a bit of a roadblock at the
> last count. So what I need now, to make this as comprehensive as possible
> for Irish use, is details for as many call-by-call ISPs as possible. For
> each ISP, I'll need
>
> 1) Phone number
>
> 2) PAP/Chap secret
>
> 3) IP addresses of primary and secondary nameservers
>
> 4) Name of ISP - this should include the location, because AFAIK all of the
> call-by-call ISPs use local POP numbers i.e. they don't use one number
> accessible nationally, unlike the for fee ISPs.
How about mailserver info in a text file somewhere?
John
>
>
>
> I've another quick question about the BBC - when it boots, it displays an X
> made from ASCII characters using the syslinux DISPLAY command like this
>
>
>
> W0000000S 40000000M
> v0000000u {0000000y
> c0000000p at domain 0000000?
> q0000000p s0000000n
> (0000000p d0000000)
> #0000000o {0000000d
> {0000000r #0000000P
> w0000000t a0000000y
> Linuxcare v0000000f 90000000w Support
> }0000000o <0000000! for the
> www.linuxcare.com /0000000r #0000000L revolution
> #0000000t s0000000&
> (0000000h v0000000}
> 40000000e ?0000000?
> n0000000r a0000000h
> o0000000e h0000000*
> i0000000v [0000000k
> t0000000o 90000000)
> CD version 1.2 u0000000l N0000000L
>
>
>
>
>
> This X looks like like nothing in particular (except that on the CD it's
> red), and I'm wondering whether on some video cards theres a character set
> used which makes it look better. Actually, I was think of using the Mandrake
> boot penguin, with some green notes for ILUG.
>
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Niall
>
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