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Mmm. I friend of mine just phoned me because he could not boot into linux - I'm his free support hotline, by the way ;-) <snippage> I hope to be sleep before he finishes ;-)
boy, been there.. got kid in Oklahoma , pissed at the latest round of worms etc. I sent her a brand new pkgs of Suse ( chumbo had a nice price including "free" fedex shipping ) She got it Mondya, and we spent a few days and long hours trying to fugure out why her modem ( USR ext.) wouldn't connect... and after we'd poked at and changed nearly every file possible she said she was going to go to bed.. called back the next ayem and said it was working just fine, set her kids up w/ their own desktops and everyone is happy , including her hubby who now has his own desktop <G> Now it's just to update everything and there's a lot... but so far Earthlink has treated her and her linux connect questions very well. She is half a continent away and email is a much cheaper way to go than voice lines, unless you have one of those wireless phones like the ones from Pacbell or some of the others that offer some sort of family setup I don't... SOme days one really has to get away from ringin g phones and demands for one's time.. totally connected and always available can be a real drag at times! <sigh> oh yeah, for those who wonder, I sent her the 8.2 because I know it's solid and it will be around long enough for her to get used to it... eventually she will want the latest and newest , like her mum.. But for that , she will need at least one more computer <G> (9.0 should be out soon and I'll be back to the testbed and playing w/ it again yay!!) At least I've installed enough copies of 8.2 on enough computers that barring a weird ISP ( and there are still a lot of those !) I can actually set it up on the phone. Next project, to figure out what tunneling software can let her connect to my lan here w/o driving up both crazy . Her modem and isp gives her a different ip each connect so I'm not really certain how to handle that .. This'll be my first tunnel that isn't on a static ip setup. time to hit the books again I guess. ;-) -- j nemo me impune lacesset