"Joe Morris (NTM)" writes:

On 01/18/2003 12:59 AM, Mark Gray wrote:

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Mark Hounschell writes:

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No I was just implying that the kernel you are using might not be as "stable" as you think.

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Good point, but I have not experienced any crashes or anomalous behavior since updating to it on 20 Dec 2002, so I would say that it is stable enough for my purposes (touch wood:-)

Sorry for the personal email, but thought it best. IIRC, you have the -167 kernel. I just downloaded it a few days ago and found it still had a patch that broke ppp for me.

Thanks for the heads up, but I use ppp as seldom as possible -- my ISP allows me to direct dial to their shell account server. There is no ppp overhead, no chance of a cracker accessing my home system, and as long as I am only interested in text, it is like having an ethernet connection to the Net -- web pages load instantly, and ftp and irc servers give much better service as well. [snip]