On Sunday 28 November 2004 16:53, Dylan wrote:

Jesse,

Are you talking about getting a dialup connection in the first place? If so, you want penggy from http://www.peng.apinc.org/ but you'll need to compile it from source as it has trouble with some package versions from 9.1

Dylan

Hi Dylan, Yes, it is a dial-up connection. I'll take a look at penggy, I don't mind having to compile, and besides, it'll introduce my friend to the concept. Thank you, Jesse

On Sunday 28 November 2004 05:07 pm, Jesse L. Purdom wrote:

On Sunday 28 November 2004 16:59, Patrick Shanahan wrote:

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* Jesse L. Purdom [11-28-04 16:45]:

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Has anyone run into this before? Is there an alternative client I can have him use in place of the AOL Windows client. I don't want to install Wine as the system he uses is rather slow and I'm not sure that performance would be acceptable.

In earlier *internet* days, this post would bring laughs and flames you cannot imagine.

*Everyone* can do without AOL, just as you can miss the first 15 minutes at the movies and loose nothing except the comming-attractions and 10 minutes of commercials.

AOL is windoz of the internet (tm). I Said That!

I agree whole heartedly, but what can you do? At least I've gotten him to look at an alternative. AOL may be more trouble than it is worth, but it is till everywhere. I am an independent computer consultant and I can't count how many clients I have who run AOL. To have someone actually ask about alternatives is a big deal. :-)

Jesse ==============

Jesse, I think most of us here would recommend that if you can get him to switch to Linux, then you can get him to switch to a better ISP, possibly even broadband. Here is a site I had found or heard about in using AOL in Linux, but never got a chance to try it, because the customer dropped them cold turkey when I switched them to Linux! http://www.peng.apinc.org/eng/index.php Let us know if you get it working and how well. At least let me know, as I would still be interested to hear. and remember; Have a lot of fun! Lee

Patrick Shanahan wrote:

* Jesse L. Purdom [11-28-04 16:45]:

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Has anyone run into this before? Is there an alternative client I can have him use in place of the AOL Windows client. I don't want to install Wine as the system he uses is rather slow and I'm not sure that performance would be acceptable.

In earlier *internet* days, this post would bring laughs and flames you cannot imagine.

*Everyone* can do without AOL, just as you can miss the first 15 minutes at the movies and loose nothing except the comming-attractions and 10 minutes of commercials.

AOL is windoz of the internet (tm). I Said That!

AOL used to be very useful at one time, when their software came on floppies. You could easily peel their label off and reformat the diskette. When they switched to CDs, a great source of free floppies dried up. ;-)

Bruce Marshall wrote:

On Sunday 28 November 2004 05:42 pm, James Knott wrote:

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AOL used to be very useful at one time, when their software came on floppies.  You could easily peel their label off and reformat the diskette.  When they switched to CDs, a great source of free floppies dried up.  ;-)

And a great new world of drink coasters opened up.... :-)

Watch out! Those coasters might have IE upgrades on them. Wouldn't want to miss that opportunity to avoid Windoze Update. -- "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof..." U.S. Constitution, Amendment 1 Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 Felix Miata *** http://members.ij.net/mrmazda/

On Sun, 2004-11-28 at 13:59, Patrick Shanahan wrote:

* Jesse L. Purdom [11-28-04 16:45]:

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Has anyone run into this before? Is there an alternative client I can have him use in place of the AOL Windows client. I don't want to install Wine as the system he uses is rather slow and I'm not sure that performance would be acceptable.

In earlier *internet* days, this post would bring laughs and flames you cannot imagine.

*Everyone* can do without AOL, just as you can miss the first 15 minutes at the movies and loose nothing except the comming-attractions and 10 minutes of commercials.

AOL is windoz of the internet (tm). I Said That!

I use www.access-4-free.com which gives you the first ten hours and a dollar per hour for the next ten and no more per month. AFAIK AOL > $20. also hotpop.com for more free addresses. Amen on the last about AOHell home of the most egregious censors. -- ----------=====<<<<<CWSIV>>>>>=====---------- | \ /|\ || |\ / |~~\ /~~\ /~~| //~~\ | \ / | \ || | X |__/| || |( `--. |__ | | \| \_/ / \ | \ \__/ \__| \\__/ ----------===<<>>===----------

May be slightly off topic, however, I have gmail invites if anyone wants one.... B-) On Tuesday 30 November 2004 05:16 pm, cwsiv wrote:

On Sun, 2004-11-28 at 13:59, Patrick Shanahan wrote:

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* Jesse L. Purdom [11-28-04 16:45]:

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Has anyone run into this before? Is there an alternative client I can have him use in place of the AOL Windows client. I don't want to install Wine as the system he uses is rather slow and I'm not sure that performance would be acceptable.

In earlier *internet* days, this post would bring laughs and flames you cannot imagine.

*Everyone* can do without AOL, just as you can miss the first 15 minutes at the movies and loose nothing except the comming-attractions and 10 minutes of commercials.

AOL is windoz of the internet (tm). I Said That!

I use www.access-4-free.com which gives you the first ten hours and a dollar per hour for the next ten and no more per month. AFAIK AOL > $20.

also hotpop.com for more free addresses.

Amen on the last about AOHell home of the most egregious censors. -- ----------=====<<<<<CWSIV>>>>>=====----------

| \ /|\ || |\ / |~~\ /~~\ /~~| //~~\ | \ / | \ || | X |__/| || |( `--. |__ | | \| \_/ / \ | \ \__/ \__| \\__/

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* Brad Bourn [12-01-04 09:54]:

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May be slightly off topic, however, I have gmail invites if anyone wants one....

Please be a little more considerate in your email composition. You used a completely unrelated message/subject, top posted and quoted in full.

I quote from the suse-linux-e-help boiler-plate message:

Q17. I was being polite and prefixed the subject of my off-topic posting

with '[OT]'. After posting it I received a nasty message about the thread being blocked and that if I persist in trying to start off-topic threads I'll be unsubscribed and blocked from resubscribing. What's up with that?

A17. Sorry, we really have no choice. We've asked nicely over the years for people to take their off-topic threads elsewhere in the interest of keeping the messages per day on SLE under 200 and, well, that just didn't work. We now have a list, suse-ot, that's devoted solely to off-topic discussions. That's right, all off-topic all the time. Email suse-ot-subscribe@suse.com to subscribe.

Thank-you for your expected consideration.