Andreas K. Foerster wrote:
Have a look at http://counter.li.org/ Perhaps someone in you area is registered.
I did; cute, but nobody close. None of the towns nearby are listed.
I know I've tried a Linux distro with wvdial. no go. In some ways, it reminds me of the problems I had with nomenclature setting up my first (2400 baud) modem with a BBS host. I am somewhat puzzled as to why the isp host required so much more info in the first place, like I, the user, had to tell it, the host, what the host name was and what it's domain number was. What kind of stupidity is that? And then, as if that were not enuf, they 'upgrade', and in so doing loose a few customers who use MAC, DOS, & Linux. What kind of stupidity is that, to require users who already have had access, to reconfigure their systems?I only have experiences with PAP. But try the program "wvdial". It has good heuristics to find out, how to log in. Try it first with "Stupid Mode = 0" and then with "Stupid Mode = 1". http://open.nit.ca/wvdial/
I have emailed them. They have not responded. But I have some new systems to build, and other crap to deal with, prolly wont get a round tuit till after New Years.Then you have a perfect chance to stop them. ;-)
It aint rocket science to hook two computers thru a phone line; dos should do it just as well as any other os because the bottleneck is the 3k bandwidth of the copper wire. 99.999% of the information which I want is plain ascii, clues and comments such as you have provided; but increasingly I see that the interface is being slowed down by all the GUI glitz, with no end in site.
In terms of actual content, I dont see mozilla email as good as OFFLINE.EXE BBS QWKMAIL reader. I dont have a need to post this as soon as composed, and found it easier in qwkmail to shell out to access reference material than I can drag a mouse around the gui screen. When I think of 'stopping them', it aint only the local isp, but the whole damn net full of spam and popups.
I usta sub to EXEC-PC BBS, which was a longdistance call to Milwaukee. But in a couple minutes I got my email and newsgroups, and had access to every imaginable dos file. What I see coming will not "stop them", but it will offer a wireless alternative, not only freedos, but a free termcom with free transmitter/receiver software, which accesses an entirely user owned network which might have lower bandwidth, but also lower fiddle factors, no chronic sabotage software problems, and no SPAM at all.
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