On Thu, February 21, 2008 3:15 pm, SJS wrote: > begin quoting Lan Barnes as of Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 02:29:09PM -0800: >> >> On Thu, February 21, 2008 2:23 pm, SJS wrote: > [snip] >> > Troll through the magic settings dialogs looking for "proxy" or "How >> > You Connect To The Internet" or somesuch. >> > >> > As you can't even hit your local machine, I'm thinking that you're >> > using a proxy, and it's not a transparent one even. >> >> Now is it clear to all that I'm on a XT box here ... thus the putty? > > XT? What's that, MSDOS 2.0? :) > > If you're using XP or somesuch flavor, you still ought to have telnet, > or you can use PuTTy in telnet mode as well. >
"P", "T" what's the difference? BTW, I'm on a proxy server. I even have its name. Slipped my pourous mind that I had to configure it day 1. > I can't offer concrete advice for those in MS Hell because I don't > play in that sewer anymore. > >> Hmm ... Mark Wolfe is down the hall, and he's been here a year. Maybe I >> should just ask him what's up. > > Ask him for an Ubuntu live CD. . . > Now that _is_ subversive. <mutter> I'd like to hang onto this job for at least a _little_ while ... -- Lan Barnes SCM Analyst Linux Guy Tcl/Tk Enthusiast Biodiesel Brewer -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
