On Sun, 12 May 2013 00:15:30 Mark Trickett wrote,
>On Fri, 2013-05-10 at 07:30 +1000, [email protected] wrote: >> Much thanks for both offers of DVD's its much apreciated, although it >>does >> raise the difficulty of which kind offer to chose, but I will figure that >> out. >Whomever, may I request a set of DVD's, I am on a 56K modem. Let me know >and I will try to sort out blank disks and postage if reasonable. My >responses may be delayed if my work involves early starts and long days. If you wish I can send you the drive with iso's on it for copy and return, this gets around any problems due to burning errors. I found these to be a significant issue on getting such CD/DVD's. I have as yet not been into Benalla to organise the iso's as I am due to pick some items on tuesday. >> A point I will bring up on service selection, I will not if at all >> >>possible >> deal with faceless organisations, both internet service providers I deal >> with have real people one can talk to. I ___HATE___ organisations which >>go >> to great lengths to put there customers at arms length (ie most of them). >> I have found Virgin's support to be a major breath of fresh air, where >> organisations like Telstra apparently could not care less. >It would help if all providers would acknowledge that Linux is standards >compliant at the networking level. I want real support for the >connection. What I have to do to achieve the result is up to me. I do >not expect to need to be told how, just what. Currently, Telstra will >not provide "support" for Linux, including the simple link metrics. What I have found from working with a number of ISP's is most these days contract out all the server side, and it is quite possible most people working for them have not got a clue and are just working from "cheat sheets" consequently simply do know any better. Lindsay _______________________________________________ luv-main mailing list [email protected] http://lists.luv.asn.au/listinfo/luv-main
