My guess is you haven't spent a lot of time researching technical problems.. especially on legacy systems.
I've been using DejaNews daily for years (until the bulk of their archives went off-line).
Generally, the tech support questions and answers are better than found from the tech support people at proprietary software companies.
I don't mind a little advertising, I just want a place I can do quick and/or complex searches in order to dig up that nugget of information that can save me 1/2 a day of debugging an old server.
I've clock 1.5Mbps on a regular basis... Been using IPMasq for years without a detectable slowdown... My first Masq box was a 486/25 with 8meg of ram... I finally put in CoyoteLinux on a P100 with 32meg of ram, but I don't have to have a HardDrive in the thing anymore...
Don't get too excited... This address (treerat@usa.net) appears on the list... for me it's just a/dev/null account. I've never used it to file abuse complaints... None of my real accounts appears on this list, and I have to tell ya, I've had my fair share of "spammer kills"
As a guess, this is just a run of the mill spam list... If you take a look, some of the addresses are even munged...
This is just as bad as all the Internet IPOs. Every politian has to jump on the "Internet Bandwagon". Unfortunately, the people who claim they are the most "wired" are usually the most clueless.
As was pointed out in the article, there really is no center of the internet. It's built on the hub and spoke system. Almost any major metro area can claim to be "internet capitol". Usually, they are just satisfied with "the next silicon valley".
Its funny, in the Midwest, we have several areas competing to be the Silicon Prarie!
And I'm sure all this will play well over in Europe... These stupid politians keep forgetting that the internet is only partially based in the US.
Bottom line, no matter what the outcome, it could never have been to the advantage of Linux.
If NT had lost, Microsoft would have found a non-microsoft blame (Such as this CGI problem). If it turned out to be a microsoft problem, they would have thanked everyone for the help in finding a new bug, or would have said the problem is already known and will be fixed with the next service pack. Outside of being able to brag on Slashdot, there would be little advantage to a Linux win.
With Linux losing, it gives Microsoft yet another piece of garbage to toss into their FUD campaign. It won't matter to those IT managers that it was a faulty CGI script... heck, they could have posted the root password on the index.html and Microsoft would still crow about their "victory".
Actually, I've had no problems with MediaOne and Linux. They have told me they will not support it, so any problems I experience will be my own problem, but at no time have they said I couldn't run it.
To give them credit, I was running Linux on my cable modem 2 years ago, at that point they didn't even know what Linux was.
They did (and still do) require Win9x or Mac for the install, but I moved everything over to Linux before shortly after the install.
One other note, my original contract said I could only hook the service up to ONE computer, and that computer could not be networked to any other computer. At least they listened to reason about a year ago and changed their contract to allow internal home networks be hooked up.
Security definitely becomes an issue... the firewall on my cable modem averages 10+ probes per day.
It's difficult to explain to the average Doze user the proper use of network security. But I suppose those are that same people that get hammered by the executible email 'viruses'.
With MediaOne, you sign a contract that says you cannot set-up a web/ftp/telnet/etc server from your cable modem.
I'm told they do port surf, looking for illegal servers, but I don't have any evidence to back that up.
In all practicality, I allowed inbound HTTP, FTP and telnet for about a year without any problems. I think the only thing they are REALLY worried about is warez kiddies chewing up the bandwidth..
All I can say is I love my cable modem... It took only an hour to download RH6 the other day. Now the cable company on the other hand is LOST... I ususally have to call them up and explain to them what the problem with thier system is...
Last year their DHCP server when down, and all "tech" support could say was "What's DHCP"
Bottom line, don't expect ISP quality customer support, but it's worth it for the bandwidth
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My guess is you haven't spent a lot of time researching technical problems.. especially on legacy systems.
I've been using DejaNews daily for years (until the bulk of their archives went off-line).
Generally, the tech support questions and answers are better than found from the tech support people at proprietary software companies.
I don't mind a little advertising, I just want a place I can do quick and/or complex searches in order to dig up that nugget of information that can save me 1/2 a day of debugging an old server.
I've clock 1.5Mbps on a regular basis... Been using IPMasq for years without a detectable slowdown... My first Masq box was a 486/25 with 8meg of ram... I finally put in CoyoteLinux on a P100 with 32meg of ram, but I don't have to have a HardDrive in the thing anymore...
Don't get too excited... This address (treerat@usa.net) appears on the list... for me it's just a /dev/null account. I've never used it to file abuse complaints... None of my real accounts appears on this list, and I have to tell ya, I've had my fair share of "spammer kills"
As a guess, this is just a run of the mill spam list... If you take a look, some of the addresses are even munged...
Cheers,
TreeRat
This is just as bad as all the Internet IPOs. Every politian has to jump on the "Internet Bandwagon". Unfortunately, the people who claim they are the most "wired" are usually the most clueless.
As was pointed out in the article, there really is no center of the internet. It's built on the hub and spoke system. Almost any major metro area can claim to be "internet capitol". Usually, they are just satisfied with "the next silicon valley".
Its funny, in the Midwest, we have several areas competing to be the Silicon Prarie!
And I'm sure all this will play well over in Europe... These stupid politians keep forgetting that the internet is only partially based in the US.
Bottom line, no matter what the outcome, it could never have been to the advantage of Linux.
If NT had lost, Microsoft would have found a non-microsoft blame (Such as this CGI problem). If it turned out to be a microsoft problem, they would have thanked everyone for the help in finding a new bug, or would have said the problem is already known and will be fixed with the next service pack. Outside of being able to brag on Slashdot, there would be little advantage to a Linux win.
With Linux losing, it gives Microsoft yet another piece of garbage to toss into their FUD campaign. It won't matter to those IT managers that it was a faulty CGI script... heck, they could have posted the root password on the index.html and Microsoft would still crow about their "victory".
Ah well.
Actually, I've had no problems with MediaOne and Linux. They have told me they will not support it, so any problems I experience will be my own problem, but at no time have they said I couldn't run it.
To give them credit, I was running Linux on my cable modem 2 years ago, at that point they didn't even know what Linux was.
They did (and still do) require Win9x or Mac for the install, but I moved everything over to Linux before shortly after the install.
One other note, my original contract said I could only hook the service up to ONE computer, and that computer could not be networked to any other computer. At least they listened to reason about a year ago and changed their contract to allow internal home networks be hooked up.
Cheers
Security definitely becomes an issue... the firewall on my cable modem averages 10+ probes per day.
It's difficult to explain to the average Doze user the proper use of network security. But I suppose those are that same people that get hammered by the executible email 'viruses'.
I suppose this is just Evolution in Action.
Cheers.
With MediaOne, you sign a contract that says you cannot set-up a web/ftp/telnet/etc server from your cable modem.
I'm told they do port surf, looking for illegal servers, but I don't have any evidence to back that up.
In all practicality, I allowed inbound HTTP, FTP and telnet for about a year without any problems. I think the only thing they are REALLY worried about is warez kiddies chewing up the bandwidth..
Cheers,
Squirrel
All I can say is I love my cable modem... It took only an hour to download RH6 the other day. Now the cable company on the other hand is LOST... I ususally have to call them up and explain to them what the problem with thier system is...
Last year their DHCP server when down, and all "tech" support could say was "What's DHCP"
Bottom line, don't expect ISP quality customer support, but it's worth it for the bandwidth
Cheers
Squirrel