It makes me very angry to see how incompentent some ISP indeed are. I had to email my ISPs almost _weekly_ to point out errors in their configurations (smtp error, dns error, firewall misconfigured, mcast errors)... It was getting at the point that I emailed them _exact_ howto's how to set their stuff up - which they pretty much ignored, which is ok as long as they fix it, but they didn't! I even emailed one of them that I could take a walk on their mailserver more easily than login on to my webmail account - no reaction, ofcourse.
And I don't have a choice. It's either them or no internet at all.
What strikes me even more, from a personal view, is that every time I try to help them, either by email, phone or letter, they ignore me.
I am a computer science student, I have -despite my young age- years of experience in Unix-like OS'es, but when I apply for a job as administrator (to pay my studies), the only thing I hear is that I'm too young. It sucks terribly to see how things should be, how things can be fixed, but to run into a wall of ignorance every time.
I don't know why people care so much about things other people say... I use both linux and freebsd as desktop (next to solaris), and _both_ work fine. My advise is - use what you like and feel good with, and gets the job done, all comments of others aside... It really doesn't matter.
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It makes me very angry to see how incompentent some ISP indeed are. I had to email my ISPs almost _weekly_ to point out errors in their configurations (smtp error, dns error, firewall misconfigured, mcast errors)... It was getting at the point that I emailed them _exact_ howto's how to set their stuff up - which they pretty much ignored, which is ok as long as they fix it, but they didn't! I even emailed one of them that I could take a walk on their mailserver more easily than login on to my webmail account - no reaction, ofcourse.
And I don't have a choice. It's either them or no internet at all.
What strikes me even more, from a personal view, is that every time I try to help them, either by email, phone or letter, they ignore me.
I am a computer science student, I have -despite my young age- years of experience in Unix-like OS'es, but when I apply for a job as administrator (to pay my studies), the only thing I hear is that I'm too young. It sucks terribly to see how things should be, how things can be fixed, but to run into a wall of ignorance every time.
I don't know why people care so much about things other people say... I use both linux and freebsd as desktop (next to solaris), and _both_ work fine. My advise is - use what you like and feel good with, and gets the job done, all comments of others aside... It really doesn't matter.