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- Up early, off to return the (unmarked) 'Win' Modem I purchased yesterday a 'Dynalink' miracle of technology. Bought a standard modem instead, insisted on getting an AOL subsription pack - a local ISP is no use to me, and hey - AOL are a big company, they must be good.
- Resigned to installing it on a Windows computer to suck the settings for PPP etc. out; spent ages installing the thing - only to discover that (now I can search on-line) that the service is utterly useless to Linux users. Frustrated almost beyond words; tried to control myself whilst immediately canceling my account - still, they got $24-95 out of me. Dumbfounding - I should have gone with a cheap local ISP instead.
- Finaly managed to get PPP working via someone else' thing. Magicaly Red Hat turn off chat PPP debugging by default which sucks rocks. Furthermore, Australians seem to insist on using 'Username:' intead of '[Ll]ogin:' which sucks even more badly.
- Started pulling 16Mb of mail over the modem ... hmm, committed libbonobo bits, started pushing some mail.
- Chewed mail - suprisingly little of interest so far, amazing; you stop writing to people ... and they just stop writing to you.
- J' arrived home, went for a nice run together while dinner cooked itself in t'oven. Bible study, Bed.
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In case it's not painfully obvious: the reflections reflected here are my own; mine, all mine ! and don't reflect the views of Collabora, SUSE, Novell, The Document Foundation, Spaghetti Hurlers (International), or anyone else. It's also important to realise that I'm not in on the Swedish Conspiracy. Occasionally people ask for formal photos for conferences or fun.
Michael Meeks (michael.meeks@collabora.com) 