[CLUE-Talk] OpenSouce Friendly ISP [WAS Re: [CLUE-Tech] Easiest DHCP]

[Jeremiah Stanley]

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> As to the other matters, please help me understand why a company that
> has an express policy prohibiting you from running a server on their
> link (and thereby potentially sucking down the available bandwidth for
> everyone on the link) would be interested in helping you run a server?!  
> It would seem to me that a commercial offering is what you are
> describing rather that an individual user offering on @attbi.

Were not trying to run servers here. We just want to use a different 
operating system than everybody else. Our operating system as seen by the 
unwashed masses as a 'server' operating system and nobody uses that as 
their desktop (even though I've done it for the last four years).

I don't want them to help me run a server, they can hardly do it 
themselves at times. I want them to publish what it takes to get packets 
out of them on a more technical level that:

Insert CD.
Wait for the AutoRun app to start.
Input your name and address.
Wait.
We'll install a bunch of software that you didn't want.
And after that, we'll edit your registry without asking you.
Wait.
Wait.
Thanks for installing, please reboot.

Now you have a computer that is perfectly setup so that a company you pay 
for service (and not cheap I might add) can advertise to you at every 
stop. It's almost like using AOL with a better browser and less spam.

Now take this example of what I want out of them.

Plug in router.
Set you DHCP configuration to have the hostname <XXXXXXXX>.
Reset your network interface or reboot.
Set your route.
Enjoy the internet.

All I want is ones and zeros, I don't want to have my hand held.

JStanley
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