On Sun, 12 May 2013 00:15:30 Mark Trickett wrote,
On Fri, 2013-05-10 at 07:30 +1000, zlinw@mcmedia.com.au 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