🚀 go-pugleaf

"Aaron M. Ucko" wrote:
> 
> Tiny Human Ferret <klaatu@clark.net> writes:
> 
> > No wonder their system sucks, from what I've heard.
> 
> Eh, it's not the greatest, but it works decently enough; my main gripe
> is that my IP address changes every couple of weeks.  PPPoE *is* a
> godawful kludge, granted, but transparent once set up.

Okay, good to know.

> 
> > Seriously, you should only have to set up the ethernet to talk to the
> > router, anything above and beyond that unless you're doing IPSEC is bogus,
> > and the way Verizon is oriented to dynamic-IP, implimenting IPSEC would be a
> > daunting challenge.. though maybe worth it if you could pass IPv6 tunnels to
> > get static-IP-IPv6 over dynamic-IP aDSL.
> 
> In my experience, the IP address isn't all that dynamic, so something
> of the sort shouldn't be too hard to set up.
> 
> > Something to ponder, eh? challenge your buds at MIT, if you would, please.
> 
> I actually graduated and moved to DC in June; I've just been too lazy
> to move my mail/news setup to another account.

Well, I've got 24/7 384/400Kbit/sec sDSL, static IPs, etc -- if you need
mail/web, let me know, or there's always geocities and hotmail.

> 
> > Insane! So how the heck is anyone supposed to learn anything?
> >
> > Oh, that's right, they want only RedHat Certified LinuxGeeks (tm) to be able
> > to figure out their screwy set-ups. and people wonder why I won't put RedHat
> > on my boxes, maybe because they're trying to be the Micro$oft-of-gnUNIX and
> > I loathe "propriatarism".
> 
> I'm no fan of Red Hat myself -- my systems all run Debian -- but I do
> favor separating code from data when feasible, as one often changes
> without the other.  Sure, it doesn't force users to learn as much, but
> it still gives them the option, and the users that *do* look at the
> scripts end up picking up cleaner design techniques.

Eh, I suppose I could do it their way. I could do it the NetBSD way, too. Or
I could do wacky stuff like loading plugging the data into the environment
and then running the scripts. For now, I just take it as it comes out of the
box, I'm used to Slackware and NetBSD, so might as well stick with what I
know. As in, if it ain't broke, no need to fix it.

I may have to stick Debian on a laptop just to see how I like it. 

> 
> --
> Aaron M. Ucko, KB1CJC <amu@mit.edu> (finger amu@monk.mit.edu)

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