[Kde-games-devel] ping

[Dmitry Suzdalev]

What a story! :-)
Congratulations, Ian, nice to hear from you!

Btw, I think that I'll switch my internet access to ADSL soon. Enough
of dialup! :-)

Cheers,
Dmitry.

2006/12/12, Ian Wadham <ianw2 at optusnet.com.au>:
> Ian Wadham wrote:
> > this is just a test ...
> Hey, it worked !!! :-) :-)
>
> In case you think I'm just sitting around playing games,
> I've had a really torrid 4 weeks, ever since installing
> broadband.  I had it going in Win 98 SE on a USB
> connection but wanted to install a recent Ethernet
> card to use with Linux.
>
> That meant installing Win XP to get a driver so I paid
> my $100 like a good Microsoft citizen, only to find that
> it would not install.  Unreadable files on the CD, ring
> MS support.  So I did and they talked me into some
> obscure workaround, which failed again and ended
> up maiming my Win 98 system (eg. it took 120 sec
> to check my email and maybe "lost" my email to KDE
> Games somehow).  So I took Win XP back to the
> store and demanded my money back.
>
> "Oh no, you can't bring it back once you've broken
> the seal, blah, blah, blah".  "Do I look like a pirate?",
> I said and quoted our Trade Practices Act at them
> (I have an authoritative thatch of grey hair which helps).
> So eventually they gave in and returned my money,
> but not until they rang MS themselves and checked
> out my story.
>
> Win 98 finally died completely when I installed the
> new network card with a Win 2000 driver (which
> works in France, according to Netgear's forum there).
> I think it was all that firewall, virus protection, anti-spam
> and anti-pest software that dragged Win 98 under, by
> trying to use the net before the install was complete.
> That stuff was occupying nearly 80% of my RAM :-(
> Who needs a bunch of security guards who take up
> most of your house, drink your beer and then wreck
> your house?
>
> So, with nothing to lose, I booted Linux (SuSE 10.0).
> YasT2 installed a driver, no fuss, and found my modem
> and the net OK via DHCP.  So then I clicked on Firefox --
> and bang! -- up it came.  Within a few more minutes I
> had configured KMail, checked my mail and converted
> all my Outlook Express email folders across.
>
> So now my wife and I are full-time Linux users and no
> longer dialup-challenged.  If I had had known it would
> be so easy, I would have made the change years ago.
> I can't wait to get back to work on KGoldrunner. :-)
>
> All the best, Ian W.
>
>
>
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