[Glastonbury] Idle thoughts for idle people

Kelvin McNulty glastonbury at mailman.lug.org.uk
Wed Aug 20 14:24:00 2003


Dear List and especially Martin,

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if your price was right. I'd far rather give the money to you and end up =
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a solution that I can make sense of, rather than pay the money to some=20
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when if fails as it inevitably will... Thanks for the useful suggestion. =
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relevant after our conversation yesterday. Quite a few people are going t=
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need such a solution.

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that successfully. It was only about GBP25 or so from the late Visionscap=
e.

Best,

Kelvin.


On Tuesday 19 August 2003 23:35, Martin WHEELER wrote:
> On Tue, 19 Aug 2003, Sean Miller wrote:
> > So... when do you come around to sort out my ADSL modem?!?!
>
> <evil grin /> Did you get one that's known to work with Linux without
> giving major grief and hassle?
>
> Actually -- all joking aside -- I've seriously been thinking about
> offering to set folks up with ADSL under Linux on a commercial footing,
> as commercialisation of Linux services seems to be all the rage in
> Glastonbury these days.
> I'm currently building myself a brand-new(!?!) firewall box to
> experiment with.
>
> Watch this space.