begin quoting Lan Barnes as of Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 02:29:09PM -0800: > > On Thu, February 21, 2008 2:23 pm, SJS wrote: [snip] > > Troll through the magic settings dialogs looking for "proxy" or "How > > You Connect To The Internet" or somesuch. > > > > As you can't even hit your local machine, I'm thinking that you're > > using a proxy, and it's not a transparent one even. > > Now is it clear to all that I'm on a XT box here ... thus the putty?
XT? What's that, MSDOS 2.0? :) If you're using XP or somesuch flavor, you still ought to have telnet, or you can use PuTTy in telnet mode as well. I can't offer concrete advice for those in MS Hell because I don't play in that sewer anymore. > Hmm ... Mark Wolfe is down the hall, and he's been here a year. Maybe I > should just ask him what's up. Ask him for an Ubuntu live CD. . . -- I don't know and I don't care Who MS is trying to scare. Stewart Stremler -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
