Re: OT -- 90-day limits in the financial world for downloading

2004-11-25 Thread Jeff Smith
Fred <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > I find this all very annoying, but what can I do? I suppose I can close > down all my accounts and sign up with a local bank -- only to see them > bought out by Bank of America or another Really Hugh Institution a year > later. Personally, I haven't used a bank in

Re: OT -- 90-day limits in the financial world for downloading

2004-11-25 Thread Christopher Schmidt
On Thu, Nov 25, 2004 at 10:36:48AM -0800, Jeff Smith wrote: > Personally, I haven't used a bank in over 10 years. I find > credit unions not only don't have that problem, but I deal > with people who actually understand and care for me, I get > better rates, and I often get more services. I belie

Re: OT -- 90-day limits in the financial world for downloading

2004-11-25 Thread Jeff Smith
Fred <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > I find this all very annoying, but what can I do? I suppose I can close > down all my accounts and sign up with a local bank -- only to see them > bought out by Bank of America or another Really Hugh Institution a year > later. Personally, I haven't used a bank i

Remote Debian install?

2004-11-25 Thread Ken D'Ambrosio
Hi, all. I've got a machine I want to install Debian on. So far, so good. Now the bad news: it's in California, at a hosting service. It's running RH (Fedora). I can get the hosting service to install Debian for me, but it'll cost me $150. Can anyone think of a mechanism by which I could

Re: [TriLUG] Linux for DEC/Compaq/HP Alpha?

2004-11-25 Thread Neil Roeth
On Nov 24, Liyun Yu ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > The biggest problem to me is that there is no Linux video driver for the > Alphas. We have tried to put Linux on the Alpha XP1000 workstations. > Eventually I give up the X windows application and put Debian on the > Alpha machines. It works gr