My mother down in FLA gripes constantly about the latest
raft of problems she's suffering with on her XP machine,
and the machine is so unstable that she's phobic about
installing anything new on it, so I want to suggest she
boot something like a Knoppix CD but then she'll be off
the Net because d
"Michael ODonnell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> My mother down in FLA gripes constantly about the latest
> raft of problems she's suffering with on her XP machine,
> and the machine is so unstable that she's phobic about
> installing anything new on it, so I want to suggest she
> boot something
>> installing anything new on it, so I want to suggest she
>> boot something like a Knoppix CD but then she'll be off
>> the Net because dialup to AOL is how she connects.
>
> Does your mother use AOL purely for IP dialtone or does she use
> AOL's features?
She uses it mostly for email and WWW b
On 5/13/05, Michael ODonnell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Does your mother use AOL purely for IP dialtone or does she use
> > AOL's features?
>
> She uses it mostly for email and WWW browsing they supply,
> and occasionally their IM service.
>
> Please don't suggest that she use some other ISP
"Michael ODonnell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Please don't suggest that she use some other ISP because,
Well, you've backed me into a corner, because this is the best
suggestion that I have ([1]). Maybe somebody here knows a lot about
Linux<->AOL.
Regards,
--kevin
1: http://weblog.info
On May 13, 2005, at 14:33, Michael ODonnell wrote:
Please don't suggest that she use some other ISP because, as I
said, even though her current arrangment sucks she's terrified of
change.
An ISP change is almost transparent - and you're going to have her
switch to Linux? Good luck with that.
If
On 5/13/05, Bill McGonigle wrote:
> If cost isn't her primary driver maybe she can get a $30 DSL line -
> then linux is supereasy - AOL is, what $23 a month now?
>
or, courteous of GMail: :)
Verizon extends FiOS in West Central Florida
Telecom Paper (subscription) - 41 minutes ago - Verizon cust
cost, regardless
of where you try to escape to on this earth. More details on this VoIP
scheme are at www.sipphone.com! :-(
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