[sf-lug] Fwd: Re: Ubuntu User wannabe!

[jim]

    We just installed a comcast setup and it works 
fine with the linux computer we used for testing. 
    I tested the connection with a little linksys 
router, and that works fine, too. 



On Sat, 2011-01-22 at 11:57 -0800, Bobbie Sellers wrote:
> Sorry I forgot to hit reply to list.
> 
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: 	Re: [sf-lug] Ubuntu User wannabe!
> Date: 	Sat, 22 Jan 2011 11:34:52 -0800
> From: 	Bobbie Sellers <bliss at sfo.com>
> Reply-To: 	bliss at sfo.com
> Organization: 	none
> To: 	Molly Bee <mountainoceansky at hotmail.com>
> 
> 
> 
> On 01/22/2011 09:59 AM, Molly Bee wrote:
> >  Rick, thank you so much for your (yes, very generous) detailed report.
> >  I understand much of it (thanks jim!) because of my healthy
> >  relationship with my previous lap-dancer, a Hardy Heron switchover on
> >  a cowDell laplauncher with a motherpad landingstrip. It was also very
> >  blue, and THIS ONE IS BLUE TOO, SO THERE SHOULD BE NO PROBLEM
> >  CONVERTING IT TO LINUX, YES?
> >
> >  Ken, if I want to destroy Windows and all its minions, can I just wipe
> >  the whole disk (including the HP Tools) and not lose firmware grips on
> >  my hardware? Or Linux is magick and comes pre-packed with its own
> >  drivers? Or, or, if I'm missing a driver, I just make eyes at the
> >  multiverse and it hands it to me on a silver platter? Yes?
> 
>      Yes but ATT and Comcast as well as other sites will not talk to Linux.
> 
>      I am not happy about this at all. but it looks like I either buy
> another
> old computer with Windows becasue I cannot afford a computer running
> MacOS which are the only dialects that the named entities suupport/
> 
>      later
>      Bobbie Sellers
> 
> >
> >  I'm prepared to do a clean break and run ONLY Linux... in fact, I
> >  would /prefer/ this scenario to a dual boot. Rebirth for complete
> >  nativehood, please!
> >
> >  BillHill-- do you have a brother named Stephen gallivanting about the
> >  Rocky Mountains? Because HILL IS A VERY UNCOMMON SURNAME, AND SURELY
> >  YOU MUST BE RELATED!
> >
> >  Rick, et al., where do I send the dehydrated huckleberries? If I send
> >  them to Noisebridge, I know they really will be et al.
> >  Hugs!
> >  and that Hopey Changey thing!
> >  Molly
> >
> >
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