On Mon, 2005-09-12 at 23:40 +0100, David Simon Cooper wrote:
Plusnet "don't use TCP/IP, it is non-standard"
Blimey, plusnet developed their own ethernet stack!...lol
Gotta love first line support, reminds me of my dealings with BT (we don't support anything without a MS license sticker)
Me (pretending to be running Windows XP Pro) BT Customer support "ok sir if you can open the control panel" Me (cd /etc) "Ok done that"
It did go horribly wrong a few times when I (from memory) gave them the wrong error box, or described the wrong GUI feedback as I converted it in realtime from the Linux error logs I was seeing. Usually I played the "sorry the line is breaking up, can you repeat that" game as I frantically tried to get my (unconnected) windows laptop to a similar point in the configuration...fun times