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Technology Stocks : LINUX -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: E. Charters who wrote (812)	1/5/1999 3:07:00 AM
From: Mitch Blevins	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 2617

GUI!? We don'need no stinkin gooeys. Went on vacation for a couple of weeks over the holidays. I was worried because I'd never been away from my square-headed girlfriends that long before. But I had nothing to fear. I used xringd, which allows me to dial my modem number from any phone and <delete secret code> and the gateway machine will dial into the Internet. The gateway knows to post my IP to an ftp site whenever it dials in. Then, from any net connected machine, I can reach my whole home-network.... read mail, news, etc. I even upgraded two machines completely from 2000 miles away on a Win95 machine running telnet. portal:~> uptime 3:03am up 78 days, 15:04, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 Try that with anything from Redmond. -Mitch BTW - I installed BeOS last night. Pretty impressive, but incompatible with my network card :( Take their Hardware compatibility list seriously if you ever plan to try it.