Date: Sat, 06 Feb 1999 20:03:56 -0500 From: "Patrick Morris" <patrick@expresshost.com> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: help - Ethernet AND Modem Message-ID: <3.0.6.32.19990206200356.0093eea0@expresshost.com> In-Reply-To: <19990207100405.M79703@freebie.lemis.com> References: <36BC2309.6E7175A3@uk.radan.com> <3.0.6.32.19990206011314.00927290@expresshost.com> <3.0.6.32.19990206011314.00927290@expresshost.com> <19990206173504.I79703@freebie.lemis.com> <3.0.6.32.19990206023156.0090d5c0@expresshost.com> <19990206181403.K79703@freebie.lemis.com> <36BC2309.6E7175A3@uk.radan.com>
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i DID say it the first time around, i said "I'm using kde, and the kppp dialer to connect" Do NOT blame me because of your lack of knowledge of KDE. patrick At 10:04 AM 2/7/99 +1030, you wrote: >On Saturday, 6 February 1999 at 11:10:01 +0000, Mark Ovens wrote: >> >> Greg Lehey wrote: >>> >>> OK. I said at the very beginning I wasn't sure what you mean by kppp. >>> Now we have kppp, KPPP, ~*KPPP*~ and Kppp. You need to explain what >>> you are doing. >> >> PMJI Greg, but "kppp" is KDE's GUI front end dialler (kind of like M$ >> Dial Up Networking thing) that uses the kernel pppd rather than Brian's >> user ppp. It's just confusing that the names for everything in KDE start >> with "k", which in this case make it look like an abbreviation for >> "kernel ppp". > >Thanks. Yes, it would have been of help had Patrick said that the >first time round. > >I don't understand why anybody would want to use kppp. It looks like >a lot of work for nothing. The UNIX way is to set things up so that >they run automatically. > >> BTW, liked the joke about the drunk, never heard it before, must be an >> Aussie joke I guess ;-) > >No, it's from Weizenbaum. As I said, there's no reason for it to be a >drunk. I also heard the story told in a Yiddish context about a girl >coming home from the synagogue. > >Greg >-- >See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers >finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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