[H-GEN] PPP and dial-on-demand during certain hours

[Mark Suter]

(Note reply-to: being general at humbug.org.au vs Mark Suter <mark at zwitterion.humbug.org.au>)

Dougy,

<dougy at gargoyle.apana.org.au> wrote:
> Well actually I found wvdial quite efficient ..... a real surprise for command line *nix
> !!!!!!!!!!!
> It makes the connection without any stuffing around with conf files or chatscripts or any such
> dark age nonsense :)
> 
> However it DOES use a terminal window all for itself if thats a problem
> 
> No doubt the faithful will have something evil to say about applications such as that which
> actually do what they are supposed to without all the hocus pocus, voodoo and other assorted
> witchcraft  so typical of *nix :) ..... FWIW,  Kppp is quite functional too

It is that "hocus pocus, voodoo and other assorted witchcraft" that
occassionaly gets in the way when one wants to only touch the surface
that is *absolutely essential* when one wants to remake the world :-)

Unix doesn't make the easy things trivial - it makes everything only
moderately complicated.  Compare this with NT, where it's either
trivial or impossible...

These are sweeping generalisations; however, they embody part of the
underlying philosophies of the *different* groups of Operating Systems.

Yours sincerely,

-- Mark John Suter | I know that you  believe  you understand
suter at humbug.org.au  | what you think I said, but I am not sure
PGP encryption is OK | you realise that what you  heard  is not
Ph: +61 4 1162 2316  | what I meant.                  anonymous


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