pacman
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AT&T and @home team up to screw me!
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Dec 13 01:06 UTC 2001 |
I would simply like to note that I have been unable to do anything online
thanks to at&t. Anyone else around here screwed by at&t of late? The whole
damned @home thing... Yet another thing, no more linux support! So does
gates have a new bitch, or is it simply ignorance! Im done with my angry
opinion, can i get some other witness?
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illu
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Jan 2 22:28 UTC 2002 |
I am under the AT&T/Comcast system too, they just switched my area from
Mediaone to AT&T/Comcast my network went down the cable light on my docsis
bridge flashed a while and then my ip adress changed from a 24. base to a 68.
base. At this point I figured I better run that software they sent me and
switch over my account from mediaone to at&t/comcast, I poped the cd-rom they
sent me in my cdrom tray ran vmware to boot into windows (since I am in linux)
and off I went, all my account details were changed. My dns has not been
updated as it does not reflect a xxxxxx-xxx.wanarbxx.mi.pvcomcast.net adress
yet and only my ip which is 68.xx.xxx.xxx . Now I recently read a story in
the Ann Arbor News that a lot of people were having problems with the software
that Comcast sent out for customers to convert thier accounts from Mediaone
to Comcast, many said that is was really poorly configured and some even said
it bsod'd (blue screen of death, computer crash) them as soon as they put the
disc in. So Comcast extended the deadline from the 31st of Dec. to eight
weeks from now to get accounts up to date. Personally I see no reason why
Comcast couldn't convert the accounts themeselves, and all of these cd-roms
that Comcast is sending out to "update" your account seem awfuly fishy
especailly since the passage of the patriot act. That is why I elected to
quickly setup a virtual windows98 drive in linux transfer my account then
scrap the drive (delete it eight times over after I encrypted it).
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