I don't think it would make one lick of difference on my Linux box.
The technician ended up leaving that CD. I can verify that Comcast's setup cd won't work in Wine. =P
Posts made by jchannell
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RE: Comcast verses Mother Nature.
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RE: Comcast verses Mother Nature.
I did ask him - he said he had to do it as part of his contract. I then said "you know if you change that I'm just going to switch it right back to about:blank, right?"
=D
And before anyone asks, yes I did end up completing that setup myself... -
RE: Comcast verses Mother Nature.
Ah, Comcast. When they came & hooked up my service, the technician sat down in front of my PC, moved the mouse, and stared blankly at Gnome for a few minutes before he found Firefox. He then proceeded to try to change my homepage to comcast.net, which was pretty irritating (and amusing at the same time, as Windows places this under "Tools", whereas it's under "Edit" on Linux).
Anyways, I told the tech - call customer support and have them push the modem, as there's NO WAY your cd is going to run. After dismissing me, the technician was quickly flustered (strange OS, and I didn't bother to tell him Firefox was running NoScript and Comcast was still blacklisted). He finally figures out that he needs to call and have the modem pushed.
Now, the technician had one of those walkie-talkie phones where anyone in the room can hear what you're saying on either end, so he calls to have them push the modem. Here's basically how that conversation went:
Guy on Phone: "Look, it's really simple, just put in the CD, and go to Start > My Computer..."
Tech (interrupts Guy): "There is no start button. This guys running... (turns to me) what did you say this was again?"
Me: "Linux."
Tech: "He says he's running Linux"
Guy on Phone: "What version of Windows is that?"
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RE: Which way?
Point taken... but that's still a bit awkward, is it not? I could see putting the word "both" in there ("It is a violation of both the law and company policy..."). I guess we could sit here and argue the semantics all day. Any English teachers about?
Tough crowd. =P
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RE: Which way?
WTF are you talking about? Sounds like you just fail at parsing English sentences. Hint: Natural language is sometimes ambiguous, and that is OK.
As for CS. Any future complaints about the forum software should be redirected to flag@whitehouse.gov
No, I didn't fail - you did. In order for the sign to be correct, it should read: "It is a violation of the law and against company policy...".
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RE: Which way?
I'll see that and raise you a "Says one thing but means another" sign, courtesy of WalMart:
Read carefully: it's apparently WalMart company policy to break the law...
EDIT: Long time reader, new member - why does CS send me an email about my own posts? WTF? I know there was a reply, because I JUST POSTED IT!
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RE: Where's the rest of the girl?
Ha ha I got the same spam mail the other day...