David L. Gehrt wrote:
For the past couple of months I have been having intermittent, serious
problems with my firewall/gateway machine which have disrupted my
network (especially email) which caused me to get suspended from this
list.
I gather your computer would not accept the email as in bouncing.
The end result was the replacement with an unused system which then
suffered a catastrophic disk failure, and resulted in my purchase of my
first complete system from a major vendor, HP. Before this acquisition
I spent the past 20 years getting parts from Fry's and other Bay Area
stores, and assembling systems on my own. When I tried to register the
hardware I had some problems relating to the failure of Internet access
to an HP computer system. I called the tech support line to do the
thing, but I aborted this call when I was told by a tech support person
AND his supervisor that I would be ineligible for tech support because
about the first thing I did with the system was blow away Vista and
installed Fedora Linux (FC6, not F7 or F8).
This is a usual problem. The guys you talked to no ZERO about Linux :-(
So they want nothing to do with your problems. It is up to you to fix
your problem.
I am interested in discovering whether others have heard of this crap
and how people were able to deal with this issue.
dlg
David L. Gehrt Land Line: 805.541.2390
1865 Wilding Lane Cell phone: 805.704.5890
San Luis Obispo, CA 93401-3044 Email: dlg@xxxxxxxxxxx
You deal with this by by fixing your own computer. You have been doing
this for 20 years 8-)
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Karl F. Larsen, AKA K5DI
Linux User
#450462 http://counter.li.org.
