I was finally bothered to find the quote in which Alaskan senator Ted Stevens refers to the internet as a "series of tubes". There's plenty of information on wikipedia.
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Yesterday upon the stair
I met a man who wasn't there
He wasn't there again today
I think he's with the CIA
A couple of a days ago, I had some trouble with the PeoplePC software and had to reinstall it. However, the uninstaller didn't wor so I coudn't reinstall. I contacted support, expecting to have to make registry changes and the like. However, they instead told my how to connect without their software. This was after emailing them questions about using their service without the software and being told it was impossible. They also said there is no Linux support, but I have it working in Linux (and am using it now). All you do is enter your username and password in your system's standard dialup networking tool, but use your full email address instead of the username (in other words, username@peoplepc.com as the username, not username). Use the same numbers as their software uses. Windows 98 didn't have any tweaking necessary, though in Linux (using GNOME PPP), some tweaking was needed (it'll be obvious what to do after opening settings.
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Yesterday upon the stair
I met a man who wasn't there
He wasn't there again today
I think he's with the CIA
As I woke up, the first thing I heard from the alarm clock radio was news of Osama bin Laden's death. I may not have been quite awake, they may be wrong, or Osama bin Laden is dead.
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Yesterday upon the stair
I met a man who wasn't there
He wasn't there again today
I think he's with the CIA
Here are the (partial) rankings in the ubuntu forums:
0 Posts- First cup of Ubuntu
14 Posts- Spilled the beans
15 Posts- Five cups of Ubuntu
90 Posts- Just give me the beans!
100 Posts- A carafe of Ubuntu
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Yesterday upon the stair
I met a man who wasn't there
He wasn't there again today
I think he's with the CIA
Registered Machine #335692
Registered Machine #9033
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Yesterday upon the stair
I met a man who wasn't there
He wasn't there again today
I think he's with the CIA
I've gotten encrypted posts to work, so if a post seems nothing more than meaningless line noise, it needs decryption. In most cases the decryption key will be available. An example of encrypted text:
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Yesterday upon the stair
I met a man who wasn't there
He wasn't there again today
I think he's with the CIA
