huh? it should make you want to use a decent ISP.

True, very true. But, still the very thought of using AOL just makes me sick.

to be honest i've not had much experience of AOL really. My only encounter with it is a friend who has it on her laptop at her univeristy. She uses AOL as they can share they account between a numebr of people, 2 others in her case. Now, they live 80 miles from her. So in order for her to use the conenction, she a) has to make sure that the phone line is free in her house of 6 students, and b) hope that the other people sharing her connection aren't already using it.

And then there was that dumbass client *thing* you had to use to get there.

Now to me that's not how the internet is meant to be used. Well, since i've got Cable, i feel a bit wobbly abuot the thought of having to go back to dialup at any level...

it's things like that that really give a bad impression of the internet to clueless people. such a shame.

i wonder if, ahem ... someone who has some time on their hands could work out what aol program , does with you password and user name. it makes it into a big long string. and sends it.. their must be a standered mathamatical way of.... finding out the pattern to the string... and then just pasting it into the ppp dialer on your linuz machine as an after CD modem string or somthin...

i would love to move to mandrake , but i have alot of things need doing first, aol, sound card,TV output, and getting PHP 4 on my apache.
any help or any comments welcome.. even if your telling me to shut up.

I use earthlink and despite the fact that they don't try to construct a proprietary version of what of the internet is... I still connect with a proprietary client on my W98 partition. When I'm over here on this side I have to use the equivalent to that (tkpppoe) to connect. Why is this different essentially than AOL?

Way back it was so easy to get free AOL accounts that were essentially permanent that no one was ashamed to have an AOL address. Ack. I digress.

http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/t...ar.gz?download


This version of AOL is ( gamera ) it does everything every other AOL version for Windows does, but it doesn't connect you to the internet. It works via TCP/IP connection...