Hi Bob.

02-Jun-04 13:38:05, Bob Lawrence wrote to David Drummond


 BL>> David bid $19. Now you bid $15. Any advance on fifteen?

 DD>> maybe he visits different shops to me...

 BL> I am about to discover the truth. I bought my yumcha computer on
 BL> Friday, and when I mwentioned Linux, the poor man panicked and
 BL> sold me a "better" motherboard for $10 extra. "What
a bargain!"
 BL> thinks Bob. For $10 I got a Gigabyte board instead of Asrock with
 BL> shared video memory, plus a *real* modem and a GeForce 64M video
 BL> board. "Hoop-do-do!" says I, but when I tried to plug in the
 BL> ethernet cable there was a severe lack of hole.

 BL> The bastard has shortchanged me one network board. I hope he's the
 BL> one who sells John his $15 boards.

 BL> Even better! He sold me a network card for ten bucks. And it
 BL> works, too. Now all I have to figure out what a network is.

 BL> I thought all you had to do was connect the cable and bugger
 BL> around in Windows for a while, but it keeps asking me for a NT
 BL> Domain. I'm buggered if I know... I've never even been to the
 BL> Northern Territory.

You don't need an NT domain unless you've got an NT server (oe something
like it) running on your lan... somewhere in the network drivers dialogue
there's a bit for that NT login. uninstsall it.

 -=> Bye <=-

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