Re: (PM) New website www.livingston.com

Samudra Haque (haque@pradeshta.net)
Thu, 23 Jul 1998 12:49:46 -0500

you couldn't have said it better. I unluckily had the misfortune
of having to debug a portmaster/radius issue from a remote POP, which
only had as a workstation locally available, a basic LINUX box with
"you asked for it", lynx.

Lynx is fantastic for command line HTML review, and most of my
internal
docs are on HTML format .. but pray tell, how would I get to the HTML
docs of the lucent portmaster library, as I found their website
impossible
to navigate. I had to then make a long distance call to my assisant at
our data center who READ me the relevant section on "set default host"
over the telephone!!

No, I won't write this up as an RFE, nor shall I tell it to the
management
of lucent, since it's a basic given for a web site designer to cater
for the three different types of users (especially if your
a DataComms equipment vendor) e-mail based, JAVA web-based, HTML
based.

However, did you know that lynx supports form attributes fairly well
nowadays, I was impressed to find that it can work with the M$-IIS
front end very well. We use it to access our on-line library of docs
and office documentation, which have some fill in the form types of
pages.

That gives me an idea, I have an old laptop 386sx20 Mhz, which has
enough horsepower to run .. not M$Win3.11, definitely not MS$95/8
nor DOS (not useful in DOS), but .... linux for small than 4 megabyte
cpu's (Small Linux on sunsite). It'll have PPP, ethernet, secure
login, shadow password, ncFTP and can run most programs easily with
swap space, say how about radius server itself :-) :-) :-)
and, if we hook up a PM2E to it on a subnet..

sorta mobile POP on wheels !!

Mike Taylor wrote:
>
> On Wed, 22 Jul 1998, Chris Owen wrote:
>
> > really bad vibes about all this. Having a page that is unreadable with
> > lynx (or over a dialup line) plus the "we don't support linux" response
> > people are getting when they call tech support does not make me feel good
> > about my investment in PMs.
>
> Those 2 things (lynx & linux) will make me seriously re-consider any
> future lucington purchases. If Lucent dosen't recognize the power of
> Linux then they are clueless. We don't do business with the clueless.
>
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