Re: Wow! What a week....

[awilliam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]

> Well, I'm now a Windowless household!

Welcome to the fold.

> Thanks to a rather absolute hard drive crash early Thursday morning 
(while I
> was asleep) my Windoze machine is totally trashed.


I hate those, regardless of OS.

> So, I made up my mind to get ppp and a Linux box working....
> Well, 36 hours later.... I'm typing to you from kmail.....  <G>
> I don't know what the problem was with ppp, but last night it would 
not dial
> the internet. Minicom worked fine, ppp wouldn't.... Got home this 
afternoon and
> everything is working fine!
> Well, I'm off to go find an icq client, AIM client, etc....

licq+gtk.  My local ICQ junkie has given licq his blessing so it must 
be compareable to ICQ on that other OS.  Other people have told me it 
is pretty good as well.