FW: [LINK] Do Telstra require MS Windows for broadband?

[Daniel Rose]

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>From: link-bounces at anu.edu.au [mailto:link-bounces at anu.edu.au] 
>On Behalf Of Rick Welykochy
>Posted At: Thursday, 17 February 2005 12:16 
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>Conversation: [LINK] Do Telstra require MS Windows for broadband?
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><http://lists.slug.org.au/archives/slug/2001/November/msg00929.html>
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>    "When the Telstra "Technician" came to my door to install my
>     Telstra ADSL I was curious why he had this massive hand book.
>     Telstral _DO NOT_ support Linux, the reason for this is that
>     the "Technicians" are incompetent. Had I not been on hand to
>     install the NIC, this guy would still be here, it was pathetic.
>     could not even add a windows driver for the NIC, I had to do it
>     for him....</rant>"


To be fair, these guys are telstra linesmen.  Austel certified linesmen.

It's a big jump from testing copper to messing around with PCs, and the
one I spoke to said that they had only about half a day of training.