Inconceivable!!!

There have been issues lately with our DSL line. It stopped working after last week. This was due to a misunderstanding between ourselves and AT&T. They believed that they could bill us for whatever they felt like, and we felt we shouldn't pay them until they explained themselves. After many conversations and negotiations back and forth, we have decided to cancel our landline and move over to a cell based card for our family laptop. We couldn't argue much about the bill once they explained what they did, but we didn't like what we would characterize as a shady way of billing for service.

The rub, of course, is that we would have to migrate back to Microsoft Windows to make our cell based card work. Inconceivable!!! But it was necessary. So, as of tonight, I am not writing from a Linux box, nor a BSD box, not even a Solaris box. No, I am writing from a box running Windows Home XP. If I wasn't still so pissed at the phone company I would want to cry.

The upside is that a clean install of XPHome doesn't run all that slowly, even though I do consider it less stable than most Linux distributions. On the other hand, other things run flawlessly, so its a wash between comparable annoyances. Google pack definitely made it easier to switch, and my free games are still free and usable.

The only downside is trying to get all of our backup volumes off of the LVM storage that we had set up...