Netscape AOL Merger, Sun deal

Confirmed Monday November 23

Anti-Microsoft Axis Takes Shape?? Some excited (and some overly excited) rumblings in the camp:

Wed. 24th Nov: "AOL Buys Netscape, Forms E-Commerce Powerhouse

Online giant America Online Inc. will buy Web software pioneer Netscape Communications Corp. in a $4.2 billion deal involving Sun Microsystems Inc., the companies said Tuesday, creating a powerhouse that will transform the way people shop and use the Internet."

From Yahoo and Reuters

Linux SIG - MURLUG

Interested in alternatives to Windows? Interested in virtually free operating systems and software? Want to see what you can do with Linux and Unix? Come to the CSU's Linux Users Group Meet.

The place to be is:

Event: Albury Wodonga Linux Users Group
Date:	Sat 14 Nov
Time:	09:00 to 17:00
Place	Charles Sturt Uni (Albury city campus) Nowik theatre (car parking next door to theatre off Guinea Street)
Purpose	Linux as an alternative to MS - dial-up network connections (connecting to the Internet with Linux).
Cost	Gold coin to cover costs of refreshments
Contact	Howard Lowndes

Come in for a chat, a cuppa, and a refreshing change.

You can read more about Linux and Red Hat from Red Hat Software and an article from CNN about Linux on the rise

LATE STORIES: StarOffice 5 (office suite) is out for Linux - FREE for personal use to the Linux community (and it's nice to work with! - Ed). Corel have announced they will supply Corel WordPerfect FREE for personal use to the Linux Community.

Read on the 'net ...

From the Sept. 7 issue of PC Week, in Spencer Katt's "Rumor Central" column in the back. The last paragraph reads as follows:

"A visitor to Novell's campus last week stumbled across what he's calling the Ultimate Reboot. As the company makes the transition to an all-IP network using NetWare 5.0, users at one of the buildings ran into problems. Log-ins gradually became slower and slower, to the point where no one in the facility could get into the corporate network. IT's solution: powering down the entire building, including lights, air conditioning, the whole ball of wax. After restoring the current, users had no further problems."

In other words, they had to reboot *the building*. Ai yi yi.
Now I've seen everything.

ALI Notices:

Accounts systems reminder

• For those who want to consolidate more than one account onto the same bill, we can now provide you with a quick and efficient single invoice including all access and incidental charges for all accounts and subtotals for each user.
• We have implemented a number of new Access Plans. Check them out in our Services and Rates. PLEASE NOTE: We cannot and will not change your Access Plan automatically. You are legally required to authorise and complete any changes yourself.
  Please e-mail accounts@albury.net.au for more information, or call in and talk to us.
• A final reminder. We do not post monthly accounts. All account information is sent directly to your e-mail account. If this is inconvenient, we have alternatives - you can have your account faxed to a local number, or you can have it e-mail to another more convenient address.

Phone Number changes
It's final - Telstra have completed the regional phone number changeover. ALL REGIONAL NUMBERS NEED the 60 or 57 prefix or they WILL NOT WORK. You should have changed your ALI dial in number by now to include the correct prefix for your area (otherwise your ALI dialler won't work - instructions are here).

Modems
If you have a 56K modem, you WON'T get anything faster than 33K6 unless you are calling our digital modem pool. If you can call Albury for a LOCAL CALL then you should change to the digital number, but you may also need to update your Trumpet dial script. You can download a replacement Trumpet script from ftp://ftp.albury.net.au/pub/hidden/login.cmd Download this script into a temporary folder or directory, re-name or back-up your old working script in your Trumpet directory for safe-keeping, then copy the new script into your Trumpet directory.

If you are still using SLIP (all new accounts for at least the last two years have been PPP accounts), we would appreciate you changing to PPP. For information on changing, please e-mail ppp@albury.net.au

Commission
Did you remember that referrals are worth $10 to you?

Each friend, associate, business partner, family member etc that joins up with us, and indicates they were referred by you (they need your e-mail address) will earn YOU a $10.00 credit on your account!

Modems We now have found a replacement modem for the Motorola modems we used to sell. We have stocks of the Netcomm V.90 Roadster II modem for $239.00. The modems come with cables and software for IBM compatible computers. Macintosh users will need a different cable and software which we can also provide.

Eudora Pro at ALI We have stock on the shelf (literally) of the Eudora Pro V4 email package (Windows 95/NT; CD only; requires 32 bit dialler) - with integrated spell checker, advanced filtering, multiple e-mail accounts, multiple address books, html mail support, voice mail and more.

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