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| Please Note: | I accepted a job with Credit Suisse Group (Group Risk Management) and will be moving back to Europe. Because of this relocation (first to Switzerland, then to the U.K.) I can only offer reduced support for DynamIP. Please try peer support in the DynamIP Discussion Group if you don't get a timely response to your e-mail inquiry. |
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 Tribe of the Challenged Ones |
On an average day I get maybe 30 to 50 messages related to DynamIP. Roughly 80% are IMHO pure time wasters on my side because they hit on a problem that is well explained either in the Readme.txt file or somewhere on these pages. Nevertheless, I usually try to point those people in the right direction without making a big fuss (after all, we all started out as newbies...). The other 20% are pretty much evenly split between bug reports and "Thank You" messages. Bug reports (especially those that help me identify a previously unreported problem) are very much appreciated. And quite naturally, I'm very happy about your kind words if you like DynamIP. It does not come as a total surprise, however, that I also get a few messages a month from the less fortunate ones. I call those messages "Comments from the Tribe of the Challenged Ones". While some of them are written in such a hurry that they make no sense whatsoever, others are quite elaborate attacks on DynamIP or me and my personal life (well, at least I have one...).
This page is dedicated to this very small minority of people who are proud members of the Tribe of the Challenged Ones. All names are removed to protect the identity of the sender. Should you ever feel like sending me anything like the stuff listed below, please don't waste your time: I don't program for a living (yes, I already have a life and job). If you don't like DynamIP then you should try one of the many competing products...
| My Comment | That's what I received |
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17:39 03-11-96 -0700 While I appreciate your concern over my homepage, simply saying there is no problem on your end, when there is, is not a very good answer. I've got 48M of memory, and regardless of memory load, the page is truncated at 14,336 everytime. Of course, most people won't run into it because they upload a quickie page. However, if you happen to think that because you offer it free that I should ignore this 'little' problem, you are mistaken. Either support your software or turn the source code over so that I may support it. Having had my own company since '81, I know a thing or 3 about this industry. When you've been successful for 15 years in computers using your approach, then I may begin to believe in your way of doing things, but not until then. |
Just
wondering why you |
Date: Fri, 07 Feb
1997 22:35:13 I was wondering if I can make my own template for DynamIP and it will replace the variables with my current ip address. Here is what I want to do: After looking through your discussion group about dynamip I found a link to someone who was using this product. I was inspired to do the same. So I downloaded DynamIP. Now it won't work!!!!!! Please get this damm program to have a decent Installation Program and not require the user to search the registry for 15 hours just to get the thing to work!!!!!! That shows that you are a bad programmer. :( |
Same guy is back
again: |
Date: Sat, 08 Feb 1997 12:53:58
-0800 Why don't you just do this: include the goddam Internet Control Pack files with your software. I'd rather spend a few minutes more downloading than have to spend 5 hours searching for internet controls. Also, fix your .ini file -- it's screwed... it has a bad type reference somewhere, I don't know what that means though. P.S. - I went to http://www.microsoft.com/icp and it says that MS no longer does the Internet Control Pack thing. It gives a link to the new company that makes them. The new company charges hundreds of dollars for the MO-FO's. |
| cmu | Introduction | Download | Setup | Advanced Users | Sample Templates | Meeting Places |
| Home | User Manual | Installation | Requirements | Trouble Shooting | Tribe of the Challenged | Discussion Group |
|
DIPS (Dynamic IP Server) - visit http://DIPS.home.ml.org/ to find out more... |
| Please Note: | I accepted a job with Credit Suisse Group (Group Risk Management) and will be moving back to Europe. Because of this relocation (first to Switzerland, then to the U.K.) I can only offer reduced support for DynamIP. Please try peer support in the DynamIP Discussion Group if you don't get a timely response to your e-mail inquiry. |
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