On Mon, Aug 28, 2017 at 03:51:22PM +0530, shirish शिरीष wrote: > Dear Dominique, > > Thank you for sharing about lcdproc as response to my mail. For my 2 > cents, I disliked the idea (of lcdproc) immediately as simply applying > maintainer changes defeats the very purpose the tool declares or > claims to help. For e.g. I know of quite a few people where the modem > login page is at a different rather than the universal 192.168.0.1 > address.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_network What do lcdproc and network settings have in common?
> In such a scenario a grandma's internet may simply stop working after > an upgrade if she blindly accepts a maintainer's changes. Huh? > What is actually required is a tool which asks questions in a manner > in which the grandma or anybody not knowing technology can answer. > This I accept is really hard to fix :( What's needed is screenshots of the NM configuration dialog posted on your ISPs page, like they do with the Windows ones. -- WBR, wRAR
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