Re: [Sheflug] WebTimer

[Peter Collier <nospam [at] pecb.worldonline.co.uk>]

Ian wrote:

> Hi ya
> 
> Thanks for the replies
> I am using KDE2 with the Mandrake v8.0, sorry I was kinder sleepy last night
> and forgot to mention that I would like to have a webtimer that was able to
> keep account of the whole months usage because I am with Worldonline and on
> the package that allows 50hours of free internet access.
> 
> Thanks very much
> Ian
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Harvey Kelly <kellyh [at] clara.co.uk>
> To: Sheflug <sheflug [at] vuw.ac.nz>
> Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2001 10:20 PM
> Subject: Re: [Sheflug] WebTimer
> 
> 
> 
>> On Wed, 6 Jun 2001, Craig Andrews wrote:
>> 
>> 
>>> Depends. If you use kppp then it will tell you, as long as you don't
>>> disconnect (!)
>>> 
>>> Also, modem lights works particularly well with gnome and wvdial, and
>>> gives a total time.
>>> 
>>> Other than that, I can't think of one specifically, but there must be
>> 
> one
> 
>>> out there?
>> 
>> I use Gkrellm for that - after a recommendaton - it also displays the
>> length of the last dialup until you connect again, it does other things:
>> CPU usage, mail notifier etc etc kinda like applets/epplets.  Totally
>> crazy wacky themes too dude.
>> 
>> Very handy.
>> 
>> Which window manager are you using then Ian?
>> 
>> Harvey
>> 
>> 
>>> Cheers
>>> 
>>> Craig
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On Wed, 6 Jun 2001, Ian wrote:
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> Hi there.
>>>> 
>>>> Hopefully a really quite question, is there a web timer as such that I
>>> 
> =
> 
>>>> can use to see how long I am online for.
>>>> 
>>>> Thanks very much
>>>> Ian
>>>> 
>>>> 
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Edit your kpp dialup settings. Ther's a tab somewhere for accounting. 
Choose England local rate, this will give costs at 1p per min. i.e. 
£2.56 = 256 mins etc. I used it with worldonline, ok off peak but on 
peak calls are above 1p / min so costs = mins not accurate any more.

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