Re: [Sheflug] WebTimer

["Ian" <nospam [at] uea.ac.uk>]

Thanks for the reply everyone,

Cheers
Ian

> 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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