Date: Tue, 2 Apr 2002 18:06:28 -0800 From: Robert Clark <res03db2@gte.net> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> Cc: "Greg 'groggy' Lehey" <grog@FreeBSD.ORG>, Anthony Atkielski <anthony@freebie.atkielski.com>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Anti-Unix Site Runs Unix Message-ID: <20020402180628.E41726@darkstar.gte.net> In-Reply-To: <3CAA54C2.6EEA5839@mindspring.com>; from tlambert2@mindspring.com on Tue, Apr 02, 2002 at 05:02:58PM -0800 References: <3CA8EB5F.2E91B408@mindspring.com> <1017709221.71119.5.camel@chowder.gsoft.com.au> <3CA91382.4E4E2B@mindspring.com> <1017714456.71119.20.camel@chowder.gsoft.com.au> <3CA93944.D72D6AB7@mindspring.com> <004501c1da0f$7cd67a80$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <20020402162112.B26122@wantadilla.lemis.com> <007001c1da81$34acc9e0$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <20020403090836.K26122@wantadilla.lemis.com> <3CAA54C2.6EEA5839@mindspring.com>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On Tue, Apr 02, 2002 at 05:02:58PM -0800, Terry Lambert wrote: > Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > > >> It's faster to do it over a 28.8 kb/s modem with Microsoft? > > > > > > No, it's just very hard to imagine anyone geek enough to run FreeBSD as a > > > desktop having a 10-year-old modem as his connection to the Net. Don't all > > > geeks have broadband by now? > > > > No, but that's irrelevant. You're trying to make it look as if > > Microsoft is faster, and that's just plain misrepresentation. > > I live in Silicon Valley. I can't get DSL because I'm 200 > feet too far away from the LATE, and the tarrif imposes a > stiff fine for anything below the optimum speed rating for > a given tarrif rate, so they are completely unwilling to > try, even though the copper plant in this area is relatively > new, and unlikely to have any problems even at half again > the rated distance. They won't drop a DSLM into the area, > even though there are 6000 apartment units in the same area, > all chock-full of Oracle engineers and engineers for other > big companies, whose employers would pay for their home net > connection to get them to break their backs for the company > every waking moment. What kind of imbicile chooses a place to live outside of the DSL footprint? Come on Terry, this isn't the 80s or anything. ;-) [RC] > > So, yeah, some of us who use FreeBSD -- some of us who were > there at the beginning, before there *was* a FreeBSD -- do > have slow links. > > -- Terry > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20020402180628.E41726>