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Date:      Sat, 17 Nov 2001 10:02:45 +0100
From:      "Anthony Atkielski" <anthony@atkielski.com>
To:        "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com>, "Steve Tremblett" <sjt@cisco.com>
Cc:        "Jon Molin" <Jon.Molin@resfeber.se>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: DSL PPPoE with 2 NICs
Message-ID:  <023701c16f46$a34cfc90$0a00000a@atkielski.com>
References:  <000e01c16f44$dc981c20$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com>

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Ted writes:

> One of the biggest advantages of vi is that it
> permits extremely efficient use of the bandwidth,
> as it allows the remote terminal or terminal
> emulation to handle jobs like moving blocks of
> text around in a cut-and-paste operation, etc.

True.  I'm constantly pinning my 100 Mbps, two-machine LAN against the wall with
my typing speed using less efficient editors.

> ... wait until the day comes that you need
> to edit a single config file on a system that's
> 500 miles away and behind a dedicated dialup
> modem on a phone line that is routed through a cow
> pasture and can only handle 28.8k

Well, hey, if it's East Electronics, they will have already foreseen this and
installed fiber between the administrator and the cow-pasture system, so that
won't be a problem ... right?


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