Thicknet (was Re: BBS's)

From: Frank McConnell <fmc_at_reanimators.org>
Date: Tue Nov 21 01:40:44 2000

Sellam Ismail <foo_at_siconic.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 20 Nov 2000, Tony Duell wrote:
> > 10BaseT needs a hub. This is one more thing to find space for, one more
> > thing to have to power, and one more thing that you have to maintain.

> All non-issues. Small, uses relatively little power, and have you ever

And it invariably wants that relatively little power to be delivered
via a fat wall wart that occludes two outlets on the nearby power strip.
Ducky.

But don't mind me, I'm just irked because R*d H*t L*n*x 7.0's de4x5
driver doesn't seem to want to grasp that there's a BNC connector on
the card, let alone that that's where the network is connected, so
there is now a hunk of Cat5 leading to a shiny new hub (with BNC
connector) sitting on top of that box, and a new wall wart occluding
two outlets on the power strip.

ObClassicCmp funnies: maybe it's just that my Un*x preferences run
along BSD lines (with the exception of HP-UX version 5 on 9000/500s),
but R*d H*t sure makes me think of the old joke about AIX: it's like
what a Martian might do if his buddy returning from a survey of the
blue planet told him about this really neat operating system called
Unix that they use over yonder.

ObClassicCmp2: so how many Thicknet folks actually have the tap
installation tool? You know, the one that looks like a drill bit mounted
in a plastic handle?

-Frank McConnell
Received on Tue Nov 21 2000 - 01:40:44 GMT