Thicknet (was Re: BBS's)

From: Sellam Ismail <foo_at_siconic.com>
Date: Tue Nov 21 01:48:13 2000

On 20 Nov 2000, Frank McConnell wrote:

> 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.

Unless a) you have a hub like mine that has an internal power supply
and takes a standard computer cable or b) you buy the right kind of outlet
that has room to accomodate bulky power supplies.

> 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.

See above :)

Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival
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