Re: Five small thoughts



On Fri, 13 Jan 2006, Jon B wrote:

>the modem is for when you go to hotels, friends, back end of beyond
>countries [1] and want to connect to the internet at a reasonable rate.
>
>[1] Or even counties, you can soon be a long way away from a wireless
>hot spot [3] and even mobile signal up here, but be sat right next to a
>phone point.

I have been to parts of Newfoundland where there were no
landlines, but there was mobile network - seemed rather odd at
the time!

kt.

[3] NMF
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tigger:~ kylet$ uptime
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