History [was Re: strangest systems I've sent email from]

Thank you. I'm glad to hear I helped; I've received so very much from the net - as cynical and bitter as I tend to wax about its current state in general - that it's nice to know I've given a little back. Which reminds me of my own time i Norge (Troms?, to be specific). I never did learn to speak any significant amount of Norwegian, neither bokm?l nor nynorsk, but I did manage some minor proficiency in the written language. (Unfortunately I haven't kept it up, and it's been over thirteen years now, so I've probably lost much of it. I should get out my copy of Dr?mmen om Narnia and see if I can still read as much as I used to be able to.) To drag my reminiscences at least a little bit back on topic, I also remember the house netlink I had. I was working for Universitetet i Troms?, and they set me up with a microwave link to the borettslag I was living in on the mainland...but it was IPv6-only. 'Twas a sharp lesson in how v6-unready my tools were at the time. My desktop was a SPARCstation, and it was the first time I'd really tried to use Seagate Barracudas anywhere near my desktop; those things were _noisy_! /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTML mouse at rodents-montreal.org / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B