14 Sep
2004
14 Sep
'04
8:45 a.m.
Hi,
Ron Hudson <ron.hudson(a)sbcglobal.net> said:
On Sep 14, 2004, at 1:34 AM, Gordon JC Pearce wrote:
No, diald takes care of that, dialing out on demand when access is needed.
Freesco acts as a nice simple print server too.
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Cheers,
Stan Barr stanb(a)dial.pipex.com
The future was never like this!
Ron Hudson wrote:
You would still have to dial up every time you want on. It only takes a
moment to dial up, but I find it changes my web browsing habits anyway.
I wonder what the phone company would do if a local call lasted more
than a few hours... (number of days..)
I'll check out freesco, do you have to tell it when you want it to dial
out? Too bad the phone company (sbc) doesn't make
a slow dsl available, no
faster
than my modem but always on and shareable.. that's what I miss most.
Dial-up is shareable, but it can be pretty slow if you do so. Look at
one of the single-floppy firewall Linux distros out there. I've had
pretty good results from freesco (http://www.freesco.org) - easy to
configure, and pretty solid in operation.
Gordon.