So far as I know the Zoom USB modems still work in Lion. But I'm not certain, as I use the fax section of the printer, and I know that that works.
On 29 Apr 2012, at 12:31 , Vince LaMonica <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, 29 Apr 2012, LuKreme wrote: > > } On Apr 28, 2012, at 20:29, Vince LaMonica <[email protected]> wrote: > } > } > Sad as it may be, there are many businesses which still operate with > faxes and many industries which aren't moving away from it any time soon. > } > } I've found the secret to dealing with those is simply saying, "it's > } impossible for me to fax. I don't have a fax or a phone line." > > Trust me, I've tried. It's been a 'pick your poison' type of thing - would > I rather e.mail unencrypted sensitive business information [because they > don't do encryption and i refuse to accept things that are easily hackable > like password-protected zip files, PDFs, etc], or FAX the info. And finding > an entire industry [or four] that is like this means going to a competitor > doesn't help - nobody has decided to use technology in a way that benefits > their customers; their websites remain late '90s looking, yet their sales > continue to increase, so why bother adapting change/improvements, since > things are working for them as is. Honestly, it is hard to argue with > that, business-wise, but customer-satisfaction wise, I complain every > chance I get. > > I would like to know if there are any modems that are supported in Lion > [eg: 3rd party that includes Lion drivers]. There are situations when dial > up is needed and my VMware Fusion 4.1 solution can't live on forever [my > laptop runs 10.7, but i have 10.6 installed via the "whoops" version of > Fusion that accidentally allowed non-server editions of Mac OS X to be > installed; i also run CS5 on there and other apps, since 10.7 and CS5 > don't get along well; i'm not the usual user though - most of my time is > spent in front of a desktop system, not a laptop, and my desktop[s] remain > on 10.6 [with fusion 4.1 running 10.7 and 10.8, as i also develop iOS/Mac > OS X software]]. > > /vjl/ > _______________________________________________ > MacOSX-talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk _______________________________________________ MacOSX-talk mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
