Even modems are a lot further ahead. I loved my modem back in the day. I remember when winmodems were a bigger issue. I remember reading about some guys at lucent that turned their winmodem into a sound card :)
Stephen On Sun, 2005-07-24 at 21:36 -0600, Gabriel Gunderson wrote: > On Sun, 2005-07-24 at 18:57 -0600, Michael Torrie wrote: > > On Sun, 2005-07-24 at 17:34 -0600, Gabriel Gunderson wrote: > > > On Sun, 2005-07-24 at 16:43 -0600, Stuart Jansen wrote: > > > > My mind boggles thinking that this might be a reasonable request. > > I'm > > > > amazed at how far we've come. > > > > > > I'm looking for a modem. It has to work with Linux. That's all. > > > > Any more expensive modem will work. And definitely external modems > > work. > > Sorry, I left out the sarcasm tags. > > I am also amazed at how easy it has become to run most hardware. I was > just pointing out that it is still *far* from perfect. The modem bit > was an easy jab. Every time I help someone install Linux on their > machine, the modem issue comes up. The nice thing is that high speed > connections are making modems less and less important. > > Gabe > > .===================================. > | This has been a P.L.U.G. mailing. | > | Don't Fear the Penguin. | > | IRC: #utah at irc.freenode.net | > `===================================' .===================================. | This has been a P.L.U.G. mailing. | | Don't Fear the Penguin. | | IRC: #utah at irc.freenode.net | `==================================='
