> Sorry about your UK situation. :-) That's OK, I rather like it, really. Could be worse. My girlfriend is Norwegian. Trying to buy a 10base-T network card over there, the cheapest I could find was nearly NOK1000 - about �70! A cheap one here in London is �15 (maybe US$25). They're probably given away with breakfast cereal in the US.
> So much for the sophistication of the > English. Oho! The main problem is US imports. The way all companies adjust pricing is to remove the $ and replace it with a �, adding an instant 30% to the price. Many also do that to the US tax INCLUSIVE price and then make it the UK tax EXCLUSIVE price, resulting in computer goods being 50% more expensive here. Sometimes, they just make up a number. In Norway, they double the price or more. The snag is that Norway is richer than Britain, so they can afford it. Britain is poorer than America, though; we can't. And I'm self-employed in a struggling IT market. I can't afford toys at all. > Routers are becoming really cheap over here,and wireless ones > are becoming very popular. Here, too, but it's a toy for the (relatively) rich. > A router can work as a hub, no-? and with a printserver integrated, as > a printserver too. Maybe not. Some can. Not all. > I think that doesn't count. I'll still take it as a compliment. Robyn > wrote that. I've read Robyn's posts here and they're written with a lot > of intelligence and knowledge. I'm sure we're talking about different > things here. <!> I think it's also very variable. I have no proper internal DNS here, and can't get OS X file sharing working stably - but also, user accounts in Samba are mysteriously broken. I suspect there's weird stuff going on in the Unix layer that people don't fully understand yet. -- Liam Proven � http://welcome.to/liamsweb -- Unsupported OS X is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Unsupported OS X list info <http://lowendmac.com/lists/unsupported.html> Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive <http://www.mail-archive.com/unsupportedosx%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
