<snip> June 27, 2002 07:31 pm, daRcmaTTeR wrote: > hmph! sounds like it isn't good for much of anything that means anything, > huh? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ You're right. That's a pain.
I can (almost) understand why the providers would gear their operations to "Windows only." They have to play to the largest possible audience I suppose. The only other possibility of which I'm aware (reviewed in a linux journal article) seems to be from a division of Hughes ; http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=3526 I haven't read the article but it looks as though it's only a commercial (read network router; _expensive_) solution of some sort. US $2499 plus annual fees, plus a dish, plus.... Oh well. A (unique maybe?) Alberta solution for those denied high speed internet access; http://www.pathcom.ca/ipath.htm and a news release (but it may only be available here in the Great White North anyway :) ) http://www.pathcom.ca/news/2002/Apr-25.htm Best information I could find, sorry. I think I subscribe to too many newsletters and magazines. ;) -- Charlie Edmonton,AB,Canada Registered user 244963 at http://counter.li.org Around computers it is difficult to find the correct unit of time to measure progress. Some cathedrals took a century to complete. Can you imagine the grandeur and scope of a program that would take as long? -- Epigrams in Programming, ACM SIGPLAN Sept. 1982
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