Re: Installing tar.bz2 help

On Thu, June 17, 2010 15:35, J wrote:
On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 09:20, Aart Koelewijn <aart@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
If this is the type of connection OP has, I might try to find more
information in old literature and try to find out if such a protocol is
still supported.

Not so weird 15 - 20 years ago. I wasn't trying to be flippant, by
the way... This is just the first time since... about 1990 or so that
I've heard of anyone who has that type of dial-in account. Granted, I
don't know where the OP lives, so all I can speak to is the US, but
the last dial-up account I had was for full internet usage at US
$7/month. So I was just kind of thrown by that response...

I don't know where he lives either, but his ISP is located in Lebanon,
Pennsylvania, USA. I have looked up the city and county Lebanon on
Wikipedia to get some superficial information.

Nostalgically, I find that the concept, in this day of mass broadband
availability to be a fascinating anachronism. I really didn't know
that you can still get those kinds of usage accounts any more. Heck,
even my cell phone gets full internet connectivity, even though the
apps mostly suck.

I don't know anything about broadband in the USA. Perhaps there is only
mass broadband in the big cities on the east- and west coast? Dunno.

Anyway, it's certainly interesting to learn about these things (or at
least to learn that they are still out there).




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