[LINK] Broadband

Chirgwin, Richard Richard.Chirgwin at informa.com.au
Tue Apr 29 12:11:10 EST 2003


Wasn't hiding, just pragmatic. Not everyone wants to be enslaved to the
care-and-feeding of the box just because it's Linux. I sympathise with this:
I want to be a user, not an administrator, because frankly the piano is more
fun than the CLI...

RC

> -----Original Message-----
> From: James Morris [mailto:jmorris at intercode.com.au]
> Sent: Tuesday, 29 April 2003 11:58
> To: Chirgwin, Richard
> Cc: 'link at anu.edu.au'
> Subject: RE: [LINK] Broadband
> 
> 
> On Tue, 29 Apr 2003, Chirgwin, Richard wrote:
> 
> > If, however, you don't have the skill, time or enthusiasm 
> for building your
> > own gateway, there are ADSL router/firewall vendors like 
> Netcomm who will
> > give you a nice cheap all-in-one.
> 
> And then you can rest assured safe in the knowledge that this 
> is likely to 
> be a preconfigured Linux or BSD box anyway :-)
> 
> You can run but you can't hide...
> 
> 
> - James
> -- 
> James Morris
> <jmorris at intercode.com.au>
> 


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