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To: MarineBrat
The PC comes with a dialup modem, but gOS doesn't support it.

No, it probably support ethernet instead, as a) dial-up is starting to phase out, and b) the article points out that the distribution is tailored around web-based applications that require good bandwidth. Dial-up won't cut it for what the distribution is tailored to do.

72 posted on 11/06/2007 6:25:40 AM PST by kevkrom (*** THIS SPACE FOR RENT ***)
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To: kevkrom
No, it probably support ethernet instead

Yes, it says in the article that it does.

a) dial-up is starting to phase out, and b) the article points out that the distribution is tailored around web-based applications that require good bandwidth. Dial-up won't cut it for what the distribution is tailored to do.

The reason I'm banging my head against the wall is the lack of forward vision that is represented in a package that included a modem, with an OS that doesn't support it. It's laughable, and, come to think of it, it's just what you'd expect on a cheap Chinese piece of crap computer from Wal-Mart.

If I were on the team that put this package together I'd probably have gotten myself into hot water over it, because I'd have been relentless in pointing out how people are going to assume that if we didn't cross this "T" then we probably didn't dot some "i's" either.

I shudder to think what people would be saying about Microsoft if they shipped a bargain basement OS on a bargain basement computer with the same discontinuity between OS and hardware. And deservedly so.

84 posted on 11/06/2007 7:55:31 AM PST by MarineBrat (My wife and I took an AIDS vaccination that the Church offers.)
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