Comments on: FIOS, Sigh-os

By: gary brown

gary brown — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 14:54:17 +0000

I remember talking with my late Dad (when he wasn’t, as they say, “metabolically challenged”) telling him how I was getting this Way Cool 9600 baud modem. He just shook his head and said when they designed the No. 5 ESS (he was lead engineer) at Bell Labs they never figured anyone would EVER want to go over 1200 baud.

I re-read the story again last night. That one’s going into my “be able to play it back in my head” collection.

So, what DID you do with (to) Vonage?

GcB

By: Cynthia Morgan

Cynthia Morgan — Sun, 30 Sep 2007 05:04:46 +0000

Cool…enjoyed the read, thanks. Reminded me of a couple of guys I know. I’ve always said the Internet is the world’s only truly self-healing organism.

Speed freak? You’re talking to someone who couldn’t get a fat pipe to her house, so concatenated 6 ISDN lines and played “how big can you get your cache” games for a year before finally moving to a place with broadband. Who once dropped a T1 to the house…serious addiction, fella.

And, actually, I haven’t mentioned what I did with the Vonage connection…

By: gary brown

gary brown — Sun, 30 Sep 2007 00:24:06 +0000

What are you, some sort of speed freek. Come on… if an acoustic coupler at 300 baud (remember a buck-a-baud?) was good for you in ’78 it should be good enough for you now, eh? And FIOC?? Wazzamatta with POC?

And THEN you go and crash their site.

I’m seeing a pattern here… first troubles with Skype, now Verizon. What next?

OK… I’ll reward you. I just read this last night in a collection and found it on Jim Baen’s site:

http://baens-universe.com/articles/When_Sysadmins_Ruled_the_Earth

Enjoy.

GcB