Date: Sat, 18 May 2002 02:19:46 +0200 From: Brad Knowles <brad.knowles@skynet.be> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>, Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> Cc: Miguel Mendez <flynn@energyhq.homeip.net>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: The road ahead? Message-ID: <p05111717b90b4c01f392@[10.9.8.215]> In-Reply-To: <3CE58F73.1A7F50AF@mindspring.com> References: <20020516004909.A9808@daemon.tisys.org> <20020516151801.A47974@energyhq.homeip.net> <20020516172853.A7750@daemon.tisys.org> <3CE40759.7C584101@mindspring.com> <20020516220616.A51305@energyhq.homeip.net> <3CE43D08.1FDBF0A3@mindspring.com> <20020517163624.GB9697@hades.hell.gr> <3CE58F73.1A7F50AF@mindspring.com>
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At 4:17 PM -0700 2002/05/17, Terry Lambert wrote:
> A bad example from personal experience was the Whistle InterJet;
> it had a lot of buttons on the front, which not only raised the
> overall cost, but implied configuration and exposed complexity
> (there was plenty of both, in fact).
I desperately wanted an InterJet. Problem was that I couldn't
find a place where I could buy one, and I desperately did *not* want
a Qube.
> People bought InterJets to connect their small businesses to the
> Internet. They were less painful than the precursor, but they
> could hardly be said to represent an epitome of good technology.
I wanted to buy one as the ideal home mini-server -- running FreeBSD.
> A much better paradigm would have been a single round green
> button on the front, wich connected your small office to the
> Internet.
Naw, you want something that just automatically works, and
doesn't require any buttons.
> There's actually a German company building an InterJet-like
> device. You can buy one today, off the shelf, from Fry's
> electronics, for around US$400. It has a keypad, like the
> InterJet, and it has an LCD panel (at the bottom, rather than
> the top).
Really? Can you give me the name of the company? I might be
able to find a place over here where I can buy them locally.
--
Brad Knowles, <brad.knowles@skynet.be>
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
-Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania.
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