From owner-freebsd-chat Fri May 17 17:22:11 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from excalibur.skynet.be (excalibur.skynet.be [195.238.3.90]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9E10437B403 for ; Fri, 17 May 2002 17:22:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [10.9.8.215] (ip-27.shub-internet.org [194.78.144.27] (may be forged)) by excalibur.skynet.be (8.11.6/8.11.6/Skynet-OUT-2.19) with ESMTP id g4I0KXH16667; Sat, 18 May 2002 02:20:34 +0200 (MET DST) (envelope-from ) Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: bs663385@pop.skynet.be Message-Id: 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> X-Grok: +++ath X-WebTV-Stationery: Standard; BGColor=black; TextColor=black Reply-By: Wed, 1 Jan 1984 12:34:56 +0100 X-Message-Flag: Your copy of Outlook will expire in 3 days. Please contact Microsoft about purchasing a new license. Remember: software piracy is a felony! Date: Sat, 18 May 2002 02:19:46 +0200 To: Terry Lambert , Giorgos Keramidas From: Brad Knowles Subject: Re: The road ahead? Cc: Miguel Mendez , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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, "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message