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On Wednesday 12 March 2008 10:55, Simon Williams wrote: > Tom Potts wrote: > > When I was a kid... > > I used a thing that allowed you to plug two modems into each other and > > effectively connect so you could pretend to be an ISP or whatever. > > Anyone seen one about anywhere? > > Its either that or diving into the box from hell* for my parallel cable > > and PPP ing down that... > > I wanted one of those when I was messing with serial cables all those > years ago (when laptops annoyingly all came with modems but not with > network cards). I didn't know there was such a thing though. Really handy - especially if you have something dialling south america at premium rates! > > > * does anyone know why a box of cables, left completely undisturbed, > > turns into a Gordian knot no matter how you pack them? > > Because inevitably someone picks up all-but-one of the loops of a cable. > Wire ties- worth their weight in gold- not that they weigh much. No, theres some quantum mechanical tunnelling at work here. Cable/wire ties will only prevent knotting if each cable is in its own bag. Tom te tom te tom -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html