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Paul Sutton 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... >> Tom te tom te tom >> >> >> * does anyone know why a box of cables, left completely undisturbed, turns >> into a Gordian knot no matter how you pack them? >> >> >> >> > > Gremlins, goblins perhaps, This seems to apply to anything, that > can get tangled up, cable, we have a box at work full of things like > skipping ropes that suffers the same issue, very irritating, when you > are trying to untangle stuff for kids, who being helpful just pull on > it, usually making things worse, it also happes if things are neatly > hung up, put two more neatly tied cables on the same hook and the same > thing happens, same as the one item you want in the box, is always > lurking at the bottom of the box, despite you being sure it was on the > top for quick access. > > Paul > The Goblins in the peripheral shout down the wires to the pixies in the host machine, unfortunately they're an untidy bunch, or at least that's what I read a few years back (circa 1993) in a PC Magazine in an article about installing a CD-ROM drive. Rob -- 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