Re: [SLUG] Cable/DSL routers

From: Peter S. (ter450@tampabay.rr.com)
Date: Tue Nov 12 2002 - 20:12:59 EST


Boy, if I could just figure out how to set this laser printer on "stun"....

----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul M Foster" <paulf@quillandmouse.com>
To: <slug@nks.net>
Sent: Tuesday, November 12, 2002 6:24 PM
Subject: Re: [SLUG] Cable/DSL routers

> On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 07:37:39AM -0500, Greg Schmidt wrote:
>
> <snip>
>
> > I once saw where someone trying to be helpful had pulled a broken jack
out
> > of the floor and twisted all the wires tightly together. I don't know
if
> > they didn't want the Token to get out or if they were trying to keep the
> > bits from escaping into the Ether.
>
> True story: There's a senior accountant at a very large accounting firm
> in Tampa (I won't mention which), who worked with computers all the time
> (accounting, you know). He actually believed that a printer cable had to
> be hooked to a printer, or else the bits would come out the end of the
> cable and get lost. I kid you not.
>
> Paul



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