Re: Free OS/400

I'm posting this with some trepidation, because as soon as I brag on them
it'll stop working, but...  Just as Windows doesn't HAVE to be unreliable
(see OS/2, Linux, MacOS, and of course OS/400), high speed internet
connections don't have to be either.  I've had my BellSouth DSL service for
six months now, and I've never yet caught it down.  I have the local dial-up
number all set up on my machines, but I've never used it.  Since I'm sitting
in a hotel room in Charlotte tonight, I'm using the local dial-up number for
here - works fine, decent response for a lousy 26.4 connection (noisy line),
doesn't seem to mind being up indefinitely.  I imagine my kids have been on
the 'net a fair bit (perhaps too much) on the DSL today, assuming Win98SE
actually kept working (that machine has a hardware mix that the software
finds challenging, but oddly enough games run well on it).  I'm sure there
are other high-speed services that work well, too, they just have to be
found.  Try dslreports.com, they may have helpful info.

Dave Shaw
Simpsonville, SC
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----- Original Message -----
From: <MacWheel99@aol.com>


> Something that is about as fragile as Microsoft Windows is high speed
> connection to the internet.  Is it there when you need it or is it down
> again?  That's one reason why I still have AOL ... I can use the dial up
> connection when the high speed internet is down, which is the case at
least
> once a week when I am impatient to access something - I can either access
it
> the old slow way, right now, or retry intermittently to see if the fast
> connection is back up again yet ... I guess I need to read the manual on
the
> cable modem to tell me what those lights mean - solid on/off vs.
combinations
> of blinking lights ... there might be some combination to tell me if
> rebooting my PC would help with the internet connection.
>
> joepluta@PlutaBrothers.com writes:
>
> > Instead, we should be developing an "application definition
> >  language" that allows us to dynamically design an n-tier application
> without
> >  worrying about the plumbing details.
>
> And don't forget the http://www.erros.co.uk/ model that maximizes what can
be
> done with rules in the data base without any programming.
>
> MacWheel99@aol.com (Alister Wm Macintyre) (Al Mac)


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