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Re: Hardware Modems




On Thu, 17 Aug 2000 romeu@petrobras.com.br wrote:
[about hardware modems that don't work under linux and why.]

Romeu:

Well /explitive censored/ That is just awful. My 33.6 Modem says I
get 66K throughput when compression is ineffect too.

You ask "what is an oxymoron" .... a self contradiction.

Oxy means sharp, in german, oxygen is 'sour stuff" (approximately)
or sharp stuff. And moron means dull or blunt. so an oxymoron is
'sharp-dull' or a self contradiction.

Giant Shrimp for example.

--David
David Teague, dbt@cs.wcu.edu
Debian GNU/Linux Because software support is free, timely,
                 useful, technically accurate, and friendly.
                 (I hope this is all of the above.)




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