[NCLUG] Another simple FTP question

[Michael Dwyer]

> (I still haven't converted to encrypted FTP, because of what I call
"The
> Law of Motivation Conservation" - Just like you need a large force to
> generate a tiny acceleration of a large mass, you need tremendous
> hounding overcome the inertial laziness within a user.  Has anyone
else
> noticed this empirical phenomena?  Perhaps it could be modeled into
> GNUton's laws of user mechanics or something.  Bad puns, never mind.)

Oh, you are so dead... :)

> Winblows on it.  Which reminds me of another question: These horrid
new
> Pavillions seem like a nightmare for Linux.  Their sound card and
modem
> have drivers glued together; the on-board modem won't work without the
> on-board sound card.  I guess this saves the cost of a $2 modem
> speaker.  I've never successfully made the modem work on one of these
> machines.  Any experience or advice?

Its usually a bit worse than that.  The sound card /is/ the modem.  You
make the soundcard generate modem-like sounds, then pipe it through a
little bit of glue circuitry, and you have a cheap modem.  The problem
is that you work out the processor trying to create modem-sounding
waveforms for the sound card.

Welcome to the world of Winmodems!  You might have noticed that Printers
are getting cheap, too?  Instead of the printer having a brain, the
computer is expected to do all the work.  The printer is little more
than the mechanism.  Again, it makes it cheap, but it makes them hard on
the processor, and a nightmare to write drivers for.

http://linmodems.org/ - for great justice!