eithernet

[Shaun Oliver]

That had me stumped too half a nick hehehehe.
ah well, I now have 4 ethernet nicks in my posession and I'll be glad to get
all my machines connected here eventually. and I'm certain at least one of
them will be a linux box hahaha.
Shaun =)
----- Original Message -----
From: "Geoff Shang" <gshang at uq.net.au>
To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Monday, February 19, 2001 11:39 PM
Subject: re: eithernet


> On Sun, 18 Feb 2001, Tyler Spivey wrote:
>
> > well, half a nic == half a nic. meaning
> > i don't have another computer (or the cable!) to connect the nic to.
>
> Do you know what NIC stands for?  Network interface card.  Just the card.
> Not 2 cards and a bit of wire, just the card.  So Kirk is right - you'd
get
> 2 bits of trash (or one at least) if you had half a NIC.
>
> Certainly one NIC is better than none.  It's handy to have a network card
> even if you don't yet have a network, as there are times when the
> opportunity arises to connect to one.  And of course, there's cable and
> DSL.
>
> Geoff.
>
>
>
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