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@xxxxxxxxx> 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. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >
