Re: gEDA-user: Building the PCB+GL branch [WAS: Re: Open GL survey (for PCB)]

[Dave McGuire <mcguire@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Feb 6, 2009, at 1:59 PM, DJ Delorie wrote:
> I have a friend who lives 0.5 miles from the CO.  Unfortunately, if
> you *drive* to the CO it's 4 miles or so.  The wires go under a river,
> it seems!  He got DSL once by finding someone who knew the wiring
> layout and was willing to TDR the lines to prove it to management, but
> "something happened" and he lost that DSL service, and can't get it
> again, because the TDR guy is no longer around.

   Ugh! :-(

> (we have "naked dsl" around here - the phone company provides the
> wires, the ISP provides the bits)

   That's the way it used to work everywhere, until telcos saw dollar  
signs and started to become ISPs.

             -Dave

-- 
Dave McGuire
Port Charlotte, FL




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