Networks are for corporations and offices, right?

["Robert Holmgren" holmgren@xxxxxxxx]

** Reply to message from "Patricia M. Godfrey"  on Sat, 10
Jun 2006 12:58:46 -0400


>> a new-ish frame in U2 (7 June refresh) called TYN,
>> which TYpes [prints] to a Network resource using
>> NT's built-in LPR client (and offers, for download,
>> a command line LPR client for 9x). 

> Thanks. No instance here now where this would work, but
> good to have on hand for possible need down the road.

What the "average" user, the user with a single machine, doesn't realize is how
very little it takes to become a "network" and, consequently, to avail of
network options and tricks. Indeed, in the case of a very modest setup,
becoming a network is mostly mindset. *Every time you connect to the Internet,
you join a network.* If you are permanently connected to the Internet
(broadband, or dial-up that never times out), then you are permanently
networked. This is just an incontrovertible fact. When you grasp that, you
start thinking differently. For example, you realize that if you assign a
"share" to the printer hanging off your machine and enable access to it by
"everybody", then the printer acquires a network name too, usually in the form
of HPLASERJ or FRANCESCA_PRINTERSHARENAME. Or, instead of junking that old
machine, you keep it, together with the different (maybe 9x) operating system
installed upon it (it is soooo handy to have more than one machine, especially
when you run into difficulties -- the second machine is there to retrieve the
answers, or the files, that get you out of trouble). Then you acquire a cheap
router and ...

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Robert Holmgren
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