[KLUG Members] Any sattelite ISP that supports Linux?
Adam Williams
members@kalamazoolinux.org
18 Sep 2002 21:46:01 -0400
>Unless Cable & Wireless switched to subs in the last 5 years, they still
>use surface cable-laying ships. The hands-down finest easy intro to this
>is still Neal _Snow Crash_ Stephenson's _Wired_ article, "Mother Board,
>Mother Planet." But yeah, they're still slapping down fiber optic like
>there is no tomorrow.
Tyco (yep, the toy train company) has a fleet of cable laying subs.
There was a PBS documentary on them, pretty cool. Several stretches in
the Indian ocean they actually trenched to lay the cable.
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