[geeks] Aluminum 30" Apple Display

[Joshua Boyd]

On Mon, Jun 28, 2004 at 01:18:02PM -0700, Gary Nichols wrote:
> On Mon, 28 Jun 2004, Joshua Boyd wrote:
> > Woah, woah woah!  Why are you sullying this beauty with an modem?  Even
> > if dialup is the only way to get internet service in your area, please
> > use something external.  Either an external model on a USB serial
> > adapter, or better yet an external router.
> 
> I thought too until I was w/o broadband for a month while moving - then I 
> prayed for a modem in my G5.  And look, it's in there!  Yay!

Err, why did you pray for an internal modem?  What's wrong with an
external modem?
 
> > >   PCI-X Gigabit Ethernet Card  065-5081 
> > 
> > Err, doesn't the machine have onboard GigE?  What's wrong with that?
> 
> Why have just one NIC when you can have two?  Come on, Josh!

Of course.  But, the second one is why they invented things like HIPPI,
Infiniband, GSN, etc.  Why limit yourself to GigE jumbo frame size of
9000 bytes, when you can have much larger ones, like say 64 Kbyte frames
from HIPPI?