Subj : Remote Dial-In Networking
To   : Jerry Schwartz
From : Mike Powell
Date : Wed Apr 13 2005 08:08 pm

|Are you doing this as an excercise of some sort? I would think that for very
|few dollars you could get a machine capable of running Win98, at least, to use
|as a remote system.
+-[JS=>MP]
 
No, it is not an excercise.  Once a year, I take a week-long trip, and like
to have Internet access.  I have an old laptop that eats harddrives, so I
have it set up to boot from floppy, and use most of the memory as a RAM drive.
I then uncompress, to the RAM drive, a self-extracting ZIP file that contains,
among other things, Arachne web browser for DOS.
 
In the past, I used my ISP's dial-up number (they had one local to where I
will be staying).  However, I got broadband just recently, and would like to
get rid of the dial-up ISP.  Since I only use it, and the laptop, once a year,
it does not really make sense to buy a new laptop just for a week-a-year, or
to keep the $20/month ISP account.
 
Most of what I do is telnet anyway, so I only use Arachne mostly to dial the
ISP and make the connection.
 
Mike
 
##MMR 2.61(beta).  !link JS 04-10-05 18:31 


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