Installing tar.bz2 help

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On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 11:22, Amedee Van Gasse (ub)
<amedee-ubuntu at amedee.be> wrote:
>
> I don't know where he lives either, but his ISP is located in Lebanon,
> Pennsylvania, USA. I have looked up the city and county Lebanon on
> Wikipedia to get some superficial information.

Yeah, thanks for the info.  I honestly did not know that such ISPs
still operated (or at least offered things like e-mail only dial-up
accounts).

>> Nostalgically, I find that the concept, in this day of mass broadband
>> availability to be a fascinating anachronism. I really didn't know
>> that you can still get those kinds of usage accounts any more.  Heck,
>> even my cell phone gets full internet connectivity, even though the
>> apps mostly suck.
>
> I don't know anything about broadband in the USA. Perhaps there is only
> mass broadband in the big cities on the east- and west coast? Dunno.

It's getting better.  I think places within the EU and parts (PARTS)
of Asia are doing a far better job of getting broadband type
connectivity (be it DSL. Cable, WiMax, or whatever) into the more
remote areas.  For example, where I live has 10Mb DSL.  It took nearly
9 years for the telco to finally decide it was worth doing, where, 9
years ago, I could have had 1.5Mb Cable (at that time, that was as
good as it got) or 768K DSL when I lived in the city. I had a 28Kbps
dialup connection until last September because I happened to live on
the end of the circuit and that was the best my 56K modem could do.
Now I have a CO located less than 1/2 mile from my house, paid for, I
imagine, mostly by state government funds meant to entice telcos and
cable companies to roll their better services into the countryside.

Admittedly, the focus was on population centers, not geography, but
the downside is that the large ISP/Telcos that refused to bring
high-speed connectivity to the rural areas they serve also fought
local ISPs and municipal groups who wanted to start things like
commuity wi-fi.

And I must admit that I have become spoiled by broadband availability,
even out in the middle of nowhere, North Carolina, so please disregard
any underlying assumptions I may have made.  I USED to be the guy who
had to remind people that DLS/Cable/FIOS/WiFi weren't available
everywhere, and now it seems that Ive become complacent and become one
of the people who forget that broadband connectivity isn't available
everywhere (at least within my own country).