Installing tar.bz2 help

[chris]

On Thu, 2010-06-17 at 09:35 -0400, J wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 09:20, Aart Koelewijn <aart at mtack.xs4all.nl> wrote:
> > If this is the type of connection OP has, I might try to find more
> > information in old literature and try to find out if such a protocol is
> > still supported.
> 
> Not so weird 15 - 20 years ago.  I wasn't trying to be flippant, by
> the way... This is just the first time since... about 1990 or so that
> I've heard of anyone who has that type of dial-in account. Granted, I
> don't know where the OP lives, so all I can speak to is the US, but
> the last dial-up account I had was for full internet usage at US
> $7/month.  So I was just kind of thrown by that response...
> 
> 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.
> 
> Anyway, it's certainly interesting to learn about these things (or at
> least to learn that they are still out there).
> 
> Cheers
> Jeff
> 

Depends where you live.  In outback NZ that is all you can get.
cheers the kiwi