HW: what's happening....

[Colin Allen]

Carl,

I am sure that I can find a way to get lossless downloads of Aurora to you via FTP.

Colin
Manager - Litmus

--- On Thu, 9/7/09, Carl Edlund Anderson <cea at CARLAZ.COM> wrote:

> From: Carl Edlund Anderson <cea at CARLAZ.COM>
> Subject: Re: HW: what's happening....
> To: BOC-L at LISTSERV.ISPNETINC.NET
> Date: Thursday, 9 July, 2009, 4:47 PM
> On 08 Jul 2009, at 17:32, stevepxr5 at AOL.COM
> wrote:
> > Where do you live Carl, and why is it so nearly
> impossible for you to get CD's in the post?? I'm sure I
> could send it to you, and if I could........
> 
> 
> I live in Colombia, South America. :)  That's not
> nearly so dramatic sounding as TV and Hollywood would paint
> it (though it was probably even more dramatic than that
> about 15 years ago), but there is no national postal system,
> digital media get slapped with very high import taxes (not
> books, though), and my house actually has no official postal
> address.  That said, books and letters sent to my
> mum-in-law's flat (which does have an address :)) from
> abroad have a very good record of actually arriving, but CDs
> and DVDs are scarcely worth the risk vs. the expense. 
> (Digital media are more likely to go AWOL than
> English-language printed matter! ;)
> 
> On the other hand, I have perfectly fine high-speed
> Internet that may actually be more reliable than the service
> I had in the UK.  (As usual in the developing world,
> when the new tech starts to arrive, it arrives as _new_
> tech, with no legacy systems to work around or on top of,
> and so it actually tends to work surprisingly well.) 
> Therefore, I look forward more than ever to the day when
> buying lossless downloads are the norm. :)
> 
> Cheers,
> Carl
> 
> --
> Carl Edlund Anderson
> http://www.carlaz.com/
>