On Mon, Feb 18, 2008 at 07:41:49PM -0500, Steve Litt wrote: > Then there's the fact that some of us have dialup, and some in rural > areas are years from getting broadband. The "just upgrade your qt" > suggestion could be a day's downloading over a phone line that could > go down any time.
I've been working on LyX over a 56k modem line until about a year ago. And yes, this involved packages (prebuild and source) from the outside. Contrary to popular belief a modem is not the only way to transfer data. There are e.g. those silvery beer coasters that can be used to transfer 700MB (or even 4GB nowadays) across a whole continent within two days by snail mail... Andre'
