Installing tar.bz2 help

[Aart Koelewijn]

On Thu, 17 Jun 2010 17:09:15 +0200, Amedee Van Gasse (ub) wrote:

> On Wed, June 16, 2010 21:30, J wrote:
>> On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 15:10, Edwin McGuire
>> <mcguiresmain at emypeople.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I have an E-Mail ONLY Account i.e. emypeople.com. So, i can load up my
>>> desktop and take it to a friends house everytime i want
>>> software from Ubuntu or install it from disks. yes, i'd love to have
>>> WEB access, just not fesible right now.As far as synaptic or console,
>>> I'd love
>>> to learn how to do it the apt-get way,but still learning. Hope that
>>> explains it better.
>>> Thanks Ed
>>
>> That's just ... weird.  You have to connect to the internet to get
>> e-mail...  Ok...
> 
> Look at the website. eMyPeople is an small ISP run by 4 people, based in
> Lebanon, Pennsylvania, United States of Mercia. They provide e-mail only
> dialup internet for $6/month, and content filtered internet for
> $18/month. Their definition of content filtered is a mandatory proxy
> with a whitelist.
> 
> I would call this a scam, but apparently this provider is run by a
> religious organisation, so that makes it ok I guess.

there are some other organisations which only give email access, for 
instance for private sailors out in the middle of the ocean who only have 
a satellite connection, slow and very expensive. But about the only way 
to keep contact with the home-front and get *.grib files for weather 
forecasts. And I suppose there are many other places on earth where the 
only access you have is through a satellite connection.

Aart