New fangled wotsit

We use a fax server. It uses OCR to scan faxes, filter all the crap out, attach the fax to an email message, and forward said message onto an email account. It's run off the back of an old Sportster 28.8kbps modem. I'm showing my age when I say people who had a 28.8kbps connection were just flash bastards, Imeanwhoneedsthatsortofbandwidthanyway? Back on topic. Occasionally, the modem drops off. I dunno if its the fax software, modem drivers, server or modem itself. I don't care, it only happens once a week at most.

I've just been the subject of a mini rant. The topic was how paper fax was better, more reliable, you got the finished article in your hand, it didn't break down, the worst that could happen was it would run out of ink/toner or paper, and how much better faxes used to be. Y'know, when all this was just bloody fields. Now, I'd accept this rant, if it had come from a set-in-his-ways old git. Like, say, me. The fact it came from a bloke that's a good few years younger than me, and often gets mistaken for being even younger, is what had me pissing myself from start to finish. Bloody kids today, eh?

Was I sarcastic? Nooooooo, not me.