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Check out Seattle Wireless for lots of good info.

BTW, I have a 7 mile plain old 802.11B connection that can saturate the T1 upstream connection at the access point. I use a YDI 1/2 watt amp and a 24 dBi grid-dish antenna with a direct line-of-sight path to the access point. Low loss LMR400 coax cable is used to connect to the amp and antenna. Any 802.11B card that can connect to a pigtail can be used to drive the amp and antenna. I use a wireless ISP.

Obligatory Monty Python answer:

Just remember that you're standing on a planet
That's evolving
And revolving
At nine thousand miles an hour.
It's orbiting at nineteen miles a second,
so it's reckoned,
'Round the sun that is the source of all our power.
Now the sun, and you and me,
and all the stars that we can see,
Are moving at a million miles a day,
In the outer spiral arm,
at fourteen thousand miles an hour,
Of a galaxy we call the Milky Way.

Our galaxy itself contains a hundred million stars;
It's a hundred thousand light-years side to side;
It bulges in the middle
sixteen thousand light-years thick,
But out by us
it's just three thousand light-years wide.
We're thirty thousand light-years
From Galactic Central Point,
We go 'round every two hundred million years;
And our galaxy itself is one of millions of billions
In this amazing and expanding universe.

Our universe itself keeps on expanding and expanding,
In all of the directions it can whiz;
As fast as it can go,
that's the speed of light, you know,
Twelve million miles a minute
And that's the fastest speed there is.
So remember,
when you're feeling very small and insecure,
How amazingly unlikely is your birth;
And pray that there's intelligent life
Somewhere out in space,
'Cause there's bugger all down here on Earth!

The Sun circles the center of our Galaxy at about 250 km/s, but the Local Group of galaxies moves at about 600 kilometers per second relative to the primordial radiation of the big bang.

Well, I tend to listen to lots o' stuff. Right now, at work, I'm listening to this playlist, but from time to time I chage it around, adding and removing stuff from the pretty big mp3 list here at work.

Sometimes when I code, I just really like to hear only female voices. Don't know why. Go-go's, Tori, Sinead, Poe, Fiona, Sarah McLaughlan, Bjork, Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday, Lushious Jackson, Jennifer Lopez, etc. Some projects they are all I listen to.

At the casa (do lots of coding there as well as lots of Q2) I did listen mostly to CDs, but a few weeks ago I moved the stereo out of the computer room and into the living room. So, now I end up either blasting the stereo loud enough to hear at the other end of the house (which tends to annoy both my dog and my neighbors) or I use mp3s. Have a decent collection of tunes. Haven't updated the list in a while. May do so when I get home tonight.

Last few CDs in my changer? (love throwing in 5 cds and hitting random/shuffle)Ella Fitzgerald's Gershwin Songbook and Jazz Masters something or another, Tori Amos To Jupiter and Back and Little Earthquakes, New order's Substance, Crystal Method's Vegas, Beastie Boys one with Sabotage (shit, going blank on the name. Ill Communication?)and David Bowie's Earthlings.

Slight tangent. Went to the Tori Amos concert up in Dallas a few weeks ago. Damn! Very, very good. Went out and bought the new albulm on the drive back. Also very, very good.

-Gandalf23

Well, I tend to listen to lots o' stuff. Right now, at work, I'm listening to this playlist, but from time to time I chage it around, adding and removing stuff from the pretty big mp3 list here at work.

Sometimes when I code, I just really like to hear only female voices. Don't know why. Go-go's, Tori, Sinead, Poe, Fiona, Sarah McLaughlan, Bjork, Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday, Lushious Jackson, Jennifer Lopez, etc. Some projects they are all I listen to.

At the casa (do lots of coding there as well as lots of Q2) I did listen mostly to CDs, but a few weeks ago I moved the stereo out of the computer room and into the living room. So, now I end up either blasting the stereo loud enough to hear at the other end of the house (which tends to annoy both my dog and my neighbors) or I use mp3s. Have a decent collection of tunes. Haven't updated the list in a while. May do so when I get home tonight.

Last few CDs in my changer? (love throwing in 5 cds and hitting random/shuffle)Ella Fitzgerald's Gershwin Songbook and Jazz Masters something or another, Tori Amos To Jupiter and Back and Little Earthquakes, New order's Substance, Crystal Method's Vegas, Beastie Boys one with Sabotage (shit, going blank on the name. Ill Communication?)and David Bowie's Earthlings.

Slight tangent. Went to the Tori Amos concert up in Dallas a few weeks ago. Damn! Very, very good. Went out and bought the new albulm on the drive back. Also very, very good.

-Gandalf23

Well, I tend to listen to lots o' stuff. Right now, at work, I'm listening to this playlist, but from time to time I chage it around, adding and removing stuff from the pretty big mp3 list here at work.

Sometimes when I code, I just really like to hear only female voices. Don't know why. Go-go's, Tori, Sinead, Poe, Fiona, Sarah McLaughlan, Bjork, Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday, Lushious Jackson, Jennifer Lopez, etc. Some projects they are all I listen to.

At the casa (do lots of coding there as well as lots of Q2) I did listen mostly to CDs, but a few weeks ago I moved the stereo out of the computer room and into the living room. So, now I end up either blasting the stereo loud enough to hear at the other end of the house (which tends to annoy both my dog and my neighbors) or I use mp3s. Have a decent collection of tunes. Haven't updated the list in a while. May do so when I get home tonight.

Last few CDs in my changer? (love throwing in 5 cds and hitting random/shuffle)Ella Fitzgerald's Gershwin Songbook and Jazz Masters something or another, Tori Amos To Jupiter and Back and Little Earthquakes, New order's Substance, Crystal Method's Vegas, Beastie Boys one with Sabotage (shit, going blank on the name. Ill Communication?)and David Bowie's Earthlings.

Slight tangent. Went to the Tori Amos concert up in Dallas a few weeks ago. Damn! Very, very good. Went out and bought the new albulm on the drive back. Also very, very good.

-Gandalf23