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Disclosure: I work for a very small ISP that offers hosting and domain registration.

Why go with one of the big corporations? All they want is your money. The smaller "mom-and-pop" providers and hosting companies are just as good, and possibly better then the big ones.

Our little ISP offers registration, domain privacy, web hosting, and email. Our hosting is mostly via FTP though we do have a simple control panel available. We offer support via email and phone.

We aren't the cheapest out there, but we are also not the most expensive.

Your hosting should be based on what you need first, then pricing. Just because someone is big and cheap doesn't mean they are good.

If you want to, check us out at http://www.netonecom.net/ We even still cater to dialup because our area is STILL mostly dialup because the big corporations don't think there is enough population density to change that.

az

With HP printers, you can remove the battery, and the printer forgets about your cartridge.

Perhaps the same is possible with a canon?

me thinks your starting to see the light ..

welcome to 1984 & the Brave New World ..

that's the beauty of the opposing party democracy system .. it provides the ruling class with the perfect system for disenfranchising and isolating the serfs .. it provides the illusion of some kind of control and freeDUMB where there is none ..

if one thinks it through .. all that a conspiracy is .. at it's most basic level .. is a preconceived plan by an given group of people ..

which in this case is that 2-5% of the worlds population that controls 95-98% of the wealth .. and who are not going to give up that wealth and it's accompanying power .. or share it with anyone they don't have to .. if there is any conceivable way of not doing so ..

historically all that "they" have had to do is start a war .. which takes the focus of "them" and puts the focus on the "enemy" .. which by the way .. historically has also provided the greatest amount of wealth for "them".. although some of the intervening resource booms and the modern .com boom have done very well for "them" as well ..

it is most easily achieved with the poorly educated .. young .. nieve and idealistic serfs who don't have the benefit of generational experience .. in most cases all that has been required is to "make" an enemy .. then encourage a sense of fear .. indignation .. moral outrage .. mix in a little self-righteousness and patriotism .. and "they" have been able to get just about anyone to die defending "their" right .. to "their" wealth and "their" freedom ..

"they" have done enough study and profiling on the general population (with them paying the bill no less) .. such as Stanley Milgram work .. mentioned in another posting on /. a few days ago .. to know that the very idea of someone conspiring behind one's back to manipulate and control one's reality is so disheartening and frightening that the average person will simple take the path of least resistance .. and deny that is even possible .. let a lone happening ..

and as Stanley Milgram demonstrated .. the majority of any given population will simply fallow the figures of authority even in peaceful times .. let a lone in a time of war .. as did the majority of the population in germany under Hitler ..

by the time they come to take you away .. for demonstrating some ability to think for yourself and thus being a threat to "their" control .. or to conscript you to go off and die in some foreign land to plunder another countries resources .. because "they" .. your past "leaders" have mismanaged and squandered "your" countries resources ..

it is in all most all cases .. way to late to do anything about it ..

if you are of a mind do a search for a document called "Silent Weapons for Quiet Wars" .. although it seems to be harder to find a working link these days .. this being one of the better ones that i have found because it contain actual formulas .. http://land.netonecom.net/tlp/ref/sw4qw/index.shtm l .. many claim that it is not a real historical document

The FBI had sent a robot vehicle with a telephone to Weaver, which he refused to answer, and was later criticized for it. But besides the telephone, the robot was armed with a shotgun, pointed directly at the door.
http://www.specialoperations.com/Domestic/FBI/Ops. htm

As part of their efforts to make contact with the Weavers, the FBI sent a robot with a telephone to the cabin. But the robot also had a shotgun pointed at the door, so the Weavers feared that reaching for the phone could result in death or injury.
http://land.netonecom.net/tlp/ref/weaver.shtml

OOPPSS! Slashdot messed up my previous UFO link.
There was an unwanted CR after href
Here it is again
UFO sightings!!

Here I got UFO sightings for the unbelievers.
UFO Sightings
Take a good look at the one on the bottom right
There is some strange white exaust liquid coming out of it when it flies over people's head.

I should have used the expression "beer brewed for
the American market". Manufacturers will produce
products that they think people will buy.
I would be surprised if the beer La Maudite
sold in the US is the same as the one sold
in Québec.

One thing we should seriously think about
importing from Québec is Poutine. Any of you
who have never tasted this great food are missing
a lot.
Look here for more information on poutines
(bottom of the page) Food page

If you'd ever drive in the suburbs of Paris (MI) you'd come to realize that the more of these animals eliminated the more people you'd protect. In European countries drunk drivers are the most dangerous on the roads while here in America deers are.
I've been very lucky so far having only hit scunks and birds but I know people who have hit many, as many as ten in the past few years.
The stupid animals should know better but they are too stupid. The best thing is for them to become food for the hungry.
Here we have ways to take care of the free meat found on the highways : in French and In English.

If you'd ever drive in the suburbs of Paris (MI) you'd come to realize that the more of these animals eliminated the more people you'd protect. In European countries drunk drivers are the most dangerous on the roads while here in America deers are.
I've been very lucky so far having only hit scunks and birds but I know people who have hit many, as many as ten in the past few years.
The stupid animals should know better but they are too stupid. The best thing is for them to become food for the hungry.
Here we have ways to take care of the free meat found on the highways : in French and In English.

the real reason daikatana hasn't shipped is here

the real reason daikatana hasn't shipped yet is here

When I worked in Montréal in early 90s I saw all those long lines of canucks at the consulate trying to get a visa to come and live in the greatest country in the world.
bbcat

It's always been like that in the TV industry. They're just extending their grip on the internet. The idea is that each market has their turf and they are not about to let go.
Take the satellite TV for example. For those of us who want to get French TV we can either get one station with Dish for $12.95 or over a dozen on the gray market for about $10, doing what the Canadians do to get US TV.
And the station that is offered is boring as hell. I asked Dish and they said the FCC doesn't allow them to provide the service from ExpressVu.
ExpressVu is their Canadian company which is partly owned by Bell.
Now that I can't get Channel 25 I'm pissed!
Anyone know a back door to get the station?
bbcat

YouHou is an expression to call someone's
attention. In English you would say "Wake up"
or "Look here"

I fail to see the connection with Yahoo except
from an ignorant who has no clue about other
languages.

The folks at Yahoo will end up looking like
complete idiots.

For those of you would would like to check
some other French Canadian humor check my
web site under the humor section. I made
a French Canadian adaptation of the
site of "The dumb sons of America"
It's called "Les tatas d'Amérique"
It got the attention of the Swiss Radio and TV
a while back, perhaps because of the fact that
it is in French and in the United States.
Here is my Home page
This is good old American humor with a bit
of French Canadian humor.
I do provide a link to the original site hosted
by a friend of mine.

>Wow, this is pretty cool. I downloaded it,
>installed it and pointed it at slashdot. Yes,
>it's obviously beta with some things to fix (and
>a somewhat odd UI) but it's fast. Starts up
>within 1/2 second or so and seems to render pages
>fast ...

It did load very fast and crashed very fast too.
Actually the program loaded fairly fast but not
the web page. It freezes running a simple
java script that displays a message on the
bottom of the screen with no display of the
web page whatsoever. It's problem has to do
with frames which it can't load at all. My
web page is fairly simple with two frames
and very quick with either Netscape, exploder
or Star Office.

Lucky it is so easy to do a kill under Linux.

One bug I noticed too is that it can't load
my web page at all (bypassing frame of course)
if I don't replace the www with users, same
bug as WebExplorer on OS/2. What happens is
that my ISP converts the www to users and then
loads the page. I can't publish users as it may
be changed someday.

my web address is entered as

http://www.netonecom.net/~bbcat
but is conververted to
http://users.netonecom.net/~bbcat

People using WebExplorer are told that the
access is denied and people using this buggy
browser get nowhere.

>Wow, this is pretty cool. I downloaded it,
>installed it and pointed it at slashdot. Yes,
>it's obviously beta with some things to fix (and
>a somewhat odd UI) but it's fast. Starts up
>within 1/2 second or so and seems to render pages
>fast ...

It did load very fast and crashed very fast too.
Actually the program loaded fairly fast but not
the web page. It freezes running a simple
java script that displays a message on the
bottom of the screen with no display of the
web page whatsoever. It's problem has to do
with frames which it can't load at all. My
web page is fairly simple with two frames
and very quick with either Netscape, exploder
or Star Office.

Lucky it is so easy to do a kill under Linux.

One bug I noticed too is that it can't load
my web page at all (bypassing frame of course)
if I don't replace the www with users, same
bug as WebExplorer on OS/2. What happens is
that my ISP converts the www to users and then
loads the page. I can't publish users as it may
be changed someday.

my web address is entered as

http://www.netonecom.net/~bbcat
but is conververted to
http://users.netonecom.net/~bbcat

People using WebExplorer are told that the
access is denied and people using this buggy
browser get nowhere.

Actually it is kind of nice. This is the first
install ever of Linux which identify all my
hardware correctly. The graphic is beautiful,
it actually looks just as good as the one on
winblows.

There are a few things though that I didn't
appreciate in the install.

1-The fdisk that they use.
I had preformatted partitions to use and I had
to remove the partitions to get it to accept
(anti moron mode I guess). It turns out that
I had to back up because it would have changed
/dev/hdb5 logical to /dev/hdb3 primary, it would
then have been a challenge to boot back on
SuSE 6.2 considering that fstab would no longer
match as all the partitions except for /dev/hdb1
would move one. I then just mounted a 988M
partition at /dev/hdb2

2-The boot loader takes over, bad move Corel
since I prefer the OS/2 boot manager. I must
find an easy way to correct things.

3-English only install, strange considering the
big thing they make about their multilingual
Word Perfect. No option whatsoever to change the
keyboard during install. I have to try to remember
where the keys are on the US keyboard, a pain in the ass it is.

In conclusion, it will be a lot of work to
clean up after the Corel install but despite
that I think this distro is impressive. They
will give the evil empire a run for their money.
What they did is probably acceptable for Joe Blow
but there should be an avanced install mode for
those of us who don't want to run the install
mode for morons.

Anyone got any idea how to easily recover the
correct setup, meaning OS/2 boot manager the
only one in charge? you'll find my EMAIL at my
website

Thanks for any tip.