This amuses me, because I work for one of the aforementioned companies and I just finished writing a Linux-based tool which should help us out immensely.
I suggest looking at the ZyXEL ZyAIR B-4000. It's an access point / receipt printer that is commonly used for selling access. The user gets a receipt, logs into a website, and is granted access for X period of time. You could make it so that when someone buys coffee, they get a receipt good for four hours. Or for $X they can get all day access... It's all up to you. Either way, it's trivial to use. The clerk just presses one of three preconfigured buttons on the receipt printer, the receipt with the access code is created, and everything else happens automagically.
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I'd actually emailed asking how I could acquire that copy, for pay or not. No reply... However, a few months later a friend pointed me to that. Actually, I just looked and I've got no MC Chris here.:( I switched iPods last night and I'm still on a cut-down playlist I was using as a test.:(
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Did you know that if you click on 'LISTEN' on his site, you can download the entirity of 'Lifes A Bitch And I'm Her Pimp', complete with cover art? I've got it in my iPod right now...
For what it's worth, you hold T and it puts it in 'T'arget disk mode. This is so damn handy for when you've got a b0rked OS install, but you want to recover the data. It's so much easier than pulling the disk and sticking it in an external enclosure, especially in laptops...
Also, it appears to contain a tweak to the Safari popup blocker, as it now seems to be blocking the new popunders that everyone has been clamoring about.
So that in order to scroll through a long document you would have to pick up the mouse, move to to the top of the pad, then run back to the bottom? I think that would be a hassle...
I say without a doubt they should try FreeBSD first. It'll run almost any application they are used to either natively or through the Linux compatibility layer.
Also, reading through the FreeBSD Handbook will answer almost any question that one could have regarding getting the system up and going.
Combine all of this with the extremely expansive collection of ported applications (it's often as easy as 'cd/usr/ports/net/whatever ; make all install clean ; rehash' for almost anything) and it's a really, really nice way to work.
Although, this really looks like a fake... I'm not sure why, but something doesn't sit right about the info at the end and the product ordering. Or maybe it's just me.
Ahh, yes. I've actually done that a few years (~12) ago. There was always something weird about making a call across public frequencies, because you would want to be sure the person on the other end knew that anyone could listen in. And PTT is a pain to the person on the POTS side, because they can easily be stepped on.
Ever been wiring some phones and had it ring while in the middle of punching something down? It smarts quite a bit...
POTS takes quite a bit of power to keep it running. In fact, in most COs there are huge banks of batteries to keep the phones up during a power failure. They normally don't run out, except during extended outages, like the great northeast outage of 2003.
Naw, you're right. I had a Bell Telephone DTMF set (one of the early ones that looked like a rotary dial, but had a DTMF pad in it's place) and one day the pad went. Well, I learned to dial it the exact same tap-out-the-number way.
One of my favorite things to do was randomly dial 1-800 numbers and see what I would get. Unfortunately I'd occasionally get some personal 1-800 numbers and wake people up...
I should qualify my first statement a bit more... By non-rotary I mean non-pulse dialing analog phones which are also POTS. It's possible a phone could be ISDN or whatnot, and that would be digital, but people with ISDN handsets in their homes are few and far between.
I find this to be an interesting comment, because non-rotary phones are *NOT* digital. They (well, in North America) are DTMF, meaning they work with two tones played at once to signal the button press. This is all calculated by having one frequency for each row, and another for each column. When you press a button, the row and column tones are played, making the indicated dual tone. As such, you cannot dial a DTMF phone by whistling, unless you are capable of whistling two notes at the same time.
One other interesting bit of trivia is that DTMF phones can have a fourth column of buttons A, B, C, and D. However, these typically would only be found on test sets and AUTOVON (US Military) phone systems.
Barring one High School trip in 1995, I haven't flown with anyone else since 1991 or so. It's probably partially because of that, but I always view the flights, the travel, the meandering around airports as part of the fun of the travel. It's the enjoyment of the journey itself.
I'm sure this also has something to do with my fascination with flight when I was young, but just simply being at the airport and enjoying it all is great to me.
Before Sept 11 I would occasionally go hang out at the airport.
Seriously.
It was always both interesting and relaxing to head down to DTW, go grab something to munch on, and sit around watching all sorts of people come and go, aircraft taking off and landing, etc.
Actually, I don't use either. A Windows box for ProMash isn't a problem, and I've got it installed, I just haven't found much of a need for it yet. Occasionally I'll fire it up in order to use some of the calculators, but the recipe sections just aren't for me yet. Perhaps in a few months time it'll come in handy, but for now I'm just going off of recipes that I find / modify, and not really designing any of my own.
Thank you, and congrats on your brown ale. That was the first beer I ever made, and it came out surprisingly good. I personally don't like it too much, but my friends do... The aforementioned batch is the third I've done, and the second (a very, very hoppy strong ale) should be done bottle conditioning in about a week.
I'm doing some minor temp control for this ale... The person I got the recipe from specified 70F-75F and... Well... that's warmer than I keep my house in the winter. So I'm doing the fermentation in the bathroom with the vent open and door closed. It's currently sitting around 74F in there. It seems to me like it might be a bit hot, but we'll see...
If you are interested, I have two pictures of the fermenting setup, as of about four hours ago: 12
Hehe... Actually, I'd just taken care of the foam from the first hop addition and there's 15 minutes left before the toasted coriander and Mt. Hood hops go in.:D
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This amuses me, because I work for one of the aforementioned companies and I just finished writing a Linux-based tool which should help us out immensely.
I suggest looking at the ZyXEL ZyAIR B-4000. It's an access point / receipt printer that is commonly used for selling access. The user gets a receipt, logs into a website, and is granted access for X period of time. You could make it so that when someone buys coffee, they get a receipt good for four hours. Or for $X they can get all day access... It's all up to you. Either way, it's trivial to use. The clerk just presses one of three preconfigured buttons on the receipt printer, the receipt with the access code is created, and everything else happens automagically.
I'd actually emailed asking how I could acquire that copy, for pay or not. No reply... However, a few months later a friend pointed me to that. Actually, I just looked and I've got no MC Chris here. :( I switched iPods last night and I'm still on a cut-down playlist I was using as a test. :(
Did you know that if you click on 'LISTEN' on his site, you can download the entirity of 'Lifes A Bitch And I'm Her Pimp', complete with cover art? I've got it in my iPod right now...
For what it's worth, you hold T and it puts it in 'T'arget disk mode. This is so damn handy for when you've got a b0rked OS install, but you want to recover the data. It's so much easier than pulling the disk and sticking it in an external enclosure, especially in laptops...
Also, it appears to contain a tweak to the Safari popup blocker, as it now seems to be blocking the new popunders that everyone has been clamoring about.
This seems like a really good thing to me...
You know, I'm sure glad that there aren't any popups on the website of Cryptie, the world's hottest goth.
So that in order to scroll through a long document you would have to pick up the mouse, move to to the top of the pad, then run back to the bottom? I think that would be a hassle...
I say without a doubt they should try FreeBSD first. It'll run almost any application they are used to either natively or through the Linux compatibility layer.
/usr/ports/net/whatever ; make all install clean ; rehash' for almost anything) and it's a really, really nice way to work.
Also, reading through the FreeBSD Handbook will answer almost any question that one could have regarding getting the system up and going.
Combine all of this with the extremely expansive collection of ported applications (it's often as easy as 'cd
Per usual, I've mirrored the video here.
Although, this really looks like a fake... I'm not sure why, but something doesn't sit right about the info at the end and the product ordering. Or maybe it's just me.
-Steve
Ha! Yeah, I've done that... Now imagine if it was ringing. ;)
Ahh, yes. I've actually done that a few years (~12) ago. There was always something weird about making a call across public frequencies, because you would want to be sure the person on the other end knew that anyone could listen in. And PTT is a pain to the person on the POTS side, because they can easily be stepped on.
Ever been wiring some phones and had it ring while in the middle of punching something down? It smarts quite a bit...
POTS takes quite a bit of power to keep it running. In fact, in most COs there are huge banks of batteries to keep the phones up during a power failure. They normally don't run out, except during extended outages, like the great northeast outage of 2003.
Naw, you're right. I had a Bell Telephone DTMF set (one of the early ones that looked like a rotary dial, but had a DTMF pad in it's place) and one day the pad went. Well, I learned to dial it the exact same tap-out-the-number way.
One of my favorite things to do was randomly dial 1-800 numbers and see what I would get. Unfortunately I'd occasionally get some personal 1-800 numbers and wake people up...
I should qualify my first statement a bit more... By non-rotary I mean non-pulse dialing analog phones which are also POTS. It's possible a phone could be ISDN or whatnot, and that would be digital, but people with ISDN handsets in their homes are few and far between.
I find this to be an interesting comment, because non-rotary phones are *NOT* digital. They (well, in North America) are DTMF, meaning they work with two tones played at once to signal the button press. This is all calculated by having one frequency for each row, and another for each column. When you press a button, the row and column tones are played, making the indicated dual tone. As such, you cannot dial a DTMF phone by whistling, unless you are capable of whistling two notes at the same time.
One other interesting bit of trivia is that DTMF phones can have a fourth column of buttons A, B, C, and D. However, these typically would only be found on test sets and AUTOVON (US Military) phone systems.
Hey everyone... I've mirrored just the images here, if anyone would like them:
billg-teenbeat1.jpg
billg-teenbeat2.jpg
Enjoy!
Yeah, Gimp does a great job working with the color profiles that my monitors and printer are set to.
Oh. Wait.
Okay, so don't use their player and don't listen to their music. Problem solved.
Access to entertainment is a choice and a privilege, not a right nor a requrement.
Barring one High School trip in 1995, I haven't flown with anyone else since 1991 or so. It's probably partially because of that, but I always view the flights, the travel, the meandering around airports as part of the fun of the travel. It's the enjoyment of the journey itself.
I'm sure this also has something to do with my fascination with flight when I was young, but just simply being at the airport and enjoying it all is great to me.
Before Sept 11 I would occasionally go hang out at the airport.
Seriously.
It was always both interesting and relaxing to head down to DTW, go grab something to munch on, and sit around watching all sorts of people come and go, aircraft taking off and landing, etc.
Actually, I don't use either. A Windows box for ProMash isn't a problem, and I've got it installed, I just haven't found much of a need for it yet. Occasionally I'll fire it up in order to use some of the calculators, but the recipe sections just aren't for me yet. Perhaps in a few months time it'll come in handy, but for now I'm just going off of recipes that I find / modify, and not really designing any of my own.
Thank you, and congrats on your brown ale. That was the first beer I ever made, and it came out surprisingly good. I personally don't like it too much, but my friends do... The aforementioned batch is the third I've done, and the second (a very, very hoppy strong ale) should be done bottle conditioning in about a week.
I'm doing some minor temp control for this ale... The person I got the recipe from specified 70F-75F and... Well... that's warmer than I keep my house in the winter. So I'm doing the fermentation in the bathroom with the vent open and door closed. It's currently sitting around 74F in there. It seems to me like it might be a bit hot, but we'll see...
If you are interested, I have two pictures of the fermenting setup, as of about four hours ago: 1 2
Creative Commons. Help yourself. :)
Hehe... Actually, I'd just taken care of the foam from the first hop addition and there's 15 minutes left before the toasted coriander and Mt. Hood hops go in. :D