Don't just go buy a standard window air conditioner unit, cut a whole in the wall, mount it, and turn it on full blast. Also be sure not to mount it directly over your main UPS. An ISP I worked for in the past did just this.
Window air conditioners are not designed for a 100% duty cycle. Over time, condensation built up on the inner coils, and FROZE into ice. At some point the air conditioner recognized that it needed to defrost itself, and shut off. The ice melted, forming water that dripped straight down onto our UPS, shorting it out, and taking down our core router, web, DNS, and email servers. (Yes, it was a small ISP, we had one of each.)
My ISP is a member of a group of ISP's called U.S. Online, which allows any member to use their username/login with any other ISP in the group. (Nationwide roaming). So if you signed up with any U.S. Online ISP you could use any other U.S. Online ISP. The only down side is that you have to look up a local dial-up number in every different place you are, and the coverage is not completely "Nationwide", but they do have a member ISP in most major cities. U.S. Online
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Some GE bulbs are instant on, and some are not.
Specifically, look for model number: FLE 26HT3/2/SW 26watt, equivalent to 100watt incandescent light bulbs
I found them in a 6pack box at Wallmart.
http://www.summet.com/blog/2009/01/29/not-all-cf-bulbs-are-created-equal/
I have an example of what not too do.
Don't just go buy a standard window air conditioner unit, cut a whole in the wall, mount it, and turn it on full blast. Also be sure not to mount it directly over your main UPS. An ISP I worked for in the past did just this.
Window air conditioners are not designed for a 100% duty cycle. Over time, condensation built up on the inner coils, and FROZE into ice. At some point the air conditioner recognized that it needed to defrost itself, and shut off. The ice melted, forming water that dripped straight down onto our UPS, shorting it out, and taking down our core router, web, DNS, and email servers. (Yes, it was a small ISP, we had one of each.)
Buy them a $150 scribbler robot with Bluetooth camera module that you program in Python, and turn them loose on our free online textbook.
Robot: http://www.georgiarobotics.com/roboteducation/products-1.html
Textbook: http://wiki.roboteducation.org/Learning_Computing_With_Robots
Disclaimer: I teach this class, and work for IPRE ( http://www.roboteducation.org/ )
My ISP is a member of a group of ISP's called U.S. Online, which allows any member to use their username/login with any other ISP in the group. (Nationwide roaming). So if you signed up with any U.S. Online ISP you could use any other U.S. Online ISP. The only down side is that you have to look up a local dial-up number in every different place you are, and the coverage is not completely "Nationwide", but they do have a member ISP in most major cities. U.S. Online