When Sprint launched their network in the Atlanta area around 98 or 99, they launched with a bit over 400 towers. Get too far outside of 285, the interstate loop around the city, and coverage was pretty much limited to just the right along the interstates. Keep an eye out, and you'll see the towers everywhere..
Living in Indianapolis and trying to get to a site in Chicago, it of course makes sense that Comcast routes my traffic down to Nashville, then to New York (newyork.ny.ibone.comcast.net is hop 6), then to LA (..losangelesequinix.savvis.net is hop 8), then to Chicago.
Latency to the normal site in California is about 4 - 5 ms more than to Chicago. Go figure.
Now I need to get a Monster High Speed IEEE 1284 printer cable -- it's only 35 bucks. I'm sure my Centronics printer will be far faster, and the pictures more vibrant!
The feature came in very handy for me today. I was helping mom plan a route home from Kitty Hawk, NC, to Muncie, IN. She's getting there via my sister's house near Baltimore for a few days, so that trip is pretty easy, but we weren't sure what the best route home was.
Both Googlemaps and Mapquest come up with a route that has 170 miles on US 35 through Ohio and a total distance of around 760 miles. If 35 through Ohio is anything like 35 through Indiana, it would take 5 or 6 hours to make those 170 miles -- max speed limit of 55mph, lots of small towns with stop lights, speed limits of 35mph, and twists and turns through the towns.
Being able to move the route around, we found it really doesn't make a difference whether she goes up 95 and across 70, or across 64 and up 75. Both of those routes are about 850 miles, IIRC, and the 95 corridor is much more familiar to her and will make the trip a lot less stressful (even though she'll have to take 495 around DC!).
Website that puts tv shows on the web, or something like that. http://www.joost.com/ I recognized the name, Joost, but couldn't remember what it was until I got home and looked them up.
http://i9.tinypic.com/4qs56ok.jpg - that's a picture of the car, driven by Tomas Schekter, getting a new front wing after a small collision. Took em about 30 seconds I think.
I kept my eye out for Roberto Moreno's car, looking for the penguin, but never could spot it. Too bad about him crashing out so early.
I'm 28 and have been to probably 14 or 15 Indy 500's. It's the only race I go to each year even though my Uncle always has an extra ticket or two to the Brickyard and tickets for the USGP are pretty easy to come by. Don't know much else about the IRL except that they have some other races throughout the year.. I just have fun going to the race each year. Also happen to be a fan of Linux. So, I think it's pretty cool that there is a penguin car in the 500 and this is the first I've heard of the car. I can't so whether I would have donated to the cause or not had publicity been better, but I'll now be rooting for Tux on race day:)
Here is an interview with the CEO of IGA, the company delivering the ads to BF2142. Pretty brief really.
Explains what they capture and why they capture it.. Basically, they need the IP so that they're serving Pontiac ads in the US and Holden ads in Australia.
The company I have my 401k (retirement plan) with lets me send them "email" through a web form, then sends me a confirmation that my message went through via email. When they reply, I get an informational message via email telling me to login to the website to read the message.
Consider yourself lucky. I have a Samsung i500 with service through Sprint and if the thing doesn't have a signal, it jacks up the power and keeps trying to connect until the battery is drained. I discovered this after a few times of driving to my parents' house and spending the night only to find my phone dead the next morning.
I think my Motorola v600i does similar stuff. Started a new job in June, and the building got zilch for Cingular reception. Lots of Verizon phones in the company (people love their crackberries) and we were told that Verizon had some sort of repeater in the building that pretty much killed off other signals.. It made sense, kinda sorta.. I thought the Windows had some sort of metallic tint and were blocking the signal from the outside -- I'm no engineer, but it made more sense than Verizon blocking everyone. I could walk out of the building and have full reception... 10 feet inside the building and the phone said "no service." I'd drain the battery in 2 days instead of the normal 4 or 5, so it seemed like the phone was blasting up the power looking for signal. After a couple weeks, I just left the phone off in my desk instead of letting it bake in the car.
Then, last week, my phone was on my desk and started vibrating like it had a call.. Had it on because my apartment had been burglarized and I was expecting a call from the cops about taking prints (they caught a guy breaking in to the next building over..) I just hit a button to stop the vibration and made note to check my voicemail a few minutes later, knowing I couldn't make it out the door to answer it in time. Then, I looked down at the phone and noticed I had full reception when I had zero the day before.
Very, very strange. Still can't figure out why I suddenly got reception.. I know the company uses some T-Mobile crackberries for the international travelers, but I'm hitting a Cingular tower so I kinda doubt Cingular got a repeater in the building too. Guess I need to track down the crackberry support guys and ask them what happened.
Ahhh! That was exactly what I was thinking when I read the OP's question, and was wondering why no one thought of it as I read the comments.. And yours was the very last one on my page! It does sound like some sort of government deal where families are not welcome..
A forum I'm on implemented a minimum post count before users can post links.. I guess the one or two spammers we got per month was too much. The only effect that I've seen is legitimate users have to jump through hoops to post links (even lurkers that have been registered for months still can't post links). It did get rid of most of the spammers though, it seems.
But, it didn't completely stop them.. Two nights ago we had a guy spam us and told us to Google for his company's name and click the first link to get to the webpage.. As I google for "company google," today, I see two other forums that he hit.. Googlebot must have indexed the pages before their admins got to the posts because the links now lead to post not found pages.
It's funny that this story was posted because I was looking through the pcHDTV forum tonight and saw a ton of spam dating back several weeks.. Guess the company can't be bothered to read their own forums and clean em up!
I brought my own phone to Cingular when I upgraded to GSM service. I had bought a Motorola v620 (black v600 with video, not sold by carriers in the US) on eBay and just went to a store and told em I wanted to switch to GSM. They gave me all the bells and whistles that the "promotional" plans had like free nights & weekends and rollover, but without signing a new contract. I had been month-to-month with them for 2+ years and really just didn't want to sign another contract. I had read online that they wouldn't give me the bells & whistles w/o a contract, but...
Wish my mod points hadn't run out yesterday.. I've been looking for a job recently and have dealt with all sorts of unprofessional behavior from all sorts of companies. I'd do better keeping track of companies that act professionally rather than the ones that I feel are unprofessional. It's pretty refreshing when I run across a recruiter that actually keeps me informed of what is going on and is honest.
I don't get. I'm looking for a ~160GB SATA drive right now. I have some giftcards to Best Buy I was going to use, but everything lists a 1 year warranty. I go to newegg and find an OEM version of the same drive for 75% of the cost with a 3 or 5 year warranty. My power supply has SATA power connectors so I don't need a converter and the motherboard came w/ 8 SATA data cables so I don't need whatever comes in the box.
HD's seem completely opposite of CPU's in regards to warranties.. boxed CPU gets 3 years or whatever, OEM gets a month or so from the vendor.
I can't bring myself to spend the gift cards at Best Buy when I can spend the same amount of cash (only about $70 left on the cards, so I'd have to put some of my own cash with em) and get a better warranty online.
Dellater will delete a file the next time Windows boots, while the splash screen is displaying. I had to use it on a particularlly nasty bug that had 2 processes running. You'd kill the first and the second would restart it.. Delete the "Run" registry entry and it'd come right back. They even started in safe mode. Dellater allowed me to delete the exe's when I rebooted then go in and delete the registry keys and finish cleaning the mess.
It's funny because it's true! I was asked to look at my mom's neighbor's compute because he was having troubles getting AOL to work. I said no because I don't use AOL and know nothing about it, but mom insisted that I try to help him out. So I go over and go in to add/remove programs and start removing some crap. Get to Gator and he tells me to leave it there because he uses it all the time to store passwords or whatever the hell it does. I explained the concept of spyware to him, but he didn't care. He wanted to keep that damn Gator program. So he kept it and I told him to call AOL and ask for a new CD.
Ask a neighbor with high speed internet if their email account uses a password.. at least 3 in 10 do not think it does.
That's true! I was helping my mom out over the phone with some webmail problem she was having, so I asked her the password to the account so I could see what she was seeing (VNC over 56k.. ugh). She told me she didn't have one. Then I saw the checkbox on the login page to remember the password or autologin or whatever. I knew I didn't check that when I set it up for her, but I guess she had figured it out a while ago and forgotten about it. Took a little prodding, but she finally remembered it.
But, hey, at least I don't have to worry about her giving out her Citibank password to some phishing scheme when she doesn't even know it! Security through obscurity?
We got a bunch (around 80, IIRC) of HP SFF EVO d530's at work a couple months ago. I found one of them with a floppy in the drive still.. I put the floppy aside and did my normal imaging of the machine. When I threw the floppy in my desktop I found that it was some sort of Linux boot disc. So I booted up a machine with that disc in it and it seemed to start up some sort of imaging program. Kinda looked like it was looking for a network server. Didn't look real closely as I was busy with those machines and forgot about the disc. Not sure what happened to the disc any more, kinda wish I had taken a closer look now.
So, at least HP, on those certain machines, doesn't simply throw a pre-imaged drive in to the box and ship it out.
I did some contract work for Sprint when they were building a network in a southern city. Summer job in college really. I'd drive around to cell phone towers and make sure they had power so Sprint techs could come and do whatever they had to do. I remember two sites in particular that I had trouble with.
The first was on a church's property. Kinda wooded area, pretty big for a church. I drove around the area for a good 10 minutes before calling my boss and asking where the tower was. It was one of those camoflauged trees. I was looking for the damn cell phone tower and couldn't find it!
Second one was also a church. This time the antenna array was up in the bell tower. I was kinda prepared for that one and could barely see the antennas poking out.
Another interesting one was out in the middle of a cow field on the side of the highway. There was a mud road out the to the tower. Cows were too busy chowing down to give me a second look.
I guess these were created out of a catch 22 type situation.. People in rich neighborhoods wanted / needed cell phone service, but weren't willing to put up with the ugly looking tower next to the clubhouse. So the companies that build the towers had to come up with something.
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FWIW, .308 is not legal in Indiana. Maximum case length allowed is 1.8 inches and the .308 Winchester is 2.015.
http://www.eregulations.com/indiana/hunting/deer-regulations/
Who gave them the photo? Soldiers from the US Army's 4th Infantry Division or US Marines? The article states both.
When Sprint launched their network in the Atlanta area around 98 or 99, they launched with a bit over 400 towers. Get too far outside of 285, the interstate loop around the city, and coverage was pretty much limited to just the right along the interstates. Keep an eye out, and you'll see the towers everywhere..
Living in Indianapolis and trying to get to a site in Chicago, it of course makes sense that Comcast routes my traffic down to Nashville, then to New York (newyork.ny.ibone.comcast.net is hop 6), then to LA (..losangelesequinix.savvis.net is hop 8), then to Chicago.
Latency to the normal site in California is about 4 - 5 ms more than to Chicago. Go figure.
Now I need to get a Monster High Speed IEEE 1284 printer cable -- it's only 35 bucks. I'm sure my Centronics printer will be far faster, and the pictures more vibrant!
Make sure you get the one with Winky Blinky!
The feature came in very handy for me today. I was helping mom plan a route home from Kitty Hawk, NC, to Muncie, IN. She's getting there via my sister's house near Baltimore for a few days, so that trip is pretty easy, but we weren't sure what the best route home was.
Both Googlemaps and Mapquest come up with a route that has 170 miles on US 35 through Ohio and a total distance of around 760 miles. If 35 through Ohio is anything like 35 through Indiana, it would take 5 or 6 hours to make those 170 miles -- max speed limit of 55mph, lots of small towns with stop lights, speed limits of 35mph, and twists and turns through the towns.
Being able to move the route around, we found it really doesn't make a difference whether she goes up 95 and across 70, or across 64 and up 75. Both of those routes are about 850 miles, IIRC, and the 95 corridor is much more familiar to her and will make the trip a lot less stressful (even though she'll have to take 495 around DC!).
Website that puts tv shows on the web, or something like that. http://www.joost.com/ I recognized the name, Joost, but couldn't remember what it was until I got home and looked them up.
http://i9.tinypic.com/4qs56ok.jpg - that's a picture of the car, driven by Tomas Schekter, getting a new front wing after a small collision. Took em about 30 seconds I think.
I kept my eye out for Roberto Moreno's car, looking for the penguin, but never could spot it. Too bad about him crashing out so early.
I'm 28 and have been to probably 14 or 15 Indy 500's. It's the only race I go to each year even though my Uncle always has an extra ticket or two to the Brickyard and tickets for the USGP are pretty easy to come by. Don't know much else about the IRL except that they have some other races throughout the year.. I just have fun going to the race each year. Also happen to be a fan of Linux. So, I think it's pretty cool that there is a penguin car in the 500 and this is the first I've heard of the car. I can't so whether I would have donated to the cause or not had publicity been better, but I'll now be rooting for Tux on race day :)
Here is an interview with the CEO of IGA, the company delivering the ads to BF2142. Pretty brief really.
Explains what they capture and why they capture it.. Basically, they need the IP so that they're serving Pontiac ads in the US and Holden ads in Australia.
The company I have my 401k (retirement plan) with lets me send them "email" through a web form, then sends me a confirmation that my message went through via email. When they reply, I get an informational message via email telling me to login to the website to read the message.
I think my Motorola v600i does similar stuff. Started a new job in June, and the building got zilch for Cingular reception. Lots of Verizon phones in the company (people love their crackberries) and we were told that Verizon had some sort of repeater in the building that pretty much killed off other signals.. It made sense, kinda sorta.. I thought the Windows had some sort of metallic tint and were blocking the signal from the outside -- I'm no engineer, but it made more sense than Verizon blocking everyone. I could walk out of the building and have full reception... 10 feet inside the building and the phone said "no service." I'd drain the battery in 2 days instead of the normal 4 or 5, so it seemed like the phone was blasting up the power looking for signal. After a couple weeks, I just left the phone off in my desk instead of letting it bake in the car.
Then, last week, my phone was on my desk and started vibrating like it had a call.. Had it on because my apartment had been burglarized and I was expecting a call from the cops about taking prints (they caught a guy breaking in to the next building over..) I just hit a button to stop the vibration and made note to check my voicemail a few minutes later, knowing I couldn't make it out the door to answer it in time. Then, I looked down at the phone and noticed I had full reception when I had zero the day before.
Very, very strange. Still can't figure out why I suddenly got reception.. I know the company uses some T-Mobile crackberries for the international travelers, but I'm hitting a Cingular tower so I kinda doubt Cingular got a repeater in the building too. Guess I need to track down the crackberry support guys and ask them what happened.
Ahhh! That was exactly what I was thinking when I read the OP's question, and was wondering why no one thought of it as I read the comments.. And yours was the very last one on my page! It does sound like some sort of government deal where families are not welcome..
http://www.gameupdates.org/ - patches and updates and demos for games.
I see your 16x16 and raise you to 100x100.
Nevermind me, just testing the latest extension I've installed
A forum I'm on implemented a minimum post count before users can post links.. I guess the one or two spammers we got per month was too much. The only effect that I've seen is legitimate users have to jump through hoops to post links (even lurkers that have been registered for months still can't post links). It did get rid of most of the spammers though, it seems.
But, it didn't completely stop them.. Two nights ago we had a guy spam us and told us to Google for his company's name and click the first link to get to the webpage.. As I google for "company google," today, I see two other forums that he hit.. Googlebot must have indexed the pages before their admins got to the posts because the links now lead to post not found pages.
It's funny that this story was posted because I was looking through the pcHDTV forum tonight and saw a ton of spam dating back several weeks.. Guess the company can't be bothered to read their own forums and clean em up!
I brought my own phone to Cingular when I upgraded to GSM service. I had bought a Motorola v620 (black v600 with video, not sold by carriers in the US) on eBay and just went to a store and told em I wanted to switch to GSM. They gave me all the bells and whistles that the "promotional" plans had like free nights & weekends and rollover, but without signing a new contract. I had been month-to-month with them for 2+ years and really just didn't want to sign another contract. I had read online that they wouldn't give me the bells & whistles w/o a contract, but...
Wish my mod points hadn't run out yesterday.. I've been looking for a job recently and have dealt with all sorts of unprofessional behavior from all sorts of companies. I'd do better keeping track of companies that act professionally rather than the ones that I feel are unprofessional. It's pretty refreshing when I run across a recruiter that actually keeps me informed of what is going on and is honest.
No, and it doesn't work in Cedega either :(
But it is fun!
I don't get. I'm looking for a ~160GB SATA drive right now. I have some giftcards to Best Buy I was going to use, but everything lists a 1 year warranty. I go to newegg and find an OEM version of the same drive for 75% of the cost with a 3 or 5 year warranty. My power supply has SATA power connectors so I don't need a converter and the motherboard came w/ 8 SATA data cables so I don't need whatever comes in the box.
HD's seem completely opposite of CPU's in regards to warranties.. boxed CPU gets 3 years or whatever, OEM gets a month or so from the vendor.
I can't bring myself to spend the gift cards at Best Buy when I can spend the same amount of cash (only about $70 left on the cards, so I'd have to put some of my own cash with em) and get a better warranty online.
Dellater will delete a file the next time Windows boots, while the splash screen is displaying. I had to use it on a particularlly nasty bug that had 2 processes running. You'd kill the first and the second would restart it.. Delete the "Run" registry entry and it'd come right back. They even started in safe mode. Dellater allowed me to delete the exe's when I rebooted then go in and delete the registry keys and finish cleaning the mess.
It's funny because it's true! I was asked to look at my mom's neighbor's compute because he was having troubles getting AOL to work. I said no because I don't use AOL and know nothing about it, but mom insisted that I try to help him out. So I go over and go in to add/remove programs and start removing some crap. Get to Gator and he tells me to leave it there because he uses it all the time to store passwords or whatever the hell it does. I explained the concept of spyware to him, but he didn't care. He wanted to keep that damn Gator program. So he kept it and I told him to call AOL and ask for a new CD.
Ask a neighbor with high speed internet if their email account uses a password .. at least 3 in 10 do not think it does.
That's true! I was helping my mom out over the phone with some webmail problem she was having, so I asked her the password to the account so I could see what she was seeing (VNC over 56k.. ugh). She told me she didn't have one. Then I saw the checkbox on the login page to remember the password or autologin or whatever. I knew I didn't check that when I set it up for her, but I guess she had figured it out a while ago and forgotten about it. Took a little prodding, but she finally remembered it.
But, hey, at least I don't have to worry about her giving out her Citibank password to some phishing scheme when she doesn't even know it! Security through obscurity?
We got a bunch (around 80, IIRC) of HP SFF EVO d530's at work a couple months ago. I found one of them with a floppy in the drive still.. I put the floppy aside and did my normal imaging of the machine. When I threw the floppy in my desktop I found that it was some sort of Linux boot disc. So I booted up a machine with that disc in it and it seemed to start up some sort of imaging program. Kinda looked like it was looking for a network server. Didn't look real closely as I was busy with those machines and forgot about the disc. Not sure what happened to the disc any more, kinda wish I had taken a closer look now.
So, at least HP, on those certain machines, doesn't simply throw a pre-imaged drive in to the box and ship it out.
I did some contract work for Sprint when they were building a network in a southern city. Summer job in college really. I'd drive around to cell phone towers and make sure they had power so Sprint techs could come and do whatever they had to do. I remember two sites in particular that I had trouble with.
The first was on a church's property. Kinda wooded area, pretty big for a church. I drove around the area for a good 10 minutes before calling my boss and asking where the tower was. It was one of those camoflauged trees. I was looking for the damn cell phone tower and couldn't find it!
Second one was also a church. This time the antenna array was up in the bell tower. I was kinda prepared for that one and could barely see the antennas poking out.
Another interesting one was out in the middle of a cow field on the side of the highway. There was a mud road out the to the tower. Cows were too busy chowing down to give me a second look.
I guess these were created out of a catch 22 type situation.. People in rich neighborhoods wanted / needed cell phone service, but weren't willing to put up with the ugly looking tower next to the clubhouse. So the companies that build the towers had to come up with something.