I work for a small, rural ISP with many of the same challenges that you're looking at. We started up as a dialup provider in 1997 and have moved into wireless and DSL.
First, get some money. A lot. Shitloads. Second, raise your pain threshold. Third, that whole "this will not be my day job" thing? Forget that, it will be your day job, night job, weekend job and holiday job. Finally, hire some talent that isn't lost in licensed frequencies and other issues.
What we do is wifi mesh. We use grain elevators, radio towers, old TV masts at customers locations, whatever we can ad AP or radio on to help extend the mesh. We use inexpensive customer premise gear, lightning sucks around here. You'll need some backend equipment, bandwidth backhauls and some routing gear; everything we use is open-source, DYI equipment because money, that's why. Don't try to cover the entire area at once, hit customers you can easily reach, solidify them and then move slowly. DO NOT! run an ad that there's a new ISP in town offering high-speed service, you likely won't be able to meet the demand.
A guy, you, can totally do this. But you're going to need some help, some money, and some adjusted expectations. If you're a gambler, go for it, if you're hoping to make a bit of money from it on the side, get out now and save yourself.
If I had mod points you'd get them. That's the most precise explanation I've ever read. Someone who hasn't been there simply cannot understand it, and then once you're there, you cannot see any alternatives.
I read and loved the crap out of all three of the Han Solo books when I was a kid. It's been probably, oh, 100 years or so since I last picked one up so I have no idea how I'd like them now, but I sure remember having a lot of fun with them then.
Not the sequel, the original. Saw it when it came out, read the book, and that's part of the reason why I sit here now doing what I do for a living. Wish that movie had never been made./disgruntled.
For years and years and years we used phones that didn't have any sort of confirmation of the numbers pressed. Shooot, I've got one on my desk right now that I just have to hope and pray I dial correctly without being able to double check myself.
I don't know. I think the lack of bells and whistles might be what causes some people to look for an alternative. I've quit using Facebook because of the bells, the whistles, the endless posts of what my friends like, pleas to like things that I don't like, requests to join groups I've got no interest in, and all of it from people I haven't had an actual conversation with or seen in 20 years, or even worse from friends of theirs that I've never met at all. If Diaspora strips social networking back to it's basics, if it lets me see what's going on with friends and family, look at pictures of their recent vacation and send a few "how are you?" messages, then I'm all for it.
One of my peeves is users complaining about "jargon". Error messages are not jargon, proper names for peripherals are not jargon. If I ask you if your ethernet cable is plugged into your network card, that is not jargon. And yet users will tell me "why do you guys always use fancy jargon that I don't understand?".
My thought exactly. I've been looking at this thing trying to figure out how you'd hold and use it. Too big to use your thumbs for the keyboard like a smartphone, you'd have to sit bolt upright and look directly down at it to use all 10 fingers. Weird.
What about looking at logfiles? If your landlord is doing repairs on your home he can see who's going in and out and what they're carrying. Same thing with looking through the email logs as a normal course of business isn't it?
And of course, your landlord can enter your apartment with your keys if he has sufficient reason to believe you're knocking holes in the wall or causing some other damage.
If he's needs some beta testers I want to get on the list. I was prescribed bifocals a year and a half ago, kept them for a couple of months and had to give them up, I just couldn't find the comfort zone with them. So I'm back to single vision glasses, and while I have no problem reading or watching TV (for instance) I can't go back and forth between them. I'd buy this guy a beer if I could try his lenses on for a while.
So how about some kind of blocking in the classroom proper and open access in hallways and communal areas like locker rooms and the cafeteria?
I see part of the problem being the lack of respect shown to teachers in the classroom. We've seen stories, seems like a couple posted here, of a teacher asking a student to stop using their phone, then attempting to confiscate it and all kinds of hell breaking loose. Students will use their phone when they shouldn't and unfortunately the teachers don't have much recourse.
Look into some type of prison workout with body weight exercises. You could work those in during breaks, lunch, bathroom trips, whenever. Now, if you don't get breaks, lunch or bathroom trips, then why the hell are you working in such a piss-poor circumstance anyway? You'll die young at that age regardless of what you try to do.
One thing to remember about the newspaper business: The home delivery subscriber is *not* the customer. The advertiser is. Find a misprint in a graphic ad with color that you've placed and you'll get an entirely different type of response.
Wasn't X-Files on Friday night? Maybe Fox is rolling the dice that with the current economic situation people will be staying home more instead of going out and they'll be looking for something decent on the tube. (can we still call it 'the tube' or should we switch to 'the panel'?)
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Build a triangular shaped ship and just blast the asteroids into smaller chunks, then smaller pieces and then finally destroy them altogether.
I work for a small, rural ISP with many of the same challenges that you're looking at. We started up as a dialup provider in 1997 and have moved into wireless and DSL.
First, get some money. A lot. Shitloads. Second, raise your pain threshold. Third, that whole "this will not be my day job" thing? Forget that, it will be your day job, night job, weekend job and holiday job. Finally, hire some talent that isn't lost in licensed frequencies and other issues.
What we do is wifi mesh. We use grain elevators, radio towers, old TV masts at customers locations, whatever we can ad AP or radio on to help extend the mesh. We use inexpensive customer premise gear, lightning sucks around here. You'll need some backend equipment, bandwidth backhauls and some routing gear; everything we use is open-source, DYI equipment because money, that's why. Don't try to cover the entire area at once, hit customers you can easily reach, solidify them and then move slowly. DO NOT! run an ad that there's a new ISP in town offering high-speed service, you likely won't be able to meet the demand.
A guy, you, can totally do this. But you're going to need some help, some money, and some adjusted expectations. If you're a gambler, go for it, if you're hoping to make a bit of money from it on the side, get out now and save yourself.
Try them all out for a month or two each before deciding.
If I had mod points you'd get them. That's the most precise explanation I've ever read. Someone who hasn't been there simply cannot understand it, and then once you're there, you cannot see any alternatives.
I read and loved the crap out of all three of the Han Solo books when I was a kid. It's been probably, oh, 100 years or so since I last picked one up so I have no idea how I'd like them now, but I sure remember having a lot of fun with them then.
The Invader. Alternately, his super-rival Dib.
Not the sequel, the original. Saw it when it came out, read the book, and that's part of the reason why I sit here now doing what I do for a living. Wish that movie had never been made. /disgruntled.
For years and years and years we used phones that didn't have any sort of confirmation of the numbers pressed. Shooot, I've got one on my desk right now that I just have to hope and pray I dial correctly without being able to double check myself.
I believe it was a screaming.
I don't know. I think the lack of bells and whistles might be what causes some people to look for an alternative. I've quit using Facebook because of the bells, the whistles, the endless posts of what my friends like, pleas to like things that I don't like, requests to join groups I've got no interest in, and all of it from people I haven't had an actual conversation with or seen in 20 years, or even worse from friends of theirs that I've never met at all. If Diaspora strips social networking back to it's basics, if it lets me see what's going on with friends and family, look at pictures of their recent vacation and send a few "how are you?" messages, then I'm all for it.
That'd be great! I'd feel a lot more secure going to the market to pick up more seashells for the bathroom.
It's dance, and an art. And yet, you can win at it.
One of my peeves is users complaining about "jargon". Error messages are not jargon, proper names for peripherals are not jargon. If I ask you if your ethernet cable is plugged into your network card, that is not jargon. And yet users will tell me "why do you guys always use fancy jargon that I don't understand?".
I wish I had mod points. You'd get '+1 Damn Straight'.
My thought exactly. I've been looking at this thing trying to figure out how you'd hold and use it. Too big to use your thumbs for the keyboard like a smartphone, you'd have to sit bolt upright and look directly down at it to use all 10 fingers. Weird.
Also correct for the Central part of the country as well.
What about looking at logfiles? If your landlord is doing repairs on your home he can see who's going in and out and what they're carrying. Same thing with looking through the email logs as a normal course of business isn't it?
And of course, your landlord can enter your apartment with your keys if he has sufficient reason to believe you're knocking holes in the wall or causing some other damage.
If he's needs some beta testers I want to get on the list. I was prescribed bifocals a year and a half ago, kept them for a couple of months and had to give them up, I just couldn't find the comfort zone with them. So I'm back to single vision glasses, and while I have no problem reading or watching TV (for instance) I can't go back and forth between them. I'd buy this guy a beer if I could try his lenses on for a while.
So how about some kind of blocking in the classroom proper and open access in hallways and communal areas like locker rooms and the cafeteria?
I see part of the problem being the lack of respect shown to teachers in the classroom. We've seen stories, seems like a couple posted here, of a teacher asking a student to stop using their phone, then attempting to confiscate it and all kinds of hell breaking loose. Students will use their phone when they shouldn't and unfortunately the teachers don't have much recourse.
Look into some type of prison workout with body weight exercises. You could work those in during breaks, lunch, bathroom trips, whenever. Now, if you don't get breaks, lunch or bathroom trips, then why the hell are you working in such a piss-poor circumstance anyway? You'll die young at that age regardless of what you try to do.
For great justice, take off every ZIG.
+1 Damn Right.
And I thought it was the network getting slow, not the computer itself.
One thing to remember about the newspaper business: The home delivery subscriber is *not* the customer. The advertiser is. Find a misprint in a graphic ad with color that you've placed and you'll get an entirely different type of response.
Wasn't X-Files on Friday night? Maybe Fox is rolling the dice that with the current economic situation people will be staying home more instead of going out and they'll be looking for something decent on the tube. (can we still call it 'the tube' or should we switch to 'the panel'?)