When you are negotiating an automobile purchase, keep your method of payment secret until you have negotiated a price. Fill out their credit app if they want you to. They are planning to make money from selling you a loan as well as a car. Your paying cash decreases their profit, so keep that fact to yourself until you have a price set.
Stopping buying stuff from spammers will not stop the spam. A lot of the spam comes from people who "hope" to make a sale/ have a home business/ etc.
They have dreams of making a profit from spamming. That is why they spam. I would guess that very few of them do make a profit. They just waste their time and ours.
I work on an air force base. One day a few months ago, I heard that traffic was backed up going out of one of the gates that is near a freeway overpass.
Someone had reported that a person had left a suspicious package near the overpass.
They closed the gate, called out the bomb squad, cavalry, etc., only to find that the suspicious package was a geocache.
So be careful where you place your geocache, consider who might be watching and what conclusions they might jump to.
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Yeah, the D-Link USB radio hardware works well, and you are right, the software that comes with it is definitely lame. They are out of production, but maybe you can still find them. I got mine from the Gateway online Computer Store (I had a free shipping coupon>
I enhanced my D-Link radio with freeware called Radiator from flesko.cz. It allows you to record to.wav files, and set a recording timer.
The Radiator software is excellent but it is for the Windows platform. I am running it now on Windows 2000. D-Link says the DSB-R100 is not compatible with Windows XP. I don't know if Radiator will make it work with XP.
I selected my computer radio because it was compatible with the Radiator program, I think that is a good critera for shopping for an integrated radio. I had been running it with an ISA Reveal FM Radio card, but my new Dell had no ISA slots, so I had to buy the D-Link.
I think all the students should get to keep them. When returned, they would have to be refurbished, and who would want to be the freshman who gets a 4 year old Ibook? I would want a new one.
Yes, wireless networks are becoming cheaper and more commmon. However, if you are building a house you are foolish not to install the extra wiring (cat5 twisted pair, RG-6 coaxial) anyway.
Why? 1. It costs relatively little to add it now. After the house is finished it becomes more expensive/impossible) 2. Distributing multiple TV channels cannot be done practically without the coax. So if you are going to have put in coax outlets for the TVs, why not put in cat5 at the same time?
Cable with 2XRG-6 cables and 2Xcat5 and multimode fiber all in one is commonly available (Home Depot). This is what I would install at computer and TV locations in a house if I were building one. If you want to save money, don't terminate the fiber or other strands in the bundle. Do it later, when and if you need it.
Phone companies such as Qwest usually try to de-tariff (make it so you can't purchase) the use of dry copper pairs in their infrastructure and run your own network on them.
They would rather sell you value added ($$$) digital data services (56K, ISDN, T-1) and DSL (in high population density areas close to a central office) which are much more profitable for them.
So if you try to buy such a circuit from your phone company, don't be suprised if they won't sell it to you. I know Qwest won't.
Being careful about who and how you reveal your email address to is a good and effective idea to prevent spam, but eventually the spammers may find you with their equivalent of a dictionary attack. They will try variations of common names and initials on your domain mail server until they have a list of valid ones. This is sometimes how they get an address, even if you have been careful, especially if you are in one of the popular mail services (@hotmail.com, etc.)
I applaud Terra Soft for porting Linux to the Power PC platform, but if you are planning to use it with an RS/6000, you better have a 7043-150 or 7025-F50 or a 7046-B50. Any other models are currently unsupported, and my experience shows that is for a good reason. It just won't work on the other RS/6000s. If you have a microchannel bus RS/6000, forget about it. You are a a long ways from having Linux for your box. Even if you have a 7043-140, it wont work. The box seems like a suitable candidate, with a PowerPC processor, PCI and ISA buses, and open firmware BIOS. But it will not even boot the kernel. So don't throw out your AIX just yet. I hope TerraSoft will put some work into getting the 7043-140 working. They seem like a good candidate- (still in production, and many surplus boxes of this type with slower processors are readily available)
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When you are negotiating an automobile purchase, keep your method of payment secret until you have negotiated a price. Fill out their credit app if they want you to. They are planning to make money from selling you a loan as well as a car. Your paying cash decreases their profit, so keep that fact to yourself until you have a price set.
-A demon customer.
Stopping buying stuff from spammers will not stop the spam. A lot of the spam comes from people who "hope" to make a sale/ have a home business/ etc.
They have dreams of making a profit from spamming. That is why they spam. I would guess that very few of them do make a profit. They just waste their time and ours.
I work on an air force base. One day a few months ago, I heard that traffic was backed up going out of one of the gates that is near a freeway overpass.
Someone had reported that a person had left a suspicious package near the overpass.
They closed the gate, called out the bomb squad, cavalry, etc., only to find that the suspicious package was a geocache.
So be careful where you place your geocache, consider who might be watching and what conclusions they might jump to.
Yeah, the D-Link USB radio hardware works well, and you are right, the software that comes with it is definitely lame. They are out of production, but maybe you can still find them. I got mine from the Gateway online Computer Store (I had a free shipping coupon>
I enhanced my D-Link radio with freeware called Radiator from flesko.cz. It allows you to record to .wav files, and set a recording timer.
The Radiator software is excellent but it is for the Windows platform. I am running it now on Windows 2000. D-Link says the DSB-R100 is not compatible with Windows XP. I don't know if Radiator will make it work with XP.
I selected my computer radio because it was compatible with the Radiator program, I think that is a good critera for shopping for an integrated radio. I had been running it with an ISA Reveal FM Radio card, but my new Dell had no ISA slots, so I had to buy the D-Link.
I think all the students should get to keep them. When returned, they would have to be refurbished, and who would want to be the freshman who gets a 4 year old Ibook? I would want a new one.
Supporting the software by purchasing it is a 1 hour and 30 second workaround, assuming you make $30 an hour.
Simple. Change the end of your email address to "@hotmail.com".
Yes, wireless networks are becoming cheaper and more commmon. However, if you are building a house you are foolish not to install the extra wiring (cat5 twisted pair, RG-6 coaxial) anyway.
Why?
1. It costs relatively little to add it now. After the house is finished it becomes more expensive/impossible)
2. Distributing multiple TV channels cannot be done practically without the coax. So if you are going to have put in coax outlets for the TVs, why not put in cat5 at the same time?
Cable with 2XRG-6 cables and 2Xcat5 and multimode fiber all in one is commonly available (Home Depot). This is what I would install at computer and TV locations in a house if I were building one. If you want to save money, don't terminate the fiber or other strands in the bundle. Do it later, when and if you need it.
Phone companies such as Qwest usually try to de-tariff (make it so you can't purchase) the use of dry copper pairs in their infrastructure and run your own network on them.
They would rather sell you value added ($$$) digital data services (56K, ISDN, T-1) and DSL (in high population density areas close to a central office) which are much more profitable for them.
So if you try to buy such a circuit from your phone company, don't be suprised if they won't sell it to you. I know Qwest won't.
Being careful about who and how you reveal your email address to is a good and effective idea to prevent spam, but eventually the spammers may find you with their equivalent of a dictionary attack. They will try variations of common names and initials on your domain mail server until they have a list of valid ones. This is sometimes how they get an address, even if you have been careful, especially if you are in one of the popular mail services (@hotmail.com, etc.)
So you say garter snakes taste like chicken? : )
I applaud Terra Soft for porting Linux to the Power PC platform, but if you are planning to use it with an RS/6000, you better have a 7043-150 or 7025-F50 or a 7046-B50. Any other models are currently unsupported, and my experience shows that is for a good reason. It just won't work on the other RS/6000s. If you have a microchannel bus RS/6000, forget about it. You are a a long ways from having Linux for your box. Even if you have a 7043-140, it wont work. The box seems like a suitable candidate, with a PowerPC processor, PCI and ISA buses, and open firmware BIOS. But it will not even boot the kernel. So don't throw out your AIX just yet. I hope TerraSoft will put some work into getting the 7043-140 working. They seem like a good candidate- (still in production, and many surplus boxes of this type with slower processors are readily available)