People can have nice things even without being rich, but it's the effort to have all the nice things all at once that keeps people in debt and poor. ^ THIS.
Every state employment office I've ever seen has a bank of winders boxes to hunt for jobs, write resumes, etc. and a staff willing to show you how to use them. The often offer computer classes to get you up to speed on the basic Windows stuff. In Washington State, Microsoft would even offer free on-line classes, with certs, on the Office suite. Not a bad cert for the average job hunter to have.
This is a discussion you need to take to the NANOG list. Don't ask the amateurs, ask the professionals. The answer will involve ACLs, BGP settings, and community strings. If you don't have your own ASN then you need to push the issue upstream and work with your provider. Period. If you do have your own ASN and are running BGP then you need to read the NANOG list (and learn to take shit from Randy Bush, et al. They know what they are talking about.) Asking on/. can only make things worse.
There is no need to talk to the arresting cop, there is nothing he can do. He's got a warrant with your name on it and he has to bring you in for booking. That's really all there is to it and there is nothing that you can do at that point that isn't going to cause you actually pain, and another charge. The cop has no choice. What is he going to do, go back to the detective that got the warrant and say you convinced him you didn't do anything? The judge signed the warrant, you beef is with him now.
Type 4: Those that don't watch TV and ad-block the Internet and don't have a clue about what new movies there are. Maybe once every two months re-watch a classic (Space Balls!)
So, was that a SWTPC? I remember loading BASIC on one of those via Kansas City Format (14 minutes.) It had both A$ and B$! Not that there were any string operations, but you could input and print them.
It was still better than the high school "computer", a DECwriter II with a 300 baud acoustic modem to the uni computer on the other side of the state. Ah, the days of making obscene teletype calls.
Yeah, I was going to say my first linux box was a 486sx with 4 MB RAM and something like a 40 MB drive. I sure didn't try X on it but it made a fine box for mail, muds and whatnot.
The really trick one was the SWTPC 6800 running UniFLEX. Fully multi-user "unix" like 8 bit system that would run SAGE (think dBase.) There was a guy in my home town that made a nice little business setting up various companies with those boxes. This was mid-late 80s. The server had 256k of RAM, two 8" floppies, and a honkin' 80MB hard drive. And to be honest when you did the things it was designed to do, it felt about as quick as a 386 running SCO.
Yeah, this was back when ACS was trying to VoIP the state and university phone system, back in about 2003ish. My wife, son and I were contract engineers up for a year. (Email me and I'll share stories about that FUBAR.) I do like the "we live here and know if you're a weirdo" method they seem to take in Alaska.
You mean bankrupt all airlines other than ARA, maybe Kenmore (Seattle - Victoria).
A quick side note, the last time I flew Alaska out of ANC on a milk run, you know, mostly cargo and a half cabin, a woman that just got off a processor sitting next to me realized that she still had her set of fillet knives in her carry on. It might have been that same flight that while waiting at Ted Stevens a TSA kid came up to me and asked, yes asked if I would mind having a more extensive screening. He said that he had to find two people that flight to do it and everyone else was turning him down.
Yes, but those irrigation canals don't have water year round. The water is too managed, someone owns each cubic foot of it. Better the wind farms in Eburg or up on Ryegrass to provide year round power, and even those seem mostly idle the times I drive by. I'd say go for Whoops 3. Another plant at the end of SR24 would do more for the area power than any hydro source could. All the infrastructure is there. Just manage the construction a bit better.
On a personal note, irrigation canals scare the shit out of me. Too many people getting killed in them (and those that try to rescue them.)
My Public Utility District is building several small hydro projects and updating others. They also have applied to the FERC for a license to build tidal power.
Look at what Homeland Security did to the Occupiers...
Uh, that wasn't DHS, that was local police beating up on hippies. They've been doing that since there have been hippies. It's wrong, but that's a local issue to be look at by the Feds once it gets close to violation of civil rights.
No, the guy I worked for was a crook. A real piece of work. But I was young and foolish and dazzled by working with computers. Soon after that episode I left and went to work for a company making telemarketing machines. That felt less dirty.
I too worked at a Commodore shop. Our "RMA" policy was to buy a good C64 from Toys-r-Us and swap the bad part (very often the power supply) we got from Commodore and return it to Toys-r-Us.
I remember on the SX64 the power supply would die if you just looked at the 9VAC pins on the user port wrong. The case mounted fuse wouldn't blow, the little diode sized one wrapped up in the supply transformer would. I made some nice spare change replacing that fuse with a bit of wire.
Still, the first portable color computer, that was a sweet box.
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People can have nice things even without being rich, but it's the effort to have all the nice things all at once that keeps people in debt and poor.
^ THIS.
Happy ham day.
Not sure anonymous and Google go together. They may not have your street address, but they know what you fap to.
Could a drone really take down a North Korea missile before it self destructs.
And after they scrape all that data watch out for GooglePorn.
Every state employment office I've ever seen has a bank of winders boxes to hunt for jobs, write resumes, etc. and a staff willing to show you how to use them. The often offer computer classes to get you up to speed on the basic Windows stuff. In Washington State, Microsoft would even offer free on-line classes, with certs, on the Office suite. Not a bad cert for the average job hunter to have.
Dunno, do you consider a bunch of folks passing traffic via Morse code a packet network?
"If a person who indulges in gluttony is a glutton, and a person who commits a felony is a felon, then God is an iron." -Spider Robinson
This is a discussion you need to take to the NANOG list. Don't ask the amateurs, ask the professionals. The answer will involve ACLs, BGP settings, and community strings. If you don't have your own ASN then you need to push the issue upstream and work with your provider. Period. If you do have your own ASN and are running BGP then you need to read the NANOG list (and learn to take shit from Randy Bush, et al. They know what they are talking about.) Asking on /. can only make things worse.
There is no need to talk to the arresting cop, there is nothing he can do. He's got a warrant with your name on it and he has to bring you in for booking. That's really all there is to it and there is nothing that you can do at that point that isn't going to cause you actually pain, and another charge. The cop has no choice. What is he going to do, go back to the detective that got the warrant and say you convinced him you didn't do anything? The judge signed the warrant, you beef is with him now.
Type 4: Those that don't watch TV and ad-block the Internet and don't have a clue about what new movies there are. Maybe once every two months re-watch a classic (Space Balls!)
This was a few years before the COCO, even before the TRS-80 Model I.
So, was that a SWTPC? I remember loading BASIC on one of those via Kansas City Format (14 minutes.) It had both A$ and B$! Not that there were any string operations, but you could input and print them.
It was still better than the high school "computer", a DECwriter II with a 300 baud acoustic modem to the uni computer on the other side of the state. Ah, the days of making obscene teletype calls.
Yeah, I was going to say my first linux box was a 486sx with 4 MB RAM and something like a 40 MB drive. I sure didn't try X on it but it made a fine box for mail, muds and whatnot.
The really trick one was the SWTPC 6800 running UniFLEX. Fully multi-user "unix" like 8 bit system that would run SAGE (think dBase.) There was a guy in my home town that made a nice little business setting up various companies with those boxes. This was mid-late 80s. The server had 256k of RAM, two 8" floppies, and a honkin' 80MB hard drive. And to be honest when you did the things it was designed to do, it felt about as quick as a 386 running SCO.
Count yourself lucky. My 80 year old mom wants to Skype me all the time.
Yeah, this was back when ACS was trying to VoIP the state and university phone system, back in about 2003ish. My wife, son and I were contract engineers up for a year. (Email me and I'll share stories about that FUBAR.) I do like the "we live here and know if you're a weirdo" method they seem to take in Alaska.
You mean bankrupt all airlines other than ARA, maybe Kenmore (Seattle - Victoria).
A quick side note, the last time I flew Alaska out of ANC on a milk run, you know, mostly cargo and a half cabin, a woman that just got off a processor sitting next to me realized that she still had her set of fillet knives in her carry on. It might have been that same flight that while waiting at Ted Stevens a TSA kid came up to me and asked, yes asked if I would mind having a more extensive screening. He said that he had to find two people that flight to do it and everyone else was turning him down.
I gotta say, I love flying in AK.
And I totally agree with your last line.
..either way, he loses due to taxes.
No, he still gains civilization. That's what taxes are meant to pay for. Good roads, educated neighbors, safe water and food, rule of law, & etc.
Hey G.I.T.
My local government would sure like to know how to get in on that jail building and funding gravy-train. All we seem to get are unfunded mandates.
But anyway; citation needed.
Yes, but those irrigation canals don't have water year round. The water is too managed, someone owns each cubic foot of it. Better the wind farms in Eburg or up on Ryegrass to provide year round power, and even those seem mostly idle the times I drive by. I'd say go for Whoops 3. Another plant at the end of SR24 would do more for the area power than any hydro source could. All the infrastructure is there. Just manage the construction a bit better.
On a personal note, irrigation canals scare the shit out of me. Too many people getting killed in them (and those that try to rescue them.)
My Public Utility District is building several small hydro projects and updating others. They also have applied to the FERC for a license to build tidal power.
Look at what Homeland Security did to the Occupiers...
Uh, that wasn't DHS, that was local police beating up on hippies. They've been doing that since there have been hippies. It's wrong, but that's a local issue to be look at by the Feds once it gets close to violation of civil rights.
Westin 18th floor.
No, the guy I worked for was a crook. A real piece of work. But I was young and foolish and dazzled by working with computers. Soon after that episode I left and went to work for a company making telemarketing machines. That felt less dirty.
I too worked at a Commodore shop. Our "RMA" policy was to buy a good C64 from Toys-r-Us and swap the bad part (very often the power supply) we got from Commodore and return it to Toys-r-Us.
I remember on the SX64 the power supply would die if you just looked at the 9VAC pins on the user port wrong. The case mounted fuse wouldn't blow, the little diode sized one wrapped up in the supply transformer would. I made some nice spare change replacing that fuse with a bit of wire.
Still, the first portable color computer, that was a sweet box.