That's very altruistic of you. I started on the Internet before advertising was allowed and still have a hard time breaking the habit. You don't want to know what type of email admin in make:)
I'm sorry. I'm a bit old school. If you use a domain for your business, then you are working for that company. Or the company that you worked for bought that (domain) company. In any real-world meaning, their is no Dish Network without Echostar. This is not even close to the break-up between DirecTV and Hughes where DTV isn't even selling Hughes sat internet (they are selling and installing BlueWave.)
Dish Network is the consumer branding. All the Dish techs up here have echostar.com email addresses. I don't need to read the wiki, I've worked for both Disk and DirecTV.
there's nothing I can do about Echostar tracking that data
Yes there is. Don't plug your DVR into the phone line (or internet.) The dish is receive only. Dish and DirecTV will both say that you NEED a land line, and the installers take a hit if there is not one connected when the box is activated, but it is not needed to have the DVR work.
I installed DirecTV for 16 months. They just want your viewing data and impulse Pay-per-view hits.
..requirements being not much different to those of an IRC server.. You've may have never run a popular IRC host then. It's not the bandwidth so much but the damn DDOS that will kill you. I had a popular IRC box back in 2000 or so and it took a 400MB/s DDOS hit. My boss sure didn't like that on his network!
I sold our house two years ago just a peak was peaking. Moved from a 4BR to a 2BR (just wifey and me, and pets) and own it outright now. I was an Net/SysAdmin at a major real estate firm then and saw it coming. Best money move I've ever made.
I've noticed 20m (14MHz) has been fairly open the last few weeks. I have made contacts in Japan four times in the last week or so from my mobile HF rig (FT-857 and ATAS-120 on a small pick-up truck.)
Any half-geek can get a Amateur Radio call sign that is unique worldwide. It's 4-6 characters long and most nations have a vanity sign program. All you have to do is study a bit and take a test. In the US if you take an advanced test you can get a 4 character sign. No Morse code testing in needed in the US and some other countries. Oh, you also then get the privilege to use bits of the RF spectrum to talk with other geeks. Most US states will give you special vehicle plates at a reduced cost with your call sign on them.
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In the US it's the gays and potheads.
I live in the Seattle area, gays and potheads are the normal ones.
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That's very altruistic of you. I started on the Internet before advertising was allowed and still have a hard time breaking the habit. You don't want to know what type of email admin in make :)
I'm sorry. I'm a bit old school. If you use a domain for your business, then you are working for that company. Or the company that you worked for bought that (domain) company. In any real-world meaning, their is no Dish Network without Echostar. This is not even close to the break-up between DirecTV and Hughes where DTV isn't even selling Hughes sat internet (they are selling and installing BlueWave.)
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just lawyers and marketing. Same shit different screen printing.
Only if you have the HD DVR.
Dish Network is the consumer branding. All the Dish techs up here have echostar.com email addresses. I don't need to read the wiki, I've worked for both Disk and DirecTV.
I think I'm going to call Dish support and have a conversation about this.
Have fun.
there's nothing I can do about Echostar tracking that data
Yes there is. Don't plug your DVR into the phone line (or internet.) The dish is receive only. Dish and DirecTV will both say that you NEED a land line, and the installers take a hit if there is not one connected when the box is activated, but it is not needed to have the DVR work.
I installed DirecTV for 16 months. They just want your viewing data and impulse Pay-per-view hits.
Echostar is Dish Network.
How is /. making money if every geek here is using ad blockers?
..requirements being not much different to those of an IRC server..
You've may have never run a popular IRC host then. It's not the bandwidth so much but the damn DDOS that will kill you. I had a popular IRC box back in 2000 or so and it took a 400MB/s DDOS hit. My boss sure didn't like that on his network!
it doesn't. had too many beers when posting. sorry.
That's why in the 90s I put my dotcom money into a house and now one free and clear. Being 40 at the time I didn't know any better.
I sold our house two years ago just a peak was peaking. Moved from a 4BR to a 2BR (just wifey and me, and pets) and own it outright now. I was an Net/SysAdmin at a major real estate firm then and saw it coming. Best money move I've ever made.
Like those low ID's that back in '96 donated a server and bandwidth to slashdot so they could get on their feet an become commercial?
So, you've been following my job search. I paid off the mortgage and got out of the rat-race for a few years. It's not been easy getting the next job.
I'd start with an open ended question:
"You are in a maze of twisty little passages, all alike...what do you do?"
Hit ^C and get back to work.
Me too! (c)AOL, 1984
Tell me about it. I'll just go to the mall now and hang with the boppers.
I've noticed 20m (14MHz) has been fairly open the last few weeks. I have made contacts in Japan four times in the last week or so from my mobile HF rig (FT-857 and ATAS-120 on a small pick-up truck.)
CQ DX, CQ DX, CQ DX de W7COM
73
bu...bu...but he's MY friend in the diamond business!
(I've bought a good number of items at Shane and will say they do have good service.)
Look up APRS short message format. ( http://vk3.aprs.net.au/aprs_email_sms.htm ) It's twit on radio basically.
Any half-geek can get a Amateur Radio call sign that is unique worldwide. It's 4-6 characters long and most nations have a vanity sign program. All you have to do is study a bit and take a test. In the US if you take an advanced test you can get a 4 character sign. No Morse code testing in needed in the US and some other countries. Oh, you also then get the privilege to use bits of the RF spectrum to talk with other geeks. Most US states will give you special vehicle plates at a reduced cost with your call sign on them.
73 de w7com
Are you thinking Randal Schwartz? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randal_Schwartz