I got rid of my regular land line, and went with "Phone Power", a cheap VoIP provider out of Calfornia. (Only $14.95 per month if you're willing to sign a 2 year contract with them, and you get unlimited calls to anywhere in the USA for that price.) I'm sure there are many other inexpensive choices as well. (I was previously using "AT&T Callvantage", but that one is going away so I had to switch services. It cost more like $25 a month anyway.)
I too had Callvantage. I added T-Mobile's @home VOIP to my cellphone plan for $10/month. It doesn't have all the features that Callvantage had, but the price is right and ultimately I expect to wean myself off the landline anyway.
I'd hazard that my local Home Depot has more stock of the T-shaped version than the non-T-shaped version.
More stock of the T-shaped than 5-20R, but certainly not 5-15R.
You're mixing apples and oranges. I said more t-shaped 20A than non-T-shaped 20A.
Because of the way our system works, it's more common in homes to find 5-15Rs without a T-connector wired for 20A, even though that's not what they're officially rated for.
It may be common to find that, but no licensed professional electrician that I know will do that.
For example, hair dryers at full blast and heat push dangerously close to the limits of a 5-15R (and some even over them), yet still use a 5-15 plug -- but they're okay because we wire our bathroom 5-15s with a 20A breaker. Same with garage, kitchen, and exterior sockets.
I hope you're not an electrician and claiming that it's okay. A 15A socket, wired with 14guage wire, had better _not_ be connected to a 20A breaker. That's a fire hazard.
Anything on a 20A breaker had better be wired with 12gauge wire with a 20A socket.
Anyway, you won't find a 120V 30A outlet in your average US home because we run most higher power devices at 240V (although we do it in a weird way -- split phase).
Perhaps, for some definition of weird. Center taps on transformers aren't exactly a foreign concept, and the 220v is, itself, single phase.
OTOH 110v 20A is a lot more common, and you can plug a 110v 15A plug into a 110v 20A outlet;
Only if you have a special 15A/20A hybrid outlet. The standard NEMA 5-20R doesn't have a T-shaped slot; it only has the horizontal on that side.
Not that special really. I can walk into any Home Depot, Lowes, electrical supply house, or even a well equipped hardware store and buy them. I'd hazard that my local Home Depot has more stock of the T-shaped version than the non-T-shaped version.
I kind of like Australia's socket design. In the US, our NEMA sockets are designed so that a plug for a 30A socket can't plug into a 15A socket or vice versa.
Well, it's not like we have too many things that use 110v 30A plugs that need 30A outlets. I think you'd be hard pressed to find a 110v 30A outlet in a house here in the US. More likely to see 220v 30A I'd guess. They seem to be common on RVs though.
OTOH 110v 20A is a lot more common, and you can plug a 110v 15A plug into a 110v 20A outlet; but you can't plug a 110v 20A plug into a 110v 15A outlet.
Perhaps. But I'll guess that most 220v outlets in the US aren't protected by GFCI breakers. (Is there such a thing as a 220v GFCI outlet? I don't see them in my search.)
In my experience a lot of brits don't even realize we have single phase 220v to most homes.
Thus they probably aren't aware that there are US 220v sockets and plugs to compare theirs with.
But without a built-in fuse and shutters in the outlet they'll still rate theirs as superior.
OTOH, considering how many times most people actually unplug their stove, water heater, or clothes dryer, I'd wager that statistically the US plug is the safer of the two.
I don't think women look at how guys spell as a factor for whether or not they're going to have sex. You seriously think that being a "good guy" will get you any sex? Think twice!:-)
No I don't actually.
On the other hand I do, somewhat belatedly, realize that I should have added some kind of sarcasm tags for the benefit of those who couldn't figure out that "when he learns how to spell" was a euphemism for "never."
dictionary.com: turbine -noun, any of various machines having a rotor, usually with vanes or blades, driven by the pressure, momentum, or reactive thrust of a moving fluid, as steam, water, hot gases, or air, either occurring in the form of free jets or as a fluid passing through and entirely filling a housing around the rotor.
I think that means they _are_ making the blades.
Maybe they're not making the generator that the turbine is connected to.
The fee to register and issue a title for the car I recently bought has doubled from the last time I bought a car.
And the reason they've doubled is because the state has a projected revenue shortfall of $400M. Gotta make it up somewhere. I don't get to shop around and find better prices like I can for other things. Well, not in the short term anyway.
I'm voting the bastards out. That'll fix 'em. Unfortunately most of them already will their plush pension package when they retire, which I'll pay for as I stay here.
40 years ago it was put your name on a list and wait up to five years to get a (wired) phone.
You might not remember, but the US (and every other developed country in the world) has gone through this same thing. And many countries still operate this way.
I remember when I was a kid, we switched from a party line (my grandmother's source of neighborhood goings-on) to a private line. It took months for that to be completed.
Maybe in the boonies. In Chicago and Los Angeles -- there were no such delays. And that up-to-five-year-wait was in 1971-1972 in Johannesburg/Sandton -- not exactly the boonies of South Africa.
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I got rid of my regular land line, and went with "Phone Power", a cheap VoIP provider out of Calfornia. (Only $14.95 per month if you're willing to sign a 2 year contract with them, and you get unlimited calls to anywhere in the USA for that price.) I'm sure there are many other inexpensive choices as well. (I was previously using "AT&T Callvantage", but that one is going away so I had to switch services. It cost more like $25 a month anyway.)
I too had Callvantage. I added T-Mobile's @home VOIP to my cellphone plan for $10/month. It doesn't have all the features that Callvantage had, but the price is right and ultimately I expect to wean myself off the landline anyway.
2) Install asterisk on your Linux server (You do have a Linux server right?)
Nope, FreeBSD. Next question!
... you might also be interested in saving the long distance charges...
This is the obligatory "What are long distance charges?" post.
In the event this had been a real post there would have been something of interest here.
I'd hazard that my local Home Depot has more stock of the T-shaped version than the non-T-shaped version.
More stock of the T-shaped than 5-20R, but certainly not 5-15R.
You're mixing apples and oranges. I said more t-shaped 20A than non-T-shaped 20A.
Because of the way our system works, it's more common in homes to find 5-15Rs without a T-connector wired for 20A, even though that's not what they're officially rated for.
It may be common to find that, but no licensed professional electrician that I know will do that.
For example, hair dryers at full blast and heat push dangerously close to the limits of a 5-15R (and some even over them), yet still use a 5-15 plug -- but they're okay because we wire our bathroom 5-15s with a 20A breaker. Same with garage, kitchen, and exterior sockets.
I hope you're not an electrician and claiming that it's okay. A 15A socket, wired with 14guage wire, had better _not_ be connected to a 20A breaker. That's a fire hazard.
Anything on a 20A breaker had better be wired with 12gauge wire with a 20A socket.
Anyway, you won't find a 120V 30A outlet in your average US home because we run most higher power devices at 240V (although we do it in a weird way -- split phase).
Perhaps, for some definition of weird. Center taps on transformers aren't exactly a foreign concept, and the 220v is, itself, single phase.
OTOH 110v 20A is a lot more common, and you can plug a 110v 15A plug into a 110v 20A outlet;
Only if you have a special 15A/20A hybrid outlet. The standard NEMA 5-20R doesn't have a T-shaped slot; it only has the horizontal on that side.
Not that special really. I can walk into any Home Depot, Lowes, electrical supply house, or even a well equipped hardware store and buy them. I'd hazard that my local Home Depot has more stock of the T-shaped version than the non-T-shaped version.
I kind of like Australia's socket design. In the US, our NEMA sockets are designed so that a plug for a 30A socket can't plug into a 15A socket or vice versa.
Well, it's not like we have too many things that use 110v 30A plugs that need 30A outlets. I think you'd be hard pressed to find a 110v 30A outlet in a house here in the US. More likely to see 220v 30A I'd guess. They seem to be common on RVs though.
OTOH 110v 20A is a lot more common, and you can plug a 110v 15A plug into a 110v 20A outlet; but you can't plug a 110v 20A plug into a 110v 15A outlet.
Perhaps. But I'll guess that most 220v outlets in the US aren't protected by GFCI breakers. (Is there such a thing as a 220v GFCI outlet? I don't see them in my search.)
Perhaps in new construction and remodels.
In my experience a lot of brits don't even realize we have single phase 220v to most homes.
Thus they probably aren't aware that there are US 220v sockets and plugs to compare theirs with.
But without a built-in fuse and shutters in the outlet they'll still rate theirs as superior.
OTOH, considering how many times most people actually unplug their stove, water heater, or clothes dryer, I'd wager that statistically the US plug is the safer of the two.
I don't think women look at how guys spell as a factor for whether or not they're going to have sex. You seriously think that being a "good guy" will get you any sex? Think twice! :-)
No I don't actually.
On the other hand I do, somewhat belatedly, realize that I should have added some kind of sarcasm tags for the benefit of those who couldn't figure out that "when he learns how to spell" was a euphemism for "never."
Even fiber optic cable is getting laid...
Never mind. Your turn will come someday.
His turn will come when he learns how to spell, damn it.
dictionary.com: turbine
-noun,
any of various machines having a rotor, usually with vanes or blades, driven by the pressure, momentum, or reactive thrust of a moving fluid, as steam, water, hot gases, or air, either occurring in the form of free jets or as a fluid passing through and entirely filling a housing around the rotor.
I think that means they _are_ making the blades.
Maybe they're not making the generator that the turbine is connected to.
They didn't leave 9/10ths of a second apart?
Halfway there. Now I need to set gvoice to be the termination point for my landline voicemails and I'll be all set.
The fee to register and issue a title for the car I recently bought has doubled from the last time I bought a car.
And the reason they've doubled is because the state has a projected revenue shortfall of $400M. Gotta make it up somewhere. I don't get to shop around and find better prices like I can for other things. Well, not in the short term anyway.
I'm voting the bastards out. That'll fix 'em. Unfortunately most of them already will their plush pension package when they retire, which I'll pay for as I stay here.
What's wrong with this picture?
Wow, you are a genius. Why didn't I see it like that? Oh, wait a minute.
I'm not talking about oldest models, I'm talking about 2,3,4 year old G4s and G5s. Hardly what I'd call "oldest models."
Snow Leopard is/was widely advertised as being tweaks and tuning of Leopard to reduce size and improve speed, plus some new ideas in the UI.
I'm am an Apple fan to be sure, but even I'm starting to get fed up.
Or buy anything new that requires the new OS.
And let me throw in a gratuitous gripe for them not supporting PowerPC in SnowLeopard too while I'm at it.
But you don't like the patent provision, why not strike the patent language and call it GPLv2.1
Seeing petabit internet backbones or seeing Russia from your back porch?
Apparently it's NOT Amelia Earhart in the back seat.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dymaxion_car
Not after 10.6 ;) Macs finally feel like BeOs.
Really? I can hardly tell the difference between 10.5.x and 10.6.
You might not remember, but the US (and every other developed country in the world) has gone through this same thing. And many countries still operate this way.
I remember when I was a kid, we switched from a party line (my grandmother's source of neighborhood goings-on) to a private line. It took months for that to be completed.
Maybe in the boonies. In Chicago and Los Angeles -- there were no such delays. And that up-to-five-year-wait was in 1971-1972 in Johannesburg/Sandton -- not exactly the boonies of South Africa.
Besides, I'm sure you can just buy a carrier pigeon nowadays... this is not the 15th century anymore you know...
You're right, you can't, because they're extinct, and they're also not the same thing as Homing Pigeons.
That was Telekom, the government owned telephone and internet semi-monopoly.
They don't have to compete.
40 years ago it was put your name on a list and wait up to five years to get a (wired) phone.
Now it's put your data on the wires and wait for it to get delivered.
But I wonder why I can get to SA web sites and search engines like brabys.co.za and ananzi.co.za fairly quickly.
FTA:
"Our legal advice is that those previously prosecuted will be unable to overturn their prosecution or receive financial recompense," she said.
So people who were previously prosecuted for breaking a non-law will be unable to overturn their prosecution.
Overturn their conviction perhaps.
all different.
A pirate appears and steals all your treasure.
Oh, wait that was supposed to be a game.