Insulate the rest of your house
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Unless I am mistaken you said you live in Canada. The land of ice and snow (according to what I am told). Why are you worried about your computers overheating? Spend the extra $$ you are thinking about for cooling your computers on EXTRA insulation for the rest of the house!!! The $$ saved over the life of the house will pay off big time and you will help the environment by spending less fossil fuels on heating and cooling. Also, invest in spending $$ on computers the produce less heat, and use less power. Use less monitors, and KVM switches. Your 100 watt 21" monitor uses tons more power and produces tons more heat than that 5 watt Athlon. If they must produce heat, have it use the heat for good. The suggestions of using the heat to feed the inlets on the heaters is VERY GOOD. The thoughts of cooling using underground water reservoirs is one of the CHEAPEST CLEANEST methods of cooling the whole house around. If you spend the $$ on an energy efficient house now, while it is cheap, you will be much happier in the long run.
As an employee of Earthlink I have been very interested in the reports that we are using Carnivore.
I have inquired with various people in the company, and, as far as I know we have NOT and WILL not install Carnivore. We value our own privacy and our customers. I am proud to be able to say this. I hope other ISP's take a similar stance.
your guide lines are a little too strick
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You guidelines are a little too strict. IMHO they some aspects of it made your life, and your students lives overly hard. Basicly your requireing Win 9x,NT alienates the easiest people to support. The iMac crowd. Ever setup an Mac with a moder OS (7.6.1+)? Out of the box its set to connect using ethernet and DHCP. Some schools (UC Davis is a good example) heavily promote this, and go out of their way to support Macs. They are rewarded with lower support requirements over all.
Just my $0.02
You say they suck. Now they are out of business. So, you are now SOL getting modems. You give them crap for not charging you full price at POS but when you knew full well, that they rely on service for profitability. You then argue that cel phone companies can't sell phones with a discount, with no service. This is bull shit, go down to your local Sprint store, and ask to buy a phone, most phones cost many times the price you pay for them (the early ones cost thousands). The store wont say shit about service... cause you don't need to buy it then. The phone is paper weight until you buy it though. Same thing here. You give them shit, and now one of the few companies that didn't suck, and didn't give a shit what you did with the service so long as you paid your bill is gone.
Thank you. We all are so happy.
If my memory server me you could do this in the late 70's by haveing 2 external harddrives and just turning off the one you didnt want to use. You didnt have to move any thing and worry about a head crash.
I had Comcast till AT&T bought the franchise.
As far as networks go. Its the same damn network, its all @home. The tech support is @home and the transfer rates are dictated by your local cable system. Comcast uses just about any DOCSIS compatable modem. Since comcast gave me my modem I don't know what AT&T uses.
The setup is the same, its just DHCP. And if you need to call tech support while using DHCP your a bloody idiot. Niether "support" linux, but niether care if you use it, just like every other ISP there is.
AT&T has horrible customer service as it took me over and our to get some one who could change my billing information. AT&T is more expensive, by about $5 a month.
All in all the only differance I hope to see is getting that $5 back.
i think the issue is getting beter as computers are becomeing more main stream (aka that guy in Missippi has one now) but, people are still afraid of them, and as a result still afraid of people who know how to use them, esp use them well.
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Unless I am mistaken you said you live in Canada. The land of ice and snow (according to what I am told). Why are you worried about your computers overheating? Spend the extra $$ you are thinking about for cooling your computers on EXTRA insulation for the rest of the house!!! The $$ saved over the life of the house will pay off big time and you will help the environment by spending less fossil fuels on heating and cooling. Also, invest in spending $$ on computers the produce less heat, and use less power. Use less monitors, and KVM switches. Your 100 watt 21" monitor uses tons more power and produces tons more heat than that 5 watt Athlon. If they must produce heat, have it use the heat for good. The suggestions of using the heat to feed the inlets on the heaters is VERY GOOD. The thoughts of cooling using underground water reservoirs is one of the CHEAPEST CLEANEST methods of cooling the whole house around. If you spend the $$ on an energy efficient house now, while it is cheap, you will be much happier in the long run.
You are dead wrong. The EULA comes up while you are mounting the disk image. Before you even see the installer.
Why don't you just setup and authenticating smtp sever?
As an employee of Earthlink I have been very interested in the reports that we are using Carnivore.
I have inquired with various people in the company, and, as far as I know we have NOT and WILL not install Carnivore. We value our own privacy and our customers. I am proud to be able to say this. I hope other ISP's take a similar stance.
You guidelines are a little too strict. IMHO they some aspects of it made your life, and your students lives overly hard. Basicly your requireing Win 9x,NT alienates the easiest people to support. The iMac crowd. Ever setup an Mac with a moder OS (7.6.1+)? Out of the box its set to connect using ethernet and DHCP. Some schools (UC Davis is a good example) heavily promote this, and go out of their way to support Macs. They are rewarded with lower support requirements over all. Just my $0.02
You say they suck. Now they are out of business. So, you are now SOL getting modems. You give them crap for not charging you full price at POS but when you knew full well, that they rely on service for profitability. You then argue that cel phone companies can't sell phones with a discount, with no service. This is bull shit, go down to your local Sprint store, and ask to buy a phone, most phones cost many times the price you pay for them (the early ones cost thousands). The store wont say shit about service ... cause you don't need to buy it then. The phone is paper weight until you buy it though. Same thing here. You give them shit, and now one of the few companies that didn't suck, and didn't give a shit what you did with the service so long as you paid your bill is gone.
Thank you. We all are so happy.
If my memory server me you could do this in the late 70's by haveing 2 external harddrives and just turning off the one you didnt want to use. You didnt have to move any thing and worry about a head crash.
I had Comcast till AT&T bought the franchise.
As far as networks go. Its the same damn network, its all @home. The tech support is @home and the transfer rates are dictated by your local cable system. Comcast uses just about any DOCSIS compatable modem. Since comcast gave me my modem I don't know what AT&T uses.
The setup is the same, its just DHCP. And if you need to call tech support while using DHCP your a bloody idiot. Niether "support" linux, but niether care if you use it, just like every other ISP there is.
AT&T has horrible customer service as it took me over and our to get some one who could change my billing information. AT&T is more expensive, by about $5 a month.
All in all the only differance I hope to see is getting that $5 back.
i think the issue is getting beter as computers are becomeing more main stream (aka that guy in Missippi has one now) but, people are still afraid of them, and as a result still afraid of people who know how to use them, esp use them well.