As someone who has made this move four times in the past 15 years, between various parts of the US (east and west) and the Eurozone. I feel compelled to reply, but I am going to cover much more than just the computers, as this is a copy-pasta from another post I recently wrote on the subject and would rather share it all here than spend any time editing. However here are my suggestions and lessons learned.
My last move a few years ago from the PNW to Scandinavia, Instead of trying to squeeze a 3500square foot house into a container as I did two moves ago, I sold everything except a few laptops, external disks, books, clothes, art, and two pieces of furniture. The 6 cubic meters of stuff cost me $600usd to ship, much cheaper than the $8000USD a container would cost door to door and I had the cash to replace all the crap i sold when I landed, not 8 weeks later when my stuff arrived.
0. Prime Directive: Sell, give away, donate or throw away anything that you can replace at your destination. Why move atoms when you can move bits. Bring only the things you cannot replace (photos, heirlooms, sentimental items, etc) there will be plenty of time to replace it. (Pine Is Not Elm, Less is More, and Linux Is Not Unix)
1. Acquire large, sturdy and solid plastic crates. Cardboard sucks for moving. When wet it looses all of its strength and is a sponge for moisture. I got my plastic crates at some plastic storage solutions franchise. I still use them years later, mostly because they stack nicely and have interlocking tops and are easy to transport.
2. Make a Three layer zone around your stuff. The container itself is the outer layer, the plastic crates are the middle layer, and a plastic bag is the inner layer. The three layer zone around your stuff creates multiple layers of air gap between your stuff protecting it from water/moisture/humidity, heat, crushing, and sticky fingers and it will make carrying your crap from one place to another simpler.
Think: Big Metal Shipping Container->Plastic Storage Boxes stacked nicely-> bag/box -> item.
3. Electronics/Computers/etc: depending on the shape and size, i have often found that the shipping box the device came in usually is enough, Good rule of thumb is, if you have saved the box it came in, use that and put it in a larger box, stack nicely, and do not worry about it. If you do not have the original shipping box, then make one, but really don't go overboard. A great example is your disks. Most of the time they do not ship packed in egg-carton foam in hermetically sealed boxes, so don't waste your time with that and just make sure that there is a decent layer of plastic preventing moisture exposure and that the box containing it all is secured within the container and if you can, a nice sized silica gel bag in each crate should do the trick. As with shock to the disk, if the platter is not moving and it is not powered up, you really have no need to worry about shock, for it would take an incredible amount of force to break a disk via vibrations. Do back up your disks to a cloud service or other media before you move.
4. For art, books, and other heirloom things that cannot be replaced I use a layered system: My works of art, and framed photographs, were wrapped in soft fabric and sealed in plastic. Then crated in wood, cardboard, or plastic depending on the size, shape and available crating method. My Rare books were stored in acid free bags and crated in the plastic boxes mentioned above. Cheap books that i couldn't part with were placed in the plastic crates without an inner layer of protection. Silica packets are added to each plastic crate..
5. Clothes, Mothballs work fine. vaccu-/shrink bags and suitcases are easiest and best way to do it. Throw a few mothballs in each vaccubag before storing. Skip the wardrobe boxes, they crush super easy.
6. Furniture. in most cases you are better off selling it, though research it. I found that it was less costly to ship my tempurpedic mattress and aeron ch
I was in the same place about honeycomb and decided to compromise between a cheaper android tablet now and a high end honeycomb tablet when they come out.
I chose the Kendo M7 and paid aprox USD 200 for it....
http://www.expert.se/Product/Product.aspx?id=5985637 (google translate is your friend)...and I am fairly happy with it for ebooks and video.
Markoff has been wrong before
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Markoff has been wrong as many times as he has been right. A post on BAWUG suggested that this was an urban myth -- case in point being: what did the DOD do when all of their microwave communication ran on 2.4ghz back before wifi was even a pipe-dream?
Markoff is such a tool, have you read his books on Mitnick -- what a joke.
The Nokia 3650 (warning in swedish) is a pretty slick peice of equpment for a cellphone. This phone is nothing all that new; merely a repackaged nokia 9290 without a qwerty keyboard and a built in camera capable of 15 seconds of grainy colour video and mono audio.
Some key highlights:
MMS - multimedia messaging service - though this one is capable of MMS'ing video/audio taken off of the device to another MMS capable device.
Java runtime env - kewl
XML - yeah.
bluetooh - werd i wont have to toss my hbh-15
4096 colors on a 176 x 208 pixel display - suckier than the palm yet in a cooler form factor.
4MB RAM card + open slot - rumour has it it is expandible to 64megs -- thats more mp3 than my original RIO held.
Best yet is the 4 hours talk time, 8 day standby, not bad for a nokia:P
Yet, i dont know where ya'all are getting this polymorfic ringtones, what this says is that you create advanced ring signal system where you can receive songs. The translation here is sketchy, but untill somone writes an mp3, or better yet an ogg parser for it i dont see this doing p2p.
The old nokia 9110 does.wav ringtones and although it uses the earpeice headset for those rings and not the internal ringer that was quite a neat solution.
The Tech is getting there, yet the developer base for these things are tiny, despite the fact that GSM/GPRS/2.5-3.0G phones are out selling pc's 2:1. Hey all you l33t-hax0rs go out there and write us some warez for these hot toys!...untill i can get some shareware apps for these I'm going to continue to roll with my T39m and HBH-15.
The nature of the internet is such that one can not censor another, there are too many methods of circumvention. Decss.c, this source although illegal is all over the net and will never be censored entirely. The RIAA's website is available via archive.org, google and a multitude of other caching servers - are you going to ask everyone to nullroute or filter those sites too? We could also address the idea of mirrors, alternate domains, alternate routes, renumbering of their networks, ad infinitum.
I agree with you that the DMCA act is one of the worst laws ever written. I agree with you that it should be repealed, yet a firewal rule set or null route on your backbone edge is not very effective in shuting the RIAA and their draconian law-lobbying down. The folks who signed that silly law have most likely never visited RIAA.ORG, however I'm sure they've had some pretty nice meals with their lobbiers and possibly received a few complimentary copies of britney spears latest release for their family members...
Real change will come about when people stop buying media from artists who work for labels and studios who are members of the MPAA/RIAA. That change will come from within the RIAA/MPAA, probably after a large internal restructuring, in efforts to save their dying model of profit taking. The change will not come from government in the repeal of the law. It is abundantly apparent that the body of government who passed the law is not so very clued about technology, or much else. Seriously, how often does one see laws struck from the books?
A filter on a network is like taking a cap-gun to a war, think bigger, think better, think smarter, and most of all think about the scope of the problem you are dealing with. There are much bigger things one can do with less effort that have more lasting impact on the situation.
The RIAA is not going to use their corporate network for this; They are going to use disposeable connectivity such as DSL, cable, and dialup to launch these attacks.
The two questions I have for you armchair systems admins and network engineers are;
1. What good will blocking 208.225.90.0/24 and 12.150.191.0/24 do for your network?
2. What good will transit providers derive from blocking 208.225.90.0/24 and 12.150.191.0/24 from traversing their network?
This is a purile waste of time and energy, do the right thing; Call your congress critter, hack them back, or protest in some other more effective way -- a router or iptables entry is a weak protest.
...and on a another note, how long do you think it will be before the RIAA has trained dogs to search out illegal copyright infringing media sniffing every bag and person at the bus temrinal, trainstation, or airports? How long before they request the DoJ to randomly pull over and search automobiles for CD-R, Dubbed Audio Cassettes, or *gasp* portable mp3 players and arrest the driver/owners for interstate transport of stolen property and seize the cars for sherrifs auction? IMO this whole IP thing has gone so sideways that all bets are off, infact I'm suprised we havent seen a shotgun weilding hillary rosen on the covers of Time and Newsweek.
For the past year and a half i've carried the Ericsson Chatboard with my t26 and now my t39m with hbh-15 bluetooth wireless headset.
The keyboard in the phone is no new paradigm -- think back to the late 90s with the release of the Nokia 9xx0 phones. Despite their size they are still popular as mobile email/web terminals. I personaly prefer to the t39m to my collection of 9xx0 phones....
...and 12keying your message isnt really that bad, ask any guitar player...
\BEGIN TRANSMISSION\ Earth to Studios and Networks.
The day of commercial breaks has come and gone. We, the consumer, are aware of product placement in the cinema, on television, and now the radio.
Why dont you transition your revenue collections from overt to subvert commercials, as despicable as it is, in the future where your digital media can and will be manipulated by the masses despite your lame attempts at outlawing it, you will still garner some form of revenue.
Get with the curve before your entropic mass sucks you into oblivion and you find yourselves as washed up as yesterdays' dot-commie. \END TRANSMISSION\
Katz you should interview the disinfo-lks.
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Katz, you should interview Richard Metzger and Garry Badely the guys who run Disinfomation LTD. They have an awesome story about how they were financed by a cable company who took about a year to figgure out what disinfo was then dropped them. You should ask how they rose from that situation and how they have suceeded for the past six years on their own. These guys have that stink of inteligent sucess when you speak to them in person,...and their self produced TV show just kicks ass!
Their designer Jose Cabellero is one awesome graphics guru at Razorfish, I really dig his graphics.
DISINFO Convention, TV Show, and record label
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I had the pleasure of working with Disinformation from '96 to '00, and I am glad to see that Katz finaly discovered this GREAT news site.
I must plug some of the funkier things associated with Disinfo, namely the TV show, that ran 2 seasons on UK Channel 4, hosted by founder Richard Metzger. This show makes the X-files (for that matter most of the stuff on fox) seem like scripted corporate drech. If you can find it, i totaly recomend viewing it.
The disinformation convention, hosted in NYC in february 2000 was an awesome time. Speakers included Gennesis P. Orridge, Robert Anton Wilson, and Marilyn Manson. I cant wait untill they offer a DVD of the entire event, just incredible.
They also have a record album, with one album that I know of, which is a must for any MOOG Synth fans, called 'the best of moog' its perfect music for parties, heck, its going into the hold music on my office PBX.
I've seen Disinfo guerilla marketing stickers all over the US, in sweden, finland, norway, england, and even on a payphone on the isle of Kos in Greece.
Yet I digress, Disinfo is not a counter culture zine, it is not 'yahoo for the crop circle set' it is more like a mondo2000 for the literati and those that ask why.
This summer i used a 2.54Mbps power grid 'modem' (what a yeechy obsolete consumer term) at a Cafe in Gotland, which is a small swedish island in the baltic half way between sweden, poland, and estonia. Not only was it blazingly fast to connect to north america, it was realy cheap, something like 35:-SEK ($3) per hour..i wish i had taken some of their literature.
Those who know me can attest to this;
As I have maintained for the better part of 1/3rd of my life, It aint Coffee, Nor is it beer if you can shine a 1mw neon laser through the mug and see it on the other side.
Slashdot Mirror
this is nothing new. I built this 10 years ago: http://patentscope.wipo.int/search/en/WO2003090106
As someone who has made this move four times in the past 15 years, between various parts of the US (east and west) and the Eurozone. I feel compelled to reply, but I am going to cover much more than just the computers, as this is a copy-pasta from another post I recently wrote on the subject and would rather share it all here than spend any time editing. However here are my suggestions and lessons learned.
My last move a few years ago from the PNW to Scandinavia, Instead of trying to squeeze a 3500square foot house into a container as I did two moves ago, I sold everything except a few laptops, external disks, books, clothes, art, and two pieces of furniture. The 6 cubic meters of stuff cost me $600usd to ship, much cheaper than the $8000USD a container would cost door to door and I had the cash to replace all the crap i sold when I landed, not 8 weeks later when my stuff arrived.
0. Prime Directive: Sell, give away, donate or throw away anything that you can replace at your destination. Why move atoms when you can move bits. Bring only the things you cannot replace (photos, heirlooms, sentimental items, etc) there will be plenty of time to replace it. (Pine Is Not Elm, Less is More, and Linux Is Not Unix)
1. Acquire large, sturdy and solid plastic crates. Cardboard sucks for moving. When wet it looses all of its strength and is a sponge for moisture. I got my plastic crates at some plastic storage solutions franchise. I still use them years later, mostly because they stack nicely and have interlocking tops and are easy to transport.
2. Make a Three layer zone around your stuff. The container itself is the outer layer, the plastic crates are the middle layer, and a plastic bag is the inner layer. The three layer zone around your stuff creates multiple layers of air gap between your stuff protecting it from water/moisture/humidity, heat, crushing, and sticky fingers and it will make carrying your crap from one place to another simpler.
Think: Big Metal Shipping Container->Plastic Storage Boxes stacked nicely-> bag/box -> item.
3. Electronics/Computers/etc: depending on the shape and size, i have often found that the shipping box the device came in usually is enough, Good rule of thumb is, if you have saved the box it came in, use that and put it in a larger box, stack nicely, and do not worry about it. If you do not have the original shipping box, then make one, but really don't go overboard. A great example is your disks. Most of the time they do not ship packed in egg-carton foam in hermetically sealed boxes, so don't waste your time with that and just make sure that there is a decent layer of plastic preventing moisture exposure and that the box containing it all is secured within the container and if you can, a nice sized silica gel bag in each crate should do the trick. As with shock to the disk, if the platter is not moving and it is not powered up, you really have no need to worry about shock, for it would take an incredible amount of force to break a disk via vibrations. Do back up your disks to a cloud service or other media before you move.
4. For art, books, and other heirloom things that cannot be replaced I use a layered system:
My works of art, and framed photographs, were wrapped in soft fabric and sealed in plastic. Then crated in wood, cardboard, or plastic depending on the size, shape and available crating method. My Rare books were stored in acid free bags and crated in the plastic boxes mentioned above. Cheap books that i couldn't part with were placed in the plastic crates without an inner layer of protection. Silica packets are added to each plastic crate..
5. Clothes, Mothballs work fine. vaccu-/shrink bags and suitcases are easiest and best way to do it. Throw a few mothballs in each vaccubag before storing. Skip the wardrobe boxes, they crush super easy.
6. Furniture. in most cases you are better off selling it, though research it. I found that it was less costly to ship my tempurpedic mattress and aeron ch
I was in the same place about honeycomb and decided to compromise between a cheaper android tablet now and a high end honeycomb tablet when they come out.
I chose the Kendo M7 and paid aprox USD 200 for it....
http://www.expert.se/Product/Product.aspx?id=5985637 (google translate is your friend) ...and I am fairly happy with it for ebooks and video.
it is not anonymous, they have your credit card.
lovely debate in here;
I just thought i'd share a meme that was emailed to me the other day;
H2 Vs. Dodge Ram
Markoff has been wrong as many times as he has been right. A post on BAWUG suggested that this was an urban myth -- case in point being: what did the DOD do when all of their microwave communication ran on 2.4ghz back before wifi was even a pipe-dream?
Markoff is such a tool, have you read his books on Mitnick -- what a joke.
is it me or are the /. editors repeating themselves?
9 720 thread and article talk about this phone from like 2 weeks ago
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=39800&cid=424
The Nokia 3650 (warning in swedish) is a pretty slick peice of equpment for a cellphone. This phone is nothing all that new; merely a repackaged nokia 9290 without a qwerty keyboard and a built in camera capable of 15 seconds of grainy colour video and mono audio.
Some key highlights:
MMS - multimedia messaging service - though this one is capable of MMS'ing video/audio taken off of the device to another MMS capable device.
Java runtime env - kewl
XML - yeah.
bluetooh - werd i wont have to toss my hbh-15
4096 colors on a 176 x 208 pixel display - suckier than the palm yet in a cooler form factor.
4MB RAM card + open slot - rumour has it it is expandible to 64megs -- thats more mp3 than my original RIO held.
Best yet is the 4 hours talk time, 8 day standby, not bad for a nokia :P
Yet, i dont know where ya'all are getting this polymorfic ringtones, what this says is that you create advanced ring signal system where you can receive songs. The translation here is sketchy, but untill somone writes an mp3, or better yet an ogg parser for it i dont see this doing p2p.
The old nokia 9110 does
The Tech is getting there, yet the developer base for these things are tiny, despite the fact that GSM/GPRS/2.5-3.0G phones are out selling pc's 2:1. Hey all you l33t-hax0rs go out there and write us some warez for these hot toys!
The nature of the internet is such that one can not censor another, there are too many methods of circumvention. Decss.c, this source although illegal is all over the net and will never be censored entirely. The RIAA's website is available via archive.org, google and a multitude of other caching servers - are you going to ask everyone to nullroute or filter those sites too? We could also address the idea of mirrors, alternate domains, alternate routes, renumbering of their networks, ad infinitum.
I agree with you that the DMCA act is one of the worst laws ever written. I agree with you that it should be repealed, yet a firewal rule set or null route on your backbone edge is not very effective in shuting the RIAA and their draconian law-lobbying down. The folks who signed that silly law have most likely never visited RIAA.ORG, however I'm sure they've had some pretty nice meals with their lobbiers and possibly received a few complimentary copies of britney spears latest release for their family members...
Real change will come about when people stop buying media from artists who work for labels and studios who are members of the MPAA/RIAA. That change will come from within the RIAA/MPAA, probably after a large internal restructuring, in efforts to save their dying model of profit taking. The change will not come from government in the repeal of the law. It is abundantly apparent that the body of government who passed the law is not so very clued about technology, or much else. Seriously, how often does one see laws struck from the books?
A filter on a network is like taking a cap-gun to a war, think bigger, think better, think smarter, and most of all think about the scope of the problem you are dealing with. There are much bigger things one can do with less effort that have more lasting impact on the situation.
The RIAA is not going to use their corporate network for this; They are going to use disposeable connectivity such as DSL, cable, and dialup to launch these attacks.
...and on a another note, how long do you think it will be before the RIAA has trained dogs to search out illegal copyright infringing media sniffing every bag and person at the bus temrinal, trainstation, or airports? How long before they request the DoJ to randomly pull over and search automobiles for CD-R, Dubbed Audio Cassettes, or *gasp* portable mp3 players and arrest the driver/owners for interstate transport of stolen property and seize the cars for sherrifs auction? IMO this whole IP thing has gone so sideways that all bets are off, infact I'm suprised we havent seen a shotgun weilding hillary rosen on the covers of Time and Newsweek.
The two questions I have for you armchair systems admins and network engineers are;
1. What good will blocking 208.225.90.0/24 and 12.150.191.0/24 do for your network?
2. What good will transit providers derive from blocking 208.225.90.0/24 and 12.150.191.0/24 from traversing their network?
This is a purile waste of time and energy, do the right thing; Call your congress critter, hack them back, or protest in some other more effective way -- a router or iptables entry is a weak protest.
that has to be the worst cable management I have ever seen in my entire career.
*correction* a 29% tax on a more-or-less monopoly.
I guess that M$ will just prosecute anyone caught reverse engineering their binaries under the DMCA.
For the past year and a half i've carried the Ericsson Chatboard with my t26 and now my t39m with hbh-15 bluetooth wireless headset.
The keyboard in the phone is no new paradigm -- think back to the late 90s with the release of the Nokia 9xx0 phones. Despite their size they are still popular as mobile email/web terminals.
I personaly prefer to the t39m to my collection of 9xx0 phones....
...and 12keying your message isnt really that bad, ask any guitar player...
\BEGIN TRANSMISSION\
Earth to Studios and Networks.
The day of commercial breaks has come and gone.
We, the consumer, are aware of product placement in the cinema, on television, and now the radio.
Why dont you transition your revenue collections from overt to subvert commercials, as despicable as it is, in the future where your digital media can and will be manipulated by the masses despite your lame attempts at outlawing it, you will still garner some form of revenue.
Get with the curve before your entropic mass sucks you into oblivion and you find yourselves as washed up as yesterdays' dot-commie.
\END TRANSMISSION\
Katz, you should interview Richard Metzger and Garry Badely the guys who run Disinfomation LTD. They have an awesome story about how they were financed by a cable company who took about a year to figgure out what disinfo was then dropped them. You should ask how they rose from that situation and how they have suceeded for the past six years on their own. These guys have that stink of inteligent sucess when you speak to them in person, ...and their self produced TV show just kicks ass!
Their designer Jose Cabellero is one awesome graphics guru at Razorfish, I really dig his graphics.
I had the pleasure of working with Disinformation from '96 to '00, and I am glad to see that Katz finaly discovered this GREAT news site.
I must plug some of the funkier things associated with Disinfo, namely the TV show, that ran 2 seasons on UK Channel 4, hosted by founder Richard Metzger. This show makes the X-files (for that matter most of the stuff on fox) seem like scripted corporate drech. If you can find it, i totaly recomend viewing it.
The disinformation convention, hosted in NYC in february 2000 was an awesome time. Speakers included Gennesis P. Orridge, Robert Anton Wilson, and Marilyn Manson. I cant wait untill they offer a DVD of the entire event, just incredible.
They also have a record album, with one album that I know of, which is a must for any MOOG Synth fans, called 'the best of moog' its perfect music for parties, heck, its going into the hold music on my office PBX.
I've seen Disinfo guerilla marketing stickers all over the US, in sweden, finland, norway, england, and even on a payphone on the isle of Kos in Greece.
Yet I digress, Disinfo is not a counter culture zine, it is not 'yahoo for the crop circle set' it is more like a mondo2000 for the literati and those that ask why.
My propane grill died about 1 minute shy of the Billennium causing me to pan fry burgers for our Epoch party...
tns.net gives me 1ru/on dual OC-48 lines, 50GB/mo +$5/extra GB/mo for $100/mo
This summer i used a 2.54Mbps power grid 'modem' (what a yeechy obsolete consumer term) at a Cafe in Gotland, which is a small swedish island in the baltic half way between sweden, poland, and estonia. Not only was it blazingly fast to connect to north america, it was realy cheap, something like 35:-SEK ($3) per hour ..i wish i had taken some of their literature.
$100/ru with 10gb/mo thats very expensive. With all the natural features of this datacenter you'd think these guys could do better....
I use a musicians road case. complete with seismic buffer springs.
check this url: http://www.geek.net/~chris/pix/rack/ ..old photos, but a good example
chris
Those who know me can attest to this;
As I have maintained for the better part of 1/3rd of my life, It aint Coffee, Nor is it beer if you can shine a 1mw neon laser through the mug and see it on the other side.
chris
I see a naprapath, which is like a chiropractic, but without all the crunching and cracking of joint maniupulation....
it is GREAT, but VERY VERY VERY expensive.