Residential on the US West Coast is all "bare" wire stapled to the 2x4s. Run at any angle in any direction.
I think that now they, US, went to a national code for most things, which likely means stapling the wires to the 2x4s will be common everywhere.
True, you're not required to install conduit. But, when I did my house I did anyway, even though I ended up paying closer to "commercial rates" rather than "residential rates".
I am VERY glad I did. When I sold the house I did so to a small insurance broker and it took me a couple days to change the low voltage wiring so that they can use their computers/phones/etc. Cost to me, about US$ 400 and a couple days of pulling CAT6. Benefit? US17.000. Not a bad deal when I figure in that I had paid about US$4000 more to have them pull everything through conduit.
For a fair comparison take an XP CD and any Linux CD from the year 2000. Then tell me which is a better install experience.
I have an updated XP CD that has support for as many devices as any new Linux distro, so, the install is not at all painful regardless of which OS I chose.
I have a friend in Portland who is, basically, in the same boat. After bitching and moaning for a while he decided he could either give up watching or do something about it. On my advice, he decided to "do something", so, last time I was down there, I set up a Dreambox-500S next to his direct TV tuner. Now, thanks to Gemini firmware, he can watch what he wants...
I just finished making one for my friend's mother. Snagged an OLD Hitachi tablet PC - 486/20MB/250MB PCMCIA HD - and installed a slimmed down freeBSD 4.11 on it. Stuck an old WN-B11/PCM wireless card in there and made a nice frame for it.(Actually, asked the neighbouring mall's photo framing shop to make me a NICE frame.) I'm SSHed in right now - she is in Nekarsulm, Germany, I am in Vancouver, B.C. - and am installing samba, so I can mount a directory full of pictures from her Buffalo Linkstation NAS. She is amazed by all this "magic". For my next similar project I will look for a tablet with more CPU power and built in sound... (One can always do the same thing with a laptop, but taking it apart to "fold" the screen is too much hassle for me. For the tablet all I needed to do is get the frame made.)
Actually, family. and, almost always, close friends will know what you're up to. Don't let what you see in the movies fool you, undercover work is not as secretive, glamorous or dangerous as you'd think. (Yes, yes, I know that it depends on the level, but, those "deep cover" people's names are not going to appear in any documents that are data mineable.)
That's nothing, I almost fell off my chair when soon after 9/11 Bush went on TV and said "either you are with us, or you are against us." That was a well known Ceausescu era saying.
1. Keep an regularly updated Acronis image on the server - external HD works too. (Yes you DO need the "universal Restore" as well, else on a major hardware change you will bluescreen.) 2. Boot new box with Acronis CD and select restore. 3. Get some food happening while new box is doing its thing. 4. Reboot and let XP do its autodetection bit and install new hardware. You might be prompted for several reboots if the hardware is significantly different and you need to install new drivers.
TADA!!!
Same process for Linux installs, but, usually, fewer reboots.
...why not build yourself a custom Knoppix/Ubuntu/freesbie CD or DVD. Most "run from CD" distros allow r/w access to NTFS partitions and for customization files to be written to an USB memstick.
Or, if you really need Solaris, and you can open your box, get the current day equivalent of one of these - http://www.watch.impress.co.jp/AKIBA/hotline/20000 930/image/rescue22.jpg. I set up a PIII 600 powered one running FreeBSD in my friend's box at Boeing and nobody's the wiser. Some of her coworkers had wondered why there was a KVM switch on her desk, since they could only see one computer under the desk, but, now that she moved that out of the way nobody knows nothing and, she is as happy and productive as she can be.
Hey, you. Don't be letting the cat out of the bag like that. I live in a condo with about 30 kismet visible APs. Luckily I have my old gear from Japan, so all my stuff is on channel 14. I am basically interference free. If more people find out about this, I will have to get all new, probably "A", gear to replace my "G" stuff. Although, I might give homeplug/PowerLine a try first, the new ones seem to be quite nice.
Actually, I have yet to find a router that won't let me admin it once I am connected to it; wireless or not. There could well be some/many, but all the ones I connected to wanted just the name/password to let me admin them.
I was looking for info on fuel consumption for the Dynajet... nothing. It does look quite interesting, and if it's reasonably efficient, I can see myself "parking" one next to my "house in the mountains".
(I kid, I kid. For those who don't know Romanian history, Corneliu Zelea Codreanu's "Iron Guard" is said to have killed about 300.000 Gypsies and Jews.)
"Its very amusing to me the bias people have about this country. Theft, crime, child porn??? "
I must admit, I don't know anything about the child porn stuff - although there were the two kids somewhere in Oltenia making and selling a "home movie" a couple years ago. Remember?
As for the theft, crime corruption and the like, let me ASSURE you that it's worse than majority Western Europeans imagine. Maybe in the circles YOU are mingling in it's all nice and on the level, but, I have traveled a lot around the country and have a LOT of friends there. Since I will probably be going back in spring, I can't give specific details, statute of limitations notwithstanding, but, it's pretty bad. For example, think trucks that were snatched out of EU and registered in Romania - "recarosat" for those who speak Romanian. Think Chief of police in one of the provinces with navigable water ways who ordered a 30.000 Euro motorboat from a photo album - pictures taken in Belgian harbors, he paid 6.000 Euro. Think ex military intelligence colonel who owns a string of construction companies, and more politicos than Becali owns sheep. Think of someone who doesn't even know the difference between wheat and barley and makes tens of thousands of Euro through SAPARD "loans". Shit, I knew about the Mona Musca issue quite a few days before it became public...
I could go on and on and on... and I was just an observer.
So, yeah Western Europeans have GOOD reason to be "biased".
You say that "most bussinesses have legitimate licenses". I would beg to differ. There might be a few companies that do; but, majority, by far, and MANY government offices, don't. Well, unless in the last year and a half since I last went there things changed RADICALLY.
I spent a few months there a couple years ago. I haven't seen any properly licensed software being used. Not once. NEVER! People invariably looked at me funny when I even mentioned this. (And, no, I don't mean just home users for whom the $200 that Microsoft wants would represent most of a month's wages.)
As to why MS would open a tech centre in Bucharest... it would become clear to you if you spent a couple days walking around the Redmond campus.
Don't know his situation, but, what if you live downtown Regina. Even if you find parks, the temperature in winter is usually in the -10C or thereabouts.
Anyhow, _I_ can't imagine allowing my kids to watch that much TV, but, being single I don't have to worry about that for a while.
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'cause, he sure has the fleecing art down to a science.
Residential on the US West Coast is all "bare" wire stapled to the 2x4s. Run at any angle in any direction. I think that now they, US, went to a national code for most things, which likely means stapling the wires to the 2x4s will be common everywhere.
True, you're not required to install conduit. But, when I did my house I did anyway, even though I ended up paying closer to "commercial rates" rather than "residential rates". I am VERY glad I did. When I sold the house I did so to a small insurance broker and it took me a couple days to change the low voltage wiring so that they can use their computers/phones/etc. Cost to me, about US$ 400 and a couple days of pulling CAT6. Benefit? US17.000. Not a bad deal when I figure in that I had paid about US$4000 more to have them pull everything through conduit.
For a fair comparison take an XP CD and any Linux CD from the year 2000. Then tell me which is a better install experience.
I have an updated XP CD that has support for as many devices as any new Linux distro, so, the install is not at all painful regardless of which OS I chose.
I have a friend in Portland who is, basically, in the same boat. After bitching and moaning for a while he decided he could either give up watching or do something about it. On my advice, he decided to "do something", so, last time I was down there, I set up a Dreambox-500S next to his direct TV tuner. Now, thanks to Gemini firmware, he can watch what he wants...
Since the Sling can control, for example, your TIVO, yes, you can do exactly what you want.
You friend must have caught one of the morons at Sling. I guess all companies must have the token idiot ... must be some unwritten law.
Skype USB phones, that hook up to your computer, are less than $20 at Anitec on Kingsway.
:-)
So, get the phone and on your way to baachan's place cruise Akihabara for a cheap used laptop.
Finishing the project will be left as an exercise to the reader.
I just finished making one for my friend's mother. Snagged an OLD Hitachi tablet PC - 486/20MB/250MB PCMCIA HD - and installed a slimmed down freeBSD 4.11 on it. Stuck an old WN-B11/PCM wireless card in there and made a nice frame for it.(Actually, asked the neighbouring mall's photo framing shop to make me a NICE frame.) ...
I'm SSHed in right now - she is in Nekarsulm, Germany, I am in Vancouver, B.C. - and am installing samba, so I can mount a directory full of pictures from her Buffalo Linkstation NAS. She is amazed by all this "magic".
For my next similar project I will look for a tablet with more CPU power and built in sound
(One can always do the same thing with a laptop, but taking it apart to "fold" the screen is too much hassle for me. For the tablet all I needed to do is get the frame made.)
Actually, family. and, almost always, close friends will know what you're up to. Don't let what you see in the movies fool you, undercover work is not as secretive, glamorous or dangerous as you'd think. (Yes, yes, I know that it depends on the level, but, those "deep cover" people's names are not going to appear in any documents that are data mineable.)
That's nothing, I almost fell off my chair when soon after 9/11 Bush went on TV and said "either you are with us, or you are against us." That was a well known Ceausescu era saying.
What you say is, basically, true, but, not all of us live in the United States of AmeriKKKa.
1. Keep an regularly updated Acronis image on the server - external HD works too. (Yes you DO need the "universal Restore" as well, else on a major hardware change you will bluescreen.)
2. Boot new box with Acronis CD and select restore.
3. Get some food happening while new box is doing its thing.
4. Reboot and let XP do its autodetection bit and install new hardware. You might be prompted for several reboots if the hardware is significantly different and you need to install new drivers.
TADA!!!
Same process for Linux installs, but, usually, fewer reboots.
My toothbrush has been charged wirelessly for years. So, they just cranked up the power? Hmmm
...why not build yourself a custom Knoppix/Ubuntu/freesbie CD or DVD. Most "run from CD" distros allow r/w access to NTFS partitions and for customization files to be written to an USB memstick.
0 930/image/rescue22.jpg. I set up a PIII 600 powered one running FreeBSD in my friend's box at Boeing and nobody's the wiser. Some of her coworkers had wondered why there was a KVM switch on her desk, since they could only see one computer under the desk, but, now that she moved that out of the way nobody knows nothing and, she is as happy and productive as she can be.
Or, if you really need Solaris, and you can open your box, get the current day equivalent of one of these - http://www.watch.impress.co.jp/AKIBA/hotline/2000
Hey, you. Don't be letting the cat out of the bag like that. I live in a condo with about 30 kismet visible APs. Luckily I have my old gear from Japan, so all my stuff is on channel 14. I am basically interference free.
If more people find out about this, I will have to get all new, probably "A", gear to replace my "G" stuff. Although, I might give homeplug/PowerLine a try first, the new ones seem to be quite nice.
Actually, I have yet to find a router that won't let me admin it once I am connected to it; wireless or not. There could well be some/many, but all the ones I connected to wanted just the name/password to let me admin them.
Thanks for the heads up, don't know how I missed that. :-(
I was looking for info on fuel consumption for the Dynajet ... nothing. It does look quite interesting, and if it's reasonably efficient, I can see myself "parking" one next to my "house in the mountains".
Well, "Capitanul" Codreanu tried to fix that.
(I kid, I kid. For those who don't know Romanian history, Corneliu Zelea Codreanu's "Iron Guard" is said to have killed about 300.000 Gypsies and Jews.)
"Its very amusing to me the bias people have about this country. Theft, crime, child porn??? "
...
... and I was just an observer.
I must admit, I don't know anything about the child porn stuff - although there were the two kids somewhere in Oltenia making and selling a "home movie" a couple years ago. Remember?
As for the theft, crime corruption and the like, let me ASSURE you that it's worse than majority Western Europeans imagine.
Maybe in the circles YOU are mingling in it's all nice and on the level, but, I have traveled a lot around the country and have a LOT of friends there. Since I will probably be going back in spring, I can't give specific details, statute of limitations notwithstanding, but, it's pretty bad.
For example, think trucks that were snatched out of EU and registered in Romania - "recarosat" for those who speak Romanian. Think Chief of police in one of the provinces with navigable water ways who ordered a 30.000 Euro motorboat from a photo album - pictures taken in Belgian harbors, he paid 6.000 Euro. Think ex military intelligence colonel who owns a string of construction companies, and more politicos than Becali owns sheep. Think of someone who doesn't even know the difference between wheat and barley and makes tens of thousands of Euro through SAPARD "loans".
Shit, I knew about the Mona Musca issue quite a few days before it became public
I could go on and on and on
So, yeah Western Europeans have GOOD reason to be "biased".
You say that "most bussinesses have legitimate licenses". I would beg to differ.
There might be a few companies that do; but, majority, by far, and MANY government offices, don't. Well, unless in the last year and a half since I last went there things changed RADICALLY.
I spent a few months there a couple years ago. I haven't seen any properly licensed software being used. Not once. NEVER!
... it would become clear to you if you spent a couple days walking around the Redmond campus.
People invariably looked at me funny when I even mentioned this. (And, no, I don't mean just home users for whom the $200 that Microsoft wants would represent most of a month's wages.)
As to why MS would open a tech centre in Bucharest
Yeah, well ... they don't build them like they used to. :-)
Don't know his situation, but, what if you live downtown Regina. Even if you find parks, the temperature in winter is usually in the -10C or thereabouts. Anyhow, _I_ can't imagine allowing my kids to watch that much TV, but, being single I don't have to worry about that for a while.