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Um, I live in Portland, near the shipyards. Um what are those shiney colorful things with 4 wheels they unload off the ship with the big word Toyota on the side? True some Japanese cars are assembled in the US but not all.
"and you'll see that many hidden millionaires prefer to buy used cars." I've never bought new for that very reason. The car I am driving now, I bought a 100K miles. I had the engine rebuilt. I keep it up and it is reliable and looks great. Total cost of the car and rebuild was less than 6K. I've put on another 85K miles. I own it outright! What would normally be payments are going right into the stock market sale! Even with the market drop, my average investment is up. After buying on the current market sale, I have lots more shares to hold on the ride up. When I retire, I plan on buying a NEW RV. At that point, there isn't much left to save for. I'll be able to enjoy what ever I want.
You had to sign up if you were a BBS Sysop and wanted to provide FIDO net. This way you could be assigned a NODE. Then you could forward, send and receive e-mail and forums. I imagine the list would be a good starting place for a list of BBS'es. Another good place would be from Sysop's who registered their software like Wildcat and others.
It wasn't the art. It was the content. Many fourm BBS'es were almost exactly like Slashdot. That was a great attractor. You could find out about game copy protection, how to get rid of device= in your config sys to use a 720K floppy drive by editing PC DOS, and the biggie, E-mail. Don't knock the BBS'es. The internet only allows faster connections and faster downloads. The better pictures are a result of better computers and higher connection speeds (bandwidth), not the internet. BBS'es is where the content and services were at the time. Most of the stuff the internet does now was done on BBS'es. Even pictures that would make your mother blush were online. 300 - 1200 buad wasn't much fun when calling a BBS with only 3 lines, but you could connect and most were free. For the same fun now, try using one of the free ISP's. It will simulate the trying to connect to a busy number and slow connection speeds due to limited bandwidth, and yes the time limits.
Great Photos. However this definately shows this is a publicity stunt. Take a good look at the capsule photos. Notice anything important missing? Like maybe somekind of latch to hold it closed? This was never designed to be pressurised. One atmosphere of pressure on the inside will blow it open as shown in the photo.
My mom loved it. I will admit not all programs were equaly enjoyed by all. However, There was NBC, ABC, CBS, & public broadcasting. It was never lots of channels of junk.
They will pay dearly, just like the free TV people pay. Worse programming, Infomercials, and extended fund raising by public stations because revenue from advertisers dried up. Think about what is on free TV now. Shock TV, Reality shows, Infomercials, etc. It's all aimed at the dregs of society. There is almost nothing of class on regular TV. Even the ads are aimed at the low life. The messier the hamburger, the less responsible the joyride (spaceship soft drink ad) etc. the better. TV when there was no cable (OK I'm dating myself) was very enjoyable and had high standards. The low quality of Free TV is what is killing the digital TV over the air. Nobody will pay for the equipment to get a clearer picture of Jerry Springer or the latest convection oven infomercial. TV has lost me to the internet where there is real content.
Will it keep a PC anywhere machine from seeing the screen and doing a copy and paste on the machine not running the script? Can I be liable under the DMCA for suggesting such a thing?
What they really want to know is the customer that says, "Don't install your OEM copy of Windows and charge me." "Instead please install my copy of Windows and configure the drivers for me for free." "It's covered under my enterprise lisence." (MS is saying "No it isn't covered under your enterprise lisence without buying the OEM install also")
Unless I'm mistaken on the new versions of windows, the EULA very specificaly states that the OS is lisenced for the machine it was installed upon and may not be transported to another machine. That is why the Certificate is now stuck to the case with a non removable sticker. You are not allowed to build a new machine (P266 to P3 1Ghz) and transfer the MS OS and turn the old box into a BSD router. You have to buy a new OS for the new machine.
You may be able to transport the 3D video card to the new box, but not the OS.
I think having a 100% non MS shop would be the only way not to have any EULA that would permit MS a free permit to come in and inspect. If there is not a single copy of any MS product, then they do not have an agreement to inspect with out a reasonable cause and search warrent. That means even the Pocket PC's have to be banned to prevent an audit without a search warrent. Unfortunately any shop of any size has at least one person with their own WIN PDA that opens the door.
I think earrings with reflectors should do the trick. The system is looking for the cat eyes glare in the headlights reflection in IR. Reflectors would never look away! It would assume you were looking at the display, even when walking by. Maybe a reflector button or two, or a sleeve patch, or... Well you get the idea.
Just the flash units. With a small addition of a photo SCR and the removal of the reflector, these can be stuck inside table lamps as slave flash units. (get the kind that auto recycle after the picture, not the cheap ones you have to hold the button to charge). In a dimly lit room, the slaves make the table lamps look lit, but without the reddish tint. They also don't provide the green tint of compact florescents either. I like putting them in the plastic housing from some dead compact florescent lamps as a diffuser and to hold them in the lamp socket. Be sure to remove the old bulb and electronics and seal the base. A photo SCR needs only a couple very cheap components to make it a photoflash trigger. If you can't find a photo SCR, a regular SCR and small silicon solar cell from a dead solar calculator hooked up the the SCR gate works wonders. If you are not an eletronics builder, a pre-made slave trigger can be found at most good photo shops. Obsurve polarity!
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I like it! Start sending opt-outs, each with a phone number and contact. When they call, explain, you don't want mail to any of them. If they could suggest a wildcard opt out, you would be willing to use it!
Let your bank know where you are! I spent some time in the Cayman Islands with my home bank doing the payments while I was away for an extended time. A billing address in the West Coast and a shipping in the Cayman Islands was no problems. I told the merchants to check the shipping address with the credit people. I got prompt shipment.
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Your description reminds me of my wife trying AOL for 30 days. Sign up on line was easy. Getting off requires a phone call to a live person and a sales pitch. Getting a live person meant Voice mail hell and being on hold. Too bad the sign up wasn't exactly the same simplicity as the disconnect.
She signed up for the free 30 days while I researched a good local ISP, checking for things like Busy signals at prime time, Modem user ratios, Hops from Mae West Router, Tier of service, Latency to ISP from OC38 at work, Ability to use my mail program, broweser, dialer, etc.
Except the amatures have been able to hit the reflector they left up there. A good telescope and a good laser can spot it. Nothing natural in nature reflects light like a well built corner reflector. Info on measuring the round trip time of a laser pulse to the reflector and back can be found here;
http://www.laurin.com/Content/Feb98/techMoon.htm l
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Would it be a waste of time to set up 2 mail servers in a company? One would be for internal communications and the other one for internet mail only (with a block rejecting stuff from the same company to prevent it being used for internal mail). I think this could be used to manage spam and keep internal mail from being abused as policies could be set up on the internal mail and MAPS could be used for external mail. I would vote for it. It would keep my official business box from being plugged up.
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I know the feeling. I still have my original very first e-mail box. It got it's first spam about 2 years ago after 4 years of being spam free. Now it's 90% spam. It was only used for close family and nothing else. I now have to filter by rejecting all except what's in my address book. Still my dial up takes too long to find the ligit mail and toss the rest. It was probably found by guessing as it is just a very common name@server. I don't have cryptic stuff in the name as I thought it would be nice to have a very simple box using my first name. I got it when the ISP first started so I got my choice of names. My next valid box will be spam@server. I have a new ISP.
Um, I wasn't referring to outside interferance getting into the cable. But it is a factor when interferance is present in the environment. I was referring to an impedance change on the cable from bent and kinked wire. The signal will cause interference with itself because the change in impedance causes an echo on the cable. Instead of just going from one end to the other, part of the signal gets reflected and radiated into the return pair. At the 100 meg bit rate, the distance on the wire from one bit to the next is about 100 inches. Create a few echos from impedance problems in the wire and the bits get mixed with the echos at the other end causing errors at the receiving end. The kinked wire kinks both pairs at the same point so the echo also couples onto the other pair in the other direction so the sender will receive it's signal also. The signal crosstalks with itself. The travel speed of a signal in a wire is slower than the speed of light. This is called propogation factor. Any good ham radio book on transmission line theory will cover this topic in more detail. I don't know the exact propogation factor for twisted pair, but i think it's about 80-90% the speed of light. Simple math from the bits per second gives the distance between bits on a wire. More than one bit is on the wire at a time because they haven't completed the commute to the other end of the wire before more bits are sent out on the wire. Many people are unaware of this fact and assume only one bit is on the wire at a time. It's not true. Packets are sent full at full bit speed even tho the first bit may have not reached the other end yet. It's these many bits when echoed cause transmission problems. Unrecognisable packets have to be re-sent slowing down the network.
Most laptops do not run on 1.25 volts. Adding batteries in series does not increase the AH rating. It only increases the voltage. 5 1.25 volt 1100mAH batteries connected in series makes one 6.25 volt 1100mAH battery pack. Don't compare penlight batteries with computer battery packs and expect the Ampere Hour rating to indicate the Watt Hours avaliable. Volts X Ampere Hours = Watt Hours. Use this math to compare how much power you need to replace your battery pack. You may discover you neet 5 to 10 times as many as you thought you needed to reach 6 - 12 volts of most battery packs. Soon the huge space in the battery pack starts to look very cramped.
Um, Actualy the no kink rule is valid. It's to prevent the twisted wires from seprating causing impedance (not resistance) problems which will increase the crosstalk in the cable. (it is a signal in the radio frequency range, not a DC power connection) Crosstalk is a measurable installation fault in network cabling. Ask anybody that has to certify a commercial install what is Near End Cross Talk and what causes it in a cable.
For a professional install the wife can't complain about, use a cable installer's drill bit. They have a flex shaft and are typicaly 3-5 feet long. Find a good spot in the wall you would like a jack and put in an outlet size hole. Bend the bit shaft and go into the wall to drill thru the floor or celing. Leave the bit in the hole and take the drill off. Either at the drill end or the bit end, there is a hole drilled thru the bit. Attach a wire and pull it thru the new hole with the bit. Wire and add wall plate. It gets the jack up off the floor so the cleaners don't bust it. Dropping a wire from the attic into a wall is just as easy. Drill the hole from the attic and stuff down about 20 feet of wire. This makes it easy to snag from the room where the outlet is installed. A bent coathanger has a great chance of snagging the loops of wire in the wall.
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Um, I live in Portland, near the shipyards. Um what are those shiney colorful things with 4 wheels they unload off the ship with the big word Toyota on the side? True some Japanese cars are assembled in the US but not all.
"and you'll see that many hidden millionaires prefer to buy used cars." I've never bought new for that very reason. The car I am driving now, I bought a 100K miles. I had the engine rebuilt. I keep it up and it is reliable and looks great. Total cost of the car and rebuild was less than 6K. I've put on another 85K miles. I own it outright! What would normally be payments are going right into the stock market sale! Even with the market drop, my average investment is up. After buying on the current market sale, I have lots more shares to hold on the ride up. When I retire, I plan on buying a NEW RV. At that point, there isn't much left to save for. I'll be able to enjoy what ever I want.
You had to sign up if you were a BBS Sysop and wanted to provide FIDO net. This way you could be assigned a NODE. Then you could forward, send and receive e-mail and forums. I imagine the list would be a good starting place for a list of BBS'es. Another good place would be from Sysop's who registered their software like Wildcat and others.
It wasn't the art. It was the content. Many fourm BBS'es were almost exactly like Slashdot. That was a great attractor. You could find out about game copy protection, how to get rid of device= in your config sys to use a 720K floppy drive by editing PC DOS, and the biggie, E-mail. Don't knock the BBS'es. The internet only allows faster connections and faster downloads. The better pictures are a result of better computers and higher connection speeds (bandwidth), not the internet. BBS'es is where the content and services were at the time. Most of the stuff the internet does now was done on BBS'es. Even pictures that would make your mother blush were online. 300 - 1200 buad wasn't much fun when calling a BBS with only 3 lines, but you could connect and most were free. For the same fun now, try using one of the free ISP's. It will simulate the trying to connect to a busy number and slow connection speeds due to limited bandwidth, and yes the time limits.
Great Photos. However this definately shows this is a publicity stunt. Take a good look at the capsule photos. Notice anything important missing? Like maybe somekind of latch to hold it closed? This was never designed to be pressurised. One atmosphere of pressure on the inside will blow it open as shown in the photo.
My mom loved it. I will admit not all programs were equaly enjoyed by all. However, There was NBC, ABC, CBS, & public broadcasting. It was never lots of channels of junk.
They will pay dearly, just like the free TV people pay. Worse programming, Infomercials, and extended fund raising by public stations because revenue from advertisers dried up. Think about what is on free TV now. Shock TV, Reality shows, Infomercials, etc. It's all aimed at the dregs of society. There is almost nothing of class on regular TV. Even the ads are aimed at the low life. The messier the hamburger, the less responsible the joyride (spaceship soft drink ad) etc. the better. TV when there was no cable (OK I'm dating myself) was very enjoyable and had high standards. The low quality of Free TV is what is killing the digital TV over the air. Nobody will pay for the equipment to get a clearer picture of Jerry Springer or the latest convection oven infomercial. TV has lost me to the internet where there is real content.
Will it keep a PC anywhere machine from seeing the screen and doing a copy and paste on the machine not running the script? Can I be liable under the DMCA for suggesting such a thing?
What they really want to know is the customer that says, "Don't install your OEM copy of Windows and charge me." "Instead please install my copy of Windows and configure the drivers for me for free." "It's covered under my enterprise lisence." (MS is saying "No it isn't covered under your enterprise lisence without buying the OEM install also")
You may be able to transport the 3D video card to the new box, but not the OS.
I think having a 100% non MS shop would be the only way not to have any EULA that would permit MS a free permit to come in and inspect. If there is not a single copy of any MS product, then they do not have an agreement to inspect with out a reasonable cause and search warrent. That means even the Pocket PC's have to be banned to prevent an audit without a search warrent. Unfortunately any shop of any size has at least one person with their own WIN PDA that opens the door.
I think earrings with reflectors should do the trick. The system is looking for the cat eyes glare in the headlights reflection in IR. Reflectors would never look away! It would assume you were looking at the display, even when walking by. Maybe a reflector button or two, or a sleeve patch, or... Well you get the idea.
Umm, You mean like a QWERTY keyboard? It was invneted by a left handed man. The most common keys are all in the left hand.
Just the flash units. With a small addition of a photo SCR and the removal of the reflector, these can be stuck inside table lamps as slave flash units. (get the kind that auto recycle after the picture, not the cheap ones you have to hold the button to charge). In a dimly lit room, the slaves make the table lamps look lit, but without the reddish tint. They also don't provide the green tint of compact florescents either. I like putting them in the plastic housing from some dead compact florescent lamps as a diffuser and to hold them in the lamp socket. Be sure to remove the old bulb and electronics and seal the base. A photo SCR needs only a couple very cheap components to make it a photoflash trigger. If you can't find a photo SCR, a regular SCR and small silicon solar cell from a dead solar calculator hooked up the the SCR gate works wonders. If you are not an eletronics builder, a pre-made slave trigger can be found at most good photo shops. Obsurve polarity!
I like it! Start sending opt-outs, each with a phone number and contact. When they call, explain, you don't want mail to any of them. If they could suggest a wildcard opt out, you would be willing to use it!
Let your bank know where you are! I spent some time in the Cayman Islands with my home bank doing the payments while I was away for an extended time. A billing address in the West Coast and a shipping in the Cayman Islands was no problems. I told the merchants to check the shipping address with the credit people. I got prompt shipment.
She signed up for the free 30 days while I researched a good local ISP, checking for things like Busy signals at prime time, Modem user ratios, Hops from Mae West Router, Tier of service, Latency to ISP from OC38 at work, Ability to use my mail program, broweser, dialer, etc.
http://www.laurin.com/Content/Feb98/techMoon.htm l
Would it be a waste of time to set up 2 mail servers in a company? One would be for internal communications and the other one for internet mail only (with a block rejecting stuff from the same company to prevent it being used for internal mail). I think this could be used to manage spam and keep internal mail from being abused as policies could be set up on the internal mail and MAPS could be used for external mail. I would vote for it. It would keep my official business box from being plugged up.
I know the feeling. I still have my original very first e-mail box. It got it's first spam about 2 years ago after 4 years of being spam free. Now it's 90% spam. It was only used for close family and nothing else. I now have to filter by rejecting all except what's in my address book. Still my dial up takes too long to find the ligit mail and toss the rest. It was probably found by guessing as it is just a very common name@server. I don't have cryptic stuff in the name as I thought it would be nice to have a very simple box using my first name. I got it when the ISP first started so I got my choice of names. My next valid box will be spam@server. I have a new ISP.
Um, I wasn't referring to outside interferance getting into the cable. But it is a factor when interferance is present in the environment. I was referring to an impedance change on the cable from bent and kinked wire. The signal will cause interference with itself because the change in impedance causes an echo on the cable. Instead of just going from one end to the other, part of the signal gets reflected and radiated into the return pair. At the 100 meg bit rate, the distance on the wire from one bit to the next is about 100 inches. Create a few echos from impedance problems in the wire and the bits get mixed with the echos at the other end causing errors at the receiving end. The kinked wire kinks both pairs at the same point so the echo also couples onto the other pair in the other direction so the sender will receive it's signal also. The signal crosstalks with itself. The travel speed of a signal in a wire is slower than the speed of light. This is called propogation factor. Any good ham radio book on transmission line theory will cover this topic in more detail. I don't know the exact propogation factor for twisted pair, but i think it's about 80-90% the speed of light. Simple math from the bits per second gives the distance between bits on a wire. More than one bit is on the wire at a time because they haven't completed the commute to the other end of the wire before more bits are sent out on the wire. Many people are unaware of this fact and assume only one bit is on the wire at a time. It's not true. Packets are sent full at full bit speed even tho the first bit may have not reached the other end yet. It's these many bits when echoed cause transmission problems. Unrecognisable packets have to be re-sent slowing down the network.
I also noticed there is a patch for it on bugtrax already. How many of MS buggs are still wide open and well known?
Most laptops do not run on 1.25 volts. Adding batteries in series does not increase the AH rating. It only increases the voltage. 5 1.25 volt 1100mAH batteries connected in series makes one 6.25 volt 1100mAH battery pack. Don't compare penlight batteries with computer battery packs and expect the Ampere Hour rating to indicate the Watt Hours avaliable. Volts X Ampere Hours = Watt Hours. Use this math to compare how much power you need to replace your battery pack. You may discover you neet 5 to 10 times as many as you thought you needed to reach 6 - 12 volts of most battery packs. Soon the huge space in the battery pack starts to look very cramped.
Um, Actualy the no kink rule is valid. It's to prevent the twisted wires from seprating causing impedance (not resistance) problems which will increase the crosstalk in the cable. (it is a signal in the radio frequency range, not a DC power connection) Crosstalk is a measurable installation fault in network cabling. Ask anybody that has to certify a commercial install what is Near End Cross Talk and what causes it in a cable.
For a professional install the wife can't complain about, use a cable installer's drill bit. They have a flex shaft and are typicaly 3-5 feet long. Find a good spot in the wall you would like a jack and put in an outlet size hole. Bend the bit shaft and go into the wall to drill thru the floor or celing. Leave the bit in the hole and take the drill off. Either at the drill end or the bit end, there is a hole drilled thru the bit. Attach a wire and pull it thru the new hole with the bit. Wire and add wall plate. It gets the jack up off the floor so the cleaners don't bust it. Dropping a wire from the attic into a wall is just as easy. Drill the hole from the attic and stuff down about 20 feet of wire. This makes it easy to snag from the room where the outlet is installed. A bent coathanger has a great chance of snagging the loops of wire in the wall.