Id like to throttle the person who told her about it, because Ive become customer support.
Then stop. Unless you're getting something out of it, why be free support for friends and roommates? I'll help people once for twice as a favour, but after that I play dumb and make like I've exhausted my knowledge on the matter and refer them to a professional.
In any case, I just think it's kind of funny since some people seem to think Germany actually started two world wars.
I tend to think of the two world wars as one war with a twenty year cease-fire in the middle of it. If the Allies hadn't been so harsh with their terms of surrender at the end of WW1 then Germany might not have gone through the hardship that breed such extreme fascism. If we give our defeated enemies a little dignity they hopefully won't rise up twenty years later and clobber us. But we never learn.
Yeah, but it's not like a lot of people were involved in that war or anything. (Funny story actually, most people blame the war on the Germans when it was really Austria who set the stones rolling.)
Actually it was a Serb nationalist who started it. But that event was just a spark in an already volatile situation. The real reason that the European countries were itching to have a go at each other was imperialism on all sides. They were all expanding their empires/colonies throughout Asia and Africa and were fierce rivals.
The assassination of the Austrian duke just gave them an excuse to start open hostilities.
Film is an actual physical artifact and as such is not subject to bit rot. Properly stored negatives can last a long time. Good luck finding digital storage media that is guaranteed to last as long and can still be read in the future.
When new types of media are introduced they overlap the use of old media types. What I'm trying to say is that media formats do not become obsolete until their replacement has been available for a while. The bits themselves will remain identical each time the files are transferred to new media. Digital information can be exactly replicated indefinitely while analogue formats will eventually degrade.
Perhaps the news media should only report on stories like that only after the jury has given their verdict.
The new of a person being found not guilty needs to be even bigger than the news that a person was accused.
Don't know how it works in other countries, but here in NZ the accused are usually given name suppression (the media can report the story but not the names of those involved) until more facts start emerging - often name suppression is not lifted until the verdict at the end of the trial.
We're getting into the active phase of an 11 year cycle. It just means pretty aurora if you live close enough to one of earth's poles. Here in the south island of New Zealand we'll see aurora australis on our southern horizon tonite.
Someone. Please, please, PLEASE enlighten me on the difference between web and Internet. Yeah, I know they're different and it's a matter of protocols, but I've heard this for years and honestly still don't quite get it.
I know someone else has just answered, but here goes:
The Internet is a global network of computers, or more precisely a global collection of interconnected networks that happen to use the Internet Protocol (the "IP" in "X over IP") to talk to each other.
The Web is a global collection of documents and various media files stored on web servers around the world.
The Web can also refer to the global collection of web servers which store these documents and media files.
In other words, the Web is part of the Internet, but not all of it.
For example on 9/11/01 I woke up suddenly with a sense of something being horribly wrong, like someone close to me had just died. My family was okay. A few thousand other people weren't.
however, I was not allowed to actually touch a computer. This created a procedure where I, and other interested students, would write out our programs on paper and then hand them to another, authorized, student, to type in to the computer.
This sounds like my parents except they wrote their programs on cards which were then submitted to be punched, then the punched cards were given to someone with access to the computer and my parents were given a print-out of the output. This was before I was born. I'm a second generation geek.
The closest we've come in that regard is teaching kids how to use MS Word...
Teaching MS Word is not education. Teaching generic word processing skills that can be transfered to any wordprocessor is. When I was at school the "industry standard" was Wordstar. If I had learned Wordstar as opposed to general word processing, my Wordstar foo would've been useless by the time I left school and Wordperfect had become the "standard".
I did just exactly this a few weeks ago. Non-technical friend was pleased with result. He was even more pleased a few days ago when I replaced his entire Vista desktop with KDE (kubuntu 9.10).
MeTo each caller : What version of Windows do you have? Caller 1: Office 97 Caller 2: Word Caller 3: Um... Caller 4: I'm a Mac user you insensitive clod! Caller 5: What's Windows? Caller 6 Microsoft I think Me: Sod this.. I never wanted to be a call centre worker.. talking to stupid customers all day... I wanted to be...... wait for it... a LUMBERJACK - leaping from tree to tree as they float down the mighty rivers of British Columbia
First of all, in my country we don't use RJ11 for phone jacks. However, an adapter is trivial so we can ignore that point.
My main concern with RJ45 jacks that could be either POTS or ethernet is this: if someone plugs a computer into an RJ45 jack thinking its a LAN outlet, and it's actually patched to a POTS line, and it rings, will the ringing voltage damage the NIC in the computer? I don't know if NICs are designed to cope with this mishap. Perhaps they are.
I have touched bare phone wires when they ring and it hurts.
In New Zealand you can do your own wiring (eg install a new power socket or light fitting) provided it's your home and you follow NZ ECP 50 (Electrical Code of Practice). You may not do anything inside the switchboard - that requires a registered electrician. You may not do any of the above for reward (own home or near relative is fine).
You ARE allowed to do any ELV (extra low voltage) wiring yourself. ELV wiring is not regulated. ELV in NZ is defined as below 50V AC or below 120V DC.
Telephone networks in NZ operate at ELV, so you can legally do whatever you like, but Telcos reserve the right not to connect your dodgy work to their own network.
Data cabling and AV cabling is all ELV.
The wiring standard, AS/NZS 3000, requires segregation between your ELV wiring and mains voltage wiring.
In New Zealand, the Telco is only responsible for the line up to the demarcation where it enters the house. The owner of the house owns the internal wiring. Most phone subscribers pay an extra $2.50 per month to have their Telco take responsibility for the internal phone wiring, but the Telco doesn't own it.
The owner of the property also owns the cable that runs from the boundary to the building, but it is generally understood that the Telco fixes any faults on the outside cable even if the customer opts out of the $2.50 wiring maintenance fee.
In New Zealand it is standard practice to use cat5e or cat6 when wiring new houses for phone. Some sparkies daisy chain but when I wire houses I star it from a central point.
Since 100baseT ethernet only uses pairs 2 and 3 (orange/white and green/white), you could punch down pairs 2 and 3 on an RJ45 jack and pair 1 (blue/white) on a phone jack.
Better would be to just run 2 cat6 cables to each location, then you can use GigE.
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Id like to throttle the person who told her about it, because Ive become customer support.
Then stop. Unless you're getting something out of it, why be free support for friends and roommates? I'll help people once for twice as a favour, but after that I play dumb and make like I've exhausted my knowledge on the matter and refer them to a professional.
In any case, I just think it's kind of funny since some people seem to think Germany actually started two world wars.
I tend to think of the two world wars as one war with a twenty year cease-fire in the middle of it. If the Allies hadn't been so harsh with their terms of surrender at the end of WW1 then Germany might not have gone through the hardship that breed such extreme fascism. If we give our defeated enemies a little dignity they hopefully won't rise up twenty years later and clobber us. But we never learn.
Yeah, but it's not like a lot of people were involved in that war or anything. (Funny story actually, most people blame the war on the Germans when it was really Austria who set the stones rolling.)
Actually it was a Serb nationalist who started it. But that event was just a spark in an already volatile situation. The real reason that the European countries were itching to have a go at each other was imperialism on all sides. They were all expanding their empires/colonies throughout Asia and Africa and were fierce rivals.
The assassination of the Austrian duke just gave them an excuse to start open hostilities.
Film is an actual physical artifact and as such is not subject to bit rot. Properly stored negatives can last a long time. Good luck finding digital storage media that is guaranteed to last as long and can still be read in the future.
When new types of media are introduced they overlap the use of old media types. What I'm trying to say is that media formats do not become obsolete until their replacement has been available for a while. The bits themselves will remain identical each time the files are transferred to new media. Digital information can be exactly replicated indefinitely while analogue formats will eventually degrade.
Perhaps the news media should only report on stories like that only after the jury has given their verdict.
The new of a person being found not guilty needs to be even bigger than the news that a person was accused.
Don't know how it works in other countries, but here in NZ the accused are usually given name suppression (the media can report the story but not the names of those involved) until more facts start emerging - often name suppression is not lifted until the verdict at the end of the trial.
So... if I’m flying from Houston to Frankfurt next week, should I be worried?
Yes. If every passenger rushes to one side of the plane to watch the aurora the plane might tilt to one side.
We're getting into the active phase of an 11 year cycle. It just means pretty aurora if you live close enough to one of earth's poles. Here in the south island of New Zealand we'll see aurora australis on our southern horizon tonite.
What country are you in? Civilised countries do provide employees with statutory paid annual leave.
Someone. Please, please, PLEASE enlighten me on the difference between web and Internet. Yeah, I know they're different and it's a matter of protocols, but I've heard this for years and honestly still don't quite get it.
I know someone else has just answered, but here goes:
The Internet is a global network of computers, or more precisely a global collection of interconnected networks that happen to use the Internet Protocol (the "IP" in "X over IP") to talk to each other.
The Web is a global collection of documents and various media files stored on web servers around the world.
The Web can also refer to the global collection of web servers which store these documents and media files.
In other words, the Web is part of the Internet, but not all of it.
Schmuck. Putz. Schlemiel. I don't know any real yiddish, just a few perjoratives. How about a steaming pile of drek?
Greek deities? Straight? Ha!
I would have it turned off most of the time.
For example on 9/11/01 I woke up suddenly with a sense of something being horribly wrong, like someone close to me had just died. My family was okay. A few thousand other people weren't.
What happened on 9 November 2001?
however, I was not allowed to actually touch a computer. This created a procedure where I, and other interested students, would write out our programs on paper and then hand them to another, authorized, student, to type in to the computer.
This sounds like my parents except they wrote their programs on cards which were then submitted to be punched, then the punched cards were given to someone with access to the computer and my parents were given a print-out of the output. This was before I was born. I'm a second generation geek.
The closest we've come in that regard is teaching kids how to use MS Word...
Teaching MS Word is not education. Teaching generic word processing skills that can be transfered to any wordprocessor is.
When I was at school the "industry standard" was Wordstar. If I had learned Wordstar as opposed to general word processing, my Wordstar foo would've been useless by the time I left school and Wordperfect had become the "standard".
You had abacuses? In my day all we had was little piles of pebbles. And we were thankful for them! Now get off my lawn!
I did just exactly this a few weeks ago. Non-technical friend was pleased with result. He was even more pleased a few days ago when I replaced his entire Vista desktop with KDE (kubuntu 9.10).
I used to work in a call centre.
Me To each caller : What version of Windows do you have? ... .. I never wanted to be a call centre worker .. talking to stupid customers all day ... I wanted to be ...... wait for it ... a LUMBERJACK - leaping from tree to tree as they float down the mighty rivers of British Columbia
Caller 1: Office 97
Caller 2: Word
Caller 3: Um
Caller 4: I'm a Mac user you insensitive clod!
Caller 5: What's Windows?
Caller 6 Microsoft I think
Me: Sod this
wibble wibble
You don't get the bill until after you're treated.
I'd rather have a bill to worry about than an untreated health problem.
First of all, in my country we don't use RJ11 for phone jacks. However, an adapter is trivial so we can ignore that point.
My main concern with RJ45 jacks that could be either POTS or ethernet is this: if someone plugs a computer into an RJ45 jack thinking its a LAN outlet, and it's actually patched to a POTS line, and it rings, will the ringing voltage damage the NIC in the computer? I don't know if NICs are designed to cope with this mishap. Perhaps they are.
I have touched bare phone wires when they ring and it hurts.
DSL works over a one-leg diss.
ie it works when there is a break in one of the wires in a twisted pair.
If a subscribers reports no dail tone but internet still works, then it's probably a one-leg diss.
In New Zealand you can do your own wiring (eg install a new power socket or light fitting) provided it's your home and you follow NZ ECP 50 (Electrical Code of Practice).
You may not do anything inside the switchboard - that requires a registered electrician.
You may not do any of the above for reward (own home or near relative is fine).
You ARE allowed to do any ELV (extra low voltage) wiring yourself. ELV wiring is not regulated. ELV in NZ is defined as below 50V AC or below 120V DC.
Telephone networks in NZ operate at ELV, so you can legally do whatever you like, but Telcos reserve the right not to connect your dodgy work to their own network.
Data cabling and AV cabling is all ELV.
The wiring standard, AS/NZS 3000, requires segregation between your ELV wiring and mains voltage wiring.
In this post, ELV has nothing to do with rugby.
In New Zealand, the Telco is only responsible for the line up to the demarcation where it enters the house. The owner of the house owns the internal wiring. Most phone subscribers pay an extra $2.50 per month to have their Telco take responsibility for the internal phone wiring, but the Telco doesn't own it.
The owner of the property also owns the cable that runs from the boundary to the building, but it is generally understood that the Telco fixes any faults on the outside cable even if the customer opts out of the $2.50 wiring maintenance fee.
Yes, I do work in the telco industry.
In New Zealand it is standard practice to use cat5e or cat6 when wiring new houses for phone. Some sparkies daisy chain but when I wire houses I star it from a central point.
Since 100baseT ethernet only uses pairs 2 and 3 (orange/white and green/white), you could punch down pairs 2 and 3 on an RJ45 jack and pair 1 (blue/white) on a phone jack.
Better would be to just run 2 cat6 cables to each location, then you can use GigE.
Are you referring to the cable or the jack?