This is not entirly correct, not all Free ISPs require caller-id, there is one that allows access to everything without it but the name doesn't spring to mind however a bit of searching should dig it up.
Even freeserve allows non Caller ID if all you want is web and e-mail.
One of my big wishes is that I not have to do everything myself. I'd be very pleased to have someone else take up this torch. First, I'm running a company, and I have a kid coming. Second, I have a lot of other issues to work on. Some help in this area would definitely be nice.
--End Quote
I'd like to hope that people will join together to put an end to the stupid patents that we have seen recently. It's up to YOU to help out rather than just sitting down and hoping that everything will magically sort itself out.
But however I feel that most people won't take any action, all it needs is a letter to your MP, Congressman (or whatever you local representative in the government is), expressing your feelings, and hopefully they will begin to listen.
Virtualy all the ISPs in the UK are now free (you just pay for a local call), most allow sign-up on the internet.
The most popular ISP at the moment is probably FreeServe, whilst it's probably not the best you can sign up online before you leave. Although you need to specify a name and adress etc.., you can always lie!
One problem with using a free ISP is they require your phone connection to support CLI (Caller Line Identification), most hotels don't forward this information. Howerver Freeserve allows you to use most of the services without CLI except e-mail, newsgroups etc.. (for which you presumably have access to with your current ISP anyway).
All ISPs (the decent ones anyway) cover the entire country with Local Call Acesss, in the UK we have 0845 (amongst others) numbers which equate to a local call regardless to where you are calling from.
BTW phone calls cost about 4p (daytime) 1.7p (evenings) and 1p (weekends) a minute, but this will be more for hotels (obviously).
Electrical power supply is 230V or there abouts (it was 240V until the EU stuck its nose in), you will probably find that the power supply for your laptop has a switch or something that will let you change to this voltage.
More and more hotels have phone jacks, some use crappy internal systems that won't support a decent modem connection, I suggest you check with the hotel before you book.
Phone jacks are different in the UK, you can buy an adapter from most electrical stores in the UK (so you probably can in the states as well).
AFAIK Modems that work in the states will work here, whilst modems are supposed to be BAPT approved to connect them to British phone networks you shouldn't find any problems.
You can always try Anonymizer.com for annonymous web access.
I've found it usefull in the past when I haven't wanted my IP traced (somebody had managed to get my ISPs range of IPs banned from a forum I needed to post to, it wasn't me BTW)
Despite domain names regularly going for several million, such as business.com, what level of trafic does such a domain name actually generate.
An easy to remember domain name is obviously preferable but since most visitors to a site probably come through a link they may not even see the domain name you are using.
Why on earth have domain names managed to attract such large funds, if your not interested in e-commerce many pages at http://www.foo.com/~users/pages/page.html can actually contain the most relevent information about what you are looking for, content is always more important that a domain name. I mean people know how to use bookmarks.
[Sorry if this is rambling, but I just got back from DJ SS in Durham, UK]
In July 1999, we formed a committee consisting of our President, Chief Financial Officer, and a systems administrator, as part of our effort to perform a coordinated audit of:
Since when would a President of a company get involved in a Year 2000 audit
In addition, in September 1999, we hired an independent contractor to test LinuxOne OS for Year 2000 readiness. The independent contractor certified these products as Year 2000 compliant
It was featured on Tomorrows World (BBC 1) a while back, but that's the only info I have heard about it in the UK so far.
I remember when PDC(?)(Program Digital Control??) was first banded about for videos. It makes sure you video at the right time even if the schedules change.
There was some talk about this being used so you didn't have to record adverts (i.e. a signal at the start and end of the ad breaks) but no channel would annoy its advertisers by doing this.
I thing PDC is supported by C4, BBC2 and BBC1 in some areas, although it may have higher coverage now.
Here in England we have a thriving computer magazine market. New magazines appear almost every month catering for more and more specific market areas. We even got a Linux only magazine for the first time this month (www.linuxanswers.co.uk).
As magazines disappear new ones take their place. We saw the demise of Amiga Power last year, and now there are 1001 new Dreamcast magazines.
Magazines will never die, they will just adapt to changes in the market, after all you can't access the internet all the time can you?
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This is not entirly correct, not all Free ISPs require caller-id, there is one that allows access to everything without it but the name doesn't spring to mind however a bit of searching should dig it up.
Even freeserve allows non Caller ID if all you want is web and e-mail.
--Quote from article
One of my big wishes is that I not have to do everything myself. I'd be very pleased to have someone else take up this torch. First, I'm running a company, and I have a kid coming. Second, I have a lot of other issues to work on. Some help in this area would definitely be nice.
--End Quote
I'd like to hope that people will join together to put an end to the stupid patents that we have seen recently. It's up to YOU to help out rather than just sitting down and hoping that everything will magically sort itself out.
But however I feel that most people won't take any action, all it needs is a letter to your MP, Congressman (or whatever you local representative in the government is), expressing your feelings, and hopefully they will begin to listen.
Virtualy all the ISPs in the UK are now free (you just pay for a local call), most allow sign-up on the internet.
The most popular ISP at the moment is probably FreeServe, whilst it's probably not the best you can sign up online before you leave. Although you need to specify a name and adress etc.., you can always lie!
One problem with using a free ISP is they require your phone connection to support CLI (Caller Line Identification), most hotels don't forward this information. Howerver Freeserve allows you to use most of the services without CLI except e-mail, newsgroups etc.. (for which you presumably have access to with your current ISP anyway).
All ISPs (the decent ones anyway) cover the entire country with Local Call Acesss, in the UK we have 0845 (amongst others) numbers which equate to a local call regardless to where you are calling from.
BTW phone calls cost about 4p (daytime) 1.7p (evenings) and 1p (weekends) a minute, but this will be more for hotels (obviously).
Electrical power supply is 230V or there abouts (it was 240V until the EU stuck its nose in), you will probably find that the power supply for your laptop has a switch or something that will let you change to this voltage.
More and more hotels have phone jacks, some use crappy internal systems that won't support a decent modem connection, I suggest you check with the hotel before you book.
Phone jacks are different in the UK, you can buy an adapter from most electrical stores in the UK (so you probably can in the states as well).
AFAIK Modems that work in the states will work here, whilst modems are supposed to be BAPT approved to connect them to British phone networks you shouldn't find any problems.
I have no idea about France, sorry.
You can always try Anonymizer.com for annonymous web access.
I've found it usefull in the past when I haven't wanted my IP traced (somebody had managed to get my ISPs range of IPs banned from a forum I needed to post to, it wasn't me BTW)
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Mine looks like this:
.doubleclick.net TRUE / FALSE 1920499376 id OPT_OUT
Hmm, I assume the number relates to the expiration date of the cookie.
Despite domain names regularly going for several million, such as business.com, what level of trafic does such a domain name actually generate.
An easy to remember domain name is obviously preferable but since most visitors to a site probably come through a link they may not even see the domain name you are using.
Why on earth have domain names managed to attract such large funds, if your not interested in e-commerce many pages at http://www.foo.com/~users/pages/page.html can actually contain the most relevent information about what you are looking for, content is always more important that a domain name. I mean people know how to use bookmarks.
[Sorry if this is rambling, but I just got back from DJ SS in Durham, UK]
You probably are searching italready, check out this page to see what sites are powered by Inktomi. --
From the Y2K compliance document:
In July 1999, we formed a committee consisting of our President, Chief Financial Officer, and a systems administrator, as part of our effort to perform a coordinated audit of:
Since when would a President of a company get involved in a Year 2000 audit
In addition, in September 1999, we hired an independent contractor to test LinuxOne OS for Year 2000 readiness. The independent contractor certified these products as Year 2000 compliant
Contractor == Family Friend.
It was featured on Tomorrows World (BBC 1) a while back, but that's the only info I have heard about it in the UK so far.
I remember when PDC(?)(Program Digital Control??) was first banded about for videos. It makes sure you video at the right time even if the schedules change.
There was some talk about this being used so you didn't have to record adverts (i.e. a signal at the start and end of the ad breaks) but no channel would annoy its advertisers by doing this.
I thing PDC is supported by C4, BBC2 and BBC1 in some areas, although it may have higher coverage now.
Here in England we have a thriving computer magazine market. New magazines appear almost every month catering for more and more specific market areas. We even got a Linux only magazine for the first time this month (www.linuxanswers.co.uk).
As magazines disappear new ones take their place. We saw the demise of Amiga Power last year, and now there are 1001 new Dreamcast magazines.
Magazines will never die, they will just adapt to changes in the market, after all you can't access the internet all the time can you?