For the fringe areas in the urban communities that may not be as easy as some would think it would be... I had been pestering SBCSouthwesternbell to get DSL out to my residence which is clear out on the edge of town. So far al i got out of them were nastygrams saying that it was underplan and we'll call you dont call us. Hrmf. My phone line developed a imbalance in it that kept kicking me off so i called for a linesman to come out and deal with it. After he has completed that job I asked him why hasent SBC delivered on DSL out to this neighborhood... He replied "$250K". I asked why the price tag and he said that would be the amount to get the SLC that covers this area replaced with new building and install new equipment to handle the digital service... The irony of this next phone bill that i got they were touting DSL service in it.... Dont you just love it? The first time i do when i get things squared away here is get the frell away from Rockport Tx, and get to a place where they have Co-Op telco and broadband, to hell with all bells.
One question that keeps bouncing around in my head is this, would the internet have been possible if AT&T was not split up?
*hand over 14.95 or they will sell your email...* Hmmm smells like extortion to me folks... Feel free to ship all these emails to ftc.gov and let them deal with these jokers... In the meantime, try spamcop.net and see if they can munge the headers to find out the true source of these jokers..
An excellent piece of work! I had to copy the piece and post it off to Mr. Gramm and Mrs. Hutchinson of Texas and let them know about this rogue congressman and his stuffed-pockets bill about how i felt about it.. I'm certain that both will oppose the bill whole-heartedly.
NOW if the bill got passed and signed into law (IMHO, will be a snowballs' chance in hell), it would face severe challenges in the courts and come under alot of heat from the public civil rights groups as well as some of the telcos too, for they are going to have to shoulder their little war that they want made legal.. I can safely say that it won't come into play for at least several years and by then, we'll have a alternate to P2P in place and it will pretty much become a paper tiger...
My system contains SpamAssasin and SpamCop. The assasin takes care of everyone that uses it (i shut off the filing option on it). And then I post the full email to Spamcop to put the spammer on notice... So far its been a effective approach. Since the Great Spam Flood that started earlier this year, my spam has gone fron 12/day to nearly 3/week!
Now only if someone would take out those idiot Level 3 spammers, my day would be made..
When AMD gets their claws into this new cip they will have to rename their chipset from ThunderBird to ThunderChicken... Now instead of calling it overclocking, we'll call it Choking the Chicken.:P
Instead of the main board beeping at you when you boot, it'll crow.... real LOUD!
Now when you claim to be a chicken farmer, you are not being derogatory cuz you ARE running a large array of chickens!
The worse part of this is that it might make some folks allergic to chickens break out in hives... Boy i can see it now: "Employee with chicken allergies sues company for $10 million for allergic reactions from his workstation."
Under state and federal law you have every right to sue AT for their ineptness on managing their telemarketing tactics...
I'd say $10,000 US will get their attention..
Just make sure to log all calls from who and what date and time the call is made... Be firm with them in saying that you want on their no call list. If they refuse, ask for supervisor.. Be firm, yet nice... No, no not Nice nice, icy nice will do the trick... If that fails, log it and get in touch with the District Attorney and let them know.. They love to sink their claws into cases like these for they know its money in da bank! Several options for you to play with... Good luck!
It is illegal and fineable for telemarketers to call any cellular phone numbers known to the industry. So there is yer answer boys and girls.. IF you get a marketer calling, just say are you aware that this is a cell number that you are calling? If they say no, then throw the book at them, inform them that this is a cell number and you MUST cease and desist this call and put the number on their no-call list... I've had two such calls and both were stopped short by the previous statement.
$1000/mo is chickenfeed and you cant live on that.. Thats down below the poverty line for pete's sake.. I'm simply astonished that there are people that live on ebay and make more than what i earn in a month in a day.. Well, my opinion changes, reluctantly tho but it does..
And this comes hot on the tail of a announcement that Ebay was instituting a program to bring back the little guy into their auction system... I smell management on the insurance system and marketing on the little guy program. No one communicated on these deals i'll bet, the idiots! Simply put, they just cancelled each other out.
Some AC units do have a duty cycle yes, but I have seen some that run 24/7 without a hitch.. Of course they dont last for quite 2 years without breaking their reed valves, or burning their motors up after being locked up after long runs.
There is a couple of mods i know about that take air exchange into consideration. One is a mod where a guy ducts outside air into his system.. Of course he lives up in Alaska by Jeneau so he can get away with it. The other is a Full case mod where a guy simply built a frame out of PVC and put all the PC hardware in it and took a full sized box fan and mounted it in the framework and it blows air across the entire machine!
Fan noise is one reason why alot of Modders and OCers are switching to WC (water cooling) rigs and doing quite a good job at it too. One way to expand on WC is to build a small WC tower that sits outside the house and pipes water to the machines that are plumbed for it. If one wants to really get wild with it, take a small reach-in refridgerator and modify it to cool the water, then pipe it to the system. This is only temporary tho for the compressor is only designed to run 50% of the duty cycle and will burn out perhaps after a year of operation.. I'll do some designing and some up with something thats really wild in regards of watercooling..
This is what i've heard of the tarrifs down here in Texas, and i've yet to confirm it: A local ISP is able to sell dialup service for $10/mo. How so you ask? This is what I have been able to find out. They operate a paging business and lease their T1 circuits from SWBell for $150US each trunk per MONTH. Now if someone can confirm this, this means that anyone can open a paging business, process the proper paperwork, they can get 1.5 MB/s both ways on the internet for PEANUTS, in comparison to what we have to fight for doing it by the numbers. I shit you not on this ladies and gents... That is one helluva loophole down here in the Lone Star State.
Hmmmm according to Spamhaus their servers were put under lock and key when PaeTec TOSed them. Hmmmm i wunder how much they want for their equipment.. I could use some of their parts, or they could be put to good use in a RTCW or a Q3 extreme server for that matter.:D
Just checked the Black Box for their pricing on MUXes and DSLAM modules, $10K starting for a 25 port DSLAM and $5KUS for a MUX of equal size... CHICKENFEED! The bells can buy this sh*t by the lot and implement the hardware in due time. The major labor is breaking the loops and clearing the wires of any taps and loads. This is breaucratic Bullsh*t that the bells do because they are concerned about their bottom line. They are a UTILITY for god's sake! They dont need to be worrying about that. Their main concern is proving service for their areas of responsibility.
Whaat? Now hold on here folks. What really did happen with Boba Fett? My readings up to now indicate that he was a deposed journeyman protectorate that got kicked out for he turned in one of his clients due to the bounty that was on his/hers/its head. But nooooo.. Now ole George has him as a clone now.. Hooboy, i'll bet the bookwriters are ripping their hair out trying to get this sorted out on WHY he went off the beaten path that was already laid in front of him on Boba's past... Help me clear some of this air up, hey?
If something got left out in the rain, it should be fine as long as the water didnt have salt in it... Now if it accidentally gotten salt water in it, automatic write-off on it kids... I fixed cells phones at one time in my life and ran across more than a few cells that took a dip in fresh and salt water. I simply took the ones that gotten fresh water, opened them up, used a can of contact cleaner on it, put it back together and handed it back to them. The ones that took a salt water dip, i simply turned around and dropped it into the trash..
On news.spamcop.net there was MUCH rejoicing when the news was breached on the decision.. Monsterhut deserved what they had coming at them, and then some... We NEED the current spam legislation thats in the House and Senate houses right now.. Lets take the battle to these soulless bastards once and for all! The bottom line is that marketing sucks, i know we need marketing to sell our product but for christ's sake, let us yank on the spammer's leash HARD to let them know that all they are doing is pissing off ALOT of people.
I did a RMA with Compaq for a customers Presario (dead MoBo).. While i was working with the lady i found out that the extended warranty had expired a month ago, so i asked them is there was a grace period for renewal. She said yes so i asked for renewal. Beep, beep, beep, i get transferred to their warranty dept and coughed up 100 bucks for a new hardware warranty. Then beep beep beep back to the same techie then processed the order and sent a P3 Coppermine 800 to replace the one that croaked (PII 700). I got the package next day fedex with prepaid waybills.. The board worked, the new processor worked. The customer was extremely happy... Pity i didnt get to keep the broke board, they wanted it back..
After what he witnessed, I would safely say that he was EXTREMELY nervous about posting. For what reason, well you can see why.. *shrugs* As for our poor Indian, karma of +5? Bah.. Toss another one in for his level-headedness on how he handled the situation. And a -10 karma for the BB manager while yer at it too:D
This is done with supermarket scanners and barcodes. But these kind of scanners are not quite up the resolution that is required to read the density of a basic "Red Book" CD. Holographic technology must improve before you can have your static cdrom reader. But heres a kicker.. how to make a static CD ReWriter with such a system?
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As i recall from Ben Rich's memiors on his work on Blackbird, they also had problems with Chlorine in the water supply embrittling the metal when they were washing the panels after acid etching them. They had to switch over to a deioinized, distilled water supply. As for the cadnium problem, it stemmed from the techs using cadnium-plated wrenches on bolts on Blackbird, and when they were heated, the boltheads fell off! Jack Kelly put a $1000 reward out for anyone that could find a high-temparture sealing compound that would seal BlackBird's fuel tanks, but no one could come up with a ideal solution.. Fortunately JP5 dont light that easily. For instance some Air Force techs turned around and put a little JP5 in a bucket and tossed a lit match in it and it put the match out!
Whenever they do try to script time travel into a Star Trek TV or movie script, it usually bombs out. Save for ST:TNG ep, The Traveler, that was ok, BUT was a bummer when Wheaton resigned his commission to study with The Traveler. Well. Lets see what happens with Enterprise and Wheaton.. I pray that they do a good job on it, for the way Enterprise is going they are in deep dip as it is.....
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For the fringe areas in the urban communities that may not be as easy as some would think it would be... I had been pestering SBCSouthwesternbell to get DSL out to my residence which is clear out on the edge of town. So far al i got out of them were nastygrams saying that it was underplan and we'll call you dont call us.
Hrmf.
My phone line developed a imbalance in it that kept kicking me off so i called for a linesman to come out and deal with it. After he has completed that job I asked him why hasent SBC delivered on DSL out to this neighborhood... He replied "$250K". I asked why the price tag and he said that would be the amount to get the SLC that covers this area replaced with new building and install new equipment to handle the digital service...
The irony of this next phone bill that i got they were touting DSL service in it.... Dont you just love it?
The first time i do when i get things squared away here is get the frell away from Rockport Tx, and get to a place where they have Co-Op telco and broadband, to hell with all bells.
One question that keeps bouncing around in my head is this, would the internet have been possible if AT&T was not split up?
*hand over 14.95 or they will sell your email...* Hmmm smells like extortion to me folks... Feel free to ship all these emails to ftc.gov and let them deal with these jokers... In the meantime, try spamcop.net and see if they can munge the headers to find out the true source of these jokers..
An excellent piece of work! I had to copy the piece and post it off to Mr. Gramm and Mrs. Hutchinson of Texas and let them know about this rogue congressman and his stuffed-pockets bill about how i felt about it.. I'm certain that both will oppose the bill whole-heartedly.
NOW if the bill got passed and signed into law (IMHO, will be a snowballs' chance in hell), it would face severe challenges in the courts and come under alot of heat from the public civil rights groups as well as some of the telcos too, for they are going to have to shoulder their little war that they want made legal..
I can safely say that it won't come into play for at least several years and by then, we'll have a alternate to P2P in place and it will pretty much become a paper tiger...
Sorry, I misstyped that.. IT was SPAMNET instead of SpamAsassin.. ish.. my bad!
When one can block and file complaints?
My system contains SpamAssasin and SpamCop.
The assasin takes care of everyone that uses it (i shut off the filing option on it). And then I post the full email to Spamcop to put the spammer on notice... So far its been a effective approach. Since the Great Spam Flood that started earlier this year, my spam has gone fron 12/day to nearly 3/week!
Now only if someone would take out those idiot Level 3 spammers, my day would be made..
When AMD gets their claws into this new cip they will have to rename their chipset from ThunderBird to ThunderChicken... Now instead of calling it overclocking, we'll call it Choking the Chicken. :P
Instead of the main board beeping at you when you boot, it'll crow.... real LOUD!
Now when you claim to be a chicken farmer, you are not being derogatory cuz you ARE running a large array of chickens!
The worse part of this is that it might make some folks allergic to chickens break out in hives... Boy i can see it now: "Employee with chicken allergies sues company for $10 million for allergic reactions from his workstation."
Records within records. If the courts see fit, they can supeona their call logs and compare them. And if they match, Game, Set, Match...
Under state and federal law you have every right to sue AT for their ineptness on managing their telemarketing tactics...
I'd say $10,000 US will get their attention..
Just make sure to log all calls from who and what date and time the call is made... Be firm with them in saying that you want on their no call list. If they refuse, ask for supervisor.. Be firm, yet nice... No, no not Nice nice, icy nice will do the trick... If that fails, log it and get in touch with the District Attorney and let them know.. They love to sink their claws into cases like these for they know its money in da bank!
Several options for you to play with...
Good luck!
It is illegal and fineable for telemarketers to call any cellular phone numbers known to the industry. So there is yer answer boys and girls.. IF you get a marketer calling, just say are you aware that this is a cell number that you are calling? If they say no, then throw the book at them, inform them that this is a cell number and you MUST cease and desist this call and put the number on their no-call list... I've had two such calls and both were stopped short by the previous statement.
$1000/mo is chickenfeed and you cant live on that.. Thats down below the poverty line for pete's sake.. I'm simply astonished that there are people that live on ebay and make more than what i earn in a month in a day.. Well, my opinion changes, reluctantly tho but it does..
I'll shutup now
And this comes hot on the tail of a announcement that Ebay was instituting a program to bring back the little guy into their auction system... I smell management on the insurance system and marketing on the little guy program. No one communicated on these deals i'll bet, the idiots! Simply put, they just cancelled each other out.
Some AC units do have a duty cycle yes, but I have seen some that run 24/7 without a hitch.. Of course they dont last for quite 2 years without breaking their reed valves, or burning their motors up after being locked up after long runs.
Yes compression is how you heat up air, BUT, considering that we are using low PSI and high CFM to move air, heating by compression is a moot point.
There is a couple of mods i know about that take air exchange into consideration.
One is a mod where a guy ducts outside air into his system.. Of course he lives up in Alaska by Jeneau so he can get away with it.
The other is a Full case mod where a guy simply built a frame out of PVC and put all the PC hardware in it and took a full sized box fan and mounted it in the framework and it blows air across the entire machine!
Fan noise is one reason why alot of Modders and OCers are switching to WC (water cooling) rigs and doing quite a good job at it too.
One way to expand on WC is to build a small WC tower that sits outside the house and pipes water to the machines that are plumbed for it. If one wants to really get wild with it, take a small reach-in refridgerator and modify it to cool the water, then pipe it to the system. This is only temporary tho for the compressor is only designed to run 50% of the duty cycle and will burn out perhaps after a year of operation.. I'll do some designing and some up with something thats really wild in regards of watercooling..
This is what i've heard of the tarrifs down here in Texas, and i've yet to confirm it: A local ISP is able to sell dialup service for $10/mo. How so you ask? This is what I have been able to find out. They operate a paging business and lease their T1 circuits from SWBell for $150US each trunk per MONTH. Now if someone can confirm this, this means that anyone can open a paging business, process the proper paperwork, they can get 1.5 MB/s both ways on the internet for PEANUTS, in comparison to what we have to fight for doing it by the numbers. I shit you not on this ladies and gents... That is one helluva loophole down here in the Lone Star State.
Hmmmm according to Spamhaus their servers were put under lock and key when PaeTec TOSed them. Hmmmm i wunder how much they want for their equipment.. I could use some of their parts, or they could be put to good use in a RTCW or a Q3 extreme server for that matter. :D
Just checked the Black Box for their pricing on MUXes and DSLAM modules, $10K starting for a 25 port DSLAM and $5KUS for a MUX of equal size...
CHICKENFEED! The bells can buy this sh*t by the lot and implement the hardware in due time. The major labor is breaking the loops and clearing the wires of any taps and loads.
This is breaucratic Bullsh*t that the bells do because they are concerned about their bottom line. They are a UTILITY for god's sake! They dont need to be worrying about that. Their main concern is proving service for their areas of responsibility.
Whaat? Now hold on here folks. What really did happen with Boba Fett? My readings up to now indicate that he was a deposed journeyman protectorate that got kicked out for he turned in one of his clients due to the bounty that was on his/hers/its head. But nooooo.. Now ole George has him as a clone now.. Hooboy, i'll bet the bookwriters are ripping their hair out trying to get this sorted out on WHY he went off the beaten path that was already laid in front of him on Boba's past... Help me clear some of this air up, hey?
If something got left out in the rain, it should be fine as long as the water didnt have salt in it... Now if it accidentally gotten salt water in it, automatic write-off on it kids...
I fixed cells phones at one time in my life and ran across more than a few cells that took a dip in fresh and salt water. I simply took the ones that gotten fresh water, opened them up, used a can of contact cleaner on it, put it back together and handed it back to them. The ones that took a salt water dip, i simply turned around and dropped it into the trash..
On news.spamcop.net there was MUCH rejoicing when the news was breached on the decision.. Monsterhut deserved what they had coming at them, and then some... We NEED the current spam legislation thats in the House and Senate houses right now.. Lets take the battle to these soulless bastards once and for all!
The bottom line is that marketing sucks, i know we need marketing to sell our product but for christ's sake, let us yank on the spammer's leash HARD to let them know that all they are doing is pissing off ALOT of people.
I did a RMA with Compaq for a customers Presario (dead MoBo).. While i was working with the lady i found out that the extended warranty had expired a month ago, so i asked them is there was a grace period for renewal. She said yes so i asked for renewal. Beep, beep, beep, i get transferred to their warranty dept and coughed up 100 bucks for a new hardware warranty. Then beep beep beep back to the same techie then processed the order and sent a P3 Coppermine 800 to replace the one that croaked (PII 700). I got the package next day fedex with prepaid waybills.. The board worked, the new processor worked. The customer was extremely happy... Pity i didnt get to keep the broke board, they wanted it back..
After what he witnessed, I would safely say that he was EXTREMELY nervous about posting. For what reason, well you can see why.. *shrugs* :D
As for our poor Indian, karma of +5? Bah.. Toss another one in for his level-headedness on how he handled the situation.
And a -10 karma for the BB manager while yer at it too
This is done with supermarket scanners and barcodes. But these kind of scanners are not quite up the resolution that is required to read the density of a basic "Red Book" CD. Holographic technology must improve before you can have your static cdrom reader. But heres a kicker.. how to make a static CD ReWriter with such a system?
As i recall from Ben Rich's memiors on his work on Blackbird, they also had problems with Chlorine in the water supply embrittling the metal when they were washing the panels after acid etching them. They had to switch over to a deioinized, distilled water supply. As for the cadnium problem, it stemmed from the techs using cadnium-plated wrenches on bolts on Blackbird, and when they were heated, the boltheads fell off!
Jack Kelly put a $1000 reward out for anyone that could find a high-temparture sealing compound that would seal BlackBird's fuel tanks, but no one could come up with a ideal solution.. Fortunately JP5 dont light that easily. For instance some Air Force techs turned around and put a little JP5 in a bucket and tossed a lit match in it and it put the match out!
Whenever they do try to script time travel into a Star Trek TV or movie script, it usually bombs out. Save for ST:TNG ep, The Traveler, that was ok, BUT was a bummer when Wheaton resigned his commission to study with The Traveler.
Well.
Lets see what happens with Enterprise and Wheaton.. I pray that they do a good job on it, for the way Enterprise is going they are in deep dip as it is.....