As a web developer, I got canned in July and have been trying to locate work since then. While looking for a regular corporate gig, I started working on doing the freelance thing. Business is good and I'm making three times what my old corporate job paid. I also have the benefit of being my own boss, and I don't have to put up with any of the brown-nosed back-stabbing office trolls or gossips.
I understand the point you're making, but I've lived in Cincinnati for 18 months and I know what brufleth is going on about. The rest of the midwest may be dramatically different, but Cincinnati blows HARD.
I still have my Stratego set from childhood. Taught it to my 5-year-old daughter and she loves it.
Taught Stratego to both my kids when they were little. Coupla weeks ago, while recovering from the flu, my 12-yo daughter kicked my ass at *both* Stratego and Battleship. I must be getting old.
BTW, did you know that the 'ranking' system on Stratego pieces has been reversed! Makes playing the game with someone who has the 'new' version difficult for us OF's.
Well said. Remember, Ham radio is an expensive hobby, and tends to attract well-to-do people that were raised properly and know how to bathe regularly.
Expensive? Only if you buy only the latest high-priced radios brand new. I build most of mine, and I spend annually a lot less on ham radio than most folks pay annually for cable TV.
Ham radio is a hobby with some possible uses in emergencies, however, it is as relevant to modern emergency services as a muzzle-loading rifle is to current-day military operations. Sure, there's a lot of history, but the world keeps turning, and the day comes where you have to abandon old technologies for the advantages of newer ones. Clinging to HF in a day of FRS, GMRS, WiMax, 3G and 802.11g is silly.
I would suggest, however, you tell that to the folks who were hit by Hurricane Mitch. HF communications played a primary role in emergency and Health & Welfare traffic in the aftermath.
Ham radio might be old school here in the technotheistic US, but in other parts of the world that need to get information to the US in times of emergency, it might be the only way.
Second, this is a 2 way street. The BPL can cause interference in the HF spectrum, but it can also be interfered with by HF. And one way for hams to overcome interference and bad conditions is to up their power output. Its amaizing what can be done with only 5 watts under good conditions. But we can go as high as 1500 watts, which may be needed to get a signal through the BPL interference.
Maybe so, but if you can't hear 'em, you can't work 'em. Running the legal limit on transmit power might make you feel better [until you piss off all of your neighbors], but if the BPL interference plays havoc with your receiver, who the heck are you going to transmit *to*?
No. The wires that carry mains electricity may be twisted, but they are carrying the same signal. Twisted pair works by twisting together the line carrying the signal with a ground line or a line carrying the opposite of the signal. So in the case of overhead mains power lins it won't help at all.
In order to clarify 'twisted lines', the two [or more lines] in 'twisted lines' are individually insulated from each other, like the 4-conductor phone lines in your house. Since they are insulated, one line can be signal and one can be return, and they are pretty good at cancelling out unwanted radiation. 'Twisted pair' is probably a better descriptor.
What the OP was looking at was twisted cable--many small lines twisted together not individually insulated, which provides greater flexibility and strength in a long conductor.
I converted all computers in my house to *BSD several years ago. My wife and I, as well as our two kids use it. It meets my needs fairly well [no microsoft products, ability to do simple word processing].
For my wife's thesis, however, I prefer LyX. It takes a little getting used to, but the results are great.
Bottom line: it's not as bad as AbiWord, yet [and I really hate to say this] it's not yet as functional as Word.
*However*, WordPerfect 12 is out, and who knows, maybe there will be a new Linux version of that some day. . .
For customers that can prove that their computers are spam free [like mine running different flavors of *BSD], ISPs should grant higher bandwidth, [> 1.5Mbps] for the price the customer is currently paying.
Folks who want higher bandwidth for a relatively cheap price will clean up their machines in order to get it.
I happen to live in the Cedar Rapids/Marion area and I didn't even know this was there. Why doesn't anyone tell us anything?! It would be an alternative to Mediacom and Qwest.
I'm really curious where the whole "lampshade on the head" reference came from. Is there some movie or book that started this idea? It seems like an oddly well-known thing.
In Windows, AmiPro 2.0 or was it 2.1. Can't remember.
Absofreakinglutely! In fact, DeScribe for Win, Win32 and OS/2. I use it to this day. It is extremely fast, very lightweight, and as long as you aren't trying to write a thesis on it, it just so totally rocks more than any of that other bloated crap out there.
It is nice to see WordPerfect is trimming their WP down and reissuing it.
Gosh, if I have a Sun, the best thing that runs on it is... SOLARIS!
Shocker!
Here's a hint kid: if I own a Sun, the thing I *want* to run on it is... SOLARIS!
Golly, Daddy, why is it when I run XSun on Solaris, it eats up all my real memory, eventually crashing X? Gets awful fucking annoying when it happens *every time*!
This has never happened with X on any of the flavors of BSD I run on my Sun machines. I'll stick with BSD. . .
If I set it up to do quarter hour chimes, that would be a rather interesting way to announce network meta-data: The louder the volume, the more stuff going on that I probably don't want. I could make it two dimensional by using sound and pitch, and I wouldn't even have to do any fancy math stuff I don't know. I could just make 8 different pitches and gradiate using that.
just about the only things that run on sparcs/sun hardware is solaris, free|netBSD and debian. (and really old/outdated versions of other distros).
Maybe eventually, but there is strong support for Sparc64 on Free/Net/OpenBSD. With regular Sparc, you're relegated to Net and OpenBSD [in BSD world], which again still has strong support.
What's cool about the Sparc64 support, is that the support for different things amongst the BSD's is very different, so you have to really get to know the OS, and choose based upon what you intend to use the machine for.
For example, I run OpenBSD on both an Ultra1 and an Ultra2, as these are 'desktop' machines [and do some minor fileserving]. I run OpenBSD not for the security, but because they have the best framebuffer support for X. I run FreeBSD on a headless E250 that I use as a workstation file backup machine, because it has more ported applications from which to choose.
Then there is my lowly mailserver, running NetBSD on a dual CPU SS 20.
They all perform flawlessly, and are more stable with their respective OS's than with Slowlaris.
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if people preferentially opt for bloat-ware.
they have a grid-leak drip pan. Otherwise, this could be *very* messy. . .
As a web developer, I got canned in July and have been trying to locate work since then. While looking for a regular corporate gig, I started working on doing the freelance thing. Business is good and I'm making three times what my old corporate job paid. I also have the benefit of being my own boss, and I don't have to put up with any of the brown-nosed back-stabbing office trolls or gossips.
I wonder, though--what's your health plan like?
I understand the point you're making, but I've lived in Cincinnati for 18 months and I know what brufleth is going on about. The rest of the midwest may be dramatically different, but Cincinnati blows HARD.
Face it, buddy--it's the cinnamon in the chili.
That would be a copyright violation. I was doing a parody.
.and of course, the correct response would be. ..
Plus I couldn't remember what the hell his name was, and Carson was the first male name listed in the credits on IMDB.
. .
"Hans, Hans, Hans, you'we bweakin' my baws hewe!"
"Carson.. promise you'll never die."
"You know I can't promise that."
"If you did, I'd make love to you right now."
"I promise. I will never die."
Uh, it's "Gary, promise me you'll never die."
"Hans, Hans, Hans--you'we bweaking my bawws hewe!"
Harry Potter's 12 inch Magic Wangd
Harry Potter has a 12" Wang, *and* it's a daemon?
Not for my kids. . .
I still have my Stratego set from childhood. Taught it to my 5-year-old daughter and she loves it.
Taught Stratego to both my kids when they were little. Coupla weeks ago, while recovering from the flu, my 12-yo daughter kicked my ass at *both* Stratego and Battleship. I must be getting old.
BTW, did you know that the 'ranking' system on Stratego pieces has been reversed! Makes playing the game with someone who has the 'new' version difficult for us OF's.
Well said. Remember, Ham radio is an expensive hobby, and tends to attract well-to-do people that were raised properly and know how to bathe regularly.
Expensive? Only if you buy only the latest high-priced radios brand new. I build most of mine, and I spend annually a lot less on ham radio than most folks pay annually for cable TV.
Now if only IBM would open source the fabulous Workplace Shell!
Yes yes yes yes yes yes yes! There is *nothing* in the OSS world that works anywhere nearly as nice as the WPS. Not Rox, not dfm, not any of them.
You can certainly thank the Republicans for this. Remember this when you go to the polls.
You make some good points.
Ham radio is a hobby with some possible uses in emergencies, however, it is as relevant to modern emergency services as a muzzle-loading rifle is to current-day military operations. Sure, there's a lot of history, but the world keeps turning, and the day comes where you have to abandon old technologies for the advantages of newer ones. Clinging to HF in a day of FRS, GMRS, WiMax, 3G and 802.11g is silly.
I would suggest, however, you tell that to the folks who were hit by Hurricane Mitch. HF communications played a primary role in emergency and Health & Welfare traffic in the aftermath.
Ham radio might be old school here in the technotheistic US, but in other parts of the world that need to get information to the US in times of emergency, it might be the only way.
Second, this is a 2 way street. The BPL can cause interference in the HF spectrum, but it can also be interfered with by HF. And one way for hams to overcome interference and bad conditions is to up their power output. Its amaizing what can be done with only 5 watts under good conditions. But we can go as high as 1500 watts, which may be needed to get a signal through the BPL interference.
Maybe so, but if you can't hear 'em, you can't work 'em. Running the legal limit on transmit power might make you feel better [until you piss off all of your neighbors], but if the BPL interference plays havoc with your receiver, who the heck are you going to transmit *to*?
No. The wires that carry mains electricity may be twisted, but they are carrying the same signal. Twisted pair works by twisting together the line carrying the signal with a ground line or a line carrying the opposite of the signal. So in the case of overhead mains power lins it won't help at all.
In order to clarify 'twisted lines', the two [or more lines] in 'twisted lines' are individually insulated from each other, like the 4-conductor phone lines in your house. Since they are insulated, one line can be signal and one can be return, and they are pretty good at cancelling out unwanted radiation. 'Twisted pair' is probably a better descriptor.
What the OP was looking at was twisted cable--many small lines twisted together not individually insulated, which provides greater flexibility and strength in a long conductor.
I converted all computers in my house to *BSD several years ago. My wife and I, as well as our two kids use it. It meets my needs fairly well [no microsoft products, ability to do simple word processing].
For my wife's thesis, however, I prefer LyX. It takes a little getting used to, but the results are great.
Bottom line: it's not as bad as AbiWord, yet [and I really hate to say this] it's not yet as functional as Word.
*However*, WordPerfect 12 is out, and who knows, maybe there will be a new Linux version of that some day. . .
For customers that can prove that their computers are spam free [like mine running different flavors of *BSD], ISPs should grant higher bandwidth, [> 1.5Mbps] for the price the customer is currently paying.
Folks who want higher bandwidth for a relatively cheap price will clean up their machines in order to get it.
I happen to live in the Cedar Rapids/Marion area and I didn't even know this was there. Why doesn't anyone tell us anything?! It would be an alternative to Mediacom and Qwest.
Because, uh (ahem), you're in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
Sorry.
I'm really curious where the whole "lampshade on the head" reference came from. Is there some movie or book that started this idea? It seems like an oddly well-known thing.
My Mother.
So, as I understand : Sun makes the hardware, Sun makes the software, Sun test them, and they don't find such an ovious flaw ???
Have you considered that you might have fucked up something yourself ?
Known flaw in Slowlaris 8. I'd already converted everything to OpenBSD, so no reason to even try 9.
n DOS, Word Perfect 5.1.
In OS/2, Describe
In Windows, AmiPro 2.0 or was it 2.1. Can't remember.
Absofreakinglutely! In fact, DeScribe for Win, Win32 and OS/2. I use it to this day. It is extremely fast, very lightweight, and as long as you aren't trying to write a thesis on it, it just so totally rocks more than any of that other bloated crap out there.
It is nice to see WordPerfect is trimming their WP down and reissuing it.
Gosh, if I have a Sun, the best thing that runs on it is... SOLARIS!
Shocker!
Here's a hint kid: if I own a Sun, the thing I *want* to run on it is... SOLARIS!
Golly, Daddy, why is it when I run XSun on Solaris, it eats up all my real memory, eventually crashing X? Gets awful fucking annoying when it happens *every time*!
This has never happened with X on any of the flavors of BSD I run on my Sun machines. I'll stick with BSD. . .
...hundreds of Jaffah slamming into my Stargate's titanium iris as that god-damned Code-Red and related worms STILL hit my web server every day.
No shit. YTF is Code Red *still* out there, filling my error logs. Maroons. . .
If I set it up to do quarter hour chimes, that would be a rather interesting way to announce network meta-data: The louder the volume, the more stuff going on that I probably don't want. I could make it two dimensional by using sound and pitch, and I wouldn't even have to do any fancy math stuff I don't know. I could just make 8 different pitches and gradiate using that.
Hmmm, kinda like a Firewall Theramin!
I don't see what cell phones have to do w/this but anyway...
Uhhhhh, maybe because it is a wireless device? Just guessing. . .
just about the only things that run on sparcs/sun hardware is solaris, free|netBSD and debian. (and really old/outdated versions of other distros).
Maybe eventually, but there is strong support for Sparc64 on Free/Net/OpenBSD. With regular Sparc, you're relegated to Net and OpenBSD [in BSD world], which again still has strong support.
What's cool about the Sparc64 support, is that the support for different things amongst the BSD's is very different, so you have to really get to know the OS, and choose based upon what you intend to use the machine for.
For example, I run OpenBSD on both an Ultra1 and an Ultra2, as these are 'desktop' machines [and do some minor fileserving]. I run OpenBSD not for the security, but because they have the best framebuffer support for X. I run FreeBSD on a headless E250 that I use as a workstation file backup machine, because it has more ported applications from which to choose.
Then there is my lowly mailserver, running NetBSD on a dual CPU SS 20.
They all perform flawlessly, and are more stable with their respective OS's than with Slowlaris.