Changing your Ethernet MAC won't do jack shit. Won't even make you hard to identify. Why? It's your modem's serial number, make and model that authenticates your connection to the headend. My guess is billing forgot to hit "disable modem." Basically, if they split the node, they'll notice your modem, go "Wait, why is this enabled?" and you get disconnected.
Also, @Home isn't who's answering the phones when you first call in. That's your local cable company. Care to post the name of the cable company in need of the smackdown?
Being at the tier 2 tech support, I hate having to deal with the flak that the tier 1 customer service guys end up passing us via the customer because they think they're a tech. The DHCP lease on @home is a week, and the LDAP server forgets about you and needs to be repushed if you don't grab your lease after a month. You can still connect if you know your IP number...
Generally speaking, cable networks suffer far less from the "shared line problem" than does DSL, it's just marketing fud.
Find out what DHCP is serving as your IP. That's your static IP. Seriously.
It is subject to change in the event that they need to network restructuring to allow for high loads, this is *not* recommended in the bay area including Sacramento.
AT&T has the highest rates anywhere in the @home network. If Comcast buys them out, they'll likely reduce price to stay competitve against the budget DSL providers like Verizon, which AT&T stopped being after thier last rate increase. It apparently wasn't a wise decision, AT&T calls used to have the plurality, now Comcast calls outnumber them close to 2:1 just on rough guesstimate on what I get.
They both get thier bandwidth primarily from @home. Thier tech support is provided by @home, and having answered the phone as both Comcast@home and AT&T@home several times today, I can safely say the tech support's the same. What does this mean for the customer? AT&T customer's rates will likely go down.
2.)Flash is unnecessary.
For you, maybe. Don't forget that Flash is taking over a lot of territory from Java applets rather than HTML. Which would you rather have?
Java applets. No weirdass plugin required.
The authoring tool is not free in any sense, but the players are, and the file format is open.
The players aren't Free. I can't go to Macromedia and get myself some Flash player source.
The problem with the onboard "solutions" is if you find out what's onboard sucks/isn't supported/whatever, you're stuck with it. In the end, this doesn't free up slots, it's a pain in the ass.
So what do people have in the order of more slots?
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What other kind of islands are there, you dumbfuck?!
Inland islands, as in, islands in the middle of rivers. Largest of that type is Sauvie Island in Oregon, where the Williamette meets the Columbia.
If innocent web searches turn up mountains of hardcore, you would have taken up Hemos on his bet to find hardcore porn searching for chocolate chip cookies back when they were debating Internet filters in Holland. I don't believe anybody met Hemos' challenge.
The only way payphones are going to get more use in this day and age is if the telcos and COCOTs stop the pricewar of who can screw the customer the most at the payphone.
Start a pricewar on who can charge the least, and then we'll be getting somewhere.
Open Sources, an O'Reilly book with multiple essays about the Open Source movement by people who are actually in the Open Source movement (IE, Linus and RMS, and it's edited by ESR).
In RMS' abscence, I must point out that RMS is not a part of the open source movement, but rather the Free Software Movement, which has been around longer.
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Also, @Home isn't who's answering the phones when you first call in. That's your local cable company. Care to post the name of the cable company in need of the smackdown?
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Vote Socialist or quit whining!
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It is subject to change in the event that they need to network restructuring to allow for high loads, this is *not* recommended in the bay area including Sacramento.
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Vote Socialist or quit whining!
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Vote Socialist or quit whining!
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Vote Socialist or quit whining!
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Vote Socialist or quit whining!
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Vote Socialist or quit whining!
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Vote Socialist or quit whining!
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Java applets. No weirdass plugin required.
The authoring tool is not free in any sense, but the players are, and the file format is open.
The players aren't Free. I can't go to Macromedia and get myself some Flash player source.
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I don't know about that, you yourself rail against Gates all the time. Seems there's actually quite a bit of dispute about it.
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With AOL's well known idea of speed and thier new pricing plan, you can!
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They already do. It's called AOL.
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So what do people have in the order of more slots?
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Inland islands, as in, islands in the middle of rivers. Largest of that type is Sauvie Island in Oregon, where the Williamette meets the Columbia.
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Start a pricewar on who can charge the least, and then we'll be getting somewhere.
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In RMS' abscence, I must point out that RMS is not a part of the open source movement, but rather the Free Software Movement, which has been around longer.
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