I spent a few months in Gold River BC, on Vancouver Island, during the '76 Olympics, watching Nadia's perfect 10s a day late.
They also had no TV reception, and got their programming 24 hours delayed by *bus* from Nanaimo or Campbell River on the east coast of the island.
The funny part was the public-access message channel. It was a slowly rotating bicycle wheel with index cards clipped to the rim with clothespins. Your message was written on the card, and the camera focused on each as it rolled by.
However, they *did* have cable before any town I knew of in the east (except on Cape Cod).
I was kinda bummed to see that dec.com and digital.com yielded:
Blocked Site Error.
Per the request of the site owner, http://www.dec.com is no longer available in the Wayback Machine. Try another request or click here to see if the page is available, live, on the Web.
http://www.dec.com
Our development is fed by some sort of multiplexer that prevents them from rolling out DSL here even though the rest of the town has it. For Christ's sake the CO switch is only 10 years old here ! So Verizon is screwing us up and have no plans to do anything about it. I must be lucky, I still manage to get 45Kbps download speed usually. My neighber has had to yank their chains hard to get even that. He ordered a third and fourth line to his house to get them to pull new wire to his house, and then cancelled the unwanted lines. Then he sweet-talked the tech into switching the lines around until he got one that worked at 45Kbps.
And AT&T Broadband spent millions installing a fiber plant in the town 18 months ago, but hasn't rolled out ANY new services. In November they sent a card to every address in the town announcing the availability of Digital cable, but it was in error, you can't order it. Then they changed there web site so that our address appears eligble for Broadband. But if you push the order button you get "server error". If you call them, they tell you that it was in error, and that they *know* for sure that the web site has already been fixed and you couldn't possibly be getting that response. Noone at the local cable office knows anything, and Customer Service (after the 40-minute wait) tells you that they can't imagine what happened.. the town was scheduled for "conversion" last October. AT&T has their head planted *way* up there in the dark stinky place.
In both cases, AT&T and Verizon have through their own acts, prevented me from getting Broadband.
used P3 or Celeron 600 or so
at least a half a gig of RAM
big Calcomp drawingslate
Windows 2000
Corel Draw 6
nice monitor
nice printer - 6 or 7 ink tanks
dunno about $1,000... maybe if you cheat
The memory will go farther than the cpu for the bucks...
A 160Kbps VBR mp3 will sound as good as CD with my modest monitoring system. Or better if you're comparing to a digital-mode cd player using a shitty cdrom drive.
Also, just using a D/A converter that's not inside your computer's case would make a big difference...
First, the SOE reduces admin time. As someone said before, if a system melts down WHOMP ! you get a new image ghosted on. And this isn't because the admin is lazy. Most of us are spread so thin we would do a much poorer job without shortcuts like this.
Second, it helps control Software Licensing. Yeah it's a pain, but a profit making concern can't go around breaking copyright laws forever.
Third, it prevents the user from installing Malware. Some bozo installs a backdoor and you've been had. (although hopefully your virus scanner finds it)
But you *can* have it both ways.
One solution I'm surprised noone mentioned yet is multiple firewalls, with differing rules. You can have mutliple networks each firewalled off from the Internet separately, or one behind another. For example, you can have one system on your desk for development, and another for accessing the ERP system. The two applications should probably not happen on the same network.
Altavista is tubing because they no longer have DEC's Eastern Research, Western Research, and Network System Labs behind them. It things had been different and DEC didn't get bought by Compaq which then sold Altavista, a lot of ideas like those used in Google might have become part of Altavista.
Before Altavista the search engine became popular I worked for the group that was about to become Altavista the software company, productizing the fruits of the Labs. Amusingly I had just discovered Lycos at the time, when it was lycos.cs.cmu.edu or something like that.
The original business model for the Altavista search engine (although there was disagreement on the idea at many levels) was to basically be an ad for Altavista the software company, which sold Firewalls, VPN and collaboration software as well as an "Intranet" version of the search engine. Just like Google.
I had PC Anywhere installed on all the Execs' machines at my last job. If they ran in trouble, often while at another site, I'd have them start it in "host" mode. Then I could dial or VPN in and see what they're seeing within a minute or two.
It was a lifesaver. They were usually impressed too.
I just moved my (downsizing) company's whole net from a 128K fractional T1 to an ADSL line 128K/768K with the little Linksys router and it works dandy. It blows the old setup away, performance wise. There are about 6 people on the LAN.
I get a static IP with PPPoE from SNET (in CT) for $79/mo.
I have a Cisco PIX-64 and a Cisco VPN3005 (with one LAN to LAN tunnel) behind it and both work fine with a little "DMZ" between them and the Linksys.
My Palm 3XE with the Rhinoskin sport case (polypropylene, foam and nylon cloth) has been dropped and thrown many times and is not the worse for wear.
I did however break off the belt clip button on the back of the rhino case about the 3rd time I slammed it between my hip and a steel door frame.
I still have and use a DEC P166 laptop with no fan. It does get too warm to sit on your lap, especially when recharging the L-ion battery.
But it's never caught on fire.
*DON'T* do this, but..
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when I was about 12, we noticed that the grate was off the end of the 6 foot diameter flood sewer
pipe in Newton, MA, where it emptied into the Charles River in the village of Waban.
We explored miles of these pipes, and popped out of manholes here and there all the way to Newton Corner. One particularly foolhardy fellow even further explored the 3 foot diameter pipes.
Later, we explored the old MWRA aqueduct in South Natick, which was empty at the time. The topper was when we lowered a Honda QA50 minibike into the tunnel and blasted along at 40 MPH as far as we could go.. pumphouse to pumphouse.
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I spent a few months in Gold River BC, on Vancouver Island, during the '76 Olympics, watching Nadia's perfect 10s a day late.
They also had no TV reception, and got their programming 24 hours delayed by *bus* from Nanaimo or Campbell River on the east coast of the island.
The funny part was the public-access message channel. It was a slowly rotating bicycle wheel with index cards clipped to the rim with clothespins. Your message was written on the card, and the camera focused on each as it rolled by.
However, they *did* have cable before any town I knew of in the east (except on Cape Cod).
I was kinda bummed to see that dec.com and digital.com yielded:
Blocked Site Error.
Per the request of the site owner, http://www.dec.com is no longer available in the Wayback Machine. Try another request or click here to see if the page is available, live, on the Web.
http://www.dec.com
Also in Northern Worcester county...
Our development is fed by some sort of multiplexer that prevents them from rolling out DSL here even though the rest of the town has it. For Christ's sake the CO switch is only 10 years old here ! So Verizon is screwing us up and have no plans to do anything about it. I must be lucky, I still manage to get 45Kbps download speed usually. My neighber has had to yank their chains hard to get even that. He ordered a third and fourth line to his house to get them to pull new wire to his house, and then cancelled the unwanted lines. Then he sweet-talked the tech into switching the lines around until he got one that worked at 45Kbps.
And AT&T Broadband spent millions installing a fiber plant in the town 18 months ago, but hasn't rolled out ANY new services. In November they sent a card to every address in the town announcing the availability of Digital cable, but it was in error, you can't order it. Then they changed there web site so that our address appears eligble for Broadband. But if you push the order button you get "server error". If you call them, they tell you that it was in error, and that they *know* for sure that the web site has already been fixed and you couldn't possibly be getting that response. Noone at the local cable office knows anything, and Customer Service (after the 40-minute wait) tells you that they can't imagine what happened.. the town was scheduled for "conversion" last October. AT&T has their head planted *way* up there in the dark stinky place.
In both cases, AT&T and Verizon have through their own acts, prevented me from getting Broadband.
You didn't say what kind of artist.
For a visual artist, I'd get:
used P3 or Celeron 600 or so
at least a half a gig of RAM
big Calcomp drawingslate
Windows 2000
Corel Draw 6
nice monitor
nice printer - 6 or 7 ink tanks
dunno about $1,000... maybe if you cheat
The memory will go farther than the cpu for the bucks...
Use the latest CDEX with the CD-Paranoia library.
A 160Kbps VBR mp3 will sound as good as CD with my modest monitoring system. Or better if you're comparing to a digital-mode cd player using a shitty cdrom drive.
Also, just using a D/A converter that's not inside your computer's case would make a big difference...
There are really three sides to this.
First, the SOE reduces admin time. As someone said before, if a system melts down WHOMP ! you get a new image ghosted on. And this isn't because the admin is lazy. Most of us are spread so thin we would do a much poorer job without shortcuts like this.
Second, it helps control Software Licensing. Yeah it's a pain, but a profit making concern can't go around breaking copyright laws forever.
Third, it prevents the user from installing Malware. Some bozo installs a backdoor and you've been had. (although hopefully your virus scanner finds it)
But you *can* have it both ways.
One solution I'm surprised noone mentioned yet is multiple firewalls, with differing rules. You can have mutliple networks each firewalled off from the Internet separately, or one behind another. For example, you can have one system on your desk for development, and another for accessing the ERP system. The two applications should probably not happen on the same network.
Altavista is tubing because they no longer have DEC's Eastern Research, Western Research, and Network System Labs behind them. It things had been different and DEC didn't get bought by Compaq which then sold Altavista, a lot of ideas like those used in Google might have become part of Altavista.
Before Altavista the search engine became popular I worked for the group that was about to become Altavista the software company, productizing the fruits of the Labs. Amusingly I had just discovered Lycos at the time, when it was lycos.cs.cmu.edu or something like that.
The original business model for the Altavista search engine (although there was disagreement on the idea at many levels) was to basically be an ad for Altavista the software company, which sold Firewalls, VPN and collaboration software as well as an "Intranet" version of the search engine. Just like Google.
It didn't work. Pity.
cdex is it.
And don't miss the latest version with the CD-paranoia library included. It will make good copies even on poor quality cd drives.
The radiators on open wheel race cars (cart, irl, f1) are in the side-pods.
Those things need to lose a bit of heat too while remaining aerodynamic, and that is how they solved the problem.
Yup, at the GE clock plant in Ashland, MA.
I used to live up the street. Bunch of old ladies died nasty deaths from cancer.
The school teams are still called the "Clockers".
I had PC Anywhere installed on all the Execs' machines at my last job. If they ran in trouble, often while at another site, I'd have them start it in "host" mode. Then I could dial or VPN in and see what they're seeing within a minute or two.
It was a lifesaver. They were usually impressed too.
and then the 90 second piece on the "deadly household item" airs at 11:26. Damn I hate that.
Good question eh ?
(just leave Linux out of it for a sec and think.)
On the other hand, 30 or 40 years from now, if you view the first six in numerical order, it will probably look like a natural maturing.
Depends on who picks up at 7, I guess.
I just moved my (downsizing) company's whole net from a 128K fractional T1 to an ADSL line 128K/768K with the little Linksys router and it works dandy. It blows the old setup away, performance wise. There are about 6 people on the LAN.
I get a static IP with PPPoE from SNET (in CT) for $79/mo.
I have a Cisco PIX-64 and a Cisco VPN3005 (with one LAN to LAN tunnel) behind it and both work fine with a little "DMZ" between them and the Linksys.
Jackson still should have gaoled them on the spot for contempt.
My Palm 3XE with the Rhinoskin sport case (polypropylene, foam and nylon cloth) has been dropped and thrown many times and is not the worse for wear. I did however break off the belt clip button on the back of the rhino case about the 3rd time I slammed it between my hip and a steel door frame.
North-Central MA Geek in search of employment
I still have and use a DEC P166 laptop with no fan. It does get too warm to sit on your lap, especially when recharging the L-ion battery. But it's never caught on fire.
By Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle.. at amazon.com
no, same volume. It's thicker !
when I was about 12, we noticed that the grate was off the end of the 6 foot diameter flood sewer
pipe in Newton, MA, where it emptied into the Charles River in the village of Waban.
We explored miles of these pipes, and popped out of manholes here and there all the way to Newton Corner. One particularly foolhardy fellow even further explored the 3 foot diameter pipes.
Later, we explored the old MWRA aqueduct in South Natick, which was empty at the time. The topper was when we lowered a Honda QA50 minibike into the tunnel and blasted along at 40 MPH as far as we could go.. pumphouse to pumphouse.
ok, say who! ?
Uh, moderate this guy up to 6 ? Hello?
What do you mean "Verizon" ? MediaOne is now AT&T but I don't think Verizon comes into it. BA (Bell Atlantic/Bad Attitude) is now Verizon.
Ah, shades of tops-20 (and tcsh)