I personally traveled from Nizhneudinsk to Kabansk in 90-th and the car road was satisfactory. There was some bad place between Chita and Khabarovsk but the railway there was and is OK.
I see you never heard of us Russians drinking eau de cologne. My American friend traveled from Khabarovsk to Irkutsk by train and was quite shocked to see Russians drinking cosmetics.
I have a gut feeling that you reside somewhere in ex-USSR, probably in Baltic country. In Soviet Russia it would not work for 2 reasons: 1) The business link is expensive. My employer pays 3000 Roubles a month for 3 MBit/s for 20 persons department, I pay 600 Roubles a month for 20 MBit/s for my beloved self (really 10, but it's my fault, not provider's). 2) Due to specifics of Soviet Russian law, I risk severe penalties for everything extremist posted by clients but the tax service may turn the blind eye to me.
In USA it's much more serious than in Soviet Russia since you cannot legally collect Internet fees without proper taxation and US tax is severe. You should consult a lawyer and maybe establish a non-profit.
1. If you can not locate your antenna on a proper side of your building - it's really terrible. At least in Soviet Russia I never had such a terrible problem, some solution has been always found, be it a box installed in a lobby on other side, be it a rooftop installation or a long antenna protruding from the balcony. You also may inebriate an elevator technician or a landlord himself. If you have so bad relation with every one of your neighbors so that they don't let you install the box on their balcony - maybe you should relocate to Soviet Russia?
2. The 512kb/s DSL uprate is a political, not technical decision. The technical limit is 1200kb/s.
The correct bureaucracy makes wonders, at least in Soviet Russia, and it should work in the most lawyerist country of the world. File a written request to brodband.gov to list the providers. File a written request to listed providers. Either at least one of them will serve you or your lawyer would do something against brodband.gov.
If he has a lot of acres it's quite possible that some of acres are not obscured from the said microwaves by the said tall building.
My provider is 500 meters from me and is obscured. He gives 400 meters of cable, all other length is mine. If such a config were impossible, I'd install a microwave in my neighbor's house. It's not obscured.
Well, write Comcast a registered letter requiring them either install you the internet or officially confirm that the internet will never be installed. Then keep the answer and go to the Municipality with it.
... there is a legal obligation of any official or business entity to answer the letters (that has been abused by dissidents sitting in GULAG and DDOSing the Soviet power). If such obligation exists in USA, then you could just send all the local providers the registered letters with proof of sending and proof of receiving requesting the possibility of connectivity. Or enter their office and leave there an official letter, demanding a registration number on the copy. This bureaucratic magic makes wonders since the bureaucrats should either answer "Yes, we can" and really do, or answer "No, we cannot" that amounts to false advertising.
I live in similar conditions (suburbs) and have a similar 24/7 requirements. Before I moved I checked for connectivity and there were 2 already working options - state monopoly ADSL and a quite competitive CDMA. Now I have 5 links total - CDMA, ADSL, 2 WiFi's with quite big dishes and a VDSL where I was to hang cables myself.
And the last: You may establish a nonprofit entity that would buy a wholesale.
I have repaired a CIH long time ago. I installed an UV EPROM instead of Flash. There was a problem: Each time the computer booted up, it checked the saved config, reported an error and rebuilt the config. It took time but at least it worked. I believe the modern config is too big for this hack.
Problem is NOT the trashed computer - you can simply buy a new one. Problem is that the 3-letter agencies can use this mechanism to covertly collect information about YOU, which may possibly land you in GULAG. And it seems it's quite difficult to detect this leakage.
Windows is only one of possible paths of BIOS infection. It may also be implanted by any of 3-letter agencies of your choice during a shipment or during a secret search, by bribed hardware vendor or by service processor that is included into some really cool servers (See "In Soviet Russia" above).
You are running FreeBSD until the first port that is Linux dependent. If this port is critical (such as part of Xorg, which has already been with Radeon KMS) - you either get a barebone unusable system or throw your hardware to the wastebin and buy the new one, with supported drivers.
Not only Unix manpages. Long time ago, when computers were big, I was able to understand all the source code of Unix version 6 kernel except the little piece with commentary "You are not expected to understand this". There were more commentaries than the code itself. Now, I cannot understand about 90 per cent of current FreeBSD kernel.
The switch to FreeBSD does not solve the problem if there is a critical piece of code that is suddenly made dependent on something Linux-specific but not implemented in FreeBSD.
It has been mentioned that GNOME is systemd-dependent. I don't know whether it's true or not but if it's true then Gnome and a lot of software that depends on Gnome would be broken.
Due to transition of Xorg Radeon drivers I lost about 30000 Rubles ($1000 that time) in unusable hardware, and the KMS mess continues since it requires the Newcons which requires UTF-8 instead of KOI-8 which requires a lot of dependent ancient systems to migrate to UTF-8 too. And since in these systems there are lots of operators such as output_string[5]=RUSSIAN_LETTER_Y; the dumb recode will not help. Luckily I have the source.
The device looks very similar to the numerous GSM/GPS trackers that are sold in Russia in every security equipment store. When the police is busy with Bolotnaya square activists there is no other method to find your stolen car.
If you ask this question, you presumably have no following specific equipment needed for such operations: 44 to 40 pin HDD adapter, PCMCIA to Compact Flash adapter and PCMCIA network card. It's quite strange that you own the book for 20 years and have no such equipment (I live in Russia and I have all three. I prefer a PCMCIA to CF adapter and a 32-GB CF card since it gives me 32 GB of additional removable storage. There are LOTS of them on E-Bay and since all they are passive there is no place for problems. Then you can use any CF reader to move your data anywhere). So the least common denominator is either LPT or COM. Warning! You may want to boot from PCMCIA CF since it's sometimes possible that Windows does not recognize more than 1 GB of CF. So you may want to make it bootable.
If you have a computer with both USB and LPT then make a Laplink LPT cable (2 DB-25M connectors and 11 wires), boot DOS from USB stick and use Laplink or Norton Commander Link to copy files to USB stick.
If you have a computer with both USB and COM (even the newest ones usually have one hidden on m/b) then make a null modem cable and copy files with the same Norton Commander Link via COM. It's a loooooooooong procedure but it at least works.
If you have no other computer with both USB and COM then the situation is more complicated. You will need to install somewhere any terminal host having a Z-modem capability, for instance, some Linux and rsz package (Have no idea about such host in Windows). Then use a USB to COM adapter and null-modem cable. Login to the host and use your preferred terminal program to do the work.
Disk firmware version is not a standalone program. It's a Windows (and maybe Mac) parasite as all the Equation group. You cannot catch it without using a Windows. If it does not find a host to infect it has exactly 3 ways: 1) Self-destruct, and the problem is solved, 2) Pretend to be nonexistent, and problem is at least nonexistent while you use Gentoo, 3) Crash and be sent to Kaspersky.
At least when some our Russian programmer found a hidden Chinese (?) hypervisor in new Intel boards he has found that reflashing actually cures the problem. https://xakep.ru/2011/12/26/58... (in Russian). And also, Russians have a proggie that detects it.
Also, the HDD bug can either run before a system - and it will be quite interesting to look how it will break GELI - or become resident. If it uses VM to become resident - it will be detected. If not - a system (I don't speak about Windows) will overwrite it.
I have the similar problem with HP book that had no drivers at all except a recovery Win7 CD. My attempt to reinstall a Win8.1 from scratch failed due to absence of drivers. Moreover, there ARE good drivers for it but Win8.1 insists on replacement of them with fresh but incompatible drivers. As a result, I gave the book to my Windows-only friend and switched to Lenovo. I don't use Windows, but at least the Windows drivers for Lenovo are downloadable from their site.
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Russia relies not on roads but on railways.
It's quite COLD there for the Russia-Alaska bridge. The tunnel would be better.
I personally traveled from Nizhneudinsk to Kabansk in 90-th and the car road was satisfactory. There was some bad place between Chita and Khabarovsk but the railway there was and is OK.
Every one color revolution begins from requests to punish corruption and ends in total chaos. I don't need a color revolution in Soviet Russia.
I see you never heard of us Russians drinking eau de cologne. My American friend traveled from Khabarovsk to Irkutsk by train and was quite shocked to see Russians drinking cosmetics.
I have a gut feeling that you reside somewhere in ex-USSR, probably in Baltic country. In Soviet Russia it would not work for 2 reasons: 1) The business link is expensive. My employer pays 3000 Roubles a month for 3 MBit/s for 20 persons department, I pay 600 Roubles a month for 20 MBit/s for my beloved self (really 10, but it's my fault, not provider's). 2) Due to specifics of Soviet Russian law, I risk severe penalties for everything extremist posted by clients but the tax service may turn the blind eye to me.
In USA it's much more serious than in Soviet Russia since you cannot legally collect Internet fees without proper taxation and US tax is severe. You should consult a lawyer and maybe establish a non-profit.
1. If you can not locate your antenna on a proper side of your building - it's really terrible. At least in Soviet Russia I never had such a terrible problem, some solution has been always found, be it a box installed in a lobby on other side, be it a rooftop installation or a long antenna protruding from the balcony. You also may inebriate an elevator technician or a landlord himself. If you have so bad relation with every one of your neighbors so that they don't let you install the box on their balcony - maybe you should relocate to Soviet Russia?
2. The 512kb/s DSL uprate is a political, not technical decision. The technical limit is 1200kb/s.
The correct bureaucracy makes wonders, at least in Soviet Russia, and it should work in the most lawyerist country of the world. File a written request to brodband.gov to list the providers. File a written request to listed providers. Either at least one of them will serve you or your lawyer would do something against brodband.gov.
If he has a lot of acres it's quite possible that some of acres are not obscured from the said microwaves by the said tall building.
My provider is 500 meters from me and is obscured. He gives 400 meters of cable, all other length is mine. If such a config were impossible, I'd install a microwave in my neighbor's house. It's not obscured.
Is it possible to install a T1 line and pass VDSL2 over the cable instead?
Well, write Comcast a registered letter requiring them either install you the internet or officially confirm that the internet will never be installed. Then keep the answer and go to the Municipality with it.
... there is a legal obligation of any official or business entity to answer the letters (that has been abused by dissidents sitting in GULAG and DDOSing the Soviet power). If such obligation exists in USA, then you could just send all the local providers the registered letters with proof of sending and proof of receiving requesting the possibility of connectivity. Or enter their office and leave there an official letter, demanding a registration number on the copy. This bureaucratic magic makes wonders since the bureaucrats should either answer "Yes, we can" and really do, or answer "No, we cannot" that amounts to false advertising.
I live in similar conditions (suburbs) and have a similar 24/7 requirements. Before I moved I checked for connectivity and there were 2 already working options - state monopoly ADSL and a quite competitive CDMA. Now I have 5 links total - CDMA, ADSL, 2 WiFi's with quite big dishes and a VDSL where I was to hang cables myself.
And the last: You may establish a nonprofit entity that would buy a wholesale.
I have repaired a CIH long time ago. I installed an UV EPROM instead of Flash. There was a problem: Each time the computer booted up, it checked the saved config, reported an error and rebuilt the config. It took time but at least it worked. I believe the modern config is too big for this hack.
Problem is NOT the trashed computer - you can simply buy a new one. Problem is that the 3-letter agencies can use this mechanism to covertly collect information about YOU, which may possibly land you in GULAG. And it seems it's quite difficult to detect this leakage.
Windows is only one of possible paths of BIOS infection. It may also be implanted by any of 3-letter agencies of your choice during a shipment or during a secret search, by bribed hardware vendor or by service processor that is included into some really cool servers (See "In Soviet Russia" above).
Soviet hackers have known something VERY similar for some time:
https://xakep.ru/2011/12/26/58... (In Russian but you can try Google translation).
You are running FreeBSD until the first port that is Linux dependent. If this port is critical (such as part of Xorg, which has already been with Radeon KMS) - you either get a barebone unusable system or throw your hardware to the wastebin and buy the new one, with supported drivers.
Not only Unix manpages. Long time ago, when computers were big, I was able to understand all the source code of Unix version 6 kernel except the little piece with commentary "You are not expected to understand this". There were more commentaries than the code itself. Now, I cannot understand about 90 per cent of current FreeBSD kernel.
The switch to FreeBSD does not solve the problem if there is a critical piece of code that is suddenly made dependent on something Linux-specific but not implemented in FreeBSD.
It has been mentioned that GNOME is systemd-dependent. I don't know whether it's true or not but if it's true then Gnome and a lot of software that depends on Gnome would be broken.
Due to transition of Xorg Radeon drivers I lost about 30000 Rubles ($1000 that time) in unusable hardware, and the KMS mess continues since it requires the Newcons which requires UTF-8 instead of KOI-8 which requires a lot of dependent ancient systems to migrate to UTF-8 too. And since in these systems there are lots of operators such as output_string[5]=RUSSIAN_LETTER_Y; the dumb recode will not help. Luckily I have the source.
The device looks very similar to the numerous GSM/GPS trackers that are sold in Russia in every security equipment store. When the police is busy with Bolotnaya square activists there is no other method to find your stolen car.
Neither book1 nor book2 are declared to have an USB or network. So transfer to the second book does not solve a problem.
If you ask this question, you presumably have no following specific equipment needed for such operations: 44 to 40 pin HDD adapter, PCMCIA to Compact Flash adapter and PCMCIA network card. It's quite strange that you own the book for 20 years and have no such equipment (I live in Russia and I have all three. I prefer a PCMCIA to CF adapter and a 32-GB CF card since it gives me 32 GB of additional removable storage. There are LOTS of them on E-Bay and since all they are passive there is no place for problems. Then you can use any CF reader to move your data anywhere). So the least common denominator is either LPT or COM. Warning! You may want to boot from PCMCIA CF since it's sometimes possible that Windows does not recognize more than 1 GB of CF. So you may want to make it bootable.
If you have a computer with both USB and LPT then make a Laplink LPT cable (2 DB-25M connectors and 11 wires), boot DOS from USB stick and use Laplink or Norton Commander Link to copy files to USB stick.
If you have a computer with both USB and COM (even the newest ones usually have one hidden on m/b) then make a null modem cable and copy files with the same Norton Commander Link via COM. It's a loooooooooong procedure but it at least works.
If you have no other computer with both USB and COM then the situation is more complicated. You will need to install somewhere any terminal host having a Z-modem capability, for instance, some Linux and rsz package (Have no idea about such host in Windows). Then use a USB to COM adapter and null-modem cable. Login to the host and use your preferred terminal program to do the work.
Disk firmware version is not a standalone program. It's a Windows (and maybe Mac) parasite as all the Equation group. You cannot catch it without using a Windows. If it does not find a host to infect it has exactly 3 ways: 1) Self-destruct, and the problem is solved, 2) Pretend to be nonexistent, and problem is at least nonexistent while you use Gentoo, 3) Crash and be sent to Kaspersky.
At least when some our Russian programmer found a hidden Chinese (?) hypervisor in new Intel boards he has found that reflashing actually cures the problem. https://xakep.ru/2011/12/26/58... (in Russian). And also, Russians have a proggie that detects it.
Also, the HDD bug can either run before a system - and it will be quite interesting to look how it will break GELI - or become resident. If it uses VM to become resident - it will be detected. If not - a system (I don't speak about Windows) will overwrite it.
I have the similar problem with HP book that had no drivers at all except a recovery Win7 CD. My attempt to reinstall a Win8.1 from scratch failed due to absence of drivers. Moreover, there ARE good drivers for it but Win8.1 insists on replacement of them with fresh but incompatible drivers. As a result, I gave the book to my Windows-only friend and switched to Lenovo. I don't use Windows, but at least the Windows drivers for Lenovo are downloadable from their site.