You can also put them in a Flash movie. I'm sure they can be extracted but how many of the people that would be stealing his images are smart enough to do that?
I've been wondering the same thing. I too used to do free tech support for anyone with a Mac. I'd do PC support for any of my friends and family and anyone they told. I always turned down any money. The local phone company/ISP used to refer people to me for support issues and I'd do it for free. That in HS. That was also before I realized that the phone company was making $$ off of my efforts (me keeping their customers happy for free). My Junior or Senior year (I forget which) that phone company hired me for tech support purposes. That was some time ago. In college I was always giving someone a hand. It didn't help matters much that I also worked at the helpdesk as the Mac guy (the only one for a while until I managed to get a fellow Mac guy and friend hired, who then defected to the Journalism dept to run their Mac operations, loser:-P). Anyhow whatever I did on my own there I also did for free (good way to meet women, horrible way to get dates). That too was a long time ago. I recently did some work for some friends of the family. I then worked on that woman's mother's machine. I have to order RAM for it and go back and install it. Then I have to work on her sister's laptop. Normally I wouldn't consider charging, although they do insist. However with the elevated price of gas and my busy schedule, I have to consider it.
In my professional life I've charged two hourly rate: $100/hr and $50/hr. I can't ask Ma and Pa Rancher/Farmer for that. I would think that undercutting what the area computer shops would charge would be acceptable. When I did service work at an Apple Specialist shop we charged a $45 bench fee for all computers and a $75 bench fee for all laser printers, just to take a look at them. Then our hourly rate was $50/hr. The markup on parts was anywhere for 40% to 200%. That was in '98. If I charged $15 or $20 an hour and maybe something for gas if I had to drive more than 5 miles or so, wouldn't that be agreeable with these rural customers? They'd have to drive 40 miles one way to get to the nearest town with a computer shop. With gas prices the way they are, that adds up fast.
One thing I don't hesitate to do is recommend buying a new computer. Most of these rural folks have ancient systems, at least by today's standards. If the machine is still useable and they understand that they can't run new software on the old machine, I'll help them fix it, even if it's replacing hardware like a bad HD. I highly recommend they replace the machine if they are trying to run new software on a circa '97 Windows 95 machine. It's just too old. I also never recommend the buying computers at the area Ma and Pa computer stores. I always recommend they buy from a larger company with an established reputation, support and warranty system, and will be here next month or next year when the machine has problems. I recommend Dell or Gateway to those people. I tell them about the back to school specials and help them find a system that fits their needs. I figure that's a much better suggetion than to tell them to go to Best Buy or CompUSA and pick up the special of the week. Sure the individual piece of hardware has a warranty, but if Ma and Pa Computer Shop closes up, they're not going to be able to find anyone else willing to figure out what's under warranty and what's not on an old machine. Thoughts on this?
I always set the folks up with some of the better pieces of free software like Mozilla or Firefox, Thunderbird, AntiVir, AdAware, and others. I tell Windows to auto-update without user interaction (something I'd never do on my own machine, but something that necessary on a novice's computer IMHO).
I'm not sure what the best price range is but I know one thing. We can't afford to do it for free all the time.
I highly recommend that if you plan on using your cell in your home that you invest in a couple different products. First and foremost is a quality cellular antenna. I recommend those made by Wilson Electronics. I've had excellent luck with them. The basic magnet mount antenna by Wilson can be found on eBay or Amazon for around $30-40. It gives me on my brand new LG VX7000 an extra bar or so. You cell phone antenna is neither properly tuned (or long enough) nor does it use enough juice to give you an adequate signal boost. The external antenna fixes all those issues.
Second I recommend acquiring a headset. You'll need a wireless headset like the bluetooth Jabra BT200 so you can walk around. However if you can rig up your antenna-boosted cell phone to a regular landline headset like the Plantronics DT12 then I'm sure you'll save on costly dead battery replacements on the BT200 (impossible, so you have to buy a new one which is why replacing one costs so much). I have a DT12 and love it.
And lastly, back to Wilson Electronics, I also recommend the use of a cellular amp if you have reception problems in your house. Wilson makes some excellent cellular amplifiers with an external antenna like the 301103 I mentioned above with the low-profile "stealth" antenna model 301106. It sounds like an excellent product overall.
I have but one wish for my cellular needs. My folks live in an area with very little cellular coverage. You can get a bar, sometimes two on the 5 mile treck off the highway to their house. You can get 3-4 bars in some places on the highest peaks of the hills around their home. The of course are at the bottom of one of those hills, and are on the wrong side of the hill. You can however get a signal at the top of that hill and about 150 down the driveway. If I can get the signal on my cell then surely a quality external antenna and amp can do much better. What I would like to find is some device that can act as a digital interface to the cellular network. That device would need to connect to a commodity network such as Ethernet (wifi, copper, or fiber), transmit the signal over the network to another node, and have that node take that same signal and put it out on another antenna at that new site. This is really quite similar to what their amp does already, although it's not dumping the signal onto a completely different network and rebroadcasting it; the amp simply rebroadcast the amplified signal on the internal antenna at full strength. You cell phone should look for the tower with the strongest signal and thus will use the internal antenna (this also means you don't have to physically connect your antenna to your cell). Now I know things like this can be done with fancy commercial first-responder equipment like what NYC now uses post-9/11 to merge all the various city agencies together on demand. They can put a cellular call through to a person's 2-way if need be. What I'd do with something like this is put Wilson's large trucker antenna and amp down the driveway a couple hundred yards where it can get a decent signal. Then I'd dump it on fiber back to the house where I'd rebroadcast it on an inside antenna like the 301103. It's a cellular bridge of sorts, or a repeater depending on how you look at it. Does anyone know of such a thing?
The US is widely known to habor cyber-criminals (56% of spammers, according to the Washington Times, 86% according to TechWorldNews). Should they also be suspect of wire-tranfers to US entities? Is this a case of "everyone else does worse things so ignore our indiscretions"? Saying BOA is responsible for this guy's fuck up is like saying Ford is responsible when some dumbass leaves his keys in the ignition of his unlocked car and it gets stolen. This case will ge thrown out. If I was BOA I'd countersue for legal fees.
I just wired my folks' new home this past weekend for voice, data and TV and I have lots to say on this topic. They don't want a sound, intercomm or security system but I would highly recommend considering them. A note on security systems later...
I did the electrical wiring in the house. If you do it yourself or if you hire it done, believe me when I tell you that you have to put in the extra time to do a neat, clean job. Runs should have square corners. Multiple runs should follow the same path(s) back to the panel. This allows you to route your voice/data/TV cables and conduit away from runs of romex or at the very least cross them once on the way to the closet. Yes you have to staple the wires up every 4'. Plan ahead and use 3m Stack-It clips. Yes you have to have a dedicated circuit for your entertainment center and primary computer installation(s). All this means you'll spend extra in wire but it won't cost you that much more (under $50, easy. 1000' of 12/2 is $127 @ Lowes). The contractors will hate you for it but 1) some of it is code, like the part about stapling up wire runs), and 2) they work for you. Tell them to deal with it. I was in a friend's basement early last Fall. The house he lived in was built new a year or two earlier. The 1st floor trusses were an absolute cluster-fuck of wiring. You could trace a wire through that mess if you life depended on it. It seriously looked like one of those pictures I know you've reached from some buddy that shows a telephone pole in some 3rd-world country that has a couple thousand various strands of wire pulled off of it, running every which way. A cluster fuck. There was no way he could route his voice and data runs through that mess without succumbing to the interference. Clean, neat, professional (better than the average professional!) runs are a must. Now, back on topic.
I ran Carlon (Lamson Home Products) 3/4" ENT (Electrical Nonmetallic Tubing) flex tube from most boxes back to the accessible side of the basement. It's too expensive to buy well over 1500' of conduit for each and every cable drop. In all honesty you don't have to run conduit to drops that will probably never updated wiring. The drop in your kitchen wall for the family telephone is a good example. Ideally you would run it everywhere but realistically it's not worth the expense. In some cases actually running PVC water lines is cheaper (not to get into a discussion about plenums, PVC, fire, and toxic fumes).
I also used Carlon's low-voltage gang boxes for all the cable drops. They have a knockout in the top and bottom to allow to quick and easy connections to the flex tube with a Carlon Terminal Adapter and an appropriately sized knockout nut (not supplied).
I highly recommend not going with flexible conduit that's any smaller than 3/4" if you expect to pull more than 3 wires (Cat5, RG6, whatever). I pulled 3 x Cat5 and 2 x RG6 lines through 3/4" flex tube but it was a tight fit. 6 would have been very tight. 7 wouldn't have fit. Ideally you would run 1" to all major drops with more than 5 wires, 3/4" to all drops with 3 or 4 wires, and I suppose 1/2" to anything with fewer wires (but only if you got an extremely good deal on it). It's worth noting that the Carlon gang-boxes do not have a 1/2" knockout. The boxes come pre-cut to 3/4".
A good fish tape and some Gardner Bender Wire-Aide(tm) pulling lube is an absolute must (I think that's what I'm using currently). Don't even think about attempting this without both of those items. Depe
The jury isn't given a list of all the specifics of an accused. They are only given what's presented as evidence. Any attorney, whether they are any good or not, will object if their client is asked what their religion is (unless it's being used in an affirmative defense as justification). It's also a question you can't ask potential jurors.
I wondered shortly after the tsunami hit, when they were talking about the 6 billion dollars (or thereabouts) that the UN had pledged to the cause from various countries, why Bill Gates didn't chime in with a billion of his own. It was estimated that he was worth $47 billion last April. I understand that it's his money and that he can't afford to donate to every charity that comes knocking. The thing is this isn't just any old charity. A natural disaster like this will probably never happen again in his lifetime, maybe not even in the lifetime of his kids. It seems to me like a perfect opportunity for Bill to do the right thing. My comments aren't directed entirely at Bill either. Bill isn't the richest man in the world any longer. Last I heard Ingvar Kamprad was the richest man in the world. If all these billionaires though their pocket change in a pot we'd probably have a couple billion right there. That would certainly be a fair amount to send over for the relief efforts.
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I remember when my sister first entered college that one of her college friends had a bunch of aquariums and a couple pothos plants. They went around the room at least twice. Every wall had a huge amount of plant on it. They were run through the aquariums for water. Hellva big plant. I saw a bigger one a couple months ago. Here in Wichita there is a timber products company. I was in their building one day and happened to look into one of their offices. They had the plant stretched back and forth across the ceiling and up and down the walls. It was litterally a jungle in the entire room. The room was office space for 4 oe 5 people if IIRC. Huge plant.
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That's easy to answer. Get yourself one of many variants of the common Pothos. They are extremely hardy. You can neglect them for weeks, sometimes months and still the damned things won't die. I had one way back in HS that I was required to keep alive in biology. If our plant or animal died during the year we lost points. Right before the X-mas break I took a few of the really long runners from my plant and dipped them in the aquarium sitting next to the pot. When I got back from the break (after 3 weeks or so) the teacher asked me why I tried to kill my plant. She then told me that the aquarium was filled with bleach. I know for a fact that it wasn't when I left but it sure enough was when I got back. I'm sure that teacher did it. In all honesty that woman redefined the word bitch. Nevertheless my plant lived. For about a year the veins in the plant's leaves were snow white. It looked really cool. I recommend a Pothos. You can't go wrong there.
Hardware firewall? What, it's built all from gates and has no code on it?
It's funny you should mention that. What you wrote reminded me of something that happened at a previous job. I'd been working there for about a 3 months as the campus netadm. Myself and another coworker had just gotten back from a trip to a peer campus to inspect their network and "get some pointers." (apparently they thought I needed to see how another campus did it so I'd know how...) The network I'd inherited was as flat as a board and had grown well beyond a reasonable means. It was fairly sizeable (seen much bigger networks but this was a nice sized one). Anyhow, my coworker and I were in the conference room getting more or less debriefed by someone that quite frankly had no business involving themself in the matter. This person assumed everyone worked for them which of course we didn't. Nevertheless we were being debriefed. My coworker and I started talking about routing. He wasn't a network guy but he was pretty smart and had a fair grasp of the basics. The other person just sat their and listened as we brain-stormed. As soon as I mentioned routers she butted in and said she knew all about routers and that we were to absolutely not to use software routers but to only use hardware routers. I told her they were basically the same thing when it got down to it. "All routers have software "running" on them," I told her. Oh no. She repeated that none of our routers were going to be running software of any kind, that software routers were junk and that we were supposed to use hardware routers only. So I asked her, "do you mean routers with no software, where you manually configure them with wires, jumpers and dip switches?" She replied that that was right and that's what she wanted (nevermind that she had no say in the matter). My coworker and I just looked at each other, and then moved on. My colleagues and friends that were privy to the story thereafter called her "Dip." Seemed appropriate to us in more ways than one.
His doctor let him keep his x-rays? I swallowed a 2" wood screw when I was a little kid. They took this perfect x-ray of it in my stomach. It was turned slightly down at an angle and came out perfect in the x-ray. I even got to take it to school for show and tell. They wouldn't let me keep it though. I'd love to have a copy now.:-(
Exactly. A violent crime scenario can happen in any infinite number of ways and they rarely happen the same way twice. If we could accurately predict how they happen we'd be able to put a stop to them. Unfortunately we can't so we need to prepate people as best they can be prepared. Perhaps the gun is in the bedroom in a nightstand 5-finger safe. The victim is in the kitchen and the attacker is somewhere in the middle. The victim uses a knife to defend herself as she tried to get to her bedroom. She slices the attacker a couple of times before he knocks the knife away and knocks her around. He slices her hand with her own knife. She kicks him in the nuts and manages to get to the bedroom and to her gun. The gun fails to recognize her new palm print and won't fire. That's a bad scenario that shouldn't have to happen.
"'Gun control laws don't work so there's no point discussing them.' I mean obviously they seem to work in other countries with a much lower murder rate than the U.S. Are you saying they will not work in the U.S.? Are you referring to assault weapon gun control laws?"
The US has a significantly lower murder rate than Britain and Britain has all but outlawed almost ALL guns. Do a little reading. Google is your friend. You can find that statistic on the DOJ's CJ website with a nominal amount of effort. Austraila's murder rate had an enormous spike the year following their ban on almost all guns. Canada has a much lower murder rate and has many times the number of guns per capita than the US does. Pal, this information is extremely easy to find. Put out a little effort before you waste any more of my time. And while you're at it make an attempt to find out what an assault weapon is and what Clinton's Assault Weapon Ban really did or didn't do. The facts will surprise you; I can guarantee you that.
Thanks for the link! I never made it to calculus. My HS offered it but then again they didn't. It was one of those course where they hand you a textbook and tell you to go read it. ie, you really didn't learn jack. That was an option my senior year. Unfortunately the really good math teacher retired after my sophomore year and I got stuck with two shmucks for my last two years of HS. I'd need to re-learn basic Albegra, Trig, and Geometry. Like you said, it shouldn't be that hard to re-learn what I should already know. I just need to find some textbooks that cover what I used to know.
Oh, you mean that ubber-fancy geek cordless landline telephone you have no longer works outside the home? That's ok. Geeks don't get much sun anyways.
Oh darn. You 800 and 1900Mhz CDMA cell phones no longer work inside? Guess you'll have to go outside. Whoops. There's that sun vs geek factor again.
Gee, your pager doesn't work inside either? Your employer wouldn't require you to wear one, would they?
Having trouble with your garage door opener? Guess you'll just have to get out of the car and push the button yourself.
Having trouble getting your favorite radio station on your home stereo? Guess you'd better start stringing coax through the roof for a new antenna. (This brings up an interesting question. Since most home-use APs use an omni-directional antenna, do you have to also have to coat your roof in something prior to shingling it? Interesting question.)
Lets see. What else won't work. Hmm, your emergency weather radio. Your police/fire scanner. Your CB. Your HAM radio. Your Satellite Radio (since it broadcasts in the S band at 2.3Ghz)
What else am I missing? I'm sure this paint has it's applications. It's not very useful for the average home owner but I imagine a collector of tin foil beenies would love to buy a couple dozen gallons.
Why in the world was the parent modded down to 0? I know that there are a lot of trolls with mod points but damn. This guy's comment is certainly not deserving of a negative mod of any sort.
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You can also put them in a Flash movie. I'm sure they can be extracted but how many of the people that would be stealing his images are smart enough to do that?
Sentry21, you're going on my friends list because I can't afford to have foes like you. ;-)
In my professional life I've charged two hourly rate: $100/hr and $50/hr. I can't ask Ma and Pa Rancher/Farmer for that. I would think that undercutting what the area computer shops would charge would be acceptable. When I did service work at an Apple Specialist shop we charged a $45 bench fee for all computers and a $75 bench fee for all laser printers, just to take a look at them. Then our hourly rate was $50/hr. The markup on parts was anywhere for 40% to 200%. That was in '98. If I charged $15 or $20 an hour and maybe something for gas if I had to drive more than 5 miles or so, wouldn't that be agreeable with these rural customers? They'd have to drive 40 miles one way to get to the nearest town with a computer shop. With gas prices the way they are, that adds up fast.
One thing I don't hesitate to do is recommend buying a new computer. Most of these rural folks have ancient systems, at least by today's standards. If the machine is still useable and they understand that they can't run new software on the old machine, I'll help them fix it, even if it's replacing hardware like a bad HD. I highly recommend they replace the machine if they are trying to run new software on a circa '97 Windows 95 machine. It's just too old. I also never recommend the buying computers at the area Ma and Pa computer stores. I always recommend they buy from a larger company with an established reputation, support and warranty system, and will be here next month or next year when the machine has problems. I recommend Dell or Gateway to those people. I tell them about the back to school specials and help them find a system that fits their needs. I figure that's a much better suggetion than to tell them to go to Best Buy or CompUSA and pick up the special of the week. Sure the individual piece of hardware has a warranty, but if Ma and Pa Computer Shop closes up, they're not going to be able to find anyone else willing to figure out what's under warranty and what's not on an old machine. Thoughts on this?
I always set the folks up with some of the better pieces of free software like Mozilla or Firefox, Thunderbird, AntiVir, AdAware, and others. I tell Windows to auto-update without user interaction (something I'd never do on my own machine, but something that necessary on a novice's computer IMHO).
I'm not sure what the best price range is but I know one thing. We can't afford to do it for free all the time.
Second I recommend acquiring a headset. You'll need a wireless headset like the bluetooth Jabra BT200 so you can walk around. However if you can rig up your antenna-boosted cell phone to a regular landline headset like the Plantronics DT12 then I'm sure you'll save on costly dead battery replacements on the BT200 (impossible, so you have to buy a new one which is why replacing one costs so much). I have a DT12 and love it.
And lastly, back to Wilson Electronics, I also recommend the use of a cellular amp if you have reception problems in your house. Wilson makes some excellent cellular amplifiers with an external antenna like the 301103 I mentioned above with the low-profile "stealth" antenna model 301106. It sounds like an excellent product overall.
I have but one wish for my cellular needs. My folks live in an area with very little cellular coverage. You can get a bar, sometimes two on the 5 mile treck off the highway to their house. You can get 3-4 bars in some places on the highest peaks of the hills around their home. The of course are at the bottom of one of those hills, and are on the wrong side of the hill. You can however get a signal at the top of that hill and about 150 down the driveway. If I can get the signal on my cell then surely a quality external antenna and amp can do much better. What I would like to find is some device that can act as a digital interface to the cellular network. That device would need to connect to a commodity network such as Ethernet (wifi, copper, or fiber), transmit the signal over the network to another node, and have that node take that same signal and put it out on another antenna at that new site. This is really quite similar to what their amp does already, although it's not dumping the signal onto a completely different network and rebroadcasting it; the amp simply rebroadcast the amplified signal on the internal antenna at full strength. You cell phone should look for the tower with the strongest signal and thus will use the internal antenna (this also means you don't have to physically connect your antenna to your cell). Now I know things like this can be done with fancy commercial first-responder equipment like what NYC now uses post-9/11 to merge all the various city agencies together on demand. They can put a cellular call through to a person's 2-way if need be. What I'd do with something like this is put Wilson's large trucker antenna and amp down the driveway a couple hundred yards where it can get a decent signal. Then I'd dump it on fiber back to the house where I'd rebroadcast it on an inside antenna like the 301103. It's a cellular bridge of sorts, or a repeater depending on how you look at it. Does anyone know of such a thing?
The US is widely known to habor cyber-criminals (56% of spammers, according to the Washington Times, 86% according to TechWorldNews). Should they also be suspect of wire-tranfers to US entities? Is this a case of "everyone else does worse things so ignore our indiscretions"? Saying BOA is responsible for this guy's fuck up is like saying Ford is responsible when some dumbass leaves his keys in the ignition of his unlocked car and it gets stolen. This case will ge thrown out. If I was BOA I'd countersue for legal fees.
Naked News never went under. I wonder why that is....
I did the electrical wiring in the house. If you do it yourself or if you hire it done, believe me when I tell you that you have to put in the extra time to do a neat, clean job. Runs should have square corners. Multiple runs should follow the same path(s) back to the panel. This allows you to route your voice/data/TV cables and conduit away from runs of romex or at the very least cross them once on the way to the closet. Yes you have to staple the wires up every 4'. Plan ahead and use 3m Stack-It clips. Yes you have to have a dedicated circuit for your entertainment center and primary computer installation(s). All this means you'll spend extra in wire but it won't cost you that much more (under $50, easy. 1000' of 12/2 is $127 @ Lowes). The contractors will hate you for it but 1) some of it is code, like the part about stapling up wire runs), and 2) they work for you. Tell them to deal with it. I was in a friend's basement early last Fall. The house he lived in was built new a year or two earlier. The 1st floor trusses were an absolute cluster-fuck of wiring. You could trace a wire through that mess if you life depended on it. It seriously looked like one of those pictures I know you've reached from some buddy that shows a telephone pole in some 3rd-world country that has a couple thousand various strands of wire pulled off of it, running every which way. A cluster fuck. There was no way he could route his voice and data runs through that mess without succumbing to the interference. Clean, neat, professional (better than the average professional!) runs are a must. Now, back on topic.
I ran Carlon (Lamson Home Products) 3/4" ENT (Electrical Nonmetallic Tubing) flex tube from most boxes back to the accessible side of the basement. It's too expensive to buy well over 1500' of conduit for each and every cable drop. In all honesty you don't have to run conduit to drops that will probably never updated wiring. The drop in your kitchen wall for the family telephone is a good example. Ideally you would run it everywhere but realistically it's not worth the expense. In some cases actually running PVC water lines is cheaper (not to get into a discussion about plenums, PVC, fire, and toxic fumes).
I also used Carlon's low-voltage gang boxes for all the cable drops. They have a knockout in the top and bottom to allow to quick and easy connections to the flex tube with a Carlon Terminal Adapter and an appropriately sized knockout nut (not supplied).
I highly recommend not going with flexible conduit that's any smaller than 3/4" if you expect to pull more than 3 wires (Cat5, RG6, whatever). I pulled 3 x Cat5 and 2 x RG6 lines through 3/4" flex tube but it was a tight fit. 6 would have been very tight. 7 wouldn't have fit. Ideally you would run 1" to all major drops with more than 5 wires, 3/4" to all drops with 3 or 4 wires, and I suppose 1/2" to anything with fewer wires (but only if you got an extremely good deal on it). It's worth noting that the Carlon gang-boxes do not have a 1/2" knockout. The boxes come pre-cut to 3/4".
A good fish tape and some Gardner Bender Wire-Aide(tm) pulling lube is an absolute must (I think that's what I'm using currently). Don't even think about attempting this without both of those items. Depe
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BTW, howdy from up north. Don't look south cause rain is heading your way.
The jury isn't given a list of all the specifics of an accused. They are only given what's presented as evidence. Any attorney, whether they are any good or not, will object if their client is asked what their religion is (unless it's being used in an affirmative defense as justification). It's also a question you can't ask potential jurors.
That's never been offered at any of the major grocery chains I've ever been too (and they did have "loyalty" cards). Must be a Safeway-only thing.
I wondered shortly after the tsunami hit, when they were talking about the 6 billion dollars (or thereabouts) that the UN had pledged to the cause from various countries, why Bill Gates didn't chime in with a billion of his own. It was estimated that he was worth $47 billion last April. I understand that it's his money and that he can't afford to donate to every charity that comes knocking. The thing is this isn't just any old charity. A natural disaster like this will probably never happen again in his lifetime, maybe not even in the lifetime of his kids. It seems to me like a perfect opportunity for Bill to do the right thing. My comments aren't directed entirely at Bill either. Bill isn't the richest man in the world any longer. Last I heard Ingvar Kamprad was the richest man in the world. If all these billionaires though their pocket change in a pot we'd probably have a couple billion right there. That would certainly be a fair amount to send over for the relief efforts.
I remember when my sister first entered college that one of her college friends had a bunch of aquariums and a couple pothos plants. They went around the room at least twice. Every wall had a huge amount of plant on it. They were run through the aquariums for water. Hellva big plant. I saw a bigger one a couple months ago. Here in Wichita there is a timber products company. I was in their building one day and happened to look into one of their offices. They had the plant stretched back and forth across the ceiling and up and down the walls. It was litterally a jungle in the entire room. The room was office space for 4 oe 5 people if IIRC. Huge plant.
Good call. Isn't that hilarious? My mother even laughed.
Oh no! My link to the movie was lost. Here's another link. Hey, that doesn't work either. Damn it all. Ah ha! There's an errant single-quote in the link I've been copying and pasting. Interesting. It's a shame Slashcode didn't give me any error. Here's a working link
That's easy to answer. Get yourself one of many variants of the common Pothos. They are extremely hardy. You can neglect them for weeks, sometimes months and still the damned things won't die. I had one way back in HS that I was required to keep alive in biology. If our plant or animal died during the year we lost points. Right before the X-mas break I took a few of the really long runners from my plant and dipped them in the aquarium sitting next to the pot. When I got back from the break (after 3 weeks or so) the teacher asked me why I tried to kill my plant. She then told me that the aquarium was filled with bleach. I know for a fact that it wasn't when I left but it sure enough was when I got back. I'm sure that teacher did it. In all honesty that woman redefined the word bitch. Nevertheless my plant lived. For about a year the veins in the plant's leaves were snow white. It looked really cool. I recommend a Pothos. You can't go wrong there.
It's funny you should mention that. What you wrote reminded me of something that happened at a previous job. I'd been working there for about a 3 months as the campus netadm. Myself and another coworker had just gotten back from a trip to a peer campus to inspect their network and "get some pointers." (apparently they thought I needed to see how another campus did it so I'd know how...) The network I'd inherited was as flat as a board and had grown well beyond a reasonable means. It was fairly sizeable (seen much bigger networks but this was a nice sized one). Anyhow, my coworker and I were in the conference room getting more or less debriefed by someone that quite frankly had no business involving themself in the matter. This person assumed everyone worked for them which of course we didn't. Nevertheless we were being debriefed. My coworker and I started talking about routing. He wasn't a network guy but he was pretty smart and had a fair grasp of the basics. The other person just sat their and listened as we brain-stormed. As soon as I mentioned routers she butted in and said she knew all about routers and that we were to absolutely not to use software routers but to only use hardware routers. I told her they were basically the same thing when it got down to it. "All routers have software "running" on them," I told her. Oh no. She repeated that none of our routers were going to be running software of any kind, that software routers were junk and that we were supposed to use hardware routers only. So I asked her, "do you mean routers with no software, where you manually configure them with wires, jumpers and dip switches?" She replied that that was right and that's what she wanted (nevermind that she had no say in the matter). My coworker and I just looked at each other, and then moved on. My colleagues and friends that were privy to the story thereafter called her "Dip." Seemed appropriate to us in more ways than one.
Young one, obviously you've never seen the music video of "The Ballad of Bilbo Baggins".
His doctor let him keep his x-rays? I swallowed a 2" wood screw when I was a little kid. They took this perfect x-ray of it in my stomach. It was turned slightly down at an angle and came out perfect in the x-ray. I even got to take it to school for show and tell. They wouldn't let me keep it though. I'd love to have a copy now. :-(
...saying "We're not going to use it anymore so you can stop worrying about it. *wink, wink*"?
Exactly. A violent crime scenario can happen in any infinite number of ways and they rarely happen the same way twice. If we could accurately predict how they happen we'd be able to put a stop to them. Unfortunately we can't so we need to prepate people as best they can be prepared. Perhaps the gun is in the bedroom in a nightstand 5-finger safe. The victim is in the kitchen and the attacker is somewhere in the middle. The victim uses a knife to defend herself as she tried to get to her bedroom. She slices the attacker a couple of times before he knocks the knife away and knocks her around. He slices her hand with her own knife. She kicks him in the nuts and manages to get to the bedroom and to her gun. The gun fails to recognize her new palm print and won't fire. That's a bad scenario that shouldn't have to happen.
The US has a significantly lower murder rate than Britain and Britain has all but outlawed almost ALL guns. Do a little reading. Google is your friend. You can find that statistic on the DOJ's CJ website with a nominal amount of effort. Austraila's murder rate had an enormous spike the year following their ban on almost all guns. Canada has a much lower murder rate and has many times the number of guns per capita than the US does. Pal, this information is extremely easy to find. Put out a little effort before you waste any more of my time. And while you're at it make an attempt to find out what an assault weapon is and what Clinton's Assault Weapon Ban really did or didn't do. The facts will surprise you; I can guarantee you that.
Thanks for the link! I never made it to calculus. My HS offered it but then again they didn't. It was one of those course where they hand you a textbook and tell you to go read it. ie, you really didn't learn jack. That was an option my senior year. Unfortunately the really good math teacher retired after my sophomore year and I got stuck with two shmucks for my last two years of HS. I'd need to re-learn basic Albegra, Trig, and Geometry. Like you said, it shouldn't be that hard to re-learn what I should already know. I just need to find some textbooks that cover what I used to know.
Oh darn. You 800 and 1900Mhz CDMA cell phones no longer work inside? Guess you'll have to go outside. Whoops. There's that sun vs geek factor again.
Gee, your pager doesn't work inside either? Your employer wouldn't require you to wear one, would they?
Having trouble with your garage door opener? Guess you'll just have to get out of the car and push the button yourself.
Having trouble getting your favorite radio station on your home stereo? Guess you'd better start stringing coax through the roof for a new antenna. (This brings up an interesting question. Since most home-use APs use an omni-directional antenna, do you have to also have to coat your roof in something prior to shingling it? Interesting question.)
Lets see. What else won't work. Hmm, your emergency weather radio. Your police/fire scanner. Your CB. Your HAM radio. Your Satellite Radio (since it broadcasts in the S band at 2.3Ghz)
What else am I missing? I'm sure this paint has it's applications. It's not very useful for the average home owner but I imagine a collector of tin foil beenies would love to buy a couple dozen gallons.
Why in the world was the parent modded down to 0? I know that there are a lot of trolls with mod points but damn. This guy's comment is certainly not deserving of a negative mod of any sort.