Last time I stayed at a hotel (Marriott New Orleans), the net connection in the rooms was essentially a PBX-level DSL system, with a DSLAM in the PBX closet. 10 bucks a day (noon to noon), but the neat catch was that you were only billed if you hit port 80 and thus their transparent proxy, which ran you trhough a sign-up process before letting you out. Naturally, it didn't take me long to figure out that I didn't have to deal with this if I just tunneled out via ssh.
If this is a duplicate, where's the other one? Surely you don't mean the story about earthlink's fixed wireless service?
This isn't about earthlink. Have some more of that coffee.
This is exactly what Sprint got OUT of doing a few short months ago.
Now, given the close relationship between Sprint and Earthlink, it's quite conceivable this is the same service and equipment. It sure sounds like MMDS.
Earthwatch - and they're just up the road about 20 miles from Space Imaging. Glad to see they finally got a satellite up and working - they've been trying for years and have suffered launch failures and orbital failures.
No, sorry *bzzzzt*, wrong. The guys out in the field fixing these birds do NOT by any stretch of the imagination "get plenty" as you seem to think. The military has been forced to do more and more with less and less money every single year.
The overall budgets stay the same, inflation marches on, and operational commitments increase constantly. Combine that with pork projects, and it's no mystery why we haven't brought a new air superiority fighter online in the last 25 years.
When you run out of panel screws halfway through the fiscal quarter and can't get more until the next quarter, and as a result, you have to ground several aircraft, there's a significant funding problem.
Unless you've actually been in that situation, I would contend that you are talking pacifist spew out of your ass.
No, "Collateral Damage" refers to damaging or destroying things other than the target. If the shock wave knowcks over an outhouse 2 miles away, that's collateral damage.
Not to mention early on, the B-2s making the trip from Whiteman AFB, 60 miles outside of KC, presumably touching down at DG after the mission to swap crews and pick up more munitions, fly home, and unload the weps on the way.
When they say "Long-Range" for these things, they mean it. They're designed to leave their base in the US, fly halfway around the globe, wreak havoc, and then go home and have a beer.
the C/D F-16 has seen about 10 major revisions, and then there are beasts like the F-16CG, and F-16CJ, and all the various block numbers. The Viper is one versatile little airplane.
There's a very good reason for military aircraft to use tubes. When a Soviet pilot defected back in the 80s with his Mig-25 (May have been an Su-25, I forget exactly), the US Gov't pulled it apart and found it full of vacuum tubes.. They started to laugh at the archaic technology until one bright technician pointed out that tube systems aren't vulnerable to EMP.
The C-130 is another example, although those are still in production, so there are new ones still rolling off the assembly lines. (The C-130 is about the same age as the BUFF, and is known as the L100 in civilian circles)
Trivia point - the engines on the C-130 and the P-3 are identical, but are mounted upside down on one of them. Which one is upside down depends on which maintenance crew you ask... a P3 crew will tell you they're upside down on the Herc. a C-130 crew will tell you the Orion has them upside down.
the DC-3, however, is not in military service anymore. It's a pretty rugged plane, though. I have seen some of them retrofitted with turboprop engines, too.
Top-notch maintenance is the reason the BUFF still flies. It's the one area the USAF has been consistently good at. Now, if only Congress would give them enough money for spare parts.
consider this e-mail I got from X-10 customer support, in regards to the installer for their windows 2000 version of ActiveHome, which does not run properly (it looks like a widget issue):
I have not heard of this problem before. It could be that the setup file is corrupted.
(uninstallation instructions deleted) Now redownload the software. Be sure to disable any anti virus software you use on that
machine. In fact, make sure no other apps are running while downloading (except IE of
course). Which brings me to my next point, make sure you download thru Internet
Explorer. If you use any download assistant or wizard disable it and use the default
windows tool.
Call me paranoid, but that doesn't exactly give me very warm fuzzies, especially from the folks that brought us the annoying pop-under ads.
(and what the hell is the "default windows [download] tool" ?)
I downloaded the demo of HomeSeer for now, and will just end up implementing something in Perl for my X10 equipment (which I bought long before the days of the pop-under - I no longer buy their crap)
Since this is new construction, go the extra mile and feed each data outlet with some sort of conduit (PVC, EMT, or flexible). That way, when you want to upgrade or expand, it's a no-brainer and you don't have to rip things apart. EMT conduit has the added bonus of providing RF shielding to your copper cabling, provided it's properly grounded (which it should be). This also gives you the advantage of only needing to put in the plumbing before you put up the sheetrock, and then running the actual wire later.
Also, Leviton makes a very nice modular structured media system that allows you to do neat things like audio and video distribution in addition to phone and data - they have modular patch panels that make it very easy to do.
Lastly, whatever you do, TAKE PICTURES of everything you do before you put the sheetrock up - you'll want them for reference when you make changes later.
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Nah, it's nothing more than an iButton. Might even be nothing more than a serial number iButton, but it may actually be one of the Java buttons.
As long as you have a phone that runs PalmOS. Admittedly, GSM lends itself far better to this than CDMA.
Of course, there's something ironic about using a phone to chat with someone via text. Someone suggested a videophone that translates sign language into Braille was somewhere along the same line of ironic stupidity.
Something's not quite right here... The linked article said the group's been in operation for four years. I used HP calculators 15+ years ago, and they were well-established then.
Long distance is not included with any phone line. Long distance is provided by a third party. in the case of ION, your long distance was handled by Sprint, and you got a block of minutes.
What most people didn't know is that calls between ION nodes were treated as local, since they were routed over the ION ATM network, and nevcer had to jump onto the telco's lines.
Was the fact that your voice lines were trunked over the circuit. Also, bear in mind that ION wasn't a DSL service per se, but rather an ATM service - business customers got it over high-speed lines.
I'm still looking for a VOIP telco that will let me use my existing connection.
Note that this original comment was NOT mine and was caused by this morning's meltdown of the comments system.
What I had said was that It was a predictable outcome. It's good to know that for the right price, government can still be bought. No worries, though, Microsoft will implode upon the mass of its own arrogance..NET and XP are probably going to trigger it, too.
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Last time I stayed at a hotel (Marriott New Orleans), the net connection in the rooms was essentially a PBX-level DSL system, with a DSLAM in the PBX closet. 10 bucks a day (noon to noon), but the neat catch was that you were only billed if you hit port 80 and thus their transparent proxy, which ran you trhough a sign-up process before letting you out. Naturally, it didn't take me long to figure out that I didn't have to deal with this if I just tunneled out via ssh.
If this is a duplicate, where's the other one? Surely you don't mean the story about earthlink's fixed wireless service?
This isn't about earthlink. Have some more of that coffee.
This is exactly what Sprint got OUT of doing a few short months ago.
Now, given the close relationship between Sprint and Earthlink, it's quite conceivable this is the same service and equipment. It sure sounds like MMDS.
Steak... IN THE OVEN????? Are you NUTS? Bloody heathen.
ITYM "Immersive". If "Emersive was a word, It would probably mean something to the effect of "coming out of".
Earthwatch - and they're just up the road about 20 miles from Space Imaging. Glad to see they finally got a satellite up and working - they've been trying for years and have suffered launch failures and orbital failures.
I think the POINT of the article was that it needs to be researched.
No, sorry *bzzzzt*, wrong. The guys out in the field fixing these birds do NOT by any stretch of the imagination "get plenty" as you seem to think. The military has been forced to do more and more with less and less money every single year.
The overall budgets stay the same, inflation marches on, and operational commitments increase constantly. Combine that with pork projects, and it's no mystery why we haven't brought a new air superiority fighter online in the last 25 years.
When you run out of panel screws halfway through the fiscal quarter and can't get more until the next quarter, and as a result, you have to ground several aircraft, there's a significant funding problem.
Unless you've actually been in that situation, I would contend that you are talking pacifist spew out of your ass.
No, "Collateral Damage" refers to damaging or destroying things other than the target. If the shock wave knowcks over an outhouse 2 miles away, that's collateral damage.
Not to mention early on, the B-2s making the trip from Whiteman AFB, 60 miles outside of KC, presumably touching down at DG after the mission to swap crews and pick up more munitions, fly home, and unload the weps on the way.
When they say "Long-Range" for these things, they mean it. They're designed to leave their base in the US, fly halfway around the globe, wreak havoc, and then go home and have a beer.
The F-16 lineage is basically:
A/B: Analog Fly-by-wire
C/D: Digital Fly-by-wire
A/C: single-seat
B/D: two-seater.
the C/D F-16 has seen about 10 major revisions, and then there are beasts like the F-16CG, and F-16CJ, and all the various block numbers. The Viper is one versatile little airplane.
SABRE. Rolled out on IBM mainframes in 1962 for the commercial air transport industry. Still very much in use today.
There's a very good reason for military aircraft to use tubes. When a Soviet pilot defected back in the 80s with his Mig-25 (May have been an Su-25, I forget exactly), the US Gov't pulled it apart and found it full of vacuum tubes.. They started to laugh at the archaic technology until one bright technician pointed out that tube systems aren't vulnerable to EMP.
The C-130 is another example, although those are still in production, so there are new ones still rolling off the assembly lines. (The C-130 is about the same age as the BUFF, and is known as the L100 in civilian circles)
Trivia point - the engines on the C-130 and the P-3 are identical, but are mounted upside down on one of them. Which one is upside down depends on which maintenance crew you ask... a P3 crew will tell you they're upside down on the Herc. a C-130 crew will tell you the Orion has them upside down.
the DC-3, however, is not in military service anymore. It's a pretty rugged plane, though. I have seen some of them retrofitted with turboprop engines, too.
Top-notch maintenance is the reason the BUFF still flies. It's the one area the USAF has been consistently good at. Now, if only Congress would give them enough money for spare parts.
consider this e-mail I got from X-10 customer support, in regards to the installer for their windows 2000 version of ActiveHome, which does not run properly (it looks like a widget issue):
I have not heard of this problem before. It could be that the setup file is corrupted. (uninstallation instructions deleted) Now redownload the software. Be sure to disable any anti virus software you use on that machine. In fact, make sure no other apps are running while downloading (except IE of course). Which brings me to my next point, make sure you download thru Internet Explorer. If you use any download assistant or wizard disable it and use the default windows tool.
Call me paranoid, but that doesn't exactly give me very warm fuzzies, especially from the folks that brought us the annoying pop-under ads.
(and what the hell is the "default windows [download] tool" ?)
I downloaded the demo of HomeSeer for now, and will just end up implementing something in Perl for my X10 equipment (which I bought long before the days of the pop-under - I no longer buy their crap)
Since this is new construction, go the extra mile and feed each data outlet with some sort of conduit (PVC, EMT, or flexible). That way, when you want to upgrade or expand, it's a no-brainer and you don't have to rip things apart. EMT conduit has the added bonus of providing RF shielding to your copper cabling, provided it's properly grounded (which it should be). This also gives you the advantage of only needing to put in the plumbing before you put up the sheetrock, and then running the actual wire later.
Also, Leviton makes a very nice modular structured media system that allows you to do neat things like audio and video distribution in addition to phone and data - they have modular patch panels that make it very easy to do.
Lastly, whatever you do, TAKE PICTURES of everything you do before you put the sheetrock up - you'll want them for reference when you make changes later.
Nah, it's nothing more than an iButton. Might even be nothing more than a serial number iButton, but it may actually be one of the Java buttons.
You certainly don't dial the US country code to make a US to US call, neither should you do it for the web.
Might I remind you that the US country code is '1' and you dial it every time you make a long-distance call...
As long as you have a phone that runs PalmOS. Admittedly, GSM lends itself far better to this than CDMA.
Of course, there's something ironic about using a phone to chat with someone via text. Someone suggested a videophone that translates sign language into Braille was somewhere along the same line of ironic stupidity.
Someone needs to come up with an ethanol fuel cell, and when you run out, just fill it back up with cheap vodka.
Something's not quite right here... The linked article said the group's been in operation for four years. I used HP calculators 15+ years ago, and they were well-established then.
What gives?
Long distance is not included with any phone line. Long distance is provided by a third party. in the case of ION, your long distance was handled by Sprint, and you got a block of minutes.
What most people didn't know is that calls between ION nodes were treated as local, since they were routed over the ION ATM network, and nevcer had to jump onto the telco's lines.
Was the fact that your voice lines were trunked over the circuit. Also, bear in mind that ION wasn't a DSL service per se, but rather an ATM service - business customers got it over high-speed lines.
I'm still looking for a VOIP telco that will let me use my existing connection.
Note that this original comment was NOT mine and was caused by this morning's meltdown of the comments system.
.NET and XP are probably going to trigger it, too.
What I had said was that It was a predictable outcome. It's good to know that for the right price, government can still be bought. No worries, though, Microsoft will implode upon the mass of its own arrogance.