That's exactly what it is. You only have so much power (watts). By increasing the volts so dramatically, I lost the watts.
If you were to push 220VAC through a full bridge rectifier, that would make even more, assuming it was 2 phase. If it's 1 phase, you'd have the same power. American houses are 1 phase. They're actually two hot leads, and one neutral. They provide twice the amperage, because there are two independant wires, and two breakers, even though they are bound together in the breaker box.
In theory, if you had a low amperage requirement on a 220VAC device, you could connect the two hots to the hot wire on a 110VAC outlet, and the neutral to the neutral. Don't do it though, it breaks all kinds of rules (like ways not to burn your house down). I don't know of any 220VAC appliances in the US that you could get away with that with. Really, all that I've seen in common use are electric dryers, electric stoves, and arc welders.
The only thing I've built from their "collection" was the remote control. I was doing some work with.. well, playing with water and electricity.:) I decided rather than killing myself, I should make it a little safer, so I built out a box with a GFI outlet, a lower amp circuit breaker than the building had, and a power switch. I only popped the GFI a few times.
BTW, for the folks who play with trying to make hydrogen thingies for their cars, more voltage is better. 110VAC put through a full bridge rectifier makes an awful lot of bubbles. Melted my leads, but made way WAY more bubbles than any lower voltage, pulsed frequency, or fancy wave pattern. Ya, I spent quite a while experimenting with that.
110VAC->110VDC worked wonders.
12VDC -> 30KVDC (automotive ignition coil) only made sparks towards the water with a gap, and no bubbles. Direct contact seemed like nothing was happening, other than I could hear the coil discharging. With a hand made signal generator, and something that'd make a nice 2" spark on demand, I had lots of fun making musical sparks though. Kind of a small scale musical Tesla coil (check youtube for those). I never bothered to make it be able to play midi music though, I coded all of mine in by hand.:) The equipment didn't like the EMP much though. Never took out my laptop (8 feet away), but it upset my control board (2 feet away) a lot, and made the cordless phones very crackly.:) Oh, and the cats didn't like it much.
I've never seen it registered like that, but I have known quite a few providers who record what MAC had connected. If someone pulled the network cable out of their PC, and put it in their laptop, they couldn't get online. The solution is to unplug your modem for 15 minutes. I don't think it's actually a modem thing, but when their routers see the modem offline for such a period, it drops the record.
I know on a Cisco 5500 (CatOS), this can be accomplished with "port security". You can allow either a static MAC, or only a particular number of MAC's on a port. Say you have a switchport to each desk in an office. If you set a timeout of say 15 minutes, then someone wouldn't be able to bring in their laptop and a hub and use both. Even just switching the cable over would be worthless, and leave them disconnected.
Doing this in an office is one thing, where you'd know to call the NOC and have them clear the security for the port. Doing it with a residential provider would be a nightmare. Every time someone buys a new computer, they'd have to call in and ask for their port to be cleared, or install the software on their PC? People loose disks. If someone is say moving into a house, when they bring their computer up, they'll still be moving stuff around. In 6 months or a year when they buy a new computer, they won't have any clue where that disk is, and this would then require a site visit by a tech to deliver a disk.
For reference, the CatOS command is a little something like this:
Console> (enable) set port security 10/1 enable age 15 maximum 1 violation shutdown
Of course, my own port is port security disabled.:)
Console> (enable) set port security 10/1 disable Port 10/1 security disabled.
(10/1 is an idle port, so I was playing with that for this demo)
I don't know quite how the providers do it. I suspect every user gets a dynamic vlan, so it doesn't matter how they end up on the switch, but that's beyond my area of experience.
I only saw that with old versions of OO. More recent ones (like in the last 2 or 3 years) have been flawless.
The only change I had to make was to set the default saving filetype. They were sending to off-site folks, and they got confused on how to open the OO document.:) After I made the change, not a word was said.
I have a new found love of Amazon. I kinda doubt I'll find one with a listing saying "This will ensure your half broken electronics never turn on again.":)
It's kinda big for that. Hmmm, what could I do with 1/2 dozen old microwaves, and an old van body. Excuse me while I go on Craigslist to build the worlds biggest microwave oven.:)
That's what I meant. The phone cable goes into the modem, which the Verizon installs I've seen have a pretty picture book to explain that. I know they can have modem to USB, but I haven't seen one in anyone's home yet. Of course, she could be the exception. They didn't exactly clarify that in the article.
I've never had to support thousands of desks, but I've had enough to hate supporting desktops.:)
I've actually been annoyed to the point where I 3 links on the desktop.
Firefox - labeled as "INTERNET"
Thunderbird - labeled as "EMAIL"
OpenOffice - labeled as "WORD"
If I never tell them that they're not using MSIE, Outlook, and MSWord, 99.9% of them never know the difference. You have to be very careful not to tell them though. As soon as they figure it out, they'll start crying that it doesn't work and they need the MS product installed. That's always funny after they've been using the free options for months without any problems.:)
At one place, a few people started getting pissy about needing Office 2007 Professional. I let them rant, and I didn't even get pissy back. I just told them what the current pricing was, and that they can either pick it up on their way to work in the morning, or explain to their manager why they needed something that expensive, when everyone else was using the free option. For some reason, they never came to me with their nice fresh new Office 2k7 pro CD to install for them.:)
I have a Verizon FiOS network, with 128 IP's, that we're running a small hosting business on. There's a small problem on the line, so I asked for a field tech to come out and replace their outside box. No big deal, just come, swap out your slightly defective unit for a good one, so it doesn't become a bigger problem in the near future. We're getting the occasional CRC error on the uplink, and have already swapped the equipment on our side.
They asked what OS I was running. "Well, about a dozen Linux machines, and a half dozen Win2k/S2k3 machines."
They asked "So are you running XP or Vista"
I had to start over. "This is a business FiOS line. We're using it for a small hosting business. We have many machines. We have 128 IP's from you because of that. "
Then they asked me which of their routers we are using. {sigh} Their routers are crap. They provide us with a Cat5 ethernet cable from their demarc outside. That goes directly into a Cisco Catalyst 2924XL-EN.
"Oh, if you're not using our router, we can't help you. Maybe you can call Cisco."
I blew up inside, but very politely told them that I am a Cisco Certified Network Administrator, and I have worked as a higher level Cisco Engineer for the past 12 years. I'll be more than happy to help you with this matter. By evaluating the errors, there appears to be a failure on your side of the link, which would be your demarc on the wall. If you could be kind enough to have a field technician come out and swap the demarc, I would be very happy.
That got me put on hold. He came back, apparently with one of their "network engineers" on chat with him. He'd type what I said, wait for a response, and then read it back to me. Over the next half hour, the engineer finally told me that it was obviously a routing issue somewhere on the Internet, and I should run traceroutes to see where it is, but it's definitely outside of Verizon's control. I told the CSR that was still on the phone with me echoing the "network engineer" responses, that the "network engineer" was a complete blithering idiot, who wouldn't be able to diagnose a network problem to save his life. There's no way in hell that a CRC errror comes from anywhere but either the two endpoints of a cable, one of which is my switch, and the other their demarc, or the cable in between. They made it clear that the cable is property of Verizon, or I'd swap that too.
Ahhh, now I'm worked up. I'm going to start calling them again. It's been several weeks of trying to get them to address this. I'm tempted to hit it with a stun gun, just so it'll be completely down, and they can come out and fix it. Too bad I don't own a stun gun.:)
I've run into this a lot. When someone calls me and says a tech is coming out to help them get set up, I tell them to refuse to let them put the CD in. There's no need.
I've been to many places, with many providers, usually with my laptop, waiting for them to come install. One place blatantly refused to install without a Windows computer, so I dug up an old Win95 workstation, and they were satisfied. A few times, they've had me sign a small waiver saying that I refused the install CD.
For anything but dialup accounts, there's nothing to it. Most OS's come set up for DHCP on the ethernet. Plug the cable in, turn it on, and you're done. The CD is usually extra "assistance" software. I've never gotten down and dirty enough to dissect their software, but I'd be pretty sure there is a good bit of spyware in it. I know one vendor provided a CD that included something resembling GoToMyPC. Really, do you want to open up your computer so anyone at the ISP can log into your computer? The only reason to ask the ISP for help is when the connection doesn't work, at which time that is a moot point.
This lady didn't ask for a non-Windows machine though. She may have unintentionally ordered the wrong thing. Mistakes happen, they should have let her return it for what she wanted.
If (IF) she wanted to keep Linux, they should have told her where to click for Abiword/OpenOffice, and that it was the equivalent of MSWord, except totally free.
If (IF) she wanted to keep Linux, Verizon should have been able to tell her that "all you do is plug the cable in", rather than saying it was impossible on anything but Windows.
So, lots of mistakes made a news story. She doesn't know Linux yet, but hopefully she'll be more interested in learning in the future. The reps at Dell and Verizon should have been more cooperative. If they had been, and knew what they were doing, then this wouldn't have been a story at all. That is, unless it turns out that it's actually something choreographed by Microsoft, trying to lock down their market share.
I suspect there's some reason that I noticed "DOD Root Certificates" installed on mine.:) There must be some arrangement with the gov't for security, at least of some sort. I doubt that the President should be (or would be) sending much over it though. It's not necessarily the idea that it's a smart phone, and he could lose it (as I noticed someone else said), but that the data is transiting insecure networks.
And hey, one mistyped address, and some state secret may end up going across insecure networks, to an insecure individual. He is President after all, even an innocent note like "Honey, I'll be home at 8:30, then we can watch that movie" is a huge security concern. The White House is a big place, at least big enough where a targeted attack wouldn't necessarily do much of anything. Knowing he'll be sitting on the couch in whatever room the President would watch movies, at a specific time, is a dangerous thing.
The again, so far just about everyone loves Obama.:) I'm thinking sometime within the first year, he'd be safe to sit in the front yard of the White House on a lawn chair, smoking a cigar and talking sh1t with foreign diplomats.
Hmmm, what's this text I just received?
From: 2024561414@blackberry.net To: jwsmythe Subject: evac
A friend of mine went on a 7 day cruise recently. She had to pay something outrageous, like $5/min to use their on-ship internet connection with their computers. She'd hop on for a few minutes, check her mail for serious problems, and send them over to me for handling. She knows her customers and an "urgent" issue may mean "do this sometime this month", or "do this in the next 20 minutes".
I'd recommend if an Internet connection is that important. It may be more adventurous to find a cute girl on the cruise, and make your own entertainment.:)
But, since your folks could shell out several thousand dollars for the cruise, then get them to shell out a few more bucks for an Iridium 9555. I don't know what pricing is on the service, but hey, if they can blow $5k so you can get drunk in 100 different ports around the world, they can afford a few more dollars for a phone so you can call home from the jail at those ports.:)
That's amazing! Through experimentation I've proven that 98.95% (rounded, of course, in a series of 100,000 trials) of mathematically proven statistics are yanked straight out of the posterior egesta expulsion orifice.
I'm sure you could handle that kind of mail traffic. I've done it on worse.:) I'm sure that they have an awful lot of mail traffic though. I don't even know how many people that they have using their systems, but when I tried to find what mail server that they are using, the information on the State Department's "OpenNet" was established to let employees and family use their network from anywhere in the world. It sounds like a huge scale project.
If they can't support the replying to large lists, they haven't scaled their servers very well, and haven't done silly things like implementing recipient limits.:)
For places I've worked, it's rarely been the users that cause the problems. The biggest problems have been the spammers. Getting Cc'd because someone sent out an email to a long Cc list, and getting every reply is more of an annoyance than anything. But hey, joining a Yahoo! Group and accidentally setting myself to receive all messages is that much worse.:)
I've been on those calls too, but really if I had to break out my support calls, they'd look like:
90% India
90% difficult to impossible to work with
10% satisfactory
9% USA
98% satisfactory (with some southern accents, but still good help)
2% difficult to work with
1% Europe
50% satisfactory
50% difficult to impossible to work with
Actually, something happened to my username on my VZW blackberry. I can retrieve my password, but I can't log into the Blackberry web interface to make changes.
They're confused by email. I've given up on phone calls, because I want to keep at least some of my hair.
But from what I understand from some ex-Verizon employees, all departments are pretty rough.
I have a Verizon FiOS line right now, that's experiencing CRC errors. I've gone around for hours with them so far, and the only thing even half way intelligent (that was still wrong) blamed a routing issue in the midwest. {sigh}
It depends on the friends. I know I've tossed (not so gracefully) a relatively bare smallblock chevy engine (approx 180 lbs) into the back of a van by myself. Now that I'm older, I prefer to have help.:)
4 and tossing it in the truck was just an example. Two people and a ramp would definitely be able to load it.
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That's exactly what it is. You only have so much power (watts). By increasing the volts so dramatically, I lost the watts.
If you were to push 220VAC through a full bridge rectifier, that would make even more, assuming it was 2 phase. If it's 1 phase, you'd have the same power. American houses are 1 phase. They're actually two hot leads, and one neutral. They provide twice the amperage, because there are two independant wires, and two breakers, even though they are bound together in the breaker box.
In theory, if you had a low amperage requirement on a 220VAC device, you could connect the two hots to the hot wire on a 110VAC outlet, and the neutral to the neutral. Don't do it though, it breaks all kinds of rules (like ways not to burn your house down). I don't know of any 220VAC appliances in the US that you could get away with that with. Really, all that I've seen in common use are electric dryers, electric stoves, and arc welders.
Oh, that's great! I love it!
The only thing I've built from their "collection" was the remote control. I was doing some work with .. well, playing with water and electricity. :) I decided rather than killing myself, I should make it a little safer, so I built out a box with a GFI outlet, a lower amp circuit breaker than the building had, and a power switch. I only popped the GFI a few times.
BTW, for the folks who play with trying to make hydrogen thingies for their cars, more voltage is better. 110VAC put through a full bridge rectifier makes an awful lot of bubbles. Melted my leads, but made way WAY more bubbles than any lower voltage, pulsed frequency, or fancy wave pattern. Ya, I spent quite a while experimenting with that.
110VAC->110VDC worked wonders.
12VDC -> 30KVDC (automotive ignition coil) only made sparks towards the water with a gap, and no bubbles. Direct contact seemed like nothing was happening, other than I could hear the coil discharging. With a hand made signal generator, and something that'd make a nice 2" spark on demand, I had lots of fun making musical sparks though. Kind of a small scale musical Tesla coil (check youtube for those). I never bothered to make it be able to play midi music though, I coded all of mine in by hand. :) The equipment didn't like the EMP much though. Never took out my laptop (8 feet away), but it upset my control board (2 feet away) a lot, and made the cordless phones very crackly. :) Oh, and the cats didn't like it much.
I've never seen it registered like that, but I have known quite a few providers who record what MAC had connected. If someone pulled the network cable out of their PC, and put it in their laptop, they couldn't get online. The solution is to unplug your modem for 15 minutes. I don't think it's actually a modem thing, but when their routers see the modem offline for such a period, it drops the record.
I know on a Cisco 5500 (CatOS), this can be accomplished with "port security". You can allow either a static MAC, or only a particular number of MAC's on a port. Say you have a switchport to each desk in an office. If you set a timeout of say 15 minutes, then someone wouldn't be able to bring in their laptop and a hub and use both. Even just switching the cable over would be worthless, and leave them disconnected.
Doing this in an office is one thing, where you'd know to call the NOC and have them clear the security for the port. Doing it with a residential provider would be a nightmare. Every time someone buys a new computer, they'd have to call in and ask for their port to be cleared, or install the software on their PC? People loose disks. If someone is say moving into a house, when they bring their computer up, they'll still be moving stuff around. In 6 months or a year when they buy a new computer, they won't have any clue where that disk is, and this would then require a site visit by a tech to deliver a disk.
For reference, the CatOS command is a little something like this:
Console> (enable) set port security 10/1 enable age 15 maximum 1 violation shutdown
Of course, my own port is port security disabled. :)
Console> (enable) set port security 10/1 disable
Port 10/1 security disabled.
(10/1 is an idle port, so I was playing with that for this demo)
I don't know quite how the providers do it. I suspect every user gets a dynamic vlan, so it doesn't matter how they end up on the switch, but that's beyond my area of experience.
I only saw that with old versions of OO. More recent ones (like in the last 2 or 3 years) have been flawless.
The only change I had to make was to set the default saving filetype. They were sending to off-site folks, and they got confused on how to open the OO document. :) After I made the change, not a word was said.
I have a new found love of Amazon. I kinda doubt I'll find one with a listing saying "This will ensure your half broken electronics never turn on again." :)
HAHAHAHA
Thank you, you really made my day.
It's kinda big for that. Hmmm, what could I do with 1/2 dozen old microwaves, and an old van body. Excuse me while I go on Craigslist to build the worlds biggest microwave oven. :)
That's what I meant. The phone cable goes into the modem, which the Verizon installs I've seen have a pretty picture book to explain that. I know they can have modem to USB, but I haven't seen one in anyone's home yet. Of course, she could be the exception. They didn't exactly clarify that in the article.
hehe.
I've never had to support thousands of desks, but I've had enough to hate supporting desktops. :)
I've actually been annoyed to the point where I 3 links on the desktop.
Firefox - labeled as "INTERNET"
Thunderbird - labeled as "EMAIL"
OpenOffice - labeled as "WORD"
If I never tell them that they're not using MSIE, Outlook, and MSWord, 99.9% of them never know the difference. You have to be very careful not to tell them though. As soon as they figure it out, they'll start crying that it doesn't work and they need the MS product installed. That's always funny after they've been using the free options for months without any problems. :)
At one place, a few people started getting pissy about needing Office 2007 Professional. I let them rant, and I didn't even get pissy back. I just told them what the current pricing was, and that they can either pick it up on their way to work in the morning, or explain to their manager why they needed something that expensive, when everyone else was using the free option. For some reason, they never came to me with their nice fresh new Office 2k7 pro CD to install for them. :)
I have a Verizon FiOS network, with 128 IP's, that we're running a small hosting business on. There's a small problem on the line, so I asked for a field tech to come out and replace their outside box. No big deal, just come, swap out your slightly defective unit for a good one, so it doesn't become a bigger problem in the near future. We're getting the occasional CRC error on the uplink, and have already swapped the equipment on our side.
They asked what OS I was running. "Well, about a dozen Linux machines, and a half dozen Win2k/S2k3 machines."
They asked "So are you running XP or Vista"
I had to start over. "This is a business FiOS line. We're using it for a small hosting business. We have many machines. We have 128 IP's from you because of that. "
Then they asked me which of their routers we are using. {sigh} Their routers are crap. They provide us with a Cat5 ethernet cable from their demarc outside. That goes directly into a Cisco Catalyst 2924XL-EN.
"Oh, if you're not using our router, we can't help you. Maybe you can call Cisco."
I blew up inside, but very politely told them that I am a Cisco Certified Network Administrator, and I have worked as a higher level Cisco Engineer for the past 12 years. I'll be more than happy to help you with this matter. By evaluating the errors, there appears to be a failure on your side of the link, which would be your demarc on the wall. If you could be kind enough to have a field technician come out and swap the demarc, I would be very happy.
That got me put on hold. He came back, apparently with one of their "network engineers" on chat with him. He'd type what I said, wait for a response, and then read it back to me. Over the next half hour, the engineer finally told me that it was obviously a routing issue somewhere on the Internet, and I should run traceroutes to see where it is, but it's definitely outside of Verizon's control. I told the CSR that was still on the phone with me echoing the "network engineer" responses, that the "network engineer" was a complete blithering idiot, who wouldn't be able to diagnose a network problem to save his life. There's no way in hell that a CRC errror comes from anywhere but either the two endpoints of a cable, one of which is my switch, and the other their demarc, or the cable in between. They made it clear that the cable is property of Verizon, or I'd swap that too.
Ahhh, now I'm worked up. I'm going to start calling them again. It's been several weeks of trying to get them to address this. I'm tempted to hit it with a stun gun, just so it'll be completely down, and they can come out and fix it. Too bad I don't own a stun gun. :)
I've run into this a lot. When someone calls me and says a tech is coming out to help them get set up, I tell them to refuse to let them put the CD in. There's no need.
I've been to many places, with many providers, usually with my laptop, waiting for them to come install. One place blatantly refused to install without a Windows computer, so I dug up an old Win95 workstation, and they were satisfied. A few times, they've had me sign a small waiver saying that I refused the install CD.
For anything but dialup accounts, there's nothing to it. Most OS's come set up for DHCP on the ethernet. Plug the cable in, turn it on, and you're done. The CD is usually extra "assistance" software. I've never gotten down and dirty enough to dissect their software, but I'd be pretty sure there is a good bit of spyware in it. I know one vendor provided a CD that included something resembling GoToMyPC. Really, do you want to open up your computer so anyone at the ISP can log into your computer? The only reason to ask the ISP for help is when the connection doesn't work, at which time that is a moot point.
This lady didn't ask for a non-Windows machine though. She may have unintentionally ordered the wrong thing. Mistakes happen, they should have let her return it for what she wanted.
If (IF) she wanted to keep Linux, they should have told her where to click for Abiword/OpenOffice, and that it was the equivalent of MSWord, except totally free.
If (IF) she wanted to keep Linux, Verizon should have been able to tell her that "all you do is plug the cable in", rather than saying it was impossible on anything but Windows.
So, lots of mistakes made a news story. She doesn't know Linux yet, but hopefully she'll be more interested in learning in the future. The reps at Dell and Verizon should have been more cooperative. If they had been, and knew what they were doing, then this wouldn't have been a story at all. That is, unless it turns out that it's actually something choreographed by Microsoft, trying to lock down their market share.
Funny, your IP resolves to something at eop.gov.
I suspect there's some reason that I noticed "DOD Root Certificates" installed on mine. :) There must be some arrangement with the gov't for security, at least of some sort. I doubt that the President should be (or would be) sending much over it though. It's not necessarily the idea that it's a smart phone, and he could lose it (as I noticed someone else said), but that the data is transiting insecure networks.
And hey, one mistyped address, and some state secret may end up going across insecure networks, to an insecure individual. He is President after all, even an innocent note like "Honey, I'll be home at 8:30, then we can watch that movie" is a huge security concern. The White House is a big place, at least big enough where a targeted attack wouldn't necessarily do much of anything. Knowing he'll be sitting on the couch in whatever room the President would watch movies, at a specific time, is a dangerous thing.
The again, so far just about everyone loves Obama. :) I'm thinking sometime within the first year, he'd be safe to sit in the front yard of the White House on a lawn chair, smoking a cigar and talking sh1t with foreign diplomats.
Hmmm, what's this text I just received?
From: 2024561414@blackberry.net
To: jwsmythe
Subject: evac
Evac ASAP. Bird inbound. ETA 10min
Aw come on, he's the first US President that could use one. :)
A friend of mine went on a 7 day cruise recently. She had to pay something outrageous, like $5/min to use their on-ship internet connection with their computers. She'd hop on for a few minutes, check her mail for serious problems, and send them over to me for handling. She knows her customers and an "urgent" issue may mean "do this sometime this month", or "do this in the next 20 minutes".
I'd recommend if an Internet connection is that important. It may be more adventurous to find a cute girl on the cruise, and make your own entertainment. :)
But, since your folks could shell out several thousand dollars for the cruise, then get them to shell out a few more bucks for an Iridium 9555. I don't know what pricing is on the service, but hey, if they can blow $5k so you can get drunk in 100 different ports around the world, they can afford a few more dollars for a phone so you can call home from the jail at those ports. :)
Ya, but they come out too clean, and make my underpants smell like dead cat.
Don't blame an innocent computer for the failure of it's operator.
Scrap the operator, and give the computer to someone who can properly care for it.
Naw, Slashdot can't hold a tune. It sounds more like a dying cat in a blender.
Well, first you get a whole bunch of vampires...
Aw, the joke just isn't worth it today.
[dawns his vampire hunting hat, and starts walking East]
They'll be awake soon. I have work to do.
That's amazing! Through experimentation I've proven that 98.95% (rounded, of course, in a series of 100,000 trials) of mathematically proven statistics are yanked straight out of the posterior egesta expulsion orifice.
I'm sure you could handle that kind of mail traffic. I've done it on worse. :) I'm sure that they have an awful lot of mail traffic though. I don't even know how many people that they have using their systems, but when I tried to find what mail server that they are using, the information on the State Department's "OpenNet" was established to let employees and family use their network from anywhere in the world. It sounds like a huge scale project.
If they can't support the replying to large lists, they haven't scaled their servers very well, and haven't done silly things like implementing recipient limits. :)
For places I've worked, it's rarely been the users that cause the problems. The biggest problems have been the spammers. Getting Cc'd because someone sent out an email to a long Cc list, and getting every reply is more of an annoyance than anything. But hey, joining a Yahoo! Group and accidentally setting myself to receive all messages is that much worse. :)
This is a configuration error, not a newsworthy event.
For sendmail, it would be a configuration directive in their sendmail.mc (or whatever theirs is:
confMAX_RCPTS_PER_MESSAGE("100") ... or a modified line in sendmail.cf:
O MaxRecipientsPerMessage=100
In MSExchange it would be a registry change
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\MSExchangeIS\ParametersSystem\Max Recipients on Submit
DWORD Value 100
I've been on those calls too, but really if I had to break out my support calls, they'd look like:
90% India
90% difficult to impossible to work with
10% satisfactory
9% USA
98% satisfactory (with some southern accents, but still good help)
2% difficult to work with
1% Europe
50% satisfactory
50% difficult to impossible to work with
Actually, something happened to my username on my VZW blackberry. I can retrieve my password, but I can't log into the Blackberry web interface to make changes.
They're confused by email. I've given up on phone calls, because I want to keep at least some of my hair.
But from what I understand from some ex-Verizon employees, all departments are pretty rough.
I have a Verizon FiOS line right now, that's experiencing CRC errors. I've gone around for hours with them so far, and the only thing even half way intelligent (that was still wrong) blamed a routing issue in the midwest. {sigh}
It depends on the friends. I know I've tossed (not so gracefully) a relatively bare smallblock chevy engine (approx 180 lbs) into the back of a van by myself. Now that I'm older, I prefer to have help. :)
4 and tossing it in the truck was just an example. Two people and a ramp would definitely be able to load it.