I'm still trying to get my iPaq working completely under Familiar (Linux on the iPaq). It works, I just can't get my Orinoco card to work on it.. But, I haven't been trying very hard either. I need to make a cross-compiler, and build my own kernel, I'm just too busy to get into it..
Muhaha.. iPaq, Linux, perl, and a good wireless card. What couldn't I do then?:)
By what they've said, they're effectively saying "We have a warrant to enter anyplace with a wireless network." Even if you have 128bit encryption, it's breakable in 5 minutes. So, you're helping terrorists, which in turn makes you a terrorist.
So, everyone with a wireless access point in America, prepare to have the feds come knocking on your door.
I know I'm fucked. I have a wireless access point, multiple wireless cards, *AND* home-brewed antennas..
I'm sure the fact that I have a wireless card, with an antenna on my laptop is positive proof that I sit outside corporate buildings and use their networks for evil.
Well, I do.. But no one can prove it.. hehe. You wouldn't believe how much boring mail goes through a corporate lan. Definately don't bother to sniff instant messenger packets. You'll grow stupid from the combined IQ levels of 10 users. Or, are they really worried about Osama Bin-Evil flood pinging a.root-servers.net from an open access point on a companies 384k DSL?
I can just see the feds now, wardriving with a iPaq and Mini-Stumbler (or whatever the CE version of Netstumbler is),
In the good ol' days, they'd just call me a hacker. Now I'm a terrorist. {sigh} I like the hacker sig a lot better. At least a hacker sounds like you do something. A terrorist is someone that doesn't have to do anything. They let you be scared because you *THINK* they may do something.. {sigh}
Agreed. In discussions about bandwidth with anyone I work with (including tier 1 providers), for speed, we say "K", "Megs", or "Gigs". Connection type are [100meg|gig][copper|fiber], or if we're already talking about a line we already are talking about, we jusually say "this gig" "that gig", or talk about "that cab"..
If a customer comes in, and starts talking about "My locked cabinet... with a.. 100 mega bit.. per second copper uplink.. to my.. tier one's provider.. network..", we'll just smile, nod, and show them where to plug in their power cord.. (BTW, the Shatner captain speak was intentional)
"Yes sir, your funny little three-prong power cable goes in that funny little three-prong outlet.":)
Hmmm, Maybe you should start selling selling your memory in bits.. You'd make more money..:) You could sell a 128MB DIMM as a 1Gb DIMM. heheh
(for those not paying attention, note the capitalization of MB and Gb)
Personally, I've worked with almost every type of provider that you can use. From T1's in houses and T1's and DS3's in offices/office buildings, to Gigabit uplinks in colocation facilities.
Colo's are probably your best bet. The prices are cheaper, because you don't have to pay for the local loop (the line run from your local telco's closest point, to your location). You just pay the port charge, and a bit of rent for the cabinet itself. Depending on the provider, you pay for part of the cabinet that you use, or the whole thing and it's yours exclusively.
Personally, I'd only take an exclusive cabinet. You lock it up, and no one can accidently do anything. You may think it's ok, til someone accidently tugs on a loose network connection or power cable at 3am someday.
Before you move into a colo, check out their bandwidth. Do something simple like running traceroutes to a machine in that cabinet, or on the same provider as you in the colo (most colo's have multiple providers). A friend was checking out a other hosting providers, and when he ran the traceroute, he found it was like 20 hops inside the slowest provider he ever saw.
I can recommend two providers to you now, that I personally know. I've either helped them out, or worked with them in the past. They're on very good connections in good facilities.
http://www.energenesis.com
http://www.l3vip.com
Energenesis specializes is dynamic site development, and they'll host your site also, if that's what you want. They'll also do simple hostings if you want, they have no problem with that.:)
L3VIP specializes in large bandwidth. You can buy anything from a 10Mb/s uplink to OC/3's and GB connections. Pretty much anything you'd like. Those connections either can go to your location, or (better for you) to a colocation.
Right now, we buy bandwidth from L3VIP, and they made the arrangements and everything for our space in several colo's around the country.
Is this another bit of Microsoft self-PR, saying that they're cheaper to run than free, again? {sigh}
I'd be interested in reading the article, but it seems that their web server bit the dust. I do love the error..
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HTTP/1.1 Server Too Busy ---
Poor guys. Couldn't fix up the web server so it could take extreme abuse, it just screams to all their potential (now lost) customers that they couldn't take the heat.
BTW, the server reports itself to be Microsoft-IIS/4.0. nmap comes up with a funky response, saying all ports are open, and can't give me a fingerprint. I suspect because of a funky firewall in the middle. Good work there..
If they'd get the article up again, I'd like to read it. I'd like to see the new logic where the cost (free > windows). As for us, we have Linux servers and workstations deployed. The most work I do to support a LInux workstation is dig into my drawer, pull out the CD and hand it to anyone who wants to use it. It's followed by the friendly offer, "Feel free to copy it." Microsoft would probably get a little upset if I handed out my 2600 edition of XP and said that.:)
(Note to MS Piracy police. That last part was a joke. I don't own a copy of XP, and I don't have it on a CompUSA writeable CD in my top desk drawer marked "The Devil's Work". If I did, I'd only use it as a frisbee to throw at new employees. hehe
If you'd like to investigate, I live at 1 Microsoft Way, Redmond Washington. Oh ya, and bite me. Send me one more BSA notice, and I'm sueing you for the 5 seconds it takes me to read it, laugh, and throw it away ($150k/second at my estimations))
Damn. Talk about having too much time on your hands.. Is this the slowest news day yet? Couldn't someone have posted someone interesting, like about the tech required to run some of the stupid floats in those parades?
Nothing on TV, nothing on Slashdot, and the only entertainment in my house is watching a turkey bake for 12 hours. I'm about ready to turn to Internet Porn, but since I work in it, that's boring too...
{sigh}
I guess I get to turn to my old friends, Alcohol and Pot.:) They'll entertain me!
1) Did you feel that your real life when filming Star Trek had any corelation to the relationships portrayed at the beginning of Galaxy Quest?
2) Do you believe there is any life beyond Earth? After portraying Cap't Kirk for so many years, so you think that's swayed your opinion?
3) My sister met you at the Space.Com office in New York once. All she could come up with was quick TJ Hooker question for you. You were polite, and she was happy. Now the question, is that the kind of questions you get all the time from strangers? Can you go out in public and have a good time without someone asking an old TV question of you?
I just posted a rant about this.. If you don't pay, they'll send it to collections. That means bad points on your credit history, *AND* they'll still get their money eventually (or you'll have a hard time doing anything requiring credit). $700 is worth quite a few points on a credit history. $300 managed to hold me down by like 80 points. An apartment I moved out of years ago gave me my deposit check back. Then they sent $300 to collections. I never received notification, and only found it on my credit report. It took quite a while to get a hold of someone I could pay off to get that to go away. The apartment had changed ownership, the collections agency were dicks (of course)..
It's better to pay off what they say, and warn everyone you know to stay away from them.. You won't hurt their business by not paying the $700. You'll hurt your own credit though. You *WILL* hurt their business if enough people make sure all their friends know to go somewhere else..
> I have Sprint PCS and use it all over the country >(it's 85% for when I travel). I've been pretty >happy with the service I have gotten.
I guess you haven't received your bill yet, eh? Sprint does a wonderful job at absolutley rapeing you on roaming charges.
When I had my SprintPCS phone, I worked and lived inside the city of Tampa. For a few months, I didn't leave town for anything. For the first few months, my bill was fine, and I was happy.
On about the 5th month, I failed to notice my bill was an extra $50..
On the 6th month, it was an extra $300. I called and pitched a fit at support. They made a point of disproving my phone was cloned (I didn't make that claim). The $300 was for "roaming" charges in Bradenton, Fl, about 60 miles South of Tampa. I hadn't left Tampa the whole time.
Pissed off, about a week later, I bought a Nextel phone. I changed the voicemail on my Sprint phone to say "Call me at my new number xxx-xxx-xxxx". I shut the phone off, and left it at my house.
On the 7th month, I received my Sprint bill. An extra $600 was on this one for roaming charges.. Once again, pitched an absolute fit, refused to pay, told them this was fraud, and told them to immediately cancel my service. I told them all of my calls were made in Tampa, to Tampa numbers, from either my home, office, or somewhere in between (in Tampa).
On the 8th month, I got a nice letter from Sprint. It said that my account was being sent off to collections, unless I paid $1000.. They managed to put on yet another month, where no service was used. But they said I was roaming the whole time. They were numbers I would have been calling, but since my phone was turned off at my house, and I was now using my Nextel phone, that was impossible.
I spent hours on the phone with everyone they'd transfer me to in their call center. No one was willing to recognize the fact that none of my calls were roaming. Every call was made in Tampa, on their service. Not in some other city, not roaming.
The SprintPCS service sucked too.. If the wind was blowing the wrong way, or my head wasn't leaned just the right way, I would have shitty reception. I couldn't use the phone *IN* my house, I could only use it on my porch. The reception was so weak that people couldn't usually hear me in the house.
When traveling, service was hit and miss. When I went to New York for business, I'd carry a Verizon (PrimeCo) and Sprint phone, and gave everyone both numbers to call me at.. It was intermittent which one would work. Funny thing, my Verizon phone wouldn't even work at the Verizon store. Something about how they had delegated channels, and only parts of NY were set up to handle the way they had configured my phone.
I sold the Sprint phone for $100 (I paid $400 for it), and was happy to see it go.
I gave my Verizon phone to my girlfriend. It worked very well all through Florida. When we went to Las Vegas is the only time we encountered problems. Their channel delegation doesn't work very well, so phones configured for Florida try to get onto Sprint's Network in Las Vegas. (Sweet, huh?). Verizon said we could bring the phone to a store to be reconfigured, but then it wouldn't work in Florida when we got back. Definately not worth the trouble for a 3 day vacation.
That Verizon phone got handed down to my girlfriend's brother (now ex-girlfriend), and he still using it. It's a Motorola StarTac, so it's a good phone.
I've been using Nextel for the last few years. My ex-girlfriend has an i85. My current girlfriend has another i85. I carry an i95. All the phones have free long distance, and free incoming calls.
I've only had a few minor complaints with the Nextel phones. Sometimes (very occasionally) if you change areas too quickly and the phone was turned off (like flying from Tampa to Los Angeles), when you turn it back on, it doesn't recognize being allowed in that service area. Probably some of their anti-cloning protection. A quick call to support gets that fixed right up. It's only happened twice to me, and I travel around a bit.
I have a friend that is still using a Sprint phone.. He tells me that sometimes he has to pay $100/month or so extra, just because they thought he was roaming.. He got nailed for $500 one month, going out of town for one weekend. He hasn't switched, because he wants to keep the phone number (and not having a $400 paperweight on his desk)
So, in summary to my rant:
1) Sprint sucks ass, unless you like bad reception, paying lots of extra money out, and dealing with shitty customer support.
2) Verizon is pretty good, unless you change service areas frequently.
3) Nextel is really good. The two-way radio feature is kind of annoying when out in public, but you don't have to use it.:)
We've been researching and planning on making some antennas to experement with this weekend. We're looking at a pair of waveguides, and if those don't work as well as we want, we're going to turn them around and face them into a pair of parabolic dishes. One site I was reading said that they were getting roughly 35db gain on a 3 foot dish, with a short horn..:)
How? My apartment is about 500 feet from my office, and I've been trying to bridge them.. I can't even get them to connect at 500 feet line of site..
I have nothing against the Linksys AP's, I'm just not happy with the weak antenna's that they put on. Understandably, they're designed for shorter range which is typical use.. Most normal people aren't trying to send a signal down from an office building and across a road.:)
Someday I'll understand Slashdot's logic.. I submitted this story 4 days ago, and it was rejected.
* 2002-11-01 04:51:41 NASA commissions book to prove moon landing really (articles,news) (rejected)
Not to be pissy about it, but if it's news worthy, and they're going to post the exact same story, why do they reject it? 4 days after I post the same thing, it gets posted by someone else.
Maybe my Karma:Good isn't good enough around here or something.. Maybe I haven't bought a banner or whatever.. {sigh} whatever.
Work Email remains property of the company. While working for the company, you are working *FOR* the company. i.e., you're not suppose to get personal stuff..
What happens at our company is when a person leaves, the mail goes into a general box. If something personal should come in, we'll usually forward it off to the person's new address, if they gave us one when leaving.. But since it's usually work stuff, it'll be handled by whoever has taken over their responsibilities..
It would be very stupid of any company to continue to send work Emails to a person no longer in the company. Imagine if the person went to work for another company in a similiar industry, now we're giving our work to that company.
For example, you work at Widgets Inc.. You take orders for widgets for us... But you decide to leave and work for Sprockets Inc, who make similiar products.. Now you'll be selling Sprockets Inc. products to the customers.. That may be good for you, but they were customers of Widgets Inc, not *YOUR* customers as an employee.
Or more like... You work for NSI.. You had personal contact with a bunch of domain owners.. Now you've moved over to BulkRegister.. Those accounts still belong to NSI, no matter where you may work.
18 U.S.C. 1700 Desertion of mail 18 U.S.C. 1701 Obstruction of mail generally 18 U.S.C. 1702 Obstruction of correspondence 18 U.S.C. 1703 Delay or destruction of mail or newspapers and/or 18 U.S.C. 1708 Theft or receipt of stolen mail matter generally
I have to agree with the victim in the story, it's very bad policy to just collect Email for their own uses.. If I'm an ISP, and you're a customer, when you're no longer a customer, should I collect and potentially read your personal Email? No. When you're no longer a customer, I should delete your account, and let the SMTP server handle the bonuce-backs..
This says the receiver isn't valid. --- >>> RCPT To: >>> DATA 550 5.1.1... User unknown ---
This says the receiver *IS* valid. --- >>> RCPT To: >>> DATA 250 2.1.5... Recipient ok ----
I would accept the second to receive my message and respond if they were interested. The first will generate an error in my box, where I'll know to contact them in other ways..
As far as the job opprotunity was concerned, she didn't respond because she wasn't interested. And that's the ISP's fault for accepting the Email for a closed account. I don't know that it should be a law, but if that's what it takes to get ISP's to fix their flawed policies, so be it.
In the good ol' days, Vinny and the boys would have just had a talk with him. They woulda taken the cash back, roughed him up a little, and dropped him off a bridge in 'Jersey for a little swim with the fishes.. (cement shoes not optional).
>> Why pay uberbucks for Solaris on x86 instead of
>> using Slackware or OpenBSD for free?
>Its like when you continue to drive your 1988 >Cutlass, which is in the shop for repairs every
>other week, when your brand new prowler sits in the
>garage gathering dust.
So, Slackware would be the Prowler, and Slowaris would be the Gutless?:)
We've finally converted all of our Solaris machines to Slackware. Slackware seriously outperforms Solaris on the same machines. I'm talking identical. We'd copy off the client data, and install Slackware.
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You're not the first Do Gooder to try and stop me. I'm not afraid of the Super Friends!
[insert bad 70's cartoon sound effects here]
Muhahahaaa
I'm still trying to get my iPaq working completely under Familiar (Linux on the iPaq). It works, I just can't get my Orinoco card to work on it.. But, I haven't been trying very hard either. I need to make a cross-compiler, and build my own kernel, I'm just too busy to get into it..
Muhaha.. iPaq, Linux, perl, and a good wireless card. What couldn't I do then?
By what they've said, they're effectively saying "We have a warrant to enter anyplace with a wireless network." Even if you have 128bit encryption, it's breakable in 5 minutes. So, you're helping terrorists, which in turn makes you a terrorist.
So, everyone with a wireless access point in America, prepare to have the feds come knocking on your door.
I know I'm fucked. I have a wireless access point, multiple wireless cards, *AND* home-brewed antennas..
I'm sure the fact that I have a wireless card, with an antenna on my laptop is positive proof that I sit outside corporate buildings and use their networks for evil.
Well, I do.. But no one can prove it.. hehe. You wouldn't believe how much boring mail goes through a corporate lan. Definately don't bother to sniff instant messenger packets. You'll grow stupid from the combined IQ levels of 10 users. Or, are they really worried about Osama Bin-Evil flood pinging a.root-servers.net from an open access point on a companies 384k DSL?
I can just see the feds now, wardriving with a iPaq and Mini-Stumbler (or whatever the CE version of Netstumbler is),
In the good ol' days, they'd just call me a hacker. Now I'm a terrorist. {sigh} I like the hacker sig a lot better. At least a hacker sounds like you do something. A terrorist is someone that doesn't have to do anything. They let you be scared because you *THINK* they may do something.. {sigh}
Contact cindy@l3vip.com . I'm fairly sure she can better that.. She's reselling Level3 bandwidth.
Agreed. In discussions about bandwidth with anyone I work with (including tier 1 providers), for speed, we say "K", "Megs", or "Gigs". Connection type are [100meg|gig][copper|fiber], or if we're already talking about a line we already are talking about, we jusually say "this gig" "that gig", or talk about "that cab"..
... with a .. 100 mega bit .. per second copper uplink .. to my .. tier one's provider .. network..", we'll just smile, nod, and show them where to plug in their power cord.. (BTW, the Shatner captain speak was intentional)
:)
:) You could sell a 128MB DIMM as a 1Gb DIMM. heheh
If a customer comes in, and starts talking about "My locked cabinet
"Yes sir, your funny little three-prong power cable goes in that funny little three-prong outlet."
Hmmm, Maybe you should start selling selling your memory in bits.. You'd make more money..
(for those not paying attention, note the capitalization of MB and Gb)
Personally, I've worked with almost every type of provider that you can use. From T1's in houses and T1's and DS3's in offices/office buildings, to Gigabit uplinks in colocation facilities.
:)
Colo's are probably your best bet. The prices are cheaper, because you don't have to pay for the local loop (the line run from your local telco's closest point, to your location). You just pay the port charge, and a bit of rent for the cabinet itself. Depending on the provider, you pay for part of the cabinet that you use, or the whole thing and it's yours exclusively.
Personally, I'd only take an exclusive cabinet. You lock it up, and no one can accidently do anything. You may think it's ok, til someone accidently tugs on a loose network connection or power cable at 3am someday.
Before you move into a colo, check out their bandwidth. Do something simple like running traceroutes to a machine in that cabinet, or on the same provider as you in the colo (most colo's have multiple providers). A friend was checking out a other hosting providers, and when he ran the traceroute, he found it was like 20 hops inside the slowest provider he ever saw.
I can recommend two providers to you now, that I personally know. I've either helped them out, or worked with them in the past. They're on very good connections in good facilities.
http://www.energenesis.com
http://www.l3vip.com
Energenesis specializes is dynamic site development, and they'll host your site also, if that's what you want. They'll also do simple hostings if you want, they have no problem with that.
L3VIP specializes in large bandwidth. You can buy anything from a 10Mb/s uplink to OC/3's and GB connections. Pretty much anything you'd like. Those connections either can go to your location, or (better for you) to a colocation.
Right now, we buy bandwidth from L3VIP, and they made the arrangements and everything for our space in several colo's around the country.
I hope this helps you out.
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At least they make it easier for you in French to mess up. There's 6 ways to spell every verb.
I managed to fail French 2, 3 times in high school. At least I picked up little bits..
Care to point is towards it? I'm sure we can "adjust" it for you...
Is this another bit of Microsoft self-PR, saying that they're cheaper to run than free, again? {sigh}
:)
I'd be interested in reading the article, but it seems that their web server bit the dust. I do love the error..
---
HTTP/1.1 Server Too Busy
---
Poor guys. Couldn't fix up the web server so it could take extreme abuse, it just screams to all their potential (now lost) customers that they couldn't take the heat.
BTW, the server reports itself to be Microsoft-IIS/4.0. nmap comes up with a funky response, saying all ports are open, and can't give me a fingerprint. I suspect because of a funky firewall in the middle. Good work there..
If they'd get the article up again, I'd like to read it. I'd like to see the new logic where the cost (free > windows). As for us, we have Linux servers and workstations deployed. The most work I do to support a LInux workstation is dig into my drawer, pull out the CD and hand it to anyone who wants to use it. It's followed by the friendly offer, "Feel free to copy it." Microsoft would probably get a little upset if I handed out my 2600 edition of XP and said that.
(Note to MS Piracy police. That last part was a joke. I don't own a copy of XP, and I don't have it on a CompUSA writeable CD in my top desk drawer marked "The Devil's Work". If I did, I'd only use it as a frisbee to throw at new employees. hehe
If you'd like to investigate, I live at 1 Microsoft Way, Redmond Washington. Oh ya, and bite me. Send me one more BSA notice, and I'm sueing you for the 5 seconds it takes me to read it, laugh, and throw it away ($150k/second at my estimations))
That was too easy.. -2 points for you.
Damn. Talk about having too much time on your hands.. Is this the slowest news day yet? Couldn't someone have posted someone interesting, like about the tech required to run some of the stupid floats in those parades?
:) They'll entertain me!
Nothing on TV, nothing on Slashdot, and the only entertainment in my house is watching a turkey bake for 12 hours. I'm about ready to turn to Internet Porn, but since I work in it, that's boring too...
{sigh}
I guess I get to turn to my old friends, Alcohol and Pot.
1) Did you feel that your real life when filming Star Trek had any corelation to the relationships portrayed at the beginning of Galaxy Quest?
2) Do you believe there is any life beyond Earth? After portraying Cap't Kirk for so many years, so you think that's swayed your opinion?
3) My sister met you at the Space.Com office in New York once. All she could come up with was quick TJ Hooker question for you. You were polite, and she was happy. Now the question, is that the kind of questions you get all the time from strangers? Can you go out in public and have a good time without someone asking an old TV question of you?
I just posted a rant about this.. If you don't pay, they'll send it to collections. That means bad points on your credit history, *AND* they'll still get their money eventually (or you'll have a hard time doing anything requiring credit). $700 is worth quite a few points on a credit history. $300 managed to hold me down by like 80 points. An apartment I moved out of years ago gave me my deposit check back. Then they sent $300 to collections. I never received notification, and only found it on my credit report. It took quite a while to get a hold of someone I could pay off to get that to go away. The apartment had changed ownership, the collections agency were dicks (of course)..
It's better to pay off what they say, and warn everyone you know to stay away from them.. You won't hurt their business by not paying the $700. You'll hurt your own credit though. You *WILL* hurt their business if enough people make sure all their friends know to go somewhere else..
> I have Sprint PCS and use it all over the country >(it's 85% for when I travel). I've been pretty >happy with the service I have gotten.
I guess you haven't received your bill yet, eh? Sprint does a wonderful job at absolutley rapeing you on roaming charges.
When I had my SprintPCS phone, I worked and lived inside the city of Tampa. For a few months, I didn't leave town for anything. For the first few months, my bill was fine, and I was happy.
On about the 5th month, I failed to notice my bill was an extra $50..
On the 6th month, it was an extra $300. I called and pitched a fit at support. They made a point of disproving my phone was cloned (I didn't make that claim). The $300 was for "roaming" charges in Bradenton, Fl, about 60 miles South of Tampa. I hadn't left Tampa the whole time.
Pissed off, about a week later, I bought a Nextel phone. I changed the voicemail on my Sprint phone to say "Call me at my new number xxx-xxx-xxxx". I shut the phone off, and left it at my house.
On the 7th month, I received my Sprint bill. An extra $600 was on this one for roaming charges.. Once again, pitched an absolute fit, refused to pay, told them this was fraud, and told them to immediately cancel my service. I told them all of my calls were made in Tampa, to Tampa numbers, from either my home, office, or somewhere in between (in Tampa).
On the 8th month, I got a nice letter from Sprint. It said that my account was being sent off to collections, unless I paid $1000.. They managed to put on yet another month, where no service was used. But they said I was roaming the whole time. They were numbers I would have been calling, but since my phone was turned off at my house, and I was now using my Nextel phone, that was impossible.
I spent hours on the phone with everyone they'd transfer me to in their call center. No one was willing to recognize the fact that none of my calls were roaming. Every call was made in Tampa, on their service. Not in some other city, not roaming.
The SprintPCS service sucked too.. If the wind was blowing the wrong way, or my head wasn't leaned just the right way, I would have shitty reception. I couldn't use the phone *IN* my house, I could only use it on my porch. The reception was so weak that people couldn't usually hear me in the house.
When traveling, service was hit and miss. When I went to New York for business, I'd carry a Verizon (PrimeCo) and Sprint phone, and gave everyone both numbers to call me at.. It was intermittent which one would work. Funny thing, my Verizon phone wouldn't even work at the Verizon store. Something about how they had delegated channels, and only parts of NY were set up to handle the way they had configured my phone.
I sold the Sprint phone for $100 (I paid $400 for it), and was happy to see it go.
I gave my Verizon phone to my girlfriend. It worked very well all through Florida. When we went to Las Vegas is the only time we encountered problems. Their channel delegation doesn't work very well, so phones configured for Florida try to get onto Sprint's Network in Las Vegas. (Sweet, huh?). Verizon said we could bring the phone to a store to be reconfigured, but then it wouldn't work in Florida when we got back. Definately not worth the trouble for a 3 day vacation.
That Verizon phone got handed down to my girlfriend's brother (now ex-girlfriend), and he still using it. It's a Motorola StarTac, so it's a good phone.
I've been using Nextel for the last few years. My ex-girlfriend has an i85. My current girlfriend has another i85. I carry an i95. All the phones have free long distance, and free incoming calls.
I've only had a few minor complaints with the Nextel phones. Sometimes (very occasionally) if you change areas too quickly and the phone was turned off (like flying from Tampa to Los Angeles), when you turn it back on, it doesn't recognize being allowed in that service area. Probably some of their anti-cloning protection. A quick call to support gets that fixed right up. It's only happened twice to me, and I travel around a bit.
I have a friend that is still using a Sprint phone.. He tells me that sometimes he has to pay $100/month or so extra, just because they thought he was roaming.. He got nailed for $500 one month, going out of town for one weekend. He hasn't switched, because he wants to keep the phone number (and not having a $400 paperweight on his desk)
So, in summary to my rant:
1) Sprint sucks ass, unless you like bad reception, paying lots of extra money out, and dealing with shitty customer support.
2) Verizon is pretty good, unless you change service areas frequently.
3) Nextel is really good. The two-way radio feature is kind of annoying when out in public, but you don't have to use it.
You gotta luck out..
:) Been here about 5 years, and am not leaving soon.. hehe
BTW, I admin voyeurweb.com
You know, that domain is available..
Cool... Thanks..
:)
We've been researching and planning on making some antennas to experement with this weekend. We're looking at a pair of waveguides, and if those don't work as well as we want, we're going to turn them around and face them into a pair of parabolic dishes. One site I was reading said that they were getting roughly 35db gain on a 3 foot dish, with a short horn..
How? My apartment is about 500 feet from my office, and I've been trying to bridge them.. I can't even get them to connect at 500 feet line of site..
:)
I have nothing against the Linksys AP's, I'm just not happy with the weak antenna's that they put on. Understandably, they're designed for shorter range which is typical use.. Most normal people aren't trying to send a signal down from an office building and across a road.
Someday I'll understand Slashdot's logic.. I submitted this story 4 days ago, and it was rejected.
* 2002-11-01 04:51:41 NASA commissions book to prove moon landing really (articles,news) (rejected)
Not to be pissy about it, but if it's news worthy, and they're going to post the exact same story, why do they reject it? 4 days after I post the same thing, it gets posted by someone else.
Maybe my Karma:Good isn't good enough around here or something.. Maybe I haven't bought a banner or whatever.. {sigh} whatever.
Work Email remains property of the company. While working for the company, you are working *FOR* the company. i.e., you're not suppose to get personal stuff..
What happens at our company is when a person leaves, the mail goes into a general box. If something personal should come in, we'll usually forward it off to the person's new address, if they gave us one when leaving.. But since it's usually work stuff, it'll be handled by whoever has taken over their responsibilities..
It would be very stupid of any company to continue to send work Emails to a person no longer in the company. Imagine if the person went to work for another company in a similiar industry, now we're giving our work to that company.
For example, you work at Widgets Inc.. You take orders for widgets for us... But you decide to leave and work for Sprockets Inc, who make similiar products.. Now you'll be selling Sprockets Inc. products to the customers.. That may be good for you, but they were customers of Widgets Inc, not *YOUR* customers as an employee.
Or more like... You work for NSI.. You had personal contact with a bunch of domain owners.. Now you've moved over to BulkRegister.. Those accounts still belong to NSI, no matter where you may work.
That would be somewhere in:
/ welcome1.htm
... User unknown
... Recipient ok
18 U.S.C. 1700 Desertion of mail
18 U.S.C. 1701 Obstruction of mail generally
18 U.S.C. 1702 Obstruction of correspondence
18 U.S.C. 1703 Delay or destruction of mail or newspapers
and/or
18 U.S.C. 1708 Theft or receipt of stolen mail matter generally
http://www.usps.com/websites/depart/inspect/usc18
I have to agree with the victim in the story, it's very bad policy to just collect Email for their own uses.. If I'm an ISP, and you're a customer, when you're no longer a customer, should I collect and potentially read your personal Email? No. When you're no longer a customer, I should delete your account, and let the SMTP server handle the bonuce-backs..
This says the receiver isn't valid.
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>>> RCPT To:
>>> DATA
550 5.1.1
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This says the receiver *IS* valid.
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>>> RCPT To:
>>> DATA
250 2.1.5
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I would accept the second to receive my message and respond if they were interested. The first will generate an error in my box, where I'll know to contact them in other ways..
As far as the job opprotunity was concerned, she didn't respond because she wasn't interested. And that's the ISP's fault for accepting the Email for a closed account. I don't know that it should be a law, but if that's what it takes to get ISP's to fix their flawed policies, so be it.
In the good ol' days, Vinny and the boys would have just had a talk with him. They woulda taken the cash back, roughed him up a little, and dropped him off a bridge in 'Jersey for a little swim with the fishes.. (cement shoes not optional).
:)
Oh the good ol' day..
How come I get a 404 for slashdot.org?
:)
Just kidding.
>> Why pay uberbucks for Solaris on x86 instead of
:)
>> using Slackware or OpenBSD for free?
>Its like when you continue to drive your 1988
>Cutlass, which is in the shop for repairs every
>other week, when your brand new prowler sits in the
>garage gathering dust.
So, Slackware would be the Prowler, and Slowaris would be the Gutless?
We've finally converted all of our Solaris machines to Slackware. Slackware seriously outperforms Solaris on the same machines. I'm talking identical. We'd copy off the client data, and install Slackware.