I charge $50 X Hr for home users and $80 X Hr for Businesses. The difference is because my business customers demand much faster response, and often require much more non-billable time doing things like prepairing proposals etc. My rate is a little low, but I bill for all of my time. I used to discount my time, but I have found that it is easier to give the customer a break on hardware. For some reason people seem to value you less if you give away your time. This is what I do full time, so I can't afford to not charge. I spent 15 min on the phone today talking a client through connecting to their VPN and setting up a remote desktop. It would be easy not to charge for it, but when you get ten calls a day with things like "I held the shift key down for too long and now my computer is all messed up" you end up not billing half of your day. I keep a spreadsheet for each client on my desktop and a notepad in my pocket. As soon as I get off a call, the time gets added to the weeks billing and at the end of each week I invoice.
I just installed three XP Pro boxes from Dell for a client of mine and am now in the position of having to bill them an hour for spyware removal on their new boxes. What the hell is Dell thinking?
What you want is a passive repeater. Of course it would also repeat wifi as they are quite close (2.4 vs 1.9) If you know where the closest cell tower is you could do a directional passive repeater and aim it at the cell phone tower.
Perhaps they printed their own recipts with the right item and price. I did this once at best Buy when I needed a recipt for a cell phone that I had bought the stupid insurance for. The reciept had faded to the point where it was hardly legible. They told me it wasn't valid because they couldn't read it. I went home and printed a new recipt with a thermal printer and took it to another store where they replaced my phone.
Some Compaq Deskpros are like this. They keep part of the BIOS on the hard disk. Once you throw a Linux install on them, it overwrites the BIOS sector on the hard drive and it is quite a pain to reinstall as you can no longer get into whatever bits of bios remain. Wasn't a problem till boot images started getting too big for a floppy a-la FC2 and 3.
"I wonder if people have simply given up any notion of privacy," said Budapest-based security consultant Yanos Kovas. "In Hungary, many people who grew up under communist rule came to accept government interference in every aspect of their lives as inescapable. They were too tired to fight anymore, so they convinced themselves that communism was OK and even a benefit.
I had to read the entire thread at -1 looking for:
"In Soviet Russia... Spyware gives up on you"
or
"I wonder if spyware has given up any notion of intelligent users" said Baltimore-based network consultant Carl Peterson. In Soviet Russia, many programs developed under communist rule came to accept user incompetents in every aspect of their execution as inescapable. They were too numb to hide anymore, so they convinced themselves that stupid users were OK and even a benefit.
We have them in the Whole Foods, Also known as the "Bendover Boutique", The place you go because you want other people to see you paying twice as much for eggs because they come from free range lesbian chickens. On a more serious note, this is the only place I have seen them work well. The ones at Home Depot are a pain.
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1. "Hmmm, I wonder how far I can get from the office, and still be connected to the network..." And you can tell its YOUR network how?
If you set your SSID to linksys you can go rather far. I was doing some consulting work for a company last week who had their ssid set to linksys... Wide open. Sometimes they could connect to the internet but not their Exchange server on the local network... wonder why. Anyway, I set my laptop to connect to "linksys" and was running netstumbeler. I left the laptop on for the ride home. getting back to the Jabali, I discovered that not only was I still connected, but netstumbeler showed a good connection for the entire drive back.
Hmm, Seing as we can have "laws" which make it illegal to fast forward through a commercial on your device, it seems it would be a trivial matter to make it illegal for you to do this on your DNS server or with your hosts file...
You can push 1.5/1.5 over a good DSL line without any problem. You could also give away as many static IPs as you want, but you couldn't get the voice lines. Also, the distance that you can push a DSL line is much shorter then for a T1. A T1 is just a pair of wires on which you own all the channels. It will cost you about 150 a month here in Baltimore. That's just for the loop, No bandwidth included.
Further marginalize the mom and pop ISP? What this does is enable the "mom and pop" ISP. If you are in the busness of providing bandwidth to end users and haven't looked at 802.16, your not much of an ISP. Unless you have fiber to every customer in your area, you should be looking at ways to get more bandwith to your customers. If you don't do it, someone else will. Hopefully me.
I haven't had a pots line in seven years, but I guess if you wanted one you could write a dialplan to route 911 and local calls over the FXO card. BTW the card mentioned in the inital post has a "pass through" port which the pots line can pass through even with the asterisk box off. It would be nice to have a pots line for testing but I normaly loop one of my FXS ports back to the FXO port and then route X trafic that way for testing.
That's an FXO card which hooks up to a standard pots line. You would also need a voip phone or an FXS card which you can plug a standard phone into. For a home system you don't realy need a FXO card because it is unlikly that you would want to pay for a pots line to route local calls.
Wi-Max, also known by the rfc 802.16, uses somthing like Orthagional Frequency Devisional Multiplexing. These big words give it the ability to do near non line of sight or at least thats what the guys from redline are trying to sell me on at 13Gs per link. A sat uplink has huge latency and costs loads of cash for a fat pipe. 802.16 can push 30-40 Mb/sec of real data over a 10+ mile link. OF course 802.16 isn't finalized yet so there are a bunch of different versions of it out there which may or may not work with each other and may or may not work with new gear in the future. I am geting by using 802.11g for my backhaul and am going to hold off on buying any 802.16 gear till the spec is final and the prices come down. At that point I will start to move the G gear out and use it for customer links.
I don't know what your floors are made of, but right now I am connected to one of my APs which is on top of a building two buildings away and three floors up. The AP is a Seneao CBS+ Deluxe with an 8dbi omni on it. I have a 200mw Seneao card in my laptop on this end. No problem ever. Customers (I sell bandwith) within a one block radius get a cb3, in bridge mode, inside near their computer and customers up to 1.5 miles away get an outdoor mounted 14dbi rootenna with the same cb3 inside of it. A cb3+ deluxe (the deluxe model works in AP mode also) will run you about $115 from wisp-router.com. If you want more gain, add a six dbi antenna available from hyperlinktech. Because you are trying to push your signal up and not out, I wouldn't recomend using an antenna over 8dbi.
Get an ia1 off of ebay for $40 and put midori on it with a WUS11 usb wirless adapter (ver 2.5). Nice small fanless box from which you can check your email, browse the web, or even stream mp3s off your network. Total cost is well under $100.
In my neighborhood you walk outside to take a break and go get a cup of coffie and end up sitting out on the pier with friends or sitting on the corner drinking a glass of wine and barbecuing as I did tonight. Of course this isn't so good for the work flow, but I wouldnt have any of the work if I didn't meet all the people that I meet while walking around. It helps that we have the Jabali which is sort of like a comunity living room. Where is this place? Fells Point, located on the harbor in Baltimore. Where the college years never end.
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I charge $50 X Hr for home users and $80 X Hr for Businesses. The difference is because my business customers demand much faster response, and often require much more non-billable time doing things like prepairing proposals etc. My rate is a little low, but I bill for all of my time. I used to discount my time, but I have found that it is easier to give the customer a break on hardware. For some reason people seem to value you less if you give away your time. This is what I do full time, so I can't afford to not charge. I spent 15 min on the phone today talking a client through connecting to their VPN and setting up a remote desktop. It would be easy not to charge for it, but when you get ten calls a day with things like "I held the shift key down for too long and now my computer is all messed up" you end up not billing half of your day. I keep a spreadsheet for each client on my desktop and a notepad in my pocket. As soon as I get off a call, the time gets added to the weeks billing and at the end of each week I invoice.
I just installed three XP Pro boxes from Dell for a client of mine and am now in the position of having to bill them an hour for spyware removal on their new boxes. What the hell is Dell thinking?
CP
What you want is a passive repeater. Of course it would also repeat wifi as they are quite close (2.4 vs 1.9) If you know where the closest cell tower is you could do a directional passive repeater and aim it at the cell phone tower.
How can they claim "WiFi Certified" at the begining of the advert for a "pre-n" product. Is this even legal?
If you think it could easily be cheaper, produce it, undercut the competition, and make a killing.
/. what I ment to say was:
Wait, this is
1. Produce cheap soy milk
2. Sell it under cost. "practically free" (You can make up for this in volume)
3. ???
4. Profit
Our four weapons are Supplies, fear and an almost fanatical devotion to the pope.
Perhaps they printed their own recipts with the right item and price. I did this once at best Buy when I needed a recipt for a cell phone that I had bought the stupid insurance for. The reciept had faded to the point where it was hardly legible. They told me it wasn't valid because they couldn't read it. I went home and printed a new recipt with a thermal printer and took it to another store where they replaced my phone.
Post it to /. we'll read anything.
... I thought this was a chat room.
Read? Press Release?
Some Compaq Deskpros are like this. They keep part of the BIOS on the hard disk. Once you throw a Linux install on them, it overwrites the BIOS sector on the hard drive and it is quite a pain to reinstall as you can no longer get into whatever bits of bios remain. Wasn't a problem till boot images started getting too big for a floppy a-la FC2 and 3.
I was wondering what brought me this early Christmass present. A client of mine included the following in an email he sent me this morning.
3) I'd like to get your thoughts on whether we should migrate over to
Foxfire from Microsoft IE internally.
As with everything, I need to let them know the benifits and drawbacks of any software change. Can anyone think of drawbacks?
I think the more puzzling issue is plumbing
This is done with a slip ring or a series of slip rings inside of each other. A quick search brings up Slip Rings
CP
After I saw this.
"I wonder if people have simply given up any notion of privacy," said Budapest-based security consultant Yanos Kovas. "In Hungary, many people who grew up under communist rule came to accept government interference in every aspect of their lives as inescapable. They were too tired to fight anymore, so they convinced themselves that communism was OK and even a benefit.
I had to read the entire thread at -1 looking for:
"In Soviet Russia...
Spyware gives up on you"
or
"I wonder if spyware has given up any notion of intelligent users" said Baltimore-based network consultant Carl Peterson. In Soviet Russia, many programs developed under communist rule came to accept user incompetents in every aspect of their execution as inescapable. They were too numb to hide anymore, so they convinced themselves that stupid users were OK and even a benefit.
Of course the reference was on the second page...
We have them in the Whole Foods, Also known as the "Bendover Boutique", The place you go because you want other people to see you paying twice as much for eggs because they come from free range lesbian chickens. On a more serious note, this is the only place I have seen them work well. The ones at Home Depot are a pain.
Yeah...
"This copy of photoshop cracked by reallock()"
1. "Hmmm, I wonder how far I can get from the office, and still be connected to the network..."
And you can tell its YOUR network how?
If you set your SSID to linksys you can go rather far. I was doing some consulting work for a company last week who had their ssid set to linksys... Wide open. Sometimes they could connect to the internet but not their Exchange server on the local network... wonder why. Anyway, I set my laptop to connect to "linksys" and was running netstumbeler. I left the laptop on for the ride home. getting back to the Jabali, I discovered that not only was I still connected, but netstumbeler showed a good connection for the entire drive back.
Hmm, Seing as we can have "laws" which make it illegal to fast forward through a commercial on your device, it seems it would be a trivial matter to make it illegal for you to do this on your DNS server or with your hosts file...
You can push 1.5/1.5 over a good DSL line without any problem. You could also give away as many static IPs as you want, but you couldn't get the voice lines. Also, the distance that you can push a DSL line is much shorter then for a T1. A T1 is just a pair of wires on which you own all the channels. It will cost you about 150 a month here in Baltimore. That's just for the loop, No bandwidth included.
CP
Further marginalize the mom and pop ISP? What this does is enable the "mom and pop" ISP. If you are in the busness of providing bandwidth to end users and haven't looked at 802.16, your not much of an ISP. Unless you have fiber to every customer in your area, you should be looking at ways to get more bandwith to your customers. If you don't do it, someone else will. Hopefully me.
CP
This thread is a little dead, but a primary purpose of their setup was to push live content upstream. Possible with 30-90 kb/s but not much fun.
I haven't had a pots line in seven years, but I guess if you wanted one you could write a dialplan to route 911 and local calls over the FXO card. BTW the card mentioned in the inital post has a "pass through" port which the pots line can pass through even with the asterisk box off. It would be nice to have a pots line for testing but I normaly loop one of my FXS ports back to the FXO port and then route X trafic that way for testing.
That's an FXO card which hooks up to a standard pots line. You would also need a voip phone or an FXS card which you can plug a standard phone into. For a home system you don't realy need a FXO card because it is unlikly that you would want to pay for a pots line to route local calls.
CP
Wi-Max, also known by the rfc 802.16, uses somthing like Orthagional Frequency Devisional Multiplexing. These big words give it the ability to do near non line of sight or at least thats what the guys from redline are trying to sell me on at 13Gs per link. A sat uplink has huge latency and costs loads of cash for a fat pipe. 802.16 can push 30-40 Mb/sec of real data over a 10+ mile link. OF course 802.16 isn't finalized yet so there are a bunch of different versions of it out there which may or may not work with each other and may or may not work with new gear in the future. I am geting by using 802.11g for my backhaul and am going to hold off on buying any 802.16 gear till the spec is final and the prices come down. At that point I will start to move the G gear out and use it for customer links.
CP
I don't know what your floors are made of, but right now I am connected to one of my APs which is on top of a building two buildings away and three floors up. The AP is a Seneao CBS+ Deluxe with an 8dbi omni on it. I have a 200mw Seneao card in my laptop on this end. No problem ever. Customers (I sell bandwith) within a one block radius get a cb3, in bridge mode, inside near their computer and customers up to 1.5 miles away get an outdoor mounted 14dbi rootenna with the same cb3 inside of it. A cb3+ deluxe (the deluxe model works in AP mode also) will run you about $115 from wisp-router.com. If you want more gain, add a six dbi antenna available from hyperlinktech. Because you are trying to push your signal up and not out, I wouldn't recomend using an antenna over 8dbi.
CP
Get an ia1 off of ebay for $40 and put midori on it with a WUS11 usb wirless adapter (ver 2.5). Nice small fanless box from which you can check your email, browse the web, or even stream mp3s off your network. Total cost is well under $100.
In my neighborhood you walk outside to take a break and go get a cup of coffie and end up sitting out on the pier with friends or sitting on the corner drinking a glass of wine and barbecuing as I did tonight. Of course this isn't so good for the work flow, but I wouldnt have any of the work if I didn't meet all the people that I meet while walking around. It helps that we have the Jabali which is sort of like a comunity living room. Where is this place? Fells Point, located on the harbor in Baltimore. Where the college years never end.