(Disclaimer: I've been a Speakeasy customer for ten years.)
I never got the advertised speed out of them for what I was paying. My business was close to the CO, but when I'd complain their answer would always be "Replace the wire going from the pole into your building"
Why should I have to do that? I'm old, I hurt when I fall. NO thanks.
Your responsibility for wiring ends at your NID; if there's a problem on the telco side of the NID, it's the telco's responsibility to deal with it (because they own all the wiring up to your NID). The Speakeasy rep probably shouldn't have recommended you haul out the ladder; he should have suggested you call your telco and have them check their line.
You don't mention what percentage of "advertised speed" you actually get, so I can't really comment on whether you have a valid complaint. ADSL circuits are almost always spec'ed as "best effort", and there is no guarantee at all that your circuit will perform at that speed. If your line is such that it comes nowhere near the advertised speed, the DSL provider will generally be willing to downgrade your package to match your observed speed. (Or you can nag the telco to fix your line.)
(My current circuit is spec'ed as a 6.0/1.5, which is pretty much what I observe, despite my being 9500' from my CO.)
That sent me through the "compilor" (their word, not mine)
IIRC, their word for the TUTOR compilation process was "condensing". (Or, if you wrote code like mine, "condemning".)
I heartily agree with your comments on the PLATO authoring environment -- for a line-oriented editor, the environment totally rocked for code development and testing... I wish Eclipse was that fast.
you know it's bad when a company that was founded in your city over 100 years ago packs up shop without even giving the host city/state a chance to appease them.
APPEASE THEM? Dayton and Ohio have probably given them tax incentives and other "appeasements" out the freaking ass over those 100 years, and NCR is looking for more "appeasement"? I think the situation is more like NCR giving that municipal neck one last squeeze and not getting any signs of life back.
I've seen that happen innumerable times with the Governmental Trifecta from Hell (City of Chicago, County of Cook, State of Illinois), all of which have a rich history of shoveling out tax dollars to private corporations who whine about it being too expensive to do business here and threaten to pull their jobs out of the area. What happens after that, of course (usually about a week after the last check clears), is that said private corporations load up the trucks and pull their jobs out of the area and let the government clean up their garbage.
Also, in response to your comment about resetting the CMOS, they have a button that does that on the case (behind a little plastic door so you don't accidentally hit it).
Yeah, wouldn't do to accidentally scram your desktop.
Incidentally, the cooling liquid isn't an "oil" at all. It's one of 3M's Novec engineered fluids, probably HFE-7500, which is 3-ethoxy-1,1,1,2,3,4,4,5,5,6,6,6-dodecafluoro-2-trifluoromethyl-hexane. It's usable for cooling up to 150C, nonflammable, does not irritate skin, does not contribute to global warming, ozone depletion, or smog, and the MSDS even says "Ingestion: no health effects are expected". 3M developed it as a replacement for PCBs and perfluorocarbons like Fluorinert. So it can be used safely by the idiots who overclock.
Well, what the hell good is it if you can't fry doughnuts (today's captcha: wholly) in the fluid reservoir? Not only are you not getting any high-calorie, high-transfat chocolate-frostable ambrosia, it also implies that you can't overclock your machine worth a damn.
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(Disclaimer: I've been a Speakeasy customer for ten years.)
Your responsibility for wiring ends at your NID; if there's a problem on the telco side of the NID, it's the telco's responsibility to deal with it (because they own all the wiring up to your NID). The Speakeasy rep probably shouldn't have recommended you haul out the ladder; he should have suggested you call your telco and have them check their line.
You don't mention what percentage of "advertised speed" you actually get, so I can't really comment on whether you have a valid complaint. ADSL circuits are almost always spec'ed as "best effort", and there is no guarantee at all that your circuit will perform at that speed. If your line is such that it comes nowhere near the advertised speed, the DSL provider will generally be willing to downgrade your package to match your observed speed. (Or you can nag the telco to fix your line.)
(My current circuit is spec'ed as a 6.0/1.5, which is pretty much what I observe, despite my being 9500' from my CO.)
That sent me through the "compilor" (their word, not mine)
IIRC, their word for the TUTOR compilation process was "condensing". (Or, if you wrote code like mine, "condemning".)
I heartily agree with your comments on the PLATO authoring environment -- for a line-oriented editor, the environment totally rocked for code development and testing... I wish Eclipse was that fast.
Isn't that clever. I saw the link target, clicked it anyway, and all I got was a Google search-results page.
Maybe it's me, maybe it's my browser config, but that "clever trick" is Fail City over here.
Here's your solution -- keep your keyrings, etc. in a sporran.
Also gives you a great excuse to wear a kilt and calf-length socks.
NASCAR permits right turns.
Yes, it means you're getting old. On the plus side, your memory appears to be in great shape.
On the minus side, you've only got 64K.
And right after gay marriage, we legalize and tax being a snoopy meddler and spend the revenue on a public STFU campaign.
Would leaky electrolytic capacitors count?
APPEASE THEM? Dayton and Ohio have probably given them tax incentives and other "appeasements" out the freaking ass over those 100 years, and NCR is looking for more "appeasement"? I think the situation is more like NCR giving that municipal neck one last squeeze and not getting any signs of life back.
I've seen that happen innumerable times with the Governmental Trifecta from Hell (City of Chicago, County of Cook, State of Illinois), all of which have a rich history of shoveling out tax dollars to private corporations who whine about it being too expensive to do business here and threaten to pull their jobs out of the area. What happens after that, of course (usually about a week after the last check clears), is that said private corporations load up the trucks and pull their jobs out of the area and let the government clean up their garbage.
Appeasement my ass.
ORRIN HATCH is a modern US Republican? Orrin Hatch is Kim Jong-Il on skis.
Either you're still running thicknet, or have your savings sunk into Monster Cable stock.
They are the seeds of the internet. You plant some and sprinkle them with bits. Eventually they grow into a huge series of tubes.
Sort of like kudzu.
If someone doesn't believe in religious freedom, what are they doing in this country?
Evangelizing.
Build up those ears a bit and you've got it made with the Trekkie crowd.
So how long does it take that centaur to login?
The most important feature is the new mascot, Tuz.
And here I was thinking we were going to get a new, faster, slimmed-down penguin.
World Wide Web (invented at CERN) != Internet (invented by Al Gore).
That'd make one king hell of a bass boat, I'll tell you what.
Just think of where computer science would be without Mad Magazine...
Then I go home and pop open a bottle of XX.
Dude, ya gotta take those Illinois plates off when you go north of the Cheddar Curtain.
Either that, or put a Packers decal in your window.
Not if you're running SL/IX, you won't.
Yeah, wouldn't do to accidentally scram your desktop.
Well, what the hell good is it if you can't fry doughnuts (today's captcha: wholly) in the fluid reservoir? Not only are you not getting any high-calorie, high-transfat chocolate-frostable ambrosia, it also implies that you can't overclock your machine worth a damn.
Sorta puts a new spin on the term "backporting", don't it.