Oh, that's right-it's been long dead and buried....
One thing that I still do use every day (and they're getting harder to find) is a serial port. Part of my job involves rescuing devices that end users have trashed-and the way I do that is with a serial rescue. It wipes the memory clean and then loads a fresh copy of the firmware. Simple, fast and clean.
Problem is, that we're DUMBER today then the eariler generation, see WE let Bush get away with being a crook-over and over and over!
THEY threw the(ir) bum OUT!
When I lived in RI, Verizon bent over backwards to make my DSL work properly. First a technician spent half a day in a bucket truck removing bridged tap. Then another tech. installed an outside POTS/DSL splitter. Then they sent me a different DSL modem. After all this they did get my over 16,000 foot DSL circuit working well at 1500/384. After a month the speed nosedived and my phone got noisy. They fixed both in less than a day. The irony was that they told me if I had lived 1/2 a mile further away from the CO, I could have had 3000/768 speeds via a remote terminal.
Here in Hollywood, I have AT&T for my ILEC.:( I also have DSL here. There are two drops to my apartment from the C.O. (the former tenent had two phones). One measures 5300 feet, the other over 10,000 feet. Guess which one they put my phone and DSL on? You guessed it, the 10,000+ foot one! As a result the fastest DSL speed I can get is 3000/512, when the other line qualifies for 6000/768! Will AT&T Help me one bit? NOOOO! It would take them about five minutes to move everything over to the 'better' line (completely in software-no hardware work needed), yet they simply refuse.
The TSA is a multi billion dollar joke! Its sole function is to make the flying public feel good about flying-that something is being done about security. Do you really think that having two people located ten feet apart, both checking the same picture ID makes flying safer?
My 3 year old daughter wanted some food on a layover at the Portland (OR) airport, so her mother took her for some. The food court is out of the "sterile" area, and when they tried to get back through security, the refused to let ma daughter back in because the MORON TSA ID screener at the earlier airport had marked her ticket in the wrong place. They actually held my daughter! My wife called me on the cell phone crying. I had to take our 1 year old and all our luggage to the TSA security counter. They still wouldn't let her in and actually threatened me-until I walked over to a nearby pay phone and loudly asked directory assistance for the phone number of the Portland CBS TV station's news room. Then, they finally relented.
TV channels 2-6 will be the biggest waste of spectrum in the history of broadcasting. Within the continental USA, there will be 29 DTV stations in this 30 mHz of prime spectrum. There will not be a single channel six in the entire state of California! There will be five channel sixes in the entire eastern half of the USA! This utter waste of spectrum is appaling!
Shouldn't Ford be worrying more about dropping to #3 in sales (behind GM and Toyota) then worrying about a stupid calendar?
GET YOUR PRIORITIES TOGETHER, STUPID FORD!!!
A couple of years ago I was in San Francisco. I needed to check my email and there was an open access point. After checking mail, I checked "My Network Places". Their ENTIRE network was a big file share and it was WIDE OPEN! This was a medical facility and there were hundreds of patient records right there. I got out of there as fast as I couod and never went near there again!
With the "shoot the messinger" attitude out there these days, who in their right mind wants to be the messinger?
It was Mosaic, not Mozilla. Mozilla came years later....and then kind if evelved into Firefox (though the Mozilla browser is still being developed as well). Thanks for correcting me:)
I bought Netscape 1 for Windows 3.1 at Comp USA for 35 bucks many years ago. It came on one floppy disk. BOY was it better then Mozilla! Then version 2 came, which they charged you to download (I think it was ten bucks if you were upgrading). Then from Netscape 3 on, it became free. I used Netscape 3 for quite a long time. It was far better then Internet Explorer-until IE 4.something came out that blew it way.
I still have that original floppy about somewhere.
The tech decided to "test" the new DVD burner by burning some of the guy's porn onto a DVD so he could take it home and add it to HIS stash! He likely found the kiddy porn amoong all the other porn on the guy's computer. In other words, the tech WENT LOOKING for porn on the guy's computer....just like he looks for the porn on EVERY customer's computer! I'd wager that the techs at Circuit City have the BEST porn collections out there for this very reason!
What do you expect? Bush BENDS OVER for big business! He could care about the 'little guy'-they don't bribe him! His Justice Dept. is stacked with hand picked cronies. It's a surprise to you that they think as he does?
Apparently, Halliburton has been doing a major stockpiling of this venom.
The Republicans see this as a way to win next year. They plan to sting all Democrats in the brain, then walk them docily to the polling places where they will vote for the Republican candidate.
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I leave my connection open and my SSID reads "Use but dont abuse". At any given time, there are 10 MAC addresses in my DHCP log (I have 4 devices total). From what I can tell, NO ONE abuses the connection. One person (my elderly neighbor) uses it to email her kids and grandkids. What's wrong with that? I always have the bandwidth I need, and will continue to leave it open. By the way, only one other AP in this area is open. It's SSID is: Linksys.
One other closed AP has the SSID: "Free Ride Is Over".
I live in a community. Leaving my AP open benefits others within my community without adversely affecting me.
In the United States, it USED to mean that people have the DUTY to fight/ignore/snub their noses at oppressive laws that turn millions of citizens into lawbreakers. Of course, that was before the widespread usage of designer legistation, where corporations (through their BRIBING-OOPS, I meant lobbying- of public officials) decide what should be legal.
I'm not sure it even exists today among the brainless robotiod trolls that the average American has become.....
Pay there is DROPPING about 5% a year-both in actual pay and in the amount of responsibility for the same pay. As (clueless) broadcasting groups buy more stations, they expect the existing tech. staff to assume the burden of the extra work-with no more pay or assistance.
The pay used to work out to about $15K per station. Then it dropped to 12K. Now it's at about $9K, which means that the average radio broadcast engineer makes about $60K for servicing 7 stations. This many stations means that all he's doing is running around putting out fires all the time.
They "Classified" it so no one can see their unlawful activities and call them on it. How perfect! Break the law and then "Classify" the proof of the crime.
WE paid for those lines, NOT the telcos. WE paid through government grants to the telcos, through Tax breaks, through their free use of the public rights of way and through HUGE (over)charges until de-regulation was ordered back in the '80's. Now, YOU have no problem with things going back to the '70's? Has it come to your attention that this ruling allows telcos to block VOIP traffic? But you're okay with that because it's THEIR network, right? Did you see that AT&T is the newest company to sue Vonage for infringing on their (fair use stolen) patents? Why do you think they want to do this? BECAUSE THEY WANT TOTAL CONTROL BACK SO THEY CAN CHARGE US THROUGH THE NOSE AGAIN!!!! They WANT things back like they were in the '70's and earlier and with the help of the Republican controlled FCC they WILL GET THAT! Do you think it's coincidence that virtually EVERY anti-consumer FCC decision is 3-2? (hint: there are 3 Republican FCC Commissioners).
But you WANT to pay 50 cents a minute for long distance calls...RIGHT??? You WANT to pay by the byte for Internet service...RIGHT???
That's alright with you-RIGHT????
Well, it ain't okay with me!!!
I can see this easily happening! Bush ALWAYS wanted to make the USA a police state! 9/11 simply gave him the REASON to! History will not be kind to shrub!
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Oh, that's right-it's been long dead and buried....
One thing that I still do use every day (and they're getting harder to find) is a serial port. Part of my job involves rescuing devices that end users have trashed-and the way I do that is with a serial rescue. It wipes the memory clean and then loads a fresh copy of the firmware. Simple, fast and clean.
Problem is, that we're DUMBER today then the eariler generation, see WE let Bush get away with being a crook-over and over and over! THEY threw the(ir) bum OUT!
When I lived in RI, Verizon bent over backwards to make my DSL work properly. First a technician spent half a day in a bucket truck removing bridged tap. Then another tech. installed an outside POTS/DSL splitter. Then they sent me a different DSL modem. After all this they did get my over 16,000 foot DSL circuit working well at 1500/384. After a month the speed nosedived and my phone got noisy. They fixed both in less than a day. The irony was that they told me if I had lived 1/2 a mile further away from the CO, I could have had 3000/768 speeds via a remote terminal.
Here in Hollywood, I have AT&T for my ILEC. :( I also have DSL here. There are two drops to my apartment from the C.O. (the former tenent had two phones). One measures 5300 feet, the other over 10,000 feet. Guess which one they put my phone and DSL on? You guessed it, the 10,000+ foot one! As a result the fastest DSL speed I can get is 3000/512, when the other line qualifies for 6000/768! Will AT&T Help me one bit? NOOOO! It would take them about five minutes to move everything over to the 'better' line (completely in software-no hardware work needed), yet they simply refuse.
Verizon = GOOD! AT&T = BADDDDD!
The TSA is a multi billion dollar joke! Its sole function is to make the flying public feel good about flying-that something is being done about security. Do you really think that having two people located ten feet apart, both checking the same picture ID makes flying safer? My 3 year old daughter wanted some food on a layover at the Portland (OR) airport, so her mother took her for some. The food court is out of the "sterile" area, and when they tried to get back through security, the refused to let ma daughter back in because the MORON TSA ID screener at the earlier airport had marked her ticket in the wrong place. They actually held my daughter! My wife called me on the cell phone crying. I had to take our 1 year old and all our luggage to the TSA security counter. They still wouldn't let her in and actually threatened me-until I walked over to a nearby pay phone and loudly asked directory assistance for the phone number of the Portland CBS TV station's news room. Then, they finally relented.
TV channels 2-6 will be the biggest waste of spectrum in the history of broadcasting. Within the continental USA, there will be 29 DTV stations in this 30 mHz of prime spectrum. There will not be a single channel six in the entire state of California! There will be five channel sixes in the entire eastern half of the USA! This utter waste of spectrum is appaling!
Shouldn't Ford be worrying more about dropping to #3 in sales (behind GM and Toyota) then worrying about a stupid calendar? GET YOUR PRIORITIES TOGETHER, STUPID FORD!!!
A couple of years ago I was in San Francisco. I needed to check my email and there was an open access point. After checking mail, I checked "My Network Places". Their ENTIRE network was a big file share and it was WIDE OPEN! This was a medical facility and there were hundreds of patient records right there. I got out of there as fast as I couod and never went near there again! With the "shoot the messinger" attitude out there these days, who in their right mind wants to be the messinger?
It was Mosaic, not Mozilla. Mozilla came years later....and then kind if evelved into Firefox (though the Mozilla browser is still being developed as well). Thanks for correcting me :)
I bought Netscape 1 for Windows 3.1 at Comp USA for 35 bucks many years ago. It came on one floppy disk. BOY was it better then Mozilla! Then version 2 came, which they charged you to download (I think it was ten bucks if you were upgrading). Then from Netscape 3 on, it became free. I used Netscape 3 for quite a long time. It was far better then Internet Explorer-until IE 4.something came out that blew it way. I still have that original floppy about somewhere.
Well, is it?
The tech decided to "test" the new DVD burner by burning some of the guy's porn onto a DVD so he could take it home and add it to HIS stash! He likely found the kiddy porn amoong all the other porn on the guy's computer. In other words, the tech WENT LOOKING for porn on the guy's computer....just like he looks for the porn on EVERY customer's computer! I'd wager that the techs at Circuit City have the BEST porn collections out there for this very reason!
What do you expect? Bush BENDS OVER for big business! He could care about the 'little guy'-they don't bribe him! His Justice Dept. is stacked with hand picked cronies. It's a surprise to you that they think as he does?
Apparently, Halliburton has been doing a major stockpiling of this venom. The Republicans see this as a way to win next year. They plan to sting all Democrats in the brain, then walk them docily to the polling places where they will vote for the Republican candidate.
It's my understanding that Sprint and Verizon phones are 100% technically compatible. Can I now cancel Sprint and sign my phone up with Verizon?
Damn thing had a pink bunny beating a bass drum on the side!!!???
It seems to me that there's LOTS of prior art out there!
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I leave my connection open and my SSID reads "Use but dont abuse". At any given time, there are 10 MAC addresses in my DHCP log (I have 4 devices total). From what I can tell, NO ONE abuses the connection. One person (my elderly neighbor) uses it to email her kids and grandkids. What's wrong with that? I always have the bandwidth I need, and will continue to leave it open. By the way, only one other AP in this area is open. It's SSID is: Linksys.
One other closed AP has the SSID: "Free Ride Is Over".
I live in a community. Leaving my AP open benefits others within my community without adversely affecting me.In the United States, it USED to mean that people have the DUTY to fight/ignore/snub their noses at oppressive laws that turn millions of citizens into lawbreakers. Of course, that was before the widespread usage of designer legistation, where corporations (through their BRIBING-OOPS, I meant lobbying- of public officials) decide what should be legal. I'm not sure it even exists today among the brainless robotiod trolls that the average American has become.....
Pay there is DROPPING about 5% a year-both in actual pay and in the amount of responsibility for the same pay. As (clueless) broadcasting groups buy more stations, they expect the existing tech. staff to assume the burden of the extra work-with no more pay or assistance. The pay used to work out to about $15K per station. Then it dropped to 12K. Now it's at about $9K, which means that the average radio broadcast engineer makes about $60K for servicing 7 stations. This many stations means that all he's doing is running around putting out fires all the time.
Sounds like they learned it from George Bush.
'Cause that sure seems to be what IBM is doing!
WE paid for those lines, NOT the telcos. WE paid through government grants to the telcos, through Tax breaks, through their free use of the public rights of way and through HUGE (over)charges until de-regulation was ordered back in the '80's. Now, YOU have no problem with things going back to the '70's? Has it come to your attention that this ruling allows telcos to block VOIP traffic? But you're okay with that because it's THEIR network, right? Did you see that AT&T is the newest company to sue Vonage for infringing on their (fair use stolen) patents? Why do you think they want to do this? BECAUSE THEY WANT TOTAL CONTROL BACK SO THEY CAN CHARGE US THROUGH THE NOSE AGAIN!!!! They WANT things back like they were in the '70's and earlier and with the help of the Republican controlled FCC they WILL GET THAT! Do you think it's coincidence that virtually EVERY anti-consumer FCC decision is 3-2? (hint: there are 3 Republican FCC Commissioners). But you WANT to pay 50 cents a minute for long distance calls...RIGHT??? You WANT to pay by the byte for Internet service...RIGHT??? That's alright with you-RIGHT???? Well, it ain't okay with me!!!
It's a feature!
I can see this easily happening! Bush ALWAYS wanted to make the USA a police state! 9/11 simply gave him the REASON to! History will not be kind to shrub!