Try Sigalert.com. I had an account with them about 18 months ago when it was a free service, and now there's a nominal fee... $2.95 per month.
When you create your account, you can configure your route on the freeways, and the times in which you travel. Sigalert will send an email to you during your specified travel times advising you of hazards along your route. They also claim to be WAP friendly so you can check with a wireless device (not having a WAP-enabled phone, I can't verify).
I don't pay for the service, but I check their free real-time maps before leaving for my commute to work or to home.
I can't help but wonder why mp3.com went under. It could have been the Hummer, or the Harley, or the Aerons -- sure, it could have been a combination of everything.
But could you really expect anything from a company that can't even tell time.?!?!
Last I checked, there was only a 3 hour difference between San Diego and NY.
Obviously a joke, but is the new line for marketing Linux in the mainstream going to be:
Linux -- so easy to use, even a woman can do it!
Or better yet:
If it's your hardware, ask your teenager for support. If it's your OS, as your wife.
AT&T is charging the most, on average, among the cell carriers. Something like $1.75 per month. With 26 million subscribers, collecting charges for the last 12 months...you do the math.
Step 1: Charge $1.75 per month for LNP changes, all the while bitching and comlaining about how difficult it will be to implement
Right now, you're stuck with the local service area.
I know it's offtopic, but it would be nice for this to eventually evolve into something like VOIP. I have Vonage, which allows me to take my number with me wherever I go. If I move to another state, I keep the same number. For $5 per month (each), I can get a local number as an alias to my main line. So my family can continue to call me and not pay for LD charges (they make a local call) and I still get a local number in the new city/state.
Hell, I can even carry the bridge (and a phone) with me and plug it in anywhere I can find a network drop/hotspot--plug in and make/receive phone calls. (I did this on a recent business trip, where I was lucky enough to get high-speed access in room. I plugged in the phone bridge and a cheap phone I brought with me, and was able to make calls without having to pay for roaming on my cellphone, or pay the charges to use the hotel phone.)
I found this site about a year ago, and actually called them for their prices.
Think of this in the range of "if you have to ask, you can't afford it" -- the Echo, the low-end model, started off at $1500, and ran as high as $3500 for the Aura.
Damn good looking workstations, though
I run an 802.11b network at the house so that my roommate, myself, and any hardware equipped guests can share the 'net. Of course, I don't tell AT&T this because I don't want them scrutinizing my account, looking for reasons to drop me for EULA violations.
But what I find interesting is that AT&T has partnered with Linksys and is pimping the wired and wireless products on their home networking page.
While this is not in direct violation of the EULA, which does allow for a home network to be created, it only allows for a network that is accessed the the account holder, and residents of the immediate household (family, roommates, that Guy on the Couch).
I just hope that AT&T realizes that Wi-Fi radiates, and that the range will surpass the walls of most of the houses that it is installed in.
I just installed Red Hat 7.2 on an old Toshiba Lifebook 770tx that I had sitting around. I checked a number of sites for compatibility, one of which was listed above (www.linux.org/hardware/laptop.html).
However, the one that I found most useful was this one: Linux on Laptops
Most major manufacturers are covered, as well as current and discontinued models.
Now all I need is a friggin' driver for my Orinoco Gold wi-fi card, and I'll be happy.
Exactly. Human behavior patterns are entirely to complex to predict without some hardcore processing power. Which I seriously doubt is connected to the cameras. Who knows what the margin of error is for this system.
Just my luck, I'll be standing on the platform waiting for the subway car to arrive, and scratch my lower back...the video camera will assume that I'm going for a gun and will alert the authorities.
Yay! Let's hear it for totalitarian state! Nothing says "Big Brother loves you and trusts you" like treating your citizens like suspects.
802.11b is more commercial, because of the lower prices. 802.11a, even though it provides up to 54mbps transfer and has a greater range, costs 3-5 times what 802.11a does. Add that to the fact that a and b are not compatible.
Just wait until 802.11g is commercially available. It will be backward compatible with a and b, and will provide the throughput and distance of a, with a cost more akin to b.
you can write almost everything off. You would need to incorporate yourself, and get your employer to pay you as a corporation. But think about it...your rent, your car payment, gas money, food, entertainment, computer related expenses (should probably be higher on the list); everything is a tax write off. Plus you have the benefit of building a credit history as your corporation, thus negating any bad personal credit history. Great for former dot-comers who have credit problems after the high-paying job dries up.
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So you pay $70 for the desktop (plus shipping) and $21 per month for the dial-up service.
I can imagine a lot of people wanting a cheap server or another pc in the home hopping on this, even if they already have broadband.
Hell, if I needed another machine, I'd do it in a heatbeat. And I'd never log into the Earthlink account, and would cancel after a year.
When you create your account, you can configure your route on the freeways, and the times in which you travel. Sigalert will send an email to you during your specified travel times advising you of hazards along your route. They also claim to be WAP friendly so you can check with a wireless device (not having a WAP-enabled phone, I can't verify). I don't pay for the service, but I check their free real-time maps before leaving for my commute to work or to home.
But could you really expect anything from a company that can't even tell time.?!?!
Last I checked, there was only a 3 hour difference between San Diego and NY.
Obviously a joke, but is the new line for marketing Linux in the mainstream going to be: Linux -- so easy to use, even a woman can do it! Or better yet: If it's your hardware, ask your teenager for support. If it's your OS, as your wife.
Step 1: Charge $1.75 per month for LNP changes, all the while bitching and comlaining about how difficult it will be to implement
Step 2: ???
Step 3: Profit!
I know it's offtopic, but it would be nice for this to eventually evolve into something like VOIP. I have Vonage, which allows me to take my number with me wherever I go. If I move to another state, I keep the same number. For $5 per month (each), I can get a local number as an alias to my main line. So my family can continue to call me and not pay for LD charges (they make a local call) and I still get a local number in the new city/state.
Hell, I can even carry the bridge (and a phone) with me and plug it in anywhere I can find a network drop/hotspot--plug in and make/receive phone calls. (I did this on a recent business trip, where I was lucky enough to get high-speed access in room. I plugged in the phone bridge and a cheap phone I brought with me, and was able to make calls without having to pay for roaming on my cellphone, or pay the charges to use the hotel phone.)
I found this site about a year ago, and actually called them for their prices. Think of this in the range of "if you have to ask, you can't afford it" -- the Echo, the low-end model, started off at $1500, and ran as high as $3500 for the Aura. Damn good looking workstations, though
I run an 802.11b network at the house so that my roommate, myself, and any hardware equipped guests can share the 'net. Of course, I don't tell AT&T this because I don't want them scrutinizing my account, looking for reasons to drop me for EULA violations. But what I find interesting is that AT&T has partnered with Linksys and is pimping the wired and wireless products on their home networking page. While this is not in direct violation of the EULA, which does allow for a home network to be created, it only allows for a network that is accessed the the account holder, and residents of the immediate household (family, roommates, that Guy on the Couch). I just hope that AT&T realizes that Wi-Fi radiates, and that the range will surpass the walls of most of the houses that it is installed in.
However, the one that I found most useful was this one:
Linux on Laptops
Most major manufacturers are covered, as well as current and discontinued models.
Now all I need is a friggin' driver for my Orinoco Gold wi-fi card, and I'll be happy.
Just my luck, I'll be standing on the platform waiting for the subway car to arrive, and scratch my lower back...the video camera will assume that I'm going for a gun and will alert the authorities.
Yay! Let's hear it for totalitarian state! Nothing says "Big Brother loves you and trusts you" like treating your citizens like suspects.
Thus endeth the rant.
802.11b is more commercial, because of the lower prices. 802.11a, even though it provides up to 54mbps transfer and has a greater range, costs 3-5 times what 802.11a does. Add that to the fact that a and b are not compatible.
Just wait until 802.11g is commercially available. It will be backward compatible with a and b, and will provide the throughput and distance of a, with a cost more akin to b.
so buy it elsewhere...personally, I always use these guys. right now, Tron is only $21.59, a 39% savings.
you can write almost everything off. You would need to incorporate yourself, and get your employer to pay you as a corporation. But think about it...your rent, your car payment, gas money, food, entertainment, computer related expenses (should probably be higher on the list); everything is a tax write off. Plus you have the benefit of building a credit history as your corporation, thus negating any bad personal credit history. Great for former dot-comers who have credit problems after the high-paying job dries up.