My wife had a combo washer/dryer back in England, about 25 years ago. And I'm not talking about two separate components stacked together either, but I guess you realise that.
As I recall, it was made in Germany, so it's no surprise that it ran consistently for at least 15 years with no problems except for the one time the drain got clogged. We sold it, still working, before coming to the US about 10 years ago.
I just tried googling for "combo washer dryer", and this company came out top of the stack:
combo washer dryer. Several of their combos are supposed to be ventless, using a condenser to avoid venting moisture, which makes them functionally equivalent to the German machine we used to have.
Disclaimer: I have absolutely no connection to this company, I don't own any of their products, and at this point in time have no plans to do so.
Had 'em in England about 20 years ago. Don't expect they've made it across the pond yet, though. It seems to take 20 years or more for such things to gain traction over here.
For example, front-loading washing machines are just becoming popular in the US, but they've been available in Europe for over 30 years. In fact, 25 years ago my wife had a front loading combination washer/dryer - just throw in dry, dirty clothes, run the cycle, take out dry clean clothes... It didn't even need a dryer vent hookup - the hot air was vented via the water pump-out drain. It was the size of a standard washer or dryer.
I have moved 4 times and I am still getting that damn snail mail spam
Apparently the fix for that in the US is, when you move, file a temporary change of address with USPS. On the change of address form, there's a box for filling in how many days you wish to redirect mail - just put in less than a year and supposedly it counts as a temporary change. The USPS does not then send your name and new address to the National Change of Address database, which is regularly mined by lowlives such as realtors and mortgage companies. Once the change of address expires, the post office discards the record and junk mail will either be returned to sender or delivered to your old address.
Note: I've not tried this, as I haven't moved house since I heard about it.
1/4 square mile -> 1/4 of the above. i.e. a section that's 1/2 mile on each side. 4 of them to a square mile.
What you're talking about is a square that's 1/4 mile on each side, and yes, there'd be 16 per square mile. Besides which, my assumption still stands - "there'd be at least 120 APs"
There's a brand new neighborhood just a few blocks south of me here. I figured I try out my new GPS puck w/ NetStumbler on my laptop, just to see how it worked out. I picked up about 30 APs in substantially *less* than 1/4 square mile, and there's still empty lots available. Assuming the whole square mile could be made over to housing, there'd be at least 120 APs.
What would be a reasonable average proportion of wired internet to wireless?? We get both Cable Internet and DSL around here, and I'd guess the wired households probably outnumber the wireless household by at least 2 or 3 to 1. OK, not all the wired households would go wireless, but some would. We dropped cable completely because the cable (digital TV + internet) costs kept creeping up. DSL + DishTV turned out to be cheaper, plus there're no port or server restrictions... If wireless was available at a competitive price, we'd certainly consider it.
4 years?? More like 30 years, counting the "troubles" in Northern Ireland. I don't remember if the IRA ever managed to explode a bomb in London, but there were certainly *some* bombings on the mainland.
Yes, actually, in some cases, terrorists *do* decide to kill random people. There are some religious fanatics that have been told it's perfectly OK to kill random people from country X (where X is often USA), and that to do so guarantees their place in whatever afterlife they believe in. Maybe not in this case, but it does happen.
According to the BBC it was 4 bombs - three on tube trains and one double decker bus. Though I suppose CNN might have better information than the UK national broadcasting authority that's right there on the spot...
You can degrade connections with the MTU attack with exactly one packet per connection.
Just curious here - does the connection *stay* degraded, or does it occasionally try to revert to a less degraded condition in the hopes of getting back to normal?? I know modems step baud rate up and down when there's line noise, and it would seem to make sense for IP to try the same trick. I don't write IP stacks,though, so that may be a completely stupid idea...:)
OK. The way I heard it was that only certain Starbucks offered WiFi. That was about a year ago, and wasn't across the whole country. It certainly looks like they've gone over to T-Mobile Hotspot, so I guess they either couldn't be bothered to operate it for free, or didn't think they were making money on it. There's a McDonalds near here, and a few bookshops w/ wifi+coffee areas as well.
A couple of days ago I was out with NetStumbler, checking out my son's neighborhood to see if he'd get interference when he goes wireless, and I picked up a couple of APs at a Flying J gas station (truckers overnight highway rest stop) and a couple more at a nearby motel. The neighborhood was quite sparsely occupied, so I guess #1 son'll be OK with his own wifi.
So much for posting too quickly - if I'd previewed it I'd have seen the sarcasm tags were left off... Sorry... It was supposed to be a piss-take of the tin-foil-hat brigade.
If he was just browsing the web over a wide open connection, I fail to see the issue.
Suppose he was "just browsing the web" for information about nuclear weapons or nerve gas. I wouldn't be too terribly surprised if one (or more) of the security agencies has put up a Terrorist Honey Pot with exactly that kind of information. So now the open AP owner is tagged as a potential terrorist... That's probably a bigger issue than getting tagged for accessing dodgy photos.
if some random person was hanging out in front of my house for hours for no apparent reason, I'd be a bit peeved and freaked out.
If that happened outside my house, I think I might just have an "accident" with a paintball gun - "sorry officer, I was cleaning it and it went off" - though I wouldn't expect the random person to file a complaint if he was illegally using my network. I don't know if it would do any lasting damage, but it sure as hell would make a loud BANG.:)
In a lot of cases, though, your wifi "Open House" sign is not there because the house owner wants to invite any random stranger in to look around. It's there because he bought a piece of equipment that effectively installed its own "Open House" sign.
Windows XP does on my Dell M60. Whenever I start it up at work it tells me "hey, there's a bunch of wireless networks. click here to select one to use", even though it's plugged into a 100Mb/s wired connection. Clearly Microsoft are enabling terrorist activities by making it easier to "hack" into wide open networks...:)
Some companies allow open access - for example, some branches of Panera Bread and Starbucks provide free wifi access. This allows them to bring in people that would use an Internet Cafe, without having to maintain a bunch of desktops.
That'll be mainly because the "look'n'feel" of the existing windows interface has been patented, trademarked, copyrighted, etc. You can expect to get your ass kicked if you infringe.
EROS-OS sounds similar to the original Tandem Non-Stop machines. Supposedly a box with only, say, 4 cpus could be configured as if it had some higher number, then when you needed more processing power, you just slap in an extra cpu card. The OS would go, "Hey look, that cpu just came back online, here's some work". The reverse was supposed to be true, too - just pop out a running cpu and the OS would simply quit sending work to it. I guess there may have been a "nice" way to inform the OS of the changes, but it was supposed to be resilient enough to handle it the hard way.
I first heard about Tandem from a friend. He saw them at a computer show in London. During the computer show, there was another show, the Ideal Home Exhibition, going on elsewhere in the same building. I guess there wasn't a whole lot of effective power conditioning going on in the building, because every time the sales droids in the Ideal Home expo cranked up washing machines, dishwashers and other power equipment, every computer at the computer show would crash. The sole exception being the Tandem booth - it just kept on trucking while everyone else was rebooting...
Not just Mars - think of the planetary orbital adjustments made by all those space probes zipping around, using slingshot maneuvers to gain speed. Then there's the piles of crap left behind on the moon by the Apollo missions - that's gotta be affecting the orbit.
Oh, and didn't the Russians hard-land a probe or two on the moon?? Sue 'em, I say, sue 'em and be damned!
Naah - we're still trying to track down Hitler... We gave up on the rumors that he was hiding in a secret Nazi base on the Moon when the Apollo missions didn't turn up any evidence. We got a hot tip from the Psychic Friends Network that he's out in the asteroid belt, using comets to spy on us, so we whacked Tempel-1 in order to prevent the Nazis from finding out about the attack fleet that will be launched as soon as the Shuttle flagship joins them.
I figure there's no point calling the Psychic Friends (or similar) because if I'm about to come into a big pile of money, they'd be calling me... Anything else, I'd rather not know, and they should know that too.
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As I recall, it was made in Germany, so it's no surprise that it ran consistently for at least 15 years with no problems except for the one time the drain got clogged. We sold it, still working, before coming to the US about 10 years ago.
I just tried googling for "combo washer dryer", and this company came out top of the stack: combo washer dryer. Several of their combos are supposed to be ventless, using a condenser to avoid venting moisture, which makes them functionally equivalent to the German machine we used to have.
Disclaimer: I have absolutely no connection to this company, I don't own any of their products, and at this point in time have no plans to do so.
For example, front-loading washing machines are just becoming popular in the US, but they've been available in Europe for over 30 years. In fact, 25 years ago my wife had a front loading combination washer/dryer - just throw in dry, dirty clothes, run the cycle, take out dry clean clothes... It didn't even need a dryer vent hookup - the hot air was vented via the water pump-out drain. It was the size of a standard washer or dryer.
Apparently the fix for that in the US is, when you move, file a temporary change of address with USPS. On the change of address form, there's a box for filling in how many days you wish to redirect mail - just put in less than a year and supposedly it counts as a temporary change. The USPS does not then send your name and new address to the National Change of Address database, which is regularly mined by lowlives such as realtors and mortgage companies. Once the change of address expires, the post office discards the record and junk mail will either be returned to sender or delivered to your old address.
Note: I've not tried this, as I haven't moved house since I heard about it.
And sometimes twice in the same week, if the editors are bored or not paying attention...
1/4 square mile -> 1/4 of the above. i.e. a section that's 1/2 mile on each side. 4 of them to a square mile.
What you're talking about is a square that's 1/4 mile on each side, and yes, there'd be 16 per square mile. Besides which, my assumption still stands - "there'd be at least 120 APs"
What would be a reasonable average proportion of wired internet to wireless?? We get both Cable Internet and DSL around here, and I'd guess the wired households probably outnumber the wireless household by at least 2 or 3 to 1. OK, not all the wired households would go wireless, but some would. We dropped cable completely because the cable (digital TV + internet) costs kept creeping up. DSL + DishTV turned out to be cheaper, plus there're no port or server restrictions... If wireless was available at a competitive price, we'd certainly consider it.
Did you notice the fancy footwork as the US avoided getting involved in the Falklands?? Impressive, I thought...:)
OK, that was in '93 - I was in the process of moving to the US from Bristol and that took up a lot of my time.
4 years?? More like 30 years, counting the "troubles" in Northern Ireland. I don't remember if the IRA ever managed to explode a bomb in London, but there were certainly *some* bombings on the mainland.
Yes, actually, in some cases, terrorists *do* decide to kill random people. There are some religious fanatics that have been told it's perfectly OK to kill random people from country X (where X is often USA), and that to do so guarantees their place in whatever afterlife they believe in. Maybe not in this case, but it does happen.
According to the BBC it was 4 bombs - three on tube trains and one double decker bus. Though I suppose CNN might have better information than the UK national broadcasting authority that's right there on the spot...
Just curious here - does the connection *stay* degraded, or does it occasionally try to revert to a less degraded condition in the hopes of getting back to normal?? I know modems step baud rate up and down when there's line noise, and it would seem to make sense for IP to try the same trick. I don't write IP stacks,though, so that may be a completely stupid idea... :)
And besides, "ping" sounds better than "grope"...
A couple of days ago I was out with NetStumbler, checking out my son's neighborhood to see if he'd get interference when he goes wireless, and I picked up a couple of APs at a Flying J gas station (truckers overnight highway rest stop) and a couple more at a nearby motel. The neighborhood was quite sparsely occupied, so I guess #1 son'll be OK with his own wifi.
So much for posting too quickly - if I'd previewed it I'd have seen the sarcasm tags were left off... Sorry... It was supposed to be a piss-take of the tin-foil-hat brigade.
Suppose he was "just browsing the web" for information about nuclear weapons or nerve gas. I wouldn't be too terribly surprised if one (or more) of the security agencies has put up a Terrorist Honey Pot with exactly that kind of information. So now the open AP owner is tagged as a potential terrorist... That's probably a bigger issue than getting tagged for accessing dodgy photos.
If that happened outside my house, I think I might just have an "accident" with a paintball gun - "sorry officer, I was cleaning it and it went off" - though I wouldn't expect the random person to file a complaint if he was illegally using my network. I don't know if it would do any lasting damage, but it sure as hell would make a loud BANG. :)
In a lot of cases, though, your wifi "Open House" sign is not there because the house owner wants to invite any random stranger in to look around. It's there because he bought a piece of equipment that effectively installed its own "Open House" sign.
Some companies allow open access - for example, some branches of Panera Bread and Starbucks provide free wifi access. This allows them to bring in people that would use an Internet Cafe, without having to maintain a bunch of desktops.
And those of us not in Kansas will recognise that as evolution in action...
That'll be mainly because the "look'n'feel" of the existing windows interface has been patented, trademarked, copyrighted, etc. You can expect to get your ass kicked if you infringe.
I first heard about Tandem from a friend. He saw them at a computer show in London. During the computer show, there was another show, the Ideal Home Exhibition, going on elsewhere in the same building. I guess there wasn't a whole lot of effective power conditioning going on in the building, because every time the sales droids in the Ideal Home expo cranked up washing machines, dishwashers and other power equipment, every computer at the computer show would crash. The sole exception being the Tandem booth - it just kept on trucking while everyone else was rebooting...
Oh, and didn't the Russians hard-land a probe or two on the moon?? Sue 'em, I say, sue 'em and be damned!
Naah - we're still trying to track down Hitler... We gave up on the rumors that he was hiding in a secret Nazi base on the Moon when the Apollo missions didn't turn up any evidence. We got a hot tip from the Psychic Friends Network that he's out in the asteroid belt, using comets to spy on us, so we whacked Tempel-1 in order to prevent the Nazis from finding out about the attack fleet that will be launched as soon as the Shuttle flagship joins them.
I figure there's no point calling the Psychic Friends (or similar) because if I'm about to come into a big pile of money, they'd be calling me... Anything else, I'd rather not know, and they should know that too.