Not to be an ad for Vonage, but they have a fifteen dollar plan as a result of this price war. That's 500 minutes, so you would probably pay no more than the $15. Yep it's still 3x as much as you might want to pay, but it's down to the price of a POTS line with no extras. If you have cable or dsl over a dry pair you're going to have it pretty cheap.
Now I need to go to Vonage and see if they've dropped my monthly price as well.
I don't have Quicken on this computer so I wasn't able to look at any of the QDF files, but MNY files (Microsoft Money) are easy to look at with a text editor.
And if you're Rick B***r from Moses Lake you might want to remove your financial data from your personal website. Also ease off on the snuff it causes mouth cancer, and explore Linux programming as well as Windows programming. BTW your account numbers, address, children's names, etc are all in there.
I backup my CDs, if I had a DVD burner I'd back them up to. I use the copies so that when they get scratched I can always burn another copy. With three young kids the discs get scratched very quickly.
If you visit some third world countries (i.e. India/Pakistan) you would realize the truth of that statement.
I grew up in a third world country when my parents were relief workers. Even though we were well supplied from home and had more than many people in that country could imagine we were worse off than many people on welfare here.
It's base64 encoding but using a non-standard alphabet. Standard base64 doesn't have "-" or "_" IIRC.
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I have almost completely replaced my phone system with VoIP. I say almost as I have DSL for my broadband and therefore need an actual line. All my voice is over the Vonage system even 911.
911
I register my location with Vonage for 911 service
Power outages
I plug my equipment into a UPS. For last resort I can use the van and inverters as a crude generator
Tivo
Well since I'm using DSL I do have to pay for an actual phone line. Tivo gets its own line for whatever it wants to do.
Phonebook listing
I was unlisted long before I switched to Vonage
I have been very happy with my VoIP system. I had all sorts of trouble with the analog line after SBC put in the DSL. Even before then I had a lot of trouble with SBC (Pacbell at the time). Now I don't have to deal with them.
My worst accident was just recently. I had upgraded my wife's machine and redid her partitioning. I backed up all her important files to my machine. After it was all working I was slowly copying files back as she needed them. Then I had a problem with my Windows install and decided to wipe it as there was nothing important in there anyway. Well that was mostly true except for all the digital photos we had taken over the last few years and the last years tax records (my 3 yr old had already destroyed the paper copy).
I was able to recover most of the photos from our web server although not in the high resolution. The tax records though were never recovered and we had to paper file for state taxes.
I was involved in planning our building when we layed it out. While I didn't get everything the way I wanted it I was able to push some important points.
Things we did well: 1. Lots of network/phone connections. Six per cube and eight per office. These all go to a patch panel so even with an older phone system moving people is very easy.
2. Small cube groups. We have cubes grouped eight together which breaks it down to product groups for the most part. This makes communication easy.
3. Large cubes. 10' x 10' with a large work surface, lots of storage and still room for a whiteboard.
4. Labs are next to the cube group. My lab was (I'm on a new product now and have to walk) right behind me through a door. This makes it easy to go from lab to cube.
5. Large lunchroom. We use it for company wide meetings.
6. Minimal control over computers. We require a company wide virus scanner. We don't let non-engineers to install applications. Engineers have full reign over their own computers but if they break it they fix it.
Things we didn't do so well: 1. We have one large conference room and an office converted into an conference room. We can fit the entire engineering department in the large conference room but need that once every six months. However we are constantly fighting over conference rooms.
2. Not enough power. I asked for three times as many outlets as we got. We have power bars and extensions cords running all over the place.
3. Flourescent lights. 'nuff said.
4. Limited natural light. The offices are on the outside edge of the building and have windows. There's a window between the offices and the cube farm that's supposed to let in outside light but of course office dwellers close their blinds and deprive us of outside light.
5. No keycard pad at the back door. You have to have a key to get in the back door and for some unknown reason only managers get those.
6. For some unknown reason my cube is always below the AC vent. Everytime we've moved it's been that way. There needs to be better diffusion of AC. My hands get frozen at the keyboard.
Well perhaps in the UK it isn't worth it, but in the US and Canada Vonage is making a big impression. I'm going to spring for my DSL no matter what phone system I use, so that doesn't enter into the price comparison. Once I add the features I want onto the POTS line my monthly bill before long distance is near $40. The basic fee for the POTS line to support the DSL is around $10, add the $25 Vonage fee and I'm at $35.
True it's not much of a savings prior to long distance, but calling the relatives in Canada is much cheaper on Vonage.
At least here VOIP can easily be justified if you want all the bells and whistles on your phone line.
Knight said several West Coast hams who learned about the rocket launch from ARRL news accounts showed up to assist in locating the vehicle, which was estimated to have returned to Earth some 26 to 30 miles downrange from the launch site.
It came down.
It's actually not that much, a little more than 1MHz. That'll do about 500kb, or 250kb each way. And that's only if you use the entire spectrum for one connection.
Ok let's assume you know what you're talking about with the carbon fibor properties. Let's also assume the navy just slapped it together without running tests.
How much of a temperature change do you expect to see for a hull that is immersed in ocean water? At lowest it might see -5C, the highest 15C, a delta of 20C. That's not a significant temperature change for most materials.
My brother was properly convicted of downloading kiddie porn (on USAF computers no less - stupid kid) and spent three years in jail. He is now a registered sex offender. Funny thing is car dealerships are quite happy to hire him...hmmm. It's been hard for him but not impossible to get by, he owns his own house and has held down a job since he was released.
I'll let my kids be around him, but never alone with him.
No it can run on Windows (but under the cygwin environment). It actually works very well. I've used the windows port for testing on my desktop never for production.
There's two ways to install the Windows port:
Grab the Proof of Concept from Postgres, or
Install the full cygwin environment
I prefer to have the full cygwin environment, but my first install was with the POC and that worked well.
Agreed, programming and IT are two completely different fields. Their only related in that they deal with computers.
Most good IT people I know can program but really don't want to. Most programmers I know (at least in engineering dept.) are nearly clueless about the computer on their desk and need lots of hand holding for simple stuff.
I'm the strange one: an EE doing electronics and mechanical design while helping out with IT and some programming. (Small company...couldn't have guessed, eh?)
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Not to be an ad for Vonage, but they have a fifteen dollar plan as a result of this price war. That's 500 minutes, so you would probably pay no more than the $15. Yep it's still 3x as much as you might want to pay, but it's down to the price of a POTS line with no extras. If you have cable or dsl over a dry pair you're going to have it pretty cheap.
Now I need to go to Vonage and see if they've dropped my monthly price as well.
I don't have Quicken on this computer so I wasn't able to look at any of the QDF files, but MNY files (Microsoft Money) are easy to look at with a text editor.
And if you're Rick B***r from Moses Lake you might want to remove your financial data from your personal website. Also ease off on the snuff it causes mouth cancer, and explore Linux programming as well as Windows programming. BTW your account numbers, address, children's names, etc are all in there.
I backup my CDs, if I had a DVD burner I'd back them up to. I use the copies so that when they get scratched I can always burn another copy. With three young kids the discs get scratched very quickly.
No need to compile X for Cygwin, it's already done for you.
If you visit some third world countries (i.e. India/Pakistan) you would realize the truth of that statement.
I grew up in a third world country when my parents were relief workers. Even though we were well supplied from home and had more than many people in that country could imagine we were worse off than many people on welfare here.
It appears the host is down. You horrible people have deprived this poor innocent businessman of his income. Naughty, naughty, naughty.
having a 10Mb pipe is fun sometimes
Even better:
This should just burn the server quickly, so please DO NOT DO THIS, it could cost the poor guy lots of money in bandwidth and lost business.
And here I thought this was a new thing from Apple!
It also appears to be binary data rather than base64 encoded text. From what I can tell the first six bytes of the code I get are:
94 F2 37 A1 FC 02
Of that only the 37 is considered to be a printable character (the number 7).
Based on the same alphabet the first six bytes of the above are:
0F 70 4B 1E 9E 13
It's base64 encoding but using a non-standard alphabet. Standard base64 doesn't have "-" or "_" IIRC.
I have almost completely replaced my phone system with VoIP. I say almost as I have DSL for my broadband and therefore need an actual line. All my voice is over the Vonage system even 911.
I register my location with Vonage for 911 service
I plug my equipment into a UPS. For last resort I can use the van and inverters as a crude generator
Well since I'm using DSL I do have to pay for an actual phone line. Tivo gets its own line for whatever it wants to do.
I was unlisted long before I switched to Vonage
I have been very happy with my VoIP system. I had all sorts of trouble with the analog line after SBC put in the DSL. Even before then I had a lot of trouble with SBC (Pacbell at the time). Now I don't have to deal with them.
My worst accident was just recently. I had upgraded my wife's machine and redid her partitioning. I backed up all her important files to my machine. After it was all working I was slowly copying files back as she needed them. Then I had a problem with my Windows install and decided to wipe it as there was nothing important in there anyway. Well that was mostly true except for all the digital photos we had taken over the last few years and the last years tax records (my 3 yr old had already destroyed the paper copy).
I was able to recover most of the photos from our web server although not in the high resolution. The tax records though were never recovered and we had to paper file for state taxes.
I was involved in planning our building when we layed it out. While I didn't get everything the way I wanted it I was able to push some important points.
Things we did well:
1. Lots of network/phone connections. Six per cube and eight per office. These all go to a patch panel so even with an older phone system moving people is very easy.
2. Small cube groups. We have cubes grouped eight together which breaks it down to product groups for the most part. This makes communication easy.
3. Large cubes. 10' x 10' with a large work surface, lots of storage and still room for a whiteboard.
4. Labs are next to the cube group. My lab was (I'm on a new product now and have to walk) right behind me through a door. This makes it easy to go from lab to cube.
5. Large lunchroom. We use it for company wide meetings.
6. Minimal control over computers. We require a company wide virus scanner. We don't let non-engineers to install applications. Engineers have full reign over their own computers but if they break it they fix it.
Things we didn't do so well:
1. We have one large conference room and an office converted into an conference room. We can fit the entire engineering department in the large conference room but need that once every six months. However we are constantly fighting over conference rooms.
2. Not enough power. I asked for three times as many outlets as we got. We have power bars and extensions cords running all over the place.
3. Flourescent lights. 'nuff said.
4. Limited natural light. The offices are on the outside edge of the building and have windows. There's a window between the offices and the cube farm that's supposed to let in outside light but of course office dwellers close their blinds and deprive us of outside light.
5. No keycard pad at the back door. You have to have a key to get in the back door and for some unknown reason only managers get those.
6. For some unknown reason my cube is always below the AC vent. Everytime we've moved it's been that way. There needs to be better diffusion of AC. My hands get frozen at the keyboard.
Well perhaps in the UK it isn't worth it, but in the US and Canada Vonage is making a big impression. I'm going to spring for my DSL no matter what phone system I use, so that doesn't enter into the price comparison. Once I add the features I want onto the POTS line my monthly bill before long distance is near $40. The basic fee for the POTS line to support the DSL is around $10, add the $25 Vonage fee and I'm at $35.
True it's not much of a savings prior to long distance, but calling the relatives in Canada is much cheaper on Vonage.
At least here VOIP can easily be justified if you want all the bells and whistles on your phone line.
The mobile user is one I had concerns about as I work both in the office and from home.
The article covers that with a "Sender" header as well as a "From" header.
e.g.
From: mla_anderson@work.com
Sender: mla_anderson@home.net
This means a rewrite of many email clients, but I suspect it's easy enough to do, and open source ones would be able to do it sooner than MS ones.
Knight said several West Coast hams who learned about the rocket launch from ARRL news accounts showed up to assist in locating the vehicle, which was estimated to have returned to Earth some 26 to 30 miles downrange from the launch site. It came down.
It's actually not that much, a little more than 1MHz. That'll do about 500kb, or 250kb each way. And that's only if you use the entire spectrum for one connection.
Ok let's assume you know what you're talking about with the carbon fibor properties. Let's also assume the navy just slapped it together without running tests.
How much of a temperature change do you expect to see for a hull that is immersed in ocean water? At lowest it might see -5C, the highest 15C, a delta of 20C. That's not a significant temperature change for most materials.
My brother was properly convicted of downloading kiddie porn (on USAF computers no less - stupid kid) and spent three years in jail. He is now a registered sex offender. Funny thing is car dealerships are quite happy to hire him...hmmm. It's been hard for him but not impossible to get by, he owns his own house and has held down a job since he was released.
I'll let my kids be around him, but never alone with him.
It's still higher than a year ago. Their market manipulation seems to have worked...but the latest trends seem to indicate it's going to be over soon.
Those passwords are flying around the 'net in clear text if you send them by email without encrypting them. GMail would be the least of your concerns.
Here it is: Postgres on Windows in a single executable.
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/pgsql/PgSQL731You're being facetious I hope.
No it can run on Windows (but under the cygwin environment). It actually works very well. I've used the windows port for testing on my desktop never for production.
There's two ways to install the Windows port:
I prefer to have the full cygwin environment, but my first install was with the POC and that worked well.
Agreed, programming and IT are two completely different fields. Their only related in that they deal with computers.
Most good IT people I know can program but really don't want to. Most programmers I know (at least in engineering dept.) are nearly clueless about the computer on their desk and need lots of hand holding for simple stuff.
I'm the strange one: an EE doing electronics and mechanical design while helping out with IT and some programming. (Small company...couldn't have guessed, eh?)