What you have is unbundled DSL lines -- and yes, you are grandfathered in. In such you will NOT be allowed to make absolutely ANY changes to those DSL lines. Disconnect, change carriers, anything -- and to get DSL again you WILL have to get a POTS line.
I had a unbundled DSL line originally with Ameritech, then bought by SBC. I also happened to have a ISDN line with the same company(s). I found SBC's service even more questionable than Ameritech's on the DSL line and disconnected the circuit shortly after wireless broadband was in the area through multiple providers (ah, finally, CHOICE:). In the interim I did try to get DSL service re-established with another carrier (ANY carrier other than SBC:) -- and NOBODY could touch the unbundled circuit... NOR could they bundle to either ISDN # (which I found to be completely ridiculous).
I was required to get a POTS line to get DSL. Period. It didn't matter that I already had dial-tone with the lock-in carrier through ISDN. They simply wanted more $$$.
The answer was obvious and simple. Keep the 5Ghz antenna giving me a solid 10Mbit synchronous Internet connection and disconnect ISDN after porting the numbers to VoIP (once they were legally forced to do so:).
So now SBC gets $0, and I have a heck of a lot less trouble...
My rule of thumb -- Jobs are taxed based on where they are located. Employees (_employer_) may need to pay an additional "tax", for the duration of the job, to the LOCAL [Union], if applicable. In most cases [NOT] as contracting with the Local in the appropriate field and hiring enough % of employees from the Hall for that job covers the "tax". Employees are taxed [income] based on where they LIVE. Add local County and Municipality based taxes as appropriate (and yes, I see THAT all the time).
All I see happening is NY having litigation with a LOT of various local governments -- probably a-joining states. I done jobs in of and [mostly] out of NY. Not a NY based company and have NY based employees -- who also rarely happen to actually work IN the state of NY. Heck, they're home maybe 2 months of the year total (now go add up YOUR weekends, holidays, random days off). Does this mean they DON'T have to pay the NY tax, but I can tax them at a lower tax rate of the home office? Or [pick a job site in whichever state with the most spent time]?
They're trying to open a NASTY can of worms that'll bit them back. If my company was a NY based on the border... I certainly would think of moving it down the road...
I don't see this is as being TOO expensive -- particularly when it is a "new device" hitting the market place (though as you've mentioned PLC's are old hat:).
I come across _this_ as I'm working through the next clients (though currently _rare_ for this request:) X10 config for their house. Wealthy, works out of the house (office) -- already has Linux based mail/web/file type server buried in the basement somewhere. The perfect solution. Now -- without the _need_ for a full blown "computer" I can easily control, and custom program using heyu with little added headache and expense... for the average "Joe Blow" (a person who "don't want Linux" and doesn't have an extra computer lying around and would see a full computer as a major expense).
For me, Un*x was a way of life -- and a Linux box has always been accessible. Sure, you could do the SAME with Windows, but I tend to forget about my computers -- they just work, and I digress.:) The point being -- this device makes such setups that much easier to sell with a combined product/service and NOT have the headache of the computer (Windows) not working. Less wasted time and $$$ all around IMHO.:)
I have serial hookups to the X10 device (home and offices), alarm system hookups (*I* get pages before the police are typically even called by central-station, thankfully rare and so far always false:), along with logging and control of various phone systems. Places that currently _already_ had a Linux computer installed, but by no means wouldn't also work very nicely with just a plug in the wall -- and that's it.
I'm sorry -- it's Saturday night. We're bored. The answer then is: NO
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Bill may be right... this time. No, the PC is not dead. It's just getting started IMHO. For the last decade X10 has controlled the lighting in both home and office for myself. Along with other misc functions such motion detected lit hallways, stairs, etc. not to mention the HVAC unit. MINIMAL hardware expense, nonexistent licensing costs (Linux based, of course:). All of which has easily paid for the cost of hardware in temperature control alone -- with light savings as an added bonus.
Of course the down side is the wife always complaining when we go somewhere that their bathroom doesn't light itself.:)
The iMac has slid in comfortably as a entertainment device -- almost beating out TiVO. For sound nothing beats another device - the SliMP3 player which happens to tap the iMac for its source of music. Of course... have iPod, will travel.:)
There's only one thing missing in everything I've mentioned: MICROSOFT
In 2002 do -- oh, that's when I _disconnected_ SBC's landline. I have two [VoIP] lines in my home. One [primary] through the ISP which offers the service and the other with another company for price/quality testing. Neither phone line [Internet] has gone down for any length of time since 2002 -- my logs show twice in that time frame with each being under 8 hours.
I literally NEVER have to reset my router, antenna [Internet connection], or anything else. Of course it's a "mom & pop" type ISP that really know what they're doing. Sure, I've tried Comast's cable [garbage] and SBC's DSL ranks [stinks] right up there too.
My Internet cost? $50/mo and it is a 10Mbit [solid] bi-directional uplink. Each VoIP line is $20/mo which EASILY offsets the Internet cost from what the phone lines used to cost with SBC which is the only company I have to choose from for a "landline" to this day. No, my phone numbers have not changes since 1988 when I set them up.:)
Consider your service garbage and start shopping around...
Just keep watching Numb3rs then! I'm sure one of these weeks CBS will have the equation all figured out to solve ALL these types of problems. Everything is #'s!
People never cease to amaze me. I hired a salesman once and on his first day his cell phone goes off. He was in a training session with the BOSS (me). I was dumb founded that he had not shut it off. I was in disbelief when he answered the phone.
He was fired the next day.
Me, myself, and I? I want a phone that RINGS and vibrates (I prefer the latter for so many reasons:). Heck, I want a phone with 2 or 3 lines with 14 characters. Backlit is nice, but no graphics please. I can't find such a phone anymore it seems.
I can remember basic projection TV going for in excess of US$10K. My statement to buddy in his 20's was "here's your TV when you retire". If this goes mainstream (and it will)... the price will come down. It may be 10 years before we see the same setup for ~$1,000...
As already stated -- new technology is ALWAYS expensive.
I come from a age where you had a choice of MS-DOS or... Unix. AT&T SysV is where I learned myself -- the goal, of course, was always to get root. I got root.
If you look at all the major players in the market place today you'll note that they're _all_ getting behind one of the Un*x's or the other (I consider Linux, BSD, and OS X all to be "Unix" regardless of what SCO [or you] may think:). There's a LOT of logic behind how Unix systems work -- and considering the concept/usage is much older than Microsoft I see it as being rather well thought out and mature. It becomes so obvious when dealing with trying to fix something on XP.
Microsoft may be a 800 pound gorilla, but IBM is still a 8,000 pound monster that is going Linux [and still pissed off]. After recently comparing OS/2 to XP side by side I understand.:)
Of course there's a reason (in our organizations) that as of 2000 it was decided to REMOVE Windows from the mix and migrate all users to either Linux or OS X. I myself [IT admin] use OS X at home for a reason. Others will follow.
It's simple really -- in personal consulting I charge $35/hr for IT work if it's Linux/BSD/OS.X/QNX/Netware based. The rate changes to $70/hr for de-virus'ing your system [again]. Clients quickly learn what the Mac-mini is all about...
Yeah, Microsoft is dying -- and unfortunately (for the US) it'll be a slow death. IMHO the US had better wake up or we'll technologically have out shorts eaten by the rest of the world as they continue their migration away from Windows.
On that note... what can Windows XP do that Windows 2000 can't? There's a good reason I suppose that in our organizations that we've gone from 98se (which we didn't want anyway) to Windows 2000 and stopped buying Microsoft products.
I can't freakin' TRUST the operating system. My network rule? Windows isn't ALLOWED to talk to the Internet. Actually, the only Windows boxes left are for the engineers... running specifically AutoCAD. Piece by piece the software was replaced/migrated to various other platforms. Linux rendering mini-farm for the animation work. BSD on the front Internet end. A mix of Linux, BSD, and Netware hosting the data with a mix of Linux and Mac clients throughout. Except for the Windows boxes (which can completely see _their_ intranet [even they are on their own private subnet off the corporate "networks"].
Heck, I have a Windows 2000 "Professional" box I use regularly for my various CAD needs. We regularly do work with outside engineers, surveyors, builders, architects -- and they all pretty much use AutoCAD as well [today;]. Now, keep in mind:
- This Windows box isn't allowed to talk to the Internet [via MAC address blocking].
- I know better than to use IE, with one exception:
- It is fully "Microsoft" patched (and certifiable when that day comes:)
- It has current Anti-Virus and Firewall software ON TOP OF IT.
- It runs a licensed copy of AutoCAD [fully patched].
- It is even a recent re-format/re-install (not a "old" clutter machine)
Today I find: eTrust EZ Antivirus Version 6.4.0.4 Dat file: v8912 Started scanning: 3:29:51 PM, 2/4/2005 Scanning boot sectors... C:\ Master Boot Record is OK: standard Win2000 (1). C:\ Partition Boot Record is OK: standard Win2000 (2).
Finished scanning: 4:20:00 PM, 2/4/2005 Number of files scanned: 143177. Number of files that could not be scanned: 36 Number of infections: 1 Number of infected files deleted: 1... now, you tell me why windows still sucks???
I won't efin' hate Microsoft anymore when I have a check in my hand, signed by BILL himself, paying me back for all the licensing that I had to buy for hardware that IS STILL RUNNING LINUX to this day.
I doubt 90% of the home market in computing will suffer paralysis with no blue 'E' -- though I fully understand the mentality of such people. I had one recent fellow go ape because there was no "Email" button in his new Firefox browser (even though it's easy to make happy:). Thunderbird wasn't quite Outlook and that was enough to set him off. I smiled, put the blue 'E' back on his desktop.
I ended the visit then, explained I wouldn't be sending a bill -- and please do not call me again (remember, he _did_ go ape). His parting words were something about Microsoft probably knowing better and that he was "old school" -- I smiled and thought, "sorry son, I'm Unix... and that is 'old school'").
My Windows de-virus, spyware, etc is all done onsight, in front of them, and explained so they understand (or claim to:). A Windows visit is T&M at $85/hr. I know the local resellers, and am even happy to recommend good ones with names & numbers (even do work for them when they need help:). Their rate is $135/hr -- systems brought in, onsite is higher. Dell will be happy to set up your new computer for $150...
My Mac and Linux rate? $35/hr. I even explain that you may spend a couple of days with me (until you're tickled) which far exceeds "cleanup" type time. But they soon realize there is no more "cleanup" issues -- and they always call back for help which is good feedback that it _is_ "just working". Funny, they're spending less (over all), and I sure am making more. I bone the Windows users -- and will gladly show those that *listen* "the way out".
3 mini's "sold" this week -- buy it, get it, call me... Do you know how many Windows users don't even know about ALT-TAB? Care to guess how many Mac users seem to remember COMMAND-TAB (I tell them:)
Or how about a half a dozen dual HP LC-2000i's... all running one Un*x or the other (4 Linux, 2 BSD). Not to mention all the engineering workstations _using_ IBM's hardware with their dual PPC processor's sitting in the G5's (OS X, yet another Un*x).
All they offer is a.exe type file. I've heard about those, but: $./WorldCommunityGridAgent.exe./WorldCommunityGridAgent.exe: cannot execute binary file
$ file./WorldCommunityGridAgent.exe./WorldCommunityGridAgent.exe: MS-DOS executable (EXE), OS/2 or MS Windows
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What you have is unbundled DSL lines -- and yes, you are grandfathered in. In such you will NOT be allowed to make absolutely ANY changes to those DSL lines. Disconnect, change carriers, anything -- and to get DSL again you WILL have to get a POTS line.
:). In the interim I did try to get DSL service re-established with another carrier (ANY carrier other than SBC :) -- and NOBODY could touch the unbundled circuit ... NOR could they bundle to either ISDN # (which I found to be completely ridiculous).
:).
I had a unbundled DSL line originally with Ameritech, then bought by SBC. I also happened to have a ISDN line with the same company(s). I found SBC's service even more questionable than Ameritech's on the DSL line and disconnected the circuit shortly after wireless broadband was in the area through multiple providers (ah, finally, CHOICE
I was required to get a POTS line to get DSL. Period. It didn't matter that I already had dial-tone with the lock-in carrier through ISDN. They simply wanted more $$$.
The answer was obvious and simple. Keep the 5Ghz antenna giving me a solid 10Mbit synchronous Internet connection and disconnect ISDN after porting the numbers to VoIP (once they were legally forced to do so
So now SBC gets $0, and I have a heck of a lot less trouble...
My rule of thumb -- Jobs are taxed based on where they are located. Employees (_employer_) may need to pay an additional "tax", for the duration of the job, to the LOCAL [Union], if applicable. In most cases [NOT] as contracting with the Local in the appropriate field and hiring enough % of employees from the Hall for that job covers the "tax". Employees are taxed [income] based on where they LIVE. Add local County and Municipality based taxes as appropriate (and yes, I see THAT all the time).
... I certainly would think of moving it down the road...
All I see happening is NY having litigation with a LOT of various local governments -- probably a-joining states. I done jobs in of and [mostly] out of NY. Not a NY based company and have NY based employees -- who also rarely happen to actually work IN the state of NY. Heck, they're home maybe 2 months of the year total (now go add up YOUR weekends, holidays, random days off). Does this mean they DON'T have to pay the NY tax, but I can tax them at a lower tax rate of the home office? Or [pick a job site in whichever state with the most spent time]?
They're trying to open a NASTY can of worms that'll bit them back. If my company was a NY based on the border
I don't see this is as being TOO expensive -- particularly when it is a "new device" hitting the market place (though as you've mentioned PLC's are old hat :).
:) X10 config for their house. Wealthy, works out of the house (office) -- already has Linux based mail/web/file type server buried in the basement somewhere. The perfect solution. Now -- without the _need_ for a full blown "computer" I can easily control, and custom program using heyu with little added headache and expense ... for the average "Joe Blow" (a person who "don't want Linux" and doesn't have an extra computer lying around and would see a full computer as a major expense).
:) The point being -- this device makes such setups that much easier to sell with a combined product/service and NOT have the headache of the computer (Windows) not working. Less wasted time and $$$ all around IMHO. :)
:), along with logging and control of various phone systems. Places that currently _already_ had a Linux computer installed, but by no means wouldn't also work very nicely with just a plug in the wall -- and that's it.
I come across _this_ as I'm working through the next clients (though currently _rare_ for this request
For me, Un*x was a way of life -- and a Linux box has always been accessible. Sure, you could do the SAME with Windows, but I tend to forget about my computers -- they just work, and I digress.
I have serial hookups to the X10 device (home and offices), alarm system hookups (*I* get pages before the police are typically even called by central-station, thankfully rare and so far always false
I'm sorry -- it's Saturday night. We're bored. The answer then is: NO
Bill may be right ... this time. No, the PC is not dead. It's just getting started IMHO. For the last decade X10 has controlled the lighting in both home and office for myself. Along with other misc functions such motion detected lit hallways, stairs, etc. not to mention the HVAC unit. MINIMAL hardware expense, nonexistent licensing costs (Linux based, of course :). All of which has easily paid for the cost of hardware in temperature control alone -- with light savings as an added bonus.
:)
... have iPod, will travel. :)
Of course the down side is the wife always complaining when we go somewhere that their bathroom doesn't light itself.
The iMac has slid in comfortably as a entertainment device -- almost beating out TiVO. For sound nothing beats another device - the SliMP3 player which happens to tap the iMac for its source of music. Of course
There's only one thing missing in everything I've mentioned: MICROSOFT
In 2002 do -- oh, that's when I _disconnected_ SBC's landline.
:)
I have two [VoIP] lines in my home. One [primary] through the ISP which offers the service and the other with another company for price/quality testing. Neither phone line [Internet] has gone down for any length of time since 2002 -- my logs show twice in that time frame with each being under 8 hours.
I literally NEVER have to reset my router, antenna [Internet connection], or anything else. Of course it's a "mom & pop" type ISP that really know what they're doing. Sure, I've tried Comast's cable [garbage] and SBC's DSL ranks [stinks] right up there too.
My Internet cost? $50/mo and it is a 10Mbit [solid] bi-directional uplink. Each VoIP line is $20/mo which EASILY offsets the Internet cost from what the phone lines used to cost with SBC which is the only company I have to choose from for a "landline" to this day. No, my phone numbers have not changes since 1988 when I set them up.
Consider your service garbage and start shopping around...
Well -- that was an exciting second. Now I have to wait 123456779 seconds.
Off topic, but Virtual PC, back in the day when it was still a good Connectix type product ... Yes, I did have to try.
:)
Those programmers DO have a sense of humor after all!
(I wanted to see OS X run Windows to run Linux
Well -- THAT would be a direct download :)
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For the torrent version try:
http://209.242.6.124/Batman/Batman_Net.torr
Here's a torrent file:
http://209.242.6.124/Batman/Batman_Net.mov
But ... what if I own the company? :)
Just keep watching Numb3rs then! I'm sure one of these weeks CBS will have the equation all figured out to solve ALL these types of problems. Everything is #'s!
People never cease to amaze me. I hired a salesman once and on his first day his cell phone goes off. He was in a training session with the BOSS (me). I was dumb founded that he had not shut it off. I was in disbelief when he answered the phone.
:). Heck, I want a phone with 2 or 3 lines with 14 characters. Backlit is nice, but no graphics please. I can't find such a phone anymore it seems.
He was fired the next day.
Me, myself, and I? I want a phone that RINGS and vibrates (I prefer the latter for so many reasons
Because they were looking for the $1,000 easter egg of course!
I can remember basic projection TV going for in excess of US$10K. My statement to buddy in his 20's was "here's your TV when you retire". If this goes mainstream (and it will) ... the price will come down. It may be 10 years before we see the same setup for ~$1,000...
As already stated -- new technology is ALWAYS expensive.
If you fling enough shit, does the smell go away?
I come from a age where you had a choice of MS-DOS or ... Unix. AT&T SysV is where I learned myself -- the goal, of course, was always to get root. I got root.
:). There's a LOT of logic behind how Unix systems work -- and considering the concept/usage is much older than Microsoft I see it as being rather well thought out and mature. It becomes so obvious when dealing with trying to fix something on XP.
:)
If you look at all the major players in the market place today you'll note that they're _all_ getting behind one of the Un*x's or the other (I consider Linux, BSD, and OS X all to be "Unix" regardless of what SCO [or you] may think
Microsoft may be a 800 pound gorilla, but IBM is still a 8,000 pound monster that is going Linux [and still pissed off]. After recently comparing OS/2 to XP side by side I understand.
Of course there's a reason (in our organizations) that as of 2000 it was decided to REMOVE Windows from the mix and migrate all users to either Linux or OS X. I myself [IT admin] use OS X at home for a reason. Others will follow.
It's simple really -- in personal consulting I charge $35/hr for IT work if it's Linux/BSD/OS.X/QNX/Netware based. The rate changes to $70/hr for de-virus'ing your system [again]. Clients quickly learn what the Mac-mini is all about...
Yeah, Microsoft is dying -- and unfortunately (for the US) it'll be a slow death. IMHO the US had better wake up or we'll technologically have out shorts eaten by the rest of the world as they continue their migration away from Windows.
On that note ... what can Windows XP do that Windows 2000 can't? There's a good reason I suppose that in our organizations that we've gone from 98se (which we didn't want anyway) to Windows 2000 and stopped buying Microsoft products.
We're a Mac shop now.
Author is a jackass. Whatever.
Yep, You nailed that one.
I can't freakin' TRUST the operating system. My network rule? Windows isn't ALLOWED to talk to the Internet. Actually, the only Windows boxes left are for the engineers ... running specifically AutoCAD. Piece by piece the software was replaced/migrated to various other platforms. Linux rendering mini-farm for the animation work. BSD on the front Internet end. A mix of Linux, BSD, and Netware hosting the data with a mix of Linux and Mac clients throughout. Except for the Windows boxes (which can completely see _their_ intranet [even they are on their own private subnet off the corporate "networks"].
;]. Now, keep in mind:
:)
... now, you tell me why windows still sucks???
Heck, I have a Windows 2000 "Professional" box I use regularly for my various CAD needs. We regularly do work with outside engineers, surveyors, builders, architects -- and they all pretty much use AutoCAD as well [today
- This Windows box isn't allowed to talk to the Internet [via MAC address blocking].
- I know better than to use IE, with one exception:
- It is fully "Microsoft" patched (and certifiable when that day comes
- It has current Anti-Virus and Firewall software ON TOP OF IT.
- It runs a licensed copy of AutoCAD [fully patched].
- It is even a recent re-format/re-install (not a "old" clutter machine)
Today I find:
eTrust EZ Antivirus Version 6.4.0.4 Dat file: v8912
Started scanning: 3:29:51 PM, 2/4/2005
Scanning boot sectors...
C:\ Master Boot Record is OK: standard Win2000 (1).
C:\ Partition Boot Record is OK: standard Win2000 (2).
Scanning file(s)...
C:\WINNT\systb.exe - Win32.Imiserv.C dropper. Deleted.
Finished scanning: 4:20:00 PM, 2/4/2005
Number of files scanned: 143177.
Number of files that could not be scanned: 36
Number of infections: 1
Number of infected files deleted: 1
I won't efin' hate Microsoft anymore when I have a check in my hand, signed by BILL himself, paying me back for all the licensing that I had to buy for hardware that IS STILL RUNNING LINUX to this day.
Fuck Microsoft. Now and forever.
I doubt 90% of the home market in computing will suffer paralysis with no blue 'E' -- though I fully understand the mentality of such people. I had one recent fellow go ape because there was no "Email" button in his new Firefox browser (even though it's easy to make happy :). Thunderbird wasn't quite Outlook and that was enough to set him off. I smiled, put the blue 'E' back on his desktop.
... and that is 'old school'").
:). A Windows visit is T&M at $85/hr. I know the local resellers, and am even happy to recommend good ones with names & numbers (even do work for them when they need help :). Their rate is $135/hr -- systems brought in, onsite is higher. Dell will be happy to set up your new computer for $150...
:)
I ended the visit then, explained I wouldn't be sending a bill -- and please do not call me again (remember, he _did_ go ape). His parting words were something about Microsoft probably knowing better and that he was "old school" -- I smiled and thought, "sorry son, I'm Unix
My Windows de-virus, spyware, etc is all done onsight, in front of them, and explained so they understand (or claim to
My Mac and Linux rate? $35/hr. I even explain that you may spend a couple of days with me (until you're tickled) which far exceeds "cleanup" type time. But they soon realize there is no more "cleanup" issues -- and they always call back for help which is good feedback that it _is_ "just working". Funny, they're spending less (over all), and I sure am making more. I bone the Windows users -- and will gladly show those that *listen* "the way out".
3 mini's "sold" this week -- buy it, get it, call me... Do you know how many Windows users don't even know about ALT-TAB? Care to guess how many Mac users seem to remember COMMAND-TAB (I tell them
I saw a 30-60% drop (depending on the day) over the holidays.
The holidays are over. Volume is right back up to ~1,500 rejects daily.
Or how about a half a dozen dual HP LC-2000i's ... all running one Un*x or the other (4 Linux, 2 BSD). Not to mention all the engineering workstations _using_ IBM's hardware with their dual PPC processor's sitting in the G5's (OS X, yet another Un*x).
.exe type file. I've heard about those, but: ./WorldCommunityGridAgent.exe ./WorldCommunityGridAgent.exe: cannot execute binary file
./WorldCommunityGridAgent.exe ./WorldCommunityGridAgent.exe: MS-DOS executable (EXE), OS/2 or MS Windows
:()
All they offer is a
$
$ file
Ok, I'll have to try OS/2 I guess...
And why, if he is listed as an foe do I even SEE his posts?
Easy enough to blacklist 212.43.241.105 at the router for now I guess.