The local bank (BB&T) couldn't get speeds fast enough to do business. The city ran fiber and put in great speeds - residential basic is 10/10 and business is even better.
Time Warner - the local incumbent cable cried bloody murder while they offered nothing close.
Any problems? call a local number and talk to someone local and problem gets solved.
Frankly Slashdot, this site used to be a daily visit (probably more). What is wrong with the design currently, nothing. The problem is with the content and the blatant ad stories. Please don't ruin slashdot (as it remains) with a stupid site re-design like was done to DIGG.
For example, we had the bureaucrats put in place the NPI or National Provider Identification number. Great. Now for every tax id number I have, I will have one provider number instead of 40, 50, 500, etc.
Except, the bureaucrats don't know that the Medicare/Medicaid/etc systems are still run with 50 year old COBOL code and they can't do that.
So, we are forced to "sub-part". Now for every legacy provider number we had, we now have a brand new NPI number.
The healthcare software billing systems in GOVT are seriously fubar'd.
NC has new medicaid system that "I S##T you knot" is written partially in cobol.
CSC NCTRACKS if you want to google.
Seriously - it may be a software problem that enables them to fix (temporarily) a political problem.
Here's the deal right now. Some places raised prices (cheaperthandirt.com) and others didn't (much). The problem is it is very hard to find anything in stock. Yes, you can still get $150 lowers, but the entire market is in a panic buying mode.
5.56 ammo? Uh, unless you're lucky, you're not finding that either. As soon as anyone gets some in, it's snatched up. Even steel-case wolf that was like 20-25 cents a round last month is now nearly 75 cents and rising.
Also, unless you're just misunderstanding "Magazine" vs "Stripper Clip", please tell me where you buy ammo already in mags? No, you bought a ammo can full of lake city 855 on 10 round stripper clips, 3 clips to a cardboard box.
Yes, if you watch carefully and buy quickly, you can still get mags. Last month you could get Gen2 PMAGs for $10 each. Now even if you can find them, they are a minimum of $15. Most are selling privately for $30 each and up.
I thought I'd get great speeds using this torrent. Where is everyone?
Here is the bittorrent link:
A HREF="http://tv.seattlewireless.net/shows/December 2003.mpg.torrent">http://tv.seattlewireless.net/sh ows/December2003.mpg.torrent
The wired story says the film even stars a 512k, the original Mac. Don't those heathens know their macs? Everyone knows that the 128K came out before the 512K!
Next they'll be telling me that the Classic was the original mac like all those posers do on eBay.
Ok, I'm not being fake or anything here, but I had a devil of a time trying to find enough to do in Vegas last year at Comdex aside from gambling. (and don't try to tell me all of you guys are any different.) Besides, a meal is expensable, but a $100 straight up on #17 black is definitely not (at least according to our CFO.)
At least at a slashdot show, there would be plenty of fun things to do, and I wouldn't have those IBM quacks trying to shoo me off their laptop-internet-connection even though I'd just walked up to it. Sheesh! can't a geek check his mail?
I like the idea of running the convention parallel with another one.. That way, I can make it a legit business expense!
Is it just me, or have there been no new episodes since the major marathon a couple of months ago on Showtime? I've got my TiVo set to record, but every time I get settled to watch a decent show, it's another re-run. I wouldn't mind it so much if it were an older re-run, but it seems to always be one of those ones from the marathon. If I see any part of that crappy "wormhole extreme" one more time, I'm going to get violent (just after I vomit.)
From memory, the 386SX has crippled data paths, just like the 68030 based Macintosh Classic II. When the 486's came out, Intel scrapped the whole sx/dx concept and it became the monkier for the ones with and without the the 487's
Take a peek at a 386DX board, you'll find a socket for a 387.
Uh, not that I want to show my age or anything, but 386DX processors don't have math co-processors - that's that new 486DX!
Anyway,
Alvin...
Old Timer at 29?
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OK, you guys are really starting to make me feel old. Here goes the old geezer lines...
"When I was in the dorms, we didn't have no stinking ethernet - the only ether we had was for gettin' dates."
"Whadda' you mean 2 phone lines? We had one crappy line and felt grateful. Besides, it was a good way to hit on your roommate's dates."
Seriously, I worked for Academic Computing at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington in the early 90's. Everything that the students had then was crap. It started to change just as I was graduating, but I was the one who managed the lab in the library that had 30 green-screen encrusted Zenith XT's with dual 5 1/4 drives.
Of course, you could use the mac lab which was better stocked, but the students (or BDU's) never could figure out that they had to get a 3 1/2 floppy and only use the macs.
Of course, now all the dorms are wired, and the campus is interconnected with fiber. A couple of years ago, I had a chance to go back and visit. I went into the rooms where the VAX's were installed, and saw 2 new additions. There on the floor were 2 beige-box clones running linux, replete with stickers. What were they? They were the firewalls for the dorms! Apparently it occured to far too many students that the proper use of their new-found bandwidth was running a porn site!
I have several old RedHat distros on CD - I'd be willing to copy these if someone had a place to put the iso's at. I know I have 2.1, 3.3?, 4.2, and I believe I still have the mother's day release as well.
Even more interesting would be to see the old SLS releases. I remember when I worked for what seemed like a week to get something working under 0.97 pl4, and then Peter releases the first SLS release with 0.98
Oh the days when I was amazed by the fact that you could go to an ftp site, download something, and then not have to download it by kermit over a 2400 link!
With an X server (cubX) you can run netscape/mozilla/whatever you want from another box. I've done this with my turbo slab just... well, just because.
But, it's still dog slow. While I love my NeXT (both of them, actually) neither the color turbo slab (68040 @ 33Mhz) or the mono slab (68040 @ 25Mhz) can do much more than they were designed to do.
Useful things for your NeXT? Apache is typically available as a package, and runs quite well, and a ssh client is also available. I haven't seen a ssh daemon though, so it's still just a glorified terminal.
I always get lots of questions about "What the heck is that?" It's still amazing that the machine I lusted after in 1990 is still "geek" enough to get me to shell out a copule hundred bucks just to say I have one.
I was a freshman in college working in the labs when this guy was showing me how to use TPU with vi keymaps on a VAX. Then he showed me how to change my shell prompt. The lab I staffed was in the library, and it was the beginning of the semester. I was bored and reading my thick Edgar Allen Poe collected works book. He looked at me and said "poeman," and proceeded to change my shell prompt. Being from the south and in college, some people thought that it was an assessment of my socio-economic status at the time, but that's simply not true.
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As a Wilson Resident, I can say confidently...
The local bank (BB&T) couldn't get speeds fast enough to do business.
The city ran fiber and put in great speeds - residential basic is 10/10 and business is even better.
Time Warner - the local incumbent cable cried bloody murder while they offered nothing close.
Any problems? call a local number and talk to someone local and problem gets solved.
Frankly Slashdot, this site used to be a daily visit (probably more). What is wrong with the design currently, nothing. The problem is with the content and the blatant ad stories. Please don't ruin slashdot (as it remains) with a stupid site re-design like was done to DIGG.
The BETA SUCKS. seriously, it just sucks.
Captain Obvious doesn't know what he's talking about. Do you deal with Medicare billing on a daily basis?
Either that, or Captain Obvious has a British fascination.
Healthcare billing is seriously F####d
For example, we had the bureaucrats put in place the NPI or National Provider Identification number. Great. Now for every tax id number I have, I will have one provider number instead of 40, 50, 500, etc.
Except, the bureaucrats don't know that the Medicare/Medicaid/etc systems are still run with 50 year old COBOL code and they can't do that.
So, we are forced to "sub-part". Now for every legacy provider number we had, we now have a brand new NPI number.
The healthcare software billing systems in GOVT are seriously fubar'd.
NC has new medicaid system that "I S##T you knot" is written partially in cobol.
CSC NCTRACKS if you want to google.
Seriously - it may be a software problem that enables them to fix (temporarily) a political problem.
How is this informative?
Here's the deal right now. Some places raised prices (cheaperthandirt.com) and others didn't (much).
The problem is it is very hard to find anything in stock. Yes, you can still get $150 lowers, but the entire
market is in a panic buying mode.
5.56 ammo? Uh, unless you're lucky, you're not finding that either. As soon as anyone gets some in, it's
snatched up. Even steel-case wolf that was like 20-25 cents a round last month is now nearly 75 cents and rising.
Also, unless you're just misunderstanding "Magazine" vs "Stripper Clip", please tell me where you buy ammo already in mags? No, you bought a ammo can full of lake city 855 on 10 round stripper clips, 3 clips to a cardboard box.
Yes, if you watch carefully and buy quickly, you can still get mags. Last month you could get Gen2 PMAGs for $10 each. Now even if you can find them, they are a minimum of $15. Most are selling privately for $30 each and up.
Is it at least RLL formatted? If it's only MFM, you're a chump! :-)
http://tv.seattlewireless.net/shows/December2003.m pg.torrent
I thought I'd get great speeds using this torrent. Where is everyone? Here is the bittorrent link: A HREF="http://tv.seattlewireless.net/shows/December 2003.mpg.torrent">http://tv.seattlewireless.net/sh ows/December2003.mpg.torrent
Beep, Wrong to you
The original poster is correct. You can countdown to D-Day, H-Hour and M-Minute.
The wired story says the film even stars a 512k, the original Mac. Don't those heathens know their macs? Everyone knows that the 128K came out before the 512K!
Next they'll be telling me that the Classic was the original mac like all those posers do on eBay.
Neelix inadvertantly helps a Talaxian friend do a drug run in one episode Wixiban (James Nardini.
l
http://www.st-hypertext.com/voy-3/fairtrade.htm
Ok, I'm not being fake or anything here, but I had a devil of a time trying to find enough to do in Vegas last year at Comdex aside from gambling. (and don't try to tell me all of you guys are any different.) Besides, a meal is expensable, but a $100 straight up on #17 black is definitely not (at least according to our CFO.)
At least at a slashdot show, there would be plenty of fun things to do, and I wouldn't have those IBM quacks trying to shoo me off their laptop-internet-connection even though I'd just walked up to it. Sheesh! can't a geek check his mail?
I like the idea of running the convention parallel with another one.. That way, I can make it a legit business expense!
Alvin...
I can just see Hemos holding his USB burner in his hands. Kind of reminiscent of Gwen Stefani on the cover of Tragic Kingdom?
Seriously, that "I'm seriously considering buying one of these" statement sounds like it's straight from a talking points memo from HP.
Is it just me, or have there been no new episodes since the major marathon a couple of months ago on Showtime? I've got my TiVo set to record, but every time I get settled to watch a decent show, it's another re-run. I wouldn't mind it so much if it were an older re-run, but it seems to always be one of those ones from the marathon. If I see any part of that crappy "wormhole extreme" one more time, I'm going to get violent (just after I vomit.)
OK, before someone else points it out, VIX is not 59, it's not even a legal number.
59 would be LIX
sorry,
Alvin...
Um, not to be picky (OK, I'm being picky)
VIX is not 9 - 9 is IX
VIX is 59
Let's all learn our basic Roman Numerals
I - 1
V - 5
X - 10
L - 50
C - 100
D - 500
M - 1000
Rule: no more than 3 of any thing is put together, otherwise, you just put 1 of these suckers before the next largest to get 4.
From memory, the 386SX has crippled data paths, just like the 68030 based Macintosh Classic II. When the 486's came out, Intel scrapped the whole sx/dx concept and it became the monkier for the ones with and without the the 487's
Take a peek at a 386DX board, you'll find a socket for a 387.
Uh, not that I want to show my age or anything, but 386DX processors don't have math co-processors - that's that new 486DX!
Anyway,
Alvin...
OK, you guys are really starting to make me feel old. Here goes the old geezer lines...
"When I was in the dorms, we didn't have no stinking ethernet - the only ether we had was for gettin' dates."
"Whadda' you mean 2 phone lines? We had one crappy line and felt grateful. Besides, it was a good way to hit on your roommate's dates."
Seriously, I worked for Academic Computing at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington in the early 90's. Everything that the students had then was crap. It started to change just as I was graduating, but I was the one who managed the lab in the library that had 30 green-screen encrusted Zenith XT's with dual 5 1/4 drives.
Of course, you could use the mac lab which was better stocked, but the students (or BDU's) never could figure out that they had to get a 3 1/2 floppy and only use the macs.
Of course, now all the dorms are wired, and the campus is interconnected with fiber. A couple of years ago, I had a chance to go back and visit. I went into the rooms where the VAX's were installed, and saw 2 new additions. There on the floor were 2 beige-box clones running linux, replete with stickers. What were they? They were the firewalls for the dorms! Apparently it occured to far too many students that the proper use of their new-found bandwidth was running a porn site!
Too funny...
Alvin...
I have several old RedHat distros on CD - I'd be willing to copy these if someone had a place to put the iso's at. I know I have 2.1, 3.3?, 4.2, and I believe I still have the mother's day release as well.
Even more interesting would be to see the old SLS releases. I remember when I worked for what seemed like a week to get something working under 0.97 pl4, and then Peter releases the first SLS release with 0.98
Oh the days when I was amazed by the fact that you could go to an ftp site, download something, and then not have to download it by kermit over a 2400 link!
They've
With an X server (cubX) you can run netscape/mozilla/whatever you want from another box. I've done this with my turbo slab just ... well, just because.
But, it's still dog slow. While I love my NeXT (both of them, actually) neither the color turbo slab (68040 @ 33Mhz) or the mono slab (68040 @ 25Mhz) can do much more than they were designed to do.
Useful things for your NeXT? Apache is typically available as a package, and runs quite well, and a ssh client is also available. I haven't seen a ssh daemon though, so it's still just a glorified terminal.
I always get lots of questions about "What the heck is that?" It's still amazing that the machine I lusted after in 1990 is still "geek" enough to get me to shell out a copule hundred bucks just to say I have one.
I was a freshman in college working in the labs when this guy was showing me how to use TPU with vi keymaps on a VAX. Then he showed me how to change my shell prompt. The lab I staffed was in the library, and it was the beginning of the semester. I was bored and reading my thick Edgar Allen Poe collected works book. He looked at me and said "poeman," and proceeded to change my shell prompt. Being from the south and in college, some people thought that it was an assessment of my socio-economic status at the time, but that's simply not true.