1. Pay $5/year for a domain. 2. Use an ISP that'll host it at no extra charge. 3. Set up a catch-all forward. (e.g. [anyprefix]@yourdomain.com all goes to a specific email address.) 4. Use different addresses for every purpose. (e.g. sign up to store.com w/ store@yourdomain.com - maillist.com uses maillist@yourdomain.com - etc.) 5. Consider buying multiple domains to keep your options open.
All the email still goes into one convenient box.
When you start receiving spam addressed to a particular address, forward that one to devnull@yourisp.com... and then make the connection that if abcstore@yourdomain.com gets spam, that they sell your address. They're assholes. Don't do business with them anymore. If they're in violation of their privacy policies, notify the correct parties.
I set up my $30 WiFi router in the living room. There's nothing resembling RF interference nearby. The closest neighbors are about 100 yards away, and I'd put good money on no other APs for over a mile.
My signal reaches out to the pool, the pond, the barn, up on the ridge, etc. It's great. Unparalleled in an urban setting.
The downfall - all I can get out here in the sticks is 128k ISDN, so it's not *that* great.
tradeoffs are tradeoffs
But hell, there's sushi only 5 miles away.
I locked out ads so tightly with a noads host file and whatnot, that it blocked all google ads. I missed them, and edited the hosts file to allow them. Everything else? It's garbage that wastes my paltry 128k of ISDN goodness.
Looks like I've got a tentative schedule for selling some old comic books! I missed out on the market peaks for a few movies/titles, (Batman,) but made a few bucks when the first X-Men movie came out. Pull those comic books out of the attic and dust off that eBay login!
The "Web Page (filtered)" solution is money. Easy and effective, given the scenario presented in the initial post. Further posts should all just herald this info. NAZIS!!!
My provider would never pull that shit. Operations like Rackspace get so big they don't know their left hand from their right asscheek. I support small and medium businesses b/c the big fish aren't capable of the traits I desire. Make sense?
My pool is in a tree-lined valley of sorts. I could pipe the sun from the top of one of the hills to the pool for a few extra hours of sun-swimming fun!
Or maybe I can't. Guess I need some scrilla first.
to be able to get pissy when potential employers decide to quiz us after tracking down our CVs! Nope, it's not news. Neither is the fact that MS is lobbying the govt. to ease visa restrictions. (That was news a while ago.)
That layout *might* have been cutting edge close to a decade ago. Made for painful reading. I expected better from the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Maybe the AAAS should partner with a few artists - you know, hire a web designer... or something.
Did somebody say my name?
Does this mean I have to link to Apple now?
What Amish loser thought 'Why ask why?' would be a good slogan for a 'dry' beer? And why the hell would that same asshat marketing team think anybody would want 'dry' beer? What's next? 'warm flat' beer? Sign me up! What? They actually still make bud dry?!? blargh!
I went to this convention with a few friends. Met a few interesting people there - most, predictably, from the 21st century and beyond. The unexpected highlight for me though, was meeting a couple of pre-20th century travelers. (All claimed to be time-knapping victims - one claimed to have been abducted several times!) Regardless, it was good enough for me to hop to right now to post about it on/. I encourage all to attend. I wore a red an white "where's Waldo?" hat. Say "hi" if you go.
Okay, let's do it. Let's help others to see through the empty and meaningless statements uttered by - | and its emissaries. What follows is a call to action for those of us who care -- a large enough number to insist on a policy of zero tolerance toward paternalism.
Honor means nothing to - | . Principles mean nothing to - | . All it cares about is how best to force us to bow down low before what I call virulent nymphomaniacs. I attribute the social and psychological problems of modern society to the fact that we can never return to the past. And if we are ever to move forward to the future, we indeed have to punish - | for its headlong precepts. As I noted at the beginning of this letter, it's irrelevant that my allegations are 100% true. - | distrusts my information and arguments and will forever maintain its current opinions.
Be careful not to be charmed by - | 's epigrams. All they do is lay down diktats that force me to wind up in a straitjacket and locked in a padded cell. You might have heard the story that - | once agreed to help us pronounce the truth and renounce the lies. No one has located the document in which - | said that. No one has identified when or where - | said that. That's because it never said it. As you might have suspected, the central paradox of - | 's artifices, the twist that makes - | 's bruta fulmina so irresistible to prodigal libertines, is that these people truly believe that - | holds a universal license that allows it to impinge upon our daily lives. On a closing note, I hope that this letter, while incomplete, informal, and having no authority except its own inner strength and conviction, has clearly demonstrated to you that - | makes assertions that strain credulity.
Gotta love this site it's great for tabletop ideas.
I'll sound off and concur with others that:Settlers of Catan and Looneylabs games are flarging awesome and nearly universal. It's easy to get geeks and "others" alike playing *and* enjoying.
The ISP biz has changed a lot lately. We closed our few remaining POPs in 2004. To keep a POP open, an ISP needs to buy PRIs, remote access servers (modems), bandwidth, backhaul connections, etc.
Upgrading a POP isn't simple or cheap either, if you're at capacity, you have to buy another PRI (essentially a T1 truncated into 24 channels), another card for the RAS to supply those 24 ports, etc. But even though it might take you a year to fill up those facilities, you have to pay for them ALL the whole time. In rural areas, these telco services can be incredibly expensive.
Bring the economy of scale into things, and it just makes sense for the big guys (Qwest, MegaPOP, Aleron, etc.) to set up huge POPs and charge by the hour. That's why so many ISPs can offer nationwide access these days.
Outsourcing.
Hence the real expense of offering true unlimited dial-up.
These days even the little guys outsource dial-up ports from the likes of Qwest, Level3, MegaPOP etc. So they're paying anywhere from 8 to 14 cents per hour.
When you use their dial-up 24/7, you cost b/w $57 and $100 per month and only pay a fraction of that. It makes VERY little (if any) sense for any ISP to allow 24/7, unless they're facilities based, and not many are these days.
I'm often stuck using Win (at home b/c it's my GF's machine - at work b/c I make most of our graphics, etc.) but I use open source for absolutely everything I need/can.
Fair enough. But keep in mind that the parent to which I was replying had poor suggestions.
The fact that luddites can't take care of their PCs doesn't change the fact that you should set your AV to auto-update more than once a month and that bloatware eats ass, right?;)
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1. Pay $5/year for a domain.
2. Use an ISP that'll host it at no extra charge.
3. Set up a catch-all forward. (e.g. [anyprefix]@yourdomain.com all goes to a specific email address.)
4. Use different addresses for every purpose. (e.g. sign up to store.com w/ store@yourdomain.com - maillist.com uses maillist@yourdomain.com - etc.)
5. Consider buying multiple domains to keep your options open.
All the email still goes into one convenient box.
When you start receiving spam addressed to a particular address, forward that one to devnull@yourisp.com... and then make the connection that if abcstore@yourdomain.com gets spam, that they sell your address. They're assholes. Don't do business with them anymore. If they're in violation of their privacy policies, notify the correct parties.
My signal reaches out to the pool, the pond, the barn, up on the ridge, etc. It's great. Unparalleled in an urban setting.
The downfall - all I can get out here in the sticks is 128k ISDN, so it's not *that* great.
tradeoffs are tradeoffs
But hell, there's sushi only 5 miles away.
I don't know about that.
Though I'm pretty comfortable with your science assessment, the religion tag is somewhat off.
Religion, like politics and perhaps even science on some levels, can be reduced to the $oma of controlling (or at least influencing) masses.
To where is it that good intentions pave the path?
So many things look great on paper.
"What a world. What a world." -Wicked Witch (West)
I locked out ads so tightly with a noads host file and whatnot, that it blocked all google ads. I missed them, and edited the hosts file to allow them. Everything else? It's garbage that wastes my paltry 128k of ISDN goodness.
My good ole Mozilla extensions must be blocking that tripe well.
Nothing but content on my LCD, baby.
Looks like I've got a tentative schedule for selling some old comic books! I missed out on the market peaks for a few movies/titles, (Batman,) but made a few bucks when the first X-Men movie came out. Pull those comic books out of the attic and dust off that eBay login!
The "Web Page (filtered)" solution is money. Easy and effective, given the scenario presented in the initial post. Further posts should all just herald this info. NAZIS!!!
My provider would never pull that shit. Operations like Rackspace get so big they don't know their left hand from their right asscheek. I support small and medium businesses b/c the big fish aren't capable of the traits I desire. Make sense?
I could pipe the sun from the top of one of the hills
to the pool for a few extra hours of sun-swimming fun!
Or maybe I can't. Guess I need some scrilla first.
to be able to get pissy when potential employers decide to quiz us after tracking down our CVs!
Nope, it's not news.
Neither is the fact that MS is lobbying the govt. to ease visa restrictions.
(That was news a while ago.)
That layout *might* have been cutting edge close to a decade ago. Made for painful reading. I expected better from the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Maybe the AAAS should partner with a few artists - you know, hire a web designer... or something.
Did somebody say my name? Does this mean I have to link to Apple now? What Amish loser thought 'Why ask why?' would be a good slogan for a 'dry' beer? And why the hell would that same asshat marketing team think anybody would want 'dry' beer? What's next? 'warm flat' beer? Sign me up! What? They actually still make bud dry?!? blargh!
I went to this convention with a few friends. Met a few interesting people there - most, predictably, from the 21st century and beyond. The unexpected highlight for me though, was meeting a couple of pre-20th century travelers. (All claimed to be time-knapping victims - one claimed to have been abducted several times!) Regardless, it was good enough for me to hop to right now to post about it on /. I encourage all to attend. I wore a red an white "where's Waldo?" hat. Say "hi" if you go.
Clearly, you're not in earthquake country!
Honor means nothing to - | . Principles mean nothing to - | . All it cares about is how best to force us to bow down low before what I call virulent nymphomaniacs. I attribute the social and psychological problems of modern society to the fact that we can never return to the past. And if we are ever to move forward to the future, we indeed have to punish - | for its headlong precepts. As I noted at the beginning of this letter, it's irrelevant that my allegations are 100% true. - | distrusts my information and arguments and will forever maintain its current opinions.
Be careful not to be charmed by - | 's epigrams. All they do is lay down diktats that force me to wind up in a straitjacket and locked in a padded cell. You might have heard the story that - | once agreed to help us pronounce the truth and renounce the lies. No one has located the document in which - | said that. No one has identified when or where - | said that. That's because it never said it. As you might have suspected, the central paradox of - | 's artifices, the twist that makes - | 's bruta fulmina so irresistible to prodigal libertines, is that these people truly believe that - | holds a universal license that allows it to impinge upon our daily lives. On a closing note, I hope that this letter, while incomplete, informal, and having no authority except its own inner strength and conviction, has clearly demonstrated to you that - | makes assertions that strain credulity.
mirrordot is great stuff.
redundant? sure.
helpful? likely.
Troll me if you will, but I think it's a money question!)
I'll sound off and concur with others that:Settlers of Catan and Looneylabs games are flarging awesome and nearly universal. It's easy to get geeks and "others" alike playing *and* enjoying.
This is so two weeks ago...
I've had this link on my page for a L O N G time.
pay heed
Upgrading a POP isn't simple or cheap either, if you're at capacity, you have to buy another PRI (essentially a T1 truncated into 24 channels), another card for the RAS to supply those 24 ports, etc. But even though it might take you a year to fill up those facilities, you have to pay for them ALL the whole time. In rural areas, these telco services can be incredibly expensive.
Bring the economy of scale into things, and it just makes sense for the big guys (Qwest, MegaPOP, Aleron, etc.) to set up huge POPs and charge by the hour. That's why so many ISPs can offer nationwide access these days.
Outsourcing.
Hence the real expense of offering true unlimited dial-up.
When you use their dial-up 24/7, you cost b/w $57 and $100 per month and only pay a fraction of that. It makes VERY little (if any) sense for any ISP to allow 24/7, unless they're facilities based, and not many are these days.
I don't know of any.
know what I mean?
I'm often stuck using Win (at home b/c it's my GF's machine - at work b/c I make most of our graphics, etc.) but I use open source for absolutely everything I need/can.
BTW, I'm told that WOUB will start posting more recent episodes of my open source radio show soon. Here's the first one from August. New episodes here soon.
The fact that luddites can't take care of their PCs doesn't change the fact that you should set your AV to auto-update more than once a month and that bloatware eats ass, right? ;)