It is offered, but it is not on the 'standard' satellite. You need a special setup to receive it. Quoting from: http://pub132.ezboard.com/fexcelsior30272frm14.sho wMessage?topicID=142.topic
The way I understand it, one LNB will support two receivers. I have a dual lnb (the oval dish) system and it allows me to have up to four receivers. Currently I have two, with cable run for one more. The real reason to get the oval dish, which I assume the triple LNB dish is, is that it allows you to pick up a couple more channels that the standard 18" dish can't get for whatever reason. Among these channels are the NASA channel and several movie channels broadcast in High Definition format. The High Def thing was the reason I went with the oval as my main TV is a HighDef widescreen. When I get enough pennies saved up I'll buy a HD receiver and move the receiver I currently have to that third cable I've got run.
With mine, a 90% signal, I was able to watch TV reliable during a tropical storm in Houston. The few times I have lost signal, it was back up within minutes.
I should add. My next door neighbors Time-Warner cable was out for 2 days due to flooding at this same time.
My personal experiance on this (DirecTV Subscriber 7 years, Time Warner Analog and Digital for 5 years) is that Digital Satellite beats Digital Cable hands down.
Everything that the cable companies say (with the exception of the dog sneezing) may be true, but it's exaggerated to the point of borderline lies.
If your dish is aimed to achieve a signal in the "85%" range, which is quite easy to do, you won't have much of any problem with rain or weather fades. With mine, a 90% signal, I was able to watch TV reliable during a tropical storm in Houston. The few times I have lost signal, it was back up within minutes.
With Digital Cable, I discover that I lose signal anytime they're working on a line, construction hits a cable, flooding at their office, you name it. *At Least* a full day outage every month or two.
As for channels, Who has what depends on what day of the week it is. I believe NASA TV is carried by DirecTV. I'm not sure about Comcast, as they don't sell in my area.
Cable touts how owning your own equipment is bad. This reminds me of the old AT&T / BellSouth argument that they should own the phones and lease them to you. Guess what, Cable companies aren't supplying that digital converter for free. It costs more to rent that box than the extra that local channels cost on Satellite.
As for DVR, the DVR's supplied by either cable or satellite companies are low end models. If they fit your needs, go for it. If you want the latest and greatest, buy or build your own.
Notice I said I was working an IT job in High School, as well. That's $6.00 an hour I made in 1985 - 1986, building PC clones, and answereing Tech Support calls. According to the CPI Calculator you provided a link for (cool link BTW, thank you) That $6.00 in 1985 equates to $10.26 in 2003 dollars. As I said, I made $62K last year. That's roughly $30 an hour if you're counting, and yes, I'm doing better than some, but worse than others. Right now, $10.00 an hour is about right for low-end, entry level IT Tech Support jobs. I can name a couple. Microsoft is hiring (Through agencies) phone tech support for X-Box at $10.00 an hour right now. Dell Computers starts at $11.50 an hour. People with very little experiance under their belt can hire on at $15.00 an hour at IBM for phone support. Even with the tech bubble bursting a few years ago, the jobs that are there, still pay competitavely, with inflation in mind, to what they did 18 or 19 years ago.
Now, to your comment about wanting fries with that, and the pizza guy. I've thought for years that minimum wager earners are getting a raw deal, I'll agree with you there. Minimum wage needs to be brought up to match inflation. Who will this hurt? McDonalds, Wendys, Burger King, and all the companies taking advantage of unskilled minimum wager earners. The cost of your Big Mac will increase.
No one in the tech industry (That I know of) is making the $5.75 or so that TX current minimum wage is.
You made out better than most. Let's see. 15 years ago, I was 20. Just a couple of years out of High School. In High School, I made about $6 an hour at an IT job. (Min Wage (in TX) was $4 something at the time). Any way, this was in 1985 - 1986. Last year, I made ~62K as a UNIX Admin. I have no college, and only an HP-UX cert under my belt. The point I'm getting to (eventualy, it's Saturday, and I've been drinking) is that:
1: I don't think $15/hour was the norm 15 years ago.
2: I think students today make well over 3.1% over the norm from 15 years ago.
That's all I have to say.. g'night all...
Stephen L. Palmer SLP - Technical Consulting http://slpalmer.com
That's odd, I've been using it on 4 cpu test systems for quite some time now. I notice notible improvements. Are using the 'GENERIC' kernel, with all the debuging routines in place? That could be the source of seemed slowdowns.
I've got a G4 OS-X under my desk at work (Next to my UltraSparc), WinXP, Win98 and FreeBSD systems at home.
That said, I disagree completely with the quoted statement. Once you get in to the internals of OS-X, you have a much finer level of control than WinXP gives you.
If you choose to work with objects like images or songs and like to forget you are using a computer then OS X beats XP. If you like to manage your whole system, Windows wins.
>I said nothing about them being remotely exploitable.
Then, do you have a point?
Yes, I do. The point was someone (http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=29123&thresho ld=1&commentsort=3&tid=128&mode=nested&cid=3124953 ) had stated that telnetd, named, and sendmail were not in the default install of OpenBSD. I corrected that statement by saying that they were in fact in the default install. Neither of us said anything about whether or not they were remotely exploitable.
you'll find that sendmail is only listening on loca loopback 127.0.0.1
True, but the main point I was attempting to make was that these things are indeed included in the "default installation".
ie: root on smaug:~ % ls -l/usr/libexec/telnetd -r-xr-xr-x 1 root bin 90112 Oct 18 15:26/usr/libexec/telnetd root on smaug:~ % uname -a OpenBSD smaug.midearth.org 3.0 GENERIC#0 i386 root on smaug:~ % ls -l/usr/sbin/named -r-xr-xr-x 1 root bin 151552 Oct 18 15:27/usr/sbin/named
OpenBSD doesn't install telnetd, named, or sendmail by default.
That's funny, I just did a base install of OpenBSD 3.0 about 4 days ago for my firewall, and it included sendmail and bind4 in the default install. Sendmail was running, bind was not.
Okay,
So do what we did for floppies ages ago. Add a second read head (laser / mirror etc...) to read from the other side without flipping the disk. Yes, it will add a bit to the cost of the drive, but in the long run, will be considered normal.
I think you're thinking of Apocalypse Now.
Kurtz's rantings at the end of the movie mention something like that. I don't know whether it actually happened tho.
Quite possible. I have that movie on DVD, and I just might be remembering that Kurtz rant you're describing.
The terrorists will exploit the kindness by infiltrating these safe zones (how do you tell a terrorist from a bonafide Afghani victim?) and kill/maime not only those who provide the kindness, but also those who they feel have sold-out to the Western defilers.
This is exactly right. I seem to recall opposing forces in Vietnam, hacking off the arms of women and children who had been immunized by US support groups. If a group is as firmly against what you stand for as the VC were in Vietnam, or the Muslim Fundimentalists will be in Afganastan, they view any aid given to those around them as defection by those around them.
My soution? I don't have one. I think the original poster of this was on the right track, but we need: (1) to make sure we have the support of the people. and (2) to give them only what they want, and not what we think they want.
Stephen L. Palmer
HP-UX Certified Admin
http://www.midearth.org
Check out Baen Books and their Webscriptions. You can actualy get non-copy-protected ebooks, in your choice of formats, including html, Prior to the release of the hardbacks.
quote: Most publiers are releasing only older titles on e-books. I have yet to see a new hardcover edition be simultaneous released on e-books.
Odd though, their "Day of week calculator" on that website won't accept a date before 1900 or past 1999.
"Year 19yy" is listed above the input box, and it will accept only 00-99 as input for that field.
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I guess my /. ID makes me a 'geet' then?
I was recently asking this same question, albeit for a home-based consulting business.
The solution that I found was SQL-Ledger. While it is overkill for my needs, I think it might fit your criteria quite well.
Quoting from: http://pub132.ezboard.com/fexcelsior30272frm14.sh
I should add. My next door neighbors Time-Warner cable was out for 2 days due to flooding at this same time.
My personal experiance on this (DirecTV Subscriber 7 years, Time Warner Analog and Digital for 5 years) is that Digital Satellite beats Digital Cable hands down.
Everything that the cable companies say (with the exception of the dog sneezing) may be true, but it's exaggerated to the point of borderline lies.
If your dish is aimed to achieve a signal in the "85%" range, which is quite easy to do, you won't have much of any problem with rain or weather fades. With mine, a 90% signal, I was able to watch TV reliable during a tropical storm in Houston. The few times I have lost signal, it was back up within minutes.
With Digital Cable, I discover that I lose signal anytime they're working on a line, construction hits a cable, flooding at their office, you name it. *At Least* a full day outage every month or two.
As for channels, Who has what depends on what day of the week it is. I believe NASA TV is carried by DirecTV. I'm not sure about Comcast, as they don't sell in my area.
Cable touts how owning your own equipment is bad. This reminds me of the old AT&T / BellSouth argument that they should own the phones and lease them to you. Guess what, Cable companies aren't supplying that digital converter for free. It costs more to rent that box than the extra that local channels cost on Satellite.
As for DVR, the DVR's supplied by either cable or satellite companies are low end models. If they fit your needs, go for it. If you want the latest and greatest, buy or build your own.
I say DirectTV is the way to go.
Notice I said I was working an IT job in High School, as well. That's $6.00 an hour I made in 1985 - 1986, building PC clones, and answereing Tech Support calls. According to the CPI Calculator you provided a link for (cool link BTW, thank you) That $6.00 in 1985 equates to $10.26 in 2003 dollars. As I said, I made $62K last year. That's roughly $30 an hour if you're counting, and yes, I'm doing better than some, but worse than others. Right now, $10.00 an hour is about right for low-end, entry level IT Tech Support jobs. I can name a couple. Microsoft is hiring (Through agencies) phone tech support for X-Box at $10.00 an hour right now. Dell Computers starts at $11.50 an hour. People with very little experiance under their belt can hire on at $15.00 an hour at IBM for phone support. Even with the tech bubble bursting a few years ago, the jobs that are there, still pay competitavely, with inflation in mind, to what they did 18 or 19 years ago.
Now, to your comment about wanting fries with that, and the pizza guy. I've thought for years that minimum wager earners are getting a raw deal, I'll agree with you there. Minimum wage needs to be brought up to match inflation. Who will this hurt? McDonalds, Wendys, Burger King, and all the companies taking advantage of unskilled minimum wager earners. The cost of your Big Mac will increase.
No one in the tech industry (That I know of) is making the $5.75 or so that TX current minimum wage is.
Did you grow up in Killeen perchance?
You made out better than most. Let's see. 15 years ago, I was 20. Just a couple of years out of High School. In High School, I made about $6 an hour at an IT job. (Min Wage (in TX) was $4 something at the time). Any way, this was in 1985 - 1986. Last year, I made ~62K as a UNIX Admin. I have no college, and only an HP-UX cert under my belt. The point I'm getting to (eventualy, it's Saturday, and I've been drinking) is that:
1: I don't think $15/hour was the norm 15 years ago.
2: I think students today make well over 3.1% over the norm from 15 years ago.
That's all I have to say.. g'night all...
Stephen L. Palmer
SLP - Technical Consulting
http://slpalmer.com
Don't you know you shouldn't admit to doing illegal... oh wait... that Coke... :-)
Stephen L. Palmer
SLP - Technical Consulting
Stephen L. Palmer
SLP - Technical Consulting
http://slpalmer.com
Philip K. Dick also authored 'Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep', the story 'Blade Runner' was based on.
You could get a PPC based Amiga One. I've not used one personaly, but it appears to be a PPC system using mostly commodity parts.
That said, I disagree completely with the quoted statement. Once you get in to the internals of OS-X, you have a much finer level of control than WinXP gives you.
load "universe",8,1
Yes, I do.
The point was someone (http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=29123&thresh
Stephen L. Palmer
I said nothing about them being remotely exploitable.
True, but the main point I was attempting to make was that these things are indeed included in the "default installation".
ie:
root on smaug:~ % ls -l
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root bin 90112 Oct 18 15:26
root on smaug:~ % uname -a
OpenBSD smaug.midearth.org 3.0 GENERIC#0 i386
root on smaug:~ % ls -l
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root bin 151552 Oct 18 15:27
That's funny, I just did a base install of OpenBSD 3.0 about 4 days ago for my firewall, and it included sendmail and bind4 in the default install. Sendmail was running, bind was not.
Stephen L. Palmer
[Slight Correction]
The Future:
Me: "Dude, I missed Futurama last night!"
Friend: "You're on drugs. Futurama was cancled remember!"
Okay,
So do what we did for floppies ages ago. Add a second read head (laser / mirror etc...) to read from the other side without flipping the disk. Yes, it will add a bit to the cost of the drive, but in the long run, will be considered normal.
Stephen L. Palmer
Quite possible. I have that movie on DVD, and I just might be remembering that Kurtz rant you're describing.
Stephen L. Palmer
This is exactly right. I seem to recall opposing forces in Vietnam, hacking off the arms of women and children who had been immunized by US support groups. If a group is as firmly against what you stand for as the VC were in Vietnam, or the Muslim Fundimentalists will be in Afganastan, they view any aid given to those around them as defection by those around them.
My soution? I don't have one. I think the original poster of this was on the right track, but we need: (1) to make sure we have the support of the people. and (2) to give them only what they want, and not what we think they want.
Stephen L. PalmerHP-UX Certified Admin
http://www.midearth.org
quote: Most publiers are releasing only older titles on e-books. I have yet to see a new hardcover edition be simultaneous released on e-books.
Oh Yes! I just let 5 mod points expire, and now I see this!
Someone please mod this up!
hehehh
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Odd though, their "Day of week calculator" on that website won't accept a date before 1900 or past 1999.
"Year 19yy" is listed above the input box, and it will accept only 00-99 as input for that field.
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