It amazes me that so many people apparently can't imagine that one would use an RV to travel someplace other than a remote National Park or the middle of a desert, especially when full-timing
Yes, if you set up camp in the middle of nowhere (and I would consider National Parks "the middle of nowhere" when it comes to working) you may have problems. For the 99% of reasonable destinations, there will be cell phone service.
And so we circle right back around to what I originally said - you obviously don't spend much time outside of built up urban areas if you believe that. If for no other reason than there's an awful lot of empty places you're going to travel through to get to those places "other people also like to see".
I guess if you're trying to work while driving, that will be a real problem. I was assuming that the original poster would be working at various destinations. I suspect most destinations (unless you're trying to get away from everything) has some sort of Internet accessibility. And, if you really are trying to get away from everything, then you presumably wouldn't care about Internet accessibility.
Methinks you don't actually spend any time outside of built-up urban areas.
My Mother lives on the fringe of cellular service (you cell phone might work if you stand in the yard face the right direction).
Certainly there are large areas without coverage. But those are, by definition, area without anything to attract a significant number of people. I guess it depends on what the original poster is trying to accomplish. If (s)he is trying to get as far away from humanity as possible, then satellite may be the only practical solution. However, if the goal is to travel around the country and see things that other people also like to see, then cell phone service shouldn't be much of a problem.
That might help. But wouldn't it be better if schools ran like almost any other business in this country, allowing students to schedule vacations when it suited them and their families?
But, public schools aren't run for the benefit of the students. Imagine the outrage from the teachers and administrators if you try to take away their three-month long summer vacations.
But deliberately screwing our children because your local tourism might take a hit is insane.
I didn't say anything of the sort, but from your lack of reading comprehension I suspect you may be another victim of the American public education system.
There is also the fact that a year-round school year would have major impact on the economies of areas with significant tourism.
Part of my family lives in an area that lives for the three months of summer tourists. They have a limited number of available hotels and cabins, and if the vacation season was cut in half (for example) their incomes would also be cut significantly, even allowing for the increased demand for their rooms during the shortened vacation season.
I'm not suggesting that this is more important than a quality education, but I am pointing out that there are significant costs, well beyond the obvious ones.
I better solution would be to change the system to allow students to schedule vacations at any time, just like their working parents. But the current public school system isn't anywhere near agile enough to allow for this.
Jerry Pournelle was writing SF stories using suits just like this back in the 1970s. HERE is a page describing this suit, and including a quote from Pournelle's story "Exiles To Glory".
The technology-related issues are easy to solve these days. Unless you're in the middle of the desert, 3G/4G cell phones and personal WiFi hotspots should work. If you are determined to live way, way out in the boonies, then look in to satellite-based Internet. It's not very good, but sometimes it's your only option.
The government and regulatory issues might be a bigger problem. Are you keeping your current home? If not, what will you use as an address? You will have problems with things like driver's licenses if you don't have a permanent address.
There are several RV-related web sites with articles and forums on the subject of full-timing. Make sure to check them out.
D'oh! I wasn't seeing the post to which you were actually responding.
Yes, the Model-M is very noisy. But it's the best keyboard I've ever used. And, as several have noted, it can take a licking and keep on ticking (a la the old Timex watch commercials). Maybe a better version is: "It takes a shellacking and keeps on clacking!"
Why funny? I was given a Model M keyboard that was really filthy from 20+ years of use in a local college. It was so dirty that I wasn't willing to use it as is. Since I had nothing to lose, I put it in the upper rack in my dishwasher and ran it through a short cycle (with soap, no less).
It took a couple of days to completely dry out, but after that is was like new and worked perfectly.
I never thought of it. I only have to remote in to her system once or twice a year, and I don't (AFAIK) have any other reason to bother with dyndns, so I never thought of setting it up. It's a good idea which may be worth implementing in my case.
I give my (almost) 80-year-old a desktop icon which is called "Call John" and it starts up the VNC server with the appropriate command line options to start up a reverse connection to my computer.
If my IP address changes, I just email her a new shortcut file to replace the one on her desktop.
Until the power goes out and they can't recharge their Kindle...then they're going to be right back to the books. Let's ask all those people living in those areas of the U.S. that have been without power for the last 3-4 days how well their eBooks are working out for them now...
Honestly, I doubt that they're worried about what to read at this point.
Make sure you distinguish between manual email access and automatic access. My cell phone checks for email regularly, and if I were to die while my phone were plugged in, such a script would never be triggered (unless my area had an extended power outage long enough to allow the phone's battery to completely drain).
I live alone, and I have considered setting up a web site that displayed the last time I did anything the computer could track. That way, family could check the web site to see how recently there were signs of life. If the lapse between now and my last "check-in" became too great, they would know to try to contact me.
I have also considered a business to do this. You would register, supply emails to be sent out upon certain events, and then you would run background programs to "ping" the server when you did things that proved you were OK (and perhaps if something happened that indicated you, or your gadget, was not OK). Someone could probably turn that into a workable business (or already has), but, unfortunately, I'm not that person.
Of course, the network only works if every router in between the data center and the customer has power. In a power outage of this size, it's entirely possible that more than one link is down.
I went to see the opening-day showing of "Avengers" and many of the people in line were commenting on the fact that they were showing both 2D and 3D versions.
all of the people who expressed a preference wanted to see the 2D version.
Howzabout you start by changing both the title and text to correctly state that it's Charles Carreon the private citizen who happens to be a lawyer who is suing The Oatmeal, and not Charles Carreon the lawyer acting on behalf of client FunnyJunk?
I wonder if Carreon is still representing FJ? That would seem to be an obvious conflict of interest to me (but IANAL).
Last I checked, you can't move a VM image from a server in your datacenter to another server in your datacenter without ethernet or being physically present.
You can't move running VMs from machine to machine by copying them to an external hard drive. You can move VMs that are suspened or shut down that way.
But what does that have to do with Ethernet ports on laptops? Do you really use MacBook Pros as your datacenter servers?
New graduates never seem to worry about network speed because they have presumably never had to back up virtual machines or database images.
When I have to move huge VM images or databases, I use an external hard drive. It's a lot faster and more reliable than wired Ethernet.
For everything else, WiFi works just fine.
And, didn't we have this exact same argument regarding parallel ports, serial ports, floppy disk drives and CD drives? How much do you miss all of those?
What is your wireless router hooked to the modem with? Oh, thats right, ethernet. What connection will cheaply (~$200) support 48 simultaneous gigabit connections? Ethernet.
Good luck getting your small business to invest in a mesh of Wifi APs capable of that throughput for that many users.
I would also remark that if you dont have daily access to an ethernet port, you either dont have a job / go to school, or else are in the minority.
None of that has any relevance for laptop users. And, every business I've dealt with in the last 10 years has had WiFi throughout their offices.
No, WiFi is ubiquitous. Ethernet is becoming a legacy connections (like Serial, Parallel and all the other things no one puts on laptops anymore).
I've been using a Macbook Air for the last year as my primary machine, and I've never missed having an Ethernet port. That includes last week when I had to do a "factory reset" of my WiFi router.
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It amazes me that so many people apparently can't imagine that one would use an RV to travel someplace other than a remote National Park or the middle of a desert, especially when full-timing
Yes, if you set up camp in the middle of nowhere (and I would consider National Parks "the middle of nowhere" when it comes to working) you may have problems. For the 99% of reasonable destinations, there will be cell phone service.
And so we circle right back around to what I originally said - you obviously don't spend much time outside of built up urban areas if you believe that. If for no other reason than there's an awful lot of empty places you're going to travel through to get to those places "other people also like to see".
I guess if you're trying to work while driving, that will be a real problem. I was assuming that the original poster would be working at various destinations. I suspect most destinations (unless you're trying to get away from everything) has some sort of Internet accessibility. And, if you really are trying to get away from everything, then you presumably wouldn't care about Internet accessibility.
Methinks you don't actually spend any time outside of built-up urban areas.
My Mother lives on the fringe of cellular service (you cell phone might work if you stand in the yard face the right direction).
Certainly there are large areas without coverage. But those are, by definition, area without anything to attract a significant number of people. I guess it depends on what the original poster is trying to accomplish. If (s)he is trying to get as far away from humanity as possible, then satellite may be the only practical solution. However, if the goal is to travel around the country and see things that other people also like to see, then cell phone service shouldn't be much of a problem.
That's why you stagger things
That might help. But wouldn't it be better if schools ran like almost any other business in this country, allowing students to schedule vacations when it suited them and their families?
But, public schools aren't run for the benefit of the students. Imagine the outrage from the teachers and administrators if you try to take away their three-month long summer vacations.
But deliberately screwing our children because your local tourism might take a hit is insane.
I didn't say anything of the sort, but from your lack of reading comprehension I suspect you may be another victim of the American public education system.
There is also the fact that a year-round school year would have major impact on the economies of areas with significant tourism.
Part of my family lives in an area that lives for the three months of summer tourists. They have a limited number of available hotels and cabins, and if the vacation season was cut in half (for example) their incomes would also be cut significantly, even allowing for the increased demand for their rooms during the shortened vacation season.
I'm not suggesting that this is more important than a quality education, but I am pointing out that there are significant costs, well beyond the obvious ones.
I better solution would be to change the system to allow students to schedule vacations at any time, just like their working parents. But the current public school system isn't anywhere near agile enough to allow for this.
Jerry Pournelle was writing SF stories using suits just like this back in the 1970s. HERE is a page describing this suit, and including a quote from Pournelle's story "Exiles To Glory".
The technology-related issues are easy to solve these days. Unless you're in the middle of the desert, 3G/4G cell phones and personal WiFi hotspots should work. If you are determined to live way, way out in the boonies, then look in to satellite-based Internet. It's not very good, but sometimes it's your only option.
The government and regulatory issues might be a bigger problem. Are you keeping your current home? If not, what will you use as an address? You will have problems with things like driver's licenses if you don't have a permanent address.
There are several RV-related web sites with articles and forums on the subject of full-timing. Make sure to check them out.
2. Have him save all his data to a cloud service.
Has anyone heard of "cloud services" being used as a vector for computer virus infection?
I wouldn't let an infected machine access the Internet at all, let alone a password-protected service.
D'oh! I wasn't seeing the post to which you were actually responding.
Yes, the Model-M is very noisy. But it's the best keyboard I've ever used. And, as several have noted, it can take a licking and keep on ticking (a la the old Timex watch commercials). Maybe a better version is: "It takes a shellacking and keeps on clacking!"
Why funny? I was given a Model M keyboard that was really filthy from 20+ years of use in a local college. It was so dirty that I wasn't willing to use it as is. Since I had nothing to lose, I put it in the upper rack in my dishwasher and ran it through a short cycle (with soap, no less).
It took a couple of days to completely dry out, but after that is was like new and worked perfectly.
I never thought of it. I only have to remote in to her system once or twice a year, and I don't (AFAIK) have any other reason to bother with dyndns, so I never thought of setting it up. It's a good idea which may be worth implementing in my case.
I give my (almost) 80-year-old a desktop icon which is called "Call John" and it starts up the VNC server with the appropriate command line options to start up a reverse connection to my computer.
If my IP address changes, I just email her a new shortcut file to replace the one on her desktop.
Until the power goes out and they can't recharge their Kindle...then they're going to be right back to the books. Let's ask all those people living in those areas of the U.S. that have been without power for the last 3-4 days how well their eBooks are working out for them now...
Honestly, I doubt that they're worried about what to read at this point.
Good move, Apple - you may have just saved Steve Ballmer's job.
Given Ballmer's performance, helping him save his job may be the smartest move Apple could make.
Make sure you distinguish between manual email access and automatic access. My cell phone checks for email regularly, and if I were to die while my phone were plugged in, such a script would never be triggered (unless my area had an extended power outage long enough to allow the phone's battery to completely drain).
I live alone, and I have considered setting up a web site that displayed the last time I did anything the computer could track. That way, family could check the web site to see how recently there were signs of life. If the lapse between now and my last "check-in" became too great, they would know to try to contact me.
I have also considered a business to do this. You would register, supply emails to be sent out upon certain events, and then you would run background programs to "ping" the server when you did things that proved you were OK (and perhaps if something happened that indicated you, or your gadget, was not OK). Someone could probably turn that into a workable business (or already has), but, unfortunately, I'm not that person.
I don't know about you, but for me all it would have to do is see if my last login time was more than 24 hours earlier.
It is was, I'm dead!
Once you have one, you should be able to make as many more as you want.
It reminds me of Willy Wonka's Everlasting Gobstopper. Nobody needs more than one.
Of course, the network only works if every router in between the data center and the customer has power. In a power outage of this size, it's entirely possible that more than one link is down.
I went to see the opening-day showing of "Avengers" and many of the people in line were commenting on the fact that they were showing both 2D and 3D versions.
all of the people who expressed a preference wanted to see the 2D version.
Howzabout you start by changing both the title and text to correctly state that it's Charles Carreon the private citizen who happens to be a lawyer who is suing The Oatmeal, and not Charles Carreon the lawyer acting on behalf of client FunnyJunk?
I wonder if Carreon is still representing FJ? That would seem to be an obvious conflict of interest to me (but IANAL).
You can't move running VMs from machine to machine by copying them to an external hard drive. You can move VMs that are suspened or shut down that way.
But what does that have to do with Ethernet ports on laptops? Do you really use MacBook Pros as your datacenter servers?
New graduates never seem to worry about network speed because they have presumably never had to back up virtual machines or database images.
When I have to move huge VM images or databases, I use an external hard drive. It's a lot faster and more reliable than wired Ethernet.
For everything else, WiFi works just fine.
And, didn't we have this exact same argument regarding parallel ports, serial ports, floppy disk drives and CD drives? How much do you miss all of those?
What is your wireless router hooked to the modem with? Oh, thats right, ethernet. What connection will cheaply (~$200) support 48 simultaneous gigabit connections? Ethernet.
Good luck getting your small business to invest in a mesh of Wifi APs capable of that throughput for that many users.
I would also remark that if you dont have daily access to an ethernet port, you either dont have a job / go to school, or else are in the minority.
None of that has any relevance for laptop users. And, every business I've dealt with in the last 10 years has had WiFi throughout their offices.
Ethernet is ubiquitous!
No, WiFi is ubiquitous. Ethernet is becoming a legacy connections (like Serial, Parallel and all the other things no one puts on laptops anymore).
I've been using a Macbook Air for the last year as my primary machine, and I've never missed having an Ethernet port. That includes last week when I had to do a "factory reset" of my WiFi router.