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  1. Re:Ethernet power rating on Power Over Ethernet for AirPort Base Station · · Score: 1

    I have used power over ethernet often, AT&T/Lucent Merlin/Legend systems use similar.

    A number of Access Point manufacturers (Lucent, Symbol) are now offering Power over Ethernet add-on's for their Access Points. A PoE module inserts DC voltage into the unused wires in a standard ethernet cable (pairs 7-8 and 4-5) from: http://www.nycwireless.net/poe/

  2. Re:How much energy does recycling a car take? on Technology Makes New Cars Too Expensive to Fix · · Score: 1

    I'd consider anything full-frame, RWD, American made: Caprice Classic, Crown Victoria, pickup trucks without silly crap like power windows and carpets.

    I have my eye on a 72 Chevelle six cylinder automatic that my friends' grandmother owned- all original, garage kept for the last 20 years. $1500=mine.

    Also, consider a V6 Mustang. They're designed for the output of the V8, with some room to spare for performance mods, and I would suspect that the torsional loads on the body (which contribute massively to paint cracking and metal fatigue) would be substantially minimalized with the V6. As for the V6 drivetrain itself, I dunno....

    Performance-wise these cars dont have the suspension/steering/braking of the v8 models, esp. the GT and SVO, etc. ones.

    Though, if you get the V8, treat it well and hang onto it for a long time, you might even find that it appreciates in value (20 years +).

    I still use the engine from a car I bought in '88 for $1000 (327 chevy) and is now in a former NJBell van (originally equiped with an inline-6/column-shift manual trans/manual steering) that I bought for $500 in '92. I decided not to put my Muncie M-21 into the van (saving for a suitable ride-thinking the 72 chevelle...) so I threw in a Turbo350 transmission (readily found for the price of a $case.of.beer+$250 for a rebuild w/trailer-shift-kit). Installed a HEI distributor. I also converted to power steering from parts laying around. (Note that the chevy G-series van from the early 70s thru mid-90s remained largely unchanged -thus the widely available parts).

    Aside from the trans rebuild, all work was done myself. I consider it a 'sleeper'; it looks like a phone co. truck (I can park in Manhattan and the parking brownies just walk on by...) and it handles well (factory heavy duty springs and sway bars- unusual for 6-cyl Mustangs, but not so on trucks) and really gets up and goes- suprises most passengers.

  3. Re:Bill Bryson covered this nicely. on Happy Spamiversary! · · Score: 1

    It is a 'kids' program, in this case by the station manager and his kid filling in for the regular hosts (who were actually in a New York Times article recently). If you know any kids (or are one yourself-aren't we all?) they would enjoy. BTW, IMHO WFMU is the finest radio station in the NYC area, and the playlists are amazing (not just for the kids show.)

  4. Re:I sort of agree with Viacom on A La Carte Cable TV Channels? · · Score: 1

    Direct TV collects statistics on their customers, You don't really need the phone line attached except for PayPerView. The line is the only way to send data to DTV. The favorites are stored locally.

  5. Re:This will never happen on A La Carte Cable TV Channels? · · Score: 1

    the community would mutiny.

    Sadly, maybe just the thing to get the "asses of the masses" to take action.

  6. Re:Bill Bryson covered this nicely. on Happy Spamiversary! · · Score: 1

    Maybe try http://archive.wfmu.org:5555/archive/GK/gk030906.r m

  7. Re:L'Inspire on Lindows Changes Name to 'Linspire' · · Score: 1

    I love animals. That's why I like to kill 'em. -- Hank Spire

    Are Hank and Lin related?

  8. Re:Bill Bryson covered this nicely. on Happy Spamiversary! · · Score: 1

    Great! Imagine having that song stuck yr head. I knew where I could find it tho... WFMU clickable playlists! RealPlayer only :( http://wfmu.org/playlists/shows/8765 (bottom of page) http://wfmu.org/listen.ram?show=8765&starttime=1:4 2:41

  9. Re:Remote support for Windows too... on Rack Mounted PCs for the Home User? · · Score: 1

    I have clients (people-clients) that use this, seems that licenses need to be purchased for attitional clients.

  10. Re:The color is fine. Brightness is the problem on The Blues for LEDs · · Score: 1

    I occasionally need to work in poorly lighted phone/data rooms/closets. Often LEDs on a panel emit enough light to make the label of the light unreadable (without employing LED flashlight from utility belt.) I like the backlit labels, and a 'remote' map of the ports in use, rather than at the port itself. A good friend of mine is about as color blind as one can be. He sees only shades of grey. We often work on telecom systems, and just can't use the color coding, he can only spl it pairs- I will have to see if he can differentiate LEDs by their brightness.

  11. Re:where am i gonna check my email on the road? on Gateway To Close All Retail Stores · · Score: 1

    Radio Shacks near me (NJ) have peg hooks with locks for some of the pricier items. I usually just grab my handy cable shears and cut the packaging so that I can read the back of these items.

  12. Re:WRONG! on The Unhappy World of IT Professionals · · Score: 1
    Both have mechanisms to sync to 'atomic time' automatically.

    Actually, most non-ip phone systems have to be set manually. Some will keep the time in the event of a power failure, but will be behind by the elapsed time of outage.

  13. Re:What?! on The Unhappy World of IT Professionals · · Score: 1

    Three basic rules of plumbing: Shit flows down. You don't get paid until the job is done. Don't bite your fingernails.

  14. All these texts reflect the boring and on UK National Archives Divulge Secrets · · Score: 1

    long-established Brit attitude that "this is Britain, so why in hell can't those thick Irish not acknowledge it!?" It happens that a 1980 study ordered by the Crown Privy Council (eight members of Govt and Parliament who advise the queen on long-term policy matters) was produced by a task force of several British military and MI6 intelligence agencies, and in the end, the final details were assembled personally by the prime minister -- Maggie Thatcher. She passed it along to the queen and the Privy Council one copy each for the members and one for the queen). The key "advisory" was that the Brits Army could not defeat the IRA, and that the IRA couldn't deat the BA ... A summary was released by Thatcher's press office. But two months later the IRA published the entire document (of about 40 pages, if I recall)! Seems they had a friend (if not a mole) right there in the Privy Council, or in Thatcher's own office! Happens that all the members of Parliament were pissed off that they were reading a document in the public press AFTER the IRA had gotten hands on it weeks before. The Brits had the same kind of problem in Palestine, with Israelis and Palestinians each having moles operating within British HQs (which at the time was the King David Hotel -- later blown to bits by the Irgun Zeva'i Le'umi (Jewish saboteurs). In Dublin, 1921, the IRA assassinanted 21 British agents in one nite after infiltrating MI5 there. And, throughout the Cold War, while the Russians were able to plant many agents in all Western capitals, they hardly had reason to plant any in London because there were so many Brits anxious to pass along nuclear and military intelligence to Moscow, free of charge ... So the Brits have long suffered from very weak counter-intelligence -- while themselves being very successful in penetrating enemy intel services. Nothing much has changed over the past 100 years in the under-cover business! PS: On the website there's a 75,000-word file (originally issued by the US State Dept, 17 years after end of WWII) on so-called Irish neutrality during WWII, the details clearly showing it to be a sham, that in exchange for wheat, medical supplies and military signal equipment (that would enable networking with the Brits for the defence of "the republic" against any German landing threats) the Dublin gov't agreed to deny any rights to German flight or naval crews that entered Irish air- or water-spaces, whie allowing Allied flights and ships to pass along en route to their bases, or to have a/craft and ships repairs to allow them to get back to their bases. The whole deal was smoke and mirrors. But even after reading the 75,000 words, I guarantee that 95% of visitors will continue to believe that "Irish neutrality" or "collaboration with the Nazis" was official policy, and respected by the US and London.