I prefer Independent.co.uk - it's sometimes a little tabloidy, but there are often observations and analysis of issues (abysmal failure of efforts in Afghanistan comes to mind) that seem to escape the mediocre US media.
I have used NSI for domain registration in the past, and their hosting for static sites is actually OK - when you don't use them for anything else.
I finally figured out how to have my Google For Your Domain domains point to my hosted areas on NSI's servers for static content, and still use Google services (mail, blog, etc) for everything else.
$10 per domain per year for Google registration beats the hell out of trying to haggle with NSI sales staff when your domains are up for renewal. I have one left that is still registered @ NSI that I'm switching to Google (eNom/GoDaddy) next year. I'll keep my hosting @ NSI though, since I'm not doing any ecommerce with them...
You can set your Google Voice number to be your default voicemail answering number. I use it and it's great. It's in the setup for voicemail - you can set the phone number of the answering service to any number you like. I don't know if Verizon, etc, allow this, but I love having customized answering messages for my friends and family.
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As I have posted here before, my favorite job in IT, back when we called it DP, was MVS console operator. I know the new mainframes are running CICS and the MVS equivalent in a virtual environment now, but being a computer operator in the old days (late 70's early 80's) was a really fun job.
There were console jocks and tape hangers and printer operators. This was long before drug testing and a lot of us got high in the computer room. EVERYWHERE I worked as a computer operator in DP had stoners getting high in the decollating room. Nothing like ramping up a night's production run and watching the tapes and paper fly with a buzz on.
more perspective - we could take the billions of dollars we are flushing down the rathole in Afghanistan and just buy up all the drugs. the wealth the US is spreading around there now is going to a very few people at the very top.
it's kind of like what the government is doing with the bankers' bailout: giving delinquent banks money, instead of giving money to people who owe the banks, so they can pay the money they owe, get out of debt, and save the banks from delinquency...
My point is that books have no DRM, and Kindle is great for Amazon, but not so much "for the rest of us".
Sure, I can google how to break the DRM if I really want to be bothered, but if I want to lend the book to my technically clueless friends, it's another PITA step I'd rather avoid. You also get into the whole hopscotching stupidity cycle of "update OS" / "break DRM" / "update OS" / "break DRM".
As much as I hate DMCA, I have more than a few friends (and employers) who see breaking DRM as stealing. Surprisingly, most of them are in IT. I try to convince them otherwise, but they don't see it my way, so we agree to disagree and I get to keep my job.
It seems much more clueless to pay $500+ for supporting a monopolist's shiny locked book reading box. I guess this thing would more or less kill libraries and the whole concept of fair use, which is why I won't buy one. Amazon is already strong-arming content creators; see this excerpt from Dallas Morning News Publisher and CEO James Moroney during a Senate hearing on antitrust:
"The Kindle, which I think is a marvelous device, the best deal Amazon will give the Dallas Morning News--and we've negotiated this up to the last two weeks--they want 70 percent of the subscriptions revenue. I get 30 percent, they get 70 percent. On top of that they have said we get the right to republish your intellectual property to any portable device. Now is that a business model that is going to work for newspapers? I get 30 percent and they get the right to license my content to any portable device--not just ones made by Amazon?"
Thanks, but I'll pass for now...
FYI, not as clueless as you infer. When I was doing assembly-level programming on 370 mainframes, maybe you were still in daycare?
I've heard of a breaker, which is great when the source of power is breaker-protected wire coming from a distantly located coal fueled power plant. I believe that things might be a little different when I'm carrying the source of power with me and I'm partially submerged in water.
Ok, so take it one step further - you are in a collision on a bridge and plummet into the water below. The integrity of the battery casings have been compromised by the collision, and you can't roll down the windows or unlock the doors to get out.
I'm sure that Tesla will do everything possible, or at least required by law, to make their cars safer, but I would certainly be more concerned when driving an electric car through three feet of water than when driving a gasoline powered one through the same conditions. I have driven a gasoline powered car unscathed through three feet of water during a hurricane - no harm to me or the car...
this thing has high voltage components, so what happens if you try to drive it through two or three feet of water, like you see during flash flooding? granted, you are not supposed to drive through rushing water in a car, but the first time someone does, they will die, the rescue squad will die and everyone else who touches it before the batteries die, will die...
In the original Blue Man Group presentation, "Tubes", there was an analogy made between the Internet and the sewer system, and it really was a "series of tubes". Maybe this show inspired Alaska Senator Ted Stevens' analogy.
Not sure why, but when I used to drink too much, nothing took the edge off of the hangover quite like Tylenol Extra Strength (well, except for maybe another drink)...
ants hate soap. if you make a solution of dish detergent and water and spread the liquid across an ant trail, even just a damp paper towel's worth, they will not cross it.
You flinch more when you've been hit a few times. I lived in the tropics for 19 years and there were two reactions to hurricane season: low level terror, or just ignore it. In 1995 we had many many storms pass within a couple hundred miles before veering off, then Luis and Marilyn whacked us with category five one-two punches. You wanna see terror? Wait until you've lost your roof in the first store, when you hear that the next storm will hit within 24 hours, but the airport is closed and you cannot leave the island...
Well, I've never experienced a terror attack personally, but I have been through the eye of more than one Category 5 hurricane, and I can assure you people go pretty batty over that. Besides, what would you call the election of Bush in 2004 if not batty behavior, given what an obvious fuckup he made of the Iraq war and plundering the US Treasury?
win7 should be FREE if your support group FORCED Vista Ultimate on you within a week of its release, whereupon SharePoint and Microsoft Project Server both broke, and you still had to do your job anyway, which is what happened to me...
OSX 10.6 will be $29 if you bought OSX 10.5 or a new machine that came with it...
Microsoft should follow suit: Win7 is $29 if you paid $339 for Vista Ultimate
You see? Condoleeza Rice was right - nobody could have predicted that terrorists would fly planes into buildings. Well, except the scriptwriters on "The Lone Gunmen" . . .
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I prefer Independent.co.uk - it's sometimes a little tabloidy, but there are often observations and analysis of issues (abysmal failure of efforts in Afghanistan comes to mind) that seem to escape the mediocre US media.
I have used NSI for domain registration in the past, and their hosting for static sites is actually OK - when you don't use them for anything else.
I finally figured out how to have my Google For Your Domain domains point to my hosted areas on NSI's servers for static content, and still use Google services (mail, blog, etc) for everything else.
$10 per domain per year for Google registration beats the hell out of trying to haggle with NSI sales staff when your domains are up for renewal. I have one left that is still registered @ NSI that I'm switching to Google (eNom/GoDaddy) next year. I'll keep my hosting @ NSI though, since I'm not doing any ecommerce with them...
You can set your Google Voice number to be your default voicemail answering number. I use it and it's great. It's in the setup for voicemail - you can set the phone number of the answering service to any number you like. I don't know if Verizon, etc, allow this, but I love having customized answering messages for my friends and family.
Thanks for that - just posted in my cubicle!
do it yourself fireworks - always fun for the whole family!
As I have posted here before, my favorite job in IT, back when we called it DP, was MVS console operator. I know the new mainframes are running CICS and the MVS equivalent in a virtual environment now, but being a computer operator in the old days (late 70's early 80's) was a really fun job.
There were console jocks and tape hangers and printer operators. This was long before drug testing and a lot of us got high in the computer room. EVERYWHERE I worked as a computer operator in DP had stoners getting high in the decollating room. Nothing like ramping up a night's production run and watching the tapes and paper fly with a buzz on.
Obviously, socialism does have its benefits, as long as they don't force them to use Vista.
more perspective - we could take the billions of dollars we are flushing down the rathole in Afghanistan and just buy up all the drugs. the wealth the US is spreading around there now is going to a very few people at the very top.
it's kind of like what the government is doing with the bankers' bailout: giving delinquent banks money, instead of giving money to people who owe the banks, so they can pay the money they owe, get out of debt, and save the banks from delinquency...
My point is that books have no DRM, and Kindle is great for Amazon, but not so much "for the rest of us".
Sure, I can google how to break the DRM if I really want to be bothered, but if I want to lend the book to my technically clueless friends, it's another PITA step I'd rather avoid. You also get into the whole hopscotching stupidity cycle of "update OS" / "break DRM" / "update OS" / "break DRM".
As much as I hate DMCA, I have more than a few friends (and employers) who see breaking DRM as stealing. Surprisingly, most of them are in IT. I try to convince them otherwise, but they don't see it my way, so we agree to disagree and I get to keep my job.
It seems much more clueless to pay $500+ for supporting a monopolist's shiny locked book reading box. I guess this thing would more or less kill libraries and the whole concept of fair use, which is why I won't buy one. Amazon is already strong-arming content creators; see this excerpt from Dallas Morning News Publisher and CEO James Moroney during a Senate hearing on antitrust:
"The Kindle, which I think is a marvelous device, the best deal Amazon will give the Dallas Morning News--and we've negotiated this up to the last two weeks--they want 70 percent of the subscriptions revenue. I get 30 percent, they get 70 percent. On top of that they have said we get the right to republish your intellectual property to any portable device. Now is that a business model that is going to work for newspapers? I get 30 percent and they get the right to license my content to any portable device--not just ones made by Amazon?"
Thanks, but I'll pass for now...
FYI, not as clueless as you infer. When I was doing assembly-level programming on 370 mainframes, maybe you were still in daycare?
five minutes is an awful long time for food to remain on the floor before you pick it up to eat it...
ebooks you buy from Amazon are DRM'd - you cannot lend them to anyone.
I've heard of a breaker, which is great when the source of power is breaker-protected wire coming from a distantly located coal fueled power plant. I believe that things might be a little different when I'm carrying the source of power with me and I'm partially submerged in water.
Ok, so take it one step further - you are in a collision on a bridge and plummet into the water below. The integrity of the battery casings have been compromised by the collision, and you can't roll down the windows or unlock the doors to get out.
I'm sure that Tesla will do everything possible, or at least required by law, to make their cars safer, but I would certainly be more concerned when driving an electric car through three feet of water than when driving a gasoline powered one through the same conditions. I have driven a gasoline powered car unscathed through three feet of water during a hurricane - no harm to me or the car...
this thing has high voltage components, so what happens if you try to drive it through two or three feet of water, like you see during flash flooding? granted, you are not supposed to drive through rushing water in a car, but the first time someone does, they will die, the rescue squad will die and everyone else who touches it before the batteries die, will die...
In the original Blue Man Group presentation, "Tubes", there was an analogy made between the Internet and the sewer system, and it really was a "series of tubes". Maybe this show inspired Alaska Senator Ted Stevens' analogy.
Not sure why, but when I used to drink too much, nothing took the edge off of the hangover quite like Tylenol Extra Strength (well, except for maybe another drink)...
wow - talk about charismatic! those Mormons are on to something...
ants hate soap. if you make a solution of dish detergent and water and spread the liquid across an ant trail, even just a damp paper towel's worth, they will not cross it.
You flinch more when you've been hit a few times. I lived in the tropics for 19 years and there were two reactions to hurricane season: low level terror, or just ignore it. In 1995 we had many many storms pass within a couple hundred miles before veering off, then Luis and Marilyn whacked us with category five one-two punches. You wanna see terror? Wait until you've lost your roof in the first store, when you hear that the next storm will hit within 24 hours, but the airport is closed and you cannot leave the island...
Well, I've never experienced a terror attack personally, but I have been through the eye of more than one Category 5 hurricane, and I can assure you people go pretty batty over that. Besides, what would you call the election of Bush in 2004 if not batty behavior, given what an obvious fuckup he made of the Iraq war and plundering the US Treasury?
Well, I did receive an email from Bill Gates saying if I sent it on to everyone I knew, he would pay me. Another Microsoft lie... :-(
win7 should be FREE if your support group FORCED Vista Ultimate on you within a week of its release, whereupon SharePoint and Microsoft Project Server both broke, and you still had to do your job anyway, which is what happened to me...
OSX 10.6 will be $29 if you bought OSX 10.5 or a new machine that came with it... Microsoft should follow suit: Win7 is $29 if you paid $339 for Vista Ultimate
they'll make money by selling the IP addresses and email addresses of all their registered users to the RIAA & MPAA
You see? Condoleeza Rice was right - nobody could have predicted that terrorists would fly planes into buildings. Well, except the scriptwriters on "The Lone Gunmen" . . .
they changed the name. they're sending out invites now.