One problem with a remote data center is that you still need someone with both a clue and fluent technical English skills to rack equipment, do cabling, etc. This is surprisingly hard to come by even in the US.
If you want an open phone, there are several on the market or very close to market that will work MUCH better
Great! PLEASE tell me which they are so that I can get one so that I can do full syncing of Addressbook and iCal info without dropping multiple phone numbers or recurring events.
Oh, those other phones can't do that? Guess they don't work MUCH better, do they?
"emacs" is a group of text editors. There have been a number of implementations over the years. PDP-10/TECO. Gosling. Unipress. MicroEMACS (smaller binary than vi). And of course the bloated GNU emacs that punchcard fanboys like you enjoy pretending is "the" emacs.
Oh come on. $30-40 / month is getting you a pretty *awesome* connection, for the price of eating out once.
My connectivity costs $550/mo because Verizon is falling over themselves to run fiber to urban areas that already have multiple good, cheap connectivity options -- and abandoning the rest of their territories.
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The hardware, was for the most part reliable, as long as you just used the base unit, and treated the headphone jacks with some degree of caution
How exactly did you hear anything on the unit? Telepathy?
but I'd much rather spend those millions to benefit a school and get educational software into Florida's failing schools.
Have you ever *really* seen educational software that either a) actually taught something and b) wasn't so boring that the kid would use it for more than 5 seconds?
I submit that a first thing to do would be to stop feeding the kids corpses and HFCS at lunch. Their overall health and ability to learn in a classroom environment will improve.
Mind you, I totally agree with you regarding municipal WiFi. I once knew a fairly-technically-aware English/Rhetoric professor who studied communication use in central Asia. Big fan of municipal WiFi, but I simply couldn't get her to understand that in practice it wouldn't work.
I've experienced attempts at city WiFi, in Portland and in Boulder, both of which were basically unusable.
# They could be paying for a better copy, but in fact the pirate copies are better. (No DRM, for starters.)
I'm not convinced that a 96kbps mp3 ripped without jitter correction is better than a CD.
Sweet modulo the long-standing inability to transfer files. Attempts to send them almost always fail; having someone send one to me when I'm running Adium is a sure-fire way to have it crash within 5 minutes.
Yes, I reported it long ago.
Also the latency while high is not unusable for everyday usage
Clearly you don't telecommute. The latency with a sat system is maddening when you're SSHing around the world.
From: "Scott E. Fahlman" <Fahlman@C.CS.CMU.EDU> Subject: Hassles Sender: FAHLMAN@C.CS.CMU.EDU To: bb-opinion@C.CS.CMU.EDU
1. Stores or other buldings that have N adjacent glass doors and that routinely only unlock a couple of them. I used to think that the people responsible for opening up in the morning were just lazy, but I'm increasingly coming to suspect that they enjoy lurking near the door and laughing at all the people who guess wrong. It's particularly irritating when there are two layers of doors and they don't open a straight-through path.
2. Micro-encapsulated perfume samples bound into magazines and into catalogs that I didn't ask for. Not only does it stink up the item in question, but also everything else that comes in the mail that day. It bugs me that I can't carry around my copy of Guns and Ammo without smelling like a cheap cathouse, all because some fool at Niemann-Marcus thought that I'd be irresistably drawn to the passionate scent of "Rutting Musk". (I don't actually read Guns and Ammo, but if people keep locking glass doors on me, I'm gonna start...)
3. Idiots who think that a nifty way to send a memo through campus mail is to fold it in half and put a staple or two through it. Such idiots seem to be in the majority over in Warner Hall. So I can either lacerate myself trying to use one of those vampire-like "staple removers" (has anyone EVER managed to cleanly remove a staple with one of those things without some loss of blood?), or I can spend about ten minutes performing micro-surgery on the staple with my trusty Swiss army knife, or I can rip the thing open, try to read what's on the shreds, decide that it's not worth the trouble, and toss it. It's particularly fun when they want you to write on the memo and send it back to them in the enclosed envelope. I just scribble a few marks on the shreds and then put nineteen staples through the whole wad.
4. Campus mail in general. Mean time in transit seems to be about ten days for things that actually arrive, and probability of total disappearance seems to be around 25%. On at least ten occasions in the past year, I've received notices about events that have already taken place. If you want to get something across campus in only a few days, send it first-class. If you want to get it there tomorrow, send it Federal Express, who can take the thing to Memphis and back in less time than it takes the CMU clowns to lose it altogether. I guess the Campus Mail people have a good union.
5. The blind beggar who lurks outside the Squirrel Hill branch of PNB waiting for someone to use the teller machine. When he hears that, he gets up, ambles over to the machine, and blunders into the user on purpose, just so that you notice him. Next time he does that to me, he's gonna get sprayed with Rutting Musk.
6. Telephone solicitations. *All* telephone solicitations, no matter how good the cause, ought to be against the law. I've started telling charities that if they ever phone me at home again, they're going on my permanent Scrooge list, and that the money I might have given them will now go to an organization to stamp out telephone solicitation. (Anybody know of one?) It doesn't help though -- each call is from some new volunteer who sincerely believes in the cause and who is terribly sorry to have bothered me. At least I can get mad at the jerks who call to sell me stocks, insurance, and home security systems. (Right! This random guy phones me and I'm going to invite him over to give my house and precious belongings a thorough security analysis.) Too bad you can't spray Rutting Musk over the phone.
7. "News" stories about how much it would cost to buy all of the stupid things mentioned in the "Twelve Days of Christmas". This was cute the first time I heard it, at age four, but enough already. While we're a
GCC has hardly "continuously improved". I've been unable to get 4.1+ to even build on Solaris 10 / x86 and am sticking with the 3.4.3 that Sun distributes.
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Anyone find mention how they tracked down the guy?
... for some value of "MUST". Most "business" travel is due to technophobes and control freaks.
In theory, yeah -- but I've never managed to get it to work.
One problem with a remote data center is that you still need someone with both a clue and fluent technical English skills to rack equipment, do cabling, etc. This is surprisingly hard to come by even in the US.
If you want an open phone, there are several on the market or very close to market that will work MUCH better
Great! PLEASE tell me which they are so that I can get one so that I can do full syncing of Addressbook and iCal info without dropping multiple phone numbers or recurring events.
Oh, those other phones can't do that? Guess they don't work MUCH better, do they?
Remember that this is the guy who wrote the first version of Scribe.
"emacs" is a group of text editors. There have been a number of implementations over the years. PDP-10/TECO. Gosling. Unipress. MicroEMACS (smaller binary than vi). And of course the bloated GNU emacs that punchcard fanboys like you enjoy pretending is "the" emacs.
Oh come on. $30-40 / month is getting you a pretty *awesome* connection, for the price of eating out once. My connectivity costs $550/mo because Verizon is falling over themselves to run fiber to urban areas that already have multiple good, cheap connectivity options -- and abandoning the rest of their territories.
The hardware, was for the most part reliable, as long as you just used the base unit, and treated the headphone jacks with some degree of caution How exactly did you hear anything on the unit? Telepathy?
but I'd much rather spend those millions to benefit a school and get educational software into Florida's failing schools. Have you ever *really* seen educational software that either a) actually taught something and b) wasn't so boring that the kid would use it for more than 5 seconds? I submit that a first thing to do would be to stop feeding the kids corpses and HFCS at lunch. Their overall health and ability to learn in a classroom environment will improve. Mind you, I totally agree with you regarding municipal WiFi. I once knew a fairly-technically-aware English/Rhetoric professor who studied communication use in central Asia. Big fan of municipal WiFi, but I simply couldn't get her to understand that in practice it wouldn't work. I've experienced attempts at city WiFi, in Portland and in Boulder, both of which were basically unusable.
# They could be paying for a better copy, but in fact the pirate copies are better. (No DRM, for starters.) I'm not convinced that a 96kbps mp3 ripped without jitter correction is better than a CD.
It's because Caucasians are just too damned tall! (for the culturally-impaired, it's a reference to Crazy People)
Cannon will not support a beta print driver? Will Crossbow or Rifle? Is it REALLY that hard to spell "Canon"???
Sweet modulo the long-standing inability to transfer files. Attempts to send them almost always fail; having someone send one to me when I'm running Adium is a sure-fire way to have it crash within 5 minutes. Yes, I reported it long ago.
Inflation is probably not outpacing your salary Not familiar with house prices in Seattle over the last ten years, are you?
*cough* *cough* McLibel *cough*
Why would you "have to buy a new Mac Mini"??? The slowest one was 1.25 GHz.
The lack of third-grade speling and grammer skill's astounds' me even mor.
Also the latency while high is not unusable for everyday usage Clearly you don't telecommute. The latency with a sat system is maddening when you're SSHing around the world.
I encounter this all the time. Many people seem to think that MS Werd's .doc files are the only way text can live in a file.
Congrats! You've just reinvented the IBM Cabling System.
You're confusing it with Fizbin.
GCC has hardly "continuously improved". I've been unable to get 4.1+ to even build on Solaris 10 / x86 and am sticking with the 3.4.3 that Sun distributes.
Come now. "Perfectly functioning Ford" is quite the oxymoron.