Unless of course you were a true geek and re-plated those card edge contacts with gold.
Friend of mine could do it for $20 per cart. The deck cost $40 to re-gold but it was well worth it.
I fondly recall my TRS-80 of old - the cable between the CPU and EI had those dull solder card edge connectors. A pink eraser usually solved any problems with that.
The real question is, will we beat the Chinese to a permanent or semi-permanent manned presence on the moon?
We used to think it would be the Russians. Little did we know how far China would come in 60 years. When you consider it took the United States approximately 7 years to go from the Mercury program to the Apollo program then the launch of Chinese men into orbit is at the Mercury stage.
When looking at that we could estimate that China will reach the moon by 2012. And do not think for one moment that Chinese didn't learn from our Apollo and Shuttle programs. I think they'll be looking to put down a manned presence just to thumb their noses at the rest of the western world.
What is most interesting is that Verizon picked Warwick, RI for their initial FIOS deployment even though it's population density is 933.3/km^2 compared to Providence, RI's 3629.4/km^2 density. Granted, I did this by city because I wanted to point out the interesting things about FIOS deployment.
From the Verizon techs I've talked to it's because deployment in the city of Providence would be horribly expensive because they'd have to bury most of the fiber. Oh well.
But I'm getting 5/2 on my cable connection. No complaints from me with regard to the bandwidth, but I pay $40 a month for the privelege.
We should look at countries that still do afternoon siestas. I bet we'd find better decision making there than in the work, work, work, work until you die United States.
I'd love this type of schedule: In the office at say, 7:30AM then out from noon to 5PM. Work 5PM to 8PM. Talk about efficiency.
NTT provides broadband access for a fraction of the price that we get it for in the U.S.
Maybe that has something to do with the fact that Japan was essentially reduced to mostly rubble 60 years ago while we in the U.S. deal with OSP that is both that age and has never been properly maintained.
But here is a good example of why most people don't get even DSL. I'll present two cases here, the first my own, the second that of a relative in the same state.
Verizon said that I was too far from the central office to get DSL. "That's funny" said I since I could basically throw rocks at the central office.
Did two go arounds on this until finally I got the bright idea to call repair and get them to do an MLT. Sure enough, MLT said I was less than half a mile from the CO. I asked repair to enter the distance into my customer record and then called Verizon DSL back. Lo and behold - I now qualified.
In my aunts case, the home had DSL before she bought it and the previous subscriber had the line disconnected. When my aunt tried to get DSL installed she was told by Verizon that they she was too far out. I told her to use the trick I'd discovered and sure enough, two weeks later she had here DSL.
I've since ditched Verizon entirely but this demonstrates that in the case of DSL, if you don't know how the system works, you're screwed.
The boss has been pushing for each of us to join EFF. Until I read this I didn't think it was necessary.
But I'm doing my part to stick it to the RIAA. I haven't bought a mainstream CD in over two years. Instead, I buy from CD Baby where the artists gets 60% of the retail price.
You're darn tootin'. At work we had a hodgepodge of A/V products running. Among them were Norton, McAffee, AVG and Sophos.
Of the four we have decided to standardize on AVG. Why? I told the boss I liked it, that it was light on system resources, and two other members of the group voted it too. So now it will protect our workstations and servers.
Norton and McAffee have become such bloatware that I won't recommend it to anyone. And this machien is running the paid version of AVG. Love it to death. I suffice with the Windows Firewall and I'm Norton free!
You're absolutely right. But let us not forget sneakernet.
This is just another way for a dictatorial government to spy on its own people.
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Not it won't. Cox offers telephone service here in RI but prices it at $45 a month. I pay $27 for Vonage.
VoIP providers took advantage of all the excess switching capacity in the U.S. When the Telecom Act of 1996 was enacted, comanies were tripping over themselves building new switching centers. Lucent and Nortel were living high on the hog for about 5 years. And then the bottom dropped out.
With so many choices for local/ld carriers business now spread out to a dozen or more vendors. It lessened the demand on the swtiches.
In came Vonage, SunRocket et al. Modern switches are definitely IP aware. So it was easy to shovel traffic into say, a PaeTec or Focal switch and use it's excess capacity.
But I fear that in the end we'll end up paying as much for VoIP as we do for standard loop circuits. Not that it'll be more expensive to provide the VoIP but the incumbent carriers will get some assinine act passed that fees will get tacked on to VoIP provider bills that funnels money directly to the incumbents.
The hormones released during pregnancy also accelerate the growth of certain cancers. For instace, a year and a half after I was born my mother found a lump in one of her breasts but put it off for another 12 years. That was when it took her life because by then it had metastisized to the lungs, liver and brain.
Had she not gotten pregnant she probably would have lived several years beyond that.
So pregnancy does exact a toll. But the majority of people are fortunate.
When you think about it, there have been very few instances in which we've truly cured a disease. We may have wiped the spread of certain diseases off the planet with vaccination but anything else is just a temporary patch.
This would represent one of the first drugs to actually cure not just one disease, but some of the biggest problems facing man.
That at comes from BYU means I take it with a grain of salt. But imagine the second Sexual Revolution that would result if this drug were to become a reality. That alone is enough for the neo-cons to kill the drug before it sees the light of day.
I mean really, how long before these babies go autonomous.
All it'll take is a lightning strike and goodbye humanity.
I mean, Stanford's little Touareg managed to navigate all by its little lonesome self. And we all now that technology shrinks in size within a very short time span.
I shudder to think about it this way, but it is where we're going.
How very true. I have a consulting gig I'm working on that was resistant as all hell to not using MS database solutions.
They were resistant until I started with software costs. Linux distro - free. MySQL - free. MS Windows Server 2003 75 cal - $15,500, MS SQL 2005 75 user was close to $20,000.
Add my $7,000 development fee to that and they'd have paid $42,500 vs just the $7,000. Big difference as all they're paying for here is IP and I hand off all source and notes when the project is over. Yes, I own it and they can't share it. But they have every right to the fruits of my labor since they are paying for it. But I retain rights to the software as delivered. They are free to modify in any way they like.
Having been a renter for my entire life I'm now starting to look at buying.
Because on of the first things I'm going to do is put a solar hot water and solar electic system on the sunny side of said house.
Utilities are getting ridiculous here in the northeast. My gas bill jumped from $400 one month to $850 the next. Yet it was an overall warmer month and I vary temps from 55 when we're sleeping or not there, to 65 when we are there.
Though in my case that doubling is either a gas leak, or someone else is on my gas line after the meter. I suspect the latter.
After the announcement that AOL and Yahoo are going to start charging a fee to send email in to their servers this announcement irks me. . Shees
We get nickle and dimed to death. And instead of putting in place real solutions like requiring SMTP authorization, we get to pay and pay and pay.
Then of course there are the fees tacked on to monthly phone bills. Fortunately this one doesn't bother me as much because I jumped to VoIP over a year ago. But already I'm hearing the drum beat of more taxes and fees even for VoIP providers.
Not to mention that I can't get a tax break because in essence I'm single and don't have a mortgage from which I can take interest deductions. Bleah.
Not one instance among the 100 machines on my network.
Our users have been pretty well educated not to open things from people that they aren't expecting. Plus most of those messages get/dev/nulled by Spamassassin.
When I got my new laptop with wireless 802.11g I was shocked to not just find 15 wireless networks in my immediate vicinity, but that more than half of them were wide open.
Whilst using a neighbors connection until my WAP came in it occured to me that if I spoofed the MAC address on my laptop, and then connected and installed Kazaa or the like, it would mean the trail to me would be muddied. Good luck to the RIAA since the connection I was using belonged to a local business that sells car accessories, in essence a Ricer Shop. Imagine them telling the RIAA they weren't downloading music.
I would have been perfectly happy to use said connection but then I realized my hardware firewall wasn't doing me any good. All good things must come to an end.
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I've got a Dell XPS M140 (A juiced up Inspiron) that stays pretty cool on the bottom.
It uses the bottom for air intake for the CPU - and every minute or two you get this blast of hot air out of the back left of the computer.
One of my cats is a heat vampire. She's already figured out that sitting next to me is the warmest place in the house when I'm using my laptop.
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Unless of course you were a true geek and re-plated those card edge contacts with gold.
Friend of mine could do it for $20 per cart. The deck cost $40 to re-gold but it was well worth it.
I fondly recall my TRS-80 of old - the cable between the CPU and EI had those dull solder card edge connectors. A pink eraser usually solved any problems with that.
$30 billion or so would be less than 10% what we spend on military misadventure.
Or consider that the Iraq war has eaten up roughly ten years worth of support for a moon base that will serve as a launch platform to Mars and beyond.
The real question is, will we beat the Chinese to a permanent or semi-permanent manned presence on the moon?
We used to think it would be the Russians. Little did we know how far China would come in 60 years. When you consider it took the United States approximately 7 years to go from the Mercury program to the Apollo program then the launch of Chinese men into orbit is at the Mercury stage.
When looking at that we could estimate that China will reach the moon by 2012. And do not think for one moment that Chinese didn't learn from our Apollo and Shuttle programs. I think they'll be looking to put down a manned presence just to thumb their noses at the rest of the western world.
What is most interesting is that Verizon picked Warwick, RI for their initial FIOS deployment even though it's population density is 933.3/km^2 compared to Providence, RI's 3629.4/km^2 density. Granted, I did this by city because I wanted to point out the interesting things about FIOS deployment.
From the Verizon techs I've talked to it's because deployment in the city of Providence would be horribly expensive because they'd have to bury most of the fiber. Oh well.
But I'm getting 5/2 on my cable connection. No complaints from me with regard to the bandwidth, but I pay $40 a month for the privelege.
We should look at countries that still do afternoon siestas. I bet we'd find better decision making there than in the work, work, work, work until you die United States.
I'd love this type of schedule: In the office at say, 7:30AM then out from noon to 5PM. Work 5PM to 8PM. Talk about efficiency.
NTT provides broadband access for a fraction of the price that we get it for in the U.S.
Maybe that has something to do with the fact that Japan was essentially reduced to mostly rubble 60 years ago while we in the U.S. deal with OSP that is both that age and has never been properly maintained.
But here is a good example of why most people don't get even DSL. I'll present two cases here, the first my own, the second that of a relative in the same state.
Verizon said that I was too far from the central office to get DSL. "That's funny" said I since I could basically throw rocks at the central office.
Did two go arounds on this until finally I got the bright idea to call repair and get them to do an MLT. Sure enough, MLT said I was less than half a mile from the CO. I asked repair to enter the distance into my customer record and then called Verizon DSL back. Lo and behold - I now qualified.
In my aunts case, the home had DSL before she bought it and the previous subscriber had the line disconnected. When my aunt tried to get DSL installed she was told by Verizon that they she was too far out. I told her to use the trick I'd discovered and sure enough, two weeks later she had here DSL.
I've since ditched Verizon entirely but this demonstrates that in the case of DSL, if you don't know how the system works, you're screwed.
The boss has been pushing for each of us to join EFF. Until I read this I didn't think it was necessary.
But I'm doing my part to stick it to the RIAA. I haven't bought a mainstream CD in over two years. Instead, I buy from CD Baby where the artists gets 60% of the retail price.
1500 down, only 321158500 to go.
Actually I'm aware of ClamAV as it runs on a couple of our servers. I'd also recommend that one.
You're darn tootin'. At work we had a hodgepodge of A/V products running. Among them were Norton, McAffee, AVG and Sophos.
Of the four we have decided to standardize on AVG. Why? I told the boss I liked it, that it was light on system resources, and two other members of the group voted it too. So now it will protect our workstations and servers.
Norton and McAffee have become such bloatware that I won't recommend it to anyone. And this machien is running the paid version of AVG. Love it to death. I suffice with the Windows Firewall and I'm Norton free!
never_late_for_work = 1 never_late_for_date = 1 never_late_for_anything = 1 never_early_for_work = 1 never_early_for_date = 1 never_early_for_anything = 1 else Print "Time does not exist." end if
You're absolutely right. But let us not forget sneakernet.
This is just another way for a dictatorial government to spy on its own people.
Not it won't. Cox offers telephone service here in RI but prices it at $45 a month. I pay $27 for Vonage.
VoIP providers took advantage of all the excess switching capacity in the U.S. When the Telecom Act of 1996 was enacted, comanies were tripping over themselves building new switching centers. Lucent and Nortel were living high on the hog for about 5 years. And then the bottom dropped out.
With so many choices for local/ld carriers business now spread out to a dozen or more vendors. It lessened the demand on the swtiches.
In came Vonage, SunRocket et al. Modern switches are definitely IP aware. So it was easy to shovel traffic into say, a PaeTec or Focal switch and use it's excess capacity.
But I fear that in the end we'll end up paying as much for VoIP as we do for standard loop circuits. Not that it'll be more expensive to provide the VoIP but the incumbent carriers will get some assinine act passed that fees will get tacked on to VoIP provider bills that funnels money directly to the incumbents.
Nice work if you can get it.
The hormones released during pregnancy also accelerate the growth of certain cancers. For instace, a year and a half after I was born my mother found a lump in one of her breasts but put it off for another 12 years. That was when it took her life because by then it had metastisized to the lungs, liver and brain.
Had she not gotten pregnant she probably would have lived several years beyond that.
So pregnancy does exact a toll. But the majority of people are fortunate.
When you think about it, there have been very few instances in which we've truly cured a disease. We may have wiped the spread of certain diseases off the planet with vaccination but anything else is just a temporary patch.
This would represent one of the first drugs to actually cure not just one disease, but some of the biggest problems facing man.
That at comes from BYU means I take it with a grain of salt. But imagine the second Sexual Revolution that would result if this drug were to become a reality. That alone is enough for the neo-cons to kill the drug before it sees the light of day.
Ok, so I was trying to invoke the Terminator aura.
All it would take is for someone to capture one of these autonomous babies. Then all bets are off.
I mean really, how long before these babies go autonomous.
All it'll take is a lightning strike and goodbye humanity. I mean, Stanford's little Touareg managed to navigate all by its little lonesome self. And we all now that technology shrinks in size within a very short time span.
I shudder to think about it this way, but it is where we're going.
How very true. I have a consulting gig I'm working on that was resistant as all hell to not using MS database solutions.
They were resistant until I started with software costs. Linux distro - free. MySQL - free. MS Windows Server 2003 75 cal - $15,500, MS SQL 2005 75 user was close to $20,000.
Add my $7,000 development fee to that and they'd have paid $42,500 vs just the $7,000. Big difference as all they're paying for here is IP and I hand off all source and notes when the project is over. Yes, I own it and they can't share it. But they have every right to the fruits of my labor since they are paying for it. But I retain rights to the software as delivered. They are free to modify in any way they like.
Having been a renter for my entire life I'm now starting to look at buying.
Because on of the first things I'm going to do is put a solar hot water and solar electic system on the sunny side of said house.
Utilities are getting ridiculous here in the northeast. My gas bill jumped from $400 one month to $850 the next. Yet it was an overall warmer month and I vary temps from 55 when we're sleeping or not there, to 65 when we are there.
Though in my case that doubling is either a gas leak, or someone else is on my gas line after the meter. I suspect the latter.
After the announcement that AOL and Yahoo are going to start charging a fee to send email in to their servers this announcement irks me. . Shees
We get nickle and dimed to death. And instead of putting in place real solutions like requiring SMTP authorization, we get to pay and pay and pay.
Then of course there are the fees tacked on to monthly phone bills. Fortunately this one doesn't bother me as much because I jumped to VoIP over a year ago. But already I'm hearing the drum beat of more taxes and fees even for VoIP providers.
Not to mention that I can't get a tax break because in essence I'm single and don't have a mortgage from which I can take interest deductions. Bleah.
I wonder if old Knobby Walsh was wrong when he told us that the best philosophy was to "Hope for the best, expect the worst, and take whatever comes".
Not one instance among the 100 machines on my network.
/dev/nulled by Spamassassin.
Our users have been pretty well educated not to open things from people that they aren't expecting. Plus most of those messages get
When I got my new laptop with wireless 802.11g I was shocked to not just find 15 wireless networks in my immediate vicinity, but that more than half of them were wide open.
Whilst using a neighbors connection until my WAP came in it occured to me that if I spoofed the MAC address on my laptop, and then connected and installed Kazaa or the like, it would mean the trail to me would be muddied. Good luck to the RIAA since the connection I was using belonged to a local business that sells car accessories, in essence a Ricer Shop. Imagine them telling the RIAA they weren't downloading music.
I would have been perfectly happy to use said connection but then I realized my hardware firewall wasn't doing me any good. All good things must come to an end.