As I've said for years, a compitent admin for NT costs just as much as a compitent admin for Unix (which 5 years ago was $70k if the binifits were good) NT is easier to setup once you know what to setup. However the difficult part of admining a system is not the setup, but knowing how to do it right. Setting up even the most obscure undocumented mess of an OS is easy compared to the job of knowing the right way to set it up.
NT gives you the ability to fool yourself into thinking that is works so it much be right. You can do the same with any OS, but unix is difficult enough that your research on how to do it will generaly lead you to at least one how to do it right document which gives up a chance. (But of course you can still screw up unix)
Sure. open racks are fairly cheap, and small racks exist. Look for musicians, a lot of their better equipment is rack mount and they generally don't have money when first starting out so they are likely to know the tricks.
Alternitively, there isn't much to a rack. With a drill and some bolts you can make your own. Angle iron from the side rails and drill holes where you need them. These can be nice if you are creative enough.
Well, they made their own case. Saved a bundle of money. Rack mound cases are horridly expensive. They did use one of those 2 line lcd displays (or maybe 4 lines, not much whatever).
There are a few classic games that peple want, and would like legally. You could get into a niche by legally buying the rights to make copies of those classic games in the old formats. (of course paying a royalty, perhaps right to copy all their old games, and for every 10,000 in advance)
Don't expect to get rights to put a atari cartrage on a disk, but you can at least copy the cartrage (easy to do if you can find those old chips anymore). I would think that a compitent hardware designer could modify stella to read from the cartrage given an adaptor you design and sell. Of course you have to do more work this way, but I think if you can make it work it is more likely to be a viable business model. (And if you have that cartrage adaptor let me know, I want one!)
I agree, enforce the laws we have. Driving without paying attention is wrong, and it doesn't matter if you are on a cell phone, computer, or just staring at scenery.
As for why I want one? That is easy. I move often, but my cell phone doesn't change numbers. (At least it not so long as I don't move far) The phone is for my convience, and for those few people I want to contact me it is easier if they can call me. Having it on the road is a bonus.
For a computer I want one because mapquest and the like give better driving directions in most cases then anything else. Sometimes the day is too nice to workinside, but I don't want to use vacation. Sitting on a shady park bench and working is much better then in a dark office. Or maybe it ins't a park bench it is on the lake waiting for a fish to bite.
As far as I can see, they are different schemits of doing the same thing. That is with messaging you have to parse your own messages and then call the correct function, while with RPC the correct function is called.
RPC tends to be a little slower then customer written parsers, but it makes up for that by being eaiser to write to, more features (error handeling especcially). You can of course get all those advatnages with custom written message passing, it just requires more work.
Message passing also works well when you have a lot of data to pass between two host which both of a byte order different from network, if your RPC protocol translate everything to network order. (Sun RPC did by default, others don't)
In general RPC is quick and easy, and normally good enough. Message passing is harder, but you have more controll. If you need every last ounce of proformance, message passing will get it, but you have to do all the dirty work yourself, expect to spend a lot longer on in. RPC will take care of a lot of hard problems, including many that you don't anticipate having.
So were you running IE back then? Or was it Konqueror perhaps?
Turbo Gopher accually. Remember at this time point there were more Gopher sites then web sites. When I wanted to see a web site (and most were not worth it) mosiac was there.
Microsoft is a monopoly, and probably illegal. It isn't about netscape though, because netscape has always sucked. I remember netscape 1.1n, and I hated it, used it only when required. I remember 2.0 was worse. Netscape introduced frames, something I cannot forgive them for. (lynx has been my browser of choice for years) Anyone with money to pay programers could make a browser that would work better then netscape did, proof: Microsoft did.
Ask the Samba folks to prove microsoft is anti-competitive. Ask the Wine folks. They have the dealings with microsoft to prove it. Ask anyone who is trying to build a word processor that loads docments created with a microsoft product. They are the ones being harmed, not netscape. There are quality word processors out there created by someone other then microsoft. They don't work with Word though (well) so noone uses them.
while I agree with don't list everything, be careful of what you leave out. My former boss was applying for a position as manager of a networkign companies test group. She had come through the ranks, and to show that decided to put in "tested gated". At the interview they suddenly spotted that line and spent 5 miutes on gated. She admited freely that it was gated 1.0, 10 years ago and for the last 5 she hadn't been in a technical position at all. That didn't matter, it gated is extreemly complex and few are qualified to test it, they just discovered someone who once did a task everyone else was dreading.
So the lession is make sure there are examples of various tasks you have done, if you have to pick and choose, you never know what will be discovered to be a big deal to the interviewer. In the case of my former boss she went from interviewing for a position she had expirence in but was competing with others with exprience to interviewing for a position that few people in the world had done. It is impossibal to lose the latter interview.
My own advice is to keep a long resume with everything up ever did with dates. When they you create a custome resume copy in outline format what you think would be interesting, making sure to cover a broad range. If they are interested in any of those broad catagories you have the full resume with you. If they ask you to send anouther copy of your resume tommorow put in more detail about the secions they asked about and remove those they didn't care about.
You never know what will work. I've heard of people getting a interview with a 22 page resume. Most people will not. I've heard of people getting a interview and job with a one page resume half of which was a picture of the canidate. Both of the above are big no-nos, but they worked. the person who created them understood why they would work. The first because he needed to prove in detail he had expirence for that job, the latter because he needed to prove he was creative.
Woah people, why is this bad? Sure if supplies and engineering talent was unlimited we should send something to pluto. They are not however. Supplies are finite, and other then it is there, there is no compelling reason to go to pluto.
Everyone has their own ideas of what to spend money on. Personally I want to spend my own money as I see fit. What will going to pluto gain us that we don't have already? What is on pluto that we need to go study? So far it just looks like a "because it is there and this is the best time for the next few hundred years" arguement. I've been looking at a new linux laptop, and a tax cut would help me get it. (Now I agree that over the all the people in the US the pluto mission isn't very significant, but a billion here and a billion there and soon you are talking real money which is significant over the population of the us.
True, but it sounded like the poster could find specs for AT style keyboards, but not PS/2. Considereing the price on AT to PS/2 keyboards adaptors I can't help but belive that it is just a few wires and no electronics. I would however make sure from one of the adaptors first. (Or just ship with the adaptors)
While I expect sun will make some money on this, it isn't about money. Sun's bread nd butter is big machines. People have to program those big machines. They can now sell this to programers and contractors for home use. They at least gain expirence on the platform which is good for sun. Once you know the sun (solaris) platform going from this cheap box to a full E10k is easier. (Not easy because the E10k has lots of CPUs for your program to use)
Remember they might not be making money on this, but I doupt they are losing money either. This isn't about regaining ground. Sun isn't stupid enough to expect to be a blip on the low end computer sales charts. They don't need to be though. They need a machine for people to play with to convince themselves they know Sun.
Agreed. Imangine there is a civizization 10,000 light years from Earth devolping at the same rate and time as humans. We would be unable to detect their television even if their transmitters were more powerful then ours and on and ideal frequency for communicating between star systems. Those television shows are still 9,920 years from reaching earth. Now if they are just as war like as us you can assume that nobody on either planet will be able to detect them. A war big enough to destroy civilization in the next 9,000 years isn't exactly unlikely.
It is possibal that many civilizations have rose and fell over the years, and earthlings arrived at radio reception too late to detect the transmissions from the last one, but too soon for the next one. Note that because of the slow speed of light it is possibal for the transmission of the first civilization to not reach earth yet, while the transmissions from a latter one have gone by, and all three civilizations have missed each other.
Of course if someone devolps enough space travel to havea self sufficant colinies in different star systems it is less likely that we have missed them. (Then you have to account for the possibility that earth is a self sufficant colony of a now long gone civialization, though that lack of remains tends to rule that out.
If you go to a public school in the US, then there are many lawyers who would love to talk to you. An easy win case like that good for the reputation. The ACLU takes cases like this all the time. School ends up paying your lawyer fees.
If you are not in the US, or go to a private school then things a different. Most people in the US however qualify.
If you are forced to sign an agreement, then it is not binding in court. So you can still sue, the school forced you to sign their agreement, on pentilty of lower grades if you didn't. That is not legal.
Getting a court to agree depends on how good your lawyer is of course, so contact a good one instead of taking my advice.
just because previously SCSI was always done in parallel cabeling doesn't mean that it has to be done in parellel. The only change in the scsi protocol to go to serial communication is in selecting which drive gets the bus (There is arbitrated loop and fabric, which work different somehow here) and you get to use a lot more devices on the bus if you want.
fibre channel can run many protocols. ATM, SCSI, and IP come to mind off hand. Just like you can run IPX and IP on the same cable, you can run IP and SCSI on the same cable. SCSI is a well designed protocol. Seperate out the small part relateing to drive selection in a parellel cable and you have an execellent serial protocol that is cheap to design (over starting from scratch)
Now if they could get the carbon to come out as diamond, they'd have people interested in cleaning up the environment!
Not really. Diamond is popular because Debeer's has a monopoly on it, and so they have a vested interest in keeping the prices artificially high. they make sure hollywood can get plenty of diamonds cheaply, so that it looks like the rich love diamonds. They lock most diamonds up in their vaults so that supply goes down.
Open up their vaults and sell all those diamonds, and poor people would find diamons cheaper then a coat at the local good will.
Web based clients are not nessicarly easier to devolp, nor are they nessicarly portable. Here at work I'm forced to use a web based system that only works with IE on windows. IE on solaris or netscape on anything doesn't work right. (Ironicly most of the devolpers use solaris on their workstation) Because of java (bad use of java) we have a slow, bloated, non-portable interface that is hard to use. We could have made a windows verison that was better in all aspects, but the idea of cross platform was too important when we started, Java (not yet at 1.0) was the best thing. We took it, ran too soon, and nobody is willing to admit we need to start over from scratch despite the complaints.
Web based clients are good for somethings, and poor for others. Java is cross platform in theory, but combins netscape's bad implimentation with Microsoft subversion and it is useless. Straight executables are good for speed, but remember that your algorythms and data structures still determin speed. Executables are great if everyone uses windows (or unix/mac, but that is rare) every day, but annoying to those who don't normally use windows, but have to just for the one application.
So really the question is: Do you have users who do not normally use windows who would have to now. If so is there a problem giving them a windows machine? If everyone uses windows, the advantages of an application outweigh everything else. If you have to support a number of different operating systems, then web based wins, make sure they stay cross-platform and nothing is done to compromise speed.
I trade my grocery cards every once in a while. Come to think of it I started by borrowing a card from someone else, and traded that, so they don't have my name, and my data is mixed with someone else's.
I also try to buy most of my stuff that has advertised that they don't take those cards. Poked fun at the sillyness of the whole thing. (Their major compitor in town switched cards a couple years back so everyone had to get new cards)
While national firms seem to rule everything, many small local buisnesses would rather support the local guy. So keep yourself local if you can. A small store front is nice, but not strictly needed. Work for the local buisnesses. Get a cell phone, and let all the business people in town know that number, they will call you when they have problems. (I recomend charging extra for sunday calls, so you get time alone, but if there are 24 hour shops in town be willing to work a 2am when needed)
There is a company in my town iwth 100 pentium 133s getting older everyday. They would like to browse the web on these machines (they don't now). There is big money to be made from that company, all it needs to someone to court their buisness and have the patience to wait from them to finially spend the money. They don't just need someone to sell them mahcines, what they need is someone to sell them a system, which would start with 2 machines that can access the web, a internet conneciton (Resell someone else's!), and a firewall/router. You don't even need to know how to do everything they need, you just need to know someone who can setup their firewall and router, who needs some extra money.
Selling computers will pay the rent, but it won't pay your time. Selling cables won't pay for anything even if you tripple your price, but people will soon learn that you have that rare cable they need now and they soon think of you first for everything, so carry a lot of strage things. Do not get caught in an inventory trap however, everything you have sitting on the shelf is losing value, if you can't sell it, and it isn't drawing cusotmers in, don't stock it.
Accually there is a passage in the bible encourageing priesthood celibacy. It is NOT a requirement, but it is encouraged. One of Paul's letters I belive.
There is a lot of scripture for sleeping only with your wife, and scripture for no divorce. Your right that there is little on celibacy by comparition so it is clearly of lesser importance. (In fact the little that can be used to imply it state clearly that it is the ideal, and most cannot do it, and there is nothing wrong with being amoung those who can't.
That won't help. FHSS does prevent those who don't know the next frequency from listening. However every device on your network knows the next frequency and the time to change to it. So you shift to an appearently random different frequency, but at the same moment so does the guy listening. The army uses FHSS with an algorithm that we don't know, thus we can't know the next frequency to shift to or when to shift. We could figgure out what frequ7encies they are using and record all, if the data is worth it we might be able to put it togather, but that is a hard task. (Potentially NP)
The difference between FHSS and DSSS is DS hops at a known time to the next frequency in order, while FH hops to the next frequency in what appears to be random order. 802.11 defines that either can be used. FH is cheaper to impliment, but it turns out that more companies worked in DS (which is accually inferior except the FCC allows it to transmit data faster) and compititon drove the price down.
I can't belive I'm the only Anne McCaffery fan here. Surely someone else must remember Helva, Simon, and Tia. Here we are getting closer to the day when cripples can scout around the universe and noone remembers Science Fiction has perdicted it.
Anyone who has tried to figgure out what I'm saying on/. can't wait for me to get VR. My spelling is horrid at best, VR solves that problem. Who knows, I might even have a point worth reading once in a while - I've been moderated up a couple times anyway.
Spelling has always been my weak point. I like to think that I have good ideas despite that weakness. VR would solve the spelling and fat fingers problem.
For 10 bucks a month per user I can supply dial up, News, email, and webspace to dial users. Its called outsourcing, and I have a number in all 50 US states. (Not in all cities though so I'm long distance to many rual areas)
I have to provide tech support (for a fee they would do that too, come to think of it for a fee all I have to do is sell to users, they take care of the rest) There is also a minimun monthlycharge, but you only need a few users (about 15) to get above that.
I recomend looking into this option first. Your far less likely to have problems when there is a big dial up pool then when everyone in your town decideds to get on at once.
PS, anyone want dial-up? I'm happy to sell to you, if you don't want to do your own ISP.
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As I've said for years, a compitent admin for NT costs just as much as a compitent admin for Unix (which 5 years ago was $70k if the binifits were good) NT is easier to setup once you know what to setup. However the difficult part of admining a system is not the setup, but knowing how to do it right. Setting up even the most obscure undocumented mess of an OS is easy compared to the job of knowing the right way to set it up.
NT gives you the ability to fool yourself into thinking that is works so it much be right. You can do the same with any OS, but unix is difficult enough that your research on how to do it will generaly lead you to at least one how to do it right document which gives up a chance. (But of course you can still screw up unix)
Sure. open racks are fairly cheap, and small racks exist. Look for musicians, a lot of their better equipment is rack mount and they generally don't have money when first starting out so they are likely to know the tricks.
Alternitively, there isn't much to a rack. With a drill and some bolts you can make your own. Angle iron from the side rails and drill holes where you need them. These can be nice if you are creative enough.
Well, they made their own case. Saved a bundle of money. Rack mound cases are horridly expensive. They did use one of those 2 line lcd displays (or maybe 4 lines, not much whatever).
There are a few classic games that peple want, and would like legally. You could get into a niche by legally buying the rights to make copies of those classic games in the old formats. (of course paying a royalty, perhaps right to copy all their old games, and for every 10,000 in advance)
Don't expect to get rights to put a atari cartrage on a disk, but you can at least copy the cartrage (easy to do if you can find those old chips anymore). I would think that a compitent hardware designer could modify stella to read from the cartrage given an adaptor you design and sell. Of course you have to do more work this way, but I think if you can make it work it is more likely to be a viable business model. (And if you have that cartrage adaptor let me know, I want one!)
I agree, enforce the laws we have. Driving without paying attention is wrong, and it doesn't matter if you are on a cell phone, computer, or just staring at scenery.
As for why I want one? That is easy. I move often, but my cell phone doesn't change numbers. (At least it not so long as I don't move far) The phone is for my convience, and for those few people I want to contact me it is easier if they can call me. Having it on the road is a bonus.
For a computer I want one because mapquest and the like give better driving directions in most cases then anything else. Sometimes the day is too nice to workinside, but I don't want to use vacation. Sitting on a shady park bench and working is much better then in a dark office. Or maybe it ins't a park bench it is on the lake waiting for a fish to bite.
As far as I can see, they are different schemits of doing the same thing. That is with messaging you have to parse your own messages and then call the correct function, while with RPC the correct function is called.
RPC tends to be a little slower then customer written parsers, but it makes up for that by being eaiser to write to, more features (error handeling especcially). You can of course get all those advatnages with custom written message passing, it just requires more work.
Message passing also works well when you have a lot of data to pass between two host which both of a byte order different from network, if your RPC protocol translate everything to network order. (Sun RPC did by default, others don't)
In general RPC is quick and easy, and normally good enough. Message passing is harder, but you have more controll. If you need every last ounce of proformance, message passing will get it, but you have to do all the dirty work yourself, expect to spend a lot longer on in. RPC will take care of a lot of hard problems, including many that you don't anticipate having.
So were you running IE back then? Or was it Konqueror perhaps?
Turbo Gopher accually. Remember at this time point there were more Gopher sites then web sites. When I wanted to see a web site (and most were not worth it) mosiac was there.
Microsoft is a monopoly, and probably illegal. It isn't about netscape though, because netscape has always sucked. I remember netscape 1.1n, and I hated it, used it only when required. I remember 2.0 was worse. Netscape introduced frames, something I cannot forgive them for. (lynx has been my browser of choice for years) Anyone with money to pay programers could make a browser that would work better then netscape did, proof: Microsoft did.
Ask the Samba folks to prove microsoft is anti-competitive. Ask the Wine folks. They have the dealings with microsoft to prove it. Ask anyone who is trying to build a word processor that loads docments created with a microsoft product. They are the ones being harmed, not netscape. There are quality word processors out there created by someone other then microsoft. They don't work with Word though (well) so noone uses them.
while I agree with don't list everything, be careful of what you leave out. My former boss was applying for a position as manager of a networkign companies test group. She had come through the ranks, and to show that decided to put in "tested gated". At the interview they suddenly spotted that line and spent 5 miutes on gated. She admited freely that it was gated 1.0, 10 years ago and for the last 5 she hadn't been in a technical position at all. That didn't matter, it gated is extreemly complex and few are qualified to test it, they just discovered someone who once did a task everyone else was dreading.
So the lession is make sure there are examples of various tasks you have done, if you have to pick and choose, you never know what will be discovered to be a big deal to the interviewer. In the case of my former boss she went from interviewing for a position she had expirence in but was competing with others with exprience to interviewing for a position that few people in the world had done. It is impossibal to lose the latter interview.
My own advice is to keep a long resume with everything up ever did with dates. When they you create a custome resume copy in outline format what you think would be interesting, making sure to cover a broad range. If they are interested in any of those broad catagories you have the full resume with you. If they ask you to send anouther copy of your resume tommorow put in more detail about the secions they asked about and remove those they didn't care about.
You never know what will work. I've heard of people getting a interview with a 22 page resume. Most people will not. I've heard of people getting a interview and job with a one page resume half of which was a picture of the canidate. Both of the above are big no-nos, but they worked. the person who created them understood why they would work. The first because he needed to prove in detail he had expirence for that job, the latter because he needed to prove he was creative.
Woah people, why is this bad? Sure if supplies and engineering talent was unlimited we should send something to pluto. They are not however. Supplies are finite, and other then it is there, there is no compelling reason to go to pluto.
Everyone has their own ideas of what to spend money on. Personally I want to spend my own money as I see fit. What will going to pluto gain us that we don't have already? What is on pluto that we need to go study? So far it just looks like a "because it is there and this is the best time for the next few hundred years" arguement. I've been looking at a new linux laptop, and a tax cut would help me get it. (Now I agree that over the all the people in the US the pluto mission isn't very significant, but a billion here and a billion there and soon you are talking real money which is significant over the population of the us.
True, but it sounded like the poster could find specs for AT style keyboards, but not PS/2. Considereing the price on AT to PS/2 keyboards adaptors I can't help but belive that it is just a few wires and no electronics. I would however make sure from one of the adaptors first. (Or just ship with the adaptors)
While I expect sun will make some money on this, it isn't about money. Sun's bread nd butter is big machines. People have to program those big machines. They can now sell this to programers and contractors for home use. They at least gain expirence on the platform which is good for sun. Once you know the sun (solaris) platform going from this cheap box to a full E10k is easier. (Not easy because the E10k has lots of CPUs for your program to use)
Remember they might not be making money on this, but I doupt they are losing money either. This isn't about regaining ground. Sun isn't stupid enough to expect to be a blip on the low end computer sales charts. They don't need to be though. They need a machine for people to play with to convince themselves they know Sun.
Agreed. Imangine there is a civizization 10,000 light years from Earth devolping at the same rate and time as humans. We would be unable to detect their television even if their transmitters were more powerful then ours and on and ideal frequency for communicating between star systems. Those television shows are still 9,920 years from reaching earth. Now if they are just as war like as us you can assume that nobody on either planet will be able to detect them. A war big enough to destroy civilization in the next 9,000 years isn't exactly unlikely.
It is possibal that many civilizations have rose and fell over the years, and earthlings arrived at radio reception too late to detect the transmissions from the last one, but too soon for the next one. Note that because of the slow speed of light it is possibal for the transmission of the first civilization to not reach earth yet, while the transmissions from a latter one have gone by, and all three civilizations have missed each other.
Of course if someone devolps enough space travel to havea self sufficant colinies in different star systems it is less likely that we have missed them. (Then you have to account for the possibility that earth is a self sufficant colony of a now long gone civialization, though that lack of remains tends to rule that out.
If you go to a public school in the US, then there are many lawyers who would love to talk to you. An easy win case like that good for the reputation. The ACLU takes cases like this all the time. School ends up paying your lawyer fees.
If you are not in the US, or go to a private school then things a different. Most people in the US however qualify.
If you are forced to sign an agreement, then it is not binding in court. So you can still sue, the school forced you to sign their agreement, on pentilty of lower grades if you didn't. That is not legal.
Getting a court to agree depends on how good your lawyer is of course, so contact a good one instead of taking my advice.
just because previously SCSI was always done in parallel cabeling doesn't mean that it has to be done in parellel. The only change in the scsi protocol to go to serial communication is in selecting which drive gets the bus (There is arbitrated loop and fabric, which work different somehow here) and you get to use a lot more devices on the bus if you want.
fibre channel can run many protocols. ATM, SCSI, and IP come to mind off hand. Just like you can run IPX and IP on the same cable, you can run IP and SCSI on the same cable. SCSI is a well designed protocol. Seperate out the small part relateing to drive selection in a parellel cable and you have an execellent serial protocol that is cheap to design (over starting from scratch)
Now if they could get the carbon to come out as diamond, they'd have people interested in cleaning up the environment!
Not really. Diamond is popular because Debeer's has a monopoly on it, and so they have a vested interest in keeping the prices artificially high. they make sure hollywood can get plenty of diamonds cheaply, so that it looks like the rich love diamonds. They lock most diamonds up in their vaults so that supply goes down.
Open up their vaults and sell all those diamonds, and poor people would find diamons cheaper then a coat at the local good will.
Web based clients are not nessicarly easier to devolp, nor are they nessicarly portable. Here at work I'm forced to use a web based system that only works with IE on windows. IE on solaris or netscape on anything doesn't work right. (Ironicly most of the devolpers use solaris on their workstation) Because of java (bad use of java) we have a slow, bloated, non-portable interface that is hard to use. We could have made a windows verison that was better in all aspects, but the idea of cross platform was too important when we started, Java (not yet at 1.0) was the best thing. We took it, ran too soon, and nobody is willing to admit we need to start over from scratch despite the complaints.
Web based clients are good for somethings, and poor for others. Java is cross platform in theory, but combins netscape's bad implimentation with Microsoft subversion and it is useless. Straight executables are good for speed, but remember that your algorythms and data structures still determin speed. Executables are great if everyone uses windows (or unix/mac, but that is rare) every day, but annoying to those who don't normally use windows, but have to just for the one application.
So really the question is: Do you have users who do not normally use windows who would have to now. If so is there a problem giving them a windows machine? If everyone uses windows, the advantages of an application outweigh everything else. If you have to support a number of different operating systems, then web based wins, make sure they stay cross-platform and nothing is done to compromise speed.
I trade my grocery cards every once in a while. Come to think of it I started by borrowing a card from someone else, and traded that, so they don't have my name, and my data is mixed with someone else's.
I also try to buy most of my stuff that has advertised that they don't take those cards. Poked fun at the sillyness of the whole thing. (Their major compitor in town switched cards a couple years back so everyone had to get new cards)
While national firms seem to rule everything, many small local buisnesses would rather support the local guy. So keep yourself local if you can. A small store front is nice, but not strictly needed. Work for the local buisnesses. Get a cell phone, and let all the business people in town know that number, they will call you when they have problems. (I recomend charging extra for sunday calls, so you get time alone, but if there are 24 hour shops in town be willing to work a 2am when needed)
There is a company in my town iwth 100 pentium 133s getting older everyday. They would like to browse the web on these machines (they don't now). There is big money to be made from that company, all it needs to someone to court their buisness and have the patience to wait from them to finially spend the money. They don't just need someone to sell them mahcines, what they need is someone to sell them a system, which would start with 2 machines that can access the web, a internet conneciton (Resell someone else's!), and a firewall/router. You don't even need to know how to do everything they need, you just need to know someone who can setup their firewall and router, who needs some extra money.
Selling computers will pay the rent, but it won't pay your time. Selling cables won't pay for anything even if you tripple your price, but people will soon learn that you have that rare cable they need now and they soon think of you first for everything, so carry a lot of strage things. Do not get caught in an inventory trap however, everything you have sitting on the shelf is losing value, if you can't sell it, and it isn't drawing cusotmers in, don't stock it.
priesthood celibacy
Accually there is a passage in the bible encourageing priesthood celibacy. It is NOT a requirement, but it is encouraged. One of Paul's letters I belive.
There is a lot of scripture for sleeping only with your wife, and scripture for no divorce. Your right that there is little on celibacy by comparition so it is clearly of lesser importance. (In fact the little that can be used to imply it state clearly that it is the ideal, and most cannot do it, and there is nothing wrong with being amoung those who can't.
That won't help. FHSS does prevent those who don't know the next frequency from listening. However every device on your network knows the next frequency and the time to change to it. So you shift to an appearently random different frequency, but at the same moment so does the guy listening. The army uses FHSS with an algorithm that we don't know, thus we can't know the next frequency to shift to or when to shift. We could figgure out what frequ7encies they are using and record all, if the data is worth it we might be able to put it togather, but that is a hard task. (Potentially NP)
The difference between FHSS and DSSS is DS hops at a known time to the next frequency in order, while FH hops to the next frequency in what appears to be random order. 802.11 defines that either can be used. FH is cheaper to impliment, but it turns out that more companies worked in DS (which is accually inferior except the FCC allows it to transmit data faster) and compititon drove the price down.
I can't belive I'm the only Anne McCaffery fan here. Surely someone else must remember Helva, Simon, and Tia. Here we are getting closer to the day when cripples can scout around the universe and noone remembers Science Fiction has perdicted it.
Anyone who has tried to figgure out what I'm saying on /. can't wait for me to get VR. My spelling is horrid at best, VR solves that problem. Who knows, I might even have a point worth reading once in a while - I've been moderated up a couple times anyway.
Spelling has always been my weak point. I like to think that I have good ideas despite that weakness. VR would solve the spelling and fat fingers problem.
For 10 bucks a month per user I can supply dial up, News, email, and webspace to dial users. Its called outsourcing, and I have a number in all 50 US states. (Not in all cities though so I'm long distance to many rual areas)
I have to provide tech support (for a fee they would do that too, come to think of it for a fee all I have to do is sell to users, they take care of the rest) There is also a minimun monthlycharge, but you only need a few users (about 15) to get above that.
I recomend looking into this option first. Your far less likely to have problems when there is a big dial up pool then when everyone in your town decideds to get on at once.
PS, anyone want dial-up? I'm happy to sell to you, if you don't want to do your own ISP.