YES! Round 'em up! I work daily with electricians and energy consultants. You'd be surprised how many of them also confuse power and energy. And what's even more scary - many of the electricians are color blind!
I signed up for a Pebble on day 2 of the Kickstarted campaign. When I finally got it, I spend many hours loading watchfaces, apps and exploring all the features. Nothing really klicked for me. Kept it on my arm anyway for a week - just for show and tell - and now I'm totally hooked. The killer app is the alerts. Not having to pull out the phone 500 times every day is what keeps this ugly thing on my wrist. Forget all the music control, runkeeper, navigation and whatever they try. Camera - that's just stupid. That's all done better on the phone, but the *alerts* are golden! Several friends went through the same process. Initial disappointment turned to must-have. I never use the buttons - just a quick glance when the thing buzz. Android or iOS in the watch is nonsense. Pebble got the idea right, but could scale down on the features and focus on the looks. So get me a "moderately clever" watch...
Jamming works for sure, and the RF protocols are not very sophisticated so a dedicated geek could surely have some fun decoding and synthesizing the signals and cause some serious confusion.
In the "real world" though, no burglar goes through that effort. Smash the window, find the siren and kill it with a hammer in 15 seconds and get what you want before the alarm company has their truck sent out 20 minutes later. You don't need a degree to figure that out.
So the only actual downside with a wireless system is the hassle of changing batteries in the sensors every couple of years. Other than that they are really no less secure than a wired system. (We're talking residential here - a jeweler store attracts a different clientele)
But here's the insider secret that the alarm industry don't want you to know: Alarm systems do not "protect" anything. They give the owner artificial peace of mind. The biggest value of buying a system is the deterring effect of the sign in the front yard.
Clarkconnect works great, but you'll have to pay to get the dual WAN feature. I've used a Clarkconnect box with Cable+DSL for 3+ years and it "just works", so it was worth the $ for me. pfSense is supposed to do failover, but I never got it to work. You could also look at some hardware solutions. Google for dual wan router.
Just remember that the two pipes won't behave as a single connection. You can configure the router to alternate between the connections or to pick one or the other based on type of traffic, but each download is going to happen over just one of your lines.
Could not see it mentioned anywhere. TC http://www.ghisler.com/ is the first thing that goes on my fresh Win-installs. If you used it once you'll never go back to File Explorer or mess with WinZip. I'll add a vote for IrfanView, and Notepad2 http://www.flos-freeware.ch/notepad2.html should be mandatory on every system.
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YES! Round 'em up!
I work daily with electricians and energy consultants. You'd be surprised how many of them also confuse power and energy. And what's even more scary - many of the electricians are color blind!
I signed up for a Pebble on day 2 of the Kickstarted campaign. When I finally got it, I spend many hours loading watchfaces, apps and exploring all the features. Nothing really klicked for me. Kept it on my arm anyway for a week - just for show and tell - and now I'm totally hooked.
The killer app is the alerts. Not having to pull out the phone 500 times every day is what keeps this ugly thing on my wrist.
Forget all the music control, runkeeper, navigation and whatever they try. Camera - that's just stupid. That's all done better on the phone, but the *alerts* are golden! Several friends went through the same process. Initial disappointment turned to must-have. I never use the buttons - just a quick glance when the thing buzz. Android or iOS in the watch is nonsense. Pebble got the idea right, but could scale down on the features and focus on the looks.
So get me a "moderately clever" watch...
Jamming works for sure, and the RF protocols are not very sophisticated so a dedicated geek could surely have some fun decoding and synthesizing the signals and cause some serious confusion.
In the "real world" though, no burglar goes through that effort. Smash the window, find the siren and kill it with a hammer in 15 seconds and get what you want before the alarm company has their truck sent out 20 minutes later.
You don't need a degree to figure that out.
So the only actual downside with a wireless system is the hassle of changing batteries in the sensors every couple of years. Other than that they are really no less secure than a wired system. (We're talking residential here - a jeweler store attracts a different clientele)
But here's the insider secret that the alarm industry don't want you to know:
Alarm systems do not "protect" anything. They give the owner artificial peace of mind. The biggest value of buying a system is the deterring effect of the sign in the front yard.
Clarkconnect works great, but you'll have to pay to get the dual WAN feature. I've used a Clarkconnect box with Cable+DSL for 3+ years and it "just works", so it was worth the $ for me. pfSense is supposed to do failover, but I never got it to work. You could also look at some hardware solutions. Google for dual wan router. Just remember that the two pipes won't behave as a single connection. You can configure the router to alternate between the connections or to pick one or the other based on type of traffic, but each download is going to happen over just one of your lines.
- I make >2x the gross salary compared to SE doing basically the same job.
- I pay a total of ~20% income tax (mortgage & kids makes for nice deductions) compared to >50% back in SE.
- Gas is $7.50/gallon in SE.
- Sales tax is 25% in SE.
$16.98+tax http://www.target.com/gp/search/601-1117353-2161704?field-keywords=kylie+x&url=index%3Dtarget&ref=sr_bx_1_1&x=0&y=0 for me is a LOT less than 175SEK http://www.ahlens.com/media/musik/musik_nyheter/ for Sven Svensson.The poor Swedes have to share to stay alive. Feel sorry for them.
Could not see it mentioned anywhere. TC http://www.ghisler.com/ is the first thing that goes on my fresh Win-installs. If you used it once you'll never go back to File Explorer or mess with WinZip. I'll add a vote for IrfanView, and Notepad2 http://www.flos-freeware.ch/notepad2.html should be mandatory on every system.
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