We have a uk house earthed with a modernish electrical trip box of ten year - anything internal like a light-bulb going can trip the local circuit and not the house. The item is not up to date with modern building rules and regs,
Poe devices (ethernet over electrical wiring) are ok with this
UK electrics items are also fused, although having lived in Germany i have bought a large flat fuse when the power died,
The underground power mains from the power supplier most summers terminates though old age and the three phase box is replaced, when this happens the surge is not tripped.
Natural lighting strikes is something i have no experience of and if it has happened being earthed seems to dealt with it
Groklaw's view is the one i am waiting to read. Lets hope b&n's management are a lot more smarter than Novell management where when dealing with Microsoft.
A big problem in my humble opinion is how google categorize things by the mba's in google's ad sales - motorbikes in x, is that only one customer for x location for google? The rare baseball/sports cards example seems also to assume that people are trying to search for specific cards for shopping sites. We are not retail, and our thing is not specific to one location.
Another is that term 'something' has a quality end and an junk end. We get envelopes with codes from google that go straight to the recycle bin. Google probably do list way down it but the low quality end stuff gets top rating. It looks crap and it appears to be an problem not just for us - Not sure if google in its categories decided to ignore products and sevices the mba's found hard to sell or don't understand.
People do find us but google it appears does not help them and thats why paying google is not a priority or is seo (seo'ers also have no clue about our custom sector of the industry)
Or bought email lists of out of date whois data, and use thisisfake.email@something.tld and then try and use that list via hotmail of top billionaire business contacts.
I am surprised HP has 'support' at all. Some years ago family member bought a hp laptop. He used the online help im feature once, and since he was not an american was told no help was available via the oem of windows that hp 'insist' on providing and not customising for the eu.
I have no desire to make copyright barons (murdoch/comcast) richer for a few shows i hear about. We assume we have 'power' over what is seen - i doubt that, liberal arts majors can be stupid. My newspaper does not cover all the channels on offer for 'free' If ac nelson can prove to some tv retard that 'dancing with chickens' is better than star trek.... in the 1960's
There are some producers of tv content that do deserve support, however if the copyright barons, and demographics co's decide its not getting enough tampon purchasers and kill it then i honesty dont see it as my problem.
We can get it at our business, but for you yanks its an extra $150 usd setup, and then the charge per month with caps.
I enquired with our good award winning isp [so not bt or virgin] who's salesman via email gave me a very generic information which i could probably find on there website. Telling me that its pppoe rather than ppoa was way too technical by this genius. So i now know what routers need which might be important, i made a point of asking them, and was not impressed.
Since the salesman was not bothered we then decided to not to bother and keep with our 'slow' link that does everything we mostly want it too.
I'm not convinced that super fast something is something of benefit. Put another way suppose i want the latest iso of linux mint, i can run that as an overnight task and make dvd or usb stick in the morning.
I had this 'issue' with another social site in document sharing. I did not login and did not spend any money with the theatre who's document i could not read.
Quite how a website cannot serve a public pdf file without a facebook login seemed odd.
Our business left bt for dsl stuff many years ago when there dns server got stolen, unfortunately bt decided not to replace it and we noticed since we had dns records that where then gone. Paying by direct debit [cheques cost to much money to process at bt] also annoyed accounts and the owner.
We pay line rental via our phone providers to bt via openreach and have found life without British Telecom to be very pleasant and we talk to local staff who know things not that we ring them up very often.
I also see a lot of mobile phones which since can do both phone things and internet stuff and take pictures probably suits a lot people for there needs, no shared pc issues either. BT's recent attempt to sell pay tv was also comical. Sport fans would have to have bought everything [phone,broadband,tv] just to get 'soccer'. If some idiot mba at bt thinks that the us cable business operation is what consumers want then good for BT, since I read us cable is losing clients and not a growth industry.
I cannot get virgin cable, nor do i have the other pay tv provider.
I recently tried to obtain a theatre like pdf file (looked like it). The 'social media' like site wanted me to login to facebook to do anything with the file. I declined the opportunity to do that. No doubt i must be mad.
I dont own a modern games console, i have set one up and was not that impressed lets just say Sony and Microsoft are not options either. Anyhow the new wii looks interesting but stunts like this make me doubt my idea to buy a Nintendo console which i can live without.
Yes its a different console but what can be done can also be done in another.
Considering that eve users pony up a sub for 'gaming' Buying stuff in game with real money notes the difference between doers (say miners/traders) and the pew pew (shooter types/greifers) Both have different aims and the meaning of the word 'fun'.
Gamers can be a funny lot - start playing in the wrong less popular timezone and many of the hardcore will think you less for it even say you not based in 'right' zone and dont live in a chinese prison farming game objects for sale by chairman mao.
The game you thought it was is often not the game others perceive it as. Never played Eve (i dont run windoze) but something like it once in a blue moon and im sure that what i have observed is equally true in all games and mmo's.
If they buy stuff like air tickets reply that you did not order then cancel the order. That will annoy somebody so that they only do it once. airlines are happy to oblige.
I still get some idiot on comcast who has a the wrong domain names in there m$ email client setup and tries to access our email servers now and again. Dont expect change.
I changed the addressing format as well however short fred@fredsmith.tld accounts are out of the question, the spammers might be reduced but those addresses still are for sale never to be removed.
I was having dinner with Parents a couple of weeks ago and a new flat screen tv was being considered. My father had not heard of blueray and was still aiming for a dvd thing, he is computer literate.
Personally as all my computers run linux and being i might have a few issues i have not bothered with blueray either.
On one of those s/f sites they had review of a blockbuster film with the director doing an interactive chat. It was funny to read and honestly if you bought blueray for that feature then clearly the users and extra content had little value.
Uzbekistan citizens are required by there 'leader' to collect scrap metals for the rulling family to dispose off naturally at a profit to them alone. You may not have heard of it but it exists. The world has some interesting leaders.
Uzbekistan citizens have complained that metal buckets for recycling are not as easy to find as they once where.
I knew a guy who could screw up usb printers by just turning them on, once installed three firewalls on one windows pc [that was fun], bought Dell (family recommended), and used aol. I walked out last time and never came back. He's now breaking ipads i hear from rumours.
Another guy asked me recently: 'will i use 500gb of disk space soon' Based on his usage of three documents, windows mickey mouse with all the bloatware known to man - i assured him he was fine.
I don't do it often but its weird when you think about it.
I was one of about four people who kept a log a Mr Soloway's activities. Before fbi went msm in regard to Robert.
There is at least one web page dedicated to him and not just mentions, but domain names, ip's, court docs in pdf, etc I do hope he has reformed,his amazon book list (since deleted) would indicate no remorse or whatever you americans call it. I have those alleged wishlist books of his stored and there not Charles Dickens titles.
Sweden (where he has dual nationality) also should also be concerned.
Hopefully i hope he reformed. But im happy to monitor him should he come to my attention.
China is still happy to host spammers websites - yes.cn got cleaned up after being big chinese cash cow, but.ru is damm popular with chinese 'hosting' firms.
Spam is a two sided operation - the mail, and the site.
Phantom content is still phanton content suppose i pretend to search for 'bing crosby show s99e09' - series 99 episode 9 and i bet i would get five + pages of google telling me I can find said episode on a website which never existed in real life.
Other examples include experts-exchange who use this technique - so i have to filter results from useless sites with pretend content.
Our website have pitiful google page ranking, but since seo consultants seem to be surprised its so shit and offer to 'help' the fact that they can find us proves theres more to searching than google.
I had that problem too with hp recovery disks using the dvdrw.
Fortunately i made two copies of the disks. Primary failed on first ms screwup, the copy worked fine. The good news is that most hp laptops can run a version of linux. Quite why ms deserve money for supplying this crap is beyond me as the disk is full of ms bloat, or why HP put up with ms is beyond me
Its was not my machine and being based in europe means the indian hp employees also only wants to help american clients if you use the online tools in vista which come with the dvd. Top score HP.
Asus are more comical as I have eee pc and even though the machine has no dvd i have a disk of some sort of windoze but no means of recovering to it without buying a usb dvd thing. I run linux on that too.
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We have a uk house earthed with a modernish electrical trip box of ten year - anything internal like a light-bulb going can trip the local circuit and not the house. The item is not up to date with modern building rules and regs,
Poe devices (ethernet over electrical wiring) are ok with this
UK electrics items are also fused, although having lived in Germany i have bought a large flat fuse when the power died,
The underground power mains from the power supplier most summers terminates though old age and the three phase box is replaced, when this happens the surge is not tripped.
Natural lighting strikes is something i have no experience of and if it has happened being earthed seems to dealt with it
Groklaw's view is the one i am waiting to read. Lets hope b&n's management are a lot more smarter than Novell management where when dealing with Microsoft.
A big problem in my humble opinion is how google categorize things by the mba's in google's ad sales - motorbikes in x, is that only one customer for x location for google? The rare baseball/sports cards example seems also to assume that people are trying to search for specific cards for shopping sites. We are not retail, and our thing is not specific to one location.
Another is that term 'something' has a quality end and an junk end. We get envelopes with codes from google that go straight to the recycle bin. Google probably do list way down it but the low quality end stuff gets top rating. It looks crap and it appears to be an problem not just for us - Not sure if google in its categories decided to ignore products and sevices the mba's found hard to sell or don't understand.
People do find us but google it appears does not help them and thats why paying google is not a priority or is seo (seo'ers also have no clue about our custom sector of the industry)
Gawker sites seem to 'suffer' from the same ten approved people (who appear to know the site editor) who comment again and again.
Or bought email lists of out of date whois data, and use thisisfake.email@something.tld and then try and use that list via hotmail of top billionaire business contacts.
You thought logwatch was boring ?
I am surprised HP has 'support' at all. Some years ago family member bought a hp laptop. He used the online help im feature once, and since he was not an american was told no help was available via the oem of windows that hp 'insist' on providing and not customising for the eu.
His next pc wont be from HP for some reason
I have no desire to make copyright barons (murdoch/comcast) richer for a few shows i hear about.
We assume we have 'power' over what is seen - i doubt that, liberal arts majors can be stupid.
My newspaper does not cover all the channels on offer for 'free'
If ac nelson can prove to some tv retard that 'dancing with chickens' is better than star trek.... in the 1960's
There are some producers of tv content that do deserve support, however if the copyright barons, and demographics co's decide its not getting enough tampon purchasers and kill it then i honesty dont see it as my problem.
We can get it at our business, but for you yanks its an extra $150 usd setup, and then the charge per month with caps.
I enquired with our good award winning isp [so not bt or virgin] who's salesman via email gave me a very generic information which i could probably find on there website. Telling me that its pppoe rather than ppoa was way too technical by this genius. So i now know what routers need which might be important, i made a point of asking them, and was not impressed.
Since the salesman was not bothered we then decided to not to bother and keep with our 'slow' link that does everything we mostly want it too.
I'm not convinced that super fast something is something of benefit. Put another way suppose i want the latest iso of linux mint, i can run that as an overnight task and make dvd or usb stick in the morning.
I had this 'issue' with another social site in document sharing. I did not login and did not spend any money with the theatre who's document i could not read.
Quite how a website cannot serve a public pdf file without a facebook login seemed odd.
OK some of hp greps linux [printers and enterprise], but at a 'consumer level' its all windows.
I use a lot of linux, but at a consumer level who buys hp computers for technical support. Can consumer support at hp do linux and windows ?
Our business left bt for dsl stuff many years ago when there dns server got stolen, unfortunately bt decided not to replace it and we noticed since we had dns records that where then gone. Paying by direct debit [cheques cost to much money to process at bt] also annoyed accounts and the owner.
We pay line rental via our phone providers to bt via openreach and have found life without British Telecom to be very pleasant and we talk to local staff who know things not that we ring them up very often.
I also see a lot of mobile phones which since can do both phone things and internet stuff and take pictures probably suits a lot people for there needs, no shared pc issues either. BT's recent attempt to sell pay tv was also comical. Sport fans would have to have bought everything [phone,broadband,tv] just to get 'soccer'. If some idiot mba at bt thinks that the us cable business operation is what consumers want then good for BT, since I read us cable is losing clients and not a growth industry.
I cannot get virgin cable, nor do i have the other pay tv provider.
Not everyone can get 'cable' to describe virgin cable as nationwide would be a mistake.
I recently tried to obtain a theatre like pdf file (looked like it). The 'social media' like site wanted me to login to facebook to do anything with the file. I declined the opportunity to do that. No doubt i must be mad.
I dont own a modern games console, i have set one up and was not that impressed lets just say Sony and Microsoft are not options either. Anyhow the new wii looks interesting but stunts like this make me doubt my idea to buy a Nintendo console which i can live without.
Yes its a different console but what can be done can also be done in another.
Considering that eve users pony up a sub for 'gaming' Buying stuff in game with real money notes the difference between doers (say miners/traders) and the pew pew (shooter types/greifers) Both have different aims and the meaning of the word 'fun'.
Gamers can be a funny lot - start playing in the wrong less popular timezone and many of the hardcore will think you less for it even say you not based in 'right' zone and dont live in a chinese prison farming game objects for sale by chairman mao.
The game you thought it was is often not the game others perceive it as. Never played Eve (i dont run windoze) but something like it once in a blue moon and im sure that what i have observed is equally true in all games and mmo's.
If they buy stuff like air tickets reply that you did not order then cancel the order. That will annoy somebody so that they only do it once. airlines are happy to oblige.
I still get some idiot on comcast who has a the wrong domain names in there m$ email client setup and tries to access our email servers now and again. Dont expect change.
I changed the addressing format as well however short fred@fredsmith.tld accounts are out of the question, the spammers might be reduced but those addresses still are for sale never to be removed.
I was having dinner with Parents a couple of weeks ago and a new flat screen tv was being considered. My father had not heard of blueray and was still aiming for a dvd thing, he is computer literate.
Personally as all my computers run linux and being i might have a few issues i have not bothered with blueray either.
On one of those s/f sites they had review of a blockbuster film with the director doing an interactive chat. It was funny to read and honestly if you bought blueray for that feature then clearly the users and extra content had little value.
Uzbekistan citizens are required by there 'leader' to collect scrap metals for the rulling family to dispose off naturally at a profit to them alone. You may not have heard of it but it exists. The world has some interesting leaders.
Uzbekistan citizens have complained that metal buckets for recycling are not as easy to find as they once where.
I knew a guy who could screw up usb printers by just turning them on, once installed three firewalls on one windows pc [that was fun], bought Dell (family recommended), and used aol. I walked out last time and never came back. He's now breaking ipads i hear from rumours.
Another guy asked me recently: 'will i use 500gb of disk space soon' Based on his usage of three documents, windows mickey mouse with all the bloatware known to man - i assured him he was fine.
I don't do it often but its weird when you think about it.
FBI/us court system prefers the msm for 'big headlines about doing stuff' than talking to the little people.
I was one of about four people who kept a log a Mr Soloway's activities. Before fbi went msm in regard to Robert.
There is at least one web page dedicated to him and not just mentions, but domain names, ip's, court docs in pdf, etc I do hope he has reformed,his amazon book list (since deleted) would indicate no remorse or whatever you americans call it. I have those alleged wishlist books of his stored and there not Charles Dickens titles.
Sweden (where he has dual nationality) also should also be concerned.
Hopefully i hope he reformed. But im happy to monitor him should he come to my attention.
China is still happy to host spammers websites - yes .cn got cleaned up after being big chinese cash cow, but .ru is damm popular with chinese 'hosting' firms.
Spam is a two sided operation - the mail, and the site.
Hela cells came from a cancer biopsy sample with a consent form. No one should suggest that Henrietta Lacks is still around.
Yes there is mistrust of doctors but.....
Phantom content is still phanton content suppose i pretend to search for 'bing crosby show s99e09' - series 99 episode 9 and i bet i would get five + pages of google telling me I can find said episode on a website which never existed in real life.
Other examples include experts-exchange who use this technique - so i have to filter results from useless sites with pretend content.
Our website have pitiful google page ranking, but since seo consultants seem to be surprised its so shit and offer to 'help' the fact that they can find us proves theres more to searching than google.
I had that problem too with hp recovery disks using the dvdrw.
Fortunately i made two copies of the disks. Primary failed on first ms screwup, the copy worked fine. The good news is that most hp laptops can run a version of linux. Quite why ms deserve money for supplying this crap is beyond me as the disk is full of ms bloat, or why HP put up with ms is beyond me
Its was not my machine and being based in europe means the indian hp employees also only wants to help american clients if you use the online tools in vista which come with the dvd. Top score HP.
Asus are more comical as I have eee pc and even though the machine has no dvd i have a disk of some sort of windoze but no means of recovering to it without buying a usb dvd thing. I run linux on that too.
I hope the bribe ms pays to hp is a lot of money.