Oh, I kind of understand. I have a land line too. I technically have two but one is set to never actually ring. It does nothing but record inbound messages from the people who read the signs. (It's a long story.) Basically, I've got a lot of land. I have it posted with custom signs that make note that it's open to the public, for various uses, and I ask that they call and say where they went in, what time they will be coming out, and who they are. So, there's that and I have a line that I actually answer.
I don't know what it's called? It's a base station and there are four handsets. They all came as a kit. They've got individual charging stations. They sync up automatically when you replace the batteries. They're meant for things like factories, they've got rugged handsets. I'm pretty sure Motorola made them. I suspect that they're probably similar, in function at least, to what you have. Gotta be honest here, I don't even know what DECT is and I'm probably not gonna remember if I go look it up. I suspect I have something just like that - it might even be that. I used Google, a few years back, and searched for rugged phone handsets. I spent about an hour finding which features were out there. I bought these. Hopefully, I never have to do it again.
That said - I do carry a cell phone. That's a number that only certain friends have. I can forward calls to or from it. But, if I could just bring it home, plug it into a cradle, and have it bluetooth to the other phones - them having at least capacity to *answer* on any handset, would be a very interesting feature. I too am retired. I also believe that entropy (perhaps disorder, though I hate a mess) is the natural state. So, easy is good. Some days, I don't want to meander around looking for a phone to answer the call. It's good though, I just turn the ringers off. If I hold two buttons down on the handsets, it turns the ringers off on all of them. Best feature ever.
I take it you test your offsite backups regularly?
I know you weren't addressing me but, yes... Yes I do verify backups and keep regular copies at disparate locations - including shunting 'em over a network to entirely different geographical locations - some a bit distant. I can even do this from the house in Florida. I not only do it for myself but I have it configured to work properly at other people's houses and we all share out connections (with logins) between each other and have access to specific networked shares and/or hardware.
For example, I have a desktop system sitting at a buddy's house and it has tons of storage. I can connect to it a few ways or, if I want, I can then tunnel into his network or I can connect to it directly. From there, user controlled shares of storage work. I can just as easily use VNC and actually use the hardware remotely.
With connectivity as ubiquitous as it is, bandwidth so cheap, and hardware so plentiful... I can't think of a reason to *not* have this sort of configuration.
They post it to make you angry, ask questions, and to elicit a response. When you reply, you give them what they want. Sometimes, it's fun to give them what they want but it's not always beneficial.
That's nothing new, that's copy/paste from a bunch of 'em. You can find 'em all cross the net but Pastebin has a bunch of them. The GNAA is kind of famous, sort of, as a group of remarkably creative people who expend that creativity on trolling. They once rolled a live Linux (Lunux) distro up that did nothing but show images - namely the famous gaping ass known as 'goatse.' The distro was called "Linux for Niggers" I do believe. Keep in mind, some of the authors of that are black.
So, yeah, it's just a part of what the 'net is and, honestly, what it should be. Laugh, shrug it off, ignore it, whatever... You can't stop it and it's just done to piss you off. If you let it piss you off then you're giving them the power to control you. If you let it make you angry, you're telling them that they have the power to control your emotions. Every time they get a response, they're seeing someone tell them that they are willing to be controlled. If I let you make me angry then I've conceded the power over my emotions to you.
They're just pixels on the screen. Mostly harmless.
However, this sort of shit (the history of the 'net - and that certainly includes a chapter on things like this) should be damned near mandatory.
I just replied to an AC who was very much insisting that option 2 was the lawful and acceptable way. No, if my hardware is in the US then I will obey US laws. If my hardware is in France, I will obey their laws (as well as any laws applicable to me in my country). I will not put up a cookie notice - even if I sell a product or service. I will not censor because of China. I will not be forced to host something because of France. I will do what is lawful in my country - up to that point and no further.
If a product or service that I sell is illegal in France, but legal in my country, then I will send it to people in France who order it and pay for it. If France doesn't like it, they can control their borders. If I sell a book that's illegal in China and someone from China orders it, I'll send it. If I have hardware in China, being accessed from China, then I'll obey China's censorship rules. If I have hardware in France then France can tell me what I'm allowed to do with it.
As I said above, if they don't like it, they know where to find me.
If I have a forum, housed in the US, and someone from France doesn't like what someone posts, on my forum that is in my country, then France can suck my nuts. I don't even care if it's a French citizen that posted it on my forum. The property belongs to me. The property is in my country. Even if I sell ads on that site, they can still suck my nuts. If France doesn't like what someone posts on my site, or what I decline to host on my site, then France can try to block their citizens from accessing my site. If they've got a problem with this, I have a nut that needs sucking.
Just like for Taiwan, China, Australia, Russia, the UK, Canada, Mexico, Egypt, or any other country. The property, and I, are not in their country. If they don't like it, keep their citizens off my property. I will not take any step to remove offending material, disallow content types, or otherwise infringe on lawful speech as is accepted in my country.
If I put my property in another country that property will obey the laws of that country - I will obey the laws of this country. If they don't like it, I'm sure I can find plenty of people who want their nuts sucked and that will keep them busy. It's really simple, there's no need to make it complicated. I don't give a shit if it makes money or not - I'm going to do with my property what I want to do so long as it is lawful to do so in the country that the hardware exists in. If another country doesn't like it, wants to control what my users can post, or wants to make me expend any energy I don't feel like spending - they know where to find me.
They can block their citizens to the best of their abilities. They can write me letters. They can send me hate mail. If they irk my colo provider, I can house it at my home. If China doesn't like a dissident that posts content on my site they can piss off. If France doesn't like that I kicked out one of their citizens, they can piss off. It doesn't matter if I sell ad space or a product, they can piss off. They can stop the product at the edge of their country. That's it.
No, I will, quite specifically, not be obeying laws from other nations even if my site can be accessed from those nations. I will not kowtow to China's censorship. I will not be forced to host content I do not want by France. I will allow non-Muslims to post so Saudi Arabia can fuck right off. I will allow women to have the same access rights to UAE can suck a camel cock. I will do what I want with my property so long as it is lawful in the nation where that property is housed. They can control their border, they can not control me.
Considering that it only happens with one brand, and only a few models, then I think it's reasonably fair to place the majority of the culpability on the vendor, yes. If you hurt yourself with a tool, don't blame the toolmaker for providing the tool. Well, that and you'd have to be pretty damned stupid to run the command without knowing what it does.
"This sharp stick lets me poke myself in the eye! Burn the forest!!!" And a bunch of people join in and burn the forest down because some idiot stuck a stick, that they sharpened themselves, in their eye. This is why we can't have nice things.
Might sound odd but I really like LXDE. Cinnamon, based on Gnome, isn't bad. I have that on a couple of boxes and VMs. The missus uses Mint Cinnamon. But, I really like LXDE. As my preferred distro is going to LXQt, I'm not sure if I'll like it - I've no tried the beta yet, not even in a VM.
They still use the radios up in my home area in Maine. They all carry rather rugged radios on their belts. They play a tone (like specifics for area or for mutual aid or for whom/what is needed) and then they go out in voice. I believe a radio license is required to transmit (but not to listen) so most of them only work for reception but the chief and assistant chief have ones that can transmit. Home is actually counting the village, I'm in an unincorporated township - not far from Rangeley.
I've got some friends down in Vienna, Mt. Vernon, Rome areas and they're volunteers as well - they too carry the radios. I believe they only support a few channels and cycle between them, like a scanner, and that the different departments all have a "call out" tone. At a certain time of the night they go off on a "tone test" and all the departments send out a tone, one right after the other, and areas with good reception get to listen for quite a while. A pager might be a better idea though these things can be particularly loud and attention getting.
I can't think of any part of your missive that is not, in some way, fascinating. No, that's not sarcasm - all the way to the end, the reading of texts for re-entry, all fascinating and good stuff. Seriously, that's not sarcasm.
Having said that, what's this browser thing you speak of? I mean, I understand it conceptually and it actually sounds kind of brilliant but my Google-fu is weak and I'm not finding anything that looks quite like what you described. I don't have a better way to say it except to say that it's fascinating and tickles my geek-bone. That means I'd like to know where (if possible) I can get into the nitty-gritty aspects of it and I'm curious as to how accessible it might be.
I am a doctor as well and I've never, ever, carried one. I've never even had pager service but I have had a cell phone for a lot of years - back when they were bag or car based. I couldn't imagine it. If it's an emergency, call a medical doctor.;-)
Presumably, you use DSL? You can have DSL service without an active phone number or phone line. I've paid for just the DSL service - and no phone line. There was no phone number attached to it, as far as I know. I tried a regular phone in the jack and while there was a dial-tone, not even an operator was reachable nor was I able to dial a local number. I did not try 911. I do imagine that 911 service worked but I didn't try it.
So, it's technically possible to have DSL without paying for phone service or having phone service. I was kind of curious about it - as I'd asked, specifically, for no phone number and no phone service. I seem to recall they tried to get me to get a phone anyhow but I didn't. After it was in-service, I tested out of curiosity. As near as I can tell, there was no real "phone" aspect to it at all but I do imagine it still would have worked for the emergency system.
Heh, I wondered if anyone was going to say anything after the second time I saw it. What is this wireless ethernet and does it support carrier pigeons?
The closest I ever came was $400 for 4 MB of EDO. I could have paid a little less but I went with the better named brand. Heh, we had to test our memory back then too. I don't think I've run a mem test in... Wow... A long time? It's right there when I boot my OS but I haven't bothered in years. I actually can't recall personally having had to RMA a stick in the past ten years. It might even be longer than that.
I like learning the history of old towns and I often find books that have recounting of old happenings from historical societies. I have one such book about a town in Livermore Falls, Maine. I don't have it with me and it's probably not something you can order online. It's fairly interesting. Well, I think so.
It seems that at one time, back in the 1930s, they built a bank in town. The thing is, the bank was on one side of the railroad tracks and the cops were on the other side of the railroad tracks. Every day, a train would drive up to the Otis Paper Mill and be there long enough so that there were no roads available for the cops to get to the bank - for a couple of hours. You can probably see where this is going.
So, they robbed the bank. Sure enough, they got away with this a few times. Then the cops started putting an officer over at the bank when the train was due. Except they didn't really have a lot of police officers. So, somebody would slow the train down and the cop would have to leave, then the timing was right to rob the bank. Then, like a bad movie, someone stole the police car which, of course, made the cops follow them - except the train wasn't in place at the time and the only other cruiser was able to go to that side of the tracks and off they went to get their police car back.
Now, being clever Mainers, they proceeded to leave the car not very far on the other side of the river and the cops were able to find it and go back to the station but they now had to wait for the train to pass, only to find out that while they were getting their car back, someone had robbed the bank and crossed to the other side of it and gotten away over on that side.
Finally, things settled down and everything is going well and nobody had robbed the bank. So, the police go back to policing and, sure enough, somebody robs the bank because they no longer station an officer there. This happens sporadically until the 1950s when the bank finally moved to the other side of the tracks.
So, I guess the best time to rob a bank is when there's a train between you and the cop station.
If I understand it correctly, there's still *technically* a reward out for information leading to the conviction/apprehension of the thief or thieves. Rumors suggest that it was actually a number of people, not necessarily associated, who took turns robbing the Livermore Falls Bank.
Funny you mention that. Earlier today, I was sitting around and being pretty lazy (I do this often) and was poking around on my network back home. I was rooting for some pictures to show the missus and I found an old, and I mean old, folder that I'd copied. It was the favorites folder, probably from an old Opera install, sometime around 2002 - according to the dates on the files inside the folder. They were all links to what was once a favored site, obviously.
I didn't keep track and I've never looked for a way to automate it but it's amazing how many of them are no longer valid links. They're all gone... No, not all. Many are 404 or other errors. Some are just placeholder domains now. A couple still retained a warning about file sharing of copyrighted data and that it was against the law (complete with logo). Some just returned an error page, not even a 404 and the domain had long since expired.
It's really amazing how much has gone away. It's unfortunate, in a way. Sure, there are new and interesting things but I actually was reminded of some of the content that used to be there (and how much my taste has changed). 'Tis all gone... I'd guess that maybe 3/5 of the links were dead and gone. Probably another 1/5 was there but no longer what was expected or redirected to a the base URL or the likes.
Witches. Not Wiccans. Wicca's not that old. I'd look it up but I'm a bit lazy. It was invented in the mid-1950s as I recall. They were burning witches, not Wiccans. That and, well... Wicca doesn't really have a whole hell of a lot to do with early paganism, as far as anyone knows. Those records are kind of absent so they're mostly just a mockery, devoid of any meaning, and flailing about as if they're actually doing something valid or valuable.
Err... Assuming he existed as is presented... He was dead by the time Paul was writing. Jesus probably also didn't say anything about pissing into the wind and, as the say, silence is golden.
Either way, it's tough to rebut when you're not there to do so.
I read your link. I'm not sure that it says what you think it says. Did you read your link? Some functionality will be disabled on HTTP while in place on secure sites. Unless I'm reading it wrong, that's all your link actually says.
Seeing as we're posting anecdotes and personal preferences... I seldom complain and very infrequently leave a review that is negative in any way. I've left many, many reviews and almost all of them (it'd surprise me if someone crunched the numbers and it was less than 90% positive) were supporting and positive. I'd much rather review something I like than something I dislike. I'm not interested in tearing stuff down but interested in keeping good things going.
Hell, it works with donations too but sometimes in reverse. I've often donated to software authors who write things I not only don't use but probably never will. I figure it helps others and helps to build things up. I'd rather improve than tear down. I want something good - even if it is for others. Sometimes, I use a competing piece of software and I figure if the other improves than my preferred choice will also improve.
I really can't think of the last time that I left a negative review - for anything.
I've called programs "apps" for a rather long time. It was "programs" and then "applications" and then just "apps." I don't know where or when the conversion started for any of those but that happened long before smart phones or apps in the way you're describing them - even programs with full installers and the likes, they've been apps for a very long time - since the earliest days, as far as I recollect.
I want to say that "apps" was in use in the 80s and I know we used it in the 90s - especially while typing. "Make sure you install these three apps..." I don't think it was common vernacular but it wasn't unheard of. Frequently, it was slang for applications which was slang for programs and I don't know of any more specific divide than that - at that time.
Arguably, the definition is different today. We should probably limit the use to just those "appy" things, like things from the Windows Store (I've never actually used that), phone apps, tablet apps, etc... Probably the Google Chrome apps is a good example of something that is also a valid choice to call an app. Words change and my clinging to the old meaning will not help me communicate clearly. Today, for better or worse, the word has a bit more refinement to it and is a subset of programs. So, I guess that's probably for the best - so long as it doesn't lead to additional confusion.
I was too good at drinking so I had to retire and let someone else take the championship for a while. I kind of miss it but I was really very good at drinking and it's hard to give up something that you both love and are good at. Something tripped in my brain when I retired. I was a functional alcoholic for a very long time. After I retired, that functioning part stopped. I didn't start consuming more alcohol, in general, or the likes - my consumption remained pretty static. But, no... I just lost the functional part. It's like my brain just said, "Hey, wait... You mean I don't have to keep working any more? That's AWESOME!"
Quitting sucked. Unlike the guys at the various groups tell you, you can drink again. I had two on New Years Eve and one on Christmas Eve. I was mildly buzzed from the two. It was nice but I remember how much quitting sucked - DTs are not cool and withdrawal really sucks. So, I don't drink as a general rule. They say you can never drink again without reverting to alcoholic behavior. I'd disagree. I've not really been a drinking man for over three years now. I've probably consumed a total of a dozen alcoholic beverages since and never more than two in one sitting. I'm okay with that.
Ah well...
However, yeah... I agree, sometimes you gotta dance like you have people watching. Just so long as you don't have to do it all the time, that's good. There's a time and a place for a total lack of restraint and a time to be able to adhere to social normative behaviors. I think there's probably a fine line in some cases and it's good to know which is which, lest you end up dancing naked during a formal dinner party for an esteemed guest.
If the Americans behave in Canada as they do in the US, they'll think the steel pipes and barriers are a mistake and try to drive around them - with all the humor that entails. Depending on the age of your maps in the GPS unit, you'll be awfully confused just getting to my house - in a number of locations. There's an area, near Smalls Falls, that you go through (following Route 4 north towards Rangeley) and the road was recently moved but it wasn't just moved, it was moved by a whole lot.
Just past there, there's another part of that same road that was changed almost as drastically. Then, if you're heading out of the village and trying to go towards my house, there's a section of the road that's simply not there any more. Oh, the road's still there - it has been moved. But, there were some houses on that road so the old road still goes out there - where it dead-ends at a bridge that collapsed. Technically, that old road would be shorter so a GPS will still show it as the default route and sometimes even shows it as the default route even if the maps have the newer route on it.
One of the biggest oddities is that I have the same leaves outside my window that they have outside their windows. I know 'cause I've been there. I'm a Canadian citizen by grace of heritage (Micmac - full tribal member). I've stomped all across Canada. The mountain range I'm on (near the end of the Appalachian range) extends partway into Canada in this area where it abuts a second, smaller, range that has the same foliage, animals, and similar views.
However, I do know that they come to do a lot of shopping. I can tell how weak or strong the currency is by how many are on the bus. They go to the outlet stores and LL Bean down in Freeport and things like that. There's a GH Bass, it's where LL Bean is, Pier One, etc... It's a nice area. They charter a bus and drive around for quite a while - I have no idea how long. I've checked their website before but I've forgotten the name of the URL. It's always one of three companies, or always has been. Sometimes, it is more than one company... It really depends on the value of the Canadian loony as to how many and how long. They have different routes, one goes through my way and down almost into NH a different way and then down to the coast. From there, it goes up Route 1 and cuts up through Bangor. After that they go to Ft. Kent and back into Canada. Some go through the middle of of the State, up through Skowhegan, Wyman, Solon, Greenville, and Jackman.
At any rate, I don't actually mind them. Meh, they're harmless and just want to look at foliage. My home is pretty much one of the ideal places to see said foliage. It looks out across some nice valleys and clear days enable views as far away as Mt. Washington. There are deer, moose, rabbits, bears, fox, and other assorted furry woodland critters. I've got a giant porch with seating, I've even got a telescope. I'd set it all up and provide them with drinks and snacks if I knew when they were coming. Why not? It's not like a picture of the view is going to deprive me of enjoying the view. I'm not really bothered by 'em. They're just people who want to look at foliage. I go out and do the same thing - and I've got all the foliage I want right form my window or porch. I just don't get on a bus and go driving up driveways in another country.
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Oh, I kind of understand. I have a land line too. I technically have two but one is set to never actually ring. It does nothing but record inbound messages from the people who read the signs. (It's a long story.) Basically, I've got a lot of land. I have it posted with custom signs that make note that it's open to the public, for various uses, and I ask that they call and say where they went in, what time they will be coming out, and who they are. So, there's that and I have a line that I actually answer.
I don't know what it's called? It's a base station and there are four handsets. They all came as a kit. They've got individual charging stations. They sync up automatically when you replace the batteries. They're meant for things like factories, they've got rugged handsets. I'm pretty sure Motorola made them. I suspect that they're probably similar, in function at least, to what you have. Gotta be honest here, I don't even know what DECT is and I'm probably not gonna remember if I go look it up. I suspect I have something just like that - it might even be that. I used Google, a few years back, and searched for rugged phone handsets. I spent about an hour finding which features were out there. I bought these. Hopefully, I never have to do it again.
That said - I do carry a cell phone. That's a number that only certain friends have. I can forward calls to or from it. But, if I could just bring it home, plug it into a cradle, and have it bluetooth to the other phones - them having at least capacity to *answer* on any handset, would be a very interesting feature. I too am retired. I also believe that entropy (perhaps disorder, though I hate a mess) is the natural state. So, easy is good. Some days, I don't want to meander around looking for a phone to answer the call. It's good though, I just turn the ringers off. If I hold two buttons down on the handsets, it turns the ringers off on all of them. Best feature ever.
I take it you test your offsite backups regularly?
I know you weren't addressing me but, yes... Yes I do verify backups and keep regular copies at disparate locations - including shunting 'em over a network to entirely different geographical locations - some a bit distant. I can even do this from the house in Florida. I not only do it for myself but I have it configured to work properly at other people's houses and we all share out connections (with logins) between each other and have access to specific networked shares and/or hardware.
For example, I have a desktop system sitting at a buddy's house and it has tons of storage. I can connect to it a few ways or, if I want, I can then tunnel into his network or I can connect to it directly. From there, user controlled shares of storage work. I can just as easily use VNC and actually use the hardware remotely.
With connectivity as ubiquitous as it is, bandwidth so cheap, and hardware so plentiful... I can't think of a reason to *not* have this sort of configuration.
They post it to make you angry, ask questions, and to elicit a response. When you reply, you give them what they want. Sometimes, it's fun to give them what they want but it's not always beneficial.
That's nothing new, that's copy/paste from a bunch of 'em. You can find 'em all cross the net but Pastebin has a bunch of them. The GNAA is kind of famous, sort of, as a group of remarkably creative people who expend that creativity on trolling. They once rolled a live Linux (Lunux) distro up that did nothing but show images - namely the famous gaping ass known as 'goatse.' The distro was called "Linux for Niggers" I do believe. Keep in mind, some of the authors of that are black.
So, yeah, it's just a part of what the 'net is and, honestly, what it should be. Laugh, shrug it off, ignore it, whatever... You can't stop it and it's just done to piss you off. If you let it piss you off then you're giving them the power to control you. If you let it make you angry, you're telling them that they have the power to control your emotions. Every time they get a response, they're seeing someone tell them that they are willing to be controlled. If I let you make me angry then I've conceded the power over my emotions to you.
They're just pixels on the screen. Mostly harmless.
However, this sort of shit (the history of the 'net - and that certainly includes a chapter on things like this) should be damned near mandatory.
I just replied to an AC who was very much insisting that option 2 was the lawful and acceptable way. No, if my hardware is in the US then I will obey US laws. If my hardware is in France, I will obey their laws (as well as any laws applicable to me in my country). I will not put up a cookie notice - even if I sell a product or service. I will not censor because of China. I will not be forced to host something because of France. I will do what is lawful in my country - up to that point and no further.
If a product or service that I sell is illegal in France, but legal in my country, then I will send it to people in France who order it and pay for it. If France doesn't like it, they can control their borders. If I sell a book that's illegal in China and someone from China orders it, I'll send it. If I have hardware in China, being accessed from China, then I'll obey China's censorship rules. If I have hardware in France then France can tell me what I'm allowed to do with it.
As I said above, if they don't like it, they know where to find me.
If I have a forum, housed in the US, and someone from France doesn't like what someone posts, on my forum that is in my country, then France can suck my nuts. I don't even care if it's a French citizen that posted it on my forum. The property belongs to me. The property is in my country. Even if I sell ads on that site, they can still suck my nuts. If France doesn't like what someone posts on my site, or what I decline to host on my site, then France can try to block their citizens from accessing my site. If they've got a problem with this, I have a nut that needs sucking.
Just like for Taiwan, China, Australia, Russia, the UK, Canada, Mexico, Egypt, or any other country. The property, and I, are not in their country. If they don't like it, keep their citizens off my property. I will not take any step to remove offending material, disallow content types, or otherwise infringe on lawful speech as is accepted in my country.
If I put my property in another country that property will obey the laws of that country - I will obey the laws of this country. If they don't like it, I'm sure I can find plenty of people who want their nuts sucked and that will keep them busy. It's really simple, there's no need to make it complicated. I don't give a shit if it makes money or not - I'm going to do with my property what I want to do so long as it is lawful to do so in the country that the hardware exists in. If another country doesn't like it, wants to control what my users can post, or wants to make me expend any energy I don't feel like spending - they know where to find me.
They can block their citizens to the best of their abilities. They can write me letters. They can send me hate mail. If they irk my colo provider, I can house it at my home. If China doesn't like a dissident that posts content on my site they can piss off. If France doesn't like that I kicked out one of their citizens, they can piss off. It doesn't matter if I sell ad space or a product, they can piss off. They can stop the product at the edge of their country. That's it.
No, I will, quite specifically, not be obeying laws from other nations even if my site can be accessed from those nations. I will not kowtow to China's censorship. I will not be forced to host content I do not want by France. I will allow non-Muslims to post so Saudi Arabia can fuck right off. I will allow women to have the same access rights to UAE can suck a camel cock. I will do what I want with my property so long as it is lawful in the nation where that property is housed. They can control their border, they can not control me.
Considering that it only happens with one brand, and only a few models, then I think it's reasonably fair to place the majority of the culpability on the vendor, yes. If you hurt yourself with a tool, don't blame the toolmaker for providing the tool. Well, that and you'd have to be pretty damned stupid to run the command without knowing what it does.
"This sharp stick lets me poke myself in the eye! Burn the forest!!!" And a bunch of people join in and burn the forest down because some idiot stuck a stick, that they sharpened themselves, in their eye. This is why we can't have nice things.
Might sound odd but I really like LXDE. Cinnamon, based on Gnome, isn't bad. I have that on a couple of boxes and VMs. The missus uses Mint Cinnamon. But, I really like LXDE. As my preferred distro is going to LXQt, I'm not sure if I'll like it - I've no tried the beta yet, not even in a VM.
They still use the radios up in my home area in Maine. They all carry rather rugged radios on their belts. They play a tone (like specifics for area or for mutual aid or for whom/what is needed) and then they go out in voice. I believe a radio license is required to transmit (but not to listen) so most of them only work for reception but the chief and assistant chief have ones that can transmit. Home is actually counting the village, I'm in an unincorporated township - not far from Rangeley.
I've got some friends down in Vienna, Mt. Vernon, Rome areas and they're volunteers as well - they too carry the radios. I believe they only support a few channels and cycle between them, like a scanner, and that the different departments all have a "call out" tone. At a certain time of the night they go off on a "tone test" and all the departments send out a tone, one right after the other, and areas with good reception get to listen for quite a while. A pager might be a better idea though these things can be particularly loud and attention getting.
I can't think of any part of your missive that is not, in some way, fascinating. No, that's not sarcasm - all the way to the end, the reading of texts for re-entry, all fascinating and good stuff. Seriously, that's not sarcasm.
Having said that, what's this browser thing you speak of? I mean, I understand it conceptually and it actually sounds kind of brilliant but my Google-fu is weak and I'm not finding anything that looks quite like what you described. I don't have a better way to say it except to say that it's fascinating and tickles my geek-bone. That means I'd like to know where (if possible) I can get into the nitty-gritty aspects of it and I'm curious as to how accessible it might be.
I am a doctor as well and I've never, ever, carried one. I've never even had pager service but I have had a cell phone for a lot of years - back when they were bag or car based. I couldn't imagine it. If it's an emergency, call a medical doctor. ;-)
Presumably, you use DSL? You can have DSL service without an active phone number or phone line. I've paid for just the DSL service - and no phone line. There was no phone number attached to it, as far as I know. I tried a regular phone in the jack and while there was a dial-tone, not even an operator was reachable nor was I able to dial a local number. I did not try 911. I do imagine that 911 service worked but I didn't try it.
So, it's technically possible to have DSL without paying for phone service or having phone service. I was kind of curious about it - as I'd asked, specifically, for no phone number and no phone service. I seem to recall they tried to get me to get a phone anyhow but I didn't. After it was in-service, I tested out of curiosity. As near as I can tell, there was no real "phone" aspect to it at all but I do imagine it still would have worked for the emergency system.
Heh, I wondered if anyone was going to say anything after the second time I saw it. What is this wireless ethernet and does it support carrier pigeons?
The closest I ever came was $400 for 4 MB of EDO. I could have paid a little less but I went with the better named brand. Heh, we had to test our memory back then too. I don't think I've run a mem test in... Wow... A long time? It's right there when I boot my OS but I haven't bothered in years. I actually can't recall personally having had to RMA a stick in the past ten years. It might even be longer than that.
I like learning the history of old towns and I often find books that have recounting of old happenings from historical societies. I have one such book about a town in Livermore Falls, Maine. I don't have it with me and it's probably not something you can order online. It's fairly interesting. Well, I think so.
It seems that at one time, back in the 1930s, they built a bank in town. The thing is, the bank was on one side of the railroad tracks and the cops were on the other side of the railroad tracks. Every day, a train would drive up to the Otis Paper Mill and be there long enough so that there were no roads available for the cops to get to the bank - for a couple of hours. You can probably see where this is going.
So, they robbed the bank. Sure enough, they got away with this a few times. Then the cops started putting an officer over at the bank when the train was due. Except they didn't really have a lot of police officers. So, somebody would slow the train down and the cop would have to leave, then the timing was right to rob the bank. Then, like a bad movie, someone stole the police car which, of course, made the cops follow them - except the train wasn't in place at the time and the only other cruiser was able to go to that side of the tracks and off they went to get their police car back.
Now, being clever Mainers, they proceeded to leave the car not very far on the other side of the river and the cops were able to find it and go back to the station but they now had to wait for the train to pass, only to find out that while they were getting their car back, someone had robbed the bank and crossed to the other side of it and gotten away over on that side.
Finally, things settled down and everything is going well and nobody had robbed the bank. So, the police go back to policing and, sure enough, somebody robs the bank because they no longer station an officer there. This happens sporadically until the 1950s when the bank finally moved to the other side of the tracks.
So, I guess the best time to rob a bank is when there's a train between you and the cop station.
If I understand it correctly, there's still *technically* a reward out for information leading to the conviction/apprehension of the thief or thieves. Rumors suggest that it was actually a number of people, not necessarily associated, who took turns robbing the Livermore Falls Bank.
Err... I think you misread their post. They indicate that it's sadly not fiction.
Funny you mention that. Earlier today, I was sitting around and being pretty lazy (I do this often) and was poking around on my network back home. I was rooting for some pictures to show the missus and I found an old, and I mean old, folder that I'd copied. It was the favorites folder, probably from an old Opera install, sometime around 2002 - according to the dates on the files inside the folder. They were all links to what was once a favored site, obviously.
I didn't keep track and I've never looked for a way to automate it but it's amazing how many of them are no longer valid links. They're all gone... No, not all. Many are 404 or other errors. Some are just placeholder domains now. A couple still retained a warning about file sharing of copyrighted data and that it was against the law (complete with logo). Some just returned an error page, not even a 404 and the domain had long since expired.
It's really amazing how much has gone away. It's unfortunate, in a way. Sure, there are new and interesting things but I actually was reminded of some of the content that used to be there (and how much my taste has changed). 'Tis all gone... I'd guess that maybe 3/5 of the links were dead and gone. Probably another 1/5 was there but no longer what was expected or redirected to a the base URL or the likes.
Witches. Not Wiccans. Wicca's not that old. I'd look it up but I'm a bit lazy. It was invented in the mid-1950s as I recall. They were burning witches, not Wiccans. That and, well... Wicca doesn't really have a whole hell of a lot to do with early paganism, as far as anyone knows. Those records are kind of absent so they're mostly just a mockery, devoid of any meaning, and flailing about as if they're actually doing something valid or valuable.
Err... Assuming he existed as is presented... He was dead by the time Paul was writing. Jesus probably also didn't say anything about pissing into the wind and, as the say, silence is golden.
Either way, it's tough to rebut when you're not there to do so.
I read your link. I'm not sure that it says what you think it says. Did you read your link? Some functionality will be disabled on HTTP while in place on secure sites. Unless I'm reading it wrong, that's all your link actually says.
Upper left, where it says (on this page) "slashdot.org" and select the * (wildcard).
Seeing as we're posting anecdotes and personal preferences... I seldom complain and very infrequently leave a review that is negative in any way. I've left many, many reviews and almost all of them (it'd surprise me if someone crunched the numbers and it was less than 90% positive) were supporting and positive. I'd much rather review something I like than something I dislike. I'm not interested in tearing stuff down but interested in keeping good things going.
Hell, it works with donations too but sometimes in reverse. I've often donated to software authors who write things I not only don't use but probably never will. I figure it helps others and helps to build things up. I'd rather improve than tear down. I want something good - even if it is for others. Sometimes, I use a competing piece of software and I figure if the other improves than my preferred choice will also improve.
I really can't think of the last time that I left a negative review - for anything.
I've called programs "apps" for a rather long time. It was "programs" and then "applications" and then just "apps." I don't know where or when the conversion started for any of those but that happened long before smart phones or apps in the way you're describing them - even programs with full installers and the likes, they've been apps for a very long time - since the earliest days, as far as I recollect.
I want to say that "apps" was in use in the 80s and I know we used it in the 90s - especially while typing. "Make sure you install these three apps..." I don't think it was common vernacular but it wasn't unheard of. Frequently, it was slang for applications which was slang for programs and I don't know of any more specific divide than that - at that time.
Arguably, the definition is different today. We should probably limit the use to just those "appy" things, like things from the Windows Store (I've never actually used that), phone apps, tablet apps, etc... Probably the Google Chrome apps is a good example of something that is also a valid choice to call an app. Words change and my clinging to the old meaning will not help me communicate clearly. Today, for better or worse, the word has a bit more refinement to it and is a subset of programs. So, I guess that's probably for the best - so long as it doesn't lead to additional confusion.
My understanding is that saltwater is not used because of its corrosive nature.
I was too good at drinking so I had to retire and let someone else take the championship for a while. I kind of miss it but I was really very good at drinking and it's hard to give up something that you both love and are good at. Something tripped in my brain when I retired. I was a functional alcoholic for a very long time. After I retired, that functioning part stopped. I didn't start consuming more alcohol, in general, or the likes - my consumption remained pretty static. But, no... I just lost the functional part. It's like my brain just said, "Hey, wait... You mean I don't have to keep working any more? That's AWESOME!"
Quitting sucked. Unlike the guys at the various groups tell you, you can drink again. I had two on New Years Eve and one on Christmas Eve. I was mildly buzzed from the two. It was nice but I remember how much quitting sucked - DTs are not cool and withdrawal really sucks. So, I don't drink as a general rule. They say you can never drink again without reverting to alcoholic behavior. I'd disagree. I've not really been a drinking man for over three years now. I've probably consumed a total of a dozen alcoholic beverages since and never more than two in one sitting. I'm okay with that.
Ah well...
However, yeah... I agree, sometimes you gotta dance like you have people watching. Just so long as you don't have to do it all the time, that's good. There's a time and a place for a total lack of restraint and a time to be able to adhere to social normative behaviors. I think there's probably a fine line in some cases and it's good to know which is which, lest you end up dancing naked during a formal dinner party for an esteemed guest.
If the Americans behave in Canada as they do in the US, they'll think the steel pipes and barriers are a mistake and try to drive around them - with all the humor that entails. Depending on the age of your maps in the GPS unit, you'll be awfully confused just getting to my house - in a number of locations. There's an area, near Smalls Falls, that you go through (following Route 4 north towards Rangeley) and the road was recently moved but it wasn't just moved, it was moved by a whole lot.
Just past there, there's another part of that same road that was changed almost as drastically. Then, if you're heading out of the village and trying to go towards my house, there's a section of the road that's simply not there any more. Oh, the road's still there - it has been moved. But, there were some houses on that road so the old road still goes out there - where it dead-ends at a bridge that collapsed. Technically, that old road would be shorter so a GPS will still show it as the default route and sometimes even shows it as the default route even if the maps have the newer route on it.
One of the biggest oddities is that I have the same leaves outside my window that they have outside their windows. I know 'cause I've been there. I'm a Canadian citizen by grace of heritage (Micmac - full tribal member). I've stomped all across Canada. The mountain range I'm on (near the end of the Appalachian range) extends partway into Canada in this area where it abuts a second, smaller, range that has the same foliage, animals, and similar views.
However, I do know that they come to do a lot of shopping. I can tell how weak or strong the currency is by how many are on the bus. They go to the outlet stores and LL Bean down in Freeport and things like that. There's a GH Bass, it's where LL Bean is, Pier One, etc... It's a nice area. They charter a bus and drive around for quite a while - I have no idea how long. I've checked their website before but I've forgotten the name of the URL. It's always one of three companies, or always has been. Sometimes, it is more than one company... It really depends on the value of the Canadian loony as to how many and how long. They have different routes, one goes through my way and down almost into NH a different way and then down to the coast. From there, it goes up Route 1 and cuts up through Bangor. After that they go to Ft. Kent and back into Canada. Some go through the middle of of the State, up through Skowhegan, Wyman, Solon, Greenville, and Jackman.
At any rate, I don't actually mind them. Meh, they're harmless and just want to look at foliage. My home is pretty much one of the ideal places to see said foliage. It looks out across some nice valleys and clear days enable views as far away as Mt. Washington. There are deer, moose, rabbits, bears, fox, and other assorted furry woodland critters. I've got a giant porch with seating, I've even got a telescope. I'd set it all up and provide them with drinks and snacks if I knew when they were coming. Why not? It's not like a picture of the view is going to deprive me of enjoying the view. I'm not really bothered by 'em. They're just people who want to look at foliage. I go out and do the same thing - and I've got all the foliage I want right form my window or porch. I just don't get on a bus and go driving up driveways in another country.