I'm with AT&T, I have an iPhone 4 (bought used), and I don't have a data plan. I switched my voice plan to a GoPhone account. I add money to my account whenever I want and then I'm charged $0.10/min. for voice calls and $5/month/200 text messages. They won't let me use pay-as-you-go data on an iPhone even if I want to. I haven't worked it out exactly, but my bill went from ~$65/month to more like $25/month at most.
Charter does it in Missouri too. You can "opt-out", but in that case it redirects you to a Charter server that serves up a copy of IE's DNS error page -- no matter which browser you're using. It even references the local images that IE would use so the images on the error page are broken when using Firefox.
There's no drawing. The first entry received after the 999,999,999th - whether by purchase or the non-purchase entry form - is the winner. For serious. It's in the rules.
Do you happen to run Portal? I'm considering getting a Mini to hook to my 1080p TV and I'm trying to figure out if it would do an acceptable job running Portal at 1920x1080 as that's the most resource intensive game I play.
You cannot expect people to authenticate to view them, as the best you could hope for is some wonky one-time password sent along with the message there was an MMS they could look at, and which users would not stand for.
This is exactly what ATT does with MMS messages I've received. I guess it could be seen as annoying, but it seems better than the alternatives. You could even argue that they want it to be annoying. I would imagine that people who complain are told it's for security purposes and to make things more convenient, you just need to add this MMS plan for $X/month.
Somebody already mentioned the NSLU-2 with one of the non-Linksys firmwares. I had one and, until the lightening killed it, it worked really well and uses very little power.
I'm now replacing my router (a WRT54GS) and the NSLU-2 with an ASUS WL-500gP. I haven't heard anything good about the stock ASUS firmware, but OpenWRT (and probably others) work well. The ASUS has two USB 2.0 ports for attaching storage (or other hardware) and you could even use a powered hub to add even more drives. I don't have it all set up yet, but it should work well as router and file server while remaining quiet, cool, and using little power.
Wal-Marts (and other supermarkets) here in fly-over land USA have plenty of liquor. Keeps the proles from banding together, rising up, and demanding culture or decent food. Nothing like picking up a cheap case of Stag along with your Hot Pockets, Doritos, and whatever the latest Will Ferrell DVD release happens to be. I don't care who you are, that right there's the perfect Friday night.
I haven't been having any problems with updates or the store (just got my Wii this past Sunday - did the initial system update, downloaded the internet channel, and bought a couple VC games). If you haven't, try changing your wireless channel to 1 or 11 if possible (in the US, anyway). This is supposed to help slow/timing out connections, but I haven't needed to try it myself.
In case you're interested, they kept $18 of what should have been a $100 refund with no reason given (probably return shipping plus what original shipping cost since I used their free shipping option). I called their "customer service" number and the only thing they could do was email corporate asking for explanation. Corporate will contact me in 3-5 business days by email and there's no other way to contact them. We'll see what happens, but it may have to go to the state AG. Fun.
That could be buy.com's fault. I ordered a DVD box set from them for $100 just before Christmas and used Google checkout with no problems. When my package arrived, instead of a DVD box set, it was an XBOX 360 wireless controller -- not even close to what I ordered though the packing slip was correct. I'm currently in the process of returning it as they would not advance ship the correct product -- they actually told me the manufacturer had to get the first product back before they would ship the correct one. (Microsoft makes TV show DVD sets now?) And that would be after up to a week of processing after receiving the return and then up to another week or so before the correct order would be shipped. Now I have to wait the same week for the RMA to be processed and then up to 4 weeks for the credit to be applied to my account. I'm guessing they'll also charge me for the return shipping even though it was completely their mistake -- that should be another fun phone call.
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I'm with AT&T, I have an iPhone 4 (bought used), and I don't have a data plan. I switched my voice plan to a GoPhone account. I add money to my account whenever I want and then I'm charged $0.10/min. for voice calls and $5/month/200 text messages. They won't let me use pay-as-you-go data on an iPhone even if I want to. I haven't worked it out exactly, but my bill went from ~$65/month to more like $25/month at most.
Charter does it in Missouri too. You can "opt-out", but in that case it redirects you to a Charter server that serves up a copy of IE's DNS error page -- no matter which browser you're using. It even references the local images that IE would use so the images on the error page are broken when using Firefox.
There's no drawing. The first entry received after the 999,999,999th - whether by purchase or the non-purchase entry form - is the winner. For serious. It's in the rules.
Do you happen to run Portal? I'm considering getting a Mini to hook to my 1080p TV and I'm trying to figure out if it would do an acceptable job running Portal at 1920x1080 as that's the most resource intensive game I play.
This is exactly what ATT does with MMS messages I've received. I guess it could be seen as annoying, but it seems better than the alternatives. You could even argue that they want it to be annoying. I would imagine that people who complain are told it's for security purposes and to make things more convenient, you just need to add this MMS plan for $X/month.
Kind of like this? It used to be called Piano Hero, but Activision got mad. No LEDs on keys, but that wouldn't be free (without a lot of DIY).
Curious Inventor has a good soldering information page with a video. Very helpful when you're just getting started.
I also second the Forrest Mims recommendation.
Somebody already mentioned the NSLU-2 with one of the non-Linksys firmwares. I had one and, until the lightening killed it, it worked really well and uses very little power. I'm now replacing my router (a WRT54GS) and the NSLU-2 with an ASUS WL-500gP. I haven't heard anything good about the stock ASUS firmware, but OpenWRT (and probably others) work well. The ASUS has two USB 2.0 ports for attaching storage (or other hardware) and you could even use a powered hub to add even more drives. I don't have it all set up yet, but it should work well as router and file server while remaining quiet, cool, and using little power.
Wal-Marts (and other supermarkets) here in fly-over land USA have plenty of liquor. Keeps the proles from banding together, rising up, and demanding culture or decent food. Nothing like picking up a cheap case of Stag along with your Hot Pockets, Doritos, and whatever the latest Will Ferrell DVD release happens to be. I don't care who you are, that right there's the perfect Friday night.
Looks like you can get all Rockstar games directly from them.
are we talking a death match here or will it be paper rock scissors to settle this?
Or? You must not be playing rock, paper, scissors correctly.
I haven't been having any problems with updates or the store (just got my Wii this past Sunday - did the initial system update, downloaded the internet channel, and bought a couple VC games). If you haven't, try changing your wireless channel to 1 or 11 if possible (in the US, anyway). This is supposed to help slow/timing out connections, but I haven't needed to try it myself.
In case you're interested, they kept $18 of what should have been a $100 refund with no reason given (probably return shipping plus what original shipping cost since I used their free shipping option). I called their "customer service" number and the only thing they could do was email corporate asking for explanation. Corporate will contact me in 3-5 business days by email and there's no other way to contact them. We'll see what happens, but it may have to go to the state AG. Fun.
That could be buy.com's fault. I ordered a DVD box set from them for $100 just before Christmas and used Google checkout with no problems. When my package arrived, instead of a DVD box set, it was an XBOX 360 wireless controller -- not even close to what I ordered though the packing slip was correct. I'm currently in the process of returning it as they would not advance ship the correct product -- they actually told me the manufacturer had to get the first product back before they would ship the correct one. (Microsoft makes TV show DVD sets now?) And that would be after up to a week of processing after receiving the return and then up to another week or so before the correct order would be shipped. Now I have to wait the same week for the RMA to be processed and then up to 4 weeks for the credit to be applied to my account. I'm guessing they'll also charge me for the return shipping even though it was completely their mistake -- that should be another fun phone call.
I definitely won't be buying from them again.
it's on youtube
http://lists.immunitysec.com/pipermail/dailydave/2 006-September/003459.html
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I'm using a version 1 with the latest release of the openwrt firmware. Works great and has a package system similar to apt-get - very customizable.
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