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2572/422 using a medium fast DSL account.

If your test results are less than wonderful you can go to OpenDNS.org and use their instructions to change your DNS to theirs which is very good. Do it anyway, it's supposed to be faster and gives you a bit more control over the internet you're exposed to.

OpenDNS is recommended by the guy that discovered the cache poisoning problem that is the subject David's blog post.

Thanks for the pointer to the magazine. I miss the old Radio Electronics types of magazines.

Don't worry Dave, I'm bringing my pc with me and provided we can find net access you're welcome to blog away to your heart's content.

Abandon your users... Ha!

Oh noes this means that me and my friends are terrorists, we do fist bumps daily!

Also get 'PageDefrag' from Microsoft, I think it's a PowerTool (free). It'll defrag a couple of system files that might free up space a following normal defrag could use. Another good (free) defrag tool is JkDefrag. The command line version has a number of options so you can tailor how it runs.

Your TextBeast tool last week is very useful, thanks! It doesn't cut/paste from 3270 terminal sessions though.

Oh the pain, the sorrow! Argh.....

> at least they won't have to worry about the effect of the air pollution.

Why? are only dead players admitted?

Take care of yourself and get well soon. On the other hand, you might be easier to beat in your weakened condition.

Broadband over Powerlines have so far been a problem for any Amateur Radio operators nearby because those long unshielded power lines radiate noise. Since many emergency plans include the local Hams, this noise problem is also a problem affecting local emergency response plans.

Broadband over Powerlines, just say NO.

Good luck Tom!

I highly recommend using Sneakemail.com.

Give all those sites their own sneakemail address. When one of them releases the email to spam you'll know who it was. (This has happened twice to me.) Also email sent to the sneakemail addresses get routed back to your shielded address so you don't have to looking for the replies or setting up actions to go collect them.

Every new $1 coin makes the same mistakes, they look too similar to quarters. The need to 1. take the $1 bill out of circulation and, 2. make a $1 coin that really stands out (like the Canadian Looney). If they did that the coin would succeed (once the vending companies stopped complaining) and it would also create demand for the little used $2 bill. I too like the $1 coins which I can only get as change from the post office vending machines but I have to look carefully so I don't use them as quarters.

i think they had 'Google' signs or stickers on the cars. It must have been something like that, there was no doubt who and what they were when i saw them.

When I drove cross country to a funeral last summer I saw several of the Google cars with the camera on a short pole on the roof. This was on Interstates in the middle of nowhere like Nevada, Utah and Wyoming. Wonder where they were off to, or back from?

Excellent, I'll finally have time to catalog my ear wax collection.

I used my real email address several years ago when posting to rec.guns. My address was harvested and to this day i still get 5-6k spams a month. I've directed that pobox.com address to a gmail account which does a good job of filtering out spam but that's still 5-6k trash emails wasting space in a spam folder until they age enough to be erased. I sure wish I had used a disposable address for public posting back then; I do now.

That's a great comment about the rocket versus Sputnik itself.

I worked in electronics for several years and encountered mercury switches in several areas, the one I remember the most was in a Cruise Control kit sold to the public to add to their own cars. It included a mercury switch that was mounted at an angel leaning toward the front of the car, with the contacts at the top of the bulb out of the mercury. If you braked hard enough the mercury would be forced uphill, touching the contacts and thus deactivating the Cruise Control.

I always wondered why they did that; I had though they just wired the switch backwards 50% of the time.

Ham radio is still very important for emergency situations where regular communication isn't working. Also hams do a lot of the early exploring into new communication techniques. You don't have to be a 'rag chewer' and talk to other hams, there's plenty of other stuff to do in amateur radio.

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i've always been interested in time. i guess it started when i realized i could set my watch to WWV which 30-40 years ago was the 'one true source'. now there's multiple accurate sources and having an accurate watch/clock isn't anything special. people are still late to meetings though so the importance of time hasn't become an universally important.

ps- i like your posts, they are an interesting alternative to David's.

Interesting. and here I thought chopping and stacking firewood was 'work'. :-)

But you don't play the lottery according to your annual anti-lottery column.

The big difference is you can tell a christian it's nonsense but if you tell a muslim that you might end up with a fatwa calling for your death.