Still cold. It got up to 33F yesterday and stayed there for most of the afternoon, evening, and through the night. Predicted to be cold all weekend. I may have to bring at least one heater home and set it up in the garage just to keep stuff from freezing in there.
Spent the day on auction stuff. Kids were home from school, and wife was working from home *cough*. My wife and eldest went to GS horse camp for the weekend, and were packing and double checking through the day. Got them out of the house around 6pm, then youngest and I watched Addams Family Values for about the 10th time. Still funny though. It’s the one with the summer camp and the play within the play… Joan Cusack is great as the “Black Widow.” The whole series of movies are outstanding and did a better job of the TV show than the show did. Perennial favorites in our house.
Today starts early with youngest at a basketball game. After that, I’ve got some auction pickups. If it’s still super cold there will be limits to what I’m willing to do outside or at my storage (hands HURT in the cold) so I’ll have to find indoor stuff. I’m sure that won’t be a problem. Since I can’t sleep in, I’m off…..
How are you fixed for glasses? Dentures? Other non-durable medical stuff? Get some and stack it up.
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Sacrilege! The TV show was incredibly well cast/acted even if the scripts were weak at times. MeTV has it every day at 5PM CT.
Sadly, MeTV does not have "The Munsters" right now as well, but "Munsters Go Home" is in the regular "Svengoolie" rotation.
Is the Ethernet connection a preconfigured wireless bridge or USB module?
26F this morning. Ice on the puddles.
Got a text from my tenants that the house was 61f and wouldn't get any warmer so im headed over there later, I'm sure. Hope it's just filthy filters and not a bad blower.
At basketball game now. Chilly
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Or circuit board. That was the last call on our ancient upstairs unit with similar symptoms but air still moving and AC functional.
With gas, you might luck out and it will be the igniter.
Both are spendy, but a decent service place will give you a credit towards a new unit within six months since they can reuse the parts from either repair.
I opted against the new unit. The tech would only give quotes on multi-stage or variable speed systems that required replacing the thermostat.
He said, “You don’t want on-off-on-off. I’ll give you a quote on that only if you’re selling the house soon.”
“That’s exactly what I want.”
I suspect Oncor subsidizes the thermostats with wireless protocols which will eventually allow ERCOT to control the systems remotely.
WRT, Jack Reacher in Killing Floor, it's on my Read list. If not, I would add it to my To Read list.
I know, right? This whole adulting thing is not living up to expectations. 2/5 stars, would not recommend.
Stay a kid forever!
Half of the population is still scared "beyond the capacity for rational thought" (thank you Harold Ramis) or we wouldn't still be debating vaccine and mask mandates. I imagine that there are still regulars here who harbor beliefs that the reluctant should be held down for their jabs as was voiced in the forums a year ago.
Take yer medicine, Skippy, if you know what is good for you. Its safe.
Still waiting for the knock on my door …
A couple of series to recommend, both on Kindle Unlimited.
The "Golden Age of the Solar Clipper" by Nathan Lowell. Here is a link to the first 3 of the main series. There are several sequels and a parallel series. It's a series about life on commercial freight starships.
https://amzn.to/3HHueRS
And a series that Lowell recommended in his monthly update, the "Backyard Starship" series. Here's the first, about a guy that discovers a starship in his grandfather's barn. Complications ensue. I'm on book four.
https://amzn.to/3sl2j40
I'm surprised Starlink is going with old wired ethernet for an outside unit. Where the hell is the fiber optic?
>> RickH; there was a message I was trying to send yesterday and the day before, and it never would go through. Subject was Starlink.
Was I doing something weird there?
@Kenneth, did you get a '500' error trying to submit your comment?
I don't understand why people can't see this is happening. This is not the first time gofuckyou has stolen money or canceled conservative fundraisers.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/gofundme-steals-9-million-canadas-freedom-convoy-truckers-under-pressure-trudeau
how many times do you have to be kicked before you stop going back?
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Ditto for Facecrack. Break your addiction. Stop feeding the beast.
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Where the hell is the fiber optic?
— failed in the end user space. People keep pushing copper farther, so there isn't a burning need. Beyond that, the fiber is fragile, and you need special tools and techniques to test and make it. Granted that I have a set of special tools to make rj45 connections for cat cable, but you can get the cheap version at any home depot or lowes, or any number of other places. Try doing that with fiber ends or a cleaver…
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>> Stay a kid forever!
Your Saturday earworm…
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=VJJ-ZLdrTwY
As long as we're recommending KU books…
The New Frontiers Series by Jack Knapp. Grandpa makes an antigravity device based on Tesla's plans. He and Grandson make a working flier and eventually an industrial empire. Lots of engineering porn, industrial backstabbing, politicking, and some military action on the ground and in space.
Note that the first book is a bit off-putting because the conversations are wooden and unnatural. Push past it. It gets better and even if it didn't the other aspects make up for it.
The Damsel Series by PS Power. In a world of superpowered individuals running around in tights and capes, an ordinary woman gets tired of being victimized and takes steps to be the damsel no more.
I like this series because she does it through willpower and hard work, not some cheat like finding a magic rock which grants superpowers.
Note that there are currently five books in the series, not the four shown on the Amazon series page. The other can be found on the author page, along with a bazillion other books. He's rather prolific.
Anything by Francis Porretto. He writes fantasy, science fiction, and could-be-real-world. Not all of his stories are to my taste (eg, slice-of-life romances) but the quality of writing is exquisite.
I have all the RJ45 tools and use them – no prob. I've bought premade FO and see little issue with that. I've watched other techs cut and splice it without much effort.
The actor played “Hawk” on the Titans series. His character was blown up, but his spirit remains in the Never Never. He is huge.
I bought book one a while back. It’s on the Kindle app on my iPad Mini.
The Good Doctor and I both have KU subscriptions and we get full value from them. We rarely buy physical books anymore, due to lack of space. I think I've bought maybe 3 in the last year – all cookbooks.
The Canadian Truckers had a GoFundMe account setup. It hit $11 million and GFM decided they are unlawful and cancelled the account. You can get your money back with a form, but GFM says any leftover by Feb 19? Will go to charities of their choice. ProgLibTurd commies who should be sued to prove their accusations.
Another funding site, GiveSendGo, has raised $1.5 million and is now under a DDOS attack. Our FBI and CIA has decided to help the Canadian Goobermint investigate the truckers instead of the DDOS terrorists. All part of plugs plan to turn WHITEY conservatives into domestic terrorists. We need regime change. Now.
Picked up a 1TB portable SSD from Costco from $99.99. Normally $139.99 but Costco is running a rebate. USB-C all the way. That is one fast little external drive.
Also picked up a Cutco cheese knife for $79.00. https://www.cutco.com/products/product.jsp?item=traditional-cheese-knife&view=product Cutco guy with there with a lot of the Cutco knives. That cheese knife is really a good utility knife. Spousal unit and I use it for everything. Cuts really well. Bought this one for my son. Guaranteed for life. While we picked up our knife a lady showed up with a knife that was damaged. Guy swapped it out on the spot at no charge.
The ratfuxers at GFM backtracked and will refund money to donors. Seems they didn't want to risk all the lawsuits alleging violations of state laws.
Meanwhile, Andy Ngo has a nice Twitter thread exposing their hypocrisy:
https://twitchy.com/dougp-3137/2022/02/05/andy-ngo-has-the-thread-of-the-year-showing-gofundme-doesnt-seem-to-take-issue-with-fundraising-for-leftist-occupations/
Starlink is not going to reach speeds that justify a fiber optic connection on their uplink unit. At least, not in the near future.
Trudeau probably wants to come out of hiding at some point and backed off the request to seize the money.
Again, though, roughly half of the population on both sides of the border are scared enough to support the authoritarian antics of their elected officials. If the support was, say, just 25% of the population, masks would have been gone already and the vaccine mandates never even proposed as OSHA rules.
Wow. GFM should be sued out of existence.
The local Faux News station ran a story last night about the "tightening" race for Attorney General in Texas and the increased spending by the campaigns on TV ad buys with the exception of the incumbent.
The story was followed immediately by an ad break featuring an Eva Guzman for Attorney General commercial. The same ad ran after the weather and again during the first "Big Bang Theory" slot of the usual double feature.
Supposedly, P. Diddly (Bush) is spending big too, but I've yet to see one of his ads.
NOBODY has speeds that justify fiber at the end user.
I've got FTTH and I get almost 700 down and 150 up as of this moment.
I'm not limited by my internal network.
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If you support mandatory vaccinations then you better be willing to own sh!t like this.
Teachers locked students refusing to wear masks in the gym and 'turned off heating' until police intervened
–because this is where it leads, and it will lead to worse.
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Well I was thinking 'just because' which is why I used OLD. Also the mention of an outdoor installation needing electrical isolation seems a practical consideration.
GFM canceled our fundraiser for our lawsuit against Houston Methodist Hospital, which fired a whole bunch of us for not taking the "vaccine".
We switched to GiveSendGo.
Updates to our lawsuit and a link to GiveSendGo available at our website.
@greg, I don't thing you're right about the 50% and the people being the driving force behind the OSHA and other mandates. Tyrants gonna tyrant.
OSHA wasn't responding to a groundswell of public sentiment, they were responding to the executive branch's stated desires.
Teacher's unions, captured entirely by marxists, have driven some of the decisions but over the loud and vigorous objections of 'the people'.
There are surely people who trusted, and bought into it early on, some of whom have too much personally invested in the idea to end it, because their sacrifices and beliefs would be invalidated if they had to admit to change. But I look around and the vast majority I see are over it.
Bidn's insistence on a horror show of a deadly Christmas was the last straw. Didn't happen. Everyone in our school circle has tested positive and been sick at this point*, and they aren't dying anymore, nor do they know anyone dying, or even really sick. It's an inconvenience at this point for most.
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*in the last month or 6 weeks.
>> Ditto for Facecrack. Break your addiction. Stop feeding the beast.
Seems some people are doing just that…
https://gizmodo.com/facebook-sees-decline-in-users-for-first-time-in-its-hi-1848474274
At the previous previous job, we ran Ethernet everywhere outside at the toll plazas, including lengths for which Cat6 was never spec-ed. It wasn't a problem, even in lightning-prone areas, as long as the hardware was correct for the environment.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10478069/Adam-Carolla-suggests-no-one-listen-beautiful-AOC-fat-60s.html
— over to you Greg….
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The mandates were driven by the C-suites needing cover for going along with the administration on voluntary mandates, throwing their employees under the bus in return for keeping the government contracts and stimulus money flowing.
The cabal thought they could get away with it because roughly half of the population is still scared. I actually believe the percentage is higher in the suburbs of DC and the tech hub areas, the seat of the Dems power right now.
I don't see any 'held for moderation' messages for your user name in the comments database. Nor any that were approved by someone else (Nick).
So, perhaps, as Nick suggested, a '500' error on submit, which happens very occasionally around here. Dunno why. A '500' error means "something went wrong, but the server has no idea what it was" . Very hard to diagnose those.
Our late host often talked about Biology driving poor decison making. It wasn't just me.
Adam Corolla will be dismissed as former co-host of "The Man Show" who hasn't paid appropriate penance like his former on-screen partner Jimmy Kimmel.
Still, the Cocktail Waitress’s moment may have passed.
The bological-driven political urge my wife now sees with disturbing frequency among the Vets at the VA is an interest in Tulsi Gabbard running for President.
Greg, I think your perception of public support for endless masking and other mandates is skewed by where you live. Possibly by where your wife works.
My perceptions are likely skewed by where I live. It's near Albany NY, but I very seldom go into the city (or the other medium-size swamp cities near Albany) and most of the people I talk to are from small towns closer to the mountains. A lot of people continue to wear face diapers in stores, but it's more a matter of going along and not causing trouble than a matter of supporting them. They lack courage but that's a different failing than active support for worse-than-useless measures.
Alan says:
Yes, the "500 error".
I don't think half of the public supports masking per se, but half are still scared and want *something* visible done, no matter how meaningless, much like the kabuki with air travel after 9/11.
I actually think the percentage of people who are scared in my area is much higher than 50%.
Texas overall is still 50-50. If it wasn’t, Robert Francis wouldn’t be running for Governor with rolling blackouts as the only issue that could possibly put him over the top if they happen. The money people would have moved on by now.
As for vaccine mandates, my guess is that the thought process beyond hardcore Progs goes something like, "Well, if I rolled up my sleeve, the guy next door is going to take his medicine too … and like it … even if I have to hold Skippy down myself."
The world is filled with control freaks. I’ve been on the receiving end of death threats over the condition of the grass in my yard.
Greg Norton says:
I'm not sure precisely what it all is, and the ethernet connector hasn't arrived yet. The answer to your question might be covered in the installation directions available at https://shop.starlink.com/products/us-consumer-ethernet-adapter-gen2
@Kenneth Wilson:
The 500 errors are very mysterious, and there is nothing common about the comment text that caused the error. It appears to be a firewall rule that catches some strange sequence of characters in the comment message. But very intermittent. And hard to duplicate.
When it occurs, you can usually hit the back button on your browser, then copy all of your comment to the clipboard. Then replace the text with a word or two, save it, then edit the comment and paste back in your original content. That usually seems to work.
>> RickH; there was a message I was trying to send yesterday and the day before, and it never would go through. Subject was Starlink.
Was I doing something weird there?
@Kenneth, did you get a '500' error trying to submit your comment?
Yes, the "500 error".
@Kenneth, see the '500 error' workaround here: https://www.ttgnet.com/journal/2022/01/02/sun-jan-2-2022-01-02-2022-had-to-type-all-of-that-over-twice/#comment-226086
Also not mentioned there but worthwhile is to always do Ctrl A, Ctrl C (select all, copy all) before you hit Submit. Usually with the 500 error your browser back button preserves your content but on occasion we've seen it not be there.
ADDED: Cross-posted with Rick’s comment above 🙂
“Achtung! Your papers please.”
The old habits die hard.
https://www.rt.com/news/547961-covid-jabs-mandatory-austria/
“Goosestep down to ze town square and get your jab on the Impfbus.”
Control freaks.
Rick & Alan; Thanks much. I'll try those things if it happens again.
The New Frontiers Series by Jack Knapp. Grandpa makes an antigravity device based on Tesla's plans. He and Grandson make a working flier and eventually an industrial empire. Lots of engineering porn, industrial backstabbing, politicking, and some military action on the ground and in space.
Note that the first book is a bit off-putting because the conversations are wooden and unnatural. Push past it. It gets better and even if it didn't the other aspects make up for it.
I read this 3 or 5 years ago. I may have put a review up here but I do not remember. Very good series. Recommended.
Antigravity machines and impeller drives are both waiting to be invented. The inventor of either will be rich if they can hold onto the patents.
"Claim: Global Warming will Turn Alaska into a Garden State"
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/02/05/claim-global-warming-will-turn-alaska-into-a-garden-state/
So, Alaska is going to turn into Kansas real soon now. These people are nuts.
I’ve read several, Mr. CowboySllim. S01 is “Killing Floor”.
Good night, the screenplay is just the book. And in case you are wondering, that is not a bad thing. I am on episode 6, there are 8 episodes for season one.
https://www.amazon.com/Reacher-Killing-Floor-Movie-Tie/dp/0593440641/
I guess that there will be a season per book. Hmm. They might have to have a couple of spinoffs.
And a series that Lowell recommended in his monthly update, the "Backyard Starship" series. Here's the first, about a guy that discovers a starship in his grandfather's barn. Complications ensue. I'm on book four.
https://amzn.to/3rsYtq8
Wow, $25 for the trade paperback, are you kidding me ?
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B09GCSHXGD/
I've read all of the "Reacher" books, except maybe the 'shorts' and the ones that were co-written. One of my favorite series of books. In the "I'll read that again" pile.
Enjoyed the movie. A lot. Sure, a bit formulaic, but true to the story. The "Reacher" actor is much more believable than Tom Cruise in the movie. He's a big guy with big guns. Has a pretty good "Don't mess with me" stare.
And, if you've read the book, you'll recognize several of the lines, which made me smile.
Finished the first 6 episodes last night; the last two scheduled for tonight. Some nudity (male and female, and a full-frontal male image of a dead guy that was a little off-putting), plus the obligatory shower seen, and a stripper bar. So, not for the young'uns.
But enjoyed the episodes. I'll finish it off tonight, then be waiting for the 2nd season.
Googling around, I got the impression that it is MOCA-to-Ethernet.
Looking at the Zon's KDP pricing estimator, a 600 page paperback costs $8.10 for them to print, with a $13.50 minimum price. This is for a standard 6"x9" book, color cover, black/white interior, on cream paper. Too many pages for a smaller paperback.
The pricing estimator is here: https://amzn.to/3sjTjfl , if you are interested.
Googling around, I got the impression that it is MOCA-to-Ethernet.
https://www.amazon.com/MOTOROLA-Adapter-Ethernet-Bonded-MM1000/dp/B077Y3SQXR/
Interesting.
MOCA is old tech. I have a coax feed for Internet from my cable modem location to our home office and an outlet behind the TV in the living room. I get ~ 30 Mbps across the MOCA 1.1 link — good enough to stream HD.
I have no experience with 2.0. When it first hit, it lacked crypto and couldn't mix with 1.1 so I held off buying a pair to experiment.
MOCA would offer an easy way to bring it in from outside (often the roof or eave) since most houses have some of that in place.I have a dish on the edge of my roof but the cable has been re-used for standard cable.
Playing with my LAN….
The directions that came with the Pi-Hole said to disable "Enable DNS Relay". In my D-Link router, that's in Setup / network settings /
I have two PCs with fixed addresses. Emu and Moa. Un-check DNS relay and I can't connect. So I turned it back on.
Checked or un-checked doesn't seem to matter to things on the wi-fi side of the LAN. Because, Duh.
While you're laughing at PC names, Kiwi is on DHCP all the way on wi-fi because I'm too lazy to install an Ethernet connection in that room. 🙂
The NanoBeams have fixed addresses along with the printer. The NanoBeams go online to check for updates. They don't need to be on-line to do their job. The printer might go on-line but it's never nagged me.
Well…. the ISP announced they were going to drop the network for 15 minutes to an hour as they change out some routers /and/ connect the fiber to connect the South and North networks physically. They left out the part about moving the whole data center location. Yeah, almost 28 hours later and it's up but burpy.
It's a little company. Three folks and I think a bookkeeper or CPA.
I power cycled the router and the radio. Re-booted Emu. That did no good but it was something to try.
The ISP comes back up and Kiwi can connect. I can't. I changed my DNS server from 192.168.0.25 (the router's address) to x.x.x.24 (the Pi-Hole. And wah-la!
Huh. Must have flushed a cache somewhere.
Today I was out in the EDC and thought to run a speed test on Moa. Fast.com. Can't connect. Same for Google. I got into the router's settings and turned Enable DNS Relay on and it worked.
Moa hasn't been rebooted since, I don't know, I replaced the UPS?
Oh… that's an easy way to keep that box of of the Internet! But it breaks the ability of the Squeezebox to play internet radio stations.
I know how to fix it. Maybe tomorrow when it's warmer. Before I change Moa's DNS setting, I'll see what ipconfig /flushdns does. Because Science!
MOCA is old tech. I have a coax feed for Internet from my cable modem location to our home office and an outlet behind the TV in the living room. I get ~ 30 Mbps across the MOCA 1.1 link — good enough to stream HD.
I have MOCA for my 300/?? mbps cable internet. I bought my own Arris surfboard DOCSIS 3.1 cable modem when I bought this house. We don't have fiber in this neighborhood, too spread out with the 1 or 2 acre lots.
https://amzn.to/3Lcc1Oy/
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07DY16W2Z/
BTW, this new feature of converting Big River URLs to amzn.to addresses is not working for me. When I click on the amzn.to address, it just goes to amazon.com.
https://amzn.to/3Lcc1Oy/
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07DY16W2Z/
Couldn’t sleep last night so started the Reacher series. Dozed off around 1 or 2. Barfing dog work me around 4 or 5 am. Couldn’t sleep.
Completed the Reacher series.
Man, was it good! Very pleased with the quality of the acting and how well they captured the spirit of the character. Very good adaptation, I thought. I’ll watch it again w/my husband when kiddo is elsewhere. Some pretty gross scenes, not enough to detract from overall excellence.
Zombiefied the rest of the day. Daughters drum lesson, coffee, family browsing at used record store. Lunch and chores at home.
Since we all went to drums I snuck off to the acoustic guitar room. Played a cherry wood Seagull S6 acoustic with the electronics for amplification. Really nice tone, great intonation, bold sound. I’ve already got an S6+Folk with cedar top from 2001, I bought it off e-bay around 2004, it’s got good sound. I sure did like playing that cherry wood today, though.
It’s warm today. I need to get moving and use the last hour of daylight productively as I was mostly a slug all day.
Two rabbits to process. Two does need nest boxes. Seven kits need to have outdoor digs as they are outgrowing their bankers box in the bathroom.
Adulting. Not what I was led to believe as a child -laughter-
@Lynn
"Antigravity machines and impeller drives are both waiting to be invented. The inventor of either will be rich if they can hold onto the patents."
Not likely.
If the inventor is OUS the first we will hear of it is the last day the US exists. Our intelligence agencies will be stone ignorant, but they will be fully woke.
If the inventor is US, the first we will hear of it is 10 years after the inventor was thrown into prison. That will be 8 years after the tech was stolen by Chinese and Russian spies., and 7 years after we have a new MAD standoff in space that was covered up and denied by the US gov't until they could no longer play whack-a-mole with reports on the internet fast enough to keep the monkey in the barrel.
Urk! Looks like the next project. Thought I had done all testing. Shortening disabled for now.
I think it's a cable problem.
@RickH
"Usually with the 500 error your browser back button preserves your content but on occasion we've seen it not be there."
Browser back got me a blank field the last two time I got ISE 500.
I suspect that ISE 500 is much more likely when trying to post from a page that has not been recently refreshed.
I don’t believe it’s KU but the Kindle prices are low: the Wearing The Cape series. Maybe YA but readable for adults.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07D4GF95C?binding=kindle_edition&ref=dbs_dp_awt_sb_pc_tukn&tag=ttgnet-20
The heroine is believable, likeable, and the plots are usually well done.
@Lynn
"Antigravity machines and impeller drives are both waiting to be invented. The inventor of either will be rich if they can hold onto the patents."
Not likely.
If the inventor is OUS the first we will hear of it is the last day the US exists. Our intelligence agencies will be stone ignorant, but they will be fully woke.
If the inventor is US, the first we will hear of it is 10 years after the inventor was thrown into prison. That will be 8 years after the tech was stolen by Chinese and Russian spies., and 7 years after we have a new MAD standoff in space that was covered up and denied by the US gov't until they could no longer play whack-a-mole with reports on the internet fast enough to keep the monkey in the barrel.
Lots of reports of UFOs all over the place doing freaking weird gyrations. Somebody has probably invented antigravity already. And possibly impeller drive systems as there are no visible exhausts.
@Greg Norton
"MOCA is old tech."
Oldie but a goodie.
MOCA 4,4’-methylene-bis(ortho-chloroaniline) is an amine-based chain extender used in the polyurethane elastomer industry for about sixty years.
https://pmahome.org/resources/educational-readings-case-studies/common-urethane-extenders-crosslinkers/
"Climate Study: Air Conditioning Will Outstrip Grid Supply by 2030"
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/02/04/climate-study-air-conditioning-will-outstrip-grid-supply-by-2030/
Shoot, just wait until all those electric 18 wheelers hit the grid. Now that will bring the grid right down to its knees.
Pure comedy gold:
"Matt Lee is the diplomatic correspondent for the Associated Press. He is given to pursuing a skeptical line of questions like few reporters with major media organizations in Washington. In March 2015 the Washington Free Beacon compiled a brief highlight reel featuring Lee and the psychedelic Jen Psaki. Psaki has failed upward since her days as a flack serving John Kerry in the Obama administration."
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2022/02/matt-lee-at-work.php
I am now ready for Season Two of Reacher on Amazon. Highly recommended.
So this unit is $69, while the Starlink ethernet adapter is $20.
I'd read that Starlink wasn't making any money on the actual terminals; they may not be making any money on the other components either.
Perhaps. But which cable?
Nope. When I look at the main request log files, I can see that the 500 error happened because the firewall rules saw something they didn't like. So the request returns a 500 error.
The firewall rules are maintained by the host, so I don't have access to them to investigate further. I do know that the errors are not due to WordPress code, or theme code, or plugins.
Although I very rarely get a 500 on my comments, I still always Ctrl-A, Ctrl-C the comment before I submit.
So this unit is $69, while the Starlink ethernet adapter is $20.
I'd read that Starlink wasn't making any money on the actual terminals; they may not be making any money on the other components either.
— see my previous comments that it's a front for a DoD project. DoD is the real end user, so the civilian users are just cover, or a distraction. Russia can kill sats in orbit, so DoD needs to move away from systems using a small number of sats. They have let contracts and asked for RFPs and run pilot programs for tunneling secure comms thru COTS 'space based' networks. How else does a private company get approval to fill the sky with sats over the (very short lived) protests of astronomers and others?
42K- and somewhere I read 55K. That's a lot of bright sparks in the sky.
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