Hot and humid, sunny. Possibility of rain. Like yesterday only hotter. It was under 100F for most of the afternoon so I worked outside.
Yeah, I wore a white shirt and my cool vest, big straw hat, and drank several electrolyte replacement drinks and took breaks. I did get the back yard mowed, edged, some weeds pulled, and I organized and cleaned and condensed stuff in the driveway. It was the stuff in the driveway that took the most time. Although edging took surprisingly long, far longer than usual and I don’t really know why. I did have to refill the string trimmer twice, and I don’t normally run out but that didn’t take long (since I have string stacked up.)
In the driveway I found some stuff that got water damaged. Freaking rain will find its way through 4 layers of tarp and plastic if you aren’t super careful. And the plastic sheet breaks down from UV. Nothing lasts anymore. The blue tarps get threadbare. The black sheet gets brittle. The white sheet I’m using does both as it has reinforcing threads. It lasted about a year so its actually pretty good. Everything plastic degrades in the sun now. Buckets too. Add salt air and there is no way the alarmists are correct about how long plastic will last in the environment. I can’t even get a tarp to last more than a few months.
The message for preppers is- keep your stuff out of the sun. Have some metal buckets for backup. You need more plastic sheet in storage to replace the stuff you used when it degrades. Plastic sheet and buckets are two of the most underappreciated preps, but they are two of the most versatile.
And if you are storing wood outside in Houston, it will rot. My pallets are squishing, stored 2x material is growing mushrooms, and anything in contact with the ground or concrete is wet. Firewood piles are doing the same.
The antidote for that? Stack more! Rotate your preps. And keep stuff in the proverbial cool dark place.
nick
When I went to the http://www.DailyMail.co.uk site, my Firefox crashed. I looked at the resources and it was taking about 8 GB of ram. I have been screaming at the Firefox people that their new Rust code with builtin garbage collection is not working but they say just don’t open so many tabs in Firefox. I am looking for a new intertubes browser.
Hot Skillz!
I kept bumping into the limitations of Rust earlier this year at the new job, trying to feed data to Splunk (another Hot Skillz) from disk across a 10 Gbps network at a rate of 150 MB/s as measured in the raw input. Whether I used C++ or Python, the speed problem was always converting the data format to JSon (more Skillz) for Splunk since the fastest libraries available for both languages are written in Rust, using the same basic parsing algorithm dependent on garbage collection.
We’ve reached an evolutionary dead end with the latest round of Hot Skillz languages. Don’t even get me started about Go.
Though, I suspect the ongoing problems with Firefox have more to do with their developers’ interest in building their Hot Skillz of sending intense number crunching to the GPU. Plus, the Daily Mail is a really intense site and may have Emscripten Hot Skillz involved in the media manipulation where C++ code gets converted to JavaScript for browser runtimes.
Death by Skillz.
I guess plugs has become President Hitler. He’s made the CDC another branch of goobermint that can issue dictates left and right.
This housing moratorium is blatantly unConstitutional. This is the fast tract to full blown communism. Every State should activate it’s State Police and start throwing squatters out. Show them how it’s done. The State AG’s should line up cases in the courts nonstop.
As others have posted, leave it to the States to manage their own residents.
In respect to partisanship:
tRump/Butto 2024!
Ah, the joys of dealing with the VA. Anytime the VA refers a person to a private practice there has to be a referral number issued. That number is then used to submit claims for payment to Optum Healthcare which administers the program. Private practice is used when there is no VA facility within 30 miles of the veterans home that provides the service. For my knee it was Murfreesboro, 150 miles away, so I had private practice.
But the VA in their infinite wisdom schedules the first visit with the doctor on June 18. Then makes the referral number effective July 1. Thus the doctor, nor the hospital used for testing, got paid for those visits. How the VA makes the appointment, then screws up the referral effective date is beyond comprehension, but they did.
So yesterday, after I got the bill that I had to pay from the hospital, the journey started. First the hospital did not have the referral number. Six phone calls lasting 3 hours total I finally am given the number. Such information was supposed to be mailed to me, but wasn’t. Two hours later the hospital calls me back and says the referral number is no good as the effective date is beyond the service date. Grrrrrr.
Another 4 hours on the phone with the scheduler, Optum Healthcare, the VA in Murfreesboro, involving multiple phone calls, the VA finally sees the error in their ways and corrects the effective date to June 18 as it should have been all along.
Now I am calling the hospital to have them resubmit and the doctor’s office to have them resubmit almost $800.00 in fees that I would have had to pay.
I also found out the surgeon charged the VA $6,700.00 for the surgery of which the VA paid $1,700.00. That seems to be inline with most insurance plans involving Medicare as I think the VA pays Medicare rates. I am anxious to see the hospital bill which I expect to be upwards of $30K. My experience with those fees is that Medicare pays really close to what the hospital bills.
I do wonder how much of that is the fact that Apple built a $5,000,000,000 new dream campus and, damn it, it WILL get used. lol 🙂 $5B for an empty building is a lot to swallow.
All those solar panels on the spaceship roof are doing what?
I do wonder how much of that is the fact that Apple built a $5,000,000,000 new dream campus and, damn it, it WILL get used. lol $5B for an empty building is a lot to swallow.
Again, at the risk of being accused of having a problem, not a lot of work actually gets done when most US employees are “working” remotely. The tech companies have known this for about 15 years, particularly IBM who put a microscope on telecommuting during my time at the Death Star providing their VPN client.
Tim Cook is the best hands on operations manager on the planet. He knows.
I don’t believe that the “spaceship” campus has much to do with the mandate to return to the office. That structure was a personal project of Steve Jobs, rebuilding the HP campus where he started his career, and probably won’t be repeated by Apple.
The new Austin campus buildings are nice, but they aren’t on the level of Apple Park.
I use Opera. Probably mostly out of habit. They stopped using their own Presto browser engine and switched to WebKit (same thing that powers Chrome and Safari) in 2013. I never have any issues. Like most modern browsers they’re always trying to add bells and whistles to make theirs stand out. I ignore or disable most of them.
Not a lot of work gets done when most US employees are working. Period. I think workers have successfully driven up the need for more workers for decades (sandbagging?). Just my observation with no science to back it up, but I would say 90% of people with “white collar” jobs have maybe 10-20 hours of work to do every week to meet their employer’s expectations. Now that they’ve been working from home they’ve found they can spend that extra 20-30 hours a week doing whatever they want. So, they certainly don’t want to go back to spending that time staring at the wall of their cubicle or having painful smalltalk with coworkers.
From the “some people are idiots” department:
“I am a white woman living in an overwhelmingly white, low-crime neighborhood. My homeowners’ association pays off-duty members of the local Police Department to patrol the neighborhood…”
“… If I don’t want to give money (beyond my tax dollars) to this Police Department, can I decline to pay that portion of my homeowners’ dues?”
No. The procedure is to take it up with the HOA, and utilize the recall process outlined by state law if the board won’t budge but the majority of the homeowners concur.
In Florida, 50% + 1 of homeowners are all that is necessary to remove a board member, but any election in an HOA in Florida is prohibited from being a secret ballot so intimidation can be a factor. However, the homeowner always has the nuclear option of selling out cheap — most people are so heavily leveraged in their houses that the tactic can be very effective, especially in a state where anyone can read all the mortgages online.
If the patrol is mandated by deed restrictions then it will be nigh-on impossible to eliminate. A good HOA will require 3/4 minimum to change deed restrictions.
BTW, many HOAs in Florida have relaxed deed restriction change vote margins to 2/3 majority or even simple majority over the last 20 years. You do *NOT* want to live anyplace with a margin like that, particularly with large retiree and/or military residents. Ideally you want 5/6 margins, 3/4 minimum, and the restrictions should sunset after 30 years without a unanimous vote to continue.
I just can’t even imagine. I’ve had one really shitty boss in my life, and even he didn’t raise his voice. Yelling at employees in an office environment? Either I’ve been lucky, or you’ve had some unusually terrible experiences…
–I had a boss that literally murdered one of his employees. He beat him to death with a hammer, over a card game, on the jobsite.
Other than that, he was a great boss who took good care of us.
n
Who taught this woman to hate herself? Why? What is their goal?
And note that she doesn’t want a positive action solution, she wants a negative action solution. Instead of improving policing for all, she wants to stop the improvement for some.
n
A *lot* of time gets burned in those spontaneous “water cooler” meetings, in people popping by your desk for a chat, etc.. Now, sure, some of those random exchanges are accidentally productive, but the vast majority are simply a waste. If a business wants “cross fertilization”, they need to find a better method than random accidents. Eliminating unnecessary chit-chat easily saves your average office worker 5-10 hours a week. And the ones who miss it? News flash: the rest of us always hated their continuous interruptions, and don’t miss them a bit.
Then there are the meetings. Lots of unnecessary meetings. Lots of necessary meetings that move at a snail’s pace, because managers like to hear themselves talk. With WFH, the unnecessary meetings are mostly gone. For the necessary meetings, it is now practical to tune out the stupid parts and do something else at the same time: catch up on your emails, or whatever.
WFH has eliminated a huge amount of wasted time. You are left with the 20 hours of work you actually achieved. If you can do the same work, and have 20 hours more free time – why not?
I think that qualifies as an unusually terrible experience :-/
“I just can’t even imagine. I’ve had one really shitty boss in my life, and even he didn’t raise his voice. Yelling at employees in an office environment? Either I’ve been lucky, or you’ve had some unusually terrible experiences…”
–I had a boss that literally murdered one of his employees. He beat him to death with a hammer, over a card game, on the jobsite.
I had a co-worker on the last job who management hired despite his being under conviction for three counts of DUI vehicular manslaughter, awaiting sentencing.
He finally went to prison late in 2019. His earliest parole date is … 2037? Management would probably hire him back since he kept his mouth shut about their antics, including the yelling, in return for the paycheck.
State law in many jurisdictions prohibits discussion of a co-worker’s criminal convictions, even 3rd degree murder. In the case of my co-worker, he blew .27 at the scene, 9 AM, out in Marble Falls, instantly killing a mother taking her son to school in the other car. His own passenger died later.
And before anyone jumps to conclusions about race: Subcontinent.
Other than that, he was a great boss who took good care of us.
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Other than that, Mrs Lincoln, how was the play?
Speechless :-/
I’ve long suspected that most large offices are full of drones producing TPS reports. 🙂 Hardly matters if it’s WFH or not.
Smaller operations seem to be focused on proper recording of the in and out of cash flow, a fairly necessary function. Then there is Marketing, HR and Engineering.
My first permanent gig on the shop floor for the Lucille Ball style, Chrysler assembly line for Omni/Horizons was to attach a sealing gizmo to the interior bottom of the steering column shaft to the firewall. It was called the “duffy pad” and took 4 screws. At 90 cars/hour, I’d installed a couple hundred thousand when I was informed that only 3 screws were required from then on.
I always wondered how much “management” time went into approving that decision.
Work just sent out an email stating wuflu vaccinations are mandatory. I may lose a guy to this. He is a couple years away from retiring. He’s chosen to not get the vaccine. He has said he will retire early if the company went to this. Fun times. Now I may need to find another Linux guy. I’m already doing my departed Network Engineer’s job (no great loss there), but I’m not picking up another person’s tasks.
Possibly more than was saved in reduced hardware costs and labor…
Other than that, he was a great boss who took good care of us.
–I’ve shared the story here before, I worked construction (rehab ie. gentrification) one summer for him in Chicago. Everyone knew he beat people with the hammer he carried everywhere in a quick draw holster. The joke was that if he liked you he’d use the flat end, and if he didn’t he’d use the claw. The trick was not to drink with him. I suspect the employee was both drinking and playing cards with him after hours. Didn’t used to be any snowflakes in construction.
-my experience with canadian bigcorp was that 20% productive work from the majority of the office schlubs was a high estimate. There are always a few people who essentially carry the whole enterprise, and a bunch of people who do other stuff, some mandated, most filler.
n
Possibly more than was saved in reduced hardware costs and labor…
–I had to fight against that all the time. We were a design/build group, with very limited runs, and a lot of one offs or customized projects. Spending engineering time on materials choices to reduce BOM was a waste of time compared to good design of the system, and minimizing time on site. NO ONE should every have been agonizing over the choice of a screw/bolt and yet I found our eastern european engineers doing that constantly.
n
Work just sent out an email stating wuflu vaccinations are mandatory. I may lose a guy to this. He is a couple years away from retiring. He’s chosen to not get the vaccine. He has said he will retire early if the company went to this. Fun times. Now I may need to find another Linux guy. I’m already doing my departed Network Engineer’s job (no great loss there), but I’m not picking up another person’s tasks.
The C suites in tech assume that everyone in the industry wants to follow “the science” and march in lockstep with the White House.
On that note…
A Doomsday COVID Variant Worse Than Delta and Lambda May Be Coming, Scientists Say.
https://www.newsweek.com/2021/08/13/doomsday-covid-variant-worse-delta-lambda-may-coming-scientists-say-1615874.html
Is a virus getting more lethal in the wild counter to all experience with virus behaviour?
n
Work just sent out an email stating wuflu vaccinations are mandatory. I may lose a guy to this. He is a couple years away from retiring. He’s chosen to not get the vaccine. He has said he will retire early if the company went to this. Fun times. Now I may need to find another Linux guy. I’m already doing my departed Network Engineer’s job (no great loss there), but I’m not picking up another person’s tasks.
The last job dropped the requirement for even minimal Linux sysadmin ability (ls, edit files, grep, write small scripts) from our Senior level developer job description despite the product being a set of server processes running under systemd deployed on openSuSE and often required extensive customization via config files once installed on-site.
The thinking from management was that we could “teach Linux”.
I am looking for a new intertubes browser.
If you like tweaking things to your heart’s content then give Vivaldi a go.
I tweaked mine a lot but you do not have to.
I am also using the new mail beta client that is much better than the Win10 mail app but not as good as Outlook.
I use Notes extensively. One of them contains the link-text of the last articles read on my preferred daily sites and the others are bunches of links on specific topics I may want to refer in the future. That saves me googling\braving\binging time and allows me to close windows without having a ton of favourites to trawl through.
I also use Edge for some things but prefer Vivaldi most.
Thanks ! I took a look at Vivaldi last night. It seems to need a lot of customization. Nowadays, I just like stuff that works out of the box. And I could not figure out how to turn on the pulldown menus.
no one in the management chain started yelling
I just can’t even imagine. I’ve had one really shitty boss in my life, and even he didn’t raise his voice. Yelling at employees in an office environment? Either I’ve been lucky, or you’ve had some unusually terrible experiences…
Wallys, though, are everywhere. My last commercial job (before I landed my current teaching position), I had a developer on my team with negative productivity (i.e., it took more time to fix his stuff that it would have to write it correctly in the first place). He was friends with the big boss, and also the favorite company rep to one customer, so I had to keep him on the team. The other developers carried his weight.
I suppose it really wasn’t his fault: he’d spent 20 years writing Access programs in VB. He could hack something together that mostly worked, just like lots of office jockeys can hack something together in Excel. He’d apparently made a career of that, but actual, disciplined software development was just beyond his abilities.
Yup, you’ve been lucky. The smaller the company, the more the personalities come out, both positive and negative.
I had a boss who would go into his windowed office, put his head on his desk, and cry. It was surreal.
How much?
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/08/04/disneys-galactic-starcruiser-will-take-you-to-a-galaxy-far-far-away.html
Dilbert: Feral Employees
https://dilbert.com/strip/2021-08-04
As usual, Scott Adams nails it. I wonder how many emails he gets a day from people complaining about their jobs ?
“Big tech companies are at war with employees over remote work”
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/08/vaccines-reopenings-and-worker-revolts-big-techs-contentious-return-to-the-office/
“CEOs want workers back at their desks. Employees and the virus have other plans.”
Hah, I think the engineers need the structure of the office. Or at least LIKE the structure.
n
A Doomsday COVID Variant Worse Than Delta and Lambda May Be Coming, Scientists Say.
I have been wondering when this sort of thing would surface, just the optimist in me. To be fair, I haven’t read the article yet. Maybe I should.
Hah, I think the engineers need the structure of the office. Or at least LIKE the structure.
n
True dat.
I have no doubt there will be people lining up, but I won’t be one. That’s a week at the Polynesian…
https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/double-blind-ivermectin-study-reveals-covid-19-patients-recover-more-quickly-have-reduce
https://covid19criticalcare.com/covid-19-protocols/
Don’t know anything about the people behind the second link, but it’s the first time I’ve seen recommended dosages.
n
Maybe some day I’ll be able to afford a week at the Poly…
n
“While they were asleep, their Teslas burned in the garage. It’s a risk many automakers are taking seriously.”
https://www.ttgnet.com/journal/2021/08/03/tues-aug-3-2021-do-all-the-things/
“SAN FRANCISCO – Yogi and Carolyn Vindum were still asleep late last year when their Tesla Model S beamed an alert that charging was interrupted.
Twelve minutes after that, they awoke to a blaring car alarm and a fire consuming their house in San Ramon, Calif. The blaze had started in one of the two electric vehicles in their garage and spread to the other.”
Uh, if you park your vehicles in the driveway overnight in my neighborhood, they steal your tires and wheels. A number of my neighbors are putting up six foot tall metal or wood fences in the front yards with automatic gates.
Gotta keep that fear pumped.
Government thrives on crises and there’s no benefit to solving a crisis or letting it fade away.
How much?
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/08/04/disneys-galactic-starcruiser-will-take-you-to-a-galaxy-far-far-away.html
I have no doubt there will be people lining up, but I won’t be one. That’s a week at the Polynesian…
Two days, two nights for $1,200/person ? No thanks.
Vivaldi… Tap the alt key, or Settings, Appearance, Menu Position.
The main setting I change is in Tabs, Tab Stacking, and turn on 2-level.
I like Vivaldi for the tab stacking. I used to be a big Brave fan and still use that if I need a Tor tab.
I had a boss who would go into his windowed office, put his head on his desk, and cry. It was surreal.
Can we assume You were that bad? 🙂
Good thing you are your own boss now. You have a model employee.
Just too easy, no disrespect intended. I have had the privilege to be a manager and a supervisor, and of course, an employee. I have had top notch bosses and managers, mediocre ones, and some I have purposely forgotten. The workplace is challenging, and it takes an incredible amount of talent and diligence to make it pleasurable while making a profit. Very few organizations achieve this. Even some of the bad ones make money and perpetuate themselves, to the unhappiness of their employees.
When you find a great one, stick with it and hope it lasts until you retire. I had one great one go broke, and it led to finding another, but with a clinker in the middle. Actually, a pretty good record. I have also worked smaller jobs, so have a variety of experience. And, I have taken some formal courses on… stuff. Most of these were project management, but some were “organizational dynamics,” my term. Some would think these are fuzzy touchy-feely studies, but I learned a lot from them. Almost as much as hopping from job to job, and with much less stress.
The best lessons came from my father, which he probably took from his depression-era father. He taught me to have outside pursuits that could lead to making enough money so even the worst that could happen on the primary job could be taken in stride. That served me well. Developing good discipline is also essential. Nobody will hand you wealth. Uh, if there is, I haven’t found it. I still look a little, but I seem to circulate in the wrong demographic. I suspect all of us could say that.
“While they were asleep, their Teslas burned in the garage. It’s a risk many automakers are taking seriously.”
*One* fire involving the spontaneous combustion of a F150 Lightning would be the end of Ford.
“Infrastructure Bill Mandates Drunk-Driver Detectors For New Cars”
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/infrastructure-bill-mandates-new-cars-detect-drunk-driver
“The $1 trillion infrastructure bill – a bipartisan 2,702-page bill that has been locked in negotiations for months between Democrats and Republicans will mandate all new vehicles must have the technology to detect drunk drivers and alert systems to check backseats before turning off the vehicle. A final vote is likely before next Monday.
Sensors embedded within the vehicle’s cabin will track the driver’s eye moment and monitor signs of being distracted, impaired, or tired. Bloomberg notes this technology is similar to ones that police officers use when pulling over suspected drunk drivers.”
Wow, I foresee zero problems with that technology. ***snark***
I had a boss who would go into his windowed office, put his head on his desk, and cry. It was surreal.
Can we assume You were that bad?
Good thing you are your own boss now. You have a model employee.
Just too easy, no disrespect intended. I have had the privilege to be a manager and a supervisor, and of course, an employee. I have had top notch bosses and managers, mediocre ones, and some I have purposely forgotten. The workplace is challenging, and it takes an incredible amount of talent and diligence to make it pleasurable while making a profit. Very few organizations achieve this. Even some of the bad ones make money and perpetuate themselves, to the unhappiness of their employees.
I was not his problem child. He was his own problem child, he would make promises on software deliverables that required thousands of lines of code to be written a day. His famous answer to the customer was “we can do that, no problem” with insane deliverables. At one point, we had 45 people working on the project.
And then he would NOT communicate the deliverable requirements to anyone on his staff. Instead, he would give you a four inch design binder and say use this for your coding. Absolutely a disaster. I was not surprised that the project failed so bad. And before the customer bailed, they required the hiring of a second project manager whom I worked for. I had no idea what was going on.
RE: Browsers
Looks like Chrome has the overwhelming market share for desktop browsers:
https://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-share/desktop/worldwide#monthly-202107-202107-bar
“While they were asleep, their Teslas burned in the garage. It’s a risk many automakers are taking seriously.”
https://www.ttgnet.com/journal/2021/08/03/tues-aug-3-2021-do-all-the-things/
“SAN FRANCISCO – Yogi and Carolyn Vindum were still asleep late last year when their Tesla Model S beamed an alert that charging was interrupted.
Twelve minutes after that, they awoke to a blaring car alarm and a fire consuming their house in San Ramon, Calif. The blaze had started in one of the two electric vehicles in their garage and spread to the other.”
Uh, if you park your vehicles in the driveway overnight in my neighborhood, they steal your tires and wheels. A number of my neighbors are putting up six foot tall metal or wood fences in the front yards with automatic gates.
Uh, the correct link for that is
https://www.chron.com/news/article/teslas-fire-16363341.php
Sheahan pointed to several examples such as the Ebola virus, which was discovered in 2016 to have undergone a mutation that not only made it more transmissible but likely more infective. This variant eventually died when the epidemic ended in 2016. The West Nile virus was found in 1999 to have mutated into a highly virulent strain, killing crows on multiple continents.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2021/07/14/fact-check-viruses-can-mutate-become-more-deadly/7839167002/
Wow, I foresee zero problems with that technology. ***snark***
More patent royalty checks headed to PO Boxes in Los Altos/Los Gatos, just like the backup camera mandate.
The interlink for blood alcohol level via breath is a pricey piece of tech. Gotta be a lot of licensed patents involved there. An optical system as described is not going to work for the mandate to prevent someone from driving while drunk.
BTW, it looks like “Yogi” Vindum of the Tesla fire story du-jour cashes some patent royalty checks of his own, related to pharaceutical manufacturing and petrochemical processing. San Ramon is the long-time home of Chevron.
In some cases, there were financial incentives given to companies to build offices in less expensive areas and those incentives can have a minimum daily average of number of butts in seats. Not sure their virtual presence counts.
Still think virtual whiteboards don’t measure up to the real thing when you’re doing a design session, debugging a logic issue or the like.
In some cases, there were financial incentives given to companies to build offices in less expensive areas and those incentives can have a minimum daily average of number of butts in seats. Not sure their virtual presence counts.
I worked for CGI in Belton, TX, and the tax subsidies for that office at the state/county/city level required staff to be on site 4 out of 5 days of the work week. I’m not sure if the rules changed for Covid, but I highly doubt it.
Employees either lived in the immediate area or drove an hour each way on I35. The weird growth restrictions in places like Jarrell and Salado limited housing options offering an easier commute.
I am trying to post a message about Starlink and getting “Internal Server Error
The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.
Please contact the server administrator at webmaster@ttgnet.com to inform them of the time this error occurred, and the actions you performed just before this error.
More information about this error may be available in the server error log.”
in both Visual and Text mode. Luckily, I post most of my messages elsewhere also and had copied it because the text buffer is EMPTY when you get this error.
“Second-Gen Starlink Network Promises Faster Speeds, More People Served”
https://www.pcmag.com/news/second-gen-starlink-network-promises-faster-speeds-more-people-served
“SpaceX tells the FCC that Starlink is now serving 90,000 users in 12 countries, up from 69,000 in late June.”
The second half of my post:
“SpaceX has revealed a few more tidbits about its second-generation Starlink network, which will be made up of nearly 30,000 satellites—or about 17 times larger than the existing network.
The company revealed the plans in a presentation last week to the FCC, which was first spotted by CNBC. The documents say Starlink is “rapidly rolling out internationally,” and is now serving 90,000 users in 12 countries, up from 69,000 in late June. In addition, the company has launched 1,740 Starlink satellites to expand the network, which can currently deliver download speeds from 50Mbps to 150Mbps or higher.”
“To create the constellation, SpaceX says its upcoming Starship vehicle will be able to deploy the second-gen Starlink satellites at a faster rate. The company has previously said Starship will be able to carry 400 satellites per launch, an increase from the 60 satellites for a typical Starlink launch on the Falcon 9 rocket.”
That is a lot of satellites, both presently used and proposed.
I can hardly wait for my rural office building to get service.
“Windows 10 to automatically block potentially unwanted apps”
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/windows-10-to-automatically-block-potentially-unwanted-apps/
“Microsoft Defender and Microsoft Edge on Windows 10 will automatically block potentially unwanted applications (PUAs) by default starting this month.
Starting with the Windows 10 2004, the May 2020 update, Microsoft added a new ‘Potentially unwanted app blocking’ setting in Windows security that causes Microsoft Defender to block these types of applications.
Since its release, this feature has been disabled by default, but starting this month, Microsoft will begin to block PUAs when detected on a computer automatically.”
I am sure that Mickeysoft will not abuse this.
What do you know – there’s (somewhat) of a list…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plug-in_electric_vehicle_fire_incidents
According to friends in OZ, it was to allow the cops to, well, be cops.
Speaking of browsers, I have used Chrome/Chromium for more than three years, maybe five: Chromium on Linux and Chrome on Android and Win 10. One thing I noticed with Chrome on Win 10 is how fast it loads a link. At first, I noticed the speed when clicking a link to another page on the same site from an already-loaded page, but more recently when clicking a link to a completely different site. I suppose Chrome might be preloading all referenced links on the current site, but that seems excessive. Just for grins, I tried Chrome on Android while we were away the past few days, and it also seemed faster than in the past. That latter could be explained by the much faster Internet where we were, typically >20 Mb/s, but at home it is just as fast, and my speed is a paltry 3 Mb/s. Something has been improving while I didn’t notice. I approve.
Also, when I go back to a previous page, Chrome is almost instantaneous, while Chromium seems to completely re-download that page. I always thought that characteristic was a result of how the site was programmed, but it seems more related to the browsers.
I would need to do more careful A-B testing to confirm all this, but I doubt I will. I will just enjoy it. Reminds me of the early days of the web, where a page was simpler and loaded quickly.
There is no National Guard. Cops and then army. VERY unusual deployment.
“Mexican Government Sues U.S. Gun Makers over Cartel Crime”
https://www.breitbart.com/2nd-amendment/2021/08/04/mexican-government-sues-us-gun-makers-over-cartel-crime/
“The government of Mexico is suing six U.S. gun makers and one Boston-area wholesaler, claiming “massive damage” created by “unlawful trafficking” of firearms to cartel and criminal elements.”
“The case is Mexico v. Smith and Wesson, No. 1:21-cv-11269, in the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts.”
I am speechless.
Hat tip to:
http://drudgereport.com/
Back in my days as a kid we knew how to climb over all kinds of fences.
Your tax dollars at work…
https://www.kens5.com/article/news/special-reports/at-the-border/temporary-emergency-shelter-being-built-in-mcallen-near-border-to-house-overwhelming-number-of-immigrants-stranded/273-037a34e0-ce40-4d1f-b239-1030e348f76b
Not that I care that much about NYFS anymore (other than son #2 still lives there) but this Cuomo thing is all over the news so I have read some about it. Is it just me or is he getting the short end of the stick? Seems the NYS AG, a potential political rival, issued a report (which I’ve only skimmed) and we’re immediately in judge/jury/executioner all-in-one mode with calls for his resignation. Or did they suspend due process in that state?
And in other IMPORTANT news, Apple kneels before the One True Editor…
https://ericasadun.com/2021/06/08/xcode-vimpocalypse-now/
Not that I care that much about NYFS anymore (other than son #2 still lives there) but this Cuomo thing is all over the news so I have read some about it. Is it just me or is he getting the short end of the stick? Seems the NYS AG, a potential political rival, issued a report (which I’ve only skimmed) and we’re immediately in judge/jury/executioner all-in-one mode with calls for his resignation. Or did they suspend due process in that state?
Political payback. The Cuomo family has reigned in Albany for almost 24 of the last 40 years. Plus, Cuomo the Elder was Lt. Governor for another four years on top of that, from 79 to 83.
Paul, sorry to hear about your Dodge PU. I agree that getting rid of it seems a good decision. The only situation where keeping it would be wise would be if you wanted to do all the work yourself. The parts would likely be low cost, and your labor would seem worth it only if you enjoyed the work, which you clearly do not. As for replacement vehicless, not my area, especially new ones.
While we were away, I didn’t have much to do, so I whiled away the hours watching fun YT videos, including some about cars. I am appalled at the designs that require massive and time consuming disassembly to replace an inexpensive part. Cars weren’t this way very long ago. Most of the things that needed replacement were much easier to replace. This affects all brands. My conclusion is don’t get caught with a car old enough that it starts needing these kinds of repairs. How long is that? No hard rule. A friend has a new small SUV that developed a malfunctioning air conditioner when it was a month old. It was out of his possession for most of six months, as a dealer did the same repairs over and over, hoping for a different result. He had a loaner, and it was under warranty, but he was not pleased. I would not have been, either. That is extreme, but shows how bad luck can come into play.
I guess a good approach would be to watch any car carefully, and read about others’ experiences. You are smart enough to pick out the good experiences. Be prepared to sell it before bad things happen.
As for working on cars, I can personally attest to owning two pairs of cars that had been redesigned, with the newer one much easier to work on. The more serious example is a car we have that has been very good to us, but I refuse to fix a few things it now needs. One reason is that it is a 97 with just under 200k miles. It has a lot of things that would need freshening to make it wonderful again. The total cost might be low, but the work would be horrible. I have demoted it to local driving, replaced by the newer one for trips. The newer one is an 06, with 95k miles. It is the same basic model, but a newer generation with some features we love. It is also easier to work on, night and day. And… practically everything is in top condition. A keeper.
Brings me to something seldom mentioned, and said better by the Car Wizard in one of his many videos. I have had cars I have loved so much that I could overlook their flaws. Some of them were a bit painful to keep up, but they compensated with their likability factor. Others I just didn’t like. Life is short, too short to struggle with an unloved car. Learn when it is better to cut bait and fish elsewhere.
P.S. I purposely did not mention brands. That’s because that is highly personal. Some people like Chevvies, some like Fords, and a few even like Trabants. All are right. There is no logic. It is a little like liking relatives.
P.P.S. Since you are capable of doing some of your own maintenance, and want something you can keep for 20+ years, consider an older car you might like, but either in excellent condition or fixed up like new. These exist, but I can’t advise for your area. I have bought two over the years, both a little by accident and word of mouth. I will keep them forever. Also, in the major cities of So Cal there are dealers that cater to older desirable cars of exceptional condition. Some of these, especially if they are not hot desirable models, can be had for low money. The Car Wizard often mentions Euroasian Bob in Wichita, here:
https://www.euroasianauto.com/
The Wizard says Bob finds cars of exceptional condition and has them fixed up as necessary to be excellent examples of cars ready to drive anywhere. He doesn’t know how Bob does it so well, and has featured many of these cars that are in his shop for minor work. If I were serious, I would give this outfit a call for advice. I did that to a place near Detroit, and got some great advice from the guy who runs it. As Nick would say, meatspace. Just not in person.
Hope this helps, and good luck.
Sounds like grounds for divorce.
@JimB,
I agree! Tail light out on my 2006 Jeep Grand Cherokee, about 30 minutes to replace it in my garage.
Many years ago, fuel pump out on my 1968 Dodge Coronet Station wagon with 318 cu
in V8, 30 minutes to replace it in my driveway.
JimB and others,
The 1968 Dodge Coronet Station wagon with 318 cu
in V8 was for my wife.
Later in 1995, she needed another new one, got her a 1995 Jeep Grand Cherokee with a 5.2 liter V8. Same engine! How stupid was it to re-describe the engine’s volume from cubic inches to liters?
According to friends in OZ, it was to allow the cops to, well, be cops.
–yes there is always a ‘good’ reason in the beginning. The problem is that it gets extended and the army is force. They may undertake other roles but they are mainly the force projection element of the government. They aren’t asking granny if she has enough tea in the cupboard, or if they can cut her grass for her. They are enforcing <--there's that word again- movement restrictions at the order of the government. Today they are using threat of force and a kind word. Next time, probably fewer kind words. And there is always a next time. Checkpoints and demands for papers comes next. n
–wrt old cars, think of all the crap they have mandated so far and compare the engine compartment of the ’68 or ’69 Mustang to anything current. Emission controls. Variable speed dual overhead cams- to get enough power out of a tiny engine required to meet the emission controls. Air conditioning. Cabin air filters. Heated seats. Power door locks because the standard says so. Power windows because that’s how you meet the mandate that the kids can’t open them. Child locks on the doors, restricted movement windows. Collapsible steering columns. Airbags. Crumple zones. Side impact bars because the unibody (designed to save weight to meet mileage standards) isn’t strong enough. Seat belt pre-tensioners because otherwise people get injured by the airbags. Laminated glass. Fuel pump rollover sensors because of the switch to fuel injection to meet emission and economy standards. Sophisticated computers to manage all the things AND tune the engine to meet regulations and marketing numbers.
Don’t forget 8 way power seats, auto darkening mirrors, heated mirrors, curb and backup sensors, backup cams (because the mandated smaller rear windows are too small), blind spot sensors (because visibility is so bad), anti whiplash headrests, child seat anchor points. Shoulder belts, self latching belts. Traction control because front wheel drive was so weird for people and their skills were backward to what was correct. Antilock braking. Speed sensitive steering, speed compensated radio volume for pete’s sake.
Hell, locking gas caps weren’t enough, they added remote controlled doors, and made it part of the emission control system.
Highest theft items USED to be radios (now have factory codes), wheels and tires (now have custom lug nuts), batteries (which is why you have a remote hood release), gas (see above), but now the big ticket items are air bags and catalytic converters.
Every one of the things they mandate causes a cascade of other additional changes and fixes for the unexpected consequences.
I’d bet that somewhere around 90% of the design of a modern vehicle is touched by regulations. Maybe more when you consider headlight focus and beamspread, brake light color and brightness (and don’t forget the mandated third brakelight), bumper heights and impact standards, number plate location and size and lighting, crash resistance (why seats are shaped like they are), and plenty of stuff I’m forgetting….
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Federal Government Released Over 7,000 COVID-Positive Migrants in McAllen, TX
“On Monday, we watched Border Patrol drop off bus loads of migrants in downtown McAllen all day long. Every 30 minutes.”
Posted by Mary Chastain Wednesday, August 4, 2021 at 02:37pm
https://legalinsurrection.com/2021/08/report-federal-government-released-over-7000-covid-positive-migrants-in-mcallen-tx/
Democrats Already Anticipating Deep Losses in 2022
“If the midterms were held now, they would lose the majority.”
Posted by Mike LaChance Wednesday, August 4, 2021 at 05:00pm
https://legalinsurrection.com/2021/08/democrats-already-anticipating-deep-losses-in-2022/
Federal judge grants DOJ an injunction on Abbott’s ban of ground transportation of migrants
Karen Townsend Aug 04, 2021 12:41 PM ET
https://hotair.com/karen-townsend/2021/08/04/federal-judge-grants-doj-an-injunction-on-abbotts-ban-of-ground-transportation-of-migrants-n406530
Biden impeachment January 2022: Slam Dunk
Later in 1995, she needed another new one, got her a 1995 Jeep Grand Cherokee with a 5.2 liter V8. Same engine! How stupid was it to re-describe the engine’s volume from cubic inches to liters?
I prefer US gallons.
I also once made an overlay for a friend’s speedometer. It read in furlongs per fortnight, a unit he often used in jest. In case you are wondering, 60 mi/hr is 161,280 fur/Fortn. You think I am kidding? Look here:
http://conversion.org/speed/miles-per-hour/furlong-per-fortnight
I was surprised to find it.
Nick mentioned third brake lights in his impressively voluminous list of mandates. The official name for this is a CHMSL or Center High Mounted Stop Light. When they were first mandated in the 1980s, I read an article in a trade pub, might have been one of the SAE pubs, about this. It claimed this was the first time the auto industry did not oppose a new item that was imposed without studies that showed effectiveness. Remember, some cars in the 1930s and 40s had them; some were factory, and some were owner installed accessories. Everyone simply thought they were good. I will grant that I can’t think of a situation where they would have negative effects, but that is not the point.
It was stated that the manufacturers changed their collective minds because they realized that all manufacturers would have to meet the requirement, so it would not be anticompetitive. Further, they could make a small profit on the new feature, so why oppose it? In fact, one person contacted for comment said he would like to put hundreds of new items on the car, as long as they were mandated. The customer would direct hate at the government, and his company would make more money. What could possibly be wrong with that?
Until the government scumbags stop illegal immigration — diseased illegal immigration — I don’t give a damn what they say about the Chinese Crud, the not-vax, mask mandates, or lockdown orders.
Highest theft items USED to be radios (now have factory codes), wheels and tires (now have custom lug nuts), batteries (which is why you have a remote hood release), gas (see above), but now the big ticket items are air bags and catalytic converters.
The camera for the optical system behind the safety features of my 2018 Camry is a $1200 part out of warranty.
Some vehicles integrate the camera into the windshield, and cracked glass can mean a $3000 replacement of the entire assembly even on some sub $30,000 cars.
Windshields are going to be the next hot theft item — a little tricky, but obviously profitable.
Democrats Already Anticipating Deep Losses in 2022
“If the midterms were held now, they would lose the majority.”
Fifteen months is a long time in politics … and pandemics.
a little tricky, but obviously profitable.
–in my list of high theft parts, pickup truck tailgates in general, but the ones with the camera in particular are very high theft.
n
Biden impeachment January 2022: Slam Dunk
Biden might, and I do say might, be impeached by the House in 2022 but he will not be convicted by the Senate. Mitt Romney and a few other repuglicans will not vote to convict Biden.
I can just see plugs: “hint, hint, wink, wink”
A perfect way for the commie bastards to attack the 2d.
Hell, locking gas caps weren’t enough, they added remote controlled doors, and made it part of the emission control system.
My F-150 4×4 does not even have a gas cap. And neither is the fuel door locking or remote controlled.
I do have a locking replacement for the fuel door that I am going to put on some day.
https://www.amazon.com/RBP-RBP-6152PL-RX2-Polished-Aluminum-Locking/dp/B01LXAUU4E/?tag=ttgnet-20
And neither is the fuel door locking or remote controlled.
–ugg, forgot about that one, instead of a simple pipe, you have an anti-siphon assembly, with additional complications to comply with emissions requirements.
$200 part.
And don’t lose the plastic fuel filler funnel, or you won’t be able to refuel in an emergency….
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@Lynn
…followed by the February 2022 Biden Impeachment. Hard to tune my Futurecast, but Feb or March should be the Kickback Corruption Impeachment, featuring the money trail for the millions. At what point does Mittens either vote “aye” or get found in the bath with a badly malfunctioning Tesla Toothbrush?
Got my Expy tire fixed today.
Am going to take my Ranger to my mechanic tomorrow before going on our trip. The left front brake has been dragging, which wore out the rotor or the pad, but judging from the grinding noise, I’m thru to the ribs on the back side. As I turned the corner coming home it started to drag even worse to the point I don’t think it’s drivable. My mechanic is only a couple of blocks away though.
I think the cylinder stopped retracting, and now there is so much friction from the cylinder riding on the rotor ribs it’s finally done. I was hoping to get the body work done this week, and the brakes after. life. Overrated.
n
The new mainframe style is here. This should make quite a few hardware manufacturers weary…
https://www.neowin.net/news/microsoft-pauses-trials-for-windows-365-following-an-unbelievable-response/
Federal Government Released Over 7,000 COVID-Positive Migrants in McAllen, TX
“On Monday, we watched Border Patrol drop off bus loads of migrants in downtown McAllen all day long. Every 30 minutes.”
Posted by Mary Chastain Wednesday, August 4, 2021 at 02:37pm
https://legalinsurrection.com/2021/08/report-federal-government-released-over-7000-covid-positive-migrants-in-mcallen-tx/
Man, McAllen, Texas (142K) is just the size of Sugar Land (130K). I cannot imagine 7,000 people getting dumped there in a week, that would be crazy. And if the 7,000 people are diseased, whoof !
And the games have begun:
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/08/microsofts-windows-11-outreach-efforts-arent-going-very-well/
I think that in the end they will relent. The TPM 2.0 mandate is reasonable. The Core models are not. Perfectly usable machines should be allowed to upgrade. There is one issue that comes to mind that could be the real justification: Most manufacturers do not update BIOS\UEFI after just a couple of years…
Lynn, you have to let us know when you finally stick to a new browser and which one it is. We are holding our breaths…
By the way, I only use two extensions, one is AdBlockPlus and the other one is Dark Reader. This way, no ads and my browsing is not in my face with all the white thrown at us.
The crackers are attacking my software again. A guy / girl in Leon, Mexico fooled my password generator last night and is now cracking away. I would like to send a package to their address. Airmail.
I have been watching them share the crack all around the world today. It is disheartening. This is how my employees and I feed our families. Of course, the crackers claim that they would never buy our software anyway as it is too expensive.
I am just about to the point of blocking every country outside the USA from our website download and password generators. Or maybe just China, Indonesia, Russia, Belgrade, Mexico, Czech Republic, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Poland, Moldova, etc, etc, etc.
Man, McAllen, Texas (142K) is just the size of Sugar Land (130K). I cannot imagine 7,000 people getting dumped there in a week, that would be crazy. And if the 7,000 people are diseased, whoof !
We just spent a week down there at the beginning of July. The area lacks the infrastructure of the Houston suburbs, and I’m sure that extends to healthcare.
The area west of I-69 along the river is pretty inhospitable on foot. Someone is spending big money enabling the mess, educating the immigrants on surrender procedure before crossing the river and providing services once they are released by Border Patrol.
Catholic Charities, yes, but a bigger player is involved with these kinds of numbers.
@JimB
That’s the second laugh out loud moment you’ve given me today. Too funny!
@Greg Norton
“Catholic Charities, yes, but a bigger player is involved with these kinds of numbers.”
Paul Simon:
“And when the radical priest
Come to get me released
We was all on the cover of Newsweek”
Soros and the ChiComs are probably both shoveling money to the cartels.
@Lynn
from July 20:
Must have been asleep missing
John Ringo, Under a Graveyard Sky
@Lynn
“I am just about to the point of blocking every country outside the USA from our website download and password generators. Or maybe just China, Indonesia, Russia, Belgrade, Mexico, Czech Republic, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Poland, Moldova, etc, etc, etc.”
You are a kind-hearted soul.
If I was writing the software, every download to one of those countries would have a ransomware payload.
https://www.ksby.com/news/local-news/pork-prices-expected-to-continue-rising-in-california?fbclid=IwAR3HEbrHRldXTqlv5a233ibh0WSXV5U1LM0NntnRPpIok7jGg5FTfMx86Gk
In other news, Hormel announces “Chacon”, the chicken-based bacon substitute. Precooked and only $18 per 4-ounce can.
Last week I bought some of the Kirkland thick cut bacon, as the price was only 2c/ oz higher than the lowest priced thick slice at HEB– their house brand, HCF at 24c/oz. It’s been 24c/oz for a long time. Only sold in our store in a 6 pound package and it is delicious. It’s the best bargain in the bacon section. Daughter two and I agree, the HCF is tastier and has a nicer texture than the Kirkland. Also, the kirkland slice thickness varies too much.
When I was in Abu Dhabi I had halal bacon. If I ordered breakfast from the arabic language side of the menu, I got a prayer mat, slippers, and veal bacon with my eggs. Pretty darn tasty.
The sausage strips they were giving away (sausage made to look like bacon, think long strips of spam with a coarser grind) make sense in the context of a bacon shortage. No one in the family liked that, and d2 loves spam.
If things get really bad, Scrapple will go nationwide. The only way we could eat it as kids was pan fried and then covered in maple syrup.
Chicken made to pretend to be bacon? The doors to hell must have opened to unleash an abomination like that.
n
@Lynn
from July 20:
“21 Best Post-apocalyptic Science Fiction Books” by Dan Livingston
https://best-sci-fi-books.com/21-best-post-apocalyptic-science-fiction-books/
I have read “I Am Legend”, “The Postman”, “Alas, Babylon”, “On the Beach”, “The Passage”, “The Girl with All the Gifts”, “A Canticle for Leibowitz”, “The Road”, and “Earth Abides”. 9 of the 21.
I would add a few more to this:
1. “Lights Out” by David Crawford:
https://www.amazon.com/Lights-Out-David-Crawford/dp/0615427359/?tag=ttgnet-20
2. “Emergence” by David Palmer
https://www.amazon.com/Emergence-David-R-Palmer/dp/194881806X/?tag=ttgnet-20
3. “One Second After”
https://www.amazon.com/Second-After-John-Matherson-Novel/dp/0765356864/?tag=ttgnet-20
Must have been asleep missing
John Ringo, Under a Graveyard Sky
Yup, I have that sitting on my nightstand for a second reread.
I am reading “American Demon” at the moment. This series could considered post-apocalyptic also after half the world population died due to the genetically modified tomato and the vampires, elves, and demons outed themselves when their numbers equalized to the remaining human population.
https://www.amazon.com/American-Demon-Hollows-Kim-Harrison/dp/0593101421/
@Lynn
“I am just about to the point of blocking every country outside the USA from our website download and password generators. Or maybe just China, Indonesia, Russia, Belgrade, Mexico, Czech Republic, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Poland, Moldova, etc, etc, etc.”
You are a kind-hearted soul.
If I was writing the software, every download to one of those countries would have a ransomware payload.
One of my partners tried to get me to do this a decade ago. And he was serious. I refused, I know too well what can go wrong in PCs / computers. And Fort Bend County is famous for putting a programmer in jail for 18 months for putting a termination date in his software about 20 years ago. When Fort Bend County did not pay the annual fee, he did not give them a new copy of the software and they charged him with cyber terrorism. Took him 18 months for his lawyer to get a Habeas Corpus to the Texas Supreme Court. No bail since he was a terrorist.
Yup, we have 1,024 bit public / private key cryptography in our software. We could do some damage with that. And it is written in C using shifts, very fast.
Later in 1995, she needed another new one, got her a 1995 Jeep Grand Cherokee with a 5.2 liter V8. Same engine! How stupid was it to re-describe the engine’s volume from cubic inches to liters?
I prefer US gallons.
I also once made an overlay for a friend’s speedometer. It read in furlongs per fortnight, a unit he often used in jest. In case you are wondering, 60 mi/hr is 161,280 fur/Fortn. You think I am kidding? Look here:
http://conversion.org/speed/miles-per-hour/furlong-per-fortnight
I was surprised to find it.
We almost put barleycorn (dried) in our software a decade ago as a unit of length as a joke. I guess that you could use barleycorn / second on a speedometer.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barleycorn_(unit)
–how awesome. Not. Godaddy is “moving your email to a new platform. We know change can be hard – but not this one. This update to Microsoft 365 from GoDaddy is going to be smooth, and you don’t have to do anything.
For each of the following free accounts, you’ll get a two-month free trial** to test drive Microsoft 365 from GoDaddy without paying a thing: ”
–so I’m going from email included with my hosting package (for my business site) hosted by Godaddy, to some abortion from MS 365 that they are oversubscribed and under provisioned for. Oh and now I get to pay for the privilege. Joy.
n
Nope. Things are getting confusing even for their followers: Do not confuse Microsoft Windows 365 with Microsoft 365. I posted about the former which is a very new offering in beta and the service is for a full Windows Client\Terminal? The latter that you are referring to is email with god knows what descendant of an Exchange server running in Azure Cloud Services.
I have not read nor will read much about the new offering. I think you can configure what you want like 2 cores and 4GB of memory and they will give you an emulation with a fully patched Windows (Pro) that you can run from many clients like Macs, Windows PCs, Chromes(?)… I am definitely not interested in any 365 things but This one? Really not my cup of tea at all.
so I’m going from email included with my hosting package (for my business site) hosted by Godaddy, to some abortion from MS 365 that they are oversubscribed and under provisioned for. Oh and now I get to pay for the privilege. Joy.
If this is just standards compliant email, why not use either webmail or any email client software? If you don’t want to interact with their methods, just set your account to forward mail to an email address you control on another server. I do that with some old email addresses. All my email is integrated into one client using IMAP. I can access it from any device using any client, and it is always up to date on all the others. Never had any problems. I can also set my client to reply as any valid email address I control, so the sender thinks it is from the address he sent to. Totally transparent.
If that isn’t to your liking, there are non-free services that can do even more, such as continue to use a domain that no longer exists. I have a friend who still uses an Earthlink address. I haven’t tried that.
I can’t point you to any good articles on this, and I have looked in the past. You probably know everything you need. I learned some of my email ideas from, of all people, Leo Laporte. He used to mention quite a bit on this some years ago, and I would check out his ideas on various other email instruction sites. I stopped listening, so don’t know what he is up to today. I still like Leo; he is a good radio guy and a relatively new ham. He knows quite a bit about some things, but not much about others. He does not BS his way through things he doesn’t know, and I respect that.
Nope. Things are getting confusing even for their followers: Do not confuse Microsoft Windows 365 with Microsoft 365.
Oh, that IS confusing, but I think I understand it. Jerry Pournelle used to discuss virtual things quite a bit. He hoped it would be the future of computing, and would make the OS irrelevant. I think he hoped for too much. Virtual machines have their place, but seem a bit complicated for my needs. I used to try various things, but recently am satisfied with simplicity, like plenty of others who just want to get things done.
Microsoft’s latest offering: Have your entire PC in the cloud. Of course, you need a PC with browser to access your PC, so they hope to sell you two Windows licenses: one physical and one virtual.
Really, this is just another round of “thin clients”. We’ve been here before, more than once. Thin clients do have a place, but it is limited. I just don’t see it as the general case.
Your software is specialized – that excuse doesn’t hold much water. They’re likely selling it. For peanuts, but selling it.
Um…say what? If he had a license agreement that stated the software was only leased, then he should have been good. OTOH, if software they purchased stopped working, he had a problem.
Of course, either way it should have been a civil matter. Seems like their treatment of him deserved a juicy lawsuit in return. What happened in the end?
well Lynn, vpns, is a non issue from where the download, unless you request a list of approved IP to each customer (as you may know, turbine manufacturers do something similar), but you dont negate the download of approved customers for backup purposes, so, the only way is SAS, engineers dont like it, back to begin