For as long as there has been Creation men have looked to the heavens only to be amazed at what they saw and were unable to reach. Now even with the current Space Age and the Shuttle program ending after 30 years where and what and how next? Up there has been somewhat interesting to me as I remember laying out under the stars watching a meteor shower and occasionally listening to the count down of one of the Space Shuttle missions on the radio. On this same list is hearing my mom tell about watching the moon landing while in High School.
After being interested in Video Production and observing new ways of doing things via online video this made me more interested in trying some of these for myself. One of which is going to Space! Perhaps not in a literal sense but as a few others have tried sending a camera or camcorder to the very edge of Space and filming the whole process. Here is the beginnings of this hopefully new adventure and pre test flight as is usually a good idea with such ventures. As a humorous NASA video states in a British voice over accent you just can’t go all Willy Nilly and send up things to Space. It’s just not that simple and a lot of detail and thought go into it even in trying such a more simple task which isn’t as mine. Anyhow here is the first pre test attempt for you to enjoy.
For those who are not aware of the cheapest Voip option available, browse over to the MagicJack site. Voip, by the way, is basically a phone line over your broadband Internet connection.
After the first year Magic Jack is only $20 a year. You get the whole works…unlimited outbound calling, an inbound number, caller id and voicemail. Even with the latest trouble of the bleepin beeps – its a steal. This short little blog post is in hopes that it creates more attention to the problem and they will get around to fixing it sooner.
Basically, whenever you call someone with the MagicJack, they or you hear what sounds like keystrokes, quite frequently. Highly annoying yes, but may be a good way to get those certain people not too call and talk for so long as it usually is the inbound callers that hear it. Perhaps its the Government monitoring the calls. So nice of them to let us know! Either way, its to the success of MagicJack’s future, that they do fix the problem quickly.
Loaned the ole freebie out which taught me something about doing such things. Make sure to set regulations for borrowed systems. After all, your friend is lucky to know you and be able to use one of yours while theirs is being worked on.
Anyhow, when I got it back, it would not boot to bios. Power supply was ok memory ok as far as I know. I tested through all the usual debugging steps with no success.
Oh well – now it has been totally dismantled for the parts. Manufacturers need to quit using old parts such as memory thus driving up the prices. After all newer memory is faster and sometimes cheaper.
Well it’s getting to be another late night. Waiting on my iso to burn and listing to my Pandora Petra station. What a life.
Ha! Look what I found. Mr T, my next door neighbor taking his daily walk along our street. The best I can tell is the Google Street View vehicle drove through my town about this, “that is, right before Christmas,” time of last year.
It was simply amazing to me to find they actually took the time to drive through my little city, much less, my street. I feel privileged, as after checking a bigger city like Winchester, VA which seemed to not have been driven through yet.
Google Street View is a good way to waste time and liven up those oh so boredom moments. As posted above and below you never know what you might notice or can expect. There has been some very unusual sightings as seen below.
It is time I wrote about “how to keep your facebook notifications private”. I recently found out that any Superpoke or other fun item you sent to a “friend” was posted for all to see and did not like it.
After doing some research I found these options which should allow you to keep those private. In the new facebook layout click settings top right. Next click application settings. Then you click the app you want to change the settings on. Here you are able to remove any app you do not want also.
Now after testing your choices with a select few friends you can now send that “poke” you do not want everyone noticing. Here are a few other security items of interest.
Never use your real birthday in your account. Choose a fake one that you can remember for every online account. It can, however, be the same year and possibly day, but never the month. I would also suggest not using your middle name. The less the public knows the better.
Oh and if you’re a missionary, and have been in a country like China, avoid social network sites like the plague. If you must use email or the phone figure out a general type of communication before you leave. You risk not only your life but others as well before and after the fact.
Well they finally did it, my worst fear, putting a CAP on my service that I have been more than impressed with. Now it really is time to go shopping for another provider or switch back to Earthlink.
My suggestion to ATT is, do not do it. Instead implement technology that can detect which customers are using P2P often. Generally these would be the culprits using more bandwidth that eats it up for the rest of us legitimate users Starting monitoring these and find out what the chances may be of them doing file sharing, watching TV online, and or using VOIP.
As for me I have been wanting an excuse to ditch ATT altogether. Unfortunately I am limited in my options. However I suggest to the rest of you notify them you do not like it and may switch. It is that important as we are going backwards and not forwards. Did you know in countries like South Korea connections of 100mbs are common?
Here is recent communication I had with them after being notified my domains annual fee was increasing to $34! This is in comparison to one of the most expensive domain registers around – Network Solutions. Now why would anyone feel the need to pay more when they can cheaper better service and other options from others? Its beyond me! With management being this stupid – I hate to say it but maybe they deserve to get bought out.
Hello Joseph, Thank you for writing to Yahoo! Domains. I understand that you are concerned regarding the Yahoo!‘s annual domain renewal price which has been increased to $34.95 per year. Joseph, our prices continue to offer customers the best value proposition for our services. We remain committed to offering our customers the most competitive pricing possible. The price increase is necessary to continue to provide superior service to all our customers. By providing continuous innovation and 24-7 service, Yahoo! Small Business is committed to providing you the best possible value and helping you succeed with your online initiatives.
Current subscribers will see the price increase reflected on the first anniversary payment date after the price increase takes place. This means subscribers will see the price increase reflected on their first charge on/after July 1, 2008. Multi-year accounts will see the price increase at the time of renewal for the current agreement. However, if you have any billing related concern, then I would recommend you to contact our billing department directly at: 1-800-318-0870
You may call us Monday through Friday between 6 a.m. and 6 p.m. PST. I am very sure you will get a quick resolution.While I understand that this is not convenient, we have found that billing issues are effectively resolved via phone.You also have the option to review your billing, payment, and credit card information, make payments, or update your services anytime, via our online service center at: http://billing.yahoo.com You can also find answers to common billing questions in our online help center, at:http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/sbiz/billing I hope you will find the above email helpful.We value you as a customer and look forward to serve you for years to come. Please do not hesitate to reply if you need further assistance.
Original Message Follows: ————————- Yahoo Id: First Name: Joseph Last Name: Barnhart Email Address: whatever@yahoo.com Domain Name: whatever.com Comments: You have been sending me e-mails stating I will now be charged $35 annually for domains. I am wondering how you can expect to keep customers when the average prices are $10. I would rather not switch but you are forcing me to transfer all of my domains to godaddy your number one competitor.
Guarantee in writing an under $10 fee and I may as it is I intend to do some blogging about how stupid Yahoo is getting. Because of this I am finding it hard to trust you in making other purchases.
Joseph Barnhart
Subject: Using your domain with Yahoo! Browser: Firefox Operating System: Windows XP Email Tool: other Site Building Tool: other Internet Connection: DSL Permit Test: no
I did a stress test on my network tonight. The results? Excellent! and better than I expected. I have AT&T DSL 3.0mbs download and 384kbps up. I have 6 computers running plus my network and web server. I was streaming full screen video on 5 with Joost on one of those and talking on Skype on the 6th one. The web server was running as well and everything was very smooth. Next to no glitches on video and Skype was great.
My network involves my AT&T or Bellsouth DSL modem. Next comes the Linksys 4 port cable modem/router. On the LAN side I have a D-Link 8 port 1000/100/10mbs “grean” switch. My second router is an open source Linksys. Without this hardware I would not get this good of results so do please be picky about your network hardware.
Here is a presentation i had to do. I thought why not spend many more hours and convert this power point presentation to flash and post it here for all to view. Yes I know my voice is not cut out for reading out loud but oh well.
