Broadband backlash, dialup resurgance

Post #17,362 by kmself 11/8/01 2:38:08 PM Reply	Broadband backlash, dialup resurgance Comin' at ya from my screeming 4.5KB/s 56k dialup line, I just thought I'd let all y'all know that I'm not retro, I'm an early defector (/me wonders if you have to wipe after saying that). CNET: [link\|http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1004-200-7789746.html?tag=tp_pr\|customers dropping broadband for modems]. While many ISPs remain publicly adamant that broadband subscribers are rock-steady, some say privately that signs of cancellations are emerging. The impact is noticeable in the San Francisco Bay Area, where thousands of high-tech employees have lost their jobs. "Particularly since Sept. 11, a lot of people are deciding which bills to cut out," said a spokesperson for one major California-based ISP, who asked not to be named. "People are freaked out." I'm holding out for grass-roots wireless myself. `-- Karsten M. Self [link\|mailto:kmself@ix.netcom.com\|kmself@ix.netcom.com] What part of "gestalt" don't you understand?`
Post #17,390 by cwbrenn 11/8/01 4:32:29 PM Reply	I may have to cancel but I don't want to. I've never had a problem with bandwidth, and uploading and downloading files are SO FREAKIN' FAST... (useful when you're doing the whole record music/publish as mp3 thing). "We are all born originals -- why is it so many of us die copies?" - Edward Young
Post #17,406 by Ashton 11/8/01 7:11:24 PM Reply	I've invested the money I saved by remaining a compassionate conservative modem lackey - in a carrier pigeon farm. Time to plan for contingencies.. Ashton
Post #17,419 by Yendor 11/8/01 9:05:26 PM Reply	So... You're planning on implementing the first live [link\|http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1149.txt\|RFC 1149] network? Alternately known as CPIP (Carrier Pigeon Internet Protocol)... -YendorMike "The problems of the world cannot possibly be solved by the skeptics or the cynics whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities. We need people who dream of things that never were." - John F. Kennedy
Post #17,422 by Ashton 11/8/01 9:42:54 PM Reply	Prec\ufffdsamente caballero.. Cackle.. Cackle.. Cackle.. Cackle.. Cackle.. Cackle.. Cackle.. Cackle.. Cackle.. Cackle.. Yes, I remember that one; lost link - thanks. But we shall employ a method so advanced that these wimpy script-kiddies could never imagine it, for they are constitutionally unable to.. fit the techno- to the task (As in - why buy a PC Jr.? to Do Your Recipes.. er, Mom..) We shall employ a small tube with a graphite-mixture in center, rice paper, a magnifier-light and [\ufffd] We shall write with actual hands/fingers, as we relearn what hands were designed for. (PGP? lemon juice and a 000 nib)
Post #17,565 by jake123 11/9/01 4:33:49 PM Reply	Coffee just sprayed out my nose... thanks, a$$hole! :) I hadn't seen that one before... I like it:) -- ---------------------------------------------------------- * Jack Troughton jake at jakesplace.dhs.org * * [link\|http://jakesplace.dhs.org\|[link\|http://jakesplace.dhs.org\|http://jakesplace.dhs.org]] [link\|ftp://jakesplace.dhs.org\|[link\|ftp://jakesplace.dhs.org\|ftp://jakesplace.dhs.org]] * * Montr\ufffdal PQ Canada [link\|news://jakesplace.dhs.org\|news://jakesplace.dhs.org] * ----------------------------------------------------------
Post #17,570 by ben_tilly 11/9/01 4:47:44 PM Reply	You are behind the times... That's [link\|http://www.blug.linux.no/rfc1149/writeup.html\|been done]. On Linux of course. What did you expect? To see cutting edge geek research like this being done on Windows? Cheers, Ben PS Ping times wound up being strongly correlated with outside distractions - like the neighbour's pigeons. :-)
Post #17,788 by gdaustin 11/11/01 6:23:39 PM Reply	Give me a break... If you're going to do that, you might as well take the shortwave radio operator exam and do X.25 packet switching over ham radio. It's my understanding that you don't have to do the morse code part of the license anymore, either. Glen Austin
Post #17,827 by Ashton 11/12/01 3:35:02 AM Reply	Careful, you're thinking logically again. See: lectronic communication has brought us the 24/7 workday, 2-weeks a year vacations (mostly taken as a few long weekends) - 2 paychecks + childcare to manage the er inconveniece of there being a life other than at the office. Frantic scurrying about as techno adds more and more pointless things to do, just to walk in place at pre-'75 adjusted incomes. Pigeons OTOH represent a time before techno- for its own sake, supplanted any human qualities remaining in the [employment units]. A time when construction of TLAs was not deemed an actual occupation, and language was not edited by Word's 'thesaurus' - to eliminate 'unpleasant associations' (see another post). So you see? Pigeon-488 just might save the remnants of civilization from further robotification (in language and deed). If it comes in time, that is. As our Selected pResident says: yer either For Us or Agin Us! (Remember too: the Department of Pigeon Relations.. may have to visit you at your home) (A friendly reminder to a potential backsliding Lectronic Lackey, for your comfort and convenience.)
Post #17,847 by hnick 11/12/01 7:34:21 AM Reply	Umm... If you have any pull with the DPR could you have them stay the hell away from my car? Biological warfare should not be used domestically, even against suspected political slackers... TIA, Hugh
Post #17,926 by Ashton 11/12/01 3:25:18 PM Reply	Well.. at least it's organic, not Astro-pigeon droppings :-\ufffd
Post #17,429 by boxley 11/8/01 10:49:33 PM Reply	hmmm pay money for dsl or use my own free service? hahahaha! tshirt front "born to die before I get old" thshirt back "fscked another one didnja?"
Post #17,509 by tseliot 11/9/01 1:30:19 PM Reply	Shoot. And I'm ready for 768k (or maybe 1100) SDSL. For the Counter-Strike game server, of course. :) --------------------------------- A stupid despot may constrain his slaves with iron chains; but a true politician binds them even more strongly by the chain of their own ideas;...despair and time eat away the bonds of iron and steel, but they are powerless against the habitual union of ideas, they can only tighten it still more; and on the soft fibres of the brain is founded the unshakable base of the soundest of Empires." Jacques Servan, 1767
Post #17,518 by Andrew Grygus 11/9/01 1:57:16 PM Reply	I'm back on modem - - but not for long. My DSL provider gave up fighting with PacBell and discontinued the service. They calaimed they sent 4 emails warning of this to all customers, but I "must have slipped through a crack". The service provider now setting up DSL for me said, "that was quite some crack". [link\|http://www.aaxnet.com\|AAx]
Post #17,589 by kmself 11/9/01 5:29:01 PM Reply	Quite some crack... ObII: fly grygus fly2 grygus girn2 `-- Karsten M. Self [link\|mailto:kmself@ix.netcom.com\|kmself@ix.netcom.com] What part of "gestalt" don't you understand?`
Post #17,707 by broomberg 11/10/01 8:06:04 PM Reply	Cable hell Speaking of cable hell. I've got about 30 seconds between cable modem resets of activity. "High signal to noise" I reset, I get 30 seconds of use, it dies, I reset again. They are showing up Tuesday.

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