On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 7:34 PM, Sampsa Laine <sampsa at mac.com> wrote:
On 4 Nov 2009, at 00:24, Gregg Levine wrote:
Hello!
Typically 1.5M one way and 768K the other. AT&T keeps mucking up the
figures so I can't get a straight answer out of them.
I ended up sticking with AT&T (Who was my dialup service provider)
when those clowns at Verizon couldn't give me a straight answer at
all. This is before FIOS of course......
That's what I'd heard, that's not great. Any idea when FiOS will be
available? I suppose this gives me some time to line up visas and sell my
flat, always did want to live in NYC...
I have a reasonably ropey DSL here (wires provided by BT, IP service by Be
Unlimited, which is really O2, which is really Telefonica) and I get 14-16
down, 2-2.5 up / line - got so fed up with the "low" speeds I got two lines
and a load balancing router.
Sampsa
Hello!
Well it is available on new construction everywhere in Staten Island,
and everywhere in general on Long Island.
I believe if people want it, then it is available the same way in
Westchester CO.
As for NYC? (Manhattan and the Bronx, also Queens and Brooklyn), well
they got permission to offer the TV service for people who want it,
the data delivery end may also be included.
My problem is that my apartment (flat to you) is as old as the
hardware we sometimes discuss, call it tail end of the Sixties. So
even though they recently updated the copper, I do not believe it is
capable of supporting FIOS, but it may be available else where in
Queens.
In fact regarding the Dalek, Forbidden Planet (The bookstore) is
selling a reasonable range of Doctor Who items, so I've got the Third
Doctor watching me type, and a Dalek trying to get its grubby
protuberances over everything I do.
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Gregg C Levine gregg.drwho8 at gmail.com
"This signature was once found posting rude
messages in English in the Moscow subway."
On 4 Nov 2009, at 00:24, Gregg Levine wrote:
Hello!
Typically 1.5M one way and 768K the other. AT&T keeps mucking up the
figures so I can't get a straight answer out of them.
I ended up sticking with AT&T (Who was my dialup service provider)
when those clowns at Verizon couldn't give me a straight answer at
all. This is before FIOS of course......
That's what I'd heard, that's not great. Any idea when FiOS will be available? I suppose this gives me some time to line up visas and sell my flat, always did want to live in NYC...
I have a reasonably ropey DSL here (wires provided by BT, IP service by Be Unlimited, which is really O2, which is really Telefonica) and I get 14-16 down, 2-2.5 up / line - got so fed up with the "low" speeds I got two lines and a load balancing router.
Sampsa
On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 7:18 PM, Sampsa Laine <sampsa at mac.com> wrote:
On 4 Nov 2009, at 00:16, Gregg Levine wrote:
Hello!
I live in a typical NYC apartment where the power costs (including
fuel gas for cooking) are bundled into the rent so they never tell me
the rates.
That's a great arrangement - what are the broadband options like - how much
can you get up/down?
Sampsa
Hello!
Typically 1.5M one way and 768K the other. AT&T keeps mucking up the
figures so I can't get a straight answer out of them.
I ended up sticking with AT&T (Who was my dialup service provider)
when those clowns at Verizon couldn't give me a straight answer at
all. This is before FIOS of course......
My one problem is that technically it's a consumer grade connection as
opposed to a business one so I can't do very much with it. I did at
one point investigate the AT&T business offerings but I never got an
accurate response from that office.
And even though I have TWCNY for cable TV, they've stopped offering me
their version of broadband access for some reason.....
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Gregg C Levine gregg.drwho8 at gmail.com
"This signature was once found posting rude
messages in English in the Moscow subway."
On 4 Nov 2009, at 00:16, Gregg Levine wrote:
Hello!
I live in a typical NYC apartment where the power costs (including
fuel gas for cooking) are bundled into the rent so they never tell me
the rates.
That's a great arrangement - what are the broadband options like - how much can you get up/down?
Sampsa
On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 6:54 PM, Phil Mendelsohn <phil at rephil.org> wrote:
Bob Armstrong wrote:
CODA is getting an early retirement. It's a very nice machine (a DS20E)
but it uses nearly 500W and with the marginal electricity rate here in CA
at
something like 38 cents/kWh
Here's a comparison you won't enjoy:
Manitoba (Canada) has an electric rate of about $0.06 / kWh, and something
like 99% hydro power. (I think there's one coal plant in the province.)
But you have to put up with mosquitoes in the summer and -40 (C/F - doesn't
matter) in the winter to get those rates...
Phil
--
"Nothing is too small to know, and nothing too big to attempt."
--Sir William Cornelius Van Horne
Hello!
I live in a typical NYC apartment where the power costs (including
fuel gas for cooking) are bundled into the rent so they never tell me
the rates.
But the last time I check on the ConEd rates here they were on a par
with both places. And sometimes they were so low the utility needed to
bundle the power (electric) rates with steam and gas to convince us to
believe them. Remember in NYC as well as in some parts of Westchester
CO, Con Ed supplies both gas and electricity, and steam plus the other
two in Manhattan.
So Bob what are you planning on doing with the retiring Alpha system?
How big is he, and so forth.
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Gregg C Levine gregg.drwho8 at gmail.com
"This signature was once found posting rude
messages in English in the Moscow subway."
Bob Armstrong wrote:
CODA is getting an early retirement. It's a very nice machine (a DS20E)
but it uses nearly 500W and with the marginal electricity rate here in CA at
something like 38 cents/kWh
Here's a comparison you won't enjoy:
Manitoba (Canada) has an electric rate of about $0.06 / kWh, and something like 99% hydro power. (I think there's one coal plant in the province.)
But you have to put up with mosquitoes in the summer and -40 (C/F - doesn't matter) in the winter to get those rates...
Phil
--
"Nothing is too small to know, and nothing too big to attempt."
--Sir William Cornelius Van Horne
I live in London, but this weekend will probably the first weekend
this year I won't be here.
Dan
2009/11/3 Sampsa Laine <sampsa at mac.com>:
Guys,
If you're in or around London this weekend, let me know - I'm throwing a "92
Years Since The October Revolution" themed house party. Why? Why the hell
not.
Sampsa
Christine,
Terribly sorry about this, but turns out the guy I'm meant to drive down from Leeds can't make it this week - how is next week looking for you?
Sampsa
On 27 Oct 2009, at 15:37, Christine Caulfield wrote:
Oh god, my boiler is the same.
It used to crash every two or three weeks. And the plumber told me how to refill it and reset it. In the end it turned out to be a very slightly leaky radiator and it's been fine after that. I'm still supposed to check the pressure now and then though.
/me goes off to do it while she remembers.
Chrissie
On 27/10/09 15:30, Sampsa Laine wrote:
OK, cool, we'll synchronise schedules with my friend, probably come up
on Wednesday or Friday (Wed ideally, I'm thinking the traffic into
London on Friday might be a lot of Epic Phail).
As for the boiler repair, it was free - only had it installed a few
months back (behind my spare freezer, which isn't so great). Turns out
it just needed a top-up - this involved the guy fiddling with two dials.
Now the stupid thing cost me thousands AND has a computer already built
in, how freaking hard can it be to make the topping-up thing automatic.
Sampsa
On 27 Oct 2009, at 15:27, Christine Caulfield wrote:
Ahhh No problem.
That week is fine apart from Monday and Thursday.
I hope the boiler doesn't cost too much to fix :S
Chrissie
On 27/10/09 15:09, Sampsa Laine wrote:
Oh crap, so it was - I ACTUALLY mean the week commencing the 9th - sorry
about the confusion, been dealing with boiler repair guys all day.
Sampsa
On 27 Oct 2009, at 14:27, Christine Caulfield wrote:
Hiya
That's the week I thought you meant anyway! So that's fine.
My address is
39 St James Terrace
Horsforth
Leeds
LS18 5QT
Phone 0113 2288310
Chrissie
On 27/10/09 14:01, Sampsa Laine wrote:
Actually, if you can hold on to them for another week - i.e. the week
commencing 2 Nov, I'd be able to synchronise giving my friend a
lift to
London with the pick up. If this is a problem, no worries, I'll
come up
on next Thursday.
sampsa
On 27 Oct 2009, at 13:50, Christine Caulfield wrote:
On 27/10/09 12:41, Sampsa Laine wrote:
I'll take the VAXstation and Alpha PWS if you can spare them and
the CD
drives - as for pick up, well I'm between jobs so it's no biggie,
could
come up next week if that works for you.
Yes, that's fine. I work from home so most days during the daytime
will be OK, apart from Wednesday morning. Just give me a day or so's
notice when you'll be here and I'll be ready.
Chrissie
Guys,
If you're in or around London this weekend, let me know - I'm throwing a "92 Years Since The October Revolution" themed house party. Why? Why the hell not.
Sampsa
CODA is getting an early retirement. It's a very nice machine (a DS20E)
but it uses nearly 500W and with the marginal electricity rate here in CA at
something like 38 cents/kWh that's about $140 per month to keep it running
24x7. That's just too much, and I'm replacing it with a Charon-AXP-nce
emulation on a Linux box; it's the same Linux box we use for our MythTV
backend so it's already running 24x7 anyway. The Charon emulation is only
about half the speed of the original DS20 (the CPU emulation is not bad, but
the emulated I/O performance seems crappy when compared with the real
hardware) so it'll be an experiment to see if it can keep up.
The only real difference to HECnet is that people with Multinet
connections to me will see that they're now terminated by 2.17 CHARON rather
than 2.7 CODA.
Johnny, please add 2.17 CHARON to the node database on MIM.
Thanks,
Bob
