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Posted on 08/24/2005 9:50:25 PM PDT by HairOfTheDog
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Heh...we'd need a super-duper preview feature of some sort, in any case.
I know I sure wouldn't wanna actually post a lot of my thoughts...
gotta Piesporter ready tuh put intuh the secondary fermenter...
Sorta. :-)
But could you imagine setting up a BBS today, and actually teaching the whole company how to use it? Gads... what a nightmare.
Hell... even teaching people FTP nowadays is a nightmare.
R: It'll be astounding. Stuff we can't even imagine yet. Twelve years ago most people hadn't even heard of the Internet.
heh... we'll still be on a 56k dial up...
So...takes what, couple more weeks?
When should we all show up?
Heh...and so will Dad.
They're at least as far out of the way as you folks...can't get cable or DSL or anything like that there. I imagine there *might* be a satellite solution or something eventually. I dunno.
at least 3-5 more weeks till I bottle... then at least a month...
gotta batch of Old Scrote Bitter Ale ready to bottle... and fixin's fer another 5 gallons standing by...
Well, FR has p*ssed me off enough for the night. I'm going to bed.
I've heard tell of them doing some sort of wireless towers in rural areas, but I don't know enough about it to know. I'm just a PC tech, not a network person.
And soon may not even be that anymore...*sigh*
Ramius might know...
I think whatever kinds Dad has *usually* made are quicker...'zat the difference between standard beer and ale? I've never understood the terminology...beer, ale, stout and such.
I like to cask age my beer... just me... I could go from boil to drinking in about 10 days (and I have in the past), but you get a much better product when you age it...
you can make cheap Rose very quickly and easily... 9 2-litre bottles of white concord grape juice, one of regular concord, 6 cups of sugar, vintner's yeast, a sterile six gallon bucket with an air lock, two weeks to bottle... (put it right back into the bottles the juice came in), let it set about a week more... surprisingly good, and easy Rose...
Heh... I'm not even any good as an ubergeek anymore. Whenever I say sumpthin' it turns out I'm wrong. My teeth must be recedin'. I may have to turn in my pocket protector if this trend continues. :-)
But by way of edumacatin': BBS stands for "bulletin board system". It's what forums like FR did in the days before the web. Each user had to dial in on a modem directly to the BBS server machine. BBS servers could handle maybe 2 to 8 to 24 to 48 or whatever simultaneous connections, depending on how much they wanted to spend. People could post messages and others would reply... and so on and so on...
It was great fun, but it was mostly regional, since people didn't want to make long distance calls. Usenet came along and let local people share posts across distances and lots of other BBS's joined the Usenet newsgroup system.
But usenet newsgroups was like drinkin' from a firehose.
You got cellular service at your house?
spotty...
I couldn't get a consistant signal while I was there...and most places were completely dead.
Maybe new towers will be installed over the next decade or so, though...or the technology will improve.
Ya know, this just might be worth a shot one of these days.
it's falling down easy... the kits are more werk, but mrsnad wanted to try a Piesporter...
you can sterilize with 5% bleach, you can buy a plastic fermenting bucket for 8$, plastic hose for siphoning for pennies, and vintner's yeast at any homebrew shop fer about a buck...
gotta get out in the Training Areas... duty calls...
The new Verizon wireless internet service gives about 80Kbps to 120Kbps (roughly double what a modem can do) pretty much anywhere a cell phone can find a connection. Charge is only barely not obscene, but it might be spendy, in the $60-80 per month range.
In metro areas, they claim multiple megabits of connection speed. But they charge out the wazzoo for that.
Another option, that I did for a few years before DSL was available in my neighborhood... was to set up with my ISP for a multi-connection account. Most ISP's can do this. Basically it means that you can hook two or more modems to your computer... and dial all of them in to the same number, and they're all bound together by the ISP into one logical connection.
I had two phone lines, so I'd dial out on both of them, bind them into one logical connection, and instead of one 56K modem I had a workable 96K connection, more or less (some bandwidth is lost in overhead). It worked pretty well for high-bandwidth apps like the online game-playing in Unreal Tournament.
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