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By K4GDW on 8/28/2007 8:37:54 AM
I'm really impressed with the bandwidth savings I've realized by moving my email accounts to google apps. According to the Starband bandwidth usage page I only used 8.5kb yesterday. That's a HUGE savings. One thing I've noticed is that it seems that Starband is adding more bandwidth usage a day or two after the fact. If they're making such adjustments, I'm a little curious as to how they can accurately say that someone has exceeded their bandwidth usage limit. I saved the html of the bandwidth usage page showing the 8.5kb for yesterday, which I'll be attaching to this blog post. Then, over the next few days I'll check and if I see the data for 8/27 change I'll see what steps I can take to let them know how uncool it is to artificially inflate a customers bandwidth usage. ...
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| By K4GDW on 8/24/2007 2:59:35 PM
Well, Starband has ticked me off royally. They've recently started blocking ports I need to be able to check my home email. I've been unable to get them to come clean and let me know what port(s) I can use. Anywho, they've also started strictly enforcing thier so-called Fair Access Policy (FAP) of only 1 gb per 7 day period. This is rediculously low considering that they do not do any spam filtering and just email, windows updates, and antivirus definition updates add up to nearly 700 mb a week. That leaves me little room for surfing or actually downloading. So in an attempt to hopefully reduce my bandwidth usage I've signed up for Google Apps. This should greatly reduce the number of spam emails that actually reach my server since Google filters for spam and viruses and the like. The only emails that should make it to my mail server (via fetchmail) should be ones that get past the google spam fi ...
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| By K4GDW on 8/20/2007 8:42:38 AM
Praise The Lord! It's been approximately a year and 9 months since my last flare. This is by far the longest remission I've had since being diagnosed. I'm enjoying life once again and beginning to get out and do stuff. For example, this past weekend, I went to the Huntsville, AL Hamfest. I drove up on Friday afternoon, stayed the night in a Holiday Inn Express, and spent half of Saturday at the hamfest before driving back home. It was a great trip. Strangely, I didn't feel the urge to go perform brain surgery or anything like that after staying at the Holiday Inn Express. I guess those commercials exaggerate things a bit.
| By K4GDW on 8/20/2007 9:36:26 AM
Something still isn't quite right with my scooter. Today I'll call the repair place and see about scheduling time to bring it by again. The brake doesn't always fully disengage. Normally, when applying the throttle there is a very noticable clicking sound that precedes the start of motion, either forward or in reverse. However, now, when the scooter has been in use for a little while, that stops happening and it sounds like something is scrubbing. It sounds like the brake is still engged, at least partially. Also, when this happens the motor gets very hot. If I park it for a little while to allow it to cool off, the click returns and everything is normal for a few minutes. I suspect the relay, solenoid, or other form of actuator that operates the brake is failing.
| By K4GDW on 8/19/2007 8:28:23 AM
Huntsville Hamfest, North American QSO Party
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| By K4GDW on 8/14/2007 2:17:13 PM
In recent years, the anti-gun lobby, aka the gun-control/gun-safety lobby, has been hollering about how many lives would supposedly be saved if gun owners were forced by law to keep their guns under lock and key. Well, check this out. A kid locked himself into a gun safe. I bet that now they'll start raising hell about how unsafe the safety measures are and use that as further support for their gun-ban agenda.
| By K4GDW on 8/14/2007 9:36:10 AM
Check this out. The article is rather short. A dude in Japan bumped into a highway divider and severed his leg below the knee. He didn't notice until he stopped about 1.2 miles farther down the road. Unimaginable. He said he felt excruciating pain when he hit the divider but didn't know his leg had been severed. I must admit I admire someone with the mental concentration to be able to continue riding a motorcycle when in the kind of pain I imagine a severed limb must bring.
| By K4GDW on 8/14/2007 8:37:22 AM
My ordeal with the tiny little Chevy Cobalt rental car is finally over. Recently, my Trailblazer started acting funky. When I filled it up, the gas gauge went to empty then slowly climbed back to full. It was under warranty The dealer was expecting it to take two or three days. However, they got it back to me the very next day, this morning to be exact. Here's the work they did. Removed fuel tank, removed fuel pump, removed the sending unit, removed and replaced the float level sensor, then reinstalled all the stuff they removed. I'm rather impressed they were able to get all that done in just one day. Larry Puckett Chevrolet in Prattville, AL.
| By K4GDW on 8/13/2007 12:01:25 PM
I'm attending a class this week, Monday - Wednesday, on "Implementing and Maintaining Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services." The fellow who's teaching the class seems to know his stuff pretty well. So far, what we've seen has me somewhat impressed. Reporting Services appears to have come quite a way since I first played with it as an add-on the SQL Server 2000. I wasn't very impressed with it when it first came out. It looks much more useful now. We'll see if that continues to hold true as the course continues.
| By K4GDW on 8/10/2007 8:23:51 AM
Yesterday evening my mobility scooter decided to be cantankerous. It will only run in reverse. I'll be taking it to the repair shop today. But in the mean time, unless it's a quick fix that they can take care of quickly I'll be without the scooter until it is fixed. Grumble. That makes life much more difficult as I use the scooter for nearly all transport outside my home that takes more than just a few steps.
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