… the fellow that made up their monthly torrent of their shows went MIA. They’ve asked me to help.
One problem: I don’t know squat about torrents.
By muddling around I made one torrent for demo purposes.
If you use torrents, please click on the link and let me know if you can get my torrent and play it.
Then, I’ll be a torrent guru having made one!!
http://www.inpursuitof.com/FTL2006-12-18.mp3.torrent
Try this a see if you can get their show.
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Posted by reinkefj
Being an old bell shaped head, I am always fascinated with when the web can touch the PSTN (public service telephone network). Imagine being able to turn a ~4k laptop or desktop into a $9 phone. Great. Ever since Judge Green threw the snowball that started an avalanche! (He decided that the Bell “monopoly” would have to open up. We did have the best phone service in the world, universal service, a dedicated workforce, and Bell Labs. (That was a national treasure!) This was all for the sake of supposedly cheaper phone rates for business. Interesting that I don’t think we have seen the benefits of competition. It’s really not a free market. Now that would be great, if we had gone to a truly free market. Instead, we have a sort of regulated, sort of free, definitely regulated market.
So I’ve been playing with SKYPE. You can skype me at “reinkefj” (I know the name is a real surprise.) You can call me on 732 – 917 – 4816.
SKYPEIN isn’t working. For calls from a phone, it doesn’t “ring” on the laptop, but it will take a message. For calls from a pc, it does work correctly.
Yahoo Instant Messenger With Voice has a similar offering. Again, I’m “reinkefj”, or you can call from 609-489-5893.
Call me if you want to chat or just want to turn my notebook into a nine dollar phone.
Interesting! What the real future of the public telephone network will really be?
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Posted by reinkefj
From: Admin, Topix [mailto:topixadmin@ex.topix.net]
Sent: Monday, December 18, 2006 1:49 PM
Subject: RE: Feedback: BUG Sign up none
Hi there,
Thanks for letting us know. We are constantly working to improve our site, and I have forwarded your issue to our engineers. In the meantime, feel free to sign up using another email address. We will never share your email address, and it is not displayed publicly.
Admin @ Topix
—–Original Message—–
Sent: Sun 12/17/2006 8:20 AM
To: feedback2@ex.topix.net
Subject: Feedback: BUG Sign up none
Can’t use a gmail plus for an email. It’s a way of preventing spam. https://reinkefj.wordpress.com/2006/12/16/productivity-use-two-gmail-accounts-to-protect-an-isp-email-account/
Sorry can use your site until you support gmail plus signs.
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Just trust us. We’d never spam you. Or, make a mistake.
Yeahhhhhh
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Posted by reinkefj
http://thinkprogress.org/2006/12/13/mccain-war-on-blogs/
John McCain’s War On Blogs
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John McCain has made clear that he doesn’t like the blogosphere.
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Just to be clear, this blogger doesn’t like John McCain.
As a POW, he took parole and broke faith with his fellow POWs. As a member of the Keating Five, he demonstrated his “honesty” credentials. As part of the McCain – Feingold team, he demonstrated his thoughts on the First Amendment.
The people of Arizona should be embarrassed to have him as their senator.
Time to repeal the direct election of senators anyway. The dead old white guys had it right!
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Posted by reinkefj
You don’t? TOO BAD!
This morning 14 December at 0645 est on Route 1 by the Stop’n’Shop … …
… … a white state police suv SPA145A … …
… … raced by the standing traffic at the light on the right hand lane … …
… … No red/blue lights. It didn’t look like it was even equipped with them. What kinda of SP was this?
… … (I admire that the person timed the light perfectly. Anyone running the light, right turning on red, or late in the opposite direction would have been killed! But it was timed perfectly.) … …
… … down route 1 at a between zero and what seemed to be over a hundred (Your serf speed limit is 55)
… … of course the statist road system, with myriad lights to slow the serfs down, allowed us a better look at the state car when we caught up.
… … All that serf traffic just meant that it was tailgating the poor peon in his way all the way down.
… … It did observe the unwritten rule of the powerful “never leave the left lane”!
… … (Do you teach them to do that, or is that a qualification for working for the state of nujerzee!?)
… … And once freed of the serf, when last we saw it, it was flying down route 1, hurrying to get to I assume trenton to protect and serve me.
Arghhh!
[For those not familiar with the NJ roads. State “workers” proceed straight down route 1 to the golden dome of corruption. If you come later in the morning, then it’s not unusual to see “lots” of state cards commuting to the state jobs by the state ’employees”. It particularly ticks me off to know that I am paying for the road, the traffic jam, and the bad driving of my “servants”. Arghhh! That’s one reason I like to commute early; I can’t afford to have a stroke because I couldn’t afford the death taxes.]
Arghhhhhhh!
P.S.: Dear reader, I don’t write these every day. Just when I ARRIVE early for work, particularly agitated aggravated and have to wait for my employer workstation to get online.
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Posted by reinkefj
Today after resuming, the box is running like sludge. Perhaps a reboot will recover.
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Posted by reinkefj
—–Original Message—–
From: Alison O’Brien @ Cabonite
Sent: Tuesday, December 12, 2006 1:36 PM
To: ReinkeFJ
Subject: Carbonite
Hello and thank you for your email –
Sorry you had trouble with your restore. We ask for serial numbers when passwords have been
forgotten as a security measure. If you can tell me the some other information to help verify you, I can reset your
password for you. If you can provide the name of the PC you installed Carbonite on and the date (roughly) that you installed it,
I can go ahead and reset your password for you.
Thank You,
Alison O’Brien
Carbonite Customer Support
—- My Response —
No need; I just wrote it off.
You may want to think how your offering will be used. When the source machine “burns”, it will be unlikely that the user will have access to any old stuff. Serial number, email, and passwords may all be gone.
And, when I gave it the serial number, that I carefully copied from the live screen, it still wouldn’t reset the password.
So, I gave up on a restore.
Luckily, this was just a test. I was planning to sign up but when the process failed. And rescue was complicated by a need to go to you. I decided it wasn’t for me.
Good luck.
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Posted by reinkefj
Well, I tried the restore again. I went back to the primary desktop, which if this was a real test would not be there to go back to, and got the serial number. However, on the restoring pc, I could not get past the pc password reset. In a real disaster, when you have nothing working, it will be unlikely that you’ll be able to get your files back from the cloud without heroic effort imho. Hence, it’s not for me and I wouldn’t recommend it. Guess I’ll look for another solution.
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Posted by reinkefj
OK, prior to becoming a pay for customer, I decided to test a restore.
Assume that my pc is wiped out, (I actually left it home today), let’s see if I could restore a key file to my work notebook without anything.
Stumbling block one was the carbonite password. No problem I’ll ask for reset.
Stumbling block two was the email. I set this up on a non-trivial email id. But I was able to find that in my gmail message store.
Stumbling block three carbonite asks for a serial number in password reset. Huh? Who knows that.
Restore failed. I’ll try again tomorrow!
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Posted by reinkefj
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20061207/D8LS100G0.html
Pearl Harbor Survivors Meet for Last Time
Dec 7, 7:58 AM (ET)
By JAYMES SONG
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PEARL HARBOR, Hawaii (AP) – With their number quickly dwindling, survivors of Pearl Harbor will gather Thursday one last time to honor those killed by the Japanese 65 years ago, and to mark a day that lives in infamy.
This will be their last visit to this watery grave to share stories, exchange smiles, find peace and salute their fallen friends. This, they say, will be their final farewell.
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If one reads Robert Stinnett’s book on Pearl Harbor, “Day of Deceit: The Truth About FDR and Pearl Harbor”, you’ll come away with a real understanding of what caused all this dead, destruction, and suffering. It truly was a “day of Infamy”, but not as we thought it. As a cryptographer, I was stunned reading this. Further the fact that the truth was concealed for 60 years really lends credence to the quip “How do you know when a politician is lying? When his lips are moving.” There has to be, I hope, a special circle in hell for those politicians. Not that “ours” are any better. This should be required reading for voters and anyone considering entering the military.
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