filePro and "crossgrading"

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Tue, Aug 03, 2004 at 08:32:56PM -0400, Fairlight wrote:
> > Your problem, by the way, is a high-resistance cross out in the plant
> > somewhere, likely from moisture incursion in a cable they forgot to
> > change the nitrogen bottle on.  When you take more phones off hook, you
> > draw more current, which heats up the moisture and dries it out
> > temporarily.
> > 
> > The hum comes from the fact that phone pairs are balanced quite
> > delicately to ground: you half-ground one side and all sort of ugliness
> > happens.
> 
> Well, when the support person on the phone just reiterated to me that it
> sounds to her like a deep ground and/or a cross, I kind of correlated that
> to what Bill said yesterday, and what you said.
> 
> They claim they're still having problems recovering from the storms--from
> two weeks ago!!  Now LG&E had 150K people without power and fixed all of
> them inside 5 days.  There's no excuse.

LG&E has many fewer circuits to deal with, and they get louder
complaints.

> If they fix the voice segment, there's (I suppose) a chance it could even
> improve more.  Certainly they affected -something- for me to see that vast
> a sudden improvement.  I -certainly- won't complain about 127, but I still
> envy Bob's 153.  Ah, bandwidth envy. :) As with disk space, CPU speeds, and
> video framerates, no matter how much you have, it's never enough. *chuckle*

I get close to 300 on my cablemodem, form a good site.

> You know, I just reformatted the last paragraph with par, and the one thing
> that annoys me is that it nukes the proper English convention of two spaces
> after a period--if the thing that follows the period is not alphanumeric.
> Asterisks, colons, etc., all trigger a condensation to one space.  I find
> that annoying.  Any quick solution to that, by chance?

I wouldn't begin to speculate; I use par by recipe.

Cheers,
-- j
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