OT: Facial Hair

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> Only Bob Stockler would say something like:
> > 
> > PS - Mark Luljak may disagree, but he missed his chance by
> >      not coming to my house Derby Day a year ago (when Esak
> >      was here), so I've never met him in person - though he
> >      has been a great help to me and has access to my system.
> 
> I avoid mirrors, any photos of me must be burned, and all 
> SmartMedia cards with my photos on them must be purged.  :)  
> Actually, there are a few photos of me online.
> 
> And we'll get together one of these days.  For now, I'll 
> resort to one of my favourite lines from a list of excuses 
> for not going in to work "today":
> 
> "I prefer to remain an enigma."
> 
> However, you've met my wife so you know I exist. :) I'm 
> married, therefore I am?  That a workable axiom?
> 
> I'll say one thing (well, one MORE thing)...  It's too bloody 
> hot out for beards.  I haven't given up yet, but damn this 
> weather is -killing- me, even with A/C and 3 fans.  True 
> Kentucky weather, this...  Kentucky:  Land of beautiful 
> horses, fast women, and weather imported direct from Hades.
> 
> mark->

I'll second that.  We're going to hit 105 here in Baltimore by 4 PM this PM.


> 
> PS - And as proof that DSL just does not measure up to a T1 
> for stability, today was a gem.  No storms, no nothing.  I 
> suddenly went to 76% packet loss, +15ms additional latency 
> (25ms avg instead of 15ms), and pretty much an unusable net.  
> I called IgLou, and while I'm talking to the guy, my phone 
> starts acting like it's a bad cell phone connection with 
> intermittant to no signal.  I figured I'd have to call 
> BellSouth.  About 5min later I'm still checking things out 
> and I see pings go up to 700ms, then 1600ms, then drop back 
> down to 300ms and finally down to 15ms like normal.  I call 
> the same guy back and he said that it wasn't just me, two 
> other people called in with problems right after me, and he 
> spoke with one directly--and they had the same voice line 
> problems I did.  Mine and theirs cleared up at the same time.
> 
> Now if that'd been a business-critical uplink in terms of 
> -needing- a presence there 24/7, there'd be problems, 
> especially had the weirdness lasted longer than the 20min it 
> did.  I maintain:  Anyone dropping their leased lines for DSL 
> and dropping their LD or even phone for VOIP is asking for 
> problems.  That's about the closest I've seen to my phone 
> service going dead, and at least it was marginal (-real- 
> marginal) for usability.  The net was shot though.  At best, 
> a bursty 5KB/sec at one point during the spurts it worked, 
> acting like it had intermittent sync (it didn't lose sync though).
> 
> Sure, it was fixed in 20min.  And had it not been, and had I 
> hopped on the Vonage bandwagon like so many have?  S.O.L.  
> (Not counting my cell phone.) At least I could more or less 
> talk to support yet on voice.  There's no way VOIP would have 
> worked at all--I couldn't even use ssh more than a few dozen 
> characters every 20 seconds in bursts.
> 
> And that's several days after the storm system that took sync 
> away for about 1.5 hours straight here the other night.
> 
> I'd again advise anyone thinking about switching to rethink things.

Here, Here!!!!

Came down to my office this A.M. and found that I needed to reboot my cable
modem again.  I need to do this every 4-6 weeks, sometime more, with
Comcast.  It's annoying although it takes a minute to get back up.  When I
was in NY with Cablevision, I needed to reboot about once or twice a year
maybe.

Verizon has finally got the OK from Baltimore County to pull fiber.  Once
they do, I'll probably convert to DSL.  They will be offering 15Mbs service.
My brother installed the service in Ny has had no problems (at least so
far).

I'll the have one phone using fiber VOIP and one POTS.

Richard Kreiss
GCC Consulting