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"I scared the tar out of some people, at least," she says. "It had never occurred to me to take a hammer to a phone company before, but I was just so upset. . . . After I hit the keyboard, I turned to this blonde who had been there the previous Friday, the one who told me to wait for the manager, and I said, ' Now do I have your attention?' "
This gets up my nose. I'm sure she was angry and frustrated that she didn't have phone service, but it had nothing to do with the blonde. In fact, I'll bet when the manager decided to leave, she probably reminded him/her that there was someone waiting. What was she supposed to do short of physically making the manager see these people.
The girl wasn't not paying attention to you, lady, there's just nothing she can do.
The Washington Post article is very weird in tone.
I'd love to hear what Comcast isn't saying.
Too lazy to google....
Re: Time Machine and second drive:
If you've got an Apple Airport Extreme base station, you can even perform this backup wirelessly to an external hard drive... meaning that it would be a simple (practically one-click set-up) task to back up all of your local computers to one external hard drive over your network.
What does Apple Airport Extreme base station have that a conventional wireless router/hub does not? 'Cuz doing Time Machine wirelessly would be pretty cool....
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'Cuz doing Time Machine wirelessly would be pretty cool....
Don't you worry about all those files whizzing through the air? Can't be safe.
Don't you worry about all those files whizzing through the air? Can't be safe.
Well, an encrypted connection would reduce the risk. Plus at least with Time Machine data - it'd mostly be incremental changes to files, which would be harder for a third party to figure out. Plus, um... there'd be proprietary formatting and obfuscation stuff for the data ...
Well, theoretically, it could be secure. But yeah, I'd like to know more before allowing all my stuff to fly through the aether....
Right now my wireless network is only as secure as my TiVo will let it be. But I'm thinking of running wire to it.
I'm not sure what I'm hiding, exactly. I'm pretty sure anyone who's bothering to hack WEP can find many more interesting networks to play in.
Right now my wireless network is only as secure as my TiVo will let it be.
I suppose you could buy an additional wireless hub and only use it for the Tivo, allowing you to use more secure encryption for the main hub.
If you used a wire, would you need a USB to Ethernet adapter? (TiVo's don't have Ethernet jacks, do they?)
One more step closer to allaying my TiVo HD fears. I'm just so addicted to my Weaknees space right now.
If you used a wire, would you need a USB to Ethernet adapter?
With this model, yes. With the new HD ones, no.
So is that a business account? I mean, do all business accounts come with equal up and download speeds?
It is a business account, but not all business accounts have it. We had to jump through hoops to get it, too, although a lot of that was probably because the business accounts were pretty new at the time, and most of the customer service reps didn't seem to know what was available for businesses. Once I found someone who understood what I meant when I said that we needed, among other things, a fixed IP addresses so folks could find our servers, he also suggested that we get synchronous. Nobody had even mentioned it to us before then.
