Electrical tape made a great temporary Write enable to create service disks. A few other vendors provided them for free.
Harder to find were 5-1/4 floppies without a write notch. I had a drive modified just to write them.

Oh the memories.
Still looking for thumb drives with a write protect that works.

Until they put a Write Protect on thumb drives my diagnostics boot from Write Disabled media, either optical or a floppy in a USB drive. Practice safe computing. I have a punch to remove the write tab from floppies.

Definitely get a new optometrist.

Any one interested in maximizing the insurance bill on the up sell does not have your needs in mind. Your insurance most likely covers one pair, which is the root of the bad recommendation.

I get work glasses every other year and driving glasses on opposite years, Explain your needs. If the optometrist only wants to sell progressive lenses every year, fire him.

Some DMX wireless solutions are not WiFi. Only Artnet, E1.31, and related DMX over Ethernet protocols are able to be carried on consumer wireless links. Most hardware commercial solutions are spread spectrum frequency hopping. Links are more like paired Bluetooth than WiFi. As such they are in common use where high reliability is needed.

1 wireless receiver can carry 512 channels. It is permitted to daisy chain a string of DMX devices off one wireless receiver.

Adding wireless to Lights-o-rama or vixen is not that hard. Use one of the DMX over Ethernet solutions. Be aware there is a huge difference between DMX over CAT 5 and DMX over Ethernet. Don't confuse the two.

The first decision to make is based on what your controller software supports and what LED interface controller is chosen. The most supported protocols are Artnet and E1.31. I recommend E.131.

Uisng out of the box hardware, I would recommend a PC to run Lights-O-Rama or Vixen. Vixen is free.. hint hint. Lights-O-Rama has software for sale as well as some interfaces that work well for running power to conventional LED or mini lights. Unless you switch them to work on DMX512, then they don't play well with wireless. I highly recommend one of the LED controllers from Sandevices to create DMX for the interface as well as directly driving addressable LED pixels.. You can go assembled and tested or kit form. Off the shelf assembled and tested works great if you are using addressable LED pixels.

A quick note on routers. Not all routers are created equal. As popular as they are, DO NOT USE one of the Linksys 54G model routers. Visit the forums for compatible routers. The router must STREAM the DMX signal without pauses or your lights will run/pause like watching a streaming video on dial up. I have had great luck with the old metal box Buffalo routers with the single antenna. To test routers for compatibility look for ones that will do the following.

1 do LAN on a subnet other than 192.X.X.X. A router able to do 10.x.x.x.x or 2.x.x.x is a huge help and is part of the Artnet spec.
2 gef Artnetominator to view the packets in real time over the test router. Not all routers will smoothly stream without significant delays and pauses. http://www.lightjams.com/artne... This tool was most helpful in router selection from a collection of older routers.

So off the shelf wireless is simply a collection of PC, software, Router, and interface to the lights. When all are compatible, you are done.

Sony was already rooted. Were you paying attention?

You are subscribing, thus get a bill. They do not subscribe to your carrier. They call in from a peer, often VOIP such as Magic Jack with invalid location data.

VOIP service other than consumer packaged plans permit users to set their own CID info. For example, I can enter my 800 number for call backs.

Commercial lines are different from home lines where the in and out line is one and the same.

I have a DID Direct Inward Dial number. It can't call out.

I also have several trunk lines. They can call out, but can't take a call in as they have no number. On those lines, I can place my own CID info per call, or by extension as needed or for abuse.

Ever dial 9 to get an outside line? Several hundred phones may be using 3 or 4 outgoing trunk lines. CID can be set for the hotel 800 number or each extension can provide their own CID so return calls go to your shop 800 number or cell phone.

This feature makes fake CID child's play.

It is only the pockets that are protected. Good luck getting that pair of jeans in your pocket.

Are you only planning on stealing ladies underwear?

TSA search at the airport

I agree that confusing the embryo, child, baby, etc is common on both sides of the argument. The only difference between the names is age after conception or age before or after birth.

Your post shows the same bias or spin. Both camps use names for this early life. Both sides do agree that it is ALIVE and is a life. But is it a person yet? That is the crux of the debate.

Are you talking about the daughter?

Daughter or son, It's stressful enough to be almost 100% fatal. True, the mom usually survives.

I have Michael Jackson;s business card. I worked on the sound system in his car. He is older than the music industry recording star. He was never black.
Donald Duck served in the US Navy in the 1970's. Not the cartoon.

Remember this,

Would you like to be in group A with no pot conviction, or one of the leftovers in group B? It pays to have a clean record.

The worst debt collection practice I was hammered with, called, didn't state for who they were,, did not leave any options to complete the call from them, but only gave a call back number for Jeromy to call Bob. I'm not Jeremy, so I let it run for a couple of months to see if it would quit. It didn't. Collectors continued to call even after my new number was not so new at 8 years.

I pity anyone who does not speak English as they wouldn't understand the message, there was no option to respond to the call, such as press any key, and it would continue until you did call in. They only quit after I called and didn't ask for Bob, but asked for their legal department. I think I shook them up a bit. Anyway the calls quit from them.

I asked for the legal department. I then told them they can not legally disclose any debt info to third parties. Then told them of the issue with the robocall. I gave them the number they robocalled and the times. They feigned ignorance and stated it must have been forwarded to my number from another number. I then asked for the number they were using to call Jeremy and gave time stamps. They then claimed they could not release Jeremy's contact info to 3rd parties. LOL.. Nice snow job. Anyway the calls quit with threat of $50 for each additional call per the telemarketing and fair collection practices laws.

A Google search of the number revealed the law firm in Chicago IL, their address, office phone numbers, staff names, etc. Nobody there is named Bob or Robert.

Jeromy Taylor, Please update your contact info with your creditors. I'm tired of taking your calls.