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Comment Re:The easiest solution (Score 1) 438

Actualy you can get the latency on satellite down low enough to make very good voice calls, but you have to spend the money on it. On a daily basis I deal with satellite remotes that have latencies less than 500 ms and phone calls are very clear. A provider with a iDirect system implemented with voice as high priority will see these low latencies.

Comment Re:SINTEF should not Cry Wolf (Score 2, Informative) 116

Almost all of the big oil companies have no Internet connection to mission critical parts of the rig. They have there own rack of equipment at the earth station with a dedicated line back to there offices. This rack of equipment is isolated from all equipment in a locked cabinet. If they want Internet on the oil platform it requires a completely different modem but that is a luxury item on these platforms. I see every day just how strict these companies are on security. Unless you have a key to get into the equipment room and then a key to git into there own locked rack or are at there offices with there massive amounts of security you cant even ping a modem that runs this mission critical data.

Comment One more problem....parents (Score 1) 785

Even if this is found legal and they try to use it the parents are going to raise hell. In the school system my mother works in they tried to ban the kids from being able to bring cell phones into the school and the parents wouldn't let that fly. Parents see it as a long leash they can put on their children. Some of these parents are so paranoid that even the idea of not being able to call there children directly frightens them.

Comment Re:Why? (Score 1) 811

Why do YOU feel obligated to do something here?

Because he is a friend and he sees him pissing his opportunity away over a stupid game. Go ahead and flame me for calling a game stupid, but compared to what he is missing out on it is stupid. Is he failing? if so talk to his professors, tell them your concern. They can give you some advice that may just kick his ass into gear. If he has to make good grades on the rest of his exams to pass let him know. If he is a freshman and is not on a scholarship and who ever is funding his schooling isnt going to cut him off if he fails you may have to let him fail to get the picture. Thats what happened to me. If he is on a scholarship, will lose it if he fails and has no other way of paying for school explain to him that if he fails he will have no more university. Do not drag yourself down trying to help him. If he is not taking this help there is probably nothing you can do. I am guessing he is a freshman, Some of us have to get kicked out of school before we realize just how bad we are screwing up.

Comment how we did it at work (Score 1) 204

We heated the tech shop where I work all winter with our server rack. Of course I do live in south Louisiana where you can count the below freezing days on your fingers but the shop is also pretty large. We finally got our blower to vent the hot air outside installed last week so now the server closet does not stay at a constant 90F now.

Comment Oil rig and off shore comunications (Score 1) 175

I work in a shop cleaning repairing and checking out communications systems for oil rigs and boats. Some of the crap that comes back is ridiculous. Thick layers of crude oil and deisel, the rotten smell of crew boats and the occasional dead rodent make the day go by. But hey, I get to play with robots to so it makes it all good.

Comment Re:windows, meh (Score 1) 1127

I several times set up my computer to dual boot windows and linux. In the end I would just end up booting into windows and leaving it there. I Knew how things worked and could fix issues, it was comfortable but I hated windows. Finlay one day I took the plunge and formatted my hard drive. I only installed Ubuntu onto my computer. I haven't looked back sense. I love trying to figure little things out and make it work a certain way again. I do keep an old laptop lying around running XP for the odd time when I have to run windows, like setting up my DSL modem but otherwise it stays tucked away in the corner

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