The frickin laser beam..

Just kidding, really a great piece of work.

My question is:
Did you mix the solid fuel yourself or was that made for you.

Read today apple has 23% of the desktop market. Looks like Microsoft playing right into their hands.

I been watching the decent on a app on my phone, currently it shows it a altitude of 135 km. I was watching it since Friday when it was at 180 km. Was going to try and watch if when it hits 100 to 120 and see how fast it decelerated. Guess its not a real time app. (Satellite Tracker 1.5) I tried to see it last night when it was passing within view between 8:17 and 8:24 pm. But alas was not able to see it.

I used to stop at Radio Shack at least 3 times a week for parts. But in large metroplex's they got their lunch ate by people who were just smarter. Here in Dallas / Fort-worth there are a few places with over 10,000 sqft of parts ( http://www.tannerelectronics.com/ ), with prices that are right. Radio shack made probably 1/3 their money selling antenna's and poles for broadcast tv's. 1/3 from DYI parts, and the balance from selling remote control toys at Christmas. Tanner has no less than 8 customers in it any time I am in there.

So how can they turn this to reclaim some of their old customers who are actually aware of them, and gain the new younger generation who doesn't?

1. Carry a few of the kits, blinking led's, crystal radio's, maybe a programmable remote control for TV's? For the kids who might DYI?
        or crazy grandpa who would like to give a kid a gift that will make them think for themselves.

2. In some area's focus on selling the HDTV antenna's, and pitch it as get off the 50$ a month cable or satellite bill?

3. Christmas was always big with remote control vehicles, maybe a few more robotic style toys (programmable from pc)?

4. Increase digital selection, maybe since ttl is coming in smaller packages, offer those, and some soic to dil adapters.

5. Bring back some wire wrap, sockets, better selection of transistors, more resistors values etc. (Still small space usage)

6. Higher quality home stereo and surround sound systems (works in every market) and advertise this!

7.Become the goto for car stereo equipment with good brands, and speakers.

8. Make a online sales course for the fricking sales staff to watch while their waiting around for somebody to come in.

9. Better selection of power supplies, maybe some test equipment would be nice, (good meters, pc based digital scope or something!)

10. Become the king of batteries for cell phones probably a good idea, and carry a larger variety of cell phone accessories.

This will not work in every store. They are going to have to figure this out by location.

If you really need two, I have some. want much and if it would like them pm me. I have them on Craigslist in Dallas. I would rather help a fellow slashdotter. They were always calibrated, but the cal sticker ran out last year. Just pm me.

I also wanted to mention, its cheaper to colo than to get a fixed ip from Verizon.

We have Verizon business and they block it. Fortunately we host our own server in a colo, but still have to use a off port to access it.

You can have your own server hosted almost anywhere for 50$ a month. Second, use this to be able to do both port 25 (which is blocked) and reroute port 26 to port 25 in your ip chains pre-route rules. Then set your people in the office to use port 26 instead of 25. (I am using APF) you did say linux server right?

# place your custom routing rules below
$IPT -t mangle -A PREROUTING -p tcp --sport 443 -j TOS --set-tos 8
$IPT -t nat -I PREROUTING -p tcp --dport 26 \-j REDIRECT --to-port 25

Reading the comments where it does not get ummm erased is some what more informative at:
http://www.investorvillage.com/smbd.asp?mb=1911&clear=1&pt=m

Comments there are not scrutinized as much and therefore more interesting.

I was recently working in Korea for a few weeks, staying south of Seoul, in Kumi. In the hotel I was staying at I did a speed test, and was really shocked, on a wired connection at the hotel I got the following speeds 82.67 down and 18.87 up on my laptop. Also received speeds like that everywhere there. So doing a bit of investigation, I could see they were using wireless to back haul to a mountain point. I dont know what frequency they were using, it would not show up in anything I had to scan with.

Our voip provider bills in 40$ increments. I think I would know if something was going on, plus all the alerts from a properly setup system with basic monitoring would show failed login's after 3 or 4 attempts were made.

Our government in the pursuit of efficiency is pushing and funding this I am sure. Just think, they do not even have to go to your house to pick you up for ummm say questioning. Just lock the doors and redirect you, look no intervention! Just drive you right inside the yard... Na... I will pass. Right now,

The trustee's sale of the aforedescribed real property will be made without warranty as to title, possession, or encumbrances.

Sounds like selling a pig in a poke.