The way to get around that is to get a LLC that lists your address as the corp address.

From a zoning viewpoint, you should be able to have a consulting business running out of any kind of R zoned property as long as you never have customers come there.

When contacting the business department of the ISP do not even mention that it is a residential address until they make a point of it, at that point you say it is for SOHO use and here is my EIN, bank account, and any needed business licenses.

Is they are still asses at that point, find another provider.

Lets face it, we are not the typical ISP customer anymore.

I learned a long time ago that business customers get treated much better than general consumers.

Yes business accounts cost more, but you get priority services, more technical customer service, static ips, and best of all no restrictions.

So organize an LLC, get a business bank account, and then get business internet service. Since this is probally going to be in your house, sell yourself the cost of local DSL (invoice and pay for it using personal funds) and it is an easy IRS write off.


People on here complain about caps and port blocking all of the time without realizing that everything costs money. In Oklahoma City, Business Internet is $90 a month. That gets me a static IP, 24/7 knowledgeable tech support, free equipment, truck rolls at 2am, 5up/30down ( dedicated priority service over consumer.)
The closest consumer plan has the same speeds but the cable tv support department, caps, blocked ports, must supply own equipment, and the bandwidth is not dedicated. All for $59 a month.

It is worth an extra $30 a month for the access, of which I write the whole thing ($89) off at tax time as a business expense.

It appears that Dish uses a humans to proctor where the commercials are on the national feeds. As a result you are not able to skip commercials for usually 8 hours or so after the show aired. I have found that when the local station delays the feed, the hopper skips at the wrong points.

For the most part it works well.

That is what I was thinking. I am not that old, but I do have fond memories of a TI994/a.

Diesel generators are great, but something like the Bloom Box is a game changer. The goal for the company is a device the size of an air conditioner that costs around $3000 to power a home. When this happens, there is no need for a centralized power grid. At that point you just need access to Natural Gas or Lpg to have electricity.

"niche fuel source?"

Natural Gas is easily found in most of the county and is delivered to most urban addresses. Propane is available just about everywhere else.

Treat your mac as a hackintosh and boot it in legacy mode. Do it with my 1,1 and have been running lion in full 64bit mode. I have heard the ML DP4 works well also and it can be installed as an upgrade install.

Oops. Lion also works well this way, and I have seen that people have been running Mountain Lion DP4 this way with no issues. From what I understand upgrade install works fine.

I have a macpro1,1 with 8 cores(clovertown), 16 gigs ram, and the current 2011 ATI video card.

Yes I have had the machine for 6 years and I could upgrade. But the current hardware is not that much of a performance upgrade for the cost.

Xeon based systems of this generation like the Dell 2900, 1950, are still a viable system and still well supported and will be for years into the future.

Apple decided to stop supporting this machine a few years back by not allowing it to run a 64 bit kernel with the lame excuse that a 32bit boot loader can not boot a 64 bit os.

Solution that works great.

Hackintosh your machintosh.

Install cameleon and boot the mac in legacy mode as a hackintosh. With Snow Leopard, the machine runs the 64 bit kernel and is noticeably faster. There is no reason that Mountain Lion will not work well also since the macpro1,1 is the same hardware as the 2,1 and most of the 3,1.

By doing this you can now run any video card that you want and still maintain a legal right to use the software.

I was starting to decide on upgrading to a current mac pro, but to be honest, there is no reason to drop that kind of change on a machine that Apple will drop within a 5 year period.

I have been debating about going with Republic wireless for my phone and Ting for a hotspot. The only thing that was holding me back was my unlimited 4g data on my thunderbolt. I hope wave c gets here before VZ makes the material adverse change in my contract. That way the change will be easy to justify. Right now my ETF is $545 - $40 a month.

Now this is interesting. I have a sharp aquos and the tv controls the amp and dvd player via CEC (Aquos link.)

The set top box makers will never support this because they want their device to be the centerpiece of your home theatre.

dhh

I have been running iptv for years. I started with a Mythbox to replace my tivo around 2003 and eventually hooked a pc up to the tv and placed the server in the computer room.

The next step was hacking an apple tv (1) and using it as a front end and to play boxee and other content. It worked well until the MKV format started to dominate.

When the boxee box came out, I bought it, retired my old mythbox and started to use my own file server and netflix.

I recently bought an Xbox 360, and use it for Espn and games. I also bought a roku 2 as a kid and wife friendly netflix device.

I have considered returning to using a peecee hooked to my tv and then I remember why I got rid of it in the first place( circa 2006-7), I want my television to use a simple remote. I find using three different devices with three different remotes and a tv remote, much simpler than trying to keep a peecee running with an XYL and kids touching it.

I have considered building a media center pc, but honestly the only thing that it would provide that I can not get through legal or grey market mean is the local news.

My biggest issue now is that I want to use a single unified remote for all of my devices and the roku and boxee are RF based and do not have an IR option. As a result I have a pile of remotes for the kids to loose.

I run a Dell PE2900 and run Proxmox VE on it. Total cost around $1500 so far and entire lab fits in a closet.

I have a really hot sister....

Already done, or at least predicted. www.prisonplanet.com

Man I wish Space Moose was still around. Imagine a post 9/11 Space Moose.

Wait, most of the people on /. was probably in grade school when that internet comic was strong.

I feel old.