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Comment Just go elsewhere! (Score 3, Interesting) 85

My (Japanese) wife and I got married in Spain. Then we just registered the "already existing" wedding in Japan, and that's it!
It can be a romantic alternative for Japanese couples: instead of getting married before the wedding trip, get married during the trip. They have Hawaii quite close, which is a very common holiday destination for them, so it shouldn't be that difficult.

Comment Re:Using Linux would prevent these Cisco mishaps! (Score 1) 112

I've forgotten the name of the company now, but there was a presentation at the Linux conference last year (two years ago, maybe?) in New Orleans that talked about this very topic, and they (or someone else that approached me afterward because I asked a question about it) said that their company was making switching hardware that did stuff in kernel-space, maybe with a proprietary module. This is key here... you can stuff a bunch of NICs in a box and use brtables or whatever and make a switch, but that's going to be dog-slow. ASICs are needed, and at least that one Linux company is making them.

Comment Re:My friend's Maksutov-Cassegrain 4Kmm focal leng (Score 1) 201

Oh, I forgot to mention. I also use Kerbal Space Program for my deep space observations.
Can you prove that the Universe does not contain some part which exactly matches what you can see on KSP? We only need to find where it is, but I leave this work to people with better telescopes and more time to search.

Comment My friend's Maksutov-Cassegrain 4Kmm focal lenght (Score 1) 201

He is an excellent astronomer, but he is totally null when it comes to computers (he says: "Computers smell fear and attack me when I'm around them"), so I usually give him a hand to setup the system to capture images and post-process them. Also, we share some excellent whisky while we observe the skies at his home (which is about 1/4 mile-400m away from mine, so we meet pretty often). This is a (not-so-good) picture of his home site, built by himself.

Comment Don't just sit on your hands... (Score 4, Insightful) 239

I would contact my local police force and talk to the financial crimes desk. They may not be able to do anything at this point, but you should establish a paper trail ASAP, which would certainly work in your favor while explaining things to your bank or whatever if the bad guys do manage to hurt you in some manner.

Comment Re:Did the signal degrade, or the noise increase? (Score 1) 615

Well, the answers are "maybe (or maybe)", "no" and "I try to, but not too hard" :-)

Although summers are quite hot here (around 32C/89.6F), I live on a hilltop where temperatures are somewhat cooler (26C/78.8F). I take no special measures other than putting it standing verticaly on one of its sides (rather than laying on its bottom side) to increase airflow around it. No air conditioners at home (never felt the need of them).

Just for the curious people out there, it's a Conceptronic.

Comment Re:Did the signal degrade, or the noise increase? (Score 2) 615

No desert, no third world country (yet). But only ONE WiFi around: mine.

When I first installed my router, about four years ago, I was able to reach the signal from the garage. Now I'm still able to do it. I didn't measure numerically if the signal degraded along the years or not, but for practical purposes the answer is NO: I'm still able to connect from the garage, with the same two "dots" in the "intensity" display.

So, in my case, the signal did not degrade with time. Therefore, I think the neibourghs deployment theory makes sense: taking me as a "control subject" in the experiment, you can say: "The guy with no neighbours suffers no [significative] degradation in the signal intensity".

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