There is a chain of AYCE sushi places around here run by an extended group of Micronesians. They left an isolated tropical island to sell raw fish in a desert. Good place, though, I frequent the establishment.
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There is a chain of AYCE sushi places around here run by an extended group of Micronesians. They left an isolated tropical island to sell raw fish in a desert. Good place, though, I frequent the establishment.
My VbLessons website was just advertised on the largest Libertarian podcast in the nation, The Tom Woods show.
I'm super stoked about that.
Congrats!!! Just remember who was here for you when you make your millions :) Don't forget the little people.
Checkout the about page ;)
I misread "though" as "although".Quote:
Originally Posted by Shaggy Hiker
That works, too.Quote:
Originally Posted by wossy
Too many hours between the last post and this one.
Very happy about the performance of VBForums after whatever fixes the IT guys made.
It has been super quick.
Yeah, it's hard to complain about the recent performance. Partly, the change to VBF came at about the time I went from slow internet to fast internet, so I saw a boost above and beyond the forums.
Happy Holiday to all !!
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Thought I'd share my Christmas picture,
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I've lost a little weight, it's been a good year.
Merry Christmas
Chocolate?
CHOCOLATE?!!?!
Oatmeal.
Chicken and dumplings and fried okra
Got up at 1:00 AM to wander the neighborhood leaving plates of fudge on neighbor porches. Some know who does this, some don't. I don't get to all of them, either. Good way to get rid of the excess, though.
They just needed to wind-up the rubber band again.Quote:
Originally Posted by dday9
Do tell. Fiber? What kind of bandwidth do you have now?Quote:
Originally Posted by Shaggy Hiker
I'm currently obsessed with making my intertubes go as fast as it possibly can. Spent the last few weeks teaching myself computer networking skills (something I've been neglecting my whole life under the misapprehension that it was boring and expensive, which it isn't).
Bought a Mikrotik smart router to beef up the WiFi signal and handle all of the new firewall and network separation that I want to implement. Plus a local hardware DNS server to block out the more unpleasant and nefarious internet content (not least of which is advertising).
The Wifi is the biggest obstacle for me though, I'm in an arms race with my neighbours in this leafy suburb. On a bad day I can see as many as 30 other nearby WiFi networks, stomping all over MY spectrum!! So the Mikrotik will basically allow me to completely overpower all over those losers. Brute force for the win. :)
Fiber??? I get plenty of that.
You misunderstand what I meant when I talked about going from slow to fast. Before this, I was using carrier pigeons to carry the packets back and forth. Now I have copper.
There are places in this valley where you can get fiber direct to your house, but I'm not in one of those places. I was told that I could get "up to 100 Mbps", but what they meant was that there were places where that was possible, and you could get that if you were in one of those places. I wasn't. So, I get 40 Mbps. That's a LOT faster than what I was getting, but it's only fast in a relative sense.
When I first got WiFi, I saw two or three other people out there, some of which were not secured. Now, it's over a dozen. I suspect it won't get higher than that. There has to be a saturation level when you have slightly more than 1/house within range, and I don't think I have more than about a dozen houses within range.
40 MBit per home is actually pretty damn good if you share the upstream trunk with fewer neighbours.
I'd happily trade a good internet connection for having fewer actual people around here, when the next family is a single layer of brick away it grinds your gears after a while.
You can't even go outside to let rip a good boxing-day fart without appearing in the community newsletter the next week. I didn't even light it this time.
What use to drag my internet connection was both of my kid's Windows 10 laptops and their smartphones, including my wive's phone, all connected to the internet at the same time. I've remember reading somewhere that Windows 10 calls home around 5,000 times a day, and many of these connections remain to record what the user is doing online until they turn off their computer.Quote:
Originally Posted by wossy
I fixed this problem by blacklisting all Microsoft URL's and their third party partners, but for Microsoft, I only block them 6 days a week, but allow Win 10 to connect to them on Sundays to check for security updates.
5000 times per day is about once every 17.3 seconds. Multiply that by the number of Windows users in the world currently online and I think it would become obvious that this kind of traffic would be unsustainably huge, especially if there were a persistent connection.Quote:
Originally Posted by Peter Porter
You don't have to believe things that you read online (including this post!). You can gather your own information.
There's a free open-source tool called "wireshark" (among many others) that will allow you to see all the traffic on your own home network (coming or going) and judge the situation for yourself.
However, do remain skeptical, that's a good trait to have.
More than 500 hours of videos are uploaded to YouTube every minute. That's about 8 hours of videos per second. I think the internet can handle it.Quote:
Originally Posted by wossy
What do you think I am, an elephant?Quote:
Originally Posted by wossy
Upstream is not 40Mbps, it's more like 2.
HA!Quote:
I'd happily trade a good internet connection for having fewer actual people around here, when the next family is a single layer of brick away it grinds your gears after a while.
You can't even go outside to let rip a good boxing-day fart without appearing in the community newsletter the next week. I didn't even light it this time.
Yes, the internet can, for sure. But can the average home network?Quote:
Originally Posted by Niya
Yes, I understand how ADSL works, I meant the total bandwidth... nevermind.Quote:
Originally Posted by Shaggy Hiker
I can't say that I really understand it. I'm not even quite sure how much I'm paying for this change. I'll have to wait to see the bill to figure that one out. They think I have a leased router. I think I don't have a leased router. I can't ask them, because if I'm right, they'd want to charge me for the new router they gave me. If they're right, then I can get a cheaper router and save about 20%. I think I'm right, but I'll know in a couple months (the first month is...hard to calculate).
For some reason, people just don't seem light hearted, lately.
I have noticed some unusual hostilities lately.
Send me their names, I'll take care of them for you.
Well this Shaggy Hiker fellow and his accomplice wes4dbt are a just a few.Quote:
Originally Posted by wes4dbt
It's a new year, but it feels kind of old to begin with.
6 days and no one has anything to say. Anyone hear from FunkyDexter lately? We need to do a health check.
Yeah, I was wondering about that.
Really am starting to worry about FD.Quote:
Originally Posted by Shaggy Hiker
I sent him a PM, waiting for his answer...
I'm sill here and thanks for the concern:wave:
Cough's not bad but I am feeling really tired and sleeping alot. I've been managing to drag my sorry ass to the desk to work a couple of hours in the morning and a couple in the afternoon but I'm basically spending the rest of my time in bed and I reckon I'm sleeping (or drifting) about 16 hours a day.
Officially my 2 week quarantine ends on Friday and I assume that means I'll be out of any danger. I am worried the tiredness might be a long symptom though. That would totes suck.
My prayers are with you :)
You caught the vid?
My wife had it and had very similar symptoms as you, the fatigue lasted for about a month.
Apparently my kids and I had it too, but we were all asymptomatic.
It's nuts how varying this thing can be.
You're young. I'm not into the critical age range, but I'm kind of on the edge of it. I think FD would be in that range, as well, so a moderate-severe case is more likely. I expect that I'd survive it without too much difficulty, but it could knock me down for a good long time, and that I do not want.
Yep. It's muh... muh... muh... maeeeeyyy Corona!Quote:
You caught the vid?
I'll take that as a positive. A month I can cope with.Quote:
the fatigue lasted for about a month.
Glad to here from ya. Sorry things got worse. Well, rest up, we'll keep an eye on VBF for ya. There will be a fee of course.
Yeah, you could hibernate through till spring...if you can bear it.Quote:
Originally Posted by FunkyDexter
Drop.
I've seen a hedgehog and a squirrel in the garden. I thought at this time of year they would be hibernating. Is this global warming?
Forget Hurricanes, Wildfires, and melting icecaps THIS is the proof we have been waiting for Hedgehogs and squirrels in the garden in January PROOVE that global warming is real !!!!Quote:
I've seen a hedgehog and a squirrel in the garden. I thought at this time of year they would be hibernating. Is this global warming?
is this a global warning ?
Or is this fantasy?
...caught in a landslide...
Do squirrels hibernate anywhere? They don't hibernate in the US.
Must be those lazy eyed English squirrels that I've heard so much about.
btw - No escape from reality
How has your fatigue been FD?
Apparently the UK squirrels don't hibernate either - so much for my knowledge! Apparently they are much less active (and hence much less likely to be seen - especially in cold weather) in winter when food is scarce. In cold weather they will curl up and use their bushy tail as a blanket to keep warm in their den.
I've been making like a squirrel. I curled up in my den and used my bushy tail to keep warm.Quote:
How has your fatigue been FD?
I reckon I'm operating at about 90%. I'm fine when I'm up and about but every so often I just crash and need to go for a nap. But I like naps, so I'm good with it.
Our squirrels spend the winter hanging out along the greenbelt begging for food.
In the past month we've had:
- two black bear visits (he enjoys the pig nut hickory tree we have - ate every last one, and our woodpecker's suet)
- pair of happy red foxes jumping around the yard
- coyote traveling up the other side of a brook we have in our yard
- and yesterday at dusk a mink jumping in and out of the water catching fish!
And I live about an hour from NYC - wow! CT wildlife variety is on the rise!
I gotta get me a couple of trail cams!
He was probably quite thankful for the suet. Did he just eat the suet, or did he eat the feeder, too?
The resurgence of wildlife in the New England area is astonishing to me. I grew up in southern NH, spending an hour or two walking in the woods every day that it wasn't raining (darn near every single day....seriously). Based on the tracks, I saw pretty much every animal that lived in that area, which was a biologists dream. I had a couple miles of woods, swamp, brook, and meadows, stretching up the valley behind our house. It was all flood plain easement, too, so nobody could build on there. In twenty years, I saw ONE other person out there who hadn't come out there with me.
In that time, deer were around, mustelids of all sorts were fairly common, but no bear, no moose, no coyotes, and no turkeys. Now all of those species have moved in.
I just had a thought: Do you think it could have been me?
@shaggy - yup - you are the Johnny Appleseed of the fish world! Our non-American viewers will have to look up that reference!
Funny thing is he grabbed the suet cage and dragged it down to the hickory tree. Second time he did that same thing - dragged it down there - and our son got pics of him eating it. We were blaming monster squirrels for opening the cage 50 feet away from the feeder area
We've even had bobcats as well - just not a frequent! Thus the need for a trail cam! I've lived in this house since 1972 - the wildlife increase is amazing. We have beaver damming up the woods a mile from my house, and state laws protect their activity (which is great!).