On 8/16/2017 10:11 AM, Tekkie® wrote:
posted for all of us...



On Mon, 14 Aug 2017 13:24:02 -0700 (PDT), Bob
wrote:

Can I plug the base-unit into the phone-jack and use its handset in a different room? Can I can buy only a charger for that handset?

Generallt speaking yes on both counts, bur why not get one with one
or more wireless extensions - then you get the chargrs with them.

We have a wireless base on the wall in the kitchen with answering
machine built in, and I have another wireless base on my desk in the
basement with 2 remotes - o0ne in the living room and one in the
bedroom. We have both bases and the IP Phone system on UPS units.

On my Panasonic system the system works as long as there is a fully charged
handset in the base.


My panasonic set works whether there is a handset in the base or not.

On Sun, 20 Aug 2017 22:30:48 +0100, "James Wilkinson Sword"
wrote:

On Sun, 20 Aug 2017 22:17:06 +0100, wrote:

On Sun, 20 Aug 2017 21:21:51 +0100, "James Wilkinson Sword"
wrote:

It is not as big a problem here in SW Florida. The homeowner does not
own the land under the power lines and FPL gets medieval on any tree
that encroaches into the right of way. They cut back anything they can
reach from a bucket truck. It is not like those tunnels we see through
the branches I see up north.

What about power lines across a field? How does the harvester get under?

Most power lines run through a right of way owned by the power company
but when there is an easement across private land, they will make the
poles high enough so the permitted use in the easement will not affect
the lines. They have the same issue crossing rivers. The lines behind
my house are 120 feet above the water and the river is only about 4-5'
deep so it won't ever be an issue.

For some reason they pay us money if we have power lines over our property here. The article doesn't say why.
https://www.theguardian.com/money/20...ensation-claim

I guess we just had more land available when they started running
utilities. A lot of the high voltage distribution runs along abandoned
rail right of way land.
When they plat a new community the right of way for roads and
utilities is set aside then. I suppose that is a foreign concept in
the 1000 year old UK but we still have vast swaths of undeveloped land
as soon as you get away from the North East and a places near big
cities. Where I am in SW Florida it was all palmetto scrub and cattle
ranches 30 years ago. Now you could drop a golf ball in Ft Myers and
play all the way to Naples, only having to jump a lot of fences and
wade across a few small river/creeks.
Just watch out for the alligators :-)

On Sunday, August 20, 2017 at 6:26:21 PM UTC-5, James Wilkinson Sword wrote:
On Mon, 21 Aug 2017 00:11:02 +0100, Uncle Monster Uncle Monster wrote:

On Sunday, August 20, 2017 at 10:25:47 AM UTC-5, wrote:
On Sun, 20 Aug 2017 07:42:58 -0700 (PDT), Uncle Monster
Uncle Monster wrote:


Hum, my brother has 200mbs Internet service(300mbs is available) from Charter/Spectrum Cable. At home, I have 60mbs from the same provider. The hospital I use has extremely fast Internet service. I think I measured 100mbs the last time I connected to the hospital WiFi during the day. Here at the center I've measured 60mbs at night. Me and my brother have never had our Charter/Spectrum Cable Internet go out that I can recall. The modems are plugged into backup power supplies along with our computers so everything stays up even when the power blinks.?(?)?

How fast is it when the cable is down? That is my problem with Comcast
here. The internet goes down at my FILs house about once a day. My
wife pays extra for a Comcast Commercial account and their performance
is not much better. My Telco based DSL is up pretty much 100% of the
time. When it does blink, it is just that a very short blip. Comcast
can be down days at a time, particularly after a storm.
Century link is underground. Comcast is up on poles.

It hasn't been down very much and I don't remember the last time I lost Internet service at my home. Back in January of 2015, the last time I was home, the power was out in my neighborhood for 6 hours. I have a number of UPS units rated from 350va to 1kw on my computer and network gear and I never lost Internet service. I shut everything down except for the LED desk lamps which were plugged into 500va UPS units and the lamps kept the house safely lit during the power outage. ヽ(ヅ)ノ

Here at the center the Internet was out for a while until rolled down to the administrator's office and told them how to power cycle the network equipment to get the system back up. It went down because of a power blink. There are generators here at the center if the power goes out but they need a UPS on the computer network equipment. I know you have a lot of storms down there in the peninsula but we have them too up here in the hills. Perhaps the storms here aren't as severe as those down there between the Atlantic and The Gulf?ヽ(ヅ)ノ

[8~{} Uncle Glitch Monster

I'd love to have seen you telling them what to do :-)
--


I simply told the nice lady what I thought was the problem and how to fix it. I'm actually considering donating one of my UPS units. Me and my brother have quite a collection of them because people would throw them away when the batteries went bad. I rescued a lot of them from the trash and installed new batteries and wound up with perfectly good UPS units. An APC Back-UPS 500 is $120.00 online from APC and I've rescued them from the trash then obtained a replacement battery for $16.00. I've quite a collection of UPS units.ヽ(ヅ)ノ

http://www.apc.com/shop/us/en/produc...beige-/P-BK500

[8~{} Uncle UPS Monster

On Sun, 20 Aug 2017 22:31:44 +0100, "James Wilkinson Sword"
wrote:

Bill and Tony

No idea who they are.

Bill Clinton and Anthony (can I send you a picture of my) Wiener.

Why would someone with a name like Weiner not change it?

He looks Jewish. Why did you vote in a Jew?

He is from New York. I don't live there.

On Sun, 20 Aug 2017 23:00:28 +0100, "James Wilkinson Sword"
wrote:

So if I call an American landline, I might get an unexpectedly large phonebill because it's actually a mobile?

Why would you get a bill?If you have a landline you do not pay
minutes, and most mobile people have unlimited plans these days too
unless it is a "burner".

On 8/20/2017 4:01 PM, James Wilkinson Sword wrote:
On Sun, 20 Aug 2017 21:43:37 +0100, Mark Lloyd wrote:

On 08/20/2017 10:50 AM, James Wilkinson Sword wrote:

[snip]

Mobiles don't have area codes.

I have (or have had) mobile phones with AT&T, Alltel, Sprint, and
Verizon. In all cases, the area code was the same as the area code for
my home phone.

That's a bit daft.* When I'm going to call a number, I know if it's a
mobile by the first 5 digits.


All depends upon what you're used to. Here in the US you can easily get
a mobile with a different area code than the area in which you are
physically located and use the phone.

For a time I had a second mobile phone here that had a Houston, TX area
code and prefix.

Your phone number pretty much becomes YOUR property once you get it. I
used to have Cellular One (which morphed into AT&T) and then switched to
Sprint and now to Verizon Wireless and have retained the same number
across carriers. I'm told that I can take that number to a landline and
vice versa but I have neither tried it nor confirmed it.

On Sun, 20 Aug 2017 16:11:02 -0700 (PDT), Uncle Monster
wrote:

On Sunday, August 20, 2017 at 10:25:47 AM UTC-5, wrote:
On Sun, 20 Aug 2017 07:42:58 -0700 (PDT), Uncle Monster
Uncle Monster wrote:


Hum, my brother has 200mbs Internet service(300mbs is available) from Charter/Spectrum Cable. At home, I have 60mbs from the same provider. The hospital I use has extremely fast Internet service. I think I measured 100mbs the last time I connected to the hospital WiFi during the day. Here at the center I've measured 60mbs at night. Me and my brother have never had our Charter/Spectrum Cable Internet go out that I can recall. The modems are plugged into backup power supplies along with our computers so everything stays up even when the power blinks.?(?)?

How fast is it when the cable is down? That is my problem with Comcast
here. The internet goes down at my FILs house about once a day. My
wife pays extra for a Comcast Commercial account and their performance
is not much better. My Telco based DSL is up pretty much 100% of the
time. When it does blink, it is just that a very short blip. Comcast
can be down days at a time, particularly after a storm.
Century link is underground. Comcast is up on poles.


It hasn't been down very much and I don't remember the last time I lost Internet service at my home. Back in January of 2015, the last time I was home, the power was out in my neighborhood for 6 hours. I have a number of UPS units rated from 350va to 1kw on my computer and network gear and I never lost Internet service. I shut everything down except for the LED desk lamps which were plugged into 500va UPS units and the lamps kept the house safely lit during the power outage. ?(?)?

Here at the center the Internet was out for a while until rolled down to the administrator's office and told them how to power cycle the network equipment to get the system back up. It went down because of a power blink. There are generators here at the center if the power goes out but they need a UPS on the computer network equipment. I know you have a lot of storms down there in the peninsula but we have them too up here in the hills. Perhaps the storms here aren't as severe as those down there between the Atlantic and The Gulf??(?)?


We have ass kicking storms here all the time. We would call "Sandy"
"Tuesday afternoon". The difference is out building code is tougher
and FPL knows how to mitigate storms. Power was off after Charley for
about 18 hours. I am not sure it went off in Wilma at all. If it did
it was less than an hour. I have had a new in the box generator in my
garage for a decade. The power has not been off long enough to justify
opening the box.

On 8/20/2017 4:31 PM, James Wilkinson Sword wrote:
On Sun, 20 Aug 2017 22:18:24 +0100, wrote:

On Sun, 20 Aug 2017 21:22:04 +0100, "James Wilkinson Sword"
wrote:


[Snip]


No idea who they are.

Bill Clinton and Anthony (can I send you a picture of my) Wiener.

Why would someone with a name like Weiner not change it?

He looks Jewish.* Why did you vote in a Jew?


I am rarely, if ever, accused of being politically correct, but I really
find that comment offensive, James, and I'm not Jewish.

Why can't we just judge people by how they act rather than by their
ethnicity? I'm not a fan of Wiener, but why not just run with his
record - he is an ASSHOLE - rather than his birthright?

Those who don't like Hillary, should dislike her because she's a lying,
conniving, sociopath; not because she's a female.

On 8/20/2017 8:07 PM, James Wilkinson Sword wrote:
On Mon, 21 Aug 2017 02:02:01 +0100, Unquestionably Confused
wrote:

On 8/20/2017 4:01 PM, James Wilkinson Sword wrote:
On Sun, 20 Aug 2017 21:43:37 +0100, Mark Lloyd wrote:


[snip]

Your phone number pretty much becomes YOUR property once you get it.* I
used to have Cellular One (which morphed into AT&T) and then switched to
Sprint and now to Verizon Wireless and have retained the same number
across carriers.* I'm told that I can take that number to a landline and
vice versa but I have neither tried it nor confirmed it.

I gather you have a different system to us for car registration plates
too.* The plate belongs to the driver?* Here, it belongs to the car.

Yes and no.

Plates are assigned by the various states and territories and each does
it their own way. My state assigns plates to the individual who, in
turn, registers their usage on the vehicle owned at the time. Other
states follow the UK and issue them to the car and when the car is
transferred to a new owner, so are the plates.

On Mon, 21 Aug 2017 02:03:06 +0100, "James Wilkinson Sword"
wrote:

On Mon, 21 Aug 2017 01:42:31 +0100, wrote:

On Sun, 20 Aug 2017 22:20:04 +0100, "James Wilkinson Sword"


Our landlines start 01 and 02, and our mobiles start 07.

These days it is not as much an area code as just another 3 digits to
allow more numbers.

But it's mainly a label so you know what you're phoning.

In the US area codes used to be informative but as the phone companies
started running out of numbers, the "area" in area code became less
specific. Some states get by with one area code and there are cities
with 3 or 4. Depending on how they implemented the extra area codes,
some local calls can be dialed with 7 digits, some require 10 (plus
1). I am lucky to be in an area without an "overlay" so I only need 7
digits to call my neighbor.
Because of "number portability" you have no way of knowing if it is a
cell.

On Mon, 21 Aug 2017 02:04:17 +0100, "James Wilkinson Sword"
wrote:

I buy my UPSs on Ebay for **** all then buy new batteries for them.

I am full up on UPS units. My wife brings the dead ones home from work
and it is usually just batteries. They do not even try to fix them
there.

On Mon, 21 Aug 2017 02:04:32 +0100, "James Wilkinson Sword"
wrote:

On Mon, 21 Aug 2017 01:51:56 +0100, wrote:

On Sun, 20 Aug 2017 22:31:44 +0100, "James Wilkinson Sword"
wrote:

Bill and Tony

No idea who they are.

Bill Clinton and Anthony (can I send you a picture of my) Wiener.

Why would someone with a name like Weiner not change it?

He looks Jewish. Why did you vote in a Jew?

He is from New York. I don't live there.

I gather New York is rife with Jews.

It would not be an inaccurate statement, even if politically
incorrect.

On Mon, 21 Aug 2017 02:05:14 +0100, "James Wilkinson Sword"
wrote:

On Mon, 21 Aug 2017 01:53:46 +0100, wrote:

On Sun, 20 Aug 2017 23:00:28 +0100, "James Wilkinson Sword"
wrote:

So if I call an American landline, I might get an unexpectedly large phonebill because it's actually a mobile?

Why would you get a bill?If you have a landline you do not pay
minutes, and most mobile people have unlimited plans these days too
unless it is a "burner".

Mobile is unlimited, although not for foreign calls. Landlines are unlimited for landline calls, but you pay for mobiles, hence I need to know if I'm calling a mobile.

Not an issue here. The mobil user is the only one getting charged for
minutes, incoming or outgoing if they are not on an unlimited plan.
I had a 100 minute a year plan for several years and never went over
or even close. Now I am on the plan with my wife and family. Any call
between customers in that carrier is "free" so I do not get 5 minutes
a year these days.
I am not much of a talker on the phone.

On 8/20/2017 8:30 PM, James Wilkinson Sword wrote:
On Mon, 21 Aug 2017 02:12:32 +0100, Unquestionably Confused
wrote:

On 8/20/2017 4:31 PM, James Wilkinson Sword wrote:
On Sun, 20 Aug 2017 22:18:24 +0100, wrote:

On Sun, 20 Aug 2017 21:22:04 +0100, "James Wilkinson Sword"
wrote:


[Snip]


No idea who they are.

Bill Clinton and Anthony (can I send you a picture of my) Wiener.

Why would someone with a name like Weiner not change it?

He looks Jewish.* Why did you vote in a Jew?


I am rarely, if ever, accused of being politically correct, but I really
find that comment offensive, James, and I'm not Jewish.

Why can't we just judge people by how they act rather than by their
ethnicity?* I'm not a fan of Wiener, but why not just run with his
record - he is an ASSHOLE - rather than his birthright?

Those who don't like Hillary, should dislike her because she's a lying,
conniving, sociopath; not because she's a female.

Religious people are stupid.** Jews and Muslims take their religion very
seriously, so they're seriously stupid.* It's a pity the Nazis didn't win.

Why do people treat Jews like some kind of protected species?* Negros
are born black, they can't help it.* But Jews choose to worship pretend
beings.* They're off their head and should be treated as such.


There are certainly stupid religious people of all stripe. You make
generalizations like that lumping everyone who is XXX is a XXX and it
just proves my point that while ignorance can be cured, stupid is forever.

It's stupid to slap a label on anyone because of who they are whether
it's Black, White, Brown, Yellow etc. rather than what they are.

When I have friends and acquaintances who are Jewish and worship as
Protestants or Christian Scientists or Anglos who convert to Judaism the
label you (and others) choose to place on them become rather idiotic.

If, and it appears this MIGHT be your position, you think all who
believe in a religion are "Religious Nutters" then your thoughts might
be a bit more tolerable in that they ARE religious and "nutter" is
merely your opinion. ;-)

On 8/20/2017 9:27 PM, wrote:
On Mon, 21 Aug 2017 02:04:17 +0100, "James Wilkinson Sword"
wrote:

I buy my UPSs on Ebay for **** all then buy new batteries for them.

I am full up on UPS units. My wife brings the dead ones home from work
and it is usually just batteries. They do not even try to fix them
there.



Ssssh! Don't let it get out. That may dissuade them, then where will be.

I've got a handful of APC Back-Up XS 1500's doing a wonderful job of
keeping all kinds of stuff up and running and provided pure power.

Thanks to a client who refuses to replace batteries rather than UPS's
I'll never buy another UPS unless I'm unfortunate enough to take a LOT
of lightning strikes that blows them up.

You've gotta love people with more money than brains!

On Mon, 21 Aug 2017 02:07:06 +0100, "James Wilkinson Sword"
wrote:


I gather you have a different system to us for car registration plates too. The plate belongs to the driver? Here, it belongs to the car.

Yep, you take the plate with you when you buy a new car and every few
years you get a different one. The states run the plate system and
title the cars. Personally I think the insurance companies should be
in the license plate business and cut the government out completely.
They can send the tax in for their customers. The insurance company
is the one with the nation wide computer systems, the desire to be
sure all cars are insured and the skin in the game when things go bad.
Why involve 50 incompetent state governments and computers that may
not be communicating between each other in any real sense.

On Mon, 21 Aug 2017 02:08:10 +0100, "James Wilkinson Sword"
wrote:

We have ass kicking storms here all the time. We would call "Sandy"
"Tuesday afternoon". The difference is out building code is tougher
and FPL knows how to mitigate storms. Power was off after Charley for
about 18 hours. I am not sure it went off in Wilma at all. If it did
it was less than an hour. I have had a new in the box generator in my
garage for a decade. The power has not been off long enough to justify
opening the box.

I'd hate all those codes. It's your house, you should do what you like with it, it's your property. I thought America was capitalist. You own something, nobody should tell you what you can do with it.

It is all from the insurance companies. If you do not have storm
insurance, the codes are not really that important, particularly
"flood".
I still build compliant things, usually exceeding code but that is
because I believe the principles in the code is what keeps my house
from blowing away

On Mon, 21 Aug 2017 03:49:13 GMT, Wayne Boatwright
wrote:

Not an issue here. The mobil user is the only one getting charged
for minutes, incoming or outgoing if they are not on an unlimited
plan. I had a 100 minute a year plan for several years and never
went over or even close. Now I am on the plan with my wife and
family. Any call between customers in that carrier is "free" so I
do not get 5 minutes a year these days.
I am not much of a talker on the phone.

Our mobiles have unlimited minutes, text, and data. It makes no
difference whether we're calling landlines or other mobiles. If
we're making an internatinal call, we do pay for minutes no matter
whather we're calling another mobile or a landline.

It all depends on your plan. These days people with smart phones
usually get unlimited "phone" because most of the bandwidth is gobbled
up with data.
There are still people with burners and flip phones who buy minutes.

On Sunday, August 20, 2017 at 8:02:51 PM UTC-5, wrote:
On Sun, 20 Aug 2017 16:11:02 -0700 (PDT), Uncle Monster
Uncle Monster wrote:

On Sunday, August 20, 2017 at 10:25:47 AM UTC-5, wrote:
On Sun, 20 Aug 2017 07:42:58 -0700 (PDT), Uncle Monster
Uncle Monster wrote:

Hum, my brother has 200mbs Internet service(300mbs is available) from Charter/Spectrum Cable. At home, I have 60mbs from the same provider. The hospital I use has extremely fast Internet service. I think I measured 100mbs the last time I connected to the hospital WiFi during the day. Here at the center I've measured 60mbs at night. Me and my brother have never had our Charter/Spectrum Cable Internet go out that I can recall. The modems are plugged into backup power supplies along with our computers so everything stays up even when the power blinks.?(?)?

How fast is it when the cable is down? That is my problem with Comcast
here. The internet goes down at my FILs house about once a day. My
wife pays extra for a Comcast Commercial account and their performance
is not much better. My Telco based DSL is up pretty much 100% of the
time. When it does blink, it is just that a very short blip. Comcast
can be down days at a time, particularly after a storm.
Century link is underground. Comcast is up on poles.

It hasn't been down very much and I don't remember the last time I lost Internet service at my home. Back in January of 2015, the last time I was home, the power was out in my neighborhood for 6 hours. I have a number of UPS units rated from 350va to 1kw on my computer and network gear and I never lost Internet service. I shut everything down except for the LED desk lamps which were plugged into 500va UPS units and the lamps kept the house safely lit during the power outage. ?(?)?

Here at the center the Internet was out for a while until rolled down to the administrator's office and told them how to power cycle the network equipment to get the system back up. It went down because of a power blink. There are generators here at the center if the power goes out but they need a UPS on the computer network equipment. I know you have a lot of storms down there in the peninsula but we have them too up here in the hills. Perhaps the storms here aren't as severe as those down there between the Atlantic and The Gulf??(?)?

We have ass kicking storms here all the time. We would call "Sandy"
"Tuesday afternoon". The difference is out building code is tougher
and FPL knows how to mitigate storms. Power was off after Charley for
about 18 hours. I am not sure it went off in Wilma at all. If it did
it was less than an hour. I have had a new in the box generator in my
garage for a decade. The power has not been off long enough to justify
opening the box.


We have older residential areas in the Birmingham Metro area that are nothing but trees. Whenever there is a bad storm, trees come down. Back in the 1990's me an my brother were installing a lot of NG powered Generac generators in wealthy neighborhoods like in the city of Mountain Brook where all the rich Honkies live. The smallest was the 8kw with the B&S 16hp air cooled and the larger gensets 10-20kw used a Turkish Fiat 4cyl liquid cooled engine. The last Generac I installed was earlier in this century and it was equipped with Generac's own manufactured big twin cyl air cooled engine. I've no experience with their newest gensets but the most popular model seems to be their 22kw whole house backup model. According to their site, they have a new model genset designed to work with alternative energy or off the grid systems like solar power that kicks in when the batteries run down. That would be an interesting setup for a home in the sticks with large solar panels and a big propane tank. ヽ(ヅ)ノ

http://www.generac.com/

[8~{} Uncle Generated Monster

On Sunday, August 20, 2017 at 8:04:25 PM UTC-5, James Wilkinson Sword wrote:
On Mon, 21 Aug 2017 01:51:54 +0100, Uncle Monster Uncle Monster wrote:

On Sunday, August 20, 2017 at 6:26:21 PM UTC-5, James Wilkinson Sword wrote:
On Mon, 21 Aug 2017 00:11:02 +0100, Uncle Monster Uncle Monster wrote:

On Sunday, August 20, 2017 at 10:25:47 AM UTC-5, wrote:
On Sun, 20 Aug 2017 07:42:58 -0700 (PDT), Uncle Monster
Uncle Monster wrote:


Hum, my brother has 200mbs Internet service(300mbs is available) from Charter/Spectrum Cable. At home, I have 60mbs from the same provider. The hospital I use has extremely fast Internet service. I think I measured 100mbs the last time I connected to the hospital WiFi during the day. Here at the center I've measured 60mbs at night. Me and my brother have never had our Charter/Spectrum Cable Internet go out that I can recall. The modems are plugged into backup power supplies along with our computers so everything stays up even when the power blinks.?(?)?

How fast is it when the cable is down? That is my problem with Comcast
here. The internet goes down at my FILs house about once a day. My
wife pays extra for a Comcast Commercial account and their performance
is not much better. My Telco based DSL is up pretty much 100% of the
time. When it does blink, it is just that a very short blip. Comcast
can be down days at a time, particularly after a storm.
Century link is underground. Comcast is up on poles.

It hasn't been down very much and I don't remember the last time I lost Internet service at my home. Back in January of 2015, the last time I was home, the power was out in my neighborhood for 6 hours. I have a number of UPS units rated from 350va to 1kw on my computer and network gear and I never lost Internet service. I shut everything down except for the LED desk lamps which were plugged into 500va UPS units and the lamps kept the house safely lit during the power outage. ヽ(ヅ)ノ

Here at the center the Internet was out for a while until rolled down to the administrator's office and told them how to power cycle the network equipment to get the system back up. It went down because of a power blink. There are generators here at the center if the power goes out but they need a UPS on the computer network equipment. I know you have a lot of storms down there in the peninsula but we have them too up here in the hills. Perhaps the storms here aren't as severe as those down there between the Atlantic and The Gulf?ヽ(ヅ)ノ

[8~{} Uncle Glitch Monster

I'd love to have seen you telling them what to do :-)
--


I simply told the nice lady what I thought was the problem and how to fix it. I'm actually considering donating one of my UPS units. Me and my brother have quite a collection of them because people would throw them away when the batteries went bad. I rescued a lot of them from the trash and installed new batteries and wound up with perfectly good UPS units. An APC Back-UPS 500 is $120.00 online from APC and I've rescued them from the trash then obtained a replacement battery for $16.00. I've quite a collection of UPS units.ヽ(ヅ)ノ

http://www.apc.com/shop/us/en/produc...beige-/P-BK500

[8~{} Uncle UPS Monster

I buy my UPSs on Ebay for **** all then buy new batteries for them.
--


I have a 750va and a 1kw UPS that are dumpster rescues along with a number of 500va and 650va units. I was astounded at the number of the things I'd come across that needed only new batteries. People would throw them in the trash when they stopped working. It so easy to replace a battery in the APC units and the newer AGM SLA batteries last a lot longer than the old gel cell batteries. I bought my last batch of batteries from a local electronics supplier for around $16.00 each. You have to make sure you get the .25" F2 terminals to get the best connection. ヽ(ヅ)ノ

[8~{} Uncle Backup Monster

On 08/20/2017 09:08 PM, James Wilkinson Sword wrote:
I'd hate all those codes. It's your house, you should do what you like with it, it's your property. I thought America was capitalist. You own something, nobody should tell you what you
can do with it.

Unless you are Hillary Construction Company, building codes are your friend. I don't think I'd want to purchase or live in a house that wasn't built to code.

On Mon, 21 Aug 2017 02:04:32 +0100, Birdbrain Macaw (now "James Wilkinson"),
the pathological attention whore of all the uk ngs, blathered again:


Why would someone with a name like Weiner not change it?

He looks Jewish. Why did you vote in a Jew?

He is from New York. I don't live there.

I gather New York is rife with Jews.

This is your lucky night today, Birdbrain: some three or four senile Yanks
willing to get into bed with you! LOL

--
More of Birdbrain Macaw's (now "James Wilkinson" LOL) sociopathic "wisdom":
"You'd never have the car going perfectly straight to begin with. 0.00001
degrees out and you'd have to correct it in a quarter mile, and you'd never
correct it just right, then have to correct it again. Easier just to keep
one hand on the wheel."
MID:

On Mon, 21 Aug 2017 02:30:17 +0100, Birdbrain Macaw (now "James Wilkinson"),
the pathological attention whore of all the uk ngs, blathered again:

Those who don't like Hillary, should dislike her because she's a lying,
conniving, sociopath; not because she's a female.

Religious people are stupid. Jews and Muslims take their religion very
seriously, so they're seriously stupid. It's a pity the Nazis didn't
win.

Why do people treat Jews like some kind of protected species? Negros are
born black, they can't help it. But Jews choose to worship pretend
beings. They're off their head and should be treated as such.

But it's YOU with a LONG psychiatric record, Birdbrain ...not THEM!

--
Unemployable, mentally handicapped Birdbrain Macaw's (now "James Wilkinson"
LOL) about his life as a dole and welfare who
"I used to be a computer tech until I became permanently ill."
MID:

On Mon, 21 Aug 2017 02:02:41 +0100, Birdbrain Macaw (now "James Wilkinson"),
the pathological attention whore of all the uk ngs, blathered again:

I rarely get outages of more than 2 seconds,

Birdbrain, your birdbrain has outages EVERY 2 seconds!

--
Birdbrain Macaw's (now "James Wilkinson" LOL) "intelligence" at work:
"Europeans are generally quite stupid, this is why the Brits hate the EU."
MID:

On Mon, 21 Aug 2017 02:03:42 +0100, Birdbrain Macaw (now "James Wilkinson"),
the pathological attention whore of all the uk ngs, blathered again:

Just watch out for the alligators :-)

Sounds like fun.

You mean the fun you keep having with some senile Yanks, after everyone on
all the UK groups has been giving you the cold shoulder, you filthy troll?

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MID:

On Mon, 21 Aug 2017 02:04:17 +0100, Birdbrain Macaw (now "James Wilkinson"),
the pathological attention whore of all the uk ngs, blathered again:


I buy my UPSs on Ebay for **** all then buy new batteries for them.

Yes, we know, you are genius, Birdbrain! VBG

--
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"Now you see, the proper way to soak somebody is to aim for the puddle from
100 yards back, then it looks like an accident to any moronic nosy hasn't
got a life cyclist. Of course you must adjust your speed inconspicuously
(use gears not brakes which cause lights to come on...).
MID:

On Mon, 21 Aug 2017 02:08:10 +0100, Birdbrain Macaw (now "James Wilkinson"),
the pathological attention whore of all the uk ngs, blathered again:

On Mon, 21 Aug 2017 02:02:32 +0100, wrote:

On Sun, 20 Aug 2017 16:11:02 -0700 (PDT), Uncle Monster
wrote:

On Sunday, August 20, 2017 at 10:25:47 AM UTC-5, wrote:
On Sun, 20 Aug 2017 07:42:58 -0700 (PDT), Uncle Monster
Uncle Monster wrote:


Hum, my brother has 200mbs Internet service(300mbs is available) from Charter/Spectrum Cable. At home, I have 60mbs from the same provider. The hospital I use has extremely fast Internet service. I think I measured 100mbs the last time I connected to the hospital WiFi during the day. Here at the center I've measured 60mbs at night. Me and my brother have never had our Charter/Spectrum Cable Internet go out that I can recall. The modems are plugged into backup power supplies along with our computers so everything stays up even when the power blinks.?(?)?

How fast is it when the cable is down? That is my problem with Comcast
here. The internet goes down at my FILs house about once a day. My
wife pays extra for a Comcast Commercial account and their performance
is not much better. My Telco based DSL is up pretty much 100% of the
time. When it does blink, it is just that a very short blip. Comcast
can be down days at a time, particularly after a storm.
Century link is underground. Comcast is up on poles.


It hasn't been down very much and I don't remember the last time I lost Internet service at my home. Back in January of 2015, the last time I was home, the power was out in my neighborhood for 6 hours. I have a number of UPS units rated from 350va to 1kw on my computer and network gear and I never lost Internet service. I shut everything down except for the LED desk lamps which were plugged into 500va UPS units and the lamps kept the house safely lit during the power outage. ?(?)?

Here at the center the Internet was out for a while until rolled down to the administrator's office and told them how to power cycle the network equipment to get the system back up. It went down because of a power blink. There are generators here at the center if the power goes out but they need a UPS on the computer network equipment. I know you have a lot of storms down there in the peninsula but we have them too up here in the hills. Perhaps the storms here aren't as severe as those down there between the Atlantic and The Gulf??(?)?


We have ass kicking storms here all the time. We would call "Sandy"
"Tuesday afternoon". The difference is out building code is tougher
and FPL knows how to mitigate storms. Power was off after Charley for
about 18 hours. I am not sure it went off in Wilma at all. If it did
it was less than an hour. I have had a new in the box generator in my
garage for a decade. The power has not been off long enough to justify
opening the box.

I'd hate all those codes. It's your house, you should do what you like
with it, it's your property. I thought America was capitalist. You own
something, nobody should tell you what you can do with it.

Driveling idiot!

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"When I was 14, there were places in forests where people would leave
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On Mon, 21 Aug 2017 02:05:14 +0100, Birdbrain Macaw (now "James Wilkinson"),
the pathological attention whore of all the uk ngs, blathered again:


Mobile is unlimited, although not for foreign calls. Landlines are
unlimited for landline calls, but you pay for mobiles, hence I need to
know if I'm calling a mobile.

You are posting in a largely American ng, you abysmally stupid Scot!

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the time when they breathed one in."
MID:

On Mon, 21 Aug 2017 02:06:30 +0100, Birdbrain Macaw (now "James Wilkinson"),
the pathological attention whore of all the uk ngs, blathered again:

We can keep mobile numbers when switching supplier, but landlines have
fixed area codes for areas.

Looks like you got those senile Yank simpletons firmly under your ******'s
thumb, Birdbrain. BG

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wouldn't hate them so much."
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On Mon, 21 Aug 2017 02:07:06 +0100, Birdbrain Macaw (now "James Wilkinson"),
the pathological attention whore of all the uk ngs, blathered again:

I gather you have a different system to us for car registration plates
too. The plate belongs to the driver? Here, it belongs to the car.

YOU belong in the loony bin ...again!

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"Is there such a thing as an innocent American citizen? The world would be
better off if your whole continent sank right now."
MID:

On 08/20/2017 04:01 PM, James Wilkinson Sword wrote:
On Sun, 20 Aug 2017 21:43:37 +0100, Mark Lloyd wrote:

On 08/20/2017 10:50 AM, James Wilkinson Sword wrote:

[snip]

Mobiles don't have area codes.

I have (or have had) mobile phones with AT&T, Alltel, Sprint, and
Verizon. In all cases, the area code was the same as the area code for
my home phone.

That's a bit daft. When I'm going to call a number, I know if it's a
mobile by the first 5 digits.


Five digits? Would that be the area code (3 digits) and the first 2 of
the "exchange code"? Or do you mean international calls?

How would you tell it's mobile from that?

--
Mark Lloyd
http://notstupid.us/

"A man who is an agnostic by inheritance, so that he doesn't remember
any time that he wasn't, has almost no hatred for the religious." [H.L.
Mencken]

On 08/20/2017 04:10 PM, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
On 8/20/2017 4:43 PM, Mark Lloyd wrote:
On 08/20/2017 10:50 AM, James Wilkinson Sword wrote:

[snip]

Mobiles don't have area codes.

I have (or have had) mobile phones with AT&T, Alltel, Sprint, and
Verizon. In all cases, the area code was the same as the area code for
my home phone.

[snip]


They did that until they started running out of numbers and added some
mobile codes. Of course, people move and keep the same mobile number.
Both my kids have a CT area code but one is in PS, the other FL.

Does the area code still matter if you have to pay for long distance?
Like if you get 214 (Dallas TX), people in other places have to pay to
call you.

BTW, I haven't had to for about 10 years.

--
Mark Lloyd
http://notstupid.us/

"A man who is an agnostic by inheritance, so that he doesn't remember
any time that he wasn't, has almost no hatred for the religious." [H.L.
Mencken]

On 08/20/2017 07:32 PM, Uncle Monster wrote:

[snip]

We have a pretty good power company here and the power rarely goes out but there are blinks from time to time. The power company has crews that inspect and keep the main lines clear of tree branches. At home I have UPS backup power for my desk and computer table. If the power blinks or fails I only notice because I hear the UPS backup units kick in. If the power fails at night, I'm awakened by the alarms on the all UPS units and it sounds like a forest full of animal calls. An LED desk lamp will run for many hours on a small APC UPS. At home I keep my desk lamps on all the time and I can see to get around safely even if there is a power outage at night. ヽ(ヅ)ノ

[8~{} Uncle Electrified Monster


Sometimes I wish I had bought a house on the other side of the street.
They have fewer and shorter power outages.

--
Mark Lloyd
http://notstupid.us/

"A man who is an agnostic by inheritance, so that he doesn't remember
any time that he wasn't, has almost no hatred for the religious." [H.L.
Mencken]

On 08/20/2017 08:02 PM, Unquestionably Confused wrote:

[snip]

Your phone number pretty much becomes YOUR property once you get it. I
used to have Cellular One (which morphed into AT&T) and then switched to
Sprint and now to Verizon Wireless and have retained the same number
across carriers. I'm told that I can take that number to a landline and
vice versa but I have neither tried it nor confirmed it.


I have moved a number FROM a landline.

For mobile, I used to have Alltel, which became Verizon. AT&T has poor
service here (although it works fine a mile away).

--
Mark Lloyd
http://notstupid.us/

"A man who is an agnostic by inheritance, so that he doesn't remember
any time that he wasn't, has almost no hatred for the religious." [H.L.
Mencken]

On 08/20/2017 08:30 PM, James Wilkinson Sword wrote:

[snip]

Religious people are stupid. Jews and Muslims take their religion very
seriously, so they're seriously stupid. It's a pity the Nazis didn't win.

Wouldn't help. Nazis were religious too.

Why do people treat Jews like some kind of protected species? Negros
are born black, they can't help it. But Jews choose to worship pretend
beings.

Many Christians are pushier.

Also, it's an infection not a choice. Religion is imposed on people
through contact with those around them when they're young (this is often
the parents).

They're off their head and should be treated as such.

Not too much if they keep that stuff to themselves.

On 08/20/2017 09:25 PM, wrote:

[snip]

In the US area codes used to be informative but as the phone companies
started running out of numbers, the "area" in area code became less
specific. Some states get by with one area code and there are cities
with 3 or 4. Depending on how they implemented the extra area codes,
some local calls can be dialed with 7 digits, some require 10 (plus
1). I am lucky to be in an area without an "overlay" so I only need 7
digits to call my neighbor.

Where I am, we have had an overlay area code for about 10 years. I still
don't know anyone who uses the new code.

BTW, 30 years ago when we had mechanical switching, you could make a
local call by dialing only 5 digits.

Because of "number portability" you have no way of knowing if it is a
cell.



--
Mark Lloyd
http://notstupid.us/

"SENILE.COM found. Out Of Memory."

On 8/21/2017 11:33 AM, Mark Lloyd wrote:
On 08/20/2017 04:10 PM, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
On 8/20/2017 4:43 PM, Mark Lloyd wrote:
On 08/20/2017 10:50 AM, James Wilkinson Sword wrote:

[snip]

Mobiles don't have area codes.

I have (or have had) mobile phones with AT&T, Alltel, Sprint, and
Verizon. In all cases, the area code was the same as the area code
for my home phone.

[snip]


They did that until they started running out of numbers and added some
mobile codes. Of course, people move and keep the same mobile number.
Both my kids have a CT area code but one is in PS, the other FL.

Does the area code still matter if you have to pay for long distance?
Like if you get 214 (Dallas TX), people in other places have to pay to
call you.

BTW, I haven't had to for about 10 years.


It may have mattered years ago, but there is no longer "long distance"
calling rates AFAIK.

On 8/21/2017 11:39 AM, Mark Lloyd wrote:
On 08/20/2017 07:32 PM, Uncle Monster wrote:

[snip]

We have a pretty good power company here and the power rarely goes out
but there are blinks from time to time. The power company has crews
that inspect and keep the main lines clear of tree branches. At home I
have UPS backup power for my desk and computer table. If the power
blinks or fails I only notice because I hear the UPS backup units kick
in. If the power fails at night, I'm awakened by the alarms on the all
UPS units and it sounds like a forest full of animal calls. An LED
desk lamp will run for many hours on a small APC UPS. At home I keep
my desk lamps on all the time and I can see to get around safely even
if there is a power outage at night. ヽ(ヅ)ノ

[8~{} Uncle Electrified Monster


Sometimes I wish I had bought a house on the other side of the street.
They have fewer and shorter power outages.


We rarely have outages. Turns out, my street is on the same main feed
as the hospital a mile away. They are top priority for restoration. In
36 years we only had two extended (1 two day, 1 12 hours) and two minor
outages of a couple of hours.

On Mon, 21 Aug 2017 11:08:26 -0500, Mark Lloyd
wrote:

On 08/20/2017 09:25 PM, wrote:

[snip]

In the US area codes used to be informative but as the phone companies
started running out of numbers, the "area" in area code became less
specific. Some states get by with one area code and there are cities
with 3 or 4. Depending on how they implemented the extra area codes,
some local calls can be dialed with 7 digits, some require 10 (plus
1). I am lucky to be in an area without an "overlay" so I only need 7
digits to call my neighbor.

Where I am, we have had an overlay area code for about 10 years. I still
don't know anyone who uses the new code.

Depending on how the overlay is implemented, you may be able to keep
dialing 7 digits or you may need 10.

On 08/21/2017 01:08 PM, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
On 8/21/2017 11:39 AM, Mark Lloyd wrote:
On 08/20/2017 07:32 PM, Uncle Monster wrote:

[snip]

We have a pretty good power company here and the power rarely goes out but there are blinks from time to time. The power company has crews that inspect and keep the main lines clear of
tree branches. At home I have UPS backup power for my desk and computer table. If the power blinks or fails I only notice because I hear the UPS backup units kick in. If the power fails at
night, I'm awakened by the alarms on the all UPS units and it sounds like a forest full of animal calls. An LED desk lamp will run for many hours on a small APC UPS. At home I keep my desk
lamps on all the time and I can see to get around safely even if there is a power outage at night. ヽ(ヅ)ノ

[8~{} Uncle Electrified Monster


Sometimes I wish I had bought a house on the other side of the street. They have fewer and shorter power outages.


We rarely have outages. Turns out, my street is on the same main feed as the hospital a mile away. They are top priority for restoration. In 36 years we only had two extended (1 two day,
1 12 hours) and two minor outages of a couple of hours.


I've not had a power outage since Trump took office. Thank God Hillary lost.