I've moved my journal over to InsaneJournal. It's a lot like LiveJournal, because they both run from the same codebase. But IJ is operated by a man in Florida, while LJ is now operated by a Russian company that seems to espouse this philosophy with respect to its users' (but primarily its advertisers') pocketbooks.

You can do a couple things.
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From Engineering and Operations in the Bell System, page 134 (copyright 1977):

For applications such as interoffice trunks in metropolitan areas, it may be possible to use a cable in the order of a centimeter thick that contains a few hundred fibers, each of which carries a channel of a few megahertz bandwidth.

From Fiber-optic communication on ( Read more... )

~ Sock Dreams ~

I have a Paid account, expiring April 6th. That's just a week or two away. I'll let it fall back to Basic, because I don't agree with SUP's recent changes.

As if anyone cares.

I'm sort of getting tired of Facebook. I want to delete my account.

Reasons For Deleting

• It's hardcore and people will be amazed
• Facebook is becoming Evil. (So is LiveJournal, apparently.)

Reasons For Keeping

• It's where all my friends are.
• I feel I have a responsibility to my groups.

Poll Facebook

It's quite hard to block someone on Facebook who's already blocked you. You can't see them in search, and so you can't find them in order to block them. Blocks are symmetric, as in if I block someone, I can't see their profile.

Here's a simple mechanism.

1. Find their user ID. http ( Read more... )

Ficking idiots

FOREIGN EXCHANGE WORTH £15 BILLION POUNDS
snicker

From this auction (also this link for posterity).
HTTP Status 503 - This application is not currently available

type Status report

message This application is not currently available

description The requested service (This application is not currently available) is not currently available.
Apache Tomcat/5.5.15-150

I don't think the CSS came ( Read more... )

In which is much information, and perhaps whining, and most
certainly praeterition. Not all
is new information, but most is new to this venue. If you care, consider setting aside a
few minutes to read, as it is long.

Concerning School

This is probably one of my worst quarters ever. I was carrying ( Read more... )

I bought a new calculator today. $40 used, not including the $6.70 ferry ride to Bainbridge. I'm going to have to disassemble and wash the damn thing now.

This brings my family, ahem, collection to five calculators.

• Voyage 200 (unknown HW/AMS cos I'm too lazy to go see)
• TI-89 (HW2, AMS 2.05)
• TI-89 Titanium (HW4, AMS 3.10)
• TI-92+ (HW2, AMS 1.05)
• HP- ( Read more... )