Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2010 23:48:34 -0800 From: Gary Kline <kline@thought.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: partly offtopic, but need feed back now. Message-ID: <20100112074834.GB96462@thought.org> In-Reply-To: <20100112065934.GA24686@ayn.mi.celestial.com> References: <20100112043849.GA96088@thought.org> <4B4C0657.3010806@radel.com> <20100112065934.GA24686@ayn.mi.celestial.com>
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On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 10:59:34PM -0800, Bill Campbell wrote: > On Tue, Jan 12, 2010, Jon Radel wrote: > > Gary Kline wrote: > > > ... > > Hmmmm....if you're doing the standard thing, and porting your phone > > number to the cable company, they'll have to put some equipment of their > > own on or in your house. They don't really take ownership of the > > "line", just the number. > > One thing to be aware of with the cable company -- when we had a > week-long power outage a year or so ago, it took Comcast another > week to get the cable back up and running after the power came > back on. Our T1 and other phone lines were fine, and our > generator kept the computers up and running throughout. hehehehehe. I mean: "oh no, oh my heavens." well, I tried to caution my family, but .... seriously, I'm not anything remotely gleeful or even smiling. the past few months has burned me out gary ps: if my domain suddenly become un-pingable, you'll know the score. > > Bill > -- > INTERNET: bill@celestial.com Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC > URL: http://www.celestial.com/ PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way > Voice: (206) 236-1676 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820 > Fax: (206) 232-9186 Skype: jwccsllc (206) 855-5792 > > The laws that forbid the carrying of arms ... disarm only those > who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crime.... Such > laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the > assailants; they serve to encourage rather than to prevent > homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater > confidence than an armed one. -- Cesare Beccaria > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org The 7.79a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org/index.php
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