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Broadband Over Power Lines is the new big thing, but a Platt’s study shows that even consumers might not be interested unless it is offered to them at dirt cheap prices. “Nearly one-quarter of residential customers in our survey said they would be very interested in BPL if their utility could beat the price of broadband internet alternatives,” said Michael Reid, a research director at Platts. “But interest dropped sharply when we introduced specific price points. At $29.95 per month-below typical prices for internet access via cable or DSL-only 9 percent were still very interested.” Is anyone listening?
From http://www.gigaom.com/2004/11/even_consumers_d.php
It's good to hear some positive news these days.
Protected:
Protected: Eminem VCD
Why you shouldn't ask a technical question on debate night
The drive with the question marks in my last post
38 hours uptime without the benefit of caffiene – the story of my weekend
A description of my weekend.
Voters Registration, Telcodata by Phone, Car crap
If you're in the state of Michigan, you should click here to verify your voters registration information is correct.
If it is not, proceed to the Secretary of State office and correct it, or bring your proper voters registration card to the polls. You have until October 2 to register.
In other news, I've got a beta version of "Telcodata by phone" going at 248-724-DATA. It's free, so have fun. There's also an open conference bridge at 248-724-2600 to play with for any purpose, any time. Let me know if you have ideas for improvement, or find any issues. You can email me at paul@telcodata.us, or just comment to this post.
And
And today, I ran out of gas and got pulled over twice for an out headlight and a loud muffler. ugh. Some days are better than others.
As of 00:59 livejournal is stupidly broken in incredibly cool ways.
drivel
I've made an NMU (Non Maintainer Upload) version of drivel (a linux livejournal client for gnome by
http://www.telcodata.us/debian/unstable/drivel_1.2.0-1.1_i386.deb
If you don't know what this is, don't worry about it. I've updated Debian bug 229090 with the information the maintainer needs to make it happen in the distro, so hopefully sarge will be able to go out with a recent version.
I only had to make minor changes to package it, least of which being that scrollkeeper-update was being run in 'make install' in the package tree, causing bizarre scrollkeeper stuff to litter the package in strange directories. It's supposed to be run during configuration in postinst of the package.
The other change is to recreate livejournal.xpm as a 32×32 pixel icon. Debian needs an xpm for the "Debian" systemwide menus in X. It's a cosmetic thing.
I wish autogen.sh was included in the tarball, it would have saved me a needless CVS pull. 🙂
Mexico's exciting array of new area codes! ole!
[paul] did you all know that mexico now has an exciting array of new area codes?
[paul] which used to be single digit numbers covering regional areas, are now 3 digit city codes?
[paul] how cool is that?!?!
[paul] I could squeal with happiness
[slash] yeah — i'm sure there's a demand now with all those factories being moved down there
[slash] I must be going. College awaits.
[paul] well, this kind gentleman informed me in french on the one working number I figured out that he couldn't transfer me from his extension
[paul] have fun
* slash twirls his finger