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DarkWeb
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I heard it went missing not even an hour after that picture was taken......
This Butt Plug Will Allow Toyota To Build 900-Mile EVs
We’ve known for a while that Toyota is hard at work developing solid-state batteries. The company also said for a while that it expects to be able to offer electric vehicles with a range of more than 900 miles starting in 2027. So it’s not exactly news that Toyota just announced a partnership...www.yahoo.com
BarnBuster
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ended up ordering from this place:
www.zeevapor.com
Legit firm, discount on pricing, good online presence, ord stuff 12th, got it today.
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www.zeevapor.com
Legit firm, discount on pricing, good online presence, ord stuff 12th, got it today.
. The Outdoorsman .
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That new bill burr comedy on netflix was pretty good. Bobby Cannavele is a good actor and he can do funny
lokie
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My oldest stepson works for a local Fiber Optic Internet provider.
He has given us a jailbroke FireStick.
Its a test tool for him to use at work.
All stations or apps available for video streaming are free. NO registrations required.
Much more than I'll ever get the full experience from.
Thanks K.
He has given us a jailbroke FireStick.
Its a test tool for him to use at work.
All stations or apps available for video streaming are free. NO registrations required.
Much more than I'll ever get the full experience from.
Thanks K.
raratt
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It's best to get a good VPN add on in case you accidentally watch some copyrighted content. Feds don't appreciate that.
kinetic
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Back in the late 20th century we had a device known as a "Chinger". You bought a hand held sound fx machine at radio shack. Brought it to a girl from high schools father and he would program it. With what? Go to any pay phone and hold it up to the receiver, hit the button and the telco system was fooled into thinking you added money. Free calls for my buddy who started following the dead the summer we were Juniors in High School. After that about 4 more of us got them before he stopped making them. Pretty sure the dude was one of the OG Phone Phreaks from the 70s.
Ozumoz66
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I had a long distance girlfriend in the mid 80s. Phone calls were $.32/minute, so we mostly sent letters.
There were two payphones beside each other in a nearby town. I'd bill the calls to my girlfriend to the payphone beside me - accepting the charges when the operator called it. Funny shit looking back.
Then I had a 34 year career at a phone/CATV and eventually internet company. Good times.
BarnBuster
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One cool cat, RIP
www.hollywoodreporter.com
Richard Roundtree, Suave Star of ‘Shaft,’ Dies at 81
In addition to playing the street-smart private eye, he was memorable in 'Roots,' 'Once Upon a Time … When We Were Colored' and 'Man Friday.'
www.hollywoodreporter.com
kinetic
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When I first started in telco I was talking to the central office tech, Frank. When we were done the my boss asked "Why the hell are you calling him Frank"? I replied "That's what the guys that come in over the speaker call him" My boss tells me "Dumbass they're saying 'Hello frame' because he's hooking up pairs on the frame that's holding all the blocks were pulling cable too". I didn't fall for the cable stretcher bit nor the go to the van and get a bucket of dial tone tho.
raratt
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@BobBitchen
I-80 : Soda Springs : Hwy 80 at Soda Springs EB
Caltrans image and video for I-80 : Soda Springs : Hwy 80 at Soda Springs EB
cwwp2.dot.ca.gov
Ozumoz66
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Beginnings here was refurbishing phones with new plastic, dials, or curly cords. Or wiring up different coloured phones for 2 party ringing. Still have a blue 500 set and some wooden phones too.
On to Co tech - frame jockey first then Nortel DMS telephony, power systems, CATV outside plant design and finished with long haul transport over fibre, using dense wavelength division multiplexing - shoving 400GB of data on 40 different wavelengths over a piece of glass that's 9/25ths of a thousands of an inch in diameter. The intriguing part for me was how they amplified light (without converting it to electrical first) using erbium doping. In-line chromatic dispersion compensators too were fascinating.
Amazing journey. Blessings abound. Fortunate! Retired 5+ years.
OldMedUser
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I tried Google Translate with that and I think I broke it.Beginnings here was refurbishing phones with new plastic, dials, or curly cords. Or wiring up different coloured phones for 2 party ringing. Still have a blue 500 set and some wooden phones too.
On to Co tech - frame jockey first then Nortel DMS telephony, power systems, CATV outside plant design and finished with long haul transport over fibre, using dense wavelength division multiplexing - shoving 400GB of data on 40 different wavelengths over a piece of glass that's 9/25ths of a thousands of an inch in diameter. The intriguing part for me was how they amplified light (without converting it to electrical first) using erbium doping. In-line chromatic dispersion compensators too were fascinating.
Amazing journey. Blessings abound. Fortunate! Retired 5+ years.
Can an old dial phone still work on a regular land line circuit? I have one of those old black wall phones I'd like to hook up over my desk in the mancave here. Already have a phone line in here for the modem for taking faxes when need be so just need to connect it up to the phone and should be good to go? Green and red wires to make those work for a single line if I remember correctly. Have splitters and lots of spare phone wires.
This thing is as old as me FFS. Pat. 1954 - 57 and I'm a '54 baby.
kinetic
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I had a kid try to deny the fact I hear the little click of glass break when he made his diameters to small when hooking up lc connectors from the MIC cable we ran. I was one of the last Western Electric trained installers. The old man that trained me looked like George Burns from Oh God You Devil but was 6'3". He had transition sun glasses that tinted red and his compliment to the owner was "Kinetic isn't as dumb as I thought he was". That was enough to get a promotion to lead tech. I miss it sometimes, but the travel isn't conducive to being with my kids. Congrats on retirement! It's funny how folks look at Snowden like Mark Klein didn't blow the whistle in 2006 on the room the feds built in central offices to tap into the fiber trunks. A friend said "They're building a communications web" my reply was "Well it's more like a bunch of rings that overlap".Beginnings here was refurbishing phones with new plastic, dials, or curly cords. Or wiring up different coloured phones for 2 party ringing. Still have a blue 500 set and some wooden phones too.
On to Co tech - frame jockey first then Nortel DMS telephony, power systems, CATV outside plant design and finished with long haul transport over fibre, using dense wavelength division multiplexing - shoving 400GB of data on 40 different wavelengths over a piece of glass that's 9/25ths of a thousands of an inch in diameter. The intriguing part for me was how they amplified light (without converting it to electrical first) using erbium doping. In-line chromatic dispersion compensators too were fascinating.
Amazing journey. Blessings abound. Fortunate! Retired 5+ years.
Ozumoz66
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Yes, absolutely you can use that 554 phone set on your landline.I tried Google Translate with that and I think I broke it. View attachment 5339033
Can an old dial phone still work on a regular land line circuit? I have one of those old black wall phones I'd like to hook up over my desk in the mancave here. Already have a phone line in here for the modem for taking faxes when need be so just need to connect it up to the phone and should be good to go? Green and red wires to make those work for a single line if I remember correctly. Have splitters and lots of spare phone wires.
This thing is as old as me FFS. Pat. 1954 - 57 and I'm a '54 baby.
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Telephony lingo may be foreign to most - but chemistry jargon would mesmerize me.
My grade 3 teacher wanted me to become a doctor. Then she bought me a Radio Shack kit. (I delivered the London Free Press before school - age 8 - she was my best customer and an instrumental influence looking back.) Electronics became my passion, with a lifetime of learning using technology. From humble beginnings, I've had a charmed life.
Ozumoz66
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The company was contracting out fibre splicing in the 90's, which irked me. So I purchased a Siecor M90 fusion splicer on eBay, learned how to use it and went on to perform several thousand splices with it.
One of our senior (larger than life) characters was named Hereford head - tight curly hair on a big head. He was strong as an ox - lineman and cable splicer. Moved the cable lasher from one side of the pole to the other, using one hand, while on spurs. Drank 5 beers for lunch.
The novelty of travel wore off eventually. Been coast to coast several times and have seen some awesome places - including 6 cities in the US. Midnight cutovers won't be missed - tough on families.
We had an OC12 interconnection for law enforcement to monitor things. I was involved with basic line traces for prank calls, crisis situations, etc. Had security clearance till they wanted my fingerprints to continue performing that role - then opted out.
All the best.