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jp2
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response 100 of 512:
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Apr 6 23:46 UTC 2002 |
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oval
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response 101 of 512:
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Apr 6 23:47 UTC 2002 |
i can't find any info on pop at arbornet.
since yahoo is changing its policy i wonder who else is that doesn't tell you
yet on their website. hence the difficulty of the search to find a reliable,
longterm free email/pop service.
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mdw
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response 102 of 512:
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Apr 7 00:05 UTC 2002 |
m-net has another advantage in terms of load: fewer users.
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jp2
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response 103 of 512:
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Apr 7 00:16 UTC 2002 |
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mdw
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response 104 of 512:
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Apr 7 01:16 UTC 2002 |
You're going to generalize from one instant in time? For shame, you
might as well have tried for an instant when m-net had more users.
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jp2
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response 105 of 512:
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Apr 7 01:19 UTC 2002 |
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rcurl
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response 106 of 512:
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Apr 7 03:23 UTC 2002 |
Re #91: I have been receiving information about the Yahoo machinations
from a mailinglist. I have not yet seen any public source.
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janc
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response 107 of 512:
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Apr 7 03:40 UTC 2002 |
Right now M-Net has 7 users with less than 15 minutes idle time, while Grex
has 25. Now we have two data points.
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jp2
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response 108 of 512:
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Apr 7 07:17 UTC 2002 |
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jp2
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response 109 of 512:
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Apr 7 07:29 UTC 2002 |
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janc
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response 110 of 512:
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Apr 8 02:26 UTC 2002 |
I certainly agree that M-Net has a much faster machine than Grex.
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russ
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response 111 of 512:
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Apr 8 12:41 UTC 2002 |
IWLTA that the latest issue of the RISKS digest, volume 22 number 2,
resides in /a/r/u/russ/public/risks-22.02 for your edification.
IWALTA that I hate the start of Daylight Saving Time.
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keesan
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response 112 of 512:
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Apr 8 14:18 UTC 2002 |
I love it, because I can go to bed an hour earlier and I get an extra hour
of usable daylight. (The part at 6 am is not all that helpful). But then
again I don't have to get up at any particular time.
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anderyn
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response 113 of 512:
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Apr 8 15:20 UTC 2002 |
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jep
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response 114 of 512:
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Apr 8 17:42 UTC 2002 |
I like Daylight Savings Time overall, but last night the time change
threw me off enough I was up most of the night.
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rcurl
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response 115 of 512:
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Apr 8 17:53 UTC 2002 |
Some people are benefitted by DST and others are inconvenienced. This has
a long history. The book _Keeping Watch_ by Michael O'Malley (Penguin,
1990) will tell you more than you want to know about it.
It has become more of a nuisance for me because of my whole-house computer
controlled lights. I keep separate program data files for different
periods of the year to accomodate the changing of the seasons, but then
also have to account for the time changes. This means that some light
schedules follow sunrise and sunset and others follow the daily rhythms of
our lives. I therefore also make a seasonal progrom change on the date of
the time change. Unfortunately the available programs for the Mac for
scheduling the lights do not have built-in seasonal adjustments so
separate schedules must be maintained.
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keesan
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response 116 of 512:
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Apr 8 18:09 UTC 2002 |
Jim remembered to change all our clocks except for the timer which turns the
mattress pad on and off. No big deal. I don't worry about the clock on my
fax machine and the one on the microwave oven gets reset every time we unplug
it to bake bread.
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eskarina
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response 117 of 512:
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Apr 8 20:06 UTC 2002 |
why do you unplug the microwave to bake bread?
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jmsaul
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response 118 of 512:
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Apr 8 20:59 UTC 2002 |
She's probably got an old house. At ours, we can't run any two of the
microwave, toaster oven, or dishwasher at the same time unless we want to go
down to the basement and reset a breaker. They used to assume people would
have a lot less electrical appliances in their kitchen, so they'd put a bunch
of outlets on the same 15A circuit.
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mcnally
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response 119 of 512:
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Apr 8 22:37 UTC 2002 |
That'd be a reason not to operate the microwave while using whatever
appliance she's using in her bread preparation (mixer? bread machine?
oven?) but not necessarily to unplug it. My guess is that the microwave
competes for an outlet with a mixer or something like that and rather
than add another circuit or plug both into a power strip they're just
unplugging one and plugging in the other when either is needed..
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jp2
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response 120 of 512:
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Apr 8 23:49 UTC 2002 |
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keesan
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response 121 of 512:
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Apr 9 00:15 UTC 2002 |
The kitchen came with three duplex outlets, only one of them near the counter.
We wired another outlet into that one so now we can plug in refrigerator,
microwave oven, toaster oven and boombox. The toaster oven and boombox are
plugged into an ungrounded outlet and the other two into grounded ones, I
think (or polarized plugs, anyway). Rather than unplug the refrigerator to
plug in the bread machine, we unplug the microwave oven. I no longer blow
fuses as my circuits are separate from those of the upstairs neighbor.
We also have one outlet in the stove into which we plugged one of those
adaptors that gives you three outlets instead of one, and into that we plugged
two of those things that let you plug grounded plugs into ungrounded outlets,
after filing off the wider part of the polarized plug, so we can plug in both
a light over the table and the boombox we are currently fixing. The duplex
outlet by the sink is used for the light over the sink and the outside
extension cord. The one by the stove is rarely used at all. I once lived
in a room that had one outlet, single not duplex.
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jmsaul
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response 122 of 512:
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Apr 9 02:44 UTC 2002 |
Has the fire marshal seen your kitchen? ;-)
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brighn
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response 123 of 512:
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Apr 9 03:02 UTC 2002 |
Lemme show ya somethin'...
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russ
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response 124 of 512:
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Apr 9 03:23 UTC 2002 |
It makes little sense to unplug a microwave to bake; microwaves
with electronic controls use very little power unless they are
actually operating. The only reason that would make sense is if
there is only one outlet. (For elimination of parasitic loads,
it makes sense to disconnect the microwave when not in use.)
If that's the case, I would recommend getting the modern equivalent
of the "cube tap" so that both could be plugged in at the same time,
and then doing it. The purpose is not to operate both at once, but
to reduce the wear and tear on the appliance plugs and outlets. They
are designed to be plugged in and left, not cycled on a daily basis.
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