Cable, Cisco 3000, Python -long (was Re: [SPAM] Re: SCP speed question)

[Michael Hipp]

Matthew Carpenter wrote:
> On Friday 12 January 2007 12:46, Michael Hipp wrote:
>> I would gladly dig a trench twice that long and pay an install fee twice
>> that amount to get cable at my house. But Cox / Suddenlink /
>> Whatevertheyrecalledthisweek does not wish to have any of my money. A
>> pox on them and their horse.
> 
> Hey, be nice to the horses... they're hard enough to keep alive as it is (just 
> had to put one down two weeks ago).  Colic.  yech.
> 
> As for the cable company...  Check with Charter and Comcast and any other 
> cable provider that *might* service your area.  I found Charter on a whim.
> Remember a few months back I had a discussion with David Bandel about wireless 
> bridging over 5-10miles?  Well, while calling around to see how close I could 
> find Cable or DSL, I happened upon Charter's sales guy who said he thought he 
> could install to me.  I turns out that they have a main run down 1/3 mile 
> from my house.  They charge roughly $3/ft for an aerial run and $6/ft for 
> underground.  See if you can get someone technical (the surveyor) to contact 
> you and talk dice.  Make sure he understands that you are not the average Joe 
> who will balk at more than a couple hundred bucks for installation.

Thanks. Problem is I live in the Ozark foothills in rural north Arkansas. 
Other than Cox/Suddenlink it's  a 30 minute drive to *any* other cable 
provider. Literally. AT&T has DSL here and they could provide it to me at 
minimal cost and effort. But they won't. After talking to the local techs, the 
local managers, the corporate network provisioning engineers, and the 
corporate tech support in both companies, I've concluded they both have some 
kind of a blood oath with the devil which includes an irreversible condition 
not to provide me Internet.

There's hope however, a guy a few miles down the road has started a WISP. He 
already has 5 towers up and I've sent some of my best clients to him. But I'm 
going to need one very impressive tower to get a microwave signal down into 
this barrel I live in.

>>    self.Rant(stop=True)
> Nicely formatted Python, Michael!  Although if I were writing it, I'd make 
> Rant it's own object, since we often go off on different rants at different 
> times, sometimes a couple at a time...  so probably store multiple rants in a 
> dict:
> 
> 	self.rants['stupidcableco'].stop()  

Thanks. Since I've only recently concluded that there are programming 
languages other than Assembler and C that are probably worthwhile that makes 
me a fairly recent convert to The Universal Church Of The Object Way. And my 
brain occasionally rebels against the many heresies involved in object-based code.

And I've been grinding out Python lately like I'm in some kind of contest. 
Well, I guess I am as a key client is begging to have the project finished.

Other than the tired "inefficiency" argument against all object-based, 
byte-compiled, platform-independent, highly expressive languages ... I 
consider Python to be nearly language perfection.

topic = FlameBait(category=PROGRAMMING_LANGUAGES)
topic.InciteRiot()
for exp in OpinionatedExperts:
     exp.GrowIndignant()
     topic.PostReply("Your mother wears Army boots!", exp)
self.BackToWork()

Michael