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This site is a member of WebRing. To browse visit here. Thursday, April 12, 2007 Back on satellite, not noticeably faster [NOTE - written and posted in a hurry yesterday, edited today for better phrasing and to fix a typo I found.]The installer came from Dish Network today, and I have satellite internet again through Wildblue. I'm not sure this is much of an improvement. Websites don't appear to download any faster than they did before, and email is definitely not faster. Sending email was a non-starter altogether at first, because when I called to get the SMTP address (the name of the outgoing email server), the Dish Network customer support person said hesitantly that they didn't support Eudora. They didn't have a "menu structure," he said, for anything but Netscape and Outlook, or Outlook Express.I told him, rather impatiently, I'm afraid, that the protocol was the same, regardless of what program you were using. We dithered around for a while longer, with him repeatedly saying that they didn't have any information for Eudora, I trying different settings in Eudora with the SMTP address that he gave me, with the same results: "Access denied."I finally hung up in disgust, thinking I was going to have to continue using the dial-up account for my mail, when something clicked in my brain and I went back to the settings in Eudora. Virtually all mail systems now require what is called "authentication," before they will accept outgoing mail, and sure enough--Eudora was still set up with my dial-up account as the authenticated user. I changed that to the Dishmail address, tried again, and away it went.In the process of doing that, I discovered that one of my other addresses was still set up to send mail through an account belonging to some hotel I had stayed in while on the road. So much for their security.Then I called Dish Network back and asked them whether they would like to know how to set up Eudora for authenticated mail. "Sure," said the man who answered the phone, but I didn't have the impression he was paying much attention. Oh well. If anyone decides to Google for Dishmail and Eudora, they'll probably come up with this entry. Email me and I'll tell you how to do it.Having said all that, I need to add that the local installer was terrific. When I got DirectWay internet, they wanted big bucks for anything but the bare minimum installation, and one got the impression that they made sure no one qualified for the minimum. He charged $100 extra to mount the dish on a post instead of on the equally sturdy porch rail. Burying the coax would be "trenching," he said, and bringing it in through the floor instead of the side of the trailer would be "structure work," and would cost at least a couple of hundred dollars more. I was so aggravated with the extra hundred bucks for a post I didn't need that I told him to just do the minimum he had to do, and go away.This installer moved the site of the dish to what he said was a better look angle for the satellite, put up a post, dug a shallow trench for the coax, and brought it under the trailer to the opposite side where my computer desk is, and up through the floor. He seemed amazed that the first installer wouldn't have wanted to do the same thing, wouldn't have wanted to do it right. That said a lot for this local company, I thought, and I'm pleased that I lucked into them on the first try.The only thing I've got to be careful about now is not to dig up the coax when I'm planting things. More lines to add to the site utility drawing (yes, I have one--old engineers don't die, they just forget where they ran the plumbing, so I have a site utility plan). posted by Liz @ 4:46 PM | The template is set to display 10 posts. To see all the posts for this month, click on the month name in the Archive section RSS Feed PERSONAL Send email toliz at life-as-a-spectator-sport.com Home I'm a mother, grandmother, a computer professional, Democrat, Christian. I welcome politely worded comments and email, my spam filter throws the rest away, so don't bother to flame me WHY 'LIFE AS A SPECTATOR SPORT' "If you're lucky not to live in the gutters of a slum, but still can't afford to take vacations in the Alps, you're part of that enormous middle class who lives life through the medium of the television, further separated from "real" life by air conditioner, by automobile, by dishwasher, microwave and ice-in-the-door refrigerator, by automatic washer and dryer, and all the other appliances and conveniences that make it possible for America to live life at second hand. I'm not sure why Americans decided that televised drama was better than the real thing, that cardboard microwave food containers were an adequate substitute for real dishes, and their contents for real food, or that cooking, dishwashing and face-to-face conversation wasn't worth the effort and time it required. Someone fed this nation a plastic crate of out-of-season tomatoes and told us it was life and we took them at their word, and we're so much the poorer for it that it's hard to know where to start to list the shortcomings." I wrote this a couple of years ago, but I have to admit it's much less amusing than I thought it would be to see the artifical construct falling apart. 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[NOTE - written and posted in a hurry yesterday, edited today for better phrasing and to fix a typo I found.]The installer came from Dish Network today, and I have satellite internet again through Wildblue. I'm not sure this is much of an improvement. Websites don't appear to download any faster than they did before, and email is definitely not faster. Sending email was a non-starter altogether at first, because when I called to get the SMTP address (the name of the outgoing email server), the Dish Network customer support person said hesitantly that they didn't support Eudora. They didn't have a "menu structure," he said, for anything but Netscape and Outlook, or Outlook Express.I told him, rather impatiently, I'm afraid, that the protocol was the same, regardless of what program you were using. We dithered around for a while longer, with him repeatedly saying that they didn't have any information for Eudora, I trying different settings in Eudora with the SMTP address that he gave me, with the same results: "Access denied."I finally hung up in disgust, thinking I was going to have to continue using the dial-up account for my mail, when something clicked in my brain and I went back to the settings in Eudora. Virtually all mail systems now require what is called "authentication," before they will accept outgoing mail, and sure enough--Eudora was still set up with my dial-up account as the authenticated user. I changed that to the Dishmail address, tried again, and away it went.In the process of doing that, I discovered that one of my other addresses was still set up to send mail through an account belonging to some hotel I had stayed in while on the road. So much for their security.Then I called Dish Network back and asked them whether they would like to know how to set up Eudora for authenticated mail. "Sure," said the man who answered the phone, but I didn't have the impression he was paying much attention. Oh well. If anyone decides to Google for Dishmail and Eudora, they'll probably come up with this entry. Email me and I'll tell you how to do it.Having said all that, I need to add that the local installer was terrific. When I got DirectWay internet, they wanted big bucks for anything but the bare minimum installation, and one got the impression that they made sure no one qualified for the minimum. He charged $100 extra to mount the dish on a post instead of on the equally sturdy porch rail. Burying the coax would be "trenching," he said, and bringing it in through the floor instead of the side of the trailer would be "structure work," and would cost at least a couple of hundred dollars more. I was so aggravated with the extra hundred bucks for a post I didn't need that I told him to just do the minimum he had to do, and go away.This installer moved the site of the dish to what he said was a better look angle for the satellite, put up a post, dug a shallow trench for the coax, and brought it under the trailer to the opposite side where my computer desk is, and up through the floor. He seemed amazed that the first installer wouldn't have wanted to do the same thing, wouldn't have wanted to do it right. That said a lot for this local company, I thought, and I'm pleased that I lucked into them on the first try.The only thing I've got to be careful about now is not to dig up the coax when I'm planting things. More lines to add to the site utility drawing (yes, I have one--old engineers don't die, they just forget where they ran the plumbing, so I have a site utility plan).
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WHY 'LIFE AS A SPECTATOR SPORT'
"If you're lucky not to live in the gutters of a slum, but still can't afford to take vacations in the Alps, you're part of that enormous middle class who lives life through the medium of the television, further separated from "real" life by air conditioner, by automobile, by dishwasher, microwave and ice-in-the-door refrigerator, by automatic washer and dryer, and all the other appliances and conveniences that make it possible for America to live life at second hand. I'm not sure why Americans decided that televised drama was better than the real thing, that cardboard microwave food containers were an adequate substitute for real dishes, and their contents for real food, or that cooking, dishwashing and face-to-face conversation wasn't worth the effort and time it required. Someone fed this nation a plastic crate of out-of-season tomatoes and told us it was life and we took them at their word, and we're so much the poorer for it that it's hard to know where to start to list the shortcomings." I wrote this a couple of years ago, but I have to admit it's much less amusing than I thought it would be to see the artifical construct falling apart.
THE NON-ELECTRIC HOME
Cleaning, 1 Cleaning, 2 Cleaning, 3
KNITTING BLOGS
Extravayarnza Knitting Heretic Mind of Winter Pie Knits Persistent Illusion See Eunny Knit The Keyboard Biologist Taleweaver's Ramblings TECHnitting Wendy Knits
FINISHED PROJECTS
SELF-RELIANCE AND THE FUTURE
POLITICAL BLOGS and SITES
BOOKS I'M READING
How to Grow More Vegetables, etc. Small Scale Grain Raising
ARCHIVES
February 2009 January 2009 December 2008 November 2008 October 2008 August 2008 July 2008 May 2008 April 2008 March 2008 February 2008 January 2008 December 2007 November 2007 October 2007 September 2007 August 2007 July 2007 June 2007 May 2007 April 2007 March 2007 February 2007 January 2007 December 2006 November 2006 October 2006 September 2006 August 2006 July 2006 June 2006 May 2006 April 2006 March 2006 February 2006 January 2006 December 2005 November 2005 October 2005 September 2005 August 2005 July 2005 June 2005 May 2005 April 2005 March 2005 February 2005 January 2005 December 2004 November 2004 October 2004 September 2004 August 2004 July 2004 June 2004 May 2004 April 2004 March 2004 February 2004 January 2004 December 2003 November 2003 October 2003 September 2003 August 2003 July 2003 June 2003 May 2003 April 2003 March 2003 February 2003 January 2003 December 2002 November 2002 October 2002 September 2002 August 2002 July 2002 June 2002 May 2002 April 2002 March 2002 February 2002
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