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[WILLIAM <billymegab AT yahoo.com>]

IBM is investing  $6B in India.  Everyone one is investing there.  Not much 
hope for any recovery in America for IT professionals. 

BobTheWonderDog <r_s_banks AT yahoo.com> wrote:  Exactly. That's why I would try 
to avoid buying from
companies that do that. Whether it's possible or not,
that's another question. 

--- Don Bowen wrote:


> With a combination of off shoring tech support and
> development and H1B 
> immigrants the older US tech worker is now walking
> the streets or like me 
> wandering around the country in a travel trailer. I
> do volunteer Red Cross 
> technology team and many of the people in the
> classes are like me, too 
> young to retire but unable to find a job because
> they are too old.

.
r_s_banks AT yahoo.com

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At 6/23/2006, you wrote:
>WiFi is wireless internet, right?  No such thing exists anywhere near my
>home.

WiFi - Wireless Fidelity.

It is a short range that allows you to become completely wireless.  You 
need a fast connection like cable or DSL then you need an Access Point 
(AP).  APs are not very expensive and most are also a wired router so you 
can still have a home network.  I have installed APs several places around 
the country where I stop and they work well.

Wireless is slower than wired by about half even on a good 
connection.  Wireless is available all over the place but range is 
short.  It is a 2.4 gHz signal so all sorts of things attenuate it.  I have 
a wireless adapter with a 6 dBi antenna which helps some.  I also have an 
adapter with an antenna connection.  I plan to hang something like a Yagi 
on the batwing TV antenna.  A short Yagi can get 9 dBi gain. (every 3 dBi 
is a doubling of the signal).

Many places offer free wireless but many more charge.  I found the Texas 
rest areas offer free WiFi.  $tarbucks, Borders, Barns & Noble, Flying J, 
and others offer a paid connection.  Many libraries have free WiFi, it is 
cheaper than more computers.  I have used WiFi much more this year than 
last.  Where I am parked now is in a Houston side street and I am picking 
up an open WiFi connection.



Don Bowen              Awl Knotted Up        KI6DIU
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At 6/23/2006, you wrote:
>May I ask how much that cost to fix?

The keyboard was about $50 and Fry's replaced it for $30 labor.  I had 
Fry's do it because at the time I was very busy and and very dirty working 
on a farm.



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At 6/23/2006, you wrote:
>IBM is investing  $6B in India.  Everyone one is investing there.  Not 
>much hope for any recovery in America for IT professionals.

They can pay people $800 a month there rather than the $8000 here.  That 
money does not go to the workers remaining but to the top.  Remaining 
workers are laid off as fast as they can move process off shore.



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I visited, in the 1960s, a planatation near Richmond, Virginia, which had
an ice pond and an ice house. So you don't have to be way north to do this.
Bev, you may be able to do this some years in Ga if you're far enough in
the mountains. The trick is to have a fairly shallow pond so it will freeze
faster. I know here one farm pond not far from me froze enough a couple of
years for the transplanted yankees to ice skate. You don't need that thick
ice for harvesting it. It probably hasn't gotten cold enough for the last 2
or 3 years. Unless you were ready to roll when the temps dropped.

It operated much as Gene said. A pond to freeze; workers to hack the ice
into chunks, loaded into a wagon lined with hay/straw for transport to the
ice house. Then lowered into a hole in the ground which was floored with
straw/hay. Each new layer was covered with more insulation material and a
rather thick amount put on top. A small house over the whole hole.

Chunks were transported to the kichen porch where the iceboxes sat. Milk,
butter, eggs, and meats were kept in the ice box, but for only a day or
two. Daily planning for the next day's meal was important as the ice had to
be fetched, the items brought out of the spring house where they sat in
water cooling until moved to the icebox, the icebox raided for the kichen
prep beginning early in the morning so much of the baking and roasting
could be done before the noon meal.

In a plantation home such as that one, many hands helped with the work and
all were fed for their daily work. I can envision a return to similar
systems if the economic structure melts down. Basically, a central pantry
and kitchen out of which the property population is fed.

>Now that you mention it I'm curious about this, too. People should get
>some advantage, no matter how small, in return for having to live up
>North.