*Cryptocurrences. Andrew McRobb Full-time Software Developer Part-time Freelancer On Sat, Dec 16, 2017 at 10:02 AM, Andrew McRobb wrote: > > I am also giving serious thought to bit coin mining here. About all I need >> is a Rasberry Pie, a linux image for BT mining and some USB stick hash >> generators.. >> > > Sounds like it should only take you a few years to get your first profit. > ;) In all seriousness, I think you have to have a legit GPU farm using > something like a few Nvidia 10xx series if you want to see any return on > your investment. Fun, if you are trying to get into it in general, from my > experience. I've been doing Storjshare for a few months, and got some money > in returned. My current farm at the moment, is using an old Dell 32bit > Debian distro running 2 nodes inside of it. Great cheap way to get into > concurrences. > > > Andrew McRobb > Full-time Software Developer > Part-time Freelancer > > On Sat, Dec 16, 2017 at 9:57 AM, Eric Oyen wrote: > >> I will definitely check with my contact in cox biz. >> >> so far, I am pleased with what I have here. Sure, it's a tad more >> expensive for the biz class, but then, I don't have to worry about the >> sliding IP of residential, or all the blocked ports and even the new usage >> caps (which can get rather expensive per GB over limit). The other room >> mates have fallen into a pattern of now knowing how to work the chrome cast >> unit and are not willing to go back to the old video offering. One enjoys >> his left wing news, the other enjoys his right wing news, the third enjoys >> his gaming on secret world, WoW and others. As for me, I am just doing a >> lot of reading on the finer points of the law with regard to some issues I >> have been reading on (the collusion issue and some others). >> >> btw, I am also seriously considering signing up as a DMCA agent (courtesy >> of the FSF) so that I can host a torrent stream of the more popular Linux >> torrent transfers. This way, should the ISP (cox) object, I can show them >> the paperwork and they could go back to whoever complained and say "too >> bad, so sad…" >> >> I am also giving serious thought to bit coin mining here. About all I >> need is a Rasberry Pie, a linux image for BT mining and some USB stick hash >> generators.. >> >> anyway, that's all I plan on using my Cox connection for just now. I >> might also register a website and host from here as well (a spare laptop >> acting as a web server is pretty easy to do). >> >> -eric >> from the central offices of the Technomage Guild, Signs and Portents >> Division. >> >> On Dec 16, 2017, at 8:00 AM, techlists@phpcoderusa.com wrote: >> >> > >> > >> > On 2017-12-15 18:21, der.hans wrote: >> >> Am 18. Nov, 2017 schwätzte Eric Oyen so: >> >> moin moin, >> >> does Cox Business still want a one year cancellation notice? >> > >> > I have Cox Home Office. Initially I was on a contract of 1, 2, or 3 >> years - my choice and the price got better the longer the contract. I am >> now month to month. They offered me 1/2 a month off for the 1st month of >> the 12 month contract so I will probably do it. Oh, and when they called I >> was told month to month was going to go up 10% over having a contract. I >> wonder if that was just a salesman ploy. The irony is I have no other >> options for high speed internet. >> > >> > It is my understanding Home Office and Cox Business are the same except >> pricing. Cox Business is more expensive from what I have been told. >> > >> > When I switched from a consumer plan about 5 or 6 years ago the cost >> went up $25/mo. I was thinking I was going to run a server.... never did. >> It still is handy to not have any blocked ports because I can setup a test >> server and run it as needed. >> > >> > And I have less outages. I've been using Cox for high speed internet >> and have no problems. But then I do not push things to the limit.... >> > >> > >> > >> >> Cox Business wanted a new contract to move the service and the new >> >> contract stipulated a 12 month notice for cancellation. I moved to >> Century >> >> Link :). >> >> Cox also completely borked up my cancellation of the old service and it >> >> took me 6 months to get them to actually cancel my service and give me >> my >> >> money back. They lost the paperwork and threatened me with collections >> >> on a cancelled service with a balance that they owed me. Luckily, I had >> >> made sure to get an email acking my cacellation at the beginning. >> >> ciao, >> >> der.hans >> >>> you might have to call cox business and speak to Jame Hidalgo. He is >> my contact over there. btw, business class internet doesn't suffer from the >> hard cap that you got charged for this last time out. they might even have >> access to the fiber that you want. >> >>> now, sure, most of the tier 1 droids at residential customer service >> are good people. However, anyone who has ever worked a CSr desk knows that >> they all have to run from a script. >> >>> anyway, if you call Jame Hidalgo at cox business, please tell him who >> referred you. >> >>> Eric OYen >> >>> from the central office of the Technomage Guild, Internet services >> referrals Dept. >> >>> On Nov 18, 2017, at 7:44 AM, techlists@phpcoderusa.com wrote: >> >>>> Asked for a supervisor. >> >>>> On 2017-11-17 12:38, Snyder, Alexander J wrote: >> >>>>> Kind of irritated by this ... >> >>>>> Cox lays fiber in my subdivision, has the service trucks wrapped in >> "Gigablast" vinyl adverts ... >> >>>>> Service folk gladly sharing that "it's for gigablast" ... >> >>>>> I did my giddy dance, nerdgasm, the whole 9 yards ... >> #ShutUpAndTakeMyMoney >> >>>>> I called them each week and spoke to customer service folks that >> seemed to be less informed than the guy last week ... >> >>>>> Bro ... that was 6 months ago. >:-( >> >>>>> The only major development was Cox billing me for going over 1TB a >> bandwidth a month. >> >>>>> Friends in Auhtukee and Glendale have it, and are quite happy with >> it. Why can't I have this happiness? >> >>>>> Sincerely, >> >>>>> AloneAndHopless ... >> >>>>> ;-) >> >>>>> Thanks, >> >>>>> Alex. >> >>>>> Sent from my Samsung Galaxy S8+ >> >>>>> On Nov 17, 2017 12:13, "Jerry Snitselaar" >> wrote: >> >>>>> Anyone using this service? It looks like it finally arrived in our >> >>>>> neighborhood. I'd prefer to try Google Fiber, but that seems to be >> >>>>> dead in the valley since their competitors complained about the >> deals >> >>>>> they were able to make with the cities. 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