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They went with a MotoTRBO system which is digital but is not decoded by any commercially-available scanner. Scanner listeners are out of luck with the new system.
And just so you know, MotoTRBO is a proprietary system by Motorola that was never intended for use for public safety; it is a business radio system. (Idiot move number one of our county commission). The "standard" for digital public safety radio systems is the P25 system, which is not only open (non-proprietary) but is also what is used by EVERY county that surrounds us that has gone digital. (Idiot move number two of our county commission).
When our county chose the proprietary MotoTRBO system, they instantly killed any hope of interop between our neighboring counties with P25.
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I've followed Dvorak since the early 80's, and honestly, he's becoming somewhat technologically senile in the last few years.
BUT... the government never let's a good crisis go without taking advantage of it. I don't believe this was all a sinister setup by the government in order to require online identities, but I can see the government using the situation for precisely that reason.
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Do yourselves a favor and use an offsite backup provider like Mozy. External drives are great until:
1. Your disk is stolen.
2. Your house burns down.
3. You're hit by a tornado.
4. The disk is bumped and dropped off the desk.
5. You're hit by a virus that wipes the disk.
I don't worry about any of these.
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SO dispatch says driver is ok.
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Ok, my wife wanted me to go on her behalf (honest story!) and take a look around to see what they had. Personally, the selection o'stuff was pretty lacking and the prices on the items she was interested in were sky high. I mean REALLY, REALLY high. If they want to survive, they're going to have to reconsider their pricing.
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I don't normally join in the fray of political idiocy, but the pooflinging going on in this thread is just too much to it go without a comment.
Being arrested does not a criminal make. Plain and simple.
Disclaimer: I'm not voting for Rakestraw... this is no defense of her or her party. This is just common freakin' sense.
Edit: ... and why isn't this in the political forum? I don't want to be bothered by political junk when I'm catching up on the news of the county. Mods? Mods? Anyone home?
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Well, I bet if the SPLOST is not voted in, we will be paying a lot more then the one cent. We will be paying on our
property taxes. I had rather pay one cent on my purchases, and my propeety taxes not go up. As far as buildings,
I don't think we will need anymore buildings for a while.
Surely, you don't think this is just one cent on an entire purchase, right?
In case you don't realize it, it is one cent on every dollar you spend. You buy $1 of stuff, you pay an additional $0.01 on top of the normal sales tax. You spend $100.00, you pay an extra $1.00 in addition to the regular sales tax. If you buy $100 of groceries every week for a year, your groceries cost an additional $52.00 than they would without the SPLOST.
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When the backup disappeared, no... it did not show them as backed up. (My wife uses this workstation, so she didn't notice the little green dots were gone... and I'm not on the workstation that much, so I hadn't noticed it, either).
At the moment, I'm not using offsite storage. I've used Mozy. It never lost files, but the client was a little "dumb" when it came to bandwidth throttling, which caused some issues (especiallyb when I was remoting into work). IDrive is another provider, but their quality is suspect (misspellings in an app generally mean little to no QA, or offshore development and support, which I have no patience for).
I'm still on the hunt for a decent service. If I had the money, I'd develop my own.
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Not to switch topics... but I used Carbonite for about a year and had two very disturbing events with them. The first was that I received (out of the blue) an email from them saying that a routine integrity check showed that there were inconsistencies with the backup of my family's main workstation (where all of our photos are; the most important PC in the bunch). Their resolution?... Uninstall and re-install the client.
So I did. It turns out that the backup hadn't been working in nearly 3 weeks at that point, despite the fact that the client never warned me.
So... two weeks later, I decide to do a test restore (always a good idea to do every now and then). When I went to do the test restore, I come to find that the backup had completely *VANISHED* off their site. I mean NOTHING was there.
I immediately called and asked what was up. They said they'd look into it. In the meantime, I had to uninstall and reinstall again and setup the backup all over again. With gigs upon gigs of photos, music, and documents to backup, it took over a month to make it up.
I was in continuous email contact with them from April through August. They never would give me any assurance that they've found the issue and remedied it so that it wouldn't happen again. They eventually just quit responding to email.
I dumped them like a bad habit. If you stick with them, I *highly* recommend you do occasional test restores and take a look around to ensure your stuff is *really* getting backed up. (And personally, I'd recommend you find another provider. They failed to protect my stuff; it could happen to you.)
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Nice usage of the referral link to get more storage. lol
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That looks like a Cirrus SR22. Those have a parachute recovery system. From the looks of it (very little damage), I'm betting it was used. Bet the pilot is glad for that!
** Update: N451TS is a Cirrus SR22, apparently owned by a flight training company at McCollum Field.
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I'm fairly certain I've seen Serial USB adapters at MicroCenter in Smyrna (or Marietta, or wherever that is).
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"Grrrrr"?
So... you'd rather Microsoft not fix bugs?
Waiting for the "Microsoft sucks" post in 3... 2... 1...
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Ha! Unless you left something out, I have you beat by one computer.
XP=3
XP/Linux Mint Dual Boot=1
Vista=1
7/Ubuntu Linux Dual Boot=1
OS X=1
Lol... well, I have under my desk right now a soon-to-be-retired XP Professional (an old home-built Asus with an Athlon XP processor). I also have an old (way old) Toshiba laptop from 1995, but it hasn't been powered up in years. I also have a 1985-vintage Tandy 1000SX (with 20MB hard card!) and an original Mac Classic. Add to that two TI-99/4A's (with a fully-loaded peripheral expansion system!) plus one Timex/Sinclair ZX-81, and I might have you out-computed.
But... as for computers that are actively being used... you have me there.
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I have Windows Vista on one laptop, Windows 7 on another laptop, Windows 7 on my wife's workstation, Windows 7 on my development workstation, and XP Professional on my two sons' workstations. Vista has been a great OS on the one laptop and I plan on continuing to use it until the laptop is retired. There's been nothing wrong with Vista on every computer I've used with it. Vista got a very bad and undeserved reputation from folks who just didn't understand it.
The two XP workstations will eventually be upgraded... it's just a matter of money at the moment. Upgrading right now would make Dave Ramsey cry.
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I'm still trying to figure out what this has to do with the first amendment.
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I was not mentioning things in order just to let you know. It was just a stream of consciousness list of ideas. Please do not make too much of that. Cutting unnecessary spending is key, but it is by no means the only solution. It will take a multi-faceted approach.
I did post solutions that do not involve raising taxes earlier in the thread.
I know it wasn't a "list of priorities", but it was a stream of consciousness response. Little things like that can often show what people are really thinking. I do hope that it was purely random, though.
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I personally believe that talking about or implementing carte blanche budget cuts from the state level is premature, especially considering that all revenue options have not been explored. There were several possible pieces of legislation out during this past session that would have worked to raise state revenue without increasing taxes on individuals or small business.
For example, authorizing state and local governments to collect sales taxes that citizens already pay, which would drastically increase state revenues. In addition, we should look at many of the highly abused corporate and special interest tax exemptions that no longer serve the purpose for which they were created.
We also need to focus on cutting pork spending at the state level. I am just as much of a college football fan as anyone here, but the amount of money that the state is spending on the new college football hall of fame could go along way toward funding education at both the K-12 and higher ed levels. Also, for some reason strange reason, the state of Georgia has a brand new horse park in Perry, Georgia, which was largely subsidized by state funds.
There are just a few areas that should have been explored before budget cuts were made.
I will be totally honest in saying that I know nothing about you, Mr. Avery... this thread is my very first introduction to you. But, I would like to get to know you.
It concerns me that cutting spending was the third point you made, behind revenue. Like the rest of us citizens, we cut spending first and can't just go ask for more money from our providers anytime we find we're running in the red. Can you explain why cutting spending was the third item in your reply?
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fyi, Internet Explorer has had the F11 feature for years.
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I upgraded to Windows 7 Professional the day it was released (clean install). The difference in speed compared to Vista or even XP is simply amazing. This is fast... Windows 98SE fast (for those of you who remember that). I am amazed at how responsive the system is.
Everything runs better... boot times are much shorter... going into and coming out of sleep and hibernate are much faster on my laptop.
It is an amazing OS. Pure and simple.
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I like your way of thinking Mrs G. lol
We were planning on being open for breakfast. And we want to be open on people's way home from work. Does anyone here think breakfast is a good idea? And how late would you be going to the bakery on a Saturday?
Keep in mind a lot of people commute... and even as close as Marietta, it is about 6:30p when people get home. Closing at 6p on a weekday might cause you to miss a good number of people on the way home who would otherwise have stopped in.
Of course, I'm one of them, so perhaps there's a little bias there.
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Thumbprint cookies.
Thumbprint cookies.
Thumbprint cookies.
Thumbprint cookies.
Thumbprint cookies.
Thumbprint cookies.
... and cream horns.
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My family and I were just commenting amongst ourselves, wondering if you would have thumbprint cookies... then I saw your post about Rich's bakery.
If you make good thumbprint cookies, you will have steady business from our family, for sure.
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Why is everyone so quick to condemn these days?
Because nearly everyone thinks they are infallible.
No law enforcement
in NEW Scanning the County - Emergency Services radio Traffic Reports
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Just to reiterate, you will *not* be able to listen to the MotoTRBO system that Paulding County is moving to with *any* digital scanner. The encoding that Motorola uses for MotoTRBO is proprietary and they do not license it out to any other radio company.
Unless Paulding County simulcasts their traffic on an analog channel, we're all going to be in the dark very soon.
It is possible, albeit with flaky success, to decode the audio with some software that hobbyists have written that can (sort of) decode the audio, but you have to modify your scanner and solder in a tap to a circuit within then route that to a computer running the software. But, as it stands right now, the software doesn't "follow" conversations across frequency changes, so it's not easy to follow along. And, it's pretty flaky.