2003-09-21

Sprinting

As of today, I am now usingsprint as my cell phone carrier instead ofat&t.

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Why? Well, all my friends jumped off a bridge...I mean they all have sprint and that means the"Unlimited Sprint-to-Sprint" feature makes it all worth while. Yes, $40/month is more expensive than the cell phone plan you scored a year or two ago, however, a little known tip for all sprint customers is theJohns Hopkins 18% discount.wink-wink Tell them you go there, undergrad/grad and they'll hook you up, no questions asked. So I get, 300/1000 and unlimited sprint-to-sprint for $32 instead of $40. Sc-iz-ore!

Also, I found the last of the venerableSanyo-4900 phones atUltimate Electronics. The phone is big, but it has4.5 hours of talk time!! Not to mention weekS of standby.

This also means you should watch your email for my new phone number...assuming you use a phone as method for contacting me.

Those using electronic means exclusively, need not be concerned :-P

Whew

So, if anybody's running snipsnap and one day their database decides to say things like:

couldn't release conglomerate lock

or
Area not found in bin chain

Fear not, it isrepairable:

java -cp ./mckoidb.jar com.mckoi.tools.DBConglomerateRepairTool -path ./data -u userid -p password