There is the HDHomeRun Prime[1] that will accept a CableCARD and output to any connected device on your network.

1. https://www.silicondust.com/product/hdhomerun-prime/

The jTDS project is dying, there has not been a new release in over 3 years despite some pretty significant bugs.

https://sourceforge.net/p/jtds/discussion/129584/thread/050f...

Yeah, maybe we'll switch as well now.

But I just cant stand the loving hype for MS here. They gave out such horrible and dog slow drivers to their paying customers that people reverse engineered the protocol and wrote their own. And it still performs very well.

Now that MS publishes this codebase (which should have been standard, or at least best, practice), they get showered with love.

Like an abusive relationship where one is happy and extatic if the abuser is reasonably nice for a day.

You don't need to reverse engineer the protocol. TDS is an open spec on their website.

SQL Server TDS spec was published in 2008, when jTDS was in version 1.2 and already feature complete and stable.

I just had a quick look at the code and the code quality leaves a lot to be desired. If internal quality is an indicator for external quality there is indeed a lot of room for improvement left.

While Microsoft claims the new driver is fully JDBC 4.1 compliant key JDBC 4.1 methods throw SQLFeatureNotSupportedException and the code is littered with comments

// The driver currently does not implement JDDBC 4.1 APIs

A pet peeve of mine is when an article displays data to bolster an argument but then cites the source to something extraordinarily large and generic (e.g. "SOURCE: DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION") which makes actually finding the primary data nearly impossible.

Dump the boxes and pick up a cable card. Comcast rebates you $2.50 for having a cable card on your account[0].

[0]: https://www.xfinity.com/equipmentpolicy

That's hilarious. The hack value makes it worth the hassle for the $2.50. Plus it will take up less room in my closet!

These guys are doing just that: http://www.remotehamradio.com/

Check out The No-Nonsense Study Guides[1]. They are stripped down to just the essential knowledge for the exams. They won't help you master the material, but will give you more than enough information to pass the exams.

I used them with great success to pass all three tests on my first attempt.

[1] http://www.kb6nu.com/study-guides/

Part 97 prohibits communications in which the station licensee or control operator has a pecuniary interest.

As long as the control operator, or her employer are not making money on the advertisement displayed it would likely be A-OK.

It's perfectly legal or order pizza via autopatch over amateur radio, although impractical now that everyone owns a cell phone.

Interesting, using the autopatch to order food has been repeatedly cited to me as an example of barred commercial traffic.

Maybe I am getting some specific local or machine rules confused with the FCC's rules.

Here's what the ARRL has to say about it:

"...snip... Calls to place an order for a commercial product may be made such as the proverbial call to the pizza restaurant to order food, but not calls to one's office to receive or to leave business messages since communications on behalf of ones employer are not permitted..." http://www.arrl.org/phone-patch-guidelines

Then I might try it. If done at the right time, it might kick off a two hour ragchew about health problems associated with elderly people and unhealthy food.

The government birthed the Ma Bell monopoly with the Willis Graham Act.

You're completely off your rocker.

The Willis Graham Act nullified the Kingsbury Commitment by which the government had tried to stop the unfettered expansion of Ma Bell, since it hadn't actually worked the government shifted to trying to regulate Ma Bell itself through the ICC (and the FCC a few years later).

Yes, and at the same cost per gig as domestic data.

See Fi's rate card here: https://fi.google.com/about/rates/

I've had the opposite problem, Fi will drop and black list public AP's on me if they are moderately slow or have high latencies.