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YSL Pour Homme - 1971
So pleasant and great
AdP Colonia
So pleasant and great
Thread: Best classic fragrances
I am on a kick of testing classic fragrances. What are your favorite classics. Say from the 1980's and back. I would especially love to hear of your favorites from the 60's and back.
I will start out with Bowling Green and Jicky. I love both of them.
YSL Pour Homme - 1971
So pleasant and great
AdP Colonia
So pleasant and great
Habit Rouge
Vetiver by Guerlain
Azzaro Pour Homme
Acqua di Parma Colonia
Grey Flannel
Eau Sauvage
Tea Rose by Perfumer's Workshop
Caron Pour un Homme
Habanita by Molinard
Apres L'ondee
Pour Monsieur by Chanel
Vol de Nuit
Cuir de Russie by Chanel
Mouchoir de Monsieur
Chanel no. 19
Bois des Iles
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Tabac Blonde
But once you get locked into a serious perfume collection, the tendency is to push it as far as you can.
Penhalgon's English Fern (everytime I wear this, I realizing how sensational this is)
Habit Rouge
Old Spice
Armani Eau PH
Chanel Pour Monsieur
Guerlain Vetiver
Pierre Cardin
Royal Copenhagen
Givenchy Gentleman
Yves Saint Laurent Pour Homme
Old Spice
Grey Flannel
Paco Rabanne
Worth pour Homme
Bois des Iles
AdP Colonia
Habit Rouge
Habit Rouge
Eau de Guerlain
Mouchoir de Monsieur
Sous le Vent
Vol de Nuit
Cuir de Russie, Chanel
Pour Monsieur de Chanel
Pour un Homme de Caron
Tabac Blond
Coup de Fouet
Knize Ten
Knize Two
Aramis 900
Eau Fraiche, Dior
Eau Sauvage
Monsieur Balmain
Monsieur Rochas
Eau d´Hermès
Grey Flannell
Azzaro pour Homme
Vetiver, Givenchy
Monsieur de Givenchy
Arome 3
YSL Pour Homme
Givenchy Gentleman
Grey Flannel
Paco Rabanne
Halston Z-14
vintage tabarome. period.
Oh the pain! There are too many to list. JonB, I'm going to list a few but I'm sure to forget some others that are just as worthy if not more. The lists made above are excellent for filling in all my omissions.
Great project, by the way.
I say Givenchy Monsieur, Guerlain Vetiver, Guerlain Habit Rouge, Aramis, and like Adonis says, YSL PH, and AdP Colonia. Pick up some Roger & Gallet Extra Vieille too, and then some of Dior's Eau Sauvage masterpiece.
That girl, that bottle, that mattress and me.
Habit Rouge
Eau Sauvage
Knize Ten
Guerlain Vetiver
Caron Pour Un Homme
Apres L'Ondee
C&S 88 (vintage)
What a monumental task! Here are a few but just a few that come to mind:
Mitsouko (vintage formulation)
Guerlain Vetiver
Mouchoir de Monsieur
Habit Rouge
Crown Marechale Original
Crown Eau de Quinine
Czech & Speake No. 88
Caron pour un Homme
Acqua di Parma Colonia
Grey Flannel (cheap yet wonderful)
Dior Eau Sauvage
Caron Pour un Homme
Molinard Habanita
Apres L'ondee
Chanel Pour Monsieur
Chanel Cuir de Russie (if you can find it!)
Mouchoir de Monsieur
Chanel No. 19
Chanel No. 22
Coty Chypre
The more I type, the more I want to add so I'd better stop now.
Don a wig of larks and fly!
Monsieur de Givenchy
Givenchy Vetyver
Givenchy Gentleman
Guerlain Habit Rouge
Guerlain Vetiver
Mouchoir de Monsieur
Eau d'Hermes
This is the only point I can stop; if I went to next level, I'd had to list dozens.
Eau Sauvage, Old Spice, Brut, Pub, Tabac Original, Egoiste by Chanel, Calandre by Paco Rabanne, Kouros by YSL, Lagerfeld classic, Eau de Cartier, Grey Flannel, Monsieur Rochas, Opium pour homme, Allure for men, Tenere by Paco Rabanne, Rive Gauche, Gucci pour homme.
Chanel PM & Guerlain Habit Rouge
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To all the classics aforementioned, I'll add: Rochas Moustache and Caron's Yatagan
Old spice
Eau sauvage
paco rabbane
Grey Flannel
Cool Water
YSL Opium
Armani Eau Pour Homme
Eau Sauvage
One Man Show
Pasha De Cartier
Aramis Devin
Old Spice
I really love the oldtimers and i try to collect as many as possible. These are the ones i really love:
Bal a Versailles
Knize 10
l'Heure bleue
Van Cleef & Arpels - Pour homme
Le troisieme homme
Grey Flannel
Green Irish Tweed
Eau Savage
Knize Ten !
try polo by ralph lauren
French Line
Two steps forward. One step back.
Most have been said. For me, I love the Penhaligon's and the Robert Piguet's. Most Guerlain's and many Chanel's.
I'm really into the YSLs (except L'Homme) but don't personally consider them classic yet.- or not right now.
some standouts for me are:
Hammam Bouquet
English Fern
Du Roi
Douro (Eau de Portugal)
Eau Du Coq
Heritage (newer in the grand scheme)
Mouchoir de Monsieur
Pour Monsieur
Cuir de Russie
No. 22
Support your local Leonberger rescue.
Vintage Tabarome
Patou Pour Homme
Vintage Derby
Vintage Mitsouko Pour Parfum
Vintage Jicky EDT
Chanel Cuir DE Russie
Sous le Vent
Eau de Guerlain
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make sure you try Shalimar in the EDC concentration(not to be confused with Eau de Shalimar, which is awful)....the EDC is a great masculine along the lines of Jicky. And quite a bargain at $35 on amazon.
AdP Colonia
Van Cleef & Arples pour Homme
Grey Flannel
Paco Rabanne pour Homme
No. 5
Le 3me Homme
Azzaro pour Homme
Giorgio for Men
Gucci Nobile
These were the ones that came to me off the top of my head.
Almost forgot Creed Royal Scottish Lavender and Baie de Genievre.
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I don't have a signature fragrance. My signature changes a little bit every day, why shouldn't my fragrance?
BdP, Tuscany, GIT and EdOV
I really enjoy Bowling Green too
vntge jicky
vntge mitsouko
Shalimar pure parfum
vntge Derby
Monchoir de Monsieur
Habit Rouge
Eau Sauvage
vntge Miss Dior
Chanel no5, no19 and no22
Chanel Cuir de Russie
Hermes Calache
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MARK KEOHANE, in Business Day Newspaper, writes the Boks gained more the battle in Nelspruit.
Rather a scrap than a sensational effort against a courageous but limited Scotland.
The Springbok coaching staff gained more because of the struggle against Scotland and there certainly won't be complacency against Samoa.
South African rugby supporters tend to be reactionary and very different in their reactions every weekend.
When New Zealand struggled to beat France in the first Test in Auckland and South Africa were brilliant in patches against Italy many on social networks expressed confidence for the Boks' prospects in the Rugby Championship.
The opposite was true on Saturday night after the Boks battled and the All Blacks bludgeoned a very good French side.
I've learned over 25 years of writing about the Boks that the South Africans can be as unpredictable as the French when it comes to motivation and performance. So much about the Boks depends on the quality of the opposition.
The All Blacks, historically, have been ruthless against inferior opposition. They are a team that puts sides away by 80 or a 100 points. The Boks seldom do.
Think back to the 1995 World Cup and how the Boks battled past Romania and Canada but then fronted for the respective challenge of Australia, France and New Zealand.
Similarly the 1999 World Cup. They looked hopeless against Uruguay and then brilliant against a very good England a week later.
In 2003 the Boks simply were not good enough against the best teams but even in 2007 they were vulnerable against Tonga and Fiji but absolutely ruthless against England and Argentina.
In 2011 they did everything but beat Australia in the World Cup quarter-final when in the build-up they looked dodgy against lesser opposition.
It is unfortunately the South African way. There has to be fear for losing to get the best out of the South African player psyche.
And when Scotland led 17-6 after 50 minutes there seemed – for the first time in the match – a fear that they could lose. Their response, aided by a shocking home town TMO decision to sin bin a Scotland player for an off the ball push, was emphatic and in the last 15 minutes the dominant team was South Africa.
The hosts scored 24 unanswered points and did it easy in the end.
Scotland did to the Boks what the Boks often do to New Zealand in South Africa, which is to disrupt the flow of quick recycle ball, to niggle at the breakdown and to be in their face for a good hour.
Scotland fronted and had they been a team of greater rugby ability they would probably have won. Their limitations were exposed in the final quarter and South Africa's strengths came to the fore.
There is nothing to take from the game other than to know the Boks are still a work in progress, but that they have the potential to be a very good finished product.
The Rugby Championship, to be played in two months time, represents a different challenge but it also comes packaged with familiarity between New Zealand, South Africa and Australia's best players.
These guys play each other weekly for six months of the year. There is nothing they don't know about each other and there is very little to separate the best of New Zealand with the best of Australia or South Africa.
Springbok coach Heyneke Meyer, because of default as much as design, is building greater depth to the Boks than has possibly ever been the case in the professional era.
Injuries and unavailability of Japanese based players like Fourie du Preez, Andries Bekker and Jacque Fourie have forced Meyer to try alternatives and injuries to those players have meant international exposure to the next tier of player.
Meyer is building a very good foundation for a World Cup squad of 30 and doing so without the express purpose of building for a World Cup that only takes place in 2015.
The Bok coach picks a match 23 he believes to be the best to win each Saturday, so he has never asked for the public's patience and used the 2015 World Cup preparation as a buffer to criticism.
I agree with the Bok coach's sentiment about the maturity of Jean de Villiers's leadership. De Villiers is very calm and his composure has been infectious.
The Boks did not panic when they didn't have the ball for 20 minutes against Italy in Durban and at no stage did they look like a side in panic against Scotland.
They looked frustrated, clearly rattled and a bit disorientated but they never had that frantic or blank stare that often comes with a disbelieving situation.
That the Boks did not put away Scotland is more frustrating than concerning, but it is not out of character with the history of Bok rugby.
And it will have no significance to when they play Australia and New Zealand in August. Different month, different opposition, different competition and always a very different attitude.


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The last time I used a dial-up modem was...
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- Don't complain about lack of options. You've got to pick a few when you do multiple choice. Those are the breaks.
- Feel free to suggest poll ideas if you're feeling creative. I'd strongly suggest reading the past polls first.
- This whole thing is wildly inaccurate. Rounding errors, ballot stuffers, dynamic IPs, firewalls. If you're using these numbers to do anything important, you're insane.
The last time I used a dial-up modem was...
first vote (Score:2, Funny)by Anonymous Coward
I looked at the results and said "holy shit...EVERYONE voted 10-20 years ago?"...then I realized it was just me.
Re:first vote (Score:5, Funny)by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 17, 2013 @08:33AM (#44871813)
I looked at the results and said "holy shit...EVERYONE voted 10-20 years ago?"...then I realized it was just me.
I don't know about you, but I voted just a minute ago. Indeed, I'm surprised that you could vote on this poll 10-20 years ago. I thought it only appeared today.
Re:first vote (Score:5, Funny)by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 17, 2013 @05:49PM (#44878169)
I don't know about you, but I voted just a minute ago. Indeed, I'm surprised that you could vote on this poll 10-20 years ago. I thought it only appeared today.
That's because you're on dial-up...
Missing Option. (Score:5, Interesting)by jellomizer (103300) on Tuesday September 17, 2013 @10:30AM (#44872909)
I normally don't complain about missing options, but we missed a big one.
I have never used a dial-up modem.
I wouldn't vote for it, but Being 10-20 years is popular. I could see some kids in their pre-20's who wouldn't ever use a Dialup.
A 20 year old today, would be born in 1993, wouldn't be interesting or ever connect to the internet until they are 5 (1998) by then their parents were a bit ahead of the curve and got one of the early cable modem internet.
Re:Missing Option. (Score:5, Funny)by Barlo_Mung_42 (411228) on Tuesday September 17, 2013 @06:13PM (#44878425) Homepage
My son (age 9) wrote a story about machines that talked with each other via sound that was too rapid for humans to understand.
He'd never heard of a modem before. So I explained it to him and found a youtube clip of one connecting. He was amazed.
Re:Missing Option. (Score:5, Funny)
My son (age 9) wrote a story about machines that talked with each other via sound that was too rapid for humans to understand. He'd never heard of a modem before. So I explained it to him and found a youtube clip of one connecting. He was amazed.
so he changed his story to machines that communicated via sound too aggravating to stand
Its a flawed poll. Its not setup to discern the amount of first modem users, because the question is when everyone moved off modems. So there's no need for the >20 years users; remove it. "Right this minute" can be merged with dropped carrier. Then they can set better start dates for when broadband rolled out, or change 10-20 years to "more than 10 years".
"because the question is when everyone moved off modems."
No it isn't. ItT's the last time you used one. For example I sue one to dial into some commercial industrial systems.
" So there's no need for the >20 years users; remove it. "
so no one could have stopped using a modem prior to 1993?
" "Right this minute" can be merged with dropped carrier."
nope. I could have logged off 45 seconds ago and be right this minute.
" Then they can set better start dates for when broadband rolled out, "
your assumption is th
" So there's no need for the >20 years users; remove it. "
so no one could have stopped using a modem prior to 1993?
They could have, but given the granularity, >10 would be the essentially same as 10-20 and >20. The "interesting" polls, answer-wise, are always the ones with better distributions. 1 yr, 5 yr, 10yr, 15yr, 20yr, 20+ yr would have likely had a better (more even) distribution. Though the answers are still interesting. At this moment, over half are 10-20. So that's where a new option would have given the best visibility.
4 years ago (Score:3, Insightful)It's seems so crazy that only 4 years ago I had dial-up, and now my 5 Mbps is considered slow by many.
Re:4 years ago (Score:4, Informative)by jellomizer (103300) on Tuesday September 17, 2013 @10:48AM (#44873045)
As the average speed goes up, us crazy developers find new ways to fill up your pipe.
1980s 300bps was expected. So Command Line Systems were popular, it just needs to work as fast as you can type, read.
Early 1990s 1200bps was expected. Fast enough to replace Command Line with menus and Color ANSI text (when it went up to 2400bps)
Late 1990's 14.4k was common. We could now use graphics, and download small images.
Early 2000's 56.6k was common. larger Graphics, and Sound. We used more graphical elements.
Mid 2000's 1mbs was common, Sound, and video was being added.
Late 2000's 5mbs was common, Larger - Full screen video and multi-channel audio.
Early 2010's 10mbs is common, We expect multible systems using the Full-Screen video, as well as sharing large files back and forth.
If we took our 10mbs connection today, and only Telneted into a Command Line pomp, it would run very fast, faster then you will need it to be. However if you tried to say watch netflix on your 300bps modem (assuming it worked) you will be better off walking to your nearest red-box and getting a CD.
by pedestrian crossing (802349) on Tuesday September 17, 2013 @12:24PM (#44874055) Homepage JournalAh yes, 2400. The virtual striptease as the "graphical element" slowly and erratically revealed itself from top to (hopefully) bottom...
I recall downloading multiple uuencoded files from USENET News and reassembling them to get a playing card size gif. Plenty of time to pop open a fresh beer. So often disappointed, but every now and them
Re:4 years ago (Score:5, Insightful)
if you tried to say watch netflix on your 300bps modem (assuming it worked) you will be better off walking to your nearest red-box and getting a CD.
I think you might still beat 300 bps if you walked to your furthest red-box.
Hmm, let's see. Assuming we're talking continental United States, furthest average walk would be maybe 2000 miles (since coastal population is higher than central). Average person walks 2 MPH, so 1000 hours each way, call it 1500 hours with sleep, or 3000 hours round trip. DVD contains 2 GB of video. 2 GB / 300 bps = 16 billion / 300 per second = 53 megaseconds = 14,814 hours. Yup, better off walking -- even coast to coast and back, with a solid 8 hours of sleep each night.
At least for CRT terminals and Unix-capable computers (PDP-11s, Vaxen, and most of the Motorola-based machines), 1200 baud took over from 300 baud pretty quickly. We still had 300 baud paper terminals like the TI Silent 700, and people with Commodore 64s or TRS-80s might be using 300 baud, but otherwise 300 was mostly gone by the mid-80s. I last used a Silent 700 around 1991, dug out from the storage closet at the lab because I was working on a project with a company that wouldn't let us connect to the ou
Hmm - last time I used a dial-up _modem_ was around 1999...
Last time I used a dial-up _connection_ was late 1996...
Anyhow - both neatly fall into the 10-20 year category - so, not a biggie in terms of which choice to go for...
I remember having an internet outage a few years back, and digging up an old dial-up modem out of a drawer and using it... can't remember how many years ago that was, though. 2005? 2007? somewhere thereabouts.
Bet I still have that modem. Wonder if I could dig up the dial-up numbers without having to look them up on the web (which would rather defeat the point...)
Internet outage is seldom solved by dial-up modems these days, because most people connect with cable or fios, and those companies don't even support dial-up. So when you most need it, you have to run out and sign up someplace.
I haven't had a dialup capable ISP for 10 years.
Tethering to your cell phone, on the other hand is the new backup when your internet connection goes down. The carriers make it ridiculously expensive, but if you buy your smartphone unlocked and not from your carrier they can't even t
Re:dial-up modem || dial-up connection (Score:5, Interesting)by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 17, 2013 @04:14PM (#44877131)
Ah yeah, leased lines. Reminds me of a cool bit of forgotten disruptive tech that I once used at work.
You used to be be able to order something called an "alarm circut" or "dry pair" from a phone company. (Maybe you still can?) It's a pair of copper wires electrically connected from one place to another, through a local phone network. It's basically a phone line with no service on it. No voltage, no dialtone, no phone number. It was used for linking alarm and emergency systems together. Low data rate stuff because the line quality was literally the same as your average phone network. I think the range was limited too, with endpoints prety much limited to within the same exchange.
With the advent of DSL you were suddenly able to put much higher data rates over plain phone copper. Phone companies pretty much had monopoly over this due to owning the phone networks (And later bribery of elected officials).. Until a small company figured out you could push the same signals over one of these dry pair circuits. You could buy these boxes that would let you do 1.5 megabits, the same speed of a T1, and would hook up to your router via a high speed serial interface just like your T1 TSU.
Naturally the phone companies would have none of this seeing as a dry pair cost about 10 bucks a month and a point to point T1 was closer to 1000. Pretty soon the started clamping attenuators on the dry pairs, limiting communications impossible for anything faster than a 9600bps modem, which is the most alarm systems ever used.
Mother-In-Law (Score:4, Interesting)My mother-in-law was using a modem to sign in to "American Online" up to a little over a year ago. When I went to her house to trouble-shoot anything I would get nostalgic at the sound of the modem.
by eric31415927 (861917) on Tuesday September 17, 2013 @08:38AM (#44871857)
At university, we used to use two modems on two phone lines to double our connection speed on a single computer.
Dial-up EFB (Score:4, Interesting)
The Australian Bureau of Meteorology still uses a dial-up modem for its Electronic Field Book (EFB) to supply the daily observations. I think it uses something like Kermit or XMODEM to transfer a series of data files containing observation results generated by a program running in DOS on a laptop. Its antiquated, but it works. I've asked some of their software guys if they would consider a web-based submission tool, but there isn't a perceived need nor resources to implement it. We use it twice a day at the marine rescue base I volunteer at.
I set up a couple dial up modems for a backup connection in case of the failure of a much faster wireless link in an industrial application. Dial-up can still be better than nothing.
Early cable (Score:5, Interesting)by Emetophobe (878584) on Tuesday September 17, 2013 @09:50AM (#44872517)
When I first "signed on" around 1995 dialup prices were around $30-40/month for a 28.8 connection. Within a few years there were so many competiting dialup providers that you could get a 56K connection for $5/month and it came with a personal website, several emails, usenet access, etc... You could literally find a hundred competiting ISPs in the yellow pages in the Toronto area.
I was one of the first to get cable internet in my area. I can't remember the price, but it was fairly decent, and the service quality was amazing. I remember being blown away by the speeds. I'd usually get 600KBytes/sec down from sites like sunsite.unc.edu. A few years later my isp (Shaw) and another isp (Rogers) decided to swap customers for some odd reason (without any say from the customers of course). So I ended up getting stuck with Rogers, and service quality quickly degraded over the next several years. The dialup ISPs slowly died off and competition died with it.
Fast forward 10-15 years and I'm still with Rogers. The service quality is much better than it was 5 years ago, mostly due to the CTRC finally getting off their asses and slapping Rogers over their throttling practices. The speeds are good, I get 6.5MB/sec on average and I almost never have any service outages (maybe once or twice a year for a few hours). The price and caps are unacceptable though. I pay $80/month for 50Mbit down with a 150GB monthly cap. What I wouldn't do for a little competition again. I had it with dialup, why can't I have it with cable? I should still have access to dozens of competiting providers like I did ~20 years ago.
I kind of wish they would bring back the "dial-up" concept. Something like you pay $20/month for an ADSL WAN connection that will only route to other connections in the local calling area. You then have to go out and purchase Internet/TV/VOIP from a company or companies on top of that.
The better option would be if municipalities were to create open access networks (dark fiber to the home to whoever wants it). But seeing as how that's unlikely to happen in most places a government regulated high-speed "dial-
. . . but I've had to setup dialup modems on a number of AT&T supplied routers for installation & maintenance. Or more precisely, dig up a POTS line for their tech to plug their dialup modem into.
I do managed security services, and we use modems to manage routers, firewalls, intrusion detection, and similar devices. It's not the primary management mechanism, but you need to be able to talk to the console when the Internet connection's not working, or when your box wasn't staged correctly so it doesn't have the right IP address, or when the box has gotten too hosed to do anything other than power-cycle it. At more permanent locations we'll install networks of terminal servers so we can get serial c
Well, we have a bank at work to accept telephone number data from the smaller phone companies and have to test them occasionally but it's been a while since there's been a problem.
The last time I personally had a modem for access to sites like BBS's was in the late 80's. For a while, Comcast had a dial-up upload, cable download cable modem which was mid 90's but I didn't actually have to input a number to call (well, I don't remember having to do that anyway).
My folks' house is in a neighborhood that was Cox Communications' pilot program for Cablemodem, we had one in 1996. Then I moved out and into an apartment where neither Cablemodem nor DSL were available, and I was poor.
But I was in college! I used a 14400 dialup shell to the university, where I used SLIRP to emulate a slip connection on the Solaris box, and suffered through that fun.
Ah, the nineties...
Post options translated (Score:5, Insightful)
Right this very minute: I live in a rural location, and I'm at home.
Within the past month: I live in a rural location, but I'm posting this from work.
Within the past year: My parents live in a rural location, and I wanted to check my email while I was visiting them.
1 to 5 years ago: There was that one time my cable modem went down, and I had to use the free dial-up that came with my account to get on the internet and look up the phone number for my service provider.
5 to 10 years ago: I moved into a city and never looked back.
10 to 20 years ago: I moved into a city a while ago.
More than 20 years ago: Does anyone else remember those AOL CD's?
I'd say it was abouY!@#*ZNO CARRIER: Shit. I guess I just hit my bandwidth cap, and now Comcast is injecting RST's into my stream.
Ish. Voted 5-10, but not for the reason you gave.
At home, I haven't had dialup even since I got my own place, which was not recently. My last job however involved retrieving data from some POS (either of the two most common uses of that acronym apply) systems. Some of those systems were in areas that didn't have anything other than dialup. Some of the store owners didn't see the point in paying for anything other than dialup. And some of the systems were so damn old they only supported dialup.
Satellite brings broadband everywhere.
Many prividers:
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Satellite brings broadband everywhere.
I barely consider satellite to be broadband. It's ping times are so ridiculously horrid. Have you ever tried an SSH session through satellite? It's literally less painful through dialup.
ugh... s/less/more
It's literally less painful through dialup.
ugh... s/less/more
Only if s/through/than
For example does paying by credit card and seeing the message "connecting via dial" on the chip and pin terminal count?
Yeah, they're really not clear. I used a modem to prop open a door a few months ago - does that count?
I thought the same thing about the CoinStar box I use to turn spare change into gift cards.
In case anyone else is confused about this, those ripoff boxes give full value for gift cards or various other non-cash items. Whenever I see someone using one I think they're retarded, but just now I looked it up and there are no cost options.
My credit union offers free coin counting and you don't have to be a member. Or you could just carry a few coins and use them to fend off new coins as much as possible. Any that make it through your defenses are added to your arsenal making you more coin resistant to
This is why I said "within the last month." Many ATMs I use around town have a dial-up connection. Some you can hear the modem dial and screech, some just take a long time.
Dial-up for general Internet access though? That'd be somewhere around twelve years ago.
Can I piggyback that over VOIP? (Score:5, Interesting)
We used to connect to the internet over our phone lines.
Now, we connect our phones over the internet.
Re:Can I piggyback that over VOIP? (Score:4, Interesting)by DaphneDiane (72889) <firstname.lastname@example.com> on Tuesday September 17, 2013 @11:19AM (#44873321)
Yes. As someone that works in telephony industry the amazing thing to me is how many modems are still in use. And the fun of making sure that modems, faxes and the like continue to work even when the device plugged into a VoIP line ( SIP, H.248, or MGCP ) and/or going over IP trunking. There are actually protocols designed to recognize fax data and process it differently so that it still works, see T.38.
I'm kind of jealous that you've seen a modem plugged into a VoIP line. That's the sort of irony that would make me giggle every single time I saw it.
I had to fax my timesheets to an agency not so long ago
Last time that happened to me, I emailed them in PDF to someone in the company, who then faxed them to herself. They can't accept emails because that's insecure, but they can accept faxes from anyone for anything.
We still use modems to connect Out of Band to routers for troubleshooting when the main WAN T1/DS3/MetroE connection is down.
I haven't used one at home since the 90s. Back then, the first broadband connection I had was downstream only, you still had to use a modem for upstream.
Great nostalgia topic. I can remember needing to do business travel with not only power cables, plug adapters for various countries, but phone jack adapters also. I had a little sack of adapters that I kept in my briefcase just for those - back when you had to do your homework to be able to check work email on the road.
I found several of those when I helped my mum clean out some old cupboards. Laptops sold in Europe tended to come with all the adapters (and manuals) for every country, it's probably easier than having 10+ versions of the boxed computer. Especially if the same little bag is sold in the US as an international kit.
But, I never used them. Did you dial-up internationally -- was the signal quality sufficient? Or did you find a local ISP?
(EU rules on roaming mean my modern equivalent -- I have SIMs for four f
When my cable modem went down! (Score:4, Informative)
It was down for many hours due a wide spread outage. I had to use dial-up to contact support since I cannot use the phone due to my disabilities.
At home I've had ADSL since 2002. My first modem (circa 1985) was a "high speed" 1200 baud unit. My last modem was the ubiquitous 33k6/56k.
At work we have many legacy systems that we still access with modems.
I've written (and use) programs to automatically poll sensor data from modems at a few dozen remote sites, on a more-or-less continual basis.
I haven't, however, used a dialup connection to the internet in over a decade.
So which do I answer?
This whole poll is bogus. Anyone that has used about 50% of credit card machines has used a modem recently. Anyone who has sent or received a fax. I'd guess that the average person uses modems several times a day.
Polling sensor data via modem is cool, I've had to do that myself. If I have to drive hours to fix something I'd pick a modem over anything else I've used for low bandwidth applications.
One of my customers uses good old PSTN (or circuit-switched GSM data) to contact their automation devices around the world. They dial in once a day and report status (or in emergencies), and software updates and such are pushed by dialing out towards them. And yes, that platform is *still* being actively developed...(The installed base is huge).
I think it was in 1999. No ADSL or cable deals where I lived back then, but the dial-up was 100 hours of online-time per month at a cheap fixed cost, no traffic limit.
Scary as it is, Fax machines are still pretty common in the business world. It's hard to buy a house without having at least one person request that you fax them something for instance. The sad thing is that they're still as crappy as they were in the 80s, so you can rest assured that when they fax you something back it will be diagonally skewed and pixellated to the point of being barely readable, with lots of random noise on the page too for good measure.
I've seen some exceptions to this. Windows 95 had something that bolted onto the usual fax protocol that allowd for public key encryption of faxes, as well as sending files. Too bad, the other site had to be Windows 95 or NT, or else this couldn't be done.
With this in mind, last time I've used a fax... well, this morning. Sending a faxed signature can be quicker than printing out a PDF, signing it, scanning it, converting the scan to PDF, then sending the PDF out via the E-mail program of choice.
Yeah, there's this weird perception in the business community that Faxes are secure and that signatures sent through a fax machine should be considered secure in a way that emails are not. This does seem to be slowly changing as online alternatives become easier to use, but only very slowly. When I bought my first house (back in 2003 or so) absolutely everything had to be faxed, nobody could do anything electronically. When I moved in 2008 there were some people who had finally figured out email and allo
The ironic thing is oftentimes, a fax server just is a service that takes the incoming stuff and makes a PDF from it, so the perceived "security" may be bogus.
What I'm curious about is (in general) what is better as evidence in court, a PDF that is signed by a timestamping CA, or a piece of paper. It is a lot easier to store a bunch of PDFs than it is to file away a bunch of dead trees for seven years (50+ if one is doing with anything aviation related.)
By the way, this is actually a great use case for tablets (the kind that support active-digitizer styluses, not those crappy capacitive styluses). Somebody sends me a PDF or Word document to sign? Use the tablet to load the document, sign it, save the signed file, and send it back to them. Works either for built-in digitizers (clamshell/convertible tablets, things like the Surface Pro, etc.) or detached ones (you can get a cheap external drawing tablet for like $40).
I don't care what they do with the file t
I bought a house last month and made it a game with my lender and realtor to avoid using faxes. We did everything electronically with an e-signing application and made it all the way to the closing without using a single fax. Of course everything there is paper but we accepted that. One of the darn sellers forgot his ID and had to have it faxed to the closing.
Oh well, I'll try again next time.
I think the last time I used a modem was about 3 years ago. Our legacy WAN provider used modems to provide managed services and troubleshooting.
My first modem was a 1200 baud external modem, borrowed from a guy my Dad knew, hooked up at a XT system. I ordered a 2400 baud internal modem shortly after. Over the years I upgraded to a 19K, and finally 33.6K. It was shortly after the 33.6K modems came out (1996) that my area was chosen as a trial for Vibe, a fiber optic internet service offered by NBTel (fib
Had to live on it for a while recently (Score:4, Interesting)I actually end up using dial-up every now and then. It's free in west Michigan and one of the free lines is in my area code, so it's really and truly free for me. I used a dial-up connection several times when I got kicked off my university's connection for... alleged copyright infringement. I also used dial-up for about six months or so, starting from about the time I stopped living on campus (last semester at uni) and lasting through when I graduated until I got a job (graduated in December, got a job in April).
A few things made it a lot more bearable. I kind of use the internet socially these days, so the fact that IRC wasn't affected was really great. However, browsing the web these days on dial-up is almost unbearable. Fifteen years ago, websites were designed for low bandwidth, so there weren't a lot of image-heavy and JavaScript-heavy websites. That is definitely not the case anymore and even sites like Wikipedia take a while to load; Facebook is out of the question, it just fails after a certain point. To remedy this, I used Opera, which has (had? I heard they changed their layout engine recently, not sure if it still exists) an option to only load cached images and lets you load unloaded images from a context menu entry (which, obviously, caches them), allowing you to load important images or images that are necessary for getting things to function correctly. This made things a lot more bearable; I could even get on Facebook (though it still took like five minutes and it looked really awful).
The other big thing was the wide availability of free WiFi cafes and such. I could go to McDonalds, download a single player game on my backlog or a movie or something, and bring it back home. No one ever said I had to strictly use dial-up. It was kind of a pain bringing my (crappy) laptop to McDonalds, downloading a game, bringing it back, and then transferring it to my desktop so I could actually play it, but c'est la vie, it wasn't that big of a deal. Still more convenient than just sitting in one of those places all day, which I've seen people do.
I'd say in the past three years, I've probably spent at least one non-continuous year on a dial-up connection. It's really not so bad, but I sure as heck won't go back to it unless I have to. Hope this helps anyone who may end up in (or is currently in) a similar situation.
I can see by some of the other comments that I'm not the only one who has a qualifier, here. I actually switched over from dial-up to DSL back in 2000 -- but the last time I actually used a modem in any capacity was probably 2006 as a vote auto-dialer, before my wife finally lost interest in American Idol altogether. (Thanks for that goes to Taylor Hicks, for sucking so spectacularly and yet winning anyway. In retrospect, I have to confess that I have somewhat mixed feelings on his winning... at least I d
If the poll reminded people that a fax machine has a modem built in then we'd be getting much different results.
It was sometime in late 2003 (December-ish) I last used a dial-up modem.
I initially ditched dial-up for ADSL in early 2001 (512k/384k), but in fall 2003 a faster ADSL option (8M/1M) was offered in my area and I signed up for it. And I also cancelled the old service at the same time. (During this time there wasn't a smooth way to switch DSL providers in Sweden. It was shortly thereafter that they worked out a consumer-friendly way of doing it). But there were significant delays in getting the new DSL servic
It's the only way to get online at an uncle's house out in the country.
My first modems were back in the 1970s, when 300 baud was fast and really expensive.
I've had them for occasional use up until around 2006, but I added DSL around 1996 and cable modem in 1999.
But I used to set up modems for various uses in business much later than that.
Strictly speaking, there's no dialing involved, but the first thought I had upon viewing this poll was on whether or not using my cell phone as a W-Fi hotspot counts.
I'm pretty sure I have used a ghetto botega ATM that used a dial-up in the past 6 months.
I "use" my dial-up modem as a backup if my main internet connection goes down. It is good enough to check my e-mail and pull up Slashdot just to make sure the world hasn't ended. Last time I needed it was a few years ago during an extended outage. The backup dial up service is provided by my ISP at no extra charge.
Kids these days have their cell phones as "backup", but to me that is just not versatile enough to be the same.
And a nice thing about modems is it is still possible to connect to a remote computer without an ISP in the middle (yea, phone company, but still..)
Since you got me thinking about it, just to test, I am actually posting this from my dial-up!! (And no "no carrier" message so far, lol)
It took that long to load the page at 300/300.
It's been ten years since I switched to cable. Not so for my in-laws, who finally switched to broadband this year (but their modem acct lapsed a couple years ago), and I'd been on their modem connection once or twice for some reason.
By Hastur's tailbone, how slow was my first 2400 bps modem. It took about an hour to download 2 megabytes, IIRC, but it could do for playing Doom with my cousins. The 14.4 that replaced it wasn't much better because of the crappy UART on my serial port - running it at full sp
by shadowknot (853491) *I worked for a company that had a range of Linux/SCO Unix servers (I know) in the wild that had been deployed from the early 90's onward, the older ones at customers who had no internet connection (small, industrial-unit based nut and bolt distributors) still required CLI modem log in and dropped nearly continuously thanks to British Telecom's refusal or slowness in updating steel PTSN cable laid as a cost saving effort in the publicly-owned 70's and 80's dark days. I kind of miss sitting with my fingers cr
Surprised that no-one has mentioned that during the Egyptian uprisings a couple years ago dial-up Internet was the fall back tool when government shut down the cel and Internet services.
Sure, you had to dial up a number in France, [favstar.fm] but it did demonstrate that there are still times when POTS rules.
ATMs still use modems (Score:5, Funny)by Dynedain (141758) <slashdot2.anthonymclin@com> on Tuesday September 17, 2013 @08:57PM (#44879741) Homepage
Intentionally? More than 10 years ago.
Unintentionally? 2 weeks ago at an ATM. You'd be surprised at how many ATMs still use modems. You wouldn't know it unless they leave the audio on during the connection sequence.
by PaisteUser (810863) on Wednesday September 18, 2013 @09:11AM (#44882733)
I just dialed into a 56k USRobotics modem this morning at one of my remote sites. They are still prevalent for remote out-of-band management of network devices (i.e. switches, routers). They have saved my bacon numerous times over the years and I don't see them going away anytime soon in my line of work.


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The health condition of Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray turned "very critical" on Wednesday night. The Thackeray clan, along with senior leaders from the party and other public figures gathered at Matoshree.
Amitabh Bachchan tweets prayers needed for Bal Thackeray.
President Pranab Mukherjee who was scheduled to visit Mumbai has cancelled his trip to the city.
Thackeray's son Uddhav said, "Bal Thackeray has strong will power."
"Let's pray we hope to overcome this crisis", Uddhav added.
Leave of all policemen in Mumbai has been cancelled and the police say a full strength force will be on duty today.
President Pranab Mukherjee has cancelled his two-day trip to Maharashtra, official sources said on Thursday morning.
The president was scheduled to present the Jamnalal Baja Awards at a function in Mumbai on Thursday evening.
He was to inaugurate the Sai Ashram at Shri Saibaba Temple in Shirdi, Ahmednagar district on Friday.
The reason for the cancellation is not known.-IANS
The police visibility outside Thackeray's house Matoshree has been increased.
VIP arrangement has been made at Matoshree and Shiv Sainiks who were outside the main gate have been removed.
Gopinath Munde and Nana Patekar visit Bal Thackeray
Marathi TV channels report that senior BJP leader Gopinath Munde and actor Nana Patekar are at Matoshree to see the Shiv Sena chief, who was put on ventilator late on Wednesday night.
The Sena patriarch is reportedly suffering from severe complications due to pancreatic and liver malfunction.
Uneasy calm prevails in Mumbai as people on Twitter say that there are few taxis and rickshaws on the roads.
The lack of taxis and autorickshaws in Mumbai is also partly due to the public holiday today.
Reports say that shops have been shut down in Sena strongholds in Mumbai.
Reports coming in suggest that most people are keeping their shops closed voluntarily in Mumbai.
Uddhav Thackeray appeals for calm
The health condition of Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray turned very critical last night and he was put on life-support system.
A team of doctors stationed inside his Bandra residence 'Matoshree' with nursing staff has been taking care of the Sena patriarch, who is down having breathing problems.
Working President of the Shiv Sena and Bal Thackeray's son Uddhav Thackeray appealed for calm in his address to those assembled outside their residence.
He said, "Balasaheb has strong will power. We will come out of this problem. Don't trust rumours. Make peace We are hopeful. You should be hopeful as well. Let's pray for Balasaheb."
According to the latest reports, traffic to the residence of Thackeray has been blocked and there is heavy presence of police personnel in the area.
This comes hours after reports said that the Shiv Sena supremo is on continuous oxygen and not eating anything.
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Several prominent politicians, like BJP's Gopinath Munde, have visited the Thackeray home too.-ANI
BJP leader Gopinath Munde leaves Matoshree after visitng ailing Sena chief Bal Thackeray.
Yuva Sena chief Aditya Thackeray puts up a post on his Facebook account urging everyone to be optimistic about his ailing grandfather, Sena founder Bal Thackeray. "Lets be optimistic and pray for his fast recovery!," said the grandson of the Shiv Sena supremo who was kept on ventilator late on Wednesday night.
Shops were told to remain shut by Shiv Sainiks in Vakola in Mumbai, where the Shiv Sena has substantial support. --Mustafa Plumber, DNA
Bal Thackeray remains critical, crowds gather outside home
Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray continued to remain in a critical condition on Thursday as anxious crowds gathered outside his residence Matoshri and his son, party executive president Uddhav Thackeray, said the family had not lost hope.
"I have not lost hope. We are facing a crisis, we shall overcome," a grim looking Uddhav, flanked by son Aditya, told supporters in the early hours of the morning.
Mumbai Police and other security agencies made tight security arrangements around Matoshri, the Thackeray clan's home in Bandra west.
Over 350 police personnel, plus the Rapid Action Force and other contingents, led by top officers, have deployed stringent security in the vicinity.
Uddhav had stepped outside the Thackeray home Matoshri briefly around 2 a.m. to address the massive crowds of anxious party activists, who had gathered since Wednesday night.
Uddhav categorically appealed to party activists and the people to "remain calm and maintain peace" and ensure that the image of Matoshri was not spoiled.
President Pranab Mukherjee cancelled his scheduled two-day trip to Maharashtra starting Thursday.
The abrupt cancellation of the president's visit to the state was attributed to preventing diversion of security in case there were fresh developments in Thackeray's health, an official, requesting anonymity said.
"The team of doctors is continuing their efforts... Balasaheb's self-determination is very high... We are facing a crisis, we shall overcome," Uddhav said - in his third appeal in less than four hours.
He assured the people that Thackeray was responding positively to the treatment being administered by the doctors and urged his supporters to pray for their leader's health and co-operate in maintaining peace.
The 86-year-old Thackeray has been suffering from breathing problems and has been occasionally put on oxygen.
Shortly after Uddhav's assurance, many of the 5,000-plus party activists who had crowded around Matoshri slowly started dispersing.
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Vehicular movement was unhampered Thursday morning as police had arranged diversions to avoid traffic jams at the Kala Nagar junction leading to Matoshri.
"Thackeray is serious, but stable. A team of doctors is continuously monitoring him," a senior party official, who met him last evening, told IANS.
Besides all members of the Thackeray family, nephew Raj Thackeray and his wife Sharmila, top Shiv Sena leaders like Manohar Joshi, senior Bharatiya Janata Party leader Vinod Tawade and others rushed to the bungalow around midnight.
State Tourism Minister Chhagan Bhujbal, Bollywood mega-star Amitabh Bachchan accompanied by son Abhishek, Sanjay Dutt and wife Manyata were among other prominent personalities who went to Matoshri.
On Thursday morning, Raj returned while others like BJP deputy leader in Lok Sabha Gopinath Munde arrived. Music director Bappi Lahiri and other prominent personalities from different walks of life were also seen visiting the Thackeray residence.
Munde said Thackeray's condition was stable and that he was responding to treatment.-IANS
Bal Thackeray stable: Sanjay Raut
The health of Shiv Sena patriarch Bal Thackeray, who was in a critical condition last night, is "stable" now, party spokesperson Sanjay Raut said on Thursday morning.
"Balasaheb is stable now. Need not worry. He is responding to doctors' efforts," Raut, a Rajya Sabha MP, told PTI.
Doctors attending to Thackeray (86) had said last night that he was in a "very critical" condition and on life support system.
None of the doctors attending on him were available for the latest update on his condition today.
BJP leader Gopinath Munde who visited 'Matoshree' this morning told reporters that "the Sena chief's health is better than last night".
As news spread about Thackeray's health, several party workers started assembling outside his residence 'Matoshree' in suburban Bandra, where security has been stepped up.
A number of Shiv Sena MPs, legislators and senior leaders also reached Thackeray's residence as the word spread.
Security outside 'Matoshree' has been beefed up with police setting up barricades to streamline flow of crowds.
Police personnel all over the state are told to be on alert.
The party executive president Uddhav Thackeray had last night appealed to Shiv Sainiks to maintain calm and pray for senior Thackeray's health.
Senior leader Ramdas Kadam, who was among others who rushed to see the ailing patriarch, had told reporters last night that doctors were trying their level best to stabilise his condition.
MNS chief Raj Thackeray and close family members were at 'Matoshree'.
Meanwhile, shops in most parts of Mumbai have downed their shutters.-PTI
More than 2000 policemen guards outside Matoshree
About 2000 policemen are stationed outside Shiv Sena Chief Bal Thackeray's residence in Bandra including the Rapid Action Force (RAF) and other additional forces to maintain law and order as the Shiv Sena supremo remains in critical condition.--Manish Pathak, DNA
Mumbai police on alert
The police have been taken all possible precaution to maintain law and order in Mumbai, especially outside Thackeray's home. --Manish Pathak, DNA
Shops in the Grant Road market remained closed, with shopkeepers willingly downing shutters.--Dhaval Kulkarni, DNA
Ground report from the Western suburbs
Cabs and autos vanish as a tense calm prevails in Goregaon, Jogeshwari, Vile Parle.
In Jogeshwari tension mounts as shops in the east are shut but shops in the west refuse to shut.
Security high in polarised Majaswadi. Sena boards up on all junctions.--Yogesh Pawar, DNA
Raj Thackeray arrives at Matoshree to visit ailing uncle Bal Thackeray.
Filmmaker Madhur Bhandarkar arrives at Matoshree.
Congress wish Bal Thackeray gets well soon
The Congress party on Thursday wished good health to ailing Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray.
Congress leader Digvijay Singh told reporters, "We are praying for his good health... The way he has fought in life with great courage, I am confident he will also battle this ill health."
The 86-year-old Thackeray has been battling breathing problems. Crowds gathered outside his residence in Mumbai as news spread that he was in critical condition.
Police deployment increased at Matoshree. Auto rickshaws and taxis scare, difficult to get to areas near Matoshree. The highway however is clear.
Sharad Pawar comes calling
NCP chief Sharad Pawar, Ganesh Naik, Jayant Patil and Venugopal Dhoot visited the Sena supremo.--Sanjeev Devasia, DNA
Hussain Dalwai visited Matoshree and spoke to the media, "Bal thackeray has got immense will power and has overcome many difficulties in the past."
Dalwai added, " I did not meet Balashaeb but met Uddhav. Bal Thackeray has been stable since last night."--Sunchika B Pandey, DNA
Rahul Bajaj and Vinod Tawde also visited Thackeray.
Thousands of Shiv Sainiks waited outside 'Matoshree' for updates on the health of their leader.
Policemen have been deployed at Kalanagar in Bandra (East) to maintain law and order.
Political leaders, including NCP chief and Union Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar, paid a visit to the Thackeray home.
Many Mumbaikars refrained from going to work and venturing out of home as rumours about Thackeray's health were doing rounds.--PTI
Lata Mangeshkar concerned about Bal Thackeray's health
Legendary playback singer Lata Mangeshkar on Thursday expressed concern over Sena chief Bal Thackeray's ailing health and re-scheduled a music event.
"I am extremely disturbed and concerned about the critical health of Shri Balasaaheb Thackeray, who is like a family member to me. My prayers are with Balasaaheb and the entire Thackeray family," Mangeshkar wrote on Twitter.
"In view of this, I am postponing the function of my music company to a later date," Mangeshkar said.
The event was scheduled for November 18.
Meanwhile, Bollywood celebrities Madhur Bhandarkar, Nana Patekar and others visited Thackeray's residence 'Matoshree' in suburban Bandra.
Filmmaker Pritish Nandy said he is praying for Thackeray's recovery.
"My sympathies and love to Uddhav and Aditya as they cope with the tragedy of Balasaheb's failing health. May he fight back and win. Our prayers go out for Balasaheb Thackeray and his family members.... May the tiger wake up and roar again," he said.
"That a cartoonist in the Free Press Journal could reach where Balasaheb reached is a tribute to the power of Indian democracy. There will be lots of time later to discuss the politics of the Sena, good or bad. Time to now pray that Balasaheb comes back from the edge," he added.
Filmmaker Ashok Pandit tweeted, "Balasahab stopped my community (Kashmiri pandits) from picking up arms by giving us education. After my exodus, I went to Balasaheb for help. He asked me wht do u want? I said our wealth is education. He immed creating a quota & gve us edu (sic)."--PTI
Latest pictures from outside Matoshree
People gather near Matoshree
Nitin Gadkari visits Bal Thackeray at Matoshree. Mumbai put on high-alert, police security beefed up.
Bollywood superstar Salman Khan along with father Salim and brother Arbaaz pay a visit to Bal Thackeray at Matoshree.--Sunchika B Pandey, DNA
Politicians stream in to meet Bal Thackeray
Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) chief and Union Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar visited ailing Shiv Sena supremo Balasaheb Thackeray at his Matoshree residence in suburban Bandra here on Thursday.
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Gopinath Munde also visited 'Matoshree' this morning, and told waiting media that the Sena chief's health is better than last night.
Earlier, Thackeray's son Uddhav Thackeray appealed for calm to those assembled outside their residence.
He said, "Balasaheb has strong will power. We will come out of this problem. Don't trust rumours. Make peace we are hopeful. You should be hopeful as well. Let's pray for Balasaheb."
At least 1,500 policemen and teams of the Rapid Action Force (RAF) have been deployed outside Thackeray's residence 'Matoshree' to help maintain law and order.
The police have also asked the owners of shops around Matoshree to close down their shops
All roads leading to Matoshree were also barricaded and some party leaders had to abandon their vehicles near the Western Express Highway and walk the short route to the Thackeray house.
Traffic jams were reported on major roads to the north and south of Bandra last night and today as well.--ANI
Maharashtra CM assess law and order situation
Maharashtra Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan has been continuously monitoring law and order situation in the state in view of the deteriorating health of Shiv Sena patriarch Bal Thackeray.
"Last night, Chavan held a high-level meeting with the chief secretary and top police officers. Since this morning, he is in constant touch with family members of the Sena chief," official sources said.
Chavan has not taken up any other engagements, they said.
Meanwhile, Sena spokesperson Sanjay Raut said Thackeray was not on life support system at present. "Life support system was required last night but not today," he told reporters.
No health bulletin regarding the Sena patriarch's condition has been issued so far.--PTI
Singer Kailash Kher arrvies at Matoshree to see Bal Thackeray.
Shiv Sena leader Subash Desai addressed the media and said, "Balasaheb Thackeray is responding well to treatment and his health is improving."
Senior Shiv Sena leader Manohar Joshi paid a visit to the critically ailing party supremo Bal Thackeray at Matoshree, the latter's Bandra residence.
Police drive crowd out of the barricade at Matoshree.
DCP Namdev Chavan said, "700 policemen are guarding Matoshree and its surrounding areas."--Sunchika B Pandey, DNA
Veteran actor Manoj Kumar visits Bal Thackeray.
Addressing the crowd of supporters and mediapersons gathered outside Matoshri, the residence of the party's founder Bal Thackeray, Shiv sena leader Subhash Desai said the party supremo's heath was improving steadily
Desai said: "His condition is improving steadily. The improvement of Shiv Sena pramukh's health is a result of the prayers for him, and we hope he will be in better condition soon."
"Davaai ke saath dua ka bhi asar ho raha hai (Along with medicines, the good wishes are also helping his health)," he added.
Shiv Sainiks perform puja outside the Matoshree.
The crowd gathered outside the residence of Shiv Sena supremo Bal Thackeray has begun singing prayers and hymns for speedy recovery of the patriarch's failing health.
Nashik: Shiv Sena workers here on Thursday performed 'maha-aarti' for the speedy recovery of the party founder Bal Thackeray.
The maha aarti was performed at Chandicha Ganapati temple in the Ravivar Karanja locality.
Senior leaders confirm Bal Thackeray is off life support
The condition of Shiv Sena supremo Bal Thackeray, who is critically ill, was showing some improvement, senior party leaders said this evening.
"He is showing some signs of improvement," was the terse reply of Sena leader and former Lok Sabha Speaker Manohar Joshi to reporters' query outside the Thackeray residence `Matoshree' in suburban Bandra.
MP and Sena spokesperson Sanjay Raut said earlier that there was some improvement in 86-year-old Thackeray's condition and he had been taken off the life-support system.
"Yesterday definitely there was some problem. Balasaheb is (now) stable and responding to treatment and is off-life support system," Raut said.
Diwali lights back on Shiv Sena headquarters
Perhaps in an indication of improvement in Sena patriarch's health, the Diwali decoration lights at the party headquarters `Sena Bhavan' in Dadar were turned on in the evening.
Shiv Sena executive president Uddhav Thackeray on Thursday night said he had not given up hope of his father and Sena supremo Bal Thackeray's recovery.
Stepping out of the Thackeray house Matoshree, he appealed to Shiv Sena workers to keep calm. "Since yesterday, Shiv Sena chief's condition is stable. I had said yesterday and I will say again today, I have not given up hope. You too must not give up hope because we all are fighting soldiers of a fighting leader."
His son Aditya, chief of youth wing of Shiv Sena, was with him when Uddhav addressed the party workers. "You all are praying for his recovery and I have full faith in your prayers," Uddhav said.
"Whatever treatment is possible, is being given," he added.
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Venkaiah Naidu and actor-turned politician Hema Malini visited ailing Shiv Sena supremo Bal Thackeray at his Matoshree residence in Bandra here on Friday.
Veteran actors Jeetendra, Rakesh Roshan and yoga guru Baba Ramdev also visited 'Matoshree' on Friday.
The health condition of Bal Thackeray, 86, turned very critical on Wednesday night and he was put on life-support system. A team of doctors stationed inside 'Matoshree' with nursing staff has been taking care of the Sena patriarch, who is having breathing problems.
His son and Sena executive president Uddhav Thackeray said late on Thursday night that Balasaheb's condition was 'stable'.


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Birthplace: Gran Canaria, Spain
Born: 3/1/1969
Bardem was a major star in his native Spain long before he gained wide praise on these shores for his Oscar-nominated role as gay Cuban writer Reinaldo Arenas in Before Night Falls (2000). In fact, Bardem comes from a long line of acclaimed Spanish actors. His mother, Pilar Bardem, sister, Monica Bardem, brother, Carlos Bardem, and grandfather, Rafael Bardem, are all actors. Javier, a versatile performer, has appeared in several Pedro Almodovar films, including Carne Tremula (1997) and Tacones Lejanos (1991).
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