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No, they're not about tariffs. They're about maintaining a historical privacy culture that someone like you would never be able to understand.

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Mark Gibbs at Network World ran a http://www.nwfusion.com/columnists/2004/071904gear head.html/couple of articles about networking the garden. X-10 came up, as well as some other interesting technical problems. He points to a couple of sources for software, mostly closed source. And xeriscaping http://www.google.com/search?&q=%22xeriscape%2 2/ may give you a few ideas about designing for a water-restricted future.

Doh! Try this http://www.nwfusion.com/newsletters/netware/2004/0 823nw2.html?fsrc=rss-novell/ and this http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.j html?articleID=20900628/

Maybe it's just me, but I don't see mention of this anywhere in the most recent "Wireless Computing Devices" newsletter posted on THE NWFusion website...

Ok, I'll admit up front I didn't read the article. I did, however, do a quick google search and found that the Keith Shaw listed on this page: http://www.nwfusion.com/events/wlan/index.html is a journalist who has WiFi knowledge. If you do a reverse lookup on the contact number for the organizers at the bottom of the page it turns our that he's probably in MARLBORO, Massachusetts.

• Q. Do you have carpal tunnel syndrome?

• A. I never had carpal tunnel syndrome. I had hand problems.

  Q. Are you able to code now?

  A. Yes. Because it turns out my problem is not carpal tunnel syndrome, and the things that help it are not things that help carpal tunnel syndrome. It turns out for me a keyboard with a light touch is what I need, and I have keyboards with a light touch so I can now do my own typing. But I couldn't for a number of years. When I found suitable keyboards, and they're not funny shaped keyboards or anything, they're ordinary shaped keyboards, they just have keys you don't have to push very hard.

Wasn't making a great revelation that many of such things do exist (sorry if the wording sounded aggressive - I was annoyed by the article, not your suggestion), nor that they're configured in the way you suggest (which I think is spot on).

Using the term I suggest at least finds some discussion of this idea, like the following article:

I guess that depends on what you mean by "hunted down", since you don't need to hunt to find a university.

I do remember universities having legal trouble and a single Google search turned up this and this.

Over the years I have received more and more spam, and yet paid less and less for my internet connection (adjusted - barely!- for bandwidth).

Over the years, how much have computer costs, adjusted for performance and storage, dropped? The question isn't whether your absolute costs have dropped, it's how much they could have dropped were it not for spam.

Absolutely: spam costs ISPs big bucks. Absolutely: ISPs pass on these costs to their customers. But we're probably talking about cents per month per customer.

According to ISPs, the average cost, per month per customer, is between $2 and $3. That's $24 to $36/year, a significant sum. Businesses spend huge amount dealing with the spam problem. Take a look at NetworkFusionWorld's Spam Calculator" to see just how expensive spam is to businesses.

When you go to Best Buy, a percentage of what you pay for your purchase is to offset the cost of dealing with spam in the corporate offices. When you pay your taxes, a significant sum is paying government workers to deal with spam. When you order from Amazon.com, some of the money you spend there is to cover their costs for spam. I would not be at all surprised to see the total cost of spam per person averaging over $100/year.

BTW: bandwidth, servers, disks - none of these actually cost much money. The extra sysadmin or two to manage all of that... that's what costs money.

In general, I agree with that, but enterprise-class machines with RAID, tape backup, etc. is not the same as home PCs. The cost may be outweighed by the cost of system administrators, but it's still significant -- especially if it means that your connection is slower because their capital equipment budget on another mail server instead of additional broadband routers.

The cost savings are expected to come from the transfer of about 460 employees to IBM, from streamlined work processes and from the use of more advanced IT systems

http://www.nwfusion.com/news/tech/2004/072604techu pdate.html

I think this may answer, not only your question, but a lot of others here on MIMO...seems to be pretty cool technology. More antennas, though, generally mean more power consumption...

IE also has latent flaws that, once exploited, lead to hastily-deployed patches.

• http://die.leox.com/ie_unpatched/
• http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2003/0929unpatieho.ht ml
• http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/06/10/ms_inpatch ed_ie_flaw/
• http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2002/2/11/54950/7046

I'm not excusing the Mozilla team for leaving a couple vulnerabilities open for way too long, but they aren't nearly as numerous nor dangerous as some of the long-living (and gaping!) holes in IE. Saying "firefox is no better" is wrong, wrong, fucking wrong.

I don't think security is the only concern, but reliability as well. A few more examples like this, and the at-large public will become more skeptical...

There's a variety of ways to deal with this issue. The solution many seem to be suggesting is to randomize request times so that there aren't big spikes in traffic every hour at the hour. That's certainly a good idea. Clients should also respect the ttl (polling at the interval that is listed in the feed), support conditional GET, and handle 304 (not modified) responses to minimize the number of requests they make for the full feed.

But the primary solution will end up being caching. With the exception of personalized RSS feeds, RSS feeds easily can be cached. Web-based RSS readers like Bloglines and My Yahoo already only read the RSS feed once, cache it, and display it to multiple readers. But popular RSS feeds are also easily proxy cached just like web pages, reducing the load on the original source servers.

Nah! Tinkering with production code is done by many major coding shops...

Chicago Tribune: Link
Additional: Hasn't missed a paper since the Chicago Fire...All I received Monday was the Business section. Didn't bring the company down...but hurt big!

Sprint: Link
Additional: Sprint had to outsource it because if you own a sprint phone and ever called customer service, half the time they couldn't help you because the computers were down! Almost brought the company down.

A&TT Wireless: Link
Additional: DID bring the company down.

Microsoft: Link
Additional: Brought MANY companies down...

I'm sure I can name more production bungles...Slashdot 503 for an hour isn't a company crasher though.

-Electrawn

Hell, Sendmail even predates DDoS!

Using standard TCP/IP is a non starter

All the existing satellite folks are using methods to overcome TCP/IP's limitations in the high latency satellite environment.

(That's not a particularly good article in terms of getting details right, but it's an okay overview)

- Peter

And Ellen feels she's above the dell dude

Q: Do you feel any connection to the Dell dude?
Ellen: No, none whatsoever. That guy's a doofus.

Bully for SBC if they can see this push for fiber through to the end, but their history has shown a decided lack of resolve in this area in the past.

According to here the total is 1595.

How many settled out of court, like, 1300+?!?!

Still, Siemens supports software patents, and you'd be a damned fool to think that they actually care about the OSS scene any more than they can profit from it.

The magic of PKI occurs through the use of extremely long prime numbers, called keys. Two keys are involved - a private key, which only you have access to, and a public key, which can be accessed by anyone. The two keys work together, so a message scrambled with the private key can only be unscrambled with the public key and vice versa. The more digits in these keys, the more secure the process. --Public-key encryption for dummies

Not the best explanation, I prefer this

I simply don't understand this fascination with bashing Sun for buying device drivers for Solaris/x86.

Now that Sun is in bed with Microsoft (Java Desktop anyone?), it should be a peice of cake for them to release the obsolete JVM code about 11 months from now.

(yes, I know that is an old link; the point is illustrate how far back Sun was getting nailed by MSFT; a quick slashdot search will show more recently how they're still bent over)

So, the fact that I have a 10/100/1000 copper connection means that I can't connect to their network?

I went to Case from 1997-99. At least back then, you are right.

Case was using 155Mb ATM over fiber into each dorm room. I think I still have my PCI ATM adapter somewhere (don't tell anyone, they cost a fortune back then). I believe they boasted the largest ATM installation outside of General Motors. (The fiber has been in place for well over 10 years - I think they chose to install it in 1988.)

Anyway, not everyone could use the fiber directly, (were there ISA ATM cards?) and while I don't recall the details from the time, there was some sort of dongle+packet translation into Ethernet, which played havoc with the overall network traffic regarless of what kind of machine you brought to the party.

I do remember hearing things had changed a bit (I transfered out to NYU) - and here is a good article that seems to discuss a good bit of Case's IT history.

As an aside, CWRU students do put this to work - Hell, I knew someone who got a RIAA letter in 1997 for ftp serving. Even back then, files on the local SMB network would put many P2P systems to shame. To be fair though, there were many who put it to good and innovative use. And if you ever have to deal with ATM and Linux, CWRULUG (though out of date) would be a good place to start.

At Case, its probably only 50% that have no use for Gig Ethernet - and the other half is very happy to take their share of the bandwidth.

Any further ideas?

Sun.

It's too direct for Microsoft (and too bungled too). Their FUD engine is well greased and is quite honestly self-perceived to be too above this troll trash to be implicated. Not that there aren't moneys from Allen being moved around on the side, but that's not official Microsoft policy. Granted, Microsoft has admitted
to funding Tocqueville but there's a missing beneficiary.

Sun, on the other hand, is fighting for their life though it's receiving little coverage. Linux has decimated Sun's sales, and their missteps with Java have only frustrated efforts to find a solution - any solution. Perhaps some of the settlement money from Microsoft went here instead of directly to Sun?

Consider: Who does having Linux portrayed as stolen property push the Linux base to?

- FreeBSD/OpenBSD/netBSD? Not at all. If it was impossible for Linux to create Linux and therefore Linux is TheftWare, the *BSDs are next in line for accusations and implications.

- SCO? This fossil? The same fossil one of their largest investors (and slush fund source) says should be canned? The fossil that litigation targets like Daimler Chrysler have confessed to not have used for nearly a decade? Doubtful.

- Apple? A more interesting theory, but OS/X != Intel *NIX.

- Microsoft? They're not at all in position to capture the Intel *NIX market. Convert to XP? How?

Solaris, on the other hand, presents an inviting candidate for migration should the F/OSS *NIX's need a commercial home.

*scoove*

1000ms all by itself would effectively kill most use of VoIP, as the noticable delays for some reason causes really annoying conversations... you don't know whether to start respond to what the other person just said, or whether they're going to follow it up with something else, causing you to accidentally start talking over them. Latency is so important to voice calls that the International Telecommunications Union recommends latency no greater than 150ms.

So is this just my conspiracy theory that T-Mobile GPRS provides way worse than 150ms for data, while providing better than 150ms latency for the voice side of things?

(IBM) also was losing market share in a number of key areas. In 1994, for instance, Compaq Computer, the first company to successfully clone the IBM PC, dethroned Big Blue as the world's largest PC maker. Part of the problem lay in the corporate culture, according to various sources. IBM prided itself on innovation and had long allowed executives and employees fairly free rein. "Think," after all, was the company's motto. IBM employees strove for the new, and often disdained using technology from outside sources.

And, by the way, according to Gerstner, IBM's savior himself, the technology which saved IBM was nothing created inhouse.

I think you don't know much about IBM's recent history, let alone the last 50 years.

(...) and the copycats got caught in a mass extinction. It's evolution on a corporate scale, baby.

Poor copyc

There are many QNX machines around, but most of them are "faceless". Railroad switchyard control. Nuclear power plants. Avionics. And now, big routers.

QNX Powers Universal Media Gateway for Next-Generation Digital Video Networks
QNX Software Systems today announced that the QNX® Neutrino® realtime operating system (RTOS) will be shipping as part of the Cisco uMG9850 QAM Module, a new quadrature amplitude modulation product designed to let cable operators use Gigabit Ethernet to deliver video-on-demand and other multimedia services efficiently and cost-effectively to TV set-top receivers.

'Little OS that could' just might
"In a deal signed two years ago, Cisco (csco) chose QNX as its preferred real-time OS vendor as part of Cisco's 'ongoing efforts to increase the reliability and availability of data-voice-video networks.' Since then, not much seems to have materialized from the partnership."

Cisco's HFR is here
"The IOS-XR operating system kernel was acquired from QNX Software Systems, a small Canadian developer of realtime operating system code to companies in the automotive, communications, defense, industrial automation and medical device markets. Cisco already ships QNX operating system code in its uMG9850 QAM digital video module for the Catalyst 4500 Gigabit Ethernet switch."

Cisco Unveils the HFR
" The transition is analagous to Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq: MSFT - message board) moving from DOS-based operating systems to Windows NT, says analyst Stephen Kamman of CIBC World Markets.

Just as NT did, IOS XR could begin trickling down to lower-level systems, eventually permeating Cisco's entire portfolio, including edge and enterprise boxes. "The question is how quickly they can push that software through the product line," Kamman says."

"The software is based on a kernel licensed from QNX Software Systems, but tailored for the job. 'We have made some pretty substantial modifications to [the QNX code] that are Cisco proprietary,' Volpi says."

[Disclaimer: This is a very happy QNX Employee.]

I remember reading an article about DIY DSL here on slashdot a long time ago. I did a simple google search and found an article about a neighbourhood in colorado. verizon wouldn't give them DSL, so they did it themselves.

here's an article about them

and this is the Ruby Ranch Internet Cooperative

i know there's also software that can do DSL with nothing but an old soundcard and two copper wires. i don't know where it is, or if it's still maintained though.

cheers, and good luck.

For the same money you'd spend on a Cisco switch you can probably buy a Nortel that'll run circles around the Cisco.

Or, if your tripping over the bags of cash or their just blocking the door, you could spring for a Juniper...

Something smells and for once its not me. Here are some articles by the person that is supposed to have written this.

Orrin is helping out the RIAA, making sure that the current power structure of the labels & Clear Channel can keep bringing us such fine music.

While his son, Brent, is fighting the legal battles for SCO, to make sure their "IP" is protected. This article discussing the case mentions Brent, as have several subsequent articles and court submission documents.

Thanks guys!

Perhaps in the upcoming standarization they will finally switch to so called "jumbo frames", aka raise the maximum amount of data that can be sent in one chunk. As the singaling rate has gone up from 10Mb-1Gb, there has been a 100x increase in signaling rate and therefore a 100x decrease in the amount of time it takes one packet to cross the network. Since we are still using the same paltry sizes, cpu usage goes way up and throughput is somewhat capped. Switching to a larger frame size would allow higher throughput and lower CPU utilization. Many networking vendors have started adding support for larger frame sizes into their products for these reasons, but being added to the official standard would greatly increase the adoption of such jumbo frames.
For more info, see:
http://sd.wareonearth.com/~phil/jumbo.html
http://www.psc.edu/~mathis/MTU/
http://www.nwfusion.com/columnists/2004/0105tolly. htm

Not Creative. And as to people stealing the iPod look, take a look at the Odyssey 1000, or the Dell DJ, or the Samsung Yepp. Do they look like Creative's player? No, they look like iPods. Display up top, controls (often round) below.

Now look at the user interfaces, except for Rio, they all stole the iPod UI. Look at the Dell DJ, the Samsung Yepp, the Odyssey 1000.

Look at the picture below. See the layout at the top, see the round controls? See the UI? Please try to tell me this is anything but an iPod knockoff?

Odyssey 1000

a fool and his money are soon parted.

You knew something was wrong with this program when quotes from Laura DiDio started popping up. She seems to provide her "insight" for the truly desperate. Indeed, before this praise, it seemed like she was playing good cop/bad cop with them to get more sales for licenses. Judging from this article, I guess it worked.

a fool and his money are soon parted.

You knew something was wrong with this program when quotes from Laura DiDio started popping up. She seems to provide her "insight" for the truly desperate. Indeed, before this praise, it seemed like she was playing good cop/bad cop with them to get more sales for licenses. Judging from this article, I guess it worked.

Well considering that alpha is a discontinued platform I doubt anyone would be smart to buy one. Furthermore, if this technology is the next evolution of containers (which I think it is) it's nothing like what you speak of. You don't need to maintain a seperate os image for each zone, making administration easy. The only problem I've had with containers is isolation, which I hear has improved with zones. Physical partitioning (domains) have been in the sun product line since the 10k. Try understanding the technology before you comment about it... or more likely, IHBT

... when it was reported last year by ZDNET / news.com / Network Fusion / pcmag... that Microsoft were to buy a Romanian antivirus company !

I don't see it. What's to keep them from implementing a broken form of this (or sabotaging it in some way) even though they're a part of it?

It's not like they haven't done it before:
MS stalls IPv6 progress
Microsoft missing browser standards (and they are a member of the W3C)

We all know how they are with standards.

How hard is it to link the links! For the lazy:

first, second, third.

The first red flag I noticed was that they want you to pay for the results.
Thats not how it works. There are also many other reasons not to believe them. Boy, it must be nice to be able to make a living just making up statistics.

Then perhaps someone will explain being why Sun paid SCO $8M for a worthless SCO licence (along with Microsoft, themselves no friend of OS).

Sun didn't buy a worthless license. SCO has an implementation of driver technology that Sun needed in their bid to revitalize Solaris on X86 processors. In fact, they picked up hundreds of drivers. Now, if you have any suggestions as to other System V Unixes on X86 with a large base of relatively recent drivers and driver technology that Sun could have used instead, I'm sure that Sun would love to hear about it. Until then, Sun has a real business to run, and buying IP from SCO no doubt saved them an enormous amount of time, and maybe even money.

Bottom line: this has nothing to do with SCO attacking Linux. Sun was just taking care of business.

(By the way, you do know that Sun has deals to sell something on the order of 500,000 - 1,000,000 of the Linux based Java Desktop systems a year, don't you? You do know that Sun sells servers with Linux, don't you?)

Unixware has never achieved a substantial market share

X/Open introduces the UNIX 95 branding programme. Novell sells UnixWare business to SCO

1992 - Purchases rights to AT&T UNIX
1995 - Sells Unixware to Santa Cruz Operation

Or mod me, 'cause I took the time to make a link.

Given that a windows desktop server can cost several thousands of dollars to buy software for, before you pay someone to actually install and configure it, are they saying it cost them several thousanddollars to get the linux server working?

Takes me less than a day to get a working, configured server linux server... (two if I download all the software).

Ongoing costs? Yes, they did have to read the manual for the linux software... But i'd have to read the manual for the Windows software if I wanted a non-default config.

As for the "case studies" I wonder how much it cost M$ to send someone out to walk them through the changeover? Might not have cost that customer, but It sure didn't come out of Bill's pocket!

Interesting Facts: Giga Research is a wholly owned subsidiary of Forrester Research, who changed their policy on paid-for product comparisons as a result of at least a similar study, if not the one touted in the advert.

In their defence (or perhaps not), Forrester did find that MP3s are good for the music industry...

Meta Group will say anything: (not that I don't like the idea, but wouldn't you try to "correct" a firm saying this about you?)
By 2006 or 2007 Linux will be running on 45% of new server
again on eeek (I notice that has a HP ad on it) er, eWeek - but I like the typo better :-)

IDC - well.... IDC: Microsoft breakup would benefit the industry and a quote from here
"IDC has also published research in the past that shows some companies replacing Unix systems with Linux can save twice as much as those that move from Unix to Windows".

Eric Raymond has mentioned on a number of occasions, here and elsewhere, that he has legitimate copies of several historic Unix source trees and that he's compared them to Linux. He's also developed an automated comparison process for just such applications. See this NWFusion article for example.

This will be using licensed frequency blocks, and won't interfer with the 2.4GHz unlicensed frequences used by 802.11.

All this really is, is warmed over MMDS. MMDS was going to be the next big thing in the 90's - Sprint, in particular, was active in MMDS (you might remember it was called Sprint ION). As with a lot of new technologies, it was rolled out into a few markets, lost a lot of money, and was shut down.

Flash forward a couple of years - 802.11b/g (WiFi) is hot (hence the name - WiMax), broadband Internet usage popular, and the equipment is better/cheaper, so wireless companies are going to give it another go - except this time it will be sold as broadband Internet + VOIP, instead of a replacement for cable TV and also broadband Internet.

From browsing the user reports in the DSL Reports forum, it looks like, despite Sprint's best efforts to feck it up, most people really were happy with their ION performance, and very sad to see it shut off.