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  1. Shared Workspace by SEWilco · · Score: 1 · on Content Management Systems For Linux?
    Another approach might be to use the "shared workspace" style. A shared office design rather than a bulletin board design.

  2. mirrored at last... (Re:Advogato slashdotted) by mko · · Score: 3 · on Interview with Knuth: TeX, MMIX/Crusoe

    Since nobody has posted the whole interview yet, I've put the page up here.

  3. Re:scrap the wires by voop · · Score: 3 · on Gigabyte Modems over Electric Lines

    Now if there was only a way to get this kind of speed with no wires at all!

    I dream of an inexpensive, wireless gigabit/sec connection!

    Well, afaik some of the most high-end wireless consumer networks available at this time would be Hiperlan (23.5Mbps). Some information is available
    here and here.

    There exists faster wireless networks, however then we're not in the "consumer end" any more.

  4. Re:Cisco late out of the gate - Wishful dreaming by bosman · · Score: 1 · on Cisco Unveils Amazing New Wireless Plans
    problem A: If you use a non directional antenna (easiest to set up, no alignment issues) you are then presented with the amount of processing needed to weed out signal from reflections - it is enormous. Your antenna also has no gain - a big problem with lossy low power MMDS or LMDS systems. No signal = lots of noise = low bandwidth or high error rate.
    I assume you're referring to using decision feedback equalization (DFE) to mitigate the Inter-symbol interference (ISI). This technique is absolutely unreasonable in non-LOS environments. The processing power required is exponential with bandwidth.

    It isn't, however, too difficult to frequency multiplex (FDM) a large number of narrowband signals into the same wide-band. As bandwidth increases, more narrow-bands are added. As long as these bands are small enough, ISI is decreases to the point that no extra compensation is required. Voila: linear complexity increase with bandwidth.

    Now, you're probably thinking "what about guard bands? They'll eat your bandwidth for lunch." Nope. Using orthogonal FDM (OFDM), the signal is coded such that guard bands aren't necessary. If you really want the nitty gritty, check out this page
  5. I use mp3c by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Ask Slashdot: What's the Best MP3 Encoder?

    mp3c works great for me. CDDB-aware front end, console mode, pretty colors if ncurses thinks your term supports it. Can be picked up with cdparanoia, an encoder, and mp3info from that site or will work with other apps if you supply the command line. Great open source proggie, and the author is pretty responsive (well, I think so--he added the features I suggested pretty quick).

  6. Re:Download URL here! - NEW SITES by Blorgo · · Score: 5 · on StarOffice 5.1 released

    STAR OFFICE 5.1 Download Sites:
    FTP SITES:
    Sun SITE UTK at University of Tennessee - Knoxville
    TU Clausthal - Germany
    Sun SITE Central Europe at RWTH-Aachen - Germany
    Sun SITE Finland at the Tampere University of Technology
    Sun SITE Switzerland - cnlab & SWITCH - Rapperswil & Zurich
    Star Division - Germany
    Star Division - Germany
    AARNet Mirror Project - Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

    HTTP SITES:
    Sun SITE USA at University of North Carolina - UNC Chapel Hill
    Sun SITE UTK at University of Tennessee - Knoxville
    Sun SITE Central Europe at RWTH-Aachen - Germany
    Sun SITE Finland at the Tampere University of Technology
    Sun SITE Nordic at Kungliga Tekniska Högskolan - Stockholm
    Sun SITE Belgium
    Sun SITE Northern Europe at Imperial College - London
    Sun SITE Switzerland - cnlab & SWITCH - Rapperswil & Zurich

  7. Re:Download URL here! - NEW SITES by Blorgo · · Score: 5 · on StarOffice 5.1 released

    STAR OFFICE 5.1 Download Sites:
    FTP SITES:
    Sun SITE UTK at University of Tennessee - Knoxville
    TU Clausthal - Germany
    Sun SITE Central Europe at RWTH-Aachen - Germany
    Sun SITE Finland at the Tampere University of Technology
    Sun SITE Switzerland - cnlab & SWITCH - Rapperswil & Zurich
    Star Division - Germany
    Star Division - Germany
    AARNet Mirror Project - Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

    HTTP SITES:
    Sun SITE USA at University of North Carolina - UNC Chapel Hill
    Sun SITE UTK at University of Tennessee - Knoxville
    Sun SITE Central Europe at RWTH-Aachen - Germany
    Sun SITE Finland at the Tampere University of Technology
    Sun SITE Nordic at Kungliga Tekniska Högskolan - Stockholm
    Sun SITE Belgium
    Sun SITE Northern Europe at Imperial College - London
    Sun SITE Switzerland - cnlab & SWITCH - Rapperswil & Zurich