OK, not to be a bastard, but isn't this the kind of shit you learn how to do *before* you go "on-site," as it were, to install it? I have set up for m-systems disk-on-chip stuff and it's not that easy. I can see how he might be having problems with it, as it's an unnecessarily complicated interface. He should be contacting M-Systems and Tri-M to get this resolved, though, and not slashdot.
There's (sadly) not an easy way to do this with most OSS tools or a way to do this on (most) routers.
The hard way: you could do it with a firewall, policy based routing or a L4 switch, and a transparent web proxy, but setup would be a bitch and if you are an ISP, you're going to have a lot of other headaches with a web proxy other than kazaa 2.
The easiest way to successfully bandwidth-limit or block kazaa 2 clients as far as I have seen is by using one of the commercial traffic shaping hardware or software solutions that have the capability of looking at stuff higher than L4. packeteer, et/bwmgr for linux or freebsd, etc. are software tools that do this, and there is hardware such as L7 switches that can accomplish similar feats also.
I haven't looked in a while at the new/upcoming Linux and BSD OS's ip matching rules. It's possible that there is now enough matchers to successfully block or bandwidth kazaa 2 on them, so it may still be worth investigating in lieu of paying big bucks for shaper hardware/software.
The other reply mentioned JFFS, but its successor, JFFS2 is designed to be much better. CramFS is also good but it's read-only. Lots of the current embedded linux stuff (especially the stuff on ARM) is using jffs2.
Why did this get posted with such a stupid submitter? Legitimizing one of the oldest forms of music piracy? WTF?! It's designed to PREVENT it. If they charge you $5 to $20 for a CD of the concert you were just at, the RIAA still gets their cut and it's going to be a better recording than most of the bootlegs you might get that quickly. Hell, it should probably be included in the fucking ticket price - $50 fucking bucks, sometimes more? What the hell?
Maxis just can't get it together with online games. By the time they get something workable, they have already milked the games fans for all they can. The online stuff available in The Sims Online should have been available in the original game.
It's kind of like how they released Simcity 4 with online features that don't work -- Is it just me or are there other people who dig and dig for Maxis' promised online features just to find nothing -- not even a decently designed and coherent website?
Being that the same salt occurs naturally in seaweed and is used frequently in both Chinese and Japanese cooking, I would expect that the Japanese and Chinese should be raving idiots after thousands of years of use if it were actually toxic.
This would immediately seem obvious even to you, but the solution you are looking for -- indeed the simplest and cheapest solution is to put two or more sound cards into the machine. All major OS's support multiple sound devices, though some of the drivers out there struggle with two of the same card.
For instance, the Linux driver for the SB128, Live series, and Audigy series' cards supports multiple devices just fine, but the Windows drivers do not. A lot of the less inexpensive (But not dirt cheap) Windows sound cards will support multiple cards just fine. I have used Aureal, Trident, Turtle Beach cards successfully in multiple configurations. Using SBLive series cards in conjunction with another soundcard often seems to cause weird PCI problems, so I'd recommend avoiding a configuration such as that.
The other good solution is to use USB audio devices. You can get anywhere between 4 to 8 of them on the same USB bus doing 44.1khz stereo without problems, and 100% of the drivers I have seen can cope with multiple USB audio devices of the same type. You also get the (wonderful) benefit of not having to worry about IRQ or DMA starvation that can be caused by more than 2 internal soundcards. USB audio devices are the solution I use currently.
Finally, when you get your two or three audio IO sources on your machine, just set your encoder to record from the right device. Audio software that won't let you select your sound card device either in Windows or Linux or MacOS is probably shitty software anyway. There are plenty of different soutcast encoders on many platforms, so if the one you are using now doesn't work for you, then get another one -- one that encodes multiple bitrates from the same source, for instance. You don't have to use winamp to run a shoutcast encoder. Get one that can be automated.
If they are the only game in town and they suck that much, then it sounds like that he should:
1) Not use them: get a dialup from somewhere -- anywhere -- else if it is possible. A lot of people say "the only game in town" when they mean "the only broadband I can get at my house" The fact remains that he pays for something he doesnt like, then complains to the wrong people. We still don't want to hear it. 2-Way satellite broadband is also available and is not all that bad when there aren't other alternatives. I've used it. It's got to be better than what this guy is describing, unless he wants to play games or something with it.
2) Compete with them: 200 subscribers is nothing. It's enough to afford a T1 even to most any rural area of the US. He could run his own small ISP out of his house or a small office, or he could start a community wireless co-op ISP. Either way, he'd get good service, maybe make a little money on the side, and perhaps put the other guy out of business. Hell yeah, capitalism.
3) Work for them: Get a job over there. He obviously knows some of the things they are doing wrong. Go fix them by getting a job or doing a consulting gig. Even if you don't get a job, you might get on their A list of customers or at least weasel a non-NAT'd ip out of them.
Again, don't fucking gripe to slashdot about it. DO SOMETHING USEFUL.
First, this has nothing to do with the wireless standard your ISP uses, this proposed standard, or anythiing else you have said. Your apparent continual acceptance of your ISP's shitty service renders you in no way authoratative to complain about any wireless standards. They have nothing to fucking do with your situation. If you continue to pay your ISP for the shitty service you are getting, then you deserve it. Complaining on slashdot will only get you lambasted for your idiocy.
Tell your ISP to not NAT all its users onto a single IP. Tell your ISP to do some sort of intelligent bandwidth management. Tell them that you are the first of many future customers they are likely to lose if they do not reform their business. Do not complain to us. We will only tell you that your bitching is not appreciated. If you continue to seem incapable of intelligent thought, you will become part of my killfile.
Regards, ~GoRK
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Moderators who modded the parent comment up are fucking idiots. Please send the parent comment to the shit can. While you are at it, you can send my comment there too if you want, but please do not mod me down without taking the parent poster down a notch as well.
People will stand in line at your booth to enter most any contest that has a prize worth about $150 or more. An entire set of golf clubs generally works well with crowds older than about 30. A laptop or high-end palm pilot works well with younger crowds.
At tech shows (comdex, cebit, etc.) that kind of stuff usually doesnt work as well (though the golf club thing is still very popular.) If it's a show with an audience of mostly men, some good looking females in the booth will do a lot for you.
The gimmies are usually pretty tricky. The most effective ones are the ones that people have never seen before. We gave away cell phone chairs one time, which was pretty stupid, but they worked really well because nobody at the oil and gas show had ever seen them before -- even though there were tens of booths giving them away at the tech shows for a couple years, it was still effective. The CD cases we gave away, by contrast, cost nearly four times as much and were not effective.
The new gimmie we're going to use is silly putty we bought in bulk from Crazy Aaron (www.puttyworld.com)... haven't seen anyone giving it away yet, but someone's probably done it. Anyway, we sliced it up into small chunks, put it in some inexpensive tins... It's actually very very close to the least expensive thing we've ever given away and it will likely be the most effective thing we have ever used. Just in case, though, we have some sticky notes and a drawing for a set of golf clubs too:)
Maybe it's not the solution you want to hear, but you could always pick up some old AT case and power supply and use that.. Secondhand you could probably get it for about $5. Even new, it wouldn't be very expensive.
If you're short on time, why in the hell are you wasting it asking slashdot? By the time you get any answers from the masses, you'll have blown a day or two of good work.
If you can do it in the timeframe and feel confident that you can deal with the problems that will occur down the road due to the initial rush, then go for it. If you don't want to, then don't take the job.
Jesus, you're supposed to be someone that people hire when they have problems they cannot solve, yet you seem unable to grapple with a simple diliema such as this..
Doubtful your DVD explination is correct. Remember, occam's razor.
It's highly likely that the DVD you rented had been completely fscked up by someone else who had rented it before you did. How often do you rent DVD's anyway? I'm not sure I have ever rented one that I didnt have to skip a minute or so of the movie somewhere due to disc abuse.
OK, I have used this. I have installed this. It sucks, but sometimes it's the only option.
A couple things about the need for USB: The directway hardware is actually two seperate units (TX and RX) daisy chained together. This allows them to be configured for both the one-way and the two-way satellite Internet configurations. Obviously the one-way satellite connection requires the modem in your computer to assist, so it must have some sort of direct connection to the computer. If they put an ethernet interface in it, then it'd only be functional for the two-way system.....
So, why don't they just put an ethernet port in the Tx IRD? Well.. there are a couple of reasons they probably dont want to do this: The first is that the "software" you install really is basically just drivers for the IRD's and a configration tool to set up your account and whatnot.. it's not really fair to say that you have to install a whole suite of crap just to use the service. Anyway, the other nice little touch it does is to set MTU's and whatnot appropriately while the satellite network connection is active. If it didn't do this, users would constantly be complaining about how slow the service feels and DirectWay's network would be clogged with tinmeouts and tiny useless packets.
Also, keep in mind that these IRD's internally provide a serial datastream to and from the satellite. Could they put a router in it? Probably. Other satellite vendors have such devices. Would it cost a lot? Yeah probably would bring the already high equipment cost up a lot since they'd not really sell a lot of these... Would it hurt performance? Probably, if the average user does not alter certain network parameters, it would. Would it be a support nightmare? Probably, yeah.
Anyway, I really dislike their USB interface. There'd be a small but fledging market for a device that is a DirectWay ethernet router (Hello, linksys?:), but I dont really see it happening. Until then, I'm using either ICS or some other Win32 NAT solution to do the job.
Incedentally, for anyone setting this up, running a transparent web proxy on the gateway machine helps a lot. It'll give the end users speedy web access without them having to adjust their network settings to properly cope with a satellite connection (though it wouldnt hurt for them to do it anyway)
Actually, I have met a fellow from Nairobi who does wireless installs all over the place down in rural Africa. The people may live in mud huts, but they don't have to move into high-rise low income housing to understand the importance of telecommunications or the Internet.
According to the fellow I met, one of the biggest problems with laying in any sort of wired infrastructure for electricity, telephone, or data networks into rural places is that the people will dig up the wires for the copper inside of them (or dig up and destroy the fiber thinking it has copper in it.) -- Yet they want to have the phone and the comupter in their village -- go figure. Wireless and solar have been much less expensive for bringing telephone and Internet communications to small villages. The people use them all the time.
The reason people do this is probably because there aren't significant economic resources to develop much other than education and communications programs in the majority of Africa. If you'd like to find some people/governments/whatever that will build, plumb, electrify, etc. hundreds of millions of houses for these people who we've got to "civilize," then go ahead and do it: you'd probably get some sort of Nobel. Just don't forget the countless billions you'll have to spend building all those schools and hospitals and mini-malls to give the newfound suburbanites something to do and somewhere to work!
I dont know if this article clarifies it, but the Alvarion equipment used was 802.11 FHSS running at 1 megabit in the 2.4GHz frequencies known as the ISM band here in the US, just like most of their other WLAN stuff. It was not packet radio. They do produce radios in other bands that operate with the exact same technology - ie they would be 802.11 compatible if not for the frequency. The only thing they did that you couldn't do here in the US is use such a high power output on the 2.4 frequencies. (And of course, FCC approval of your amp/antenna system) You could; however, duplicate this sort of work on the 2.5GHz band with Alavarion equipment and an appropriate MMDS license.
Welcome to my friends list my drunk european friend!
Your sincere dedication to giving this guy such a completely incorrect answer is very admirable. It fills my heart with joy to know that there are still people out there who want to care.
It's funny how people forget things after nine versions.
Originally, Microsoft released Windows Media Player 1.0 for Linux and several UNIX variants. Technically, Xing did the ports under contract from Microsoft. This was done during the Progressive Networks (now Real) waring, when, I suppose Microsoft overestimated the UNIX and Linux userbase for RealPlayer. Another version for Linux was never produced, and I believe that WMP for Linux is to this day the only end user application software that Microsoft has released for Linux.
I downloaded it and tried it out. It did exist, though I can't seem to find anything to back up my story on the web. If anyone has a link to any info, I'd like to know about it.
Trouble with it is that when used correctly, flash is very very powerful and useful. Flash intros and menus and banner ads and whatnot are all total crap, but Flash comes in very handy whenever I want to post a powerpoint to the web and preserve animations/audio/print ability/etc. Or when I want to write a simple application or do some push-style content delivery, Flash is a much quicker and thinner alternative than doing it in something ungodly like Java.
Actually you could probably do the top ten Flash mistakes or the top ten misused/misunderstood flash features on a page all their own.
If frequency is your only problem, then you need to figure out what frequencies are clean, then get a license to use a clean frequency and the corresponding equipment to go with it. Alvarion has a lot of stuff available for use at 3-4GHz, and there are other companies that have UHF stuff between 300-800MHz.
Your other option is to put hook standard equipment up to modulators that will change the frequency. I have worked with devices that double the frequency of 2.4ghz devices to 5.8ghz for use in areas of 2.4 congestion for wireless isp's. There are bound to be other such devices out there.
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OK, not to be a bastard, but isn't this the kind of shit you learn how to do *before* you go "on-site," as it were, to install it? I have set up for m-systems disk-on-chip stuff and it's not that easy. I can see how he might be having problems with it, as it's an unnecessarily complicated interface. He should be contacting M-Systems and Tri-M to get this resolved, though, and not slashdot.
There's (sadly) not an easy way to do this with most OSS tools or a way to do this on (most) routers.
The hard way: you could do it with a firewall, policy based routing or a L4 switch, and a transparent web proxy, but setup would be a bitch and if you are an ISP, you're going to have a lot of other headaches with a web proxy other than kazaa 2.
The easiest way to successfully bandwidth-limit or block kazaa 2 clients as far as I have seen is by using one of the commercial traffic shaping hardware or software solutions that have the capability of looking at stuff higher than L4. packeteer, et/bwmgr for linux or freebsd, etc. are software tools that do this, and there is hardware such as L7 switches that can accomplish similar feats also.
I haven't looked in a while at the new/upcoming Linux and BSD OS's ip matching rules. It's possible that there is now enough matchers to successfully block or bandwidth kazaa 2 on them, so it may still be worth investigating in lieu of paying big bucks for shaper hardware/software.
~GoRK
The other reply mentioned JFFS, but its successor, JFFS2 is designed to be much better. CramFS is also good but it's read-only. Lots of the current embedded linux stuff (especially the stuff on ARM) is using jffs2.
~GoRK
Why did this get posted with such a stupid submitter? Legitimizing one of the oldest forms of music piracy? WTF?! It's designed to PREVENT it. If they charge you $5 to $20 for a CD of the concert you were just at, the RIAA still gets their cut and it's going to be a better recording than most of the bootlegs you might get that quickly. Hell, it should probably be included in the fucking ticket price - $50 fucking bucks, sometimes more? What the hell?
~GoRK
You're lucky. I have lost over 25 fucking abit pieces of shit to this crap.
Maxis just can't get it together with online games. By the time they get something workable, they have already milked the games fans for all they can. The online stuff available in The Sims Online should have been available in the original game.
It's kind of like how they released Simcity 4 with online features that don't work -- Is it just me or are there other people who dig and dig for Maxis' promised online features just to find nothing -- not even a decently designed and coherent website?
~GoRK
Uhrm, not only is the first one, but the second 'click me' is the ascii version of "Deep Throat"
hmm....
Being that the same salt occurs naturally in seaweed and is used frequently in both Chinese and Japanese cooking, I would expect that the Japanese and Chinese should be raving idiots after thousands of years of use if it were actually toxic.
You say they're not?
~GoRK
I recall a scene from a (bad) movie called Brazil
Thanks to the Friends/Foes mechanism, I joyously put you on my shitlist! If only I could leave a note to remind myself why...
~GoRK
This would immediately seem obvious even to you, but the solution you are looking for -- indeed the simplest and cheapest solution is to put two or more sound cards into the machine. All major OS's support multiple sound devices, though some of the drivers out there struggle with two of the same card.
For instance, the Linux driver for the SB128, Live series, and Audigy series' cards supports multiple devices just fine, but the Windows drivers do not. A lot of the less inexpensive (But not dirt cheap) Windows sound cards will support multiple cards just fine. I have used Aureal, Trident, Turtle Beach cards successfully in multiple configurations. Using SBLive series cards in conjunction with another soundcard often seems to cause weird PCI problems, so I'd recommend avoiding a configuration such as that.
The other good solution is to use USB audio devices. You can get anywhere between 4 to 8 of them on the same USB bus doing 44.1khz stereo without problems, and 100% of the drivers I have seen can cope with multiple USB audio devices of the same type. You also get the (wonderful) benefit of not having to worry about IRQ or DMA starvation that can be caused by more than 2 internal soundcards. USB audio devices are the solution I use currently.
Finally, when you get your two or three audio IO sources on your machine, just set your encoder to record from the right device. Audio software that won't let you select your sound card device either in Windows or Linux or MacOS is probably shitty software anyway. There are plenty of different soutcast encoders on many platforms, so if the one you are using now doesn't work for you, then get another one -- one that encodes multiple bitrates from the same source, for instance. You don't have to use winamp to run a shoutcast encoder. Get one that can be automated.
~GoRK
If they are the only game in town and they suck that much, then it sounds like that he should:
1) Not use them: get a dialup from somewhere -- anywhere -- else if it is possible. A lot of people say "the only game in town" when they mean "the only broadband I can get at my house" The fact remains that he pays for something he doesnt like, then complains to the wrong people. We still don't want to hear it. 2-Way satellite broadband is also available and is not all that bad when there aren't other alternatives. I've used it. It's got to be better than what this guy is describing, unless he wants to play games or something with it.
2) Compete with them: 200 subscribers is nothing. It's enough to afford a T1 even to most any rural area of the US. He could run his own small ISP out of his house or a small office, or he could start a community wireless co-op ISP. Either way, he'd get good service, maybe make a little money on the side, and perhaps put the other guy out of business. Hell yeah, capitalism.
3) Work for them: Get a job over there. He obviously knows some of the things they are doing wrong. Go fix them by getting a job or doing a consulting gig. Even if you don't get a job, you might get on their A list of customers or at least weasel a non-NAT'd ip out of them.
Again, don't fucking gripe to slashdot about it. DO SOMETHING USEFUL.
~GoRK
Dear Sir,
You are an idiot.
First, this has nothing to do with the wireless standard your ISP uses, this proposed standard, or anythiing else you have said. Your apparent continual acceptance of your ISP's shitty service renders you in no way authoratative to complain about any wireless standards. They have nothing to fucking do with your situation. If you continue to pay your ISP for the shitty service you are getting, then you deserve it. Complaining on slashdot will only get you lambasted for your idiocy.
Tell your ISP to not NAT all its users onto a single IP. Tell your ISP to do some sort of intelligent bandwidth management. Tell them that you are the first of many future customers they are likely to lose if they do not reform their business. Do not complain to us. We will only tell you that your bitching is not appreciated. If you continue to seem incapable of intelligent thought, you will become part of my killfile.
Regards,
~GoRK
Mods please note:
Moderators who modded the parent comment up are fucking idiots. Please send the parent comment to the shit can. While you are at it, you can send my comment there too if you want, but please do not mod me down without taking the parent poster down a notch as well.
People will stand in line at your booth to enter most any contest that has a prize worth about $150 or more. An entire set of golf clubs generally works well with crowds older than about 30. A laptop or high-end palm pilot works well with younger crowds.
... haven't seen anyone giving it away yet, but someone's probably done it. Anyway, we sliced it up into small chunks, put it in some inexpensive tins... It's actually very very close to the least expensive thing we've ever given away and it will likely be the most effective thing we have ever used. Just in case, though, we have some sticky notes and a drawing for a set of golf clubs too :)
At tech shows (comdex, cebit, etc.) that kind of stuff usually doesnt work as well (though the golf club thing is still very popular.) If it's a show with an audience of mostly men, some good looking females in the booth will do a lot for you.
The gimmies are usually pretty tricky. The most effective ones are the ones that people have never seen before. We gave away cell phone chairs one time, which was pretty stupid, but they worked really well because nobody at the oil and gas show had ever seen them before -- even though there were tens of booths giving them away at the tech shows for a couple years, it was still effective. The CD cases we gave away, by contrast, cost nearly four times as much and were not effective.
The new gimmie we're going to use is silly putty we bought in bulk from Crazy Aaron (www.puttyworld.com)
~GoRK
Maybe it's not the solution you want to hear, but you could always pick up some old AT case and power supply and use that.. Secondhand you could probably get it for about $5. Even new, it wouldn't be very expensive.
~GoRK
If you're short on time, why in the hell are you wasting it asking slashdot? By the time you get any answers from the masses, you'll have blown a day or two of good work.
If you can do it in the timeframe and feel confident that you can deal with the problems that will occur down the road due to the initial rush, then go for it. If you don't want to, then don't take the job.
Jesus, you're supposed to be someone that people hire when they have problems they cannot solve, yet you seem unable to grapple with a simple diliema such as this..
Doubtful your DVD explination is correct. Remember, occam's razor.
It's highly likely that the DVD you rented had been completely fscked up by someone else who had rented it before you did. How often do you rent DVD's anyway? I'm not sure I have ever rented one that I didnt have to skip a minute or so of the movie somewhere due to disc abuse.
~GoRK
OK, I have used this. I have installed this. It sucks, but sometimes it's the only option.
....
:), but I dont really see it happening. Until then, I'm using either ICS or some other Win32 NAT solution to do the job.
A couple things about the need for USB: The directway hardware is actually two seperate units (TX and RX) daisy chained together. This allows them to be configured for both the one-way and the two-way satellite Internet configurations. Obviously the one-way satellite connection requires the modem in your computer to assist, so it must have some sort of direct connection to the computer. If they put an ethernet interface in it, then it'd only be functional for the two-way system.
So, why don't they just put an ethernet port in the Tx IRD? Well.. there are a couple of reasons they probably dont want to do this: The first is that the "software" you install really is basically just drivers for the IRD's and a configration tool to set up your account and whatnot.. it's not really fair to say that you have to install a whole suite of crap just to use the service. Anyway, the other nice little touch it does is to set MTU's and whatnot appropriately while the satellite network connection is active. If it didn't do this, users would constantly be complaining about how slow the service feels and DirectWay's network would be clogged with tinmeouts and tiny useless packets.
Also, keep in mind that these IRD's internally provide a serial datastream to and from the satellite. Could they put a router in it? Probably. Other satellite vendors have such devices. Would it cost a lot? Yeah probably would bring the already high equipment cost up a lot since they'd not really sell a lot of these... Would it hurt performance? Probably, if the average user does not alter certain network parameters, it would. Would it be a support nightmare? Probably, yeah.
Anyway, I really dislike their USB interface. There'd be a small but fledging market for a device that is a DirectWay ethernet router (Hello, linksys?
Incedentally, for anyone setting this up, running a transparent web proxy on the gateway machine helps a lot. It'll give the end users speedy web access without them having to adjust their network settings to properly cope with a satellite connection (though it wouldnt hurt for them to do it anyway)
~GoRK
Actually, I have met a fellow from Nairobi who does wireless installs all over the place down in rural Africa. The people may live in mud huts, but they don't have to move into high-rise low income housing to understand the importance of telecommunications or the Internet.
According to the fellow I met, one of the biggest problems with laying in any sort of wired infrastructure for electricity, telephone, or data networks into rural places is that the people will dig up the wires for the copper inside of them (or dig up and destroy the fiber thinking it has copper in it.) -- Yet they want to have the phone and the comupter in their village -- go figure. Wireless and solar have been much less expensive for bringing telephone and Internet communications to small villages. The people use them all the time.
The reason people do this is probably because there aren't significant economic resources to develop much other than education and communications programs in the majority of Africa. If you'd like to find some people/governments/whatever that will build, plumb, electrify, etc. hundreds of millions of houses for these people who we've got to "civilize," then go ahead and do it: you'd probably get some sort of Nobel. Just don't forget the countless billions you'll have to spend building all those schools and hospitals and mini-malls to give the newfound suburbanites something to do and somewhere to work!
I dont know if this article clarifies it, but the Alvarion equipment used was 802.11 FHSS running at 1 megabit in the 2.4GHz frequencies known as the ISM band here in the US, just like most of their other WLAN stuff. It was not packet radio. They do produce radios in other bands that operate with the exact same technology - ie they would be 802.11 compatible if not for the frequency. The only thing they did that you couldn't do here in the US is use such a high power output on the 2.4 frequencies. (And of course, FCC approval of your amp/antenna system) You could; however, duplicate this sort of work on the 2.5GHz band with Alavarion equipment and an appropriate MMDS license.
~GoRK
Dude, just get a UPS. There's no room for a battery and inverter to give you that 30s in there.
Welcome to my friends list my drunk european friend!
Your sincere dedication to giving this guy such a completely incorrect answer is very admirable. It fills my heart with joy to know that there are still people out there who want to care.
~GoRK
It's funny how people forget things after nine versions.
Originally, Microsoft released Windows Media Player 1.0 for Linux and several UNIX variants. Technically, Xing did the ports under contract from Microsoft. This was done during the Progressive Networks (now Real) waring, when, I suppose Microsoft overestimated the UNIX and Linux userbase for RealPlayer. Another version for Linux was never produced, and I believe that WMP for Linux is to this day the only end user application software that Microsoft has released for Linux.
I downloaded it and tried it out. It did exist, though I can't seem to find anything to back up my story on the web. If anyone has a link to any info, I'd like to know about it.
~GoRK
A blatant rip of the wonderful and original "Coed Naked Hacking - Finger me for more info" shirt...
Trouble with it is that when used correctly, flash is very very powerful and useful. Flash intros and menus and banner ads and whatnot are all total crap, but Flash comes in very handy whenever I want to post a powerpoint to the web and preserve animations/audio/print ability/etc. Or when I want to write a simple application or do some push-style content delivery, Flash is a much quicker and thinner alternative than doing it in something ungodly like Java.
Actually you could probably do the top ten Flash mistakes or the top ten misused/misunderstood flash features on a page all their own.
~GoRK
If frequency is your only problem, then you need to figure out what frequencies are clean, then get a license to use a clean frequency and the corresponding equipment to go with it. Alvarion has a lot of stuff available for use at 3-4GHz, and there are other companies that have UHF stuff between 300-800MHz.
Your other option is to put hook standard equipment up to modulators that will change the frequency. I have worked with devices that double the frequency of 2.4ghz devices to 5.8ghz for use in areas of 2.4 congestion for wireless isp's. There are bound to be other such devices out there.
~GoRK