The article suggests nowhere that users will recieve a wireless card for connection. The plane, of course, must connect wirelessly to the sattelite, but the users are probably going to jack in with an ordinary RJ45. IIRC, the in-flight phones have a data jack on them for sending/receivng modem/fax data. This new initiative is just eliminating the POTS modem and jacking up the speed.
By Frank Herbert, about a genetic bomb that kills only women. And he wrote it in 1982! (17 years ago...I guess if he got a patent on it, it wouldn't be valid anymore);)
Would it not be more space efficient for an AIM proxy (having received a checksum request) to forward said request to a legimate client, and forward the result back to AOL? This is kind of like putting a webserver behind a NAT box: HTTP requests go to this server, FTP requests go that server, etc. One could even go so far as to get a jabber client to make a checksum request of the proxy, who then requets of a client (to reduce server message parsing overhead).
The problem I see with the proposed scheme is if AOL picks random numbers for the start and end of the checksum. A 1 meg executable will have over 500 BILLION (5x10^11) possible checksums, if we are allowed arbitrary byte ranges! Even if (as it's a 16-byte checksum) we are allowed even byte ranges, we still get over 125 billion.
The only saving grace might be if AOL is using a static table of already-computed checksums (or using a static set of checksum requests), in which case the amount of checksum data required on the freenet has a chance of not being too big.
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Guess what. Discover magazine had an article even earler: June 1998! Read it from their archives here, or search www.discover.com's archives for June 1998 in the Technology section with title keyword "machine". And this article is even MORE informative!
Linus can believe what he likes (not that he's right or wrong). He's got something good going for him, as Linux has exploded from a small start 10+ years ago, but he's also been wrong before. Remember his opinion on 1394?
HardData sells alpha boxes. They're not exactly cheap...but they're priced ~ the same as the PII boxes they sell. So it's Alpha Powered for an Intel(igent) price.;)
The next article on the page refers to some computers "infected by the year 2000 bug." What's with this? Is the general public this mal-informed or has someone just deleted their wetware dictionary?
I don't know how BeOS has anything integrated (having never used it) but getting PM in on the scene should be a snap...SuSE 5.2 has a setup.exe file for running the install via DOS and running up PM shouldn't be a problem from there. If you're booting straight off the CD you're probably not likely to be installing from a DOS partition.
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Sounds to me like they're explicitly allowing this.
Read what you see, not what you think you see. :)
By Frank Herbert, about a genetic bomb that kills only women. And he wrote it in 1982! (17 years ago...I guess if he got a patent on it, it wouldn't be valid anymore) ;)
The problem I see with the proposed scheme is if AOL picks random numbers for the start and end of the checksum. A 1 meg executable will have over 500 BILLION (5x10^11) possible checksums, if we are allowed arbitrary byte ranges! Even if (as it's a 16-byte checksum) we are allowed even byte ranges, we still get over 125 billion. The only saving grace might be if AOL is using a static table of already-computed checksums (or using a static set of checksum requests), in which case the amount of checksum data required on the freenet has a chance of not being too big.
Guess what. Discover magazine had an article even earler: June 1998! Read it from their archives here, or search www.discover.com's archives for June 1998 in the Technology section with title keyword "machine". And this article is even MORE informative!
Linus can believe what he likes (not that he's right or wrong). He's got something good going for him, as Linux has exploded from a small start 10+ years ago, but he's also been wrong before. Remember his opinion on 1394?
HardData sells alpha boxes. They're not exactly cheap...but they're priced ~ the same as the PII boxes they sell. So it's Alpha Powered for an Intel(igent) price. ;)
The next article on the page refers to some computers "infected by the year 2000 bug." What's with this? Is the general public this mal-informed or has someone just deleted their wetware dictionary?
I don't know how BeOS has anything integrated (having never used it) but getting PM in on the scene should be a snap...SuSE 5.2 has a setup.exe file for running the install via DOS and running up PM shouldn't be a problem from there. If you're booting straight off the CD you're probably not likely to be installing from a DOS partition.
But don't " me on that.