I ran them from a hard drive. I had a 40MB Applied Engineering hard drive/beefed up power supply gizmo. Formatted 8MB Apple DOS 3.3, 16MB Apple ProDOS and 16MB MSDOS 3.2. I also has an Applied Engineering card w/ an NEC V-20 chip so by hot key, I could switch out from the Apple ][E to a 12MHZ (I think) PC with PC keyboard and floppies as well as the Apple keyboard and floppies. I had no trouble and used this setup until about 1994. God, AE made better Apple stuff than Apple. I still regret parting this out, selling the RAM Factor board with gel cell battery backup and all.
One of them claims up to 450 meters outside range. a couple walls arn't going to kill it.
Try it in an old building like where I live. I've got a T-1 coming into the house and I'm letting a neighbor use my connection. Same floor, two brick firewalls (with iron plates inside) and opposite corners (total direct distance about 50' between her PC and the access point) and sitting at her desk, there is no signal. If I take my notebook over and hold it up at head level, I get signal.
Mind you, I'm using an Aironet 350 transmitting at 100mw with an 8db omni antenna and the other side is an Linksys WMP11 with the 5.5db antenna. Also swapped in a USR 2445 with an exteral antenna and about 2 ft of cable. I even put a 13db direction Yagi on the Aironet and lined it up. I'll end up using an access point in client mode or a USB version with a long cable to get it in range.
Lucent no longer is Bell Labs. Avaya was spun off from Lucent and contains that portion. The AT&T Research Lab in England is the old Olivetti Research Lab.
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It's not a function of power so much as frequency and harmonic.
These cards and access points are on the shelves now at MicroCenter in Cambridge, MA.
So is this really something from Eumitcom?
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USR OEMs their 802.11B products from Tiawanese company Eumitcom, recently bought out by Addtron. The SMC, USR, Linksys, Belkin and quite a few other PCMCIA Intersil based 802.11B cards are Eumitcom WL-11000s and the access points are also Eumitcom, sometimes in different cases, sometimes not.
Given that, is the doubling of claimed bandwidth actually USRs doing or is it Intersil's doing, Eumitcom or USR that has doubled claimed performance. Perhaps, USR is just first to market with this.
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SAS has already begun offering 802.11b in their planes in Scandanavia.
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The old analog phones interfered with the "fly-by-wire" communication with the tail of the plane.
Right. eMachines does the same thing with KDS and Tri-Gem in Korea. They provide the spec and KDS and Tri-Gem put together the components. I doubt that eMachines writes the BIOS since they outsource nearly everything.
This isn't entirely accurate. HP and Apple have used Cannon engines like CX, SX, etc. for years which are reliable, solid, long lived pieces of hardware. Canon uses them and so do others. The real important piece is the imaging board and that's where HP and Apple shine. Those are really Apple and HP. The plastic on the outside is theirs too and it's pretty and all but it's the imaging board you are spending the money on.
7000 tons and 377ft long isn't a "mini-sub", just smaller than the Seawolf class.
And 100 tons submerged greater displacement than a 688 class and 16ft 4in longer. With an extra Mk48 to boot in the torpedo room.
Pick a name: Centurian, New SSN, Virginia. They've been trying to pick one for years; at least they've settled on one now but I wish they'd just bring back fish names. States and cities were ships and fish were boats and, damn it, these are boats (even if they exceed 100 meters).
A good electronics supply house will not only have connectors but will have tools to pull pushed pins. Hey, sh*t happens and it's been happening for years. If the pin is pushed too deeply, you can't get a connection to the cable connector which means the drive won't work.
Pull the pins and since you've straightend the bent ones, you should be okay.
This is an amazing thriving project with multiple branches. The coordinating web site is http://leaf.sourceforge.net/. The original poster couldn't be more wrong about its demise.
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I wonder what the anthropologist out at the Denver Natural History Museum (the long-haired-ex-hippie-looking-guy whose name I can't remember) that was all over PBS and Discover a few years ago with the cross-section of a T-Rex thigh bone that was hollow (honey-combed) like a bird and showing off the scarification on the bone of fast twitch muscle has to say about this?
Like 2 previous posters, get and use Diskeeper. I've used it going back to the 1.x releases and its done nothing but improve. MS Defrag is based on a old version of Diskeeper that is can't be scheduled. It's junk. Further, Executive Software, the publisher of Diskeeper, wrote the API for defragmentation. And it's what Norton uses for SpeedDisk in NT flavored OSes. But Diskeeper is much faster. Besides, it will defragment your directories, MFT and paging files as well.
Why windows does not run off a ramdrive. I mean, modern PCs all have at least 512MB ram, why not load up Windows once, and then never access the disk drive again?
In fact, many if not most minimalistic Linux distro's do this. Specifically, LinuxRouter Project do this. I use it extensively. The kernel boots and the file system decompresses to a RAM drive. It's very fast.
There have been a number of insightful or informative posts on this thread such as firewire roughly being serialized SCSI (true)or bandwidth management of Ethernet being poor compared to Ethernet. There was a sub post about firewire and USB being able to power devices where Ethernet can't. This is partly true but Power-over-Ethernet is a reality as well since Lucent and Symbol offer it in some access points.
There also is a clustering technology for SMTP from an Italian university( the name and link escape me) that uses a modified IP stack for the nodes to communicate on using standard Ethernet equipment. The controlling node also has a NIC the uses "real" IP on Ethernet to talk to the world/Internet. Using something like the modified IP stack would allow you to control and manage devices for storage, etc., without having to manage firewalling separate from how you do it otherwise(another post talked about the horrors of, say, assigning an IP to your iPod) since it isn't capable of talking to the world.
There would probably be a need for a slight alteration to talk this modified IP (maybe not) for dhcpd to manage devices. Use some of your own paramaters to pass to the clients (storage devices, etc.) for setting up arrays or what have you or use some mod of SNMP for management or both.
Power the devices with the aforementioned Power-over-Ethernet from the Ethernet switch. This switch would not be your usual off the shelf switch but if a vendor were selling this sort of offering, naturally they have them made up.
So what if the bandwidth management isn't as good as serialized SCSI -- there should be less effort to repurposing existing work and in some cases probably not having to reengineer any software.
Before someone says, "hey, look, here's another Linux geek wanting to install it on his toaster", stop and think about it. Embedded software on remote devices communicating over Ethernet and passing data that cannot be DOS'd (use multiple gateways plus the storage network stays up since it isn't directly attacked) but can be managed by any PC you want: add another NIC to it, bind it to the modified IP stack, feed it unpowered Ethernet and uses your management apps/edit.conf files.
Like my subject, I think this is a potentially elegant solution.
That was in October or so where are they now? Without DSL. QWest can't release the line to another ISP because MSN is provisioned for the line.
It's the same thing in Verizon land. Several generations ago (remember, a tech generation is 6 months!), there were some smaller ISPs that would get around it buy ordering voice and data from Verizon and cancel the voice. Money talks.
-I have yet to see webmail that allows me to filter mailing lists, family members, and business mail into their respective folders.
I can think of at least one Webmail client, the one I'm switching the ISP I own to. It's called SquirrelMail. To quote from the About page:
"SquirrelMail is a standards-based webmail package written in PHP4. It includes built-in pure PHP support for the IMAP and SMTP protocols, and all pages render in pure HTML 4.0 (with no Javascript) for maximum compatibility across browsers. It has very few requirements and is very easy to configure and install. SquirrelMail has a all the functionality you would want from an email client, including strong MIME support, address books, and folder manipulation."
Supporting plugins, you can spell check (using ispell or aspell) in two languages, filter spam, use black hole lists, etc. It's also GPL'd. It's also available in lots of languages so it isn't just US centric.
-Webmail is slower and kludgier.
It certainly can be slow like it was for me when I was syncing several thousand messages, but it's acceptable for hundreds of messages in multiple folders. And I like lower support requirements as a previous poster stated. Plus I think SquirrelMail is pretty elegant and it's easily brandable.
-I can see my POP mail when I'm not online, which is a great bonus for laptop users.
This is very true, but please remember that MediaOne/ATTBI is a residential service. I've got service from them and have for the last about 2 years. I work from home alot and have been unable to work frequently. Since I do and can't afford to not be able to work, I'm suckiing up the cost of the loop charge for a T-1 starting in a couple of weeks or as soon a Verizon can get off their ass.
Unless the e-mail is encrypted during transmission there is little point in worrying about storing it on your local machine in an encrypted format.
Sure, the email should be encrypted during transmission, but there are instances where you are required to keep a paper trail for later reconstruction. A good example is the government. Also, when an organization is actively beefing up security, the fact that they've basically used ignorance in the past as their security protocol, has no bearing on future activity.
If they already have copies of some of the clear text that resides in the encrypted archive, it will be child's play to find your encryption keys and decrypt the entire archive.
Too true. Don't send it unencrypted. But that's not part of their information request.
If you are already sending all your e-mail in an encrypted form, you simply need to keep the encrypted e-mails in the archive as well.
The problem with this methodology is that if leads a cracker directly to all the "loot". Encrypting everything means they have a lot more work on their hands.
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Dynamism clearly states it's a prototype. Which is at odds with the post that "Sony has now brought out" this very cool little box".
I ran them from a hard drive. I had a 40MB Applied Engineering hard drive/beefed up power supply gizmo. Formatted 8MB Apple DOS 3.3, 16MB Apple ProDOS and 16MB MSDOS 3.2. I also has an Applied Engineering card w/ an NEC V-20 chip so by hot key, I could switch out from the Apple ][E to a 12MHZ (I think) PC with PC keyboard and floppies as well as the Apple keyboard and floppies. I had no trouble and used this setup until about 1994. God, AE made better Apple stuff than Apple. I still regret parting this out, selling the RAM Factor board with gel cell battery backup and all.
One of them claims up to 450 meters outside range. a couple walls arn't going to kill it.
Try it in an old building like where I live. I've got a T-1 coming into the house and I'm letting a neighbor use my connection. Same floor, two brick firewalls (with iron plates inside) and opposite corners (total direct distance about 50' between her PC and the access point) and sitting at her desk, there is no signal. If I take my notebook over and hold it up at head level, I get signal.
Mind you, I'm using an Aironet 350 transmitting at 100mw with an 8db omni antenna and the other side is an Linksys WMP11 with the 5.5db antenna. Also swapped in a USR 2445 with an exteral antenna and about 2 ft of cable. I even put a 13db direction Yagi on the Aironet and lined it up. I'll end up using an access point in client mode or a USB version with a long cable to get it in range.
Walls matter.
Lucent no longer is Bell Labs. Avaya was spun off from Lucent and contains that portion. The AT&T Research Lab in England is the old Olivetti Research Lab.
It's not a function of power so much as frequency and harmonic.
These cards and access points are on the shelves now at MicroCenter in Cambridge, MA.
USR OEMs their 802.11B products from Tiawanese company Eumitcom, recently bought out by Addtron. The SMC, USR, Linksys, Belkin and quite a few other PCMCIA Intersil based 802.11B cards are Eumitcom WL-11000s and the access points are also Eumitcom, sometimes in different cases, sometimes not.
Given that, is the doubling of claimed bandwidth actually USRs doing or is it Intersil's doing, Eumitcom or USR that has doubled claimed performance. Perhaps, USR is just first to market with this.
SAS has already begun offering 802.11b in their planes in Scandanavia.
The old analog phones interfered with the "fly-by-wire" communication with the tail of the plane.
Right. eMachines does the same thing with KDS and Tri-Gem in Korea. They provide the spec and KDS and Tri-Gem put together the components. I doubt that eMachines writes the BIOS since they outsource nearly everything.
This isn't entirely accurate. HP and Apple have used Cannon engines like CX, SX, etc. for years which are reliable, solid, long lived pieces of hardware. Canon uses them and so do others. The real important piece is the imaging board and that's where HP and Apple shine. Those are really Apple and HP. The plastic on the outside is theirs too and it's pretty and all but it's the imaging board you are spending the money on.
7000 tons and 377ft long isn't a "mini-sub", just smaller than the Seawolf class.
That's what I get for responding to someones post without checking the source myself. 400 hundred tons greater not 100.
7000 tons and 377ft long isn't a "mini-sub", just smaller than the Seawolf class.
And 100 tons submerged greater displacement than a 688 class and 16ft 4in longer. With an extra Mk48 to boot in the torpedo room.
Pick a name: Centurian, New SSN, Virginia. They've been trying to pick one for years; at least they've settled on one now but I wish they'd just bring back fish names. States and cities were ships and fish were boats and, damn it, these are boats (even if they exceed 100 meters).
A good electronics supply house will not only have connectors but will have tools to pull pushed pins. Hey, sh*t happens and it's been happening for years. If the pin is pushed too deeply, you can't get a connection to the cable connector which means the drive won't work.
Pull the pins and since you've straightend the bent ones, you should be okay.
This is an amazing thriving project with multiple branches. The coordinating web site is http://leaf.sourceforge.net/. The original poster couldn't be more wrong about its demise.
I wonder what the anthropologist out at the Denver Natural History Museum (the long-haired-ex-hippie-looking-guy whose name I can't remember) that was all over PBS and Discover a few years ago with the cross-section of a T-Rex thigh bone that was hollow (honey-combed) like a bird and showing off the scarification on the bone of fast twitch muscle has to say about this?
Like 2 previous posters, get and use Diskeeper. I've used it going back to the 1.x releases and its done nothing but improve. MS Defrag is based on a old version of Diskeeper that is can't be scheduled. It's junk. Further, Executive Software, the publisher of Diskeeper, wrote the API for defragmentation. And it's what Norton uses for SpeedDisk in NT flavored OSes. But Diskeeper is much faster. Besides, it will defragment your directories, MFT and paging files as well.
Why windows does not run off a ramdrive. I mean, modern PCs all have at least 512MB ram, why not load up Windows once, and then never access the disk drive again?
In fact, many if not most minimalistic Linux distro's do this. Specifically, Linux Router Project do this. I use it extensively. The kernel boots and the file system decompresses to a RAM drive. It's very fast.
There have been a number of insightful or informative posts on this thread such as firewire roughly being serialized SCSI (true)or bandwidth management of Ethernet being poor compared to Ethernet. There was a sub post about firewire and USB being able to power devices where Ethernet can't. This is partly true but Power-over-Ethernet is a reality as well since Lucent and Symbol offer it in some access points.
There also is a clustering technology for SMTP from an Italian university( the name and link escape me) that uses a modified IP stack for the nodes to communicate on using standard Ethernet equipment. The controlling node also has a NIC the uses "real" IP on Ethernet to talk to the world/Internet. Using something like the modified IP stack would allow you to control and manage devices for storage, etc., without having to manage firewalling separate from how you do it otherwise(another post talked about the horrors of, say, assigning an IP to your iPod) since it isn't capable of talking to the world.
There would probably be a need for a slight alteration to talk this modified IP (maybe not) for dhcpd to manage devices. Use some of your own paramaters to pass to the clients (storage devices, etc.) for setting up arrays or what have you or use some mod of SNMP for management or both.
Power the devices with the aforementioned Power-over-Ethernet from the Ethernet switch. This switch would not be your usual off the shelf switch but if a vendor were selling this sort of offering, naturally they have them made up.
So what if the bandwidth management isn't as good as serialized SCSI -- there should be less effort to repurposing existing work and in some cases probably not having to reengineer any software.
Before someone says, "hey, look, here's another Linux geek wanting to install it on his toaster", stop and think about it. Embedded software on remote devices communicating over Ethernet and passing data that cannot be DOS'd (use multiple gateways plus the storage network stays up since it isn't directly attacked) but can be managed by any PC you want: add another NIC to it, bind it to the modified IP stack, feed it unpowered Ethernet and uses your management apps/edit .conf files.
Like my subject, I think this is a potentially elegant solution.
This looks really doable
Federal law calls for triple (3X) actual damages as a remedy.
Up to but not necessarily. You have to show special circumstances. First Netscape and then AOL have pulled non-standard stuff over time.
The one that goes up my ass though is the new one where MS stopped supporting Netscape style plugins after oh, 5 years?
That was in October or so where are they now? Without DSL. QWest can't release the line to another ISP because MSN is provisioned for the line.
It's the same thing in Verizon land. Several generations ago (remember, a tech generation is 6 months!), there were some smaller ISPs that would get around it buy ordering voice and data from Verizon and cancel the voice. Money talks.
Oh BTW here [12.237.137.0] is evidence of Nimda living on. Depending on the day you see that log you may even see some CodeRed boxes out there.
Gawd that looks just like the logs on my web servers currently!
-I have yet to see webmail that allows me to filter mailing lists, family members, and business mail into their respective folders.
I can think of at least one Webmail client, the one I'm switching the ISP I own to. It's called SquirrelMail . To quote from the About page:
"SquirrelMail is a standards-based webmail package written in PHP4. It includes built-in pure PHP support for the IMAP and SMTP protocols, and all pages render in pure HTML 4.0 (with no Javascript) for maximum compatibility across browsers. It has very few requirements and is very easy to configure and install. SquirrelMail has a all the functionality you would want from an email client, including strong MIME support, address books, and folder manipulation."
Supporting plugins, you can spell check (using ispell or aspell) in two languages, filter spam, use black hole lists, etc. It's also GPL'd. It's also available in lots of languages so it isn't just US centric.
-Webmail is slower and kludgier.
It certainly can be slow like it was for me when I was syncing several thousand messages, but it's acceptable for hundreds of messages in multiple folders. And I like lower support requirements as a previous poster stated. Plus I think SquirrelMail is pretty elegant and it's easily brandable.
-I can see my POP mail when I'm not online, which is a great bonus for laptop users.
This is very true, but please remember that MediaOne/ATTBI is a residential service. I've got service from them and have for the last about 2 years. I work from home alot and have been unable to work frequently. Since I do and can't afford to not be able to work, I'm suckiing up the cost of the loop charge for a T-1 starting in a couple of weeks or as soon a Verizon can get off their ass.
Cisco in 1998 was managing 50 print servers and about 1600 printers world-wide. About 10,000 Unix and Windows clients.
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Unless the e-mail is encrypted during transmission there is little point in worrying about storing it on your local machine in an encrypted format.
Sure, the email should be encrypted during transmission, but there are instances where you are required to keep a paper trail for later reconstruction. A good example is the government. Also, when an organization is actively beefing up security, the fact that they've basically used ignorance in the past as their security protocol, has no bearing on future activity.
If they already have copies of some of the clear text that resides in the encrypted archive, it will be child's play to find your encryption keys and decrypt the entire archive.
Too true. Don't send it unencrypted. But that's not part of their information request.
If you are already sending all your e-mail in an encrypted form, you simply need to keep the encrypted e-mails in the archive as well.
The problem with this methodology is that if leads a cracker directly to all the "loot". Encrypting everything means they have a lot more work on their hands.