> My leaning is to cable APs to a few key locations and set up a wireless mesh to fill in the gaps.
I would highly recommend Meraki for this. they have one web interface to manage all your APs, they take care of firmware updates, and are pretty much designed for exactly this application. Oh, and they're perfect for mesh networks, and support POE.
You, sir, have obviously never heard of nmh, or its predecessor MH. It's a suite of command line tools for email, and in 20 years of reading email, I've found nothing that yet comes close to the power and capabilities of reading and processing email with nmh. Being able to search for email from multiple folders using regexp and shell scripting just isn't as easy as on any GUI MUA I've ever seen, and because it is just a bunch of single-task binaries, it's very easy to build a GUI or even web-based front-end for it. The only thing that got me to switch from using it as my primary email was the gmail interface, and labels vs. folders. If not for that, i'd still be using it daily, and not cuz of the cool/smug factor, but simply because it works, and works well.
Since our former domain was feather.net, my brother and I started naming machines after birds. The plus side is that there's a great many bird names to use, and we can be somewhat descriptive (the tiny shuttle box is named finch, while the great massive ugly slow beast was named condor, and one machine that was resurrected from the dead was re-christened phoenix).
As for my desktops, the first was lazarus (now retired), followed by minerva and athena, and my laptop is dora. Still a theme, just a different one. (My iPod is hamadryad)
Yeah, zsh is definitely awesome, but by the time I found it, I had already many years of tcsh usage, and not the inclination to re-learn a new shell. But I agree, zsh is amazing.
More tcsh goodness: the ability to add tabcomplete for whatever you want. For example, this:
2) capacitors in the railgun are charging. Since the disk has an aluminum layer, it should be able to be ejected from a railgun. So when the capacitors are charged...
A nice idea, except for the one small detail that aluminum is not ferrous...
#1: Document everything, whether rumors, tidbits you overhear, whatever. Keep a record of everything you hear, who said it, when, where, etc.
#2: If they set out to try to get rid of you, they can use anything, so stay on the ball.
In fact, sometimes it's BETTER to have a monopoly than not. Look at the mess in California's power when they tried to introduce competition.
I see this and cringe to think that people use this as an example of competition being bad. What happened in CA to the electricity market is that the govt. deregulated the wholesale market, but still forced a cap on consumer rates. So when the wholesale rates shot through the roof (remember, the rates had been kept down forcefully by the govt. for years), and the companies couldn't recoup their costs by charging higher rates to consumers, they folded, one by one.
That is what caused the snafu in the CA electricity market, not the introduction of competition. Once again, govt's attempt to control the market failed miserably and we all suffered for it. Remember, competition good, govt. market manipulation bad.
Not if you have a short-term battery backup system included. At that point when the power drops, the UPS provides the power needed to completely write to disk and shut down.
It shouldn't be that hard to rig up a UPS and a drive dump to store the data during periods of non use. So if you have 20Gb of solid state data, just have a set up that would back that up when it's not in use... so you still get the speed of the RAM but also have the reliability as well.
Since I'm a screen user, I use this:
set prompt="%{^[[1;32m%}%m%{^[[0;39m%} [%d %D%w%Y] %T %c %h%# %L"
if ($?WINDOW) then
        set prompt="$WINDOW-$prompt"
which translates to this:
falcon [Fri 06Jul2001] 9:51 ~ 488>
(with a green hostname, of course)
On different hosts, the hostname is a different color..
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I use one of these myself, spending about half my time sitting and half standing, and it works pretty well.
> My leaning is to cable APs to a few key locations and set up a wireless mesh to fill in the gaps.
I would highly recommend Meraki for this. they have one web interface to manage all your APs, they take care of firmware updates, and are pretty much designed for exactly this application. Oh, and they're perfect for mesh networks, and support POE.
You, sir, have obviously never heard of nmh, or its predecessor MH. It's a suite of command line tools for email, and in 20 years of reading email, I've found nothing that yet comes close to the power and capabilities of reading and processing email with nmh. Being able to search for email from multiple folders using regexp and shell scripting just isn't as easy as on any GUI MUA I've ever seen, and because it is just a bunch of single-task binaries, it's very easy to build a GUI or even web-based front-end for it. The only thing that got me to switch from using it as my primary email was the gmail interface, and labels vs. folders. If not for that, i'd still be using it daily, and not cuz of the cool/smug factor, but simply because it works, and works well.
OS/2 + OS/2 = x
*snip*
Divide each side by (2*OS/2 - x).
And this is why you can't divide by zero.
heh.
Since our former domain was feather.net, my brother and I started naming machines after birds. The plus side is that there's a great many bird names to use, and we can be somewhat descriptive (the tiny shuttle box is named finch, while the great massive ugly slow beast was named condor, and one machine that was resurrected from the dead was re-christened phoenix).
As for my desktops, the first was lazarus (now retired), followed by minerva and athena, and my laptop is dora. Still a theme, just a different one. (My iPod is hamadryad)
Yeah, zsh is definitely awesome, but by the time I found it, I had already many years of tcsh usage, and not the inclination to re-learn a new shell. But I agree, zsh is amazing.
More tcsh goodness: the ability to add tabcomplete for whatever you want. For example, this:
complete kill 'n/*/`ps axu|grep $USER| awk \{print\ \$2\}`/'
lets you do tabcomplete on your processes' pids. Handy.
One of my favorites (in tcsh, at least) is to use ^[p which completes into the history..
Also, !$ for the previous command's parameter, or !! for the previous command, or !3 for re-doing the third entry in history. Fun stuff.
A nice idea, except for the one small detail that aluminum is not ferrous...
I've been waiting for someone to say that. :-)
Take a look at Delta V.
Always nice to see more platforms getting development for graphics..
Come to Oregon, where self service is illegal..
I did this for perhaps 3 months before they caught on and shut down the TV signal.
So it ain't happening everywhere.
Perhaps you'll notice that this wasn't posted to the front page, but has found itself buried in the Ask Slashdot section?
I was born on the same day the epoch hit '123456789'.. how's that for progression.
#1: Document everything, whether rumors, tidbits you overhear, whatever. Keep a record of everything you hear, who said it, when, where, etc.
#2: If they set out to try to get rid of you, they can use anything, so stay on the ball.
I see this and cringe to think that people use this as an example of competition being bad. What happened in CA to the electricity market is that the govt. deregulated the wholesale market, but still forced a cap on consumer rates. So when the wholesale rates shot through the roof (remember, the rates had been kept down forcefully by the govt. for years), and the companies couldn't recoup their costs by charging higher rates to consumers, they folded, one by one.
That is what caused the snafu in the CA electricity market, not the introduction of competition. Once again, govt's attempt to control the market failed miserably and we all suffered for it. Remember, competition good, govt. market manipulation bad.
Duh. I shoulda included the numbers.
NS1.ATTBI.COM 204.127.198.4
NS2.ATTBI.COM 216.148.227.68
There.
I used the DNS listings from their whois entry. Worked just fine.
I just hope they don't try to charge me next month if they do shut down...
Not if you have a short-term battery backup system included. At that point when the power drops, the UPS provides the power needed to completely write to disk and shut down.
It shouldn't be that hard to rig up a UPS and a drive dump to store the data during periods of non use. So if you have 20Gb of solid state data, just have a set up that would back that up when it's not in use... so you still get the speed of the RAM but also have the reliability as well.
There's an easy way around this. Do what I do, just don't buy audio CDs. I've found that I just plain don't miss them.
Since I'm a screen user, I use this:
set prompt="%{^[[1;32m%}%m%{^[[0;39m%} [%d %D%w%Y] %T %c %h%# %L"
if ($?WINDOW) then
        set prompt="$WINDOW-$prompt"
which translates to this:
falcon [Fri 06Jul2001] 9:51 ~ 488>
(with a green hostname, of course)
On different hosts, the hostname is a different color..
Looks like the only law this kid broke was 'contempt of cop'..