Is it just me...
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Linux Unwired
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or does wireless seem a bit overhyped? I don't own a single wireless device and I don't really see the need yet.
Sure there have been times when it would be convenient to have a cell-phone, but most of the time when I'm not home I don't want people harassing me with phone calls anyway. As for 802.11*, the data rate and reliability of ethernet beats it every time for home networking use. Something about carrying around a laptop so I can browse the web at random hotspots just doesn't float my boat. I have wired access at home and at work, and if I need access when I'm at neither I'd go to an internet cafe.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not a luddite and I think these are great technologies, but for myself they just seem expensive and not terribly useful. What I do find interesting is use of WiFi for rural broadband. But that's still pretty novel.
So what? If I cared that much about when firefox 0.9 came out I'd go to freshmeat, right? Is Firefox 0.9 such a huge milestone? It's just one of half a dozen decent gecko-based browsers, and it's not even the 1.0 release. There's enough software update stories on slashdot as it is.
Unless you have plenty of cash to blow. In my experience with clusters the network is rarely your biggest bottleneck if you're using GigE. Rendering should be parallelized enough that it won't be saturating the network.
Bluetooth isn't even intended for networking, it's intended for wireless communication with devices. Of course it's only a small step from communications to a network.
It will be interesting to see how quickly a worm that requires close physical proximity will propagate, perhaps in patterns more like physical diseases. It's like the good old days when virurses spread via infected executables on floppy disks.
How hard is it to press pause? As others have pointed out it will only be a matter of time before people figure out how use stream-rippers with this service so you can get more than your money's worth.
How about never? NYTimes doesn't even do basic sanity checks on registration info, why would they bother spidering some obscure website?
The big mistake people make is assuming that websites care that you're poisoning their database and sharing your account. As long as most people enter correct data, or as long as the faked data is relatively random, they can still use the statistics to generate profiles of the average reader.
Others have already discussed how to set up a wireless intranet with non-routable addresses. The next step is to decide what kind of community you create. I recommend setting up a webserver with some kind of web-based community to start with, you could use Slash or Scoop. Most likely most casual Wi-Fi users in your area will be most at home with a web-based community.
Of course if you wanted to be more old-school you could set up a public-access *NIX login, or even run an old-school BBS type deal via telnet. It would still be a good idea to route people to a website explaining how to get in. For that check out here and here, and here
Huh? You are seriously getting screwed over if your phone company is oversubscribing their DSL service. DSL is point-to-point, straight from your house to the CO, there is no "segment" like you have with cable service. I've always gotten the advertised 1.5 Mbps or better from Verizon, cheap too by American standards. Unfortunately the 128Kbps uplink still blows, and they block port 80 so no running webservers on standard ports--though of course any servers are technically against the contract.
No solace for those outside urban zones
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200mbps DSL On Its Way?
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· Score: 4, Informative
According to the article, at distances greater than 1km UDSL only provides ADSL-level service. It does not mention maximum range, but I suspect that at the sort of distance from the CO one finds in rural areas it is most likely just as unusable as standard ADSL.
Nor does the article seem to address whether this is a symmetric connection or not. Of course having that kind of a fat pipe in the house would be revolutionary anywhere in America, but it would be nice to see more symmetrics options available. Even cable providers are putting arbitrary uplink caps on their service these days. Time to move to Japan?
No. The PPC architecture has the RISC advantage which makes engineering them that much easier. It would be easier to make multicore PPC than multicore Intel.
Apples are the only RISC-based consumer desktop platform, it would be tragic if they moved towards Intel with all its legacy baggage.
It's a lot simpler than that, really. If you have a single-CPU license the product will probably only utilize a single thread anyway. So that application will only use one core at a time and you won't benefit from parallelism in that application. If you buy a 2-CPU license and run two threads then it will take advantage of it. Unless you're talking about something like operating systems. Of course things get hairier if licensing is not enforced in the software. Personally, if I've got one chip with two cores I would say I still had one CPU, even if it looks like two from software. But I'm sure the bean-counters will clear this all up once these things get popular.
Of course the real solution is to use free software when practical.
Someone said enterprises, but at only 7,200 RPMs you'd get better performance RAIDing some smaller drives. I guess if you've only got one slot to spare and you've got a lot of DVDs to store and cash to spend then you might buy one of these, but it's going to have to drop in price or increase in RPMs before this gets popular.
And how could I ever forget Geeks in Space. No new content in a long time, but some classics in there.
Hey Slashdot guys, when are you going to bring us a new episode?
Other than NPR, which is great, you can find some interesting talk at Rant Radio, which is occasionally even tech-oriented. And if you're a politics geek you can listen to anything C-SPAN covers online.
...now that you'll have to make your application stand out among 5000 resumes. It's hard enough to get internships these days without them getting slashdotted.
Prime arithmetic progressions are not sequences. A sequence is by definition infinite, and there is no known mechanical way of generating an infinite sequence of primes that is much simpler than computing the sequence of primes directly. Certainly any arithmetic sequence will not consist of all primes.
What has been proven (or allegedly proven) is that there are an infinite number of arbitrarily long prime arithmetic progressions. Arbitrarily long is not the same as infinite, if you've taken any formal math this should be clear to you.
Running kernel 2.6.5-gentoo-r1, experience the same this. Pauses for a fraction of a second at a random point on each pingu-fall, every time. Happens with Mozilla and Epiphany.
But I do have a crappy S3 card so that may be the problem.
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Don't get me wrong, I'm not a luddite and I think these are great technologies, but for myself they just seem expensive and not terribly useful. What I do find interesting is use of WiFi for rural broadband. But that's still pretty novel.
A format that can be used by the free-as-in-speech porn community.
So what? If I cared that much about when firefox 0.9 came out I'd go to freshmeat, right? Is Firefox 0.9 such a huge milestone? It's just one of half a dozen decent gecko-based browsers, and it's not even the 1.0 release. There's enough software update stories on slashdot as it is.
I for one welcome our dupe-posting overlords.
Unless you have plenty of cash to blow. In my experience with clusters the network is rarely your biggest bottleneck if you're using GigE. Rendering should be parallelized enough that it won't be saturating the network.
Right, and the fact that Yahoo! filed a lawsuit again him has nothing to do with it, either.
It will be interesting to see how quickly a worm that requires close physical proximity will propagate, perhaps in patterns more like physical diseases. It's like the good old days when virurses spread via infected executables on floppy disks.
How hard is it to press pause? As others have pointed out it will only be a matter of time before people figure out how use stream-rippers with this service so you can get more than your money's worth.
I've got mplayer on gentoo, it works pretty well most of the time apart from the occasional crash. Doesn't do DRM yet though.
I don't have to pay $150+ for my OS, I have some money left over to spend on music.
The big mistake people make is assuming that websites care that you're poisoning their database and sharing your account. As long as most people enter correct data, or as long as the faked data is relatively random, they can still use the statistics to generate profiles of the average reader.
Of course if you wanted to be more old-school you could set up a public-access *NIX login, or even run an old-school BBS type deal via telnet. It would still be a good idea to route people to a website explaining how to get in. For that check out here and here, and here
Huh? You are seriously getting screwed over if your phone company is oversubscribing their DSL service. DSL is point-to-point, straight from your house to the CO, there is no "segment" like you have with cable service. I've always gotten the advertised 1.5 Mbps or better from Verizon, cheap too by American standards. Unfortunately the 128Kbps uplink still blows, and they block port 80 so no running webservers on standard ports--though of course any servers are technically against the contract.
Nor does the article seem to address whether this is a symmetric connection or not. Of course having that kind of a fat pipe in the house would be revolutionary anywhere in America, but it would be nice to see more symmetrics options available. Even cable providers are putting arbitrary uplink caps on their service these days. Time to move to Japan?
Apples are the only RISC-based consumer desktop platform, it would be tragic if they moved towards Intel with all its legacy baggage.
Of course the real solution is to use free software when practical.
Someone said enterprises, but at only 7,200 RPMs you'd get better performance RAIDing some smaller drives. I guess if you've only got one slot to spare and you've got a lot of DVDs to store and cash to spend then you might buy one of these, but it's going to have to drop in price or increase in RPMs before this gets popular.
And how could I ever forget Geeks in Space. No new content in a long time, but some classics in there. Hey Slashdot guys, when are you going to bring us a new episode?
Other than NPR, which is great, you can find some interesting talk at Rant Radio, which is occasionally even tech-oriented. And if you're a politics geek you can listen to anything C-SPAN covers online.
Why did this site melt under slashdotting in five minutes? From Netcraft:
Windows 2000 Microsoft-IIS/5.0 14-Jun-2004 199.165.204.120 Micro Serve
Hopefully they solve that one before the real contest starts.
...now that you'll have to make your application stand out among 5000 resumes. It's hard enough to get internships these days without them getting slashdotted.
What has been proven (or allegedly proven) is that there are an infinite number of arbitrarily long prime arithmetic progressions. Arbitrarily long is not the same as infinite, if you've taken any formal math this should be clear to you.
By the way it DOES seem to make synchronization MUCH better, judging from the homestarrunner.com material.
Running kernel 2.6.5-gentoo-r1, experience the same this. Pauses for a fraction of a second at a random point on each pingu-fall, every time. Happens with Mozilla and Epiphany.
But I do have a crappy S3 card so that may be the problem.
-Nathan
Good question. Why should it?