Ya have to have the burning need to pay high prices for the difference. I have two netapps in my garage.
1) from 1996 with 16 2g drives and 8 4g drives. I am taking apart the drives as I need magnets for another project. Cost in 1996? 55,000.00
2) The replacement for the previous box bought in 2001 (shortly before the CEO is caught with his financial pants down) I fire it up occasionally for short term storage. 16 36g drives. Cost? 78,000.00. As far as I know Netapp got burned in the bankruptcy proceedings... (ouch)
I have no idea of the current prices but unless you feel the perceived value is higher with the netapp for your application, the cost is gonna be a barrier to many.
I will be building a backup / file storage device for a small business with very large files and I don't see any reason why the Samba/Linux combo will not be the best for them.
The signal to noise ratio comcast has reached is pushing me to go to itunes for a la carte programming and dropping the cable.
I have 500 channels of the most dumbed down fearmongering sales oriented dreck and I am paying for it? If I can buy John Stewart and a couple of shows full season, why in the hell do I need to allow this propaganda tool that cable tv has become, into my house?
Do I need to see Cheney lie in HD to know that it is happening? The man has not uttered a true phrase on camera since 1989!
I suspect I would be hard pressed to spend 1440 over a year even at itunes prices.
these stats do not include the half dozen dead cheap dvd players I have sitting in the garage.
I don't care if it is a brand name of not, the cheap crap or the expensive dvd recorder/tuner, they all lasted just a few days longer than the warranty.
I use the computer to play dvds. At least the internal drives are cheap enough to replace when they die.
I keep a box of odd hardware pieces and adapters, connectors and cables. I have them reach in and pull out something at random and describe what it is and what it does.
I explain that good guesses are as revealing to me as actual knowledge or experience.
This is the only way I have found to determin apptitude for troubleshooting. I have had several "A+ certified" graduates fail the box utterly. I have seen MCSE's who could not tell a modem from a network card. And I have trained those who showed good deductive reasoning who went on to own companies or work for big name network and content providers.
Some of the box goodies:
ungerman bass 10 base 2 card scsi terminators (active and passive) coax terminators cisco 2501 cable null modem cables, (commercial 9 and 25 and handmade with rj45(hp keyed) ends. offset (sun) serial adapters propriatary sony cd rom 2.5 to 3.5 ide adapter floppy drive, hard drives (ide, mfm, rll, scsi, sata) heat sinks, variety mainboard standoffs and riser card breakout box , serial various processors and ram sticks (sipp, sims, dip, piggyback dip, dimms ect) crimpers, punch tools, milspec power "y" 66 block, 110 block all varieties of centronics connectors used on printers, scsi, thicknet, for pc's, macs, sun, NeXt, and SG's. fiber couplings, rca jacks and cables, RF connectors, (and a handful of CB radio couplers also)
----------------------- Anyone who says that they can contemplate quantum mechanics without becoming dizzy has not understood the concept in the least. -- Niels Bohr
Why the "copy" command is still broken after all these years. Someone lose the source?
And speaking of open source, I am building a new bsd box to migrate users to since the original admin missed a year of upgrades and the pieces cannot be upgraded now without serious downtime.
Ah well. If *nix had backwards compat, we would have the millions of compromised zombies on unpatched boxes.
It took me 7 years to get my email address updated so I could move a domain of to another registrar. I filed changes starting with the text form we all used to use 3 times, used the web forms 4 times and called and faxed letterhead 3 times. I finally got it released by transfering it to a friend in the UK.
I have no domains on NSI now but I must admint the web interface now, finally works. I am pretty sure it would not be usable without the competition of the cut rate registrars.
Anyone who has used NSI since the early 90s probably has at least one similar horror story.
For the love of (insert Deity here) RTA b4 comment
on
$5 Social Wi-Fi Router
·
· Score: 5, Informative
The software is available for download if you already have a compatable router. The $5 router is new but the warranty is null since the firmware is flashed with the FON version.
The firmware can split your bw between two ssid's one for FON and the other for private. Since the routers listed can be used with linux in the first place, (even the low ram ones per a Slashdot story from the past) then it is a good guess as to what the firmware is based on.
The router will indeed FON home (User>pass auth) and the interoperability and potential multipath routing seems inevitable when the density reaches a critical point in a particular area. (yes this is a guess rather than something in the site literature.)
But it seems like a good deal with little risk to the hot spot provider. The basic access is tracked and limited to users by password whether Linuses, Bills or Aliens.
ISP's who like to limit their users deserve to feel the slight pain of savvy users leaving for better ISP's.
I intend to dedicate one of my public IP's to the system and my ISP does not give a rats patoot what I do with is as long as I pay my bill and abuse does not get any valid complaints. I moved from comcast long ago and since my qwest router is bridged from my isp, Qwest has no say in how my bandwidth is used either.
Of course I live in a city where my wifi detector finds free open signals by the dozens at nearly every traffic light, I suspect some folks here will split off a portion of their BW if there is a potential of making a little money for their service.
I will become a Linus just to help the concept of universal wi-fi along if only a little bit. I am going to upgrade my wifi net anyway once the N becomes semi standard so I will have 3 FON compat routers to share with the neighborhood while keeping my private network kinda tight.
I used a bungee and duct tape to replace a power supply on a Network Appliance 450 and spliced the cables into the power distribution bar.
It lasted until the suits realized the whole company was running on it and approved the replacement cost.
Those same suits drove the company into bankruptcy in 2001 and fled to the South of France after selling a fraudulent user base to another national ISP.
I don't mind paying for content. I subscribe to several online news publications and I would buy my local paper everyday if I could just avoid getting the (paper) part of it. I will continue to read it online for free until they wise up.
I just don't like paying for it over and over again when I switch devices. I stuff my IPOD with full size MP3's and I have books in txt and html format archived from the early days of the web.
Thanks for the links to the TOR website.
I used to spend $100.00 per month on SF books but so much of it has turned to crap based on the "established author" rule caused by the cost of publishing on paper. Baen will get my cash from now on.
All the articles I have read seem a bit lite on details. Where do we get the idea that this is in some way involuntary in the current google desktop? My version 3.0.128.1 does not seem to have anyway to enable or disable such a feature. Besides, if it wants to share my terabyte raid of mp3s and ancient backups in iso format, it is gonne clog up the pipe for quite a while...
Any links to real info on this?
If this is coming down the pike/pipe, then who can speak about it without violating their NDA?
All you google admins reading this should know enough to bounce an AC comment through an anon shell in europe.
I am a hard core liberal Dem and a PCO. I have observed election procedures alongside both Bev and Jim. (The lefts obsession with gun registration is pointless and has lost us the rural voters who remember when Roosevelt saved their bacon in the 40's.) I have found both to be professional and knowledgable about the procedures and hardware in my state.
Libertarians may not be our natural allies but as long as they support the plain english meanings of the bill of rights I welcome them to the fight.
The root in this thread points out the sillyness of allowing Diebold to pretend it's access tables and schema are propriatary.
The activist at BBV are also questioning why there is no proof that the state of WA has ever inspected the code like the statutes require. I have been trying to find this out for years but without the resources to do so I am glad BBV is doing it for me.
Open source software is the key.
The counting optiscan hardware is 1990 vintage xt type processors and the paperhandling hardware of the same era. If this cannot be open sourced far easier than most might think then something is very wrong with this country.
We must repsect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children are smart."
-- Henry Mencken
"Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good."
-- Henry Mencken
I have heard enhancements and updated code are also in the works. This will also be released with the GPL when ready. Though in reality, a small percentage of voters use blogs like this, the power is in the feeling of community as well as the deconstruction and analysis of the spin that passes for US news and there is no better source for links to interesting sites. Even a few hundred eyes scanning the net for cool political content are more effective than one person surfing their own local media and bookmarks.
I damn near ran over one in West Seattle last week. A meter reader crossing the street I think. Orange vest and hard hat crossing a 4 lane 50ft from the cross walk. I hate to think what kinda crunch that vaporware would make...
I noticed the images used are from Getty images, the largest stock photo house in the world I have been told. Their closest competitor is Bill Gates former non-profit digital art acquisition foundation turned stock photo house.
http://www.corbis.com
Lots of images in the royalty free area but the search results are pretty entertaining if you don't use IE..
I get 10 to 20 spams a day to the abuse@(deleted).com address. The address/alias was created in 1993 and was a victum of the Zygon spams (second email spammer?)
Unless you kill a spamtrap address it will live forever:)
Of course I also average 2 or three spamcop users each day who override the advice Julien helpfuly includes in each spam analysis to send complaints about non existant users on the domain as well.
Ah well.
Friends don't let friends click on "Remove" links...
While I agree with the sentiment expressed by the quote, I have never been able to find a reliable attribution in any of the quote DB's that this was indeed from Franklin... Perhaps I overlooked something in my search.
But one thing is sure.
We are free to invent and market devices which will purportedly defend marketers and salesdroids
against thermal imaging used against them:)
So far...
Old Joke:
Q: What is the difference between a computer salseman and a car salesman.
A: A car salesman *knows* when he is lying.
New inventions to make/market:
1: Spray on coolant or IR reflector.
2: Bring back the "bookies" eyeshade with
pelitier type streams of cool air.
I *like* the stuff that does not work. I add proxys and edit the java cfg files to make *sure* some of the evil crap most users are unaware of
will not work.
I tried ie5 and ns 6 beta on a sandbox machine with a packet sniffer.
I will not use either of them again.
Slashdot Mirror
Key information is...
Ted Stevens is for it. A co sponsor.
The Dem co sponsors are blue dogs owned by one corporation or another.
This means Ted can make a profit off it in some way.
Following a proven rule of thumb, this means it is going to be very bad for anyone who does not own either an oil company or a telco.
While this is true.. A note on cost.
Ya have to have the burning need to pay high prices for the difference. I have two netapps in my garage.
1) from 1996 with 16 2g drives and 8 4g drives. I am taking apart the drives as I need magnets for another project. Cost in 1996? 55,000.00
2) The replacement for the previous box bought in 2001 (shortly before the CEO is caught with his financial pants down) I fire it up occasionally for short term storage. 16 36g drives. Cost? 78,000.00. As far as I know Netapp got burned in the bankruptcy proceedings... (ouch)
I have no idea of the current prices but unless you feel the perceived value is higher with the netapp for your application, the cost is gonna be a barrier to many.
I will be building a backup / file storage device for a small business with very large files and I don't see any reason why the Samba/Linux combo will not be the best for them.
YMMV.
120.00 per month for 2 boxes comcast.
12 months.
1440.00 per year
The signal to noise ratio comcast has reached is pushing me to go to itunes for a la carte programming and dropping the cable.
I have 500 channels of the most dumbed down fearmongering sales oriented dreck and I am paying for it?
If I can buy John Stewart and a couple of shows full season, why in the hell do I need to allow this propaganda tool that cable tv has become, into my house?
Do I need to see Cheney lie in HD to know that it is happening? The man has not uttered a true phrase on camera since 1989!
I suspect I would be hard pressed to spend 1440 over a year even at itunes prices.
these stats do not include the half dozen dead cheap dvd players I have sitting in the garage.
I don't care if it is a brand name of not, the cheap crap or the expensive dvd recorder/tuner, they all lasted just a few days longer than the warranty.
I use the computer to play dvds. At least the internal drives are cheap enough to replace when they die.
I keep a box of odd hardware pieces and adapters, connectors and cables. I have them reach in and pull out something at random and describe what it is and what it does.
I explain that good guesses are as revealing to me as actual knowledge or experience.
This is the only way I have found to determin apptitude for troubleshooting. I have had several "A+ certified" graduates fail the box utterly. I have seen MCSE's who could not tell a modem from a network card. And I have trained those who showed good deductive reasoning who went on to own companies or work for big name network and content providers.
Some of the box goodies:
ungerman bass 10 base 2 card
scsi terminators (active and passive)
coax terminators
cisco 2501 cable
null modem cables, (commercial 9 and 25 and handmade with rj45(hp keyed) ends.
offset (sun) serial adapters
propriatary sony cd rom
2.5 to 3.5 ide adapter
floppy drive, hard drives (ide, mfm, rll, scsi, sata)
heat sinks, variety
mainboard standoffs and riser card
breakout box , serial
various processors and ram sticks (sipp, sims, dip, piggyback dip, dimms ect)
crimpers, punch tools, milspec power "y"
66 block, 110 block
all varieties of centronics connectors used on printers, scsi, thicknet, for pc's, macs, sun, NeXt, and SG's.
fiber couplings, rca jacks and cables, RF connectors, (and a handful of CB radio couplers also)
-----------------------
Anyone who says that they can contemplate quantum mechanics without becoming dizzy
has not understood the concept in the least.
-- Niels Bohr
Why the "copy" command is still broken after all these years. Someone lose the source?
And speaking of open source, I am building a new bsd box to migrate users to since the original admin missed a year of upgrades and the pieces cannot be upgraded now without serious downtime.
Ah well. If *nix had backwards compat, we would have the millions of compromised zombies on unpatched boxes.
network solutions?
It took me 7 years to get my email address updated so I could move a domain of to another registrar. I filed changes starting with the text form we all used to use 3 times, used the web forms 4 times and called and faxed letterhead 3 times. I finally got it released by transfering it to a friend in the UK.
I have no domains on NSI now but I must admint the web interface now, finally works. I am pretty sure it would not be usable without the competition of the cut rate registrars.
Anyone who has used NSI since the early 90s probably has at least one similar horror story.
Try this one if you like a little more info.g le27.html
:)
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/275421_goo
And Google if you want more.
The software is available for download if you already have a compatable router.
The $5 router is new but the warranty is null since the firmware is flashed with the FON version.
The firmware can split your bw between two ssid's one for FON and the other for private. Since the routers listed can be used with linux in the first place, (even the low ram ones per a Slashdot story from the past) then it is a good guess as to what the firmware is based on.
The router will indeed FON home (User>pass auth) and the interoperability and potential multipath routing seems inevitable when the density reaches a critical point in a particular area. (yes this is a guess rather than something in the site literature.)
But it seems like a good deal with little risk to the hot spot provider. The basic access is tracked and limited to users by password whether Linuses, Bills or Aliens.
ISP's who like to limit their users deserve to feel the slight pain of savvy users leaving for better ISP's.
I intend to dedicate one of my public IP's to the system and my ISP does not give a rats patoot what I do with is as long as I pay my bill and abuse does not get any valid complaints. I moved from comcast long ago and since my qwest router is bridged from my isp, Qwest has no say in how my bandwidth is used either.
Of course I live in a city where my wifi detector finds free open signals by the dozens at nearly every traffic light, I suspect some folks here will split off a portion of their BW if there is a potential of making a little money for their service.
I will become a Linus just to help the concept of universal wi-fi along if only a little bit. I am going to upgrade my wifi net anyway once the N becomes semi standard so I will have 3 FON compat routers to share with the neighborhood while keeping my private network kinda tight.
But go to the site and read for your self the details of the program.
http://en.fon.com/info/whats_fon.php
Then make your own pithy comments here.
I used a bungee and duct tape to replace a power supply on a Network Appliance 450 and spliced the cables into the power distribution bar.
It lasted until the suits realized the whole company was running on it and approved the replacement cost.
Those same suits drove the company into bankruptcy in 2001 and fled to the South of France after selling a fraudulent user base to another national ISP.
read the text of the bill here
I refuse to use books or music that includes DRM.
I don't mind paying for content. I subscribe to several online news publications and I would buy my local paper everyday if I could just avoid getting the (paper) part of it. I will continue to read it online for free until they wise up.
I just don't like paying for it over and over again when I switch devices. I stuff my IPOD with full size MP3's and I have books in txt and html format archived from the early days of the web.
Thanks for the links to the TOR website.
I used to spend $100.00 per month on SF books but so much of it has turned to crap based on the "established author" rule caused by the cost of publishing on paper. Baen will get my cash from now on.
http://desktop.google.com/plugins/i/foldershare.ht ml
Which seems kinda hard to force people to use.
All the articles I have read seem a bit lite on details. Where do we get the idea that this is in some way involuntary in the current google desktop? My version 3.0.128.1 does not seem to have anyway to enable or disable such a feature. Besides, if it wants to share my terabyte raid of mp3s and ancient backups in iso format, it is gonne clog up the pipe for quite a while...
Any links to real info on this?
If this is coming down the pike/pipe, then who can speak about it without violating their NDA?
All you google admins reading this should know enough to bounce an AC comment through an anon shell in europe.
What is the truth in this broughaha.
I am a hard core liberal Dem and a PCO. I have observed election procedures alongside both Bev and Jim. (The lefts obsession with gun registration is pointless and has lost us the rural voters who remember when Roosevelt saved their bacon in the 40's.) I have found both to be professional and knowledgable about the procedures and hardware in my state.
Libertarians may not be our natural allies but as long as they support the plain english meanings of the bill of rights I welcome them to the fight.
The root in this thread points out the sillyness of allowing Diebold to pretend it's access tables and schema are propriatary.
The activist at BBV are also questioning why there is no proof that the state of WA has ever inspected the code like the statutes require. I have been trying to find this out for years but without the resources to do so I am glad BBV is doing it for me.
Open source software is the key.
The counting optiscan hardware is 1990 vintage xt type processors and the paperhandling hardware of the same era. If this cannot be open sourced far easier than most might think then something is very wrong with this country.
"We've been attacked by the intelligent, educated segment of the culture."
-- Ray Mummert, creationist from Dover, Pennsylvania, 2005
We must repsect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children are smart."
-- Henry Mencken
"Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good."
-- Henry Mencken
I have heard enhancements and updated code are also in the works. This will also be released with the GPL when ready.
Though in reality, a small percentage of voters use blogs like this, the power is in the feeling of community as well as the deconstruction and analysis of the spin that passes for US news and there is no better source for links to interesting sites. Even a few hundred eyes scanning the net for cool political content are more effective than one person surfing their own local media and bookmarks.
Belkin Omni view uses the scroll lock key to trigger the On Screen Display and targeted puter switch in their digital KVM switches.
Also; the game "A Tale in the Desert"
http://atitd.com
Scroll lock triggers a full graphics reload in game.
Combining the two can get a bit irritating though.
Seth Warshavsky - google that name from the list.
hmmm I could probably find him around town if he still hangs out in Seattle.
Now where did I put that clue by 4...
I damn near ran over one in West Seattle last week. A meter reader crossing the street I think. Orange vest and hard hat crossing a 4 lane 50ft from the cross walk. I hate to think what kinda crunch that vaporware would make...
diz
I noticed the images used are from Getty images, the largest stock photo house in the world I have been told. Their closest competitor is Bill Gates former non-profit digital art acquisition foundation turned stock photo house.
http://www.corbis.com
Lots of images in the royalty free area but the search results are pretty entertaining if you don't use IE..
checking my inbox, I see 6 spams in the last week addressed to my "abuse@" alias..
:)
Don't overestimate a spammers ability to even know where the spam is going
P. T. Barnum was right
I get 10 to 20 spams a day to the abuse@(deleted).com address.
The address/alias was created in 1993 and was a victum of the Zygon spams (second email spammer?)
Unless you kill a spamtrap address it will live forever
Of course I also average 2 or three spamcop users each day who override the advice Julien helpfuly includes in each spam analysis to send complaints about non existant users on the domain as well.
Ah well.
Friends don't let friends click on "Remove" links...
While I agree with the sentiment expressed by the quote, I have never been able to find a reliable attribution in any of the quote DB's that this was indeed from Franklin... Perhaps I overlooked something in my search.
But one thing is sure.
We are free to invent and market devices which will purportedly defend marketers and salesdroids
against thermal imaging used against them
So far...
Old Joke:
Q: What is the difference between a computer salseman and a car salesman.
A: A car salesman *knows* when he is lying.
New inventions to make/market:
1: Spray on coolant or IR reflector.
2: Bring back the "bookies" eyeshade with
pelitier type streams of cool air.
3: countermeasures for above
kd
I *like* the stuff that does not work. I add proxys and edit the java cfg files to make *sure* some of the evil crap most users are unaware of
will not work.
I tried ie5 and ns 6 beta on a sandbox machine with a packet sniffer.
I will not use either of them again.