My brother shares a broadband connection with his neighbor. We bought a wireless AP/firewall and a UPS for his neighbor, and a USB wireless interface for his PC.
Voila!
Broadband for two houses for the price of one. Neighbor gets free wireless, 50% rebate on his service and my brother gets a half-price broadband connection.
Technically, I think it's against the provider's TOS, but I'm not all that concerned about that.
With dual floppies, later upgraded with the hard drive option. As I recall, it ran MP/OS. It was free, they discontinued the project & it was lying around in the lab. Before that, I built my own 6802-based micro, but it never had an OS
I applaud Quinn for trying to straighten out the IT mess that is state government. There may come a time where professional competence trumps political maneuvering here, but apparently, that time is still far in the future.
It seems to this user that the pace of Microsoft releases is increasing (to once a year), and support time for the older formats is decreasing. While I understand that it might be fun to embed Java objects and streaming voice and video in Word documents, it really has no relevence to me, and I doubt to many (most?) users. Certainly not at the state government level, where tables, charts and images are about all you need, and these were handled perfectly well in Word'97 (as they are in OpenOffice). Now, given a choice between paying annually for a new revision of MS Office, and paying a competent Unix/Linux IT guy to administer a bunch of Linux desktops, I'd vote for the latter. I'm thinking I'd get more for my tax dollar.
1. Bypassing CSS (which it appears they did *not* do). If you intentionally bypass a "content protection mechanism", you're guilty of a crime. Doesn't matter who you are or why you did it.
2. Copying materials in direct violation of the content owner's expressed wishes. This would be copyright infringement, plain and simple. According to the FBI Warning that shows up on every DVD I rent, the FBI investigates all cases of infringement, including those where there is no monetary gain.
Silly, huh?
Now if the SOURCE were leaked, that would actually
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...followed quickly, I'm sure, by improved versions of said source, authored by members of the community. Then, a developers' discussion list, and IE9...
It all reminds me of Nixon's misuse of the FBI and the CIA to spy on US citizens and groups which disagreed with him.
I don't argue with the need for intelligence collection and surveillance of those who would wish to do our country harm. But there are laws that clearly say that the NSA is not to eavesdrop on domestic communications, and that exceptions to this are to be authorized, after the fact if necessary, by a secret court.
Mr Bush chose to believe that the law did not apply to him in this case. That's for a court to decide. I, personally, feel that he's way off base, and about as arrogant as he is wrong.
Those in power are tempted to misuse the tools available to them. People like Mr. Tice are what prevents this country from turning into a totalitarian regime. We need to remember that Mr. Tice is no different from you or me. Would you have the guts it takes to throw away your job and career to blow the whistle on something you knew was wrong?
Linux plays DVDs just fine, once you install the DeCSS library.
And,you can then rip them to files you can store on your MythTV box, so that watching them again doesn't involve finding the box, prying the DVD off the spindle (why do they make it so hard?), waiting for the player to read it, skipping the FBI warning and trailers, etc.
Easy, reads everything and hasn't failed me yet. Well worth the $60 or so I paid for it when I first loaded it on my Win98 machine and still runs great under Win2K
Peter (*trying* to learn how to use Gimp on Linux...)
Yeah, well, as a Mass. taxpayer who is curious about what my neighborhood looks like from the air, I sure appreciate MassGIS putting the data purchased with my tax dollars on a website where I can browse and download it. I do believe the data is only free for non-commercial use.
I'm betting my town and all the other towns in this state also appreciate the fact that the data's been paid for once, and is available to them. Why should *my* town pay *again* for the same data? The plane flew once, the company that made the photos (for the state) was paid for their time and made a healthy profit, and it only makes sense to share the data with other users and taxpayers. I think this is a case of a central archive being much cheaper to operate, and perhaps helping towns that would otherwise never be able to afford custom mapping costs to generate their own maps.
As to the cost of installing OpenOffice (or Star Office or whatever) on several thousand state workstations, I suspect the majority of the expense is going to be *un*-installing Microsoft Office. Last time I tried that, it wanted me to insert the original product CD before it would uninstall. I've been using OpenOffice at home and I haven't found it to be any more trouble than using MS Office at work. Install went quickly and smoothly. Do *you* enjoy being locked in to a single vendor with proprietary file formats? I commend my state for insisting on an open, standardized file format for electronic documents. Wonder why Microsoft is so against that?
So, if the state chooses to install OOo Writer, they can read and output not only the Open Document format, but all the legacy documents written in MSWord. For $0 per workstation. Seems like a no-brainer to this MA resident.
In this case, it would appear that someone in Massachusetts state government is trying to do the "right thing".
For another example of someone in MA state government with a clue, surf on over to http://www.mass.gov/mgis/mapping.htm and check out the free online mapping resources. I can't believe it. Usually you have to pay through the nose for current high resolution geo-referenced aerial photography. Here, MA has put it all online for free. Nice going!
...first are the "hit the bunny" and flashing/moving ads - they're irrelevent and annoying...next are the ads which are just irrelevent (dating, mortgage, financial, women's stuff)...then, there are the ads for which I'm not part of the target market (I live in the US, block ads on foreign websites)
It leaves very few. I do enthusiastically patronize online businesses, I would rather order something from Amazon or Overstock than travel to the big box store and find they are out of stock.
One of those $150 cable testers that does USB, RJ, DB25, DB9, etc cables. Ours looks like this one but has no manufacturer's ID on it, other than the marking "PC Cable Tester": www.nudata.com/testers/pccabletester.htm
Well, really only in Cambridge, Amherst and Northampton, but we are more liberal than some states. Think of us as a counterbalancing force to Utah and Kansas.
It's a an analog technology over a medium that was not designed for it. As such, it's a compromise. And it radiates. Worse, it's susceptible to interference from other emitters, like HF and broadcast radio. Not to mention lightning outages.
Long term, it's not viable. BPL has been trialled in the UK and Canada, as well as the US. The results of these trials have been less than satisfactory, and in some cases, have resulted in decisions not to go forward. I have heard of happy users, but long term, this technology is full of problems and probably won't survive. It's mainly an attempt by power companies to "maximize shareholder revenue".
And yes, I am a ham radio operator, and no, I wouldn't want to see it in my neighborhood.
...the co-founder of "The Return Exchange", in a thinly-veiled advertisement for his company does. Business week is just printing his Q&A ad for him, and making it look like an article. Apparently, the company offers outsourcing of some of the paperwork involved in managing returns...
...just this morning I got an email from their security department, telling me that they had detected someone with a "foreign IP address" attempting to log into my account! Of course, I immediately followed the link they sent me to confirm my identity.:-)
And another thing...the table at the end of the document. Notice that it doesn't have a title? Well, scroll on down to the next page. It has a title there! The title that should be at the start of the table? Almost like something has been removed, and Word has repositioned the table, but not the title? And see that "Comment:/TDf" at the "yacc" line? That's from a newer version of Word than was available in 1999?/tinfoil hat OFF
It's similar to DSL. Only it radiates far more garbage into the 2 to 30 MHz spectrum, because it's not being sent over twisted pair. It's also much more susceptible to incoming interference from HF radio transmissions.
I should say that I'm an amateur radio licensee, and the amateur community is against this technology because of the interference it causes.
As to BPL having been tested in Europe, I think you'll find that the tests in the UK ended with BPL being discontinued. The tests in the US have been interesting, with amateurs claiming interference and BPL providers denying it. The FCC seems (slightly) biased towards the industry, ruling that tests cause no interference in spite of amateur evidence to the contrary.
Ultimately, I suspect BPL will be an expensive failure, with fiber and digital cable being used to provide broadband to most homes, and wireless links for those far from population centers. BBL signal losses on long runs and interference problems related to the noisy powerline environment will probably make it unattractive compared to dedicated high-bandwidth digital media.
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My brother shares a broadband connection with his neighbor. We bought a wireless AP/firewall and a UPS for his neighbor, and a USB wireless interface for his PC.
Voila!
Broadband for two houses for the price of one. Neighbor gets free wireless, 50% rebate on his service and my brother gets a half-price broadband connection.
Technically, I think it's against the provider's TOS, but I'm not all that concerned about that.
damn units...
With dual floppies, later upgraded with the hard drive option. As I recall,
it ran MP/OS. It was free, they discontinued the project & it was lying around in the lab.
Before that, I built my own 6802-based micro, but it never had an OS
I applaud Quinn for trying to straighten out the IT mess that is state government. There may come a time where professional competence trumps political maneuvering here, but apparently, that time is still far in the future.
It seems to this user that the pace of Microsoft releases is increasing (to once a year), and support time for the older formats is decreasing. While I understand that it might be fun to embed Java objects and streaming voice and video in Word documents, it really has no relevence to me, and I doubt to many (most?) users. Certainly not at the state government level, where tables, charts and images are about all you need, and these were handled perfectly well in Word'97 (as they are in OpenOffice). Now, given a choice between paying annually for a new revision of MS Office, and paying a competent Unix/Linux IT guy to administer a bunch of Linux desktops, I'd vote for the latter. I'm thinking I'd get more for my tax dollar.
1. Bypassing CSS (which it appears they did *not* do). If you intentionally bypass a "content protection mechanism", you're guilty of a crime. Doesn't matter who you are or why you did it.
2. Copying materials in direct violation of the content owner's expressed wishes. This would be copyright infringement, plain and simple. According to the FBI Warning that shows up on every DVD I rent, the FBI investigates all cases of infringement, including those where there is no monetary gain.
Silly, huh?
...followed quickly, I'm sure, by improved versions of said source, authored by members of the community. Then, a developers' discussion list, and IE9...
(well, I can dream, can't I?)
Yeah, I'm thinking by this time he'll be using his middle finger! :-)
Ahhh...but the FCC hasn't yet managed to control the Bittorrent networks.
Methinks US viewers with a clue (and that appears to be the intended audience) will be able to watch soon after the UK air time.
Mr Tice is to be commended for speaking out.
It all reminds me of Nixon's misuse of the FBI and the CIA to spy on US citizens and groups which disagreed with him.
I don't argue with the need for intelligence collection and surveillance of those who would wish to do our country harm. But there are laws that clearly say that the NSA is not to eavesdrop on domestic communications, and that exceptions to this are to be authorized, after the fact if necessary, by a secret court.
Mr Bush chose to believe that the law did not apply to him in this case. That's for a court to decide. I, personally, feel that he's way off base, and about as arrogant as he is wrong.
Those in power are tempted to misuse the tools available to them. People like Mr. Tice are what prevents this country from turning into a totalitarian regime. We need to remember that Mr. Tice is no different from you or me. Would you have the guts it takes to throw away your job and career to blow the whistle on something you knew was wrong?
Linux plays DVDs just fine, once you install the DeCSS library.
And,you can then rip them to files you can store on your MythTV box, so that watching them again doesn't involve finding the box, prying the DVD off the spindle (why do they make it so hard?), waiting for the player to read it, skipping the FBI warning and trailers, etc.
IMEI remains the same, even after you swap the SIM.
So, no matter what SIM you use, the phone itself is still sending out its unique ID number.
Maybe they track by that?
Easy, reads everything and hasn't failed me yet. Well worth the $60 or so I paid for it when I first loaded it on my Win98 machine and still runs great under Win2K
Peter
(*trying* to learn how to use Gimp on Linux...)
According to Netcraft...
170.63.97.68 Linux Apache/2.0.46 Red Hat 26-Sep-2005
Yeah, well, as a Mass. taxpayer who is curious about what my neighborhood looks like from the air, I sure appreciate MassGIS putting the data purchased with my tax dollars on a website where I can browse and download it. I do believe the data is only free for non-commercial use.
I'm betting my town and all the other towns in this state also appreciate the fact that the data's been paid for once, and is available to them. Why should *my* town pay *again* for the same data? The plane flew once, the company that made the photos (for the state) was paid for their time and made a healthy profit, and it only makes sense to share the data with other users and taxpayers. I think this is a case of a central archive being much cheaper to operate, and perhaps helping towns that would otherwise never be able to afford custom mapping costs to generate their own maps.
As to the cost of installing OpenOffice (or Star Office or whatever) on several thousand state workstations, I suspect the majority of the expense is going to be *un*-installing Microsoft Office. Last time I tried that, it wanted me to insert the original product CD before it would uninstall. I've been using OpenOffice at home and I haven't found it to be any more trouble than using MS Office at work. Install went quickly and smoothly. Do *you* enjoy being locked in to a single vendor with proprietary file formats? I commend my state for insisting on an open, standardized file format for electronic documents. Wonder why Microsoft is so against that?
So, if the state chooses to install OOo Writer, they can read and output not only the Open Document format, but all the legacy documents written in MSWord. For $0 per workstation. Seems like a no-brainer to this MA resident.
In this case, it would appear that someone in Massachusetts state government is trying to do the "right thing".
For another example of someone in MA state government with a clue, surf on over to http://www.mass.gov/mgis/mapping.htm and check out the free online mapping resources. I can't believe it. Usually you have to pay through the nose for current high resolution geo-referenced aerial photography. Here, MA has put it all online for free. Nice going!
...first are the "hit the bunny" and flashing/moving ads - they're irrelevent and annoying ...next are the ads which are just irrelevent (dating, mortgage, financial, women's stuff) ...then, there are the ads for which I'm not part of the target market (I live in the US, block ads on foreign websites)
It leaves very few. I do enthusiastically patronize online businesses, I would rather order something from Amazon or Overstock than travel to the big box store and find they are out of stock.
At $3K per kit, that's more than I was planning to spend for wrapping paper this year...
One of those $150 cable testers that does USB, RJ, DB25, DB9, etc cables.
Ours looks like this one but has no manufacturer's ID on it, other than the marking "PC Cable Tester":
www.nudata.com/testers/pccabletester.htm
"The State of Fagachusetts embraces communism"
Well, really only in Cambridge, Amherst and Northampton, but we are more liberal than some states. Think of us as a counterbalancing force to Utah and Kansas.
It's a an analog technology over a medium that was not designed for it. As such, it's a compromise. And it radiates. Worse, it's susceptible to interference from other emitters, like HF and broadcast radio. Not to mention lightning outages.
Long term, it's not viable. BPL has been trialled in the UK and Canada, as well as the US. The results of these trials have been less than satisfactory, and in some cases, have resulted in decisions not to go forward. I have heard of happy users, but long term, this technology is full of problems and probably won't survive. It's mainly an attempt by power companies to "maximize shareholder revenue".
And yes, I am a ham radio operator, and no, I wouldn't want to see it in my neighborhood.
...the co-founder of "The Return Exchange", in a thinly-veiled advertisement for his company does.
Business week is just printing his Q&A ad for him, and making it look like an article. Apparently, the company offers outsourcing of some of the paperwork involved in managing returns...
...just this morning I got an email from their security department, telling me that they had detected someone with a "foreign IP address" attempting to log into my account! Of course, I immediately followed the link they sent me to confirm my identity. :-)
/tinfoil hat ON
/TDf" at the "yacc" line? That's from a newer version of Word than was available in 1999? /tinfoil hat OFF
And another thing...the table at the end of the document. Notice that it doesn't have a title? Well, scroll on down to the next page. It has a title there! The title that should be at the start of the table? Almost like something has been removed, and Word has repositioned the table, but not the title?
And see that "Comment:
Ahhh...I'm being too skeptical, aren't I?
Your "denial in the face of overwhelming evidence to the contratry" skills are needed in Utah!
It's similar to DSL. Only it radiates far more garbage into the 2 to 30 MHz spectrum, because it's not being sent over twisted pair. It's also much more susceptible to incoming interference from HF radio transmissions.
I should say that I'm an amateur radio licensee, and the amateur community is against this technology because of the interference it causes.
As to BPL having been tested in Europe, I think you'll find that the tests in the UK ended with BPL being discontinued. The tests in the US have been interesting, with amateurs claiming interference and BPL providers denying it. The FCC seems (slightly) biased towards the industry, ruling that tests cause no interference in spite of amateur evidence to the contrary.
Ultimately, I suspect BPL will be an expensive failure, with fiber and digital cable being used to provide broadband to most homes, and wireless links for those far from population centers. BBL signal losses on long runs and interference problems related to the noisy powerline environment will probably make it unattractive compared to dedicated high-bandwidth digital media.