About the speed of 802.11b... I just read a review of 10 or so access points and card combos. They had Cisco's Aironet at 4.8 Mbps. Most of the others were in the 2.5 - 4.0 range. This is fine for web or generic work, but it just won't fly in the corporate world.
Most of the consulting I have done in evaluating wireless LAN products has led to the conclusion that it is only good for laptops, and only light to moderate use at that. Most coders or DBAs won't touch it if they can't get 100 Mbps.
the bells and cable companies are both monopolies in separate markets. now that a new market (broadband) overlaps with their domains, they start pointing fingers at each other. i don't have a solution to the problem here. the government treated them too well for too long. i honestly think that the wire owners might need to be split from the service providers in both industries in order to benefit the consumer. it will end up being similar to the electric power industry. but we saw what a mess that was in Cali. i have to admit that as long as i can get 1.5Mbps from someone for $50/month, i will be a happy man.
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The comments on gnutella hackers creating cache servers to speed things up is a point well made by the article. He concedes the point that hackers will always find a way to hack a systems to their own needs, whether it be software or hardware. The important part is that if the RIAA keeps a server or a company in its sights, then the fight is not over. As long as they can threaten an ISP with a lawsuit for allowing MP3s to pass over their network, then the fight is not over. I have seen posts that more or less read, "if they block napster, i will find another way." I don't doubt that you will, but I DO DOUBT that Joe in accounting will. Joe was downloading 5-10MB of MP3s a day off of Napster, but since it was blocked, he has not taken the time to find another way. RIAA also doubts that Joe will. They don't have to stop ALL MP3 trading to claim victory, they only have to stop MOST of it.
Correct on port 25. Works fine for me. I actually called verizon on this when the original email was sent about the whole SMTP address thingy. They told me it was sent out to thousands of people incorrectly. I was not one of them. I did not use my email address 'properly' in the header of the message.
I have often thought about the countersuit idea. It would not be criminal court though. You would be in criminal court. It would only work if there were some law about negligence or criminal facilitation, but you would have to prove that they knew their server was hacked and failed to take actions to fix it.
Gotta agree with this to a certain extent. I was one too. You are lucky that you 'stepped out of your bedroom and discovered the real world.' I find that many 15, 16, hell even 21 year olds tend to know a lot about what they know and very little about everything else. They are the school wiz at windows or linux or mac or whatever: "Everything else sux." I went back to a company as a consultant 6 months after I quit and found that the bosses son was becoming one of those. I would have fired his ass for looking at pr0n all day, but the new manager was a wuss. The sad part is that I actually wrote a college recommendation letter for the kid.
When I was working for a dotcom in NYC, I worked about 70-80 hrs/wk. That lasted for all of six weeks. I became a consultant after that. Now I work 60 hrs/wk but I work half of it in the comfort of my own home.
but running a website will get you familiar with the companies, technologies, and people. i've gotten interviews over lunch by chatting up some people at a trade show. networking and industry knowledge gets you in the door. technical skills get you hired.
One of the most popular morning shows in NYC is "The Big Show with Scott and Todd". They have listeners all over the world through the Internet. I wish the station had been a little more forthcoming in its statement on the website.
"WPLJ has temporarily suspended our
live internet broadcast while our streaming
infrastructure is being retooled.
Agreed. They practically have pr0n on TV in canada. I was up in Montreal for a wedding and the hotel room had pr0n on!
The puritanical heritage of the US is amazing. Sex must never be spoken of. Even the language of the FCC is amazing; Todays TV and Radio is "an onslaught of on-air smut" according to Commissioner Susan Ness. She calls for broadcasters to censor themselves, and create "a family friendly medium."
Hmm... Why don't we let the families decide what is decent? How about the parents and kids get together and actually discuss what is on TV? Gee...
You might try to find a ceramic blade or a ceramic tipped blade. Depending on the atmosphere in the cutting chamber, you can cut through anything without ever having to change the blade. Zirconia is a possibility, but maybe WC or Silicon Nitride.
There is also something called "amorphous metal" or "met-glass" which does not need sharpening.
I guess the important thing is that you did not indicate whether you were trying to shear the material or cross cut it. This makes a difference in the materials and the methods.
LinuxCare has been pretty distro agnostic up to this point because of the service agreements with the likes of Dell. They have to go with what their clients want and be strong in all.
My question is, will this make them more of a distro pusher on their clients? Will their staff be able to provide support to RedHat products without mentioning that TurboLinux has "a better way to do this."
I think LinuxCare fills am important space in the commercial linux market by giving companies (like dell) someone to outsource linux support services to.
there was an article about this in newsweek this year which focused on both the issue of existing conditions in adults, but also the modification of genes in unborn children.
think about it this way: if you are having a child soon (which my wife is) they will check for various ailments and genetic diseases like down syndrome and mental retardation. it is fairly common for doctors to question giving birth to a baby that will have severe mental retardation or genetic diseases that will make life difficult for the child.
how long do you think it will take before doctors start questioning giving birth to a baby that will be obese? or short (dwarfism)? or maybe have a learning disability like add? or have poor eyesite?
once the doctors have the power to change the genetic traits of the unborn children, some will use it. they will justify it as giving the child an advantage in life rather than a disadvantage. they will significantly reduce the occurence of genetic diseases in people. they will help many people live longer healthier lives.
The slowness of fiber optic switching is due to the fact that it is currently done by converting the signal to electrical, switching it, then converting back to optical.
There are many technologies currently in development to take care of many of the problems with optical switching. The problem with them is that they have been in development for a while now. I was working on opto-electronic modulator research at Bell Labs in 1996 and the technology is still not widely used.
Like most really cool technology, it will be a while before we see any of this in wide spread use.
Any person "whose conduct" "caused (or, in the case of an attempted offense, would, if completed, have caused)" "the modification or impairment, or potential modification or impairment, of the medical examination, diagnosis, treatment, or care of 1 or more individuals" is punishable.
Which means that if you modify or attempt to modify any code or equipment used in medical applications, you can be punished. Even if your modifications don't do anything!
What I wonder is whether they could use this to prosecute a programmer who inadvertantly creates a bug in some medical program. Would that person be criminally prosecuted for making that mistake, even if it did not kill anyone?
One of my clients sent me an email to my home account last week. Since I never got it, I decided to send a couple of test messages from my webmail accounts to test it out. Here's what I found when I went through the headers of the test messages:
6 test messages
duplicate message = 4 times
instant delivery = 0
delayed 1 hr = 4
I also just got 4 messages this morning that were 2 days old.
Having dealt with Verizon/BA about my DSL line that was up only 70% when I first got it, I got to know their tech support procedure pretty well. As far as I can tell, they do not inform their customers of an outage while it is happening. They usually wait until it has either hit the news or 200 people call to complain before they even acknowledge it. They will deal with it when they get the chance, but it also seems that their high level network and system people only work 9-5 five days a week.
I wish I could switch to another broadband company, but nothing else is available in my area.
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About the speed of 802.11b... I just read a review of 10 or so access points and card combos. They had Cisco's Aironet at 4.8 Mbps. Most of the others were in the 2.5 - 4.0 range. This is fine for web or generic work, but it just won't fly in the corporate world.
Most of the consulting I have done in evaluating wireless LAN products has led to the conclusion that it is only good for laptops, and only light to moderate use at that. Most coders or DBAs won't touch it if they can't get 100 Mbps.
The guy who wrote this book might disagree since there is a chapter on device drivers.
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the bells and cable companies are both monopolies in separate markets. now that a new market (broadband) overlaps with their domains, they start pointing fingers at each other. i don't have a solution to the problem here. the government treated them too well for too long. i honestly think that the wire owners might need to be split from the service providers in both industries in order to benefit the consumer. it will end up being similar to the electric power industry. but we saw what a mess that was in Cali. i have to admit that as long as i can get 1.5Mbps from someone for $50/month, i will be a happy man.
The comments on gnutella hackers creating cache servers to speed things up is a point well made by the article. He concedes the point that hackers will always find a way to hack a systems to their own needs, whether it be software or hardware. The important part is that if the RIAA keeps a server or a company in its sights, then the fight is not over. As long as they can threaten an ISP with a lawsuit for allowing MP3s to pass over their network, then the fight is not over. I have seen posts that more or less read, "if they block napster, i will find another way." I don't doubt that you will, but I DO DOUBT that Joe in accounting will. Joe was downloading 5-10MB of MP3s a day off of Napster, but since it was blocked, he has not taken the time to find another way. RIAA also doubts that Joe will. They don't have to stop ALL MP3 trading to claim victory, they only have to stop MOST of it.
hate to break it to you, but if you have a keychain with a SIMM on it, you have an electronic fetish. ;)
Correct on port 25. Works fine for me. I actually called verizon on this when the original email was sent about the whole SMTP address thingy. They told me it was sent out to thousands of people incorrectly. I was not one of them. I did not use my email address 'properly' in the header of the message.
I have often thought about the countersuit idea. It would not be criminal court though. You would be in criminal court. It would only work if there were some law about negligence or criminal facilitation, but you would have to prove that they knew their server was hacked and failed to take actions to fix it.
Gotta agree with this to a certain extent. I was one too. You are lucky that you 'stepped out of your bedroom and discovered the real world.' I find that many 15, 16, hell even 21 year olds tend to know a lot about what they know and very little about everything else. They are the school wiz at windows or linux or mac or whatever: "Everything else sux." I went back to a company as a consultant 6 months after I quit and found that the bosses son was becoming one of those. I would have fired his ass for looking at pr0n all day, but the new manager was a wuss. The sad part is that I actually wrote a college recommendation letter for the kid.
The material used by Motorola was SrTiO3© The key was their use of Molecular Beam Epitaxy to make the thin films© The real problem with ceramic materials on silicon is atomic defects caused by the crystal growth process© There are several techniques such as sputtering, chemical vapor deposition, and others, but they have trouble making defect free films©
My wife has a BFA ¥bachelor of fine arts and one of the guys I work with has an MFA© They are both artists and both do lots of artwork on their computers© I was just at an exhibit in NYC of computer artwork at Parsons School of Design in NYC©
The Parsons School teaches many art and technology type of classes, because they realize that art is what you take away from it© It's a feeling and a conveyance of emotion and not just paint on canvas or pixels on a screen© Art historians will note that 'the photograph' was not considered art for quite a while©
Check out www©parsons©edu and tell me that some of the exibits are not art©
it would be great of *other* armies fought with lawyers, while we fought with bullets©
change for a million? i need to get two of these© but can i get one in iMac "Flower Power"?
mmmm.... rutabaga
When I was working for a dotcom in NYC, I worked about 70-80 hrs/wk. That lasted for all of six weeks. I became a consultant after that. Now I work 60 hrs/wk but I work half of it in the comfort of my own home.
didn't someone write a book about dell laptops called "unsafe at any speed"?
but running a website will get you familiar with the companies, technologies, and people. i've gotten interviews over lunch by chatting up some people at a trade show. networking and industry knowledge gets you in the door. technical skills get you hired.
"WPLJ has temporarily suspended our live internet broadcast while our streaming infrastructure is being retooled.
We apologize for any inconvenience."
The puritanical heritage of the US is amazing. Sex must never be spoken of. Even the language of the FCC is amazing; Todays TV and Radio is "an onslaught of on-air smut" according to Commissioner Susan Ness. She calls for broadcasters to censor themselves, and create "a family friendly medium."
Hmm... Why don't we let the families decide what is decent? How about the parents and kids get together and actually discuss what is on TV? Gee...
There is also something called "amorphous metal" or "met-glass" which does not need sharpening.
I guess the important thing is that you did not indicate whether you were trying to shear the material or cross cut it. This makes a difference in the materials and the methods.
LinuxCare has been pretty distro agnostic up to this point because of the service agreements with the likes of Dell. They have to go with what their clients want and be strong in all. My question is, will this make them more of a distro pusher on their clients? Will their staff be able to provide support to RedHat products without mentioning that TurboLinux has "a better way to do this." I think LinuxCare fills am important space in the commercial linux market by giving companies (like dell) someone to outsource linux support services to.
think about it this way: if you are having a child soon (which my wife is) they will check for various ailments and genetic diseases like down syndrome and mental retardation. it is fairly common for doctors to question giving birth to a baby that will have severe mental retardation or genetic diseases that will make life difficult for the child.
how long do you think it will take before doctors start questioning giving birth to a baby that will be obese? or short (dwarfism)? or maybe have a learning disability like add? or have poor eyesite?
once the doctors have the power to change the genetic traits of the unborn children, some will use it. they will justify it as giving the child an advantage in life rather than a disadvantage. they will significantly reduce the occurence of genetic diseases in people. they will help many people live longer healthier lives.
but they will be playing God.
http://www.beosradio.com
It is done using SoundPlay, an MP3 player for BeOS and some plugins for streaming.
The slowness of fiber optic switching is due to the fact that it is currently done by converting the signal to electrical, switching it, then converting back to optical. There are many technologies currently in development to take care of many of the problems with optical switching. The problem with them is that they have been in development for a while now. I was working on opto-electronic modulator research at Bell Labs in 1996 and the technology is still not widely used. Like most really cool technology, it will be a while before we see any of this in wide spread use.
This is my favorite part (edited by me)
Any person "whose conduct" "caused (or, in the case of an attempted offense, would, if completed, have caused)" "the modification or impairment, or potential modification or impairment, of the medical examination, diagnosis, treatment, or care of 1 or more individuals" is punishable.
Which means that if you modify or attempt to modify any code or equipment used in medical applications, you can be punished. Even if your modifications don't do anything!
What I wonder is whether they could use this to prosecute a programmer who inadvertantly creates a bug in some medical program. Would that person be criminally prosecuted for making that mistake, even if it did not kill anyone?
6 test messages duplicate message = 4 times instant delivery = 0 delayed 1 hr = 4
I also just got 4 messages this morning that were 2 days old.
Having dealt with Verizon/BA about my DSL line that was up only 70% when I first got it, I got to know their tech support procedure pretty well. As far as I can tell, they do not inform their customers of an outage while it is happening. They usually wait until it has either hit the news or 200 people call to complain before they even acknowledge it. They will deal with it when they get the chance, but it also seems that their high level network and system people only work 9-5 five days a week.
I wish I could switch to another broadband company, but nothing else is available in my area.