If you then start charging them more for Internet what makes you think they're going to want to pay it? They won't. They'll just stop consuming extra content and avoid paying any extra money.
That's perfect for them! Then they can accept more customers without upgrading their infrastructure, basically they can oversell more. This saves money for the telco and the exec can get a bigger megayacht.
Do you know anything about the licensing of the whole sopcast suite? The homepage says it's freeware, the sourceforge page says it's "GPL" (no version mentioned)
Looks like an interesting piece of software for sure.
it annoys me that I may not actually see in my lifetime things we could be doing from a technological standpoint right now because some huge established companies refuse to adapt or get out of the way and have the piles of money and armies of lawyers/lobbyists to keep it up for decades.
I've been thinking of writing a short sci-fi story (or maybe doing it in short film form, that would definitely grab more eyeballs) that basically showcases what is possible today but isn't happening due to nothing more than telco greed and consumer ignorance.
IT work already has a terrible education:pay ratio and the pay is nothing special in relative terms, that's a strange sector to target...could it have something to do with outsourcing?
Haha sorry I flashed both of mine right out of the box. But IIRC I used Firefox to do both, so they at least worked once with Firefox on the stock firmware.
I guess you're pretty gentle on your Internet connection and don't move big files over your LAN at all, or you would have run into some reasons by now.
If PHB insists on RHEL, you're stuck coping with whatever poor choices they make.
And that's RHEL's bread and butter, corporate support & name recognition, always a requirement at businesses with a NEGFFBIBM attitude. Anyone who doesn't need it will just go with CentOS or some other distro. Those who do need it...well I guess when the troubles become to great they'll have to make a hard decision.
No I meant a stereoscopic rig, which can do both 3D and HDR. In fact it's even possible to do HDR with a single camera but I'm not sure the quality is up to professional standards with this method.
I have my home server down to 40W @ idle, doing BT, file server, HTPC and more. It has 4 HDDs, 2 are spinning most of the time. I'm using some cheapo mobo with an Intel 2.8 dual core CPU (E5500) and cheapo PSU. All onboard peripherals except one hot-swappable SATA controller. I set up passive CPU cooling with a script to reduce the CPU frequency stepping if it gets too hot. If I had money to throw away, I'd get a fanless PSU and a mesh-faced case, and go with positive pressure passive cooling - just one jumbo filtered intake fan to cool everything, and it would stay clean inside.
Rent is where you pay someone a permanent fee for the temporary use of something and so, when the transaction is over, they have what they rented you back again and you are out that money. This is how wealth accumulates in the hands of the already-wealthy!
Good point, OpenWRT is adding support, you can build a prerelease version for it right now. I see people in the DD-WRT forums saying they've flashed their v2s but I can't find a binary for it.
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If you then start charging them more for Internet what makes you think they're going to want to pay it? They won't. They'll just stop consuming extra content and avoid paying any extra money.
That's perfect for them! Then they can accept more customers without upgrading their infrastructure, basically they can oversell more. This saves money for the telco and the exec can get a bigger megayacht.
Do you know anything about the licensing of the whole sopcast suite? The homepage says it's freeware, the sourceforge page says it's "GPL" (no version mentioned)
Looks like an interesting piece of software for sure.
So, you work in game development?
it annoys me that I may not actually see in my lifetime things we could be doing from a technological standpoint right now because some huge established companies refuse to adapt or get out of the way and have the piles of money and armies of lawyers/lobbyists to keep it up for decades.
I've been thinking of writing a short sci-fi story (or maybe doing it in short film form, that would definitely grab more eyeballs) that basically showcases what is possible today but isn't happening due to nothing more than telco greed and consumer ignorance.
IT work already has a terrible education:pay ratio and the pay is nothing special in relative terms, that's a strange sector to target...could it have something to do with outsourcing?
Because you would have seen the same post I linked you to.
Haha sorry I flashed both of mine right out of the box. But IIRC I used Firefox to do both, so they at least worked once with Firefox on the stock firmware.
Shoulda scrolled down:
http://ask.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2553856&cid=38228958
I guess you're pretty gentle on your Internet connection and don't move big files over your LAN at all, or you would have run into some reasons by now.
DD-WRT isn't the only custom firmware supported, it can also run OpenWRT:
http://wiki.openwrt.org/toh/buffalo/wzr-hp-g300h
Hey before Ubuntu went off the deep end it really seemed like the Year of the Linux Desktop was this close!
Or just use a network log server, which is both better from a security standpoint and lets you keep your plaintext logs.
If PHB insists on RHEL, you're stuck coping with whatever poor choices they make.
And that's RHEL's bread and butter, corporate support & name recognition, always a requirement at businesses with a NEGFFBIBM attitude. Anyone who doesn't need it will just go with CentOS or some other distro. Those who do need it...well I guess when the troubles become to great they'll have to make a hard decision.
Another great feature is the plain 12v power input...what a convenient voltage for running on batteries!
No I meant a stereoscopic rig, which can do both 3D and HDR. In fact it's even possible to do HDR with a single camera but I'm not sure the quality is up to professional standards with this method.
I have my home server down to 40W @ idle, doing BT, file server, HTPC and more. It has 4 HDDs, 2 are spinning most of the time. I'm using some cheapo mobo with an Intel 2.8 dual core CPU (E5500) and cheapo PSU. All onboard peripherals except one hot-swappable SATA controller. I set up passive CPU cooling with a script to reduce the CPU frequency stepping if it gets too hot. If I had money to throw away, I'd get a fanless PSU and a mesh-faced case, and go with positive pressure passive cooling - just one jumbo filtered intake fan to cool everything, and it would stay clean inside.
There are a decent number of models aimed specifically at firmware modders who want high-end hardware, the demand isn't going unnoticed.
Rent is where you pay someone a permanent fee for the temporary use of something and so, when the transaction is over, they have what they rented you back again and you are out that money. This is how wealth accumulates in the hands of the already-wealthy!
Shit, that really puts in in perspective...
Sounds like you got a defective unit. I have 2 and there's been no trouble.
Good point, OpenWRT is adding support, you can build a prerelease version for it right now. I see people in the DD-WRT forums saying they've flashed their v2s but I can't find a binary for it.
The N variant has swappable antennas (which the NH doesn't) but no gigabit LAN (which the NH does).
Just remember the N-variant has swappable antennas but no gigabit LAN, the NH-variant has gigatbit LAN but non-swappable antennas.
pfSense is good for office firewalls but it's severe overkill (at least in hardware) for most home uses.
Also, on firmware: OpenWRT if you want to do something really fancy or unusual, DD-WRT if you just want a feature/reliability improvement.
This is at least the second, if not the third Ask Slashdot on this subject in the last few months.
I'll make the same recommendation as before: Buffalo WZR-HP-G300NH.