Nope.. you're thinking of the GPRS ones which were apparently wired like that.
The 3G cards are proprietary tech and Linux hasn't got a clue what to do with it - if you want to use this card it's Windows or nothing, unfortunately.
There's an Orange dead spot about a mile south of Manchester stretching for about half a mile radius (just north of Levenshulme, if you know the area).
Before I ditched Orange I got used to losing the signal on the train for a few minutes as we passed through it.
Funilly enough there's another dead spot not far from my house... My wife knew when I was nearly home as the signal dropped.
Vodaphone has no dead spots around here that I've found, so for me it's far better.
If I really want a torrent I download onto my virtual server which is sitting on a 10MB line... don't see the point of putzing with the NAT settings every time I want do download something (this laptop is on DHCP so its IP changes occasionally... Yes I could tell the DHCP server to dish out the same address but I'm just too lazy to sort that at the moment).
My upstream is only 256K (2048 down) anyway so BT would murder it - best to download remotely then ftp it over.
The default configuration does have an exception for File and Printer Sharing. However, the exception only covers the user's private home network; the internet will not have access to F&P Sharing
No, the default configuration is to open to the world. I've tried to find this magical way of making it close them my default (since the MS weenies on slashdot keep insisting that it exists), for example installing completely standalone, but the default is always set to all when you check the firewall.
Plus, as the article makes clear, 'Local Subnet Only' is broken and doesn't work unless you enable ICS, which opens the firewall to all again.
The option on the firewall doesn't do what it says *at all*. Now I've got to go around all the SP2 machines and reset the firewall (only 4 of them so no biggie though).
It wouldn't matter but 2 of them are laptops with wireless LAN - they need a working firewall especially on the netbios ports.
A lot of GPL software uses visual studio 7. The reason for using MSVCR71 (and MSVCR70 that preceded it) was entirely technical - they're not binary compatible.
Both of these now ship with XP SP2 (and they have been in the.net runtimes for a while) so they're now officially part of the OS anyway - although it's arguable that they always have been.
I prefer Belgian beers these days. Guinness is nice when it's stored/served properly but when it's crap it tastes like battery acid (I went to the US once and had one at the epcot center at the cheesy 'british' pub... it made me physically sick (really). I waited till I got back to blighty before trying that again....)
Unless you're running on an athlon64 then you haven't got much protection.
Software protection against buffer overruns isn't very effective - especially the type in visual studio.net (which SP2 has been compiled with) - I've been using it for a while on my own software and it's completely useless against most types of buffer overrun (I'm not actually sure how to trigger it... it certainly doesn't work at all on overruns of stack data as I had a bug regarding that only last month - the software fell over a long way after the overrun).
For me it got old after about 4 seasons (I even bought the season 1 and 2 DVD). The problem is there aren't any new jokes... they just keep rehashing the old ones.
It seems to be still popular amongst USians though - I suspect there are levels of humour there that are lost on the rest of us (probably political stuff).
Heck, something has to explain why they canceled futurama in favour of the simpsons...
Haven't Unix machine been doing this for years as NFS mounts? The first sun machines I used (sunos 4.1) has just a single install of the OS and two machines sharing a read only mount.
So? You're asking people who are doing things *in their spare time* to give you a deadline for fixing something that may be needed by exactly one person (you).
If you want help feel free ask what the current state of the driver is, but don't expect anyone to do anything about it unless you're prepared to help, or give them money.
btw. MS are exactly the same. Try asking them when 'feature x' will work. They'll want money before you'll get a sensible answer about it (in that case you don't even have the option of doing it yourself).
A 2.5" laptop hard drive currently costs 3-5 times the cost of a 3.5" drive (and they're typically a lot smaller - I've had to settle for 80GB as I couldn't find anything bigger).
Making SATA and CE-SATA the same logical format would allow us to stick cheap drives on our laptops (maybe on a little addon box).. there's no way they're going to allow that.
This is part of the reason legal enforcement won't work.
In this country it's perfectly legal to have sex with a 16 year old - they are considered adult at that age (on the other hand 16 year old boys have been put on trial as paedophiles for having sex with their 15 year old girlfriends... the law is just as crappy over here).
So if I produced a site showing 16 years olds in various, erm... 'poses', then it would be perfectly legal for me to do so.
If someone on the US then viewed this site they would then be tried as a paedophile.
On current trends there are only 25 possible names of mail services (given that E is already taken).
google got G, and these guys have claimed D.
That leaves only 23 more slashdot headlines before people have to start being original! Heck, maybe they'll actually invent someting new (or maybe that's too optimistic)...
No, 6to4 is really that bad - it relies on custom tunnels and special ISP support rather than just specifying it on the routers.
I've played with ipv6 in the past, but after so many years it's still a very long way from useful. Since nobody has ipv6 machines and you need ISP support (which ISPs don't provide) putting up an ipv6 website is a sure-fire way to get zero hits.
It doesn't help that proxies eg. squid don't support it yet.. the project to do it (http://devel.squid-cache.org/ipv6) has been dead since 2001.
I've been watching the voyager reruns and they're actually not bad in places. They never got the continuity to work though (like being caught up by aliens they left behind two seasons ago... aren't they supposed to be trying to get to the alpha quadrant? Doesn't look like they're making much progress!).
I had a look at the enterprise reruns and just can't get into them.... some of the episodes are so dull I just switch off halfway through. Not surprised they cancelled it, really.
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Nope.. you're thinking of the GPRS ones which were apparently wired like that.
The 3G cards are proprietary tech and Linux hasn't got a clue what to do with it - if you want to use this card it's Windows or nothing, unfortunately.
There's an Orange dead spot about a mile south of Manchester stretching for about half a mile radius (just north of Levenshulme, if you know the area).
Before I ditched Orange I got used to losing the signal on the train for a few minutes as we passed through it.
Funilly enough there's another dead spot not far from my house... My wife knew when I was nearly home as the signal dropped.
Vodaphone has no dead spots around here that I've found, so for me it's far better.
If I really want a torrent I download onto my virtual server which is sitting on a 10MB line... don't see the point of putzing with the NAT settings every time I want do download something (this laptop is on DHCP so its IP changes occasionally... Yes I could tell the DHCP server to dish out the same address but I'm just too lazy to sort that at the moment).
My upstream is only 256K (2048 down) anyway so BT would murder it - best to download remotely then ftp it over.
I've never actually completed the first level of any of these so downloading the demo is as good as buying it, but cheaper!
All the servers are slashdotted at the moment though (Torrent is no use as I'm behind NAT). Need to wait a few days.
Damn not awake yet, that reads funny. The last line does not means that ICS opens the firewall (although I wouldn't put it past MS).
The default configuration does have an exception for File and Printer Sharing. However, the exception only covers the user's private home network; the internet will not have access to F&P Sharing
No, the default configuration is to open to the world. I've tried to find this magical way of making it close them my default (since the MS weenies on slashdot keep insisting that it exists), for example installing completely standalone, but the default is always set to all when you check the firewall.
Plus, as the article makes clear, 'Local Subnet Only' is broken and doesn't work unless you enable ICS, which opens the firewall to all again.
If this is true it's pretty fsking major...
The option on the firewall doesn't do what it says *at all*. Now I've got to go around all the SP2 machines and reset the firewall (only 4 of them so no biggie though).
It wouldn't matter but 2 of them are laptops with wireless LAN - they need a working firewall especially on the netbios ports.
A lot of GPL software uses visual studio 7. The reason for using MSVCR71 (and MSVCR70 that preceded it) was entirely technical - they're not binary compatible.
.net runtimes for a while) so they're now officially part of the OS anyway - although it's arguable that they always have been.
Both of these now ship with XP SP2 (and they have been in the
I prefer Belgian beers these days. Guinness is nice when it's stored/served properly but when it's crap it tastes like battery acid (I went to the US once and had one at the epcot center at the cheesy 'british' pub... it made me physically sick (really). I waited till I got back to blighty before trying that again....)
Required software should have its CDs backed up on the central fileserver, so you don't get that problem.
Hunting around for CDs that might have been lost/scratched/taken home is a fast way to insanity!
Been to a hospital recently?
Some of them are *really* long (the local one has about 10 wireless networks linked together... all unencrypted - heh.)
I'm not sure they'd stretch for 3000 feet though...
That's expensive...
I get 3G converage at 50MB for £20/mo (40p/MB)
If you're paying £3/MB for GPRS speeds change providers because they're ripping you off major-style.
To the masturbation?
Unless you're running on an athlon64 then you haven't got much protection.
.net (which SP2 has been compiled with) - I've been using it for a while on my own software and it's completely useless against most types of buffer overrun (I'm not actually sure how to trigger it... it certainly doesn't work at all on overruns of stack data as I had a bug regarding that only last month - the software fell over a long way after the overrun).
Software protection against buffer overruns isn't very effective - especially the type in visual studio
For me it got old after about 4 seasons (I even bought the season 1 and 2 DVD). The problem is there aren't any new jokes... they just keep rehashing the old ones.
It seems to be still popular amongst USians though - I suspect there are levels of humour there that are lost on the rest of us (probably political stuff).
Heck, something has to explain why they canceled futurama in favour of the simpsons...
Haven't Unix machine been doing this for years as NFS mounts? The first sun machines I used (sunos 4.1) has just a single install of the OS and two machines sharing a read only mount.
So? You're asking people who are doing things *in their spare time* to give you a deadline for fixing something that may be needed by exactly one person (you).
If you want help feel free ask what the current state of the driver is, but don't expect anyone to do anything about it unless you're prepared to help, or give them money.
btw. MS are exactly the same. Try asking them when 'feature x' will work. They'll want money before you'll get a sensible answer about it (in that case you don't even have the option of doing it yourself).
No, they're driven by marketing.
A 2.5" laptop hard drive currently costs 3-5 times the cost of a 3.5" drive (and they're typically a lot smaller - I've had to settle for 80GB as I couldn't find anything bigger).
Making SATA and CE-SATA the same logical format would allow us to stick cheap drives on our laptops (maybe on a little addon box).. there's no way they're going to allow that.
This is part of the reason legal enforcement won't work.
In this country it's perfectly legal to have sex with a 16 year old - they are considered adult at that age (on the other hand 16 year old boys have been put on trial as paedophiles for having sex with their 15 year old girlfriends... the law is just as crappy over here).
So if I produced a site showing 16 years olds in various, erm... 'poses', then it would be perfectly legal for me to do so.
If someone on the US then viewed this site they would then be tried as a paedophile.
Wierd, huh?
On current trends there are only 25 possible names of mail services (given that E is already taken).
google got G, and these guys have claimed D.
That leaves only 23 more slashdot headlines before people have to start being original! Heck, maybe they'll actually invent someting new (or maybe that's too optimistic)...
Do slashdot just rerun articles once a year and hope they can get away with it...?
No, 6to4 is really that bad - it relies on custom tunnels and special ISP support rather than just specifying it on the routers.
I've played with ipv6 in the past, but after so many years it's still a very long way from useful. Since nobody has ipv6 machines and you need ISP support (which ISPs don't provide) putting up an ipv6 website is a sure-fire way to get zero hits.
It doesn't help that proxies eg. squid don't support it yet.. the project to do it (http://devel.squid-cache.org/ipv6) has been dead since 2001.
Any company with half a brain will have locked down the BIOS anyway so you can't do that.
Oh please no...
You'd have muppets all over the bridge!
Oh, wait...
I've been watching the voyager reruns and they're actually not bad in places. They never got the continuity to work though (like being caught up by aliens they left behind two seasons ago... aren't they supposed to be trying to get to the alpha quadrant? Doesn't look like they're making much progress!).
I had a look at the enterprise reruns and just can't get into them.... some of the episodes are so dull I just switch off halfway through. Not surprised they cancelled it, really.