Quite; I was attaching a tape drive using a 20m cable a fortnight ago
That shall be HVD "High Voltage Differential" sir. 25m max to be more exact. It is a standard that is not suported by anything but some tapes (as in your example) and some SANs. You are not connecting anything else to this conroller (except in SCSI-2 compatibility mode to the 50 pin internal connector assuming you have an AH2944). It is also obscenely expensive (low volume production).
The more common varieties that are priced at more normal prices do much shorter distances.
You are mostly correct about the speed though. Connecting an old device to a chain with new ones makes the chain go from differential to SE mode. This change does not necessarily force drop to SCSI-1 if I recall correctly. It usually does but it is not obliged to. But it does impose a speed penalty.
If a machine actually starts using these it can go beyond. Most don't. And let's don't even mention windows which does not grow the window properly as per the RFCs and can barely climb to 30-40Kbytes.
In other words, if you are using the link for general purpose traffic which is the question asked here (office on starband) that is what you get 50kbytes. Been there, done that.
This means it maxes at full bandwidth. Which is quite good.
Because if you have 520 ms latency which is the standard for SAT you cannot get more than this speed. TCP window cannot grow more. It is inherent feature of the protocol. Look into TCP/IP design and implementation for discussion related to bandwidth x delay product and the RFCs on SACK and windowing options
After finding out that we are required to ship the original MSFT OS (not the same, the original with the original license numbers) with any PC we dispose of to charities and such we are considering the same approach.
See the article on the register for more:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/25085.htm l
I am no f*** reseller of MSFT to keep track of products we do not use and do not pay license for. Wipe and put an "unsupported" linux on it. Solves all questions on the spot.
It imposes requirements on OEM contracts and resellers. Which means that Walmart cannot sell any machines with MSFT OS and products. And this is an ordered "remedy" so there can be no complains that MSFT is bending arms and behaving monopolistically here.
And this is something Walmart cannot afford. They cannot become the reseller just for geeks. It is not a viable large scale business.
Why funny. It is insightful. Absolutely agree. Most of TV especially daytime can be watched only by indivudals that have had their brain completely amputated.
Valid not just for TNT and US.
I hardly watch more then one film a month nowdays. The rest can be obtained on DVDs and the bbc news site contains more information than their news programs anyway.
I would only add that MSFT also cut a few corners on the spot. The new draft of the agreement with the DOJ has a clause that prohibits OEMs from OSless machines. It may not be MSFT but it must have OS. Which in reality means MSFT
So Walmart just got demonstrated by MSFT how do you cut corners on its own turf. And was sufficiently stupid not to fill an amicus curae. Sigh... some people that claim to be experienced businessmen never stop to amuse me...
1. There is no fight at all. The Samba team has simply evaded the confrontation and carried on. Standard maneuver against a slower but heavily armed opponent in any war game.
2. Even if there was a grain of truth in what you are blabbering about the samba team can move to where it came. Once upon a time MSFT was claiming most parts of CIFS to be a trade secret. As a result SAMBA was written in countries which do not have this concept in their laws applied to software. Samba can go back there again. World is not just US.
3. Most iportantly, Microsoft has tried this before with most of domain related stuff. They claimed copyright on documentation and issued cease and desist letters to anyone describing how to set policy and other settings from a non-windows machine. These claims were successfully challenged somewhere (in EU but forgot where). So all it is some young legal genius that has forgotten that the world is not US and most likely never new that MSFT has already been burned on enforcing a similar cause in the past. It will get burned again.
They see it on the TV screen every day anyway. With one major difference - on TV they also get shot or violently abused. So, somehow, I do not see your point unless you have banned your youngsters from TV, computers, games, books and every other item of "modern" civilisation.
It is being done on casual basis by police around the world for personal preventive searches and car searches. For the time being it is "the trained operator told us so" instead of computer. And to be honest I would rather have a computer decice then some cops. It will be less racially and ethnically biased
Statistics from observing policemen in some US states and the number of blacks and whites they stop for checks and searches are well known, no point in reiterating them...
Really dark blue is even more nifty then black if you get the shade right.Painting the bits of plastic is usually a problem but the boxes themselves can be painted no probs.
The best choice are car repair kit paints. They are a bit more expensive but spread better and have better coverage.
In a windows network broadcast a message to the default domain/workgroup saying "Pay your bill or you are violating your license agreement.". This is a three liner.
No. You cannot. Current UK policy is to actually do this (sell out the gov portal completely to MSFT).
Described in detail on
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/24882.html
Enjoy. You have possibly voted for them.
Unfortunately I just happen to work here and pay taxes so I cannot peck the brains out of my MPcritter. And my district has not voted for el-presidente Blah's hunta anyway.
Most other countries are not so worried that a kid will see a good f**k. They are more worried about the kid seeing violence or getting a gun. So they do not need it.
but it wouldn't catch out of control or dangerous drivers at all
Which has not prevented the Eurocrats from Brussels to make it mandatory for all trucks and buses in the EU. As a result you can often see two humongous articulated trucks racing to overtake one another for 5 or more minutes because the speed difference is due only to the inherent errors in the limiter. If that is not dangerous I dunno what is.
So adding additional technical measures for copyright protection is more or less meaningless exercise. I would much rather see this money going into proper law enforcement (not BSA racket).
It will not help. Almost all European countries have laws that prohibit distribution of information that can specifically be used for sabotage and creation of explosive devices. UK has the same laws for example. If you explain someone how to make TNT you can get jailed for a considerable amount of time.
So in theory you cannot publish instructions on how to make TNT, nitroglycerine or Mercury Fluminate in the UK. In practice you can find them in the CRC handbook. Same goes for the majority of other "terrorist practices".
These laws are written in a blanket fashion, but usually, they are used only against someone who is specifically enciting to use the knowledge for terror/vandalism purposes. Which is the case here.
This does not make these laws any less stupid. For example, if the law is followed, the entire history of the resistance in Europe during World War II should be prohibited. Quite a few German trains went off the track during those years. Using similar methods. Right? So Europe did not resist german occupation. Right? No trains went down. Right?
As a chemist I can say that the idea of capturing CO2 with CaO on an industrial scale is extremely optimistic.
It will consume huge amounts of energy to convert back and the efficiency will be very low. The figures come out so optimistic only if you forget about the fact that CaO gets covered by Ca carbonate quickly and in the absence of water the diffusion of CO2 to the remaining CaO will slow to a crawl.
Only alternative to this is to disperse the CaO to micron sizes which means emitting insane amounts of dust into the atmosphere. Same is valid for extracting back. Unless you make the CaCO3 granules of micron or less size the energy efficiency in recovering CaO is very low.In either case you either need huge amounts of water or you will pepper with CaCO3 dust everything several thousands miles windward.
This reeks of "reaserch" sponsored by specific global warming villains. Just the mentioning of "there is enough fossil fuels" about says it all. No names mentioned... We know them all...
What you are describing is not DOS. This is pushing "fair" use to its "fair" limits. Yes. I can use all of my spare DSL bandwidth to screw someone over. Actually with QoS deployed on my gateway Linux or BSD box I would not even notice it.
And it sounds like a jolly good idea. Methinks I need to write a HowTo so people who are not that profficient in Linux/BSD admin can do it. Let's face it the relevant parts of Linux and BSD docs are nightmarish and they are not end-user material.
It is illegal in most of Europe, but not everywhere. Some countries (UK) have not adopted the legislation fully (it is in a EU directive). I have the good intetion to nail one such scam (Zenith Windows double glazing company), but had no luck.15 minutes research showed that nope,they cannot be nailed.
Apparently consumer rights is something that exists on the continent. You go across the strip of water (of any width) and they disappear.
Brin had no objections touching it in principle. Read the interview on Slashdot. Dunno about hamilton or Banks. Most likely too. That is if they are not completely castrated and dumbified by his galactic gasbaloon moronity.
The real writer is well known. The real writer is nothing much either. Episodes V and VI were to large extent written by Thymoty Zan and fixed by a slew of other people for production. In all cases they have drawn heavily on earlier pulp fiction and the first books in the Dune series. Actually, T.Z. is pulp fiction as well so...
Personally, I think T.Z's fiction sucks eggz but this is a matter of taste so I digress.
This topic has largely been discussed in an interview with David Brin on this subject a few years ago on Slashdot. Sorry, no URL, find it yourself.
The conclusion of that interview was:
Lucas is well known for the fact that he cannot stand any greateness but his own. He usually chooses collaborators that do not have a name in the field so that they do not stick near his name on the credits. He is the king of mediocrity. He is continuing this tendency even now. Just think about episode I. Out of all possible Sci Fi writers out there to hire Terry Brooks. After even his fans could not stand him any more because of the endless repetition of look-alike bland characters in look-alike bland books. All characters in Episode I are so T.B. it makes me want to puke. Just look at the so called "queen". Everybody say "shannara" and "magic kingdom for sale" please... Ugh.... yuk... Bleah...
At the same time there are brilliant Space Opera style Sci Fi authors out there. David Brin (Uplift), Yain Banks (Culture), Peter F Hamilton (Night's Down). All of them are capable of taking a topic and developing it into a whole universe for years.
But Lucas is not going to hire them. First it will decrease HIS credit and HIS ego. Second they will be able to draw on the Star Wars audience which he jelously guards as his prime revenue source.
Once upon a time Internet was charged per bytes trasnferred + per additional service almost everywhere.Usually there were some discounts for local services but this was the general rule of thumb - you pay what you eat. No buffet lunches.
After that the telcos came. The billing on the basis of 7-8 factors did not fit neither their mentality, nor their exitsing billing systems. So they started billing based on minutes. Later, when services like DSL and cable came along the minutes became meaningless so the pricing became flat.
So yes SPAM can and will disappear. All it takes is to reintroduce usage based billing on residential broadband along. This will also resolve the problems of piracy once and for all. Use can remain at roughly the same price or even become cheaper then now. Abuse will become prohibitively expensive.
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That shall be HVD "High Voltage Differential" sir. 25m max to be more exact. It is a standard that is not suported by anything but some tapes (as in your example) and some SANs. You are not connecting anything else to this conroller (except in SCSI-2 compatibility mode to the 50 pin internal connector assuming you have an AH2944). It is also obscenely expensive (low volume production).
The more common varieties that are priced at more normal prices do much shorter distances.
You are mostly correct about the speed though. Connecting an old device to a chain with new ones makes the chain go from differential to SE mode. This change does not necessarily force drop to SCSI-1 if I recall correctly. It usually does but it is not obliged to. But it does impose a speed penalty.
Stop chirping you cricket ;-)
If a machine actually starts using these it can go beyond. Most don't. And let's don't even mention windows which does not grow the window properly as per the RFCs and can barely climb to 30-40Kbytes.
In other words, if you are using the link for general purpose traffic which is the question asked here (office on starband) that is what you get 50kbytes. Been there, done that.
This means it maxes at full bandwidth. Which is quite good.
Because if you have 520 ms latency which is the standard for SAT you cannot get more than this speed. TCP window cannot grow more. It is inherent feature of the protocol. Look into TCP/IP design and implementation for discussion related to bandwidth x delay product and the RFCs on SACK and windowing options
After finding out that we are required to ship the original MSFT OS (not the same, the original with the original license numbers) with any PC we dispose of to charities and such we are considering the same approach.
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See the article on the register for more:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/25085.ht
I am no f*** reseller of MSFT to keep track of products we do not use and do not pay license for. Wipe and put an "unsupported" linux on it. Solves all questions on the spot.
It imposes requirements on OEM contracts and resellers. Which means that Walmart cannot sell any machines with MSFT OS and products. And this is an ordered "remedy" so there can be no complains that MSFT is bending arms and behaving monopolistically here.
And this is something Walmart cannot afford. They cannot become the reseller just for geeks. It is not a viable large scale business.
Why funny. It is insightful. Absolutely agree. Most of TV especially daytime can be watched only by indivudals that have had their brain completely amputated.
Valid not just for TNT and US.
I hardly watch more then one film a month nowdays. The rest can be obtained on DVDs and the bbc news site contains more information than their news programs anyway.
yep you are asbolutely correct.
I would only add that MSFT also cut a few corners on the spot. The new draft of the agreement with the DOJ has a clause that prohibits OEMs from OSless machines. It may not be MSFT but it must have OS. Which in reality means MSFT
So Walmart just got demonstrated by MSFT how do you cut corners on its own turf. And was sufficiently stupid not to fill an amicus curae. Sigh... some people that claim to be experienced businessmen never stop to amuse me...
Have you read the article.
1. There is no fight at all. The Samba team has simply evaded the confrontation and carried on. Standard maneuver against a slower but heavily armed opponent in any war game.
2. Even if there was a grain of truth in what you are blabbering about the samba team can move to where it came. Once upon a time MSFT was claiming most parts of CIFS to be a trade secret. As a result SAMBA was written in countries which do not have this concept in their laws applied to software. Samba can go back there again. World is not just US.
3. Most iportantly, Microsoft has tried this before with most of domain related stuff. They claimed copyright on documentation and issued cease and desist letters to anyone describing how to set policy and other settings from a non-windows machine. These claims were successfully challenged somewhere (in EU but forgot where). So all it is some young legal genius that has forgotten that the world is not US and most likely never new that MSFT has already been burned on enforcing a similar cause in the past. It will get burned again.
It has had an AIX version as well. And it was much better then the windows version at the time.
They see it on the TV screen every day anyway. With one major difference - on TV they also get shot or violently abused. So, somehow, I do not see your point unless you have banned your youngsters from TV, computers, games, books and every other item of "modern" civilisation.
It is being done on casual basis by police around the world for personal preventive searches and car searches. For the time being it is "the trained operator told us so" instead of computer. And to be honest I would rather have a computer decice then some cops. It will be less racially and ethnically biased
Statistics from observing policemen in some US states and the number of blacks and whites they stop for checks and searches are well known, no point in reiterating them...
Been there...
Done that...
Really dark blue is even more nifty then black if you get the shade right.Painting the bits of plastic is usually a problem but the boxes themselves can be painted no probs.
The best choice are car repair kit paints. They are a bit more expensive but spread better and have better coverage.
In a windows network broadcast a message to the default domain/workgroup saying "Pay your bill or you are violating your license agreement.". This is a three liner.
Do it periodically. Every 10 mins.
Does the job quite nicely.
No. You cannot. Current UK policy is to actually do this (sell out the gov portal completely to MSFT). Described in detail on http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/24882.html Enjoy. You have possibly voted for them.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/24882.html
Unfortunately I just happen to work here and pay taxes so I cannot peck the brains out of my MPcritter. And my district has not voted for el-presidente Blah's hunta anyway.
You forgot p0rn.us. IMO it is a jolly good idea.
Most other countries are not so worried that a kid will see a good f**k. They are more worried about the kid seeing violence or getting a gun. So they do not need it.
But us. does.
Which has not prevented the Eurocrats from Brussels to make it mandatory for all trucks and buses in the EU. As a result you can often see two humongous articulated trucks racing to overtake one another for 5 or more minutes because the speed difference is due only to the inherent errors in the limiter. If that is not dangerous I dunno what is.
So adding additional technical measures for copyright protection is more or less meaningless exercise. I would much rather see this money going into proper law enforcement (not BSA racket).
It will not help. Almost all European countries have laws that prohibit distribution of information that can specifically be used for sabotage and creation of explosive devices. UK has the same laws for example. If you explain someone how to make TNT you can get jailed for a considerable amount of time.
So in theory you cannot publish instructions on how to make TNT, nitroglycerine or Mercury Fluminate in the UK. In practice you can find them in the CRC handbook. Same goes for the majority of other "terrorist practices".
These laws are written in a blanket fashion, but usually, they are used only against someone who is specifically enciting to use the knowledge for terror/vandalism purposes. Which is the case here.
This does not make these laws any less stupid. For example, if the law is followed, the entire history of the resistance in Europe during World War II should be prohibited. Quite a few German trains went off the track during those years. Using similar methods. Right? So Europe did not resist german occupation. Right? No trains went down. Right?
Wrong...
As a chemist I can say that the idea of capturing CO2 with CaO on an industrial scale is extremely optimistic.
It will consume huge amounts of energy to convert back and the efficiency will be very low. The figures come out so optimistic only if you forget about the fact that CaO gets covered by Ca carbonate quickly and in the absence of water the diffusion of CO2 to the remaining CaO will slow to a crawl.
Only alternative to this is to disperse the CaO to micron sizes which means emitting insane amounts of dust into the atmosphere. Same is valid for extracting back. Unless you make the CaCO3 granules of micron or less size the energy efficiency in recovering CaO is very low.In either case you either need huge amounts of water or you will pepper with CaCO3 dust everything several thousands miles windward.
This reeks of "reaserch" sponsored by specific global warming villains. Just the mentioning of "there is enough fossil fuels" about says it all. No names mentioned... We know them all...
What you are describing is not DOS. This is pushing "fair" use to its "fair" limits. Yes. I can use all of my spare DSL bandwidth to screw someone over. Actually with QoS deployed on my gateway Linux or BSD box I would not even notice it.
And it sounds like a jolly good idea. Methinks I need to write a HowTo so people who are not that profficient in Linux/BSD admin can do it. Let's face it the relevant parts of Linux and BSD docs are nightmarish and they are not end-user material.
Brgds,
It is illegal in most of Europe, but not everywhere. Some countries (UK) have not adopted the legislation fully (it is in a EU directive). I have the good intetion to nail one such scam (Zenith Windows double glazing company), but had no luck.15 minutes research showed that nope,they cannot be nailed.
Apparently consumer rights is something that exists on the continent. You go across the strip of water (of any width) and they disappear.
Brin had no objections touching it in principle. Read the interview on Slashdot. Dunno about hamilton or Banks. Most likely too. That is if they are not completely castrated and dumbified by his galactic gasbaloon moronity.
The real writer is well known. The real writer is nothing much either. Episodes V and VI were to large extent written by Thymoty Zan and fixed by a slew of other people for production. In all cases they have drawn heavily on earlier pulp fiction and the first books in the Dune series. Actually, T.Z. is pulp fiction as well so...
Personally, I think T.Z's fiction sucks eggz but this is a matter of taste so I digress.
This topic has largely been discussed in an interview with David Brin on this subject a few years ago on Slashdot. Sorry, no URL, find it yourself.
The conclusion of that interview was:
Lucas is well known for the fact that he cannot stand any greateness but his own. He usually chooses collaborators that do not have a name in the field so that they do not stick near his name on the credits. He is the king of mediocrity. He is continuing this tendency even now. Just think about episode I. Out of all possible Sci Fi writers out there to hire Terry Brooks. After even his fans could not stand him any more because of the endless repetition of look-alike bland characters in look-alike bland books. All characters in Episode I are so T.B. it makes me want to puke. Just look at the so called "queen". Everybody say "shannara" and "magic kingdom for sale" please... Ugh.... yuk... Bleah...
At the same time there are brilliant Space Opera style Sci Fi authors out there. David Brin (Uplift), Yain Banks (Culture), Peter F Hamilton (Night's Down). All of them are capable of taking a topic and developing it into a whole universe for years.
But Lucas is not going to hire them. First it will decrease HIS credit and HIS ego. Second they will be able to draw on the Star Wars audience which he jelously guards as his prime revenue source.
Some mailing software dislikes multiline responces in SMTP. I suggest you put a URL to it in a single line responce.
Once upon a time they did.
Once upon a time Internet was charged per bytes trasnferred + per additional service almost everywhere.Usually there were some discounts for local services but this was the general rule of thumb - you pay what you eat. No buffet lunches.
After that the telcos came. The billing on the basis of 7-8 factors did not fit neither their mentality, nor their exitsing billing systems. So they started billing based on minutes. Later, when services like DSL and cable came along the minutes became meaningless so the pricing became flat.
So yes SPAM can and will disappear. All it takes is to reintroduce usage based billing on residential broadband along. This will also resolve the problems of piracy once and for all. Use can remain at roughly the same price or even become cheaper then now. Abuse will become prohibitively expensive.