I recognized many of the Judy Blume titles but knew nothing of the insides. I went googling and found the details in short order.
I'm dating a woman with a preteen daughter who is just beginning to express an interest in such things. I guess I'm going to be reading a few more banned books before the decade is done...
I read a Wrinkle In Time by Madeleine L'Engle a million years ago and I forget the details. I've read all of the Harry Potter stuff, J.D. Salinger's Catcher In The Rye, Flowers For Algernon, S.E. Hinton's The Outsiders, the
Lord Of The Flies, Slaughterhouse Five, A Brave New World, A Light In The Attic, both Mark Twain books, all three Stephen King books, and this is a bit embarrasing and out of character for me, but I *own* a copy of Howard Stern's Private Parts.
The last time I busted my roomie watching Howard Stern they were interviewing a female dwarf porn star and I must say this is the most
redeeming episode I've seen, but his book examines corporate ownership of radio stations and is a fine read in a Hunter S Thompsonesque sort of way.
I see a smattering of gay parents are OK books and various juvenile magic manuals - no surprise on these getting the evil eye, but what is Judy Blume's stuff doing in there? She has five of the hot 100 and I just don't understand... I never viewed her as a particularly controversial writer.
Can anyone shed some light on Judy Blume's presence on this list?
Was this an obvious product placement and they're paying people to beat down my post? I've had more Troll classifications on this one post than on the previous 219 entries on Slashdot.
If you're running Windows or building add on products for it you should be hanging your head in shame instead of bothering Slashdot readers with product placement 'news'.
When the RIAA thugs knock on the door they'll be coming for the cable modem owner's darling little girlfriend and her Bearshare connection. I have a cable modem in the same building but I refused to share service with them for precisely that reason.
I warned her about the RIAA in a simple, direct fashion with him looking on, and she assured me that if she just downloaded and didn't share she'd be OK. She is probably right on that count...
I sat with a guy today who had the Start Button Virus on his PC. He had some whacky firewall utility that also controlled which programs could execute and a real live Microsoft DSL router between him and the outside world.
After I overcame my initial nausea we spent a few minutes on the firewall device and determined that its outside port was dead. I offered him a free (as in beer) FreeBSD (free) system to do this job - a nice, easy kill, and it gets me the run of another BSD box with a static IP.
The firewall thing on the PC was a bigger problem - not so good interface, user deeply confused by the idea that some addresses aren't globally routeable, further amazed that some devices can change these RFC1918 addresses to globally routeable numbers, and utterly boggled by the concept of being able to *see* what your computer is doing on the network.
Bottom line? This guy has no business doing anything other than pulling cables and plugging stuff into a network that provides DHCP and he *knows* this is the case.
I predict job growth in the 'digitician' field - the PC guru that comes around is going to become a real live job, instead of a friend or relative you impose upon for help. I, luckily, have avoided 98% of this work by becoming an inscrutable BSD prophet and would have avoided this one as well, were it not for the interior designer roaming around the office with her thong peeping out at regular intervals.
You astroturf on groklaw by posting a message that is emotionally appealing to Linux fans without legal training... but utterly wrong and/or irrelevant.
Groklaw is important because its accurate and diligent... something uncontrolled astroturfing could easily ruin.
Who really needs 100 mbit in their home? I can see some corporation in a union bound town like St. Louis wanting to replace current wired LAN deploy costs with simple wireless gear, but the 802.11b device I've connected through to write this provides 5x the speed I need in a worst case scenario... I guess I'm just a text interface BSD Luddite...
If they've backed down *why* are the lawyer's docs posted here? The slashdot citizen's vigiliance committee got the job done and I think the lawyer learned a very valuable lesson. The internet *has* community standards and woe unto you who violate them...
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Katie might have a good story to tell but we need to make sure her book sinks like a stone. Is there a legal defense fund? How do we contribute?
Their patent application predates my work by about a year. But its still nonsense... routers aren't patentable and most all routers change from one media type to another.
Let the junk patent busters loose on them... I am highly motivated to clean up the Aircard/OpenSoekris stuff and make it available for free... we'll let the market decide just how useful their patent is.
Please, please don't slashdot me, but I've been talking about this so called patented invention for some time and I've got one sitting right here. Feel free to contact me if you're a patent attorney with an axe to grind...
I don't track around town mileage as my city hosts the annual Distracted Driver's Convention. Legions of them have made the choice to settle here and we all pay the price... getting around them quickly lowers my blood pressure which is way more important than MPG.
I make a tank sized road trip twice a month to visit family and I get a consistent 28 - 30 mpg. Rolling hills of western Iowa, leaving behind a black cat that haunts our neighborhood and headed for a marmalade, mitten pawed long hair. I think cat magnetism adds 10% to the mileage figure both directions.
I've never had someone with a three digit userid reply to one of my posts before:-)
The theoretical maximum for 802.11b is calculated as follows:
Channels three, six, and eleven don't overlap so that is 33 mbits of throughput. You could get good cross polarization rejection and run both horizontal and vertical polarization to double that to 66 mbits.
The real world is not so kind. Antenna front to back, front to side, and front to top/bottom ratios conspire to require very large sites to properly space antennas. 2400MHz likes to crawl all over metal surfaces. Radios can be set to a single frequency but antennas resonate across the whole band leading to desense or interference.
It gets uglier by orders of magnitude when you have competing 2.4GHz cells which is *certainly* going to happen in any place that has enough need to drive six eleven megabit cells.
Eight miniPCI is an interesting number, but you'd use at the very most three of those for radio and you'd have to *really* know what you were doing to design something like that for outdoor use.
I don't like the refusal to release modified GPL code but I was always under the impression the magic was in the GUI and command line and that underneath it all they didn't change applications.
Upgrades are touchier than Cisco which is the product I measure performance against, but you just plain can't *get* Cisco boxes to do what people do with MikroTik
Its a small company in Latvia. They've done amazing things with limited resources and I'm not surprised about the financial angle. They expect you to grow out of any excess licenses you might have:-)
Eight miniPCI are going to be of little value. A device that small can have two radios in the same band, so long as they're not transmitting simultaneously. FYI Soekris offers a dual cardbus box with a miniPCI slot - enough room for 802.11b, 802.11a, and a PCS/cell data card.
There is more to selecting a vendor than product specs. What is their track record? What if they go 'tits up' tomorrow? There are probably better designs than Soekris, but there are a lot of people using it which makes me think it'll be around for some time to come.
Did you look at the Soekris 4801? They're as fast as the article's device but I don't know much about them since they vastly exceed my needs.
Before buying a meshcube you might want to take a look at http://www.soekris.com
I have two pairs of the Net 4511 machines as wireless bridges and a spare that I use for play. I've made OpenBSD fit into 16 meg of flash using the OpenSoekris script. There is a Linux based appliance type OS from http://www.mikrotik.com that also runs on the platform and it does all sorts of Magic(tm).
This is an interesting announcement but Soekris has the track record to judge by the amount of talk about them on the wireless ISP mailing lists.
The whole patent thing sounds fishy, but FYI Wi-Lan is a respected radio vendor. I've deployed about a dozen links using the AWE-120 5.8 GHz bridges and its the sort of equipment that you need to write down the passwords for because you'll almost never have to log in and mess with it once its running.
They build a competent ten mbit link radio, they've played with some weird 2.4 stuff, but mostly they strike me as a radio company trying to do some data. They've struggled to come out with a product that competes with Redline's fine OFDM products. Perhaps suing Cisco is a ploy as part of acquisition negotiations by Redline, Alvarion, etc...
I can't stand the purchase price of a decent house in this town for a set of astronaut wings, but $10k falls in my lap on a regular basis and I'd have no trouble at all with a road trip to Mojave, camping out, and making The Big Zoom(tm) the next morning:-)
Maybe Rutan will get his materials guys interested in space ladders next...
One of these bombs landed near the intersection of 50th street and Underwood in Omaha, Nebraska. There is a commemorative plate on the drugstore at that corner describing the event. I can maybe take a picture of the plate later today and post it if people would like...
FYI this location is about six or seven blocks from Warren Buffet's house.
I lust after a Prius or an Insight for my daily driving. I believe vehicles like I describe will continue to exist with modifications to allow them to burn alcohol or *shudder* biodiesel.
Environment aside, every once and a while its nice to drive something with enough torque to get some daylight under the front wheels.
Real cars...... have eight cylinders... may have plug wires that run into the valve covers... come in colors like Plum Crazy, Lemon Twist, Limelight, or Hemi Orange... require gas from the airport... leave two black marks with the rear tires... and most of all there isn't any *#($&%(*#&% computer!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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I recognized many of the Judy Blume titles but knew nothing of the insides. I went googling and found the details in short order.
I'm dating a woman with a preteen daughter who is just beginning to express an interest in such things. I guess I'm going to be reading a few more banned books before the decade is done
I read a Wrinkle In Time by Madeleine L'Engle a million years ago and I forget the details. I've read all of the Harry Potter stuff, J.D. Salinger's Catcher In The Rye, Flowers For Algernon, S.E. Hinton's The Outsiders, the
... I never viewed her as a particularly controversial writer.
Lord Of The Flies, Slaughterhouse Five, A Brave New World, A Light In The Attic, both Mark Twain books, all three Stephen King books, and this is a bit embarrasing and out of character for me, but I *own* a copy of Howard Stern's Private Parts.
The last time I busted my roomie watching Howard Stern they were interviewing a female dwarf porn star and I must say this is the most
redeeming episode I've seen, but his book examines corporate ownership of radio stations and is a fine read in a Hunter S Thompsonesque sort of way.
I see a smattering of gay parents are OK books and various juvenile magic manuals - no surprise on these getting the evil eye, but what is Judy Blume's stuff doing in there? She has five of the hot 100 and I just don't
understand
Can anyone shed some light on Judy Blume's presence on this list?
Was this an obvious product placement and they're paying people to beat down my post? I've had more Troll classifications on this one post than on the previous 219 entries on Slashdot.
If you're running Windows or building add on products for it you should be hanging your head in shame instead of bothering Slashdot readers with product placement 'news'.
When the RIAA thugs knock on the door they'll be coming for the cable modem owner's darling little girlfriend and her Bearshare connection. I have a cable modem in the same building but I refused to share service with them for precisely that reason.
I warned her about the RIAA in a simple, direct fashion with him looking on, and she assured me that if she just downloaded and didn't share she'd be OK. She is probably right on that count
I sat with a guy today who had the Start Button Virus on his PC. He had some whacky firewall utility that also controlled which programs could execute and a real live Microsoft DSL router between him and the outside world.
After I overcame my initial nausea we spent a few minutes on the firewall device and determined that its outside port was dead. I offered him a free (as in beer) FreeBSD (free) system to do this job - a nice, easy kill, and it gets me the run of another BSD box with a static IP.
The firewall thing on the PC was a bigger problem - not so good interface, user deeply confused by the idea that some addresses aren't globally routeable, further amazed that some devices can change these RFC1918 addresses to globally routeable numbers, and utterly boggled by the concept of being able to *see* what your computer is doing on the network.
Bottom line? This guy has no business doing anything other than pulling cables and plugging stuff into a network that provides DHCP and he *knows* this is the case.
I predict job growth in the 'digitician' field - the PC guru that comes around is going to become a real live job, instead of a friend or relative you impose upon for help. I, luckily, have avoided 98% of this work by becoming an inscrutable BSD prophet and would have avoided this one as well, were it not for the interior designer roaming around the office with her thong peeping out at regular intervals.
You astroturf on groklaw by posting a message that is emotionally appealing to Linux fans without legal training
Groklaw is important because its accurate and diligent
Who really needs 100 mbit in their home? I can see some corporation in a union bound town like St. Louis wanting to replace current wired LAN deploy costs with simple wireless gear, but the 802.11b device I've connected through to write this provides 5x the speed I need in a worst case scenario
I don't use Wintendo but I see it running here and there. Let me guess on the three apps that'll be running in Asia
AdAware 6.0
Taskman
Persistent Java Console from ladyboy pr0n site
If they've backed down *why* are the lawyer's docs posted here? The slashdot citizen's vigiliance committee got the job done and I think the lawyer learned a very valuable lesson. The internet *has* community standards and woe unto you who violate them
Katie might have a good story to tell but we need to make sure her book sinks like a stone. Is there a legal defense fund? How do we contribute?
Troll? I don't get it
*Sigh*
Their patent application predates my work by about a year. But its still nonsense
Let the junk patent busters loose on them
Please, please don't slashdot me, but I've been talking about this so called patented invention for some time and I've got one sitting right here. Feel free to contact me if you're a patent attorney with an axe to grind
And this is different from Cisco how? Sounds like MikroTik is on a very similar track and they may have just as much success in the long run.
I haven't touched it since 2.7 but I'm going to build another one soon.
I don't track around town mileage as my city hosts the annual Distracted Driver's Convention. Legions of them have made the choice to settle here and we all pay the price
I make a tank sized road trip twice a month to visit family and I get a consistent 28 - 30 mpg. Rolling hills of western Iowa, leaving behind a black cat that haunts our neighborhood and headed for a marmalade, mitten pawed long hair. I think cat magnetism adds 10% to the mileage figure both directions.
I've never had someone with a three digit userid reply to one of my posts before
The theoretical maximum for 802.11b is calculated as follows:
Channels three, six, and eleven don't overlap so that is 33 mbits of throughput. You could get good cross polarization rejection and run both horizontal and vertical polarization to double that to 66 mbits.
The real world is not so kind. Antenna front to back, front to side, and front to top/bottom ratios conspire to require very large sites to properly space antennas. 2400MHz likes to crawl all over metal surfaces. Radios can be set to a single frequency but antennas resonate across the whole band leading to desense or interference.
It gets uglier by orders of magnitude when you have competing 2.4GHz cells which is *certainly* going to happen in any place that has enough need to drive six eleven megabit cells.
Eight miniPCI is an interesting number, but you'd use at the very most three of those for radio and you'd have to *really* know what you were doing to design something like that for outdoor use.
I don't like the refusal to release modified GPL code but I was always under the impression the magic was in the GUI and command line and that underneath it all they didn't change applications.
Upgrades are touchier than Cisco which is the product I measure performance against, but you just plain can't *get* Cisco boxes to do what people do with MikroTik
Its a small company in Latvia. They've done amazing things with limited resources and I'm not surprised about the financial angle. They expect you to grow out of any excess licenses you might have
Eight miniPCI are going to be of little value. A device that small can have two radios in the same band, so long as they're not transmitting simultaneously. FYI Soekris offers a dual cardbus box with a miniPCI slot - enough room for 802.11b, 802.11a, and a PCS/cell data card.
There is more to selecting a vendor than product specs. What is their track record? What if they go 'tits up' tomorrow? There are probably better designs than Soekris, but there are a lot of people using it which makes me think it'll be around for some time to come.
Did you look at the Soekris 4801? They're as fast as the article's device but I don't know much about them since they vastly exceed my needs.
Before buying a meshcube you might want to take a look at http://www.soekris.com
I have two pairs of the Net 4511 machines as wireless bridges and a spare that I use for play. I've made OpenBSD fit into 16 meg of flash using the OpenSoekris script. There is a Linux based appliance type OS from http://www.mikrotik.com that also runs on the platform and it does all sorts of Magic(tm).
This is an interesting announcement but Soekris has the track record to judge by the amount of talk about them on the wireless ISP mailing lists.
The whole patent thing sounds fishy, but FYI Wi-Lan is a respected radio vendor. I've deployed about a dozen links using the AWE-120 5.8 GHz bridges and its the sort of equipment that you need to write down the passwords for because you'll almost never have to log in and mess with it once its running.
...
They build a competent ten mbit link radio, they've played with some weird 2.4 stuff, but mostly they strike me as a radio company trying to do some data. They've struggled to come out with a product that competes with Redline's fine OFDM products. Perhaps suing Cisco is a ploy as part of acquisition negotiations by Redline, Alvarion, etc
I can't stand the purchase price of a decent house in this town for a set of astronaut wings, but $10k falls in my lap on a regular basis and I'd have no trouble at all with a road trip to Mojave, camping out, and making The Big Zoom(tm) the next morning
Maybe Rutan will get his materials guys interested in space ladders next
One of these bombs landed near the intersection of 50th street and Underwood in Omaha, Nebraska. There is a commemorative plate on the drugstore at that corner describing the event. I can maybe take a picture of the plate later today and post it if people would like
FYI this location is about six or seven blocks from Warren Buffet's house.
We watch and we wait. Natural selection will take care of most of the Linux fanboys who become network admins and the rest will be assimilated.
I *am* a member of my local LUG and I encourage daemon worship whenever the chance arises.
I lust after a Prius or an Insight for my daily driving. I believe vehicles like I describe will continue to exist with modifications to allow them to burn alcohol or *shudder* biodiesel.
Environment aside, every once and a while its nice to drive something with enough torque to get some daylight under the front wheels.
Real cars