I like the range extender that is a store and forward bridge rather than an amplifier. Way too many morons (yes, MORONS!) have installed amps in residential systems... attached to the 2.2 dBi duck antennas that came with the AP.
This, for anyone who knows dick about radios, is the height of stupidity. There are, very rarely, time where it makes sense to amplify a low gain antenna, but monkeys are not qualified to make this decision.
4.x and 5.x are different products. People who know are going to be running 4.x on servers for the next several years, no matter what happens with the 5.x train. All of my servers are 4.9 right now, I have 5.2.1 on a lappie just to get familiar with it.
Having deployed Cisco boxes for about the last six years I have some idea of the pace of new releases:-) I just wish they'd give the 4[57]00s one last hurrah, since they're mad fast, crazy cheap, and I've already got a bunch of them sitting around the house. The lack of proper IPv6 features is a major drag on an otherwise fine box...
IOS 11.3 source is definitely in the wild - I think there is a copy of it around here somewhere. I've contacted Cisco on it and they're so excited they can't even get someone from law enforcement to come and talk to me about the information on the guy who sent it to me.
11.3 is ancient history, but 12.3 is bad bad bad... this means new Cisco exploits as people comb through the code:-( Time to go unplug your internet connection until 12.4 is released...
You must have prodigious equipment or low blood pressure. Forty is uncomfortably close and while I hear that things are not going to be so, err, vertical, it hasn't happened yet.
I dated someone briefly last year who violated my A/B cup norm... women that size are absolutely flat chested and their arm pits are nice and warm:-(
I've heard many of the suicide bombers in Israel are HIV or Hepatitis positive... get nicked by the wrong bit in the explosion and you live... to regret it.
That is almost too horrible to be true... can someone confirm/deny it?
I just don't get the fascination with large breasts. You can't blame it on lack of breast feeding as a child - I spent my first six months in a state run orphanage so I *know* I was a bottle baby. Its been ten years since I dated someone who could fill more than a B cup and I don't feel like I'm missing out a bit...
Strongly suggest you read Vernor Vinge's A Fire Upon The Deep - he develops a very interesting view of expansion of the universe and consciousness.
If you've not heard of Vinge before that isn't a big surprise, but he did write True Names as well - the very foundation of the cyberpunk/hacker genre. This is also a good read if you can actually locate it.
So we have a collection of RaDiOaCtIvE stuff at the far edge of low earth orbit - just think of the paranoia of the average person when they're informed of this...
Could be this is the political camel's nose under the tent that will get $$$ flowing for anti orbital hazard clean up... an obvious stepping stone to asteroid defense.
'Three hundred years' and 'certain' is a lot better than 'maybe within the next sixty five million years' and 'highly unlikely to hit us' - the perception with slate wiper events is that they're just too rare for us to worry about them. An imminent, nuclear hazard might actually get politicians moving the right direction.
I'm amazed that people buy the dreck that the music industry is putting out these days. I've got 30 gig of MP3s and they're all legal live recordings of various bands. I don't share 'em because I like having a low latency link, but I *could* share and it wouldn't be a problem.
Maybe its your *taste* that is the problem - adjust that and suddenly the RIAA is just a comical thing to read about on slashdot occasionally.
I have a customer with about two hundred Windows desktops. Most are win2k which are relatively trouble free, but they're so thrilled with XP (Wintendo) that they've blocked any more entering the enterprise after the first five. We're working on a Knoppix installation and the Mocha TN5250 client might be the final piece of that puzzle... we shall see.
Some users intially whined about receiving a non M$ office package, but they whined much less when the IS department started a charge back scheme. A few of the finance folks are heavily invested in Office and they will rightly stay there, the rest are very likely to get moved to OO the next time the M$ tax appears, and they'll have no choice if we get Knoppix to do everything that is needed:-)
I'm sure those who were around will remember the whole darned internet grinding to a halt when the Morris worm came out in 1988.
Can someone tell me why open systems basically learned their collective lesson on one big event and it never happened again, while Microsoft products get the beatdown at least once every ninety days and nothing changes?
The picture someone else makes to represent what they think is the best method to communicate to someone else what the computer is doing is a pretty sad thing when compared to the results that come from having your very own picture in your head.
You point and click types can whine, but vi/etc/ipf.rules ; ipf -Fa -f/etc/ipf.rules hasn't done me wrong yet...
There is a minimal cvsup config for FreeBSD 4.9 - cvsup -g -L 2 and you're off and running.
*default host=cvsup6.FreeBSD.org *default base=/usr *default prefix=/usr # The following line is for 4-stable. If you want 3-stable or 2.2-stable, # change "RELENG_4" to "RELENG_3" or "RELENG_2_2" respectively. *default release=cvs tag=RELENG_4 *default delete use-rel-suffix # If your network link is a T1 or faster, comment out the following line. *default compress src-all #ports-all tag=.
make buildworld & make installworld install *world*, which does not include anything you built out of/usr/ports - portupgrade is what handles moving that stuff forward for you.
FreeBSD *is* intimidating at first, but if you take the thirty days of pain at the end of that time you'll be looking at your Linux boxes and wondering why you ever put up with the chaos...
See lilmissmolly0, before she is buried under a flood of stock manipulator noise:
http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?bo ar d=SCOX
This one sort of tells the story - there was an ask of $9,000.00 on SCOX yesterday close and a bid of $0.01 - definitely interesting times for the SCOX management.
Any chance the kid has Asperger's Syndrome? Its something to look into given the behavior you describe. I've never bothered with the formal diagnosis since I've pretty much established my niche in life but the things you describe sound very, very familiar to me.
Have you publicized your success ratio on the part-15.org mailing list? I'm not paying as much attention to it as when I owned a wireless ISP but your successes. Has Steve Stroh covered your installation yet? Respond in thread with some hints about what your email address might be - I'd like to hear a bit more about what you've accomplished.
You're preaching to the choir - but there are so many companies where developers are isolated from the problems they solve by inept management... I've been a victim of it too many times to believe my experiences are unique.
The fact that software is approaching $0 in cost doesn't mean there are less jobs for software people, it just means that a great deal of what was purely IT 'territory' is now going to be dual role, with software developers having to know a portion of the business as well.
The large employers with their vertical silos inside the organization will fight (and loose) this change, while smaller employers everywhere are already reaping the benefits. Stop billing yourself as a 'software' guy and go get some background in operations accounting, marketing, logistics, whatever, but the days of the separate priesthood are numbered - your choices are a.) on top of the wave b.) not very palatable fish food.
I'm a sniper and while the target rich environment of the pre bubble economy is gone there are plenty of profitable things left to 'shoot'.
FYI the manufacturer will tell you the di-lithium crystals only need to be replaced every ten thousand light years or so.
OFDM is a good thing, but it ain't all that. Claims of non line of site operation are nice, with some of the products it will work a lot of the time, but you can never, ever build a business plan based on the builder's claim of radio performance.
Write me when you've done fifty installs and let me know how well it works:-)
Free space loss is directly related to frequency, unless you're a slashdot visitor from some alternate dimension. MMDS will be just a teeny bit worse on free space loss than 802.11b because it is just slightly higher frequency wise.
NLOS is snake oil as anyone who has ever installed microwave systems will tell you. Frequency doesn't matter, OFDM only helps a tiny little bit, and if you base a business plan on it you are and completely and utterly screwed.
I don't doubt you can pull out anecdotal evidence of one functioning NLOS install in a building, over a 2 km path on an island in the Bermuda triangle, etc, but in practice no one goes out to do NLOS data installs with the possible exception of 900MHz equipment and then NLOS is often defined as LOS through foliage.
Sorry to be so blunt, but I've done lots of installs at all sorts of distances and there are immense snake oil reserves out there on the subject...
MMDS is Multipoint Microwave Distribution System. The system uses RF spectrum between
2500 and 2700 MHz and if I recall correctly is required by the terms of the license to use only horizontal polarization.
The radio physics behind it are exactly the same as an 802.11b network - line of site required, free space loss, etc are all very similar.
The MAC layer is designed for access rather than wireless lan so it'll act much better than an 802.11b cell - think 802.11b with Karlnet or Alvarion Breeze Access II.
MMDS licenses exist all over the United States and in my particular state some loser telco (now in chapter 11) bought the rights for *one dollar* and never did anything with it.
The equipment is pricey, the odds of it dropping are pretty low because there isn't volume production, and it'll have the same behavior problems as 802.11b minus the dueling operators issues. Don't hold your breath for it coming to your area and it'll be a slave to IP bandwidth economics just like any other distribution medium. You can read up on IP bandwidth economics in my journal since I am not posting that junk again.
Slashdot covers wireless issues the way Seventeen magazine covers boy bands. A teeny, tiny bit of scepticism would go a loooooooong way.
Did I really just see Microsoft open its treasury to IBM, Red Hat, Novell, Autozone, Daimler Chrysler, and god knows who else has been inconvenienced by SCO's antics?
Slashdot Mirror
I like the range extender that is a store and forward bridge rather than an amplifier. Way too many morons (yes, MORONS!) have installed amps in residential systems
This, for anyone who knows dick about radios, is the height of stupidity. There are, very rarely, time where it makes sense to amplify a low gain antenna, but monkeys are not qualified to make this decision.
4.x and 5.x are different products. People who know are going to be running 4.x on servers for the next several years, no matter what happens with the 5.x train. All of my servers are 4.9 right now, I have 5.2.1 on a lappie just to get familiar with it.
Having deployed Cisco boxes for about the last six years I have some idea of the pace of new releases
IOS 11.3 source is definitely in the wild - I think there is a copy of it around here somewhere. I've contacted Cisco on it and they're so excited they can't even get someone from law enforcement to come and talk to me about the information on the guy who sent it to me.
11.3 is ancient history, but 12.3 is bad bad bad
You must have prodigious equipment or low blood pressure. Forty is uncomfortably close and while I hear that things are not going to be so, err, vertical, it hasn't happened yet.
I dated someone briefly last year who violated my A/B cup norm
I've heard many of the suicide bombers in Israel are HIV or Hepatitis positive
That is almost too horrible to be true
I just don't get the fascination with large breasts. You can't blame it on lack of breast feeding as a child - I spent my first six months in a state run orphanage so I *know* I was a bottle baby. Its been ten years since I dated someone who could fill more than a B cup and I don't feel like I'm missing out a bit
Strongly suggest you read Vernor Vinge's A Fire Upon The Deep - he develops a very interesting view of expansion of the universe and consciousness.
If you've not heard of Vinge before that isn't a big surprise, but he did write True Names as well - the very foundation of the cyberpunk/hacker genre. This is also a good read if you can actually locate it.
Obviously
screen
microemacs
nmap
netcat
modify syslogd source to accept random high port source for log entries
ntop
OK, that is only six
I pick July 4, 2004 as the first private suborbital spaceflight date. Anyone else got a historically significant date they might pick?
So we have a collection of RaDiOaCtIvE stuff at the far edge of low earth orbit - just think of the paranoia of the average person when they're informed of this
Could be this is the political camel's nose under the tent that will get $$$ flowing for anti orbital hazard clean up
'Three hundred years' and 'certain' is a lot better than 'maybe within the next sixty five million years' and 'highly unlikely to hit us' - the perception with slate wiper events is that they're just too rare for us to worry about them. An imminent, nuclear hazard might actually get politicians moving the right direction.
I'm amazed that people buy the dreck that the music industry is putting out these days. I've got 30 gig of MP3s and they're all legal live recordings of various bands. I don't share 'em because I like having a low latency link, but I *could* share and it wouldn't be a problem.
Maybe its your *taste* that is the problem - adjust that and suddenly the RIAA is just a comical thing to read about on slashdot occasionally.
My guys are cost sensitive
I have a customer with about two hundred Windows desktops. Most are win2k which are relatively trouble free, but they're so thrilled with XP (Wintendo) that they've blocked any more entering the enterprise after the first five. We're working on a Knoppix installation and the Mocha TN5250 client might be the final piece of that puzzle
Some users intially whined about receiving a non M$ office package, but they whined much less when the IS department started a charge back scheme. A few of the finance folks are heavily invested in Office and they will rightly stay there, the rest are very likely to get moved to OO the next time the M$ tax appears, and they'll have no choice if we get Knoppix to do everything that is needed
I'm sure those who were around will remember the whole darned internet grinding to a halt when the Morris worm came out in 1988.
Can someone tell me why open systems basically learned their collective lesson on one big event and it never happened again, while Microsoft products get the beatdown at least once every ninety days and nothing changes?
The picture someone else makes to represent what they think is the best method to communicate to someone else what the computer is doing is a pretty sad thing when compared to the results that come from having your very own picture in your head.
You point and click types can whine, but vi
There is a minimal cvsup config for FreeBSD 4.9 - cvsup -g -L 2 and you're off and running.
*default host=cvsup6.FreeBSD.org
*default base=/usr
*default prefix=/usr
# The following line is for 4-stable. If you want 3-stable or 2.2-stable,
# change "RELENG_4" to "RELENG_3" or "RELENG_2_2" respectively.
*default release=cvs tag=RELENG_4
*default delete use-rel-suffix
# If your network link is a T1 or faster, comment out the following line.
*default compress
src-all
#ports-all tag=.
make buildworld & make installworld install *world*, which does not include anything you built out of
FreeBSD *is* intimidating at first, but if you take the thirty days of pain at the end of that time you'll be looking at your Linux boxes and wondering why you ever put up with the chaos
See lilmissmolly0, before she is buried under a flood of stock manipulator noise:
http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?b
This one sort of tells the story - there was an ask of $9,000.00 on SCOX yesterday close and a bid of $0.01 - definitely interesting times for the SCOX management.
http://finance.yahoo.com/q/bc?s=SCOX&t=5d&l=on&
Any chance the kid has Asperger's Syndrome? Its something to look into given the behavior you describe. I've never bothered with the formal diagnosis since I've pretty much established my niche in life but the things you describe sound very, very familiar to me.
Graham,
Have you publicized your success ratio on the part-15.org mailing list? I'm not paying as much attention to it as when I owned a wireless ISP but your successes. Has Steve Stroh covered your installation yet? Respond in thread with some hints about what your email address might be - I'd like to hear a bit more about what you've accomplished.
-puzzled
You're preaching to the choir - but there are so many companies where developers are isolated from the problems they solve by inept management
The fact that software is approaching $0 in cost doesn't mean there are less jobs for software people, it just means that a great deal of what was purely IT 'territory' is now going to be dual role, with software developers having to know a portion of the business as well.
The large employers with their vertical silos inside the organization will fight (and loose) this change, while smaller employers everywhere are already reaping the benefits. Stop billing yourself as a 'software' guy and go get some background in operations accounting, marketing, logistics, whatever, but the days of the separate priesthood are numbered - your choices are a.) on top of the wave b.) not very palatable fish food.
I'm a sniper and while the target rich environment of the pre bubble economy is gone there are plenty of profitable things left to 'shoot'.
FYI the manufacturer will tell you the di-lithium crystals only need to be replaced every ten thousand light years or so.
OFDM is a good thing, but it ain't all that. Claims of non line of site operation are nice, with some of the products it will work a lot of the time, but you can never, ever build a business plan based on the builder's claim of radio performance.
Write me when you've done fifty installs and let me know how well it works
This is a somewhat incoherent response.
Free space loss is directly related to frequency, unless you're a slashdot visitor from some alternate dimension. MMDS will be just a teeny bit worse on free space loss than 802.11b because it is just slightly higher frequency wise.
NLOS is snake oil as anyone who has ever installed microwave systems will tell you. Frequency doesn't matter, OFDM only helps a tiny little bit, and if you base a business plan on it you are and completely and utterly screwed.
I don't doubt you can pull out anecdotal evidence of one functioning NLOS install in a building, over a 2 km path on an island in the Bermuda triangle, etc, but in practice no one goes out to do NLOS data installs with the possible exception of 900MHz equipment and then NLOS is often defined as LOS through foliage.
Sorry to be so blunt, but I've done lots of installs at all sorts of distances and there are immense snake oil reserves out there on the subject
MMDS is Multipoint Microwave Distribution System. The system uses RF spectrum between 2500 and 2700 MHz and if I recall correctly is required by the terms of the license to use only horizontal polarization.
The radio physics behind it are exactly the same as an 802.11b network - line of site required, free space loss, etc are all very similar.
The MAC layer is designed for access rather than wireless lan so it'll act much better than an 802.11b cell - think 802.11b with Karlnet or Alvarion Breeze Access II.
MMDS licenses exist all over the United States and in my particular state some loser telco (now in chapter 11) bought the rights for *one dollar* and never did anything with it.
The equipment is pricey, the odds of it dropping are pretty low because there isn't volume production, and it'll have the same behavior problems as 802.11b minus the dueling operators issues. Don't hold your breath for it coming to your area and it'll be a slave to IP bandwidth economics just like any other distribution medium. You can read up on IP bandwidth economics in my journal since I am not posting that junk again.
Slashdot covers wireless issues the way Seventeen magazine covers boy bands. A teeny, tiny bit of scepticism would go a loooooooong way.
Did I really just see Microsoft open its treasury to IBM, Red Hat, Novell, Autozone, Daimler Chrysler, and god knows who else has been inconvenienced by SCO's antics?
I'm almost quivering with excitement