Yeh, no doubt! Their WAP 11 I have is a neat little toy and gets some respectable range... when utilized with ANYBODY BUT LINKSYS' CRAPPY CARDS! Sorry Linksys, I just had to say it. The WPC11 sucks. 15-25ft of useful range is just really sad. I'm just baffled at how they could turn out such a well working inexpensive little WAP and do so poorly with the NIC. Hell, the WAP even has a tuneable radio and plays nice with snmp on Linux. But the NIC? Ah, it just sits there eating battery and spewing out numbers from iwconfig that basicaly say "Yup, it's a wireless device, uh, kinda..." . A cliche about stepping on ones own male anatomy comes to mind... Ah well, soon I'll have some Orinico silvers to play nice with the WAP11. I hope they've taken the range issue into consideration with the new 5GHz stuff. Oh, and one could only hope they've done away with those goofey RP-TNC antenna connectors. Not likely though. I won't hold my breath for the 5GHz stuff, just get the orinico NIC's and be happy for now. Yeh, yeh, I know, caveat emptor and all that...
Ohhh yeah, sure. It's just the little rats today. But just you wait until Corporate America completes it overthrow of the US government and siezes power! Coming soon to your department, the "Productivity Enhancement Cap" or PEC, complete with company logo and a gagle o' lawyers to see that you're dealt with appropriately if you ever attempt to take the damned thing off. Mark my words people!
- DrMPF
Hey guys, I don't intend this as flame-fodder and I know it's been said many times in many ways and I still must ask. When will you see fit to have the common courtesy to start temporarily caching these stories from obviously underpowered sites? The ol'/. effect is becomming, IMHO, more of an annoyance than a phenominon. Please don't get me wrong, what you do is a great service but I think you have a responsibility to attend to this matter. What about the non-Slashdot readers who are just trying to get to these artices by other means and have no idea of ferreting out google caches and such? That's my Dollars American.02 worth. Thanks much for the freebee place on the web to spew my opinion
-DrMPF
<Leslie Neilsen mode=on >
Sit on my lap Timmy! Oh, it's ok, I'm not a priest!
</leslie Neilsen>
"How do you think Oracle would treat the whole country?"
Krazy Larry? Why, he wants to make the U.S. his bitch! Not that I'm any fan of Billy and his gang of thieves but I'd be much more worried about ol' Krazy Larry and what he's up to. His push for a national ID system is just plain scary.
"Screw kazaa and the myriad of hidden programs inside of it."
That's the one thing I worry about though. Not that we'll ever see anything like this in the US in our lifetimes. But hypotheticaly speaking, if we just happened to have such a service, then just how much crap would they sneal into the legit clients? Oh, and how many peopled would get DMCA'ed into oblivion for hackin up a clean version or for writting one of their own, ala OSS?
Hell, the only thing that sounded good in that article was when they mentioned "...can of beer" as a comparison. Wait, nevermind. Beer in a can. that's nearly as filthy as "Soft WiFi" Martha! Bring me another Guinness! And the good stuff damnit! Double Stout pint bottle! Chop chop! Rikki Tikki!
Perhaps the glass idea is overkill. But I think it's important that we have beer pitchers that know when they're empty. Yes! Pitchers! And when they go empty I want sirens and lights to go off. And the barkeep and/or beer wench must be fitted with some sort of behavioral correction device such as a remotely controlled shock collar which gives 'em a zap if I don't have a refill with say, 5 minutes? Oh, and they also get a shock if anything other than products by Newcastle or those imported by the Bass import company touch the inside of said pitcher. And finaly, in closing of my rant, I must say that here is some useless cross of tech with marketing ploy to get us to buy more that is at least a step in the right direction.
Linus also disenvowed that he was soley responsible for the creation of the immensley popular goatse.cx website and that he's caried on a secret, torid affair with Melida Gates for the past ten years. When questioned if he had a succesor in mind Linus simply replied "Screw 'em! Let them eat XP, er, cake..."
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Jeeze, c'mon, we all know what's next within the next two years, mark my words. The minions of the BORG come up with some way to assimulate a UNIX, they "embrace and extend" it(read: bastardize it like a monkey fucking a football), build some pretty, happy-clicky but still somewhat half-assed GUI for it, and call it WindBloze NewStart or some such marketing derived crap. They will then go on to lambast and bash anything remotely resembling NT technology and proclaim just how much better this is. Still not scared? They will sue Apple out of existance on some bogus patent infringement because they had it first with Darwin/Mach 3. Shortly after that the Babeling Bush will proclaim M$ the greatest thing since sliced bread for turning around the computer software industry and effectively erradicating all software security issues. (wow, Carnivore r00t kit? Now how'd that get in there?) Finaly, and as their most heinous act, M$ will figure out some way to make all mount points STILL be hardware dependant and STILL follow the same goddamned lame assed C: D: E:... model they've used for far too long as well as somehow making it an unconfigureable part of the OS. BASTARDS!
But when will they come out with those little tripple-gang under-dash mounting gauge thingies that were so prevalant in POS pickup trucks and Cameros all throughout the '70s and '80s? And just what would they measure? CPU and case temp and voltage? What's next, Pep Boys and Napa Auto stores end up with a cheesy PC hop-ups isle? Oh the humanity!
The real story is that Simon was hung over again and filling in on the hell desk the day he called in to get assistance with syncing his Palm data with his HappyHomemaker kitchen Internet apliance... "Here, hold this wire for me..."
Q: What is the environmental impact of Flexplay discs?
The environmental impact of Flexplay discs will be negligible. 100 million DVDs can fit into a cube just 10 meters (about 30 feet) on each side. Thus, the impact on local landfills will be minimal.
Oh fsking great, so now my recycling bin will be overflowing with expired play-once pr0n DVDs and once there's a website pimping these things I'll never leave the house!
Yeh, that's what I was thinking when I read it. I've got a buddy whose business runs their entire warehousing app over a browser and this could be useful. Other that that it could make for an expensive remote control as it were. Have an intranet at home with a bunch of X10 junk hooked up to the server, run xmms remotely, and other such buffoonery.
I'll just move to the outskirts of their little town and set up shop. I'll manufacture copper foil baseball caps, chainmail and grounding wrist straps with realy long cords. So who's with me?
Xmas, New Year's Eve and Day, oh and just got rotated into the graveyard shift. Yup, nuttin' like being a sysadmin in a 24x7 data center. On the bright side I'll have all of those lovely *NIX boxen all to myself tonight/tommorow morning and a fresh copy of LOTR to keep me company;-)
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And a hydrogen fuel cell powered pick-up truck and motorcycle too!
-DrMPF
WOOOOOHOOOO! Finaly! Now a cheap bastard like me can afford me some BIG SCREEN pr0n! Pass the quart of immitation butter flavoring please... /=^)
Dr MPF
Ohhh yeah, sure. It's just the little rats today. But just you wait until Corporate America completes it overthrow of the US government and siezes power! Coming soon to your department, the "Productivity Enhancement Cap" or PEC, complete with company logo and a gagle o' lawyers to see that you're dealt with appropriately if you ever attempt to take the damned thing off. Mark my words people! - DrMPF
-DrMPF
<Leslie Neilsen mode=on >
Sit on my lap Timmy! Oh, it's ok, I'm not a priest!
</leslie Neilsen>
Krazy Larry? Why, he wants to make the U.S. his bitch! Not that I'm any fan of Billy and his gang of thieves but I'd be much more worried about ol' Krazy Larry and what he's up to. His push for a national ID system is just plain scary.
<ZEALOT mode="Linux"> ;-)
GODDAMN YOU JERRY YOU TREASONOUS OLD BASTARD!!!!
</ZEALOT>
That's the one thing I worry about though. Not that we'll ever see anything like this in the US in our lifetimes. But hypotheticaly speaking, if we just happened to have such a service, then just how much crap would they sneal into the legit clients? Oh, and how many peopled would get DMCA'ed into oblivion for hackin up a clean version or for writting one of their own, ala OSS?
...An Exploder plugin that emails Micro$ofts entire corporate listing to every known spammer everytime a windoze box goes BSOD?
Hell, the only thing that sounded good in that article was when they mentioned "...can of beer" as a comparison. Wait, nevermind. Beer in a can. that's nearly as filthy as "Soft WiFi" Martha! Bring me another Guinness! And the good stuff damnit! Double Stout pint bottle! Chop chop! Rikki Tikki!
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Hunt For Red Oracle
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Perhaps the glass idea is overkill. But I think it's important that we have beer pitchers that know when they're empty. Yes! Pitchers! And when they go empty I want sirens and lights to go off. And the barkeep and/or beer wench must be fitted with some sort of behavioral correction device such as a remotely controlled shock collar which gives 'em a zap if I don't have a refill with say, 5 minutes? Oh, and they also get a shock if anything other than products by Newcastle or those imported by the Bass import company touch the inside of said pitcher. And finaly, in closing of my rant, I must say that here is some useless cross of tech with marketing ploy to get us to buy more that is at least a step in the right direction.
Linus also disenvowed that he was soley responsible for the creation of the immensley popular goatse.cx website and that he's caried on a secret, torid affair with Melida Gates for the past ten years. When questioned if he had a succesor in mind Linus simply replied "Screw 'em! Let them eat XP, er, cake..."
/sbin/fsck -U Micro$oft!
"Here, hold this wire for me..."
/sbin/fsck -U micro$oft
The environmental impact of Flexplay discs will be negligible. 100 million DVDs can fit into a cube just 10 meters (about 30 feet) on each side. Thus, the impact on local landfills will be minimal.
Oh fsking great, so now my recycling bin will be overflowing with expired play-once pr0n DVDs and once there's a website pimping these things I'll never leave the house!
/sbin/fsck -U micro$oft
Yeh, that's what I was thinking when I read it. I've got a buddy whose business runs their entire warehousing app over a browser and this could be useful. Other that that it could make for an expensive remote control as it were. Have an intranet at home with a bunch of X10 junk hooked up to the server, run xmms remotely, and other such buffoonery.
1ST! OOps, sorry...
I'll just move to the outskirts of their little town and set up shop. I'll manufacture copper foil baseball caps, chainmail and grounding wrist straps with realy long cords. So who's with me?
Xmas, New Year's Eve and Day, oh and just got rotated into the graveyard shift. Yup, nuttin' like being a sysadmin in a 24x7 data center. On the bright side I'll have all of those lovely *NIX boxen all to myself tonight/tommorow morning and a fresh copy of LOTR to keep me company ;-)
"According to Desler, Microsoft has rigorous
processes in place during the development of Windows
to ensure the security and integrity of source code.