Not true, buy a wireless card for around $80-$90 bucks (several models to choose from), plug it in to your existing old 486 laptop (free) running linux (free) and you've got a sub-100 access point. granted, it isn't quite 'NEW' but it sure works (and nicely, as a firewall/access point/print server).
I think they mean that is is sub-100 to use an existing computer as a WAP: add one of several sub-100 WiFi cards to an existing PC running Linux (free) and you have a sub-100 WAP (I guess). The cheapest REAL WAP I can find is 185 bucks for the USR access point. Asante, D-Link, and 3-Com are not too far behind (190s), ditto Netgear, Linksys, and on up to Lucent and Cisco.
As for myself, I've had my Orinoco setup for about a year now, my wife loves it, my immediate neighbors love it, and I'd like to spread it across my apartment complex but we are not allowed external antennae:) I'll have to give the Pringles can idea a shot...
but hopefully much more reliable and portable drives. Think VCR tape: consumers are going to want VCR tape sized (or smaller, of course) hard drives which they can pop in and out of these devices. this will mean a lot of good eventually for those of us who dig hot-swap storage.
Q: I can run Linux on my Dual Mac G4, so why couldn't they make Be run on it?
A: Because if they based their BeOS development on the Linux porting work, they would be 'infected' by the 'viral' nature of the GPL and would have to open source their OS.
Q: BTW anyone know of a BeOS-like GUI class library that runs on Linux so we can port our programs?
A: Have you checked out the Berlin? The only way to get anything like BeOS performance is to scrap X-windows. I don't know if Berlin is any faster but it seems to be the only other prevalent GUI to Linux.
On a semi-related note, what happened to the GUI which you could get from Kaffe 1.1 (or so). You didn't even need an X server at all, Kaffe drew its own AWT classes. This would be great, to be able to simply boot the Linux kernel and bring up a JDesktopPane.
Absolutely right. If those with power wish to keep that power at any price, they will until their power is taken away from them.
In the case of corporations, this has to come from the shareholders deciding that they won't support any company which does these kinds of things. Obviously, that is not going to happen, there will always be a lot of people who, if given the option, will be glad to profit from the misfortunes of others. It has always been, and sadly will always be.
So that leaves the government. This has to come from our votes. We have to vote for people who will not allow corporations to make slaves of the third world, or be slave masters themselves.
And while we're at it, can we lock up the executives of companies for human rights violations? That's a decent deterrant for the CEO of Intel or Nike. No more sweatshops or you will go to prison.
the post was actually nearly sarcastic. i mean, who am i more afraid of, people who are close enough to my house to leech/spy on my bandwidth (i.e., my neighbors) or the millions of 'leet' hackers worldwide who'd LOVE to see my wife's laptop in front of the firewall.
Given this attack, we believe that 802.11 networks should be viewed as inse-cure.
We recommend the following for people using such wireless networks.
Assume that the link layer offers no security.
Use higher-level security mechanisms such as IPsec [3] and SSH [8] for
security, instead of relying on WEP.
Treat all systems that are connected via 802.11 as external. Place all access
points outside the firewall.
Assume that anyone within physical range can communicate on the network
as a valid user. Keep in mind that an adversary may utilize a sophisticated
antenna with much longer range than found on a typical 802.11 PC card.
Until this gets a patch, I'm putting my own home access point outside the firewall and not advising people to buy 802.11 hardware (which I had been doing, because I like listening to streaming MP3s by the pool). More than likely, some firmware updates can take care of this stupid RSA 4 IV problem?
Weren't technologies like SGML/XML supposed to make this a lot easier? We don't have to decide on a free, open format, but only the format of the format:)
As long as we have the right NOT to buy them (which we still do, last time I checked... *knocks on wood*) let people make all the stupid, encumbering, doomed to fail proprietary formats they want to make.
wasn't it not too long ago this very forum was laughing at the piddly virus 'code red', because the author had 'stupidly' used a site name instead of its IP to attack it. now look at how much trouble it has caused and answer me... how many other more successful viruses have there been? maybe its intended purpose, DDOS-ing whitehouse.gov, has gone by the wayside, but man, what a lot of crap being posted here, there, and everywhere, on the TV, etc, etc. this is an unbelievably 'successful' virus.
i use ogg for all my ripped CD's. there are plugins for most of the good rippers out there, and the quality is more than good enough. there are even plugins for WinAMP, so my wife doesn't even notice that she isn't playing MP3s (even though she still calls them MP3s:).
you are a well-armed techie. how does the spydercard feel in the grip? it looks interesting, but thin wide objects usually aren't my favorite things to lock a grip onto.
Too bad 'European carry-alls' are not at all in vogue for American geeks.
And to add to all this, why is it, when I already have, oh, 3 or 4 gadgets/crap to be carrying around and I find room for it, do I end up carrying my wife's lipstick/wallet/camera/keys everytime we go out, and she has a purse and no gadgets...
but probably a good chunk of the/. readership are not allowed to wear belt chain clips longer than, say, 2 inches (After all, a 2 inch chain could be a lethal weapon, much worse than a standard #2 pencil, etc). I've seen many a geek walking around like some kind of strange electronics windchime collection.
as for me, i own about 4 pairs of cargo shorts and 2 pairs of cargo pants. an unplanned trip through airport security can be a pain. i usually end up shouldering a laptop backpack just about everywhere (i hate big bulky laptop briefcases).
RBI baseball is the best NES game ever:) Actually what is really funny is that my wife is in the other room playing ZELDA right now. I'm so glad I've kept my NES in good shape. Zelda, Super Mario 3, and RBI baseball get more playtime than my Playstation. Somehow all the 'neato graphics' lose a lot of ground on playability. Cool graphics can take you a long way, but if the gameplay sucks...
I couldn't watch my dad or sister play Myst for more than 5 minutes without going, 'god, get that off my computer now before it makes my other -real- games suck.' Not quite as bad as 'Alone in the Dark', but really, really, really close.
Blizzard has 3 'worlds', and 3 games in the top 10 all time: Starcraft, Diablo, and Warcraft II.
For all you 'blah blah, such and such is behind warcraft II?' people, I'll first say that I loved Warcraft II. It is probably my 5th favorite game ever. But none of my favorites made the top 10 anyway.
My list:
Wizardry I-III (Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord, LL, etc, which I still play on occasion under Apple ][ emulator)
Zork/Enchanter (I lump them as one, and yes, I still have my box sets)
Eye of the Beholder I-II (which I still play on occasion)
Sim City 2000 (which I wish I hadn't broke, I was SO addicted to this game)
Ultima III (which I don't play anymore, although you can under Apple ][ emulator)
Warcraft II
One of the reasons I REALLY love Blizzard games (and no, I don't work for them) is that their hardware requirements vs. how great they look and play is absolutely right up there with the best in the 'biz'. Check out the hardware requirements for Starcraft or Diablo, probably a P-90. And I -loved- those games. Call me biased (bait) but I hate overloaded FPS games like Quake, UT, Daikatana, etc, etc. They take a P-300 and mega graphics cards to play. I'll stick with Blizzard and my trusty P-120, but I just might upgrade for Warcraft III:)
And yes, I grew up on an Apple ][ playing Infocom and Sir-TECH games. I am a geek, of course.
We don't have to. That is what the market is for. They are responsible to their shareholders.
Then again, the shareholders don't seem to mind the 'commingling' going on between Sony, RCA, and the rest of the big labels, etc.
Before I say what I'm going to say, please read my other responses and realise that I am not a pro-MS zealot, etc, etc.
But we have no right to the source code to Windows, and it would be a shame for the government to force them to open the source.
A much better remedy, IMHO, would be to break the OS portion of the company into 3 (or more) competing entities. Then, if one of those fragments chose to open source their code for market advantage, so be it. But with competing 'Baby Bills' (not my name for it, but I've seen it enough that it has caught), you'll find things like more open interfaces and lower licensing costs naturally evolve.
I use Windows for my desktop because it is much simplier to get it to work with all of my devices, Printers, ORB Drive, Sound Card, etc.
Of course you seem to be missing the point that it is simpler to get your devices to work with Windows because Microsoft's monopoly position basically means that all your devices, printers, sound card, etc, come with windows drivers only:) If all those devices came with Linux drivers instead, and NO windows drivers were available... well, I'll assume we are all able to make inferences.
Well, GM has more than a handful of real competitors. Microsoft's commingling is only illegal because they are... wait for it... a monopoly. That is what this suit is all about, Microsoft is a monopoly, and they are using their monopoly power in Operating Systems to enfore a monopoly in browsers, office suites,.net, etc, etc. If they were just a monopoly and not abusing their market position, this case simply would not exist. Don't like GM bundling power windows? By a Ford.
You must have a nice laptop:) I have an older IBM thinkpad. It's only a P-II 266, but man, I would not trade it for anything (my wife has a new VAIO Z505 thing, I definately prefer my thinkpad). What's been great about the PCMCIA is I still use PCMCIA cards I've had since my 486-laptop days. And that 486-laptop is still hosting my crappy domain, using a PCMCIA ethernet card:)
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Not true, buy a wireless card for around $80-$90 bucks (several models to choose from), plug it in to your existing old 486 laptop (free) running linux (free) and you've got a sub-100 access point. granted, it isn't quite 'NEW' but it sure works (and nicely, as a firewall/access point/print server).
I think they mean that is is sub-100 to use an existing computer as a WAP: add one of several sub-100 WiFi cards to an existing PC running Linux (free) and you have a sub-100 WAP (I guess). The cheapest REAL WAP I can find is 185 bucks for the USR access point. Asante, D-Link, and 3-Com are not too far behind (190s), ditto Netgear, Linksys, and on up to Lucent and Cisco. As for myself, I've had my Orinoco setup for about a year now, my wife loves it, my immediate neighbors love it, and I'd like to spread it across my apartment complex but we are not allowed external antennae :) I'll have to give the Pringles can idea a shot...
but hopefully much more reliable and portable drives. Think VCR tape: consumers are going to want VCR tape sized (or smaller, of course) hard drives which they can pop in and out of these devices. this will mean a lot of good eventually for those of us who dig hot-swap storage.
Q: I can run Linux on my Dual Mac G4, so why couldn't they make Be run on it? A: Because if they based their BeOS development on the Linux porting work, they would be 'infected' by the 'viral' nature of the GPL and would have to open source their OS.
Q: BTW anyone know of a BeOS-like GUI class library that runs on Linux so we can port our programs? A: Have you checked out the Berlin? The only way to get anything like BeOS performance is to scrap X-windows. I don't know if Berlin is any faster but it seems to be the only other prevalent GUI to Linux.
On a semi-related note, what happened to the GUI which you could get from Kaffe 1.1 (or so). You didn't even need an X server at all, Kaffe drew its own AWT classes. This would be great, to be able to simply boot the Linux kernel and bring up a JDesktopPane.Absolutely right. If those with power wish to keep that power at any price, they will until their power is taken away from them. In the case of corporations, this has to come from the shareholders deciding that they won't support any company which does these kinds of things. Obviously, that is not going to happen, there will always be a lot of people who, if given the option, will be glad to profit from the misfortunes of others. It has always been, and sadly will always be. So that leaves the government. This has to come from our votes. We have to vote for people who will not allow corporations to make slaves of the third world, or be slave masters themselves. And while we're at it, can we lock up the executives of companies for human rights violations? That's a decent deterrant for the CEO of Intel or Nike. No more sweatshops or you will go to prison.
the post was actually nearly sarcastic. i mean, who am i more afraid of, people who are close enough to my house to leech/spy on my bandwidth (i.e., my neighbors) or the millions of 'leet' hackers worldwide who'd LOVE to see my wife's laptop in front of the firewall.
Not a circumvention device, the primary purpose of WEP is not copy protection.
Weren't technologies like SGML/XML supposed to make this a lot easier? We don't have to decide on a free, open format, but only the format of the format :)
As long as we have the right NOT to buy them (which we still do, last time I checked... *knocks on wood*) let people make all the stupid, encumbering, doomed to fail proprietary formats they want to make.
wasn't it not too long ago this very forum was laughing at the piddly virus 'code red', because the author had 'stupidly' used a site name instead of its IP to attack it. now look at how much trouble it has caused and answer me... how many other more successful viruses have there been? maybe its intended purpose, DDOS-ing whitehouse.gov, has gone by the wayside, but man, what a lot of crap being posted here, there, and everywhere, on the TV, etc, etc. this is an unbelievably 'successful' virus.
i use ogg for all my ripped CD's. there are plugins for most of the good rippers out there, and the quality is more than good enough. there are even plugins for WinAMP, so my wife doesn't even notice that she isn't playing MP3s (even though she still calls them MP3s :).
you are a well-armed techie. how does the spydercard feel in the grip? it looks interesting, but thin wide objects usually aren't my favorite things to lock a grip onto.
Too bad 'European carry-alls' are not at all in vogue for American geeks. And to add to all this, why is it, when I already have, oh, 3 or 4 gadgets/crap to be carrying around and I find room for it, do I end up carrying my wife's lipstick/wallet/camera/keys everytime we go out, and she has a purse and no gadgets...
but probably a good chunk of the /. readership are not allowed to wear belt chain clips longer than, say, 2 inches (After all, a 2 inch chain could be a lethal weapon, much worse than a standard #2 pencil, etc). I've seen many a geek walking around like some kind of strange electronics windchime collection.
as for me, i own about 4 pairs of cargo shorts and 2 pairs of cargo pants. an unplanned trip through airport security can be a pain. i usually end up shouldering a laptop backpack just about everywhere (i hate big bulky laptop briefcases).
Obviously I can't count. But I also forgot Wing Commander (the original), another great game which blows half of this FPS crap to little bits.
RBI baseball is the best NES game ever :) Actually what is really funny is that my wife is in the other room playing ZELDA right now. I'm so glad I've kept my NES in good shape. Zelda, Super Mario 3, and RBI baseball get more playtime than my Playstation. Somehow all the 'neato graphics' lose a lot of ground on playability. Cool graphics can take you a long way, but if the gameplay sucks...
I couldn't watch my dad or sister play Myst for more than 5 minutes without going, 'god, get that off my computer now before it makes my other -real- games suck.' Not quite as bad as 'Alone in the Dark', but really, really, really close.
- Wizardry I-III (Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord, LL, etc, which I still play on occasion under Apple ][ emulator)
- Zork/Enchanter (I lump them as one, and yes, I still have my box sets)
- Eye of the Beholder I-II (which I still play on occasion)
- Sim City 2000 (which I wish I hadn't broke, I was SO addicted to this game)
- Ultima III (which I don't play anymore, although you can under Apple ][ emulator)
- Warcraft II
One of the reasons I REALLY love Blizzard games (and no, I don't work for them) is that their hardware requirements vs. how great they look and play is absolutely right up there with the best in the 'biz'. Check out the hardware requirements for Starcraft or Diablo, probably a P-90. And I -loved- those games. Call me biased (bait) but I hate overloaded FPS games like Quake, UT, Daikatana, etc, etc. They take a P-300 and mega graphics cards to play. I'll stick with Blizzard and my trusty P-120, but I just might upgrade for Warcraft IIIYup, I use it exclusively. Works great in Durham, NC.
We don't have to. That is what the market is for. They are responsible to their shareholders. Then again, the shareholders don't seem to mind the 'commingling' going on between Sony, RCA, and the rest of the big labels, etc.
Before I say what I'm going to say, please read my other responses and realise that I am not a pro-MS zealot, etc, etc. But we have no right to the source code to Windows, and it would be a shame for the government to force them to open the source. A much better remedy, IMHO, would be to break the OS portion of the company into 3 (or more) competing entities. Then, if one of those fragments chose to open source their code for market advantage, so be it. But with competing 'Baby Bills' (not my name for it, but I've seen it enough that it has caught), you'll find things like more open interfaces and lower licensing costs naturally evolve.
Well, GM has more than a handful of real competitors. Microsoft's commingling is only illegal because they are... wait for it... a monopoly. That is what this suit is all about, Microsoft is a monopoly, and they are using their monopoly power in Operating Systems to enfore a monopoly in browsers, office suites, .net, etc, etc. If they were just a monopoly and not abusing their market position, this case simply would not exist. Don't like GM bundling power windows? By a Ford.
You must have a nice laptop :) I have an older IBM thinkpad. It's only a P-II 266, but man, I would not trade it for anything (my wife has a new VAIO Z505 thing, I definately prefer my thinkpad). What's been great about the PCMCIA is I still use PCMCIA cards I've had since my 486-laptop days. And that 486-laptop is still hosting my crappy domain, using a PCMCIA ethernet card :)