Tell that to my cordless phone! I have 5 devices running on my 802.11b network and for one ifyou're on the phone at the computer you can watch your signal go all to hell. If you are near the microwave while it's on, your signal is shot to heck, and every once and a while the the phone nails the DSS of the WLAN and you get a loud static burst out of the earpiece.
My WLAN has also rendered my X10 cam useless.
This frequency does not 'play well with others'.
Can just imagine if a neighbor put up one of them omni's with the 1.2 watt kicker I saw on ebay up. It's probly take out 2.4 Ghz cordless phones for a block. I was thinking about it, but I'm sure that kit would guarentee me a visit from the FCC.
I don't see why a few well placed omni's couldn't host a crapload of users across a city with directional antennas on the far end. Can you say Sprint broadband? Same diff.
People are covering 20 mile gaps using out of the box Lynksys WAP11's and recycled primestar dishes. Heck even a Pringles can-tenna cound probly get signal at that range.
I'm surprised your company hasn't already done this. They do this for support reasons. I am a SA for a company with a crapload of developers working here. I have this argument with them on a daily basis. There is no reason anyone should be developing on a production machine. End of story. There are whole labs provided for testing software.
Here, if you trash your box - you are on a "we'll get to you when we get to you" schedule because you signed a form agreeing to this to have root/administrator access to the the machine provided to you. I can't tell you how many developers come crying to me wanting their machines fixed and I tell 'em to get in line. 9 times out of 10 it's broke because they setup their laptop for their home LAN and it doesn't work when they came back to work. That or the latest Britany Spears screen saver is crashing it. We curbed the un-necessary breakfixes by locking people out of the OS's.
I stream pull down MP3's just fine on my laptop around the house using it's 802.11b connection. I could use a device like this if it had a 802.11b option. It'd be next to impossible to get ethernet to the back rooms of my house.
Very cool - good for Dell. The whole Inspiron line is their "new technology" stuff so that doesn't surprise me. Unfortunately I get stuck dealing with the Lattitude series (mainstream).
Just a lot easier to configure. Rt-click on the desktop and you can configure everything from desktop colors to Samba settings. It's all in once place. I've recently installed Redhat 7.1 on a new computer I picked up, and I still can't get Apache / Samba working right. With Corel it was all up and running within 15 minutes of partitioning the hard disk.
You could still do all the command line stuff if you wanted to.
Read the Access Card. It says quite plainly that the cards are the property on Direct TV and must be returned if they ask for 'em. The cards were theirs to destroy.
They have excellent drivers for Windows. Some people are reporting success under Linux although I haven't been able to get my Media GX working for crap in Debian.
I finally find a distro that actually works and is as easy to use as any Windows produt. It's a shame to see it go. Time to dig out those (shudder) Redhat CD's - fight with stupid problems with X, network settings that dissapear on re-boot, and any other annoyances that I didn't get with Corral's distro.
It was hardly a slight simulator. It was more like "asteroids" in the first person. There was no physics modeling or anything like tht - VERY code light. Calling it a flight simulator is like calling Wolfenstein-3D Quake3.
Sprint Broadband is a last ditch option. I had the old version that had the 28.8 uplink, but evne the new "two-way" service has wicked latency. 1200 ping is good for their system. They also have a lot of downtime in certain areas. A good friend of mine was down all this weekend ontheir two-way service. The transfr rates are awesome 300K down / 32K up, but the latency just sucks. Try fragging on that.... I don't think so!
I wasn't able to get ADSL because their database said my line didn't qualify. I was outside of Cox's @home network so I couldn't get that either. I had Speedchoice (microwave downlink, 28.8 uplink) until VDSL came along. US West (QWest) handls VDSL totally seperate from their ADSL service. I even call a different phone number for any phoblems with phone / cable / DSL support. Their VDSL service is Cable TV / Phone / Internet and is available in two flavors: 256k and 1024k. I have the 1024k and it's 1024k up / 1024k down. The DSL portion is pretty cheap at $45/mo. The downside is you have to get their Cable TV service ($8/mo for just local channels) and you have to have phone service with US West (QWest). My total bill is about $85/mo for the package.
As for reliablility... its not THAT bad. Its no worse than any other provider I've had. I was having it go down about once a month like clockwork, but it's been pretty stable lately (at least the last three months). I think the downtime I was seeing was because the rash of new intallations from people in my neighborhood trying ot get away from Cox Cable.
The nice part is that they don't care what's running on the line. I've got web/ftp servers running and haven't heard a peep from them.
The only bad part is the lame $50 Internet setup fee where some guy gets paid $50 to write down the name of the mail servers for you (at least that's all I would let him do!).
AMD keeps turning out crappy motherboards (can you say Irongate?). Via supports the 133 FSB with via's KX133 chipet. There is NO REASON why AMD can't build in the same funtionality for DDR2100. Via will do it. Shoot it'll probly take Via to get a multiple processor motherboard out too!
And they still do!
When they buy a new PC, you HAVE TO buy the licence for the OEM software package that get blown away with their in-house flavor of Win9x/NT which has it's own licence.
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They've been spamming my snail-mail box for years! I must have recieved a hundred AOL CD's.
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Tell that to my cordless phone! I have 5 devices running on my 802.11b network and for one ifyou're on the phone at the computer you can watch your signal go all to hell. If you are near the microwave while it's on, your signal is shot to heck, and every once and a while the the phone nails the DSS of the WLAN and you get a loud static burst out of the earpiece.
My WLAN has also rendered my X10 cam useless.
This frequency does not 'play well with others'.
Can just imagine if a neighbor put up one of them omni's with the 1.2 watt kicker I saw on ebay up. It's probly take out 2.4 Ghz cordless phones for a block. I was thinking about it, but I'm sure that kit would guarentee me a visit from the FCC.
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I don't see why a few well placed omni's couldn't host a crapload of users across a city with directional antennas on the far end. Can you say Sprint broadband? Same diff.
People are covering 20 mile gaps using out of the box Lynksys WAP11's and recycled primestar dishes. Heck even a Pringles can-tenna cound probly get signal at that range.
enough said. EQ rocks since half the population is playing DAoC now!
We play Everquest, does that count?
I'm surprised your company hasn't already done this. They do this for support reasons. I am a SA for a company with a crapload of developers working here. I have this argument with them on a daily basis. There is no reason anyone should be developing on a production machine. End of story. There are whole labs provided for testing software.
Here, if you trash your box - you are on a "we'll get to you when we get to you" schedule because you signed a form agreeing to this to have root/administrator access to the the machine provided to you. I can't tell you how many developers come crying to me wanting their machines fixed and I tell 'em to get in line. 9 times out of 10 it's broke because they setup their laptop for their home LAN and it doesn't work when they came back to work. That or the latest Britany Spears screen saver is crashing it. We curbed the un-necessary breakfixes by locking people out of the OS's.
I stream pull down MP3's just fine on my laptop around the house using it's 802.11b connection. I could use a device like this if it had a 802.11b option. It'd be next to impossible to get ethernet to the back rooms of my house.
Cool Idea though.
Very cool - good for Dell. The whole Inspiron line is their "new technology" stuff so that doesn't surprise me. Unfortunately I get stuck dealing with the Lattitude series (mainstream).
on both OEM and laptop PCs. Especially in the laptop market. Not much room for an upgrade w/o replacing the entire main board.
Just a lot easier to configure. Rt-click on the desktop and you can configure everything from desktop colors to Samba settings. It's all in once place. I've recently installed Redhat 7.1 on a new computer I picked up, and I still can't get Apache / Samba working right. With Corel it was all up and running within 15 minutes of partitioning the hard disk.
You could still do all the command line stuff if you wanted to.
and that's why @home is being installed on Monday. No more Qwest at all in my house.
Read the Access Card. It says quite plainly that the cards are the property on Direct TV and must be returned if they ask for 'em. The cards were theirs to destroy.
Sadaam defeats bush in Tekken Tag Tournament!
They have excellent drivers for Windows. Some people are reporting success under Linux although I haven't been able to get my Media GX working for crap in Debian.
Windows 2000 drivers have been sucking in general. It seems the OEMs are just patching crap together to call their products Win2k ready.
I finally find a distro that actually works and is as easy to use as any Windows produt. It's a shame to see it go. Time to dig out those (shudder) Redhat CD's - fight with stupid problems with X, network settings that dissapear on re-boot, and any other annoyances that I didn't get with Corral's distro.
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like 3DFX does. I love my 3DFX cards, but the new cards just didn't deliver.
C'mon this is slashdot!
It was hardly a slight simulator. It was more like "asteroids" in the first person. There was no physics modeling or anything like tht - VERY code light. Calling it a flight simulator is like calling Wolfenstein-3D Quake3.
Sprint Broadband is a last ditch option. I had the old version that had the 28.8 uplink, but evne the new "two-way" service has wicked latency. 1200 ping is good for their system. They also have a lot of downtime in certain areas. A good friend of mine was down all this weekend ontheir two-way service. The transfr rates are awesome 300K down / 32K up, but the latency just sucks. Try fragging on that.... I don't think so!
As for reliablility... its not THAT bad. Its no worse than any other provider I've had. I was having it go down about once a month like clockwork, but it's been pretty stable lately (at least the last three months). I think the downtime I was seeing was because the rash of new intallations from people in my neighborhood trying ot get away from Cox Cable.
The nice part is that they don't care what's running on the line. I've got web/ftp servers running and haven't heard a peep from them.
The only bad part is the lame $50 Internet setup fee where some guy gets paid $50 to write down the name of the mail servers for you (at least that's all I would let him do!).
AMD keeps turning out crappy motherboards (can you say Irongate?). Via supports the 133 FSB with via's KX133 chipet. There is NO REASON why AMD can't build in the same funtionality for DDR2100. Via will do it. Shoot it'll probly take Via to get a multiple processor motherboard out too!
There was no mention of Linux whatsoever in the G450 review!!! 100% WinNT/2000.
And they still do! When they buy a new PC, you HAVE TO buy the licence for the OEM software package that get blown away with their in-house flavor of Win9x/NT which has it's own licence.