With ubuntu and the top and bottom panels and then a window's title bar that is a large amount of your screen real estate taken up! Three big horizontal stripes which are always present. Too much for me. I suppose I could have them on auto-hide.
I have switched to AWN so minimized windows are represented by their icon instead of some text with the window title just like in mac os.
It works well enough and looks fine apart from the system tray which isn't transparent but this ain't a fashion show.
Municipalities own poles or do you mean the land under them by right-of-way? I thought that most poles would have been installed and paid for by the power companies and in some cases maybe bell. So electricity rate payers would have paid for them through their distribution charges.
I have troubles with flash widgets always appearing on top of other website elements like menus. Do you not have this problem? I googled and it appears to be an issue people just live with
In fact the rate at which latency increases and bandwidth decreases in a mesh network has been shown to be 1.68^N where N is the number of hops (Piyush Gupta, Robert Gray, P.R. Kumar An Experimental Law for Ad Hoc Networks, May 2001). I have measured this myself in an 8 hop half duplex wireless network.
That is only for data being sent straight through the mesh. When clients connect directly to the mesh nodes on the same radio that is used for sending and receiving mesh traffic then there is even less radio time to go around and things slow down even more.
There is a company called Mesh Dynamics which sells mesh nodes with three radios: one for send, one for receive and another for clients to connect to.
I recall they have modified or extended in some way the linux kernel to have one radio dedicated for sending and another for receiving. This is something I am interested in doing as well but haven't seen any kernel modules or extensions to allow it thus far.
Wow I was just about to buy one of these but bought another IBM^H lenovo instead. I considered a dell with linux but only one shitty inspiron model is available with linux. I considered a dell with windows XP but only notebooks with big screens are available with windows XP. So lenovo was it because you can get any thinkpad with windows XP still. anything to avoid vista!
I may have dreamed^H^H dreamt this but I thought there used to be a slashbox that said what OS or browser was being used by what % of users/page views. I think it disappeared when IE or windows started to become the majority?
I'm an electrical engineer and I love cars that don't have any electronics. it seems like they last longer... and everything still works! windows, locks, you name it. If I am ever rich enough to buy a brand new car I will get all the pure mechanical options I can.
my last three cars have been 1981 to 1989 diesel toyota land cruisers. 30 mpg for the 4cyl 3.4l and then there is the 4L turbo straight 6 if you want a 4x4 with some balls. think the BJ/HJ 60/61 series is still the ultimate vehicle if you are in to going rough places in rough weather.
The voltage regulator crapped out on one of them (ironically the only IC in the thing other than the radio) and the battery died but I was still able to crash start it and drive home with a dead battery, albeit without tail/brake lights.
I had a decent experience with minimo. Mind you I had 600Mhz pocket pc with as much memory as I could get. It was the only mobile browser I could find that could deal with XMLHttprequest.
where are my mod points when i need them! use them or lose them my ass
not as cutting edge as the neutrino detector....
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I've put together a few of these beasts. One network has 7 solar powered hops to the end node and a satellite connection to the internet. Skype works just fine from the end node, it is a little surreal to be in this isolated, remote location talking in to a laptop!
The key is having enough battery to get you through a multi day storm when there will be little sun. It doesn't matter how much solar panel you have when it isn't sunny as you are totally relying on the batteries then. Having more panels just gets your full charge back sooner. I believe we ended up with about 50A-hr of battery per radio.
We also had to build a circuit that would cut the power to the 802.11 radios when the volts got below a certain level (~10V) otherwise something in the power supply circuit of the radio would pop. The circuit would then drop the radio back in when the volts got up to 11 or 12V indicating that the batteries were charged again.
my dad and my bro just went out and bought my bro a new laptop. Cost was not an overwhelming factor. All of the salespeople at futureshop/bestbuy/etc told them not to buy a laptop with windows vista because quote my dad "we couldn't download stuff".
They bought some kind of black mac laptop, the first one in the family, but not the last i suspect.
I select Win95 as my OS and download adobe reader 5.05 because it doesn't have that annoying popup I don't know what the reader is on ubuntu, whatever comes up seems to do the trick
I've built a few 802.11 networks in rural areas (some solar powered!) using really low endhardware.
Frequently devices get smoked by high (lightning) or low (flat batteries) volts and stop operating completely. Sometimes they just start acting strange. I am going to start using ethereal (now wireshark) with the appropriate card to hopefully find out a bit more about what is going on when there is funny behaviour.
Slashdot Mirror
made my day!
what is nice about all these strange combinations of words is that they are unique search terms to enter into google.
Don't have to worry about pulling up results from Ubuntu 6.10 if you search for intrepid ibex.
try disabling the anti-phishing measures under edit->preferences security by unchecking both suspected sites boxes.
My whole hardy system was virtually unusable before I did this.
With ubuntu and the top and bottom panels and then a window's title bar that is a large amount of your screen real estate taken up! Three big horizontal stripes which are always present. Too much for me. I suppose I could have them on auto-hide.
I have switched to AWN so minimized windows are represented by their icon instead of some text with the window title just like in mac os.
It works well enough and looks fine apart from the system tray which isn't transparent but this ain't a fashion show.
1 bn people in the world have computers, 3.5 bn cell phones. (the economist)
Municipalities own poles or do you mean the land under them by right-of-way? I thought that most poles would have been installed and paid for by the power companies and in some cases maybe bell. So electricity rate payers would have paid for them through their distribution charges.
I have troubles with flash widgets always appearing on top of other website elements like menus. Do you not have this problem? I googled and it appears to be an issue people just live with
i thought information wanted to be free?
in soviet cuba they slashdot YOU!
no?
In fact the rate at which latency increases and bandwidth decreases in a mesh network has been shown to be 1.68^N where N is the number of hops (Piyush Gupta, Robert Gray, P.R. Kumar An Experimental Law for Ad Hoc Networks, May 2001). I have measured this myself in an 8 hop half duplex wireless network.
That is only for data being sent straight through the mesh. When clients connect directly to the mesh nodes on the same radio that is used for sending and receiving mesh traffic then there is even less radio time to go around and things slow down even more.
There is a company called Mesh Dynamics which sells mesh nodes with three radios: one for send, one for receive and another for clients to connect to.
I recall they have modified or extended in some way the linux kernel to have one radio dedicated for sending and another for receiving. This is something I am interested in doing as well but haven't seen any kernel modules or extensions to allow it thus far.
How do you differentiate legal or illegal P2P traffic and a Skype call? At the end of the day, you can't.
Wow I was just about to buy one of these but bought another IBM^H lenovo instead. I considered a dell with linux but only one shitty inspiron model is available with linux. I considered a dell with windows XP but only notebooks with big screens are available with windows XP. So lenovo was it because you can get any thinkpad with windows XP still. anything to avoid vista!
Is there some way I can filter out the articles submitted by roland? I never want to see another one. If that is not possible can I filter Zonk?
don't forget excel!
Perl was my first language! no wonder nobody will hire me now.
How far does the access log go back?
I may have dreamed^H^H dreamt this but I thought there used to be a slashbox that said what OS or browser was being used by what % of users/page views. I think it disappeared when IE or windows started to become the majority?
Or maybe I just have reeeeaaalllly lame dreams.
I'm an electrical engineer and I love cars that don't have any electronics. it seems like they last longer ... and everything still works! windows, locks, you name it. If I am ever rich enough to buy a brand new car I will get all the pure mechanical options I can.
my last three cars have been 1981 to 1989 diesel toyota land cruisers. 30 mpg for the 4cyl 3.4l and then there is the 4L turbo straight 6 if you want a 4x4 with some balls. think the BJ/HJ 60/61 series is still the ultimate vehicle if you are in to going rough places in rough weather.
The voltage regulator crapped out on one of them (ironically the only IC in the thing other than the radio) and the battery died but I was still able to crash start it and drive home with a dead battery, albeit without tail/brake lights.
I had a decent experience with minimo. Mind you I had 600Mhz pocket pc with as much memory as I could get. It was the only mobile browser I could find that could deal with XMLHttprequest.
I tried several VOIP software packages and found that skype was the only one usable over a satellite connection with 500-1300ms latency.
where are my mod points when i need them! use them or lose them my ass
I've put together a few of these beasts. One network has 7 solar powered hops to the end node and a satellite connection to the internet. Skype works just fine from the end node, it is a little surreal to be in this isolated, remote location talking in to a laptop!
The key is having enough battery to get you through a multi day storm when there will be little sun. It doesn't matter how much solar panel you have when it isn't sunny as you are totally relying on the batteries then. Having more panels just gets your full charge back sooner. I believe we ended up with about 50A-hr of battery per radio.
We also had to build a circuit that would cut the power to the 802.11 radios when the volts got below a certain level (~10V) otherwise something in the power supply circuit of the radio would pop. The circuit would then drop the radio back in when the volts got up to 11 or 12V indicating that the batteries were charged again.
my dad and my bro just went out and bought my bro a new laptop. Cost was not an overwhelming factor. All of the salespeople at futureshop/bestbuy/etc told them not to buy a laptop with windows vista because quote my dad "we couldn't download stuff".
They bought some kind of black mac laptop, the first one in the family, but not the last i suspect.
A petition exists which has around 2500 signatures already and is sent to parliament as new batches of signatures are received.
I select Win95 as my OS and download adobe reader 5.05 because it doesn't have that annoying popup
I don't know what the reader is on ubuntu, whatever comes up seems to do the trick
I've built a few 802.11 networks in rural areas (some solar powered!) using really low end hardware.
Frequently devices get smoked by high (lightning) or low (flat batteries) volts and stop operating completely. Sometimes they just start acting strange. I am going to start using ethereal (now wireshark) with the appropriate card to hopefully find out a bit more about what is going on when there is funny behaviour.