Become a Wireless Internet Service Provider. Very little to no licensing and relatively cheap to get started. For cheap you'll want Ubiquiti (http://www.ubnt.com/), for reliable [but more expensive] you'll want http://www.cambiumnetworks.com/. If you need help/have questions, a good place to go is http://www.afmug.com/ and join the mailing list. They'll be more than happy to help you get started.
Oh, and for full disclosure: I work for a WISP as well. We deal with the hills okay, especially using 900mhz. Still can't go straight through a hill though.
Become a Wireless Internet Service Provider. Very little to no licensing and relatively cheap to get started. For cheap you'll want Ubiquiti (http://www.ubnt.com/), for reliable [but more expensive] you'll want http://www.cambiumnetworks.com/. If you need help/have questions, a good place to go is http://www.afmug.com/ and join the mailing list. They'll be more than happy to help you get started.
Doing some VERY basic binary comparison between their mount.mfs binary and one of Redhat's mount binaries I would say there is nothing that says straight out one way or the other. There were definitely some differences (licensing crap all through twin peak's binary for instance, trying to catch if you run it and have no license) and some similarities, but it isn't enough for me personally to say for sure. I'd be going after looking at TwinPeak's source, but that's probably what they'll end up doing anyway.
It depresses me that some people think running around with a ball, throwing it, and smashing into other people is in any way comparable to writing javascript that can run a linux kernel. Calling programming -anything- "whacking away at a keyboard at some random futility" vastly underestimates the knowledge required to do anything cool with programming. Yeah, I wrote a calculator when I first started programming. There were thousands of calculators out there that were better and more efficient than mine. However, whacking away at a keyboard at that random futility taught me what I needed to be able to move on to creating bigger and better things. I think it would be damn cool to be able to hit a web site and run linux when I'm stuck at work on a crappy windows computer. Get this to the point I have a fully functional bash shell and a package manager, and to where it can compile small programs, and I will use the crap out of it.
If the law literally says that exclusion from a group is bullying (As in it doesn't say just cyber) and, therefore, illegal then I can think of a few fun applications.
You can't keep me from voting as a congressman in congress, because that is exclusion from a group! You can't not hire me at that job because I'm unqualified, because that is exclusion from a group! You can't keep confidential government documents confidential... etc.
If it does say just cyber, still some interesting implications. Web sites that require you to pay before being able to post, betas that require invites, etc. could all be considered bullying.
Very unlikely suing about any of these things would bear any fruit, of course. Still fun to think about.
To be fair, since he hasn't played it he doesn't know about the in-game task system. Therefore, he was probably using quests as a generic term and did not disclose anything with that statement. The other things may indeed be violating the NDA.
People actually have enough time these days in their daily lives to fill up their phones memory/micro sd cards on every day usage? Or is this just people trying to look busy so others think they have somthing going on in their lives.
If you take so many photos you abviously want some quality in the image so why not just get any of the 100's of digital pocket cameras out there?
Well, I would assume that the main reason he wants to use remote storage is in case something happens to his phone. Even if a sledgehammer wielding maniac smashes his phone to bits, he still has his pictures safe on the remote storage.
Well, the slashdot effect definitely hit the.tif's site (lroc.sese.asu.edu) for a bit(got to the point where wget lost the connection, and was dial-up speeds before that), but it seems they've mostly recovered! Getting about 2Mbps on the download now.
I'm pretty sure that by "off the grid" he meant someone that the feds weren't already watching. There are plenty of people who have never committed a crime before who might be dumb enough to buy supplies with a credit card.
I am getting started on contributing to Libreoffice, and I can can tell you for sure that there are currently no plans that involve getting rid of Microsoft format support.
I'll take it one step futher - why get rid of Windows 7? You already have licenses, probably already have some patch deployment method in place, and your users are probably happy and familer with it. There is going to be a ZERO cost benefit of going from Windows to Linux because the company ALREADY HAS licenses. Now, if you are talking about bringing in future people, and in future computer purchaces, going open source, that is different.
All going from Windows to Linux is going to do is frustrate users, and going from Microsoft Office to OpenOffice is yet ANOTHER new Office product they have to use. You will have to incure a cost of training users, and suffer from a temporary loss in productivity while the users learn the new system. In other words, converting from Windows 7 to Linux will probably ADD costs, not save them. On top of that, you would have to incure the costs of reimaging your entire Windows user base, and backing up user data, then porting it over to Linux.
I say, stick with Exchange - your department has already sunk money into it, and leave your Windows users alone. Your solutions are going to COSTS money, not save it.
While I agree that it sounds like he probably shouldn't do it right now, your argument is wrong. Sure, they already have licenses for Office 2007/10 and windows 7. However, they don't have licenses for the next version of Windows and Office that they'll end up having to get when Microsoft eventually drops support for Windows 7. Many times you need to upgrade before support ends.
Also, what about the next version? And the next? And what about the future cost of trying to get all the old Microsoft Office documents converted, since they will no longer work with the latest version in 10 years.(Ever tried to open a Word document from the 90s in Word 2007/10? It isn't pretty. Hell, Libreoffice supports old word documents better.) Oh, and I guarantee that Microsoft will change the Desktop and/or Office GUI in the future, so you still have training costs. At least, my organization spent quite a bit of money training users on Windows 7 when they moved to it.
Basically, here is my point: Migrating to Linux will likely cost more and cause more frustration in the short term. However, it will save money and save frustration in the long term. (Especially if long term >= 10 years)
http://www.esecurityplanet.com/features/article.php/3910891/Android-Code-at-Risk.htm seems like a better article to me, as it actually gives you information. For instance, to answer one commenter I saw, it mentions that the code from the vanilla linux kernel has fewer flaws than the code that is Android specific. It also mentions this gem:
"We found that the Android kernel had about half the defect density that you would expect, compared to other industry average codebases of the same size," Andy Chou, Chief Scientist and co-founder of Coverity told InternetNews.com."What that means is that a defect density of one defect per approximately one thousand lines of code is industry average, according to our measurements – for the Android kernel, the defect density was about 0.47."
According to the same source, the defect density if you look at Android only code is.7 per a thousand lines, so still below the industry average. In short, Android is more secure than most other kernels that Coverity has analyzed.
I'm brand new to the international internet "scene", yet I understood. I'd never seen anybody use periods as thousands separators(yeah, I'm from America), but I managed to get what he was saying pretty easily. That being said, it would be nice to use -something- different for the decimal point or for the thousands separator, so that it's not the same.
Your reasoning seems to be flawed. Google supports FOSS community, yes, but not exclusively - many of their products are still non-FOSS, for example. So how they can be "traitors" is beyond me.
And, by the way, this kind of rhetoric and loaded word usage is precisely what turns many people away from FOSS advocates.
Well, they are supposed to be open standards supporting. They commonly say "we support ". So yes, I would say that using a codec that free software cannot ethically use would be betraying the community that they make use of every day. They use our software to make money, and this is the best possible way they could give back.
I apologize, that was supposed to say "They commonly say "we support (insert open standard/free software product here)."
And just an addendum, if we didn't use "loaded word usage" we would simply be ignored. Just because you think it is fine that the millions of FOSS users could not use YouTube/wikipedia(if they didn't make this stand), doesn't mean we agree.
Your reasoning seems to be flawed. Google supports FOSS community, yes, but not exclusively - many of their products are still non-FOSS, for example. So how they can be "traitors" is beyond me.
And, by the way, this kind of rhetoric and loaded word usage is precisely what turns many people away from FOSS advocates.
Well, they are supposed to be open standards supporting. They commonly say "we support ". So yes, I would say that using a codec that free software cannot ethically use would be betraying the community that they make use of every day. They use our software to make money, and this is the best possible way they could give back.
I found it more convenient to post my thoughts on my blog, but basically it wraps down to this: Google will support an open codec or they are a traitor to the community they say they support. Here is the rest: http://fossstudent.blogspot.com/2010/03/googleyoutube-and-h264.html
Even if this did work in theory, someone would think of a way around it. We'll never be completely safe from malware, no matter what security mechanisms are in place. It's like in physical security, security system companies come up with new locks, and thieves come up with new lock breakers. Unless we brainwash the entire population of the world to be nice and not try to break systems, there will never be a conclusive way to detect malware.
Oh, and wouldn't his method for detecting malware be horribly intrusive?
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Become a Wireless Internet Service Provider. Very little to no licensing and relatively cheap to get started. For cheap you'll want Ubiquiti (http://www.ubnt.com/), for reliable [but more expensive] you'll want http://www.cambiumnetworks.com/. If you need help/have questions, a good place to go is http://www.afmug.com/ and join the mailing list. They'll be more than happy to help you get started.
Oh, and for full disclosure: I work for a WISP as well. We deal with the hills okay, especially using 900mhz. Still can't go straight through a hill though.
Become a Wireless Internet Service Provider. Very little to no licensing and relatively cheap to get started. For cheap you'll want Ubiquiti (http://www.ubnt.com/), for reliable [but more expensive] you'll want http://www.cambiumnetworks.com/. If you need help/have questions, a good place to go is http://www.afmug.com/ and join the mailing list. They'll be more than happy to help you get started.
Doing some VERY basic binary comparison between their mount.mfs binary and one of Redhat's mount binaries I would say there is nothing that says straight out one way or the other. There were definitely some differences (licensing crap all through twin peak's binary for instance, trying to catch if you run it and have no license) and some similarities, but it isn't enough for me personally to say for sure. I'd be going after looking at TwinPeak's source, but that's probably what they'll end up doing anyway.
It depresses me that some people think running around with a ball, throwing it, and smashing into other people is in any way comparable to writing javascript that can run a linux kernel. Calling programming -anything- "whacking away at a keyboard at some random futility" vastly underestimates the knowledge required to do anything cool with programming. Yeah, I wrote a calculator when I first started programming. There were thousands of calculators out there that were better and more efficient than mine. However, whacking away at a keyboard at that random futility taught me what I needed to be able to move on to creating bigger and better things. I think it would be damn cool to be able to hit a web site and run linux when I'm stuck at work on a crappy windows computer. Get this to the point I have a fully functional bash shell and a package manager, and to where it can compile small programs, and I will use the crap out of it.
If the law literally says that exclusion from a group is bullying (As in it doesn't say just cyber) and, therefore, illegal then I can think of a few fun applications. You can't keep me from voting as a congressman in congress, because that is exclusion from a group! You can't not hire me at that job because I'm unqualified, because that is exclusion from a group! You can't keep confidential government documents confidential... etc. If it does say just cyber, still some interesting implications. Web sites that require you to pay before being able to post, betas that require invites, etc. could all be considered bullying. Very unlikely suing about any of these things would bear any fruit, of course. Still fun to think about.
To be fair, since he hasn't played it he doesn't know about the in-game task system. Therefore, he was probably using quests as a generic term and did not disclose anything with that statement. The other things may indeed be violating the NDA.
People actually have enough time these days in their daily lives to fill up their phones memory/micro sd cards on every day usage? Or is this just people trying to look busy so others think they have somthing going on in their lives.
If you take so many photos you abviously want some quality in the image so why not just get any of the 100's of digital pocket cameras out there?
Well, I would assume that the main reason he wants to use remote storage is in case something happens to his phone. Even if a sledgehammer wielding maniac smashes his phone to bits, he still has his pictures safe on the remote storage.
Then sue them. Enjoy playing with their lawyers :)
Well, the slashdot effect definitely hit the .tif's site (lroc.sese.asu.edu) for a bit(got to the point where wget lost the connection, and was dial-up speeds before that), but it seems they've mostly recovered! Getting about 2Mbps on the download now.
I'm pretty sure that by "off the grid" he meant someone that the feds weren't already watching. There are plenty of people who have never committed a crime before who might be dumb enough to buy supplies with a credit card.
I am getting started on contributing to Libreoffice, and I can can tell you for sure that there are currently no plans that involve getting rid of Microsoft format support.
I'll take it one step futher - why get rid of Windows 7? You already have licenses, probably already have some patch deployment method in place, and your users are probably happy and familer with it. There is going to be a ZERO cost benefit of going from Windows to Linux because the company ALREADY HAS licenses. Now, if you are talking about bringing in future people, and in future computer purchaces, going open source, that is different.
All going from Windows to Linux is going to do is frustrate users, and going from Microsoft Office to OpenOffice is yet ANOTHER new Office product they have to use. You will have to incure a cost of training users, and suffer from a temporary loss in productivity while the users learn the new system. In other words, converting from Windows 7 to Linux will probably ADD costs, not save them. On top of that, you would have to incure the costs of reimaging your entire Windows user base, and backing up user data, then porting it over to Linux.
I say, stick with Exchange - your department has already sunk money into it, and leave your Windows users alone. Your solutions are going to COSTS money, not save it.
While I agree that it sounds like he probably shouldn't do it right now, your argument is wrong. Sure, they already have licenses for Office 2007/10 and windows 7. However, they don't have licenses for the next version of Windows and Office that they'll end up having to get when Microsoft eventually drops support for Windows 7. Many times you need to upgrade before support ends.
Also, what about the next version? And the next? And what about the future cost of trying to get all the old Microsoft Office documents converted, since they will no longer work with the latest version in 10 years.(Ever tried to open a Word document from the 90s in Word 2007/10? It isn't pretty. Hell, Libreoffice supports old word documents better.) Oh, and I guarantee that Microsoft will change the Desktop and/or Office GUI in the future, so you still have training costs. At least, my organization spent quite a bit of money training users on Windows 7 when they moved to it.
Basically, here is my point: Migrating to Linux will likely cost more and cause more frustration in the short term. However, it will save money and save frustration in the long term. (Especially if long term >= 10 years)
http://www.esecurityplanet.com/features/article.php/3910891/Android-Code-at-Risk.htm seems like a better article to me, as it actually gives you information. For instance, to answer one commenter I saw, it mentions that the code from the vanilla linux kernel has fewer flaws than the code that is Android specific. It also mentions this gem: "We found that the Android kernel had about half the defect density that you would expect, compared to other industry average codebases of the same size," Andy Chou, Chief Scientist and co-founder of Coverity told InternetNews.com."What that means is that a defect density of one defect per approximately one thousand lines of code is industry average, according to our measurements – for the Android kernel, the defect density was about 0.47." According to the same source, the defect density if you look at Android only code is .7 per a thousand lines, so still below the industry average. In short, Android is more secure than most other kernels that Coverity has analyzed.
I'm brand new to the international internet "scene", yet I understood. I'd never seen anybody use periods as thousands separators(yeah, I'm from America), but I managed to get what he was saying pretty easily. That being said, it would be nice to use -something- different for the decimal point or for the thousands separator, so that it's not the same.
Your reasoning seems to be flawed. Google supports FOSS community, yes, but not exclusively - many of their products are still non-FOSS, for example. So how they can be "traitors" is beyond me.
And, by the way, this kind of rhetoric and loaded word usage is precisely what turns many people away from FOSS advocates.
Well, they are supposed to be open standards supporting. They commonly say "we support ". So yes, I would say that using a codec that free software cannot ethically use would be betraying the community that they make use of every day. They use our software to make money, and this is the best possible way they could give back.
I apologize, that was supposed to say "They commonly say "we support (insert open standard/free software product here)." And just an addendum, if we didn't use "loaded word usage" we would simply be ignored. Just because you think it is fine that the millions of FOSS users could not use YouTube/wikipedia(if they didn't make this stand), doesn't mean we agree.
Your reasoning seems to be flawed. Google supports FOSS community, yes, but not exclusively - many of their products are still non-FOSS, for example. So how they can be "traitors" is beyond me.
And, by the way, this kind of rhetoric and loaded word usage is precisely what turns many people away from FOSS advocates.
Well, they are supposed to be open standards supporting. They commonly say "we support ". So yes, I would say that using a codec that free software cannot ethically use would be betraying the community that they make use of every day. They use our software to make money, and this is the best possible way they could give back.
I found it more convenient to post my thoughts on my blog, but basically it wraps down to this: Google will support an open codec or they are a traitor to the community they say they support. Here is the rest: http://fossstudent.blogspot.com/2010/03/googleyoutube-and-h264.html
Even if this did work in theory, someone would think of a way around it. We'll never be completely safe from malware, no matter what security mechanisms are in place. It's like in physical security, security system companies come up with new locks, and thieves come up with new lock breakers. Unless we brainwash the entire population of the world to be nice and not try to break systems, there will never be a conclusive way to detect malware. Oh, and wouldn't his method for detecting malware be horribly intrusive?
Heh, well i just hit the little link and then hit the link at the top to go back to the main topic... then sent a e-mail to /.
Yeah, messed up there... meant to put "little comments link"
Heh, well i just hit the little link and then hit the link at the top to go back to the main topic... then sent a e-mail to /.