I just finished Ken MacLeod's Cosmonaut Keep and Dark Light from the Engines of Light series; I found them very entertaining. You know it's geek sci-fi when one of the characters complains that he can't get to Slashdot.:-) (Taco and crew will be glad to hear that/. is still around in the year 2049.) Engines of Light combines hacking, politics, space travel, aliens, and oh yeah, there's a little sex and violence.
Unfortunately, the spare cycles on home computers are generally worth less than the overhead cost to use them. (Notice that all the successful projects in this area are non-profit.)
Contrast this with 802.11a which is in an entirely different Spectrum range, which IT OWNS, specifically for wireless networking.
That's not true; the 5GHz U-NII band is unlicensed as well. There are 5GHz cordless phones already, and I suspect in the future we'll see more non-networking 5GHz equipment.
Now, the speed rating makes it seem as if 802.11a cards are several times faster than 802.11g cards.
No. The 802.11a products will say "54Mbps" on them, and the 802.11g products will also say "54Mbps". Since 802.11a and 802.11g are essentially the same speed, it won't be misleading.
I downloaded this driver when it first came out (even though I don't have the hardware) and it looks like it only has low-level hardware communication code in it. To make it at all useful, you'll need a library that marshals and unmarshals commands to the chip, and I haven't seen such a library anywhere.
It seems a little suspicious that 802.11b chipsets had none of these problems, but suddenly with a and g every vendor has a programmable radio and thus open source drivers can never be released.
Good point; maybe they should be building a 3G EDGE network instead. IIRC, EDGE is GSM, but it uses CDMA instead of TDMA for better spectrum efficiency.
Red Hat only cares about open source for their regular distribution; for Enterprise Linux they're willing to make an exception. I wonder if they're going to continue to include IBM's JVM in RHEL, though.
This is a little bit more professional (i.e. expensive) than most of the other suggestions, but the BARWN folks use Stahlin cases in their outdoor routers.
The ultimate Wi-FI PDA appears to be the Samsung Nexio S160, with a big, high-resolution screen for Web browsing. It's not officially sold in the USA, it runs WinCE, and it costs as much as a computer, though.
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As I said before, consider YOID and ESM.
Sure autoboxing is optional. If you write 1.4-style code there won't be any autoboxing.
I just finished Ken MacLeod's Cosmonaut Keep and Dark Light from the Engines of Light series; I found them very entertaining. You know it's geek sci-fi when one of the characters complains that he can't get to Slashdot. :-) (Taco and crew will be glad to hear that /. is still around in the year 2049.) Engines of Light combines hacking, politics, space travel, aliens, and oh yeah, there's a little sex and violence.
As others pointed out, BitTorrent isn't for streaming. Check out YOID or End System Multicast.
BitTorrent does have a protocol definition; there's no URI scheme registered for it probably just because no one has gotten around to it yet.
Sounds a little like Mangosoft's CacheLink.
3.2.2 for OS X is in beta. It works fine, so hopefully it will be released soon.
BitTorrent works fine behind NATs; it does use "push"-type communication. It would be nice if someone added UPnP support, though.
Unfortunately, the spare cycles on home computers are generally worth less than the overhead cost to use them. (Notice that all the successful projects in this area are non-profit.)
Contrast this with 802.11a which is in an entirely different Spectrum range, which IT OWNS, specifically for wireless networking.
That's not true; the 5GHz U-NII band is unlicensed as well. There are 5GHz cordless phones already, and I suspect in the future we'll see more non-networking 5GHz equipment.
Now, the speed rating makes it seem as if 802.11a cards are several times faster than 802.11g cards.
No. The 802.11a products will say "54Mbps" on them, and the 802.11g products will also say "54Mbps". Since 802.11a and 802.11g are essentially the same speed, it won't be misleading.
Sorry, there are no Linux drivers for any a or g cards.
The real-world throughput of 802.11a and 802.11g is essentially the same.
Using its proprietary extensions, Atheros is claiming to deliver up to 90Mbps of real-world throughput (with a raw data rate of 108Mbps).
Is there a private key that third parties know that it is impossible for the owner of the computer to know?
My interpretation of the paper is that there are no keys at all in the TPM as shipped from the factory. Of course, this could change at any time.
I downloaded this driver when it first came out (even though I don't have the hardware) and it looks like it only has low-level hardware communication code in it. To make it at all useful, you'll need a library that marshals and unmarshals commands to the chip, and I haven't seen such a library anywhere.
It seems a little suspicious that 802.11b chipsets had none of these problems, but suddenly with a and g every vendor has a programmable radio and thus open source drivers can never be released.
Ah thanks; I can't keep all those systems straight.
Good point; maybe they should be building a 3G EDGE network instead. IIRC, EDGE is GSM, but it uses CDMA instead of TDMA for better spectrum efficiency.
Red Hat only cares about open source for their regular distribution; for Enterprise Linux they're willing to make an exception. I wonder if they're going to continue to include IBM's JVM in RHEL, though.
This is a little bit more professional (i.e. expensive) than most of the other suggestions, but the BARWN folks use Stahlin cases in their outdoor routers.
The ultimate Wi-FI PDA appears to be the Samsung Nexio S160, with a big, high-resolution screen for Web browsing. It's not officially sold in the USA, it runs WinCE, and it costs as much as a computer, though.
Couldn't you run OS X on MOL on an IBM RS/6000, er pSeries? And what about the Briq?
IIRC, the PowerPC 750FX is only 37mm^2 and it also fits 512KB of L2; I wonder what Centaur/VIA is doing wrong.
Napster was part of Internet history; now they're going to tarnish the name by slapping it on a DRM-encrusted, non-P2P music service.