All good things can be subverted by evil, for evil.
Look, the laws are there to allow the innocent to have some protections from unreasonable procecutors, but the guilty have the same access. In cases where it's REALLY DAMN CLEAR (like the fact that MS is guilty as hell), those check and balance laws can be abused. Should we change the laws? No. But we CAN express our outrage when all the little loopholes are exploited while companies like MS continue to rape and pillage.
Billy needs to be aware that the public (and the people that really matter, like IT managment) won't put up with his crap forever. Everything MS is doing with licenses, extortion audits, etc. will come back to haunt them in the long run.
The courts WILL punish MS for their behavior - especially since they CONTINUE this destructive anti-competitive abuse of monopoly power as we speak.
MS and their crappy software has cost the world BILLIONS, and the world has had enough. It's bad enough that MS has set the computing world back 10 years from where it should be in terms of functionality, stability, usability and performance through their destruction of competitors.
As an example: The Commodore Amiga had an OS back in 85 with multitasking that Windows didn't have until about 1998. Hell, windows XP server still isn't as stable in server funtions as BSD unix was in the late 80's either.
So your answer to "solicite govt to have laws changed" is bogus. While you're at it, outlaw rope because someone can use it to hang someone. Hell, rope was made for hanging things, wasn't it?
Anyone driving a car older than 5 years is living in the stone age and shouldn't expect that they can get their car fixed, or that if it contains a safety flaw that the manufacturer would recall it.
Hey, it's your logic...
Some people don't feel that they need al the gee-whiz k-rad cool features of Win98, so why pay MS if you don't need to? Oh. That's right. We need to PAY for bug fixes to get the product to work as advertised. Oh, and we need to upgrade our hardware too to support win98. Damn, need to buy the new office suite too to get that fixed.
Now pretend that you run a school or business, so you need to multiply those costs by 500 - 5000. Can you still afford it? Do I lay off a few teachers so I can pay MS to get a bug fix?
Think about it. You didn't upgrade from win95 to 98 to ME to XP for all those extra features did you? Or maybe you just wanted to run Word without the damn thing crashing every 20 minutes...
Um, OK. They STILL crash for no apparent reason. They STILL have security holes from hell. You must firmly be living in deamland if you believe that win2k is rock solid. Either that or you have slept through all the news reports about MS viruses, articles on MS stability, haven't subscribed to bugtraq, etc. which makes you unqualified to comment at best.
Having run windows, linux, and solaris servers and desktops in large enterprise environments over many years has proven Solaris to be the most stable, and Windows the least. Crashes on Solaris are the most recoverable and windows are the least. Amount of administration required is the most on windows and the least on solaris. Linux always seems to be in the middle in all things but cost where it is the lowest and Windows is the highest. I don't expect any of this to change much in the upcomming years, except Linux may replace Solaris in some of those categories as it is advancing quickly while solaris remains fairly static. (Note that ANY unix like system beats windows in these areas, such as BSD, AIX, HPUX, QNX, etc.)
So comparing win2k with win95, sure - ms products have gotten better, but they are a LONG way from being rock solid. It will DEFINATELY take MUCH longer than a month to make a dent in overall product quality.
So while I applaud the effort, I have serious doubts about how much this will affect overall product quality.
Bottom line: Quality is not something you add later - it's an integral part of the entire product development process.
"But boss, it can't crash! I installed the optional Quality module!"
Um, the local loop alone for a t1 is in the $300's since you still have to get it from Pac Bell (We are talking residential here - no competition like there is in the heavy business areas where all the fiber companies have pipe under the street.) Those $450 T1's don't include the local loop, and invariably are actually burstable circuits meaning that you get a T1, but if you use it alot, your bill is more like $1500, not $450.
Satellite has WAY too much latency for telecommuting. 3 seconds is intollerable. It only works well for the casual web sufer. 400K is still slow in my book as well. Satellite is like cablemodems - you share bandwidth and the bandwidth is VERY limited. Not a good long-term solution (install is quite expensive too. Check directpc.com for prices.)
Note that most T1's are provisioned with sdsl ALREADY and have been for years. That doesn't mean that you will get sdsl for adsl prices. sdsl is very much like frame relay - you pay for the bandwidth you want. A full circuit is provisioned and is rate capped. Note that sdsl as "SDSL" is NOT AVAILABLE due to the same distance problem. Try and order it and you will know. Basically, even though they CAN use repeaters, they won't use them unless you order the line as a T1, and then pay T1 rates.
Note that I have talked to a few neighbors about sharing a T1 or 3 (I have a cisco router with 4 T1 ports sitting in my garage already) and doing the 802.11b thing, but it's still pretty expensive unless I can get 20 - 40 people to share the costs which is hard to do. Equipment costs are still high to get that many people online. THe problem with this is that you have the issue of the person with the T1 moving - then what?
So ROFLMAO all you want - until you REALLY do ALL the research and find out ALL the issues and true costs and availablity, you don't have a clue.
Note that most companies LIE about availability. You only know when you order it and they tell you "Oh. I guess it's not available to you. Would you like our dial-up service?"
Pac Bell is NOT Bell Atlantic, Qwest, or any other company. They don't offer the same services. When they do, it's not at the same price.
BTW, my circuit IS business class, and business class is ALWAYS more expensive which is why my IDSL 144K line is $120.
You can buy special video capture cards that have 8 inputs or so, and use hardware wavelet compression. You probably don't want to use cards that do software compression as you would need a cluster of computers to record. As is, you may need more than one. Throw in a few 120G hard drives, and you have a decent system.
Note: these are NOT consumer level cards. They are not very cheap either, but you get what you pay for (they are generally high resolution.) Because they are used in custom apps, you usually get all the docs to write drivers, souce code samples, etc. (don't know about linux support...)
This is utter bullcrap. Digital cable is mpeg-2. THe compression allows them to deliver more channels in the same bandwidth. Digital also allows for easier access controls (encryption) so it's harder to steal cable service. It's basically the same technology as DirectTV / Dish Network.
I don't know WHERE you got your idea of how digital cable works, maybe from the screwey systems that hotels use to order movies on demand. City wide cable systems do NOT work that way.
Talked to one of the city government people involved with the franchise issues here in San Jose. Seems that AT&T doesn't want to make the billion dollar investment to upgrade the infrastructure to support cable modems, and no other cable company is willing to either which is why San Jose (and many of the other surrounding areas like Campbell which are part of the same system) will NOT see cablemodem service for MANY years - if ever.
Those of us out of reach of DSL are totally screwed. As far as "project Pronto" goes (PacBell's extended distance DSL) it's 7 YEARS off for my area (South San Jose).
Sprint broadband (wireless) discontinued service (they sucked anyway, I tried them too.) Seems that sprint doesn't have a f-ing clue how to do wireless right.
So here I am in the heart of Silicon Valley with overpriced, slow IDSL at $120 / month as my ONLY realistic option for "high speed" internet (if you count 3x modem speed as "high"). Next to that is $1000 / month for a T1.
So the utility companies are NOT going to help us here. This is where the government needs to step in and wire the city since no company is willing to spend the bucks.
So while the technology exists for high speed cable, DSL, wireless, fiber, etc. don't expect to see it deployed in your lifetime.
Well, a persistant person may try multiple standard addresses like webmaster, sales, abuse, postmaster, support, and so on. "postmaster" MUST work and be valid. Remember that yahoo corp may use a different domain than yahoo.com... Whois is your friend. Think yahoo-inc:-)
BTW, whois is rather humorous:
YAHOO.COM.REALLY.NEEDS.TO.GET.A.CLUE.AT.JIMPHILL IP S.ORG
YAHOO.COM.IS.TRYING.TO.STEAL.YAHOO.VU.HOW.ACIDUL OU S.COM
YAHOO.COM.IS.NOT.CANADIAN.ORG
YAHOO.COM.BR
YAHOO.COM.AINT.NOTHIN.COMPARED.TO.SAFESEARCH.COM YAHOO.COM
This is silly. The real vi sucks - just look at the version Sun ships which can't handle large files or long lines. Go ahead and comple vim yourself, and link vi to it and deal with it. Be happy that you get vim for vi by default instead of elvis, or one of the other horrible clones. File a bug report if RH's version is fucked.
Depends on what you want to do. If all you do is download p0rn, maybe flakey POS service is fine. I also had the sprint service (had it for about 9 months, finally cancelled last month) and it SUCKED. Not only was that fast speed rare, the random lockups, disconnects, and latency made it UNUSABE for anything like ssh sessions, gaming, web browsing, downloads, etc. Basically EVERYTHING you want to do. Upload speed I NEVER got over 3KB/sec. DHCP only. Download averaged 50 - 200KB.
By the way, those LIARS always claimed that I was the ONLY one having these problems, and nobody else EVER reported ANY problems. Right. I never believed that for a second. Sounds like we should have a class action law suit.
I kept my expensive-slow IDSL connection all during that time and NEVER EVER had an outage in the 3 years I've had it. Static IP's are a must as well.
Wireless by nature will ALWAYS be worse than direct connections. Shared-bandwidth wireless (sprint, etc) will (like cable modems) also always be worse than a direct dedicated connection.
Because it's 2 parts, it's actually more than you would expect. Try $1,500 for the "home" version. Remember that a good size window unit is $400.
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Ummm, you don't bury the computers, you bury about a mile of poly tubing, and circulate a water / glycol mix. Hook that up to an old AC core (or a new one, it's your money...) and you
have yourself a basic heat transfer system. Add a compressor and you have a heat pump. Big project, and expensive (cost of digging deep enough and tubing). If you heat / cool you whole house this way, it may pay for itself.
What I did for my room, was add a few electic dampers, duct blowers, thermostats, and a few relays and you have yourself a REALLY simple climate conrtol system.
You have 4 ducts: exhaust to outside, fresh outside air (filtered), furnace (a/c), and furnace return. Use thermostats to control which ducts are active based on temps inside, outside, etc.
When it's cold outside, you have free AC. When it's warm, you tap off the main house AC. Dual zone control on furnaces are common. I don't care how cold it gets in the room, so heating isn't required (it doesn't get below 30 outside here, and the server room. You can't actually recycle the waste heat as the room is ALWAYS cooler than I normally keep the rest of the house.
I actually have a new modern furnace and A/C that can run at 3 different levels which works awesome for this project. I also have an electronic air cleaner, and run the blower 24/7/365 filtering the house air (allergies...)
Yes, you are talking crap, but I will forgive you.
First, Spam is NOT speach, and even speech has limits. For example, a newspaper or TV station does NOT have to print or broadcast your statement for free. Why should I pay to receive your spam on the same grounds?
You have a perfect right to put up a web page to sell any product, or say just about anything (within legal limits there too.) That right does NOT extend to my email box which costs me money. That's the key - You have shifted the cost burdon to ME.
On the subject of forged headers, what is going on is fraud. They do this to bypass filters, or to avoid getting shut down for violating their ISP's AUP. This is like using a blow-up doll in the passenger seat to use the carpool lane. The spammers KNOW you don't want their crap, yet they try their hardest to force it down your throat against your will.
When a spammer steals another companies resources to relay through their server, that's theft (or worse if the effect is that the company goes offline due to the volume of problems associated with the spam run.)
The current crop of spam laws are broken watered down piles of crap. They don't fix anything. The penalties are too small making it too expensive to persue. On that front, you are correct.
We need a national spam law that provides for Severe penalties for forging emails for the purposes of selling products or services, pyramid schemes, stock scams, etc. We also need laws that prohibit the theft of relay services by US citizens / companies EVEN IF THE RELAY IS OUTSIDE THE US.
But, since we don't HAVE any good laws since all the congressmen are corrupt, we have to handle things ourselves. This is still "the wild west" on the internet.
This means that we have to go overboard on our protections. For those of you using your ISP for email, you are on your own. I run my own email server which means that I can be VERY picky on who sends me mail. Since I get VERY little overseas mail, I block ALL non.com,.net,.org,.us,.gov mail, and any IP address that doesn't resolve (RFC's be damned.) This cuts spam down 90% which is a HUGE win. The reject message gives info (one time key) on how to bypass the filter, and a whitelist allows sites with dumb admins to still send me mail. (I check for other things as well, such as known spam sites, dial-up addresses, etc.)
A secondary filter scans for SPAM signatures, again bouncing messages that match, with instruction on how to bypass.
End result is little to no spam (1 per week) out of several hundred attempts.
Unfortunately this doesn't work for most people, which is why we need Good Solid anti-spam laws with Massive punative damages. ISP's need to be able to sue for messages going though thier servers. Spam cases need class-action status so EVERYONE wins. Spammers actually need to GO TO JAIL, not just fined. This means corporate officers need to be liable for their companies actions for a change.
Well, some of us actually have a life, and use email to communicate. Some of us had posted a message to usenet, a mailing list, or had it listed on a web page, or had registered a domain name. Any one of those will get you in a spam database. Even worse if you keep your email address the same for years, the volume of spam increases by a factor of 10.
As a test, I created a new email address about 3 years ago, and posted ONE message to comp.mail.sendmail. I then deleted the account. I STILL get spam attempts to that address, probably 2 or 3 PER DAY.
Bottom line is that you are an idiot. No one is "inviting" spammers any more than I'm inviting telemarketers to call me because I sign up for a credit card, or invite snail bulk mail because I want electricity (one third of my junk snail mail has the exact same hand-crafted misspelling of my name that I gave the power company (PG&E) a few years ago.)
It's that Girl's fault she got pregnant when she was raped. She shouldn't have been wearing that short skirt and should of been taking birth control pills for "just in case."
HELLO - The question revolves around HOME backup. Bringing your system down to single user mode is exactly in order here... The idea of backing up opened files is silly. The files are in an unknown state. Any "options" to enable that are not really doing you any favors.
You also only need to backup minimal parts while in single user. Most big archive / home partitions can be remounted read-only during a backup. You do partition your disk, don't you? Linux isn't DOS, and some things are MUCH easier with a good partition layout.
What are you talking about? Massive heaatsink? Not hardly. Just pick up an A/D card from JDR or somewhere... Pretty cheap and NO HEATSINKS. Actually, of all the A/D cards I've seen, NONE have heatsinks. You can get these cards for $50 and up (Way up.) Look at the specs for the different cards and you should find one that does what you want. You also want to look for cards that use opto-isolation so you don't fry anything. As others have pointed out, you can buy dedicated o-scope cards that come with software and everything (search google.)
I wrote a trivial o-scope program for an a/d board about 7 years ago in a day or so. DOS
based, only worked with the graphics card I had at the time, but hey - it was only a day's coding. Trivial application for any comp-sci major.
My god people, if you don't know, don't just make crap up - spreading misinformation does no good.
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Most likely, when the battery runs low it will slow to a stop, and just maintain balance. Can't imagine the inventors forgetting that... Easy to fix in a firmware upgrade anyway if not.
Frankly, until we have sidewalk ramps everywhere, this damn thing is going to end up on the road competing with cars. Here in San Jose, less than 10% of residential sidewalks have handicap ramps. Frankly, I don't care for the idea of dodging people on these things on sidewalks anyway. If I need to be on the road, I want to be able to go the speed of traffic (25-35) or at least bicycle speed (15-25) if in a bike lane.
12.5 Mph as a top speed is too slow - make it 25-30 and it may have more utility and make it worth the price.
Speaking of price, at $3K I sure as hell won't be buying one for my child anytime soon. At $700 MAYBE. At $300, sure.
Yes, spam IS that bad. Hang on to your email address for a few years and see what happens. I've had the same email address for 7 years and my spam filters catch over 100 PER DAY for that one account alone.
The problem is that I host MANY accounts off my IDSL line (144K / sec - fastest I could get in Silicon Valley due to the pathetic phone company.) Adding up all the spam I on all the email accounts I host I count almost 20000 spams per day which is a Very significant chunk of my bandwidth as not only does it cost bandwidth to get it, it costs bandwidth to pass it on to my POP account users.
My problem is nothing compared to Hotmail / AOL who get MILLIONS of spams per day. Spam costs the industry hundreds of millions of dollars every year which comes directly from us in higher fees as ISP's are burdened with bandwidth / disk space / labor costs.
The "just hit delete" morons can't see beyond their own petty little email account.
For the few bad laws out there, there are tons of good ones such as the junk fax laws, laws against murder, rape, theft, etc. Paranoia will do no good at all. Giving good input to your elected officials Will.
By the way, notice how all the paranoid/clueless posts against passing anti-spam laws are moderated way up? What's up with that? Are the moderators spammers? Do they like getting 50 copies of the "GET 69 MILLION EMAIL ADDRESSES" spam email?
Actually, legislation is exactly what we need to stop spammers. The problem has been that the current generation of spam laws have no teeth and are not designed correctly.
ISP's need to be able to sue for all the spam passing over their network on the order of $500 per email. Currently only the recipient can usually sue which means that you need thousands of users to file lawsuits which is not economically viable - it's not worth the time and effort for a couple of bucks not to mention the load on the court system. If AOL or UUNET were able to sue, the judgement would be in the millions - enough to bankrupt most spammers.
If I as an end-user could sue for a couple thousand in small claims court, it may be worth while...
Just deleting spam doesn't work, has never worked, and will never work. "If you don't want spam, don't use email." What the f??? kind of logic is that? How about if I get to pull the fingernails off a spammer... That would do a LOT more good, but I still think legislating the spammers into the poor house is better than torture.... On second thought,... Hmm.
Let's say I search for "Flippy flappers" on google.
In my search for info on "flippy flappers", I go through 3 pages of results before I realize that I'm getting bad hits, so I change my search to "Doh flippy flappers". Shit. Change that to "Dog flippy flappers". after sifting through 3 pages, I find that I really need to refine 'cause google still is giving me crap. Soon searching gets EXPENSIVE. People will no longer search, but maybe go to a directory model and google ends up going out of business.
Example 2:
People stop going to cnn.com because while they are interested, it's not worth the money. CNN ends up taking down their web site because they don't have enough hits to cover costs.
Etc. etc., etc.
The industry will spend BILLIONS finding out that the pay for page model doesn't work on a whole.
The problem with the advertising model isn't advertising itself - it's that the industry hasn't clearly understood value of good sites and content. What does that mean? Well, frankly the VALUE of a page view on something like salon.com is much higher than something like teenbeat.com - here's why. Salon readership statistically tends to be 23-38, college level educated, have a houshold income of 90K, etc. Teenbeat tends to have an audience of girls age 10 - 16, making nothing, and have a minimal education. (I'm making up web sites, demographics and numbers, but you get the point. I don't even know if teenbeat.com exists.)
Currently, salon and teanbeat charge the same for advertising because the advertiser (or ad agency) claims that they won't pay salon's rates since they can advertise on teenbeat cheaper because they don't understand the idea of VALUE on the internet.
They also look at bogus information like click-through in a vain attempt to try and judge ad impact. This is a bogus concept. Since you have databases and records of clicks / hits, they think that somehow those hits / clicks have meaning. They don't. advertisers need to change their perceptions and ideas before the advertising model will work again (and it will.) They need to think "Billboard", "Brand / product recognition." Get your name out there, and when people are ready to buy a server, they will buy Compaq instead of biffco because they know who compaq is.
That's it. It really is that simple. Salon can and should charge more because the Value of the impression is higher than that of teenbeat. They are not charging enough. Neither is yahoo, cnn, zdnet, slashdot, etc. The fact that these companies all cut their ad rates is hurting them ALL exactly the way that airlines are all hurt by low prices.
Right now, internet advertising commands less than 1% of advertising dollars, yet consumes 30% of peoples time spent in media (TV, radio, magazines) and is increasing every day.
The market is HUGE, but mainstream advertisers have not caught on yet which is why you don't see ads for Ford, Pepsi, Levis, etc. The strong sites will survive and thrive in time - just not today.
Only 3 times as much??? Not hardly. Try 1000 times.
I have the X20 (and a T21, and Sony Vaio PCG-F450) which is a slightly older version of the X22. Awesome little box. Small, Farily good battery life (requestors battery desires are TOTALLY impossible today, maybe when fuel cells are availbale....), networking, modem, etc. This box also has the add-on base for when you DO want drives, speakers, etc. and works with the newer version of IBM's docking stations (compatible with the T series.)
Runs Linux nicely. Throw in a 802.11b card and you are set.To get the machine this person wants to build would cost millions in R&D meaning the first few off the assembly line would be WAY spendy (market for this thing would be on the order of hundreds...)
Think things like cases, custom motherboards, keyboard, etc. Costs for the molds to make the case alone would run a good $200K. Cases like the IBM's made from composite's are VERY VERY expensive to have a line setup to produce. Now you could probably build a prototype the size of a desktop for a few thousand, but getting it small in one package is a whole different ball game.
This idea seems to come from someone who really has no concept of the costs or issues involved with building a hardware product. Oh yeah, if you actually wanted to SELL one of these things, you need to get the product certified with multiple different agencies (gets worse for overseas.)
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All good things can be subverted by evil, for evil.
Look, the laws are there to allow the innocent to have some protections from unreasonable procecutors, but the guilty have the same access. In cases where it's REALLY DAMN CLEAR (like the fact that MS is guilty as hell), those check and balance laws can be abused. Should we change the laws? No. But we CAN express our outrage when all the little loopholes are exploited while companies like MS continue to rape and pillage.
Billy needs to be aware that the public (and the people that really matter, like IT managment) won't put up with his crap forever. Everything MS is doing with licenses, extortion audits, etc. will come back to haunt them in the long run.
The courts WILL punish MS for their behavior - especially since they CONTINUE this destructive anti-competitive abuse of monopoly power as we speak.
MS and their crappy software has cost the world BILLIONS, and the world has had enough. It's bad enough that MS has set the computing world back 10 years from where it should be in terms of functionality, stability, usability and performance through their destruction of competitors.
As an example: The Commodore Amiga had an OS back in 85 with multitasking that Windows didn't have until about 1998. Hell, windows XP server still isn't as stable in server funtions as BSD unix was in the late 80's either.
So your answer to "solicite govt to have laws changed" is bogus. While you're at it, outlaw rope because someone can use it to hang someone. Hell, rope was made for hanging things, wasn't it?
Anyone driving a car older than 5 years is living in the stone age and shouldn't expect that they can get their car fixed, or that if it contains a safety flaw that the manufacturer would recall it.
Hey, it's your logic...
Some people don't feel that they need al the gee-whiz k-rad cool features of Win98, so why pay MS if you don't need to? Oh. That's right. We need to PAY for bug fixes to get the product to work as advertised. Oh, and we need to upgrade our hardware too to support win98. Damn, need to buy the new office suite too to get that fixed.
Now pretend that you run a school or business, so you need to multiply those costs by 500 - 5000. Can you still afford it? Do I lay off a few teachers so I can pay MS to get a bug fix?
Think about it. You didn't upgrade from win95 to 98 to ME to XP for all those extra features did you? Or maybe you just wanted to run Word without the damn thing crashing every 20 minutes...
Um, OK. They STILL crash for no apparent reason. They STILL have security holes from hell. You must firmly be living in deamland if you believe that win2k is rock solid. Either that or you have slept through all the news reports about MS viruses, articles on MS stability, haven't subscribed to bugtraq, etc. which makes you unqualified to comment at best.
Having run windows, linux, and solaris servers and desktops in large enterprise environments over many years has proven Solaris to be the most stable, and Windows the least. Crashes on Solaris are the most recoverable and windows are the least. Amount of administration required is the most on windows and the least on solaris. Linux always seems to be in the middle in all things but cost where it is the lowest and Windows is the highest. I don't expect any of this to change much in the upcomming years, except Linux may replace Solaris in some of those categories as it is advancing quickly while solaris remains fairly static. (Note that ANY unix like system beats windows in these areas, such as BSD, AIX, HPUX, QNX, etc.)
So comparing win2k with win95, sure - ms products have gotten better, but they are a LONG way from being rock solid. It will DEFINATELY take MUCH longer than a month to make a dent in overall product quality.
So while I applaud the effort, I have serious doubts about how much this will affect overall product quality.
Bottom line: Quality is not something you add later - it's an integral part of the entire product development process.
"But boss, it can't crash! I installed the optional Quality module!"
Um, the local loop alone for a t1 is in the $300's since you still have to get it from Pac Bell (We are talking residential here - no competition like there is in the heavy business areas where all the fiber companies have pipe under the street.) Those $450 T1's don't include the local loop, and invariably are actually burstable circuits meaning that you get a T1, but if you use it alot, your bill is more like $1500, not $450.
Satellite has WAY too much latency for telecommuting. 3 seconds is intollerable. It only works well for the casual web sufer. 400K is still slow in my book as well. Satellite is like cablemodems - you share bandwidth and the bandwidth is VERY limited. Not a good long-term solution (install is quite expensive too. Check directpc.com for prices.)
Note that most T1's are provisioned with sdsl ALREADY and have been for years. That doesn't mean that you will get sdsl for adsl prices. sdsl is very much like frame relay - you pay for the bandwidth you want. A full circuit is provisioned and is rate capped. Note that sdsl as "SDSL" is NOT AVAILABLE due to the same distance problem. Try and order it and you will know. Basically, even though they CAN use repeaters, they won't use them unless you order the line as a T1, and then pay T1 rates.
Note that I have talked to a few neighbors about sharing a T1 or 3 (I have a cisco router with 4 T1 ports sitting in my garage already) and doing the 802.11b thing, but it's still pretty expensive unless I can get 20 - 40 people to share the costs which is hard to do. Equipment costs are still high to get that many people online. THe problem with this is that you have the issue of the person with the T1 moving - then what?
So ROFLMAO all you want - until you REALLY do ALL the research and find out ALL the issues and true costs and availablity, you don't have a clue.
Note that most companies LIE about availability. You only know when you order it and they tell you "Oh. I guess it's not available to you. Would you like our dial-up service?"
Pac Bell is NOT Bell Atlantic, Qwest, or any other company. They don't offer the same services. When they do, it's not at the same price.
BTW, my circuit IS business class, and business class is ALWAYS more expensive which is why my IDSL 144K line is $120.
You can buy special video capture cards that have 8 inputs or so, and use hardware wavelet compression. You probably don't want to use cards that do software compression as you would need a cluster of computers to record. As is, you may need more than one. Throw in a few 120G hard drives, and you have a decent system.
Note: these are NOT consumer level cards. They are not very cheap either, but you get what you pay for (they are generally high resolution.) Because they are used in custom apps, you usually get all the docs to write drivers, souce code samples, etc. (don't know about linux support...)
integraltech.com makes some of these cards...
(frankly, most bt848 cards are junk IMHO.)
This is utter bullcrap. Digital cable is mpeg-2. THe compression allows them to deliver more channels in the same bandwidth. Digital also allows for easier access controls (encryption) so it's harder to steal cable service. It's basically the same technology as DirectTV / Dish Network.
I don't know WHERE you got your idea of how digital cable works, maybe from the screwey systems that hotels use to order movies on demand. City wide cable systems do NOT work that way.
Talked to one of the city government people involved with the franchise issues here in San Jose. Seems that AT&T doesn't want to make the billion dollar investment to upgrade the infrastructure to support cable modems, and no other cable company is willing to either which is why San Jose (and many of the other surrounding areas like Campbell which are part of the same system) will NOT see cablemodem service for MANY years - if ever.
Those of us out of reach of DSL are totally screwed. As far as "project Pronto" goes (PacBell's extended distance DSL) it's 7 YEARS off for my area (South San Jose).
Sprint broadband (wireless) discontinued service (they sucked anyway, I tried them too.) Seems that sprint doesn't have a f-ing clue how to do wireless right.
So here I am in the heart of Silicon Valley with overpriced, slow IDSL at $120 / month as my ONLY realistic option for "high speed" internet (if you count 3x modem speed as "high"). Next to that is $1000 / month for a T1.
So the utility companies are NOT going to help us here. This is where the government needs to step in and wire the city since no company is willing to spend the bucks.
So while the technology exists for high speed cable, DSL, wireless, fiber, etc. don't expect to see it deployed in your lifetime.
Well, a persistant person may try multiple standard addresses like webmaster, sales, abuse, postmaster, support, and so on. "postmaster" MUST work and be valid. Remember that yahoo corp may use a different domain than yahoo.com... Whois is your friend. Think yahoo-inc :-)
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BTW, whois is rather humorous:
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This is silly. The real vi sucks - just look at the version Sun ships which can't handle large files or long lines. Go ahead and comple vim yourself, and link vi to it and deal with it. Be happy that you get vim for vi by default instead of elvis, or one of the other horrible clones. File a bug report if RH's version is fucked.
Yes, that's right. Best security you can have is to arm the satellites with lasers so you can shoot anyone running nmap on your bird...
/. readers are experts in satellite security? Why ask here? Must be a REALLY slow news day to post this kind of thing...
Seriously though, how many
Depends on what you want to do. If all you do is download p0rn, maybe flakey POS service is fine. I also had the sprint service (had it for about 9 months, finally cancelled last month) and it SUCKED. Not only was that fast speed rare, the random lockups, disconnects, and latency made it UNUSABE for anything like ssh sessions, gaming, web browsing, downloads, etc. Basically EVERYTHING you want to do. Upload speed I NEVER got over 3KB/sec. DHCP only. Download averaged 50 - 200KB.
By the way, those LIARS always claimed that I was the ONLY one having these problems, and nobody else EVER reported ANY problems. Right. I never believed that for a second. Sounds like we should have a class action law suit.
I kept my expensive-slow IDSL connection all during that time and NEVER EVER had an outage in the 3 years I've had it. Static IP's are a must as well.
Wireless by nature will ALWAYS be worse than direct connections. Shared-bandwidth wireless (sprint, etc) will (like cable modems) also always be worse than a direct dedicated connection.
Because it's 2 parts, it's actually more than you would expect. Try $1,500 for the "home" version. Remember that a good size window unit is $400.
Ummm, you don't bury the computers, you bury about a mile of poly tubing, and circulate a water / glycol mix. Hook that up to an old AC core (or a new one, it's your money...) and you
have yourself a basic heat transfer system. Add a compressor and you have a heat pump. Big project, and expensive (cost of digging deep enough and tubing). If you heat / cool you whole house this way, it may pay for itself.
What I did for my room, was add a few electic dampers, duct blowers, thermostats, and a few relays and you have yourself a REALLY simple climate conrtol system.
You have 4 ducts: exhaust to outside, fresh outside air (filtered), furnace (a/c), and furnace return. Use thermostats to control which ducts are active based on temps inside, outside, etc.
When it's cold outside, you have free AC. When it's warm, you tap off the main house AC. Dual zone control on furnaces are common. I don't care how cold it gets in the room, so heating isn't required (it doesn't get below 30 outside here, and the server room. You can't actually recycle the waste heat as the room is ALWAYS cooler than I normally keep the rest of the house.
I actually have a new modern furnace and A/C that can run at 3 different levels which works awesome for this project. I also have an electronic air cleaner, and run the blower 24/7/365 filtering the house air (allergies...)
Dude: where have you been? It's been illegal to pirate software for "quite some time now..." This is nothing new.
Just another reason to use Linux and open source free software. If you choose Microsoft, you pay or else "the man" will come for you...
Yes, you are talking crap, but I will forgive you.
.com, .net, .org, .us, .gov mail, and any IP address that doesn't resolve (RFC's be damned.) This cuts spam down 90% which is a HUGE win. The reject message gives info (one time key) on how to bypass the filter, and a whitelist allows sites with dumb admins to still send me mail. (I check for other things as well, such as known spam sites, dial-up addresses, etc.)
First, Spam is NOT speach, and even speech has limits. For example, a newspaper or TV station does NOT have to print or broadcast your statement for free. Why should I pay to receive your spam on the same grounds?
You have a perfect right to put up a web page to sell any product, or say just about anything (within legal limits there too.) That right does NOT extend to my email box which costs me money. That's the key - You have shifted the cost burdon to ME.
On the subject of forged headers, what is going on is fraud. They do this to bypass filters, or to avoid getting shut down for violating their ISP's AUP. This is like using a blow-up doll in the passenger seat to use the carpool lane. The spammers KNOW you don't want their crap, yet they try their hardest to force it down your throat against your will.
When a spammer steals another companies resources to relay through their server, that's theft (or worse if the effect is that the company goes offline due to the volume of problems associated with the spam run.)
The current crop of spam laws are broken watered down piles of crap. They don't fix anything. The penalties are too small making it too expensive to persue. On that front, you are correct.
We need a national spam law that provides for Severe penalties for forging emails for the purposes of selling products or services, pyramid schemes, stock scams, etc. We also need laws that prohibit the theft of relay services by US citizens / companies EVEN IF THE RELAY IS OUTSIDE THE US.
But, since we don't HAVE any good laws since all the congressmen are corrupt, we have to handle things ourselves. This is still "the wild west" on the internet.
This means that we have to go overboard on our protections. For those of you using your ISP for email, you are on your own. I run my own email server which means that I can be VERY picky on who sends me mail. Since I get VERY little overseas mail, I block ALL non
A secondary filter scans for SPAM signatures, again bouncing messages that match, with instruction on how to bypass.
End result is little to no spam (1 per week) out of several hundred attempts.
Unfortunately this doesn't work for most people, which is why we need Good Solid anti-spam laws with Massive punative damages. ISP's need to be able to sue for messages going though thier servers. Spam cases need class-action status so EVERYONE wins. Spammers actually need to GO TO JAIL, not just fined. This means corporate officers need to be liable for their companies actions for a change.
Well, some of us actually have a life, and use email to communicate. Some of us had posted a message to usenet, a mailing list, or had it listed on a web page, or had registered a domain name. Any one of those will get you in a spam database. Even worse if you keep your email address the same for years, the volume of spam increases by a factor of 10.
As a test, I created a new email address about 3 years ago, and posted ONE message to comp.mail.sendmail. I then deleted the account. I STILL get spam attempts to that address, probably 2 or 3 PER DAY.
Bottom line is that you are an idiot. No one is "inviting" spammers any more than I'm inviting telemarketers to call me because I sign up for a credit card, or invite snail bulk mail because I want electricity (one third of my junk snail mail has the exact same hand-crafted misspelling of my name that I gave the power company (PG&E) a few years ago.)
It's that Girl's fault she got pregnant when she was raped. She shouldn't have been wearing that short skirt and should of been taking birth control pills for "just in case."
Yes, your "invitation" logic IS that stupid.
HELLO - The question revolves around HOME backup. Bringing your system down to single user mode is exactly in order here... The idea of backing up opened files is silly. The files are in an unknown state. Any "options" to enable that are not really doing you any favors.
You also only need to backup minimal parts while in single user. Most big archive / home partitions can be remounted read-only during a backup. You do partition your disk, don't you? Linux isn't DOS, and some things are MUCH easier with a good partition layout.
x-10 is WAY out of date. Go lonworks (echelon.com) which enables devices to become smart instead of being dumb remote control.
What are you talking about? Massive heaatsink? Not hardly. Just pick up an A/D card from JDR or somewhere... Pretty cheap and NO HEATSINKS. Actually, of all the A/D cards I've seen, NONE have heatsinks. You can get these cards for $50 and up (Way up.) Look at the specs for the different cards and you should find one that does what you want. You also want to look for cards that use opto-isolation so you don't fry anything. As others have pointed out, you can buy dedicated o-scope cards that come with software and everything (search google.)
I wrote a trivial o-scope program for an a/d board about 7 years ago in a day or so. DOS
based, only worked with the graphics card I had at the time, but hey - it was only a day's coding. Trivial application for any comp-sci major.
My god people, if you don't know, don't just make crap up - spreading misinformation does no good.
Most likely, when the battery runs low it will slow to a stop, and just maintain balance. Can't imagine the inventors forgetting that... Easy to fix in a firmware upgrade anyway if not.
Frankly, until we have sidewalk ramps everywhere, this damn thing is going to end up on the road competing with cars. Here in San Jose, less than 10% of residential sidewalks have handicap ramps. Frankly, I don't care for the idea of dodging people on these things on sidewalks anyway. If I need to be on the road, I want to be able to go the speed of traffic (25-35) or at least bicycle speed (15-25) if in a bike lane.
12.5 Mph as a top speed is too slow - make it 25-30 and it may have more utility and make it worth the price.
Speaking of price, at $3K I sure as hell won't be buying one for my child anytime soon. At $700 MAYBE. At $300, sure.
Let's just say that if they can install a keylogger, they already HAVE your private key...
Frankly, this is just another reason not to run Windows or use virusware like Outlook.
Yes, spam IS that bad. Hang on to your email address for a few years and see what happens. I've had the same email address for 7 years and my spam filters catch over 100 PER DAY for that one account alone.
/clueless posts against passing anti-spam laws are moderated way up? What's up with that? Are the moderators spammers? Do they like getting 50 copies of the "GET 69 MILLION EMAIL ADDRESSES" spam email?
The problem is that I host MANY accounts off my IDSL line (144K / sec - fastest I could get in Silicon Valley due to the pathetic phone company.) Adding up all the spam I on all the email accounts I host I count almost 20000 spams per day which is a Very significant chunk of my bandwidth as not only does it cost bandwidth to get it, it costs bandwidth to pass it on to my POP account users.
My problem is nothing compared to Hotmail / AOL who get MILLIONS of spams per day. Spam costs the industry hundreds of millions of dollars every year which comes directly from us in higher fees as ISP's are burdened with bandwidth / disk space / labor costs.
The "just hit delete" morons can't see beyond their own petty little email account.
For the few bad laws out there, there are tons of good ones such as the junk fax laws, laws against murder, rape, theft, etc. Paranoia will do no good at all. Giving good input to your elected officials Will.
By the way, notice how all the paranoid
Actually, legislation is exactly what we need to stop spammers. The problem has been that the current generation of spam laws have no teeth and are not designed correctly.
ISP's need to be able to sue for all the spam passing over their network on the order of $500 per email. Currently only the recipient can usually sue which means that you need thousands of users to file lawsuits which is not economically viable - it's not worth the time and effort for a couple of bucks not to mention the load on the court system. If AOL or UUNET were able to sue, the judgement would be in the millions - enough to bankrupt most spammers.
If I as an end-user could sue for a couple thousand in small claims court, it may be worth while...
Just deleting spam doesn't work, has never worked, and will never work. "If you don't want spam, don't use email." What the f??? kind of logic is that? How about if I get to pull the fingernails off a spammer... That would do a LOT more good, but I still think legislating the spammers into the poor house is better than torture.... On second thought,... Hmm.
Let's say I search for "Flippy flappers" on google.
In my search for info on "flippy flappers", I go through 3 pages of results before I realize that I'm getting bad hits, so I change my search to "Doh flippy flappers". Shit. Change that to "Dog flippy flappers". after sifting through 3 pages, I find that I really need to refine 'cause google still is giving me crap. Soon searching gets EXPENSIVE. People will no longer search, but maybe go to a directory model and google ends up going out of business.
Example 2:
People stop going to cnn.com because while they are interested, it's not worth the money. CNN ends up taking down their web site because they don't have enough hits to cover costs.
Etc. etc., etc.
The industry will spend BILLIONS finding out that the pay for page model doesn't work on a whole.
The problem with the advertising model isn't advertising itself - it's that the industry hasn't clearly understood value of good sites and content. What does that mean? Well, frankly the VALUE of a page view on something like salon.com is much higher than something like teenbeat.com - here's why. Salon readership statistically tends to be 23-38, college level educated, have a houshold income of 90K, etc. Teenbeat tends to have an audience of girls age 10 - 16, making nothing, and have a minimal education. (I'm making up web sites, demographics and numbers, but you get the point. I don't even know if teenbeat.com exists.)
Currently, salon and teanbeat charge the same for advertising because the advertiser (or ad agency) claims that they won't pay salon's rates since they can advertise on teenbeat cheaper because they don't understand the idea of VALUE on the internet.
They also look at bogus information like click-through in a vain attempt to try and judge ad impact. This is a bogus concept. Since you have databases and records of clicks / hits, they think that somehow those hits / clicks have meaning. They don't. advertisers need to change their perceptions and ideas before the advertising model will work again (and it will.) They need to think "Billboard", "Brand / product recognition." Get your name out there, and when people are ready to buy a server, they will buy Compaq instead of biffco because they know who compaq is.
That's it. It really is that simple. Salon can and should charge more because the Value of the impression is higher than that of teenbeat. They are not charging enough. Neither is yahoo, cnn, zdnet, slashdot, etc. The fact that these companies all cut their ad rates is hurting them ALL exactly the way that airlines are all hurt by low prices.
Right now, internet advertising commands less than 1% of advertising dollars, yet consumes 30% of peoples time spent in media (TV, radio, magazines) and is increasing every day.
The market is HUGE, but mainstream advertisers have not caught on yet which is why you don't see ads for Ford, Pepsi, Levis, etc. The strong sites will survive and thrive in time - just not today.
Only 3 times as much??? Not hardly. Try 1000 times.
I have the X20 (and a T21, and Sony Vaio PCG-F450) which is a slightly older version of the X22. Awesome little box. Small, Farily good battery life (requestors battery desires are TOTALLY impossible today, maybe when fuel cells are availbale....), networking, modem, etc. This box also has the add-on base for when you DO want drives, speakers, etc. and works with the newer version of IBM's docking stations (compatible with the T series.)
Runs Linux nicely. Throw in a 802.11b card and you are set.To get the machine this person wants to build would cost millions in R&D meaning the first few off the assembly line would be WAY spendy (market for this thing would be on the order of hundreds...)
Think things like cases, custom motherboards, keyboard, etc. Costs for the molds to make the case alone would run a good $200K. Cases like the IBM's made from composite's are VERY VERY expensive to have a line setup to produce. Now you could probably build a prototype the size of a desktop for a few thousand, but getting it small in one package is a whole different ball game.
This idea seems to come from someone who really has no concept of the costs or issues involved with building a hardware product. Oh yeah, if you actually wanted to SELL one of these things, you need to get the product certified with multiple different agencies (gets worse for overseas.)