Most of the current software do not optimally utilize the multiple cores.
Can you name one piece of software that is licensed per processor/core that is unable to take nearly full advantage of however many processors you have in a machine? I sure can't.
Sure, there is a default performance gain based on the OS itself, but its nowhere near what it can be. Lots of work has to be done for the softwares to fully take advantage of the multiple cores and in such cases you do see a massive improvement in turn around time.
There is plenty of software running in datacenters all over the world that can take full advantage of as many processors as you can put in a box. When you posted your comment you hit a web server running Apache. Apache can spawn as many processes as needed to take advantage of more processors.
As for this licensing issue... It really doesn't matter much to me anyway. I don't personally use much closed source software. Anytime I have used expensive software, it sure wasn't on my dime:p.
USB 2.0 "High-speed" is incredibly slow. Around 11MBps on my Linux box.
If that is the case you are doing something wrong. I recently moved my (slow) 4x DVD burner into a USB 2.0 enclosure and it can burn at full speed. Since that is in the ballpark of 5 times faster than what you are getting, something was wrong with your setup.
For large files, the only choice is Firewire.
Only if you want to limit the quantity of machines you can connect your drive to. There are still many more machines with only USB 1.1, no firewire or USB 2. If the drive is being used for backups or data transport this would be very useful.
So many American/.er's love the ideals of Opensource which very much co-inside with the economic values of Communism, resources are evenally divided and owned by all, opposed to that of of Capitalism where resources are freely traded based on class and ownership(interlectual property) enforced by the state(RIAA).
yet the same American/.er's blast the threads with "pro-Capitalism anti-communism" rhetoric.
I think you are missing a something here... I definitely know very little about Communism. However, my understanding is that it deals with distribution of physical property, correct?
Software is about Intellectual Property. If I have a copy of open source project X and you make your own copy, I haven't lost anything. You can make as many copies as you like and you take nothing away from anyone else.
If everyone were advocating that all hardware should be free, that may possibly be Communist. If I have a server and you take my server, I do not have my server anymore. See the difference?
It's bitter-sweet me thinks..
I don't think it is bitter-sweet... Although I do believe you are a little short on information.
Imagine being photographed in the changing rooms of your local gym or pool. I've heard that many gyms/pools have outright banned all phones in their changing rooms. Or imagine using the public facilities (Americans are embaressed by the word 'toilet') and having a camera-phone quickly stuck over the door of your stall.
Why is this all of a sudden a big deal when you put the camera on a phone? Small, very concealable cameras have been available for quite a long time.
Or try similar scenarios with children for some pedophilia-phobia (pedophobia?).
Yeah, because you can't take pictures of kids with a regular camera...
Imagine someone re-programming your phone so that it takes a photo every x minutes and secretly sends the images to someone.
You will have to worry about this in the future just as much as you will have to worry about somebody using your cell phone for voice recording. But they can do that right now... Maybe the paranoid just need a shutter on the camera and a physical mute for the microphone. Maybe you should go work on that mute button right now, eh?:p
This works better than a hidden camera because you trust your camera-phone. You own it, so you control it. Don't you?
You own the phone but have no control over the software running on it. The more processing power you put on a phone, the more complex the software will get. The more complex the software gets, the more bugs there will likely be.
I don't think anyone should be scared of their phone though... If someone wants to snoop on you there are currently much better ways than your cell phone. I'll bet the people who are paranoid about camera phones are the same people who think all the current security at airports "makes us safer" and isn't just there to make the sheep feel like the government is doing something:p.
I have a Wacom Graphire tablet around here somewhere. I am not sure exactly what model it is, I haven't had it plugged in in a long time. It came with a pen and a mouse. At first, I was actually quite excited about the mouse. It has no chord and it has almost no weight (I never liked chordless mice because of the weight of the batteries).
I tried it out and it works very well... Except for one issue that I will never be able to get past. The mouse pointer moves in relation to the direction you move the mouse on the pad. This means that if you tilt the mouse 90 degrees in relation to the tablet and push the mouse horizontally, the pointer will move vertically.
That is the most extreme example. Even when using it normally you can tell the pointer just isn't moving the way it should. If this mouse has the same problem I wouldn't go anywhere near the thing:).
So they believe I'm actually the person who is registered as the owner of the car I'm driving
I see a problem with this... What happens in your country when you are driving a vehicle that doesn't belong to you? I own three vehicles and I have been known to loan them to friends when they are having car trouble. If you were in a position of borrowing a car, would the authorities assume you had stolen it?
As far as I remember, my privacy has never been threatened by them
How sure are you that nobody else in your country has had their privacy threatened?
Having lived in the UK for a few years, I couldn't help but get the impression that the point in this discussion is that "I have the right to hide who I am from anyone" - I just don't see that as a legitimate concern.
I can give you some small reasons why you would want to hide who you are... What if someone wants to buy particularly distasteful pornography but does not want their family/coworkers/etc to know about their habits? Maybe you practice a religion that people dislike and it would be detrimental if everyone could find out about it... It is also possible that you simply want to make a surprise purchase for a friend/loved one without them being able to find out about it (cash vs. credit).
The government and its agencies are not a privately owned supermarket who doesn't need to know who I am to accept me as a customer...
What reason is there for me to place more trust in my government, or any other government, than I would in the local supermarket?
I guess we Americans have been raised not to put all our trust in government for a very long time, eh?:)
sub-pixel sampling on fonts does not work very good at all unless you use a DVI connector for your LCD.
Funny, the sub-pixel antialiasing looks virtually identical on my laptop, my pair of aging 15 inch LCD panels, and every other LCD I've tried. All except for the laptop(s) are analog.
I changed from a VGA to a DVI connector on my LCD panel at work and the difference is astounding.
If you are seeing that much of a difference you might want to learn how to adjust you LCD. So far, every single time I have seen an LCD look bad it has either been poorly auto-adjusted or is running at the wrong resolution.
It helps some if when you hit the auto-adjust button you have an image with nice sharp edges up on the screen. If it is still not quite clear, you may have to make some (probably minor) adjustments to the phase/clock yourself. If you still have issues you might want to change your refresh rate. My old panels "flicker" quite a bit at 60hz, but look fine at 72hz.
BTW, companies now make excellent DVI/USB KVM switches, so there is no execuse to use a VGA connection on a LCD panel anymore.
Cost is probably a good excuse, especially for the 90% of consumers of which you are speaking. It would be better to educate them on proper configuration of their equipment.
what it has over the cheap hw solution is that raw speed. and what I mean by that is that the pentium based with even fairly decent network cards can handle something like 80mbit/s going through it when the hw based one can handle just ~20-30mbit/s.
this is *regardless* of if they seem to have a 'capable processor' and 'just as fast bus'.
So you're saying that 200mhz mips processor on a pci bus isn't in the same class as a pentium 150? I can't speak for the NICs, because I don't specifically know the chipsets.
configurability also in most cases is much greater if using something like smoothwall, I'd check that you can do port forwardings easily in masses.
The web interface is pretty basic, but even the stock firmware does basic port forwarding, by port range. What can't be done in the web interface can be done from the command line. As far as I know the firmware I am running doesn't include shorewall, but I believe the latest firmware from Sveasoft does. I've never used shorewall, so I can't say much about that.
of course as you don't have a 100mbit uplink it hardly matters. but what I just don't like is these companies just slapping on a 100mbit interface on it and advertising like it could do it(and then I have to explain it to people asking "why you're running a 'full' computer for the nat?")...
Yes... I, like 99.999% of people on the planet have a 3 megabit link and not 100. So for us, this machine has more horsepower than we are likely to need. Go figure. As for it having a 10/100 port on the internet side... What would you expect it to have? Did you think they should go out of their way to put a seperate 10 megabit NIC chipset in the thing?
I also don't recall anything on the box calling any attention to the speed of that network port...
nat-and-wlan-in-a-box solutions are very tempting, but not without flaws. of course, it could be just easier to get one than get a more recent computer, though.. or better nic's which might be just enough(or more mem).
If I used a more recent computer, I would have to worry about more moving parts to die. I don't know about you, but I've had more hard drives die on me in this last year at home than I can remember ever dieing on me in the last 10 years. I don't want a hard drive. I don't want fans. I don't want to spend the time, effort, and cost to build something equivilent to my WRT54G.
It's my firewall. I don't want it to do much more than it does anyway. Less is more secure.
(also WRT54G is bashed on couple of 'comments' sections like c-net asia's, especially it's wifi range)
I live in a house that is over 100 years old. Some of the rooms still have the ancient plaster-over-wood-or-chicken-wire walls. I can tell which walls are old, because they soak up significantly more signal. My laptop only has 802.11b, but I get full speed anywhere on my property.
With aftermarket firmware (what's more fun than a small, hackable Linux box?) you can increase the transmit power from the stock 28mw up to 84mw. I have not had to increase mine, as a matter of fact I could get away with lowering it. I don't know how well things work at full power, I vaguely remember reading that setting it too high causes heating issues.
I guess what I am trying to say is that a box similar to this is more than enough for most people. It's still a linux box, and I can still run anything I can fit on it. Without aftermarket firmware it replaced all but one service my previous firewall was handling, static dhcp mappings.
the cheap hw routers are notorious for choking up on even "moderate" use, even when they have 100mbit ports(so they'll choke at natting something like 10-20mbit/s).
The only issue that I had with mine at all so far was that the default value of 1024 for ip_conntrack_max was too low. That caused problems with bittorrent and whatnot.
I don't have a 100 megabit link to the internet, and I don't think my p133 could nat much better than this box if that were the case. One of these days I need to install top on my WRT54G and see how much load it is under. My guess is not very much.
and yes usually even ~150mhz pc with decent network cards can kick the crap out of them when needing high speeds.
What does a 150 mhz pc have over this box exactly? They've both got a 33mhz pci bus and they both have capable processors.
(this may have changed, but i doubt it. and with most home connection speeds it of course doesn't matter because not everyone has 100mbit connection to home. it does for me though.)
Well, most of us only have a 3 megabit connection. Therefore for 99.999% of us a WRT54G is more than enough. I would bet that if all you need is NAT at 100 megabit, it is still probably good enough. If I had more gumption I would do some testing... But if I ever need to put hardware on the end of a 100 megabit WAN link it will be a piece of enterprise class hardware. And it certainly wouldn't be the fastest WAN link I've ever had:p.
Consumer grade broadband routers are notorious for causing problems, and are almost always badly underpowered. Using a PC based router to handle nat generally works much better, provided you have the know-how to set it up.
A few months ago I replaced an aging P133, an ancient 3com 12 port 10 megabit switch (with 2 100 megabit uplink ports, woo hoo!), and an 802.11b access point with a Linksys WRT54G.
I replaced the firmware with this. I've been very happy with it so far. I think the 200 mhz mips processor is probably a decent replacement for the P133. It takes up much less space, makes much less noise, and it's in much better condition that the old hardware it replaced. I can still ssh into it, and according to/proc/version it is running a 2.4.20 kernel.
I think it was approximately 70 dollars well spent.
Take for example the fact that I can remotely shutdown a debiaTake for example the fact that I can remotely shutdown a debian machine over ssh with the "halt" command. A RedHat distro had that little feature blocked
Why exactly is this a bad thing? Have you never had to shutdown or reboot a remote server? I know I've had to do both at least a few times... Although rebooting would be much more common, and it would probably be safer as well:p.
On my Debian machines you seem to need to be root to do it. If someone I don't know is logged in over ssh as root on one of my boxes the last thing I am worried about is his ability to shut it down:p.
Bah, everyone knows you need two games, one to play, and one to put in on top of the other game to hold it down ALL the way. It's like up up down down left right left right b a b a {select} start. You can tell who had friends as a kid by who tells you the code had a select in it.
Or maybe you can tell the kids that just weren't smart enough to realize that the select and start weren't part of the code.:p
Contra was A LOT more fun with 2 people, but with one player you didn't need to fight over the power ups...
Funny story....my roomates friend hooked up with Robert Norton's daughter over the weekend. He was telling us, and said "It would be pretty ironic if she gave me a virus." I was laughin for like 5 minutes solid.
I was just recently looking to move away from CVS for my personal projects. I'm not always home, and I wanted to have copies of my repositories on at least my laptop and desktop.
At first, I was leaning towards trying out GNU Arch. But I really wanted something that had a working win32 client. So I took a look at Darcs.
I'm very happy with it so far. It is extremely easy to set up and use (but I haven't seen any gui frontends if that's the kind of thing you want). It is also very easy to keep multiple repositries in sync.
I've read that it can be slow for large projects. I don't remember reading the definition of large, but none of my repositories qualify:).
Definitely, it is purely a layer of obscurity, not security. A very nice benefit though.
It is only a layer of obscurity if you have a static knocking sequence. Why not implement a rolling sequence of ports for the knock? Since each port is 16 bits, you could have quite a few combinations in just a few ports.
And if you blacklist addresses with a handful of failed attempts, it would be pretty hard to break through.
While there are Wintel laptops lighter than the iBook, none has longer battery life and full features.
I think I'm going to have to disagree with you there. I've got a
Fujitsu Lifebook P-2120, with the double size main battery, and the second bay battery. Their website has a bunch of claims about battery life, but I'm not going to quote any of them. Under my average use at work, I power up my laptop in the morning, use it throughout the day(checking email, writing code, doing sysadmin type stuff), and then I take it home, and it still has a few hours worth of juice before I put it on the charger at night.
That's probably over 10 hours of on time. I've never run the batteries down hitting it as hard as I can, but I've watched the ACPI numbers witht he hard drive going and cpu maxed, and it should easily clear 6-7 hours running like that. But I don't tend to use it like that, so it really doesn't matter.
Anywho, this laptop should meet all the needs of the guy who asked the question(usb, firewire, 802.11b, ethernet)... If he doesn't want to send any money to microsoft, that'll have to be his problem though. And if it's not small enough, fujitsu has the P1000 series that sounds alot smaller, but can't pack as much battery, or memory.
I am running Debian on this thing, and all the integrated hardware works, except for the modem. I haven't even tried getting the modem to work, since I've got no plans on ever using it. All I know is that this laptop is by far the most useful laptop I've ever had. It has a 933 Crusoe chip, and I haven't benchmarked it, but this definately feels snappier than my old P3 700 laptop, and doesn't get NEARLY as hot to the touch. It was well worth every penny to me.
It's horribly offtopic but how is it that with your low UID you've posted only 95 comments total and 24 of those in the past day? Where does this sudden uncontrolable urge to post come from?!?
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try putting your public keys on a usb thumb drive. Toss putty on there as well, and you've got what you need no matter where you're at ;)
First of all, your public key goes onto the server you are logging into. You need your private key on the client.
Second, it isn't very secure to use your private key from an untrusted machine. What you want to use from untrusted machines are one time passwords.
Most of the current software do not optimally utilize the multiple cores.
Can you name one piece of software that is licensed per processor/core that is unable to take nearly full advantage of however many processors you have in a machine? I sure can't.
Sure, there is a default performance gain based on the OS itself, but its nowhere near what it can be. Lots of work has to be done for the softwares to fully take advantage of the multiple cores and in such cases you do see a massive improvement in turn around time.
There is plenty of software running in datacenters all over the world that can take full advantage of as many processors as you can put in a box. When you posted your comment you hit a web server running Apache. Apache can spawn as many processes as needed to take advantage of more processors.
As for this licensing issue... It really doesn't matter much to me anyway. I don't personally use much closed source software. Anytime I have used expensive software, it sure wasn't on my dime :p.
Oh, my. Was his job description "copying data by hand" or just "copying data?"
It sure wasn't likely that it was to "create a tool to automate the copying of data," was it?
USB 2.0 "High-speed" is incredibly slow. Around 11MBps on my Linux box.
If that is the case you are doing something wrong. I recently moved my (slow) 4x DVD burner into a USB 2.0 enclosure and it can burn at full speed. Since that is in the ballpark of 5 times faster than what you are getting, something was wrong with your setup.
For large files, the only choice is Firewire.
Only if you want to limit the quantity of machines you can connect your drive to. There are still many more machines with only USB 1.1, no firewire or USB 2. If the drive is being used for backups or data transport this would be very useful.
So many American /.er's love the ideals of Opensource which very much co-inside with the economic values of Communism, resources are evenally divided and owned by all, opposed to that of of Capitalism where resources are freely traded based on class and ownership(interlectual property) enforced by the state(RIAA).
yet the same American /.er's blast the threads with "pro-Capitalism anti-communism" rhetoric.
I think you are missing a something here... I definitely know very little about Communism. However, my understanding is that it deals with distribution of physical property, correct?
Software is about Intellectual Property. If I have a copy of open source project X and you make your own copy, I haven't lost anything. You can make as many copies as you like and you take nothing away from anyone else.
If everyone were advocating that all hardware should be free, that may possibly be Communist. If I have a server and you take my server, I do not have my server anymore. See the difference?
It's bitter-sweet me thinks..
I don't think it is bitter-sweet... Although I do believe you are a little short on information.
Imagine being photographed in the changing rooms of your local gym or pool. I've heard that many gyms/pools have outright banned all phones in their changing rooms. Or imagine using the public facilities (Americans are embaressed by the word 'toilet') and having a camera-phone quickly stuck over the door of your stall.
Why is this all of a sudden a big deal when you put the camera on a phone? Small, very concealable cameras have been available for quite a long time.
Or try similar scenarios with children for some pedophilia-phobia (pedophobia?).
Yeah, because you can't take pictures of kids with a regular camera...
Imagine someone re-programming your phone so that it takes a photo every x minutes and secretly sends the images to someone.
You will have to worry about this in the future just as much as you will have to worry about somebody using your cell phone for voice recording. But they can do that right now... Maybe the paranoid just need a shutter on the camera and a physical mute for the microphone. Maybe you should go work on that mute button right now, eh? :p
This works better than a hidden camera because you trust your camera-phone. You own it, so you control it. Don't you?
You own the phone but have no control over the software running on it. The more processing power you put on a phone, the more complex the software will get. The more complex the software gets, the more bugs there will likely be.
I don't think anyone should be scared of their phone though... If someone wants to snoop on you there are currently much better ways than your cell phone. I'll bet the people who are paranoid about camera phones are the same people who think all the current security at airports "makes us safer" and isn't just there to make the sheep feel like the government is doing something :p.
I have a Wacom Graphire tablet around here somewhere. I am not sure exactly what model it is, I haven't had it plugged in in a long time. It came with a pen and a mouse. At first, I was actually quite excited about the mouse. It has no chord and it has almost no weight (I never liked chordless mice because of the weight of the batteries).
I tried it out and it works very well... Except for one issue that I will never be able to get past. The mouse pointer moves in relation to the direction you move the mouse on the pad. This means that if you tilt the mouse 90 degrees in relation to the tablet and push the mouse horizontally, the pointer will move vertically.
That is the most extreme example. Even when using it normally you can tell the pointer just isn't moving the way it should. If this mouse has the same problem I wouldn't go anywhere near the thing :).
So they believe I'm actually the person who is registered as the owner of the car I'm driving
I see a problem with this... What happens in your country when you are driving a vehicle that doesn't belong to you? I own three vehicles and I have been known to loan them to friends when they are having car trouble. If you were in a position of borrowing a car, would the authorities assume you had stolen it?
As far as I remember, my privacy has never been threatened by them
How sure are you that nobody else in your country has had their privacy threatened?
Having lived in the UK for a few years, I couldn't help but get the impression that the point in this discussion is that "I have the right to hide who I am from anyone" - I just don't see that as a legitimate concern.
I can give you some small reasons why you would want to hide who you are... What if someone wants to buy particularly distasteful pornography but does not want their family/coworkers/etc to know about their habits? Maybe you practice a religion that people dislike and it would be detrimental if everyone could find out about it... It is also possible that you simply want to make a surprise purchase for a friend/loved one without them being able to find out about it (cash vs. credit).
The government and its agencies are not a privately owned supermarket who doesn't need to know who I am to accept me as a customer...
What reason is there for me to place more trust in my government, or any other government, than I would in the local supermarket?
I guess we Americans have been raised not to put all our trust in government for a very long time, eh? :)
sub-pixel sampling on fonts does not work very good at all unless you use a DVI connector for your LCD.
Funny, the sub-pixel antialiasing looks virtually identical on my laptop, my pair of aging 15 inch LCD panels, and every other LCD I've tried. All except for the laptop(s) are analog.
I changed from a VGA to a DVI connector on my LCD panel at work and the difference is astounding.
If you are seeing that much of a difference you might want to learn how to adjust you LCD. So far, every single time I have seen an LCD look bad it has either been poorly auto-adjusted or is running at the wrong resolution.
It helps some if when you hit the auto-adjust button you have an image with nice sharp edges up on the screen. If it is still not quite clear, you may have to make some (probably minor) adjustments to the phase/clock yourself. If you still have issues you might want to change your refresh rate. My old panels "flicker" quite a bit at 60hz, but look fine at 72hz.
BTW, companies now make excellent DVI/USB KVM switches, so there is no execuse to use a VGA connection on a LCD panel anymore.
Cost is probably a good excuse, especially for the 90% of consumers of which you are speaking. It would be better to educate them on proper configuration of their equipment.
what it has over the cheap hw solution is that raw speed. and what I mean by that is that the pentium based with even fairly decent network cards can handle something like 80mbit/s going through it when the hw based one can handle just ~20-30mbit/s.
this is *regardless* of if they seem to have a 'capable processor' and 'just as fast bus'.
So you're saying that 200mhz mips processor on a pci bus isn't in the same class as a pentium 150? I can't speak for the NICs, because I don't specifically know the chipsets.
configurability also in most cases is much greater if using something like smoothwall, I'd check that you can do port forwardings easily in masses.
The web interface is pretty basic, but even the stock firmware does basic port forwarding, by port range. What can't be done in the web interface can be done from the command line. As far as I know the firmware I am running doesn't include shorewall, but I believe the latest firmware from Sveasoft does. I've never used shorewall, so I can't say much about that.
of course as you don't have a 100mbit uplink it hardly matters. but what I just don't like is these companies just slapping on a 100mbit interface on it and advertising like it could do it(and then I have to explain it to people asking "why you're running a 'full' computer for the nat?")...
Yes... I, like 99.999% of people on the planet have a 3 megabit link and not 100. So for us, this machine has more horsepower than we are likely to need. Go figure. As for it having a 10/100 port on the internet side... What would you expect it to have? Did you think they should go out of their way to put a seperate 10 megabit NIC chipset in the thing?
I also don't recall anything on the box calling any attention to the speed of that network port...
nat-and-wlan-in-a-box solutions are very tempting, but not without flaws. of course, it could be just easier to get one than get a more recent computer, though.. or better nic's which might be just enough(or more mem).
If I used a more recent computer, I would have to worry about more moving parts to die. I don't know about you, but I've had more hard drives die on me in this last year at home than I can remember ever dieing on me in the last 10 years. I don't want a hard drive. I don't want fans. I don't want to spend the time, effort, and cost to build something equivilent to my WRT54G.
It's my firewall. I don't want it to do much more than it does anyway. Less is more secure.
(also WRT54G is bashed on couple of 'comments' sections like c-net asia's, especially it's wifi range)
I live in a house that is over 100 years old. Some of the rooms still have the ancient plaster-over-wood-or-chicken-wire walls. I can tell which walls are old, because they soak up significantly more signal. My laptop only has 802.11b, but I get full speed anywhere on my property.
With aftermarket firmware (what's more fun than a small, hackable Linux box?) you can increase the transmit power from the stock 28mw up to 84mw. I have not had to increase mine, as a matter of fact I could get away with lowering it. I don't know how well things work at full power, I vaguely remember reading that setting it too high causes heating issues.
I guess what I am trying to say is that a box similar to this is more than enough for most people. It's still a linux box, and I can still run anything I can fit on it. Without aftermarket firmware it replaced all but one service my previous firewall was handling, static dhcp mappings.
the cheap hw routers are notorious for choking up on even "moderate" use, even when they have 100mbit ports(so they'll choke at natting something like 10-20mbit/s).
The only issue that I had with mine at all so far was that the default value of 1024 for ip_conntrack_max was too low. That caused problems with bittorrent and whatnot.
I don't have a 100 megabit link to the internet, and I don't think my p133 could nat much better than this box if that were the case. One of these days I need to install top on my WRT54G and see how much load it is under. My guess is not very much.
and yes usually even ~150mhz pc with decent network cards can kick the crap out of them when needing high speeds.
What does a 150 mhz pc have over this box exactly? They've both got a 33mhz pci bus and they both have capable processors.
(this may have changed, but i doubt it. and with most home connection speeds it of course doesn't matter because not everyone has 100mbit connection to home. it does for me though.)Well, most of us only have a 3 megabit connection. Therefore for 99.999% of us a WRT54G is more than enough. I would bet that if all you need is NAT at 100 megabit, it is still probably good enough. If I had more gumption I would do some testing... But if I ever need to put hardware on the end of a 100 megabit WAN link it will be a piece of enterprise class hardware. And it certainly wouldn't be the fastest WAN link I've ever had :p.
Consumer grade broadband routers are notorious for causing problems, and are almost always badly underpowered. Using a PC based router to handle nat generally works much better, provided you have the know-how to set it up.
A few months ago I replaced an aging P133, an ancient 3com 12 port 10 megabit switch (with 2 100 megabit uplink ports, woo hoo!), and an 802.11b access point with a Linksys WRT54G.
I replaced the firmware with this. I've been very happy with it so far. I think the 200 mhz mips processor is probably a decent replacement for the P133. It takes up much less space, makes much less noise, and it's in much better condition that the old hardware it replaced. I can still ssh into it, and according to /proc/version it is running a 2.4.20 kernel.
I think it was approximately 70 dollars well spent.
Take for example the fact that I can remotely shutdown a debiaTake for example the fact that I can remotely shutdown a debian machine over ssh with the "halt" command. A RedHat distro had that little feature blocked
Why exactly is this a bad thing? Have you never had to shutdown or reboot a remote server? I know I've had to do both at least a few times... Although rebooting would be much more common, and it would probably be safer as well :p.
On my Debian machines you seem to need to be root to do it. If someone I don't know is logged in over ssh as root on one of my boxes the last thing I am worried about is his ability to shut it down :p.
Bah, everyone knows you need two games, one to play, and one to put in on top of the other game to hold it down ALL the way. It's like up up down down left right left right b a b a {select} start. You can tell who had friends as a kid by who tells you the code had a select in it.
Or maybe you can tell the kids that just weren't smart enough to realize that the select and start weren't part of the code. :p
Contra was A LOT more fun with 2 people, but with one player you didn't need to fight over the power ups...
As in Norton Utilities, Norton Anti-Virus.
Ah... You must mean Peter Norton.
Funny story....my roomates friend hooked up with Robert Norton's daughter over the weekend. He was telling us, and said "It would be pretty ironic if she gave me a virus." I was laughin for like 5 minutes solid.
Who the heck is Robert Norton?
The whole industry seems to be feeling the pinch these days.
Maybe because newspapers are becoming outdated? I'm sure things will only get worse :)
Try a sparcstation 5 @ 80mhz. You have no idea what "lowly" is
I compiled my first Linux kernel on a 386 40mhz with 4 meg of ram. Do you know how long it takes to do that with 4 meg of ram???
I have no idea exactly how long it took, I started it one afternoon and came back to it the next day :p.
BitTorrent alleviates the whole problem.
Yeah, it alleviates the whole problem, except that it doesn't :p.
How exactly does bittorrent keep traffic on the ISP's network, and off of their internet pipes???
How about Darcs?
I was just recently looking to move away from CVS for my personal projects. I'm not always home, and I wanted to have copies of my repositories on at least my laptop and desktop.
At first, I was leaning towards trying out GNU Arch. But I really wanted something that had a working win32 client. So I took a look at Darcs.
I'm very happy with it so far. It is extremely easy to set up and use (but I haven't seen any gui frontends if that's the kind of thing you want). It is also very easy to keep multiple repositries in sync.
I've read that it can be slow for large projects. I don't remember reading the definition of large, but none of my repositories qualify :).
You might also want to check out this comparison or this comparison of revision control systems.
Definitely, it is purely a layer of obscurity, not security. A very nice benefit though.
It is only a layer of obscurity if you have a static knocking sequence. Why not implement a rolling sequence of ports for the knock? Since each port is 16 bits, you could have quite a few combinations in just a few ports.
And if you blacklist addresses with a handful of failed attempts, it would be pretty hard to break through.
I always thought that Cat 5 will not be sufficient for Gigabit speeds. It should be atleast 5e or greater.......
You just can't get as much distance out of Cat 5. I am pretty sure Cat 5 will do gigabit up to 100 meters, Cat 5e will make it 350.
While there are Wintel laptops lighter than the iBook, none has longer battery life and full features.
I think I'm going to have to disagree with you there. I've got a Fujitsu Lifebook P-2120, with the double size main battery, and the second bay battery. Their website has a bunch of claims about battery life, but I'm not going to quote any of them. Under my average use at work, I power up my laptop in the morning, use it throughout the day(checking email, writing code, doing sysadmin type stuff), and then I take it home, and it still has a few hours worth of juice before I put it on the charger at night.
That's probably over 10 hours of on time. I've never run the batteries down hitting it as hard as I can, but I've watched the ACPI numbers witht he hard drive going and cpu maxed, and it should easily clear 6-7 hours running like that. But I don't tend to use it like that, so it really doesn't matter.
Anywho, this laptop should meet all the needs of the guy who asked the question(usb, firewire, 802.11b, ethernet)... If he doesn't want to send any money to microsoft, that'll have to be his problem though. And if it's not small enough, fujitsu has the P1000 series that sounds alot smaller, but can't pack as much battery, or memory.
I am running Debian on this thing, and all the integrated hardware works, except for the modem. I haven't even tried getting the modem to work, since I've got no plans on ever using it. All I know is that this laptop is by far the most useful laptop I've ever had. It has a 933 Crusoe chip, and I haven't benchmarked it, but this definately feels snappier than my old P3 700 laptop, and doesn't get NEARLY as hot to the touch. It was well worth every penny to me.
Wonko
And his name was Wonko the Sane?
It was, was it? :)
It's horribly offtopic but how is it that with your low UID you've posted only 95 comments total and 24 of those in the past day? Where does this sudden uncontrolable urge to post come from?!?
Who are we talking about that has a low UID???