Actually, if you are a cable/DSL/Frame/ATM user, your bandwidth is already overbooked (10-20:1 for a commercial user, up to 200:1 for a home user).
In this environment, the concept of stealing bandwidth that is already shared outside your control is somewhat meaningless.
That said, I agree that there should be security in the AP. My reason is that currently law enforcement has inadequate skills to investigate criminal activity originating at a given IP, without implicating the AP owner. As a result, a secure AP/wireless connection protects its owner from false accusations of wrongdoing.
The point is, 700+Kbs is the speed I get on my cable connection right now (Cablevision's Optimum Online in NJ, USA). While I recognize that the majority of people don't yet have this bandwidth, it similar to the situation when only large businesses had 1200 baud modems - not that long ago.
You can, with reasonable certainty, expect that higher bandwidth will spread throughout both the US and other countries. For the movie industry to assume that won't happen is very shortsighted and foolish.
I've seen estimates that as many as 1M movies files are currently swapped each day. With the small percentage of high bandwidth connections available, that's a good indication that what happened to the music industry is about to happen to the movie industry.
If the movie industry stepped up and made high quality, unrestricted downloads available for $5/movie, would people bother hunting for bootlegs? I think it would wipe out the bootleg market, almost overnight (and provide a $2B revenue stream based on the current download rate).
The IT industry has had to come to grips with jobs paying only half what they did only a few years ago. The music and movie industries have to come to the same realization -- and do it before their product is shipped (virtually) overseas.
"Most people want to watch a movie once. If it's a really good, kick-ass movie, they might want to see it three or four times... over the course of a year or two. Very, very few people purchase a movie and then sit and watch it over and over every day for a month."
Wizard of Oz? Casablanca? March of The Wooden Soldiers? Almost any Alfred Hitchcock movie? Lord of the Rings Trilogy? Groundhog Day? Scrooged? And many, many more...
The same movies I would (did) buy on DVD are the ones that I would want to watch over and over.
If you're willing to rent it, why not download it (assuming you have the bandwidth)? Just as when you rent a movie you can easily make and keep a copy, a movie download would (err, should) offer the convenience that you don't have to bother running a 2-hour encode on the DVD.
As people in this thread have pointed out, Netflix is doing very well, and it can take quite a while until you get a movie (certainly longer than the time it takes to download it with a good broadband connection).
The last laptop I bought (and every one I looked at) has a svideo or video out (and yes, it even works under Linux). I just walk into the room with the TV and plug it in -- 30 seconds till the movie is on "the big screen".
With laptops now breaking the $500 barrier, it's unlikely that anyone will be worrying about this within 2-3 years.
I get 700Kbs off my news server today, and no, it's not streaming.
However, the same 30-45 minute download on Internet II will take about 10 seconds, so it's really just a matter of time. It's hard to remember, but the Internet is really very young. The capabilities and bandwidth are still at a very immature stage.
The customer base that the movie industry builds today, will be the early adopters that will guide everyone else 5-7 years from now (as well as driving the uptake for higher bandwidth offerings).
How about movies? Do you see an iTunes movie store?
"We don't think that's what people want. A movie takes forever to download -- there's no instant gratification."
Right now, on a good cable connection, it takes about 30-45 minutes to download a good quality mpeg4 version movie (at 700Kbs). Cable can easily increase its bandwidth over time (not so easy with DSL), so that time interval will be decreasing. As more and more people have access to faster and faster connectivity, Jobs statement will become meaningless (as it already has for the fastest cable users). The quality of the movies will increase as well, to fill the available bandwidth.
The movie studios should NOT make the same mistakes that the music industry did. They should start offering legitimate good quality legal downloads NOW, before too many people start thinking about movies the way they do mp3s.
After all this time and many releases, there is still no support for notes and memos.
Synchronizing to a PDA will exclude these. This was by far one of the most useful aspects of using Outlook with a PDA (the ability to copy any arbitrary text and load it to a PDA as a memo). I had built large collections of travel directions, software/hardware serial numbers, network IP information, reference data, even Xmas lists using this facility.
I'd rather the Evolution team provide function parity before they spend time glitzing the UI.
The post indicates what's new - the 2.4.22 kernel, and particularly what's of interest to Apple users - HFS+ support.
Normally, I wouldn't have bothered with a 0.1 release this minor, except that the lack of HFS+ support for Mac users was a significant interoperability problem that has now been addressed.
The new release was available weeks ago through the paid service. The post was to let folks know that the new version is now available for free download. Yellowdog typically makes new releases available to paying subscribers before releasing the software to the general public.
Try SSH (layer 3) instead of a VPN (layer 2); it appears to be more resilient to drops than VPN services, and is just as secure. At least your connection will stay up.
It's a conflict of interest for Microsoft to offer both an operating system product and a product for running competing operating systems virtually.
Anyone that buys Virtual PC to run anything other than Windows is asking for grief. In fact, with the end-of-life dates for most older versions of Windows, expecting any support from Microsoft for anything other than XP on Virtual PC is a stretch.
OK, I keep hearing about the violations in election laws going on, but I never hear about people being taken away in handcuffs and being brought to trial. If the laws aren't being enforced, then they don't really exist. Might as well vote 50 or 60 times while you're going out; it looks like a free-for-all.
I'd have to disagree with you on the performance of software RAID. I'm using a software RAID-1 (for the last 18 months) on a Redhat Linux system, that only has a pair of 200MHZ CPUs. The software RAID actually improved the (mostly-read) performance of this system, and had a negligible impact on the write performance. All the space on this system is in the software RAID-1 array (two 80GB IDE drives). I highly recommend this arrangement. I've had a drive fail, with absolutely no loss of data or impact to system operation. It was replaced and hot-added, with only a brief power-down (I don't have hot-swap bays). This system runs 7x24, at light utilization (it's my home server).
While I've set up many hardware SCSI arrays on servers, I have to say I was very impressed with the Linux RAID implementation, and particularly its performance with IDE drives (typical in a home environment). I wouldn't run a system any other way now.
I've started experimenting with Firewire/USB2.0 (HiSpeed) drives, and while the throughput is lower (34-40MB/sec), if that's within your requirements (for example, 10/100Mb Ethernet service) then they appear very stable. The advantage is that if the system fails (power supply, motherboard, etc.), the drives can just be plugged into another system, and you're up.
Yes, if by realtime you mean really slow, for any significant volume of data. It's relatively easy to kick off rsync processes at appropriate points (like unmount, logoff, etc.). This gets you local speed access, near-line replication, and the opportunity to setup archival copies.
Isn't that like the Linksys WPC11 801.11b card? Same model, but different versions, with different specs, chipsets.
The model may be the same, but some low level qualifier (version, revision, manufacturer ID, etc.) is very likely unique between the units. Otherwise the manufacturer can't tell them apart either.
This is going to shock you, but you don't actually need to consume sweetened (or fatty) products! It's true! You see, you have a part of your body, scientifically called "the brain", which allows you to make "choices" in your diet.
Saying you can't help yourself from eating a sweet treat is like saying you can't help but rape someone because of the way they were dressed (yes, I know this is extreme, but that's sometimes necessary for making a point). In both cases, you have a response that your brain can process and chose to take action on. No one controls your body, but you. You have free will, so use it.
When I hear people say they can't stop eating because something "tastes so good", I see a person out of control, and likely a danger to themselves and possibly others. After all, if they can't control their behavior with something as simple as a bit of candy, how can they be expected to behave appropriately in any other area of their lives?
Every few decades, the herds of lawyers overpopulate, and they begin intruding into peoples lives. This is normal growth of the herd, following a bumper crop in the market.
It's at times like this that the only humane thing to do is cull the herd. While many people consider this cruel, it is in fact necessary to prevent over-litigating our lives. Over-litigation can lead to violent confrontations between lawyers in which actual people can be injured.
So please, stop by your local hunting club, pick up a license, and help insure the survival of the lawyers in your area. Remember: the barrister with the biggest belly wins the daily trophy!
They can peek all they want; SSH encrypts the data. If port 443 (HTTPS) is open for outgoing, then use that port. It will then look like a (long running) SSL web transaction to data monitors, and there will be no expectation that the data will be clear text. Try it yourself (use Ethereal as a sniffer, for example); it's the best way to learn.:-)
It depends... X10s list prices are higher, but when they put stuff on sale, it beats everyone.
For example, I just picked up some wireless motion/light detectors from them. The X10 list price is $30 and the SmartHome list price is $20. But X10 had them on sale, and I got 6 for $60 ($10/ea). Since the order was over $50, they shipped it overnite Fedex for free.
It's easy. If outgoing port 80 is allowed, set up a machine at home on your cable modem or DSL, with SSH on port 80.
Now at the office, "ssh -p80" to your machine at home. You can do whatever you want (IM, ftp, browse, IRC, etc.).
If you downloaded a file and need to get it to the office, "scp -P80" or "sftp -oPort=80" will let you do that.
If ANY outgoing port is open, you can do anything you want or need to. The assumption that this isn't the case is the assumption that everyone knows as little as you* do.
* Note: the "you" in the sentence above is generic, and is not directed at the parent or any other specific individual.
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Actually, if you are a cable/DSL/Frame/ATM user, your bandwidth is already overbooked (10-20:1 for a commercial user, up to 200:1 for a home user).
In this environment, the concept of stealing bandwidth that is already shared outside your control is somewhat meaningless.
That said, I agree that there should be security in the AP. My reason is that currently law enforcement has inadequate skills to investigate criminal activity originating at a given IP, without implicating the AP owner. As a result, a secure AP/wireless connection protects its owner from false accusations of wrongdoing.
The point is, 700+Kbs is the speed I get on my cable connection right now (Cablevision's Optimum Online in NJ, USA). While I recognize that the majority of people don't yet have this bandwidth, it similar to the situation when only large businesses had 1200 baud modems - not that long ago.
You can, with reasonable certainty, expect that higher bandwidth will spread throughout both the US and other countries. For the movie industry to assume that won't happen is very shortsighted and foolish.
I've seen estimates that as many as 1M movies files are currently swapped each day. With the small percentage of high bandwidth connections available, that's a good indication that what happened to the music industry is about to happen to the movie industry.
If the movie industry stepped up and made high quality, unrestricted downloads available for $5/movie, would people bother hunting for bootlegs? I think it would wipe out the bootleg market, almost overnight (and provide a $2B revenue stream based on the current download rate).
The IT industry has had to come to grips with jobs paying only half what they did only a few years ago. The music and movie industries have to come to the same realization -- and do it before their product is shipped (virtually) overseas.
Wizard of Oz? Casablanca? March of The Wooden Soldiers? Almost any Alfred Hitchcock movie? Lord of the Rings Trilogy? Groundhog Day? Scrooged? And many, many more...
The same movies I would (did) buy on DVD are the ones that I would want to watch over and over.
If you're willing to rent it, why not download it (assuming you have the bandwidth)? Just as when you rent a movie you can easily make and keep a copy, a movie download would (err, should ) offer the convenience that you don't have to bother running a 2-hour encode on the DVD.
As people in this thread have pointed out, Netflix is doing very well, and it can take quite a while until you get a movie (certainly longer than the time it takes to download it with a good broadband connection).
The problem is, I use Linux. You can't target a bleeding-edge user community with support for 5 year old software.
The last laptop I bought (and every one I looked at) has a svideo or video out (and yes, it even works under Linux). I just walk into the room with the TV and plug it in -- 30 seconds till the movie is on "the big screen".
With laptops now breaking the $500 barrier, it's unlikely that anyone will be worrying about this within 2-3 years.
I get 700Kbs off my news server today, and no, it's not streaming.
However, the same 30-45 minute download on Internet II will take about 10 seconds, so it's really just a matter of time. It's hard to remember, but the Internet is really very young. The capabilities and bandwidth are still at a very immature stage.
The customer base that the movie industry builds today, will be the early adopters that will guide everyone else 5-7 years from now (as well as driving the uptake for higher bandwidth offerings).
How about movies? Do you see an iTunes movie store?
"We don't think that's what people want. A movie takes forever to download -- there's no instant gratification."
Right now, on a good cable connection, it takes about 30-45 minutes to download a good quality mpeg4 version movie (at 700Kbs). Cable can easily increase its bandwidth over time (not so easy with DSL), so that time interval will be decreasing. As more and more people have access to faster and faster connectivity, Jobs statement will become meaningless (as it already has for the fastest cable users). The quality of the movies will increase as well, to fill the available bandwidth.
The movie studios should NOT make the same mistakes that the music industry did. They should start offering legitimate good quality legal downloads NOW, before too many people start thinking about movies the way they do mp3s.
After all this time and many releases, there is still no support for notes and memos.
Synchronizing to a PDA will exclude these. This was by far one of the most useful aspects of using Outlook with a PDA (the ability to copy any arbitrary text and load it to a PDA as a memo). I had built large collections of travel directions, software/hardware serial numbers, network IP information, reference data, even Xmas lists using this facility.
I'd rather the Evolution team provide function parity before they spend time glitzing the UI.
The post indicates what's new - the 2.4.22 kernel, and particularly what's of interest to Apple users - HFS+ support.
Normally, I wouldn't have bothered with a 0.1 release this minor, except that the lack of HFS+ support for Mac users was a significant interoperability problem that has now been addressed.
The new release was available weeks ago through the paid service. The post was to let folks know that the new version is now available for free download. Yellowdog typically makes new releases available to paying subscribers before releasing the software to the general public.
rsync -v --progress rsync://carroll.cac.psu.edu/yellowdog/iso/yellowdo g-3.0.1-sirius-20031118-install1.iso .
rsync -v --progress rsync://carroll.cac.psu.edu/yellowdog/iso/yellowdo g-3.0.1-sirius-20031118-install2.iso .
rsync -v --progress rsync://carroll.cac.psu.edu/yellowdog/iso/yellowdo g-3.0.1-sirius-20031118-install3.iso .
YDL 3.0.1 has been available for weeks for paying supporters, but not for free download by the general public until recently.
Try SSH (layer 3) instead of a VPN (layer 2); it appears to be more resilient to drops than VPN services, and is just as secure. At least your connection will stay up.
Now even the commercials are in reruns.
It's a conflict of interest for Microsoft to offer both an operating system product and a product for running competing operating systems virtually.
Anyone that buys Virtual PC to run anything other than Windows is asking for grief. In fact, with the end-of-life dates for most older versions of Windows, expecting any support from Microsoft for anything other than XP on Virtual PC is a stretch.
OK, I keep hearing about the violations in election laws going on, but I never hear about people being taken away in handcuffs and being brought to trial. If the laws aren't being enforced, then they don't really exist. Might as well vote 50 or 60 times while you're going out; it looks like a free-for-all.
They're supposed to be autonomous vehicles, right? If they can't keep out of each others way, they're not very autonomous, are they?
I'd have to disagree with you on the performance of software RAID. I'm using a software RAID-1 (for the last 18 months) on a Redhat Linux system, that only has a pair of 200MHZ CPUs. The software RAID actually improved the (mostly-read) performance of this system, and had a negligible impact on the write performance. All the space on this system is in the software RAID-1 array (two 80GB IDE drives). I highly recommend this arrangement. I've had a drive fail, with absolutely no loss of data or impact to system operation. It was replaced and hot-added, with only a brief power-down (I don't have hot-swap bays). This system runs 7x24, at light utilization (it's my home server).
While I've set up many hardware SCSI arrays on servers, I have to say I was very impressed with the Linux RAID implementation, and particularly its performance with IDE drives (typical in a home environment). I wouldn't run a system any other way now.
I've started experimenting with Firewire/USB2.0 (HiSpeed) drives, and while the throughput is lower (34-40MB/sec), if that's within your requirements (for example, 10/100Mb Ethernet service) then they appear very stable. The advantage is that if the system fails (power supply, motherboard, etc.), the drives can just be plugged into another system, and you're up.
Yes, if by realtime you mean really slow, for any significant volume of data. It's relatively easy to kick off rsync processes at appropriate points (like unmount, logoff, etc.). This gets you local speed access, near-line replication, and the opportunity to setup archival copies.
Isn't that like the Linksys WPC11 801.11b card? Same model, but different versions, with different specs, chipsets.
The model may be the same, but some low level qualifier (version, revision, manufacturer ID, etc.) is very likely unique between the units. Otherwise the manufacturer can't tell them apart either.
This is going to shock you, but you don't actually need to consume sweetened (or fatty) products! It's true! You see, you have a part of your body, scientifically called "the brain", which allows you to make "choices" in your diet.
Saying you can't help yourself from eating a sweet treat is like saying you can't help but rape someone because of the way they were dressed (yes, I know this is extreme, but that's sometimes necessary for making a point). In both cases, you have a response that your brain can process and chose to take action on. No one controls your body, but you. You have free will, so use it.
When I hear people say they can't stop eating because something "tastes so good", I see a person out of control, and likely a danger to themselves and possibly others. After all, if they can't control their behavior with something as simple as a bit of candy, how can they be expected to behave appropriately in any other area of their lives?
Every few decades, the herds of lawyers overpopulate, and they begin intruding into peoples lives. This is normal growth of the herd, following a bumper crop in the market.
It's at times like this that the only humane thing to do is cull the herd. While many people consider this cruel, it is in fact necessary to prevent over-litigating our lives. Over-litigation can lead to violent confrontations between lawyers in which actual people can be injured.
So please, stop by your local hunting club, pick up a license, and help insure the survival of the lawyers in your area. Remember: the barrister with the biggest belly wins the daily trophy!
They can peek all they want; SSH encrypts the data. If port 443 (HTTPS) is open for outgoing, then use that port. It will then look like a (long running) SSL web transaction to data monitors, and there will be no expectation that the data will be clear text. Try it yourself (use Ethereal as a sniffer, for example); it's the best way to learn. :-)
It depends... X10s list prices are higher, but when they put stuff on sale, it beats everyone.
For example, I just picked up some wireless motion/light detectors from them. The X10 list price is $30 and the SmartHome list price is $20. But X10 had them on sale, and I got 6 for $60 ($10/ea). Since the order was over $50, they shipped it overnite Fedex for free.
That's a damn good deal.
It's easy. If outgoing port 80 is allowed, set up a machine at home on your cable modem or DSL, with SSH on port 80.
Now at the office, "ssh -p80" to your machine at home. You can do whatever you want (IM, ftp, browse, IRC, etc.).
If you downloaded a file and need to get it to the office, "scp -P80" or "sftp -oPort=80" will let you do that.
If ANY outgoing port is open, you can do anything you want or need to. The assumption that this isn't the case is the assumption that everyone knows as little as you* do.
* Note: the "you" in the sentence above is generic, and is not directed at the parent or any other specific individual.