not everyone wants a PDA with Cell phone capabilities (think businesses, how many give every employee with a PDA a cell phone?) and certinly not everyone who wants a phone wants a computer built into it. Hell most people don't care about features like bulit-in answering machine or call display let alone wordprocessor.
Makes you wonder why Roxio and Nero et al haven't been forced to recognize the copyright bit on ALL COMMERCIAL CDs... did that one slip under the radar or was CD copying grandfathered because the tech was in place before DMCA?
Sorry, but if you allow people to VPN from untrusted networks without at least clearing up IP address conflicts first you deserve problems.
Personally I wouldn't allow VPNing in from untrusted PCs behind non-corporate-owned routers, (roadwarriors excluded) but I suppose not everyone's as strict. $50 spent on a router that the corporation owns and has configured beats hours of troubleshooting.
Picking a different server subnet might not be a bad solution though. A lot of work, yes, but it's easier than fighting the current. Linksys isn't the only company that uses 192.168.1.x by default.
I wouldn't be surprised if you find the same thing with hotels if you have roadwarriors in the corporation.
I'm curious, why do you hate that it defaults to 192.168.1.x? You do know you can change that right?...you can even turn DHCP off if you have another DHCP server or prefer not to use one. They only have it running so it's easy for Joe 6-pack to plug it in and have it running in 10 minutes or so.
192.168.1.x seems to me to be a perfectly logical default setting.
I know someone who's father is the president for a very very very large IT corporation, and he's got 30gigs of mp3s available for anyone to sift through at all hours of the day. Although his father might care about this, he certainly doesn't.
I can beat that, when I was working for a Cable ISP I knew an executive for Universal Music who's daughters were some of our biggest Napster/Kazaa users....and they got CD's for free or next to nothing. It's a teenage culture thing to download music.
no, that's what this box is for: http://www.linksys.com/products/product.asp? grid=2 3&prid=433...and you don't have to re-install the VPN server after every power failure.
I think that's taking it to an extreme. I'd never give my password over telnet just as I'd never give my credit card number or any important passwords over http.
Persoanlly I see myself continuing to do what I've been doing for several years now. Ignoring P2P services (due to legality, and wanting to support the artists in whatever way i can. Not to mention that the music I listen to isn't likely to be found there anyway) and buying CDs (possibly I'll move to DVD-audio or something) and ripping them for convenience. I like having the CDs for a nice good quality copy on physical media that I can dig out if I ever want to re-encode. I also like to burn copies for the car. Thus my CDs are basically a distribution/archive medium and the MP3s and burned copies are what I use day to day for convenience. I like that once I get a new CD and rip it I can find my music quite easily without having to manually sort my CD collection. I like that I have an original TRUE CD-quality backup of everything, and that the files I make from them I can play on any compatible device I own without any limitations (no DRM saying I can't play it on my PS2 because My 2 PCs and my Pocket PC already have copies of it.)
A suggestion for the next time you want to show slashdot how they are killing your network... take a screen shot of the graph and post it somewhere else.
I think you just put the Cricket server through the torture test of it's life.
Secondly, The file structure for LINUX is unorganized to say the least. The Hierarchal file structure in Windows would be really the only true advantage I see over LINUX.
That's your opinion, personally I MUCH prefer the file structure of my linux distro (Mandrake) over any Windows system.
What do you mean by heirarchal? How is your Linux file structure not heirarchal?
You have / then you have/home and under/home is the home directories of your users... seems heirarchal to me.
Windows isn't very consistant from one version to the next as to where it's home (my documents) is located....and when you add a new HDD you end up with a new heirarchy on the new drive so some of your "Program Files" directorys are c:\Program Files and others are d:\program files
In linux all of your userland binaries are in/usr/bin except those that are only accessible by the root user, they are/usr/sbin
It does take some getting used to but it actually makes a lot of sense, especially when you get to the point where having/home and/var and so on on different partitions or drives starts to make sense.
If I blow away my OS for a clean install of a new version my/home stays put because it's on a seperate partition. What's more I could access that same/home from different versions of Linux if I wanted to dual boot between different distros or kernel versions. In windows I can do this to "My Documents", but it requires a registry edit.
I've been a Linux guy for a while, and my annoyance is the other way around.
Why is it that fewer and few apps are supporting highlight then middle click and going to CTRL-c/x/v??
I hope that with enough time the conversion from one cut/paste command set to the other is complete. The mismatch patchwork of different methods is driving me nuts.
What tuner type does yours have? I can't get the tuner to work at all on my kworld card. I can use composite/svideo ok, just not tune any TV or radio stations....haven't even tried the remote yet.
FUnny thing is while DVD Playing is easy enough in Linux once you've found the right player software.
DVD-R BURNING is why I keep Windows around. (or more accurately why my burner is portable so I can take it to some place where windows is installed)
I've yet to find an easy elegent tool for DVD burning (both video captures and disc to disc copy) in Linux. (mind you DVDshrink, the main tool I use in Windows is freeware, but it only gets half the job done, I still use Nero for the actual burn and have to run it all on windows ick!)
Yes, but DVD-R is much more complicated in Linux than CD-R.
There's the matter of creating a valid file structure, then creating the IFO structure, and then you have to make multiple 1GB ISO files and on and on it's not at all easy.
CD-R is a breeze. (as long as you turn SCSI emulation on for BOTH your drives disc to disk copies are even easy)
Thanks, I'll check it out. I'd really rather not have any MS software running on any of my machines, and if I can solve that problem then it's just a matter of finding an elegent way to burn DVDs in Linux....both from video capture files and copies of my more expensive ones for traveling. (yes I know it's not technically legal in the USA, but I'm in Canada where there is no DMCA yet, so as far as I know fair use still extends even to digital media)
But at least the DVD burnig I can do elsewhere. (my drive is USB2.0/Firewire, so I can hook it up anywhere)
If you have Mandrake Linux you need to set up one of the PLF servers un your URPMI and then download the versions of Xine or Mplayer they have. Otherwise you will only be able to play non-CSS discs.
http://plf.zarb.org/~nanardon/ for easy URPMI config.
You could download the Mplayer gui gmplayer and then you just click the DVD button and skip to the title/chapter you want It's still not as nice as other DVD players, but it beats the commandline options if you aren't used to them.
I've yet to get my Lexmark Z55 printer to work properly in Mandrake 9.1 I ended up attaching it to a windows machine and transferring my files there to print. Definitely not what I expected when I saw Tux on the box and Linux listed as a supported OS. turns out they only care about making it work on a small subset of Linux machines Redhat 7.2, 7.3 Mandrake 8.0, 8.1 I think were basically all they say on the website....I did manage to get it sort of working once but it was a hell of a struggle, and I'm not sure what I did. (it was using the Z55 drivers but it showed up as a Z53 in the printer setup in Mandrake's control panel)
I'd love to get it going so I can sell off the Windows box to someone who will actually use it.
Too late for them, I already switched to Look.ca and bought my DSL equipment. They could have kept me as a customer if they'd not pissed me off with an extra $60 fee one month. I'm enjoying more consistant speeds now too for some reason... probably because the Bell/Sympatico DSLAM was over loaded or something. It's the same damned line and the office is across the friggin street.
I don't know about where you live, but in Southern Ontario ATMs have all but replaced tellers.
Quite a few branches have closed and consolidated. Many tellers have been re-trained or laid off.
The branch of the Royal Bank of Canada that my mother used to bank at actually told her a few years ago that she'd have to get a card because they were only going to do regualar day to day banking face to face for senior citizens, and she didn't yet qualify for that. (I'm sure you can guess why I said USED to bank at.)
here in the lab we adopted open office about a year ago as Microsoft did not give a comprehensive equation editor in which we could create our theorums. So far our experiences have been mixed, major findings are:
Funny, that was what my girlfriend cited as the reason FOR using MS Office, (the equation editor) she's a PhD student in Physics at McMaster University in Hamilton Ontario.
What would you say are the advantages of the equation editor in Open Office over the MS version? (I know nothing about either myself)
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not everyone wants a PDA with Cell phone capabilities (think businesses, how many give every employee with a PDA a cell phone?) and certinly not everyone who wants a phone wants a computer built into it. Hell most people don't care about features like bulit-in answering machine or call display let alone wordprocessor.
Makes you wonder why Roxio and Nero et al haven't been forced to recognize the copyright bit on ALL COMMERCIAL CDs ... did that one slip under the radar or was CD copying grandfathered because the tech was in place before DMCA?
Something to think about.
Sorry, but if you allow people to VPN from untrusted networks without at least clearing up IP address conflicts first you deserve problems.
Personally I wouldn't allow VPNing in from untrusted PCs behind non-corporate-owned routers, (roadwarriors excluded) but I suppose not everyone's as strict. $50 spent on a router that the corporation owns and has configured beats hours of troubleshooting.
Picking a different server subnet might not be a bad solution though. A lot of work, yes, but it's easier than fighting the current. Linksys isn't the only company that uses 192.168.1.x by default.
I wouldn't be surprised if you find the same thing with hotels if you have roadwarriors in the corporation.
I'm curious, why do you hate that it defaults to 192.168.1.x? You do know you can change that right? ...you can even turn DHCP off if you have another DHCP server or prefer not to use one.
They only have it running so it's easy for Joe 6-pack to plug it in and have it running in 10 minutes or so.
192.168.1.x seems to me to be a perfectly logical default setting.
...or, more likely, now that they are a Cisco subsidiary, IOS.
...and the kids would only learn half as much about optics. Sounds like a plan to me.
I know someone who's father is the president for a very very very large IT corporation, and he's got 30gigs of mp3s available for anyone to sift through at all hours of the day. Although his father might care about this, he certainly doesn't.
...and they got CD's for free or next to nothing.
I can beat that, when I was working for a Cable ISP I knew an executive for Universal Music who's daughters were some of our biggest Napster/Kazaa users.
It's a teenage culture thing to download music.
no, that's what this box is for:? grid=2 3&prid=433 ...and you don't have to re-install the VPN server after every power failure.
http://www.linksys.com/products/product.asp
I think that's taking it to an extreme.
I'd never give my password over telnet just as I'd never give my credit card number or any important passwords over http.
I'm a Canuk and even I know that the DMCA would not prevent a competitor from reverse engineering for interoperability
d f
Check this out if you don't believe me.
http://www.copyright.gov/1201/comments/221.p
Section 1201(f) of the DMCA specifically allows reverse-engineering for interoperability.
Persoanlly I see myself continuing to do what I've been doing for several years now.
Ignoring P2P services (due to legality, and wanting to support the artists in whatever way i can. Not to mention that the music I listen to isn't likely to be found there anyway) and buying CDs (possibly I'll move to DVD-audio or something) and ripping them for convenience.
I like having the CDs for a nice good quality copy on physical media that I can dig out if I ever want to re-encode. I also like to burn copies for the car. Thus my CDs are basically a distribution/archive medium and the MP3s and burned copies are what I use day to day for convenience. I like that once I get a new CD and rip it I can find my music quite easily without having to manually sort my CD collection. I like that I have an original TRUE CD-quality backup of everything, and that the files I make from them I can play on any compatible device I own without any limitations (no DRM saying I can't play it on my PS2 because My 2 PCs and my Pocket PC already have copies of it.)
A suggestion for the next time you want to show slashdot how they are killing your network... take a screen shot of the graph and post it somewhere else.
I think you just put the Cricket server through the torture test of it's life.
Secondly, The file structure for LINUX is unorganized to say the least. The Hierarchal file structure in Windows would be really the only true advantage I see over LINUX.
/home and under /home is the home directories of your users... seems heirarchal to me.
...and when you add a new HDD you end up with a new heirarchy on the new drive so some of your "Program Files" directorys are c:\Program Files and others are d:\program files
/usr/bin except those that are only accessible by the root user, they are /usr/sbin
/home and /var and so on on different partitions or drives starts to make sense.
/home stays put because it's on a seperate partition. What's more I could access that same /home from different versions of Linux if I wanted to dual boot between different distros or kernel versions. In windows I can do this to "My Documents", but it requires a registry edit.
That's your opinion, personally I MUCH prefer the file structure of my linux distro (Mandrake) over any Windows system.
What do you mean by heirarchal? How is your Linux file structure not heirarchal?
You have / then you have
Windows isn't very consistant from one version to the next as to where it's home (my documents) is located.
In linux all of your userland binaries are in
It does take some getting used to but it actually makes a lot of sense, especially when you get to the point where having
If I blow away my OS for a clean install of a new version my
I've been a Linux guy for a while, and my annoyance is the other way around.
Why is it that fewer and few apps are supporting highlight then middle click and going to CTRL-c/x/v??
I hope that with enough time the conversion from one cut/paste command set to the other is complete. The mismatch patchwork of different methods is driving me nuts.
What tuner type does yours have? I can't get the tuner to work at all on my kworld card. I can use composite/svideo ok, just not tune any TV or radio stations. ...haven't even tried the remote yet.
FUnny thing is while DVD Playing is easy enough in Linux once you've found the right player software.
DVD-R BURNING is why I keep Windows around. (or more accurately why my burner is portable so I can take it to some place where windows is installed)
I've yet to find an easy elegent tool for DVD burning (both video captures and disc to disc copy) in Linux. (mind you DVDshrink, the main tool I use in Windows is freeware, but it only gets half the job done, I still use Nero for the actual burn and have to run it all on windows ick!)
Yes, but DVD-R is much more complicated in Linux than CD-R.
There's the matter of creating a valid file structure, then creating the IFO structure, and then you have to make multiple 1GB ISO files and on and on it's not at all easy.
CD-R is a breeze. (as long as you turn SCSI emulation on for BOTH your drives disc to disk copies are even easy)
Thanks, I'll check it out. ...both from video capture files and copies of my more expensive ones for traveling. (yes I know it's not technically legal in the USA, but I'm in Canada where there is no DMCA yet, so as far as I know fair use still extends even to digital media)
I'd really rather not have any MS software running on any of my machines, and if I can solve that problem then it's just a matter of finding an elegent way to burn DVDs in Linux.
But at least the DVD burnig I can do elsewhere. (my drive is USB2.0/Firewire, so I can hook it up anywhere)
If you have Mandrake Linux you need to set up one of the PLF servers un your URPMI and then download the versions of Xine or Mplayer they have. Otherwise you will only be able to play non-CSS discs.
http://plf.zarb.org/~nanardon/ for easy URPMI config.
You could download the Mplayer gui gmplayer and then you just click the DVD button and skip to the title/chapter you want
It's still not as nice as other DVD players, but it beats the commandline options if you aren't used to them.
I've yet to get my Lexmark Z55 printer to work properly in Mandrake 9.1 ...I did manage to get it sort of working once but it was a hell of a struggle, and I'm not sure what I did. (it was using the Z55 drivers but it showed up as a Z53 in the printer setup in Mandrake's control panel)
I ended up attaching it to a windows machine and transferring my files there to print. Definitely not what I expected when I saw Tux on the box and Linux listed as a supported OS. turns out they only care about making it work on a small subset of Linux machines Redhat 7.2, 7.3 Mandrake 8.0, 8.1 I think were basically all they say on the website.
I'd love to get it going so I can sell off the Windows box to someone who will actually use it.
Ok, I have to ask... what's the point of having a wiki on a pendrive?
What good is it if it isn't accessible to the web?
Too late for them, I already switched to Look.ca and bought my DSL equipment. They could have kept me as a customer if they'd not pissed me off with an extra $60 fee one month. I'm enjoying more consistant speeds now too for some reason... probably because the Bell/Sympatico DSLAM was over loaded or something. It's the same damned line and the office is across the friggin street.
I don't know about where you live, but in Southern Ontario ATMs have all but replaced tellers.
Quite a few branches have closed and consolidated. Many tellers have been re-trained or laid off.
The branch of the Royal Bank of Canada that my mother used to bank at actually told her a few years ago that she'd have to get a card because they were only going to do regualar day to day banking face to face for senior citizens, and she didn't yet qualify for that. (I'm sure you can guess why I said USED to bank at.)
here in the lab we adopted open office about a year ago as Microsoft did not give a comprehensive equation editor in which we could create our theorums. So far our experiences have been mixed, major findings are:
Funny, that was what my girlfriend cited as the reason FOR using MS Office, (the equation editor) she's a PhD student in Physics at McMaster University in Hamilton Ontario.
What would you say are the advantages of the equation editor in Open Office over the MS version?
(I know nothing about either myself)