There's a small SF Bay Area startup that makes specialized wireless access points. You setup a network of the access points. The access points know about all other access points that *should* be there. When it detects another access point that is acting like an "evil twin," the network of access points can not only locate the evil AP to within few meters, but also DOS it with bunch of bad packets to knock it off the network. The CS department in Berkeley uses it. It can also be configured to knock out any non-evil AP if you want to restrict wireless APs in your organization. I don't know the name of the startup as the presentation by CS IT department chose not to disclose the company.
Since the article is asking about generic storage/backup solution, 3ware may suffice. But you'll never see me buying another 3ware setup again. Don't know about Windows, but write performance on 3ware RAID-5 setup is horrible in linux. Even with the new 9xxx series, we're getting about 35MB/s, opposed to 100-150MB/s you get on the other solutions like RAIDServe will deliver.
Re:I tried Xarandos once.
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Making it look like Windows is quite different from running Windows. We're talking about gui versus the engine running in the background.
Making it look like Windows, you make it easier for Windows people to transition while losing the vulnerability and license restrictions of Microsoft world.
Besides, what's really bad about the Windows gui interface?
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I've installed their 1.0 before. After working with it for a day, uninstalled it and reinstalled Debian. It's good for a typical desktop user that just want their stuff to run, but if you want the latest development package and such, you're pretty much screwed.
Some suggested adding debian apt sources, but the package dependencies don't mix well, and soon, you'll either end up with a broken system or a hybrid that has none of the goods of Xandros.
Check out Fujitsu P2xxx series. It's slightly bigger than the picture book and doesn't have a built-in camera, but it does have DVD/CD-RW and Wireless NIC *built in*
The site's down at the moment, and slashdotting wouldn't help either. But if you want a small laptop without all the external bundles, check it out.
It costs AT&T a lot of money to upgrade
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I remember reading somewhere long while back that the reason many communities can get free cable when subscribing to cable modem service is that the cable companies can't afford to upgrade their infrastructure to block out cable tv when you subscribe to just cable modem. It requires a major upgrade to their service centers in order to block out the cable tv. So maybe AT&T may start requiring people to sign up for cable TV as well when signing up for net access like people have already mentioned, but I don't think those that already have service will wake up one morning to find that their cable tv has been cut off.
Holy crap! on my Celeron systems, it's take days to compile it. But then again, I always felt KDE and Gnome were too slow, and have been sticking by WindowMaker.
If you have the season 1 dvd, you can pause it and go frame by frame. And I think the guy that mentioned 800+ dollars is correct. Some random price. Or perhaps that's how much babies go for in underground market?
Magnetic fields, like electric fields, are the modern equivalent of leprechauns, fairies, and demons. For the typical layperson, they are invisible, subtle, and inexplicable.
I took a physics course at a JC when I was in high school. The professor was talking about how "theories" can be made up on the spot. As an example, he talked about friction as tiny little living beings living in every things. We'll call it "F" now, because I don't remember what he called them.
Fs lives in the tiny holes of everything. They don't like being moved. So when you try to move an object, all the Fs come out to push back on the object. Objects with rougher surfaces mean more Fs can live in the object, so more are available to push back.
So how come once it starts moving, it's easier to push?
That's because eventually, you'll crush the tiny Fs, and their blood and guts act as lubricants. Also, because of that, there's less of them to push back.
But if you stop the object and push again, it'll have the same amount of resistance as the first time. Why?
Well, soon as you stop, Fs go back to their tiny little holes. And they multiply really fast!
It may have some similar points, but one big difference is that the contractors consider the temp workers powerless. They do what they do(letting them go with no valid reason, trying to split them up) to break their spirits, and they also know that most of these workers won't or can't afford to file a lawsuit against them. The author of the article was given absolutely no options to find out why she was terminated. In fact, it sounds to me like they actively put up walls to prevent them from coming back to find out why they were fired.
Most of these workers are either not educated enough, don't have the money, or don't have the time to explore the option of retaliation by lawsuits. They are too busy looking for their next job so they can pay the rent. And the bastard managements of these contractors know that!
I thought Shrek was pretty clever. But I didn't think Monsters Inc had good plots at all. I just liked it because Boo was just so darn cute. Another good film that no one's mentioned yet(probably because it claymation and not cgi) is Chicken Run. I thought the dialogs were far more original than Toy Story 2 or even Shrek.
"It's a cling on!!!" - the best line of the movie Chicken Run
WTF? Who in their right mind would link a page to Modesto Bee? Granted, they've always carried Dave Barry's column for as long as I can remember, I just never expected to see a link to Modesto Bee... Blech. Well, few more hours of work, and it's time to head over to Modesto to see my parents...
If that's the case, I'm staying away from these squeeze bottles. I personally favor the old recipe with ground up rat particles.
Probably some of my friends will feel the same way. My gf covers her hotdogs with nothing but ketchup. I've never seen anyone eat so much ketchup at once. And one of my friend says that ketchup makes everything taste better.
I mentioned the rat particles, because my mom used to work at Del Monte during tomato seasons. Probably, (at least where she worked at) most of the hired-hands are immigrant older women with little English skills. And when she worked in the line to sort out bad tomatoes, she said that they'd often see dead rats in the batch. And none of the women would dare pick those up, so they get by, right into the grinders!
I've been told by other friends that most of these companies are allowed to have up to certain percentage of "extra parts." So hot dogs aren't the only things with stuff you wouldn't believe. Of course, it hasn't turned me away from hot dogs or ketchup...
I saw some guy putting a bright green stuff on his hot dogs one day, and I was curious about what it was. I thought it was just some special stuff for hot dogs that I just didn't know about. Well, the next day, I'm grocery shopping, and I found the bottle! Heins Shrek Green "ketchup-flavored" sauce! It actually does say "ketchup-flavored" on the bottle and doesn't claim to be ketchup. I like green, Shrek, and I was buying hot dogs, so I said what the heck!
It definitely is "ketchup-flavored." It has a weird taste to it.
So a family of tomatoes were taking a walk in the park; a Papa tomato, a Mama tomato, and a Baby tomato. Papa noticed that Baby was lagging behind, so Papa bonked Baby on the head and said, "catch up!"
Gee, how many times did I go to McDonalds last week? Well, four minus 1 that just went straight thru me. Well, at least their fries don't make me sick as they used to. But I just get these cravings for the "special sauce" in the BigMacs.:9
The news I heard on the way to work said that the fire chief in NY "believes" that the second explosion in the second building was caused by a bomb that was placed there before. He also "believes" that there was a bomb on the first plane that also exploded shortly after colliding with the first building.
They say many firefighters were lost in the second explosion.
The person in charge of the Trade Center said that there's usually about 10,000 people in each tower around the time the first plane hit. How long did it take before the buildings collapsed?
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There's a small SF Bay Area startup that makes specialized wireless access points. You setup a network of the access points. The access points know about all other access points that *should* be there. When it detects another access point that is acting like an "evil twin," the network of access points can not only locate the evil AP to within few meters, but also DOS it with bunch of bad packets to knock it off the network. The CS department in Berkeley uses it. It can also be configured to knock out any non-evil AP if you want to restrict wireless APs in your organization. I don't know the name of the startup as the presentation by CS IT department chose not to disclose the company.
Since the article is asking about generic storage/backup solution, 3ware may suffice. But you'll never see me buying another 3ware setup again. Don't know about Windows, but write performance on 3ware RAID-5 setup is horrible in linux. Even with the new 9xxx series, we're getting about 35MB/s, opposed to 100-150MB/s you get on the other solutions like RAIDServe will deliver.
Making it look like Windows is quite different from running Windows. We're talking about gui versus the engine running in the background.
Making it look like Windows, you make it easier for Windows people to transition while losing the vulnerability and license restrictions of Microsoft world.
Besides, what's really bad about the Windows gui interface?
I've installed their 1.0 before. After working with it for a day, uninstalled it and reinstalled Debian. It's good for a typical desktop user that just want their stuff to run, but if you want the latest development package and such, you're pretty much screwed.
Some suggested adding debian apt sources, but the package dependencies don't mix well, and soon, you'll either end up with a broken system or a hybrid that has none of the goods of Xandros.
Check out Fujitsu P2xxx series. It's slightly bigger than the picture book and doesn't have a built-in camera, but it does have DVD/CD-RW and Wireless NIC *built in*
The laptop actually has a fair size of following:
http://www.leog.net
The site's down at the moment, and slashdotting wouldn't help either. But if you want a small laptop without all the external bundles, check it out.
I remember reading somewhere long while back that the reason many communities can get free cable when subscribing to cable modem service is that the cable companies can't afford to upgrade their infrastructure to block out cable tv when you subscribe to just cable modem. It requires a major upgrade to their service centers in order to block out the cable tv. So maybe AT&T may start requiring people to sign up for cable TV as well when signing up for net access like people have already mentioned, but I don't think those that already have service will wake up one morning to find that their cable tv has been cut off.
No, don't! Andre Hedick has this one, and he hates it! It is shoddly designed!
How long 'til the site recovers from being slashdotted so I can actually get it?
That's what I was thinking too! Now I'm gonna go home and dig up my spy vs spy gameboy game.
And how much is Bill Gate worth now?
Holy crap! on my Celeron systems, it's take days to compile it. But then again, I always felt KDE and Gnome were too slow, and have been sticking by WindowMaker.
If you have the season 1 dvd, you can pause it and go frame by frame. And I think the guy that mentioned 800+ dollars is correct. Some random price. Or perhaps that's how much babies go for in underground market?
Fs lives in the tiny holes of everything. They don't like being moved. So when you try to move an object, all the Fs come out to push back on the object. Objects with rougher surfaces mean more Fs can live in the object, so more are available to push back.
So how come once it starts moving, it's easier to push?
That's because eventually, you'll crush the tiny Fs, and their blood and guts act as lubricants. Also, because of that, there's less of them to push back.
But if you stop the object and push again, it'll have the same amount of resistance as the first time. Why?
Well, soon as you stop, Fs go back to their tiny little holes. And they multiply really fast!
And so on he went for about half an hour....
It's at 13000 now. How many copies of Win2k database servers do you have???
The movie sucked. I saw it few months ago after finishing the tv series. There's absolutely no character development.
Too bad it's not a free full working copy of XP. It's only a demo CD...
It may have some similar points, but one big difference is that the contractors consider the temp workers powerless. They do what they do(letting them go with no valid reason, trying to split them up) to break their spirits, and they also know that most of these workers won't or can't afford to file a lawsuit against them. The author of the article was given absolutely no options to find out why she was terminated. In fact, it sounds to me like they actively put up walls to prevent them from coming back to find out why they were fired.
Most of these workers are either not educated enough, don't have the money, or don't have the time to explore the option of retaliation by lawsuits. They are too busy looking for their next job so they can pay the rent. And the bastard managements of these contractors know that!
It just makes me boil inside...
And, they won't lose the cost of advertisement in Asia as well as the production cost for localization. I think this is a decent move for Adobe.
I thought Shrek was pretty clever. But I didn't think Monsters Inc had good plots at all. I just liked it because Boo was just so darn cute. Another good film that no one's mentioned yet(probably because it claymation and not cgi) is Chicken Run. I thought the dialogs were far more original than Toy Story 2 or even Shrek.
"It's a cling on!!!" - the best line of the movie Chicken Run
WTF? Who in their right mind would link a page to Modesto Bee? Granted, they've always carried Dave Barry's column for as long as I can remember, I just never expected to see a link to Modesto Bee... Blech. Well, few more hours of work, and it's time to head over to Modesto to see my parents...
If that's the case, I'm staying away from these squeeze bottles. I personally favor the old recipe with ground up rat particles.
Probably some of my friends will feel the same way. My gf covers her hotdogs with nothing but ketchup. I've never seen anyone eat so much ketchup at once. And one of my friend says that ketchup makes everything taste better.
I mentioned the rat particles, because my mom used to work at Del Monte during tomato seasons. Probably, (at least where she worked at) most of the hired-hands are immigrant older women with little English skills. And when she worked in the line to sort out bad tomatoes, she said that they'd often see dead rats in the batch. And none of the women would dare pick those up, so they get by, right into the grinders!
I've been told by other friends that most of these companies are allowed to have up to certain percentage of "extra parts." So hot dogs aren't the only things with stuff you wouldn't believe. Of course, it hasn't turned me away from hot dogs or ketchup...
I saw some guy putting a bright green stuff on his hot dogs one day, and I was curious about what it was. I thought it was just some special stuff for hot dogs that I just didn't know about. Well, the next day, I'm grocery shopping, and I found the bottle! Heins Shrek Green "ketchup-flavored" sauce! It actually does say "ketchup-flavored" on the bottle and doesn't claim to be ketchup. I like green, Shrek, and I was buying hot dogs, so I said what the heck!
:)
It definitely is "ketchup-flavored." It has a weird taste to it.
So a family of tomatoes were taking a walk in the park; a Papa tomato, a Mama tomato, and a Baby tomato. Papa noticed that Baby was lagging behind, so Papa bonked Baby on the head and said, "catch up!"
I know it's corny, but couldn't resist.
LOLROTFL
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Gee, how many times did I go to McDonalds last week? Well, four minus 1 that just went straight thru me. Well, at least their fries don't make me sick as they used to. But I just get these cravings for the "special sauce" in the BigMacs.
The news I heard on the way to work said that the fire chief in NY "believes" that the second explosion in the second building was caused by a bomb that was placed there before. He also "believes" that there was a bomb on the first plane that also exploded shortly after colliding with the first building.
They say many firefighters were lost in the second explosion.
The person in charge of the Trade Center said that there's usually about 10,000 people in each tower around the time the first plane hit. How long did it take before the buildings collapsed?
More than likely, it's a Ultra160 SCSI. There are two channels on this motherboard. Don't remember whether it uses Symbios or Adaptec, though.