It's probably not cost effective for you (I just took one home from work), but man, these are REALLY nice pieces of kit. If you are somewhat technical, you will be right at home. It's a full IP router, hotspot, DHCP server, etc, in a box. At home I run it as a dumb bridge, at work we use them for a variety of things, including bridges, routers, bandwidth shapers, hot spots... supports RADIUS, NTP... golly, long list. They have even thought of things like "What happens if you screw up IP -and- don't have a serial cable handy?" ("mac-telnet")... VRRP, UPNP, IPSec, the list goes on and on.
What I like BEST about them, though, is that you can tweak, tweak, tweak -- it seems as though they were designed by a bunch of overclockers... who knew Cisco IOS and thought the interface sucked donkey dicks.
Here, for example, this is what I can configure for the radio:
If that doesn't work, BTW, you could also try an AP with a better radio.
Signal with the Linksys WRT54G version 1.2 in my house is basically unusable, due to (at least in part) my cordless phones, even with OpenWRT firmware. I can literally be 2 feet away from the AP (with a floor and desk in between) and have it flake out.
And yet, my Routerboard RB532A (w/Mikrotik software) with an Atheros AR5413 radio works like a charm. 100%, all the time, every time, right into my backyard.
Try putting your WiFi AP in your basement, on a floor joist. If it really is the roof that's giving you grief, that might be far enough away to weaken multipathed signals out of detection.
You could also try decreasing the transmit power if you suspect multipathing. And, of course, lower the basic rate.
I just want to know how the hell he found RAM chips which weren't sold in increments of at least 8Kb. I couldn't, which is why I had to choose between 512 and 640K of RAM back in the dark ages.
" '2. Can I statically link the code with Linux libraries? (My own experience shows that dynamic linking is too much to bear.)'
Wow, if you find -ll -ly more difficult to type than -ll -ly (or maybe libl.a liby.a)... then may I politely suggest a field more suitable of your intellect? Perhaps... burger engineering?
Real programmers invented ELF binaries and dynamic linking for a reason, you know.
No offence, but minimum-wage-earners and welfare bums DEFINATELY get more out of the health care system than they put in. For all but a tiny minority, it is DEFINATELY a net gain for them if you factor it out of a reasonable period of time.
Hell, that used to be a standard vengeful prank back in the BBSing days. Call up the phone company and tell them "you" you want your modem line disconnected, here is the number...
> If he had to delete 20 billion spam then he might start getting a clue of > just how much of a pain in the ass he is for doing his business the way he has
Say, that's an intriguing way come up with a proportional punishment.
Tell him to install WinXP on a box, and a special CD that will load a mailbox containing 20,000 spams and one good email.
Each good email will contain a digit of PI.
Now, he has to look through (or erase) all the spams to get that digit of PI.
Then, he has to repeat until he's looked as many spams as he's sent. So, probably one million boxes of 20,000 spams each.
Once he turns in a hand-written notebook with 1,000,000 digits of PI, he is free to go.
> If you want network transparency and scripting, why the hell are you using windows?
Windows was there... I have a Windows PC hooked up in the living room so I can play Wolfenstein. Yeah, I know, that's kind of lame. LOL.
Going with a non-Windows solution would mean buying new hardware, though, since there aren't Linux drivers for almost everything on the [free] BookPC I'm using. Which means considering XBox makes sense, too.
MythTV -- not sure what this gets me? I thought it was your basic PVR? I have a hardware PVR.
Amarok -- nice, I didn't know that existed. That'll work for playing MP3s, that never even crossed my mind (I still use mxaudio at work). If I keep my media on an SMB share, display Amarok on the local desktop, but run it in the livingroom, that'd work.. HMMmm..m.m.mm
Same thing goes for mplayer -- thanks for more food for thought.
Now, the real answer to my question -- FTP Site commands. Beautiful! Thank you!
That's it, I'm going to start trolling the thrift stores for an XBox 1.0. Can it also run an SNES emulator?:)
You can connect multiple computers to each T3+ via FCAL, you just can't mount the same F/S at the same time.
If you were particularly clever (AND your access pattern happened to be right), you could write the data to a mirror on the T3, unmount it from whatever is generating the data, split the mirror, and each computer could now mount it. And maybe even start making another mirror if you're so inclined.
I suggest this not because I think it's a good SAN solution, I'm thinking maybe giving you direct disk access would solve some of your problems.
Oh, and don't buy the T3s from Sun. They are cheap and plentiful on the refurb market. Typical configuration per unit is 9 73GB disks, dual power supplies, built in batteries (to run disks until cache is flushed) and 1GB write-behind cache. You can also chain them together, run them in parallel, whatever. Administration is serial or 10mbps telnet.
Can I make the XBMC in my living room start playing MP3s based on what I type in my bed room?
Every "Media Center" I've ever seen wants me to "Share" the files, walk 50 feet, pick up the remote control, squint at my television to read what songs are there, select them, play them, and walk back to my bedroom. Frankly, it's annoying.
My current hack is a homebrew wsh script on an XP pro box, I dump MP3s over the network, it picks 'em up, plays 'em, and deletes 'em.
The only problem is when I want to send movies this way, it works, but it takes a while to copy a two hour movie from one computer to another.
What I'd REALLY like is, say, a display filter for media player. Then I could play the media in the bedroom, but have it DISPLAY in the livingroom.
Kind of like X, actually, except that I run Windows at home. And X doesn't do anything with sound.
> I'm not trying to discourage you from building this system, in fact > I think DIY is a great way to go. However, you do need to take into > account how downtime will affect the cost of this device.
We do some roll-your-own stuff at my company. The downtime and spares issue is solved simply by stocking spares *ahead of time*. For example, if I am needing three RAID enclosures for a project, I buy four and leave the fourth one on the shelf. If we need to dip into the spares, THEN we can start shopping for replacements.
We rarely use manufacturer's warranties, simply because it is such a pain. Although, I was dismayed once to call up Seagate with 48 bad disks, only to find out that their warranty had expired the month before. Guess I should've been more proactive..
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Is the AP at your yacht club running with a sector antenna? It should be. You should also look at a cantenna-style directional antenna for your boat.
300 meters in that environment IS challenging, but totally doable.
This is what I got, plus the Atheros radio and a 10" or so antenna:
http://www.nwcis.com/store/product_info.php?manuf
It's probably not cost effective for you (I just took one home from work), but man, these are REALLY nice pieces of kit. If you are somewhat technical, you will be right at home. It's a full IP router, hotspot, DHCP server, etc, in a box. At home I run it as a dumb bridge, at work we use them for a variety of things, including bridges, routers, bandwidth shapers, hot spots
What I like BEST about them, though, is that you can tweak, tweak, tweak -- it seems as though they were designed by a bunch of overclockers... who knew Cisco IOS and thought the interface sucked donkey dicks.
Here, for example, this is what I can configure for the radio: I also found the vendor I've linked to do be really with-it and actually able to answer "how do I
The warranty sucks, though. They have to go back to Latvia. Or is it Lithuania? I forget.
If that doesn't work, BTW, you could also try an AP with a better radio.
Signal with the Linksys WRT54G version 1.2 in my house is basically unusable, due to (at least in part) my cordless phones, even with OpenWRT firmware. I can literally be 2 feet away from the AP (with a floor and desk in between) and have it flake out.
And yet, my Routerboard RB532A (w/Mikrotik software) with an Atheros AR5413 radio works like a charm. 100%, all the time, every time, right into my backyard.
Try putting your WiFi AP in your basement, on a floor joist. If it really is the roof that's giving you grief, that might be far enough away to weaken multipathed signals out of detection.
You could also try decreasing the transmit power if you suspect multipathing. And, of course, lower the basic rate.
I didn't miss the point of yours -- in fact, I agree -- but I think you missed the point of mine.
It's more zen than blatant, though. You may need to reflect to achieve enlightenment.
> If you are unfamiliar with this concept ask a sociology grad
> to explain it, as I do not have links to the studies.
A recent episode of Boston Legal dealt with this. Captain Kirk called a job applicant "Well Spoken -- Like Obama".
It was freakin' hilarious.
> it's interesting that you would call a country that has
> had a female prime minister as being repressive to women.
Um, Hilary hasn't been elected yet!
Oh wait, also, the USA has a "President", not a "Prime Minister". Next time, pay attention in civics! Yeesh!
Wow, you're, ah, quite the Anti-Semite, aren't you???
I seem to recall that stuff was in the 100ns range -- that's still 0.1ms.
Or am I missing something?
> In reality the custom controller and addressing limits would stop you.
I dunno. Is there a hard limit for LIM EMS?
I just want to know how the hell he found RAM chips which weren't sold in increments of at least 8Kb. I couldn't, which is why I had to choose between 512 and 640K of RAM back in the dark ages.
> "beaucoup" is more of a Cajun slang word than an actual French word anyway
"beaucoup" is an actual French word which means "many".
Wow, um, pardon my rudeness. But. What the hell is wrong with your genes???
There's a reason why they call them lusers, you know.
Wow, if you find -ll -ly more difficult to type than -ll -ly (or maybe libl.a liby.a)... then may I politely suggest a field more suitable of your intellect? Perhaps... burger engineering?
Real programmers invented ELF binaries and dynamic linking for a reason, you know.
No offence, but minimum-wage-earners and welfare bums DEFINATELY get more out of the health care system than they put in. For all but a tiny minority, it is DEFINATELY a net gain for them if you factor it out of a reasonable period of time.
I think they should scoop the one out of BSD UNIX.
Hell, it worked for them pretty good LAST time..
Hell, that used to be a standard vengeful prank back in the BBSing days. Call up the phone company and tell them "you" you want your modem line disconnected, here is the number...
Santa Rosa is not only the Patron Saint of the Americas, but was also a bulemic schizophrenic.
I figure they put her in there to try and lure more Windows users to The Jobsian Way.
I have occasionally found ring-to-index-finger ratio an excellent method for determining who in the crowd is a tranny.
Not as accurate as Mick Dundee's method, though.
Wes
Screwdrivers were banned in America in the 1920s.
For that matter, so were Rusty Nails.
> If he had to delete 20 billion spam then he might start getting a clue of
> just how much of a pain in the ass he is for doing his business the way he has
Say, that's an intriguing way come up with a proportional punishment.
Tell him to install WinXP on a box, and a special CD that will load a mailbox containing 20,000 spams and one good email.
Each good email will contain a digit of PI.
Now, he has to look through (or erase) all the spams to get that digit of PI.
Then, he has to repeat until he's looked as many spams as he's sent. So, probably one million boxes of 20,000 spams each.
Once he turns in a hand-written notebook with 1,000,000 digits of PI, he is free to go.
> If you want network transparency and scripting, why the hell are you using windows?
:)
Windows was there... I have a Windows PC hooked up in the living room so I can play Wolfenstein. Yeah, I know, that's kind of lame. LOL.
Going with a non-Windows solution would mean buying new hardware, though, since there aren't Linux drivers for almost everything on the [free] BookPC I'm using. Which means considering XBox makes sense, too.
MythTV -- not sure what this gets me? I thought it was your basic PVR? I have a hardware PVR.
Amarok -- nice, I didn't know that existed. That'll work for playing MP3s, that never even crossed my mind (I still use mxaudio at work). If I keep my media on an SMB share, display Amarok on the local desktop, but run it in the livingroom, that'd work.. HMMmm..m.m.mm
Same thing goes for mplayer -- thanks for more food for thought.
Now, the real answer to my question -- FTP Site commands. Beautiful! Thank you!
That's it, I'm going to start trolling the thrift stores for an XBox 1.0. Can it also run an SNES emulator?
Have you thought about getting some Sun T3+s?
You can connect multiple computers to each T3+ via FCAL, you just can't mount the same F/S at the same time.
If you were particularly clever (AND your access pattern happened to be right), you could write the data to a mirror on the T3, unmount it from whatever is generating the data, split the mirror, and each computer could now mount it. And maybe even start making another mirror if you're so inclined.
I suggest this not because I think it's a good SAN solution, I'm thinking maybe giving you direct disk access would solve some of your problems.
Oh, and don't buy the T3s from Sun. They are cheap and plentiful on the refurb market. Typical configuration per unit is 9 73GB disks, dual power supplies, built in batteries (to run disks until cache is flushed) and 1GB write-behind cache. You can also chain them together, run them in parallel, whatever. Administration is serial or 10mbps telnet.
Here's a question for ya.
Can I make the XBMC in my living room start playing MP3s based on what I type in my bed room?
Every "Media Center" I've ever seen wants me to "Share" the files, walk 50 feet, pick up the remote control, squint at my television to read what songs are there, select them, play them, and walk back to my bedroom. Frankly, it's annoying.
My current hack is a homebrew wsh script on an XP pro box, I dump MP3s over the network, it picks 'em up, plays 'em, and deletes 'em.
The only problem is when I want to send movies this way, it works, but it takes a while to copy a two hour movie from one computer to another.
What I'd REALLY like is, say, a display filter for media player. Then I could play the media in the bedroom, but have it DISPLAY in the livingroom.
Kind of like X, actually, except that I run Windows at home. And X doesn't do anything with sound.
> I'm not trying to discourage you from building this system, in fact
> I think DIY is a great way to go. However, you do need to take into
> account how downtime will affect the cost of this device.
We do some roll-your-own stuff at my company. The downtime and spares issue is solved simply by stocking spares *ahead of time*. For example, if I am needing three RAID enclosures for a project, I buy four and leave the fourth one on the shelf. If we need to dip into the spares, THEN we can start shopping for replacements.
We rarely use manufacturer's warranties, simply because it is such a pain. Although, I was dismayed once to call up Seagate with 48 bad disks, only to find out that their warranty had expired the month before. Guess I should've been more proactive..