I believe all of this is possible (even multiple SSIDs with one router) with OpenWRT or DD-WRT on certain hardware, but I never got it working right. I just ended up using an two Linksys routers (one with open wifi, one encrypted) and pfSense as a router. You can even do this with just pfSense and couple wireless cards. Private wifi bridges to the local network, public is on an isolated subnet. pfSense traffic shaping keeps users in check. I have a QOS class for "public" traffic which is limited to a couple mbit/sec down and few dozen kb/sec up. Rock solid, more than I can ever say for either of the Linksys routers.
While it's totally overkill for the job, I highly recommend you run a Zimbra Open Source instance for yourself. Although you don't need much of what it provides (Calendaring, contact sync, Jabber IM, etc), it will let you store your messages in a stable, searchable and accessible form. Zimbra can directly import from PST or via IMAP (with your mail client or imapsync) and once it has your messages it full text indexes them with Lucene and so you can search them via the web or IMAP clients. You can easily get your messages out via one of the supported export formats or just use your IMAP mail client to dump the messages into mbox/maildir/pst/whatever. While you could certainly roll your own, why not let someone else take care of all the hard work for you?
Create a dedicated Skype account which is set to auto start video and accept calls from it's contact list, add your skype to that contact list and you're all set. All you have to do is click call whenever you're in your kitchen and there will be a video uplink. Runs on windows or mac with any old x86 box and webcam, pretty close to $0. Just make sure the PC doesn't go to sleep (more than $0).
Sorry dude, that is against the law in Mass. I've even been in a car where the driver was pulled over and given ticket for this. If you enter an intersection while it's green, but cannot make your left turn before it turns red, you've broken the law.:(
From the Mass RMV Drivers Manual: "If you are crossing an intersection, make sure you have enough room to make it completely through. Never block an intersection."
Can you name just five more of these things? Two real examples followed by some handwaving about dozens of others doesn't really convince, especially when everyone knows those are the only two interesting things about Solaris.
Here's five:
Crossbow
Kernel Mode CIFS Server
Zones
Logical Domains
COMSTAR: iSCSI & Fibre Channel
...plus five more reasons why ZFS counts as more than one 'feature'. Just cause it's easy to do with ZFS, doesn't each of these aren't killer features on their own.
Snapshots & Time Slider
Boot Environments
Checksums for Data Integrity ('zpool scrub' lets me sleep at night)
Deduplication
Hybrid Storage Pools (Hard Disks and Flash are more useful together)
ZFS+DTrace are great, but certainly not the only features Solaris10/OpenSolaris/SolarisNext have going for it.
I forgot to mention why I chose the more expensive WD RE2 drives instead of normal retail drives.
The firmware on most drives is designed to make multiple attempts when it fails to read data off the disk on the first try. Sometimes taking 20-30seconds before telling the OS about the read failure. In a traditional RAID setup (or RAIDZ w/ ZFS) you would prefer to have the disk report the read error immediately and let the RAID card/OS handle recalculating the data using the redundant copies. RE2/RE3 drives play nicely like this, most retail drives just try a dozen times...and while that happens, Linux/Solaris/whatever may think the drive is dead since it's not responding and report it as a failed, degrading the array.
Also, the RE2 drives have a 5yr warranty and are supposedly designed for the vibration of multidrive setups.
First, let me suggest you consider using a card with a multilane SAS (4x) connector, also called infiniband, instead of an eSATA connection. These connectors are just 4x SATA/SAS bundled into one, so each drive gets full bandwidth instead of pushing it all across one 1.5/3gbps eSATA connection. You can even by a bracket that will combine 4x internal sata connectors to make one multilane sas connector, these run ~$20, so you can use onboard sata for 4 of your external drives if you've got extra sata ports on your mobo. That said, here's the solution I have running with ZFS RaidZ under OpenSolaris (also used under Linux + FUSE ZFS): DatOptic EBOX-M - 8Bay Sata Enclosure (other EBOX/QBOX enclosure available with eSATA/MiniSAS/USB/Firewire instead of Multilane SAS) 4x WD 1TB RE2 'Green Drives' Addonics ADSA3GPX8-ML (SilImage 3124 Based, Certified for Solaris, works in Linux/Windows...MAC?)
I kind of wish I hadn't spent the extra loot on a the 8bay enclosure, since I still haven't dumped a second set of 4 drives, but imagine someday I'll fill it out. The enclosure is simple, no hot swap, just insert bare drives into the bays, no sleds/mounting hardware required.
Docubase does everything you are looking for. (For real, call them and ask)
Too bad it'll probably cost you mid 5 figures to do it.
Disclosure: I work for a company that resells docubase integrated into our product.
I'm not sure how long they've been doing this, but microsoft now leverages the fact they own virtual pc to use it for training and marketing materials. They may not let end-users do it, but they bundle virtual pc (some read only persuasion) + images to show off different capabilities of their products. My company is an MSDN developer and we got a book of these type of CDs with VPC+Images on them.
My guess is this VMWare move is to allow them and other companies to do similar things. Wouldn't it be nice if training materials for MSCE (ugh) or better yet, Linux certifications had VMWare examples of systems running examples? Hell, you could even have users run multiple images to simulate a whole server environment.
Abstract: For a period of 20 months, the Information Technology Division (ITD) of Massachusetts has been considering certain amendments to its internal information technology policies relating to the use of open formats when saving documents created by the Massachusetts Executive Agencies. The impetus for such a change is to prevent vendor lock in, and also to lessen the likelihood that public information will not become inaccessible in the future due to changes in proprietary software, or the discontinuance of support for such software. On September 21, 2005, the proposed amendments became final, and Massachusetts became the first jurisdiction in the world to mandate the saving of documents using only software that complies with the OpenDocument OASIS Standard or the Adobe PDF format. This article describes the history of both the process followed by the ITD as well as that of the OpenDocument OASIS Standard, summarizes and assesses the arguments for and against the amendments made by those that offered public comments, and finally seeks to evaluate the potential impact of the Massachusetts decision on further government information technology policy evolution around the world.
Maybe they meant: "and also to lessen the likelihood that public information will (remove: "not") become inaccessible in the future due to changes in proprietary software."
Maybe they need to worry less about the format being open and more about the text making sense;)
I've experienced this before. The reason that the acocunting department is likely seperate is because of the software they use. The XServe is capable of doing simple file/auth/print services, but what do you think is the backend of the accounting application? Probably MSSQL or Oracle, but likely some windows-only database. Poster wasn't asking how to migrate everything to non wintel, but directory integration.
Now seriously, parent +5? Propose a non-ms solution get modded up.
This sounds like a lot of hype for something that's out there for symbian phone owners already. With an unlimited data plan in hand, download RealOne for Symbian, find your favorite station that streams using RealAudio (BBC has more than a dozen plus world service in 43 languages) and go.
My favorite is listening to This American Life...I'll be honest, my Nokia 3650 only supports 16khz/8bit/mono, but it's certainly listenable...if only I had an adapter between the the headset port and a 1/8" jack, then I could use it with my car stereo.
I had a simple solution to all the filtering/monitoring that went on there. I have a colocated server (replace with a linux box on a cable modem if necessary) which I SSH'd to and tunnelled. Although you could port forward anything you wanted, if you run windows you can just use PuTTY. It has a nice feature they call "dynamic" port forwarding. It just sets up a local socks proxy which tunnels through the SSH session. Just set your applications to use it as a proxy...I could use IE, Kazaa, etc. I could get at anything I wanted, and they couldn't snoop.
Epiphan makes a product called VGA2USB ($399) and then buy a usb keyboard with a touchpad on it. (ibm sells one for $100). This way you'd just have your laptop (which you would probably have out anyways) and then one keyboard/mouse combo. It's not perfect, but it'll get the job done for $500.
The official EPA MPG is 23 city, 31 highway on my 1995 Toyota Camry. To put that in perspective, I drive to-from school, Massachusetts to North Carolina at least half a dozen times each year and I've never averaged less than 35 mpg on the trip. I think my all time best was 41 mpg, but the climate was perfect and so I didn't need any AC/Heat the entire trip. I'm not sure how accurate the city side of things is, but I know the highway estimates are super conservative. Of course, even though I drive aggresively, I do have the 5-speed manual and spend most of my time in 5th. Oh and in case you were wondering, I regularly get 4-6mpg better than what I get while driving my mom's 1994 automatic camry, so I know that definately plays into it.
Opera is my primary browser, I use it for 95% of my browsing, but I fake my agent all the time. As far as anyone collecting information is concerned all they see is MSIE 6.0 in their logs. I'm forced to do this because MANY pages block access if you don't have IE or Netscape. Maybe if they are progressive, they look for Mozilla too. I'm not sure how much this affects those statistics, but I would imagine that it's not insignificant.
Well, I'm not questioning ease of administration, but I will question your comparison to Citrix functionality. I'll address your issues in the order you present them.
"requires zero software be loaded on the machines the display is coming from or the ones the display is being forwarded to."...I'd love to see software that can be run on a remote computer allowing arbitrary execution...sounds like an exploit to me;)
Oh, Citirx has a Java Client too. And yes it can either in a web browser or as a seperate app
Local Drive/Printer Access: Although not every client has the ability to do this (feature matrix) almost all can do this. Yes, files and printers. (Note: I couldn't find any information about whether OS/2 Warp or Symbian OS could do this...) Of course if you can't use your cell phone to connect to a citrix server and print to a printer attached to the phone, I'm not sure how upset
The city of Holyoke, MA has municipal gas and electric. Like 8 years ago, when they were laying new gas pipes and electric cabling under city streets they decided to lay a fiber ring at the same time. For them, it's not the "last mile" that is expensive, it's literally the last 10ft. From the street to the edge of your building. Although I haven't worked with them since 2000, they used to do VLANs (Virtual LAN across town) for like $100 + $5 per location for 10mbit. And this came with a 10mbit internet connect too. We couldn't even get a T1 for those prices. Let alone the other locations.
Why is this press release/empty marketing on /. ?
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Two and a half years ago I played with the Cisco version of this product. Just as previous comment spoke about, this is not news, it offers nothing special. In fact, theCisco SoftPhone is not only a standalone IP phone, but it can also be used to control the 7960, 7940 or 7910. Although that was marginally useful, the java app (I can't remember the product name) that let our receptionists use their computers to monitors lines and transfer calls was really cool. Just open up your browser, login and then enter the extension of your phone. Bang instant operator. Once they got into it (3-4 days) they were handling twice the load they were before...it rocked. Softphone was more of a novelty than anything else though. People seem to like the idea, but either a real IP phone (even a barebones one like the 7910) or even the Cisco ATA 186 analog to ip phone adapter is was more useful than a softphone for most people. And if you want to be untethered, check out the Symbol NetVision phone. (Note, it came out two years ago!)
This is all old news. And by the way, no I don't work for cisco, nor do I work at a company that uses IP telephony now.
A few other people have mentioned getting an ATX DC power supply for your desktop to further reduct your power consumption, this might make sense, but the same sort of reduction can be gained with a laptop. If you get a car adapter for your laptop (12V DC) you will not lose power to the inverter/transformer combo necessary for most setups. I can't speak for anyone other laptop, but my thinkpad auto/air adapter is rated for 72watts, but in my experience my thinkpad T21 doesn't draw that much. Ever. Even when the system is at full tilt with the screen brightness up all the way charging a battery, with the cd/hard drive spinning away. So if you decide to get a laptop, make sure you get a DC adapter too.
I'm confused. If they aren't LG ATAPI CD-ROMs, then what are they? Is the problem somehow related to the fact that the drive is not fully compliant with the ATAPI spec? Or did the poster just say this because LG drives are rebranded? I don't get it.
Ummm...That would make sense. If you weren't wrong. They are both hosted by akamai in very close IP address space...being as it the pages look indentical (except for the channel logo) I would gather that if one of them went down the other would probably not still be up...oh and when was the last time Akamai went down anyways.
peter@snowball:~$ host www.thekansascitychannel.com www.thekansascitycha nnel.com is an alias for www.thekansascitychannel.com.edgesuite.net. www.t hekansascitychannel.com.edgesuite.net is an alias for a1994.g.akamai.net. a1994.g.akamai.net has address 206.65.174.56 a1994.g.akamai.net has address 206.65.174.46 peter@snowball:~$ host www.thechamplainchannel.com www.thechamplainchann el.com is an alias for www.thechamplainchannel.com.edgesuite.net. www.th echamplainchannel.com.edgesuite.net is an alias for a234.g.akamai.net. a234.g.akamai.net has address 206.65.174.41 a234.g.akamai.net has address 206.65.174.54
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I believe all of this is possible (even multiple SSIDs with one router) with OpenWRT or DD-WRT on certain hardware, but I never got it working right. I just ended up using an two Linksys routers (one with open wifi, one encrypted) and pfSense as a router. You can even do this with just pfSense and couple wireless cards. Private wifi bridges to the local network, public is on an isolated subnet. pfSense traffic shaping keeps users in check. I have a QOS class for "public" traffic which is limited to a couple mbit/sec down and few dozen kb/sec up. Rock solid, more than I can ever say for either of the Linksys routers.
I found pfSense: The Definitive Guide to be a decent dead trees source for getting started with pfSense.
While it's totally overkill for the job, I highly recommend you run a Zimbra Open Source instance for yourself. Although you don't need much of what it provides (Calendaring, contact sync, Jabber IM, etc), it will let you store your messages in a stable, searchable and accessible form. Zimbra can directly import from PST or via IMAP (with your mail client or imapsync) and once it has your messages it full text indexes them with Lucene and so you can search them via the web or IMAP clients. You can easily get your messages out via one of the supported export formats or just use your IMAP mail client to dump the messages into mbox/maildir/pst/whatever. While you could certainly roll your own, why not let someone else take care of all the hard work for you?
Create a dedicated Skype account which is set to auto start video and accept calls from it's contact list, add your skype to that contact list and you're all set. All you have to do is click call whenever you're in your kitchen and there will be a video uplink. Runs on windows or mac with any old x86 box and webcam, pretty close to $0. Just make sure the PC doesn't go to sleep (more than $0).
Sorry dude, that is against the law in Mass. I've even been in a car where the driver was pulled over and given ticket for this. If you enter an intersection while it's green, but cannot make your left turn before it turns red, you've broken the law. :(
From the Mass RMV Drivers Manual:
"If you are crossing an intersection, make sure you have enough room to make it completely through. Never block an intersection."
Can you name just five more of these things? Two real examples followed by some handwaving about dozens of others doesn't really convince, especially when everyone knows those are the only two interesting things about Solaris.
Here's five:
ZFS+DTrace are great, but certainly not the only features Solaris10/OpenSolaris/SolarisNext have going for it.
I forgot to mention why I chose the more expensive WD RE2 drives instead of normal retail drives.
The firmware on most drives is designed to make multiple attempts when it fails to read data off the disk on the first try. Sometimes taking 20-30seconds before telling the OS about the read failure. In a traditional RAID setup (or RAIDZ w/ ZFS) you would prefer to have the disk report the read error immediately and let the RAID card/OS handle recalculating the data using the redundant copies. RE2/RE3 drives play nicely like this, most retail drives just try a dozen times...and while that happens, Linux/Solaris/whatever may think the drive is dead since it's not responding and report it as a failed, degrading the array.
Also, the RE2 drives have a 5yr warranty and are supposedly designed for the vibration of multidrive setups.
First, let me suggest you consider using a card with a multilane SAS (4x) connector, also called infiniband, instead of an eSATA connection. These connectors are just 4x SATA/SAS bundled into one, so each drive gets full bandwidth instead of pushing it all across one 1.5/3gbps eSATA connection. You can even by a bracket that will combine 4x internal sata connectors to make one multilane sas connector, these run ~$20, so you can use onboard sata for 4 of your external drives if you've got extra sata ports on your mobo.
That said, here's the solution I have running with ZFS RaidZ under OpenSolaris (also used under Linux + FUSE ZFS):
DatOptic EBOX-M - 8Bay Sata Enclosure (other EBOX/QBOX enclosure available with eSATA/MiniSAS/USB/Firewire instead of Multilane SAS)
4x WD 1TB RE2 'Green Drives'
Addonics ADSA3GPX8-ML (SilImage 3124 Based, Certified for Solaris, works in Linux/Windows...MAC?)
I kind of wish I hadn't spent the extra loot on a the 8bay enclosure, since I still haven't dumped a second set of 4 drives, but imagine someday I'll fill it out. The enclosure is simple, no hot swap, just insert bare drives into the bays, no sleds/mounting hardware required.
There's another piece of software optimized for truck navigation:
CoPilot by ALK.
They also have non-truck navigation too.
I've used the desktop products, but not the PDA/SmartPhone ones.
Docubase does everything you are looking for. (For real, call them and ask) Too bad it'll probably cost you mid 5 figures to do it. Disclosure: I work for a company that resells docubase integrated into our product.
I'm not sure how long they've been doing this, but microsoft now leverages the fact they own virtual pc to use it for training and marketing materials. They may not let end-users do it, but they bundle virtual pc (some read only persuasion) + images to show off different capabilities of their products. My company is an MSDN developer and we got a book of these type of CDs with VPC+Images on them.
My guess is this VMWare move is to allow them and other companies to do similar things. Wouldn't it be nice if training materials for MSCE (ugh) or better yet, Linux certifications had VMWare examples of systems running examples? Hell, you could even have users run multiple images to simulate a whole server environment.
Here's the abstract from the featured article:Maybe they meant: "and also to lessen the likelihood that public information will (remove: "not") become inaccessible in the future due to changes in proprietary software."
Maybe they need to worry less about the format being open and more about the text making sense
I've experienced this before. The reason that the acocunting department is likely seperate is because of the software they use. The XServe is capable of doing simple file/auth/print services, but what do you think is the backend of the accounting application? Probably MSSQL or Oracle, but likely some windows-only database. Poster wasn't asking how to migrate everything to non wintel, but directory integration.
Now seriously, parent +5? Propose a non-ms solution get modded up.
This sounds like a lot of hype for something that's out there for symbian phone owners already. With an unlimited data plan in hand, download RealOne for Symbian, find your favorite station that streams using RealAudio (BBC has more than a dozen plus world service in 43 languages) and go.
My favorite is listening to This American Life...I'll be honest, my Nokia 3650 only supports 16khz/8bit/mono, but it's certainly listenable...if only I had an adapter between the the headset port and a 1/8" jack, then I could use it with my car stereo.
Yep that would be smarter... ;)
I had a simple solution to all the filtering/monitoring that went on there. I have a colocated server (replace with a linux box on a cable modem if necessary) which I SSH'd to and tunnelled. Although you could port forward anything you wanted, if you run windows you can just use PuTTY. It has a nice feature they call "dynamic" port forwarding. It just sets up a local socks proxy which tunnels through the SSH session. Just set your applications to use it as a proxy...I could use IE, Kazaa, etc. I could get at anything I wanted, and they couldn't snoop.
Epiphan makes a product called VGA2USB ($399) and then buy a usb keyboard with a touchpad on it. (ibm sells one for $100). This way you'd just have your laptop (which you would probably have out anyways) and then one keyboard/mouse combo. It's not perfect, but it'll get the job done for $500.
The official EPA MPG is 23 city, 31 highway on my 1995 Toyota Camry. To put that in perspective, I drive to-from school, Massachusetts to North Carolina at least half a dozen times each year and I've never averaged less than 35 mpg on the trip. I think my all time best was 41 mpg, but the climate was perfect and so I didn't need any AC/Heat the entire trip. I'm not sure how accurate the city side of things is, but I know the highway estimates are super conservative. Of course, even though I drive aggresively, I do have the 5-speed manual and spend most of my time in 5th. Oh and in case you were wondering, I regularly get 4-6mpg better than what I get while driving my mom's 1994 automatic camry, so I know that definately plays into it.
Just in case you were curious, check this website out for fuel efficiency data for all cars run by the EPA.
Opera is my primary browser, I use it for 95% of my browsing, but I fake my agent all the time. As far as anyone collecting information is concerned all they see is MSIE 6.0 in their logs. I'm forced to do this because MANY pages block access if you don't have IE or Netscape. Maybe if they are progressive, they look for Mozilla too. I'm not sure how much this affects those statistics, but I would imagine that it's not insignificant.
No. According to these guys it's 97.5% zinc, not aluminum. It's got a 2.5% copper skin.
The city of Holyoke, MA has municipal gas and electric. Like 8 years ago, when they were laying new gas pipes and electric cabling under city streets they decided to lay a fiber ring at the same time. For them, it's not the "last mile" that is expensive, it's literally the last 10ft. From the street to the edge of your building. Although I haven't worked with them since 2000, they used to do VLANs (Virtual LAN across town) for like $100 + $5 per location for 10mbit. And this came with a 10mbit internet connect too. We couldn't even get a T1 for those prices. Let alone the other locations.
http://www.hge.net/
Two and a half years ago I played with the Cisco version of this product. Just as previous comment spoke about, this is not news, it offers nothing special. In fact, theCisco SoftPhone is not only a standalone IP phone, but it can also be used to control the 7960, 7940 or 7910. Although that was marginally useful, the java app (I can't remember the product name) that let our receptionists use their computers to monitors lines and transfer calls was really cool. Just open up your browser, login and then enter the extension of your phone. Bang instant operator. Once they got into it (3-4 days) they were handling twice the load they were before...it rocked. Softphone was more of a novelty than anything else though. People seem to like the idea, but either a real IP phone (even a barebones one like the 7910) or even the Cisco ATA 186 analog to ip phone adapter is was more useful than a softphone for most people. And if you want to be untethered, check out the Symbol NetVision phone. (Note, it came out two years ago!)
This is all old news. And by the way, no I don't work for cisco, nor do I work at a company that uses IP telephony now.
A few other people have mentioned getting an ATX DC power supply for your desktop to further reduct your power consumption, this might make sense, but the same sort of reduction can be gained with a laptop. If you get a car adapter for your laptop (12V DC) you will not lose power to the inverter/transformer combo necessary for most setups. I can't speak for anyone other laptop, but my thinkpad auto/air adapter is rated for 72watts, but in my experience my thinkpad T21 doesn't draw that much. Ever. Even when the system is at full tilt with the screen brightness up all the way charging a battery, with the cd/hard drive spinning away. So if you decide to get a laptop, make sure you get a DC adapter too.
"for all so-called ATAPI LG cd-rom drives"
I'm confused. If they aren't LG ATAPI CD-ROMs, then what are they? Is the problem somehow related to the fact that the drive is not fully compliant with the ATAPI spec? Or did the poster just say this because LG drives are rebranded? I don't get it.
Ummm...That would make sense. If you weren't wrong. They are both hosted by akamai in very close IP address space...being as it the pages look indentical (except for the channel logo) I would gather that if one of them went down the other would probably not still be up...oh and when was the last time Akamai went down anyways.
a nnel.com is an alias for www.thekansascitychannel.com.edgesuite.net.t hekansascitychannel.com.edgesuite.net is an alias for a1994.g.akamai.net.n el.com is an alias for www.thechamplainchannel.com.edgesuite.net.h echamplainchannel.com.edgesuite.net is an alias for a234.g.akamai.net.
peter@snowball:~$ host www.thekansascitychannel.com
www.thekansascitych
www.
a1994.g.akamai.net has address 206.65.174.56
a1994.g.akamai.net has address 206.65.174.46
peter@snowball:~$ host www.thechamplainchannel.com
www.thechamplainchan
www.t
a234.g.akamai.net has address 206.65.174.41
a234.g.akamai.net has address 206.65.174.54