Ummm 1) Havn't you heard of menu items? 2) Havn't you heard of shell scripts? 3) If you are supporting your mom and she doesn't have a network connection and vncserver running on her machine you are stupid:}
Which it wouldn't do with a sufficiently sized tank and solar cells... but I would guess that an inverter is a lot cheaper than a couple gas storage tanks:}
Two words "cheap storage" beats the pants off of batteries for long and short term... also can use more efficient heat transfer techniques with gas heating.
Even provides you backup incase you loose the power grid and can't use it as a "battery"
Will the Debian Linux distribution refuse all Open Source Software that also says, "you can re-compile this software, and even add your own modifications, but you can't represent your own compilations or modifications as official builds"?
Ahh yes... but they want to decide at what level the changes are too many to be "official". What constitutes too many changes to be able to use that "official" name. Sure makes it hard to manage a package for a distribution when you constantly have to check over your shoulder and see if a security patch is "too much"
Because that's all that reserving the artwork does: the artwork is an imprimatur, a symbol essentially equivalent to a signature, that identifies a build as official.
As yes... but Debian has even said they are willing to change the artwork if that is required. But why should they not be allowed to call it "firefox" when all they have made is a few changes for security or crash related issues. Calling the package mozilla-somethingorother is gonna be a lot harder to find than just searching for "firefox".
I've made some of my code open source, but I've never said that people could remove my name from the copyright, or conversely, put my name on their own work. If my signature were a Chinese ideogram, or a picture of fox wrapped around a globe, I wouldn't let anyone else use that.
I agree... but if you are distributing a functionally equivelent package using 99.9% the original code base shouldn't you be allowed to retain that information? Especially if the package is distributed as "open source".
If the Debian Foundation decides that Firefox isn't "free enough", can I produce my own Linux distribution and call it "Debian Linux"?
No.. because that is a trademark issue... but anyone is allowed to distribute Debian with patches as long as they state it is an "unofficial" build. Why should it be any different for an individual package than for the whole?
Look at the IAX protocol that Asterisk PBX uses. Several devices are coming out now that talk this protocol.
Main selling points are: #1 It works VERY well #2 Only 1 port is ever used so NAT fowarding fixes all NAT issues #3 Is a full PBX level intercommunication protocol so you can have any device using it do very advanced things that SIP and H323 only wish they could do well. (example... line in use indication for secretaries phones)
Virbiage is preparing to sell there FT201 based on IAX protocol and Digium (makers of Asterisk) are beginning mass production on their "IAXy" which is an ATA brick for analog phones.
Have you ever heard a journalist being called an "editor" or "poster".
No one has ever claimed that those comments at the end are anything but an editorial comment. Don't blast a person for putting an item in the place where it is expected.
If the editors want to bring to our attention what him/her/they believe is an important view than that is fine. If you don't like that editors point of view then don't read it. No one is forcing you to read that article... or even come and read on slashdot.
I am sorry I have to be so blunt but I am tired of people flaming editors for editorializing as is their right.
Only problem with this is REQUIRING it for all voip... Like was pointed out in the article there are a couple problems with this. I have a 802.11 VoIP phone... anywhere that I have public internet access on wireless I can use it.
Exactly which which 911 center should they call? I used it while in MN, MI, IN and FL states. The only way to guarantee my position would be with a GPS... and those won't work inside and would significantly raise the price of a phone. (not to mention having to buy a new one)
Must offer 911 service to customers... yeah that is probably a good idea. Requiring 911 info on all connections would be a VERY bad idea.
The wording the FCC uses is going to be very crucial to a lot of future VoIP users.
But apparently every court up to his state's supreme court agrees with me, so far
Umm sorry... but with that argument 90% of the cases that make it to the supreme court are worthless... because all the lower courts "agreed" does not mean it is correct.
What if the guy had past domestic violence arrests and/or convictions, and here's ANOTHER call to 911 claiming that someone witnessed he just hit his daughter?
This should only matter to a judge/jury IF the man is prosecuted for doing it again. Just because a person has done it before does NOT mean that you shouldn't do your detective work and just assume they did it again.
And it's well known that many domestic violence victims lie to cover for the aggressor, so the reliability of anything she says is automatically suspect...
If the victim lies for the agressor... tough... unless their are other witnesses you are not going to get a conviction based on the cop saying, "She won't talk but I know he did it". It's sad... but if someone won't stand up and say they were wronged and no one else saw enough to prosecute the agressor is (and should) get off scott free.
It is papers please... YES! When a cop just shows up on a scene like that how is a person's identification going to help him to know if the person is doing something illegal or not?
If the lady involved had said she had a restraining order then I can easily seeing asking for his ID to make sure he was the person of record. The cop never asked if they were related so identification to tell if they were related was a mute point.
If I was being beaten (and that was why the cops were called) I would hope that they would get the story straight before they think they need my name to file a report for my arrest.
#1 Ummm... excuse me... but where in the great US do MOST buildings and residences have split 3 phase? I'm sorry but where I live you try and hook a 3 phase motor up in your house and you get laughed at by the electric company.
Businesses yes... most businesses in downtown areas have abundance of true 3 phase.
#2 Three wires does not equal 3 phase power.
#3 Standard wiring? Dude... no one does anything except what is required by code. Unless they are union and trying to milk you for more $$$$. Modern code states that you must have 2 legs + ground run to each panel. That ends up with usually a balance of every other apartment having connections to 2 of the 3 phases and they rotate it to balance the load.
#4 Distance is bull... If you havn't properly grounded the outlets it would be an issue... but EVERY outlet (talking modern 3 prong here) has to be tied to a central ground. With that thing tied to central ground the only way you will get current induced at the far end is if the wire is massively underspec or broken. Either way you have "A BAD THING".
#5 Book knowledge is not my primary source of knowledge... I worked 7 years as a network engineer for this university. I now am their system administrator because the system is in place and 100% stable. Do we use fiber on risers... in most places we do for the better upgrade path and distance it affords us. Do we use them on all... NO! We have several 4-6 story runs made with plain old UTP that had 100mb/s and now have moved to GigE. Most of these wires are 8 years old and running just fine.
As for the troll comment... If I was truly a troll don't you think I would have used my karma bonus to make sure this got noticed by everyone? I mean... a +3 does wonders.:}
So my question is... why did they ground it at all?
Twisted pair is based on differential in pairs like RS-485 and such. It should NOT carry any form of grounding potential. This is BEGGING lightning to eat every device anywhere near that.
Second question... sheilded twisted pair? No one with a brain uses shielded cable for networks. That defeats every reason for twisting the pairs. It just picks up currents from everything around it.
Third... The number of stories has nothing to do with it... People wire like that you'll get knocked on your butt between apartments... Try wiring in a building where they have split 3 phase to do the wiring. Forget to check a phase crossing and BAM you end up on your butt.
The basic idea is be careful... use the materials that are appropriate... don't overextend the limits and twisted pair works.
Even with fiber... once you get to TP you can't go about plugging different devices into different ground paths or phases without asking for trouble.
The main reason to use fiber for risers is that then you have a better upgrade path for your backbone connections. In most cases that is the ONLY valid reason.
May be true for the sprint phones... but my i58sr (Nextel) has a full GPS in it that pumps out NMEA just great. (Verified just now by using selective tinfoil placeing to have no cell service but still be getting a couple satellites)
However... that is about all it does... The only way to see the data on the phone is by asking it for your position... after an eternity (or a short time if you leave the engine on all the time and toast your battery life) you get your lat and lon....
That's it... no waypoints... no map... just the digits.
There are quite a few java apps that I can get for it that will make it "phone home" and do like the APRS thing and say "there he is!" but you have to have the data plan... and at 5$/Mb of transfer starting rate it is NOT worth it... GPS data is small... but not if you do it every 5 minutes ever day of the year:{
I would LOVE to be able to just place waypoints even if only to the notepad app... If anyone has how to grab this info from their Java app I would love to hear about it... I have the SDK running and have done several "hello world" apps and such so... it shouldn't be too hard... if I can just find out how to do it:{
Amen... especially since blocking those ports only stops it until someone brings their infected laptop on the inside and BOOM you have an outbreak.
I work for a private university and during the luvsan outbreak even with all the interdepartment routers blocking it's traffic we still ended up with rampant infections.
The PHBs wondered how on earth that could happen... come to find out it was one of them... with their laptop and wireless card. They weren't even using the network at each location they went to but their connection was live and infecting everything locally.
Goes to show... fix the PROBLEM... don't just slap a bandaid over it and hope the germs don't get in.
Actually... with equipment that will use loose timing 30 miles would be no problem. You could even use an omni on the other end.
The main problem with these is getting them high enough for line of sight and also mounted sturdy enough. Mountain to mountain is the best for these kind of links.
With a beamwidth of 1degree or less those 6-10ft dishes have to be held dead still or you loose your signal at any distance.
Anyways.. the record is something like 120+km with two of these things and some VERY modified radios in the cards.
Anyone thought yet that this is a way for Dell to side step the "Windows Rebate". By hitting ANY key at all you are agreeing to all the licenses inside.
Well the license with the Windows rebate clause would then be agreed to without even SEEING it.
Nice Dell... screw me out of an even cheaper machine by trying to trick me out of my rebate.
*Laughs at/. editor as he types this over a 6.1mile 802.11b link*
Really... the main reason for the interference between cell and emergency is that they are all moving into the same spectrum space. 800mhz is a busy place these days.
True wireless (802.11a,b,g) are all in FAR different spectrums so other than cordless phones and some radar equipment interference is a moot point.
Actually... Ozone at ground level is a pollutant. We commonly have "ozone action" days around the midwest. They encourage you on these hot dry days to carpool or ride public transit to cut down on the pollutants. Ozone levels reach heights where you can actually smell it in the outside air. NOT GOOD:} If only we could find an efficient way to pump it to the upper atmosphere...
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At least in the newer versions of Mozilla you can bookmark a set of tabs... Works great... just have to remember to do it :}
Ummm :}
1) Havn't you heard of menu items?
2) Havn't you heard of shell scripts?
3) If you are supporting your mom and she doesn't have a network connection and vncserver running on her machine you are stupid
Now it won't only be the cute kids singing:
"All I want for Christmas is my two front teeth.."
Which it wouldn't do with a sufficiently sized tank and solar cells... but I would guess that an inverter is a lot cheaper than a couple gas storage tanks :}
Two words "cheap storage" beats the pants off of batteries for long and short term... also can use more efficient heat transfer techniques with gas heating.
Even provides you backup incase you loose the power grid and can't use it as a "battery"
I have just 3 words for you on that:
:P
black electrical tape
Heh... my favorite part of the whole SATAN thing was they included the script to change every reference to SANTA in case you were offended.
:P
They thought of everything... or thought they had... until they found themselves in the middle of a storm of controversy.
Ahh... those were the good old days
Been there... seen this... downloaded the video months ago...
Ahh yes... but they want to decide at what level the changes are too many to be "official". What constitutes too many changes to be able to use that "official" name. Sure makes it hard to manage a package for a distribution when you constantly have to check over your shoulder and see if a security patch is "too much"
As yes... but Debian has even said they are willing to change the artwork if that is required. But why should they not be allowed to call it "firefox" when all they have made is a few changes for security or crash related issues. Calling the package mozilla-somethingorother is gonna be a lot harder to find than just searching for "firefox".
I agree... but if you are distributing a functionally equivelent package using 99.9% the original code base shouldn't you be allowed to retain that information? Especially if the package is distributed as "open source".
No.. because that is a trademark issue... but anyone is allowed to distribute Debian with patches as long as they state it is an "unofficial" build. Why should it be any different for an individual package than for the whole?
Look at the IAX protocol that Asterisk PBX uses. Several devices are coming out now that talk this protocol.
Main selling points are:
#1 It works VERY well
#2 Only 1 port is ever used so NAT fowarding fixes all NAT issues
#3 Is a full PBX level intercommunication protocol so you can have any device using it do very advanced things that SIP and H323 only wish they could do well. (example... line in use indication for secretaries phones)
Virbiage is preparing to sell there FT201 based on IAX protocol and Digium (makers of Asterisk) are beginning mass production on their "IAXy" which is an ATA brick for analog phones.
Have you ever heard a journalist being called an "editor" or "poster".
No one has ever claimed that those comments at the end are anything but an editorial comment. Don't blast a person for putting an item in the place where it is expected.
If the editors want to bring to our attention what him/her/they believe is an important view than that is fine. If you don't like that editors point of view then don't read it. No one is forcing you to read that article... or even come and read on slashdot.
I am sorry I have to be so blunt but I am tired of people flaming editors for editorializing as is their right.
Only problem with this is REQUIRING it for all voip... Like was pointed out in the article there are a couple problems with this. I have a 802.11 VoIP phone... anywhere that I have public internet access on wireless I can use it.
Exactly which which 911 center should they call? I used it while in MN, MI, IN and FL states. The only way to guarantee my position would be with a GPS... and those won't work inside and would significantly raise the price of a phone. (not to mention having to buy a new one)
Must offer 911 service to customers... yeah that is probably a good idea. Requiring 911 info on all connections would be a VERY bad idea.
The wording the FCC uses is going to be very crucial to a lot of future VoIP users.
Umm sorry... but with that argument 90% of the cases that make it to the supreme court are worthless... because all the lower courts "agreed" does not mean it is correct.
This should only matter to a judge/jury IF the man is prosecuted for doing it again. Just because a person has done it before does NOT mean that you shouldn't do your detective work and just assume they did it again.
If the victim lies for the agressor... tough... unless their are other witnesses you are not going to get a conviction based on the cop saying, "She won't talk but I know he did it". It's sad... but if someone won't stand up and say they were wronged and no one else saw enough to prosecute the agressor is (and should) get off scott free.
It is papers please... YES! When a cop just shows up on a scene like that how is a person's identification going to help him to know if the person is doing something illegal or not?
If the lady involved had said she had a restraining order then I can easily seeing asking for his ID to make sure he was the person of record. The cop never asked if they were related so identification to tell if they were related was a mute point.
If I was being beaten (and that was why the cops were called) I would hope that they would get the story straight before they think they need my name to file a report for my arrest.
#1 Ummm... excuse me... but where in the great US do MOST buildings and residences have split 3 phase? I'm sorry but where I live you try and hook a 3 phase motor up in your house and you get laughed at by the electric company.
:}
Businesses yes... most businesses in downtown areas have abundance of true 3 phase.
#2 Three wires does not equal 3 phase power.
#3 Standard wiring? Dude... no one does anything except what is required by code. Unless they are union and trying to milk you for more $$$$. Modern code states that you must have 2 legs + ground run to each panel. That ends up with usually a balance of every other apartment having connections to 2 of the 3 phases and they rotate it to balance the load.
#4 Distance is bull... If you havn't properly grounded the outlets it would be an issue... but EVERY outlet (talking modern 3 prong here) has to be tied to a central ground. With that thing tied to central ground the only way you will get current induced at the far end is if the wire is massively underspec or broken. Either way you have "A BAD THING".
#5 Book knowledge is not my primary source of knowledge... I worked 7 years as a network engineer for this university. I now am their system administrator because the system is in place and 100% stable. Do we use fiber on risers... in most places we do for the better upgrade path and distance it affords us. Do we use them on all... NO! We have several 4-6 story runs made with plain old UTP that had 100mb/s and now have moved to GigE. Most of these wires are 8 years old and running just fine.
As for the troll comment... If I was truly a troll don't you think I would have used my karma bonus to make sure this got noticed by everyone? I mean... a +3 does wonders.
So my question is... why did they ground it at all?
Twisted pair is based on differential in pairs like RS-485 and such. It should NOT carry any form of grounding potential. This is BEGGING lightning to eat every device anywhere near that.
Second question... sheilded twisted pair? No one with a brain uses shielded cable for networks. That defeats every reason for twisting the pairs. It just picks up currents from everything around it.
Third... The number of stories has nothing to do with it... People wire like that you'll get knocked on your butt between apartments... Try wiring in a building where they have split 3 phase to do the wiring. Forget to check a phase crossing and BAM you end up on your butt.
The basic idea is be careful... use the materials that are appropriate... don't overextend the limits and twisted pair works.
Even with fiber... once you get to TP you can't go about plugging different devices into different ground paths or phases without asking for trouble.
The main reason to use fiber for risers is that then you have a better upgrade path for your backbone connections. In most cases that is the ONLY valid reason.
Wire correctly... wire reponsibly
May be true for the sprint phones... but my i58sr (Nextel) has a full GPS in it that pumps out NMEA just great. (Verified just now by using selective tinfoil placeing to have no cell service but still be getting a couple satellites)
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However... that is about all it does... The only way to see the data on the phone is by asking it for your position... after an eternity (or a short time if you leave the engine on all the time and toast your battery life) you get your lat and lon....
That's it... no waypoints... no map... just the digits.
There are quite a few java apps that I can get for it that will make it "phone home" and do like the APRS thing and say "there he is!" but you have to have the data plan... and at 5$/Mb of transfer starting rate it is NOT worth it... GPS data is small... but not if you do it every 5 minutes ever day of the year
I would LOVE to be able to just place waypoints even if only to the notepad app... If anyone has how to grab this info from their Java app I would love to hear about it... I have the SDK running and have done several "hello world" apps and such so... it shouldn't be too hard... if I can just find out how to do it
Check out milestek.com... They have the rail stock that is predrilled/tapped and conforms to spec. Not too expensive either.
Rack rail from milestek
Nonono... that's Fox... ohh wait... yeah.. SciFi also
:P
D'oh!
Yes... but VERY few places have enough money to give a router port per connection....
Amen... especially since blocking those ports only stops it until someone brings their infected laptop on the inside and BOOM you have an outbreak.
I work for a private university and during the luvsan outbreak even with all the interdepartment routers blocking it's traffic we still ended up with rampant infections.
The PHBs wondered how on earth that could happen... come to find out it was one of them... with their laptop and wireless card. They weren't even using the network at each location they went to but their connection was live and infecting everything locally.
Goes to show... fix the PROBLEM... don't just slap a bandaid over it and hope the germs don't get in.
Actually... with equipment that will use loose timing 30 miles would be no problem. You could even use an omni on the other end.
The main problem with these is getting them high enough for line of sight and also mounted sturdy enough. Mountain to mountain is the best for these kind of links.
With a beamwidth of 1degree or less those 6-10ft dishes have to be held dead still or you loose your signal at any distance.
Anyways.. the record is something like 120+km with two of these things and some VERY modified radios in the cards.
Anyone thought yet that this is a way for Dell to side step the "Windows Rebate". By hitting ANY key at all you are agreeing to all the licenses inside.
Well the license with the Windows rebate clause would then be agreed to without even SEEING it.
Nice Dell... screw me out of an even cheaper machine by trying to trick me out of my rebate.
Shame Shame Shame....
*Laughs at /. editor as he types this over a 6.1mile 802.11b link*
Really... the main reason for the interference between cell and emergency is that they are all moving into the same spectrum space. 800mhz is a busy place these days.
True wireless (802.11a,b,g) are all in FAR different spectrums so other than cordless phones and some radar equipment interference is a moot point.
Actually... Ozone at ground level is a pollutant. We commonly have "ozone action" days around the midwest. They encourage you on these hot dry days to carpool or ride public transit to cut down on the pollutants. :}
Ozone levels reach heights where you can actually smell it in the outside air. NOT GOOD
If only we could find an efficient way to pump it to the upper atmosphere...