This is something I have been researching recently to store my photography, and I found that Toms Hardware has some good reviews and benchmarks using Intel's NAS performance toolkit. This review http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/DS207-synology-nas,2081-5.html shows a comparison of the Synology DS-207 to similar lower priced units. From what I've seen, most of the inexpensive NAS's don't have very good throughput either due to low power cpu's, or slower bus speeds. I would like to have a nice appliance, but for the best price/performance it looks like I'll be building a box with FreeNAS or OpenFiler.
At first I thought you were right, it's all about the buzzwords, nothing much new. But then I noticed they are talking about to or from ANY vehicle within a 30-mile radius. With the simple FM broadcaster, you have very limited range, as well as a limited number of channels not already in use by regular radio stations. So provided that the WiFi (802.11p) ad hoc network properly handles all the nodes in the mesh, you could be *casting many more stations than are currently available in the FM spectrum. (see, you have to use all the buzzwords in the same sentence) But if it ever happens, it will simply crushed by the RIAA as piracy on the open road, rather than on the open sea.
Seriously, with these mindless Linux plugs you guys just support the "Does your toaster run Linux?
Well, actually my toaster DOES run linux. Not that it really matters though.
Portable Firefox is great, but my favorite is Portable Thunderbird http://portablethunderbird.mozdev.org/ It's perfect for when I'm on holiday. No need to lug around a laptop to keep in touch with everyone. I've got all my friends in my address book, all my inbox and folders all on the USB drive. Just go to any internet cafe, and plug it in. Works great.
I've already switched to a mac, but unfortunately I don't have an ipod yet. I have had a number of friends that have ipods tell me they want to get a mac because they love their ipods so much.
I think that the ipod gets people interested in Apple who would never have considered a mac before.
Good point. Battery life is not such a big deal with laptops, but with cell phones it's different. With my phone I notice that the battery goes much faster when I'm in analog areas, even if I'm not making calls. I can just imagine it trying to constantly relay 802.11 packets!
The amount of bandwidth used depends on how many hops you are from the access point. You will use bandwith from every hop between you and the AP. So if most everyone has to go through say 5 nodes, the available bandwith will be saturated before you even get to the AP.
My question is what happens when everyone leaves downtown at night? Since there is no one to relay the signal, you'll only have coverage when you are close to an AP
It doesn't sound like they are running an embeded system. A "trunk full of equipment" could very well be regular PC's. If they were ever to make this for consumers though, I'm sure they would use a more stable embedded OS. Even Microsoft wouldn't promote running win98 in such an envirnment.
In order to hook up CompactFlash to IDE, all you have to do is rearange the order of the wires in the IDE ribon cable. I assume that you could do it backwards too. You'll find instructions for IDE -> CF at http://wtarreau.free.fr/1u/v0-flash.html
If you do it all backwards, you *might* be able to make it work.
Not only will it be hard to prove evidense, but they also downloaded everything *before* they had a search warrant.
The agents downloaded the data, but did not view it until they obtained a search warrant from a U.S. federal court, he said.
That's like breaking into my house, and taking a bunch of stuff, but saying, 'we didn't *look* at it until we got a search warrant.'
For our 'safety'??? Like just in case my cells forget how to replicate? What kind of safety will I have by someone having my DNA stored in a database? Even if the givven reason is for 'safety', you still come to the same end-- no privacy.
I have installed many different versions of Linux - Slackware, SUSE, RedHat, Mandrake. None have had any problems. I have also installed them on friends laptops, and the biggest problem I had was that we lost the external floppy drive, and the CDrom wasn't bootable.
they can help you tell if it is what you are looking for, without having to through the time of downloading and compiling plus, even if they do give you bianaries, simetimes it can be hard to get running.
Well, I read a little about that scientology on that page and it sounds like any other religion I have seen. The only difference is the motives, and I don't think that changes the outcome at all.
When someone downloads an album to see if they like it, and they find out that most of the songs suck, they shouldn't go out and buy the CD. Because this will show the artists that they can't get away with putting out albums with 1 good track, and the rest "filler" songs. Consumers shouldn't have to shell out for a new cd just to find out that there are only 1 or 2 good songs.
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This is something I have been researching recently to store my photography, and I found that Toms Hardware has some good reviews and benchmarks using Intel's NAS performance toolkit. This review http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/DS207-synology-nas,2081-5.html shows a comparison of the Synology DS-207 to similar lower priced units. From what I've seen, most of the inexpensive NAS's don't have very good throughput either due to low power cpu's, or slower bus speeds. I would like to have a nice appliance, but for the best price/performance it looks like I'll be building a box with FreeNAS or OpenFiler.
At first I thought you were right, it's all about the buzzwords, nothing much new. But then I noticed they are talking about to or from ANY vehicle within a 30-mile radius. With the simple FM broadcaster, you have very limited range, as well as a limited number of channels not already in use by regular radio stations. So provided that the WiFi (802.11p) ad hoc network properly handles all the nodes in the mesh, you could be *casting many more stations than are currently available in the FM spectrum. (see, you have to use all the buzzwords in the same sentence)
But if it ever happens, it will simply crushed by the RIAA as piracy on the open road, rather than on the open sea.
Seriously, with these mindless Linux plugs you guys just support the "Does your toaster run Linux?
Well, actually my toaster DOES run linux. Not that it really matters though.
Portable Firefox is great, but my favorite is Portable Thunderbird http://portablethunderbird.mozdev.org/
It's perfect for when I'm on holiday. No need to lug around a laptop to keep in touch with everyone. I've got all my friends in my address book, all my inbox and folders all on the USB drive. Just go to any internet cafe, and plug it in. Works great.
I've already switched to a mac, but unfortunately I don't have an ipod yet.
I have had a number of friends that have ipods tell me they want to get a mac because they love their ipods so much.
I think that the ipod gets people interested in Apple who would never have considered a mac before.
I think you have it backwards. Geeks can't get laid because they do these sort of things.
Good point.
Battery life is not such a big deal with laptops, but with cell phones it's different. With my phone I notice that the battery goes much faster when I'm in analog areas, even if I'm not making calls. I can just imagine it trying to constantly relay 802.11 packets!
The amount of bandwidth used depends on how many hops you are from the access point. You will use bandwith from every hop between you and the AP. So if most everyone has to go through say 5 nodes, the available bandwith will be saturated before you even get to the AP.
My question is what happens when everyone leaves downtown at night? Since there is no one to relay the signal, you'll only have coverage when you are close to an AP
It doesn't sound like they are running an embeded system. A "trunk full of equipment" could very well be regular PC's. If they were ever to make this for consumers though, I'm sure they would use a more stable embedded OS. Even Microsoft wouldn't promote running win98 in such an envirnment.
As if airline restrictions weren't bad enough already, now my laptop will surely be considered a bomb!
In order to hook up CompactFlash to IDE, all you have to do is rearange the order of the wires in the IDE ribon cable. I assume that you could do it backwards too. You'll find instructions for IDE -> CF at http://wtarreau.free.fr/1u/v0-flash.html If you do it all backwards, you *might* be able to make it work.
Not only will it be hard to prove evidense, but they also downloaded everything *before* they had a search warrant. The agents downloaded the data, but did not view it until they obtained a search warrant from a U.S. federal court, he said. That's like breaking into my house, and taking a bunch of stuff, but saying, 'we didn't *look* at it until we got a search warrant.'
For our 'safety'??? Like just in case my cells forget how to replicate? What kind of safety will I have by someone having my DNA stored in a database? Even if the givven reason is for 'safety', you still come to the same end-- no privacy.
I have installed many different versions of Linux - Slackware, SUSE, RedHat, Mandrake. None have had any problems. I have also installed them on friends laptops, and the biggest problem I had was that we lost the external floppy drive, and the CDrom wasn't bootable.
they can help you tell if it is what you are looking for, without having to through the time of downloading and compiling plus, even if they do give you bianaries, simetimes it can be hard to get running.
Well, I read a little about that scientology on that page and it sounds like any other religion I have seen. The only difference is the motives, and I don't think that changes the outcome at all.
When someone downloads an album to see if they like it, and they find out that most of the songs suck, they shouldn't go out and buy the CD. Because this will show the artists that they can't get away with putting out albums with 1 good track, and the rest "filler" songs. Consumers shouldn't have to shell out for a new cd just to find out that there are only 1 or 2 good songs.