Other then the press release, I can't see any other information on what new games are supported as the site is/.'d. The two games that are really holding me from running Linux on my desktop full-time are Unreal Tournament 2004 and C&C Generals Zero Hour. Anyone know if the new DX9 support will allow these games to run?
There is a huge amount of confusion on this. You need to realize that SBC does not set their bundle pricing on tarriffed services, the State of California Public Utilities Commission does. SBC is considered a regulated utility in California.
With business and residential customers, SBC cannot alter that pricing to give special discounts - whether you are a mom and pop shop or whether you have 30 T1s. You will pay the state-determined CPUC tarriffed rate for the product. The only discounts they can give you are on the installation - or by subsidizing your costs by signing up on a multiple year commit.
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Jon,
Units just need to support the open GPS NMEA protocol. USB is preferred because it can be powered by your laptop without a bulky adapter or take a lighter port. I'd recommend some of the GPS "mouse" devices that are imported from Japanese manufacturers and are on eBay for $60-$80. No display but they are great for navigating with Streets and Trips or Netstumbler, etc. They will probe as a standard serial device at 9600 baud which you can feed to your navigation software.
I'm in the East Bay about every 2 weeks and I frequently run kismet there quite successfully. Using an external antenna helps a lot too!
Pat
When you can do the following, OpenBSD will be a Cisco IOS killer.
Configure, maintain and secure your routing protocols and interfaces in one easy to read and edit configuration file.
Store the configuration in solid-state flash memory.
Upgrade the entire OS by TFTP'ing a single file.
Provide support for many types of LAN and WAN interfaces (DSx, hardware accelerated ATM segmentation and reassembly, etc.)
Provide support for layer 2/3 QoS packet tagging in hardware (on ALL WAN interface types i.e. ATM, Frame, DSx) to reduce CPU load on distribution routers.
Handle IPv4 traffic routing in hardware, with the OS just maintaining flow state information.
Provide support for the plethora of legacy protocols that are on corporate networks (DLSw, X.25, etc.)
When the only tool you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
It is a public network to campuses and research institutions. Most college campuses local area networks provide traffic routing over both networks - and Internet2 is already being used by the campuses for multicast voice and video, conferencing, large high-bandwidth FTP transfers and peer to peer applications. Here in California a lot of the campuses have a minimum of a SONET OC3c to i2, or are getting upstream i2 access through their Internet Service Provider.
So I went looking for reviews of the new N-gage QD - of which they are none. But I wandered over to Amazon and noticed the usual pre-teen idiots, babbling in all lowercase and using half of the alphabet on how cool it was going to be BEFORE it was released - like every other Amazon video game review.
Does that bother anyone else or is it just me? Everytime I go to Amazon and read those stupid 11 year-old video game reviews I get turned off and remember why I don't shop there. The stupid reviews make my skin crawl. Speaking of which, the 1st gen N-gage should go for pretty cheap on eBay when the new ones come out.
Just a pet peeve of mine. Why go for reviews when I can read what the educated Slashdot community has to say!
A 6Mb DSL circuit Cisco Catalyst 3550PWR-24 Switch Cisco 1751-V Router with 2 FXO's running CallManager Express (3.3 beta) Cisco Aironet 1100 802.11g IOS AP 6 Cisco 7960 Phones and 1 7920 WiFi Phone
It ain't much. I have separated voice, data and guest VLANs each with their own dedicated wireless SSID (and WEP keys) and quality of service on the LAN and WLAN. I need some 1000baseTX GBICs so I can plug in the gigabit NICs on my Athlon 64 and Compaq Evo laptop. I'd also like to get IOS firewall feature set fired up so I can authenticate my guest users in a walled garden and control their outbound Internet access. Keeps the punk in-laws from running Kazaa!
I won't have much time to play or study the next couple of weeks, because I'll be learning how to wire and install phone lines! w00t!
I have never heard of or worked with a lab rat CCIE. Ever. Period. I've met CCIEs that were extremely bright, talented and resourceful but had a hard time speaking English. And I work on a team with 9 CCIEs and 27 CCNPs. You must be mistaken, there IS no massive oversupply of certified engineers. In the organization where I work, we snatch up CCIEs as soon as we can find them, and they pay and push push push for CQSs and CCIEs.
You would be lucky to get air time asking CCIEs questions. And I highly doubt your previously made statements after looking at how much value you have in your certs (re: your bio). It cracks me up everytime there is a posting on Slashdot regarding certification, or IT education. The havenots have great aspirations to get valuable experience and good jobs, and the haves like yourself constantly belittle someone who could be your peer, or even your boss.
If you were more nuturing and understanding towards your IT peers' and their goals, you would get farther and have access to the same resources that expert network engineers do. Instead of sitting on NetPro and belittling your peers that ask for questions and advice, and making broad statements about the demand in the industry (are you an analyst?) - try taking some of your precious time and answering 4 or 5 questions.
-Pat (disgusted when arrogance, selfishness and stupidity run rampant in this industry)
There are already voice applications from Cisco that are running on Linux, take a look at the CUE (Unity Express) voice mail blade. It runs embedded Linux off a flash card and has a limited flash card life for voicemails (about 2 years). It's really a cool card. It's embeddable OS is managable by IOS on the router, and is configurable from within IOS. Sure beats the old Audix boxes that I still see running off 20Mb MFM and RLL hard drives on some old System V boxes made by AT&T.
Also, the Linux based SIP softswitch Vovida received significant dev time and resources from Cisco. They even had a contest for the ATA appliances to write the coolest Linux based voice applications. Cisco also has their own commercialized version of the Vovida softswitch, and a bulletproof carrier class SIP server that is meant to run in central offices or large enterprises. It supports Linux and Solaris.
FreeBSD owns my MSI-based K8T Athlon 64. Every driver worked out of the box (including on-board sound, gigabit ethernet and power management)! Never have I had such luck with a BSD or Linux install. I asked Hemos to update the headline that Athlon 64/Opteron support is now in a release.
FreeBSD 5.2-rc1 AMD64 is awesome and has great 64-bit driver support. Out of the box, everything installed and worked on my new Athlon64 with the MSI board with a GENERIC kernel! Gigabit ethernet, audio, Nvidia video, ATA-133, you name it. The only thing I couldn't make work was cvsup, and I used CTM instead to build FreeBSD-current.
I've dabbled in Windows XP 64 a bit. It looks, tastes and feels like Windows but is missing a crapload of drivers (both Microsoft internal and vendor). Nvidia makes 64-bit drivers but ATI doesn't.
Please share some more info with the group. I am 3 days out from buying an MSI K8T and Athlon64 3Ghz and a couple of sticks of Kingston or Corsair. How is the 32-bit and 64-bit driver support on Windows? How about kernel and userland driver support on Windows Server 2003 64-bit or on the XP 64-bit betas? [or even the Longhorn alpha that is floating around] Any known timelines for Microsoft's releases?
I can't dig up any information on any Microsoft AMD64 products, or their hardware compatibility lists. Are all the shipping AMD64 boards pretty much supported out of the box with chipset/gigabit NIC/USB2 drivers on the 64-bit OS releases? Have you been using any of the Windows 64-bit OS's on a daily basis - how are they stability and usability wise.
I do know that AMD64 support on FreeBSD and Linux exists, albeit not as a core release platform on FreeBSD. Point me to more info if I'm incorrect.
I see Nvidia has some 64-bit graphics drivers, but nothing from ATI on the Radeon cards - even though they have lots of press releases about shipping 64-bit systems. Any software releated info on the AMD64 platform would be helpful.
Thanks for the good update and rundown. I was hoping to see some more work done on Newcard (the new Cardbus/PCMCIA engine in FBSD 5) I've had a huge amount of difficulties deploying FreeBSD 4.9 and 5.1 on recent and older laptops alike.
I recently deployed 5.1 on a Toshiba Satellite Pro 4208XDVD and an older IBM Thinkpad 600X. Neither of them correctly probed my Cardbus controllers without specifying the size of allocated memory to the controller. I also had difficulty once the controllers came up, in that none of my wireless cards would work. (Orinoco Gold, MS Wireless Broadband Adapter)
Has anyone else had Newcard difficulties with the FBSD 5 release train? I've read of quite a few workarounds to get Cardbus working correctly. I have yet to recompile a new kernel removing Newcard - is it worth it altogether?
I'm an armchair weather researcher, and I have this question to ask: Why does NWS not make the executable or source code to AWIPS available to the public? I understand it runs on most modern UNIX's from the notes I've looked at, i.e. HP/UX, Solaris and Linux.
We are indirectly paying the government for the development of NWS's weather platform but yet we, as consumers as information don't have access to the same platform for viewing that information? I use the NWS web site at least 4 times a day, looking at forecast discussions, alerts and radar data. I would rather pull this data over sat or the Internet and be able to view it with the same precision as NWS's meterologists. I have never been satisfied using a web browser to look and zoom in at active data.
I participated in development of wx200d for Linux and FreeBSD (I actively developed the FreeBSD termios code) and I've used Windows based packages like Virtual Weather Station. I am dissatisfied knowing that my taxpayer dollars went to write closed source software that isn't available to me. I have a feeling that NWS contracts out to Unisys or other companies for AWIPS development and this is why it is not made available to the public. Do any inside NWS researchers or developers have any comments?
Call your ILEC or CLEC's business office and request a PIC lock. Then no one can change your carrier unless your local exchange carrier calls you to confirm a LD service change. End of story.
The biggest reason to buy the Extended version is high bit rate DTS EX discrete 6.1. I paid $22 for that piece of crap to come home with a 500k low bit-rate Dolby Digital version. I was disgusted to find out only the extended version had DTS!
Audio is half of a movie. Video is the other half. Why would they botch their release by not including DTS EX? Screw the "how gnomes were invented" videos. Give me decent sound.
I like how X-men 2 came with DTS EX. That's the way it should be.
I use T-Mobile's unlimited GPRS service out in California. (they overlay on Cingular's switches and towers) It works quite well, I connect via Bluetooth on a Nokia 3650 from my G4 and my Compaq Evo laptop. Worked great when I moved into my new house with no Internet access.
However, The Nokia 3650 bluetooth stack is buggy as hell and my phone will randomly reboot or I will see an error that said "Unspecified error in Main.cpp" and drop my GPRS call. I average around 3-5k/s. They have multiple GPRS access points you can use - one of them has a graphic recompressing proxy that makes PDA and laptop access pretty quick. You can configure it once your connected as well. All in all T-mobile has excellent support resources on their site. I've gone the same route as this guy - I used to use AT&T and GoAmerica CDPD..
With T-Mobile, depending on what GPRS AP you configure on your handset you can either get a proxy'd and NAT'd IP or you can get an external IP. I run Cisco's IPsec VPN software to connect back to my office on either APs and it works brilliantly, so PPTP should obviously work. Latency on the connection is about 80-200ms.
Why spend $2k and super huge monthly fees when you could buy a Cisco/Linksys WMA11B or an Xbox with XBMP The Linksys box is wireless and plays tunes too!
ASI - Advanced Solutions Inc. - SBC ATM and Frame backbone provider SBCIS - Formerly Pacific Bell Internet SBC DataComm - Formerly Pacific Bell Network Integration
And there is also SBC Knowledge Ventures, the pseudo-company to deal with the Yahoo relationship.
I really loved my Natural Keyboard. You could remove the 12 screws on the back, and remove the entire plastic key chassis casing and throw it in the bathtub to clean it! It would get everything off it with a little bit of soap, cat hair, oils, food, you name it. One day I was in a rush after cleaning it and didn't let it dry and it got the plastic key membrane sheets wet. Pop went my keyboard.:(
My favorite keyboard has always been Keytronic's PS/2 white keyboard. The keys feel like leather, very tactile and easy to type on.
Try again. Even with the proliferation of Centrex adoption for most Gov/Ed and small commercial customers, and those that can't afford to deploy a PBX or KSU - IP Telephony is being deployed at breakneck speeds, by your favorite local exchange carrier's. Breakthrough new products like Cisco ITS make this even easier and much more cost effective, within a year you will see even smaller border routers handling voice calls end-to-end with voice messaging integration and fax relay. This is all over the same data LAN that you use and maintain today.
Obviously the core LEC business is to prevent the loss of business lines and local service, but what is lost is made up for with high-cap voice circuits like PRIs and channelized T1s and high density long distance calling solutions. The LEC's have over 20 years of experience with these products. They are the data hardware vendor's largest partners for deploying voice over data networks, because they already have the experience set to design, maintain and deploy them.
Awesome. That rocks! I was just referring to out of the box functionality, without modding/patching Linux to get that cable to work. I'll have to look into that patch, because I have a lot of friends on Comcast with digital cable boxes and Series 1 TiVo's.
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For more information, see: http://www.cpuc.ca.gov/static/industry/telco/index .htm
Jon, Units just need to support the open GPS NMEA protocol. USB is preferred because it can be powered by your laptop without a bulky adapter or take a lighter port. I'd recommend some of the GPS "mouse" devices that are imported from Japanese manufacturers and are on eBay for $60-$80. No display but they are great for navigating with Streets and Trips or Netstumbler, etc. They will probe as a standard serial device at 9600 baud which you can feed to your navigation software. I'm in the East Bay about every 2 weeks and I frequently run kismet there quite successfully. Using an external antenna helps a lot too! Pat
- Configure, maintain and secure your routing protocols and interfaces in one easy to read and edit configuration file.
- Store the configuration in solid-state flash memory.
- Upgrade the entire OS by TFTP'ing a single file.
- Provide support for many types of LAN and WAN interfaces (DSx, hardware accelerated ATM segmentation and reassembly, etc.)
- Provide support for layer 2/3 QoS packet tagging in hardware (on ALL WAN interface types i.e. ATM, Frame, DSx) to reduce CPU load on distribution routers.
- Handle IPv4 traffic routing in hardware, with the OS just maintaining flow state information.
- Provide support for the plethora of legacy protocols that are on corporate networks (DLSw, X.25, etc.)
When the only tool you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.-Pat
Here is what the campuses pay to get connected. Here is the in-depth network design for CENIC including which campuses are connected. Here is the commercial version of SONET which brings that type of bandwidth to companies.
-Pat
Does that bother anyone else or is it just me? Everytime I go to Amazon and read those stupid 11 year-old video game reviews I get turned off and remember why I don't shop there. The stupid reviews make my skin crawl. Speaking of which, the 1st gen N-gage should go for pretty cheap on eBay when the new ones come out.
Just a pet peeve of mine. Why go for reviews when I can read what the educated Slashdot community has to say!
-Pat
My home network consists of the following:
A 6Mb DSL circuit
Cisco Catalyst 3550PWR-24 Switch
Cisco 1751-V Router with 2 FXO's running CallManager Express (3.3 beta)
Cisco Aironet 1100 802.11g IOS AP
6 Cisco 7960 Phones and 1 7920 WiFi Phone
It ain't much. I have separated voice, data and guest VLANs each with their own dedicated wireless SSID (and WEP keys) and quality of service on the LAN and WLAN. I need some 1000baseTX GBICs so I can plug in the gigabit NICs on my Athlon 64 and Compaq Evo laptop. I'd also like to get IOS firewall feature set fired up so I can authenticate my guest users in a walled garden and control their outbound Internet access. Keeps the punk in-laws from running Kazaa!
I won't have much time to play or study the next couple of weeks, because I'll be learning how to wire and install phone lines! w00t!
You would be lucky to get air time asking CCIEs questions. And I highly doubt your previously made statements after looking at how much value you have in your certs (re: your bio). It cracks me up everytime there is a posting on Slashdot regarding certification, or IT education. The havenots have great aspirations to get valuable experience and good jobs, and the haves like yourself constantly belittle someone who could be your peer, or even your boss.
If you were more nuturing and understanding towards your IT peers' and their goals, you would get farther and have access to the same resources that expert network engineers do. Instead of sitting on NetPro and belittling your peers that ask for questions and advice, and making broad statements about the demand in the industry (are you an analyst?) - try taking some of your precious time and answering 4 or 5 questions.
-Pat (disgusted when arrogance, selfishness and stupidity run rampant in this industry)
Also, the Linux based SIP softswitch Vovida received significant dev time and resources from Cisco. They even had a contest for the ATA appliances to write the coolest Linux based voice applications. Cisco also has their own commercialized version of the Vovida softswitch, and a bulletproof carrier class SIP server that is meant to run in central offices or large enterprises. It supports Linux and Solaris.
Pat
I've dabbled in Windows XP 64 a bit. It looks, tastes and feels like Windows but is missing a crapload of drivers (both Microsoft internal and vendor). Nvidia makes 64-bit drivers but ATI doesn't.
Pat
Please share some more info with the group. I am 3 days out from buying an MSI K8T and Athlon64 3Ghz and a couple of sticks of Kingston or Corsair. How is the 32-bit and 64-bit driver support on Windows? How about kernel and userland driver support on Windows Server 2003 64-bit or on the XP 64-bit betas? [or even the Longhorn alpha that is floating around] Any known timelines for Microsoft's releases?
I can't dig up any information on any Microsoft AMD64 products, or their hardware compatibility lists. Are all the shipping AMD64 boards pretty much supported out of the box with chipset/gigabit NIC/USB2 drivers on the 64-bit OS releases? Have you been using any of the Windows 64-bit OS's on a daily basis - how are they stability and usability wise.
I do know that AMD64 support on FreeBSD and Linux exists, albeit not as a core release platform on FreeBSD. Point me to more info if I'm incorrect. I see Nvidia has some 64-bit graphics drivers, but nothing from ATI on the Radeon cards - even though they have lots of press releases about shipping 64-bit systems. Any software releated info on the AMD64 platform would be helpful.
-Pat
I recently deployed 5.1 on a Toshiba Satellite Pro 4208XDVD and an older IBM Thinkpad 600X. Neither of them correctly probed my Cardbus controllers without specifying the size of allocated memory to the controller. I also had difficulty once the controllers came up, in that none of my wireless cards would work. (Orinoco Gold, MS Wireless Broadband Adapter)
Has anyone else had Newcard difficulties with the FBSD 5 release train? I've read of quite a few workarounds to get Cardbus working correctly. I have yet to recompile a new kernel removing Newcard - is it worth it altogether?
Merry Christmas Slashdot!
-Pat
We are indirectly paying the government for the development of NWS's weather platform but yet we, as consumers as information don't have access to the same platform for viewing that information? I use the NWS web site at least 4 times a day, looking at forecast discussions, alerts and radar data. I would rather pull this data over sat or the Internet and be able to view it with the same precision as NWS's meterologists. I have never been satisfied using a web browser to look and zoom in at active data.
I participated in development of wx200d for Linux and FreeBSD (I actively developed the FreeBSD termios code) and I've used Windows based packages like Virtual Weather Station. I am dissatisfied knowing that my taxpayer dollars went to write closed source software that isn't available to me. I have a feeling that NWS contracts out to Unisys or other companies for AWIPS development and this is why it is not made available to the public. Do any inside NWS researchers or developers have any comments?
-Pat
-Pat (SBC)
Audio is half of a movie. Video is the other half. Why would they botch their release by not including DTS EX? Screw the "how gnomes were invented" videos. Give me decent sound.
I like how X-men 2 came with DTS EX. That's the way it should be.
-Pat
However, The Nokia 3650 bluetooth stack is buggy as hell and my phone will randomly reboot or I will see an error that said "Unspecified error in Main.cpp" and drop my GPRS call. I average around 3-5k/s. They have multiple GPRS access points you can use - one of them has a graphic recompressing proxy that makes PDA and laptop access pretty quick. You can configure it once your connected as well. All in all T-mobile has excellent support resources on their site. I've gone the same route as this guy - I used to use AT&T and GoAmerica CDPD..
With T-Mobile, depending on what GPRS AP you configure on your handset you can either get a proxy'd and NAT'd IP or you can get an external IP. I run Cisco's IPsec VPN software to connect back to my office on either APs and it works brilliantly, so PPTP should obviously work. Latency on the connection is about 80-200ms.
Pat
-Pat
-Pat
-Pat
-Pat
ASI - Advanced Solutions Inc. - SBC ATM and Frame backbone provider
SBCIS - Formerly Pacific Bell Internet
SBC DataComm - Formerly Pacific Bell Network Integration
And there is also SBC Knowledge Ventures, the pseudo-company to deal with the Yahoo relationship.
-Pat
My favorite keyboard has always been Keytronic's PS/2 white keyboard. The keys feel like leather, very tactile and easy to type on.
-Pat
Obviously the core LEC business is to prevent the loss of business lines and local service, but what is lost is made up for with high-cap voice circuits like PRIs and channelized T1s and high density long distance calling solutions. The LEC's have over 20 years of experience with these products. They are the data hardware vendor's largest partners for deploying voice over data networks, because they already have the experience set to design, maintain and deploy them.
-Pat
-Pat