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  1. Hi,

    That's literally not true at all. It's not a requirement of wave 2 that this occurs- it's purely up to the AP firmware and software in question. Now, this may be something some vendors do because it's nice, but you certainly can't do it if you manually setup a bunch of wave-2 devices on different channels.

    Buy a mesh AP that actually is a mesh mesh, not a hub-and-spoke mesh.

  2. Apparently I need a comment subject to post ... on Ask Slashdot: Can You Install a Wifi Mesh Network in a Barn? (slashdot.org) · · Score: 1

    TL;DR - buy proper mesh APs like Eeros. Run ethernet where you can between them. Let them figure the best allocation of channels and paths out.

    It's a solved problem if you know the right company to choose.

  3. err, trolling or not? ;-) That's literally what's going on..

  4. Re:Duh: drain the batteries ... on Days After A Fiery Crash, a Tesla's Battery Keeps Reigniting (mercurynews.com) · · Score: 1

    the battery stores electrical POTENTIAL. It needs to go from one side of the battery to the other, or all you have is a battery that's very positive ... and wanting electrons from the ground.

  5. Re:Isn't this part of every enterprise-grade e-mai on Gmail's 'Self-Destruct' Feature Will Probably Be Used To Illegally Destroy Government Records (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Sure, but enterprise email also has a "archive this for x time period separate from the user inbox" for various reporting/legal requirements. The user doesn't get any input into it at all.

    It's not always about the user!

  6. wait, still? how long has it been?

  7. Re:Paid my final respects on Electronics Surplus Shop 'WeirdStuff Warehouse' Is Closing (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    Hi! kk6vqk here!

    yeah, I dropped by HRO recently. They're still trying to sell/retire. I think it's time to stock up on discrete parts before it's all ebay.

  8. Re:Then leave Silicon Valley on More Than One-Third of Schoolchildren Are Homeless In Shadow of Silicon Valley (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Note: this also assumes you're single and have no kids.

    If you're two engineers without children - sure, you can afford to save that and buy. But remember - you still have that expensive morgage to pay off, even in an economic downtown. With rent you can at least move. With a morgage, you have to sell, and .. let's just say, being saddled with a black mark for needing to default on your home sucks.

    If you're two engineers with children - then childcare per child from 0 -> K(indergarden) is spendy - $1400 a month upwards per child. At some point you think sure, I'll just get a nanny for two kids - but $3600 a month isn't a lot of money to be paying legit to someone who also lives local - if your rent is $3k a month, then anyone local is likely also paying that. So, finding affordable help is hard. So - one parent is effectively working full-time to subsidize childcare - why not just stay home instead?

    If you're a single parent raising a child, then you get the above and no financial safety net.

    Stuff is expensive out here. Raising that much cash is expensive out here. Holding a $600k or more morgage when the economy tanks - that's also an expensive lesson to learn.

  9. Re:They just now added 802.11n support? on FreeBSD 11.0 Released (freebsdfoundation.org) · · Score: 1

    No, it's been in there since freebsd-9. i just taught more things about 11n and bugfixed what was there.

  10. Re:as someone who is suffering from this... on Issa Bill Would Kill A Big H-1B Loophole (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    heh, if you're a good C developer and you're in the bay area, drop me a line - adrian@freebsd.org . We need more. :P

  11. Re:Never on Ask Slashdot: Is It Ever OK To Quit Without Giving Notice? · · Score: 1

    Yup. That happened at my previous employer (norse.) I'm glad I saw the writing on the wall..

  12. Re:this does not need discussing here on Slashdot Asks: Have You Experienced Ageism? (observer.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Hi!

    I'm in the bay area, and we're looking for hardware/software people. Email me, adrian@freebsd.org !

  13. Re:Printer with public internet ip? why? on Hacker Weev Admits To Hacking Printers To Spew Racist and Anti-Semitic Messages (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    Sounds like the university I worked at! One /16 for everyone.

  14. Re:Lesson for next time ... on How One Dev Broke Node and Thousands of Projects In 11 Lines of JavaScript (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    note: personal fork needs to be a complete repo copy and not a "click button" fork - otherwise when the original repo gets a DMCA complaint, it and all forks are disabled.

  15. Re:Dumbing Down on Seymour Cray and the Development of Supercomputers (linuxvoice.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    No; CPUs didn't /have/ to do that. MIPS toyed with both models for a while - initially MIPS was like "we don't interlock pipeline stages, so programmers need to be smart." Then the R4000 came out that attempted to implement that, and it was .. complicated. So it got reverted.

    Not all CPUs are like Intel CPUs (which aren't all like earlier intel cpus, which aren't all like 8080s, etc..)

  16. Re:edgerouter.. on How Ubiquiti Networks Is Creatively Violating the GPL · · Score: 1

    The reason is because the manufacturer gives you some old version of linux that they have included as their "base" reference design OS, and .. people just build on that.

    It's purely inertia.

  17. Re:And this is why corporations don't trust the GP on How Ubiquiti Networks Is Creatively Violating the GPL · · Score: 2

    No, they used linux because that's what Atheros gave them as a base for the Atheros reference AP implementation.

    Please don't make stuff up.

  18. Re:FreeBSD on Removing Libsystemd0 From a Live-running Debian System · · Score: 1

    ...

    Did you just try web forums? Did you try engaging people on one of the FreeBSD mailing lists? It's odd that repeating a crash like you did wouldn't lead to a quick solution.

    I mean, unless it's a realtek NIC or something, we're pretty good at fixing repeatable crashes.

    (adrian@freebsd)

  19. Re:One fiber to rule them... on Google Fiber's Latest FCC Filing: Comcast's Nightmare Come To Life · · Score: 3, Informative

    .. because you've just exactly outlined why it's a bad idea.

    If you as a service provider can afford to pay, you will. If you're a new service trying to get a foothold, now you have to meet those costs too if you want to play. Those costs aren't fixed and behind general transit/interconnect/infrastructure fees, they're behind whatever-the-telco-decides-is-a-good-match.

    Australia went through this. We have and had phone plans that have/had free access to certain services and not others. Guess what? It sucked. It may be great if you upload lots of photos to facebook, but it means you can't at all start a new service that competes without having to get individual agreements with individual telcos and service providers. You'd have to negotiate those deals individually and your business will only exist as long as they don't alter the deal. They can then alter the deal just to you but not to their favourites.

    It doesn't work the way you outline it.

  20. Re:Slashdot is exceeding itself lately... on Tech's Gender Gap Started At Stanford · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I was working in the first dot com boom during 1998-2001. Now, I was working in Amsterdam rather than the US, but I did get to feel exactly how screwed up this situation got. And looking back at it, this article does re-iterate a lot of those points quite clearly.

    The people that succeeded were for the most part the ones that put in long hours, were ruthless about achieving their goals and cared not about things like "work/life balance", "emotional stability", "health concerns", etc. Whenever I came out to the US to talk shop with other internet infrastructure people, they were working long hours, ignoring what the industry said they could / couldn't do. There were women in tech, but they weren't the programmers - the ones I met tended to be algorithms people, data scientists, etc. They weren't in the meat grinder of bashing out C/perl code.

    The article covered the long hours, it covered what happened when things went pear shaped, and it did a pretty good hatchet job on the kind of focus and ruthlessness you needed to get where you wanted to go. It was amazing to watch and now a little scary. Then the dot-com bust happened and people lost everything. Plenty of people I knew said "fuck it" and left the industry. Those that stayed either made their money, or they were just suckers for loving their jobs. They didn't have strong personal relationships with others. They just loved kicking ass and taking names in their work career. That sometimes worked out for them and sometimes didn't.

    A lot of the people I knew in the tech field did just leave and look for something more stable. The people that stuck it out were homeless, couch-surfing, living with family/friends, existing wherever they could just to get over the sheer loss of everything. Not everyone is cut out for that level of destitution and dedication - eventually they'll snap and go off to something more stable.

    This field is terrible. It chews you over and spits you out. If you're lucky then you make a bunch of money and save a bunch of money. Plenty of people working in tech and living in San Francisco aren't even doing that. We don't necessarily churn out people who are risk takers out of university - heck, churning out creative thinkers just became an "in vogue" thing again with this whole maker faire mentality that's happening nowdays. But when the thing crashes again, you'll see the same cycle - those who are willing to risk it all and live hand-to-mouth from wherever they can will do it. Others will go find whatever is safe and stable and start life again from there.

    Now, is that gender biased? Maybe. Someone has to go do a little more research to figure that out. But from what I saw, there were a handful of women that stuck through that and came out ahead. Most that I knew just gave it in and went back to school, moved in with parents, or decided to stop work and have babies. The guys seemed more happy to take the risk again and again and live hand-to-mouth.

    There's lots to fix. We have to stop being insensitive asshats. part of that is institutional - the brogrammer culture is strong here. Part of that comes out of all of the stupid stress and anxiety that litters this community. It's hard to pay attention to how you live, how you interact, how you make others feel, how to communicate well and well, how not to be an asshole if you're always stressed out, anxious and sleep deprived. add in a bit of being shouted at and some threats about your job security and .. well, you just stop giving any fucks. Part of it is no constant exposure to dealing with other people and a focus on your ability to churn out code - your job doesn't tend to want you spending time each day to improve yourself in all ways - it needs to be work relevant, and hey you have that deadline that just appeared? Eww. It's good to see people standing up and calling out bad behvaiour. it's good to see that some communities are sprouting up and eschewing shitty behaviour. But I'd really like to see the stress, anxiety and hours drop as well as a focus on people interaction. My 20 year old self gave no interest to any of these things. My 35 year old self .. suddenly realises that it's pretty fucking important.

  21. Re:Just went through this a few days ago on Ask Slashdot: Workaday Software For BSD On the Desktop? · · Score: 1

    (I really should write the damned 7260 driver. Ugh.)

    I didn't realise our cp didn't support sparse files. Would you mind filing a FreeBSD bug about it? We use Bugzilla now, it's not AS bad as GNATS.

    Thanks!

    -a

  22. Re:Dive Into FreeBSD on Ask Slashdot: Workaday Software For BSD On the Desktop? · · Score: 1

    Yeah, I can explain that.

    The current setup replaces the repo each time - and if a package fails to build, all the dependent packages can go away.

    I've had chrome disappear from my freebsd-head install (which i manage with pkg from the test repositories, so as to dogfood our own stuff) and it's generally been because it's been marked as having a security problem and the port wasn't built.

  23. Re:Gentoo is the BSD of the Linux World on Ask Slashdot: Workaday Software For BSD On the Desktop? · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Hi, adrian@freebsd.org here. If you've had issues with suspend/resume and poor battery life then please drop us/me a line. That's something a group of us are slowly fixing.

    -adrian

  24. Re:Thank you! on OpenBSD 5.6 Released · · Score: 1

    No, the problem is that we don't have as many active wifi developers as other projects, but the desire/need is still there.

    I now have a couple of people helping me chase down intel driver bugs and implement / port the 7260 driver from Linux/OpenBSD.

    -adrian, typing this on a freebsd laptop with a centrino wifi adaptor working just fine.

  25. Re:Thank you! on OpenBSD 5.6 Released · · Score: 1

    Hi,

    I'm the wifi guy. Your post is misinformed. FreeBSD developers use their OS on non-server hardware. Everything you said above works. Even the wifi.

    https://twitter.com/encthenet/...

    You're very welcome!

    -adrian