Oh, OK... maybe it's older linksys models.. I saw D-Link and Linksys mentioned on various google searches... I'm all Cisco ("real" Cisco) at home so I couldn't try it
It's not a bug in Vista... they just turned on a flag that is already defined in the standard. The problem is that many many servers didn't implement the standard fully. Who's fault is that? I'd say it's the software that doesn't fully support the standard. Guess what...that's not Vista in this case. Vista has some other network problems, but this isn't one of them.
Cisco's IOS has had the option of turning on the DHCP broadcast flag on its router client since v12.2 and I'm guessing (can't find a specific reference) that the Cisco IOS DHCP Server probably has also supported it since then... so it's been supported by the major network router manufacturer for many many years.
The D-Links and the Linksys' (yeah, I know they're Cisco now) routers don't support it either, so it isn't just Linux DHCP servers
This is the Twenty-First Century. Use radio-controlled timepieces.
Ahhh, yes... replace a simple $9.99 clock with a more complicated $29.99 clock...brilliant. Read comp.risks also
Being woken up earlier by an earlier sunrise doesn't count?
No, it doesn't count... the sun doesn't suddenly change it's schedule by an hour...the sun rises, what? Two minutes earlier every day during the steepest part of the curve? So no, I wake up when I wake up and it doesn't suddenly shift by an hour because someone said so.
You know, except for all the TV shows on cable shifting by an hour, I really didn't miss having to run around the house changing the clocks twice a year when I lived in Saskatchewan. But, now that I'm outside of Saskatchewan, I'm also bombarded by those idiot^H^H^H^H^Hpeople who say "You lose an hour of sleep tonight"...well...no I don't...and I also won't "be well rested tonight because I'll get an extra hour of sleep"...guess what: I don't use an alarm clock. I get up when I get up. I don't gain or lose any sleep and all I ever get is annoyed when I have to run around changing clocks. Being in Canada, the time shift means that I use more electricity because when I get up...It's now darker again, so I gotta turn the lights on.
That you need Dilithium crystals and a Scottish engineer to make it work effectively. (either that or you need to reverse the polarity of something or other and channel the output through the main sensor grid)...or am I mixing up TV with reality again?:-)
Just speculating... what happens when I REMEMBER the free version of the article? Am I now violating Flemish copyright laws? This really seems to be the direction that things are going.
I'm a big fan of "middle of the road" NiMh I know I'm not getting the biggest bang for the buck, but lately, any of the Lithium batteries scare me and NiCad's have that memory effect (and Cadmium is a environmental baddie). They ALL have their good points and bad points... heck good old lead-acid is great for long-term, always topped up storage like emergency lighting and car batteries.
And by the way, Offtopic I know...I really detest things that have four AAA cells instead of two AA cells... you don't get a huge saving in thickness and AA cells seem to last way longer anyway
I was going to do another "funny" post (anonymously), but I'm late for an appointment already, so here it is: Rechargable? Heck, I stick a copper penny and zinc-coated nail into a lemon if I want a battery. None of these newfangled
So mod me funny OR insightful OR offtopic! This post has it all. TDz.
It's too damn early (where I am, it's 6:43am) for a Slashdot headline to have big capital letters in it. for a millisecond I thought that some evil genius was blowing up some sort of outer space telescope from his secret lair in Antarctica
My obsession with PDP-11 computers (well, actually, all things DEC) and Valerie Bertinelli is OK now? So I can actually speak in public about my pilgrimages to Maynard Massachusetts, 31736 Broadbeach Road, Malibu, and 3361 Coldwater Canyon, Beverly Hills California? ummm...not that I know those addresses by heart or anything...:-)
TDz. 1) hmmmm...I wonder...should I hit the "Post Anonymously" button? 2) yes, my wife does know about my obsessions 3) how many Slashdotters can guess my age from this post?
Note: this is assuming that you want to have some fun in your lab also... Jacobs ladders are fun (make sure you demonstrate the danger by putting something non-conductive in the path of the rising spark... and have water standing by to put out the fire), but Marx generators are the better way to learn about high voltages. You can make a "small one" with parts from your local electronics hobbiest store http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marx_generator and http://www.electricstuff.co.uk/marxgen.htm You can also learn about the problems with scaling... once you get the small one working with 100,000 volts, you WILL get the urge to scale up and try for half a million but you will also learn how off-the-shelf parts can fail when pushed to the limit. Also, I echo the first poster's comment: get some good safety glasses when fooling around with high voltages, things explode.
Does anyone know where to get good quality ANALOG meters anymore? Everyone seems to have gone digital and I don't like 'em.
Yeah, I'm a SLAX fan also mainly because I still am a Slackware distro user. (traditional) However, I've found that Damn Small Linux seems to boot better & cleaner on more different PCs (like old, weird stuff)
My first live cd, GPARTED is really nice for repartitioning various Windows hard drives to make roon so that I can temporarily install my second livecd, Damn Small Linux.
Why oh why does every vendor pre-install Windows with only one partition? I want the OS on one and my DATA on the other so I can re-install the OS anytime without disturbing the DATA. grrrr
by the way, a new version of Damn Small Linux (v3.1) just came out yesterday
Well, as far as basic filesystems... Micro$oft has done pretty well... I'm guessing that good old FAT-12 (floppy) filesystem from the 1980's is still supported in Vista, right? FAT-32 and the more-than-eight-letter-filename system from Windows-98 (95?) is also supported in Vista.
But I guess, almost everybody still supports lots of old stuff... I think Linux still supports the old Minix partition type The latest & greatest VMS release can still read & write old VMS hard disks from the 1980s also.
Yeah, for the most part, I have given up on NETBSD on my collection of VAX systems and I've converted over to OpenBSD which seems to be running just fine. It's too bad...I really liked NetBSD, but then it seemed to fall off the "test all architectures" rails a couple of years ago
You could always keep a stock of older (PIII 700Mhz) computers around that have Linux or BSD installed with just Firefox so that when you take their computer to get fixed, they can still "surf the IntarWeb tubes" but they will get a OSS experience. But this only works for some people... Other people will just refuse to do anything with something that is different. So even if you set up the Linux desktop to look close to a standard default XP install, the tiny changes will be too much for some people.
Child Porn was the boogie man for the period 1997 to 2001 Osama was the boogie man for 2001 & 2002 and finally Terrorism is the boogie man for 2002 to 2006
I'm not sure what the next boogie man for the 2007 season will be but my prediction is "rogue dwarf planets" (gotta watch them plutons!)
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Oh, OK... maybe it's older linksys models.. I saw D-Link and Linksys mentioned on various google searches... I'm all Cisco ("real" Cisco) at home so I couldn't try it
It's not a bug in Vista... they just turned on a flag that is already defined in the standard. The problem is that many many servers didn't implement the standard fully. Who's fault is that? I'd say it's the software that doesn't fully support the standard. Guess what...that's not Vista in this case. Vista has some other network problems, but this isn't one of them.
Cisco's IOS has had the option of turning on the DHCP broadcast flag on its router client since v12.2 and I'm guessing (can't find a specific reference) that the Cisco IOS DHCP Server probably has also supported it since then... so it's been supported by the major network router manufacturer for many many years.
The D-Links and the Linksys' (yeah, I know they're Cisco now) routers don't support it either, so it isn't just Linux DHCP servers
Ahhh, yes... replace a simple $9.99 clock with a more complicated $29.99 clock...brilliant. Read comp.risks also
Being woken up earlier by an earlier sunrise doesn't count?
No, it doesn't count... the sun doesn't suddenly change it's schedule by an hour...the sun rises, what? Two minutes earlier every day during the steepest part of the curve? So no, I wake up when I wake up and it doesn't suddenly shift by an hour because someone said so.
You know, except for all the TV shows on cable shifting by an hour, I really didn't miss having to run around the house changing the clocks twice a year when I lived in Saskatchewan. But, now that I'm outside of Saskatchewan, I'm also bombarded by those idiot^H^H^H^H^Hpeople who say "You lose an hour of sleep tonight"...well...no I don't ...and I also won't "be well rested tonight because I'll get an extra hour of sleep" ...guess what: I don't use an alarm clock. I get up when I get up. I don't gain or lose any sleep and all I ever get is annoyed when I have to run around changing clocks.
Being in Canada, the time shift means that I use more electricity because when I get up...It's now darker again, so I gotta turn the lights on.
That you need Dilithium crystals and a Scottish engineer to make it work effectively. ...or am I mixing up TV with reality again? :-)
(either that or you need to reverse the polarity of something or other and channel the output through the main sensor grid)
TDz.
Oh. (embarassed to admit I didn't RTFA)
Sorry.
Just speculating... what happens when I REMEMBER the free version of the article? Am I now violating Flemish copyright laws?
This really seems to be the direction that things are going.
I'm a big fan of "middle of the road" NiMh
I know I'm not getting the biggest bang for the buck, but lately, any of the Lithium batteries scare me and NiCad's have that memory effect (and Cadmium is a environmental baddie).
They ALL have their good points and bad points... heck good old lead-acid is great for long-term, always topped up storage like emergency lighting and car batteries.
And by the way, Offtopic I know...I really detest things that have four AAA cells instead of two AA cells... you don't get a huge saving in thickness and AA cells seem to last way longer anyway
I was going to do another "funny" post (anonymously), but I'm late for an appointment already, so here it is:
Rechargable? Heck, I stick a copper penny and zinc-coated nail into a lemon if I want a battery. None of these newfangled
So mod me funny OR insightful OR offtopic! This post has it all.
TDz.
Move your Datacenters to Saskatchewan...nice little province
Perhaps Roland Piquepaille is hidden underneath Greenland? And his posts to Slashdot are a hidden cry for help.
Or, perhaps the Ayles Ice Shelf, which snapped off the coast of Baffin Island has run off to hide underneath Greenland's ice sheet?
FYI: (I had to google it), Lambeau Field is the home stadium of the NFL's Green Bay Packers.
It's too damn early (where I am, it's 6:43am) for a Slashdot headline to have big capital letters in it.
for a millisecond I thought that some evil genius was blowing up some sort of outer space telescope from his secret lair in Antarctica
TDz.
I was going to moderate your comment but I couldn't find the "+1 creepy" option.
Valerie?? Is that you?!? How have you been since the breakup with Eddie?!!?!?
My obsession with PDP-11 computers (well, actually, all things DEC) and Valerie Bertinelli is OK now? :-)
So I can actually speak in public about my pilgrimages to Maynard Massachusetts, 31736 Broadbeach Road, Malibu, and 3361 Coldwater Canyon, Beverly Hills California?
ummm...not that I know those addresses by heart or anything...
TDz.
1) hmmmm...I wonder...should I hit the "Post Anonymously" button?
2) yes, my wife does know about my obsessions
3) how many Slashdotters can guess my age from this post?
Note: this is assuming that you want to have some fun in your lab also... ... and have water standing by to put out the fire), but Marx generators are the better way to learn about high voltages. You can make a "small one" with parts from your local electronics hobbiest store
Jacobs ladders are fun (make sure you demonstrate the danger by putting something non-conductive in the path of the rising spark
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marx_generator and http://www.electricstuff.co.uk/marxgen.htm
You can also learn about the problems with scaling... once you get the small one working with 100,000 volts, you WILL get the urge to scale up and try for half a million but you will also learn how off-the-shelf parts can fail when pushed to the limit.
Also, I echo the first poster's comment: get some good safety glasses
when fooling around with high voltages, things explode.
Does anyone know where to get good quality ANALOG meters anymore? Everyone seems to have gone digital and I don't like 'em.
Yeah, I'm a SLAX fan also mainly because I still am a Slackware distro user. (traditional)
However, I've found that Damn Small Linux seems to boot better & cleaner on more different PCs
(like old, weird stuff)
My first live cd, GPARTED is really nice for repartitioning various Windows hard drives to make roon so that I can temporarily install my second livecd, Damn Small Linux.
Why oh why does every vendor pre-install Windows with only one partition? I want the OS on one and my DATA on the other so I can re-install the OS anytime without disturbing the DATA.
grrrr
by the way, a new version of Damn Small Linux (v3.1) just came out yesterday
Well, as far as basic filesystems ... Micro$oft has done pretty well...
I'm guessing that good old FAT-12 (floppy) filesystem from the 1980's is still supported in Vista, right?
FAT-32 and the more-than-eight-letter-filename system from Windows-98 (95?) is also supported in Vista.
But I guess, almost everybody still supports lots of old stuff...
I think Linux still supports the old Minix partition type
The latest & greatest VMS release can still read & write old VMS hard disks from the 1980s also.
Thomas Dzubin
Yeah, for the most part, I have given up on NETBSD on my collection of VAX systems and I've converted over to OpenBSD which seems to be running just fine.
It's too bad...I really liked NetBSD, but then it seemed to fall off the "test all architectures" rails a couple of years ago
Actually, I do agree with you... (I'm posting this from a Mac)
The only difficulty is that it is hard to find discarded Macs which I can refurbish to use as loaners.
I can get lots of old Compaq Deskpro PIII 700 for $25 each and they still have a few more years of life in them.
You could always keep a stock of older (PIII 700Mhz) computers around that have Linux or BSD installed with just Firefox so that when you take their computer to get fixed, they can still "surf the IntarWeb tubes" but they will get a OSS experience.
But this only works for some people... Other people will just refuse to do anything with something that is different. So even if you set up the Linux desktop to look close to a standard default XP install, the tiny changes will be too much for some people.
Sorry...yeah...Gonzales is A.G.
Geesh, I don't know where I got "Senator" from...I guess I'm reading too fast or something
oh, wait, I know a good excuse: I'm Canadian
Child Porn was the boogie man for the period 1997 to 2001
Osama was the boogie man for 2001 & 2002
and finally Terrorism is the boogie man for 2002 to 2006
I'm not sure what the next boogie man for the 2007 season will be but my prediction is "rogue dwarf planets"
(gotta watch them plutons!)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Chase_(TNG_episod e)
Damn, I forgot to add "overlords"