If I pay for the subscription, do I still get to keep the spoilers? It would be really annoying if I lose out on the ability to have my TV viewing ruined.
Slackware (place version here) installs very easy on old and new hardware. It was pretty easy to do an NFS install (Slack 8) on a 33MH 486 Toshiba laptop (with a very large 250MB harddisk). Maybe it can be done with Redhat, but I'm sure it won't be nearly as easy.
Yea, maybe if you happen to be living next door to another geek who's both sophisticated and motivated enough to hang out on your network. Not very lucky. And if you're that paranoid, just turn off WEP and run a VPN.
Have you actually used a wireless network? I'm running wireless in my house, and it doesn't go down when I'm using the microwave. With 50mbs around the corner, running cable is archaic.
Yes, I do love notebooks. Worth noting, the same floppy disk will work with all of the above machines. Toshiba's are good with standards within its line.
I've been running 802 wireless (Lucent Orinoco) for about a year now. Our desktops (in the same room) are Cat5 connected, but all our laptops (3 currently) are wireless (adhoc mode).
I had originally planned on eventually running Cat5 to each room, but will now stick with wireless. Except for streaming video type applications (which hasn't been an item for us), 11Mbps seems just fine. And the standard is being massaged for 50Mbps down the road.
Besides saving on the cost and time of laying cable, wireless is just too damn convenient.
Duh. If everyone followed your advice, there would be no productivity gains in the world. What do you think makes the economy grow - increased worker productivity. So yes, you should expect yourself to produce better code in less time, project after project.
Me too. One is my gateway to the Internet (Slakware), and the other two are for roaming laptops.
Lucent provides the Linux drivers on their website, and yes, Wavelan does work at 11mbps. My effective throughput (as indicated by large ftp transfers) is about 4mbps.
This article totally got the Wavelan description wrong, so I gather the other summaries suck also.
Ah, Popular Electronics in the 70's. Brings a tear to my eye remembering those days. I really enjoyed that magazine back then. Trying to understand the circuits probably helped motivate me to get my BS in EE. Then it eventually went to hell trying to be a computer magazine.
And that's probably where I'm remembering the LED image stuff.
Another interesting twist on this idea is to mount a bunch of LED's on a pole (one long single column). You then use the viewers motion to generate the desired message. Typically this would be timed such that a moving car would provide sufficient motion.
So at night, a driver passing by in a car would see a message, yet if they stopped to see what the hell was that, they wouldn't see anything.
What I describe has been done and is VERY OLD (> 20 years). Stiff fun stuff though.
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Over the last couple of years I've recorded gigabytes of radio that I later listen to on my Yepp MP3 player.
Note that talk radio only require encoding at 24 kbps which equates to ~10MB/hour.
Nice try, but these are old pictures. Saturns rings are much more inclined then that.
If I pay for the subscription, do I still get to keep the spoilers? It would be really annoying if I lose out on the ability to have my TV viewing ruined.
Slackware (place version here) installs very easy on old and new hardware. It was pretty easy to do an NFS install (Slack 8) on a 33MH 486 Toshiba laptop (with a very large 250MB harddisk). Maybe it can be done with Redhat, but I'm sure it won't be nearly as easy.
Use rdiff-backup. Works great.
Yea, maybe if you happen to be living next door to another geek who's both sophisticated and motivated enough to hang out on your network. Not very lucky. And if you're that paranoid, just turn off WEP and run a VPN.
Have you actually used a wireless network? I'm running wireless in my house, and it doesn't go down when I'm using the microwave. With 50mbs around the corner, running cable is archaic.
I'm running the current Slackware on:
Yes, I do love notebooks. Worth noting, the same floppy disk will work with all of the above machines. Toshiba's are good with standards within its line.I've been running 802 wireless (Lucent Orinoco) for about a year now. Our desktops (in the same room) are Cat5 connected, but all our laptops (3 currently) are wireless (adhoc mode).
I had originally planned on eventually running Cat5 to each room, but will now stick with wireless. Except for streaming video type applications (which hasn't been an item for us), 11Mbps seems just fine. And the standard is being massaged for 50Mbps down the road.
Besides saving on the cost and time of laying cable, wireless is just too damn convenient.
Duh. If everyone followed your advice, there would be no productivity gains in the world. What do you think makes the economy grow - increased worker productivity. So yes, you should expect yourself to produce better code in less time, project after project.
Lucent provides the Linux drivers on their website, and yes, Wavelan does work at 11mbps. My effective throughput (as indicated by large ftp transfers) is about 4mbps.
This article totally got the Wavelan description wrong, so I gather the other summaries suck also.
And that's probably where I'm remembering the LED image stuff.
So at night, a driver passing by in a car would see a message, yet if they stopped to see what the hell was that, they wouldn't see anything.
What I describe has been done and is VERY OLD (> 20 years). Stiff fun stuff though.
Well, theoretically, you could create a distributed RAID5 system using volatile memory. I'd still sleep better if non-volatile memory was used.