What are you on about?? Get a laptop and use that. If you need to run VMWare (why??), then get some more RAM in order to be able to run it. I do development on a low-end Dell Inspiron 510M with 1/2 GB RAM and develop in a Apache+mod_perl+Mysql+Emacs+Firefox environment and it runs fine, running Xorg, KDE, Thunderbird to boot. Any model laptop better than the one I have should do you proud. If weight's a problem, then Dells aren't maybe for you, get an iBook or a PowerBook or a Sony Vaio or something like that. Mac MINI's are pretty cool, but you'd need to buy a very small flat screen and mini keyboard and mouse. In short, I can't really see much point in your posting I'm afraid, the short answer is get a/another laptop my friend.
Here's a couple of community oriented stations from projects that people I know are involved in. The attempt is to produce free (as in beer and freedom) content and also to let others get involved in broadcasting their own content, contributing, adding their own programmes and stations and even loaning servers for broadcasting and relaying.
The main point is that this model (as opposed to the monolithich radio station moving to the net) is possibly the one that will work in the future. Bit like community radio for the whole planet!
They're both in early days yet, but are slowly growing. Feel free to listen in:)
http://www.radiovague.com/http://www.r23.cc/
"but interestingly there's no mention of mobile phone devices"
Wait for October's stats, I used my Nokia 6630 to access the BBC's News site only the other day and very impressive their 'mobile' version of their site is too. The Beeb should get an award for a great attempt at accessibility and browser compatability.
Try this simple and trusted design of the good ol' spider omni http://flakey.info/antenna/omni/quarter/. Been using it a lot and will extend an AP's range to between 300 and 500 metres (that's around 900 to 1,200 feet).At the Bristol Wireless project we've used them on roof-tops to hop from point to point in a mesh network, I'd imagine it'd work just as well for greenhouses.
Just wanted to also add that the streams with live video and audio mixed by using PiDiP, then encoded into Theora and sent over Icecast2. Totally free software platform for video streaming. Was a bit experimental and still needs work, but nevertheless a great step forward.
This seems to me to be an utterly pointless excercise: Take Firefox (a new exciting alternative browser), which is essentially, well sort of, grandson of Netscape anyway, and repackage it as Netscape (a dead or at least very, very stale browser that most people gave up on ages ago), give it a hideous looking and visually confusing skin and an "IE-rendering" mode so that web pages will render just as awfully as they do under IE. Come again??
Why don't AOL just officially endorse and adopt FF instead of flogging a dead horse? Won't that get people using it? I have had no problems in moving anyone to FF. I just say it's better than IE, which isn't hard to justify as most people seem to be convinced that IE's pants already.
I do wish everyone would stop keeping the lie that it's at all difficult to migrate any user from one app to another going, because it really is not. Just watch them. I bet you can get any Word user on OpenOffice within an hour and doing fine, from Windows to Mac or to Linux (and not a Windows-lookalike desktop like KDE or Gnome either) in about half and hour, and from IE to FF in about 5 minutes - like address bar, search bar, home, back, refresh, erm, stop, print - it's the same - how hard can it really be??
Also Firefox has a cooler name and a nicer icon to boot.
Personally, and interfering as one who isn't a US citizen and so has no right interfering in another country's affairs - ah but perhaps the current (sadly for another 4 years) US administration might like to respect that as well -, anyway. I reckon because a) this is so very important for the World and the American people and b) Bush and his cronies are basically a bunch of crooks, and now war criminals, that it should be essential to do a proper, manual recount of all votes cast and to have an investigation of all discrepencies (whoops we missed of a whole bunch of poor black people, never mind) before officially declaring a winner. At least that way the United States can demonstrate to the rest of the World that it is prepared to affirm it's democracy that it so willingly seems to be prepared to tout about and impose on others, heck if India can do it, so can the US.
Although I think this is great, the statistics from some servers that I manage and run show different and it depends greatly on the type of site. For example this link to a stats report for a site that was Slashdotted shows Firefox users as 26.8% of visitors and Mozilla 16.7%, a grand total of 43.5% against IE, which got 40.7%. All I can say here is well done Slashdotters for using a decent, and probably the best browser - it's excellent.
Looking at another site, not slashdotted, of general interest for all sorts of users, the stats reveal 9.1% Firefox and 5.4% Mozilla, which comes to 14.5% - a figure very close to that posted in the article. Good.
However, it's very different when moving to a commercial site selling a commerical product. For example, on site reveals just 1.6% Mozilla & Firefox users against 96.6% IE users and another, selling Jazz and Latino records, has 4% Mozilla against 87.9% IE. I reckon that it depends greatly upon who your audience is as to what statistics you extrapolate.
Seeing as mobile phones were used to remotely detonate the explosives in the attacks on trains in Madrid on 11 March, perhaps this isn't such a good idea. What with people checking shoes etc for small explosive devices, shouldn't mobile phones be undesirable on planes full stop?
Essentially if we are seriously worried about security, mobile phones shouldn't be allowed on planes full-stop. I know it's not realistic, but it is the reality. I for one would be pissed off if they banned them.
Whilst I wholeheartedly disagree with the publishing of personal information of people on any website, Indymedia or anyone, you have to I think accept that the Republican Party with their bunch of lying crooks (one could add greedy, murdering, biggoted possibly) that are currently running the US really are fair game.
United States, you're a nation of fighters, stand up and fucking fight these bastards!!
Strictly speaking a hand-pulled version of this machine is a Rickshaw (or Jinrikisha - Japanese for Man propelled vehicle) and one pulled by a bike - i.e. a trike is a Velotaxi.
no rant. was just about to write the same. the internet connexion sharing over the airport is great and i've used it many times for just this purpose, the ibook works the same.
i also have a thing about d-link equipment, namely that it's pretty pants normally.
To my knowledge in English both Tangier and Tangiers are acceptable spellings of the place the French call Tanger. I've always called it Tangiers for some reason....
I guess it's a big deal because trying to connect two continents together where the two countries involved have many issues to do with illegal immigrantion and border control as well as terrotorial disputes is a little more complex from a social, political and logistical viewpoint than your average pair of two points in the same country.
The can is not Pringles, which are rather flimsy and as YAGI style are more complicated, the can is Remy Martin and the design is here: http://flakey.info/antenna/waveguide/
It was a prototype, so the cost is justified I think. The advantages of building your own are that you get exactly what you want and you also learn more along the way. But yes, it does work out quite pricey really compared with something off the shelf, but we haven't found anything off the shelf that does what we want - save perhaps a laptop, which we were actually replacing.
For a good idea of the sort of thing we do with this sort of thing, check out http://psand.net/itrike/.
In short two wireless networks are normally adequate, we use other APs in different locations as repeaters etc. Also this is to mount in a flight case or mobile vehicle, not a server room.
For those of you interested in applying this sort of thing in the real world, we'll be taking this box out into the field along with the rest of our kit in a couple of weeks in an event taking place simultaneously in Tarifa, Spain and Tangiers, Morocco, as well as elsewhere in the world.
Not true, the human eye is least sensitive to blue. It's most sensitive to light in the middle of the spectrum, i.e. green light. This is why in advertising they say black type on a blue background is bad, because it doesn't show up, catch the eye, enough.
Please correct me if I'm wrong but as all the LEDs used had the same voltage and current ratings, it would mean that they draw the same power. Isn't the difference in the intensity? For example for the LEDs used in this project, they are:
Blue being quite a lot less bright, though somehow strangely alluring and the power consumption I think the same.
In the end even if they do draw a little more, surely it's not that much compared with the draw of the other components? The wireless cards for example seem to draw quite a lot. As what we were looking for was autonomy in the event of a brown-out (or someone tripping over the extension cable), the battery did the job and I don't think having a blue LED or two adversly affected things.
The comment was a bit of humour on as usual a rather dry subject.
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What are you on about?? Get a laptop and use that. If you need to run VMWare (why??), then get some more RAM in order to be able to run it. I do development on a low-end Dell Inspiron 510M with 1/2 GB RAM and develop in a Apache+mod_perl+Mysql+Emacs+Firefox environment and it runs fine, running Xorg, KDE, Thunderbird to boot. Any model laptop better than the one I have should do you proud. If weight's a problem, then Dells aren't maybe for you, get an iBook or a PowerBook or a Sony Vaio or something like that. Mac MINI's are pretty cool, but you'd need to buy a very small flat screen and mini keyboard and mouse. In short, I can't really see much point in your posting I'm afraid, the short answer is get a/another laptop my friend.
Forgot to add, there's a few brilliant OGG downloads available at http://www.radiovague.com/ :)
Here's a couple of community oriented stations from projects that people I know are involved in. The attempt is to produce free (as in beer and freedom) content and also to let others get involved in broadcasting their own content, contributing, adding their own programmes and stations and even loaning servers for broadcasting and relaying. The main point is that this model (as opposed to the monolithich radio station moving to the net) is possibly the one that will work in the future. Bit like community radio for the whole planet! They're both in early days yet, but are slowly growing. Feel free to listen in :)
http://www.radiovague.com/
http://www.r23.cc/
"but interestingly there's no mention of mobile phone devices"
Wait for October's stats, I used my Nokia 6630 to access the BBC's News site only the other day and very impressive their 'mobile' version of their site is too. The Beeb should get an award for a great attempt at accessibility and browser compatability.
Try this simple and trusted design of the good ol' spider omni http://flakey.info/antenna/omni/quarter/. Been using it a lot and will extend an AP's range to between 300 and 500 metres (that's around 900 to 1,200 feet).At the Bristol Wireless project we've used them on roof-tops to hop from point to point in a mesh network, I'd imagine it'd work just as well for greenhouses.
Just wanted to also add that the streams with live video and audio mixed by using PiDiP, then encoded into Theora and sent over Icecast2. Totally free software platform for video streaming. Was a bit experimental and still needs work, but nevertheless a great step forward.
More info at http://psand.net/wsf05/
This seems to me to be an utterly pointless excercise: Take Firefox (a new exciting alternative browser), which is essentially, well sort of, grandson of Netscape anyway, and repackage it as Netscape (a dead or at least very, very stale browser that most people gave up on ages ago), give it a hideous looking and visually confusing skin and an "IE-rendering" mode so that web pages will render just as awfully as they do under IE. Come again??
Why don't AOL just officially endorse and adopt FF instead of flogging a dead horse? Won't that get people using it? I have had no problems in moving anyone to FF. I just say it's better than IE, which isn't hard to justify as most people seem to be convinced that IE's pants already.
I do wish everyone would stop keeping the lie that it's at all difficult to migrate any user from one app to another going, because it really is not. Just watch them. I bet you can get any Word user on OpenOffice within an hour and doing fine, from Windows to Mac or to Linux (and not a Windows-lookalike desktop like KDE or Gnome either) in about half and hour, and from IE to FF in about 5 minutes - like address bar, search bar, home, back, refresh, erm, stop, print - it's the same - how hard can it really be??
Also Firefox has a cooler name and a nicer icon to boot.
Personally, and interfering as one who isn't a US citizen and so has no right interfering in another country's affairs - ah but perhaps the current (sadly for another 4 years) US administration might like to respect that as well -, anyway. I reckon because a) this is so very important for the World and the American people and b) Bush and his cronies are basically a bunch of crooks, and now war criminals, that it should be essential to do a proper, manual recount of all votes cast and to have an investigation of all discrepencies (whoops we missed of a whole bunch of poor black people, never mind) before officially declaring a winner. At least that way the United States can demonstrate to the rest of the World that it is prepared to affirm it's democracy that it so willingly seems to be prepared to tout about and impose on others, heck if India can do it, so can the US.
http://www.computertorture.com/
Although I think this is great, the statistics from some servers that I manage and run show different and it depends greatly on the type of site. For example this link to a stats report for a site that was Slashdotted shows Firefox users as 26.8% of visitors and Mozilla 16.7%, a grand total of 43.5% against IE, which got 40.7%. All I can say here is well done Slashdotters for using a decent, and probably the best browser - it's excellent.
Looking at another site, not slashdotted, of general interest for all sorts of users, the stats reveal 9.1% Firefox and 5.4% Mozilla, which comes to 14.5% - a figure very close to that posted in the article. Good.
However, it's very different when moving to a commercial site selling a commerical product. For example, on site reveals just 1.6% Mozilla & Firefox users against 96.6% IE users and another, selling Jazz and Latino records, has 4% Mozilla against 87.9% IE.
I reckon that it depends greatly upon who your audience is as to what statistics you extrapolate.
Seeing as mobile phones were used to remotely detonate the explosives in the attacks on trains in Madrid on 11 March, perhaps this isn't such a good idea. What with people checking shoes etc for small explosive devices, shouldn't mobile phones be undesirable on planes full stop?
Essentially if we are seriously worried about security, mobile phones shouldn't be allowed on planes full-stop. I know it's not realistic, but it is the reality. I for one would be pissed off if they banned them.
Whilst I wholeheartedly disagree with the publishing of personal information of people on any website, Indymedia or anyone, you have to I think accept that the Republican Party with their bunch of lying crooks (one could add greedy, murdering, biggoted possibly) that are currently running the US really are fair game.
United States, you're a nation of fighters, stand up and fucking fight these bastards!!
http://psand.net/itrike/
Strictly speaking a hand-pulled version of this machine is a Rickshaw (or Jinrikisha - Japanese for Man propelled vehicle) and one pulled by a bike - i.e. a trike is a Velotaxi.
no rant. was just about to write the same. the internet connexion sharing over the airport is great and i've used it many times for just this purpose, the ibook works the same.
i also have a thing about d-link equipment, namely that it's pretty pants normally.
To my knowledge in English both Tangier and Tangiers are acceptable spellings of the place the French call Tanger. I've always called it Tangiers for some reason....
I guess it's a big deal because trying to connect two continents together where the two countries involved have many issues to do with illegal immigrantion and border control as well as terrotorial disputes is a little more complex from a social, political and logistical viewpoint than your average pair of two points in the same country.
The can is not Pringles, which are rather flimsy and as YAGI style are more complicated, the can is Remy Martin and the design is here: http://flakey.info/antenna/waveguide/
Article: http://mirror.us.psand.net/fadaiat/t ml
Photos : http://mirror.us.psand.net/fadaiat/photos/index.h
Unsuspecting server admin wipes sweat of brow.
It was a prototype, so the cost is justified I think. The advantages of building your own are that you get exactly what you want and you also learn more along the way. But yes, it does work out quite pricey really compared with something off the shelf, but we haven't found anything off the shelf that does what we want - save perhaps a laptop, which we were actually replacing.
It's a shame that Bugs Bunny sold out to AOL.
For a good idea of the sort of thing we do with this sort of thing, check out http://psand.net/itrike/.
In short two wireless networks are normally adequate, we use other APs in different locations as repeaters etc. Also this is to mount in a flight case or mobile vehicle, not a server room.
that's why it's got two external antenna connectors on the back ;)
read first, comment afterwards.
Debian GNU/Linux Sid
For those of you interested in applying this sort of thing in the real world, we'll be taking this box out into the field along with the rest of our kit in a couple of weeks in an event taking place simultaneously in Tarifa, Spain and Tangiers, Morocco, as well as elsewhere in the world.
Transacciones / Fadaiat
Not true, the human eye is least sensitive to blue. It's most sensitive to light in the middle of the spectrum, i.e. green light. This is why in advertising they say black type on a blue background is bad, because it doesn't show up, catch the eye, enough.
Please correct me if I'm wrong but as all the LEDs used had the same voltage and current ratings, it would mean that they draw the same power. Isn't the difference in the intensity? For example for the LEDs used in this project, they are:
Red: 3700cd/m2
Green: 40900cd/m2
Yellow: 15500cd/m2
White: 29650cd/m2
Blue: 4480cd/m2
Blue being quite a lot less bright, though somehow strangely alluring and the power consumption I think the same.
In the end even if they do draw a little more, surely it's not that much compared with the draw of the other components? The wireless cards for example seem to draw quite a lot. As what we were looking for was autonomy in the event of a brown-out (or someone tripping over the extension cable), the battery did the job and I don't think having a blue LED or two adversly affected things.
The comment was a bit of humour on as usual a rather dry subject.