The issue here is that one of the best ways to get an answer to your question is EXPERIMENTATION. Try some downloads from a HTTP Server, and then some from a FTP Server. Try different scenarios (different browsers, different file sizes, even yank out the network connection) and then make an EDUCATED decision on which way to go.
There is a lot of 'Ask Slashdot' where I suspect the person asking the question doesn't have the wit to go and INVESTIGATE properly and make their own decision.
Sure, google, ask your colleagues etc., but thats no substitute for being able to make your own decisions. That is a mark of being competent in your skills. A lot of people coming into the IT business recently don't seem to be able to do research, and are just looking for someone to provide a 'magical answer'. If you don't believe me, have a look at various discussion boards, where people ask all-encompassing questions and then get stroppy when someone doesn't provide them with 40,000 lines of code.
p.s. When I started doing sysadmin work in 1990/1991, there was no google etc. - the only way to solve issues was by trial and error.
Remember in the UK, local telephone calls are not free. So using the internet via a dial-up for hours is going to cost you, unless you sign up for one of the "same cost no matter how long you are on-line" ISP packages (and some of these have a limit of on-line time also).
ADSL is a fixed monthly payment, regardless of how much you use (at the moment anyway).
Also, with ADSL I don't need to wait 30 seconds every time I want to look at something on a webpage whilst my modem tries to negotiate with the ISP modems.
Broadband's advantages are simple : on all the time, fast access. I've honestly never used P2P sevices as they don't interest me. Personally, the ability to get my home system from work is the most useful aspect (and I pay for it myself).
I thought the point was to use the 'protocols' - that doesn't automatically mean the transmissions will be at the same frequency as Wifi equipment (I'm not familiar with amateur radio so I don't know what they transmit at). I presume just the data transmission encoding, handshaking etc etc will be done according to the 801.11 standards.
However, if they are indeed at the same frequency bands, I wouldn't be best pleased to have my expensive gear rendered useless by the hairy bloke down the road with a massive aerial in his garden (neither I imagine, would the WiFi manufacturers be happy about it either as it would knacker their sales figures).
Concorde's about mach 2 at cruise at 60,000 feet. : Performance Data.
I've been lucky enough to do a four hour flight from the Middle East on it and it's without a doubt the most incredible experience - travel faster than most fighter jets whilst sipping champagne.
It's an eternal shame that such advanced concepts and ideas seem to have gone to waste in Passenger Aviation.
I've got a GPRS compatible phone (Ericcson T68i), and want to use it with my Zaurus but trying to get GPRS is proving impossible. Ok, I can do dial-up to my ISP, but I want the extra speed. Go to the people I bought the phone from (who also resell the air time) and no joy.
GRPS may be a lot faster, etc., etc. but the marketing of it seems to be non-existent in the UK.
Same as Scotland.The banks there (Bank of Scotland, Clydesdale Bank and The Royal Bank) all issue their own notes - which are (supposedly) accepted in England also.
One of the benefits of using computers nowadays is that amateurs can trawl through data and look for things that professionals don't have time to do. Okay, looking for very short-lived comets may not be the most thrilling part of it, but its a welcome adjunct to the increasing co-operation between amateur and professional astronomers.
An example of this is the British Supernova Hunt, where amateur astronomers (albeit with high-quality equipment) scan the skies for novae, image them and report back the findings, all of which lead to a better understanding of the universe. Professional telescope time is scarce and very expensive, so amateurs can do this time-consuming and laborious work, freeing up the professionals for more exacting science.
There are very few fields where amateurs can feel they contribute something to our understanding - Astronomy is one area where this is possible.
A mate of mine is head of Security at an Asda Store and has been threatened, beaten-up and dodged a couple of stabbings, just trying to stop wankers like you from fulfilling your obviously god-given right to rip people off (and no, you're not ripping off just the store, they just put into their prices).
Next time someone burgles your gaffe, will you laugh about it and think 'happy days' ?.
Please, please, please check out the support availability of the host outfit first if you are going for co-locate.
My company re-located their two main webservers as the little company that used to do it couldn't offer 24x7 engineer support.
We eventually went for a big outfit (I can't name them) who had massive new shiny server warehouse, standby generators. Excellent - right up until the point we needed to get an engineer to hard-boot the server (Windows, don't ask). Couldn't get one. They are also supposed to IMMEDIATELY tell us if the server stops responding - nope, they have done that once in the whole time, despite numerous occasions (windows again !!!) when they needed to tell us. To cap it all, they screwed up their DNS for 5 days - that cost us a lot in customer patience.
We're still with them, but carry out our own monitoring and if it wasn't for the downtime we'd incur right now, we'd be out in a heartbeat somewhere else. Our next technology jump (windows to Solaris) will no doubt be the opportunity.
As far as I can tell, the site may refer to transport of Nuclear Waste Material via Train across Germany. There has been massive demonstrations against this before in Germany. Possibly they details Deutsche Bahnhof's schedules, movement plans etc. - I can see why DB wouldn't want that published.
In the UK, the train movements from power stations etc. are available and are on regular schedules. The security around them isn't very high, but then the flask the material is carried in weighs quite a few tons, is solid steel, and you'd need an extremely expensive facility just to open it again.
If you dont want people to reply, don't post then (and be a man and put in your user name at least. Surely you're trying to stifle free speech ?
According to a recent tv programme in the UK, a complete prototype Whittle Jet Engine was sent to the US by Churchill as a 'sweetener' to get the US to get involved in the war - it wasnt a debt (the jet engine or 'turbojet' was flying long before the end of the war)
Also, the most massive advances made by the US in the 1940's and 50's (i.e. rocketry) were a direct result of taking personnel from Nazi Germany (Von Brauns rocketry team, responsible for the V1 and V2). You think Sept 11 was bad, the death toll in London and its environs from V1 and V2's was horrendous, yet this man was spirited off the US and is now feted.
Britain spends all its BBC documentary dollars reliving its conquest and Imperial domination empire years again and again.
If you had actually SEEN any British Documentaries (Horizon being a well-known one), you would know that they cover developments and stories across the globe - indeed two of the best recently shown on UK TV were detailed analysis of why the World Trade Center collapsed.
quit using your British Mod points to stiffle and censor american Free Speech.
You really should come and visit us sometime - after all we are the Mother of all Democracies, even including yours I think
You'd be better off long-term with a PDA and a GSM card of some kind, or one of the newer phones marketed with built-in PDA functionality.
The way development is moving, the VERY near future should see ALL PDA's (Palm, Pocket PC) GSM equippable - why bother then with an expsensive and proprietary coporate solution ?
I signed up for Paypal last month to sell some stuff on Ebay.
After reading all the material about the problems people have been having, I deleted my credit card from the site. (Ok, I should have got my ~$1.50 verification charge back, but I'll live with that).
The fact that it would seem IMPOSSIBLE to get hold of them to sort out any potential problems finally made me see sense, and I decided that I didn't want my details available to them.
Some posters here seem to almost use them as a bank - certainly in the UK I have no comeback against them as they are not registered as a bank, and the UK banking laws are (I hope) relatively stringent (the BCCI scandal saw to that). At least if my bank messes up, I can normally get something sorted out, and I can appeal to another authority if need be.
Its very simple - Nintendo are going after the little guy.
Here is the DNS for the manufacturers web site:
Visoly
Henry Lo
Shop 64, G/F, 148 - 152 Fuk Wah Street, Shum Shui Po
Hong Kong, Kowloon -
HK
Phone: +852 23785236
Fax..: +852 23785237
Email: webmaster@visoly.com
I presume its harder to go after the HK connection, so shut down any US marketing and distribution for the product first. A cheap form lawyers letter might get you some results
I would suggest the recipient gets some quick PROPER legal advice first - THEN decides on his response
I have to disagree strongly with this.
A good pair of 10x50's is the best way to start, coupled with a simple paper star map or card planaterium. The fact that 'bins' will give you a decent field of view allowing you see, for example, the belt of Orion in a single view, or making Betelgeuse's red colour more noticeable.
There is no substitute for learning the sky, and the motions of the planets. My first view of Jupiter through binoculars was wonderful as I a) Knew where to look and b) Could see four of the moons around Jupiter. I then looked two days later and they had moved position.
Now I have a telescope, I enjoy the hobby even more, but remember, Astronomy is ultimately a science. Spend some time learning the basics and its more than rewarded in the future.
Big 12 inch computer telescopes and CCD images are lovely, but extremely expensive, and it takes literally years of experience to get the best out of them.
Finally, the best telescope is one that you will USE. If its too big to set up, you wont bother on cold winter nights.
If its going to run out of propellant, there is not a lot you can do. You cannot orientate the transmission antenna to Earth to transmit (remember the probe is moving, the earth is moving and you have to be accurate in your positioning so we can pick up the VERY weak signal.) I dont know if its solar powered or has nuclear isotope generators - if its solar, you need to point at the sun some times to recharge the batteries.
Also, even in the solar system the distances(tiny by stellar distance standards) between objects are immense and the camera only has a restricted field of view. If you just kept snapping pictures, even if you could get the signal, you'd just get pointless images if it wasnt pointing somewhere interesting or close to an object.
All credit to the JPL team for some momentous science and a real feat of engineering.
I lived in Saudi Arabia for three years in the early 90s'. Satellite dishes were illegal even then but so many were springing up illegally that eventually the government started turning a blind eye to them.
Living there, I used to buy my of the Sunday Times from london. Any dodgy articles were removed completely and sometimes the whole issue didnt arrive because of some large article about the Royal Family or similar. They used to put black marker pens through boozer adverts (someone had to do this by hand for every copy) but for some reason they always missed the really cryptic adverts for Guiness.
You could buy videos, but they were heavily edited (no sex, violence or Christian content) although if you knew who to ask, you could get 1st generation laser disk copies that were un-censored.
Even then, with the strong repression of political rights, religious rights (preaching of christianity was punishable by death) and strong racism against filipinos, pakistanis etc., you could feel that people were very eager to have some more freedom of choice and action.
All they are doing is trying to control that freedom. The Government cannot stop the internet as people will just dial abroad, so they are trying to control it bit by bit.
As a last comment, I felt a lot of antipathy and even hostility from young saudis (the older generation were the most hospitable people I have ever met) and I am told its a lot worse now, but it doesn't get reported.
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The issue here is that one of the best ways to get an answer to your question is EXPERIMENTATION. Try some downloads from a HTTP Server, and then some from a FTP Server. Try different scenarios (different browsers, different file sizes, even yank out the network connection) and then make an EDUCATED decision on which way to go.
There is a lot of 'Ask Slashdot' where I suspect the person asking the question doesn't have the wit to go and INVESTIGATE properly and make their own decision.
Sure, google, ask your colleagues etc., but thats no substitute for being able to make your own decisions. That is a mark of being competent in your skills. A lot of people coming into the IT business recently don't seem to be able to do research, and are just looking for someone to provide a 'magical answer'. If you don't believe me, have a look at various discussion boards, where people ask all-encompassing questions and then get stroppy when someone doesn't provide them with 40,000 lines of code.
p.s. When I started doing sysadmin work in 1990/1991, there was no google etc. - the only way to solve issues was by trial and error.
Belter !!
Mod + 1 the above comment please !
Also known as the Irish Email Virus
>>You want your kids to ask you what you did for the wold peace in the future? do you???
Well, if they asked me, I'd tell them I was in the vanguard of teaching people how to spell 'world' for a start...
Remember in the UK, local telephone calls are not free. So using the internet via a dial-up for hours is going to cost you, unless you sign up for one of the "same cost no matter how long you are on-line" ISP packages (and some of these have a limit of on-line time also).
ADSL is a fixed monthly payment, regardless of how much you use (at the moment anyway). Also, with ADSL I don't need to wait 30 seconds every time I want to look at something on a webpage whilst my modem tries to negotiate with the ISP modems.
Broadband's advantages are simple : on all the time, fast access. I've honestly never used P2P sevices as they don't interest me. Personally, the ability to get my home system from work is the most useful aspect (and I pay for it myself).
Apparently Alan Titchmarsh is going to step into his shoes.
Doesn't bear thinking about does it ?
I can see it now - Ground Force visits a group of chimps in Africa, and replaces their forest with decking, a pagoda and stone chippings.
I thought the point was to use the 'protocols' - that doesn't automatically mean the transmissions will be at the same frequency as Wifi equipment (I'm not familiar with amateur radio so I don't know what they transmit at). I presume just the data transmission encoding, handshaking etc etc will be done according to the 801.11 standards.
However, if they are indeed at the same frequency bands, I wouldn't be best pleased to have my expensive gear rendered useless by the hairy bloke down the road with a massive aerial in his garden (neither I imagine, would the WiFi manufacturers be happy about it either as it would knacker their sales figures).
Concorde's about mach 2 at cruise at 60,000 feet. : Performance Data.
I've been lucky enough to do a four hour flight from the Middle East on it and it's without a doubt the most incredible experience - travel faster than most fighter jets whilst sipping champagne.
It's an eternal shame that such advanced concepts and ideas seem to have gone to waste in Passenger Aviation.
It'll make a change. Normally anything electronic thats, say $100 in the US = 100 pounds in the UK. At $1.5 to the pound, its a straight rip-off.
I've got a GPRS compatible phone (Ericcson T68i), and want to use it with my Zaurus but trying to get GPRS is proving impossible. Ok, I can do dial-up to my ISP, but I want the extra speed. Go to the people I bought the phone from (who also resell the air time) and no joy.
GRPS may be a lot faster, etc., etc. but the marketing of it seems to be non-existent in the UK.
Same as Scotland.The banks there (Bank of Scotland, Clydesdale Bank and The Royal Bank) all issue their own notes - which are (supposedly) accepted in England also.
One of the benefits of using computers nowadays is that amateurs can trawl through data and look for things that professionals don't have time to do. Okay, looking for very short-lived comets may not be the most thrilling part of it, but its a welcome adjunct to the increasing co-operation between amateur and professional astronomers.
An example of this is the British Supernova Hunt, where amateur astronomers (albeit with high-quality equipment) scan the skies for novae, image them and report back the findings, all of which lead to a better understanding of the universe. Professional telescope time is scarce and very expensive, so amateurs can do this time-consuming and laborious work, freeing up the professionals for more exacting science.
There are very few fields where amateurs can feel they contribute something to our understanding - Astronomy is one area where this is possible.
I hope you're a bare-faced liar also.
A mate of mine is head of Security at an Asda Store and has been threatened, beaten-up and dodged a couple of stabbings, just trying to stop wankers like you from fulfilling your obviously god-given right to rip people off (and no, you're not ripping off just the store, they just put into their prices).
Next time someone burgles your gaffe, will you laugh about it and think 'happy days' ?.
Twat
Please, please, please check out the support availability of the host outfit first if you are going for co-locate.
My company re-located their two main webservers as the little company that used to do it couldn't offer 24x7 engineer support.
We eventually went for a big outfit (I can't name them) who had massive new shiny server warehouse, standby generators. Excellent - right up until the point we needed to get an engineer to hard-boot the server (Windows, don't ask). Couldn't get one. They are also supposed to IMMEDIATELY tell us if the server stops responding - nope, they have done that once in the whole time, despite numerous occasions (windows again !!!) when they needed to tell us. To cap it all, they screwed up their DNS for 5 days - that cost us a lot in customer patience.
We're still with them, but carry out our own monitoring and if it wasn't for the downtime we'd incur right now, we'd be out in a heartbeat somewhere else. Our next technology jump (windows to Solaris) will no doubt be the opportunity.
Allegedly though, they are not very fire resistant.
Picture of a flask train for the curious (uk).
As far as I can tell, the site may refer to transport of Nuclear Waste Material via Train across Germany. There has been massive demonstrations against this before in Germany. Possibly they details Deutsche Bahnhof's schedules, movement plans etc. - I can see why DB wouldn't want that published.
In the UK, the train movements from power stations etc. are available and are on regular schedules. The security around them isn't very high, but then the flask the material is carried in weighs quite a few tons, is solid steel, and you'd need an extremely expensive facility just to open it again.
If you dont want people to reply, don't post then (and be a man and put in your user name at least. Surely you're trying to stifle free speech ?
According to a recent tv programme in the UK, a complete prototype Whittle Jet Engine was sent to the US by Churchill as a 'sweetener' to get the US to get involved in the war - it wasnt a debt (the jet engine or 'turbojet' was flying long before the end of the war)
Also, the most massive advances made by the US in the 1940's and 50's (i.e. rocketry) were a direct result of taking personnel from Nazi Germany (Von Brauns rocketry team, responsible for the V1 and V2). You think Sept 11 was bad, the death toll in London and its environs from V1 and V2's was horrendous, yet this man was spirited off the US and is now feted.
Britain spends all its BBC documentary dollars reliving its conquest and Imperial domination empire years again and again.
If you had actually SEEN any British Documentaries (Horizon being a well-known one), you would know that they cover developments and stories across the globe - indeed two of the best recently shown on UK TV were detailed analysis of why the World Trade Center collapsed.
quit using your British Mod points to stiffle and censor american Free Speech.
You really should come and visit us sometime - after all we are the Mother of all Democracies, even including yours I think
Check out the message from Sealand offering its services to the US in the fight against terrorism. Laugh ? I nearly fell off my chair.
You'd be better off long-term with a PDA and a GSM card of some kind, or one of the newer phones marketed with built-in PDA functionality.
The way development is moving, the VERY near future should see ALL PDA's (Palm, Pocket PC) GSM equippable - why bother then with an expsensive and proprietary coporate solution ?
I signed up for Paypal last month to sell some stuff on Ebay.
After reading all the material about the problems people have been having, I deleted my credit card from the site.
(Ok, I should have got my ~$1.50 verification charge back, but I'll live with that).
The fact that it would seem IMPOSSIBLE to get hold of them to sort out any potential problems finally made me see sense, and I decided that I didn't want my details available to them.
Some posters here seem to almost use them as a bank - certainly in the UK I have no comeback against them as they are not registered as a bank, and the UK banking laws are (I hope) relatively stringent (the BCCI scandal saw to that). At least if my bank messes up, I can normally get something sorted out, and I can appeal to another authority if need be.
Here is the DNS for the manufacturers web site
Visoly
Henry Lo
Shop 64, G/F, 148 - 152 Fuk Wah Street, Shum Shui Po
Hong Kong, Kowloon -
HK
Phone: +852 23785236
Fax..: +852 23785237
Email: webmaster@visoly.com
I presume its harder to go after the HK connection, so shut down any US marketing and distribution for the product first. A cheap form lawyers letter might get you some results
I would suggest the recipient gets some quick PROPER legal advice first - THEN decides on his response
Married life is excellent - go for it.
I have to disagree strongly with this. A good pair of 10x50's is the best way to start, coupled with a simple paper star map or card planaterium. The fact that 'bins' will give you a decent field of view allowing you see, for example, the belt of Orion in a single view, or making Betelgeuse's red colour more noticeable. There is no substitute for learning the sky, and the motions of the planets. My first view of Jupiter through binoculars was wonderful as I a) Knew where to look and b) Could see four of the moons around Jupiter. I then looked two days later and they had moved position. Now I have a telescope, I enjoy the hobby even more, but remember, Astronomy is ultimately a science. Spend some time learning the basics and its more than rewarded in the future. Big 12 inch computer telescopes and CCD images are lovely, but extremely expensive, and it takes literally years of experience to get the best out of them. Finally, the best telescope is one that you will USE. If its too big to set up, you wont bother on cold winter nights.
If its going to run out of propellant, there is not a lot you can do. You cannot orientate the transmission antenna to Earth to transmit (remember the probe is moving, the earth is moving and you have to be accurate in your positioning so we can pick up the VERY weak signal.) I dont know if its solar powered or has nuclear isotope generators - if its solar, you need to point at the sun some times to recharge the batteries. Also, even in the solar system the distances(tiny by stellar distance standards) between objects are immense and the camera only has a restricted field of view. If you just kept snapping pictures, even if you could get the signal, you'd just get pointless images if it wasnt pointing somewhere interesting or close to an object. All credit to the JPL team for some momentous science and a real feat of engineering.
I lived in Saudi Arabia for three years in the early 90s'. Satellite dishes were illegal even then but so many were springing up illegally that eventually the government started turning a blind eye to them. Living there, I used to buy my of the Sunday Times from london. Any dodgy articles were removed completely and sometimes the whole issue didnt arrive because of some large article about the Royal Family or similar. They used to put black marker pens through boozer adverts (someone had to do this by hand for every copy) but for some reason they always missed the really cryptic adverts for Guiness. You could buy videos, but they were heavily edited (no sex, violence or Christian content) although if you knew who to ask, you could get 1st generation laser disk copies that were un-censored. Even then, with the strong repression of political rights, religious rights (preaching of christianity was punishable by death) and strong racism against filipinos, pakistanis etc., you could feel that people were very eager to have some more freedom of choice and action. All they are doing is trying to control that freedom. The Government cannot stop the internet as people will just dial abroad, so they are trying to control it bit by bit. As a last comment, I felt a lot of antipathy and even hostility from young saudis (the older generation were the most hospitable people I have ever met) and I am told its a lot worse now, but it doesn't get reported.