lo matt, typical slashdot modding the author of the artical in question down to 0. Can we expect to see this teamed witht he wireless rickshaw at summer events?
its his free isp webspace (pwp being 'personal web pages' id presume) to avoid melting the bristolwireless server which is hosted in (you guessed it), bristol on a 2meg connection.
The only 1Ghz VIA based motherboard i know of is the Epia M10000.. (as reviewed by Hexus, DansData and IANAG). Anyway heres the specs lifted from via's site...
Processor - VIA C3/EDEN EBGA Processor Chipset - VIA CLE266 North Bridge - VT8235 South Bridge System Memory - 1 DDR266 DIMM socket - Up to 1GB memory size Graphics - Integrated VIA Unichrome AGP Graphics with MPEG-2 decoder Expansion Slots - 1 PCI Onboard IDE - 2 X UltraDMA 133/100/66 Connector Onboard Floppy - 1 x FDD Connector Onboard LAN - VIA VT6103 10/100 Base-T Ethernet PHY Onboard Audio - VIA VT1616 6 channel AC'97 Codec Onboard TV Out - VIA VT1622 TV out Onboard 1394 - VIA VT6307S IEEE 1394 Firewire
for some people this may have began already.. many large warez ftps have already moved to accepting ipv6 connections only, however for many people this will require over use (even abuse) of free ipv6 tunnel brokers and doesnt provide stong grounds to presure isp's to bring native support.
There is one dsl isp in the uk (commercialy orientated) called Andrews & Arnold which offer ipv6 an IPv4 gatewat with their adsl.
there is still a good few legitimate uses of ipv6 however it will definatly take a few years to become widespear. seamless roaming with native ipv6 support in a mobile phone would be nice.. and with pprovider support i belive it could be easily implineted on todays gsm/gprs phones such as sony/ericson p800.
> "if you did live near an ADSL exchange you have/had to live within 1.5 miles or km (can't remember)"
I beg to differ, wether you can get adsl or not is decided by the BT whoosh test which currently requires extending the reach of adsl. In real world terms this translates to about 5.5km line length but otehr factors such as the qaulity of copper used can affect the result.
This still doesnt help if your exchange is adsl enabled but BT have been running a pre-registration scheme for about a year, with trigger levels based on the cost of install and ROI projections, with most exchanges requiring 300-400 pre-registrations before bt will enable it.
they upgraded the 512Kbps service to 600 a while ago (then introduced the 1Gb/day caps) and are upgrading the 128Kbps service to 160 iirc but increasing the price by 20%
whatever fuckwit moderated my comment moderated my comment overrated must seek profesional help in quiting hteir crack habbit, go do some research and you will find out all about steve bennett and his long history of media whoring and blatant lies to anyone stupd enought to listen to his bs, he claimed he made his rocket motors from tate and lyle sugar while using his sponsorship to import high powered engines from aerotech and later kosden.
frankly bennett is a lier and a cheat, and unlike most of you crackhead mods I have actualy met him, as well as knowing a lot of people who do real research and contribute a lot to the uk and world wide amatuer rocketry.
Read the bbc artical and youl will find his claims about having undergone centrifuge testing are completely false, like almost everything he says.
I wonder if he made the capsule out of tate and lyle sugar...
oh and good one about the centrifuge training, yet more lies from possibly the worst ambassador to the UK amateur rocketry community, with his lies and relentless media whoring damaging the hard work put in by many groups such as Mars and Aspire Space.
perhaps a lightly patched server to begin with and teh team/attacker who comprommises gets to take over defending the box till it is compromised again..
Seriously this is nothing new (I personaly saw this artical over 18months ago).
Despite this blokes seemingly good experince with linksys WAP11 i sugest ppl look around the net and read other peoples bad experinces with these units before making a purchase. HOwever at least this article might help convince people that pringels cans are not suitable for permanent links (despite the hype, pringles can antennas suck.. u can build a much better antenna with some tin cans)
Since when did a honeypot become a free wireless access point? Last time I checked the idea of a honeypot was to log and monitor the activities of Crackers.
For more Details on what a Honeypot REALLY is check out this page
"* Stops viruses and worms. Palladium won't run unauthorized programs, so viruses can't trash protected parts of your system."
So as part of this deal you are giving Microsoft the ability to control what programs you can and cant run on your PC. ThiI can tell you I wont be at the front of the queue for this feature.
As a consume.net node owner I have a particular interest in the idea of using mesh networks to provide an open wireless network based on the idea if it possible to creat bandwidth with every wireless connection, however this bandwidth is relativly limited in its use if it can only reach a fraction of the number of hosts on the Internet.
As far as I can see todays wireless standards are not capable of supporting enough users in a mesh based network to make the network useful. Beyond a certain number of hosts almost all of the available bandwidth will be used for routing information, especialy if the nodes are not online permanantly or are moving. Even with omni directional antenna 802.11a/b has a very short range, LOS is hard to come by esspecialy since 802.11b does not agree with trees not to mention the chronic shortage of spectra since only 3 802.11b networks can operate at maximum throughput within range of each other...
Mobile mesh is one of the leading mesh network protcols but tests by consume.net members have shown that Mobile Mesh strugles to scale past 20 nodes, not to mention the lack of windows support which is a realistic requirement if you expect every user to act as a router, esspecialy considering that 99% of the population (including several of my Comp Sci & Cyberentics course mates) consider the default state of a computer to be off.
Any mesh routing protocol must be able to cope with re-routing packets when a node is returned to its "default state" by its user, however the problem is acheving sufficient node density to maintain coverage when peoples computers are only on say 4 hours a day. This could be achieved by producing low cost, *nix based APs wether based on COTS or a dedicated AP solution such as the Musenki or the BAWUG board which was demoed to consume.net members by Matt Peterson of BAWUG as part of his round the world trip with Terry Schmidt of NYCwireless. (cheers guys, it was a very interesting presentation).
Both the Musenk and the BAWUG APs are very compact and could be pre-configured for mesh networking requiring only to be pluged into the users LAN however they are still relavtivly expensive. (The Musenki M-1 is expected to be $299 and the M-3 $499)
In short Mesh networkng still has two major obstales to overcome until it can be considered for wide scale deploment..
1) Windows software is essential to acheive sufficent node density for complete coverage 24/7.
2) Scaleablity needs to be improved to 1000's of nodes. There is no way to write routing protols that will overcome the speed limitations of existing wireless hardware, even with QoS there will still be physical bottlenecks as there will only be a limited number of users who can connect to the NAP. Intelegent routing can cut down the number of request for routing data, from what I know of Mobile Mesh all the nodes will listen and cache routing information broadcasts which reduces the number of requests the have ot make for this information thus leaving more bandwidth for your data.
"why wouldn't the phone ROM include code to allow someone to wake the phone remotely, and activate the audio pickup, and now the camera?"
I have heard from a friend who worked at One2One in the uk that it was posible to uplaod new firmware to a phone which allowed it to automaticaly answer calls and transmit the audio even if the user had switched their phone off. This was several years ago so I hate to think what they can do now...
/me decideds to program a firewall for his mobile.. blocking spam/unsolcited calls/SMS/firmware.
Hopefully I will be ready for IPO not long after 3G phones are widespread and people are sick to death of location-based advertising which is going to be a large feature in the consumer tarrifs (where as bussines pay many times the service charge but dont recive a hundred special offers every time they walk down the street)
personaly I think that society will very soon progress to a stage where the line between human memory (in our brains, information stored by biological reactions) and computer memory (information stored in bits and bytes, currently on magnetic disk drives and silicone subtrate "memory" chips but feasably in the future will be stored on biological or sub-atomic storage arrays) will become so blured that society will cease to differentiate between the two.
I ask you to ponder the difference between the copys of the website/BBS/usenet comments everybody is so paranoid about which are stored in a readers humany memory (admitadly in 99.9999% of cases inacurate) and the copy stored (perfectly) by electronic means. Is it breach of copyright if i tell my freind what you said in usenet ten years ago? What if I forward him the post?
As a species we have progressed by learing from our parents, if in the animal world parents were to refuse to to teach their young they would die very quickly. If we had had to re-invent the wheel every generation im sure I wouldnt be posting this comment now. We have progressed as a species by passing on information, and electronic copies of data are merly an extention of our own memories which have the advantage of of being a lot more acurate than the human memory. This however doesnt address the line between what is public and what is private....
mirror.ac.uk has yet to be updated and im looking for a UK/EU mirror with 100Mbit bandwidth to d/l it and mirror it on my 100Mbit connection. ANybody know of somewhere where i can get it from at a decnt speed in the UK?
Hmm, only 175KBs here through ja.net to vt.edu... why did KPQQwest (ja.net/UKARENA's transatlantic conectivity provider) have to pick such a bad time to go.bomb .
/me wish's ja.net still had the 2.5GBit Transatlantic pipe from TeleGlobe(UK) dedicated to peering with Abiline and ESnet.
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lo matt, typical slashdot modding the author of the artical in question down to 0. Can we expect to see this teamed witht he wireless rickshaw at summer events?
its his free isp webspace (pwp being 'personal web pages' id presume) to avoid melting the bristolwireless server which is hosted in (you guessed it), bristol on a 2meg connection.
The only 1Ghz VIA based motherboard i know of is the Epia M10000.. (as reviewed by Hexus, DansData and IANAG). Anyway heres the specs lifted from via's site...
Processor - VIA C3/EDEN EBGA Processor
Chipset - VIA CLE266 North Bridge - VT8235 South Bridge
System Memory - 1 DDR266 DIMM socket - Up to 1GB memory size
Graphics - Integrated VIA Unichrome AGP Graphics with MPEG-2 decoder
Expansion Slots - 1 PCI
Onboard IDE - 2 X UltraDMA 133/100/66 Connector
Onboard Floppy - 1 x FDD Connector
Onboard LAN - VIA VT6103 10/100 Base-T Ethernet PHY
Onboard Audio - VIA VT1616 6 channel AC'97 Codec
Onboard TV Out - VIA VT1622 TV out
Onboard 1394 - VIA VT6307S IEEE 1394 Firewire
hope this helps
oh well, i saw it just after i metamoderated and thought it was some kinda reward to tempt people into subscribing.
for some people this may have began already.. many large warez ftps have already moved to accepting ipv6 connections only, however for many people this will require over use (even abuse) of free ipv6 tunnel brokers and doesnt provide stong grounds to presure isp's to bring native support.
There is one dsl isp in the uk (commercialy orientated) called Andrews & Arnold which offer ipv6 an IPv4 gatewat with their adsl.
there is still a good few legitimate uses of ipv6 however it will definatly take a few years to become widespear. seamless roaming with native ipv6 support in a mobile phone would be nice.. and with pprovider support i belive it could be easily implineted on todays gsm/gprs phones such as sony/ericson p800.
> "if you did live near an ADSL exchange you have/had to live within 1.5 miles or km (can't remember)"
I beg to differ, wether you can get adsl or not is decided by the BT whoosh test which currently requires extending the reach of adsl. In real world terms this translates to about 5.5km line length but otehr factors such as the qaulity of copper used can affect the result.
This still doesnt help if your exchange is adsl enabled but BT have been running a pre-registration scheme for about a year, with trigger levels based on the cost of install and ROI projections, with most exchanges requiring 300-400 pre-registrations before bt will enable it.
NTL cable modems run at 128, 600 and 1024Kbps.
they upgraded the 512Kbps service to 600 a while ago (then introduced the 1Gb/day caps) and are upgrading the 128Kbps service to 160 iirc but increasing the price by 20%
whatever fuckwit moderated my comment moderated my comment overrated must seek profesional help in quiting hteir crack habbit, go do some research and you will find out all about steve bennett and his long history of media whoring and blatant lies to anyone stupd enought to listen to his bs, he claimed he made his rocket motors from tate and lyle sugar while using his sponsorship to import high powered engines from aerotech and later kosden.
frankly bennett is a lier and a cheat, and unlike most of you crackhead mods I have actualy met him, as well as knowing a lot of people who do real research and contribute a lot to the uk and world wide amatuer rocketry.
Read the bbc artical and youl will find his claims about having undergone centrifuge testing are completely false, like almost everything he says.
I wonder if he made the capsule out of tate and lyle sugar...
oh and good one about the centrifuge training, yet more lies from possibly the worst ambassador to the UK amateur rocketry community, with his lies and relentless media whoring damaging the hard work put in by many groups such as Mars and Aspire Space.
since mozdev.org doesnt have a 1.3 version of this you might want to look here/a. for an unofficial port by zzxc.
erm aside from needing local authority permision (and usualy a telco licence) to cross a public road with a cable..
as for the "setting up wireless access points and running the whole neighborhood (or country)" check out www.consume.net which aims to do just that.
perhaps a lightly patched server to begin with and teh team/attacker who comprommises gets to take over defending the box till it is compromised again..
/me wonders if the FCC have juristriction(speling?) in egypt??
Seriously this is nothing new (I personaly saw this artical over 18months ago).
Despite this blokes seemingly good experince with linksys WAP11 i sugest ppl look around the net and read other peoples bad experinces with these units before making a purchase. HOwever at least this article might help convince people that pringels cans are not suitable for permanent links (despite the hype, pringles can antennas suck.. u can build a much better antenna with some tin cans)
Since when did a honeypot become a free wireless access point? Last time I checked the idea of a honeypot was to log and monitor the activities of Crackers.
For more Details on what a Honeypot REALLY is check out this page
"* Stops viruses and worms. Palladium won't run unauthorized programs, so viruses can't trash protected parts of your system."
So as part of this deal you are giving Microsoft the ability to control what programs you can and cant run on your PC. ThiI can tell you I wont be at the front of the queue for this feature.
CIDR etc doesnt realy work when you have no idea of the heirarchy of the network such as in Mesh based wireless network.
As a consume.net node owner I have a particular interest in the idea of using mesh networks to provide an open wireless network based on the idea if it possible to creat bandwidth with every wireless connection, however this bandwidth is relativly limited in its use if it can only reach a fraction of the number of hosts on the Internet.
As far as I can see todays wireless standards are not capable of supporting enough users in a mesh based network to make the network useful. Beyond a certain number of hosts almost all of the available bandwidth will be used for routing information, especialy if the nodes are not online permanantly or are moving. Even with omni directional antenna 802.11a/b has a very short range, LOS is hard to come by esspecialy since 802.11b does not agree with trees not to mention the chronic shortage of spectra since only 3 802.11b networks can operate at maximum throughput within range of each other...
Mobile mesh is one of the leading mesh network protcols but tests by consume.net members have shown that Mobile Mesh strugles to scale past 20 nodes, not to mention the lack of windows support which is a realistic requirement if you expect every user to act as a router, esspecialy considering that 99% of the population (including several of my Comp Sci & Cyberentics course mates) consider the default state of a computer to be off.
Any mesh routing protocol must be able to cope with re-routing packets when a node is returned to its "default state" by its user, however the problem is acheving sufficient node density to maintain coverage when peoples computers are only on say 4 hours a day. This could be achieved by producing low cost, *nix based APs wether based on COTS or a dedicated AP solution such as the Musenki or the BAWUG board which was demoed to consume.net members by Matt Peterson of BAWUG as part of his round the world trip with Terry Schmidt of NYCwireless. (cheers guys, it was a very interesting presentation).
Both the Musenk and the BAWUG APs are very compact and could be pre-configured for mesh networking requiring only to be pluged into the users LAN however they are still relavtivly expensive. (The Musenki M-1 is expected to be $299 and the M-3 $499)
In short Mesh networkng still has two major obstales to overcome until it can be considered for wide scale deploment..
1) Windows software is essential to acheive sufficent node density for complete coverage 24/7.
2) Scaleablity needs to be improved to 1000's of nodes. There is no way to write routing protols that will overcome the speed limitations of existing wireless hardware, even with QoS there will still be physical bottlenecks as there will only be a limited number of users who can connect to the NAP. Intelegent routing can cut down the number of request for routing data, from what I know of Mobile Mesh all the nodes will listen and cache routing information broadcasts which reduces the number of requests the have ot make for this information thus leaving more bandwidth for your data.
I havent seen any of the MARS launches since IRW 98 in sunny Largs but have been eagerly following their progress.
You should check our Demios 2, an 18ft tall scratch built rocket powered by a N20/PTFE Hybred rocket motor designed and built by the mars crew.
Good luck to Ben, Antony and the rest of the crew!!
How about intergrated 802.11a/b/g in cell phones so we can download the video email's along with our daiy mountain of spam.
I have heard from a friend who worked at One2One in the uk that it was posible to uplaod new firmware to a phone which allowed it to automaticaly answer calls and transmit the audio even if the user had switched their phone off. This was several years ago so I hate to think what they can do now...
/me decideds to program a firewall for his mobile.. blocking spam/unsolcited calls/SMS/firmware.
Hopefully I will be ready for IPO not long after 3G phones are widespread and people are sick to death of location-based advertising which is going to be a large feature in the consumer tarrifs (where as bussines pay many times the service charge but dont recive a hundred special offers every time they walk down the street)
personaly I think that society will very soon progress to a stage where the line between human memory (in our brains, information stored by biological reactions) and computer memory (information stored in bits and bytes, currently on magnetic disk drives and silicone subtrate "memory" chips but feasably in the future will be stored on biological or sub-atomic storage arrays) will become so blured that society will cease to differentiate between the two.
I ask you to ponder the difference between the copys of the website/BBS/usenet comments everybody is so paranoid about which are stored in a readers humany memory (admitadly in 99.9999% of cases inacurate) and the copy stored (perfectly) by electronic means. Is it breach of copyright if i tell my freind what you said in usenet ten years ago? What if I forward him the post?
As a species we have progressed by learing from our parents, if in the animal world parents were to refuse to to teach their young they would die very quickly. If we had had to re-invent the wheel every generation im sure I wouldnt be posting this comment now. We have progressed as a species by passing on information, and electronic copies of data are merly an extention of our own memories which have the advantage of of being a lot more acurate than the human memory. This however doesnt address the line between what is public and what is private....
mirror.ac.uk has yet to be updated and im looking for a UK/EU mirror with 100Mbit bandwidth to d/l it and mirror it on my 100Mbit connection. ANybody know of somewhere where i can get it from at a decnt speed in the UK?
Hmm, only 175KBs here through ja.net to vt.edu ... why did KPQQwest (ja.net/UKARENA's transatlantic conectivity provider) have to pick such a bad time to go .bomb .
/me wish's ja.net still had the 2.5GBit Transatlantic pipe from TeleGlobe(UK) dedicated to peering with Abiline and ESnet.