Here are just a few router stat graphics from my university. As you can see, Kazaa/Morpheus is 85% of the outbound traffic!! Inbound isn't quite as bad, only 63% or so.
Yes it will run freebsd... and any other operating system you can put on a 100 mhz computer. (Tiqit) Our local balloon group has flown this thing (the tiqit) on several missions up to 100k+ feet. The best part about the hard drive is the Compact Flash Type II form factor, just toss it into a regular pcmcia adapter and you can use it on a PC.
One note about this hard drive, or any other hard drive for that matter. They might be tough and made for a laptop, but they will not work about 20,000-30,000 feet, confirmed by IBM engineers. We never got a chance to actually flight test one for fear of distruction, but the consensus was it wouldn't make it back anyway.
Just for everyone's information, I talk to different satellites on a regular basis using nothing more than a mobile (car mounted) radio and antenna that is less than 6 feet in length. (~60 watts transmitting on 2 meter/70 cm frequencies) (AO 27 and Oscar 14) You do NOT need a huge antenna, but this depends entirely on the satellite. Think 2 way internet via satellite...
>2) Bring prices down! I really can't understand the prices of PDAs, and that's why I don't have one. For a tiny thing with a color screen and 16MB of RAM they expect me to pay $300? Nuts.
Best Buy recently had HP Jornada 525's for $149. (256 color, ~150 Mhz SuperH3 processor, runs PocketPC stuff) Only 16 megs of ram, but you can get 256m online for around $80, makes one nice (and cheap) mp3 player!
This isn't the only option for wireless access here in the north country... Also check out http://www.ruralaccess.net/wireless/Default.htm
One more thing, almost all cities here greater than a few thousand in population have access to DSl &/or cable, it is the rural areas (basically everywhere) that are driving the need for wireless. (Remember, North Dakota has 4 cities greater than 30,000 popultion, with a total state population of 500,000)
And finally, if you want to see what else we do here since "the sun don't shine much", check out the recent aurora!
Paypal will only protect you if you pay with a credit card, and then only because you dispute the charge. (Also note that if you dispute a charge, you will get your paypal card yanked, since in essence paypal is now getting stuck with the bill)
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What ever happened to the day when people would actually play games on the console gaming machine? Now your console browses the web, runs linux, makes your coffee, and does laundry!
And if you do go with raised floors (good idea!), you will need something capable of pulling new cable runs under the floor, and have some fun doing it! Take a look at the Mark VI
Here is one thing you can do, go to
http://www.aclu.org/action/liberty107.html and enter your zip code. You have a choice of email, fax, or letter to your state reps regarding the recent issues with our rights being trampled on.
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As a result of what happened in NY, DC, and PA, Congress has begin passing all
sorts of crazy legislation. Most of these bills are being labeled as
"Anti-terrorism" bills, when in actuality, they are mostly anti-American.
Included in their changes are:
- Allowing for wiretaps to be without a search warrants. This includes
listening in on your phone conversations and scanning your email he use of
certain words. For example, it will be legal to begin reading your email and
monitoring your website usage if attention was brought to you because you
used suspicious words in your communication. If your thinking "Isn't that
un-Constitutional?", your right, it WAS.
- Requiring giving the encryption keys to any encryption scheme to be
given to the government. Basically, your privacy would non-existent to any
non-ethical person in the government that wanted to use them. In short,
there would be NO (legal) WAY to communicate via email or internet that the
government couldn't monitor. Law abiding Americans would the only people
they could monitor, while those breaking the law would continue to use their
own encryption schemes, meaning that we would only monitor those NOT
breaking the law. Sound like fun?
- "Hacking" a computer would now to an "Act of Terrorism." Meaning that changing a website without permission could be punished with life in a federal prison. I'm not going to defend hacking a computer, but I think that
fits under the cruel and usual punishment scenario. Once we give the
government power to punish people to this extent, how long until we begin
executing people for misdemeanors?
The list goes on and on, and it scares me. I urge everyone to visit the
site: http://www.aclu.org/action/liberty107.html. Go to the bottom, enter
your zip code, and hit go. This will bring you to a page that will allow you
to fax your congressmen while only spending about 10 seconds. It will send a
fax that is basically a generic letter the ACLU has drafted. For those not
sure how to do anything about our world, this would be a simple way to
finally do something.
Congress will likely be voting on this bill within the next week, so time is
of great importance. I sincerely hope many of you will spend the 30 seconds
needed to do something that could effect our lives for years to come.
Read the article... The outage doesn't have anyting to do with IIS. I have qwest dsl also, and was affected. Code red requests overran some buffers in the Cisco 675 dsl router/modem. Disabling web management on the modem doesn't work, you have to move it to a different port
I've done extensive OpenGl (Mesa) programming, and no it isn't. My programs ran equally well on a UltraSparc running Redhat and also regular PII machines with RH 6.2, without me even knowing any of the graphics cards that were installed.
OpenGL is a 3d programming API, which means it allows the programmer to not be concerned with the hardware itself, only that OpenGL is present so it can be called.
By the way, OpenGL is not really "open" software, it is a very expensive license from sun if you want to use it. Most Opensource developers would be interested in Mesagl, which is basically an open source version with some changes.
No worrys about it hitting a commercial TV sat, almost all TV birds are in geo, a spy sat with the exception of a few are all in very low leo orbits. (easier to spy if you are right overhead, not 22,000 miles out!) Remote sensing sats will be the most at risk, many of which are private.
So, here is the question, if a remote sensing sat slams into a secret spy bird, will the US government claim responsibility or will it be dismissed as a chance encounter with space debris?
It is possible to block NAT, if the ISP themselves are using NAT for all the customers already. (Yes, it has been done, ISP's are greedy when it comes to giving out expensive IP's.)
I'm assuming horizontal alignment means the controls are horizontal from the screen? has everyone forgotten about the ill fated Sega Game Gear??? 3.58 mhz of pure gaming speed, who could ask for more!
It just seems like creating an account and being openly tracked by the ad companies seems like a REALLY bad idea. Yeah, it is done to some extent today, but imagine how much easier it would be if people willing cooperated with it!
Sure, you could turn off a certain ad, but now with that personalized information what other information would you be bombarded with. And if you created an account, your email would most likely be linked to it also...
For example, say I download a song from Napster, then send to a friend using regular email. Can they burn it to a CD?
nope, the planned model is to use a method similar to windows media player content protection. You would have a key, only you could play the MP3, and it could be limited for the # of times.
And even if the layer was placed on top of the MP3 (I'm thinking some text in the ID file), what would prevent a hacker from taking five minutes to remove the layer.
Unless it encryptes the entire file, but I agree, it won't take long to crack it.
Rapigator works 100x better than napster anyway, can connect to multiple servers (including napsters), and also allows you to limit incoming or outgoing bandwidth.
Another example of balloon (in)stability can be found at http://balloons.aero.und.edu/habp/project_13/ I'm part of this balloon group, with our goal being inexpensive proof of concept type flights. (We are hoping to send a Tiqit matchbox computer up soon, although hard drives don't like going above 20k feet.)
Not to mention, most major areas of ND have DSL &/or cable, and have had them for MUCH longer than other areas in the country. (In addition to a statewide fiber optic networks for the universities.)
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Here are just a few router stat graphics from my university. As you can see, Kazaa/Morpheus is 85% of the outbound traffic!! Inbound isn't quite as bad, only 63% or so.
One note about this hard drive, or any other hard drive for that matter. They might be tough and made for a laptop, but they will not work about 20,000-30,000 feet, confirmed by IBM engineers. We never got a chance to actually flight test one for fear of distruction, but the consensus was it wouldn't make it back anyway.
Just for everyone's information, I talk to different satellites on a regular basis using nothing more than a mobile (car mounted) radio and antenna that is less than 6 feet in length. (~60 watts transmitting on 2 meter/70 cm frequencies) (AO 27 and Oscar 14) You do NOT need a huge antenna, but this depends entirely on the satellite. Think 2 way internet via satellite...
>2) Bring prices down! I really can't understand the prices of PDAs, and that's why I don't have one. For a tiny thing with a color screen and 16MB of RAM they expect me to pay $300? Nuts.
Best Buy recently had HP Jornada 525's for $149. (256 color, ~150 Mhz SuperH3 processor, runs PocketPC stuff) Only 16 megs of ram, but you can get 256m online for around $80, makes one nice (and cheap) mp3 player!
This isn't the only option for wireless access here in the north country... Also check out http://www.ruralaccess.net/wireless/Default.htm
One more thing, almost all cities here greater than a few thousand in population have access to DSl &/or cable, it is the rural areas (basically everywhere) that are driving the need for wireless. (Remember, North Dakota has 4 cities greater than 30,000 popultion, with a total state population of 500,000)
And finally, if you want to see what else we do here since "the sun don't shine much", check out the recent aurora!
Paypal will only protect you if you pay with a credit card, and then only because you dispute the charge. (Also note that if you dispute a charge, you will get your paypal card yanked, since in essence paypal is now getting stuck with the bill)
http://volcano.und.edu/linux-2.4.11.tar.gz
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.4/linux
What ever happened to the day when people would actually play games on the console gaming machine? Now your console browses the web, runs linux, makes your coffee, and does laundry!
Yes, but I'm sure those 10 people already did turn it off, what about the rest of the Mac users?
And if you do go with raised floors (good idea!), you will need something capable of pulling new cable runs under the floor, and have some fun doing it! Take a look at the Mark VI
Here is one thing you can do, go to
http://www.aclu.org/action/liberty107.html
and enter your zip code. You have a choice of email, fax, or letter to your state reps regarding the recent issues with our rights being trampled on.
----
As a result of what happened in NY, DC, and PA, Congress has begin passing all
sorts of crazy legislation. Most of these bills are being labeled as
"Anti-terrorism" bills, when in actuality, they are mostly anti-American.
Included in their changes are:
- Allowing for wiretaps to be without a search warrants. This includes
listening in on your phone conversations and scanning your email he use of
certain words. For example, it will be legal to begin reading your email and
monitoring your website usage if attention was brought to you because you
used suspicious words in your communication. If your thinking "Isn't that
un-Constitutional?", your right, it WAS.
- Requiring giving the encryption keys to any encryption scheme to be
given to the government. Basically, your privacy would non-existent to any
non-ethical person in the government that wanted to use them. In short,
there would be NO (legal) WAY to communicate via email or internet that the
government couldn't monitor. Law abiding Americans would the only people
they could monitor, while those breaking the law would continue to use their
own encryption schemes, meaning that we would only monitor those NOT
breaking the law. Sound like fun?
- "Hacking" a computer would now to an "Act of Terrorism." Meaning that changing a website without permission could be punished with life in a federal prison. I'm not going to defend hacking a computer, but I think that
fits under the cruel and usual punishment scenario. Once we give the
government power to punish people to this extent, how long until we begin
executing people for misdemeanors?
The list goes on and on, and it scares me. I urge everyone to visit the
site: http://www.aclu.org/action/liberty107.html. Go to the bottom, enter
your zip code, and hit go. This will bring you to a page that will allow you
to fax your congressmen while only spending about 10 seconds. It will send a
fax that is basically a generic letter the ACLU has drafted. For those not
sure how to do anything about our world, this would be a simple way to
finally do something.
Congress will likely be voting on this bill within the next week, so time is
of great importance. I sincerely hope many of you will spend the 30 seconds
needed to do something that could effect our lives for years to come.
Read the article... The outage doesn't have anyting to do with IIS. I have qwest dsl also, and was affected. Code red requests overran some buffers in the Cisco 675 dsl router/modem. Disabling web management on the modem doesn't work, you have to move it to a different port
I've done extensive OpenGl (Mesa) programming, and no it isn't. My programs ran equally well on a UltraSparc running Redhat and also regular PII machines with RH 6.2, without me even knowing any of the graphics cards that were installed.
OpenGL is a 3d programming API, which means it allows the programmer to not be concerned with the hardware itself, only that OpenGL is present so it can be called.
By the way, OpenGL is not really "open" software, it is a very expensive license from sun if you want to use it. Most Opensource developers would be interested in Mesagl, which is basically an open source version with some changes.
check out the longest running servers report and try to find a Windows machine. Not a single one!
http://www.metacrawler.com
No worrys about it hitting a commercial TV sat, almost all TV birds are in geo, a spy sat with the exception of a few are all in very low leo orbits. (easier to spy if you are right overhead, not 22,000 miles out!) Remote sensing sats will be the most at risk, many of which are private. So, here is the question, if a remote sensing sat slams into a secret spy bird, will the US government claim responsibility or will it be dismissed as a chance encounter with space debris?
It is possible to block NAT, if the ISP themselves are using NAT for all the customers already. (Yes, it has been done, ISP's are greedy when it comes to giving out expensive IP's.)
Cisco Broadband Operating System
I'm assuming horizontal alignment means the controls are horizontal from the screen? has everyone forgotten about the ill fated Sega Game Gear??? 3.58 mhz of pure gaming speed, who could ask for more!
It just seems like creating an account and being openly tracked by the ad companies seems like a REALLY bad idea. Yeah, it is done to some extent today, but imagine how much easier it would be if people willing cooperated with it! Sure, you could turn off a certain ad, but now with that personalized information what other information would you be bombarded with. And if you created an account, your email would most likely be linked to it also...
For example, say I download a song from Napster, then send to a friend using regular email. Can they burn it to a CD? nope, the planned model is to use a method similar to windows media player content protection. You would have a key, only you could play the MP3, and it could be limited for the # of times. And even if the layer was placed on top of the MP3 (I'm thinking some text in the ID file), what would prevent a hacker from taking five minutes to remove the layer. Unless it encryptes the entire file, but I agree, it won't take long to crack it.
Rapigator works 100x better than napster anyway, can connect to multiple servers (including napsters), and also allows you to limit incoming or outgoing bandwidth.
Another example of balloon (in)stability can be found at http://balloons.aero.und.edu/habp/project_13/ I'm part of this balloon group, with our goal being inexpensive proof of concept type flights. (We are hoping to send a Tiqit matchbox computer up soon, although hard drives don't like going above 20k feet.)
Not to mention, most major areas of ND have DSL &/or cable, and have had them for MUCH longer than other areas in the country. (In addition to a statewide fiber optic networks for the universities.)