Typically, I'd want them to request the help of the network administrators to determine if there is an issue on an application level basis rather than a burst speed test. Most larger corporations have these specialists on hand (I'm one) to ensure that the experience can be as good as possible given the constraints. There are even options for the site to increase bandwidth if needed, but again the network specialists need to be engaged to assist in the technical determination of this.
Specifically in the above scenario the user population was upset to see their "speed to the internet" drop even though it was totally irrelevant to their current application issues due to the multiple paths that the different production and non-production applications could take advantage of.
There are many applications that specific sites have that do not work well on anything less than a 100mb/s connection due to the fact that they're just chatty. Not sure if it's because the development staff doesn't think ahead far enough to realize that some people do work on VPN style connections due to the size of the office population or if it's just the toolkits they use. One such application that I've tested uses MS DCOM for communications as a plugin; unfortunately looking at the total number of turns in the application for network traffic, it's almost impossible to use across a typical site connection.
Places are slowly moving towards distributed desktop solutions (either Citrix or just straight-up RDP connections) and while this helps the users get their work done efficiently, there has to be a better way. Some places in the world are just too expensive to drop a gig connection in - let alone if the connection is available.
I agree with this statement; however if the machines in a specific area must go through one specific device to access all, it is safe to assume that you could use that device as a point to gather statistics about use.
This doesn't mean that someone won't figure out (as stated in other posts) how to tether their cell phone to their laptop, or crack the neighbor's WEP key....
Yo, VGPowerlord. I'm really happy for you. I'm gonna let you finish, but Anonymous Coward had the best internets of all times...One of the best internets of all time.
Actually, wouldn't you only need 3? Aim the panels so that the "back" is always in the shadow. Of course, I'm biased - being in the northern hemisphere, the sun is either directly overhead in it's highest position or to the south.
I have a client at a remote site - we are doing hybrid routing to deliver various services, some over MPLS and some over a VPN connection.
The internet browsing is supposed to go over VPN - but at this site we had misconfigured the router. The MPLS pipe is larger, so they would get say 10mb/s when going to speedtest.net. But then they were complaining about application performance (go figure.) Even with QOS, it was affecting the other apps.
We fixed the issue, and even though we told them that speedtest.net isn't a good indicator of speed due to the technology at the site, they started complaining that they weren't getting 10mb/s on the internet now and only had 3mb/s.
I sit silently in the corner waiting for another phone call that references speedtest.net.....
Actually, all of the HTC phones that run Windows Mobile can get the HTC wifi sharing app (looks @ phone) - on my touch pro (ATTfuze) it's in the comm manager at the bottom. It will share the media net connection without having to pay for the "tethering" program.
I've used it just a handful of times that I needed to test openvpn for clients. No one has fussed about it yet, and from what I've read, unless you're insanely idiotic about bandwidth on the computer/phone (torrent of a DVD etc) really there's no reason that ATT would ding you for it.
I do have to wonder if ATT would at some point look for something simple in the packets - like the laptop broadcasting that it is a member of a domain etc - to see if someone's tethered though.
IF everyone rented, someone owns the property and people would pay higher rent to the owner just to stay somewhere. It would all balance out even in that scenario.
Employees are typically shareholders, through 401k and stock options. There's no way to not hurt employees if the company is hurt. See Enron - I know it's a wild example, but I know if my company gets into legal trouble and the stock price goes down, it can affect my stock price.
Now, I can move my stock out and transition it to non-work-related stock, but by the time the employee catches wind of anything happening it's pretty typical for the stock to already have taken a hit.
But what about an application that I may not specifically know about? That's the point of the conversation. If there was a magical place I could go that had summaries, top ratings etc - this would be a good place to point a consumer like myself to go get things.
I know of people who go to amazon/newegg/insert virtual storefront here all the time to review categories for purchase, and it doesn't even have to be that particular. Say I wanted a television - I'd probably spend a good deal of time reading how people rated them as well as any underlying faults or issues. This is what would be a unique opportunity to bring android applications under the same type of umbrella - why not have a webfront where you could at least submit peer reviews for applications etc? And since they're available to search for on the android handset itself, it should be trivial to make that face the PC world as well. Content's already there!!!
13.5.1 In American usage printers usually place a period or comma inside closing quotation marks whether it belongs logically to the quoted matter or to the whole sentence or context.... But when a logical or exact distinction is desired in specialized work in which clarity is more important than usual (as in this dictionary), a period or comma can be placed outside quotation marks when it belongs not in the quoted matter but to a larger unit containing the quoted matter. The package is labeled "Handle with Care".
Things like Voice Activation - as well as overall clarity - suffer with a built-in-to-the-laptop microphone. Not only can you hit the activation limit just by typing, but it also picks up every noise in the room. Furnace/AC fans etc create a ton of noise that the mic will pick up and boost.
Generally even cheaper headsets have decent localization - they'll pick up close but the sensitivity at far range drops off quickly. They also have wind filters to hopefully catch people from popping their "P"s so much....
The more I think about it, the more I come to actually like this scenario.
I live closer to the city, and with some of my neighbors - barking dogs, yelling drunken fights etc. It gets old pretty quick, and having something underwater means it can be as quiet as me and my wife want it to be.
I'm fine with people, but I'd rather come home and not have to deal with neighbors. I know, I could move, but financially right now is not the time to do it.
Find a student and have him get you Win7 for $50 shipped. Find a student with MSDNAA (a little tougher; HINT: There are quite a few on here, guaranteed) and get it for nothing.
Slashdot doesn't exactly have a forum like fatwallet or the likes to ask people for Win7 though, so even if they're on here you'd probably not get far submitting a story asking for it.
I did end up having a friend who has MSDN and got myself up to Windows 7 - but was prepared to pay for it and will pay with my next build.
Your bank is much stronger at security than mine. Mine doesn't require one time pads or anything that is at any point "random" for each session - just username and password.
Change my password frequently, but if it's compromised even once... *shudder*
Actually, there's still an attack vector that would exist here. Credentials. Specifically, what some attackers would look for would be cool little tidbits of information:
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Typically, I'd want them to request the help of the network administrators to determine if there is an issue on an application level basis rather than a burst speed test. Most larger corporations have these specialists on hand (I'm one) to ensure that the experience can be as good as possible given the constraints. There are even options for the site to increase bandwidth if needed, but again the network specialists need to be engaged to assist in the technical determination of this.
Specifically in the above scenario the user population was upset to see their "speed to the internet" drop even though it was totally irrelevant to their current application issues due to the multiple paths that the different production and non-production applications could take advantage of.
There are many applications that specific sites have that do not work well on anything less than a 100mb/s connection due to the fact that they're just chatty. Not sure if it's because the development staff doesn't think ahead far enough to realize that some people do work on VPN style connections due to the size of the office population or if it's just the toolkits they use. One such application that I've tested uses MS DCOM for communications as a plugin; unfortunately looking at the total number of turns in the application for network traffic, it's almost impossible to use across a typical site connection.
Places are slowly moving towards distributed desktop solutions (either Citrix or just straight-up RDP connections) and while this helps the users get their work done efficiently, there has to be a better way. Some places in the world are just too expensive to drop a gig connection in - let alone if the connection is available.
I agree with this statement; however if the machines in a specific area must go through one specific device to access all, it is safe to assume that you could use that device as a point to gather statistics about use.
This doesn't mean that someone won't figure out (as stated in other posts) how to tether their cell phone to their laptop, or crack the neighbor's WEP key....
Yo, VGPowerlord. I'm really happy for you. I'm gonna let you finish, but Anonymous Coward had the best internets of all times...One of the best internets of all time.
Actually, wouldn't you only need 3? Aim the panels so that the "back" is always in the shadow. Of course, I'm biased - being in the northern hemisphere, the sun is either directly overhead in it's highest position or to the south.
Oh dear lord, don't even start with me.
I have a client at a remote site - we are doing hybrid routing to deliver various services, some over MPLS and some over a VPN connection.
The internet browsing is supposed to go over VPN - but at this site we had misconfigured the router. The MPLS pipe is larger, so they would get say 10mb/s when going to speedtest.net. But then they were complaining about application performance (go figure.) Even with QOS, it was affecting the other apps.
We fixed the issue, and even though we told them that speedtest.net isn't a good indicator of speed due to the technology at the site, they started complaining that they weren't getting 10mb/s on the internet now and only had 3mb/s.
I sit silently in the corner waiting for another phone call that references speedtest.net.....
Actually, all of the HTC phones that run Windows Mobile can get the HTC wifi sharing app (looks @ phone) - on my touch pro (ATTfuze) it's in the comm manager at the bottom. It will share the media net connection without having to pay for the "tethering" program.
I've used it just a handful of times that I needed to test openvpn for clients. No one has fussed about it yet, and from what I've read, unless you're insanely idiotic about bandwidth on the computer/phone (torrent of a DVD etc) really there's no reason that ATT would ding you for it.
I do have to wonder if ATT would at some point look for something simple in the packets - like the laptop broadcasting that it is a member of a domain etc - to see if someone's tethered though.
Sadly, the Acheivement: Accelerated Graphics Access can only be attained by infiltrating Sony.
So that's where the term Boner comes from. It's a RIB!!!
You accidentally that sentence.
IF everyone rented, someone owns the property and people would pay higher rent to the owner just to stay somewhere. It would all balance out even in that scenario.
Employees are typically shareholders, through 401k and stock options. There's no way to not hurt employees if the company is hurt. See Enron - I know it's a wild example, but I know if my company gets into legal trouble and the stock price goes down, it can affect my stock price.
Now, I can move my stock out and transition it to non-work-related stock, but by the time the employee catches wind of anything happening it's pretty typical for the stock to already have taken a hit.
Just goes to show there's holes in every theory.
Perhaps I should have gone with a car analogy? :)
But what about an application that I may not specifically know about? That's the point of the conversation. If there was a magical place I could go that had summaries, top ratings etc - this would be a good place to point a consumer like myself to go get things.
I know of people who go to amazon/newegg/insert virtual storefront here all the time to review categories for purchase, and it doesn't even have to be that particular. Say I wanted a television - I'd probably spend a good deal of time reading how people rated them as well as any underlying faults or issues. This is what would be a unique opportunity to bring android applications under the same type of umbrella - why not have a webfront where you could at least submit peer reviews for applications etc? And since they're available to search for on the android handset itself, it should be trivial to make that face the PC world as well. Content's already there!!!
Picture this:
I have a phone now. I'm looking at the nice and shiny android phones. But I am not quite convinced that the apps are what I might need.
How do I find out from a PC that there's something that would push me over the edge?
That's the mole hill that you tripped over.
Just because a slight upward trend in one category doesn't successfully overshadow another category doesn't mean it should not be taken seriously.
13.5.1 In American usage printers usually place a period or comma inside closing quotation marks whether it belongs logically to the quoted matter or to the whole sentence or context.... But when a logical or exact distinction is desired in specialized work in which clarity is more important than usual (as in this dictionary), a period or comma can be placed outside quotation marks when it belongs not in the quoted matter but to a larger unit containing the quoted matter. The package is labeled "Handle with Care".
You're right :)
Don't you mean you often spell the answer SDRAWKCAB?
Things like Voice Activation - as well as overall clarity - suffer with a built-in-to-the-laptop microphone. Not only can you hit the activation limit just by typing, but it also picks up every noise in the room. Furnace/AC fans etc create a ton of noise that the mic will pick up and boost.
Generally even cheaper headsets have decent localization - they'll pick up close but the sensitivity at far range drops off quickly. They also have wind filters to hopefully catch people from popping their "P"s so much....
Actually, instead of just being the man who designed the slim jim - in this car analogy, there would be two sets of people:
1. Programmers / person who created AND GAVE the slim jim to #2
2. DiPascali / person who broke into the car.
The more I think about it, the more I come to actually like this scenario.
I live closer to the city, and with some of my neighbors - barking dogs, yelling drunken fights etc. It gets old pretty quick, and having something underwater means it can be as quiet as me and my wife want it to be.
I'm fine with people, but I'd rather come home and not have to deal with neighbors. I know, I could move, but financially right now is not the time to do it.
Bionic Fartmando doesn't have arms.
Find a student and have him get you Win7 for $50 shipped. Find a student with MSDNAA (a little tougher; HINT: There are quite a few on here, guaranteed) and get it for nothing.
Slashdot doesn't exactly have a forum like fatwallet or the likes to ask people for Win7 though, so even if they're on here you'd probably not get far submitting a story asking for it.
I did end up having a friend who has MSDN and got myself up to Windows 7 - but was prepared to pay for it and will pay with my next build.
Your bank is much stronger at security than mine. Mine doesn't require one time pads or anything that is at any point "random" for each session - just username and password.
Change my password frequently, but if it's compromised even once... *shudder*
Actually, there's still an attack vector that would exist here. Credentials. Specifically, what some attackers would look for would be cool little tidbits of information:
1. Bank Account credentials
2. 401k/other "wealth" credentials
3. e-mail credentials
These could all be compromised even in a sandbox....
That's just because no one has activated you yet with the secret code words. Just you wait....