Conversely, I find non antialiasing fonts quite hard on the eyes. I'm quite pleased that there is good support for this under xfree86. Also, the fact that it works under native X11 calls, means we can look at transparent X-terms in a whole new way. Very exciting times.
This patch looks very promising. One of windows XP's big claim was better LCD support; they are right, it does look quite sharp on any type of square pixel display.
As I'm sure most of you know, most monitors use round pixels, whereas most LCDs use square or the more typical rectangular pixels. So what this means from a GUI standpoint: You need to optimize for the output device. The end result in the screenshot looks GREAT.
The smaller the wires, the more resistance they have. Therefore, they will run hotter. Granted, we won't have much voltage/amperage there, but I'd imaging that these nano-sized chips would have a major heat issue.
I've USED Redhat, but I choose Mandrake on the workstation.:)
I didn't say that I "I don't fn care", I said that it wouldn't be a bad thing.
While I may switch over to RH should they get bought out, us uber-geeks will all find something that works for each of us. If you don't like what RH because, switch. I've made the move, but that's because I found something better.:)
So, I honestly don't care if AOL/Timewarner purchases RH. RH is not a distro I use. Having the backing of a huge media giant may help the linux cause. Sure, it will drive features *IN Redhat LINUX*, but not in the other distros. Long term, yes, it may effect the marketplace. But having Timewarner promoting linux would be a GREAT thing. Talk about adoption in the marketplace. Linux needs more credibility, and this may be a good way to get it.
I'm not sure that I follow the reference to the canidian wireless group at the headers, but the folks at seattlewireless have been talking about this for over a month.
http://www.seattlewireless.net/index.cgi/Wap11Ha ck
Most of the currently build cable modem systems have a limited number of channels for transmitting. The cable spec (I forget the name; It's on ieee.org) maxes out at around 50mbit down and 2-3mbit up. So, for each section, just a few users could have saturated the uplink, thus preventing downloading from other customers. I'm not sure of the details, but I recall something about a number of channels that can be used; there is a limited number, and the 'local' modems have to share those channels in a round-robin fashion.
a> You are missing the fact that 11mbits is the raw speed, and it's really only like 5-6
b> You are forgetting how to setup 3 APs in one zone, sector panels for higher denisity, and other tricks to increase bandwidth in one given space. 11mbit is more than ample, in 99% of the cases. Look at what apple did with airports - - something like 2000 users in a very small area...
But, it's cheaper in the long run to have a higher bitrate - -just so long as you can do the same tricks as above.
So, the simple solution is to use VPN, if you need it to be that secure. Only one open port on a cisco PIX, which most folks hang directly off the net anyway. Easy solution. If you need security, do something like that, or don't use 802.11x.
> However, when you use a wireless network, you have no choice but to hang a cable out your window.
Ummm... no... try again. If you only have WEP as your security, and aren't able to setup anything more secure, you are basiclly opening the bloody window.
You can't assume that ***ANY*** wireless connectivity will be secure - - - Even with things like WEP, you should use SSH/ssl/etc. Also, it takes over 1 million packets to get a 128bit key on 802.11b. If you change your key once a day (or once a month even), then you are safe. There are tools for automaticly updating the keys, and it's a good idea anyway. If you are worried about security, take your head out of your $#$@ and get it setup right. Don't blame the vendors/protocol because you have only one layer of security. It's just like you left a cat5 cable hanging out of your office, and blaming the hub manufacturer that it's their fault when you get hacked. Gimmie a break.
no - but most of the cards have been based on the same chipsets: Prism line, and the Hermes line. The prism-based chipset is quite mature, however, each manufacturer adds custom extensions to each card. Hermes is the much more pricey version - - All (most?) of the lucent/cisco/aironet/orionco cards are based on this.
Proxim has done some really wacky stuff with 802.11a - - They have an "overdrive" version of 802.11a, called x2. It's able to operatate at 100mbits, in a lab. This is not a standard, and I would stay away from proxim based cards. I don't know what chipset the new intel based cards are using, but I'd bet it's not something they made.
Intel has had these out for months. THey just had some promo stuff going on at comdex. Here at seattle wireless, we've been looking at these from september on...
If you are the net admin in said network, then you are not doing your job well. If you had a firewall to the outside, it would prevent these boxes from getting hacked. If you are at a large company, having protected vlans would prevent the few "internal" hackers you may have.
UNDERSTANDING BIN LADEN
on
A New Kind of War
·
· Score: 2, Interesting
UNDERSTANDING BIN LADEN
SOURCE: Iran News
William O. Beeman teaches anthropology at Brown
University in Providence, Rhode Island. A specialist on
Middle East Culture, he has written extensively on
fundamentalism and terrorism. He has worked for the
past four years in Tajikistan, where he has been able
to monitor developments in Afghanistan.
UNDERSTANDING BIN LADEN
The United States risks a severe miscalculation in
dealing with the destruction of the World Trade Center
and the attack on the Pentagon on Tuesday. This event
is not an isolated instance of violence. This is not an
"act of war." It is one symptom of a cancer that
threatens to metastasize. The root cause is not
terrorist activity, as has been widely stated. It is
the relationship between the United States and the
Islamic world. Until this central cancerous problem is
treated, Americans will never be free from fear.
Merely locating and hunting down a single "guilty
party" in this case will not stop future violence: such
an action will not destroy the organization of
terrorist cells already established throughout the
world. Of greater importance, it will do nothing to
alleviate the residual enmity against America that will
remain at large in the world, continuing to motivate
violence. The perpetrators of the original attack on
the World Trade Center in 1993 were caught and
convicted. This did not stop the attack on Tuesday.
The chief suspect is the Saudi Arabian Osama bin Laden
or his surrogates. He has been mischaracterized as an
anti-American terrorist. He should rather be thought of
as someone who would do anything to protect Islam. Bin
Laden began his career fighting the Soviet occupation
of Afghanistan in 1979 when he was 22 years old. He has
not only resisted the Soviets but also the Serbians in
Yugoslavia. His anger was directed against the United
States primarily because of the U.S. presence in the
Gulf Region, more particularly Saudi Arabia itself, the
site of the most sacred Islamic religious sites.
According to bin Laden, during the Gulf War America
co-opted the rulers of Saudi Arabia to establish a
military presence in order to kill Muslims in Iraq. In
a religious decree issued in 1998, he gave religious
legitimacy to attacks on Americans in order to stop the
United States from "occupying the lands of Islam in the
holiest of places." His decree also extends to
Jerusalem, where the second most sacred Muslim siteâ^À^Ôthe
al-Aqsa Mosque. The depth of his historical vision is
clear when, in his decree, he characterizes Americans
as "crusaders" harkening back to the Medieval Crusades
in which the Holy Lands, then occupied by Muslims, were
captured by European Christians.
He will not cease his opposition until the United
States leaves the region. Paradoxically, his strategy
for convincing the United States to do so seems drawn
from the American foreign policy playbook. When the
United States disapproves of the behavior of another
nation, it "turns up the heat" on that nation through
embargoes, economic sanctions or withdrawal of
diplomatic representation. In the case of Iraq
following the Gulf war, America employed military
action, resulting in the loss of civilian life. The
State Department has theorized that if the people of a
rogue nation experience enough suffering, they will
overthrow their rulers, or compel them to adopt more
sensible behavior. The terrorist actions in New York
and Washington are a clear and ironic implementation of
this strategy against the United States.
Bin Laden takes no credit for actions emanating from
his training camps in Afghanistan. He has no desire for
self-aggrandizement. A true ideologue, he believes that
his mission is sacred, and he wants only to see clear
results. For this reason, the structure of his
organization is essentially tribalâ^À^Ôcellular in modern
political terms. His followers are as fervent and
intense in their belief as he is. They carry out their
actions because they believe in the rightness of their
cause, not because of bin Laden's orders or approval.
Groups are trained in Afghanistan, and then establish
their own centers in places as far-flung as Canada,
Africa and Europe. Each cell is technologically
sophisticated, and may have a different set of
motivations for attacking the United States.
Palestinians members of his group see Americans as
supporters of Israel in the current conflict between
the two nations. In the Palestinian view, Ariel
Sharon's ascendancy to leadership of Israel has
triggered a new era, with U.S. government officials
failing to pressure the Israeli government to end
violence against Palestinians. Palestinian cell members
will not cease their opposition until the United States
changes its relationship with the Israeli state.
The Mujaheddin fighters in Lebanon also direct their
hostility against Israel and the United States. They
also operate against the Maronite Christian community
in their own country, who were supported by the French
from World War I until the end of World War II. They
will not cease their operations until the region is
firmly in Islamic hands.
Above all, Americans need to remember that the rest of
the world has an absolute right to self-determination
that is as defensible as our own. A despicable act of
mayhem such as those committed in New York and
Washington is a measure of the revulsion that others
feel at our actions that seemingly limit those rights.
If we perpetuate a cycle of hate and revenge, this
conflict will escalate into a war that our
great-grandchildren will be fighting.
________________
Copyright 2001 William O. Beeman. This article may be
distributed for any non-commercial purpose.
Most "no CDR" Devices can read from higher quality CDRs with no problem. I personally stick with golds or silvers. Also, make sure you close the session on the disk, or many players will not be able to read it. Some (most) audio CD players will puke on multi-session CDs; I try to burn all at once, all the time. Other than reflectivity and format on the disk, the player can't tell if it's a CDR or a "pressed" cd.
One last item: All of the new philips players will read everything, including CDRWs.
I used to work for a Multimedia Company, so we had to deal with these issues quite often.
Lots of folks use flash to read in files from external URLs to display text, etc.
I've seen a few sites that are reading in text from perl scripts, so the content within the flash page has been generated via perl/php/whatever. This would alow to do most of the things this perl:flash modules does, but This module is a much cleaner way to do it. woohoo! Great job guys.
Off the top of my head, I know that www.ragingmouse.com uses that. I'm sure there are other sites as well.
So, would the direction of the "shake" change when the device has been pointed at North/South poles? I would imagine that the device would be using the mass of the earth. Based on that, I don't know how well it would work when it's far from any planetary bodies. I don't know why the article was so vague; why can't they test it using one of the 400Khz switches, and see if it works? The good news is that the temperature might not be a problem in space, but the power usage of such a drive might be kind of high.
I've used a Cat-5 cable as a serial cable for distances over 800 feet. This was for 9600BPS, connecting to a router. It worked great, and I never had any problems. I think you really only need 3 wires for serial (that's all I had connected), so you could get a few serial lines in one CAT5 cable. That's the cheapest/easiest route I can think of; but I'm sure that there are wireless solutions. HAM guys will tell you about the 2400BAUD wireless packet radio stuff; this would work I'm sure, but it's cost is a little higher than just a cat5 cable!
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Conversely, I find non antialiasing fonts quite hard on the eyes. I'm quite pleased that there is good support for this under xfree86. Also, the fact that it works under native X11 calls, means we can look at transparent X-terms in a whole new way. Very exciting times.
This patch looks very promising. One of windows XP's big claim was better LCD support; they are right, it does look quite sharp on any type of square pixel display.
As I'm sure most of you know, most monitors use round pixels, whereas most LCDs use square or the more typical rectangular pixels. So what this means from a GUI standpoint: You need to optimize for the output device. The end result in the screenshot looks GREAT.
Good work guys!
The smaller the wires, the more resistance they have. Therefore, they will run hotter. Granted, we won't have much voltage/amperage there, but I'd imaging that these nano-sized chips would have a major heat issue.
For the past 2 months, the local (seattle) USPS trucks all have HUGE MSN billboards on them.
First time I saw them I was quite upset. I almost socked my mailman.
I've USED Redhat, but I choose Mandrake on the workstation. :)
:)
I didn't say that I "I don't fn care", I said that it wouldn't be a bad thing.
While I may switch over to RH should they get bought out, us uber-geeks will all find something that works for each of us. If you don't like what RH because, switch. I've made the move, but that's because I found something better.
So, I honestly don't care if AOL/Timewarner purchases RH. RH is not a distro I use. Having the backing of a huge media giant may help the linux cause. Sure, it will drive features *IN Redhat LINUX*, but not in the other distros. Long term, yes, it may effect the marketplace. But having Timewarner promoting linux would be a GREAT thing. Talk about adoption in the marketplace. Linux needs more credibility, and this may be a good way to get it.
There are a number of firmwares that work on both the airports and the RG1000s.
There is an update to the airports... but I'm not sure what it fixes.
You can also flash a AP500 firmware onto either of them, and it works great. You lose DHCP, but you gain radius auth, and syslog. Good stuff.
You can download any of those firmwares from here:
http://www.vilos.com/rg1000
Here is a baseline image that should work on most notebooks:
l istic1000
http://www.personaltelco.net/index.cgi/FujitsuSty
I've used this on two old notebooks, and it's work. It works great on the Stylistics, but it's not really required.
Keep in mind that you can only use prism2 based cards if you want to run true BSS (infa) Mode. But other cards will support iBSS mode (adhoc).
I'm not sure that I follow the reference to the canidian wireless group at the headers, but the folks at seattlewireless have been talking about this for over a month.
a ck
http://www.seattlewireless.net/index.cgi/Wap11H
Most of the currently build cable modem systems have a limited number of channels for transmitting. The cable spec (I forget the name; It's on ieee.org) maxes out at around 50mbit down and 2-3mbit up. So, for each section, just a few users could have saturated the uplink, thus preventing downloading from other customers. I'm not sure of the details, but I recall something about a number of channels that can be used; there is a limited number, and the 'local' modems have to share those channels in a round-robin fashion.
that would all depend on your MTU size, and is not an effective way of really flow limiting.
Speaking of pringles cans, we just built a ton of them at the last seattlewireless meeting. We're seeing a 10 to 13db gain from a $5-10 antenna.
M eetingPictures2001
You can see pictures here:
http://www.seattlewireless.net/index.cgi/December
a> You are missing the fact that 11mbits is the raw speed, and it's really only like 5-6
b> You are forgetting how to setup 3 APs in one zone, sector panels for higher denisity, and other tricks to increase bandwidth in one given space. 11mbit is more than ample, in 99% of the cases. Look at what apple did with airports - - something like 2000 users in a very small area...
But, it's cheaper in the long run to have a higher bitrate - -just so long as you can do the same tricks as above.
So, the simple solution is to use VPN, if you need it to be that secure. Only one open port on a cisco PIX, which most folks hang directly off the net anyway. Easy solution. If you need security, do something like that, or don't use 802.11x.
> However, when you use a wireless network, you have no choice but to hang a cable out your window.
Ummm... no... try again. If you only have WEP as your security, and aren't able to setup anything more secure, you are basiclly opening the bloody window.
You can't assume that ***ANY*** wireless connectivity will be secure - - - Even with things like WEP, you should use SSH/ssl/etc. Also, it takes over 1 million packets to get a 128bit key on 802.11b. If you change your key once a day (or once a month even), then you are safe. There are tools for automaticly updating the keys, and it's a good idea anyway. If you are worried about security, take your head out of your $#$@ and get it setup right. Don't blame the vendors/protocol because you have only one layer of security. It's just like you left a cat5 cable hanging out of your office, and blaming the hub manufacturer that it's their fault when you get hacked. Gimmie a break.
no - but most of the cards have been based on the same chipsets: Prism line, and the Hermes line. The prism-based chipset is quite mature, however, each manufacturer adds custom extensions to each card. Hermes is the much more pricey version - - All (most?) of the lucent/cisco/aironet/orionco cards are based on this.
Proxim has done some really wacky stuff with 802.11a - - They have an "overdrive" version of 802.11a, called x2. It's able to operatate at 100mbits, in a lab. This is not a standard, and I would stay away from proxim based cards. I don't know what chipset the new intel based cards are using, but I'd bet it's not something they made.
Intel has had these out for months. THey just had some promo stuff going on at comdex. Here at seattle wireless, we've been looking at these from september on...
m ss:3330:200109:jmocpdnheipoknihcbpa
http://www.seattlewireless.net/archive/ezmlm.cgi?
If you are the net admin in said network, then you are not doing your job well. If you had a firewall to the outside, it would prevent these boxes from getting hacked. If you are at a large company, having protected vlans would prevent the few "internal" hackers you may have.
UNDERSTANDING BIN LADEN
SOURCE: Iran News
William O. Beeman teaches anthropology at Brown
University in Providence, Rhode Island. A specialist on
Middle East Culture, he has written extensively on
fundamentalism and terrorism. He has worked for the
past four years in Tajikistan, where he has been able
to monitor developments in Afghanistan.
UNDERSTANDING BIN LADEN
The United States risks a severe miscalculation in
dealing with the destruction of the World Trade Center
and the attack on the Pentagon on Tuesday. This event
is not an isolated instance of violence. This is not an
"act of war." It is one symptom of a cancer that
threatens to metastasize. The root cause is not
terrorist activity, as has been widely stated. It is
the relationship between the United States and the
Islamic world. Until this central cancerous problem is
treated, Americans will never be free from fear.
Merely locating and hunting down a single "guilty
party" in this case will not stop future violence: such
an action will not destroy the organization of
terrorist cells already established throughout the
world. Of greater importance, it will do nothing to
alleviate the residual enmity against America that will
remain at large in the world, continuing to motivate
violence. The perpetrators of the original attack on
the World Trade Center in 1993 were caught and
convicted. This did not stop the attack on Tuesday.
The chief suspect is the Saudi Arabian Osama bin Laden
or his surrogates. He has been mischaracterized as an
anti-American terrorist. He should rather be thought of
as someone who would do anything to protect Islam. Bin
Laden began his career fighting the Soviet occupation
of Afghanistan in 1979 when he was 22 years old. He has
not only resisted the Soviets but also the Serbians in
Yugoslavia. His anger was directed against the United
States primarily because of the U.S. presence in the
Gulf Region, more particularly Saudi Arabia itself, the
site of the most sacred Islamic religious sites.
According to bin Laden, during the Gulf War America
co-opted the rulers of Saudi Arabia to establish a
military presence in order to kill Muslims in Iraq. In
a religious decree issued in 1998, he gave religious
legitimacy to attacks on Americans in order to stop the
United States from "occupying the lands of Islam in the
holiest of places." His decree also extends to
Jerusalem, where the second most sacred Muslim siteâ^À^Ôthe
al-Aqsa Mosque. The depth of his historical vision is
clear when, in his decree, he characterizes Americans
as "crusaders" harkening back to the Medieval Crusades
in which the Holy Lands, then occupied by Muslims, were
captured by European Christians.
He will not cease his opposition until the United
States leaves the region. Paradoxically, his strategy
for convincing the United States to do so seems drawn
from the American foreign policy playbook. When the
United States disapproves of the behavior of another
nation, it "turns up the heat" on that nation through
embargoes, economic sanctions or withdrawal of
diplomatic representation. In the case of Iraq
following the Gulf war, America employed military
action, resulting in the loss of civilian life. The
State Department has theorized that if the people of a
rogue nation experience enough suffering, they will
overthrow their rulers, or compel them to adopt more
sensible behavior. The terrorist actions in New York
and Washington are a clear and ironic implementation of
this strategy against the United States.
Bin Laden takes no credit for actions emanating from
his training camps in Afghanistan. He has no desire for
self-aggrandizement. A true ideologue, he believes that
his mission is sacred, and he wants only to see clear
results. For this reason, the structure of his
organization is essentially tribalâ^À^Ôcellular in modern
political terms. His followers are as fervent and
intense in their belief as he is. They carry out their
actions because they believe in the rightness of their
cause, not because of bin Laden's orders or approval.
Groups are trained in Afghanistan, and then establish
their own centers in places as far-flung as Canada,
Africa and Europe. Each cell is technologically
sophisticated, and may have a different set of
motivations for attacking the United States.
Palestinians members of his group see Americans as
supporters of Israel in the current conflict between
the two nations. In the Palestinian view, Ariel
Sharon's ascendancy to leadership of Israel has
triggered a new era, with U.S. government officials
failing to pressure the Israeli government to end
violence against Palestinians. Palestinian cell members
will not cease their opposition until the United States
changes its relationship with the Israeli state.
The Mujaheddin fighters in Lebanon also direct their
hostility against Israel and the United States. They
also operate against the Maronite Christian community
in their own country, who were supported by the French
from World War I until the end of World War II. They
will not cease their operations until the region is
firmly in Islamic hands.
Above all, Americans need to remember that the rest of
the world has an absolute right to self-determination
that is as defensible as our own. A despicable act of
mayhem such as those committed in New York and
Washington is a measure of the revulsion that others
feel at our actions that seemingly limit those rights.
If we perpetuate a cycle of hate and revenge, this
conflict will escalate into a war that our
great-grandchildren will be fighting.
________________
Copyright 2001 William O. Beeman. This article may be
distributed for any non-commercial purpose.
What:
10th ANNUAL HAM RADIO, COMPUTER,
& ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT SWAP MEET
How big:
14,000 Square Feet Inside - Tailgate Sales Area Outside
When:
SATURDAY, AUGUST 11, 2001
9 am - 1pm
Where:
COWLITZ COUNTY EXPO CENTER
LONGVIEW, WASHINGTON
How much:
Admission $4
URL:
http://www.qsl.net/nc7p/swapmeet.htm
Freq:
147.26+
It's a good thing that I don't get tossed into jail each time I mocked a cop. :)
I'm guessing this guy had a good basis for mocking the local police; I would be interested in seeing his side of the story.
Also, totally unrelated: Could you also get "one free email/post to slashdot" with your "one free phone call"? Someday, I'm betting. heh
Most "no CDR" Devices can read from higher quality CDRs with no problem. I personally stick with golds or silvers. Also, make sure you close the session on the disk, or many players will not be able to read it. Some (most) audio CD players will puke on multi-session CDs; I try to burn all at once, all the time. Other than reflectivity and format on the disk, the player can't tell if it's a CDR or a "pressed" cd.
One last item: All of the new philips players will read everything, including CDRWs.
I used to work for a Multimedia Company, so we had to deal with these issues quite often.
Lots of folks use flash to read in files from external URLs to display text, etc.
I've seen a few sites that are reading in text from perl scripts, so the content within the flash page has been generated via perl/php/whatever. This would alow to do most of the things this perl:flash modules does, but This module is a much cleaner way to do it. woohoo! Great job guys.
Off the top of my head, I know that www.ragingmouse.com uses that. I'm sure there are other sites as well.
So, would the direction of the "shake" change when the device has been pointed at North/South poles? I would imagine that the device would be using the mass of the earth. Based on that, I don't know how well it would work when it's far from any planetary bodies. I don't know why the article was so vague; why can't they test it using one of the 400Khz switches, and see if it works? The good news is that the temperature might not be a problem in space, but the power usage of such a drive might be kind of high.
I've used a Cat-5 cable as a serial cable for distances over 800 feet. This was for 9600BPS, connecting to a router. It worked great, and I never had any problems. I think you really only need 3 wires for serial (that's all I had connected), so you could get a few serial lines in one CAT5 cable. That's the cheapest/easiest route I can think of; but I'm sure that there are wireless solutions. HAM guys will tell you about the 2400BAUD wireless packet radio stuff; this would work I'm sure, but it's cost is a little higher than just a cat5 cable!
Cheers!
-Eric