What's wrong with frequency hopping? That allows many people to use the same stuff in the same local at the same time.. and since it's such low bandwidth.. a little interferance doesn't hurt.. would you rather slow? or not at all? Direct Sequence will shut down if it gets interferance on the channel, frequency hopping will keep going if it gets interferance on a channel.
Bill Gates claimed Microsoft is better at fixing software problems quickly than the open-source community.
And that's why some exploits found in IE in Windows XP are ALSO vulnerable in Windows 95.... and why it takes so long to put patches out... faster my foot.
FROM THE ARTICLE "1024x768 on a 21" monitor, sitting 2 feet away. "
That's a HUGE screen area... I don't see how the author is making a point.... how will LCDs cause problems? An LCD will still run at 1024x768 and you can sitll sit at 2 feet away.
It's called EAS.. and is available at your local radio shack store in varios weather radios. Also check out www.accuweather.com they provide e-mail alerts for thunderstorms/tornados, etc. I've been using them for a while... you're argument doesn't hold water.
Actually yes they can hear me in the car if I talk normally. People need to understand that on phones and two way radios... even if there is tons of noise in the background.. just talk normally, there is no reason to scream! The mic is only several mm from your mouth so it will pick you up just fine!
I administer a mail server for an ISP of about 20,000 customers. We see mail come in all the time with JUST customers addresses in them. (ie.. no outside e-mail).. but I know that we don't sell customer information. I do believe this guy is over reacting. I've actually had to explain to several customers of ours that we don't sell information, because they came to the same conclusion. I think spammers must be wising up or something and sending all the e-mails to one domain in a CC or something rather then seperate e-mails... takes less effort/bandwidth.
ABS Do *not* as the above poster said, make you stop faster. Rather, they allow you to maintain steering and control over your car ( at least in theory ). The reason we need ABS is because people can't drive. A skilled driver (I am not one) can make the breaks not lock up in the first place, and stop much faster then an ABS can.
Same "principal" applies to two way radios.. Like in a car... for some reason people feel if they can't hear themselves (ie over the roar of an open window in a car) that they need to talk louder into the mic.. which actually just distorts them to the end listener. Just talk normally, even if you can't hear yourself and everything will be fine.
My understanding of EOL with RH is that it will stop supporting it but that doesn't mean they will stop giving up2dates and bug fixes for it. My understanding from them is that EOL means no support, but you can continue to get security updates for it.
We have several servers running 7.3.. They run just fine. it's linux and really as long as you keep your apps and kernel up2date everything is fine. The only advantage I can see to upgrading to another version of RH is the apps that come along with it. So if the server is running RH7.3 with all patches and software upgrades on it.. I say let it run. In fact my OS of choice for servers is RH7.3 because I feel that anything above that is starting to become bloat ware. I just install 7.3.. do up2dates and customize to my liking. Has worked well so far.
This won't work. It works for the US Postal Service because there is a central location that everything goes through. This would be like the government trying to tax me when I carry an apple pie over to Aunt Jan who lives three doors down. I'm using my own private "network" (lawn) to get there.
And we all know how many times we've heard that cell phones were the cause of an airplane crash! Get real people... Radio signals are logrithmic. The further you get from the source the less the output becomes. Your cell phone is going to have zero, zilch, nada impact on the plane.
Not True.. I've seen way too many man holes on streets that have been put down wrong... YIKES! the yellow lines go straight then off the wrong way then striaght again! It does make a differnece:)
Where I work we ended up with quiet the excitement. Around 1am I lost connectivity on my DSL modem at my house.. and I just figured something was up with the DSL so I fooled around with that for a while.... but then I realized the data light on the hub for the DSL modem was blinking a WHOLE lot and nothing else on the hub was (ie broadcasts were coming through)... I couldn't ping our core router, nothing... YIKES! So I hiked into work... only to find that 3 machines had been compromised. A co-lo we have, and some other ones. Nothing bad mind you.. easy to fix.. install Service Pack, and then firewall the ports out.. but still.... it was interesting.. I walked into the server room and was greated with a ton of orange lights (that are normally just blinking!) That thing can really cook out the damage!
Someone really has carefully crafted this worm to try to bring down the net.. and what better time then on a Saturday morning when all admins are away and not planing to work the next day!
You are very correct. Commercial free... and if you don't care about listening to the morning Bob & Tom show.. then XM would be good. Personally, I kinda like hearing the local personalities.
I don't know.... it just doesn't work to have one station that you can listen to all the time. You miss locality... and people like that. ClearChannel is trying to do an XM like setup but with FM. They own tons of radio stations which they run all under one roof.. and they are all computer run. But, while the music may be there the localities.. and personalities are not. In addition, with XM you don't have the localness that you do with DJ Bob and the morning show talking about something that happened 1 town over the previous evening.
Sooner or later ClearM (Clear Channel Radio) is going to fail as well... due to the fact that they are not marketing to the locals but the masses... they have tons of stations that all play the same ads.. and different music... just doesn't work that way.
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What's wrong with frequency hopping? That allows many people to use the same stuff in the same local at the same time.. and since it's such low bandwidth.. a little interferance doesn't hurt.. would you rather slow? or not at all? Direct Sequence will shut down if it gets interferance on the channel, frequency hopping will keep going if it gets interferance on a channel.
Bill Gates claimed Microsoft is better at fixing software problems quickly than the open-source community.
And that's why some exploits found in IE in Windows XP are ALSO vulnerable in Windows 95.... and why it takes so long to put patches out... faster my foot.
FROM THE ARTICLE "1024x768 on a 21" monitor, sitting 2 feet away. "
That's a HUGE screen area... I don't see how the author is making a point.... how will LCDs cause problems? An LCD will still run at 1024x768 and you can sitll sit at 2 feet away.
Actually they do...
It's called EAS.. and is available at your local radio shack store in varios weather radios. Also check out www.accuweather.com they provide e-mail alerts for thunderstorms/tornados, etc. I've been using them for a while... you're argument doesn't hold water.
Actually yes they can hear me in the car if I talk normally. People need to understand that on phones and two way radios... even if there is tons of noise in the background.. just talk normally, there is no reason to scream! The mic is only several mm from your mouth so it will pick you up just fine!
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I administer a mail server for an ISP of about 20,000 customers. We see mail come in all the time with JUST customers addresses in them. (ie.. no outside e-mail).. but I know that we don't sell customer information. I do believe this guy is over reacting. I've actually had to explain to several customers of ours that we don't sell information, because they came to the same conclusion. I think spammers must be wising up or something and sending all the e-mails to one domain in a CC or something rather then seperate e-mails... takes less effort/bandwidth.
ABS Do *not* as the above poster said, make you stop faster. Rather, they allow you to maintain steering and control over your car ( at least in theory ). The reason we need ABS is because people can't drive. A skilled driver (I am not one) can make the breaks not lock up in the first place, and stop much faster then an ABS can.
Same "principal" applies to two way radios.. Like in a car... for some reason people feel if they can't hear themselves (ie over the roar of an open window in a car) that they need to talk louder into the mic.. which actually just distorts them to the end listener. Just talk normally, even if you can't hear yourself and everything will be fine.
I'm still successfully up2dating a 6.0 box. Up2date will not go away when EOL happens. RH has said so.
My understanding of EOL with RH is that it will stop supporting it but that doesn't mean they will stop giving up2dates and bug fixes for it. My understanding from them is that EOL means no support, but you can continue to get security updates for it.
We have several servers running 7.3.. They run just fine. it's linux and really as long as you keep your apps and kernel up2date everything is fine. The only advantage I can see to upgrading to another version of RH is the apps that come along with it. So if the server is running RH7.3 with all patches and software upgrades on it.. I say let it run. In fact my OS of choice for servers is RH7.3 because I feel that anything above that is starting to become bloat ware. I just install 7.3.. do up2dates and customize to my liking. Has worked well so far.
Ummm yes I live in Pennsylvania.. yet alot of the people showing up are in the UK... hows that work??? Sweden? Hrmm, something is wrong here.
*Me Checks* nope no .org I go to http://www.slashdot.com !!
What the title says. Alvarion (www.alvarion.com) is coming out with a 900mhz wireless system. The 900 mhz will blast through some trees and buildings.
Will NASA never learn that there is no life outside our planet?
This won't work. It works for the US Postal Service because there is a central location that everything goes through. This would be like the government trying to tax me when I carry an apple pie over to Aunt Jan who lives three doors down. I'm using my own private "network" (lawn) to get there.
And we all know how many times we've heard that cell phones were the cause of an airplane crash! Get real people... Radio signals are logrithmic. The further you get from the source the less the output becomes. Your cell phone is going to have zero, zilch, nada impact on the plane.
Not True.. I've seen way too many man holes on streets that have been put down wrong... YIKES! the yellow lines go straight then off the wrong way then striaght again! It does make a differnece :)
It *is* free http://www.grisoft.com (AVG)
I'm *sure* this was already posted like a year ago or so... but hrmmm..
Where I work we ended up with quiet the excitement. Around 1am I lost connectivity on my DSL modem at my house.. and I just figured something was up with the DSL so I fooled around with that for a while.... but then I realized the data light on the hub for the DSL modem was blinking a WHOLE lot and nothing else on the hub was (ie broadcasts were coming through)... I couldn't ping our core router, nothing... YIKES! So I hiked into work... only to find that 3 machines had been compromised. A co-lo we have, and some other ones. Nothing bad mind you.. easy to fix.. install Service Pack, and then firewall the ports out.. but still.... it was interesting.. I walked into the server room and was greated with a ton of orange lights (that are normally just blinking!) That thing can really cook out the damage!
Someone really has carefully crafted this worm to try to bring down the net.. and what better time then on a Saturday morning when all admins are away and not planing to work the next day!
How do you figure it will turn if you don't have all the tumbler heights correct?
You are very correct. Commercial free... and if you don't care about listening to the morning Bob & Tom show.. then XM would be good. Personally, I kinda like hearing the local personalities.
I don't know.... it just doesn't work to have one station that you can listen to all the time. You miss locality... and people like that. ClearChannel is trying to do an XM like setup but with FM. They own tons of radio stations which they run all under one roof.. and they are all computer run. But, while the music may be there the localities.. and personalities are not. In addition, with XM you don't have the localness that you do with DJ Bob and the morning show talking about something that happened 1 town over the previous evening.
Sooner or later ClearM (Clear Channel Radio) is going to fail as well... due to the fact that they are not marketing to the locals but the masses... they have tons of stations that all play the same ads.. and different music... just doesn't work that way.