How do you get around the dynamically assigned IP's if you have a webserver. I mean, even my router needs to be rebooted from time to time (I think it may be Bell Canada disconnecting me because they needed the IP and I was idle but I'm not sure)
This is getting out of hand. Does anyone know what a leased line costs?
This is an idea I had:
A group of people get together a purchase a leased line, run it into someones home and then put everyone else on a little ethernet network. Granted I don't know how much one costs but I figure at around $40 a month a group of about 20-30 should be able to gets something way faster that DSL/Cable and without the bullshit. I see three main problems.
1. Security: Everyone has to protect their PC a packet filtering router should do the trick but its an added expense. Additionally the security on the leased line has to be good.
2. People: Finding enough people that live such that we can lay all the cable we need without going on city land. This could be the real challenge. I suppose we could hop accross holes in the network with 802.11b but that would be slower and less secure.
3. Time: What happens when the network / connection goes down. Either we set up some sort of rotation but we need an admin to fix stuff and that can be expensive.
Other issues are things like getting IP's (we could use a DHCP server but it would be better to all have our own IP)
Lots of challenges but it could be cool. Has anyone done something like this or has a suggestion on how it could be done better? I get closer and closer especially with crap like this.
Forget all this talk of using the analog line in port on your sound card. I know for a fact that my DVD player (and most others) have digital (co-ax and optical) out. Some portable CD players even have this. Couple that with a sound card that supports digital in and your all set. It may be a card sligtly more expensive than a SB Live Value but there have to be some out there that aren't excessively expensive.
The point remains that this is a pain in the ass.
And one more thing, correct me if I'm wrong, if those CDs have the Compact Disk Digital Audio (or whatever) logo on them yet they don't conform to the redbook standards (as they don't) we can sue the labels.
The best thing about computers these days is I can put exactly what I want in there. If I want to have a video editing box I put some RAM and a firewire/capture card in and install some software. That same computer can be a screaming game machine with the addition of a GeForce 2 or 3.
With this idea of sealed boxes the scariest thing for me is that maybe they'll sell one box for video editing and one for gaming but not one that does both well. So instead of paying for one card I have to buy a whole system to get the same functionality. The beauty of PCs is how customizable they are, it would be a great loss to loose that.
I took the grade 11 computer course last year, basically they started us in C/C++ until Christmas and then switched to Java. Needless to say most of the people in this class would not have gone onto do computer nor did they have any experience but I noticed a distinct lack of interest when we swithed to Java. I think it had something to do with re-learning everything but it also had something to do with them finding C/C++ more intuitive. The point remains, whatever you go with, especially at the highschool level, stick with it all year or you will loose half the class right then and there.
More imporantly if you want to keep as many people interested in computers, especially their first introduction to programming, keep the language simple, worry about whether or not a high level or low level expericne is better later.
The return of the X-33 would have been the best thing to ever happen to manned spaceflight, provided we got it right the second time and provided it was NASA not the USAF that picked it up. For humanity to progress in space we need civilian missions designed to explore, not missions designed to bomb a country back to the stone age. I wish I could be happy about this but if anything its a step backwards in space exploration.
Maybe we should just get to work on a space elevator
Not to troll but take for instance Canada. The results of last years Federal Election were known the night of and we still use a piece of paper and pencil to vote up here in Canada. I know we are only about 30 million but that is more people than most states and we are able to serve even our most remote communities via the same system.
That is not to say we have a good Prime Minister but it's not like there was any choice
This seems like money wasted by the federal government if they think filtering is going to help. I can get around the filter at school by using the IP address or GOD FORBID changing the proxy settings. These are just the simple ways. The thing is moral issues aside you are not going to solve anything. Granted not everyone knows how to do this but all it takes is one person to teach a lot of people how to do something. You would be surprised how much technologicaly inept people can learn to do if they want to (as they would in some cases)
A kid in Canada got arrested for uttering death threats. What he did was write a monolouge for class where a fustrated student blows up the school to get back a bullies.
These two articles from CBC have more information This one
The french you learn in Montreal is not actually french, its franglais. The Quebecois version of french is so full of slang and poor everything that it is convievable they would be missunderstood by someone from France. Trust me, I live accros the river from them.
Last year I took part in CanadaFIRST. Thats right, not affiliated in any way with FIRST but still a robotics challenge none the less. I have to say that on the team I was on the students did all the work, we had one mentor that helped us do what we wanted to do in the machine shop (none of us had experience) but he never told us what sort of thing we should be building.
The team I led last year will not be competing again even though we came third becuase of political squabling between the two schools that worked together and lazy teachers. This is a project I'm willing to give 20 hours a week for 8 weeks and it will not go ahead because some teacher does not want to give 6 hours a week. I'm hoping to get it going next year but it looks doubtful.
The conclusion to this rant is that CanadaFIRST exists, it is a lot of fun and lots can be learned (even if there is no CS or even EE stuff mechanics is fun and working in a group with a challenge like that is very rewarding and educational to say the least), politics and laziness will be getting in the way of 15+ students for enjoying this.
2001 (book or movie) was not a prediction of what the world would be like in the year 2001 rather 2001 was a suitably advanced date that Clarke used to set his tale of the genisis of the universe. Anyone who is upset we don't have Pan Am flights to space is missing the point.
The Chinese had an incredibly advanced civilization thousands of years before the United States existed and while the people of China may not be free at this time you take a great deal of liberty if you pronounce them uncivilized. Many of their customs are far more civilized than those in the US. Don't propagate the ignorant American sterotype, we don't need it.
My beginner programming class is going to do Java in the 2nd term. Personally I could not be happier becuase I was pretty bored with all the C and I'm really impressed that schools have decided to teach a bit of Java and to use it. In response to people who point out theory I feel I'm getting a good background in theory becuase the course uses the language as a back drop but focuses on the solution and the algorithm. You can't pass the program if you don't get the algrorithm. The reason I'm so happy with Java is I can be eased into object oriented, continue to learn algorithms and begin to learn a useful language. This is a positive step for schools.
I was talking to one of my friends and he showed me this LED he bought from Rat Shack. It was about 1 inch in diameter and an inch tall. (Brute force I know) Anyways we put it on a table and off of 5v we saw the red dot on the celing with the lights on. Apparently about 20 of these LEDs are put in a case with a lens and used for some aircraft landing lights.
Knowing the stock market when word of this gets out I would say they are going down, especially becuase people are jumpy about tech stocks. The only thing that might happen is no one outside the geek community finds out in which case everything stays at 200% ipo but my guess is they are in for some rocky times, especially becuase the chips don't really give you that much.
The furby has a pathetic little micro compared to what can be had for a few bucks in other places. Mr. Robot has a single chip mirco based on the Moterola MC68HC11. Let me tell you that 30 bucks for the parts buys one hell of a micro that you can do a whole lot with. It has 24 IO lines (8 have and A/D converter) and can drive up to 16 servos. If you want to blow a little more cash they have a real nice one with 32K of RAM that will even modulate and demodulate IR when you are using IR ranging and trust me, you want to modulate! (40Khz)
I don't work for them but I have bought some excellent stuff from them. You will need the serial communications adapter or whatever they call it but you only need one for all your micros so unlike others that have it built in you get a smaller board and pay less.
Hell is other people - Satre
You might be right but I thought it was not so it would last but so the country could keep communications open during and attack and cordinate the defense/retaliation (most likely) The distributed idea is what made is to useful for this because knocking out one node would not kill the whole network.
I agree that that would be a prolbem becuase the whole point of the Internet (besides ARPANET and all that so don't flame me) is for people to be able to share information regardless of who they are or what they think. Only making the most popular documents availibe makes freenet more like mass media on TV than the Internet. Perhaps a good search engine could solve this.
PS. I know someone is going to post and say that the internet is dominated by biased information from the same sources that give us TV media but I wish to point out that the other information is far more accessible than it would be on Freenet.
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How do you get around the dynamically assigned IP's if you have a webserver. I mean, even my router needs to be rebooted from time to time (I think it may be Bell Canada disconnecting me because they needed the IP and I was idle but I'm not sure)
This is an idea I had:
A group of people get together a purchase a leased line, run it into someones home and then put everyone else on a little ethernet network. Granted I don't know how much one costs but I figure at around $40 a month a group of about 20-30 should be able to gets something way faster that DSL/Cable and without the bullshit. I see three main problems.
1. Security: Everyone has to protect their PC a packet filtering router should do the trick but its an added expense. Additionally the security on the leased line has to be good.
2. People: Finding enough people that live such that we can lay all the cable we need without going on city land. This could be the real challenge. I suppose we could hop accross holes in the network with 802.11b but that would be slower and less secure.
3. Time: What happens when the network / connection goes down. Either we set up some sort of rotation but we need an admin to fix stuff and that can be expensive.
Other issues are things like getting IP's (we could use a DHCP server but it would be better to all have our own IP)
Lots of challenges but it could be cool. Has anyone done something like this or has a suggestion on how it could be done better? I get closer and closer especially with crap like this.
The point remains that this is a pain in the ass.
And one more thing, correct me if I'm wrong, if those CDs have the Compact Disk Digital Audio (or whatever) logo on them yet they don't conform to the redbook standards (as they don't) we can sue the labels.
With this idea of sealed boxes the scariest thing for me is that maybe they'll sell one box for video editing and one for gaming but not one that does both well. So instead of paying for one card I have to buy a whole system to get the same functionality. The beauty of PCs is how customizable they are, it would be a great loss to loose that.
I took the grade 11 computer course last year, basically they started us in C/C++ until Christmas and then switched to Java. Needless to say most of the people in this class would not have gone onto do computer nor did they have any experience but I noticed a distinct lack of interest when we swithed to Java. I think it had something to do with re-learning everything but it also had something to do with them finding C/C++ more intuitive. The point remains, whatever you go with, especially at the highschool level, stick with it all year or you will loose half the class right then and there.
More imporantly if you want to keep as many people interested in computers, especially their first introduction to programming, keep the language simple, worry about whether or not a high level or low level expericne is better later.
BTW. If I had the money I'd be all over a G4 for video
Maybe we should just get to work on a space elevator
That is not to say we have a good Prime Minister but it's not like there was any choice
Several sites such as this one have a look up, punch in the domain and it spits out the IP. BTW /. is 64.28.67.48
This seems like money wasted by the federal government if they think filtering is going to help. I can get around the filter at school by using the IP address or GOD FORBID changing the proxy settings. These are just the simple ways. The thing is moral issues aside you are not going to solve anything. Granted not everyone knows how to do this but all it takes is one person to teach a lot of people how to do something. You would be surprised how much technologicaly inept people can learn to do if they want to (as they would in some cases)
These two articles from CBC have more information This one
And here
The french you learn in Montreal is not actually french, its franglais. The Quebecois version of french is so full of slang and poor everything that it is convievable they would be missunderstood by someone from France. Trust me, I live accros the river from them.
The team I led last year will not be competing again even though we came third becuase of political squabling between the two schools that worked together and lazy teachers. This is a project I'm willing to give 20 hours a week for 8 weeks and it will not go ahead because some teacher does not want to give 6 hours a week. I'm hoping to get it going next year but it looks doubtful.
The conclusion to this rant is that CanadaFIRST exists, it is a lot of fun and lots can be learned (even if there is no CS or even EE stuff mechanics is fun and working in a group with a challenge like that is very rewarding and educational to say the least), politics and laziness will be getting in the way of 15+ students for enjoying this.
2001 (book or movie) was not a prediction of what the world would be like in the year 2001 rather 2001 was a suitably advanced date that Clarke used to set his tale of the genisis of the universe. Anyone who is upset we don't have Pan Am flights to space is missing the point.
The Chinese had an incredibly advanced civilization thousands of years before the United States existed and while the people of China may not be free at this time you take a great deal of liberty if you pronounce them uncivilized. Many of their customs are far more civilized than those in the US. Don't propagate the ignorant American sterotype, we don't need it.
PS. I'm in Canada
It is a well known fact that Mars has a great deal of ice at both poles. So much for no planted without water (I assume they meant liquid water)
I was talking to one of my friends and he showed me this LED he bought from Rat Shack. It was about 1 inch in diameter and an inch tall. (Brute force I know) Anyways we put it on a table and off of 5v we saw the red dot on the celing with the lights on. Apparently about 20 of these LEDs are put in a case with a lens and used for some aircraft landing lights.
Knowing the stock market when word of this gets out I would say they are going down, especially becuase people are jumpy about tech stocks. The only thing that might happen is no one outside the geek community finds out in which case everything stays at 200% ipo but my guess is they are in for some rocky times, especially becuase the chips don't really give you that much.
eh?
My point was that people should not be raving about the power of the furby micro.
I don't work for them but I have bought some excellent stuff from them. You will need the serial communications adapter or whatever they call it but you only need one for all your micros so unlike others that have it built in you get a smaller board and pay less. Hell is other people - Satre
You might be right but I thought it was not so it would last but so the country could keep communications open during and attack and cordinate the defense/retaliation (most likely) The distributed idea is what made is to useful for this because knocking out one node would not kill the whole network.
I agree that that would be a prolbem becuase the whole point of the Internet (besides ARPANET and all that so don't flame me) is for people to be able to share information regardless of who they are or what they think. Only making the most popular documents availibe makes freenet more like mass media on TV than the Internet. Perhaps a good search engine could solve this. PS. I know someone is going to post and say that the internet is dominated by biased information from the same sources that give us TV media but I wish to point out that the other information is far more accessible than it would be on Freenet.
Vader for 2000 Wow, Star Wars and the US elections all at once, sounds like a /. match made in heaven.