Around 1998/1999 I remember seeing an ATM at my university (University of Southampton) displaying a very pretty Windows NT Blue Screen Of Death. Then it was a bad idea, it still now...
I think primarily because of the massive amount of work involved in not only getting a 3G stack up and running, but then porting the software to Linux. Motorola likely have a pretty standard GSM stack that they've spent the last 10 years optimising. Their 3G stack, on the other hand, is pretty new (only a few years old), and considerably less portable (probably).
Using this card it is currently possible to access the Vodafone 3G network in Italy, UK, Germany, Sweden and possibly some other countries in Europe with seamless roaming. Pretty much anywhere else in the world, it's possible to use this card on GPRS networks, all using the same SIM, same billing and no hassle. That's why you might want it...
EDGE does NOT provide anywhere near 1.5Mbps - it approximately triples the max GPRS download rate of 50kbit/s or so to give a max of 150kbit/s or so, or less than half of what UMTS currently tops out at.
I don't really think that there is a stigma attached to WAP - the real problem as I see it is that it's never really been pushed by the mobile phone operators. Most people in the UK probably wouldn't even know what WAP is. The operators have been keen to push SMS and voice calls, but little effort has been seen to do much about mobile data. Vodafone with their 'Live' service is the only real marketed data service that I'm aware of in the UK. Of course, this will all change with the rollout of 3G networks and the fancy new phones that go with them (disclaimer: I work for a mobile phone tech company...) but as displays get larger and more colourful and browsers get better, I think that WAP will naturally gain a following as people simply use their phone to do more stuff.
er, that's only for the auto-generated link-local addresses - I think that these addresses are non-routable (although I'm sure that someone can correct me if I'm wrong here). I don't think that there's actually any reason why your MAC address should be there, it's just a convenient way of getting unique addresses automatically for each machine on a LAN.
Yes it does, when turned on but not being used, your cell phone will periodically send messages to the network to tell them where it is. Whenever it receives something (eg a phone call or SMS) it must acknowledge that reception. It will also crank up it's broadcasting power as it moves further away from cells, thus increasing the effects of any inerference that may occur.
The company that I last worked for produced it's own hardware, all of which was supported under a variety of OSs, including Sun Solaris, SCO OpenServer, Windows NT (urgh) and Linux. They design their own SS7 hardware, and because they are a fairly small company, were required to satisfy their customers demands. Customers wanted support on a range of operating systems, including Linux, so they got it. Their website, for those that are interested, is here
I believe that it is only your link-local IPv6 address that is generated automatically and can contain your hardware MAC address. You can add as many IPv6 addresses to as many interfaces as you want though, or hack the source to change how the link-local address is generated (you can hack source can't you...?;)
It's only a high rate of acceleration that causes passengers to experience excessive G force. Once you've reached Mach 7, so long as you remain at a constant velocity nobody should notice how fast you're going.
I think that for corporates who intend their machines to use Linux or any other "free" OS this is good news - corporates like to buy Dell because they'll fix a machine wthout any problems. Hardware support is what corporate customers want and will pay for.
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What about one of those Cat5 KVM extenders? See here for some examples...
This isn't such a good idea - for every random (non-existent) domain that you generate, a root DNS server will be queried when an email is sent to this address, which increases the load on the root servers, which is generally a bad thing. How about instead, returning pages with the email address abuse@domain-that-spambot-is-coming-from all over them...
In the UK, we seem to be reasonable lucky - even though high speed ADSL is still hideously expensive (a 2Mbit down/256kbit up link will cost you a couple of hundred UKP a month), there is a huge choice of ISPs that are accessible to everyone within reach of an ADSL enabled exchange. Coupled with recent moves to lower prices, things are actually looking good for once in the UK. I have a 512kbit/256kbit link, with a/29 subnet, can run whatever servers I choose to, and am paying 30UKP/month. I'm limited to 20Mb/hour during peak usage times (9am to 5pm), but outside these times there are no real limitations at all (as demonstrated when I accidentally mirrored ~9GB of the kernel.org website...). For anyone who's interested, check out aaisp.net (and they're linux friendly too: sod.ms
Well after reading many of the comments, I'm starting to feel rather lucky. My ADSL connection, provided by Andrews & Arnold only gives me 512kbit downlink, 256kbit uplink, but with it comes a block of IP addresses (as many as I can justify having), and no restrictions on what I run. On top of that, they're Linux friendly (and own the domain name sod.ms to prove it) and have been happy to help me out with any problems that I've had. They are one of the more expensive providers in the UK (I pay 70UKP/month), but it really is worth the cash.
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Around 1998/1999 I remember seeing an ATM at my university (University of Southampton) displaying a very pretty Windows NT Blue Screen Of Death. Then it was a bad idea, it still now...
I think primarily because of the massive amount of work involved in not only getting a 3G stack up and running, but then porting the software to Linux. Motorola likely have a pretty standard GSM stack that they've spent the last 10 years optimising. Their 3G stack, on the other hand, is pretty new (only a few years old), and considerably less portable (probably).
Using this card it is currently possible to access the Vodafone 3G network in Italy, UK, Germany, Sweden and possibly some other countries in Europe with seamless roaming. Pretty much anywhere else in the world, it's possible to use this card on GPRS networks, all using the same SIM, same billing and no hassle. That's why you might want it...
EDGE does NOT provide anywhere near 1.5Mbps - it approximately triples the max GPRS download rate of 50kbit/s or so to give a max of 150kbit/s or so, or less than half of what UMTS currently tops out at.
I don't really think that there is a stigma attached to WAP - the real problem as I see it is that it's never really been pushed by the mobile phone operators. Most people in the UK probably wouldn't even know what WAP is. The operators have been keen to push SMS and voice calls, but little effort has been seen to do much about mobile data. Vodafone with their 'Live' service is the only real marketed data service that I'm aware of in the UK. Of course, this will all change with the rollout of 3G networks and the fancy new phones that go with them (disclaimer: I work for a mobile phone tech company...) but as displays get larger and more colourful and browsers get better, I think that WAP will naturally gain a following as people simply use their phone to do more stuff.
er, that's only for the auto-generated link-local addresses - I think that these addresses are non-routable (although I'm sure that someone can correct me if I'm wrong here). I don't think that there's actually any reason why your MAC address should be there, it's just a convenient way of getting unique addresses automatically for each machine on a LAN.
Yes it does, when turned on but not being used, your cell phone will periodically send messages to the network to tell them where it is. Whenever it receives something (eg a phone call or SMS) it must acknowledge that reception. It will also crank up it's broadcasting power as it moves further away from cells, thus increasing the effects of any inerference that may occur.
The company that I last worked for produced it's own hardware, all of which was supported under a variety of OSs, including Sun Solaris, SCO OpenServer, Windows NT (urgh) and Linux. They design their own SS7 hardware, and because they are a fairly small company, were required to satisfy their customers demands. Customers wanted support on a range of operating systems, including Linux, so they got it. Their website, for those that are interested, is here
I believe that it is only your link-local IPv6 address that is generated automatically and can contain your hardware MAC address. You can add as many IPv6 addresses to as many interfaces as you want though, or hack the source to change how the link-local address is generated (you can hack source can't you...? ;)
It's only a high rate of acceleration that causes passengers to experience excessive G force. Once you've reached Mach 7, so long as you remain at a constant velocity nobody should notice how fast you're going.
I think that for corporates who intend their machines to use Linux or any other "free" OS this is good news - corporates like to buy Dell because they'll fix a machine wthout any problems. Hardware support is what corporate customers want and will pay for.
What about one of those Cat5 KVM extenders? See here for some examples...
This isn't such a good idea - for every random (non-existent) domain that you generate, a root DNS server will be queried when an email is sent to this address, which increases the load on the root servers, which is generally a bad thing. How about instead, returning pages with the email address abuse@domain-that-spambot-is-coming-from all over them...
In the UK, we seem to be reasonable lucky - even though high speed ADSL is still hideously expensive (a 2Mbit down/256kbit up link will cost you a couple of hundred UKP a month), there is a huge choice of ISPs that are accessible to everyone within reach of an ADSL enabled exchange. Coupled with recent moves to lower prices, things are actually looking good for once in the UK. I have a 512kbit/256kbit link, with a /29 subnet, can run whatever servers I choose to, and am paying 30UKP/month. I'm limited to 20Mb/hour during peak usage times (9am to 5pm), but outside these times there are no real limitations at all (as demonstrated when I accidentally mirrored ~9GB of the kernel.org website...). For anyone who's interested, check out aaisp.net (and they're linux friendly too: sod.ms
Well after reading many of the comments, I'm starting to feel rather lucky. My ADSL connection, provided by Andrews & Arnold only gives me 512kbit downlink, 256kbit uplink, but with it comes a block of IP addresses (as many as I can justify having), and no restrictions on what I run. On top of that, they're Linux friendly (and own the domain name sod.ms to prove it) and have been happy to help me out with any problems that I've had. They are one of the more expensive providers in the UK (I pay 70UKP/month), but it really is worth the cash.