Hrm posibly because ordering coffee one would expect it to be HOT as that is how coffee is servers it like ordering something that is flambee not letting it cool down a bit and sueing because you burned yourself. Coffee is something hot by nature if it was cold I would send it back unless I ordered it that way same for cool etc. The only real explination needed is the people that get burned by hot coffee arent acting the smartest at the time.
Hrm can anybody say DRM and Palladium will make this null and void. All external communications API;s utilize some DRM / Security features even internal ones thus are excempt. This will just have MS drive palladium down are throats and the sheep will go once they get a lot of the new cool games and MS office moved over to Paladium only for secuirity and DRM reasons and because off all this new security in every API communication method you name it they can wriggle out of this. For the OEM's yea it's nice but for the rest of the world it just means palladium will come that much sooner.
Java is somewhat functional supposedly portable (till M$ and everybody else added to it) but it still pretty much C based, I would hope your school teaches C as a required (and down with Cobol leave that the the grade school kiddies) but in reality schools cant keep up it's a 18 month cycle for the lasest and greatest toys. I would like to find one recent grad that knows C down pat and can code off the top of there head. Knowing C well lets you code in perl pretty quickly (like a week) java can be done at the compiler, C++ is a little different has way to much OOP garbage (OO is nice for large projects but most of the world dosent need it) but college shouldnt teach you the language dejure your internship should do that (you are planning on intering arent you?)
Now for the more esoteric things yes Jaluna and all the RTOS things can be a great thing they have a relitivly small market though mostly embeded systems and again unless you need to have timing acurate in the NS range you can pretty much ignore it C will let you program for it and you will be happy and it will work.
It's true sales people generaly have large expectations of commision (think multi million in some cases) there saleries are also generaly pretty high to begin with but they like most americans live as well as they can I'm sure a lot of them have morgages and car loans that would probably exceed there base salery take home.
It does make a lot of sence to keep your good sales people lets face it sales at this level is who you know and relationship building the slaes people are inherintly valuable. With this said the core engineering teams generaly dont sell themselves as well and since they dont have commision arent going to be in huge finacial trouble but still need some incentive to stay vs move to something more stable and lucritive.
Were fighting to perserve the status quo of government they feel threatened (remember here in america revolutionaries were TERRORISTS they dont want that repeated) The only way threy could have slowed down something like 9/11 would have been a nice heavy steel door to the cockpit that stays locked perferably with armed personel inside a lot of them are old air force jocks.
Communicatiosn happen all the time people with a decent brain can figure out ways to get messages accross a few watts of power and a short wave can get a message in blind drops, encrypted tunnels with friendly midpoints containing one time pad encrypted data will stay nearly imposible to crack.
Well having many a Telco engineer work for me they are on average not the britest bunch they love technology they are comfertable with (ATM that bloated POS) now at the same time they distrust IP networks to no end the local telco has enough firewalls it's a big onion of layers unfortunatly they dont understand how to lock them down they only serve to stop the simple things and make it hard on users.
Bailing out telcos dosent make much sence the copper dosent go away somebody generaly buys up the contracts and the wire serving an existing install generaly is profitable it's getting those installs in there (and how many telcos were offering free hookups for a 20 year contract to dot coms I know a few did to the ones I was involved with)
How about we get back to reality they didn't invent anything make anything new this is a patent akin to I have the patent on gravity you cant use it without giving me a cut. Patents on tests are fine they still allow other testing methods to be developed and used. Claiming to have invented a gene sequence is absurd. Discovering it is fine but thats something that should be covered under prior art discovering that if you boil off salt water you can distill fresh water shouldent be patentable figuring out a way to do it realy quickly with a low energy input in some new novel way is.
Rolling wiretaps seem nice and friendly on the outside just tap whereever the crook is for cell phones this is easy enough assuming you can figure out what cell is there considerign most are stolen and used for call backs from a beeper, now you have to figure out what conversation is there so you have to tap all cell phones in the area for a short while to determine this.
For land lines that take some actual time to tap this means they have cart blanch to tap any phone line that they might reasonably use. Information gathered not pertaining to the tap isn't admissable in court but it's still gathered and thus acted upon (try proving that the whole investigation is from the wiretap info and getting the rest thrown out)
The framers of our constitution didn't have wiretaps or anything of the sort the closest you came was informants. Dont get me started on the current use of those it seems entrapment stops where the badges stop as long as they didn't ask the informant to entrap somebody specificaly. Remember for terrorists they can allready tap ALL overseas conversations all the time if they care to. Seperate domestic terrorists/freedomfighters etc from forign ones domestic should be delt with via normal law enforcement and with kid gloves to some extent were a country formed via terrorists that used contra tactics. Forign terrorists are another matter if your not a citizen even though we extend most of the rights of one while your in the country we should look to curtail there activites in the country and outside the country well as we rarely respect the soverine rights of other countries especialy third world ones I have to wonder how much it would cost in bounties/protection to get mercinaries interested in fixing those problems.
Law enforcement has plenty of resources if they would go after real crimes.
While NDAs are normal in the industry and if they wernt forced to do it I would say this was fair. This just shows how incepid the settlement was it didn't level the playing field it didn't even start to it's a rubber stamp that says sure see were in compliance thus not abusing are monopoly powers.
Step 1
Seperate MS into there core groups OS, Office Apps, Games, Hardware (yes get the XBOX away fromt he game dev people)
Step 2
Dont let these guys talk to each other unless it's in a public space.
Step 3
Take excess cash sieze it and redistribute it as penalty phase.
16 bits of addressing allows 64 MB of ram it is realy straight forward math 2 to the 16th power of single byte addresses. Thats what got us ISA and the 15-16MB hole for old ISA adapter space similar to the current 3.5 GB to 4 GB hole for PCi and AGP adapters.
Port based filters are easy enough to get around by using another port. Now you can also packet shape via IP address or MAC (if the network is small or flat that is or by putting shapers around the school) This helps by letting a lot of bandwith still be around for on prem and in all reality most schools probably have most of the P2p content avalible on the local net if they look for it. Personaly I dont want to see P2P networks closed down at schools (NATing and returning address space would be nice though) they can provide usefull function via access to esoteric content. Now with an IP and destination based shapper(s) you can agrigate so the shaper dosent becoming a single point of contention or failure and local trafic or trafic destined to other affiliated schools would get though unmolested but somebodys p2p app dosent start hogging. If this is done right you could apply shaping to average out your MRTG's effectivly trying to achieve flat line and thus the most bang for your average burtable contract buck.
no buts it's an acronym it might be better wirtten as L. O. L. thats is very different that letter to number replacement. Use of an acronym shouldent be completly discuraged it's common practice in business and engineering writing go back in the english language and contractions were EXTREAMLY popular. English is to slow of a language to convey ideas for a lot of people especialy spoken and even to some extent written.
I would say that the easy conversion point is when WEP is enabled. Thats a key however a weak one on the resource. If I attached a phone to the front of my house and secured it with a kids lock perfectly functional but still a worthless POS if you picked it or broke it and used the phone I would call that theft.
Also remember that not all wifi users are technical many a sales person has a laptop and a wifi card in it if it finds an open AP can DHCP up an address he dosent know that it's not supposed to work particulary depending on where he is it might be free access at a starbucks some other companys LAN that he is visiting.
My office setup is like this we dont use WEP but we VPN in everything for us. I also let anybody get out with a rate limited 512kb a sec (we have a DS3) to all non VPNed traffic an IDS looks at the outgoing packets and closes off any sessions that flag alarms via the firewall. This lets the outside sales guy get onto the network easly read his email and bring up his reports check email etc. This also allows are people to go outside with the laptops on a nice day and have a meeting on a veranda grass etc. Now granted I may have a special case we have a very large lot and security at the end of the road way out of reach for your normal wifi card (2000+ feet) so it's only authorized people comeing near the building. But I dont realy see why this senerio dosent work for most people decide the ammount of bandwith that outsiders are allowed to use do plenty of encryption on your end plug a VPN concentrator on the wifi subnet it's a little configuration but not that bad (the concentrators are reached through some DNS magic the DNS server for the wifi segment has a different A record for the concentrator so the sales guys dont need to change anything on the road) the VPN allows people to pickup IP's on there normal subnets in the office and persoanly if somebody would come out with an IPsec or VPN accelerator proc and throw it on a wifi card it would be a near perfect solution.
And you have the even better example of allmost all the forign workers that I know they come over to get soso jobs coding etc live as cheaply as possible why sending reasonable sums of money home and investing remember you can live well in india on a modest investment income. 600 a month in Mexico makes you middle class (bottom end) lots of people have figured out skilled labor is generaly in demand and paid well move to the rich country suck it up for a few years and retire to a nice life. Most people on the planet are downright lazy to much TV to little chores while being raised to much leisure time. Suck it up people find your opertunity and run with it that was what the dot com days were about a generation sucking it up and getting motivated.
As to rich people being to rich it's there money and they are leveraging it dont cry about it find a niche get some VC and try and catapult yourself up there if you fail mcdonalds is allways hirering.
The best way I have found yet to get video into a PC on a buget is a high quality digital camcorder hooked up to firewire. Your encoding circitry is design and function in the cam firewire is design and function to get it off the cam and then you can edit from your hearts desire VHS still looks like the garbage that it is though.
Because IP is working on being ubiquitious no it's not a perfect match for voice applications but everybody wants access to IP networks thats a given so why not run something that works reasonably well and avoid a legacy network. IPv6 is something the telcos are still trying to figure out a way to bill for so it's not happening in the commercial world more than the accountants can avoid. But just think VoIP could be the killer app that gets QOS features standard accross the board finaly. QOS might push us to IPv6 and thus to multicast and finaly getting rid of NAT (this is a good thing) but still dosent solve a better way of figuring out routing better than today. And who knows maybe with VoIP we can just pay for the data as in cell phone in range of home wifi gateway use that connections instead same for office etc.
As an engineer that made a network to do that that tanked (Nothing like lies from sales people) it's possible 512 kbit a sec looks pretty nice but the bandwith costs on the sending end are about 50 bucks a month before servers people etc (thats sending all month) why because it's all unicast because NO ISP wants mcast working outside of itself they dont know how to bill for it. A satalite at 500 an hour is much cheaper than delivering over the internet and inherently multicast. I wonder when somebody will come up with a multicast service that is delivered to a majority of ISP's.
Read through the lines a bit this guys travels around a lot and sends a lot of emails from hotels etc. I doubt he has a proper VPN setup so I dont thing reverse mapping would help him actualy I think it would break his solution. At the minimul he should look into IMAP or POP before SMTP to piggyback the authentication perferably a full VPN solution (Might not work everywhere there are a few backwards hotels with broken NAT) I'm hoping he is running his POP or IMAP through SSL but I doubt that.
This is the opposite problem of broadband now every joe q public has a 24/7 connection and wants to be his own server admin this guy cant seem to figure out what he is doing wrong and why people are blocking his mail beating him with a clue stick might help. People need to take responcibility for things like this it should be a part of TOS (generaly is) not to run an open relay. The kicker is this guy is thinking they black hole people did something wrong when they scaned his server I'm hoping at least in denmark it's still legal to make a connection to an IP and port without getting prior written permission in triplicate as to falsifying the from line in a mail message to yourself cmon.
This is a great peice of tech for the right application shared storage unforunatly it's only half the solution. This can make devices cheaper by utilizing off the shelf cheap networking gear vs expensive FC switching gear (Funny that Cisco supports each of them on the same frame though) but your still only getting access to a raw disk or more hopefully a RAID of raw disks. Now for a few things this makes a ton of sence a clustered solution with redundant data centers and a big pipe (think cheap leased fiber) they can locate mirrored storage and redundant servers. Things that perform better with raw disk IO (Read Oracle) inside a clustered invirnment are going to love this especialy since data sets are getting larger by the moment but actual data use in real time is down (there is a LOT of data laying on disk not being accessed very must and going to a HSM system is becoming less and less desirable due to the increased cheapness of disks (IDE drives are just about cheaper than tape right now and that trend is increasing))
Now for joe user this tech is pretty useless none of the major OS's support a multiple reader writer FS ontop of a block device (SGI has one thats part of there FS but dosent look to but part of the linux port yet but I may be wrong) Windows definatly dosent have anything for this out of the box there are solutions to do it but generaly more complicated that it's worth for a small installation or requires some big external hardware and drivers to make it work (EMC's "solution") to redirect the actial block IO of a network mount to a block device (generaly FC hardware or SCSI on some smaller setups FC is a lot more reliable though IMNSHO) This is all a TCO reduction movement that dosent make a whole lot of sence block devices get sped up buy using large buffers whereever you can shove them microcontrolers are great at doing back to back IO servers have other things to do. FC has latency issues as it's realy just a serial SCSI you can put hardware on two coasts and make it work but it's generaly not pretty iSCSI HBA's should be a lot more tollerant of latency.
Probably never I doubt the DOD would be very happy with them exporting that tech to china most high end CPU gear needs a waiver before it can be shipped to hostile countries just like you cant ship a PS2 to IRAQ so they dont use them to run crypto or run there radar.
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Nope they actualy just get normal DVD's etc to use. They tried to make them more expensive in AU that didn't fly and they havent tried it in the states (but I may well be wrong) Physical representations of things like videos DVD's CD's etc historicaly have be property as long as they stay in the same form, that may be the snag that they are moving around digital bits not say overnight mailing you an actual rom. Our US leaders think that for some strange reasont he two things are different and to some extent they are I could rip a NES cart you could to but joe sixpack dosent want to cant (remember this guy cant get his VCR clock programed and is confused by to many desktop icons) as the barrier to pirating roms lowers to cheap harddrive space, broadband Internet and some adware application that joe six pack can get his local computer expert to install companies get a lot more worried about this sort of thing.
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But the catch is you need to know that your not authorized to access it. A typical wifi lan in AP mode dosent have any of that. The story does say if it was running any encryption or not thats what should make the difference IMHO.
OK you better be away from a power source for a LONG time before you need one of these. Granted if you were realy desperate and bothered to cary this small brick around with you. The battery side that takes 36 minutes of winding to charge is 1000ma assuming you would spend an hour a day winding this thing up (or just plug it into a socket and recharge it) and that it weighs in at two thirds of a pound you would be better off getting a few extra cell phone batteries (yes some people do actualy remove there battery and replace it every now and again)
Allowing you to make and use backup media is a legitimate use (maybe not post DCMA but it used to be) THis was gone over when things like CopyII Mac was around to backup your game floppies I used a prom burner and a home made card to back up my Atari games etc etc etc.
Now with this said Mod chips do have a lot of ancilarry functions (Is the region free bit illegal maybe under DCMA but didn't used to be?)
Now that we have gone over the general stupidity of current auditing practices lets look at what can make them so complicated.
Bundeled software get a Dell server with a preinstall on it and run it there is a bunch of software that may also come with it an AV package etc that wouldent show up on my PO paperwork it's not part of my spec thats generaly hardware specs and maybe an OS if it's going o be a Windows Box.
Lone gun end users especialy inside a power user department like programming who insist on a good deal of local rights (Need to be able to use debuggers and install local software, persoanly I keep my coding PC and my testing PC seperate and whipe my testing PC regulary) there is little to nothing to stop these guys technicaly from pirating a software package or even installing a software package they got at staples and expensed so the purchasing manager dosent have the paperwork (and no it's idiotic just say no to this sort of thing when it's 9pm and you need to get something out to a client the next day you cant wait for the acounting guys to get in and order you what you need now and can buy online or at staples, the client comes first)
I would say a certine overage system would be called for to remove these statistical errors lets say 3% of documentation can be lost misplaced or just erroniously entered (I have 200 serials for a software package in a box in storage offsite and ever install uses the first one because thats the serial on the ghost image I'm obviously not voileting a licence but it would look like it if you did an audit and nobody bothered to look) And the lone gun software guy his one install of a package gets thrown out now if the whole department has it on there PC's then it's an issue.
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Hrm posibly because ordering coffee one would expect it to be HOT as that is how coffee is servers it like ordering something that is flambee not letting it cool down a bit and sueing because you burned yourself. Coffee is something hot by nature if it was cold I would send it back unless I ordered it that way same for cool etc. The only real explination needed is the people that get burned by hot coffee arent acting the smartest at the time.
Hrm can anybody say DRM and Palladium will make this null and void. All external communications API;s utilize some DRM / Security features even internal ones thus are excempt. This will just have MS drive palladium down are throats and the sheep will go once they get a lot of the new cool games and MS office moved over to Paladium only for secuirity and DRM reasons and because off all this new security in every API communication method you name it they can wriggle out of this. For the OEM's yea it's nice but for the rest of the world it just means palladium will come that much sooner.
Java is somewhat functional supposedly portable (till M$ and everybody else added to it) but it still pretty much C based, I would hope your school teaches C as a required (and down with Cobol leave that the the grade school kiddies) but in reality schools cant keep up it's a 18 month cycle for the lasest and greatest toys. I would like to find one recent grad that knows C down pat and can code off the top of there head. Knowing C well lets you code in perl pretty quickly (like a week) java can be done at the compiler, C++ is a little different has way to much OOP garbage (OO is nice for large projects but most of the world dosent need it) but college shouldnt teach you the language dejure your internship should do that (you are planning on intering arent you?)
Now for the more esoteric things yes Jaluna and all the RTOS things can be a great thing they have a relitivly small market though mostly embeded systems and again unless you need to have timing acurate in the NS range you can pretty much ignore it C will let you program for it and you will be happy and it will work.
It's true sales people generaly have large expectations of commision (think multi million in some cases) there saleries are also generaly pretty high to begin with but they like most americans live as well as they can I'm sure a lot of them have morgages and car loans that would probably exceed there base salery take home.
It does make a lot of sence to keep your good sales people lets face it sales at this level is who you know and relationship building the slaes people are inherintly valuable. With this said the core engineering teams generaly dont sell themselves as well and since they dont have commision arent going to be in huge finacial trouble but still need some incentive to stay vs move to something more stable and lucritive.
Were fighting to perserve the status quo of government they feel threatened (remember here in america revolutionaries were TERRORISTS they dont want that repeated) The only way threy could have slowed down something like 9/11 would have been a nice heavy steel door to the cockpit that stays locked perferably with armed personel inside a lot of them are old air force jocks.
Communicatiosn happen all the time people with a decent brain can figure out ways to get messages accross a few watts of power and a short wave can get a message in blind drops, encrypted tunnels with friendly midpoints containing one time pad encrypted data will stay nearly imposible to crack.
Well having many a Telco engineer work for me they are on average not the britest bunch they love technology they are comfertable with (ATM that bloated POS) now at the same time they distrust IP networks to no end the local telco has enough firewalls it's a big onion of layers unfortunatly they dont understand how to lock them down they only serve to stop the simple things and make it hard on users.
Bailing out telcos dosent make much sence the copper dosent go away somebody generaly buys up the contracts and the wire serving an existing install generaly is profitable it's getting those installs in there (and how many telcos were offering free hookups for a 20 year contract to dot coms I know a few did to the ones I was involved with)
How about we get back to reality they didn't invent anything make anything new this is a patent akin to I have the patent on gravity you cant use it without giving me a cut. Patents on tests are fine they still allow other testing methods to be developed and used. Claiming to have invented a gene sequence is absurd. Discovering it is fine but thats something that should be covered under prior art discovering that if you boil off salt water you can distill fresh water shouldent be patentable figuring out a way to do it realy quickly with a low energy input in some new novel way is.
Rolling wiretaps seem nice and friendly on the outside just tap whereever the crook is for cell phones this is easy enough assuming you can figure out what cell is there considerign most are stolen and used for call backs from a beeper, now you have to figure out what conversation is there so you have to tap all cell phones in the area for a short while to determine this.
For land lines that take some actual time to tap this means they have cart blanch to tap any phone line that they might reasonably use. Information gathered not pertaining to the tap isn't admissable in court but it's still gathered and thus acted upon (try proving that the whole investigation is from the wiretap info and getting the rest thrown out)
The framers of our constitution didn't have wiretaps or anything of the sort the closest you came was informants. Dont get me started on the current use of those it seems entrapment stops where the badges stop as long as they didn't ask the informant to entrap somebody specificaly. Remember for terrorists they can allready tap ALL overseas conversations all the time if they care to. Seperate domestic terrorists/freedomfighters etc from forign ones domestic should be delt with via normal law enforcement and with kid gloves to some extent were a country formed via terrorists that used contra tactics. Forign terrorists are another matter if your not a citizen even though we extend most of the rights of one while your in the country we should look to curtail there activites in the country and outside the country well as we rarely respect the soverine rights of other countries especialy third world ones I have to wonder how much it would cost in bounties/protection to get mercinaries interested in fixing those problems.
Law enforcement has plenty of resources if they would go after real crimes.
While NDAs are normal in the industry and if they wernt forced to do it I would say this was fair. This just shows how incepid the settlement was it didn't level the playing field it didn't even start to it's a rubber stamp that says sure see were in compliance thus not abusing are monopoly powers.
Step 1
Seperate MS into there core groups OS, Office Apps, Games, Hardware (yes get the XBOX away fromt he game dev people)
Step 2
Dont let these guys talk to each other unless it's in a public space.
Step 3
Take excess cash sieze it and redistribute it as penalty phase.
16 bits of addressing allows 64 MB of ram it is realy straight forward math 2 to the 16th power of single byte addresses. Thats what got us ISA and the 15-16MB hole for old ISA adapter space similar to the current 3.5 GB to 4 GB hole for PCi and AGP adapters.
Port based filters are easy enough to get around by using another port. Now you can also packet shape via IP address or MAC (if the network is small or flat that is or by putting shapers around the school) This helps by letting a lot of bandwith still be around for on prem and in all reality most schools probably have most of the P2p content avalible on the local net if they look for it. Personaly I dont want to see P2P networks closed down at schools (NATing and returning address space would be nice though) they can provide usefull function via access to esoteric content. Now with an IP and destination based shapper(s) you can agrigate so the shaper dosent becoming a single point of contention or failure and local trafic or trafic destined to other affiliated schools would get though unmolested but somebodys p2p app dosent start hogging. If this is done right you could apply shaping to average out your MRTG's effectivly trying to achieve flat line and thus the most bang for your average burtable contract buck.
no buts it's an acronym it might be better wirtten as L. O. L. thats is very different that letter to number replacement. Use of an acronym shouldent be completly discuraged it's common practice in business and engineering writing go back in the english language and contractions were EXTREAMLY popular. English is to slow of a language to convey ideas for a lot of people especialy spoken and even to some extent written.
I would say that the easy conversion point is when WEP is enabled. Thats a key however a weak one on the resource. If I attached a phone to the front of my house and secured it with a kids lock perfectly functional but still a worthless POS if you picked it or broke it and used the phone I would call that theft.
Also remember that not all wifi users are technical many a sales person has a laptop and a wifi card in it if it finds an open AP can DHCP up an address he dosent know that it's not supposed to work particulary depending on where he is it might be free access at a starbucks some other companys LAN that he is visiting.
My office setup is like this we dont use WEP but we VPN in everything for us. I also let anybody get out with a rate limited 512kb a sec (we have a DS3) to all non VPNed traffic an IDS looks at the outgoing packets and closes off any sessions that flag alarms via the firewall. This lets the outside sales guy get onto the network easly read his email and bring up his reports check email etc. This also allows are people to go outside with the laptops on a nice day and have a meeting on a veranda grass etc. Now granted I may have a special case we have a very large lot and security at the end of the road way out of reach for your normal wifi card (2000+ feet) so it's only authorized people comeing near the building. But I dont realy see why this senerio dosent work for most people decide the ammount of bandwith that outsiders are allowed to use do plenty of encryption on your end plug a VPN concentrator on the wifi subnet it's a little configuration but not that bad (the concentrators are reached through some DNS magic the DNS server for the wifi segment has a different A record for the concentrator so the sales guys dont need to change anything on the road) the VPN allows people to pickup IP's on there normal subnets in the office and persoanly if somebody would come out with an IPsec or VPN accelerator proc and throw it on a wifi card it would be a near perfect solution.
And you have the even better example of allmost all the forign workers that I know they come over to get soso jobs coding etc live as cheaply as possible why sending reasonable sums of money home and investing remember you can live well in india on a modest investment income. 600 a month in Mexico makes you middle class (bottom end) lots of people have figured out skilled labor is generaly in demand and paid well move to the rich country suck it up for a few years and retire to a nice life. Most people on the planet are downright lazy to much TV to little chores while being raised to much leisure time. Suck it up people find your opertunity and run with it that was what the dot com days were about a generation sucking it up and getting motivated.
As to rich people being to rich it's there money and they are leveraging it dont cry about it find a niche get some VC and try and catapult yourself up there if you fail mcdonalds is allways hirering.
The best way I have found yet to get video into a PC on a buget is a high quality digital camcorder hooked up to firewire. Your encoding circitry is design and function in the cam firewire is design and function to get it off the cam and then you can edit from your hearts desire VHS still looks like the garbage that it is though.
Because IP is working on being ubiquitious no it's not a perfect match for voice applications but everybody wants access to IP networks thats a given so why not run something that works reasonably well and avoid a legacy network. IPv6 is something the telcos are still trying to figure out a way to bill for so it's not happening in the commercial world more than the accountants can avoid. But just think VoIP could be the killer app that gets QOS features standard accross the board finaly. QOS might push us to IPv6 and thus to multicast and finaly getting rid of NAT (this is a good thing) but still dosent solve a better way of figuring out routing better than today. And who knows maybe with VoIP we can just pay for the data as in cell phone in range of home wifi gateway use that connections instead same for office etc.
As an engineer that made a network to do that that tanked (Nothing like lies from sales people) it's possible 512 kbit a sec looks pretty nice but the bandwith costs on the sending end are about 50 bucks a month before servers people etc (thats sending all month) why because it's all unicast because NO ISP wants mcast working outside of itself they dont know how to bill for it. A satalite at 500 an hour is much cheaper than delivering over the internet and inherently multicast. I wonder when somebody will come up with a multicast service that is delivered to a majority of ISP's.
Read through the lines a bit this guys travels around a lot and sends a lot of emails from hotels etc. I doubt he has a proper VPN setup so I dont thing reverse mapping would help him actualy I think it would break his solution. At the minimul he should look into IMAP or POP before SMTP to piggyback the authentication perferably a full VPN solution (Might not work everywhere there are a few backwards hotels with broken NAT) I'm hoping he is running his POP or IMAP through SSL but I doubt that.
This is the opposite problem of broadband now every joe q public has a 24/7 connection and wants to be his own server admin this guy cant seem to figure out what he is doing wrong and why people are blocking his mail beating him with a clue stick might help. People need to take responcibility for things like this it should be a part of TOS (generaly is) not to run an open relay. The kicker is this guy is thinking they black hole people did something wrong when they scaned his server I'm hoping at least in denmark it's still legal to make a connection to an IP and port without getting prior written permission in triplicate as to falsifying the from line in a mail message to yourself cmon.
This is a great peice of tech for the right application shared storage unforunatly it's only half the solution. This can make devices cheaper by utilizing off the shelf cheap networking gear vs expensive FC switching gear (Funny that Cisco supports each of them on the same frame though) but your still only getting access to a raw disk or more hopefully a RAID of raw disks. Now for a few things this makes a ton of sence a clustered solution with redundant data centers and a big pipe (think cheap leased fiber) they can locate mirrored storage and redundant servers. Things that perform better with raw disk IO (Read Oracle) inside a clustered invirnment are going to love this especialy since data sets are getting larger by the moment but actual data use in real time is down (there is a LOT of data laying on disk not being accessed very must and going to a HSM system is becoming less and less desirable due to the increased cheapness of disks (IDE drives are just about cheaper than tape right now and that trend is increasing))
Now for joe user this tech is pretty useless none of the major OS's support a multiple reader writer FS ontop of a block device (SGI has one thats part of there FS but dosent look to but part of the linux port yet but I may be wrong) Windows definatly dosent have anything for this out of the box there are solutions to do it but generaly more complicated that it's worth for a small installation or requires some big external hardware and drivers to make it work (EMC's "solution") to redirect the actial block IO of a network mount to a block device (generaly FC hardware or SCSI on some smaller setups FC is a lot more reliable though IMNSHO) This is all a TCO reduction movement that dosent make a whole lot of sence block devices get sped up buy using large buffers whereever you can shove them microcontrolers are great at doing back to back IO servers have other things to do. FC has latency issues as it's realy just a serial SCSI you can put hardware on two coasts and make it work but it's generaly not pretty iSCSI HBA's should be a lot more tollerant of latency.
Probably never I doubt the DOD would be very happy with them exporting that tech to china most high end CPU gear needs a waiver before it can be shipped to hostile countries just like you cant ship a PS2 to IRAQ so they dont use them to run crypto or run there radar.
Nope they actualy just get normal DVD's etc to use. They tried to make them more expensive in AU that didn't fly and they havent tried it in the states (but I may well be wrong) Physical representations of things like videos DVD's CD's etc historicaly have be property as long as they stay in the same form, that may be the snag that they are moving around digital bits not say overnight mailing you an actual rom. Our US leaders think that for some strange reasont he two things are different and to some extent they are I could rip a NES cart you could to but joe sixpack dosent want to cant (remember this guy cant get his VCR clock programed and is confused by to many desktop icons) as the barrier to pirating roms lowers to cheap harddrive space, broadband Internet and some adware application that joe six pack can get his local computer expert to install companies get a lot more worried about this sort of thing.
But the catch is you need to know that your not authorized to access it. A typical wifi lan in AP mode dosent have any of that. The story does say if it was running any encryption or not thats what should make the difference IMHO.
OK you better be away from a power source for a LONG time before you need one of these. Granted if you were realy desperate and bothered to cary this small brick around with you. The battery side that takes 36 minutes of winding to charge is 1000ma assuming you would spend an hour a day winding this thing up (or just plug it into a socket and recharge it) and that it weighs in at two thirds of a pound you would be better off getting a few extra cell phone batteries (yes some people do actualy remove there battery and replace it every now and again)
Allowing you to make and use backup media is a legitimate use (maybe not post DCMA but it used to be) THis was gone over when things like CopyII Mac was around to backup your game floppies I used a prom burner and a home made card to back up my Atari games etc etc etc.
Now with this said Mod chips do have a lot of ancilarry functions (Is the region free bit illegal maybe under DCMA but didn't used to be?)
Now that we have gone over the general stupidity of current auditing practices lets look at what can make them so complicated.
Bundeled software get a Dell server with a preinstall on it and run it there is a bunch of software that may also come with it an AV package etc that wouldent show up on my PO paperwork it's not part of my spec thats generaly hardware specs and maybe an OS if it's going o be a Windows Box.
Lone gun end users especialy inside a power user department like programming who insist on a good deal of local rights (Need to be able to use debuggers and install local software, persoanly I keep my coding PC and my testing PC seperate and whipe my testing PC regulary) there is little to nothing to stop these guys technicaly from pirating a software package or even installing a software package they got at staples and expensed so the purchasing manager dosent have the paperwork (and no it's idiotic just say no to this sort of thing when it's 9pm and you need to get something out to a client the next day you cant wait for the acounting guys to get in and order you what you need now and can buy online or at staples, the client comes first)
I would say a certine overage system would be called for to remove these statistical errors lets say 3% of documentation can be lost misplaced or just erroniously entered (I have 200 serials for a software package in a box in storage offsite and ever install uses the first one because thats the serial on the ghost image I'm obviously not voileting a licence but it would look like it if you did an audit and nobody bothered to look) And the lone gun software guy his one install of a package gets thrown out now if the whole department has it on there PC's then it's an issue.