I recall reading that the "tomato" firmware for wrt54 routers enabled ipv6 routing, but what i don't understand is how the new firmware gets around the embedded ipv4 mac...does it just spoof an ipv6 translation of the mac and be done with it that way? If the bulk of consumer devices (sold in the future) can be upgraded by rewriting part of the firmware, I thought more manufacturers than just Apple would be on their way to ipv6 for consumers. Then again, when I read router/switch specs, the "MAC address table" or similar is always listed as its own value/entity which leads me to believe it's not a trivial upgrade.
So I searched newegg.com and cdw.com for "ipv6" and with a few exceptions, only high end networking equipment results running ~$1k+ came up. Searching the web for "ipv6 hardware requirements" does not lead to much (I confess I do not want to read the whole spec.), but the article on wikipedia leads me to believe that home routers (and maybe managed switches) could be upgraded if resources such as RAM (and EEPROMs?) are sufficient and manufacturers so inclined.
Why do there seem to be so few end-user products which are or claim to be "ipv6 ready"?
Will the implementation of ipv6 end up providing every ISP account holder with a static IP, with IPv4/NAT behind it until all the old equipment dies over the next couple decades?
Agreed. But I don't believe legislation can really be introduced to prevent people from entering into 'reasonable' contracts. I could see it working if the bill if every change in the TOS/billing fees/policy required all customers be granted a new 30-day, penalty-free contract termination period--no matter what stage each respective customer is at in their contract. Including when you move up to a new contract to get some new feature such as more minutes.
Although my understanding is basic, I can see why many special characters should not be used in file names. Why, though, should spaces not be used in filenames? Although this seems to be 'wisdom' or 'safest', it would be nice to know why I have been using '_' and not ' ' these few years. I have scoured the web a couple times, but have really only encountered a few pages of what seem to be rather anecdotal reasoning(s) for avoiding the use of the space.
KDE, Gnome, several FTP clients, windows, smb/NFS shares, and many X-apps all seem to handle spaced file names with aplomb. What makes the space so special that a terminal handles it as '%20'? What can really happen when spaces are used...are we keeping consideration for older sytems/code? Does this affect the home/business user, or servers, or other, predominantly? Frankly, it would be easier to type a space than a '_': hyphens hamper readability.
Not looking to ruffle any feathers, if a good explanation exists, please point me to it.
Agreed, this 'science' is very subjective and given too much weight. However it is fast becoming a crutch. I believe the best 'compromise' is to require (get an agreement in writing) a full copy of the results and any and all analysis be provided to you no later than 3 business days after the company receives it...and before an on-site interview, if applicable. Assert also that you "look forward to discussing the results with either HR or the group manager".
In my experience, the technical people are fine with this, but HR balks, claiming "confidentiality". I asked them "How can the results of a test taken by me, about me, for the analysis and presumed betterment of myself be confidential _from_ me?" I can appreciate these things cost money, but I thought they wanted to invest in me as an employee. Anyway, the tech people were understanding, but the HR people decided it was "time to part ways".
As long is one is not an employee, one has a choice not to take it. I believe that if the "tool" is really foir improvement and not a weeding-out crutch, they could just have waited until hiring and required it.
Always remember that HR is not there to benefit you, they are there to protect the company, first.
From what I have seen when teaching classes, even having a grammar checking tool available--and turned on by default--is not sufficient. An innate desire to be accurate, succint, and considerate is required. Beyond that, use of the MS Word (or any) grammar-checking program/code will always be limited by the knowledge of the programmers and the ability of a machine/program to understand thought as conveyed by language.From what I have seen when teaching classes, even having a grammar-checking tool available--and turned on by default--is not sufficient. An innate desire to be accurate, succinct, and considerate is required. Beyond that, use of the MS Word (or any) grammar-checking program/code will always be limited by the knowledge of the programmers and the ability of a machine/program to understand thought as conveyed by language.
Frankly, the knowledge of the programmers in question leaves a little to be desired. On several occasions, it has made incorrect 'suggestions'. The tool also is concerned with more and more syntactic structures as the level of one's writing increases. For those who write at and above a truly professional level, grammar checking should be disabled. For the many who do not, it should at least not give fundamentally incorrect advice. To me, the latter options do not seem to be too difficult. Increasing the AI performance of the interpreter, however, seems a tad more involved.
Stevens Institute of Technology joined BBone (Blackboard One) a couple of years ago. It ties a lot things together: the best of which are laundry, off-campus businesses which accept "Duckbills" and Pipeline 'groups'. However, when being pitched the system (I was on the committee), I found out later the IT dept/school had _already_committed_ to the system! Made my input and time seem wasted.
That aside, the Pipeline wemail client is _slow_ except at insane hours, updates with every resize, and not very customizable. Pine was better (TtSSh access was terminated), even with the lengthy attachment process. While administration of the groups is sensible, it is in school Administrator hands, not student hands, which has been a source of friction in a few cases.
CD/DVDs sure seem like an ideal solution for making cheap (due to good frequency) backups for off-site storage. Excellent if the backups must be accrued and stored for longer than a week or two.
Eminent domain is not a nice and fuzzy thing. Frankly, it is a good thing if the ownder made a reasonable profit on the pair of transactions.
Per the project, even if the land was not used, it is a good idea to have contingkency plans to prevent much larger over-runs and delays.
Then again, I don't think that the Big Dig is as big a screw-up as everyone makes it out to be. It was an incredibly difficult engineering problem, full of suprises and risk. Furthermore, since Massachusetts pay $1.21 to the USA in income taxes for every $1 the USA spends in Massachusetts, I feel as if the other 49 states "owed" us the Big Dig.
I agree the project is not so bad as appears on the surface, but from what I remember of the CA/T, the new route is the _same_size_, jut "more efficiently" laid out. Nor sure I like that.
But anyway, no state should be receiving more from the Fed. than they pay. 21 cents on the dollar does not sound terrible...what are other states paying to the Fed?
Crooks or not, I know not. But the condition of the roadway and facilities is always very good. And snow removal and ice mitigation is second to none I have seen in the east coat states.
Early in the market, most products are either under or over-engineered. Consumers quickly find out who sells which, so in the computer field, there was only one way to go with such high-end, high-profile products.
Ask any printer service tech who has been around for at least 5 years and they will tell you:
1) printers aren'e made like they used to be 2) HP 3 and 4 were great, but too slow for people today 3) HP 4 and 5 series (excluding L type) were solid and dependable, and the 1100, 2100, 2200 and some of the early 4000s are almost as good, but were cheaper and faster, probably making up for a small drop in "durability" 4) HP 2300 and late 4000 series are the first noticeable step down from this benchmark level of quality 5) the rest of the HP stuff to date is approaching the quality of other manufacturers (and thier injet printer are only a mechanism to sell ink, little more)
Aside from replaced toner carts., the only 2 components on a printer which _should_ wear out are the pickup wheels (~$50 repair, 100-200k pages) and the fuser assembly (~$200-300 repair, 200-400k pages). My service tech says companies are really trying to hold on to these workhorses, because--with maintenance--they typically have no problem living 1-3 million pages. Of the ~15 printers I oversee, we have a 5MP and a 4000N which are both at ~500k pages, and all I have had done is the replacement of the two items mentioned above.
So when it comes down to it, ebay may not be bad for an older, reliable printer, but do beware, because the page counts _can_ be reset. And although these older printers accept remanufactured carts., "HP printers just like HP carts", as my tech likes to say.
Not wanting to pay for comprehensive makes me SOL if my car gets ripped. My friend and I were brainstorming and conceived of a camera hooked to a small system which, when however activated, broadcasts a jpg with an over lay with "This person is stealing my Red Crown Victoria, lic#zzz999, call the police or 123.555.4567 for a reward!? Ah, well, when I have some time off next year.
While this particular kid may be an idiot and a copy-cat, his perpetuation of the virus (intent and implementation) is nearly as bad as the original writer's efforts. He took a virus and re-wreaked it on the world (or whomever he coould).
I manage a small reasearch lab server and infrastructure. And of course I do tech support for my family. Virus protection, et al, does not always cut it, especially in the first 24-48 hours. That said, we all know security is integral, but people like the original writer and these copycats make the digital envronment dangerous/evil/[choose your favorite adjective], it doesn't start that way fundamentally. (Let's not get in to a discussion of the "nature" of the internet.)
Even with what I consider to be an above-average skill set, an outbreak can waste anywhere up to 30 hours of my time depending how serious and how fast it is. You call my lost time, resources, and users' data "phantom damages"? I most strenuously disagree. Extrapolating these factors to the world's populaton at large and I have no compassion for the guilty, whatsoever. Their terms should be measured tens of years, not months.
The article briefly mentions many factors contributing to paying the over-all cost of publication. For many journals (e.g. J. of the American Ceramic Society), peer review is not a cost, as it is distributed amongst the community. Further, page charges have been in effect for years, ranging from $75-150 per page. Add this to $0.5-3k anually for a subscription, plus the cost of reprents for the author(s) (several more hundred $ for ~100 reprints).
For the younger generation of researchers (of which I consider myself a part), print dissemination is burdensome. PDF files would save the journals a bundle of costs, and leave it to the reader to print out a copy for him or herself. Heck, 50% of the articles I request through our Library's database subscription arrive in PDF, and I only print out ~5 of 50/month for in depth review. Until the younger generation earns high positions in the archival/peer review publishing community, the 'old school' will resist change, for the most part.
Not looking forward to getting old, myself.
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Did you make your patch set available on the forums for other users? (Pointer?)
That helps my understanding, thanks.
I recall reading that the "tomato" firmware for wrt54 routers enabled ipv6 routing, but what i don't understand is how the new firmware gets around the embedded ipv4 mac...does it just spoof an ipv6 translation of the mac and be done with it that way? If the bulk of consumer devices (sold in the future) can be upgraded by rewriting part of the firmware, I thought more manufacturers than just Apple would be on their way to ipv6 for consumers. Then again, when I read router/switch specs, the "MAC address table" or similar is always listed as its own value/entity which leads me to believe it's not a trivial upgrade.
So I searched newegg.com and cdw.com for "ipv6" and with a few exceptions, only high end networking equipment results running ~$1k+ came up. Searching the web for "ipv6 hardware requirements" does not lead to much (I confess I do not want to read the whole spec.), but the article on wikipedia leads me to believe that home routers (and maybe managed switches) could be upgraded if resources such as RAM (and EEPROMs?) are sufficient and manufacturers so inclined.
Why do there seem to be so few end-user products which are or claim to be "ipv6 ready"?
Will the implementation of ipv6 end up providing every ISP account holder with a static IP, with IPv4/NAT behind it until all the old equipment dies over the next couple decades?
Agreed. But I don't believe legislation can really be introduced to prevent people from entering into 'reasonable' contracts. I could see it working if the bill if every change in the TOS/billing fees/policy required all customers be granted a new 30-day, penalty-free contract termination period--no matter what stage each respective customer is at in their contract. Including when you move up to a new contract to get some new feature such as more minutes.
Gee, it's not phishing then, is it? It's cracking, infecting, eaves-dropping and theft.
Although my understanding is basic, I can see why many special characters should not be used in file names. Why, though, should spaces not be used in filenames? Although this seems to be 'wisdom' or 'safest', it would be nice to know why I have been using '_' and not ' ' these few years. I have scoured the web a couple times, but have really only encountered a few pages of what seem to be rather anecdotal reasoning(s) for avoiding the use of the space.
KDE, Gnome, several FTP clients, windows, smb/NFS shares, and many X-apps all seem to handle spaced file names with aplomb. What makes the space so special that a terminal handles it as '%20'? What can really happen when spaces are used...are we keeping consideration for older sytems/code? Does this affect the home/business user, or servers, or other, predominantly? Frankly, it would be easier to type a space than a '_': hyphens hamper readability.
Not looking to ruffle any feathers, if a good explanation exists, please point me to it.
I just want something that gets me into all my .wps files...can't wait to re-read my report on Illinois from grade school.
Agreed, this 'science' is very subjective and given too much weight. However it is fast becoming a crutch. I believe the best 'compromise' is to require (get an agreement in writing) a full copy of the results and any and all analysis be provided to you no later than 3 business days after the company receives it...and before an on-site interview, if applicable. Assert also that you "look forward to discussing the results with either HR or the group manager".
In my experience, the technical people are fine with this, but HR balks, claiming "confidentiality". I asked them "How can the results of a test taken by me, about me, for the analysis and presumed betterment of myself be confidential _from_ me?" I can appreciate these things cost money, but I thought they wanted to invest in me as an employee. Anyway, the tech people were understanding, but the HR people decided it was "time to part ways".
As long is one is not an employee, one has a choice not to take it. I believe that if the "tool" is really foir improvement and not a weeding-out crutch, they could just have waited until hiring and required it.
Always remember that HR is not there to benefit you, they are there to protect the company, first.
From what I have seen when teaching classes, even having a grammar checking tool available--and turned on by default--is not sufficient. An innate desire to be accurate, succint, and considerate is required. Beyond that, use of the MS Word (or any) grammar-checking program/code will always be limited by the knowledge of the programmers and the ability of a machine/program to understand thought as conveyed by language.From what I have seen when teaching classes, even having a grammar-checking tool available--and turned on by default--is not sufficient. An innate desire to be accurate, succinct, and considerate is required. Beyond that, use of the MS Word (or any) grammar-checking program/code will always be limited by the knowledge of the programmers and the ability of a machine/program to understand thought as conveyed by language.
Frankly, the knowledge of the programmers in question leaves a little to be desired. On several occasions, it has made incorrect 'suggestions'. The tool also is concerned with more and more syntactic structures as the level of one's writing increases. For those who write at and above a truly professional level, grammar checking should be disabled. For the many who do not, it should at least not give fundamentally incorrect advice. To me, the latter options do not seem to be too difficult. Increasing the AI performance of the interpreter, however, seems a tad more involved.
Stevens Institute of Technology joined BBone (Blackboard One) a couple of years ago. It ties a lot things together: the best of which are laundry, off-campus businesses which accept "Duckbills" and Pipeline 'groups'. However, when being pitched the system (I was on the committee), I found out later the IT dept/school had _already_committed_ to the system! Made my input and time seem wasted.
That aside, the Pipeline wemail client is _slow_ except at insane hours, updates with every resize, and not very customizable. Pine was better (TtSSh access was terminated), even with the lengthy attachment process. While administration of the groups is sensible, it is in school Administrator hands, not student hands, which has been a source of friction in a few cases.
CD/DVDs sure seem like an ideal solution for making cheap (due to good frequency) backups for off-site storage. Excellent if the backups must be accrued and stored for longer than a week or two.
Eminent domain is not a nice and fuzzy thing. Frankly, it is a good thing if the ownder made a reasonable profit on the pair of transactions.
Per the project, even if the land was not used, it is a good idea to have contingkency plans to prevent much larger over-runs and delays.
Then again, I don't think that the Big Dig is as big a screw-up as everyone makes it out to be. It was an incredibly difficult engineering problem, full of suprises and risk. Furthermore, since Massachusetts pay $1.21 to the USA in income taxes for every $1 the USA spends in Massachusetts, I feel as if the other 49 states "owed" us the Big Dig.
I agree the project is not so bad as appears on the surface, but from what I remember of the CA/T, the new route is the _same_size_, jut "more efficiently" laid out. Nor sure I like that.
But anyway, no state should be receiving more from the Fed. than they pay. 21 cents on the dollar does not sound terrible...what are other states paying to the Fed?
Crooks or not, I know not. But the condition of the roadway and facilities is always very good. And snow removal and ice mitigation is second to none I have seen in the east coat states.
Early in the market, most products are either under or over-engineered. Consumers quickly find out who sells which, so in the computer field, there was only one way to go with such high-end, high-profile products.
Ask any printer service tech who has been around for at least 5 years and they will tell you:
1) printers aren'e made like they used to be
2) HP 3 and 4 were great, but too slow for people today
3) HP 4 and 5 series (excluding L type) were solid and dependable, and the 1100, 2100, 2200 and some of the early 4000s are almost as good, but were cheaper and faster, probably making up for a small drop in "durability"
4) HP 2300 and late 4000 series are the first noticeable step down from this benchmark level of quality
5) the rest of the HP stuff to date is approaching the quality of other manufacturers (and thier injet printer are only a mechanism to sell ink, little more)
Aside from replaced toner carts., the only 2 components on a printer which _should_ wear out are the pickup wheels (~$50 repair, 100-200k pages) and the fuser assembly (~$200-300 repair, 200-400k pages). My service tech says companies are really trying to hold on to these workhorses, because--with maintenance--they typically have no problem living 1-3 million pages. Of the ~15 printers I oversee, we have a 5MP and a 4000N which are both at ~500k pages, and all I have had done is the replacement of the two items mentioned above.
So when it comes down to it, ebay may not be bad for an older, reliable printer, but do beware, because the page counts _can_ be reset. And although these older printers accept remanufactured carts., "HP printers just like HP carts", as my tech likes to say.
So which will win the race to destroy our hubris: Skynet or the Replicants?
Not wanting to pay for comprehensive makes me SOL if my car gets ripped. My friend and I were brainstorming and conceived of a camera hooked to a small system which, when however activated, broadcasts a jpg with an over lay with "This person is stealing my Red Crown Victoria, lic#zzz999, call the police or 123.555.4567 for a reward!? Ah, well, when I have some time off next year.
What constructive comments. Short of providing the world with the details of my life let me clarify with:
1) I don't get paid, I volunteer (more snide comments?)
2) I don't own the machines
3) I have tried providing GNU/Linux concept machines, but users shied away, even with instruction and encouragement.
The world is not yet as ideal as you/we would like it to be.
While this particular kid may be an idiot and a copy-cat, his perpetuation of the virus (intent and implementation) is nearly as bad as the original writer's efforts. He took a virus and re-wreaked it on the world (or whomever he coould).
I manage a small reasearch lab server and infrastructure. And of course I do tech support for my family. Virus protection, et al, does not always cut it, especially in the first 24-48 hours. That said, we all know security is integral, but people like the original writer and these copycats make the digital envronment dangerous/evil/[choose your favorite adjective], it doesn't start that way fundamentally. (Let's not get in to a discussion of the "nature" of the internet.)
Even with what I consider to be an above-average skill set, an outbreak can waste anywhere up to 30 hours of my time depending how serious and how fast it is. You call my lost time, resources, and users' data "phantom damages"? I most strenuously disagree. Extrapolating these factors to the world's populaton at large and I have no compassion for the guilty, whatsoever. Their terms should be measured tens of years, not months.
MrCool80s
The article briefly mentions many factors contributing to paying the over-all cost of publication. For many journals (e.g. J. of the American Ceramic Society), peer review is not a cost, as it is distributed amongst the community. Further, page charges have been in effect for years, ranging from $75-150 per page. Add this to $0.5-3k anually for a subscription, plus the cost of reprents for the author(s) (several more hundred $ for ~100 reprints). For the younger generation of researchers (of which I consider myself a part), print dissemination is burdensome. PDF files would save the journals a bundle of costs, and leave it to the reader to print out a copy for him or herself. Heck, 50% of the articles I request through our Library's database subscription arrive in PDF, and I only print out ~5 of 50/month for in depth review. Until the younger generation earns high positions in the archival/peer review publishing community, the 'old school' will resist change, for the most part. Not looking forward to getting old, myself.