Ok am I the only one who sees "SDI" whenever I should read "SDMI"? Actually, come to think about it, they are both overglorified efforts based on over-extravagent technology to protect us from nonexisitant threats.
You all remember SDI, don't you? The Strategic Defense Inititive? Star Wars? Ronald Regan? Savings and Loan? Gorby? A Black Michael Jackson? Sheesh, I'm old.:-)
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Check out BOSS an inlatible satillite. BOSS stands for Big Occulting Steerable Satillite. It will let you do things like directly view earth-like planets in orbit around stars from 5 Parsecs (18 lightyears) away.
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one should definately go with OpenSSH, as it is 100% compatible with ssh 1.x. Hardly anyone uses ssh 2.x because of it's licencing issues. There are numerous Free/open clients for the ssh 1.x protocol for many platforms. OpenSSH was based on the last opensource version of ssh 1.x. The OpenBSD team fixed all of its bugs and ran it though a security audit. It is very tight. They are a whole lot quicker about fixing new bugs then the normal ssh guys. The recent buffer overflows and DOS vuenrablities are nonexisitant in OpenSSH.
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Get a good-old Matrox Millenium or Millenium II (also some of the newer ones, although you should check out compatiblity first). They are well supported under nearly everything and damn fine cards.
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I am the original poster and a physicist. I have two problems with your point of view:
The fact is that there are many companies out there that fund basic research. They do it primarily because if a breakthrough occurs, they want to have people in-house that can help turn it into a working product. Well, private companies do fund some a lot of "basic" research, but not all. Companies like IBM, Lucent (aka Bell Labs) and others do fund projects not directly applicable to makeing $$$, but the research they do fund is stuff that is somewhat related. ie, IBM funds projects in Solid State physics becuase if some breakthough occurs, it can easily be applied to make smaller, faster chips. Companies would not have invested in space just 25 years ago. The space program never whould have started without the government's push (and yes, the govenment pushed space because of the Cold War). Only now that space and satillites are established do companies send up things on their own.
You are also ignoring private charities and Universities. There are many private schools with hundreds of millions in endowments, and many of those do and would be used to fund basic research. These endowments would be even bigger in a society with a lower tax burden, since many wealthy people leave their fortunes to their alma mater. There are also private donations directly toward research programs. No, this is wrong. I am at a private university. We do have a ~$1e7 endowment. it goes to scholarships, capital improvements, and makeing interest to maintain the endowment. As for the most basic of research in physics, no money for these projects come from private sources. I am talking about things like my research group's search for Dark Matter or another group's Big Occulting Steerable Satellite. Private companies do not and will not fund things like this because there are no even remotely visible dollar signs at the end of the research. The price tags on these (and other things like particle accelerators) are too big for private endowments. Only the govenment (or governments) is in a position to reasonably fund research as to how the universe works.
<rant> What are ancient civilizations remembered for? Their scientific advancement. The Greeks with logic and math, the Mayans calanders and astronomy, the Chinese, gunpowder. What difference does it make in the grand scheme of things whether this battle was fought on Tuesday or Friday? Not a whole lot. The only thing that really lasts is the knowledge that we pass down to successive generations. This is the basic human drive. Why are we here? Where are we going? How did it happen? These questions are what make us human. This is why science is important. Science is the systematic attempt to glean meaning from the universe in an attempt to answer these questions. (Religion also attempts to answer these questions but it is usually not as systematic:-) and should really only be used to answer the questions that science cannot tell us). I am a relatively spritual and religious man, but religion cannot tell us where we evolved from just as science cannot tell us how to act morally. </rant>
Disclaimer: This whole thing is of course my opinion, especially the last parenthetical sentence.
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A good thing. I saw this announcement on CNN last night, and after the Clinton clip, the reporter stated that as per a study (i forget the name), scientific research is THE BEST investment of the government dollar that there is. I only wish they increased funding for physics explpicitly. As to whether the Republican Congress will go along with it, it might seem rather suprising, but in the last budget, they actually increased the president's science budget by a bit. CNN also had a clip of a Republican Congresswoman on the science committee commending the president's initative.
YAY SCIENCE!!
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As a radio-freedom type kind of guy, I am heavily involved with our campus radio station, which stresses doing things that would NEVER be done on commercial radio, because commercial radio SUCKS!
This decision seems to be a GOOD-THING. (Besides, the FCC can be a bunch of a**holes at times.) This will theoretically allow more people to get their message out, and allow for more freedom of speech. It should be noted (as someone asked earlier) that FM modulators and transmitters are fairly expensive, they go from ~$1000 up to $10k+, so it's not really chump change for non-commercial stations.
The only drawback I can really see is that there will be more stations. Neighboring stations on the dial will tend to step on each others signal more, which is just not good (and rude besides). Also, I bet that there are a lot of stupid people out there who would broadcast crap. (I'm talking hate-mongers and what not. If more poeple braodcast crappy music, then more people will listen to the "good stations")
Any how, that's my take on it. Your opinions may vary, but as someone who is involved in a legitimate noncommercial station, I kind of have an insiders view.
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There recently was an "Ask Slashdot" about an open source grammer checker. Do you think that it is feasible that Corel would Opensource Grammatik (at least in part)? What about other small parts of Wordperfect or of your other products?
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Well, if you are a minor, then i think that your parents should be able to look at the stuf on your computer. Not only do they have a legal right (which i don't really care about), but parents should be involved with thier children and know what thier kids are up to in order to be effective parents. Good parents will understand that much of things kids do is out of curiostiy and will discuss things with them. Not-so-good parents will either ignore behavior they don't want to deal with or outright forbid it without talking about it, both of which only cause the problem to get worse.
However, If you are an adult, you shouldn't be expected to share all of your infomation with others. being able to talk to others truthfully is what healthy relationships are all about
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My friend got one for me at the WB store. I tried to get one for my girlfriend, but they were out of stock B4 christmas, so i had to settle for a tshirt. If your WB studio store is out of stock, you can try the online store. follow the link from www.wb.com
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And although he's not stuffed, I got a H.M. Murdock action figure!! (from the A-Team!!!)
I want to get a stuffed Tux as well as a BSDemon.
And yes, I am a guy. BTW, you should see a couple of my friend's rooms, they are filled with stuffed animals. It's really just a matter of being a big softie. Being a big softie is not mutually exclusive with being a geek.:-)
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I don't think that these people are trying to stop the advancement of technology for technoloy's sake. (Caveman say ungh, technology bad, fire bad, unghh.) Besides, if someone invents a new way of playing music, people have to go out and buy a new player for their house, for their car, for when they jog, etc. (and new copies of their favorite tunes). They are just scared that with a digital medium over the Internet (ie MP3s) they will lose their cash cow (ie the sole distributors of music). MP3s hit the big music companies where it hurts, in the wallets. Of course they are going to fight tooth and nail to find any way to stop this. It makes sense.
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I LOVE vinyl. It adds an incredible amount of warmth to the music. I also like a little bit of pops and cracks from time to time, especially at the beginning of a song. It has so much ambeiance. The problem is that i can't take a turntable with me walking on in the car, but i can take a burned CD or an MP3.
Of course, there is the fact that CDs only have ~75% of the dynamic range of vinyl. Because they are only 16bit, CDs only have 96dB of dynamic range (the difference between the quietest sound and the loudest sound). Vinyl has a dynamic range of >120dB. That is why is is kind of annoying to listen to symphonic works on CD, you can't hear the quiet parts as well as you can on a record.
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Earth is of course the Greatest Computer of All Space and Time, destined to compute the Question to Answer of Life, The Universe, and Everything. It was designed by the hyperdimensional computer Deep Thought after giving the answer "42" to the lab mice. It was designed by the famous custom planet construction service of Magrathea featuring the Award-winning fjords of Scandinavia designed by Slartibartfast.
I don't know what all this talk of "microbes" and "asteroids" is.
Thank you Douglas Adams.
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Funny as HELL!! And Hell is quite funny in Good Omens.:-) Imagine the "tortured" characters of Gaimen along with the insane crazy antics of Pratchet, a very odd and hilarious combination. If this is true, and I hope it is, this movie will kick SO MUCH ASS. I absolutely LOVE Time Bandits and Baron Munchausen. I also love 12 Monkeys, which is a horribly sad and depressing movie, but lovingly and wonderfully beautiful. I saw it at a film house followed by Fear and Loathing which got kind of annoying after a while, but the first 30 minutes of a Jonny Depp tripped-out drug binge are an excellent chaser to 12 Monkeys.
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Ok, there is somehting wrong when you have more VIDEO RAM than SYSTEM RAM!!! Yeah, I'll just set up my VIDEO CARD as a SWAP FILE!!! Jeez. 80x25 all the way:-)
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I am not an Electrical Engineer, but I have a couple of friends who are. The problem with parallel buses, as stated in the article, is that signal degradation occurs when the signal paths get too long. The problem is that at bandwidths that will be needed in the future, the bus must be either 128-512 bit parallel, or must run at extremely fast speeds. The problem with being massively parallel is that the bus is now physically very wide, it is difficult to build and difficult for the 1st bit and the 512nd bit to be set at the same time. Running at higher speeds means shorter paths before degradation occours. The PCI spec is right about a 15cm bus length before repeaters now, increasing the speed significantly will lower this to the order of centimeters, not long enough for a peripheral or I/O bus, but fine for a memory or CPU bus, which is what the article said.
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Is the fact that January 1st is the birthday of Satyendranath Bose, of Boson and Bose-Einstein Condensate fame, a big improtant guy in Quantum Mechanics. It is a little known fact that on his birthday, all Bosons (one type of elementary particle) will convert into Fermions (the other type). Thus causing the universe to collapse. This phenomenom is known as the B2F bug.
Ok, so everything execpt for the conversion thing is true, IT'S A JOKE:-)
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I am using a NetGear RH348 Router simply because a friend of my switched to a fraction T1 and didn't need it anymore. It works wonderfully. You telnet into it and can configure everything. DHCP, NAT/NAT+, IP Masquarardaing, Port Forwarding, Dial-in, Bandwidth on Demand, It even has a built in Packet Level Firewall. I set it up so my home network is pretty tight. This adds another layer between the baddies and me.:-)
I did have some problems with the original unit, but that was because it's Rom got corrupted. Before I knew this I called up the Support Line and they were VERY helpful. When we finally determined that the ROM was bad, a new box arrived within 3 days. Their Tech Support Rocks.
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I had a friend who worked in a building that was networked to the next building over via 2 methods:
Microwave - This worked fine, at i think about 100kbit to 1Gbit speeds
Infrared Laser - This SUCKED. It had the capablility of multi Megabit bandwidth. The bigwigs wanted it because, "Hey we have a LASER link between buildings." Well, there is a big problem, the system was a narrow beam. If there was ANY wind or seismic activity, the beam lost alignment and zero throughput. If there was Fog or rain, the bitrate DROPPED.
therefore, the microwave link was aways up and running at ~300Kbit and the laser ran at 100bit/sec except for bursting to 1Gbit about 3 times a year for 30 seconds:-)
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Ok am I the only one who sees "SDI" whenever I should read "SDMI"? Actually, come to think about it, they are both overglorified efforts based on over-extravagent technology to protect us from nonexisitant threats.
:-)
You all remember SDI, don't you? The Strategic Defense Inititive? Star Wars? Ronald Regan? Savings and Loan? Gorby? A Black Michael Jackson? Sheesh, I'm old.
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Check out BOSS an inlatible satillite. BOSS stands for Big Occulting Steerable Satillite. It will let you do things like directly view earth-like planets in orbit around stars from 5 Parsecs (18 lightyears) away.
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VERY impressive woodworking ability. He would do Norm Abrams proud. :-)
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THE DORKS IN BLACK !!!
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one should definately go with OpenSSH, as it is 100% compatible with ssh 1.x. Hardly anyone uses ssh 2.x because of it's licencing issues. There are numerous Free/open clients for the ssh 1.x protocol for many platforms. OpenSSH was based on the last opensource version of ssh 1.x. The OpenBSD team fixed all of its bugs and ran it though a security audit. It is very tight. They are a whole lot quicker about fixing new bugs then the normal ssh guys. The recent buffer overflows and DOS vuenrablities are nonexisitant in OpenSSH.
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Get a good-old Matrox Millenium or Millenium II (also some of the newer ones, although you should check out compatiblity first). They are well supported under nearly everything and damn fine cards.
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I am the original poster and a physicist. I have two problems with your point of view:
The fact is that there are many companies out there that fund basic research. They do it primarily because if a breakthrough occurs, they want to have people in-house that can help turn it into a working product.
Well, private companies do fund some a lot of "basic" research, but not all. Companies like IBM, Lucent (aka Bell Labs) and others do fund projects not directly applicable to makeing $$$, but the research they do fund is stuff that is somewhat related. ie, IBM funds projects in Solid State physics becuase if some breakthough occurs, it can easily be applied to make smaller, faster chips. Companies would not have invested in space just 25 years ago. The space program never whould have started without the government's push (and yes, the govenment pushed space because of the Cold War). Only now that space and satillites are established do companies send up things on their own.
You are also ignoring private charities and Universities. There are many private schools with hundreds of millions in endowments, and many of those do and would be used to fund basic research. These endowments would be even bigger in a society with a lower tax burden, since many wealthy people leave their fortunes to their alma mater. There are also private donations directly toward research programs.
No, this is wrong. I am at a private university. We do have a ~$1e7 endowment. it goes to scholarships, capital improvements, and makeing interest to maintain the endowment. As for the most basic of research in physics, no money for these projects come from private sources. I am talking about things like my research group's search for Dark Matter or another group's Big Occulting Steerable Satellite. Private companies do not and will not fund things like this because there are no even remotely visible dollar signs at the end of the research. The price tags on these (and other things like particle accelerators) are too big for private endowments. Only the govenment (or governments) is in a position to reasonably fund research as to how the universe works.
<rant> :-) and should really only be used to answer the questions that science cannot tell us). I am a relatively spritual and religious man, but religion cannot tell us where we evolved from just as science cannot tell us how to act morally.
What are ancient civilizations remembered for? Their scientific advancement. The Greeks with logic and math, the Mayans calanders and astronomy, the Chinese, gunpowder. What difference does it make in the grand scheme of things whether this battle was fought on Tuesday or Friday? Not a whole lot. The only thing that really lasts is the knowledge that we pass down to successive generations. This is the basic human drive. Why are we here? Where are we going? How did it happen? These questions are what make us human. This is why science is important. Science is the systematic attempt to glean meaning from the universe in an attempt to answer these questions. (Religion also attempts to answer these questions but it is usually not as systematic
</rant>
Disclaimer: This whole thing is of course my opinion, especially the last parenthetical sentence.
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A good thing. I saw this announcement on CNN last night, and after the Clinton clip, the reporter stated that as per a study (i forget the name), scientific research is THE BEST investment of the government dollar that there is. I only wish they increased funding for physics explpicitly. As to whether the Republican Congress will go along with it, it might seem rather suprising, but in the last budget, they actually increased the president's science budget by a bit. CNN also had a clip of a Republican Congresswoman on the science committee commending the president's initative.
YAY SCIENCE!!
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As a radio-freedom type kind of guy, I am heavily involved with our campus radio station, which stresses doing things that would NEVER be done on commercial radio, because commercial radio SUCKS!
This decision seems to be a GOOD-THING. (Besides, the FCC can be a bunch of a**holes at times.) This will theoretically allow more people to get their message out, and allow for more freedom of speech. It should be noted (as someone asked earlier) that FM modulators and transmitters are fairly expensive, they go from ~$1000 up to $10k+, so it's not really chump change for non-commercial stations.
The only drawback I can really see is that there will be more stations. Neighboring stations on the dial will tend to step on each others signal more, which is just not good (and rude besides). Also, I bet that there are a lot of stupid people out there who would broadcast crap. (I'm talking hate-mongers and what not. If more poeple braodcast crappy music, then more people will listen to the "good stations")
Any how, that's my take on it. Your opinions may vary, but as someone who is involved in a legitimate noncommercial station, I kind of have an insiders view.
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There recently was an "Ask Slashdot" about an open source grammer checker. Do you think that it is feasible that Corel would Opensource Grammatik (at least in part)? What about other small parts of Wordperfect or of your other products?
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Well, if you are a minor, then i think that your parents should be able to look at the stuf on your computer. Not only do they have a legal right (which i don't really care about), but parents should be involved with thier children and know what thier kids are up to in order to be effective parents. Good parents will understand that much of things kids do is out of curiostiy and will discuss things with them. Not-so-good parents will either ignore behavior they don't want to deal with or outright forbid it without talking about it, both of which only cause the problem to get worse.
However, If you are an adult, you shouldn't be expected to share all of your infomation with others. being able to talk to others truthfully is what healthy relationships are all about
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My friend got one for me at the WB store. I tried to get one for my girlfriend, but they were out of stock B4 christmas, so i had to settle for a tshirt. If your WB studio store is out of stock, you can try the online store. follow the link from www.wb.com
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I want to get a stuffed Tux as well as a BSDemon.
And yes, I am a guy. BTW, you should see a couple of my friend's rooms, they are filled with stuffed animals. It's really just a matter of being a big softie. Being a big softie is not mutually exclusive with being a geek. :-)
A wealthy eccentric who marches to the beat of a different drum. But you may call me "Noodle Noggin."
I don't think that these people are trying to stop the advancement of technology for technoloy's sake. (Caveman say ungh, technology bad, fire bad, unghh.) Besides, if someone invents a new way of playing music, people have to go out and buy a new player for their house, for their car, for when they jog, etc. (and new copies of their favorite tunes). They are just scared that with a digital medium over the Internet (ie MP3s) they will lose their cash cow (ie the sole distributors of music). MP3s hit the big music companies where it hurts, in the wallets. Of course they are going to fight tooth and nail to find any way to stop this. It makes sense.
A wealthy eccentric who marches to the beat of a different drum. But you may call me "Noodle Noggin."
I LOVE vinyl. It adds an incredible amount of warmth to the music. I also like a little bit of pops and cracks from time to time, especially at the beginning of a song. It has so much ambeiance. The problem is that i can't take a turntable with me walking on in the car, but i can take a burned CD or an MP3.
Of course, there is the fact that CDs only have ~75% of the dynamic range of vinyl. Because they are only 16bit, CDs only have 96dB of dynamic range (the difference between the quietest sound and the loudest sound). Vinyl has a dynamic range of >120dB. That is why is is kind of annoying to listen to symphonic works on CD, you can't hear the quiet parts as well as you can on a record.
A wealthy eccentric who marches to the beat of a different drum. But you may call me "Noodle Noggin."
Earth is of course the Greatest Computer of All Space and Time, destined to compute the Question to Answer of Life, The Universe, and Everything. It was designed by the hyperdimensional computer Deep Thought after giving the answer "42" to the lab mice. It was designed by the famous custom planet construction service of Magrathea featuring the Award-winning fjords of Scandinavia designed by Slartibartfast.
I don't know what all this talk of "microbes" and "asteroids" is.
Thank you Douglas Adams.
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BEER DAY!!! It is a well known FACT that Physicists LOVE beer. The only people who love beer more than Physicists are Canadian Physicists. :-)
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Funny as HELL!! And Hell is quite funny in Good Omens. :-) Imagine the "tortured" characters of Gaimen along with the insane crazy antics of Pratchet, a very odd and hilarious combination. If this is true, and I hope it is, this movie will kick SO MUCH ASS. I absolutely LOVE Time Bandits and Baron Munchausen. I also love 12 Monkeys, which is a horribly sad and depressing movie, but lovingly and wonderfully beautiful. I saw it at a film house followed by Fear and Loathing which got kind of annoying after a while, but the first 30 minutes of a Jonny Depp tripped-out drug binge are an excellent chaser to 12 Monkeys.
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But you should try a Kabalic diet, based upon ancient Jewish Mysticisim and folklore, the Kabalah. :-)
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Ok, there is somehting wrong when you have more VIDEO RAM than SYSTEM RAM!!! Yeah, I'll just set up my VIDEO CARD as a SWAP FILE!!! Jeez. 80x25 all the way :-)
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I am not an Electrical Engineer, but I have a couple of friends who are. The problem with parallel buses, as stated in the article, is that signal degradation occurs when the signal paths get too long. The problem is that at bandwidths that will be needed in the future, the bus must be either 128-512 bit parallel, or must run at extremely fast speeds. The problem with being massively parallel is that the bus is now physically very wide, it is difficult to build and difficult for the 1st bit and the 512nd bit to be set at the same time. Running at higher speeds means shorter paths before degradation occours. The PCI spec is right about a 15cm bus length before repeaters now, increasing the speed significantly will lower this to the order of centimeters, not long enough for a peripheral or I/O bus, but fine for a memory or CPU bus, which is what the article said.
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Is the fact that January 1st is the birthday of Satyendranath Bose, of Boson and Bose-Einstein Condensate fame, a big improtant guy in Quantum Mechanics. It is a little known fact that on his birthday, all Bosons (one type of elementary particle) will convert into Fermions (the other type). Thus causing the universe to collapse. This phenomenom is known as the B2F bug.
Ok, so everything execpt for the conversion thing is true, IT'S A JOKE :-)
A wealthy eccentric who marches to the beat of a different drum. But you may call me "Noodle Noggin."
I am using a NetGear RH348 Router simply because a friend of my switched to a fraction T1 and didn't need it anymore. It works wonderfully. You telnet into it and can configure everything. DHCP, NAT/NAT+, IP Masquarardaing, Port Forwarding, Dial-in, Bandwidth on Demand, It even has a built in Packet Level Firewall. I set it up so my home network is pretty tight. This adds another layer between the baddies and me. :-)
I did have some problems with the original unit, but that was because it's Rom got corrupted. Before I knew this I called up the Support Line and they were VERY helpful. When we finally determined that the ROM was bad, a new box arrived within 3 days. Their Tech Support Rocks.
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I had a friend who worked in a building that was networked to the next building over via 2 methods:
therefore, the microwave link was aways up and running at ~300Kbit and the laser ran at 100bit/sec except for bursting to 1Gbit about 3 times a year for 30 seconds :-)
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P.S. If they don't consider Slashdot the real "PRESS," They damn well better consider my FCC Licenced Radio Station The Press, goddamit!!!!
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