What's in TPJ that isn't available free on the net? Articles by people who know what they're talking about like Lincoln Stein and Randall Schwartz (instead of 1 paragraph blurbs). Articles that give detailed examples and code commentaries (I learned much more about how to generate Excel worksheets from Perl than I could get from the relatively thin, informal docs - an unfortunate CPAN tradition).
I'll grant that it's not a good sole source for recent news, but for actually learning about something you didn't know (didn't know existed sometimes) in a much more friendly format than a POD, TPJ is just the best source. I subscribed before and I tried to subscribe to this new edition (and I posted this thread on/.)
The aircraft are no joke. For poor countries that can't get a million cell towers, the planes are semi-viable - and much lower cost initially.
(BR)PS - you made a comment about acceleration software in the Mac-satellite thread. Could you please check out my reply and reply? Thks.
Window size is protocol specific, so being able to route between network interfaces using separate windows sizes doesn't say anything about being able to set an ethernet tcp/ip parameter differently on two different NICs. If anyone knows how to assign different windows sizes to different NICs on Win2k...??? that'd be interestin'.
That satserv.com site is interesting, but I didn't see any software. What 3rd party software exactly are you talking about??
Thanks!
(PS - interesting that you could share using ICS. Tried it and it didn't work - I thought because the DirecPC driver was assigning a different subnet than the ICS software was assigning to the 2nd NIC - but it must be somethign else).
I think it's worth mentioning a couple technical points that have been overlooked by people considering using a PC as a bridge between the satellite receiver and the Mac.
I set up a PC system (with win2k) purely as a bridge. The satellite reciever uses USB (this is from Pegasus-DirecPC-Hughes - now acquired by Earthlink). Pegasus and DirecPC provide proprietary Windows only drivers to deal with the USB network-satellite connection. That's issue #1. That means using Linux or (as suggested in the "comment" link in the oringal post) a simple router won't fly.
Issue 2: Optimizing the Window size for the ethernet connections -- The fact is, the TCP/IP conneciton to the satellite (high bandwidth - extremely high latency) needs different rwin settings to optimize the connection than the simple pc->mac LAN connection. So far as I can figure, Windows lets you choose one setting for all NICs (in this case the USB satellite connection is a NIC).
Issue 3 - you need some kind of 3rd party NAT/Bridge software like Sygate to share the connection with the Mac. The built in (to Win2k, 98) Internet connection software won't work because it can't bridge different subnets. The USB conneciton is on a different subnet vs. a regular NIC. I don't think it can be configured otherwise. WinXP might fix that.
Bottom line: You need a PC with Windows to share the satellite with the Mac and even then the Mac will have inferior service vs. the directly connected PC. So a satellite service supporting Macs would be nice:)
That's a glib answer, but do you really use that as your pop-up stopper?
I actually did try it and found it blocked a huge amount of content I did want and offered no flexible "bypass" - even a key or something so I could look at a particular page.
This is really an example of a feature added with good intention but useless implementation. I use Mozilla and a 3rd part (free) pop-up stopper/proxy server.
After trying many time utilities for Windows which failed either in terms of simply getting the time sometimes or by being resource hogs (how hard can it be?), I found a great small footrprint freeware util called cmdtime.
It's highly configurable by batch file or commandline (it's a commandline tool in a windows world - which is much better for something you want to be unobtrusive) and just plain works. cmdtime (and some other stuff)
The idea of having two (for example) cable modem connections with one as a backup is poor because you're dependent on 99% the same infrastructure for your backup conneciton. Anyone with a cable modem (or DSL) knows that when there's a failure it's almost always a prob with the ISP so your backup will be screwed if your primary is screwed. Ditto on DSL.
So how about the bandwidth doubling idea? Great, but wouldn't it be better if the ISPs just changed their business model on cable modems? They already have with DSL. With DSL you could just upgrade to a higher level of service (more bandwidth) instead of consolidating two lower bandwidth lines? With Cable modems, the situation is even simpler. At the modem level, the bandwidth is almost always throttled back. Doesn't it seem idiotic to consolidate two bandwidth throttled lines instead of just opening things up a little? How bout 3Mbps instead of 1.5 (for most AT&T subscribers).
It just seems inane to come up with a hardware or software solution for something that's really a business model issue.
Who what where how -- give it a try
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How about getting off that hobby-horse for a minute and simply describing EXACTLY what is in the book, what is not, and who (besides you) might be interested. I feel like I read a sermon, not a book review.
What'd be good is if these guys made a standalone DiVX MPG-4 QuickTime6 etc. standalone player I could plug into my TV.
(It could read CDs with 1 file burned on um).
That'd be good
What wouldn't be good (who needs it?) is this here card.
I've built a few and I have to say, with today's prices and discounts, you're not likely to save a whole lot of money building your own box.
But you will be able to choose all your own components. That might be important to you if you want a particular video card or other accessory. You can also choose higher quality components (like bigger, quieter power supplies, faster memory, bigger, better case, overclockable motherboard, etc). I've also found my home builts generally more congeneal to upgrades than Dells and Compaqs. Motherboard makers like Abit, Asus, Tyan, and such generally provide more frequent BIOS updates so you can go to a newer processor or other newfangled thingy sooner than if you wait on an OEM (generally more likely to release a bios upgrade to fix a bug than to enable an upgrade).
If you're building a server class machine, if you want stuff like redundant powersupplies, dual (or more) processors, built in highend SCSI... you're still going to pay a lot.
With a pretty good Dell going for $900, you've got to want to futz around inside the box to make building your own (with no real manufacturer support) worth your while.
Along the same lines, Tracy Kidder (of "Soul of the New Machine" fame) wrote a terrific book called House telling the whole story from dream to carpentry to $$ etc of a couple building their first home... Great book.
Pretty Idea and it's always fun to blame MSFT, but the fact is, the Datek streaming applet (for example) worked with Sun's previous JVM.
That means they changed something, doesn't it?
One of the issues involved in the anti-trust finding of fact in the MSFT case was their consistent announcement of vaporware just before a competitor was going to release some piece of keen new kit.
That's anti-competitive (unless it's not vaporware and you do have a product release immenent).
In this case, MSFT is pre-warning corporate America that Windows may be Java inhospitable in future versions (blocking Java apps "for security reasons").
Corporate America may be cowed, as they were by vaporware announcements, into believing MSFTs real or not so real version of the future.
MSFT doesn't want to totally remove Java now because they know a lot of their customers would be pissed (IT departments installing VMs en masse).
This way, MSFT preps the cow before it hits it over the head in 2004.
Because SUN hasn't chosen to make their current VM Backwards compatible, tens of thousands of Java Applets live out there DEPENDENT on MSFTs old old VM.
Skeptical? Want a great example?
Try Datek.com's free real-time quotes streamer.
A great applet (and, by the way, a great source of free realtime quotes). Does it work with Sun's current VM? Nope. MSFT's OLD VM? Yup.
And Datek isn't alone. Companies will have the choice of recoding (often from scratch) to accomodate Sun's VM, or just coding their client apps in (God verbid) C#.
Does this book include anything on transaction processing?
Since transactions are a relatively new part of MySQL (and so, presumably new to PHP's interface to MySQL), a good part of the value of a new book on the subject of PHP/MySQL website building would relate to that new feature (which would also help with the double-entry problems mentioned in the review).
So, does the book cover this topic or not? I can't tell from this review.
Something easy and cheap to reduce case fan noise that worked great for me:
Get or make a small cardboard box - about 2" bigger than your fan e.g. about 5x5x5 for the typical case fan. remove two adjacent sides of the box and line the remaining four sides with foam (ideally dense acoustic foam - but whatever you got).
Then just cover the case fan with the box. Worked great for me. You can use a shallower box so the foam is closer to the fan - or use egg-crate style foam. The main thing is, the sound hits the foam and is reduced before leaving the vent.
I've also used PVC sewer pipe elbows from Home depot. Works very well (Better with a foam baffle), but it's kind of hard to attach to the case.
Good source for acoustic foamGood source for cheap silent CPU and Case fans including supercheap panaflos and Vantec Stealths
I've tried this. Noise cancelling headphones do work (you can get a pair of Maxell's around the net for $30). Noise cancelling speakers would not work because your head position is crucial. Move the tiniest bit and the phase is off and boom, you double your pleasure. Kind of a neat standing wave effect though wooo wooo.
Maybe if you had microphones at the fan outputs and speakers inside the case - so the actual case noise emissions were cancelled (as opposed to cancellation at the ear "receiver")...
Hmmm, maybe it will take more research.
Oh come on. Don't you watch TV?
The "winners" have been published on TV, newspapers, whereever you want to look all week! It's not a live show!
Here's an LA Times article that says better than I can. Suspense isn't the point of these awards. It's entertainment...
Sure if the universe has a single capturable (e.g. classical) mechanical state at each "point" in time, but "the universe" is possessed of every possible quantum state in each of its friendly little sub-particles at every unobserved "instant" (which itself only has meaning in the context of one of those states).
So, you know, this is just more USA today type masterbation.
On the other hand, did you know that a PentiumII 400mhz cpu has roughly the same MIPS as a Cray2?
Now that's a more entertaining factoid if you ask me.
In most areas you can "lock in" your current rate and get one month free if you commit to one year of AT&T cable modem service. My current rate (Souther Cal) is $35.95 - which would be $42.95 when the price is jacked.
I just paid $395.45 for 12 months (about $33/mo) with their pay for 11 get 12 plan.
Apparently their "billing" dept can't cope, so if you want to see if you can get the deal, call customer service (for me, that's 866-447-7333).
Bon Luck.
Where are all the nude Steffi pics now that MSFT is out of the business?
Seems like the answer is, as with most things, if you want something done right, Do It Yourself.
This guy seems to do it himself on a too regular basis.
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Non-musical types have been playing and producing mathematical music since Plato. I can't say any of it ranks up there with "twinkle twinkle" (even). But it never hurts to try...
I'll grant that it's not a good sole source for recent news, but for actually learning about something you didn't know (didn't know existed sometimes) in a much more friendly format than a POD, TPJ is just the best source. I subscribed before and I tried to subscribe to this new edition (and I posted this thread on /.)
The aircraft are no joke. For poor countries that can't get a million cell towers, the planes are semi-viable - and much lower cost initially. (BR)PS - you made a comment about acceleration software in the Mac-satellite thread. Could you please check out my reply and reply? Thks.
Window size is protocol specific, so being able to route between network interfaces using separate windows sizes doesn't say anything about being able to set an ethernet tcp/ip parameter differently on two different NICs. If anyone knows how to assign different windows sizes to different NICs on Win2k ...??? that'd be interestin'.
That satserv.com site is interesting, but I didn't see any software. What 3rd party software exactly are you talking about?? Thanks! (PS - interesting that you could share using ICS. Tried it and it didn't work - I thought because the DirecPC driver was assigning a different subnet than the ICS software was assigning to the 2nd NIC - but it must be somethign else).
I set up a PC system (with win2k) purely as a bridge. The satellite reciever uses USB (this is from Pegasus-DirecPC-Hughes - now acquired by Earthlink). Pegasus and DirecPC provide proprietary Windows only drivers to deal with the USB network-satellite connection. That's issue #1. That means using Linux or (as suggested in the "comment" link in the oringal post) a simple router won't fly.
Issue 2: Optimizing the Window size for the ethernet connections --
The fact is, the TCP/IP conneciton to the satellite (high bandwidth - extremely high latency) needs different rwin settings to optimize the connection than the simple pc->mac LAN connection. So far as I can figure, Windows lets you choose one setting for all NICs (in this case the USB satellite connection is a NIC).
Issue 3 - you need some kind of 3rd party NAT/Bridge software like Sygate to share the connection with the Mac. The built in (to Win2k, 98) Internet connection software won't work because it can't bridge different subnets. The USB conneciton is on a different subnet vs. a regular NIC. I don't think it can be configured otherwise. WinXP might fix that.
Bottom line: You need a PC with Windows to share the satellite with the Mac and even then the Mac will have inferior service vs. the directly connected PC. So a satellite service supporting Macs would be nice :)
I actually did try it and found it blocked a huge amount of content I did want and offered no flexible "bypass" - even a key or something so I could look at a particular page.
This is really an example of a feature added with good intention but useless implementation. I use Mozilla and a 3rd part (free) pop-up stopper/proxy server.
It's highly configurable by batch file or commandline (it's a commandline tool in a windows world - which is much better for something you want to be unobtrusive) and just plain works.
cmdtime (and some other stuff)
So how about the bandwidth doubling idea? Great, but wouldn't it be better if the ISPs just changed their business model on cable modems? They already have with DSL. With DSL you could just upgrade to a higher level of service (more bandwidth) instead of consolidating two lower bandwidth lines? With Cable modems, the situation is even simpler. At the modem level, the bandwidth is almost always throttled back. Doesn't it seem idiotic to consolidate two bandwidth throttled lines instead of just opening things up a little? How bout 3Mbps instead of 1.5 (for most AT&T subscribers).
It just seems inane to come up with a hardware or software solution for something that's really a business model issue.
How about getting off that hobby-horse for a minute and simply describing EXACTLY what is in the book, what is not, and who (besides you) might be interested. I feel like I read a sermon, not a book review.
(It could read CDs with 1 file burned on um).
That'd be good
What wouldn't be good (who needs it?) is this here card.
If you're building a server class machine, if you want stuff like redundant powersupplies, dual (or more) processors, built in highend SCSI... you're still going to pay a lot.
With a pretty good Dell going for $900, you've got to want to futz around inside the box to make building your own (with no real manufacturer support) worth your while.
Along the same lines, Tracy Kidder (of "Soul of the New Machine" fame) wrote a terrific book called House telling the whole story from dream to carpentry to $$ etc of a couple building their first home... Great book.
Pretty Idea and it's always fun to blame MSFT, but the fact is, the Datek streaming applet (for example) worked with Sun's previous JVM. That means they changed something, doesn't it?
That's anti-competitive (unless it's not vaporware and you do have a product release immenent).
In this case, MSFT is pre-warning corporate America that Windows may be Java inhospitable in future versions (blocking Java apps "for security reasons").
Corporate America may be cowed, as they were by vaporware announcements, into believing MSFTs real or not so real version of the future.
MSFT doesn't want to totally remove Java now because they know a lot of their customers would be pissed (IT departments installing VMs en masse).
This way, MSFT preps the cow before it hits it over the head in 2004.
Because SUN hasn't chosen to make their current VM Backwards compatible, tens of thousands of Java Applets live out there DEPENDENT on MSFTs old old VM.
Skeptical? Want a great example? Try Datek.com's free real-time quotes streamer. A great applet (and, by the way, a great source of free realtime quotes). Does it work with Sun's current VM? Nope. MSFT's OLD VM? Yup.
And Datek isn't alone. Companies will have the choice of recoding (often from scratch) to accomodate Sun's VM, or just coding their client apps in (God verbid) C#.
Since transactions are a relatively new part of MySQL (and so, presumably new to PHP's interface to MySQL), a good part of the value of a new book on the subject of PHP/MySQL website building would relate to that new feature (which would also help with the double-entry problems mentioned in the review).
So, does the book cover this topic or not? I can't tell from this review.
Something easy and cheap to reduce case fan noise that worked great for me:
Get or make a small cardboard box - about 2" bigger than your fan e.g. about 5x5x5 for the typical case fan. remove two adjacent sides of the box and line the remaining four sides with foam (ideally dense acoustic foam - but whatever you got).
Then just cover the case fan with the box. Worked great for me. You can use a shallower box so the foam is closer to the fan - or use egg-crate style foam. The main thing is, the sound hits the foam and is reduced before leaving the vent.
I've also used PVC sewer pipe elbows from Home depot. Works very well (Better with a foam baffle), but it's kind of hard to attach to the case.
Good source for acoustic foam Good source for cheap silent CPU and Case fans including supercheap panaflos and Vantec Stealths
I've tried this. Noise cancelling headphones do work (you can get a pair of Maxell's around the net for $30). Noise cancelling speakers would not work because your head position is crucial. Move the tiniest bit and the phase is off and boom, you double your pleasure. Kind of a neat standing wave effect though wooo wooo. Maybe if you had microphones at the fan outputs and speakers inside the case - so the actual case noise emissions were cancelled (as opposed to cancellation at the ear "receiver")... Hmmm, maybe it will take more research.
Oh come on. Don't you watch TV? The "winners" have been published on TV, newspapers, whereever you want to look all week! It's not a live show! Here's an LA Times article that says better than I can. Suspense isn't the point of these awards. It's entertainment...
Sure if the universe has a single capturable (e.g. classical) mechanical state at each "point" in time, but "the universe" is possessed of every possible quantum state in each of its friendly little sub-particles at every unobserved "instant" (which itself only has meaning in the context of one of those states).
So, you know, this is just more USA today type masterbation.
On the other hand, did you know that a PentiumII 400mhz cpu has roughly the same MIPS as a Cray2? Now that's a more entertaining factoid if you ask me.
In most areas you can "lock in" your current rate and get one month free if you commit to one year of AT&T cable modem service. My current rate (Souther Cal) is $35.95 - which would be $42.95 when the price is jacked.
I just paid $395.45 for 12 months (about $33/mo) with their pay for 11 get 12 plan.
Apparently their "billing" dept can't cope, so if you want to see if you can get the deal, call customer service (for me, that's 866-447-7333).
Bon Luck.
Where are all the nude Steffi pics now that MSFT is out of the business? Seems like the answer is, as with most things, if you want something done right, Do It Yourself.
This guy seems to do it himself on a too regular basis.
I can't quite figure out why their genie icon has a vagina on his head (or a cherry on his ear). Is it a tribute to the search engine-porn connection?
Adobe has had an IRIX version of Photoshop since the dim dim ages. It's not a question of porting to Unix. It's a question of porting to Linux.