The two things that come to mind when reading comments here are: who owns the electro-magnetic spectrum? and When and where is DSSS a good thing?
First, I submit that no one owns the electro-magnetic spectrum any more than someone owns gravity. Therefore, no one - including the FCC or some company or some radio station - should be allowed to profit from it or buy it up for the highest price.
Secondly, I see a lot of posters advocating the use of spread spectrum technology as a replacement for fixed carrier AM/FM/SSB, etc. Sure, I think spread spectrum is cool. Don't we all? The problem is: I can't build DSSS circuits! I can build simple circuits that work on fixed carrier modulation with designs and parts I know how to use. Designing and building DSSS cicuitry requires equipment and knowledge that are beyond my resources and, I suspect, the resources of most HAM operators and electronic hobbiests.
Do I think we should split bands into 3 wide-band FM channels each? No, but I do think that the public should be provided free use of spectrum throughout all bands and that there should be provisions in each band for many different types of users. Lastly, licensed channels in each band should be licensed according to the merits and public benefit of intended use, and the quality of the technology to be used - not according to who has the deepest pockets. The licenses should be virtually free.
So.. when I can no longer afford to operate my network (which I make ZERO $$ from) on my broadband connection, I just shut down the network?
To use your analogy of electric service, I'd be willing to hog bandwidth at off-peak hours (give me 20 hours per week + all weekend) and pay a LITTLE more for it... IF I could have something like 5 mbit/sec up and 10 mbit/sec down.
Something tells me that if this goes your way I'll just end up paying more and more for less and less until I can no longer afford to connect my network to the Internet at anything more than modem speeds.
I'm not saying the government is perfect, but it seems to be that private, even public companies, are in an infinately better position to manipulate your opinions and consent, and not be held accountable for it.
Of course they're in a better position. The United States of America has the best government money can buy!
What worries me is the idea of "unaccountable to Internet users, businesses and other key interest groups." How in the blazes can you be accountable to both Internet users and businesses? The interests of individual users and businesses (not to mention "key interest groups" - read: 'corporate sponsored lobbies') are diabolically oppposed at the most fundamental level.
For the average user, whose computer is powered off most of the time or uses their (one) machine 2 hours a day or less, cable/DSL is an excellent value and is priced fairly.
It is more than fair for a user like myself with 7 machines in a network, my own domain complete with DNS server, and other hosts. I am a high bandwidth user. My machines are on 24x7 and I use them throughout the day and even more in the evenings and weekends.
However, I make ABSOLUTELY NO MONEY WHATSOEVER by having a broadband Internet connection. Because of this, I do not believe that a pricing structure that assumes I am a business and therefore using my bandwidth to generate revenue is fair at all.
I pay $45 per month for 1.5 Mbit/sec down and 384 kbiit/sec up. This is barely adequate for my use. Especially the upstream. I would be willing to pay $100 to $200 per month for 5 mbit/sec up and 5 mbit sec (10 mbit/sec total). I think that would be quite fair. I would even be willing to limit high-bandwidth usage to weekends and off-peak hours. Of course, this is an ideal...
I would be willing to pay $100 per month for good solid 1 mbit/sec up and 2 to 10 mbit/sec down. The problem is that there is no deal. The cable company has one-size-fits-all and won't deal with individuals.. or in this case an entire legion of what I like to call "power geeks."
PowerGeeks are folks like myself who are NOT running a business, but who typically have home LANs and higher-than-average bandwidth usage. Also, if the other people in this group are anything like me, we are WILLING to pay more to go faster, but not a lot more.
There is just nothing in between the one-size-fits-all 2 or so mbit/sec down and 256 or so kbit/sec up and a T1 which is just not a practical cost for a hobbiest. This market segment could, in my opinion, be "milked" a lot better. I have about $200 per month to spend and my cable company is getting 1/4 of that from me. If they could offer something a bit faster, they could get considerably more of my money. I have called and asked. I have spoken to the VP of my local ISP, and while he is sympathetic, there just isn't anything in the works.
What do you folks think? Am I being anywhere near realistic? I am talking throuhgput of about 4 GByte per week upstream and sometimes as much as twice that downstream. I'd like to go faster, and I'm willing to pay some more for it.
Vortran out
Two Things Every Review Should Have...
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Shuttle SS40G Mini-PC
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· Score: 2, Insightful
1. Where to get the thing being reviewed 2. The PRICE!
Both were lacking from this review. So tell me, my fellow/.ers, why would anyone write a review and fail to include these two vital bits of information?
Also, can anyone actually tell me where to obtain one of these? I found some other reviews on google with prices, but none say where to buy.
I disagree strongly on the issue of language and multi-national characters. If the French want to have their own private Internet, fine. Same for the Spaniards or the Russians or anyone else. This is not a troll.. hear me out.
My feeling is that the Internet is best served by standards that all (or most) people can use and understand. Having multi-language support is antithetical to this goal.
Please don't call me an English-only bigot. I freely admit that I know no other written/verbal language. However, I truly wouldn't care what language was used, as long as it was the univerally understood standard. If Swahili was the standard language of the Internet, I'd have learned Swahili so I could use the Internet.
Perhaps one language is too few.. maybe 3 or 4 languages would be better... IF everybody (or most everybody) could use them. I don't want the Internet to become segregated.
Find a standard language, ANY language... Use it exclusively in a global medium. This promotes global communication and prevents people from having their own little private "Internets" where the rest of the world can't understand a thing they're saying, much less search and browse through their "private world".
Right now, English is the standard, right or wrong, for better or for worse. Whether or not English should be the standard is a different debate to me. My point is that we should have a standard language and maintain it in order to keep the whole thing all together and on the same (web) page.
If you want to reach out and communicate with people across the globe, you have to have common ground. On the Internet, that's langauge. So, on the Internet, España is "Spain".
This guy must have a message that is rather important to him to get to people working at Intel.
Is he just bashing them, or is there a real problem? If he's just being a prick because he's pissed about losing his job (and who wouldn't be a tad upset about that?), that's one thing and I figure he should pay the piper.
However, if there is a real problem at Intel, especially with the way employees are treated/managed, maybe the whistle needs to be blown?
I just want to know what the content of those e-mails was so I can draw my own conclusions. Anybody have a copy?
Vortran out
Aired an hour early, missed first half
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The Truth Revealed
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I watch 3 shows on TV, of which X-file is the only FOX network show I watch. It is (except for last night) usually on at 8 PM. Since this is probably my fault for not watching all the other super-cool (not) shows on Fox and seeing their teasers for the *7* o'clock showing of the series finale, how might I have known that the show was going to be on an hour earlier? I really expected they'd run starting at the usual time.
It was still a great series finale. Too bad they couldn't make enough profit to keep the series going.
Now I only have 2 TV shows to watch, and one is really my wife's show that I watch with her: Star Trek: Enterprise, and 7th Heaven
Tornadoes and hurricanes can be tracked as they form and there are ways to predict them. AFAIK you cannot predict earth quakes. You can build structures that are 100% proof against tornadoes and hurricanes. You can build structures that might have a better chance of shrugging off a small earth quake, but AFAIK there's is no way to build a building that can survive falling into a chasm.
I live in Milwaukee, WI. Not the best place in the world, to be sure.. but I don't wonder when the ground will open up and swallow my house and family.
Ok.. so it has AGP 8x. Nifty! What motherboard do I buy that has AGP 8x? I just bought an Abit KR7A-RAID with Via KT266 chipset, thinking this is a pretty decent board, but I doubt it supports AGP 8x.
Now we move on to monitors. Could someone recommend a monitor that I can use to accurately resolve 1 billion colors? I tend to run my 2 Viewsonic PT775's at 1600 x 1200 so I've grown accustomed to that much "real estate".
This sounds like an awesome card, but I really don't know where to go or what to get to reap all the benefits of it.
Lastly, precisely when and where can a fellow technogeek acquire one? Since the HotHardware site seems to be experiencing some serious "Slashdot Effect" I was unable to finish reading the entire article. MRP $$ and a release date would be very useful.
My, Lord! This is a wake up call. LEAVE already. When the big one hits, it will make 9/11 look like a little bump in the road. It will affect the computer industry drastically and everyone will wail and whine like banshees.
I love southern CA.. it's warm and beautiful! but I would NEVER live there! People.. check this: there are at least FOUR MAJOR faults running through or near the SF bay area. They WILL give way.
Remember how upset everyone was when the bay bridge collapsed? Well.. DUH! You LIVE ON A FAULT!! and they built a major suspension bridge on a fault. Brilliant.
When beaches are infested or contaminated, they put up a sign and a big fence around the place and people DON'T GO THERE.
I just don't get why people aren't leaving in droves. They are living on the edge.. literally. My wife's aunt lives out there and I've asked this same thing and she admits it's foolish to stay, but can't give a rational answer for not leaving. It may cost her her life. Is it worth it?
You can't "read" the program data off a smart card... even with a reader. You can only read the output that the smart card povides through its interface. This would be the encrypted data which you can decrypt with the public key.
To get the program and data (private key), you have to be able to read the memory directly. This is not possible with a smart card reader. Hence, the attack with microscopes and whatnot.
You want the private key in order to ENcrypt data to be read by the smart card or the institution that issued it in order to fake the system.
I disagree strongly. If the French want to have their own private Internet, fine. Same for the Spaniards. This is not a troll.. hear me out.
My feeling is that the Internet is best served by standards that all (or most) people can use and understand. Having multi-language support is antithetical to this goal.
Please don't call me an English-only bigot. I freely admit that I know no other written/verbal language. However, I truly wouldn't care what language was used, as long as it was the univerally understood standard.
Perhaps one language is too few.. maybe 3 or 4 languages would be better... IF everybody (or most everybody) could use them. I don't want the Internet to become segregated.
Find a standard language, ANY language... Use it exclusively in a global medium. This promotes global communication and prevents people from having their own little private "Internets" where the rest of the world can't understand a thing they're saying, much less search and browse through their "private world".
Right now, English is the standard, right or wrong, for better or for worse. Whether or not English should be the standard is a different debate to me. My point is that we should have a standard language and maintain it in order to keep the whole thing all together and on the same (web) page.
If you want to reach out and communicate with people across the globe, you have to have common ground. On the Internet, that's langauge. So, on the Internet, España is "Spain".
I'm not using that mailbox much anymore anyway.. if it gets spammed, I'll just take it off my sendmail server.
You'll be able to see a number of active services on my network. You will NOT see an IIS server, a TFTP server, a telnet server, or a NetBEUI port open.
I just (finally) got sendmail working and I plan on setting up a mailbox for the website and updating it. I didn't want to use any of my existing off-site e-mail accounts for webmaster traffic.
I have asked, I have e-mailed, I have talked to managers and I'm at wits' end. I would KILL to have more bandwidth. 10 MB/s would be just about right for me. I have offered to pay double.. even triple what I'm paying now if TW would just PLEASE uncap my modem so that I could get 5 MB/sec up and 5 down. If you have ANY information on how to do this I would be more than grateful.
Like I said, I've tried to do this the legit way, but I've basically been told to go to hell, and take my $150/mo offer with me.
I make no money playing with my network. It's just me doing something I enjoy. It just seems that no ISP is willing to work with someone who is just a simple hobbiest that wants to have more than average upstream at any price that a non-business can afford. I'd even be willing to limit high-usage to certain hours or just weekends.
If large structures are made with conductive concrete, it could create a broad spectrum RF nightmare in cities.
Today, large buildings reflect radio signals, creating interference for many signals in the shorter wavelength (6m to 30cm) bands. Imagine how much worse this would be if the buildings them selves had strong electromagnetic fields, or worse yet, emitted AC fields?
Also, these structures will convert radio signals and other EMF into electric current. Theoretically, it is possible that such current could be in the tens of milliamps or even higher, making for passive RF radiators.
I know we already use a lot of steel in buildings, but this is usually grounded and steel is a really poor conductor compared to something like copper or silver. I'm assuming this conductive concrete has much better electric conductivity than steel.
Vortran out
Performance - doesn't anyone care?
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A few posts have hinted at this already, but one major problem I see with serial ATA is performance. I also have to ask (along with some others) why? We already have FireWire and USB for those who believe serial I/O is the holy grail (and in some instances it is a great answer). For storage devices, serial I/O technologies are to be avoided IMO.
For REAL performance, give me SCSI (or fiber channel) any day. Here's why: The serial I/O technologies for the PC, as well as the abomination called IDE, utilize CPU interrupts and the system bus to move data. The devices cannot "talk" to each other without utilizing CPU power.
For me, this is a major problem. I installed an IDE drive last weekend (because they're cheap) and while I was copying files (some 15 GB worth), my CPU usage was near 90%. All other processes were slowed down, so much so that I couldn't compile, render, play games or even edit code or browse http comfortably while this was happening.
On the other hand, when I copy files or burn CDs from one SCSI device to another, my CPU goes unmolested while these fine (Ultra320 LVD) devices talk (scream, rather) to eachother at lightning speeds.
Why bother creating new serial architectures that are no better than what we already have? Why not work at getting a SCSI drive down to the same price as an IDE drive.. or ( GASP! ) change the sorry PC architecture to have more than 16 IRQs! This would make me slightly less averse to burning up my scarce IRQs on IDE controllers.
To summarize - you lose system performance when using CPU intensive I/O. So avoid it if you like to use your computer and your storage devices at the same time... and if you can afford it.
As I understand it, the file system will be a SQL Server database.
This is such baloney, IMO. The SQL server files have to be on a "file system".. so what's THAT going to be? Whatever the BASE file system is, that, to me, is the FS that the machine is using.
Why should the tech industry think "long and hard" about how most folks can use a TV more easily than they can a computer?
One part of me thinks that bringing computers out of the garages and labs was a BIG mistake. This part of me says, "Computers are for techies, not for the general masses." Sometimes I wonder if we wouldn't be further ahead if we hadn't sold out?
..but then I supposed I wouldn't have my Palm Pilot. I dunno. It just seems a bit unrealistic to expect everyone everywhere to understand computers. They are NOT "magic TVs".
Furthermore, I do not want my computer to become a "magic TV." I want my computers to continue to be my own jumbles of circuit cards and twisted wires and strange humming noises that my wife points at and says the word "that".
I don't want to be coddled by layers and layers of metaphor and "cuteness". I want my machines to be powerful tools that I can use for work, study and pastime. I don't want them "dumbed down".
Then again, I sure like my GPS and digital camera. I don't think I'd have these toys if I still had to buy wire-wrap sockets and ICs to fix my Altair 8800. So, once again, I'm not sure.
Was that, instead of taking questions one at a time, in the order they came in, our two hosts only answered questions they wanted to answer. At one point, they were ASKING for more questions and rejecting the ones that were coming in. I stayed for the whole thing, waiting for one of my questions to come up. A lot of other people did too.
Respect for CmdrTaco & Hemos has reached on all-time low in my book. I mean, why didn't they just write their own bloody questions like politicians do?
I was looking forward to a real IRC dialog. I was very disappointed.
Slashdot Mirror
The two things that come to mind when reading comments here are: who owns the electro-magnetic spectrum? and When and where is DSSS a good thing?
First, I submit that no one owns the electro-magnetic spectrum any more than someone owns gravity. Therefore, no one - including the FCC or some company or some radio station - should be allowed to profit from it or buy it up for the highest price.
Secondly, I see a lot of posters advocating the use of spread spectrum technology as a replacement for fixed carrier AM/FM/SSB, etc. Sure, I think spread spectrum is cool. Don't we all? The problem is: I can't build DSSS circuits! I can build simple circuits that work on fixed carrier modulation with designs and parts I know how to use. Designing and building DSSS cicuitry requires equipment and knowledge that are beyond my resources and, I suspect, the resources of most HAM operators and electronic hobbiests.
Do I think we should split bands into 3 wide-band FM channels each? No, but I do think that the public should be provided free use of spectrum throughout all bands and that there should be provisions in each band for many different types of users. Lastly, licensed channels in each band should be licensed according to the merits and public benefit of intended use, and the quality of the technology to be used - not according to who has the deepest pockets. The licenses should be virtually free.
Vortran out
So.. when I can no longer afford to operate my network (which I make ZERO $$ from) on my broadband connection, I just shut down the network?
To use your analogy of electric service, I'd be willing to hog bandwidth at off-peak hours (give me 20 hours per week + all weekend) and pay a LITTLE more for it... IF I could have something like 5 mbit/sec up and 10 mbit/sec down.
Something tells me that if this goes your way I'll just end up paying more and more for less and less until I can no longer afford to connect my network to the Internet at anything more than modem speeds.
Vortran out
I'm not saying the government is perfect, but it seems to be that private, even public companies, are in an infinately better position to manipulate your opinions and consent, and not be held accountable for it.
Of course they're in a better position. The United States of America has the best government money can buy!
What worries me is the idea of "unaccountable to Internet users, businesses and other key interest groups." How in the blazes can you be accountable to both Internet users and businesses? The interests of individual users and businesses (not to mention "key interest groups" - read: 'corporate sponsored lobbies') are diabolically oppposed at the most fundamental level.
Vortran out
For the average user, whose computer is powered off most of the time or uses their (one) machine 2 hours a day or less, cable/DSL is an excellent value and is priced fairly.
It is more than fair for a user like myself with 7 machines in a network, my own domain complete with DNS server, and other hosts. I am a high bandwidth user. My machines are on 24x7 and I use them throughout the day and even more in the evenings and weekends.
However, I make ABSOLUTELY NO MONEY WHATSOEVER by having a broadband Internet connection. Because of this, I do not believe that a pricing structure that assumes I am a business and therefore using my bandwidth to generate revenue is fair at all.
I pay $45 per month for 1.5 Mbit/sec down and 384 kbiit/sec up. This is barely adequate for my use. Especially the upstream. I would be willing to pay $100 to $200 per month for 5 mbit/sec up and 5 mbit sec (10 mbit/sec total). I think that would be quite fair. I would even be willing to limit high-bandwidth usage to weekends and off-peak hours. Of course, this is an ideal...
I would be willing to pay $100 per month for good solid 1 mbit/sec up and 2 to 10 mbit/sec down. The problem is that there is no deal. The cable company has one-size-fits-all and won't deal with individuals.. or in this case an entire legion of what I like to call "power geeks."
PowerGeeks are folks like myself who are NOT running a business, but who typically have home LANs and higher-than-average bandwidth usage. Also, if the other people in this group are anything like me, we are WILLING to pay more to go faster, but not a lot more.
There is just nothing in between the one-size-fits-all 2 or so mbit/sec down and 256 or so kbit/sec up and a T1 which is just not a practical cost for a hobbiest. This market segment could, in my opinion, be "milked" a lot better. I have about $200 per month to spend and my cable company is getting 1/4 of that from me. If they could offer something a bit faster, they could get considerably more of my money. I have called and asked. I have spoken to the VP of my local ISP, and while he is sympathetic, there just isn't anything in the works.
What do you folks think? Am I being anywhere near realistic? I am talking throuhgput of about 4 GByte per week upstream and sometimes as much as twice that downstream. I'd like to go faster, and I'm willing to pay some more for it.
Vortran out
1. Where to get the thing being reviewed
/.ers, why would anyone write a review and fail to include these two vital bits of information?
2. The PRICE!
Both were lacking from this review. So tell me, my fellow
Also, can anyone actually tell me where to obtain one of these? I found some other reviews on google with prices, but none say where to buy.
Vortran out
I disagree strongly on the issue of language and multi-national characters. If the French want to have their own private Internet, fine. Same for the Spaniards or the Russians or anyone else. This is not a troll.. hear me out.
My feeling is that the Internet is best served by standards that all (or most) people can use and understand. Having multi-language support is antithetical to this goal.
Please don't call me an English-only bigot. I freely admit that I know no other written/verbal language. However, I truly wouldn't care what language was used, as long as it was the univerally understood standard. If Swahili was the standard language of the Internet, I'd have learned Swahili so I could use the Internet.
Perhaps one language is too few.. maybe 3 or 4 languages would be better... IF everybody (or most everybody) could use them. I don't want the Internet to become segregated.
Find a standard language, ANY language... Use it exclusively in a global medium. This promotes global communication and prevents people from having their own little private "Internets" where the rest of the world can't understand a thing they're saying, much less search and browse through their "private world".
Right now, English is the standard, right or wrong, for better or for worse. Whether or not English should be the standard is a different debate to me. My point is that we should have a standard language and maintain it in order to keep the whole thing all together and on the same (web) page.
If you want to reach out and communicate with people across the globe, you have to have common ground. On the Internet, that's langauge. So, on the Internet, España is "Spain".
Vortran out
This guy must have a message that is rather important to him to get to people working at Intel.
Is he just bashing them, or is there a real problem? If he's just being a prick because he's pissed about losing his job (and who wouldn't be a tad upset about that?), that's one thing and I figure he should pay the piper.
However, if there is a real problem at Intel, especially with the way employees are treated/managed, maybe the whistle needs to be blown?
I just want to know what the content of those e-mails was so I can draw my own conclusions. Anybody have a copy?
Vortran out
I watch 3 shows on TV, of which X-file is the only FOX network show I watch. It is (except for last night) usually on at 8 PM. Since this is probably my fault for not watching all the other super-cool (not) shows on Fox and seeing their teasers for the *7* o'clock showing of the series finale, how might I have known that the show was going to be on an hour earlier? I really expected they'd run starting at the usual time.
It was still a great series finale. Too bad they couldn't make enough profit to keep the series going.
Now I only have 2 TV shows to watch, and one is really my wife's show that I watch with her: Star Trek: Enterprise, and 7th Heaven
Vortran out
Tornadoes and hurricanes can be tracked as they form and there are ways to predict them. AFAIK you cannot predict earth quakes. You can build structures that are 100% proof against tornadoes and hurricanes. You can build structures that might have a better chance of shrugging off a small earth quake, but AFAIK there's is no way to build a building that can survive falling into a chasm.
I live in Milwaukee, WI. Not the best place in the world, to be sure.. but I don't wonder when the ground will open up and swallow my house and family.
Ok.. so it has AGP 8x. Nifty! What motherboard do I buy that has AGP 8x? I just bought an Abit KR7A-RAID with Via KT266 chipset, thinking this is a pretty decent board, but I doubt it supports AGP 8x.
Now we move on to monitors. Could someone recommend a monitor that I can use to accurately resolve 1 billion colors? I tend to run my 2 Viewsonic PT775's at 1600 x 1200 so I've grown accustomed to that much "real estate".
This sounds like an awesome card, but I really don't know where to go or what to get to reap all the benefits of it.
Lastly, precisely when and where can a fellow technogeek acquire one? Since the HotHardware site seems to be experiencing some serious "Slashdot Effect" I was unable to finish reading the entire article. MRP $$ and a release date would be very useful.
Vortran out
My, Lord! This is a wake up call. LEAVE already. When the big one hits, it will make 9/11 look like a little bump in the road. It will affect the computer industry drastically and everyone will wail and whine like banshees.
I love southern CA.. it's warm and beautiful! but I would NEVER live there! People.. check this: there are at least FOUR MAJOR faults running through or near the SF bay area. They WILL give way.
Remember how upset everyone was when the bay bridge collapsed? Well.. DUH! You LIVE ON A FAULT!! and they built a major suspension bridge on a fault. Brilliant.
When beaches are infested or contaminated, they put up a sign and a big fence around the place and people DON'T GO THERE.
I just don't get why people aren't leaving in droves. They are living on the edge.. literally. My wife's aunt lives out there and I've asked this same thing and she admits it's foolish to stay, but can't give a rational answer for not leaving. It may cost her her life. Is it worth it?
Vortran out
You can't "read" the program data off a smart card... even with a reader. You can only read the output that the smart card povides through its interface. This would be the encrypted data which you can decrypt with the public key.
To get the program and data (private key), you have to be able to read the memory directly. This is not possible with a smart card reader. Hence, the attack with microscopes and whatnot.
You want the private key in order to ENcrypt data to be read by the smart card or the institution that issued it in order to fake the system.
Vortran out
I disagree strongly. If the French want to have their own private Internet, fine. Same for the Spaniards. This is not a troll.. hear me out.
My feeling is that the Internet is best served by standards that all (or most) people can use and understand. Having multi-language support is antithetical to this goal.
Please don't call me an English-only bigot. I freely admit that I know no other written/verbal language. However, I truly wouldn't care what language was used, as long as it was the univerally understood standard.
Perhaps one language is too few.. maybe 3 or 4 languages would be better... IF everybody (or most everybody) could use them. I don't want the Internet to become segregated.
Find a standard language, ANY language... Use it exclusively in a global medium. This promotes global communication and prevents people from having their own little private "Internets" where the rest of the world can't understand a thing they're saying, much less search and browse through their "private world".
Right now, English is the standard, right or wrong, for better or for worse. Whether or not English should be the standard is a different debate to me. My point is that we should have a standard language and maintain it in order to keep the whole thing all together and on the same (web) page.
If you want to reach out and communicate with people across the globe, you have to have common ground. On the Internet, that's langauge. So, on the Internet, España is "Spain".
Vortran out
Ah, what the heck... use mikesyd@cybermike.net
I'm not using that mailbox much anymore anyway.. if it gets spammed, I'll just take it off my sendmail server.
You'll be able to see a number of active services on my network. You will NOT see an IIS server, a TFTP server, a telnet server, or a NetBEUI port open.
I just (finally) got sendmail working and I plan on setting up a mailbox for the website and updating it. I didn't want to use any of my existing off-site e-mail accounts for webmaster traffic.
Thanks!
:)
I have asked, I have e-mailed, I have talked to managers and I'm at wits' end. I would KILL to have more bandwidth. 10 MB/s would be just about right for me. I have offered to pay double.. even triple what I'm paying now if TW would just PLEASE uncap my modem so that I could get 5 MB /sec up and 5 down. If you have ANY information on how to do this I would be more than grateful.
Like I said, I've tried to do this the legit way, but I've basically been told to go to hell, and take my $150/mo offer with me.
I make no money playing with my network. It's just me doing something I enjoy. It just seems that no ISP is willing to work with someone who is just a simple hobbiest that wants to have more than average upstream at any price that a non-business can afford. I'd even be willing to limit high-usage to certain hours or just weekends.
I really think there's an untapped market here.
Please help.
I use x0RFBServer.
http://www.hexonet.de/software/x0rfbserver/
I am wondering if Krfb is better now! Seems they do the same thing.
If large structures are made with conductive concrete, it could create a broad spectrum RF nightmare in cities.
Today, large buildings reflect radio signals, creating interference for many signals in the shorter wavelength (6m to 30cm) bands. Imagine how much worse this would be if the buildings them selves had strong electromagnetic fields, or worse yet, emitted AC fields?
Also, these structures will convert radio signals and other EMF into electric current. Theoretically, it is possible that such current could be in the tens of milliamps or even higher, making for passive RF radiators.
I know we already use a lot of steel in buildings, but this is usually grounded and steel is a really poor conductor compared to something like copper or silver. I'm assuming this conductive concrete has much better electric conductivity than steel.
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A few posts have hinted at this already, but one major problem I see with serial ATA is performance. I also have to ask (along with some others) why? We already have FireWire and USB for those who believe serial I/O is the holy grail (and in some instances it is a great answer). For storage devices, serial I/O technologies are to be avoided IMO.
For REAL performance, give me SCSI (or fiber channel) any day. Here's why: The serial I/O technologies for the PC, as well as the abomination called IDE, utilize CPU interrupts and the system bus to move data. The devices cannot "talk" to each other without utilizing CPU power.
For me, this is a major problem. I installed an IDE drive last weekend (because they're cheap) and while I was copying files (some 15 GB worth), my CPU usage was near 90%. All other processes were slowed down, so much so that I couldn't compile, render, play games or even edit code or browse http comfortably while this was happening.
On the other hand, when I copy files or burn CDs from one SCSI device to another, my CPU goes unmolested while these fine (Ultra320 LVD) devices talk (scream, rather) to eachother at lightning speeds.
Why bother creating new serial architectures that are no better than what we already have? Why not work at getting a SCSI drive down to the same price as an IDE drive.. or ( GASP! ) change the sorry PC architecture to have more than 16 IRQs! This would make me slightly less averse to burning up my scarce IRQs on IDE controllers.
To summarize - you lose system performance when using CPU intensive I/O. So avoid it if you like to use your computer and your storage devices at the same time... and if you can afford it.
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I've never played an RPG. Can I still call myself a geek?
I love to expound to people on the horrors of dihydrous monoxide, explaining how many people are killed by it every year, how common it is, etc.. etc.
...then watch the look on their faces when I explain what it is.
Ignorance != bliss
As I understand it, the file system will be a SQL Server database.
This is such baloney, IMO. The SQL server files have to be on a "file system".. so what's THAT going to be? Whatever the BASE file system is, that, to me, is the FS that the machine is using.
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Why should the tech industry think "long and hard" about how most folks can use a TV more easily than they can a computer?
One part of me thinks that bringing computers out of the garages and labs was a BIG mistake. This part of me says, "Computers are for techies, not for the general masses." Sometimes I wonder if we wouldn't be further ahead if we hadn't sold out?
..but then I supposed I wouldn't have my Palm Pilot. I dunno. It just seems a bit unrealistic to expect everyone everywhere to understand computers. They are NOT "magic TVs".
Furthermore, I do not want my computer to become a "magic TV." I want my computers to continue to be my own jumbles of circuit cards and twisted wires and strange humming noises that my wife points at and says the word "that".
I don't want to be coddled by layers and layers of metaphor and "cuteness". I want my machines to be powerful tools that I can use for work, study and pastime. I don't want them "dumbed down".
Then again, I sure like my GPS and digital camera. I don't think I'd have these toys if I still had to buy wire-wrap sockets and ICs to fix my Altair 8800. So, once again, I'm not sure.
Did we sell out?
So sure... the equation works - most of the way. However, if Micro$oft gets the money, it does not go back into the economy. It goes into Micso$oft.
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http://www.ecommercetimes.com/perl/printer/4526
I know it's not quite that black & white. I'm just making a point.
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pico /etc/hosts
127.0.0.1 www.netscape.com
Was that, instead of taking questions one at a time, in the order they came in, our two hosts only answered questions they wanted to answer. At one point, they were ASKING for more questions and rejecting the ones that were coming in. I stayed for the whole thing, waiting for one of my questions to come up. A lot of other people did too.
Respect for CmdrTaco & Hemos has reached on all-time low in my book. I mean, why didn't they just write their own bloody questions like politicians do?
I was looking forward to a real IRC dialog. I was very disappointed.