How exactly do you propose to make it "simpler"? Its a language not an "addon" to your current browser.
And secondly java "allows websites to exploit IE" by a malicious website asking you to run a program. You have to click "Yes run this software I know nothing about and cannot verify its source". Its not a weakness in java or firefox, its PEBKAC.
----------[snip]--------------- 1KM, 2Mbps, 802.11b wireless link using Linksys WAP11 + Yagi, in Hurghada, EGYPT
By: Hassan Adly Hurghada, Red Sea, EGYPT Posted December 10, 2001 Background: I have an Internet cafe in Hurghada, Red Sea, Egypt, with an expensive broadband satellite connection, located 1 km from my house. The roofs of both buildings have a clear line of sight between them. At home I was previously limited to a V.90 modem connection, and remote administration of the cyber cafe network was impossible. A fast connection between my house and the cafe was becoming more and more necessary, mostly in order to provide remote administration at acceptable speeds, but also of course to finally get fast Internet at home! Me-wann' download quicky-quicky now! The Project: A lot of aimless browsing brought me to I, Cringly. This man is a genius. On his "Pulpit" section is a treasure trove of articles on what I would call survival techniques in the digital age. After considering rolling my own DSL on an analog leased line, which would entail for me a hefty annual telecom fee (plus the rather high cost of Pair-Gain SDSL modems), I stumbled across This article about 802.11, which describes how Bob Cringley, with little trouble (use of telescopes notwithstanding), connected his rural home to a DSL connection he had set up 10 miles (16km) away. So according to the theories gleaned from Cringley's article, I realised I could connect my domestic LAN to my workplace LAN, with the help of two wireless LAN bridging devices, and a couple of good antennae (and no annual fee!). Obviously worth further investigation.. I started with Cringley's 802.11 links, which sent me well on my way to wireless Nirvana. Detailed instructions and antenna designs abound, along with some innovative ideas (mostly about saving money, which is good). After some quick price-researching I found that the cheapest 802.11 unit available that suited my purposes was the Linksys WAP11, which has detachable antennae, LAN-bridging capability, 128bit WEP encryption, and best of all, at the time of writing only costs US$134.- on Amazon.com! This unit has the best value for money available for this type of device right now. I lost no time in ordering me a couple of these gems and having them delivered to a friend in California who just happened to be on his way to Egypt a few weeks later. Lucky me! The WAP11 has an out-of-the-box claimed maximum range of about 450 meters under ideal conditions, which even if true falls well short of my 1km requirement. I Also want to be able to connect at high speeds. A replacement is required for the antennae (obviously). So, logitech wheel-mouse in hand, I set about building some! My first project was based on the ingenious Pringles can design. The hardest part for me about emulating the design on Rob Flickenger's website was finding Pringles cans for sale in Egypt. Fortunately I found a supermarket that stocks them and was able to build a pair. If you want to try the Pringles design let me warn you: Under no circumstances should you eat more than a few Pringles at a time! After eating a canful I was positively sick, to the point that all antenna construction was halted for two days! Unfortunately after all my efforts the "Pringletenna" link refused to work, either through a design fault of my own, or noise, or whatever. Maybe it's the grease in the pringles..
After much hand-wringing, beard-ripping, hair-pulling, etc, I decided to construct a more "industrial standard" antenna, which I did without much ado (pictured right). Sporting a 3 full wavelengths collector (compared to the pringletenna's 1 wavelength), and weather-proof PVC piping as the outer shell, these antennae from the start looked as if they meant business, and indeed they did, because as soon as they were installed and properly aimed, they produced a 2Mbps signal at 1km distance. Hurrah! Me do download at home quicky-quicky now!
At one side of the connection the LAN switch is more than 40 meters away from the antenna, with the other side about 20 meters. Instead of trying to push the WAP11's FCC-impaired signal through long antenna cables I decided to put my WAP11's right next to the antennae. Since the WAP11's aren't weatherproof I had to use a weatherproof housing. I found these boxes (pictured above and left) at about US$10.- a piece at a local electrical parts store. To the left you can see how my access point as well as its DC adapter fit inside the box, with the LAN, power, and antenna cables entering through the side. BTW the DC adapter included with the WAP11 works internationally, supporting voltages from 110-250VAC. Very thoughtful on Linksys' part. The roofs of both buildings are relatively secure, so theft of the AP is unlikely, however I am concerned about the fallibility of my housings, at the time of writing it is winter here, with average temperatures around 20-25C during the day, however in summer temperatures here in the Sahara desert can reach 50C. Additionally we very ocassionally experience high wind speeds (over 100km/h) and sand storms. The housings are rain and wind-proof, but whether the AP's will survive the extreme summer environment and sand storms is still a question unanswered. In theory I could install some forced-air cooling such as computer power-supply fans, but I've decided to let next summer be my creation's token reliability test (perhaps Linksys could pay me and use it in an ad-campaign like: "tested in the Sahara desert"..).
The WAP11's antenna connectors, I found to my chagrin, are unlike anything available in northern Africa. The "pigtail" connectors I have read about on American sites are unavailable in Egypt and considering that they cost about $60 each anyway, all the better. After days of driving from one electronics shop to another with no success, I decided to dismantle the standard WAP11 antenna and modify its connector for my purposes. After a lot of clamping, hammering and grinding, this is what I ended up with, a brutalized Linksys connector with a standard satellite dish N-connector jammed onto its backside. So instead of a $60 pigtail, I got a solution that cost me about $1 for the n-connectors (including the ones I destroyed during experimentation). I got the approximately 4 meters of cable I needed for free from a sat-dish repairman I know. So far the most expensive modification was the 60 meters of Cat5 cable I had to pull from my LAN switches to the AP's. For now I've set up one WAP11 as an AP, and the other as an AP client. I am using 64-bit shared-key WEP encryption (the WAP11 supports 128-bit WEP but higher encryption reduces speed). To support bridging mode and 64/128 bit WEP the WAP11 requires a firmware upgrade. I should note here that the WAP11 has a nasty habit of going to sleep (for lack of a better expression) when there has been no traffic for a while. I solved this by setting my proxy server to continuously ping the client WAP11 from the other side of the link. That keeps them lazy WAP11's awake! I think Linksys should include a "keep alive" function in the next WAP11 firmware update, because this issue appears to be confusing a lot of people. In order to preclude any unauthorized wireless access to my network I am planning to implement a Linux router behind the AP with CBQ routing to experiment with bandwidth management and deny bandwidth to unauthorized IP addresses. Not that we have many wardrivers in Egypt, but you can never be too safe, especially in Africa, eh? My Costs: 2x WAP11: $298.- (now $268 incl. shipping!) 60 meters CAT 5 cable: $30.- Yagi antenna parts: About $10.- 2x Weather-proof boxes $20.- 60 meters Electrical cable $10.-
So for a total cost of about US$360.- I built a 1 km wireless link, running for the past 2 months at 2Mbps. Yay!
Future mods: I am beginning to suspect that my choice of coca-cola cans as reflectors on the Yagi antennae may be affecting signal quality (hence the maximum speed of only 2Mbps). Hence I am looking for a flat-based can that has the same diameter as the coca-cola can. Another modification I want to try is putting an Omni-directional antenna on the AP side. I'm combing newsgroups and websites for designs and ideas as time allows. My Dad has a nifty Senao wireless phone with a 60km range, and I'm trying to convince him to lend me his station antenna:) For really long range links and highly improved signal strength, I believe one would require a bi-directional 2.4GHz amplifier like one of these hard to get wonders. Dear Santa, I want a couple of those military-spec 10 Watt amplifiers for Christmas! Last on my wishlist is a UPS connected to each WAP11. I find that after power-outages the AP's take a while to see each other.
Noise issues: Although I live in a small-ish town with presumably little electromagnetic interference, it is worth mentioning that this high-gain, 3 meter tall GSM network monstrosity is located about 7 meters away from my AP antenna, on the same roof. I really can't tell whether or not it is affecting my antenna. Across the road are a pair of of GSM omni-directional antenna towers (pictured below) which to my knowledge also don't seem to affect my link.
By: Hassan Adly
Re:Logitech MX Series Mice
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I managed to score one of the MX-700 for chrissy. A very nice mouse indeed.
Great for gamming too!
Course I still suck at CS.:( And now I can't use my mouse as an excuse.
"Professor David Hillis, of the University of Texas, US, says about 1.7 million species have been described so far, although estimates of the total number range from 10 million to 100 million. "
This is similar to the OH&S policies in Australia.
If you hire someone to say cut a tree down in your front yard. It is the consumers responsability to make sure that they are competent to do the job.
If you dont and they injure themselves or your property (Tree limb falls on the house for example) then the consumer is at fault.
Of course all the consumer has to do to protect them selves is ask "Do you know what your doing?" If they say yes then its up to the person hired to do job properly.
I've used RH and Mandrake for a few years now, and when my ISP was offering unmetered downloads of all 7 cds I thought I'd give it a go.
As mentioned earlier the Install GUI is not pretty but it works, and I had an up an running system in very little time.
However things turned nasty when I tried to compile the NVIDIA kernel module and again for my SBLive.
Oh sure the system is up and running, but unless you love console apps its not much good for anything, until I find time to sit down and debug/re-configure it
majority of wine users arn't concerned with office
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"AppDB Stats - There are 640 applications currently in the database with Half-Life being the top voted application."
Very Interesting, but perhaps you should have....
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Place this comment somewhere a bit more appropriate. As of the time I'm typing this there are 27 mods for "off topic" on this allready. In fact its dissapeard from the main link all together.
It would have been better to submit this as a story.
How about haveing a set of core moderators (Say 4-5 carefully selected users) and when they mod something up. The poster of that comment gets some mod points to distribute. (Obviously they shouldn't be allowed to mod themselves up)
That way only people who make meaningful contributions are able mod up other meaningful contributions.
Just a suggestion I made up right now. Its probably full of holes. (Which I'm sure I'll hear about)
Only ads I watch on tape are really old ones. Like on my original star wars tape from tv about 14+ years ago. I remember one was for the first compact disc player (Had the band Dire Striaghts in the ad)
I read in the Media Section of "the Australian" newspaper about a town in Western Australia that was built from the ground up with the main goal being to make it the most connected town in Australia.
From memory (and I'm sure I'll be corrected) each house had a fibre optic connection.
If I can find more info on it I'll follow this up.
Where I currently work we have 35 computers, through 4 hubs going out on a single 56k modem. And we use Wingate!!!!
To top it off part of that network is Coax cable, that only works if you stand on one foot in the right hand conrner of the top office (You think I'm joking).
At least you run an ISDN.
Slashdot Mirror
You mean I can't use "G'day" as a greeting anymore?
Dont forget ps2 for all your different format needs!
How exactly do you propose to make it "simpler"? Its a language not an "addon" to your current browser.
And secondly java "allows websites to exploit IE" by a malicious website asking you to run a program. You have to click "Yes run this software I know nothing about and cannot verify its source". Its not a weakness in java or firefox, its PEBKAC.
"Computer pioneer Bob Bemer, who published Y2K warnings in '70s, dies at 78" ....
"has died after a battle with cancer. He was 84."
2nd paragraph contradicts the first...
Telemarketer: "Hello I'm calling from ......."
Me: "Wait a moment while I get my tape recorder."
*click*
Actually Jewish is both a race and a religion.
Lol! like I care about karma. If you look at my bio I've made less than 20 posts since I bothered to make an account.
And I'll probably loose some now for being off topic now anyway.
Happy?
As stated earlier: "Posted December 10, 2001"
Don't know how long this server will last so:
:)
----------[snip]---------------
1KM, 2Mbps, 802.11b wireless link using
Linksys WAP11 + Yagi, in Hurghada, EGYPT
By: Hassan Adly
Hurghada, Red Sea, EGYPT
Posted December 10, 2001
Background:
I have an Internet cafe in Hurghada, Red Sea, Egypt, with an expensive broadband satellite connection, located 1 km from my house. The roofs of both buildings have a clear line of sight between them. At home I was previously limited to a V.90 modem connection, and remote administration of the cyber cafe network was impossible.
A fast connection between my house and the cafe was becoming more and more necessary, mostly in order to provide remote administration at acceptable speeds, but also of course to finally get fast Internet at home! Me-wann' download quicky-quicky now!
The Project:
A lot of aimless browsing brought me to I, Cringly. This man is a genius. On his "Pulpit" section is a treasure trove of articles on what I would call survival techniques in the digital age. After considering rolling my own DSL on an analog leased line, which would entail for me a hefty annual telecom fee (plus the rather high cost of Pair-Gain SDSL modems), I stumbled across This article about 802.11, which describes how Bob Cringley, with little trouble (use of telescopes notwithstanding), connected his rural home to a DSL connection he had set up 10 miles (16km) away.
So according to the theories gleaned from Cringley's article, I realised I could connect my domestic LAN to my workplace LAN, with the help of two wireless LAN bridging devices, and a couple of good antennae (and no annual fee!). Obviously worth further investigation..
I started with Cringley's 802.11 links, which sent me well on my way to wireless Nirvana. Detailed instructions and antenna designs abound, along with some innovative ideas (mostly about saving money, which is good).
After some quick price-researching I found that the cheapest 802.11 unit available that suited my purposes was the Linksys WAP11, which has detachable antennae, LAN-bridging capability, 128bit WEP encryption, and best of all, at the time of writing only costs US$134.- on Amazon.com! This unit has the best value for money available for this type of device right now. I lost no time in ordering me a couple of these gems and having them delivered to a friend in California who just happened to be on his way to Egypt a few weeks later. Lucky me!
The WAP11 has an out-of-the-box claimed maximum range of about 450 meters under ideal conditions, which even if true falls well short of my 1km requirement. I Also want to be able to connect at high speeds. A replacement is required for the antennae (obviously). So, logitech wheel-mouse in hand, I set about building some!
My first project was based on the ingenious Pringles can design. The hardest part for me about emulating the design on Rob Flickenger's website was finding Pringles cans for sale in Egypt. Fortunately I found a supermarket that stocks them and was able to build a pair. If you want to try the Pringles design let me warn you: Under no circumstances should you eat more than a few Pringles at a time! After eating a canful I was positively sick, to the point that all antenna construction was halted for two days! Unfortunately after all my efforts the "Pringletenna" link refused to work, either through a design fault of my own, or noise, or whatever. Maybe it's the grease in the pringles..
After much hand-wringing, beard-ripping, hair-pulling, etc, I decided to construct a more "industrial standard" antenna, which I did without much ado (pictured right). Sporting a 3 full wavelengths collector (compared to the pringletenna's 1 wavelength), and weather-proof PVC piping as the outer shell, these antennae from the start looked as if they meant business, and indeed they did, because as soon as they were installed and properly aimed, they produced a 2Mbps signal at 1km distance. Hurrah! Me do download at home quicky-quicky now!
At one side of the connection the LAN switch is more than 40 meters away from the antenna, with the other side about 20 meters. Instead of trying to push the WAP11's FCC-impaired signal through long antenna cables I decided to put my WAP11's right next to the antennae. Since the WAP11's aren't weatherproof I had to use a weatherproof housing.
I found these boxes (pictured above and left) at about US$10.- a piece at a local electrical parts store. To the left you can see how my access point as well as its DC adapter fit inside the box, with the LAN, power, and antenna cables entering through the side. BTW the DC adapter included with the WAP11 works internationally, supporting voltages from 110-250VAC. Very thoughtful on Linksys' part.
The roofs of both buildings are relatively secure, so theft of the AP is unlikely, however I am concerned about the fallibility of my housings, at the time of writing it is winter here, with average temperatures around 20-25C during the day, however in summer temperatures here in the Sahara desert can reach 50C. Additionally we very ocassionally experience high wind speeds (over 100km/h) and sand storms. The housings are rain and wind-proof, but whether the AP's will survive the extreme summer environment and sand storms is still a question unanswered. In theory I could install some forced-air cooling such as computer power-supply fans, but I've decided to let next summer be my creation's token reliability test (perhaps Linksys could pay me and use it in an ad-campaign like: "tested in the Sahara desert"..).
The WAP11's antenna connectors, I found to my chagrin, are unlike anything available in northern Africa. The "pigtail" connectors I have read about on American sites are unavailable in Egypt and considering that they cost about $60 each anyway, all the better. After days of driving from one electronics shop to another with no success, I decided to dismantle the standard WAP11 antenna and modify its connector for my purposes. After a lot of clamping, hammering and grinding, this is what I ended up with, a brutalized Linksys connector with a standard satellite dish N-connector jammed onto its backside. So instead of a $60 pigtail, I got a solution that cost me about $1 for the n-connectors (including the ones I destroyed during experimentation). I got the approximately 4 meters of cable I needed for free from a sat-dish repairman I know.
So far the most expensive modification was the 60 meters of Cat5 cable I had to pull from my LAN switches to the AP's.
For now I've set up one WAP11 as an AP, and the other as an AP client. I am using 64-bit shared-key WEP encryption (the WAP11 supports 128-bit WEP but higher encryption reduces speed). To support bridging mode and 64/128 bit WEP the WAP11 requires a firmware upgrade.
I should note here that the WAP11 has a nasty habit of going to sleep (for lack of a better expression) when there has been no traffic for a while. I solved this by setting my proxy server to continuously ping the client WAP11 from the other side of the link. That keeps them lazy WAP11's awake! I think Linksys should include a "keep alive" function in the next WAP11 firmware update, because this issue appears to be confusing a lot of people.
In order to preclude any unauthorized wireless access to my network I am planning to implement a Linux router behind the AP with CBQ routing to experiment with bandwidth management and deny bandwidth to unauthorized IP addresses. Not that we have many wardrivers in Egypt, but you can never be too safe, especially in Africa, eh?
My Costs:
2x WAP11:
$298.- (now $268 incl. shipping!)
60 meters CAT 5 cable:
$30.-
Yagi antenna parts:
About $10.-
2x Weather-proof boxes
$20.-
60 meters Electrical cable
$10.-
So for a total cost of about US$360.- I built a 1 km wireless link, running for the past 2 months at 2Mbps. Yay!
Future mods:
I am beginning to suspect that my choice of coca-cola cans as reflectors on the Yagi antennae may be affecting signal quality (hence the maximum speed of only 2Mbps). Hence I am looking for a flat-based can that has the same diameter as the coca-cola can.
Another modification I want to try is putting an Omni-directional antenna on the AP side. I'm combing newsgroups and websites for designs and ideas as time allows. My Dad has a nifty Senao wireless phone with a 60km range, and I'm trying to convince him to lend me his station antenna
For really long range links and highly improved signal strength, I believe one would require a bi-directional 2.4GHz amplifier like one of these hard to get wonders. Dear Santa, I want a couple of those military-spec 10 Watt amplifiers for Christmas!
Last on my wishlist is a UPS connected to each WAP11. I find that after power-outages the AP's take a while to see each other.
Noise issues:
Although I live in a small-ish town with presumably little electromagnetic interference, it is worth mentioning that this high-gain, 3 meter tall GSM network monstrosity is located about 7 meters away from my AP antenna, on the same roof. I really can't tell whether or not it is affecting my antenna. Across the road are a pair of of GSM omni-directional antenna towers (pictured below) which to my knowledge also don't seem to affect my link.
By: Hassan Adly
I managed to score one of the MX-700 for chrissy. A very nice mouse indeed.
:( And now I can't use my mouse as an excuse.
Great for gamming too!
Course I still suck at CS.
"Professor David Hillis, of the University of Texas, US, says about 1.7 million species have been described so far, although estimates of the total number range from 10 million to 100 million. "
10 million to 100 million is a big gap.
This is similar to the OH&S policies in Australia.
If you hire someone to say cut a tree down in your front yard. It is the consumers responsability to make sure that they are competent to do the job.
If you dont and they injure themselves or your property (Tree limb falls on the house for example) then the consumer is at fault.
Of course all the consumer has to do to protect them selves is ask "Do you know what your doing?" If they say yes then its up to the person hired to do job properly.
There is no mention of this "settlement" on either the playstation or nintendo sites.
In the words of Kent Brockman: "Do we have a source on this?"
CRT's dont look so nice under sunlight as well... course most arnt exactly mobile and get outside much anyway.... :)
Configuring, now thats where the headaches begin.
I've used RH and Mandrake for a few years now, and when my ISP was offering unmetered downloads of all 7 cds I thought I'd give it a go.
As mentioned earlier the Install GUI is not pretty but it works, and I had an up an running system in very little time.
However things turned nasty when I tried to compile the NVIDIA kernel module and again for my SBLive.
Oh sure the system is up and running, but unless you love console apps its not much good for anything, until I find time to sit down and debug/re-configure it
"AppDB Stats - There are 640 applications currently in the database with Half-Life being the top voted application."
/mnt/winc" for me!
- WINE application database website. (http://appdb.codeweavers.com/)
Acording to there own statistics at least. I'm the same. When I get CS working well enough its "rm -rf
Hey that rhyms! (How ever you spell it)
Thats brilliant!
Place this comment somewhere a bit more appropriate. As of the time I'm typing this there are 27 mods for "off topic" on this allready. In fact its dissapeard from the main link all together.
It would have been better to submit this as a story.
How about haveing a set of core moderators (Say 4-5 carefully selected users) and when they mod something up. The poster of that comment gets some mod points to distribute. (Obviously they shouldn't be allowed to mod themselves up)
That way only people who make meaningful contributions are able mod up other meaningful contributions.
Just a suggestion I made up right now. Its probably full of holes. (Which I'm sure I'll hear about)
Only ads I watch on tape are really old ones. Like on my original star wars tape from tv about 14+ years ago. I remember one was for the first compact disc player (Had the band Dire Striaghts in the ad)
But your right anoying ads get no where fast
And tell me? Who actually watches the ads on a taped program anyway???
I read in the Media Section of "the Australian" newspaper about a town in Western Australia that was built from the ground up with the main goal being to make it the most connected town in Australia.
From memory (and I'm sure I'll be corrected) each house had a fibre optic connection.
If I can find more info on it I'll follow this up.
As far as I know Half life and its mods (Counter strike etc...) use this system allready.
Where I currently work we have 35 computers, through 4 hubs going out on a single 56k modem. And we use Wingate!!!! To top it off part of that network is Coax cable, that only works if you stand on one foot in the right hand conrner of the top office (You think I'm joking). At least you run an ISDN.