Unless there's some really paranoid packet filtering going on at your ISP, outgoing packets are routed without any concern for the source IP
Restating the obvious...
Of course this won't work, because due to the correctly paranoid packet filtering going on at your ISP, outgoing packets with an incorrect IP address as source address will be dropped at the soonest possible opportunity.
Just belabouring the point that there is a distinct problem with the lowering of the barriers of entry for the internet. The twits and heathens are coming from the bushes again...
The poster said that the T1s were for phone switches. I know that this is going to come as a complete shock to you, but T1s were not originally designed as a 1.544 (1.536) Mb/s data pipe, but rather as a way of passing 24 channels of phone calls across two pairs of wires. These are also known as "trunk lines".
Please realize that you need to check your information before you shoot your stupid mouth off.
I'm posting this from a free broadband connection (part of the room fee) in a Day's Inn in Nepean Ontario - it's a Tut Homerun box screwed to the wall that seems to connect to a Coyote Linux box (handling NAT) and running to Storm.ca. If that wasn't enough, there's about 4 802.11b AP's that are available from adjacent businesses:)
I'm absolutely amazed that you opened your mouth and this kind of craptacular nonesense flooded out. I noticed that you've got a bit of a high userid and a penchant for buggery, but I'm still simply amazed.
I think it's time you cracked out the old brainbox and did a bit of a grep on your reality. If you'd had a minute tiny little itty-bitty clue, you would know that the company called "Apple Computer" was formed by a whacky couple of teenagers who shared the name "Steve".
Now that you've clued yourself in, I'm sure that you're feeling like a real smart cookie... why don't you go back to your sandbox and grab your toys and go home because no one is interested in listening to your stupid childish ranting.
All of the suggestions I've read - and I was fed up by half way down the first page - suggest that the people answering this question have:
no damn business in a datacentre
an inability to read the question posed
an inability to keep their mouth shut when they have nothing useful to add to a conversation
In an effort to put some kind of useful answer into this space, please have a look at Sun BluePrints Online - Datacenter Naming Scheme - PDF and see what professionals have to say rather than the rantings of a 16 year old who dreams of running out of names from the seven dwarves when he gets his eighth computer.
Feel free to mod me down for ranting, but damnit, people deserve a decent answer to a question that is not easily answered by 2 minutes on google.
I've had a whole bunch of portable computerish devices over the years... here's the empirical evidence on abuse-ability...
Osborne 1: 1982-1986 -- solid, dropped it off the corner of my desk too many times to tell the 'rents about. Weaned me from a manual typewriter keyboard to an electronic keyboard.
HP 95 LX: 1992-1998 -- unbelievably robust, got me through college and university and then some with two repairs, worn hinges and clasp, both fixed with pieces of rubber band. This device lived in coat pockets and was frequently kicked around while in the coat pockets. Still works just fine, has been retired to part time duty as VT100 terminal on automotive MP3 player.
Powerbook 520: 1993-1998 -- Dropped a few times, including a major fall from scaffolding at a multimedia show onto concrete (case closed). I picked it up and plugged the serial cable back in to complete the show. Major damage suffered over it's lifetime was in the power adapter plug -- had a short near the computer end that had to be wiggled slightly to provide power to the laptop. Much of the longevity of this laptop was due to the Targus Backpack that I bought for it.
AST 486-25: 1996-1998 -- One of the thinnest laptops of it's generation, it was the second machine to live in the targus backpack and suffered no major damage through it's life, it was retired due to age, although for a time, I carried both it and the PB520 in the Targus bag no problem.
NEC Versa 6050MX: 1998-2000 -- The NEC didn't really stand up to the punishment. The memory expansion card would constantly disconnect itself. The floppy module died early on from a spring failure, the DC adapter caused a motherboard blow-out where the PCMCIA slots were no longer recognized.
HP Jornada 680: 1999-2001 -- The HP Jornada was the replacement for the 95LX in my world. It lived in coat pockets or jeans pockets and suffered only minor case scratches. Still very durable and I'd use it more, but it's heavier than the Visor Deluxe that I replaced it with - I don't have a whole lot of use for the advanced sub-note features of the Jornada right now.
Compaq 5000 LTE: 2000 -- The Compaq is one of the more durable machines. It was a step back in processor speed so it lived only briefly as a working machine.
IBM Thinkpad iSeries: 2000-2001 -- This IBM is a fairly robust machine - in an effort to not have to own it (lusting for macintosh) I've treated it very poorly. No major issues despite it being a day-to-day companion... The fifth inhabitant of the Targus case, it would still be in use except for the acquisition of...
Macintosh Powerbook G3 (Pismo): 2001-2002 -- This machine may be the ultimate - Microsoft and Windows apps to please the bosses and BSD goodness for me. So far, quite durable, probably due to being the sixth inhabitant of the bag.
In reading this, I'm thinking it has more to do with the bag than the machine - when you're trying to protect a multiple thousand dollar investment, DON'T SKIMP ON THE BAG and you'll be much happier!
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Heck, I've gotten to the point where I not only wait till the movie has left the first run theatre, but until it's out on DVD for purchase.
Before anyone jumps all over me for buying DVDs in light of CSS et al, consider that it costs less to license a copy of the movie for repeated perusal than it costs to license a single non-interuptable view of the movie in a venue that is not comfortable, not private and has poor technical quality. I'd rather watch a movie on my own home theatre setup than on the gargantuan screens at the local multiplex. It's just that simple. The only time I consider paying to view a movie in a theatre is either
at a local small (under 100 seats) theatre where the projectionist is a friend of mine who actually understands that focus is important and every couple of runs through the projector, it might be a good idea to clean the film,
or at a non-local multiplex that has "VIP" theatres (seating 30 patrons who pay a premium for the comfortable clean environment, waitress service and an actual human projectionist watching for errors in focus and sound quality)Varsity VIP
I know that it makes me an old grump, but you know, in this age of $12++ tickets, the least I deserve is a clean theatre and a film that is not dusty, has been spliced with something other than Red Green's Duct Tape and a projectionist who knows what the "focus" knob is for.
Much to my dismay, I'm discovering that as I age I need more sleep, not less. When I was in college, I can distinctly remember being able to go for three or four days without sleep and only minor hallucinations. In my (ahem) advanced years (turning 30 this year) and with children, I find that I need about 9 hours of sleep a night to deal with the vagarities of a 2.5 month old child and still function at work. My caffeine usage is all over the map from one 20oz coffee/day on the weekend to today's 1 US Mt.Dew + 20oz coffee before 9:30am. I find that keeping myself stressfree and cool (work has an ungodly 22'C temperature while home is more like 17'C) means that I'm more alert and able to get by on less. Breakfast also helps, even if it is of the "Instant powder mixed with milk" variety. I can still do the 36 hour awake days, once I get over the 'hump' at about the 20 hour mark, but I'm starting to prefer my cold bedroom with warm blankets:)
That is interesting... sort of ties in with an Ask/. from a couple weeks ago - why aren't there any alternative providers of IP - not related to a content company (everyone remember that in canada there are three choices for highspeed residential access - and all three are from content provisioning companies - Bell dsl+satellite, Rogers Cable). The interactive nature of the internet is dwindling under the weight of the big content houses. I'm starting to notice it with my kids - they go to content sites like nickleodeon, etc. rather than to things that are self-published. I thought the 'blog'ers would rekindle the self publishing of the olden days (circa 1996) but it's just not there. Everyone's favourite web pundit, jwz from netscape and now dna lounge fame has a whole lot to say on the topic - you should browse his meandering writings (jwz.org)
Ok, that places your statements in a different light. I was only really concerned because the poster was interested in going up the chain of certs and anyone who thinks they can get a CCIE without touching hardware had better run back to their cave and try to ignore the people who actually route the packets...
This is exactly my ranting point. Do you want a piece of paper or do you want to know routing and networking well enough to do something other than junior grade routing/switching monkey? If you're planning on CCDP or CCIE, you need to know more than how to memorize a Cisco command line.
You're going to need a minimum of three routers and two switches to do anything approching interesting, you're also going to need 4+ endpoint computers.
Quick check of ebay says you can get the above for around $5000-6000 USD. Other people will tell you to rent time, but again, if you're serious, you will want your own lab to (a) keep your skills up in a potenially stagnant work environment or (b)keep going up the ladder in Cisco certifications.
General comments:
You will need the endpoint computers - it's not enough to route between routers, sometimes you need to route between networks. They are also useful for seeing the vagarities of odd protocols - you were going to learn IPX and Appletalk right - they're on the test.
And add routers as you can find them. Anything will be useful, and keep an eye out for AGS or AGS+ machines - they run older IOS only, but they can really help out as they are actually 7500 class routers that are way past their due
date and getting cheaper by the day.
You will need another fast ethernet port sooner as opposed to later, so look for another 262x or 36x0+NM-1FE as well.
You're going to have to add token ring to the mix if you're planning on passing, so plan for it by looking for 2502s or getting a 2513 instead of the 2501 above.
25xx series routers are going to need an ethernet AUI adapter - about $30 new.
Don't cheap out and skip anything - you do need the 500x switch to get an idea of what CatOS is like, it's almost-IOS but not quite.
ISDN is on almost all tests, but not too cheap to simulate in a lab - there is a product from Adtran called the Atlas 550 or 800 that will emulate an ISDN or PRI switch so you can do DDR backup links. If you can find one, sub in a 2503+NT1 for the 2501 above.
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Another interesting and usually cheap system is the AS5100 - it's three 2511's in a 3com modem chassis - great way to have a couple of routers and a console server (use one 2511 plus an octal (or two) RJ45serial cable(s) Here) to control the big mess of routers you've
got through reverse telnet to those serial interfaces.
Stay clear of anything that doesn't run standard IOS (19xx switches, 700 series routers) since they're pretty close to useless these days and interesting only as a side project
Read everything you can get your hands on, you're going to spend a fortune on dead trees, so read as much as you can out of the Cisco Documentation Library before you buy a
Cisco Press book.
Also keep in mind that you can tell the level of the book by whether or not there is an ISO 7-layer triangle in the first chapter (if you don't get this joke now, you will soon.)
This is a lab that a friend of mine is setting up - gives you an idea of what you can accomplish - he's waiting patiently on a cheap 500x switch and for some reason he hasn't listed his 1005 on here.
Email me if you've got detailed questions and you're planning on getting a real CCxx rather than a 'I did the test so pay me lots of money' CCxx and I'll help when I can. Apologies for sounding like an old fart, but I'm tired of people who don't really understand their work, but are really good at passing tests.
My Visor sync's just fine with the included USB connection. I have an older HP Jornada 680 that has limited sync ability (files only) using plain old PPP over serial and SAMBA. Presumptively, if you are running Linux on your iPaq (and you should, it's tres cool) then rsync would be your friend. Yopy doesn't really exist outside of a developer version, and if you're a developer, write your own damn sync software.
I can remember reading an ad in an old copy of Linux Magazine offering the Rack-o-RAID and Can-o-RAID products - pretty much exactly what you're asking for - a cursory google search doesnt find them though.
Do I ever remember this machine - it was my first -real- computer (not a VIC-20) and I used it from early '82 - '86. Four inches of black and white (early models were green) screen - that was a 52x24 window into the 80x25 actual screen - mapped into the top 4K of RAM. I can remember saving for the Double Density Floppy Upgrade:)
I still have this machine and a couple of years ago, I used Modem7 to connect it to a linux box for a really obscene way to check email!
Best part is that it still works (approaching 20 years old) and the drives were such low density that the disks are still usable - laughing at my gradeschool 'projects' that are on there in Compiled Basic.
Slightly more on-topic - if you're looking for a rugged laptop, consider the lunchbox sized machines, you can find the ads for them in the back of your fave computer rag - look for case manufacturer ads, they'll be in there. They usually take a MicroATX motherboard so you can stock them with whatever you need. I wonder why I don't see more of these machines at LAN parties - especially the ones with the 10" Trinitron monitors.
Done it before and I'll likely do it again. Toronto is both easy and difficult as the lay of the land means that not even the big phallic tower is a perfect site (ask Look)
I've done this with the street on which I live, letting me surf from my palmtop while I wander (using some very fancy antennae - 180' panels) but when you say "Toronto" you're talking about a greater area than the approx half of a major block that I can reach.
Email and I'll either tell you how to do it or point a directional at you.
Sorry guys and gals, this one has been done. Licensed bar, diskless terminals, flat screens, running Linux from desktop to server. And it was done more than a year ago. And it was done in Guelph, Ontario. When we built it, we used Celeron 533 machines and PXE booting, the workstations were custom designed and hid the presence of the computer. Basic system design was the same as listed in the article, however, we used logins and allowed people to have access to their desktop from elsewhere (using VNC) as well. Email the obvious for details.
I've got a stylized @ that appears to be built with blue cat5 - the bare wires showing out of the tail of the circle with my nick (first three letters) in binary below that - I used all caps to make it easier for people to decode. At this point, there is only one person to have successfully decoded it - a female geek behind me in line at a waterslide thing - the other attemptees - a gang of Novell programmers at Brainshare 99 couldn't figure it out at all.
Yeah, because Canada is so big in manufacturing...
Actually, yes it is. You might want to do some research about how much manufacturing we do here - I'll give you a hint... Look up the "Auto Pact" and the "NAFTA" and tell me about what it says with regard to automotive production levels in Canada. Having spent 3 years living down the street from a Ford plant that today produces -every single- Windstar that is built, I think I have a little more clue than you seem to presume.
You really need to check your numbers... Canada produces -far- more wheat than the USA does for external consumption. China is arguably the largest producer of food for internal use as they import very little. If you think the USA is free, you need to re-educate yourself, it's rapidly on it's way to a totalitarian regime. If the rest of the world's economy tanked, where do you think the US economy will land? Canada, Australia, EU, Japan, PacRim, China, Russia, and Africa are arguably a larger block of consumers than is represented by the USA. Productivity is at an all time low in the USA, drive an "American Car" -- are you sure? Check again, it was probably produced in either Mexico or Canada. I'll give you 50% of science though it is primarily raw science, you need someone from either Taiwan or China to commercialize it. The US spews huge amounts of toxic crap into the environment - causing worldwide problems - acid lakes in Canada, climatic changes that cause devestating natural disasters... If you do yourself a favour and rub together the two brain cells you were apparently equipped with, you'd discover that you are a complete fool.
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Starting an ISP on a shoestring is easier now than when I did it 3.5 years ago.
The first thing to do is decide if v.90 is a priority. If it isn't, then do yourself a favour and get the analog gear, it's cheaper. If it is, then you need to do a gargantuan amount of homework.
v.34, frame/leased POP equipment list:
RAS (Remote Access Server)
Best: Cisco AS5100 with Quad Analog/Digital Modem Blades - $1250USD (USR TC with real routers)
Better: Livingston Portmaster 2e with Microcom ISPorte external modem blades and chassis
Good: Linux+Portslave+multiportserial+crapload of external modems (Sportster or Courier) in a P166
Upstream Router
Best: Use one of the three sync ports on the AS5100
Better: Get a PM2eR instead and use the sync port
Good: Sagoma sync serial card in above noted linux box
Mail/DNS/Authentication Server
Just use a linux box with Qmail, djbdns, and Cistron Radius - a P90 will handle the kind of load generated by a small POP being fed with less than 48 lines
If you're going to make the change to V.90, sub in one of the following components:
Best: AS5200/5300
Better: 3com HiPer TC
Better: Patton
Good: Ariel Card in Linux Box
Remember to buy used, haunt the isp-* lists, and budget for when things go wrong.
Hrm... this is one of those stories that should be immortalized on a web page with a picture of my cats and a (loud) midi file of some horrible 80s ballad playing.
WAAAAAAY back in the olden days - 1981 I got my mitts on a -real- computer (with drives and everything) the Osborne 1. About two years later, I had snuck into a "business" computer show/conference under the pretext that I looked 16 - hardly as I was about 12. In one of the interconnection hallways, there were the usual crop of guys hawking cheap hardware, including a "VolksModem 300" for $99CDN. I jumped at the chance to get it and pulled out my hard-earned newspaper money to buy it. Got home, hooked it up and used Modem7 to dialup a local BBS. Got hooked on BBSing in about 15 minutes and started using my firstinitial, lastname as my nick. This carried on until '86 when I got a freakshow call from someone who had looked up my number on the basis of my username.... needless to say, I started looking for a decent replacement. As that was a rather fateful year in space exploration, I was waffling between MIR and cBomb (first one should be obvious, second was a grim teenaged angst view of the challenger disaster). I went with Myr because it was -=way=- more 'cyber' than just plain Mir. Over the years, I gave people lots of interesting explanations as to the origin and about a decade after starting to use it, I discovered that people weren't pronouncing it properly (usually pronoucing it as 'myrrh' instead of 'meer') and made a little change to make it more obvious how to pronounce it - 'Myr as in MEER' was a common phrase. After a few months of that, I relented and accepted the pronunciation - changing to Myrcurial (mercurial) as an apt description of both my nick and temperment. In '98 I made one decision to reuse my original nick 'Myr' when I had it tattooed on my right arm in 7digit binary ASCII code with a stylized @ above it. Turns out that people shake their heads when I'm wandering a choice goth-industrial bar with the tat exposed, but man, it draws a crowd at real geek places (Novell Brainshare 99, I had a dozen pencil protector geeks trying to decode my arm while I was listening to a presentation by the CEO of Caldera)
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Unless there's some really paranoid packet filtering going on at your ISP, outgoing packets are routed without any concern for the source IP
Restating the obvious...
Of course this won't work, because due to the correctly paranoid packet filtering going on at your ISP, outgoing packets with an incorrect IP address as source address will be dropped at the soonest possible opportunity.
Just belabouring the point that there is a distinct problem with the lowering of the barriers of entry for the internet. The twits and heathens are coming from the bushes again...
As seen in ACClarke, Asimov and Heinlein....
This has got to be right up there with:
Sheesh.
The poster said that the T1s were for phone switches. I know that this is going to come as a complete shock to you, but T1s were not originally designed as a 1.544 (1.536) Mb/s data pipe, but rather as a way of passing 24 channels of phone calls across two pairs of wires. These are also known as "trunk lines".
Please realize that you need to check your information before you shoot your stupid mouth off.
I'm posting this from a free broadband connection (part of the room fee) in a Day's Inn in Nepean Ontario - it's a Tut Homerun box screwed to the wall that seems to connect to a Coyote Linux box (handling NAT) and running to Storm.ca. If that wasn't enough, there's about 4 802.11b AP's that are available from adjacent businesses :)
I'm absolutely amazed that you opened your mouth and this kind of craptacular nonesense flooded out. I noticed that you've got a bit of a high userid and a penchant for buggery, but I'm still simply amazed.
I think it's time you cracked out the old brainbox and did a bit of a grep on your reality. If you'd had a minute tiny little itty-bitty clue, you would know that the company called "Apple Computer" was formed by a whacky couple of teenagers who shared the name "Steve".
STEVE WOZNIAKand...
STEVE JOBS
Now that you've clued yourself in, I'm sure that you're feeling like a real smart cookie... why don't you go back to your sandbox and grab your toys and go home because no one is interested in listening to your stupid childish ranting.
This is absolutely the best suggestion. It's not cheap, but it is absolutely effective.
Do ensure that you've got at least two servers though. You might be surprised if you end up completely locked out.
All of the suggestions I've read - and I was fed up by half way down the first page - suggest that the people answering this question have:
In an effort to put some kind of useful answer into this space, please have a look at Sun BluePrints Online - Datacenter Naming Scheme - PDF and see what professionals have to say rather than the rantings of a 16 year old who dreams of running out of names from the seven dwarves when he gets his eighth computer.
Feel free to mod me down for ranting, but damnit, people deserve a decent answer to a question that is not easily answered by 2 minutes on google.
I've had a whole bunch of portable computerish devices over the years... here's the empirical evidence on abuse-ability...
In reading this, I'm thinking it has more to do with the bag than the machine - when you're trying to protect a multiple thousand dollar investment, DON'T SKIMP ON THE BAG and you'll be much happier!
Before anyone jumps all over me for buying DVDs in light of CSS et al, consider that it costs less to license a copy of the movie for repeated perusal than it costs to license a single non-interuptable view of the movie in a venue that is not comfortable, not private and has poor technical quality. I'd rather watch a movie on my own home theatre setup than on the gargantuan screens at the local multiplex. It's just that simple. The only time I consider paying to view a movie in a theatre is either
I know that it makes me an old grump, but you know, in this age of $12++ tickets, the least I deserve is a clean theatre and a film that is not dusty, has been spliced with something other than Red Green's Duct Tape and a projectionist who knows what the "focus" knob is for.
End Rant.
Much to my dismay, I'm discovering that as I age I need more sleep, not less. When I was in college, I can distinctly remember being able to go for three or four days without sleep and only minor hallucinations. In my (ahem) advanced years (turning 30 this year) and with children, I find that I need about 9 hours of sleep a night to deal with the vagarities of a 2.5 month old child and still function at work. My caffeine usage is all over the map from one 20oz coffee/day on the weekend to today's 1 US Mt.Dew + 20oz coffee before 9:30am. I find that keeping myself stressfree and cool (work has an ungodly 22'C temperature while home is more like 17'C) means that I'm more alert and able to get by on less. Breakfast also helps, even if it is of the "Instant powder mixed with milk" variety. I can still do the 36 hour awake days, once I get over the 'hump' at about the 20 hour mark, but I'm starting to prefer my cold bedroom with warm blankets :)
That is interesting... sort of ties in with an Ask /. from a couple weeks ago - why aren't there any alternative providers of IP - not related to a content company (everyone remember that in canada there are three choices for highspeed residential access - and all three are from content provisioning companies - Bell dsl+satellite, Rogers Cable). The interactive nature of the internet is dwindling under the weight of the big content houses. I'm starting to notice it with my kids - they go to content sites like nickleodeon, etc. rather than to things that are self-published. I thought the 'blog'ers would rekindle the self publishing of the olden days (circa 1996) but it's just not there. Everyone's favourite web pundit, jwz from netscape and now dna lounge fame has a whole lot to say on the topic - you should browse his meandering writings (jwz.org)
Ok, that places your statements in a different light. I was only really concerned because the poster was interested in going up the chain of certs and anyone who thinks they can get a CCIE without touching hardware had better run back to their cave and try to ignore the people who actually route the packets...
This is exactly my ranting point. Do you want a piece of paper or do you want to know routing and networking well enough to do something other than junior grade routing/switching monkey? If you're planning on CCDP or CCIE, you need to know more than how to memorize a Cisco command line.
You're going to need a minimum of three routers and two switches to do anything approching interesting, you're also going to need 4+ endpoint computers.
Start with:
Quick check of ebay says you can get the above for around $5000-6000 USD. Other people will tell you to rent time, but again, if you're serious, you will want your own lab to (a) keep your skills up in a potenially stagnant work environment or (b)keep going up the ladder in Cisco certifications.
General comments:
Email me if you've got detailed questions and you're planning on getting a real CCxx rather than a 'I did the test so pay me lots of money' CCxx and I'll help when I can. Apologies for sounding like an old fart, but I'm tired of people who don't really understand their work, but are really good at passing tests.
My Visor sync's just fine with the included USB connection. I have an older HP Jornada 680 that has limited sync ability (files only) using plain old PPP over serial and SAMBA. Presumptively, if you are running Linux on your iPaq (and you should, it's tres cool) then rsync would be your friend. Yopy doesn't really exist outside of a developer version, and if you're a developer, write your own damn sync software.
I can remember reading an ad in an old copy of Linux Magazine offering the Rack-o-RAID and Can-o-RAID products - pretty much exactly what you're asking for - a cursory google search doesnt find them though.
Do I ever remember this machine - it was my first -real- computer (not a VIC-20) and I used it from early '82 - '86. Four inches of black and white (early models were green) screen - that was a 52x24 window into the 80x25 actual screen - mapped into the top 4K of RAM. I can remember saving for the Double Density Floppy Upgrade :)
I still have this machine and a couple of years ago, I used Modem7 to connect it to a linux box for a really obscene way to check email!
Best part is that it still works (approaching 20 years old) and the drives were such low density that the disks are still usable - laughing at my gradeschool 'projects' that are on there in Compiled Basic.
Slightly more on-topic - if you're looking for a rugged laptop, consider the lunchbox sized machines, you can find the ads for them in the back of your fave computer rag - look for case manufacturer ads, they'll be in there. They usually take a MicroATX motherboard so you can stock them with whatever you need. I wonder why I don't see more of these machines at LAN parties - especially the ones with the 10" Trinitron monitors.
Done it before and I'll likely do it again. Toronto is both easy and difficult as the lay of the land means that not even the big phallic tower is a perfect site (ask Look)
I've done this with the street on which I live, letting me surf from my palmtop while I wander (using some very fancy antennae - 180' panels) but when you say "Toronto" you're talking about a greater area than the approx half of a major block that I can reach.
Email and I'll either tell you how to do it or point a directional at you.
M
Sorry guys and gals, this one has been done. Licensed bar, diskless terminals, flat screens, running Linux from desktop to server. And it was done more than a year ago. And it was done in Guelph, Ontario. When we built it, we used Celeron 533 machines and PXE booting, the workstations were custom designed and hid the presence of the computer. Basic system design was the same as listed in the article, however, we used logins and allowed people to have access to their desktop from elsewhere (using VNC) as well. Email the obvious for details.
I've got a stylized @ that appears to be built with blue cat5 - the bare wires showing out of the tail of the circle with my nick (first three letters) in binary below that - I used all caps to make it easier for people to decode. At this point, there is only one person to have successfully decoded it - a female geek behind me in line at a waterslide thing - the other attemptees - a gang of Novell programmers at Brainshare 99 couldn't figure it out at all.
:)
Yeah, because Canada is so big in manufacturing...
Actually, yes it is. You might want to do some research about how much manufacturing we do here - I'll give you a hint... Look up the "Auto Pact" and the "NAFTA" and tell me about what it says with regard to automotive production levels in Canada. Having spent 3 years living down the street from a Ford plant that today produces -every single- Windstar that is built, I think I have a little more clue than you seem to presume.
You really need to check your numbers... Canada produces -far- more wheat than the USA does for external consumption. China is arguably the largest producer of food for internal use as they import very little. If you think the USA is free, you need to re-educate yourself, it's rapidly on it's way to a totalitarian regime. If the rest of the world's economy tanked, where do you think the US economy will land? Canada, Australia, EU, Japan, PacRim, China, Russia, and Africa are arguably a larger block of consumers than is represented by the USA. Productivity is at an all time low in the USA, drive an "American Car" -- are you sure? Check again, it was probably produced in either Mexico or Canada. I'll give you 50% of science though it is primarily raw science, you need someone from either Taiwan or China to commercialize it. The US spews huge amounts of toxic crap into the environment - causing worldwide problems - acid lakes in Canada, climatic changes that cause devestating natural disasters... If you do yourself a favour and rub together the two brain cells you were apparently equipped with, you'd discover that you are a complete fool.
M
Starting an ISP on a shoestring is easier now than when I did it 3.5 years ago.
The first thing to do is decide if v.90 is a priority. If it isn't, then do yourself a favour and get the analog gear, it's cheaper. If it is, then you need to do a gargantuan amount of homework.
v.34, frame/leased POP equipment list:
If you're going to make the change to V.90, sub in one of the following components:
Remember to buy used, haunt the isp-* lists, and budget for when things go wrong.
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Hrm... this is one of those stories that should be immortalized on a web page with a picture of my cats and a (loud) midi file of some horrible 80s ballad playing.
WAAAAAAY back in the olden days - 1981 I got my mitts on a -real- computer (with drives and everything) the Osborne 1. About two years later, I had snuck into a "business" computer show/conference under the pretext that I looked 16 - hardly as I was about 12. In one of the interconnection hallways, there were the usual crop of guys hawking cheap hardware, including a "VolksModem 300" for $99CDN. I jumped at the chance to get it and pulled out my hard-earned newspaper money to buy it. Got home, hooked it up and used Modem7 to dialup a local BBS. Got hooked on BBSing in about 15 minutes and started using my firstinitial, lastname as my nick. This carried on until '86 when I got a freakshow call from someone who had looked up my number on the basis of my username.... needless to say, I started looking for a decent replacement. As that was a rather fateful year in space exploration, I was waffling between MIR and cBomb (first one should be obvious, second was a grim teenaged angst view of the challenger disaster). I went with Myr because it was -=way=- more 'cyber' than just plain Mir. Over the years, I gave people lots of interesting explanations as to the origin and about a decade after starting to use it, I discovered that people weren't pronouncing it properly (usually pronoucing it as 'myrrh' instead of 'meer') and made a little change to make it more obvious how to pronounce it - 'Myr as in MEER' was a common phrase. After a few months of that, I relented and accepted the pronunciation - changing to Myrcurial (mercurial) as an apt description of both my nick and temperment. In '98 I made one decision to reuse my original nick 'Myr' when I had it tattooed on my right arm in 7digit binary ASCII code with a stylized @ above it. Turns out that people shake their heads when I'm wandering a choice goth-industrial bar with the tat exposed, but man, it draws a crowd at real geek places (Novell Brainshare 99, I had a dozen pencil protector geeks trying to decode my arm while I was listening to a presentation by the CEO of Caldera)