Fair enough. I got the (mistaken) impression that this was being built with a goal in mind (to bridge two unmentioned networks) rather than as an exploration of RF datacomm.
Which brings up another issue -- what the hell is the point? Since the purpose is to connect two LANs, imagine you accidently fire up SSH to log into a machine on the other LAN. Three key strokes and you're a criminal. Or if you're sharing an internet connection your browser can (and probably will) get redirected to an SSL site. The idea is cool, but in the long run you're probably better off using equipment that isn't licensed under the amateur radio rules.
I believe the poster is refering to the kernel based NFS (knsfd). I don't know if it's still a problem, but at some point ReiserFS and knfsd did incompatible things to the buffer cache. There have also been issues with ReiserFS and newer versions of software RAID and LVM. AFAIK, the userland nfsd has never been an issue.
Neon Genesis Evangelion - Rumour constantly states that MTV and Sci-Fi are trying to air this, but ADV won't let them because of the cuts they would have to make. Mix giant robots, the angst of adolecence, and a goo d amount of religon and philosophy. This series can be amazingly depressing, and the last two episodes need serious help, but this is literature in action.
For those of you in the SF Bay/Silicon Valley area who haven't discovered this already, the San Jose PBS station (KTEH) is airing the entire Evangelion series, uncut and uncensored. They do one episode every Sunday at 10PM. Unfortunately, they are almost to the end, and I don't know if they are going to start over or move on to something else when they hit the end.
Go easy on the crack pipe, man. Targa is a 24 or 32 bit format. There may have been a 15 bit version in the distant past, but there was never a 12 bit version. And, the average human eye's color discrimination is actually a little better than 24 bit.
It just occured to me what the prefect punishment for Microsoft should be: take away their legal department. It short and to the point, no one really gives a rats ass about bundliing a browser with an OS when the company behind it can spend over $2 billion a year on lawyers. Just my 0x02 cents.
Your assumption is faulty. I highly doubt that a company in this line of work would have only a paltry T1 has their Inet connection. Far more likely they have a DS3 or even multiple DS3 connections. Or, they may have thier own search servers in CoLo facility with OC-48 level connections peered to mulitple backbones. Or they may have built their own well connected data center. The point is, if bandwidth is that critical to their business, they will have it.
Also, wouldn't it make more sense for use an unsigned 16-bit integer for the screen position, such that it would really be 65536 x 65536?
You have to have negative coordinates sometimes. Otherwise, how are you going to represent windows that are partially off the top or left side of the screen?
The GPS satellites are not in geosynchronous orbits. They are in 12-hour oribits, inclined about 55 degrees.
If you think about it, a GPS receiver wants to see 4 satellites that are as widely spaced as possible to minimize geometric distortion. If they were in geostaionary oribits, they would all be clustered on the southern (or northern) horizon.
Now, there was a plan by the FAA to put a single geostationary GPS "helper" satellite called WAAS (Wide Area Augmentation System) to help make GPS accurate and reliable enough for aviation purposes so that they could start the phase-out of VOR. The theory behind it is that if a GPS recveiver could get one undegraded signal, that it knew was undegraded, it could give that one a higher weight in the navigation calculation. The result would be a much better fix even with SA turned on. Last I heard that project was behind schedule and over budget and they hadn't even started building the satellite yet.
Somehow, we have to turn the code into one of those internet chain letters, like the infamous Neiman Markus cookie recipe or the ever popular Good Time Virus. Imagine - thousands of copies being forwarded everyday - absolutely unstopable.
Any insights into why the otherwise stellar performance of Samba is so miserable when using the MS-DOS Windows-networking client?
I use Norton Ghost to do a lot of system cloning, and when using the DOS client to save a hard drive image to a server, throughput to Samba maxes out at about 3MB/min (for reference, a null parallel cable does about 4MB/min). Throughput to an NT box on much lower end hardware goes about 80MB/min. It's usually faster to make the image on a real NT box (or even a VMWare fake NT box) and then FTP it to the Samba server.
I understand that the peculiarties of the client can have a large impact in the performance of SMB, but what does the MS-DOS client do so different that would account for a nearly 2 order of magnitude decrease in performance?
The really neat little tidbit from that story: Eros contains more raw mineral tonnage than has been mined from the earth to this point, and more than ever could be mined from the earth's crust.
Satellites really don't anything to stay up there? What? Hello?
While it's true that if the sats were left alone they would continue to orbit for 15 to 20 more years before the earth's gravitaional anomalies and the atmospheric drag at their low altitude would deorbit them naturally. However, to keep them usable communications sats requires 24x7x365 attention. They must be tracked and any orbital deviations corrected (that's why they have hydrazine thrusters on them in the first place). Their health must be monitored to make sure they are functioning correctly. They have to be turned to keep a low profile when a known piece of space debris approaches, and safed when a solar flare is detected.
I would not be surpised if Iridium's satellite operations budget was more than $1 billion/per year - that would not be a lot for 66+ setellites.
UP/API press wire: At a press conference at their Manhattan headquaters, the advertising agency Dewy, Screwem, and Howe has announced that they have purchased the exclusive advertising rights on the inside of all American's eyelids. At the press conference, they were a bit unclear as to who they actually purchased those rights from, but were we quick to point out that was irrelivant, because "look, we brought donuts."
The partners at DS&H unveiled a plan to capitalize on their new found advertising space. "The total surface area of the eyelids of all Americans is over eight square kilometers, and people spend an average of 10 hours a day looking at the inside of their eyelids while sleeping and blinking. This is just too huge of an opportunity to pass up."
Starting next week, all American citizens will be required to undergo a surgical procedure involving the removal of the natural eyelids and the attachment of a 16 pound helmet-like device that replaces the eyelids and acts as the ad content delivery system. The device periodically sprays water on the eyes and scrapes dirt off with a small squeegee. Two small LCD screens play full motion video ads during those times that the wearer would ordinarily have his eyes closed.
At the conference, we were given the chance to interview "Bryce", one of DS&H's R&D staff, who had the ad delivery device implanted 2 months ago. When asked how he liked his new eyelids, he whimpered "The horror. Oh, my God... Please kill me. Take me now! I haven't slept in 2 months! I'm not human anymore!" Clearly he was enjoying life now, so I'm certainly looking forward to my implantation next week. We would have like to ask "Bryce" some more questions, but at that point the second tray of donuts had arrived.
Dewey, Screwem, and Howe is currently negotiating the same advertising rights in Europe, Australia, and the former Soviet Union. The rest of the world will be following shortly.
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Fair enough. I got the (mistaken) impression that this was being built with a goal in mind (to bridge two unmentioned networks) rather than as an exploration of RF datacomm.
Which brings up another issue -- what the hell is the point? Since the purpose is to connect two LANs, imagine you accidently fire up SSH to log into a machine on the other LAN. Three key strokes and you're a criminal. Or if you're sharing an internet connection your browser can (and probably will) get redirected to an SSL site. The idea is cool, but in the long run you're probably better off using equipment that isn't licensed under the amateur radio rules.
I believe the poster is refering to the kernel based NFS (knsfd). I don't know if it's still a problem, but at some point ReiserFS and knfsd did incompatible things to the buffer cache. There have also been issues with ReiserFS and newer versions of software RAID and LVM. AFAIK, the userland nfsd has never been an issue.
For those of you in the SF Bay/Silicon Valley area who haven't discovered this already, the San Jose PBS station (KTEH) is airing the entire Evangelion series, uncut and uncensored. They do one episode every Sunday at 10PM. Unfortunately, they are almost to the end, and I don't know if they are going to start over or move on to something else when they hit the end.
Go easy on the crack pipe, man. Targa is a 24 or 32 bit format. There may have been a 15 bit version in the distant past, but there was never a 12 bit version. And, the average human eye's color discrimination is actually a little better than 24 bit.
Never mind. Found the big, giant link that says "PAST SHOWS". Doh!
Is anyone keeping GiS archives? It looks like The Sync isn't, and I missed about 3 weeks worth.
It just occured to me what the prefect punishment for Microsoft should be: take away their legal department. It short and to the point, no one really gives a rats ass about bundliing a browser with an OS when the company behind it can spend over $2 billion a year on lawyers. Just my 0x02 cents.
Lets not forget the 3 people who will post summary lists of what the other posters are saying in a vain attempt to be funny.
Your assumption is faulty. I highly doubt that a company in this line of work would have only a paltry T1 has their Inet connection. Far more likely they have a DS3 or even multiple DS3 connections. Or, they may have thier own search servers in CoLo facility with OC-48 level connections peered to mulitple backbones. Or they may have built their own well connected data center. The point is, if bandwidth is that critical to their business, they will have it.
You have to have negative coordinates sometimes. Otherwise, how are you going to represent windows that are partially off the top or left side of the screen?
All GPS satellites have carried an EMP sensor on them that can locate nuclear detonations. More info can be found here
The GPS satellites are not in geosynchronous orbits. They are in 12-hour oribits, inclined about 55 degrees.
If you think about it, a GPS receiver wants to see 4 satellites that are as widely spaced as possible to minimize geometric distortion. If they were in geostaionary oribits, they would all be clustered on the southern (or northern) horizon.
Now, there was a plan by the FAA to put a single geostationary GPS "helper" satellite called WAAS (Wide Area Augmentation System) to help make GPS accurate and reliable enough for aviation purposes so that they could start the phase-out of VOR. The theory behind it is that if a GPS recveiver could get one undegraded signal, that it knew was undegraded, it could give that one a higher weight in the navigation calculation. The result would be a much better fix even with SA turned on. Last I heard that project was behind schedule and over budget and they hadn't even started building the satellite yet.
Technically, those aren't robots. They're radio controlled cars with attitude.
Hmmm, I always thought that the Gates bloodline ran closer to Ferengi than Klingon.
Yeah, $50,000 wouldn't even cover the cost of fuel to get your mass into orbit, much less anything else.
Somehow, we have to turn the code into one of those internet chain letters, like the infamous Neiman Markus cookie recipe or the ever popular Good Time Virus. Imagine - thousands of copies being forwarded everyday - absolutely unstopable.
Any insights into why the otherwise stellar performance of Samba is so miserable when using the MS-DOS Windows-networking client?
I use Norton Ghost to do a lot of system cloning, and when using the DOS client to save a hard drive image to a server, throughput to Samba maxes out at about 3MB/min (for reference, a null parallel cable does about 4MB/min). Throughput to an NT box on much lower end hardware goes about 80MB/min. It's usually faster to make the image on a real NT box (or even a VMWare fake NT box) and then FTP it to the Samba server.
I understand that the peculiarties of the client can have a large impact in the performance of SMB, but what does the MS-DOS client do so different that would account for a nearly 2 order of magnitude decrease in performance?
It looks like they are using PHPSlash, so the resemblance isn't all that surprising.
The really neat little tidbit from that story: Eros contains more raw mineral tonnage than has been mined from the earth to this point, and more than ever could be mined from the earth's crust.
Screw Mars! Let's go get that other rock!
Satellites really don't anything to stay up there? What? Hello?
While it's true that if the sats were left alone they would continue to orbit for 15 to 20 more years before the earth's gravitaional anomalies and the atmospheric drag at their low altitude would deorbit them naturally. However, to keep them usable communications sats requires 24x7x365 attention. They must be tracked and any orbital deviations corrected (that's why they have hydrazine thrusters on them in the first place). Their health must be monitored to make sure they are functioning correctly. They have to be turned to keep a low profile when a known piece of space debris approaches, and safed when a solar flare is detected.
I would not be surpised if Iridium's satellite operations budget was more than $1 billion/per year - that would not be a lot for 66+ setellites.
That's what the internet is all about: Terrified kittens hurled at supersonic speeds.
It brings a new slant to the term fat pipe. How exactly do you measure that bandwidth ? kps (kittens per second?)
I once overclocked my watch - first time in my life I have every been early for anything.
Both gv and xpdf will display PDF files, however they both sometimes do a poor job with fonts (jaggies galore).
Dateline: New York, NY
UP/API press wire: At a press conference at their Manhattan headquaters, the advertising agency Dewy, Screwem, and Howe has announced that they have purchased the exclusive advertising rights on the inside of all American's eyelids. At the press conference, they were a bit unclear as to who they actually purchased those rights from, but were we quick to point out that was irrelivant, because "look, we brought donuts."
The partners at DS&H unveiled a plan to capitalize on their new found advertising space. "The total surface area of the eyelids of all Americans is over eight square kilometers, and people spend an average of 10 hours a day looking at the inside of their eyelids while sleeping and blinking. This is just too huge of an opportunity to pass up."
Starting next week, all American citizens will be required to undergo a surgical procedure involving the removal of the natural eyelids and the attachment of a 16 pound helmet-like device that replaces the eyelids and acts as the ad content delivery system. The device periodically sprays water on the eyes and scrapes dirt off with a small squeegee. Two small LCD screens play full motion video ads during those times that the wearer would ordinarily have his eyes closed.
At the conference, we were given the chance to interview "Bryce", one of DS&H's R&D staff, who had the ad delivery device implanted 2 months ago. When asked how he liked his new eyelids, he whimpered "The horror. Oh, my God... Please kill me. Take me now! I haven't slept in 2 months! I'm not human anymore!" Clearly he was enjoying life now, so I'm certainly looking forward to my implantation next week. We would have like to ask "Bryce" some more questions, but at that point the second tray of donuts had arrived.
Dewey, Screwem, and Howe is currently negotiating the same advertising rights in Europe, Australia, and the former Soviet Union. The rest of the world will be following shortly.