Redundancy is good. Having diversity is a good thing, it's the sign of a thriving community.
What will you be suggesting next? That humanity should take up wholesale cloning?
Monocultures are evolutionary dead ends. Inevitably something comes along that devastates everything in the monoculture because it's all based on the same code. If you want to be taken down when that devastation is unleashed, be my guest. I'll take the other path.
Seriously, break the organisation up into 5-6 independant and completely commercial organisations and encourage them to exploit space and space based resources fully.
I'm in the market for a new player at the moment, I have a few tens of gigs of MP3 files[1] that I'd happily convert to Vorbis *if* there was a decent[1] handheld Vorbis player.
[1] Ripped from my own CD collection.
[2] Good sound quality, high capacity[3], reliable and easy to use.
[3] >>64Mb.
The "news" media are a bunch of morons. It's what you do if you can't get a job in sociology or at Macdonalds. They simply and credulously regurgitate anything they are given.
Have you *ever* seen something that you know about reported factually, accurately? No? In that case what on earth makes you think that *anything* in *any* of the news media outlets remotely resembles fact or what really happened? It's all complete fantasy.
Instead, join a professional organisation. For example, The British Computer Society (http://www/bcs.org.uk/). There will be equivalent recognised engineering society in other countries.
It's obvious that the purpose is to provide cheap readonly[1] media to record[2] companies. They'll write their encrypted MP3 equivalent[3] to these things rather than CDs and they can then drop their expensive CD pressing operations.
It'll be the next big music format.
[1] After all, why should they pay for read/write media?
[2] And video companies once the chips are big enough.[3] WMA?
As others have pointed out, SQL ledger is really quite nice but you need to be able to "plug it in" to the other business applications that are being used.
So you either write SQL ledger modules for *everything* or you use some sort of middleware. I have a short document which describes why you need middleware:
http://www.yelm.freeserve.co.uk/middleware/
There's lots of very expensive and proprietary middleware systems from such companies as IBM and WebMethods. Something open would be handy.
Tele2 (http://www.tele2.co.uk/) springs to mind, however, the bigger boys are also looking at it due to the last mile problems. It makes a lot of sense.
802.11b can't be used to provide a commercial ISP in the UK so Tele2 are using something up in the 4GHz range.
802.11b is however being used by individuals to connect together volunteer run wireless area networks, the biggest I'm aware of being Consume (http://consume.net/).
Wireless networking solves the last mile problem.
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There is a couple of companies doing it in the UK now. They are not using 802.11b though. Not sure what they are using.
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I cut and paste between Gnome/KDE and X11 apps all the time.
Kword -> Gnumeric -> Whatever.
Redundancy is good. Having diversity is a good thing, it's the sign of a thriving community.
What will you be suggesting next? That humanity should take up wholesale cloning?
Monocultures are evolutionary dead ends. Inevitably something comes along that devastates everything in the monoculture because it's all based on the same code. If you want to be taken down when that devastation is unleashed, be my guest. I'll take the other path.
http://www.freenetworks.org/
Rather than competing, all you have to do is co-operate.
:)
http://www.freenetworks.org/
The more the merrier.
Seriously, break the organisation up into 5-6 independant and completely commercial organisations and encourage them to exploit space and space based resources fully.
It's the only way.
I'm in the market for a new player at the moment, I have a few tens of gigs of MP3 files[1] that I'd happily convert to Vorbis *if* there was a decent[1] handheld Vorbis player.
[1] Ripped from my own CD collection.
[2] Good sound quality, high capacity[3], reliable and easy to use.
[3] >>64Mb.
DAT tapes are used for backups.
Christ do they let just *anyone* in here?
Tape media is by far the cheapest media, the problem with it is that you usually need many tapes.
This means that you have to swap tapes in and out of the tape drives. There's two ways of doing this:
1: Manually.
2: Robotic tape library or autoloader.
No1: Is a pain in the arse and unreliable.
No2: Is very expensive, making it cheaper to use other methods of backup, like cheap disks.
So there *is* a case and a market for cheap tape libraries which you can plug your existing drives into.
You can do that and a lot more with a bog standard GSM mobile phone.
Why would I buy GPS on a watch?
The "news" media are a bunch of morons. It's what you do if you can't get a job in sociology or at Macdonalds. They simply and credulously regurgitate anything they are given.
Have you *ever* seen something that you know about reported factually, accurately? No? In that case what on earth makes you think that *anything* in *any* of the news media outlets remotely resembles fact or what really happened? It's all complete fantasy.
The consume network already exists. It's a UK wide project with a lot of nodes in London.
http://consume.net/
In the UK: Consume http://consume.net/
In Seattle: Seattle wireless: http://seattlewireless.net
In New York: NYCWireless: http://nycwireless.net
etc etc.
For more info have a look at FreeNetworks: http://freenetworks.org/
I suspect that they are switching because Bill is *already* trying to sting them for NNNmillion dollars in upgrade fees.
It's only Windows that requires a support person for every 5 desktops. Other OS's are designed to make good use of a network.
http://www.infrastructures.org/
http://www.infrastructures.org/
Actually, it's worth all sysadmins taking a look at that site anyway.
With *BSD, there's no penalty. With Linux/GPL, you must contribute back.
Seems like 10mbs[1] over thin air is going to be a cheaper last mile solution than any wired system.
[1] Or 54mbps.
Why not just use a card? They are much cheaper.
Get an Intersil Prism2 card and use the Prism 2 AP module to turn your Linux box into an AP.
It's a step backwards.
Instead, join a professional organisation. For example, The British Computer Society (http://www/bcs.org.uk/). There will be equivalent recognised engineering society in other countries.
Give yourself ISP independance.
HTH.
Language is a protocol, the sooner we all speak the same language, the better and whether you like it or not, English is that language.
It's obvious that the purpose is to provide cheap readonly[1] media to record[2] companies. They'll write their encrypted MP3 equivalent[3] to these things rather than CDs and they can then drop their expensive CD pressing operations.
It'll be the next big music format.
[1] After all, why should they pay for read/write media?
[2] And video companies once the chips are big enough.[3] WMA?
As others have pointed out, SQL ledger is really quite nice but you need to be able to "plug it in" to the other business applications that are being used.
So you either write SQL ledger modules for *everything* or you use some sort of middleware. I have a short document which describes why you need middleware:
http://www.yelm.freeserve.co.uk/middleware/
There's lots of very expensive and proprietary middleware systems from such companies as IBM and WebMethods. Something open would be handy.
Tele2 (http://www.tele2.co.uk/) springs to mind, however, the bigger boys are also looking at it due to the last mile problems. It makes a lot of sense.
802.11b can't be used to provide a commercial ISP in the UK so Tele2 are using something up in the 4GHz range.
802.11b is however being used by individuals to connect together volunteer run wireless area networks, the biggest I'm aware of being Consume (http://consume.net/).
There is a couple of companies doing it in the UK now. They are not using 802.11b though. Not sure what they are using.