We have the massive choice of British Telecom, NTL and Telewest and that's if they supply to your area.
My personal choice for broadband is either BT or BT or BT and I can choose to pay £40/month ($60) for the privilege.
So, I'm looking very seriously at WLANs and setting one up for my local area. Hell, I have the skills, I have the motivation, I just need a connection and some hardware.
So now you're thinking of packing up a *240* foot aircraft and taking it to Mars in order to explore Mars rather than taking a big empty plastic bag and a bottle of compressed Helium?
Any way you look at it, Helios is a stupid project, wasting time and money trying to push conventional technologies to absurd degrees.
Umm, lets see. Take one helium balloon, add motors and you have tada. An airship.
No idea where you get the limited airtime thing. The only thing that stops an airship staying up for ever is the fuel. If you use solar cells and electric motors in a similar way to helios, you don't need to carry fuel.
Clip it on in the morning, take it of in the evening.
Mine has 2 mobile phones[1], mp3 player and Psion series 5 along with a pouch for spare batteries, hands free headsets and MultiMediaCard flash cards. All in all, about $1,500s worth of kit.
I mean, these DOS attacks are not really all that damaging. If you want to cause some damage then you alter a few words in word files and web pages, change a few numbers in spreadsheets and databases every few days.
Data *corruption* is far more damaging than blitzing a server or formatting a hard disk. It's where the real danger lies.
You DOS a server, they move it to a different address. You format a hard disk, they restore from last nights backup but if you modify a couple of files here or there and If you reset the modification date then they won't even notice until all the backups are corrupt as well.
They now have to check *every* document, spreadsheet and database by hand to see if it's been modified and then try to find an unmodified version in the backup. It could get very nasty if the documents/spreadsheets/databases have *also* been updated legitimately in the meantime, mixing legitimate information with junk.
So, I'm not worried about files being deleted or servers being DOSd. I have backups, I can move servers, it's a minor inconvenienience at worst.
I'm worried about trojans/worms which search boxes and *change* information.
The pneumatic tyre: Dunlop
The telephone: Alexander Graham Bell
The television: Baird
The thermos flask: Dewar
Anaesthesia: James Young Simpson
Kaleidosocpe: Brewster
Steam engine: James Watt
Vacuum cleaner: Hubert Booth
Radar: Watson-Watt
There's more but i'm getting bored. With TV, telephone, the steam engine and pneumatic tyres alone, Scotland should be one of the richest countries in the world, but, no.
They have no anti-abuse policies. They simply ignore your complaints and pass your real email address on to the abuser for amusement.
We're talking about hipcrime floods, "snuh" cascades and massive crossposting to *completely* unrelated groups. And then they talk bollocks about freedom of speech. Once their abusers are done with a newsgroup you use, there *is no speech*. Everybody leaves.
Usenet can easily be made useful until you get people like cotse.
I now just filter out everything that is posted from a cotse address because they simply won't stop their users from posting hipcrime floods, binary floods, massive crossposting etc. Their abuse teams simply pass your email address on to the "troll".
I'm in the process of persuading my ISP to drop everything from cotse.com.
Slashdot Mirror
I'm in W3.
Will be talking to my housing association once I've investigated the options more.
We have the massive choice of British Telecom, NTL and Telewest and that's if they supply to your area.
My personal choice for broadband is either BT or BT or BT and I can choose to pay £40/month ($60) for the privilege.
So, I'm looking very seriously at WLANs and setting one up for my local area. Hell, I have the skills, I have the motivation, I just need a connection and some hardware.
Some existing Community WLANs:
http://consume.net/
http://www.wlan.org.uk/
There's far more sane technologies out there.
http://www.airship.com/
No need to supply power just to keep the thing in the air. Any power supplied is for position maintenance and supplying power to the payload.
DOH!
Why on earth would a high altitude airship need a tether when a high altitude aeroplane does not need a tether? Hmm? Hmm?
You do realise that airships have engines and propellers don't you?
What kind of idiot designs a 240 foot aeroplane to do this kind of job?
I mean, christ, it takes "research" to see if the thing will even get of the ground without breaking up.
It's *stupid* taken to an extreme. There's far more appropriate technology out there for this purpose.
http://www.airship.com/
So now you're thinking of packing up a *240* foot aircraft and taking it to Mars in order to explore Mars rather than taking a big empty plastic bag and a bottle of compressed Helium?
Any way you look at it, Helios is a stupid project, wasting time and money trying to push conventional technologies to absurd degrees.
Classic NASA though.
Umm, lets see. Take one helium balloon, add motors and you have tada. An airship.
No idea where you get the limited airtime thing. The only thing that stops an airship staying up for ever is the fuel. If you use solar cells and electric motors in a similar way to helios, you don't need to carry fuel.
Have a plane which requires constant power just to stay in the air rather than a ballonn which requires no motive power just to stay in the air.
Bizarre.
Exactly how much lift do you think you'd get by filling the void in the wing with helium?
Do you know how much helium is required to provide lift? Have you seen just how big airships are?
Their lifting capacity increases with the volume of helium they hold and their weight increases with the surface area of envelope.
And you don't have to expend any energy just to stay up.
Heavy lifting airship: http://www.cargolifter.com/
High altitude satellite airships: http://www.airship.com/
Both are concepts at the moment though the CargoLifter ship is well on it's way to being constructed.
It's *still* easier to do it with a helium balloon.
Talk about wasting taxpayers money trying take fixed wing aircraft to an absurd degree.
Treat the WLAN as an external cable, put a firewall on your side of it and the 802.11* makes a nice connection mechanism to the internet.
No more requirement to run cable all the way to the door. Set up community WLANs and share fast broadband connections to your ISP.
A managed naming heirarchy.
http://www.yelm.freeserve.co.uk/dns/
Yeah, and alt.* is now a wasteland of porn spammers.
Having said that, the managed heirarchies are still usable so it's maybe not a bad idea.
then the DNS architecture would turn out flat. Maybe this is a difficult concept for you but the DNS was designed to be a heirarchical naming system.
Clip it on in the morning, take it of in the evening.
Mine has 2 mobile phones[1], mp3 player and Psion series 5 along with a pouch for spare batteries, hands free headsets and MultiMediaCard flash cards. All in all, about $1,500s worth of kit.
[1] One business and one personal.
I mean, these DOS attacks are not really all that damaging. If you want to cause some damage then you alter a few words in word files and web pages, change a few numbers in spreadsheets and databases every few days.
Data *corruption* is far more damaging than blitzing a server or formatting a hard disk. It's where the real danger lies.
You DOS a server, they move it to a different address. You format a hard disk, they restore from last nights backup but if you modify a couple of files here or there and If you reset the modification date then they won't even notice until all the backups are corrupt as well.
They now have to check *every* document, spreadsheet and database by hand to see if it's been modified and then try to find an unmodified version in the backup. It could get very nasty if the documents/spreadsheets/databases have *also* been updated legitimately in the meantime, mixing legitimate information with junk.
So, I'm not worried about files being deleted or servers being DOSd. I have backups, I can move servers, it's a minor inconvenienience at worst.
I'm worried about trojans/worms which search boxes and *change* information.
Including GIS applications.
Free GIS applications even.
Penicilin - Alexander Fleming (Scottish)
Also:
The pneumatic tyre: Dunlop
The telephone: Alexander Graham Bell
The television: Baird
The thermos flask: Dewar
Anaesthesia: James Young Simpson
Kaleidosocpe: Brewster
Steam engine: James Watt
Vacuum cleaner: Hubert Booth
Radar: Watson-Watt
There's more but i'm getting bored. With TV, telephone, the steam engine and pneumatic tyres alone, Scotland should be one of the richest countries in the world, but, no.
I have an S5 and it absolutely blows the competition away in terms of usability.
Lovely keyboard, nice big screen, good battery life, fantastically useful applications; I basically don't need a desktop PC anymore.
The real problem is your typical British management incompetence.
The specs for the G4 are irrelevant while you can't buy a system board for the thing for under $2,500.
It has no chance of competing against the P4 until Motorola or IBM produce a cheap decent performance ATX form factor board.
It doesn't matter how well engineered it is if nobody is going to buy the thing.
They have no anti-abuse policies. They simply ignore your complaints and pass your real email address on to the abuser for amusement.
We're talking about hipcrime floods, "snuh" cascades and massive crossposting to *completely* unrelated groups. And then they talk bollocks about freedom of speech. Once their abusers are done with a newsgroup you use, there *is no speech*. Everybody leaves.
Usenet can easily be made useful until you get people like cotse.
I now just filter out everything that is posted from a cotse address because they simply won't stop their users from posting hipcrime floods, binary floods, massive crossposting etc. Their abuse teams simply pass your email address on to the "troll".
I'm in the process of persuading my ISP to drop everything from cotse.com.
Until they've finished pissing about with their high end products.
When you're buying large servers you want a 5-10 year upgrade lifeline in front of you.
Good news for Sun, SGI, IBM, HP.
As if the posters of the material won't simply move to another group.
I mean, DOH!