I can go home and open my laptop and be on the net. I can come to the office, open my laptop and I'm on the net. I can go to three of my friends houses with wifi, open my laptop and I'm on the net. I don't need to run cable. I dont need to worry about finding the hub. I dont need to worry about reconfiguring anything. It just plain works for me.
It's changed my work habits vastly. I don't sit at a linux X machine anymore, I just use my iBook and do things on the couch, the dining room table, the office, the bedroom, the toilet, even outside on the deck - I'm not tied into my desk with wires.
And on top of that, I can walk around any major city and get internet access from people who allow me to have free access (I ask for IP's and they implicitly allow me in by granting me an IP - this isn't flame bait - just how I see it). It's nice.
Wireless has changed the way I use computers. No longer am I tied to one place in my office or my home, I can work or play in comfort.
> My position that I expressed in my speech and > that was inaccurately portrayed: PVR functionality > should be provisioned from the headend for the > following reasons (which ultimately will benefit > consumers):
Yeah, ok... and when you're not in the major metropolitan area that has actual competition (more than one cable company in a market - aka Boston areas) like, oh, say Maine or West Nowheresville, KS or Hotashell, NV you have to wait for the cable company to get around to supplying you with this ability. Just like cable modems, people won't wait.
Sure, if you want to provision VOD or PVR from the headend, get off your lazy-cable-monopoly-butt and DO IT! PROVE US WRONG! Make it work and prove us nay-sayers wrong. Don't just say 'this is bad - you should do it our way instead' - then not have your way available outside a lab or a tiny test market area.
Face it cable companies, you're behind the times on this one and you've lost the edge you could have had.
Wow,, that's a rant, but what do you expect from someone who owns a domain like Adelphia Sucks.com
Thanks for the correction! I did make the mistake of just checking the bottom of the website. At least I covered my butt and said "I think it is..." thanks for clearing that up. Wow, actually learned something on slashdot - wow;)
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Sorry, those blue lights aren't accepted into the changefiles, so they'll have to go. You may not release your own blue-light-PINE either.
that's funny. I might be getting the OLD generator from where I work (30kVA - replaced by a 60+kVA). Now, I don't work for the ISP I use at home, so between the 30kVA Generator and the UPS 2200 downstairs, I MIGHT endu p having more generation and backup power than my provider!!!:)
Come back when you get beyond the 'room' and need to expand to the basement. Half the entire basement. And that's just computer geekware. There's an entire bedroom filled with swords, armor, costumes and garb for me European Medieval Martial Arts and Renaissance Faire stuff. So , I have 3 geek rooms. And if you include brewing, make it 3 geek rooms and a closet (and expand the basement usage to 3/4 (1/2 computer 1/4 brewing).
Wow, I need to get my priorities straight, there's another 1/4 of basement that needs to get used for brewing!
Robert X. Cringely is the pseudonym of a tech writer, now associated with PBS (in the USA)
The name Robert X. Cringely has apparantly been several people over the years, but it's recently been that of a person who has done such things as make a wireless hop from a neighbor with DSL (miles away and he paid for the DSL himself - so he wasn't really stealing it).
He's also done such things as designing, building and flying his own plane in 30 days.
TEch guy with a pulpit from which to speak.
IF you really want to know more, feel free to google for 'who is the real cringely' or some such. You'll find out more about the name thing.
Midcoast Internet in Maine has an active 9 mile link. It uses 802.11 (FHSS) technology, so how is all this new? They've even tested 18 and 32 miles links. link here
Saying that this is all nifty keen and something new is a bit of a fib, as I'm sure there's plenty of other providers doing this as well. Heck, even Robert X. Cringeley has some long link (or had one) through to someone elses house.
4 miles is hardly a huge jump, even legally done by FCC guidelines (thus the 'you can have more power on point to point links' rules of the FCC)
It's all in the antennae, that's right, but been there, done that.
> andres32a on Tue October 22, 08:14 PM (#4509124) > wrote: > >...NEWS FOR NEWS. STUFF THAT MATTERS.
Um, just a thought, if you're going to get bent out of shape and start yelling the tag line for the site, you MIGHT ACTUALLY WANT TO YELL THE CORRECT TAG LINE!
The reviewer indicates "Here, I've broken things down Eastwood style" and the procedes to give us the 'Good Bad and Ugly' results of the review.
It's not Eastwood style at all. He (Eastwood) was just "The Good". The "style" he's talking about should either be attributed to Sergio Leone (director) or Agenore Incrocci (writer) though Leone also wrote the story with Agenore.
Actually, you can get a 'chimney fire' in any chimney or stove pipe. Just cause the fire might occurin stovepipe instead doesn't mean it's not a chimney fire. Chimney fire basically means that the creosote that has built up over time on the walls of the exhaust area has heated up and caught fire.This generally results in simply a flame shooting out of the top of the exhaust (chimney) area and little else, however, it can leak out of holes in the chimney or pipe and it can cause a negative pressure to the inside of the house in some circumstances that will actually make the fire go into the house, particularly when the homeowner hears a roaring sound and decides to open the door of the modern woodstove (which gets a GREAT seal since it's so modern) and then belches flame into the house.
Chimney fires are generally best indicated when the flames shoot out of the top of the chimney or when the homeowner hears that nice roaring sound of air being sucked at incredible rates through their stove. It's a very odd experience.
Don't lump me in with you. I've already switched from a linux desktop to a Mac OS X iBook and use it daily at work. I still use linux for servers, but for my workstation, I have an iBook and I couldn't be happier.
I've never been a big X user, so I'm not hung up on 'it doesnt work like X' complaints that hold back many people.
Linux users ARE swtiching, but from my view, they're keeping their servers linux and adding their OS X desktops. Of course, my stats for that are about as scientific as OReilly's.:)
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> What is so hot about WiFi, anyway?
I can go home and open my laptop and be on the net.
I can come to the office, open my laptop and I'm on the net.
I can go to three of my friends houses with wifi, open my laptop and I'm on the net.
I don't need to run cable.
I dont need to worry about finding the hub.
I dont need to worry about reconfiguring anything.
It just plain works for me.
It's changed my work habits vastly. I don't sit at a linux X machine anymore, I just use my iBook and do things on the couch, the dining room table, the office, the bedroom, the toilet, even outside on the deck - I'm not tied into my desk with wires.
And on top of that, I can walk around any major city and get internet access from people who allow me to have free access (I ask for IP's and they implicitly allow me in by granting me an IP - this isn't flame bait - just how I see it). It's nice.
Wireless has changed the way I use computers. No longer am I tied to one place in my office or my home, I can work or play in comfort.
HTH
> My position that I expressed in my speech and
> that was inaccurately portrayed: PVR functionality
> should be provisioned from the headend for the
> following reasons (which ultimately will benefit
> consumers):
Yeah, ok... and when you're not in the major metropolitan area that has actual competition (more than one cable company in a market - aka Boston areas) like, oh, say Maine or West Nowheresville, KS or Hotashell, NV you have to wait for the cable company to get around to supplying you with this ability. Just like cable modems, people won't wait.
Sure, if you want to provision VOD or PVR from the headend, get off your lazy-cable-monopoly-butt and DO IT! PROVE US WRONG! Make it work and prove us nay-sayers wrong. Don't just say 'this is bad - you should do it our way instead' - then not have your way available outside a lab or a tiny test market area.
Face it cable companies, you're behind the times on this one and you've lost the edge you could have had.
Wow,, that's a rant, but what do you expect from someone who owns a domain like Adelphia Sucks.com
So it's in the coffee now, used to be we were warned about the Kool-Aid.
j
It's lynx and it's links.
The person here was referencing the more powerful links as opposed to the still useful standby, lynx.
Thanks for the correction! I did make the mistake of just checking the bottom of the website. At least I covered my butt and said "I think it is..." thanks for clearing that up. Wow, actually learned something on slashdot - wow ;)
Sorry, those blue lights aren't accepted into the changefiles, so they'll have to go. You may not release your own blue-light-PINE either.
Book em Dano
j
"All mail clients suck. This one just sucks less." -me, circa 1995
I think 'me' is Jeremy Blosser.
summary -
...
It *IS* the biggest day for people 'shopping' (aka foot traffic).
It *is not* the biggest day in 'sales'.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Shop \Shop\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Shopped}; p. pr. & vb. n.{Shopping}.] To visit shops for the purpose of purchasing goods.
But WordNet is a little more modern in the sense here:
From WordNet (r) 1.7 [wn]:
shop
3: shop around; not necessarily buying; "I don't need help, I'm just browsing" [syn: {browse}]
HTH
that's funny. I might be getting the OLD generator from where I work (30kVA - replaced by a 60+kVA). Now, I don't work for the ISP I use at home, so between the 30kVA Generator and the UPS 2200 downstairs, I MIGHT endu p having more generation and backup power than my provider!!! :)
j
...and not a single piece of cable management to be found.
Come back when you get beyond the 'room' and need to expand to the basement. Half the entire basement. And that's just computer geekware. There's an entire bedroom filled with swords, armor, costumes and garb for me European Medieval Martial Arts and Renaissance Faire stuff. So , I have 3 geek rooms. And if you include brewing, make it 3 geek rooms and a closet (and expand the basement usage to 3/4 (1/2 computer 1/4 brewing).
Wow, I need to get my priorities straight, there's another 1/4 of basement that needs to get used for brewing!
Robert X. Cringely is the pseudonym of a tech writer, now associated with PBS (in the USA)
The name Robert X. Cringely has apparantly been several people over the years, but it's recently been that of a person who has done such things as make a wireless hop from a neighbor with DSL (miles away and he paid for the DSL himself - so he wasn't really stealing it).
He's also done such things as designing, building and flying his own plane in 30 days.
TEch guy with a pulpit from which to speak.
IF you really want to know more, feel free to google for 'who is the real cringely' or some such. You'll find out more about the name thing.
HTH
The FCC specified maximum power of any ISM band emission is lower than that which you might find from a cheap microwave oven.
HTH
j
(and yeah, slashdot is wicked slow today)
ok, so the inside stuff (2000 foot range) is new, but the long hop stuff is already running elsewhere.
;)
remember, replying to your own posts is rude.
j
Midcoast Internet in Maine has an active 9 mile link. It uses 802.11 (FHSS) technology, so how is all this new? They've even tested 18 and 32 miles links. link here
Saying that this is all nifty keen and something new is a bit of a fib, as I'm sure there's plenty of other providers doing this as well. Heck, even Robert X. Cringeley has some long link (or had one) through to someone elses house.
4 miles is hardly a huge jump, even legally done by FCC guidelines (thus the 'you can have more power on point to point links' rules of the FCC)
It's all in the antennae, that's right, but been there, done that.
Two words:
Benevolent Dictatorship
The way most community sites are really run.
If I see ANYONE near the server room with a camera this week, I'll personally remove your jimmies and make them part of megapod 3.
You have been warned.
(we're in the middle of a rebuild, so it's major chaos before restoration to order)
> andres32a on Tue October 22, 08:14 PM (#4509124) ...NEWS FOR NEWS. STUFF THAT MATTERS.
> wrote:
>
>
Um, just a thought, if you're going to get bent out of shape and start yelling the tag line for the site, you MIGHT ACTUALLY WANT TO YELL THE CORRECT TAG LINE!
The reviewer indicates "Here, I've broken things down Eastwood style" and the procedes to give us the 'Good Bad and Ugly' results of the review.
It's not Eastwood style at all. He (Eastwood) was just "The Good". The "style" he's talking about should either be attributed to Sergio Leone (director) or Agenore Incrocci (writer) though Leone also wrote the story with Agenore.
Ahh, journalism in the world of the Blog.
Actually, you can get a 'chimney fire' in any chimney or stove pipe. Just cause the fire might occurin stovepipe instead doesn't mean it's not a chimney fire. Chimney fire basically means that the creosote that has built up over time on the walls of the exhaust area has heated up and caught fire.This generally results in simply a flame shooting out of the top of the exhaust (chimney) area and little else, however, it can leak out of holes in the chimney or pipe and it can cause a negative pressure to the inside of the house in some circumstances that will actually make the fire go into the house, particularly when the homeowner hears a roaring sound and decides to open the door of the modern woodstove (which gets a GREAT seal since it's so modern) and then belches flame into the house.
Chimney fires are generally best indicated when the flames shoot out of the top of the chimney or when the homeowner hears that nice roaring sound of air being sucked at incredible rates through their stove. It's a very odd experience.
but how much bandwidth you got to the site?
Ther'es so many possible bottlenecks...
yeah, and it took 13 years for them to leave the shire from the time of Bilbo's Long Expected Party!!
They really cut those 13 years down quick with a shot of Sam and Frodo leaving the pub.... heh
>What's the word on the ents? I heard they were
> going to leave out the ents.
Actually, Gimli chops them all up and burns them all to roast fresh orc for dinner.
> Also, rumors abound regarding other aspects of
> the movie.
> Is it true that Merry and Pippin are going to be
> portrayed smoking "Shire leaf" out of some
> sort of a water pipe?
Actually, in the end of Return of the King, they actually return to their jobs as hemp farmers and Pippin does not, in fact, become Thain.
> Will Legolas be killed, his death avenged by an
> enraged Gimli?
No, they both die together at Helms deep, shortly after the orc eating scene above.
> Will there really be a love scene between
> Samwise and Mr. Frodo?
Actually, they cancelled the Arwen - Aragorn marriage and are replacing it with a Frodo - Samwise "domestic partnership agreement".
> Thanks for any clues.
Hope that clears some things up. Hope there weren't any real bad spoilers for you.
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Don't lump me in with you. I've already switched from a linux desktop to a Mac OS X iBook and use it daily at work. I still use linux for servers, but for my workstation, I have an iBook and I couldn't be happier.
:)
I've never been a big X user, so I'm not hung up on 'it doesnt work like X' complaints that hold back many people.
Linux users ARE swtiching, but from my view, they're keeping their servers linux and adding their OS X desktops. Of course, my stats for that are about as scientific as OReilly's.
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