I contacted DeLorme when I got my iBook, asking if they were going to do a version of their software for OSX. I hit them with phone calls and email at the same time and from the phone I got "No, we don't support OS X. No, we won't. Linux? What's that? "
From their email I got a thing like "Market forces.... drop support for Mac.... not in the foreseeable future'
They really didn't seem to care that I had just spent money on a new laptop, was willing to drive to their store (I live in Maine, not far from Eartha - the worlds largest globe and their store)that day to buy a copy if they had anything in OS X flavor. They also didn't appear willing to listen at all to suggestions of ports to OSX or Linux. So, I've informed them that I'll use anything BUT DeLorme, since they don't want to support anyone that doesn't use Microsoft products.
The two contacts I've had just made me feel that they were indifference to me, the person not in the 90%+ market share they cater to.
That's my epxerience with DeLorme.
(and it's a shame, I love to support Maine companies).
And for even more info, check out WMAW. www.wmaw.org, which is the gathering of Western Martial Arts enthusiasts/students in Chicago this year (New York and Toronto previously).
The work they do varies from dagger, wrestling, longsword, side sword, rapier, small sword, sticks and other types of fighting. These are the people doing the most realistic work in Renaissance and Medieval fighting these days. The only way to get things any more realistic is to use sharpened blades, and heck, there was a demo at WMAW 2001 with a modern German sabre fighting, where they actually DO use sharpened blades.
I'd like the job of driving around with an omni on my roof wardriving all the cable modem territories looking for wifi sharing. Document the node, send it off to legal, keep driving.
"Can you share it now?" "No" "Good"
Get paid to wardrive! Nifty. And hey, I've got experience!
This is apparantly the website for the special unit that has censored these sites.
Kind of seems like this 'special unit' is akin to US Pres. Bush's suggested 'swat team for business crime'. Censorship special forces and SWAT teams to bring criminals to their country club prisons.
Blah, I got up too early and am ranting incoherently. At least one useful link has been provided.
It's about the cost of 5e plenum cable for the CAT6 pvc, so not a big increase.
http://www.nextag.com/serv/main/buyer/OutPDir.js p? nxtg=199137_E6D466B508D4B90E&node=&otherForm=n&doS earch=y&advanced=n&searchnode=-1&search=cat6%20cab le
Still, paying over $100 a roll is a little much. Hated to do that for the plenum work I did recently. However, we won't really SEE CAT 6 in installed facilities until the people making the bids for these things start spec'ing it out. It'll be a little while until that happens, as there are tons of proposals, RFP's and bids currently out for CAT5e.
The big bargain will be the CAT5e testers that can't be upgraded/reprogrammed for CAT6 (although I can't imagine there's that much they couldn't be asked/reprogrammed to do. Hrm).
Carpe Canum? Wouldn't that mean 'the dog is having a siezure'?:)
Sorry, couldn't resist.
NPR government funded? Just a little
on
Blogspace vs. NPR
·
· Score: 1, Offtopic
According to their page, which I link to against their policy and specifically make an html post to do so, financials:
The only direct government funding NPR receives is through competitive grants from government agencies for specific projects. Such grants are awarded by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the National Science Foundation, and the National Endowments for the Arts and the Humanities, and typically represent only 2% of total revenues.
So, they get grants and some money from NSF and NEA, but it's a drop in the bucket. Most of their revenue is program fees, corporate sponsorships and endowment type money.
For all their talkign about the NSF and NEA on the credits, you'd think they had received more. So, when will they get a grant from the Free Software Foundation for clueful use of the world wide web?
It took 7.5 months. The reviewer planned for 6. As far as the book writer's house, we don't know without reading the book.
And this isn't about DIY construction, it's about DIY General Contracting (mostly). General Contracting is simply project management - you get all the trades to come in at the right time relative to the other trades, work with inspectors and make sure money gets passed around appropriately.
Legal? Not sure - depends on other factors as well which aren't necessarily in the article. Chances are, he's ok, but he's never made indication of what his calculations are. Also, the FCC has been beating on people (WISPs) more for using untested (uncertified by FCC) combinations of equipment - which is easier to prove in court than overradiated power.
6dB? Where does it say that? And where relating to a point-to-point link? The ratings are ERP (effective Radiated Power) in which the dB rating of the antenna is a single factor.
Other things include the loss of the cable, the connectors, the power output by the device itself, etc. I suggest you get your butt over to http://www.access.gpo.gov/nara/cfr/waisidx_98/47cf r15_98.html and try reading the regulations.
Check http://www.austinwireless.net/index.cgi/FreqentlyA skedQuestions#line83 for some more info on this, including a link to the above gpo site.
And I think the above pertains to point to multipoint links, which have different regulations than point-to-point links on wireless.
It looks like the placement of your antenna is perfectly in the way of several pipes. And those pipes I'd hazard to guess are Fire Department lines for emergency. If that's true, you've got a beautiful lawsuit just waiting to happen. And thousands of witnesses to say "yeah, they had wires and pipes and stuff cluttering up the roof there" from Slashdot.
If they ARE NOT fire pipes, then you'll just tick off the building management (And I'm an alarmist). If they are, I'd have to think you're being irresponsible in your placement (and I'm not an alarmist).
I can appreciate the wireless link you did, it's cool. Good luck and hopefully nobody will blast on your channel nearby.:)
Many many colleges will come into the room, take all the students street signs and say "you stole them - we're confiscating them".
However, I always wanted a STOP sign that was paid for and I had a receipt for. Unfortunately, I never got one, but I did get a traffic light;)
Having the power to get back as residential life staff when they simply assume that every street sign is stolen, just to flex their Gestapo-esque muscles, is priceless. Walk into Residence life office, present the receipt that says 'paid' and a date of order would be wonderful. The ultimate f-you for the RA.
Course, that's just me.:)
Re:None are QUIET! All are noisy! Biased site.
on
Choosing a Good Case
·
· Score: 1
"Try to find any hardware tweakers site that even thought of a quiet box or REDCUCING the fan noise. You won't."
http://www.ocshoot.com/quietpc.htm
From google: search for - quiet pc fan and click "I'm feeling lucky" - cause it's the first match. But not that you'd ever find any tweakers trying to work on a quiet box. Nope. Not unless you looked.
Re:None are QUIET! All are noisy! Biased site.
on
Choosing a Good Case
·
· Score: 1
Umm.. wow... gee... perhaps a visit to http://www.rocheusa.com/products/valium/ is in order. Please see a physician.
The review specifically mentioned a new type of fan (tip something or other with the motor on the outside of the fan) that was supposedly quieter. They mentioned the fact that things were noisy.
We also have to look at the fact that people care more about a 'cool looking case' than a case that doesn't make noise. For some people it doesn't matter as much. For those who do care about noise, there are other alternatives.
Yes, Tom's a biased site - biased to the high end user that wants to tweak their computer to oblivion - and those people would think that a busbar full of fans is more cool (as in 'hip' not as in temperature) than a fanless case.
Wow... if you're in the states, I hope you have Memorial Day off - you need a day off.
According to http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/factsheet/mar sfact.html
Diurnal temperature range: 184 K to 242 K (-89 to -31 C) (Viking 1 Lander site)
and with the atmosphere as a 95% CO2, this would be interesting. Since CO2 is a major component of 'greenhouse' gasses (bad name, but true) they've already got a greenhouse going - how much warmer could we make it with environmental manipulation?
Lots of questions to be asked about this, however, it's damn cold. I wouldn't want to be stuck there when the heaters fall over. I've been exposed to ~ -70F whilst skiing (at 13000 ft) and slept in -40F it's not something I'd look forward to. And heck this is, at the warmest, -31C! Brrrr......
Blah.. it's damn cold. I can't really see seas of water without some significant environmental changing at our hands.
Not a flame, but just a note to remember how much it adds to the price of the building to put in the non-standard wiring. As much as we like, a lot of builders just don't consider the wires. Even SCHOOLS, where we're pouring money into for tech, don't remember the networks when they design schools - or they woefully underbudget for it.
An electrician I've been working with tells me that not a single house he's worked on (speculation built house - not custom) has requested cat5. Just a couple telephone drops and some coax for cable. The builders just want to make the most and putting CAT5 into a house isn't worth it to them. And most of the electricians putting in CAT5 instantly turn it into CAT3 as they tie nice knots in it, staple it, wire-tie gun it, and other atrocities.
If _I_ were building a new building, damn right, CAT5e into every room. Multiple drops. Multiple coax, and conduit to change the cabling as technology changes. But I'm not a builder.
Apartment complexes don't take the net into consideration because it's not seen as a benefit. It's an expense. And really, how many apartment complexes even care if all the washing machines work. Tell me all your washers work and I'll call you a liar;)
Someday, it'll all be like we want it, but not for a while. Sadly.
Well, anyone suggesting how to lay out radios or frequencies from what you're provided as info can't know that much.
" The buildings are arranged such that 2 AP per building should cover all the tenants "
Well.. ok... so the buildings are one foot wide? To be sure that all the tenants can get signal, you'd probably want to actually do a site survey and detail the results if you're looking for decent feedback.
Interference between AP: It is impossible to tell from the information you've given whether you'll have an issue. It's MOST LIKELY that if you just have two AP, you'll be ok. (one on channel 1, one on 11, happy!)
Management of hitchhikers: Why not a FreeNet? But anyway, get AP that allow you to accept only based on MAC. That'll take care of 99% of the hitchhikers. The other 1% know what they're doing and you probably shouldn't waste your time worrying - they'll just blast your AP with random 2.4 if you cut them off.;/ (well, I would, but I'm a vindictive bastard)
Interference from outside sources:
You can get royally hosed on interference if you're just using off the shelf stuff. You can get hosed by cordless phones, microwave ovens (pop pop pop - the internet is down due to popcorn!), wireless television adapters (check radio shack - they exist at 2.4GHz), and other AP.
Sure, you can do it, but it'll be RF vulnerable, security vulnerable and might not have the range you think it'll have (but I can't tell cause you didn't even provide the most basic size of complex info).
If you called me on the phone and asked me for a quote on this, I could not give you that quote before I came out there. I could guesstimate if you told me the size of the complex, but with what I've got now, I couldn't even guesstimate.
using keygen to generate a identity and identity.pub in your local.ssh directory, then copying that identity.pub to the remote server in a ~/.ssh/authorized_keys (perm 644) file?
While that method also assumes physical security, I don't really worry about that. My iBook secures the screen if I'm idle for more than 5 minutes and I have a sleep corner. I don't leave my desk without using the sleep corner to lock up.
I know a lot of people that use this, the trick is to keep the identity file secure. That's your private key and needs to be safe.
The article says that it's free for now until the network is complete.
To me (opinion) that's kind of like saying "Here, it's half a wheel, but you can use it free until we make the other half". I know, not quite analagous, but the point should be noted that "free until we charge you" is not free.
From the linksys page: "* Operation in the uncrowded 5 GHz band"
Yeah, uncrowded because nobody has really launched any of the unlicensed wireless gear there. Give it a couple years like 802.11b and then we'll see how uncrowded it is.
(still, having more channels in 802.11a is nice - really nice)
Slashdot Mirror
vi users have put together a FAQ entitled "Why emacs sucks"
The National Apple Institute released a bulletin on use of pears in food products "Fuck pears!"*
The Paintball Users Consortium released it's findings on "Why pump guns are better"
The folks at "Apple Computers Rule!" released a document on "Why Macs are better than PC's"
Gee, did I miss any completely blatant flame war topics?
Useless news, stuff that fills the boards up...
*sigh*
j
* credit for this to George Carlin, Place for my Stuff album.
"I tell ya what I'd do, man. Two chicks at the same time, man."
. wa v
Well, his CHARACTER, Lawrence, in Office Space said it.
http://www.bullshitjob.com/officespace/million1
"Fsckin A, man!"
j
I contacted DeLorme when I got my iBook, asking if they were going to do a version of their software for OSX. I hit them with phone calls and email at the same time and from the phone I got "No, we don't support OS X. No, we won't. Linux? What's that? "
From their email I got a thing like "Market forces.... drop support for Mac.... not in the foreseeable future'
They really didn't seem to care that I had just spent money on a new laptop, was willing to drive to their store (I live in Maine, not far from Eartha - the worlds largest globe and their store)that day to buy a copy if they had anything in OS X flavor. They also didn't appear willing to listen at all to suggestions of ports to OSX or Linux. So, I've informed them that I'll use anything BUT DeLorme, since they don't want to support anyone that doesn't use Microsoft products.
The two contacts I've had just made me feel that they were indifference to me, the person not in the 90%+ market share they cater to.
That's my epxerience with DeLorme.
(and it's a shame, I love to support Maine companies).
And for even more info, check out WMAW. www.wmaw.org, which is the gathering of Western Martial Arts enthusiasts/students in Chicago this year (New York and Toronto previously).
The work they do varies from dagger, wrestling, longsword, side sword, rapier, small sword, sticks and other types of fighting. These are the people doing the most realistic work in Renaissance and Medieval fighting these days. The only way to get things any more realistic is to use sharpened blades, and heck, there was a demo at WMAW 2001 with a modern German sabre fighting, where they actually DO use sharpened blades.
This is, indeed, the 'real deal'.
j
I'd like the job of driving around with an omni on my roof wardriving all the cable modem territories looking for wifi sharing. Document the node, send it off to legal, keep driving.
"Can you share it now?" "No" "Good"
Get paid to wardrive! Nifty. And hey, I've got experience!
click
This is apparantly the website for the special unit that has censored these sites.
Kind of seems like this 'special unit' is akin to US Pres. Bush's suggested 'swat team for business crime'. Censorship special forces and SWAT teams to bring criminals to their country club prisons.
Blah, I got up too early and am ranting incoherently. At least one useful link has been provided.
find google caches by searching for:
conference presentation judo
It's about the cost of 5e plenum cable for the CAT6 pvc, so not a big increase.
s p? nxtg=199137_E6D466B508D4B90E&node=&otherForm=n&doS earch=y&advanced=n&searchnode=-1&search=cat6%20cab le
http://www.nextag.com/serv/main/buyer/OutPDir.j
Still, paying over $100 a roll is a little much. Hated to do that for the plenum work I did recently. However, we won't really SEE CAT 6 in installed facilities until the people making the bids for these things start spec'ing it out. It'll be a little while until that happens, as there are tons of proposals, RFP's and bids currently out for CAT5e.
The big bargain will be the CAT5e testers that can't be upgraded/reprogrammed for CAT6 (although I can't imagine there's that much they couldn't be asked/reprogrammed to do. Hrm).
Carpe Canum? Wouldn't that mean 'the dog is having a siezure'? :)
Sorry, couldn't resist.
The only direct government funding NPR receives is through competitive grants from government agencies for specific projects. Such grants are awarded by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the National Science Foundation, and the National Endowments for the Arts and the Humanities, and typically represent only 2% of total revenues.
So, they get grants and some money from NSF and NEA, but it's a drop in the bucket. Most of their revenue is program fees, corporate sponsorships and endowment type money.
For all their talkign about the NSF and NEA on the credits, you'd think they had received more. So, when will they get a grant from the Free Software Foundation for clueful use of the world wide web?
It took 7.5 months. The reviewer planned for 6. As far as the book writer's house, we don't know without reading the book.
And this isn't about DIY construction, it's about DIY General Contracting (mostly). General Contracting is simply project management - you get all the trades to come in at the right time relative to the other trades, work with inspectors and make sure money gets passed around appropriately.
that's 'double edged' sword. If a sword doesn't have at least three sides, it's only in two dimensions ;)
Legal? Not sure - depends on other factors as well which aren't necessarily in the article. Chances are, he's ok, but he's never made indication of what his calculations are. Also, the FCC has been beating on people (WISPs) more for using untested (uncertified by FCC) combinations of equipment - which is easier to prove in court than overradiated power.
f r15_98.html and try reading the regulations.
A skedQuestions#line83 for some more info on this, including a link to the above gpo site.
6dB? Where does it say that? And where relating to a point-to-point link? The ratings are ERP (effective Radiated Power) in which the dB rating of the antenna is a single factor.
Other things include the loss of the cable, the connectors, the power output by the device itself, etc. I suggest you get your butt over to http://www.access.gpo.gov/nara/cfr/waisidx_98/47c
Check http://www.austinwireless.net/index.cgi/Freqently
And I think the above pertains to point to multipoint links, which have different regulations than point-to-point links on wireless.
It looks like the placement of your antenna is perfectly in the way of several pipes. And those pipes I'd hazard to guess are Fire Department lines for emergency. If that's true, you've got a beautiful lawsuit just waiting to happen. And thousands of witnesses to say "yeah, they had wires and pipes and stuff cluttering up the roof there" from Slashdot.
:)
If they ARE NOT fire pipes, then you'll just tick off the building management (And I'm an alarmist). If they are, I'd have to think you're being irresponsible in your placement (and I'm not an alarmist).
I can appreciate the wireless link you did, it's cool. Good luck and hopefully nobody will blast on your channel nearby.
Many many colleges will come into the room, take all the students street signs and say "you stole them - we're confiscating them".
;)
:)
However, I always wanted a STOP sign that was paid for and I had a receipt for. Unfortunately, I never got one, but I did get a traffic light
Having the power to get back as residential life staff when they simply assume that every street sign is stolen, just to flex their Gestapo-esque muscles, is priceless. Walk into Residence life office, present the receipt that says 'paid' and a date of order would be wonderful. The ultimate f-you for the RA.
Course, that's just me.
"Try to find any hardware tweakers site that even thought of a quiet box or REDCUCING the fan noise. You won't."
http://www.ocshoot.com/quietpc.htm
From google:
search for - quiet pc fan and click "I'm feeling lucky" - cause it's the first match. But not that you'd ever find any tweakers trying to work on a quiet box. Nope. Not unless you looked.
Umm.. wow... gee... perhaps a visit to http://www.rocheusa.com/products/valium/ is in order. Please see a physician.
The review specifically mentioned a new type of fan (tip something or other with the motor on the outside of the fan) that was supposedly quieter. They mentioned the fact that things were noisy.
We also have to look at the fact that people care more about a 'cool looking case' than a case that doesn't make noise. For some people it doesn't matter as much. For those who do care about noise, there are other alternatives.
Yes, Tom's a biased site - biased to the high end user that wants to tweak their computer to oblivion - and those people would think that a busbar full of fans is more cool (as in 'hip' not as in temperature) than a fanless case.
Wow... if you're in the states, I hope you have Memorial Day off - you need a day off.
According to http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/factsheet/mar sfact.html
Diurnal temperature range: 184 K to 242 K (-89 to -31 C) (Viking 1 Lander site)
and with the atmosphere as a 95% CO2, this would be interesting. Since CO2 is a major component of 'greenhouse' gasses (bad name, but true) they've already got a greenhouse going - how much warmer could we make it with environmental manipulation?
Lots of questions to be asked about this, however, it's damn cold. I wouldn't want to be stuck there when the heaters fall over. I've been exposed to ~ -70F whilst skiing (at 13000 ft) and slept in -40F it's not something I'd look forward to. And heck this is, at the warmest, -31C! Brrrr......
Blah.. it's damn cold. I can't really see seas of water without some significant environmental changing at our hands.
Not a flame, but just a note to remember how much it adds to the price of the building to put in the non-standard wiring. As much as we like, a lot of builders just don't consider the wires. Even SCHOOLS, where we're pouring money into for tech, don't remember the networks when they design schools - or they woefully underbudget for it.
;)
An electrician I've been working with tells me that not a single house he's worked on (speculation built house - not custom) has requested cat5. Just a couple telephone drops and some coax for cable. The builders just want to make the most and putting CAT5 into a house isn't worth it to them. And most of the electricians putting in CAT5 instantly turn it into CAT3 as they tie nice knots in it, staple it, wire-tie gun it, and other atrocities.
If _I_ were building a new building, damn right, CAT5e into every room. Multiple drops. Multiple coax, and conduit to change the cabling as technology changes. But I'm not a builder.
Apartment complexes don't take the net into consideration because it's not seen as a benefit. It's an expense. And really, how many apartment complexes even care if all the washing machines work. Tell me all your washers work and I'll call you a liar
Someday, it'll all be like we want it, but not for a while. Sadly.
Well, anyone suggesting how to lay out radios or frequencies from what you're provided as info can't know that much.
;/ (well, I would, but I'm a vindictive bastard)
" The buildings are arranged such that 2 AP per building should cover all the tenants "
Well.. ok... so the buildings are one foot wide? To be sure that all the tenants can get signal, you'd probably want to actually do a site survey and detail the results if you're looking for decent feedback.
Interference between AP:
It is impossible to tell from the information you've given whether you'll have an issue. It's MOST LIKELY that if you just have two AP, you'll be ok. (one on channel 1, one on 11, happy!)
Management of hitchhikers:
Why not a FreeNet? But anyway, get AP that allow you to accept only based on MAC. That'll take care of 99% of the hitchhikers. The other 1% know what they're doing and you probably shouldn't waste your time worrying - they'll just blast your AP with random 2.4 if you cut them off.
Interference from outside sources:
You can get royally hosed on interference if you're just using off the shelf stuff. You can get hosed by cordless phones, microwave ovens (pop pop pop - the internet is down due to popcorn!), wireless television adapters (check radio shack - they exist at 2.4GHz), and other AP.
Sure, you can do it, but it'll be RF vulnerable, security vulnerable and might not have the range you think it'll have (but I can't tell cause you didn't even provide the most basic size of complex info).
If you called me on the phone and asked me for a quote on this, I could not give you that quote before I came out there. I could guesstimate if you told me the size of the complex, but with what I've got now, I couldn't even guesstimate.
Good luck.
Ahhhh.... ok.
:)
I'll have to go back to the ssh book and read up on ssh agents then.
Thanks for the info. Sounds 'more nifty'.
using keygen to generate a identity and identity.pub in your local .ssh directory, then copying that identity.pub to the remote server in a ~/.ssh/authorized_keys (perm 644) file?
While that method also assumes physical security, I don't really worry about that. My iBook secures the screen if I'm idle for more than 5 minutes and I have a sleep corner. I don't leave my desk without using the sleep corner to lock up.
I know a lot of people that use this, the trick is to keep the identity file secure. That's your private key and needs to be safe.
The article says that it's free for now until the network is complete.
To me (opinion) that's kind of like saying "Here, it's half a wheel, but you can use it free until we make the other half". I know, not quite analagous, but the point should be noted that "free until we charge you" is not free.
$.02 (and you can't have change back)
And I found out last fall that they _officially_ didn't support anything Apple. Not OS8, OS9, or certainly not OSX.
I don't know if that's changed, but I wouldn't count on it.
From the linksys page:
"* Operation in the uncrowded 5 GHz band"
Yeah, uncrowded because nobody has really launched any of the unlicensed wireless gear there. Give it a couple years like 802.11b and then we'll see how uncrowded it is.
(still, having more channels in 802.11a is nice - really nice)
yack0