Why does this look like an ad for the plasticsmith to me? Sure, yay, lets put products for the mac mini up, but FFS, folks, it's a single company even. This is just blatant advertisement.
Kismet itself will do this. It comes with an ncurses based gui, which might not be what you want, but it is plenty when all you are looking for is "wep/nowep" and ssid.
Oh ya, this is it. Nice to point this out. With the modest upgrades, they'll undercut the Windows Media PC market, provide a place to hook your ipod into, provide the option for the much screamed for PVR on a mac, a place to pump your iPhotos.. the list goes on and on.
I mean, really. they are like 99% of the way there. They have a dock. they have the airport express with wireless. Make a deck that will show up on my mac, lemme drag my songs over to it, and you are good to go. Or make a deck that I can slot my ipod into. OUt of mind, out of sight.
does this remond anyone else of the generic gategories in, say, Shadowrun? heck, the DRM chipping and hacking reminds me of it already. Soon we'll be buying Matsushita Level 9 brainboards and the like.
I wonder how many xp it takes for my computer to get from level one to level two. 10 orcs? complete one adventure?
the average american 20 mpg car is around 200hp, not the average car in america is 20 mpg. at last that would be my guess. most people I know drive 30-35 mpg cars, in the neighborhood of 140 hp.
I can concur on the soekris box. Might I suggest the 4801. 3 ethernet ports, laptop sized harddrive connector on board, compact flash slot, pci slot, and a mini-pci slot. they even sell them with WAN interfaces cards
I would consider myself a switcher, although I use windows and linux pretty much daily as well. I have a mac laptop and a mac desktop at work, and my windows home machine is mostly used for games and browsing. I do linux servers at work.
other than the suggestions I've seen above, I would strongly suggest a bluetooth mouse. A handy thing to have, but the one button is not nearly so bad. ctrl-click also will get you right button functionality.
very strangly, i think the keystrokes came quicker on os x than on any other os I work on. No idea why.
Otherwise, have fun with it! you'll not regret it.
I see you mentioned the problem set, which is good. to me and my only somewhat novice mind (I work with scientists all day, hear all kinds of stuff), this sounds suspiciously like a fine grained problem. that is to say, there will be a lot of interprocess communication, so don't skimp on the network. I'm not talking "get gigE". I'm talking "look at myrinet, or quadrix, or infiniband".
Most people can do you up a 256 node cluster for under half a million, but doing up one with high speed and low latency network is another story. that net costs bucks, around $1500 per machine (for a card, a cable, and a port on the switch).
Make sure you know your problem. if you understand how it works, then you can buy a cluster that meets the need much better. Make sure the nodes are not being starved for ram iif the problem is a ram hungry one (your researchers should be able to tell you, even from data off a single machine). Find out if it's heavily integer based or floating point based (my guess is that it's a floating point problem). Find out if it's a lot of vector and matrix manipulations.
every machine type is a little better at something than the others. for instance, on integer based problems, x86 will generally scorch everything else. on floating point, there is lots of good competition (apple, intel's itanium, opterons). Don't be afraid to say to the vendor "we want to run on it for a week before we buy".
as others have said, do a RFP, but get their specs. get your tech guys to look it over hard. ask them "what sucks".
All that having been said, i'm a fan of apples and of verari systems. Dell is also quite good.
Reading long text from a compuer screen is difficult for me because of the light. I'm getting it projected directly at me, instead of more softly difused off a page of paper. Really, I think that's all there is too it. I read a fair chunk, and I like ebooks (I normally am using pdf) for certain things (references in gaming books is a good one), but for long text reading (stories, etc), it's just not suitable.
It's ironic too, because I spend all day in front of a computer, but I hate even reading documentation online. If it cracks past a page or two of 12 point, I'll kill a tree for it.
I have a 1992 honda civic vx (hatchback type). I'm not even sure what it's rated for, but I regularly get over 40, and have seen 50. Mine is driven almost exclusively to work and back home (15 miles, all but 2 miles is highway)
Despite the fact that there are abuses, and they may be wide spread, I was part of a group of students who wired a dozen or so schools in the town where I went to college. we did the network diagrams, organized the groups, taught people how to do patch panels and the like.
It was in the top three most rewarding experiences in my life, and one of the most valuable for jobs skills. it was a truly unique experience, and I would hate to see this go away because some people can't freaking be honest.
I'd be happy with oversight (lots of stuff needs oversight) but don't remove it. I heard that there was a proposal to just turn it into generic school grants or something, and I think that would be a mistake as well:)
you know, they might actually be trying to reduce their Big Mac parts inventory (sauce and bun mostly). Shockingly, they've actually been trying to make some moves into the healthy market. Recent additions of the adult happy meal, complete with adult toy (snicker here), and the veggie burger (i've had two, they are really quite tasty, sorta like a McRib, but without the worries of what kind of meat) and the plans to remove the super sized from all their value meals should at least be given notice, regardless of motivation. you can even get apple dippers instead of fries with your extra value meal now (I asked, they say they offer it with happy meals, but they have no problems doing it with regular ones too)
this is probably a secondary thing though, since, IIRC, the Big Mac is McD's biggest seller (save maybe the cheeseburger). Still, it's at least a possibility
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MS will lower their prices for the city gov't. there is no way they are paying full price. I'd be shocked if they payed more than $30 per license.
Why does this look like an ad for the plasticsmith to me? Sure, yay, lets put products for the mac mini up, but FFS, folks, it's a single company even. This is just blatant advertisement.
Horny Hedgehog..
I didn't read it a lot, but every time i picked it up, it was always useful
Kismet itself will do this. It comes with an ncurses based gui, which might not be what you want, but it is plenty when all you are looking for is "wep/nowep" and ssid.
check out gkismet... that'll give you the gui.
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nother of all challenges. And I can believe it. My g5 xserves are fricking hot.
wow, that's an incredible piece of arrogant flamebait.
Oh ya, this is it. Nice to point this out. With the modest upgrades, they'll undercut the Windows Media PC market, provide a place to hook your ipod into, provide the option for the much screamed for PVR on a mac, a place to pump your iPhotos.. the list goes on and on.
well, i have 2 macs on my desk, and have 2 powerbooks current. I run 2 mac clusters and bought another one this week. All currently have os x.
:)
However, there is a good reason to run linux. OS X is (currently) a 32 bit OS. Many of the apps can't see all the memory. PPC linux is 64 bit.
that having been said, I'm only just now finding a need
I don't think we're picky about them being European :) I mean, we got Maxim and Stuff too.
I mean really... this deserves a review?
I mean, really. they are like 99% of the way there. They have a dock. they have the airport express with wireless. Make a deck that will show up on my mac, lemme drag my songs over to it, and you are good to go. Or make a deck that I can slot my ipod into. OUt of mind, out of sight.
does this remond anyone else of the generic gategories in, say, Shadowrun? heck, the DRM chipping and hacking reminds me of it already. Soon we'll be buying Matsushita Level 9 brainboards and the like.
I wonder how many xp it takes for my computer to get from level one to level two. 10 orcs? complete one adventure?
the average american 20 mpg car is around 200hp, not the average car in america is 20 mpg. at last that would be my guess. most people I know drive 30-35 mpg cars, in the neighborhood of 140 hp.
I can concur on the soekris box. Might I suggest the 4801. 3 ethernet ports, laptop sized harddrive connector on board, compact flash slot, pci slot, and a mini-pci slot. they even sell them with WAN interfaces cards
we use these for wireless/bluetooth sniffers
I clicked and saw "The Women of Pop" and was hoping to be able to order some new issue of Playboy. Unfortunately, I only get to listen to them sing.
I would consider myself a switcher, although I use windows and linux pretty much daily as well. I have a mac laptop and a mac desktop at work, and my windows home machine is mostly used for games and browsing. I do linux servers at work.
other than the suggestions I've seen above, I would strongly suggest a bluetooth mouse. A handy thing to have, but the one button is not nearly so bad. ctrl-click also will get you right button functionality.
very strangly, i think the keystrokes came quicker on os x than on any other os I work on. No idea why.
Otherwise, have fun with it! you'll not regret it.
I bet those in the know get a free shell account in another country and ssh tunnel all their web traffic through it.
It'll be reverse engineered. it'll happen in some other country. it'll move "underground". they'll be a giant legal battle.
Either that or it'll fail as a format. I'm kinda guessing the latter.
All of the conservatives I know are more afraid than all of the liberals I know. I would have thought it was the other way around.
I see you mentioned the problem set, which is good. to me and my only somewhat novice mind (I work with scientists all day, hear all kinds of stuff), this sounds suspiciously like a fine grained problem. that is to say, there will be a lot of interprocess communication, so don't skimp on the network. I'm not talking "get gigE". I'm talking "look at myrinet, or quadrix, or infiniband".
Most people can do you up a 256 node cluster for under half a million, but doing up one with high speed and low latency network is another story. that net costs bucks, around $1500 per machine (for a card, a cable, and a port on the switch).
Make sure you know your problem. if you understand how it works, then you can buy a cluster that meets the need much better. Make sure the nodes are not being starved for ram iif the problem is a ram hungry one (your researchers should be able to tell you, even from data off a single machine). Find out if it's heavily integer based or floating point based (my guess is that it's a floating point problem). Find out if it's a lot of vector and matrix manipulations.
every machine type is a little better at something than the others. for instance, on integer based problems, x86 will generally scorch everything else. on floating point, there is lots of good competition (apple, intel's itanium, opterons). Don't be afraid to say to the vendor "we want to run on it for a week before we buy".
as others have said, do a RFP, but get their specs. get your tech guys to look it over hard. ask them "what sucks".
All that having been said, i'm a fan of apples and of verari systems. Dell is also quite good.
Reading long text from a compuer screen is difficult for me because of the light. I'm getting it projected directly at me, instead of more softly difused off a page of paper. Really, I think that's all there is too it. I read a fair chunk, and I like ebooks (I normally am using pdf) for certain things (references in gaming books is a good one), but for long text reading (stories, etc), it's just not suitable.
It's ironic too, because I spend all day in front of a computer, but I hate even reading documentation online. If it cracks past a page or two of 12 point, I'll kill a tree for it.
has anyone done a single study on this?
I have a 1992 honda civic vx (hatchback type). I'm not even sure what it's rated for, but I regularly get over 40, and have seen 50. Mine is driven almost exclusively to work and back home (15 miles, all but 2 miles is highway)
Despite the fact that there are abuses, and they may be wide spread, I was part of a group of students who wired a dozen or so schools in the town where I went to college. we did the network diagrams, organized the groups, taught people how to do patch panels and the like.
:)
It was in the top three most rewarding experiences in my life, and one of the most valuable for jobs skills. it was a truly unique experience, and I would hate to see this go away because some people can't freaking be honest.
I'd be happy with oversight (lots of stuff needs oversight) but don't remove it. I heard that there was a proposal to just turn it into generic school grants or something, and I think that would be a mistake as well
you know, they might actually be trying to reduce their Big Mac parts inventory (sauce and bun mostly). Shockingly, they've actually been trying to make some moves into the healthy market. Recent additions of the adult happy meal, complete with adult toy (snicker here), and the veggie burger (i've had two, they are really quite tasty, sorta like a McRib, but without the worries of what kind of meat) and the plans to remove the super sized from all their value meals should at least be given notice, regardless of motivation. you can even get apple dippers instead of fries with your extra value meal now (I asked, they say they offer it with happy meals, but they have no problems doing it with regular ones too)
this is probably a secondary thing though, since, IIRC, the Big Mac is McD's biggest seller (save maybe the cheeseburger). Still, it's at least a possibility