This helps a ton for a lot less. It is not completely water proof, but it is water resistant (gaskets) and you can throw it at the ground almost indefinately. I had to pick one up after having to get a THIRD mother board replacement in my h5555. It fell off my hip in the supplied case each time. For some reason, it ALWAYS landed on the bottom, just to the left of the docking connector, cracking the logic board. I got tired of the 250-300 dollar replacement cost. No my iPaq lives in it's red battle armor. Luckily the wireless sync keeps me from having to pull it out of the case. Just the same though, this thing is too damn fragile. I have had tons of PDAs(25 total), going all the way back to my Newtons 110/2000/2100. This is the first one to ever go in for service.
We had and emplyee actually gather a croud around her desk to watch her open it. They were all very disappointed to see that our virus filters had stripped it!
I had absolutely no trouble returning my Belkin Tunecast for a new one. Mine was completely DOA. I was very worried that they would do exactly what you describe, but they did not.
Lets stop and think about this for a minute. All scientific photos coming from NASA are monochromatic at their heart. There is a reason for this. Color photography is a wasteful proposition. No matter how you take the photo, you are throwing away at least 2/3rds of your light. You also must quadruple the size of your sensor to gather the needed info at the same resolution as black and white. It makes a ton of sense why all the raw photos would be monochromatic.
Here is what I don't get. Why do they not publish them this way? The photos coming from mars are a complete lie as far as color is concerned. Seems to me that if you don't know what the colors really are, you should not show people an assumption then treat it as fact. Sure people oooh and aw over them, and they pictures follow what people expect to see. People also associate black and white with cheap 1950's tech. But what happens when we send a person to mars, and the sky is blue?
Did everyone like it? Yes. Did everyone buy it? No.
While mac users do love their Macs, thier love is most definately not unconditional. On top of that, price most definately matters. From what I have seen, people will pay more to increase precieved value, but like everything, this has its' limits.
The only stumbling block is how to deliver ready-made building blocks to a construction site 300 million kilometres (186.4 million miles) away from Earth.
Uh... Isn't that the FIRST problem that needs to solved? I seem to have to same problem setting up my vacation home on the moon.
In the mid 80's, I got my first computer. My family has always had computers. My father is a rocket scientist, and I spent my childhood actually soldering them together. But this time, it was mine. It was a brand-new 25 MHz 386. By all measures, it was a monster. The drive was so big I had to partition it! DOS was limited to ~20 MB partitions, so I had to split it into two logical drives. It blew my mind. I loved the machine. I bought it at fry's, and it just flew. Over the next few months, I migrated all my data over to it. I had amassed quite a large amount of code over the years. My entire second partition was dedicated to it.
Shortly there after, I learned the importance of backups. As soon as I had moved the data to the new machine, my father was quick to delete it off the family machine. He only had a 4 MB MFM drive, a full height 5.25-inch monster. I swear it took that thing a minute to spin up to speed. Anyways, I never really thought that much of it. Then one day. The machine blinked off. It would not turn on. Period. After taking a good look at things, it was obvious that the power supply had blown. I then took it back to Fry's, and they serviced it and had it back to me in a couple days.
After getting it home, all plugged back in, I pressed the power button. The screen blinked on, POST began. Then my machine exploded. Literally. Lightening and all. After pulling the power cord, and letting it cool, I opened the case. It was not pretty. The motherboard was black. Everything was melted. I took a close look at the power supply, and noticed that the paper "tamper" seal was broken. I pried it open to find the fuse wrapped in aluminum foil. No doubt what caused this problem! They blamed me for the fuse... but that is another story. The real tragedy was the drive. The logic board was literally fried. The chips were blown off. Sadly, knowing that the data was lost, I set the drive on my windowsill were it sat for the next 8 years. It was a constant reminder of the need to backup... But the story doesn't end here.
I later went to high school, then college, then came back, then got a job on a tech support line. While working there, I helped out the IT dept with machine upgrades and repairs. One day, when I was upgrading a machine, I was asked to put in a larger hard disk. The drive I pulled out looked identical to the drive I had in my PC all those years earlier. I then had a crazy thought. I wonder if this logic board would work on my old drive. If it did, would the drive even spin up? I had to find out.
The drive was to be recycled/thrown out, so they let me have the board off of it. I took it home, dug my old drive out the boxes from college, and turned it over. I was dumb founded. The model was exactly the same. Even the Revision. I removed the burned up logic board off the drive, and then replaced it with the "new" one. I took the drive over to my computer, and plugged it into a free power connector (real men loose the covers to their computers). IT SPUN!!! HOLY SHIT IT MOVED!!! Totally freaked out, I shut the machine down and plugged in the data cable in and booted the computer.
Then came hell. Keep in mind that this drive had been sitting for almost a decade. The bearings groaned awfully. I was afraid they were going to seize. I quickly tried to switch to "D:". No luck. I thought I was screwed. I worked for hours trying to get the drive to show up properly. I was getting nowhere. It was then that I turned to good ol' Norton. Back then Norton was actually a TOOL! Hard to believe I know... but it's true.
Using Norton disk edit, I was actually able to recover ALL of my lost code. Useless as it now was. I immediately printed it all out, and I have the printouts to this very day. It was a complete miracle to be able to recover it at all. And it amazes me that it was even possible.
There is no love loss between me and MS, but my XP machine EASILY "crashes" 5-10 times a day. What triggers these you might be wondering? Internet Explorer. Every couple days I have to reboot the machine because explorer will refuse to go any further
I find it very rare that anything else on my machine dies.
While browsing around the site, I was stunned to see how much the "rights" varied from song to song. Even on the same album. It really sucks that they went with WM9/SDMI. Good luck backing these puppies up!
What was also surprising is that the selection is not any better than iTunes. Lots of partial albums. Why would a record company restrict onlines sales of albums/singles that are over 15 years old?
I was also turned off at how much the site layout is a blatant ripoff from Apple. Even the ads. Please. One good thing though... We can write reviews! I always felt that was a hole in Apple's site.
Have you ever tried to call Sony's support desk? I have a pretty sweet little sony R505-ELK. It has been a really great machine, until I started loosing sectors. So I called them up to get a warentee replacement. They told me... and I quote... "That's only a couple megs! You have a 30 gig drive. That doesn't come close to meeting our criteria for failure." They went on to explain that they would not replace the drive until it was completely nonfunctional.
So. Please keep this in mind before you make the leap. Dell and Apple have high support ratings for a reason. Your laptop WILL fail at some point. Make sure you pick a company that honors thier warentees. Although as of late, Dell has been getting pretty bad too.
>Is there something that I'm failing to do?
Yes. download the file silly. You need to let the program go out and actually download the data. What you saw was the preallocation.
Explain to me these two things: 1) Why should my phone bill help pay for someones heathcare(15% of the fees)? 2) Why should my gas taxes be spent on war memorials, and not the pot hole in my street?
BECAUSE: 1) Because people (voters) are stupid, and ALLOW these things to happen. 2) Everyone loves pork.
Maybe, just MAYBE cables modems shouldn't taxed so a few poor people can get heath care. Wouldn't it be a much better idea to tax them so poor people who can't afford CABLE get CABLE for free? Then we could dump the wasted VHF/UHF bands. I'm a big fan of spending taxes on things related to the taxation. I have a real problem with tripling my california car registration fees social the social service programs don't have to cut their bloated administration.
No, there are no routers other than the firewall. Period. It is called a DMZ. It is completely isolated.
A ten second window is not sufficient to get even close to grabbing a 128bit key. The only choice is to try and figure out the key rotation. I put my faith in the fact that the key switching is reasonably random. That is my weakness, if you can call it that.
Besides, Even if they broke the keys for the wireless network, the data is heavily encrypted through a VPN tunnel and IPsec. Access to the wireless network does not grant access to the wired network. Have fun cracking the VPN!
The easiest way to get into our network over wireless is to steal a company laptop, and then try to hack a user password. We track the laptops religiously, and the users are not allowed to use their own passwords over wireless. If they want wireless, we issue them keys.
Yes, it is more secure than our wired network.
Is our network fully encrypted? NO. Does our wired network have port atentication? NO. Do we have to tunnel to our servers? NO.
Anyone visiting our office can drop a dreamcast in the corner of the lobby, plug it into a network jack, and POOF! they're in. Easy as that. Even if you disable the network ports in the lobby, a visitor could do the same in any office, cube, of conf room.
Securing a wireless network is by no means simple, but it can be done. What we did here is implement 802.1x PEAP(Protected Encrypted Authentication Protocol) and 10 second key rotations PER connection (128-bit of course). All of this security is just to get you into a DMZ network. The DMZ is firewalled off by a Pix. To get into the real network, you have to fire up a VPN connection through the firewall.
It is up and running right now, using cisco and MS hardware and software. A similar solution could be done using cisco LEAP with slightly less security for the DMZ authentication servers.
Unfortunately, a cross platform solution does not fully exist at his point. Windows has the best security at this point. Go figure. PEAP so far is only supported on windows. LEAP runs on quite a few platforms including linux and OS X.
So please... stop posting uninformed slams on 802.11. Its all about knowledge and implimentation. Our wired network here is no where near as secure as out wireless one!
I guess I just be ahead of the curve or something, but the title of this article is a total "DUH!" for me. The new 48 bit addressing scheme has not even "set" yet. There is a DAMN good reason many large capacity ATA drives come wtih a FREE ATA 133 card. Until everything is nailed down on this standard, get a card/drive bundle, or at least make sure your ATA card is certified by the drive manufacturer.
I'm perfectly happy to use one of my more-or-less-useless PCI slots for one of these cards. They just gather dust anyways.:-)
Actually, there are places that get struck quite often. I used to live in Gardner Montana, and it was situated in a valley right below a mountain named "Electric Peak". It got its name from the lightning that constantly struck it. It was a very high, conductive chunk of granite, that happened to be the highest thing around (12,000 feet). That's as close to a collector as you will get.
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This helps a ton for a lot less. It is not completely water proof, but it is water resistant (gaskets) and you can throw it at the ground almost indefinately.
I had to pick one up after having to get a THIRD mother board replacement in my h5555. It fell off my hip in the supplied case each time. For some reason, it ALWAYS landed on the bottom, just to the left of the docking connector, cracking the logic board. I got tired of the 250-300 dollar replacement cost. No my iPaq lives in it's red battle armor. Luckily the wireless sync keeps me from having to pull it out of the case. Just the same though, this thing is too damn fragile. I have had tons of PDAs(25 total), going all the way back to my Newtons 110/2000/2100. This is the first one to ever go in for service.
Oh yea? I got you beat!
We had and emplyee actually gather a croud around her desk to watch her open it. They were all very disappointed to see that our virus filters had stripped it!
I had absolutely no trouble returning my Belkin Tunecast for a new one. Mine was completely DOA. I was very worried that they would do exactly what you describe, but they did not.
Lets stop and think about this for a minute. All scientific photos coming from NASA are monochromatic at their heart. There is a reason for this. Color photography is a wasteful proposition. No matter how you take the photo, you are throwing away at least 2/3rds of your light. You also must quadruple the size of your sensor to gather the needed info at the same resolution as black and white. It makes a ton of sense why all the raw photos would be monochromatic.
Here is what I don't get. Why do they not publish them this way? The photos coming from mars are a complete lie as far as color is concerned. Seems to me that if you don't know what the colors really are, you should not show people an assumption then treat it as fact. Sure people oooh and aw over them, and they pictures follow what people expect to see. People also associate black and white with cheap 1950's tech. But what happens when we send a person to mars, and the sky is blue?
Two words for you:
G4 Cube
Did everyone like it? Yes. Did everyone buy it? No.
While mac users do love their Macs, thier love is most definately not unconditional. On top of that, price most definately matters. From what I have seen, people will pay more to increase precieved value, but like everything, this has its' limits.
The only stumbling block is how to deliver ready-made building blocks to a construction site 300 million kilometres (186.4 million miles) away from Earth.
Uh... Isn't that the FIRST problem that needs to solved? I seem to have to same problem setting up my vacation home on the moon.
This story is completely true.
In the mid 80's, I got my first computer. My family has always had computers. My father is a rocket scientist, and I spent my childhood actually soldering them together. But this time, it was mine. It was a brand-new 25 MHz 386. By all measures, it was a monster. The drive was so big I had to partition it! DOS was limited to ~20 MB partitions, so I had to split it into two logical drives. It blew my mind.
I loved the machine. I bought it at fry's, and it just flew. Over the next few months, I migrated all my data over to it. I had amassed quite a large amount of code over the years. My entire second partition was dedicated to it.
Shortly there after, I learned the importance of backups. As soon as I had moved the data to the new machine, my father was quick to delete it off the family machine. He only had a 4 MB MFM drive, a full height 5.25-inch monster. I swear it took that thing a minute to spin up to speed. Anyways, I never really thought that much of it. Then one day. The machine blinked off. It would not turn on. Period. After taking a good look at things, it was obvious that the power supply had blown. I then took it back to Fry's, and they serviced it and had it back to me in a couple days.
After getting it home, all plugged back in, I pressed the power button. The screen blinked on, POST began. Then my machine exploded. Literally. Lightening and all. After pulling the power cord, and letting it cool, I opened the case. It was not pretty. The motherboard was black. Everything was melted. I took a close look at the power supply, and noticed that the paper "tamper" seal was broken. I pried it open to find the fuse wrapped in aluminum foil. No doubt what caused this problem! They blamed me for the fuse... but that is another story. The real tragedy was the drive. The logic board was literally fried. The chips were blown off. Sadly, knowing that the data was lost, I set the drive on my windowsill were it sat for the next 8 years. It was a constant reminder of the need to backup... But the story doesn't end here.
I later went to high school, then college, then came back, then got a job on a tech support line. While working there, I helped out the IT dept with machine upgrades and repairs. One day, when I was upgrading a machine, I was asked to put in a larger hard disk. The drive I pulled out looked identical to the drive I had in my PC all those years earlier. I then had a crazy thought. I wonder if this logic board would work on my old drive. If it did, would the drive even spin up? I had to find out.
The drive was to be recycled/thrown out, so they let me have the board off of it. I took it home, dug my old drive out the boxes from college, and turned it over. I was dumb founded. The model was exactly the same. Even the Revision. I removed the burned up logic board off the drive, and then replaced it with the "new" one. I took the drive over to my computer, and plugged it into a free power connector (real men loose the covers to their computers). IT SPUN!!! HOLY SHIT IT MOVED!!! Totally freaked out, I shut the machine down and plugged in the data cable in and booted the computer.
Then came hell. Keep in mind that this drive had been sitting for almost a decade. The bearings groaned awfully. I was afraid they were going to seize. I quickly tried to switch to "D:". No luck. I thought I was screwed. I worked for hours trying to get the drive to show up properly. I was getting nowhere. It was then that I turned to good ol' Norton. Back then Norton was actually a TOOL! Hard to believe I know... but it's true.
Using Norton disk edit, I was actually able to recover ALL of my lost code. Useless as it now was. I immediately printed it all out, and I have the printouts to this very day. It was a complete miracle to be able to recover it at all. And it amazes me that it was even possible.
There is no love loss between me and MS, but my XP machine EASILY "crashes" 5-10 times a day. What triggers these you might be wondering? Internet Explorer. Every couple days I have to reboot the machine because explorer will refuse to go any further
I find it very rare that anything else on my machine dies.
While browsing around the site, I was stunned to see how much the "rights" varied from song to song. Even on the same album. It really sucks that they went with WM9/SDMI. Good luck backing these puppies up!
What was also surprising is that the selection is not any better than iTunes. Lots of partial albums. Why would a record company restrict onlines sales of albums/singles that are over 15 years old?
I was also turned off at how much the site layout is a blatant ripoff from Apple. Even the ads. Please. One good thing though... We can write reviews! I always felt that was a hole in Apple's site.
Now Apple legal has something to chew on!
Have you ever tried to call Sony's support desk? I have a pretty sweet little sony R505-ELK. It has been a really great machine, until I started loosing sectors. So I called them up to get a warentee replacement. They told me... and I quote... "That's only a couple megs! You have a 30 gig drive. That doesn't come close to meeting our criteria for failure." They went on to explain that they would not replace the drive until it was completely nonfunctional.
So. Please keep this in mind before you make the leap. Dell and Apple have high support ratings for a reason. Your laptop WILL fail at some point. Make sure you pick a company that honors thier warentees. Although as of late, Dell has been getting pretty bad too.
So explain to me how a plane is supposed to land in washington DC or San Jose, ca.
Both airports are embeded in protected airspace. This whole system seems very over simplistic.
>Is there something that I'm failing to do? Yes. download the file silly. You need to let the program go out and actually download the data. What you saw was the preallocation.
Explain to me these two things:
1) Why should my phone bill help pay for someones heathcare(15% of the fees)?
2) Why should my gas taxes be spent on war memorials, and not the pot hole in my street?
BECAUSE:
1) Because people (voters) are stupid, and ALLOW these things to happen.
2) Everyone loves pork.
Maybe, just MAYBE cables modems shouldn't taxed so a few poor people can get heath care. Wouldn't it be a much better idea to tax them so poor people who can't afford CABLE get CABLE for free? Then we could dump the wasted VHF/UHF bands.
I'm a big fan of spending taxes on things related to the taxation. I have a real problem with tripling my california car registration fees social the social service programs don't have to cut their bloated administration.
No, there are no routers other than the firewall. Period. It is called a DMZ. It is completely isolated.
A ten second window is not sufficient to get even close to grabbing a 128bit key. The only choice is to try and figure out the key rotation. I put my faith in the fact that the key switching is reasonably random. That is my weakness, if you can call it that.
Besides, Even if they broke the keys for the wireless network, the data is heavily encrypted through a VPN tunnel and IPsec. Access to the wireless network does not grant access to the wired network. Have fun cracking the VPN!
The easiest way to get into our network over wireless is to steal a company laptop, and then try to hack a user password. We track the laptops religiously, and the users are not allowed to use their own passwords over wireless. If they want wireless, we issue them keys.
Yes, it is more secure than our wired network.
Is our network fully encrypted? NO.
Does our wired network have port atentication? NO.
Do we have to tunnel to our servers? NO.
Anyone visiting our office can drop a dreamcast in the corner of the lobby, plug it into a network jack, and POOF! they're in. Easy as that. Even if you disable the network ports in the lobby, a visitor could do the same in any office, cube, of conf room.
Securing a wireless network is by no means simple, but it can be done. What we did here is implement 802.1x PEAP(Protected Encrypted Authentication Protocol) and 10 second key rotations PER connection (128-bit of course). All of this security is just to get you into a DMZ network. The DMZ is firewalled off by a Pix. To get into the real network, you have to fire up a VPN connection through the firewall.
It is up and running right now, using cisco and MS hardware and software. A similar solution could be done using cisco LEAP with slightly less security for the DMZ authentication servers.
Unfortunately, a cross platform solution does not fully exist at his point. Windows has the best security at this point. Go figure. PEAP so far is only supported on windows. LEAP runs on quite a few platforms including linux and OS X.
So please... stop posting uninformed slams on 802.11. Its all about knowledge and implimentation. Our wired network here is no where near as secure as out wireless one!
I guess I just be ahead of the curve or something, but the title of this article is a total "DUH!" for me. The new 48 bit addressing scheme has not even "set" yet. There is a DAMN good reason many large capacity ATA drives come wtih a FREE ATA 133 card. Until everything is nailed down on this standard, get a card/drive bundle, or at least make sure your ATA card is certified by the drive manufacturer.
:-)
I'm perfectly happy to use one of my more-or-less-useless PCI slots for one of these cards. They just gather dust anyways.
Actually, there are places that get struck quite often. I used to live in Gardner Montana, and it was situated in a valley right below a mountain named "Electric Peak". It got its name from the lightning that constantly struck it. It was a very high, conductive chunk of granite, that happened to be the highest thing around (12,000 feet). That's as close to a collector as you will get.
We already do. its called a STAMP fool.