I already have three replies on this posting agreeing that conduit is good. A fourth couldn't hurt.
Actually, smurf tubing (flexible non-metallic tubing) is ribbed. That's what makes it flexible. But being ribbed, it has only 50% of the interior surface area, so has only 50% of the friction. You want ribbed, not smooth. -russ
There's more than wireless. I have a weather station on the room now that I didn't count on. Fortunately, I have conduit. The weather station itself is in the kitchen. Fortunately, I have conduit. Oh, I have wireless, too. But I also have conduit. -russ p.s. I can't emphasize conduit enough. p.p.s. conduit good, no conduit bad.
I'll second that. Take the pictures just before the drywall is installed, and be sure to put a yardstick in the picture for measurement purposes.
If you can get 'em to do it, have them install blocking in the bathroom at towel-rack height. Makes your towel racks MUCH less likely to be pulled off the wall by some hulking teenager. -russ
Empty conduit is cheaper than two runs of cat5 by the time you terminate and test it. If you don't test it, how do you know that you didn't put a staple through it? What happens if the drywall contractor puts a drywall screw through it after you've tested it?
Empty conduit everywhere, with wiring only where you need it, is cheaper. Been there, should have done that. -russ
I built a new house seven years ago, with two runs of cat-5 to every room, and *some* conduit. I didn't run enough cat-5, nor did I run enough conduit. I should have run conduit to every location. Smurf tubing. Ya gotta love it. -russ
Alas, "painfully obvious, even to a retarded 3-year-old" isn't sufficient to break a patent. It should be, it's written into the law, but the case law is such that you can't win a patent defense using obviousness anymore.
Sad to say, but the 'obviousness' test is no longer considered. In order to prove that something was obvious, you have to show prior art. In other words, it has to have already been invented. THIS is the main breakage of the patent system today. That's why everybody is patenting everything no matter how obvious. It's cheaper to get the patent than to litigate it after somebody else has been granted the patent.
When I pick up the telephone, I want my MP3 player to pause. I also want the telephone to do a google search on the incoming caller-id. And log the beginning and end of every call. And automatically bill it to the customer associated with that telephone number.
The quality of the software is dependent upon the freedom of it. Without the freedom, you cannot achieve the gains in quality that open source promises. Freedom is not a "oh, yeah, that's nice too", but instead a prerequisite. We don't say anything about freedom because 'free' scares people.
RMS hates it when Open Source gets confused with Free Software because he is of the Chomskyan mold that says that words shape thinking. He very firmly believes that people will not appreciate, respect, and demand freedom unless they hear the word 'free'. That's obviously wrong.
If you read the license, they point out that this copyright license is for everyone not subject to US law. For the latter group of people, the software is indeed in the public domain. -russ p.s. modulo the details, of course.
My daughter found a bug in a program that had been used for many years. She was 1yo at the time, and was banging her hands on the keyboard ("Look, mom, I'm typing just like Daddy does!") and somehow crashed the Galahad word processor. Fortunately, I saw (mostly) what keys she had pressed, and was able to reproduce it. -russ
Microsoft has a history of ignoring vulnerabilities that don't have published exploits. "Oh, that's just theoretically a problem. Nobody has actually broken into a server that way."
Note that the author has not published an exploit usable by a script kiddie. Substantial programming (actual coding!) is needed to turn this proof of vulnerability into an exploit. -russ
... then you'll never understand why significant whitespace is a feature, not a bug. Anybody who actually sits down and uses Python, rather than prejudging significant whitespace, quickly finds that they never get block structuring wrong again, unlike languages with silly syntactic sugar.
Somebody thinks I have prior art, and I had to be deposed this summer. One of the things we did was run a decade-old version of Gopher for Windows. -russ
They're pointing out that there is a nonzero amount of spam which is valuable to the recipient, and wondering out how to strain that baby out of the bathwater (it's a very small baby). They're suggesting that they can make the baby bigger (that is, discernable to the naked eye) by arranging a system whereby spammers can pay to spam you. -russ
So these guys want our computers to spend our money? First they have to secure every machine. Of course, once you do that, you don't have DDOSes, nor proxy spam. The first step of their solution *is* the solution; the remaining steps would be a waste of time. -russ
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I already have three replies on this posting agreeing that conduit is good. A fourth couldn't hurt.
Actually, smurf tubing (flexible non-metallic tubing) is ribbed. That's what makes it flexible. But being ribbed, it has only 50% of the interior surface area, so has only 50% of the friction. You want ribbed, not smooth.
-russ
There's more than wireless. I have a weather station on the room now that I didn't count on. Fortunately, I have conduit. The weather station itself is in the kitchen. Fortunately, I have conduit. Oh, I have wireless, too. But I also have conduit.
-russ
p.s. I can't emphasize conduit enough.
p.p.s. conduit good, no conduit bad.
I'll second that. Take the pictures just before the drywall is installed, and be sure to put a yardstick in the picture for measurement purposes.
If you can get 'em to do it, have them install blocking in the bathroom at towel-rack height. Makes your towel racks MUCH less likely to be pulled off the wall by some hulking teenager.
-russ
Empty conduit is cheaper than two runs of cat5 by the time you terminate and test it. If you don't test it, how do you know that you didn't put a staple through it? What happens if the drywall contractor puts a drywall screw through it after you've tested it?
Empty conduit everywhere, with wiring only where you need it, is cheaper. Been there, should have done that.
-russ
I built a new house seven years ago, with two runs of cat-5 to every room, and *some* conduit. I didn't run enough cat-5, nor did I run enough conduit. I should have run conduit to every location. Smurf tubing. Ya gotta love it.
-russ
Alas, "painfully obvious, even to a retarded 3-year-old" isn't sufficient to break a patent. It should be, it's written into the law, but the case law is such that you can't win a patent defense using obviousness anymore.
Sad to say, but the 'obviousness' test is no longer considered. In order to prove that something was obvious, you have to show prior art. In other words, it has to have already been invented. THIS is the main breakage of the patent system today. That's why everybody is patenting everything no matter how obvious. It's cheaper to get the patent than to litigate it after somebody else has been granted the patent.
When I pick up the telephone, I want my MP3 player to pause. I also want the telephone to do a google search on the incoming caller-id. And log the beginning and end of every call. And automatically bill it to the customer associated with that telephone number.
/me calls LucasArts and asks "Hey, I just heard you have a good adventure game. Most of them suck. Where can I buy Sam and Max?"
If enough people do it, they'll think it's a movement.
-russ
The quality of the software is dependent upon the freedom of it. Without the freedom, you cannot achieve the gains in quality that open source promises. Freedom is not a "oh, yeah, that's nice too", but instead a prerequisite. We don't say anything about freedom because 'free' scares people.
RMS hates it when Open Source gets confused with Free Software because he is of the Chomskyan mold that says that words shape thinking. He very firmly believes that people will not appreciate, respect, and demand freedom unless they hear the word 'free'. That's obviously wrong.
Cool! A top-level flash page! No text navigation!
Who ARE these morons? Have they never read a web usability guide?
"Free Software" exists to sell the idea of freedom. "Open Source" exists to sell the reality of freedom.
If you read the license, they point out that this copyright license is for everyone not subject to US law. For the latter group of people, the software is indeed in the public domain.
-russ
p.s. modulo the details, of course.
A simple binary patch will fix it. Just change the jump instruction from a jge to jae (or jl to jb, as needed).
-russ
My daughter found a bug in a program that had been used for many years. She was 1yo at the time, and was banging her hands on the keyboard ("Look, mom, I'm typing just like Daddy does!") and somehow crashed the Galahad word processor. Fortunately, I saw (mostly) what keys she had pressed, and was able to reproduce it.
-russ
Microsoft has a history of ignoring vulnerabilities that don't have published exploits. "Oh, that's just theoretically a problem. Nobody has actually broken into a server that way."
Note that the author has not published an exploit usable by a script kiddie. Substantial programming (actual coding!) is needed to turn this proof of vulnerability into an exploit.
-russ
Hordes. Hordes of developers. Mnemonic: Hordes of open source developers don't hoard.
-russ
"Birds have a feather"? Wait, let me go look .... no, our birds have many feathers.
-russ
Or ... if you don't like my first answer, try Guido's: "But you were going to indent anyway."
-russ
... then you'll never understand why significant whitespace is a feature, not a bug. Anybody who actually sits down and uses Python, rather than prejudging significant whitespace, quickly finds that they never get block structuring wrong again, unlike languages with silly syntactic sugar.
Basically, it works, and it's good. Try it!
-russ
Somebody thinks I have prior art, and I had to be deposed this summer. One of the things we did was run a decade-old version of Gopher for Windows.
-russ
You are describing Domain Keys. Oh, and the Web-o-Trust.
-russ
They're pointing out that there is a nonzero amount of spam which is valuable to the recipient, and wondering out how to strain that baby out of the bathwater (it's a very small baby). They're suggesting that they can make the baby bigger (that is, discernable to the naked eye) by arranging a system whereby spammers can pay to spam you.
-russ
So these guys want our computers to spend our money? First they have to secure every machine. Of course, once you do that, you don't have DDOSes, nor proxy spam. The first step of their solution *is* the solution; the remaining steps would be a waste of time.
-russ
Inconceivable!!!
You keep saying that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.