Ding Ding Ding! Spore, I did the SAME thing! I wanted the game pretty badly, it sounded cool as hell, and then I heard about the DRM. Screw that, I never bought it and no I didn't download it. If they are going to be complete asshats with the DRM I'm skipping it altogether. I also skipped Supre Commander 2 because it was Steam only and the DRM wants a 'net connection. The fact that they dumbed this game down for console play was icing on the cake - stick a fork in it I'm not interested.
Same thing happened with music. I used to spend tons of cash on CDs but it was killing me. Then I spent bunches on used CDs. Napster was pretty cool and it let me figure out which used CDs were best to buy. When that died I pretty much stopped buying music! I played with iTunes a little but somehow managed to lose several songs and I didn't like the format. I stuck to copying other's CDs and buying used ones for a number of YEARS. Then I found Amazon. The prices are right for the most part, they aren't protected and the ID tags can be removed, and it's a format I desire! A bonus is my credit card gives me Amazon coupons for using it that I can use towards purchases.
So, I buy music now but I don't buy it from iTunes unless Amazon hasn't got it and I REALLY want it. I have accounts where I could download it but I don't. the cost from Amazon is reasonable and there's no DRM in my way. Perhaps if I was younger I wouldn't see it this way but I grew up and I'm willing to spend a little bit for things like this. Hell I listened to a DJLobsterdust mashup the day and it reminded me of a song I wanted (he'd mashed it) so I bought it from Amazon for less than a buck.
I own a Kindle too. I have stripped the DRM off of the books I own - about 50 of them - so I have good backups. I hate that they have DRM but their prices are (were?) decent and the selection is good, the DRM can be stripped. I have also downloaded free books and I enjoy those too. Where I see huge trouble looming is publishers seem to no longer be so interested in dealing with Amazon and wishing to push prices upwards. I'm sorry but $9.99 or less is my pricepoint. These asshats are pushing for higher prices and for an item that's as small as a half meg they're about to shoot themselves in the foot. If you thought music was bad you ain't seen nothing yet. I saw that my favorite author had a new book out in his series. I jumped on Amazon to buy it and for the first time the book was NOT available on Kindle! PirateBay had it In fact PirateBay had a small torrent of ALL of this guys books I've bought and it would have taken me maybe 20mins to get them ALL. I really prefer to pay for them but not everyone is going to be so picky....
Umm, not all of us. I've not bought a brand new PC game in ages and most of the console games I own were used when purchased. $60 for a game that will almost certainly turn out to be buggy, or dumbed down for console play, and cannot be returned after having been opened is crap and I'm not participating. I almost bought one of the new PC games until I found out it was DRM laden, dumbed down for a console interface, and they screwed up the game play despite it's being labeled as a successor to a game I loved! Luckily a friend bought it first and told me how crappy it was. Sad when you buy a new game on DVD and then have to download a metric ton of crap just to get to play it the FIRST time! That was a Steam game - steaming pile is more like it. They can take that sales model and stick it...
I'll throw in my.02 here. I stopped buying games. I stopped buying games because they became VERY expensive, are hogs, are being dumbed down to run on the console first and the PC second, and because the DRM is becoming ever more intrusive. Case in point: Supreme Commander 2. I LOVED the original TA game, I enjoyed Supreme commander 1, and now this... Built for console, dumbed down for the PC, and it requires STEAM. No sale. I like FPS, I play UT2K4 and once in a blue moon UT3. I have tried Battlefield and some others but nah too expensive and more and more complex. UT3 was even a PITA with better graphics but gameplay that wasn't as interesting to me and nowhere near as many 3rd party levels - maybe that has changed - and DRM that was more difficult than UT2K4 to deal with. I don't want to have to go find my DVD, I don't want to HAVE to be connected, and I don't want my machine inspected to see if I'm running software the company doesn't like. Yes, I actually had one of those pseudo DVD mount programs running for something other than game piracy and it kept me from installing a legit game I had purchased.
The game industry has shot itself in the foot. They are moving to consoles just as fast as they can and dumbing things down because of it. It's a real shame that just as PCs have become quite powerful and video cards disgustingly fast that video game companies seem to have decided to abandon the platform. It sucks for people like yourself but when games are so ridiculous as to REQUIRE you to be online to play them then the companies have asked for the crap that follows. Sell me a game for say $25 that doesn't completely suck and I'm all over it. It doesn't need video realistic graphics just decent gameplay and the ability for 3rd parties to expand it ala UT2K4. Then the company can spend a little less development time on the graphics and a bunch more on a decent engine that will last a good bit longer.
FWIW - we already see poorly-produced titles being delivered late with tons of bugs - that's reality.
P.S. I own a Wii, a PS3, and a 360 (if this one doesn't fry) but I really prefer the PC for games. On those consoles I buy USED games and play them FAR less than my PC. While console development is of interest to the game companies it's not much interest to me - not at $60 a game!
Last I'd looked Apple was the only one that seemed to be offering this but now it seems like a few others have dribbled out. Question is would it be better to try and build something X86 or buy something like the Netgear? The Netgear isn't yet fully supported by DD-WRT except in alpha firmware apparently, Tomato doesn't work on it I don't think, but OpenWRT is supporting it.
And yeah, I knew about the 5GHZ from previous research done the last time/. posted this kind of question but was hazy because it had been awhile. Back then I couldn't find a 5ghz router that would work, now it looks like there's at least one and maybe more. Just not sure if it's best to build or buy...
Well, ATOM powered boards and even complete systems don't cost much and are pretty efficient. No it won't be as cheap as buying an off the shelf device but the amount of features and power it could bring to the table might be worth the additional cost. Unfortunately many of these seem like glorified laptop boards and not something suitable for use as a low power router:(
I'm curious, do those planes normally fly at their max height and when flights resume do they also intend to do that? I just found it odd that they flew the plane as high as it was rated for during a test for damage in the atmosphere. Was this supposed to maximize the risk or reduce it and will they follow the same protocol once they begin flying again?
There have been several instances of planes unwittingly flying through ash plumes. They didn't fly right over the volcano and in some cases were many miles away and didn't even realize there was an issue - it doesn't display on radar. I recall reading about one of these where the only initial indication was a plume of flame coming from the engines first noticed by the passengers. Anyway, in these cases the pilots found that the engines began to malfunction. In fact I recall one of the planes after having landed had it's engines tested - they failed completely shortly after.
Now I knew people stuck on both sides of the ocean this last time around. They were pretty upset about it but given the choice between flying through this crap and staying where they were they all felt that staying was better than risking death. Now it might cost a bunch of money not to fly these planes but these people are spending money on hotels and other things and will continue to do so having LIVED through this mess.
Now you rant about how all of this isn't proven and that it makes you angry. Fine then go ahead and prove it! Prove everyone wrong by flying through this crap. Prove that weeks or months later these engines aren't going to die somewhere over the Atlantic. Or better yet go ask the military folks who are still up and flying around this stuff how happy they are about having to replace some of the engines that are on these planes. Yes, it seems that some folks still flew - and are paying for it. Is that not proof enough?
Bleah!:-( Some additional rooting around in the ClearOS forums and NO they do not support wireless yet! You can get a little crazy with MadWiFi and custom compiling blah blah but in the end no you don't get support and likely nothing you could configure from a GUI either. This is at least the second Firewall type software I've looked at that looked great for this until you started asking about wireless and then the attitude seems to be "add another NIC and cheap AP". Boo!
I'm not running this but a friend is. He claims it CAN support WiFi and that it has served him well on Via X86 hardware. http://www.clearfoundation.com/Software/overview.html From his description it's pretty good at blocking and handling traffic like a good firewall\IDS. Add in wireless and it just MIGHT serve the need. However he's not yet gotten wireless hardware on his to test so no personal experiences with that portion yet. He's running it on this -> http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16856107055 but has no room for a PCI card and has been trying USB dongles with no success so far.
Something like that is what I'm most interested in. Yeah, it's another box to admin but it's powerful, has no issues with "flashing", no need for hardware hacking, and the features are limited only by hardware support, CPU, memory, and people's willingness to add them. As it stands now I do a little admin on my current router anyway and if an x86 box could be administered as easily I'd jump on it even if it does cost more than an Asus, Buffalo, Netgear, or Linksys device...
Thoughts? What would be good hardware for this? So far the problem has been finding a good hardware base - two GigE NIC, a good CPU, some room for expansion, and LOW power....
Looks damned nice but won't that add up pretty good by the time you're done building it? NOT knocking it but I'd love to see a full build with hardware specs and testing documented somewhere!
No he's saying he likes Tomato a great deal and DD-WRT is lacking by comparison. If he's going to switch hardware there's no issue with overflashing Tomato as he'd be on different hardware...
Unfortunately it doesn't support 5GHZ frequencies. It's not high priced though and their supporting DD-WRT is awesome but I really would liek a dual band router if possible. The NETGEAR WNDR3700 seems to support what I want but I've yet to try it. I too have been using Tomato on a WRT54G and would like a good replacement that MUST support 3rd party firmware...
Unfortunately it's 2.4GHZ only. Isn't 802.11n supposed to also support a higher less congested frequency? 5GHZ right? Aside from the Appple offering what other 802.11n based router supports that? 2.4GHZ is pretty congested and my microwave blasts it but my higher frequency phone shrugs it off...
Ya' know when I saw that Brainslayer was moving to X86 platforms with DD-WRT I felt a bit of joy... then I saw he was going to charge for it and the builds weren't freely available and I felt a bit of Sveasoft angst.:-( At that time I also began to have some issues with my WRT54G running the code and moved to Tomato and have had few issues ever since.
However, I would REALLY like to be able to grab a low powered, spare, X86 computer and run it as a router. Dump all the issues with "flashing" and just find a good set of hardware I could run that was powerful enough I didn't have to worry so much about memory or CPU getting in the way. This is not the first time a posting on Slashdot has been made by some poor soul looking for a WRT54 like box to run 802.11n but so far I'm still like the original poster looking for a good solution. Yes I have read the compatibility list for DD-WRT and others but dang it those are still low memory devices with issues flashing etc.! Aside from cost, what's wrong with something like an ASROCK 330 running some cards, Wireless N, and some kick ass firewall IDS software? I actually looked pretty hard at some X86 based IDS\Router things out there but none I found really seemed to support wireless let alone 802.11n.
So, I'm reading in on this hoping that I'll find some solution. The article you linked made me sad because I had at one time hoped that DD-WRT might be the solution and might not be going the Sveasoft route. It's a shame to see that might not be the case. I know that Brainslayer worked hard on that code and I know that he's not had too much support from other coders so he feels like he deserves something back. He had even made some statements to that effect when I was last looking at their site awhile back. I understand his feelings but he has to realize he's standing on the shoulders of others too. Maybe he does have to license code from folks but if so why isn't that in some binary blob and the rest available? I hope things have changed since that article, I'm almost afraid to go look and see but thanks for having linked it here - it was informative and I'm GLAD to see that Sveasoft finally tanked. Their auto-charging of credit cards yearly and other practices were REALLY shitty!
Yes exactly how it works. Do be advised that many clients use DHT too though so if you're just trying to share files with a limited few others may get hits in their searches and be able to access your files if you do not turn it off! Right now I'm using StrongDC++ and while it cannot handle UNC shares directly I can map a network drive to folders and it will access those unlike other programs I tried.
Anyway, it's working fine for sharing among a specific group of folks I know and when setup correctly keeps it private and secure. Pretty nice for moving files over a long distance among friends on less than perfect connections and you can throttle it too.
I bet in hindsight he wishes he'd done that in the three days between being confronted and tossed in the clink. Frankly if that group of idiots fired me I'd forget everything I ever knew about their network...
Is that also the document that says do not reveal passwords over the phone, in front of groups of people, or to your boss? Note that they demanded his password in a group with an open speakerphone on the table and it was his bosses asking for it. Also note that he had caught one of those folks sneaking around office spaces unannounced and claims she was removing a HDD from a computer - she fled when confronted. Not the sorts of people I'd be handing over credentials attributed to ME and he thought so too. Since when does not turning over passwords land you in jail? If he was supposed to have those passwords in that database and didn't the result is jail? Why wasn't that policy enforced prior to this confrontation? He may have been an ass but the charges against him are crap.
The written policy doesn't specify the Mayor. However this guy caught one of his "superiors" sneaking around office spaces and removing a HDD from a computer. When confronted she fled and claimed that she was there as part of an investigation - that no one had heard anything about. Then these guys demanded the password in a room full of people and an open speakerphone. The written policy DOES say that you cannot give the password to your boss, give it over the phone, or give it out in front of a group of people under penalty of civil and criminal charges.
Now, after these clowns did all of THAT how inclined would you be to trust ANY of them? Particularly since you knew damned well that they were not qualified by any stretch of your imagination to do anything worthwhile with the passwords they were requesting? Passwords that were apparently attributable to no one but you? How willing would you be to give a gun to a toddler in other words. This network supported city services including emergency services I believe. It was pretty complex and he was certified by Cisco at about as high a level as they come and was being asked by idiots to turn over keys to the kingdom - he knew what would happen and he probably knew that he would be blamed and accused of "hacking" when his credentials were used incorrectly.
In that situation demanding to give those passwords to someone at the tippy top in as big a display and flourish as possible such that there was NO doubt that he had relinquished them was probably a pretty smart move. Giving them out to anyone else, particularly if he thought they were setting him up for something while sneaking around in the office, would have been pretty foolish.
And refusing to give over credentials isn't a criminal act. If these folks had had any brains they would have had policies in place to prevent a disaster in the case of him getting hit by a bus. the lack of preparedness on their part in no way constitutes an emergency on his - particularly after they fired him!
I hope he is found not guilty and I hope he sues the living shit out of these morons for having been so stupid and for having kept him penned in a jail cell for so long. I think it will be a huge injustice if he's locked up for having done what he felt was the moral and right thing and for having followed policy as best he could. The man was in a no-win situation, these idiots would have gone after him no matter what. Their claims of him having booby trapped the network and other insane uneducated crap make it quite clear they had no clue and had an axe to grind.
Umm he caught someone in their office spaces snooping and claims she removed a HDD from a machine. AFTER she was caught she claimed it was part of an investigation that no one else apparently knew about. Afterwords they demanded the password in clear violation of written policy which threatened civil and criminal charges if it was violated and he refused. Somewhere along the line he was fired and at that point no longer obligated to turn over anything in his head IMO. If they had no proper failsafes for the passwords due to their poor planning then tough shit.
He might very well have been full of himself but that's hardly illegal and refusing to turn over passwords entrusted to you shouldn't be either particularly if it's in a setting that violated at LEAST two if not three of the written policies rules. The rules say do not give to your boss, do not discuss on the phone, do not give out in front of multiple people - how clear does it need to be?
He made a show of giving them to the Mayor, smart move. If he had given it to someone else without making a big deal out of it they might have hosed the system and then blamed him! He had already caught one person sneaking around office spaces doing who knows what, I wouldn't have trusted any of them either and going to the Mayor with a flourish made sure EVERYONE knew where the buck stopped. Hell after he turned the passwords over they apparently still managed to make a mess out of things - was that his fault too?
Policy says don't give passwords to your boss, don't give password over the phone, don't give password in front of others. they asked him for the password in a room full of people and an open speakerphone and he refused. Somewhere in there either before or after this he was fired. Once they fired him he was under no obligation anyway IMO but in any case he was following the written policy! The policy also stated that you could be in for both civil or criminal proceedings for not following the policy...
You should also note that one of the folks asking was a woman he'd caught sneaking around office spaces she had no business being in and he claims he caught her removing a HDD from a computer, that's part of what started all of this. For all he knew they were attempting to hack passwords or plant evidence. After having been caught she claimed it was part of an investigation but no one was notified about the investigation ahead of time. considering the sorts of data that network protected wouldn't you be a bit suspicious and paranoid?
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Oh, so it's sort of like CableCard used to be?
Ding Ding Ding! Spore, I did the SAME thing! I wanted the game pretty badly, it sounded cool as hell, and then I heard about the DRM. Screw that, I never bought it and no I didn't download it. If they are going to be complete asshats with the DRM I'm skipping it altogether. I also skipped Supre Commander 2 because it was Steam only and the DRM wants a 'net connection. The fact that they dumbed this game down for console play was icing on the cake - stick a fork in it I'm not interested.
Same thing happened with music. I used to spend tons of cash on CDs but it was killing me. Then I spent bunches on used CDs. Napster was pretty cool and it let me figure out which used CDs were best to buy. When that died I pretty much stopped buying music! I played with iTunes a little but somehow managed to lose several songs and I didn't like the format. I stuck to copying other's CDs and buying used ones for a number of YEARS. Then I found Amazon. The prices are right for the most part, they aren't protected and the ID tags can be removed, and it's a format I desire! A bonus is my credit card gives me Amazon coupons for using it that I can use towards purchases.
So, I buy music now but I don't buy it from iTunes unless Amazon hasn't got it and I REALLY want it. I have accounts where I could download it but I don't. the cost from Amazon is reasonable and there's no DRM in my way. Perhaps if I was younger I wouldn't see it this way but I grew up and I'm willing to spend a little bit for things like this. Hell I listened to a DJLobsterdust mashup the day and it reminded me of a song I wanted (he'd mashed it) so I bought it from Amazon for less than a buck.
I own a Kindle too. I have stripped the DRM off of the books I own - about 50 of them - so I have good backups. I hate that they have DRM but their prices are (were?) decent and the selection is good, the DRM can be stripped. I have also downloaded free books and I enjoy those too. Where I see huge trouble looming is publishers seem to no longer be so interested in dealing with Amazon and wishing to push prices upwards. I'm sorry but $9.99 or less is my pricepoint. These asshats are pushing for higher prices and for an item that's as small as a half meg they're about to shoot themselves in the foot. If you thought music was bad you ain't seen nothing yet. I saw that my favorite author had a new book out in his series. I jumped on Amazon to buy it and for the first time the book was NOT available on Kindle! PirateBay had it In fact PirateBay had a small torrent of ALL of this guys books I've bought and it would have taken me maybe 20mins to get them ALL. I really prefer to pay for them but not everyone is going to be so picky....
Umm, not all of us. I've not bought a brand new PC game in ages and most of the console games I own were used when purchased. $60 for a game that will almost certainly turn out to be buggy, or dumbed down for console play, and cannot be returned after having been opened is crap and I'm not participating. I almost bought one of the new PC games until I found out it was DRM laden, dumbed down for a console interface, and they screwed up the game play despite it's being labeled as a successor to a game I loved! Luckily a friend bought it first and told me how crappy it was. Sad when you buy a new game on DVD and then have to download a metric ton of crap just to get to play it the FIRST time! That was a Steam game - steaming pile is more like it. They can take that sales model and stick it...
I'll throw in my .02 here. I stopped buying games. I stopped buying games because they became VERY expensive, are hogs, are being dumbed down to run on the console first and the PC second, and because the DRM is becoming ever more intrusive. Case in point: Supreme Commander 2. I LOVED the original TA game, I enjoyed Supreme commander 1, and now this... Built for console, dumbed down for the PC, and it requires STEAM. No sale. I like FPS, I play UT2K4 and once in a blue moon UT3. I have tried Battlefield and some others but nah too expensive and more and more complex. UT3 was even a PITA with better graphics but gameplay that wasn't as interesting to me and nowhere near as many 3rd party levels - maybe that has changed - and DRM that was more difficult than UT2K4 to deal with. I don't want to have to go find my DVD, I don't want to HAVE to be connected, and I don't want my machine inspected to see if I'm running software the company doesn't like. Yes, I actually had one of those pseudo DVD mount programs running for something other than game piracy and it kept me from installing a legit game I had purchased.
The game industry has shot itself in the foot. They are moving to consoles just as fast as they can and dumbing things down because of it. It's a real shame that just as PCs have become quite powerful and video cards disgustingly fast that video game companies seem to have decided to abandon the platform. It sucks for people like yourself but when games are so ridiculous as to REQUIRE you to be online to play them then the companies have asked for the crap that follows. Sell me a game for say $25 that doesn't completely suck and I'm all over it. It doesn't need video realistic graphics just decent gameplay and the ability for 3rd parties to expand it ala UT2K4. Then the company can spend a little less development time on the graphics and a bunch more on a decent engine that will last a good bit longer.
FWIW - we already see poorly-produced titles being delivered late with tons of bugs - that's reality.
P.S. I own a Wii, a PS3, and a 360 (if this one doesn't fry) but I really prefer the PC for games. On those consoles I buy USED games and play them FAR less than my PC. While console development is of interest to the game companies it's not much interest to me - not at $60 a game!
Yup like the Netgear WNDR3700 http://www.newegg.com/product/product.aspx?Item=N82E16833122326
Last I'd looked Apple was the only one that seemed to be offering this but now it seems like a few others have dribbled out. Question is would it be better to try and build something X86 or buy something like the Netgear? The Netgear isn't yet fully supported by DD-WRT except in alpha firmware apparently, Tomato doesn't work on it I don't think, but OpenWRT is supporting it.
And yeah, I knew about the 5GHZ from previous research done the last time /. posted this kind of question but was hazy because it had been awhile. Back then I couldn't find a 5ghz router that would work, now it looks like there's at least one and maybe more. Just not sure if it's best to build or buy...
Well, ATOM powered boards and even complete systems don't cost much and are pretty efficient. No it won't be as cheap as buying an off the shelf device but the amount of features and power it could bring to the table might be worth the additional cost. Unfortunately many of these seem like glorified laptop boards and not something suitable for use as a low power router :(
I'm curious, do those planes normally fly at their max height and when flights resume do they also intend to do that? I just found it odd that they flew the plane as high as it was rated for during a test for damage in the atmosphere. Was this supposed to maximize the risk or reduce it and will they follow the same protocol once they begin flying again?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Airways_Flight_9
There have been several instances of planes unwittingly flying through ash plumes. They didn't fly right over the volcano and in some cases were many miles away and didn't even realize there was an issue - it doesn't display on radar. I recall reading about one of these where the only initial indication was a plume of flame coming from the engines first noticed by the passengers. Anyway, in these cases the pilots found that the engines began to malfunction. In fact I recall one of the planes after having landed had it's engines tested - they failed completely shortly after.
Now I knew people stuck on both sides of the ocean this last time around. They were pretty upset about it but given the choice between flying through this crap and staying where they were they all felt that staying was better than risking death. Now it might cost a bunch of money not to fly these planes but these people are spending money on hotels and other things and will continue to do so having LIVED through this mess.
Now you rant about how all of this isn't proven and that it makes you angry. Fine then go ahead and prove it! Prove everyone wrong by flying through this crap. Prove that weeks or months later these engines aren't going to die somewhere over the Atlantic. Or better yet go ask the military folks who are still up and flying around this stuff how happy they are about having to replace some of the engines that are on these planes. Yes, it seems that some folks still flew - and are paying for it. Is that not proof enough?
Perhaps this picture will help - it comes from an engine that has flown through this crap -> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:British-Airways-Flight-9_turbine_and_compressor_blades.JPG
Bleah! :-( Some additional rooting around in the ClearOS forums and NO they do not support wireless yet! You can get a little crazy with MadWiFi and custom compiling blah blah but in the end no you don't get support and likely nothing you could configure from a GUI either. This is at least the second Firewall type software I've looked at that looked great for this until you started asking about wireless and then the attitude seems to be "add another NIC and cheap AP". Boo!
I'm not running this but a friend is. He claims it CAN support WiFi and that it has served him well on Via X86 hardware. http://www.clearfoundation.com/Software/overview.html From his description it's pretty good at blocking and handling traffic like a good firewall\IDS. Add in wireless and it just MIGHT serve the need. However he's not yet gotten wireless hardware on his to test so no personal experiences with that portion yet. He's running it on this -> http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16856107055 but has no room for a PCI card and has been trying USB dongles with no success so far.
Something like that is what I'm most interested in. Yeah, it's another box to admin but it's powerful, has no issues with "flashing", no need for hardware hacking, and the features are limited only by hardware support, CPU, memory, and people's willingness to add them. As it stands now I do a little admin on my current router anyway and if an x86 box could be administered as easily I'd jump on it even if it does cost more than an Asus, Buffalo, Netgear, or Linksys device...
Thoughts? What would be good hardware for this? So far the problem has been finding a good hardware base - two GigE NIC, a good CPU, some room for expansion, and LOW power....
Looks damned nice but won't that add up pretty good by the time you're done building it? NOT knocking it but I'd love to see a full build with hardware specs and testing documented somewhere!
No he's saying he likes Tomato a great deal and DD-WRT is lacking by comparison. If he's going to switch hardware there's no issue with overflashing Tomato as he'd be on different hardware...
Reading lots of posts here with good hardware. Add to your list the NETGEAR WNDR3700 which is dual band and is supported by OpenWRT with DD-WRT apparently working on it. http://www.newegg.com/product/product.aspx?Item=N82E16833122326
Buffalo also makes one that looks interesting but isn't dual band http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833162031
Found the NetGear WNDR3700 in another posting. 64MB of RAM and 8MB of flash with USB ports on-board. It's dual band!
http://www.newegg.com/product/product.aspx?Item=N82E16833122326
Not cheap but not too hateful either. Supposedly OpenWRT supports it and DD-WRT will soon. I don't own one but this might just be my next router :-)
Unfortunately it doesn't support 5GHZ frequencies. It's not high priced though and their supporting DD-WRT is awesome but I really would liek a dual band router if possible. The NETGEAR WNDR3700 seems to support what I want but I've yet to try it. I too have been using Tomato on a WRT54G and would like a good replacement that MUST support 3rd party firmware...
Unfortunately it's 2.4GHZ only. Isn't 802.11n supposed to also support a higher less congested frequency? 5GHZ right? Aside from the Appple offering what other 802.11n based router supports that? 2.4GHZ is pretty congested and my microwave blasts it but my higher frequency phone shrugs it off...
Ya' know when I saw that Brainslayer was moving to X86 platforms with DD-WRT I felt a bit of joy... then I saw he was going to charge for it and the builds weren't freely available and I felt a bit of Sveasoft angst. :-( At that time I also began to have some issues with my WRT54G running the code and moved to Tomato and have had few issues ever since.
However, I would REALLY like to be able to grab a low powered, spare, X86 computer and run it as a router. Dump all the issues with "flashing" and just find a good set of hardware I could run that was powerful enough I didn't have to worry so much about memory or CPU getting in the way. This is not the first time a posting on Slashdot has been made by some poor soul looking for a WRT54 like box to run 802.11n but so far I'm still like the original poster looking for a good solution. Yes I have read the compatibility list for DD-WRT and others but dang it those are still low memory devices with issues flashing etc.! Aside from cost, what's wrong with something like an ASROCK 330 running some cards, Wireless N, and some kick ass firewall IDS software? I actually looked pretty hard at some X86 based IDS\Router things out there but none I found really seemed to support wireless let alone 802.11n.
So, I'm reading in on this hoping that I'll find some solution. The article you linked made me sad because I had at one time hoped that DD-WRT might be the solution and might not be going the Sveasoft route. It's a shame to see that might not be the case. I know that Brainslayer worked hard on that code and I know that he's not had too much support from other coders so he feels like he deserves something back. He had even made some statements to that effect when I was last looking at their site awhile back. I understand his feelings but he has to realize he's standing on the shoulders of others too. Maybe he does have to license code from folks but if so why isn't that in some binary blob and the rest available? I hope things have changed since that article, I'm almost afraid to go look and see but thanks for having linked it here - it was informative and I'm GLAD to see that Sveasoft finally tanked. Their auto-charging of credit cards yearly and other practices were REALLY shitty!
Yes exactly how it works. Do be advised that many clients use DHT too though so if you're just trying to share files with a limited few others may get hits in their searches and be able to access your files if you do not turn it off! Right now I'm using StrongDC++ and while it cannot handle UNC shares directly I can map a network drive to folders and it will access those unlike other programs I tried.
Anyway, it's working fine for sharing among a specific group of folks I know and when setup correctly keeps it private and secure. Pretty nice for moving files over a long distance among friends on less than perfect connections and you can throttle it too.
I bet in hindsight he wishes he'd done that in the three days between being confronted and tossed in the clink. Frankly if that group of idiots fired me I'd forget everything I ever knew about their network...
Is that also the document that says do not reveal passwords over the phone, in front of groups of people, or to your boss? Note that they demanded his password in a group with an open speakerphone on the table and it was his bosses asking for it. Also note that he had caught one of those folks sneaking around office spaces unannounced and claims she was removing a HDD from a computer - she fled when confronted. Not the sorts of people I'd be handing over credentials attributed to ME and he thought so too. Since when does not turning over passwords land you in jail? If he was supposed to have those passwords in that database and didn't the result is jail? Why wasn't that policy enforced prior to this confrontation? He may have been an ass but the charges against him are crap.
The written policy doesn't specify the Mayor. However this guy caught one of his "superiors" sneaking around office spaces and removing a HDD from a computer. When confronted she fled and claimed that she was there as part of an investigation - that no one had heard anything about. Then these guys demanded the password in a room full of people and an open speakerphone. The written policy DOES say that you cannot give the password to your boss, give it over the phone, or give it out in front of a group of people under penalty of civil and criminal charges.
Now, after these clowns did all of THAT how inclined would you be to trust ANY of them? Particularly since you knew damned well that they were not qualified by any stretch of your imagination to do anything worthwhile with the passwords they were requesting? Passwords that were apparently attributable to no one but you? How willing would you be to give a gun to a toddler in other words. This network supported city services including emergency services I believe. It was pretty complex and he was certified by Cisco at about as high a level as they come and was being asked by idiots to turn over keys to the kingdom - he knew what would happen and he probably knew that he would be blamed and accused of "hacking" when his credentials were used incorrectly.
In that situation demanding to give those passwords to someone at the tippy top in as big a display and flourish as possible such that there was NO doubt that he had relinquished them was probably a pretty smart move. Giving them out to anyone else, particularly if he thought they were setting him up for something while sneaking around in the office, would have been pretty foolish.
And refusing to give over credentials isn't a criminal act. If these folks had had any brains they would have had policies in place to prevent a disaster in the case of him getting hit by a bus. the lack of preparedness on their part in no way constitutes an emergency on his - particularly after they fired him!
I hope he is found not guilty and I hope he sues the living shit out of these morons for having been so stupid and for having kept him penned in a jail cell for so long. I think it will be a huge injustice if he's locked up for having done what he felt was the moral and right thing and for having followed policy as best he could. The man was in a no-win situation, these idiots would have gone after him no matter what. Their claims of him having booby trapped the network and other insane uneducated crap make it quite clear they had no clue and had an axe to grind.
Wow, he summed that up perfectly and did it as an AC. I'd mod that to the Moon if I could - well done AC!
Umm he caught someone in their office spaces snooping and claims she removed a HDD from a machine. AFTER she was caught she claimed it was part of an investigation that no one else apparently knew about. Afterwords they demanded the password in clear violation of written policy which threatened civil and criminal charges if it was violated and he refused. Somewhere along the line he was fired and at that point no longer obligated to turn over anything in his head IMO. If they had no proper failsafes for the passwords due to their poor planning then tough shit.
He might very well have been full of himself but that's hardly illegal and refusing to turn over passwords entrusted to you shouldn't be either particularly if it's in a setting that violated at LEAST two if not three of the written policies rules. The rules say do not give to your boss, do not discuss on the phone, do not give out in front of multiple people - how clear does it need to be?
He made a show of giving them to the Mayor, smart move. If he had given it to someone else without making a big deal out of it they might have hosed the system and then blamed him! He had already caught one person sneaking around office spaces doing who knows what, I wouldn't have trusted any of them either and going to the Mayor with a flourish made sure EVERYONE knew where the buck stopped. Hell after he turned the passwords over they apparently still managed to make a mess out of things - was that his fault too?
Policy says don't give passwords to your boss, don't give password over the phone, don't give password in front of others. they asked him for the password in a room full of people and an open speakerphone and he refused. Somewhere in there either before or after this he was fired. Once they fired him he was under no obligation anyway IMO but in any case he was following the written policy! The policy also stated that you could be in for both civil or criminal proceedings for not following the policy...
You should also note that one of the folks asking was a woman he'd caught sneaking around office spaces she had no business being in and he claims he caught her removing a HDD from a computer, that's part of what started all of this. For all he knew they were attempting to hack passwords or plant evidence. After having been caught she claimed it was part of an investigation but no one was notified about the investigation ahead of time. considering the sorts of data that network protected wouldn't you be a bit suspicious and paranoid?
http://www.sfgov.org/site/uploadedfiles/dtis/coit/Policies_Forms/CCISDA_security.pdf