Take it from an experienced analogue engineer. Lets be more direct, the analogue engineer that gave you cheap "wireless" datacom and the analogue engineer who's idea was completely rejected in Silicon Valley. --- You guys there in my old home town are really clueless!
There are ways to use 'lower' frequencies and not cause interferrence. However using lower frequencies means you MUST sacrafice bandwidth. Sure i know 'broadband' is something different in America than here in Europe. We have quality telephone wires to our central offices to start with. Certainly this eliminates the need to use radio spectrum. Radio is great for mobile applications, but the way you people think in the USA, you will be receiving your downlink from a TV transmitter and your uplink will be a dialup at a measly 33.4kb/s! This is disgusting. You really are a bunch of sheep.
Indeed, another stupid name for a new element. Been hoping that the naming commities can get to a 'J' and a 'Q' element, which would complete the whole Roman alphabet.
Platinum is another rather silly name as all other elements in this class end in 'ium'. "Aluminum" is ofcourse a brand name for 'aluminium'. Some misguided American texts actualy make this mistake.
Perhaps to not be redundant, most appear to view this as a comedy issue. Maybe all future Microsoft security issues, worms and trojans should be filed under the comic section?
It is certainly redundant to state the simple solution is to abandon all Microsoft products. There must be hundreds of exploits 'widely known among hackers' but not known to Microsoft and/or published. Any 'hacker' worth his salt can get into any NT type server with a minimal effort and can certainly get to clients and install servers. The truth of he matter is us old hacks are really bored with Microsoft.
It may be true that Outlook is one mail client for those that don't want to mail online. Religion is stupidity -- agreed.
Simply stated, all i'm trying to say is that if HTML is not allowed in mail, the husksters of today have lost a powerful tool. Do you know about 'one pixel images?' These, when used with Outlook can tell the UCE exploiter when you read your mail, how long you spent on it and if you read it again and when all this happened! Do you care in the least about your privacy online? "Would you trust these people and Microsoft with your wallet?" This is just a metaphor, but putting your creditcard to a IIS server is the same as giving it out to twenty or more 'script kiddies'.
Wake up, it really is a war zone out there. The Internet with M$ is not the 'friendly' place it was twenty years ago or more when we all thought we had a great idea.
Sure GHz is great marketing, but marketing is very blind to the problems of trying to simply speed things up. Seriously, what is better: 3GHz processors that take 100A @ 1V or four 1.2GHz processors that that take a mere fraction of the power and do it at 1.8V, which is far less current and far less error prone. Its all wrong and just because M$ cannot deal with SMP is no excuse to limit the techonology!
Hope is in the making with 64bit processors. M$ failed with the Alpha while it became the real 'home Unix' and further failures can be expected with the ia64 and amd64 lines that will bring REAL computing power to your desktop if you can forsake Micro$oft!
HotMail and MSN are spam by definition. I suggested at CCC Camp that all "no body mail + html is spam", explaining that it is not necessarily my idea and got booed. A happy note is one of the people that made this all possible (that is Unix ofcourse) showed support in this method while strongly balking at other filtering methods as 'censorship'.
If you were there you know who i am and who was sitting next to me. It really is true that if html is not allowed as a 'mail medium' the spammers will not be allowed to show their presentations and/or direct you to dangerous sites. It is really that simple and if Outlook is out of the picture, spam has the great setback that has been a long time coming. This is a serious note BTW.
If you like mail the real way, there is "Mutt" and other Unix mailers. "Webmail" is slow, unwieldly and totally insecure. Then you have little shits like Microsoft that actually dare to claim your mail their IP! Get a life and mail online.....
Can I say more? This whole Outlook/Exchange thing has been one long nightmare as a provider. This is the best news I've heard in a long time. Just hoping it is true!
DUH! Interesting to note this is a US survey. Getting out into the real world, the support of copyright laws falls to amasing lows, particularly among those that are highly educated. These are indeed among the most unpopular of laws. They will be reformed or repealed. Thank you USA for making the most stupid laws (DMCA, et al) that ultimately does away with all IP repression. This is the only area that i can think of where the USA has helped make the world a better place.
Just a Blue Tooth and a GSM phone and you have the complete gadget. The power budget would need to be conserved and if you can write your own Unix like programs and scripts, nice tool!
If it is programmable in a normal way (I'd expect that from Palm) and you can get to the GPS, great savings in power are possible by running the GPS and uProcessor mostly in low power mode. I'm tempted. (High) Street price?
Radio (and TV commercials) is one of the most exploited areas of compression over certain audio frequency band to create the illusion of a louder signal. This is analogue compression and often it is very 'lossy' indeed. The paper is quite technical and is probably aimed at analogue engineers like myself. When certain frequency ranges are turned up to the point of 'clipping' the signal, other more subtle information in the audio signal gets litterally "modulated" which is to say it is simply added distortion of the "intermod" type. It can be argued that thoughtful application of distortion can greatly enhance the listening pleasure of he piece of music.
Looking at those oscillograms in this paper, the distortion is unacceptable. Just noticable clipping (on the 'scope) is said to be about 10% or so. The examples appear to be atleast 50% and this is uncalled for on a CD or vinyl record. On the radio, every manager wants a 'dial stopper' or a station that is louder than the rest. (Classical programming on any medium goes for dynamic range however.) All broadcasters have access to boxes that are intended to acheive this effect without forcing the signal to go beyond its legal limits. In a most extreme case, at an FM station in Northern California, the engineer showing us his equipment showed great pride he could keep his dynamic range below 1dB for most of the time! This may make the station stand out but it is at total cost to the quality of the audio.
A CD was intended to deliver 30dB of dynamic range. At -30dB, the total distortion is below 0.5% and adequate for consumer use. Sure 24bits at 48KHz is far better, but the old CD isn't all that bad. If you BUY music, one should expect the quality to be such that the enduser is in full control of the audio. To make it loud, overdrive a well designed input (on a mixer table) as one wishes. Surprisingly, except for cheap 'box radios' and 'PC soundsystems' most audio designs produce very good audio and dynamic range. The conclusion here is people want to hear their music clearly at the volume they wish to listen at. It is clearly pandering to the immature audience that a radio manager would ask an engineer to distort the audio beyond recovery before it gets to the transmitter.
Taking this to the CD is depriving the majority of the sound they wish to hear. There is no technical excuse to bury music in its own 'noise' on a high-quality medium. The radio engineer may want a 'loud' signal to attract the very young crowd and and please the management. Commercial interests may prepare highly compressed audio matterial for TV simply to anoy. Note that unless you mute the sound or change the channel, those commercials tend to "follow you" right to where you do your business. That is fine is fine if the advertiser wants to present itself like this. It should be noted that a well known method of blanking commercials from a videotape exploits the fact that the ratio of the RMS to peak values is too low. This along with detecting a highly saturated colour picture is almost 100% effective.
It is interesting the author picks on Rush, but it is true I own only their earlier works. The visual sample of "Vapor Trails" looks like white noise. The likes of "Rush" and Kim Mitchel with "Max Webster" produced some brilliant sound in their time and I have purchesed all of those CD's. Its sad that "Rush" atleast, went on to producing noise and alienating their original audience that would gladly have purchased the CD's if they were of any 'sound' value.
Don't really think it matters anymore what the USA thinks or does. Certainly they are the world's greatest threat to peace but that is quite offtopic. As for IPv6 it really is "Plug 'n Play" even if Microsoft can't quite do it yet. As stated, it is fully compatible with existing IPv4 and "opensource" has it completely covered. It just works and if, as one reader said: "99% won't care", that is just as well as they won't have to care. What could be better?
Assignment can be automatic, while not exactly "two googols" of addresses, 2^128 minus those reserved is quite some number! (use your 'bc' and see it for yourself) If there are seven billion people on the planet (and that is an overestimate) we are looking at over some 1.8 x 10^26 "class C equivelant" per every human on the planet! (sorry Griffen, you grossly under-estimated in the same line you grossly over-estimated! -- ditch that Microsoft crap!) I seem to come to a figure of over '60 quadrillion class C equivalents' per second of 7 billion people living for 100 years and the last part is probably a gross exagreratation of what the average human life expectancy will be. Sure the US of A is scared!
Somehow i fail to see the added expence in all of this. It may cost Microsoft $Billions, but the people that are going to need this don't care in the least if Microsoft lives or dies. IPv6 is today and i must admit i was quite impresed a number of years ago when i plugged in my old laptop running FreeBSD into an IPv6 network powered by OpenBSD and it worked instantly! It is this way today on all major Unix type platforms.
Finally, i see only one downside to this and it is not important: "You probably won't be able to memorise all of your IP numbers and ranges no matter what tricks you use for IPv4 today". Get over it, it used to be cool to memorise your entire address book, but when mobiles came out, phone numbers got bigger and became 'throwaway' too. (This is quite litteral here in Europe as GSM mobile phones are usually given away with each and every subscription.)
Does anybody remember "The web and only the web"? No true Unix user wants a browser that does it all. For mail, use a mailer, for IRC use a client like "BitchX" and so on. For 90% of my browsing Galleon is just fine and just about any sort of 'extra functionality' for the web can be hacked in. I surely would like to see features used in the past like the 'zoom indicator' brought back. Only the newest of the newbies uses a full page browser and therefore that new feature is disapointing. (Fullscreen) It is also disappointing that 'helper applications' are not easy to set and are not automatic, seemingly a 'nobrainer'.
Sometimes it is necessary to use Mozilla, mostly for proper Javascript functionality, something that one would think Galeon would inherit. Absolutely no browser can keep up with Apache and the web. This goes for the super bloated and slow IExplorer too. Opera is fast but 'links' looks like the fastest graphical browser of them all and by many times. There is also the issue of some organisations allowing Windows or Mac browsers to protect their streams. This is the most absurd excuse of them all as it is trivial to intercept and store any 'protected' media.
Lets get some good features back into Galeon. It would be nice if it could completely spoof Mac or Windows for services that require that. (and save the streams at the request of the user) Any serious browser maker would team up with Apache or atleast use their modules if necessary. It is ironic that the 'most popular' browser is slow, insecure and made by a minor player in the server market. I'm sticking with Galeon for the moment. If it gets anymore 'user friendly' (and administrator hostile) I will end up using some other browser that may not even exist today.
Well in a marketeer's mind more GHz is better. In reality 16 233MHz cores would be faster and much cooler. Do you realise this thing takes upto 105W at 1.2V? Can you say "AMPS"?
As a hardware technologist, I can only say: "Great for marketing and bragging", but lets widen out! Enough is enough. Still trying to keep Microsoft happy, Intel? Overclocked? This chip is maxed out. This is well into the microwave range and actually in just in SHF.
I'd be very happy with 16 800MHz Alpha cores. Much over one GHz simply doesn't make sence. Speed isn't everything, throughput is. Think slower and broader.
Seriously, how long does it take to guess which of 4096 codes you picked? 256? None? This is like cordless telephone or WEP protection -- not encryption! Does average Joe Windoze user even think to set another code? This is all very stupid. Maybe infrared is better as long as you keep your curtains closed.
We know all these toys are assigned to a very narrow range of frequencies, same for car alarms, but a bit more channels and bands for wireless phones. Simply by going through the whopping 12-bit protection of most auto alarms at 04:00 in the morning is very amusing.:) Almost every code makes atleast one hit somewhere within the range you can hear in a big city. (With a few watts and that required real antenna, you can really get out, maybe setting off far more than you can hear.) If playing with stuff, allways make note of the most popular codes as there are certainly defaults that most people use.
For all this, something as simple as a 3-DES chip puts and end to such kid's games. 3-DES doesn't protect against jamming, but that is way out of the scope of Slashdot.
Actually boost the power to 1 - 100W, stay put and connect to a real antenna. This has been done with car alarms and cordless phones. Auto alarms are funny as you can hear the result directly. Cordless phones are a great way to busy out whole big companies. (Verify by calling and getting a busy yourself.) As to keyboards, anyone who uses a cordless, gets what they deserve. Remember most people who use these things are in effect at 'root' and are at the mercy of anyone controlling their system. If using UNIX like you should, never walk away from a root login.
Never get this marketing non-sence. If you are on the road you should simply use Internet and ssh into your UNIX server. Allways works for me and I go to alot of different countries. (Why lug a laptop for that matter.) People don't know the Internet and it may never happen.
It is probably not dangerous. The ISM bands include the same frequencies the inflight microwave ovens use. The power level is usually below 100mW, far less than a GSM phone. GSM produces pulses, that "familiar buzzing sound" that can often be heard in the pilot's headset. If it can force its way into audio equipment, it is to be assumed it can get into navigation equipment.
A malfunctioning mobile phone could radiate on frequencies used for navigation. Equipment uesd in aircraft is of high quality and can detect jamming. Backup systems can be used. For the confort of other passengers, it is best that the present policy to remain in force. It is bad enough on the train to have a half-dozen passengers talking about nothing!
Using certain equipment, like an FM radio, can transmit on the VOR navigation frequencies. If the pilot is for some reason not aware his VOR is being jammed it can be disasterous on overland flights. In this same thought, it is possibly unsafe to use a laptop and many other common computer products like CD/mp3 players.
If you use UNIX, just set up ntpd. You are often requested to inform the providers of stratum one servers that you use them. Since most NTP servers discriminate against end-user DSL and cablemodem services, i offer a "stratum 2" service for these people.
All told, all my friends have the time to a few milli-seconds, a vast improvement over what the local telco can offer.
As for Windoze, i know nothing, but believe NTPD is somewhat functional.Time is very important for UNIX and all secure services.
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Really, what is the point of throwing out about five of the most signicifant bits? Madplay says -27.6dB peak (which is actually just over 30dB down from the full 16bits or 11bits total here) Also who's idea is it to use 160kbit/s (this is the old rip-kiddie speed) and ontop of that, it is downsampled to 22.05kHz! Not impressed at all.
As far as I can see, the X-box when used with Linux or other suitable OS is the best way to get computing to the poor. It is a short matter of time that any protection will be cracked (sure it allready has) and the X-box will be the PC for the third world. Every poor fuck can afford a TV, can't they?
It would seem very hard to take back something that is out and freely available. There will allways be a place where it is legal and a site to download it. Certainly an act of Congress isn't going to stop the worldwide development effort. It has kind of a parallel to the attempt to ban crypto outside of the US. It just won't work and basicly for the same reasons.
In a Faraday, or just indoors, it would seem trivial to spoof a $50 piece of electronics. It is like using GPS to 'insure' a new release of a hit to be won't be played until its time. Trivial crack and it was.
Its 2 april here, but perhaps this was posted 1 april somewhere? Am i a sucker for responding? Guess the crackpot DCMA would make it 'secure' in the USA?
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Take it from an experienced analogue engineer. Lets be more direct, the analogue engineer that gave you cheap "wireless" datacom and the analogue engineer who's idea was completely rejected in Silicon Valley. --- You guys there in my old home town are really clueless!
There are ways to use 'lower' frequencies and not cause interferrence. However using lower frequencies means you MUST sacrafice bandwidth. Sure i know 'broadband' is something different in America than here in Europe. We have quality telephone wires to our central offices to start with. Certainly this eliminates the need to use radio spectrum. Radio is great for mobile applications, but the way you people think in the USA, you will be receiving your downlink from a TV transmitter and your uplink will be a dialup at a measly 33.4kb/s! This is disgusting. You really are a bunch of sheep.
Indeed, another stupid name for a new element. Been hoping that the naming commities can get to a 'J' and a 'Q' element, which would complete the whole Roman alphabet.
Platinum is another rather silly name as all other elements in this class end in 'ium'. "Aluminum" is ofcourse a brand name for 'aluminium'. Some misguided American texts actualy make this mistake.
Perhaps to not be redundant, most appear to view this as a comedy issue. Maybe all future Microsoft security issues, worms and trojans should be filed under the comic section?
It is certainly redundant to state the simple solution is to abandon all Microsoft products. There must be hundreds of exploits 'widely known among hackers' but not known to Microsoft and/or published. Any 'hacker' worth his salt can get into any NT type server with a minimal effort and can certainly get to clients and install servers. The truth of he matter is us old hacks are really bored with Microsoft.
It may be true that Outlook is one mail client for those that don't want to mail online. Religion is stupidity -- agreed.
Simply stated, all i'm trying to say is that if HTML is not allowed in mail, the husksters of today have lost a powerful tool. Do you know about 'one pixel images?' These, when used with Outlook can tell the UCE exploiter when you read your mail, how long you spent on it and if you read it again and when all this happened! Do you care in the least about your privacy online? "Would you trust these people and Microsoft with your wallet?" This is just a metaphor, but putting your creditcard to a IIS server is the same as giving it out to twenty or more 'script kiddies'.
Wake up, it really is a war zone out there. The Internet with M$ is not the 'friendly' place it was twenty years ago or more when we all thought we had a great idea.
Sure GHz is great marketing, but marketing is very blind to the problems of trying to simply speed things up. Seriously, what is better: 3GHz processors that take 100A @ 1V or four 1.2GHz processors that that take a mere fraction of the power and do it at 1.8V, which is far less current and far less error prone. Its all wrong and just because M$ cannot deal with SMP is no excuse to limit the techonology!
Hope is in the making with 64bit processors. M$ failed with the Alpha while it became the real 'home Unix' and further failures can be expected with the ia64 and amd64 lines that will bring REAL computing power to your desktop if you can forsake Micro$oft!
HotMail and MSN are spam by definition. I suggested at CCC Camp that all "no body mail + html is spam", explaining that it is not necessarily my idea and got booed. A happy note is one of the people that made this all possible (that is Unix ofcourse) showed support in this method while strongly balking at other filtering methods as 'censorship'.
If you were there you know who i am and who was sitting next to me. It really is true that if html is not allowed as a 'mail medium' the spammers will not be allowed to show their presentations and/or direct you to dangerous sites. It is really that simple and if Outlook is out of the picture, spam has the great setback that has been a long time coming. This is a serious note BTW.
MY MUSIC, MY FILES, My Computer???? MY MY MY! Isn't the whole "Me generation" a dead issue? Seriously folks, you lose Microsoft.....
If you like mail the real way, there is "Mutt" and other Unix mailers. "Webmail" is slow, unwieldly and totally insecure. Then you have little shits like Microsoft that actually dare to claim your mail their IP! Get a life and mail online.....
Can I say more? This whole Outlook/Exchange thing has been one long nightmare as a provider. This is the best news I've heard in a long time. Just hoping it is true!
DUH! Interesting to note this is a US survey. Getting out into the real world, the support of copyright laws falls to amasing lows, particularly among those that are highly educated. These are indeed among the most unpopular of laws. They will be reformed or repealed. Thank you USA for making the most stupid laws (DMCA, et al) that ultimately does away with all IP repression. This is the only area that i can think of where the USA has helped make the world a better place.
Cool, that was exactly what I was thinking of when i saw this posting. Instead is see some pretty strange programming tools for idiots.
Just a Blue Tooth and a GSM phone and you have the complete gadget. The power budget would need to be conserved and if you can write your own Unix like programs and scripts, nice tool!
If it is programmable in a normal way (I'd expect that from Palm) and you can get to the GPS, great savings in power are possible by running the GPS and uProcessor mostly in low power mode. I'm tempted. (High) Street price?
Radio (and TV commercials) is one of the most exploited areas of compression over certain audio frequency band to create the illusion of a louder signal. This is analogue compression and often it is very 'lossy' indeed. The paper is quite technical and is probably aimed at analogue engineers like myself. When certain frequency ranges are turned up to the point of 'clipping' the signal, other more subtle information in the audio signal gets litterally "modulated" which is to say it is simply added distortion of the "intermod" type. It can be argued that thoughtful application of distortion can greatly enhance the listening pleasure of he piece of music.
Looking at those oscillograms in this paper, the distortion is unacceptable. Just noticable clipping (on the 'scope) is said to be about 10% or so. The examples appear to be atleast 50% and this is uncalled for on a CD or vinyl record. On the radio, every manager wants a 'dial stopper' or a station that is louder than the rest. (Classical programming on any medium goes for dynamic range however.) All broadcasters have access to boxes that are intended to acheive this effect without forcing the signal to go beyond its legal limits. In a most extreme case, at an FM station in Northern California, the engineer showing us his equipment showed great pride he could keep his dynamic range below 1dB for most of the time! This may make the station stand out but it is at total cost to the quality of the audio.
A CD was intended to deliver 30dB of dynamic range. At -30dB, the total distortion is below 0.5% and adequate for consumer use. Sure 24bits at 48KHz is far better, but the old CD isn't all that bad. If you BUY music, one should expect the quality to be such that the enduser is in full control of the audio. To make it loud, overdrive a well designed input (on a mixer table) as one wishes. Surprisingly, except for cheap 'box radios' and 'PC soundsystems' most audio designs produce very good audio and dynamic range. The conclusion here is people want to hear their music clearly at the volume they wish to listen at. It is clearly pandering to the immature audience that a radio manager would ask an engineer to distort the audio beyond recovery before it gets to the transmitter.
Taking this to the CD is depriving the majority of the sound they wish to hear. There is no technical excuse to bury music in its own 'noise' on a high-quality medium. The radio engineer may want a 'loud' signal to attract the very young crowd and and please the management. Commercial interests may prepare highly compressed audio matterial for TV simply to anoy. Note that unless you mute the sound or change the channel, those commercials tend to "follow you" right to where you do your business. That is fine is fine if the advertiser wants to present itself like this. It should be noted that a well known method of blanking commercials from a videotape exploits the fact that the ratio of the RMS to peak values is too low. This along with detecting a highly saturated colour picture is almost 100% effective.
It is interesting the author picks on Rush, but it is true I own only their earlier works. The visual sample of "Vapor Trails" looks like white noise. The likes of "Rush" and Kim Mitchel with "Max Webster" produced some brilliant sound in their time and I have purchesed all of those CD's. Its sad that "Rush" atleast, went on to producing noise and alienating their original audience that would gladly have purchased the CD's if they were of any 'sound' value.
Don't really think it matters anymore what the USA thinks or does. Certainly they are the world's greatest threat to peace but that is quite offtopic. As for IPv6 it really is "Plug 'n Play" even if Microsoft can't quite do it yet. As stated, it is fully compatible with existing IPv4 and "opensource" has it completely covered. It just works and if, as one reader said: "99% won't care", that is just as well as they won't have to care. What could be better?
Assignment can be automatic, while not exactly "two googols" of addresses, 2^128 minus those reserved is quite some number! (use your 'bc' and see it for yourself) If there are seven billion people on the planet (and that is an overestimate) we are looking at over some 1.8 x 10^26 "class C equivelant" per every human on the planet! (sorry Griffen, you grossly under-estimated in the same line you grossly over-estimated! -- ditch that Microsoft crap!) I seem to come to a figure of over '60 quadrillion class C equivalents' per second of 7 billion people living for 100 years and the last part is probably a gross exagreratation of what the average human life expectancy will be. Sure the US of A is scared!
Somehow i fail to see the added expence in all of this. It may cost Microsoft $Billions, but the people that are going to need this don't care in the least if Microsoft lives or dies. IPv6 is today and i must admit i was quite impresed a number of years ago when i plugged in my old laptop running FreeBSD into an IPv6 network powered by OpenBSD and it worked instantly! It is this way today on all major Unix type platforms.
Finally, i see only one downside to this and it is not important: "You probably won't be able to memorise all of your IP numbers and ranges no matter what tricks you use for IPv4 today". Get over it, it used to be cool to memorise your entire address book, but when mobiles came out, phone numbers got bigger and became 'throwaway' too. (This is quite litteral here in Europe as GSM mobile phones are usually given away with each and every subscription.)
Does anybody remember "The web and only the web"? No true Unix user wants a browser that does it all. For mail, use a mailer, for IRC use a client like "BitchX" and so on. For 90% of my browsing Galleon is just fine and just about any sort of 'extra functionality' for the web can be hacked in. I surely would like to see features used in the past like the 'zoom indicator' brought back. Only the newest of the newbies uses a full page browser and therefore that new feature is disapointing. (Fullscreen) It is also disappointing that 'helper applications' are not easy to set and are not automatic, seemingly a 'nobrainer'.
Sometimes it is necessary to use Mozilla, mostly for proper Javascript functionality, something that one would think Galeon would inherit. Absolutely no browser can keep up with Apache and the web. This goes for the super bloated and slow
IExplorer too. Opera is fast but 'links' looks like the fastest graphical browser of them all and by many times. There is also the issue of some organisations allowing Windows or Mac browsers to protect their streams. This is the most absurd excuse of them all as it is trivial to intercept and store any 'protected' media.
Lets get some good features back into Galeon. It would be nice if it could completely spoof Mac or Windows for services that require that. (and save the streams at the request of the user) Any serious browser maker would team up with Apache or atleast use their modules if necessary. It is ironic that the 'most popular' browser is slow, insecure and made by a minor player in the server market. I'm sticking with Galeon for the moment. If it gets anymore 'user friendly' (and administrator hostile) I will end up using some other browser that may not even exist today.
Well in a marketeer's mind more GHz is better. In reality 16 233MHz cores would be faster and much cooler. Do you realise this thing takes upto 105W at 1.2V? Can you say "AMPS"?
As a hardware technologist, I can only say: "Great for marketing and bragging", but lets widen out! Enough is enough. Still trying to keep Microsoft happy, Intel? Overclocked? This chip is maxed out. This is well into the microwave range and actually in just in SHF.
I'd be very happy with 16 800MHz Alpha cores. Much over one GHz simply doesn't make sence. Speed isn't everything, throughput is. Think slower and broader.
Seriously, how long does it take to guess which of 4096 codes you picked? 256? None? This is like cordless telephone or WEP protection -- not encryption! Does average Joe Windoze user even think to set another code? This is all very stupid. Maybe infrared is better as long as you keep your curtains closed.
We know all these toys are assigned to a very narrow range of frequencies, same for car alarms,
but a bit more channels and bands for wireless phones. Simply by going through the whopping
12-bit protection of most auto alarms at 04:00 in the morning is very amusing.:) Almost every code
makes atleast one hit somewhere within the range you can hear in a big city. (With a few watts and that required real antenna, you can really get out, maybe setting off far more than you can hear.) If playing with stuff, allways make note of the most popular codes as there are certainly defaults that most people use.
For all this, something as simple as a 3-DES chip puts and end to such kid's games. 3-DES doesn't protect against jamming, but that is way out of the scope of Slashdot.
Actually boost the power to 1 - 100W, stay put and connect to a real antenna. This has been done with car alarms and cordless phones. Auto alarms are funny as you can hear the result directly. Cordless phones are a great way to busy out whole big companies. (Verify by calling and getting a busy yourself.) As to keyboards, anyone who uses a cordless, gets what they deserve. Remember most people who use these things are in effect at 'root' and are at the mercy of anyone controlling their system. If using UNIX like you should, never walk away from a root login.
Never get this marketing non-sence. If you are on the road you should simply use Internet and ssh into your UNIX server. Allways works for me and I go to alot of different countries. (Why lug a laptop for that matter.) People don't know the Internet and it may never happen.
Hotmail -- Way too slow.
AOL -- Finally to hell!
It is probably not dangerous. The ISM bands include the same frequencies the inflight microwave ovens use. The power level is usually below 100mW, far less than a GSM phone. GSM produces pulses, that "familiar buzzing sound" that can often be heard in the pilot's headset. If it can force its way into audio equipment, it is to be assumed it can get into navigation equipment.
A malfunctioning mobile phone could radiate on frequencies used for navigation. Equipment uesd in aircraft is of high quality and can detect jamming. Backup systems can be used. For the confort of other passengers, it is best that the present policy to remain in force. It is bad enough on the train to have a half-dozen passengers talking about nothing!
Using certain equipment, like an FM radio, can transmit on the VOR navigation frequencies. If the pilot is for some reason not aware his VOR is being jammed it can be disasterous on overland flights. In this same thought, it is possibly unsafe to use a laptop and many other common computer products like CD/mp3 players.
If you use UNIX, just set up ntpd. You are often
requested to inform the providers of stratum one
servers that you use them. Since most NTP
servers discriminate against end-user DSL and
cablemodem services, i offer a "stratum 2" service
for these people.
All told, all my friends have the time to a few
milli-seconds, a vast improvement over what the
local telco can offer.
As for Windoze, i know nothing, but believe
NTPD is somewhat functional.Time is very
important for UNIX and all secure services.
Really, what is the point of throwing out about
five of the most signicifant bits? Madplay says
-27.6dB peak (which is actually just over 30dB
down from the full 16bits or 11bits total here)
Also who's idea is it to use 160kbit/s (this is
the old rip-kiddie speed) and ontop of that, it
is downsampled to 22.05kHz! Not impressed at all.
As far as I can see, the X-box when used with Linux or other suitable OS is the best way to get computing to the poor. It is a short matter of time that any protection will be cracked (sure it allready has) and the X-box will be the PC for the third world. Every poor fuck can afford a TV, can't they?
It would seem very hard to take back something that is out and freely available. There will allways be a place where it is legal and a site to download it. Certainly an act of Congress isn't going to stop the worldwide development effort. It has kind of a parallel to the attempt to ban crypto outside of the US. It just won't work and basicly for the same reasons.
In a Faraday, or just indoors, it would seem trivial to spoof a $50 piece of electronics. It is like using GPS to 'insure' a new release of a hit to be won't be played until its time. Trivial crack and it was.
Its 2 april here, but perhaps this was posted 1 april somewhere? Am i a sucker for responding? Guess the crackpot DCMA would make it 'secure' in the USA?