Other features and services for the DVD Player with Wireless-G Media Link are currently in development by Linksys and will be announced at time of product availability.
I wonder if one of these features is going to be a built in ethernet switch (this is a Cisco project after all).
With the XBox, Gamecube, and PC all having the capability for networked gaming, it would be nice to only need one ethernet drop, and no external switch. Perhaps it could act as a wireless bridge for other devices plugged into it to eliminate the requirement for an ethernet drop.
To me this proves that EZPass can be payed anonymously. If the 'Pass is empty, and identifiable, fine the 'Pass owner. If the 'Pass is empty and anonymous, fine the car owner.
If you want to simplify it, fine the owner if the car in either case.
Let's just say this... I, personally, know of more than 250 sites (some with over 500 people, but most under 300) that are using a Cobalt Qube 3 for email, proxy, and web publishing.
The only great thing about the Qube is that it is designed (from the ground up) to be a headless system. There is no video out, there is no keyboard or mouse in. Initial configuration is done from 6 buttons and the LCD panel (which you use to give it an IP address) and the rest is done using a browser.
For most of the/. crowd this device is far inferior to what is available today, but for a small office environment, it's a great little device. Simple, reliable, and well featured.
The Qube 3 came with RAID 1 and can handle 512MB of RAM (probably more, but I have 512 in mine, and it doesn't need more).
They aren't for everyone, but I have no complaints.
Actually, the restore CD is bootable. Here's how it works:
You take a seperate computer (from the Qube) that has a recognized network card (3com, Intel... the CD has this information when you boot), and you boot this computer with the restore CD. Connect the network card of this restore computer to the eth0 interface of the Qube (the interface with one dot) and power on the Qube.
Hold the "S" button on the Qube while it boots, and you will be able to select where to boot from (ROM, Net, or Disk). Choose boot from net, and it will use a Kernel in ROM to pull an install script and RPMs from the restore computer.
I don't work (and have never worked) for Cobalt (or Sun), but I do work with the Qube software on a near daily basis. For what it does, it's pretty amazing. They did a lot of improvements with the Qube3. They changed over to an x86 platform (AMD K6-350, so it's still not a powerhouse), and updated to the 2.2 kernel. Sausalito is fun to play with.
As for the OS restore CD, surf over to http://wwws.sun.com/software/download/operating_sy s.html, and scroll down the resulting page for "Sun Cobalt Server OS Restore Software". You likely will have to make a login at this point, but I see the Qube2 restore CD as a downloadable option (~120MB).
As I said, I am more familiar with the Qube3 OS (which I am trying to port to the Raq 550 for more power), but I'd be happy to answer any questions that I can.
There is a popular myth espoused by many projector salespeople that since an NTSC or DVD video signal is 480 lines, then an SVGA-resolution (600 lines) projector is plenty adequate to resolve all of the information in the video signal. "No point in buying an XGA machine," they say, "it's overkill."
Those who promote this myth are sorely mistaken. But it is a prevalent belief, so it's an issue that needs to be clarified. So here we go...
For the most part, humans do think this way, but there is one area we don't: children. The loss of a child's life is amazingly tragic, whereas the loss of an adult's life is less so. This doesn't make much sense, in that the adult had more time on them, and more learning...consider a 30 year old has 30 years of investment for life, whereas a newborn does not, and a newborn is easily replicated using the old fashioned way, with a fairly small time investment.
The economist in you isn't thinking about future earnings and sunk cost. The 30 YO has a greatly reduced future earnings potential over the newborn (since we are becoming more productive on average as time passes). The 30 years already invested are just that; a past investment. As such it is irrelevant to the equation of worth.
OTOH, I think that the child's life seems more valuable to a more general audience (the parents obviously feel a deep suffering, but friends and family don't necessarily feel the loss personally), where the adult (who has supposedly made some fairly deep connections) would cause deep suffering to a larger group (friends, family, co-workers, etc.).
Eh, what do I know? I only made it three years through my bussiness degree. I did enjoy the economics classes though.
But I maintain that one part of a system working well does not a working system make. If the engine in my car purrs like a kitten, but I have four flat tires, I'm not going to brag about how wonderful my car is. The over all educational system in the US is not something that I feel much pride in.
BTW, if I was to argue anything about the public school system it would be more along the lines of stating that it is a staging area to keep entry level labor out of the work force. In my opinion, it's just glorified day care designed to keep the majority of kids busy. But that is just my opinion. I'll likely end up either home schooling or paying for private school.
I have one stiking problem with your patriotic rant:
a crumbling school system that's badly underfunded yet the US finds it more important to wage war half way around the world
And yet with our "crumbling school system" we still lead the World with advances in all sorts of Sciences. World leaders come to our country for major medical procedures because they don't trust their own medical systems. Foreign students come to our universities in droves.
The scientists propigating the advances, the medical students that become practitioners that treat world leaders, and the univerities that attract foreign students are all privately funded. They have no bearing on our nation's school system. The public school system itself is quite the mess.
I don't agree with everything else you said, but I feel that you do have some valid points.
The environment that allows, even encourages, the private funding of world leading medicine, scientific advances et. all, is something to be proud of, but does not indicate a well run public school system.
This has to be about the most arrgant statement... Gah!
Say you have someone on financial aid (welfare, what-have-you). They use that money to get some training (instead of buying food). Do you say "Oh! Looks like you don't need my help any more", or do you encourage the efforts, and continue with the assistance with the understanding that the path they are taking might just lead them to reduced (or eliminated) reliance on that assistance in the future?
Bah! Short sighted, narrow minded...
This rant is not aimed at you specifically. Sorry for any offence it may cause.
A continuous, amorphous substance whose molecules move freely past one another and that has the tendency to assume the shape of its container; a liquid or gas.
It will form a sphere until it hits the side of said container, at which point it will tend to assume the shape of the side it hits.
Read the whole review here. I'm not saying that he's an expert. He just knows way more about this subject than I do. The relevant details are:
A clean star-trails picture from a digital camera that you can carry around is pretty darn astounding. A bit of back yard experimentation revealed that the no-noise exposure time limit for the D60, at its lowest sensor sensitivity setting of ISO 100, was about fifteen minutes. That was in winter, mind you, with an ambient temperature of around ten degrees Celsius (what passes for cold, here in Sydney). I've now been able to test the D60 on a summer night as well, with an ambient temperature above 20 degrees C; at that temperature, the noise-free exposure time drops to about five minutes.
*shrug* I don't disagree on the importance, and have noticed some oddness with Slashdot recently myself.
My goal was to illustrate that the moderators are not the only entities with moderation capability, and if you see a whole thread knocked offtopic, it's likely not individual moderators.
I'm responding to your assertion that it was moderators that "wasted" mod points on making a whole thread Offtopic.
Don't be so quick to disregard responses you are given. Or do. No skin off my nose.
Because I'm a nice guy, I'm going to spell it out for you.
Slashcode (the source for the engine that Slashdot uses) had (and likely still has) a function available to the "editors" called bitchslap that enabled them to moderate an entire thread as "-1 Offtopic". At one point it also lowered the Karma of all affected posters such that they posted at -1 by default. The IRC chat is (in theory) a discussion between many of the Slashdot editors and a Slashdot member who was affected this way by the bitchslap.
It has an arguably valid purpose, but is on occation used in a manner that many Slashdot members consider inappropriate.
There. I hope that wasn't too great a waste of your obviously precious time. Bah.
It's likely the editors, not the moderators. And it's happened before. Google slashcode bitchslap and be edified. I don't know how true this IRC Transcript is, but I know that it's old.:o)
An unverifiable source is no source at all. None of these people that you speak with have made their complaints public? In any form? How odd.
The American public loves a good scandal. What you are suggesting sounds like a really good one to me. His making good on a promise (explicit or implicit) wouldn't be nearly as news worthy as not following through on one.
I don't believe everything that I read in the news. I believe even less that I read on Slashdot. *shrug*
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I wonder if one of these features is going to be a built in ethernet switch (this is a Cisco project after all).
With the XBox, Gamecube, and PC all having the capability for networked gaming, it would be nice to only need one ethernet drop, and no external switch. Perhaps it could act as a wireless bridge for other devices plugged into it to eliminate the requirement for an ethernet drop.
I'm confused.
To me this proves that EZPass can be payed anonymously. If the 'Pass is empty, and identifiable, fine the 'Pass owner. If the 'Pass is empty and anonymous, fine the car owner.
If you want to simplify it, fine the owner if the car in either case.
Do you see it differently?
Let's just say this... I, personally, know of more than 250 sites (some with over 500 people, but most under 300) that are using a Cobalt Qube 3 for email, proxy, and web publishing.
The nitch isn't as small as you might think.
That is a rather large market share. Witness the propagation of viruses, the proliferation of consultants, the success of AOL...
That aside, the Qube has its place even for those who know something. Simplicity can be quite rewarding.
The only great thing about the Qube is that it is designed (from the ground up) to be a headless system. There is no video out, there is no keyboard or mouse in. Initial configuration is done from 6 buttons and the LCD panel (which you use to give it an IP address) and the rest is done using a browser.
/. crowd this device is far inferior to what is available today, but for a small office environment, it's a great little device. Simple, reliable, and well featured.
For most of the
The Qube 3 came with RAID 1 and can handle 512MB of RAM (probably more, but I have 512 in mine, and it doesn't need more).
They aren't for everyone, but I have no complaints.
Actually, the restore CD is bootable. Here's how it works:
y s.html, and scroll down the resulting page for "Sun Cobalt Server OS Restore Software". You likely will have to make a login at this point, but I see the Qube2 restore CD as a downloadable option (~120MB).
You take a seperate computer (from the Qube) that has a recognized network card (3com, Intel... the CD has this information when you boot), and you boot this computer with the restore CD. Connect the network card of this restore computer to the eth0 interface of the Qube (the interface with one dot) and power on the Qube.
Hold the "S" button on the Qube while it boots, and you will be able to select where to boot from (ROM, Net, or Disk). Choose boot from net, and it will use a Kernel in ROM to pull an install script and RPMs from the restore computer.
I don't work (and have never worked) for Cobalt (or Sun), but I do work with the Qube software on a near daily basis. For what it does, it's pretty amazing. They did a lot of improvements with the Qube3. They changed over to an x86 platform (AMD K6-350, so it's still not a powerhouse), and updated to the 2.2 kernel. Sausalito is fun to play with.
As for the OS restore CD, surf over to http://wwws.sun.com/software/download/operating_s
As I said, I am more familiar with the Qube3 OS (which I am trying to port to the Raq 550 for more power), but I'd be happy to answer any questions that I can.
*shrug* Grain of salt time.
The economist in you isn't thinking about future earnings and sunk cost. The 30 YO has a greatly reduced future earnings potential over the newborn (since we are becoming more productive on average as time passes). The 30 years already invested are just that; a past investment. As such it is irrelevant to the equation of worth.
OTOH, I think that the child's life seems more valuable to a more general audience (the parents obviously feel a deep suffering, but friends and family don't necessarily feel the loss personally), where the adult (who has supposedly made some fairly deep connections) would cause deep suffering to a larger group (friends, family, co-workers, etc.).
Eh, what do I know? I only made it three years through my bussiness degree. I did enjoy the economics classes though.
Point taken.
But I maintain that one part of a system working well does not a working system make. If the engine in my car purrs like a kitten, but I have four flat tires, I'm not going to brag about how wonderful my car is. The over all educational system in the US is not something that I feel much pride in.
BTW, if I was to argue anything about the public school system it would be more along the lines of stating that it is a staging area to keep entry level labor out of the work force. In my opinion, it's just glorified day care designed to keep the majority of kids busy. But that is just my opinion. I'll likely end up either home schooling or paying for private school.
The scientists propigating the advances, the medical students that become practitioners that treat world leaders, and the univerities that attract foreign students are all privately funded. They have no bearing on our nation's school system. The public school system itself is quite the mess.
I don't agree with everything else you said, but I feel that you do have some valid points.
The environment that allows, even encourages, the private funding of world leading medicine, scientific advances et. all, is something to be proud of, but does not indicate a well run public school system.
This has to be about the most arrgant statement... Gah!
Say you have someone on financial aid (welfare, what-have-you). They use that money to get some training (instead of buying food). Do you say "Oh! Looks like you don't need my help any more", or do you encourage the efforts, and continue with the assistance with the understanding that the path they are taking might just lead them to reduced (or eliminated) reliance on that assistance in the future?
Bah! Short sighted, narrow minded...
This rant is not aimed at you specifically. Sorry for any offence it may cause.
Good joke. But Trinity didn't hack in. The crew of the doomed ship did. She just sat down and ran the shutdown command.
Meh.
Possible source: rottentomates.com
Search that page, and you'll likely see all of those one liners there. As well as many more.
Diablo (II) might not be a role playing game, but here are some tips on how to role play anyways...
Probably not.
But you did put a smile on my face. Thanks for that.
Fluid:
A continuous, amorphous substance whose molecules move freely past one another and that has the tendency to assume the shape of its container; a liquid or gas.
It will form a sphere until it hits the side of said container, at which point it will tend to assume the shape of the side it hits.
Not so. You won't be able to "pour" said fluid in, but you can certainly pump it. It will still conform to the shape of the container.
Preventing fluid escape as you fill the container is an exercise left to the reader.
At the top of the page that you linked to is a link: Microsoft running Linux?!
It's a good explination of what's going on.
http://www.dansdata.com/images/d60/IMG_2772_520.j
Read the whole review here. I'm not saying that he's an expert. He just knows way more about this subject than I do. The relevant details are:
How big does it look on this map?
*shrug* I don't disagree on the importance, and have noticed some oddness with Slashdot recently myself.
My goal was to illustrate that the moderators are not the only entities with moderation capability, and if you see a whole thread knocked offtopic, it's likely not individual moderators.
I'm responding to your assertion that it was moderators that "wasted" mod points on making a whole thread Offtopic.
Don't be so quick to disregard responses you are given. Or do. No skin off my nose.
Because I'm a nice guy, I'm going to spell it out for you.
Slashcode (the source for the engine that Slashdot uses) had (and likely still has) a function available to the "editors" called bitchslap that enabled them to moderate an entire thread as "-1 Offtopic". At one point it also lowered the Karma of all affected posters such that they posted at -1 by default. The IRC chat is (in theory) a discussion between many of the Slashdot editors and a Slashdot member who was affected this way by the bitchslap.
It has an arguably valid purpose, but is on occation used in a manner that many Slashdot members consider inappropriate.
There. I hope that wasn't too great a waste of your obviously precious time. Bah.
It's likely the editors, not the moderators. And it's happened before. Google slashcode bitchslap and be edified. I don't know how true this IRC Transcript is, but I know that it's old. :o)
Apparently your processor isn't fast enough to keep up with your typing. *shrug*
An unverifiable source is no source at all. None of these people that you speak with have made their complaints public? In any form? How odd.
The American public loves a good scandal. What you are suggesting sounds like a really good one to me. His making good on a promise (explicit or implicit) wouldn't be nearly as news worthy as not following through on one.
I don't believe everything that I read in the news. I believe even less that I read on Slashdot. *shrug*