In a business environment,... I have to hide parts of myself,
Thank $_DIETY for that. Nothing starts the workday off worse than seeing a naked pasty-skinned pencil-necked zit-covered geek walking around the office, depositing random body hairs everywhere he goes.
I can see one use for it: ad-hoc networks. You wouldn't use it for a home network, but it would be nice for networking a few laptops together with no infrastructure, so people having a meeting can be on a network and exchange files easily.
Or they can use a $5 cable for transfers between two machines.
Or they can just use a sub-$50 wireless router - the router doesn't have to be connected to any particular network to allow file transfers between participating computers.
Also, for example, they would place wristband transmitters around an infant's wrist. If someone tried to cut off the band (so as to kidnap the infant) it would immediately begin transmitting at max power, alerting the staff.
Cut of the kids hand. Nothing says you're a serious kidnapper more than a severed body part.
Tin foil. It's not just to keep Bill Gates from reading your brain waves any more.
Cut off one kid's band and toss it out the window - in the confusion nobody will notice you swiping a different kid.
For every security solution, there's a way to beat it that's cheap, simple, and effective.
> mummysql
> Welcome to the MummySQL monitor program version 1523 B.C ("CurseOfTheRevengeOfTheMummy")
> USE bad_movies_database_for_100_alex;
> database changed
> SELECT "mirrors" FROM "internet" WHERE "botnet" == 1 LIMIT 666;
>YOU BE P0WNED! Bwahahahahaha!
No it's not. Use a switch, not a dumb router. A switch will recognize the source and destination address, so it's 100 mbps between any two ports. Even el-cheapo switches have a 4k-entry lookup table nowadays.
Now it's true that wireless n, you're limited to 100mbps per channel (and you can actually achieve this). There's nothing to stop you from running 3 or 4 wireless routers on different channels in the same area, each connected directly to a different nic on the server. Locate each wireless in a different area of the room, (or centrally, with panels of aluminium foil to ensure that each one only "sees" a 90-degree area), with each one also jacked into the others in a star topology, and you've got your own wifi "cell" setup with 400mbps throughput. Total cost - under $300.00.
Can anyone set this up on thair roof at home and report on how they've created a public wifi with decent range? I'd want to see a mesh network of these...
Not that 11n is much better. Would need 3-4 of those, too!
Not really. I get 100mbps sustained throughput on my wireless n - I had to transfer 100 gigs from my laptop to my server, and it was just as fast as if I had done it with the ethernet cable plugged in.
And please don't say "well, you have to be close to get that sort of performance". Remember, they're talking about using this in the same room - if you can't get full speed from your wireless n in the same room, then either:
something is not configured properly;
you bought one of those crappy netbooks that doesn't have the guts to do sustained high-speed transfer (puny cpu, crap disk i/o, cheap components, etc);
you're running Windows and your anti-virus is a bottleneck - in which case, welcome to yet *another* hidden Microsoft tax.
... and I have NO difficulty with streaming big files from another room, which this doesn't even allow without mirrors or some other way to bounce the signal.
And no, you usually get perhaps half of the stated maximum speed with wireless,
So switch to wireless n - I transferred 100 gigabytes from my laptop 2 days ago (cleaning up the laptop) and I got the full 100mb/s speed - and that's over a 3-year-old dlink b/g/n I picked up on sale for $50.00. I seriously doubt that anyone was out there trying to crack the encryption, and if they were, I could have always used ssh.
If you're only getting half-speed, try switching channels. Also, n is a lot better at rejecting interference, etc.
When they first announced it, Apple said the iPhone was a true multi-tasking device.
iPhone features a rich HTML email client which fetches your email in the background from most POP3 or IMAP mail services and displays photos and graphics right along with the text. iPhone is fully multi-tasking, so you can be reading a web page while downloading your email in the background.
It's ot "true multi-tasking" - it's more like the old DOS TSRs that gave you limited "multi-tasking". Aside from the baked-into-the-OS multi-tasking apps, it doesn't multitask - which is one reason it won't support flash - too many threads of execution on a device that is resource-poor (comparatively slow cpu, limited ram).
So that's $5500 for submitting the bug for both. Nothing ethically wrong with that, because once someone has discovered/submitted it, it's really fair game.
I think you'd find that in Soviet Russia, that's bad for your health... you'd end up being "fair game."
So where is this market with Russian business men and how easily accessible is it?
In Soviet Russia, businessman access YOU!
Seriously? Just search the chat rooms, or follow the links from any of the spam software you get, and you'll find a buyer. Look for sites that search engines say "This site has malware" etc., and you'll find a buyer.
With the one large desktop when you maximize a window it fills both monitors
No it doesn't. Most window managers have handled multihead the way you saw Windows 7 does for some years now (five or six, I think).
More like 10 years... at least.
You "can" configure them to work "wrong" - so that an app fills both spaces when maximized, but you have to edit the xorg.comf file by hand, since that's never what anyone wants - and if you DO want it (for exampe, to stretch an IDE across multiple displays) - just stretch it manually.
More to the point, Apple is sitting on more cash than Microsoft, AND has had it's best year ever in the depths of the Great Recession, while Microsoft keeps laying off.
> An appliance such as a coffee maker isn't designed to be hacked into
[_] says you... turn in your geek card!
[_] In Soviet Russia, hacks toast YOU!
[_] You can have my toaster when you hack it from my cold dead hands.
... isn't this the same sort of set-up Google wants to make with their welfarebook? You can't install anything locally, etc.
The only difference is that it won't be made on bottom-of-the-barrel hardware, and it'll actually be useful. But someone will hack it, even if it means a little bit of work with a soldering iron.
It's a slashdot conspiracy! It's like there's two teams, an offensive team and a defensive team, and whenever one of them stays quiet, the other one takes over.
... like Google and Microsoft?
a conspiracy between those two is a scary thought...
If I'm going to be locked in anyway, at least I might as well get the free black turtleneck.
Question is, what gives Rogers the right to force people who are PAYING for their phones to require them to update. You don't get the phone for free - a portion of your monthly cost goes towards paying the phone. The phone is YOUR property, not theirs. Try canceling before your term is over, they'll hit you with $20 for each unused month to pay for that phone.
The biggest investor in Spyker is the Russian bank Convers Group, which is controlled by Alexander Antonov. In March, Mr. Antonov was shot seven times and reportedly lost a finger in an attempt on his life in Moscow. No arrests have been made. His son Vladimir, 34, is a top executive at Convers and the chairman of Spyker.
In Soviet Russia, you WILL buy our car! It doesn't cost an arm and a leg... yet.
... because in Soviet Russia, you don't own a Spyker, Spyker owns YOU!
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You've never been to one of those meetings where someone just sucked all the energy out of the room, have you ...
And you're wrong ... energy can be created - E=MC squared is the formula for creating energy out of matter (or matter out of energy).
anything more complicated than adding a few numbers, it's easier to open a spreadsheet than to learn how any particular calculator functions.
Thank $_DIETY for that. Nothing starts the workday off worse than seeing a naked pasty-skinned pencil-necked zit-covered geek walking around the office, depositing random body hairs everywhere he goes.
Bring beer.
It's been the traditional way for IT people to communicate since at least the Stone Age.
"Facebook" "Chat" "Meetings" Are you kidding? You want real communication? Real feedback? Beer and a whiteboard.
Or they can use a $5 cable for transfers between two machines.
Or they can just use a sub-$50 wireless router - the router doesn't have to be connected to any particular network to allow file transfers between participating computers.
No, it's not a wave. There's this thing called a photon ... you might have heard of it.
Just because light sometimes seems to act like a wave doesn't mean it is, any more than you liking to lick your nuts means you're a dog.
For every security solution, there's a way to beat it that's cheap, simple, and effective.
Don't get much rain or snow or dust there, do you?
"Hey boss, I found out why the Internet went down. A bird shat on the optics."
That's a LOT of Windows dvds. You could plaster a wall with them ...
that's MummySQL, you insensitive clod!
> mummysql
> Welcome to the MummySQL monitor program version 1523 B.C ("CurseOfTheRevengeOfTheMummy")
> USE bad_movies_database_for_100_alex;
> database changed
> SELECT "mirrors" FROM "internet" WHERE "botnet" == 1 LIMIT 666;
>YOU BE P0WNED! Bwahahahahaha!
No it's not. Use a switch, not a dumb router. A switch will recognize the source and destination address, so it's 100 mbps between any two ports. Even el-cheapo switches have a 4k-entry lookup table nowadays.
Now it's true that wireless n, you're limited to 100mbps per channel (and you can actually achieve this). There's nothing to stop you from running 3 or 4 wireless routers on different channels in the same area, each connected directly to a different nic on the server. Locate each wireless in a different area of the room, (or centrally, with panels of aluminium foil to ensure that each one only "sees" a 90-degree area), with each one also jacked into the others in a star topology, and you've got your own wifi "cell" setup with 400mbps throughput. Total cost - under $300.00.
Can anyone set this up on thair roof at home and report on how they've created a public wifi with decent range? I'd want to see a mesh network of these ...
Not really. I get 100mbps sustained throughput on my wireless n - I had to transfer 100 gigs from my laptop to my server, and it was just as fast as if I had done it with the ethernet cable plugged in.
And please don't say "well, you have to be close to get that sort of performance". Remember, they're talking about using this in the same room - if you can't get full speed from your wireless n in the same room, then either:
So switch to wireless n - I transferred 100 gigabytes from my laptop 2 days ago (cleaning up the laptop) and I got the full 100mb/s speed - and that's over a 3-year-old dlink b/g/n I picked up on sale for $50.00. I seriously doubt that anyone was out there trying to crack the encryption, and if they were, I could have always used ssh.
If you're only getting half-speed, try switching channels. Also, n is a lot better at rejecting interference, etc.
Whacking things is only one of the many fine uses for a hammer.
It's also a m nail puller.
And if it's big enough, you can use it as an anvil
You can also use the claw on it for help in climbing. Ask any mountaineer or tree-climber.
Or for making holes in drywall when you want to mount something into a wall space.
Or for wedging a door open.
Sure, it's not as general-purpose as a nice big screwdriver, but it's not just for hammering.
It's ot "true multi-tasking" - it's more like the old DOS TSRs that gave you limited "multi-tasking". Aside from the baked-into-the-OS multi-tasking apps, it doesn't multitask - which is one reason it won't support flash - too many threads of execution on a device that is resource-poor (comparatively slow cpu, limited ram).
I think you'd find that in Soviet Russia, that's bad for your health ... you'd end up being "fair game."
In Soviet Russia, businessman access YOU!
Seriously? Just search the chat rooms, or follow the links from any of the spam software you get, and you'll find a buyer. Look for sites that search engines say "This site has malware" etc., and you'll find a buyer.
In Soviet Russia, spammer rewards YOU!
I'll take exploits for $500, Alex.
Sorry, the Russian Business Network is paying $5000.
More like 10 years ... at least.
You "can" configure them to work "wrong" - so that an app fills both spaces when maximized, but you have to edit the xorg.comf file by hand, since that's never what anyone wants - and if you DO want it (for exampe, to stretch an IDE across multiple displays) - just stretch it manually.
> Get a Mac. It's damn easy to use multiple monitors with it. Don't even bother under Linux unless you have an nVidia card.
So my ancient ATI card isn't "really" pushing pixels to twin 26" displays?
Or my older computer - 3 displays w. 2 ati cards?
More to the point, Apple is sitting on more cash than Microsoft, AND has had it's best year ever in the depths of the Great Recession, while Microsoft keeps laying off.
> An appliance such as a coffee maker isn't designed to be hacked into
[_] says you ... turn in your geek card!
[_] In Soviet Russia, hacks toast YOU!
[_] You can have my toaster when you hack it from my cold dead hands.
The only difference is that it won't be made on bottom-of-the-barrel hardware, and it'll actually be useful. But someone will hack it, even if it means a little bit of work with a soldering iron.
a conspiracy between those two is a scary thought ...
If I'm going to be locked in anyway, at least I might as well get the free black turtleneck.
Question is, what gives Rogers the right to force people who are PAYING for their phones to require them to update. You don't get the phone for free - a portion of your monthly cost goes towards paying the phone. The phone is YOUR property, not theirs. Try canceling before your term is over, they'll hit you with $20 for each unused month to pay for that phone.
In Soviet Russia, you WILL buy our car! It doesn't cost an arm and a leg ... yet.