On building a big wireless network
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Out of curiousity, is there any easy guides as to how to set a long-range network up? I'm not talking about those multipage guides for sending messages across the Outback to see what kind of bandwidth you can get -- I'm talking something simple for my suburban block, big enough to get everyone on but small enough not to disturb too many wireless phones in the spectrum.
By the way, I sold my Lucent wireless LAN for a 3Com HomeConnect one. I'm finding the connection isn't as strong, but the setup is way easier (my Lucent had a nasty habit of fighting with my DHCP server. There were packets being run constantly.) Do I merely have to take a screwdriver to the thing and solder a piece of metal to the antenna, or what?
"Many of them believe, for example, that if you buy a CD, you buy the right to share it."
*Sigh* Sometimes you do and sometimes you don't. This upsets me on Slashdot to no end. If it's Open Source software, yes, you do. If it's just about anything else, no you don't. There was never any written or unwritten rule that said "everything on CD's can be copied". In fact, the rule should generally be viewed as the reverse: "nearly everything on a CD should not be copied".
Of course there are exceptions to the rule. If you made a Word document that you disavowed all personal copyrights to, yes you can share it. If the software is Open Source, yes you can share it. But no one has a right to share music or software that is owned by someone they personally don't know, regardless of their purported grassroots-it's-a-CD-company, we-have-a-right-to "reasons". When does the grey area start and stop.
I had a friend in college who absolutely hated Napster. The reason was that he was in an independent, yet popular, band whose music was being traded for free online. The problem: the band paid in full for their CD to be recorded professionally without a record label. It was something like $500 for 50 CD's, and they only had 4 songs on each of them. This was a struggling college band. But I imagine most Napster users would have argued "How was I supposed to know they paid? I thought it was an evil record company." Again, where does the grey area start and end?
This got me thinking, out of curiousity, what runs in a solar-powered calculator? Is there even a microprocessor?
Also, the Palm only draws 3 volts, if I'm correct. Nothing major, but it certainly gets the job done for a good deal of applications (like email and even light web browsing).
Why do people bother to read Katz articles if they're only going to criticize the man? Do yourself a favor: just turn off his articles in the settings. Then you can stop complaining. That's what I did with CmdrTaco's articles and it works wonders.:)
As a fellow writer, most of this is primarily subjective. I always thought the beginning to "A Tale of Two Cities" was not only repetitive and full of alliteration, but downright bad writing. While the beginning of "Grapes of Wrath" was really solid.
The funny thing is, there is no such thing as "bad writing". Everybody views something good as bad, and bad as good (especially in the New York art sense).
Funny, when I called the line for the preview activation I had barely any hold at all, and the call took less than 3 minutes (see my previous comment).
Thanks. That's what I kind of thought. The basic information is comforting as well (you have to change 4 hardware components for XP to balk) that definitely allays some of my fears about a majority of my upgrades (video cards and RAM).
I think the problem with many of the replies here is that many argue "all you have to do is press CMD-Q". Like the registration process for XP, Apple seems to neglect giving you that information as well. People are comparing apples and oranges when really they're comparing apples and apples.
After a thick perusal of the paper, I'm still at a loss: can xpdec actually *crack* anything? I've used it on my Product Key, and it does produce a proper Product ID, but has anyone actually used this to try to crack one of the RC1 copies?
Cable service = internet service
Cable content supported by advertisers = internet content supported by advertisers Compelling "premium" channels (like HBO) supported by my wallet = ?
I'll start paying for content on the internet when it becomes justifiably compelling, such as getting a bunch of movies every month (yeah, I know, the movie industry created this dilemma. But it's still cheaper than going to the theater).
"Apple's gotten the job done in creating a solid, usable UNIX desktop, as well as a mature, unified app framework."
One could argue that Microsoft has pulled that off with NT/2000/XP, considering how much stuff they've stolen... I mean, "borrowed" from Unix. Nah, I really shouldn't say that. I actually sorta like XP.
I think my main complaint with OS X is that the minimum hardware requirements were way too low. I purchased it for my original iMac (upped to 128 MB RAM) and it still runs excrutiatingly slow. It's all the window manager. Of course, the funniest thing I've seen is killing the window manager in a terminal window and not being able to get it back in OS X (in that OS, the window manager is everything).:)
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By the way, I sold my Lucent wireless LAN for a 3Com HomeConnect one. I'm finding the connection isn't as strong, but the setup is way easier (my Lucent had a nasty habit of fighting with my DHCP server. There were packets being run constantly.) Do I merely have to take a screwdriver to the thing and solder a piece of metal to the antenna, or what?
*Sigh* Sometimes you do and sometimes you don't. This upsets me on Slashdot to no end. If it's Open Source software, yes, you do. If it's just about anything else, no you don't. There was never any written or unwritten rule that said "everything on CD's can be copied". In fact, the rule should generally be viewed as the reverse: "nearly everything on a CD should not be copied".
Of course there are exceptions to the rule. If you made a Word document that you disavowed all personal copyrights to, yes you can share it. If the software is Open Source, yes you can share it. But no one has a right to share music or software that is owned by someone they personally don't know, regardless of their purported grassroots-it's-a-CD-company, we-have-a-right-to "reasons". When does the grey area start and stop.
I had a friend in college who absolutely hated Napster. The reason was that he was in an independent, yet popular, band whose music was being traded for free online. The problem: the band paid in full for their CD to be recorded professionally without a record label. It was something like $500 for 50 CD's, and they only had 4 songs on each of them. This was a struggling college band. But I imagine most Napster users would have argued "How was I supposed to know they paid? I thought it was an evil record company." Again, where does the grey area start and end?
Narf!
Also, the Palm only draws 3 volts, if I'm correct. Nothing major, but it certainly gets the job done for a good deal of applications (like email and even light web browsing).
Why do people bother to read Katz articles if they're only going to criticize the man? Do yourself a favor: just turn off his articles in the settings. Then you can stop complaining. That's what I did with CmdrTaco's articles and it works wonders. :)
"the first studio film"
The first major studio...
"ever with human leads"
"played by non-actors"
I know Katz gets a lot of flak, but come on. If you don't like his stories and only want to poke holes, turn off his articles in the settings.
1.) Why would Microsoft place any other browser into the API slot?
2.) What would this say about Microsoft's faith in its own HTML libraries if it did?
3.) What are the chances that the Mozilla libraries will actually *work* with all the libraries other programs use in IE?
5 minutes until one of the Slashdot groupies yells "At least he didn't have to use Windows!" :) Get your bets in now.
Not bloody likely when companies like Dell have already paid for the license/have all kinds of marketing tie-ins with Microsoft.
The funny thing is, there is no such thing as "bad writing". Everybody views something good as bad, and bad as good (especially in the New York art sense).
Funny, when I called the line for the preview activation I had barely any hold at all, and the call took less than 3 minutes (see my previous comment).
Wow, you've taken uneducated comments to a whole new level. lol
Huh? You mean that (insert expletive) Son of Satan Gates wants you on the phone for 10 minutes to get another key. There's a big difference.
Or, like myself, you could just sign on for the WinXP beta program with more than one email address and get all the keys you want. :)
Because then the development environment could be called KDE and then everything would get confusing. :)
Thanks. That's what I kind of thought. The basic information is comforting as well (you have to change 4 hardware components for XP to balk) that definitely allays some of my fears about a majority of my upgrades (video cards and RAM).
I think the problem with many of the replies here is that many argue "all you have to do is press CMD-Q". Like the registration process for XP, Apple seems to neglect giving you that information as well. People are comparing apples and oranges when really they're comparing apples and apples.
Apparently not. According the article you need to change 4 things, not just fuck around with the RAM.
After a thick perusal of the paper, I'm still at a loss: can xpdec actually *crack* anything? I've used it on my Product Key, and it does produce a proper Product ID, but has anyone actually used this to try to crack one of the RC1 copies?
Funny, I thought I remember Linus trademarking the name "Linux". Kind of weird when our martyr plays for the other team, huh? :)
It's easier to do through social engineering. See my previous comment.
Actually, if you were doing it phonetically it would be "K-ash".
I give the Trolls on Slashdot a life-expectancy of 5 *seconds* to begin posting Canada people death jokes. :)
Cable content supported by advertisers = internet content supported by advertisers
Compelling "premium" channels (like HBO) supported by my wallet = ?
I'll start paying for content on the internet when it becomes justifiably compelling, such as getting a bunch of movies every month (yeah, I know, the movie industry created this dilemma. But it's still cheaper than going to the theater).
One could argue that Microsoft has pulled that off with NT/2000/XP, considering how much stuff they've stolen ... I mean, "borrowed" from Unix. Nah, I really shouldn't say that. I actually sorta like XP.
I think my main complaint with OS X is that the minimum hardware requirements were way too low. I purchased it for my original iMac (upped to 128 MB RAM) and it still runs excrutiatingly slow. It's all the window manager. Of course, the funniest thing I've seen is killing the window manager in a terminal window and not being able to get it back in OS X (in that OS, the window manager is everything). :)