This is something I've pondered often. I think the DNS model will only persist as long as the impression that a website must be a.com does. This is fading, but I remember a long time ago when people thought there was a mistake if there was no www. on the front or it wasn't a.com.. Granted, the tech public knew better, but the average joe had no idea. (im talking back when = 6), eventually it will just make more sense to have sort of a distant cousin to a search engine type DNS system. Or maybe websites will be more or less a sentence (company slogan) or word pair (company name)? Who knows, but I agree, machine naming is going to change drasticly someday.
Heck, what if there was enough IP space such that the ASCII codes for the letters in your site name somehow made up the actual IP. That would eliminate the need for a DNS system altogether, but would waste a lot of IP space as we think about it in our current paradigm of fixed ip lengths with groupings etc etc. Perhaps future systems will not need fixed length, perhaps not. Who knows.
I had a few friends in college who built wooden computer cases, several of whom found some massive problems with grounding and one was severely shocked. Though none of them lined their cases with aluminum or other conductive sheeting, which might have avoided the problem.
Do these wooden accessories need grounding for proper shielding to avoid inbound signal interference?
Are you sure there's no 3G in the US? My Sprint LG 5350 phone says Qualcomm 3G CDMA on it and supposedly all my data connections are supposed to be over the 3G network.. I could be wrong... but i had a huge battle over the data connection and kept getting 2G connections because of the type of cable I was using (serial) and finally got a usb cable that allowed 3G calls..
if you think an item is fictitious and its worth some bucks, request escrow. There are several ebay authorized/sanctioned sources including ebay itself. Also ebay and paypal have insurance and refunds available for people who get stiffed.
Theres always the standard broadcast problem of mountainous/hilly areas as well as areas with a lot of large buildings. Theres a reason cable did so well in a lot of places; putting up a 40 foot antenna with a rotor gets expensive, then having to turn it the right direction to get it tuned right.. also wind causes a problem at times with such high antennas.
Why must there be a different distrobution for every primary use? Shouldnt linux be flexible enough to have one distrobution fits all (or at least one style of administration)?
Maybe its a terminology issue, but at least the way im thinking of it, the moon orbits around the earth primarily and then that group of objects rotates around the sun.
I think it should be something like this.. If a uniformly round object's primary orbit is an orbit of our sun and meets X size requirement, it is a planet. This excludes moons that way since its primary orbit is not around the sun. Then theres just a size disctinction.. but i think aside from space debris anything larger than a few miles around should be considered a planet.
I didnt remeber the nuclear blast part, maybe im thinking of a different story.. but i thought there was an edgar allen poe story about a house that had everything automated, clean up robots, cooking robots etc.. *shrugs*
True, and the desire to hack sun boxes decreases with the age of machines. Who wants to hack an ultra 10? Theyre not particularly fast. Unless you discover a nice Sun Fire V480 floating around on the network thats not tied down (ssh from specific hosts only, etc etc).. Most people just don't hack solaris. There's little gain. The types of script kiddies who do the hacking dont usually feel like porting whatever software they want to run over to solaris, or dont know how. Solaris is too much work for the unfamiliar. Theres much more advantage for a hacker to take over one of the abundant dual xeon machines running linux on the network.
I'm not sure what you mean by 'now'. Solaris has supported x86 for many a version, though laptop support has been iffy, especially w.r.t. pcmcia support. Not sure on solaris 9 and up. Solaris x86 doesn't have much of a place except in an otherwise all sun environment IMHO.. Might simplify some things. Depends on your situation I suppose.
well, if you read a little more closely, it said stuck in a collapsed building like at the wtc towers, note the like.
In any case, if you're really in an emergency, it may be hard to drive with a severed leg, smashed torso, severe burns, exploded car, streets filled with millions of people, gas shortage, whatever, theres a lot of reasons that you might not be able to drive in a true emergency. Plus, not everywhere has mountains and it doesnt do much good if youre trying to communicate with people at the scene.. That would be like telling your local police officers that to use their radios they must drive to the mountains.
This problem was discussed in the last iteration of the BPL postings, but basically, the ham operators train regularly, if radios only work during outages, then training is worthless and when the time comes the operators will be worthless too.
That sort of thing does occur, but no more does it describe the whole of ham operations than does rice rocket drivers and tweakers and racers describe all of car driving and automotive enthusiasts.
Hamfests are something unusual, and they do often draw the geekiest of the geekies. But theyre fun, and sometimes its fun to talk about what gear you have. Hey how many computer guys do you know that want to tell you about their new Pentium 4 Extreme Edition or quad xeon setup?
I think you are reading far more into it, and I'm not sure where you get that. I simply said that hams' communications assistance was needed during 9/11. I didnt want to repost my whole post from the last time this was brought up. Mostly I meant that the communications provided by hams helped find people under rubble and get help to them. It also helped injured people who escaped the building and had smoke inhalation problems or other ailments. Please don't try and force words in my mouth.
While 1500 watts is the limit on much of the ham allocated spectrum, the rules require using the minimum to get the job done. Granted, with BPL being not licensed for broadcast, hams remain the primary and using more wattage would be merited, the signal quality on the receiving side would still be degraded substantially or lost altogether in the mess, not to mention the increased radiation and safety hazards operating above 150 watts. Once you get to a certain average power, there is a process that needs to occur to ensure safety, and regulating transmitting time needs to occur to keep within MPE levels (Maximum Permissible Exposure). If all hams had to bump to 1500 watts, there would be a lot more problems than just a few people occasionally using that much power for a specific need. When an antenna is close to another antenna, especially when the distance between antennas is less than the wavelength, massive interference will occur almost regardless of the receiving frequency and transmitting frequency. Now hopefully the lobbyists of the industry will not get BPL designated primary, because then the hams would be interfering and it would essentially put a stop to ham. For now, we have to hope that regular communications use will stop BPL and not the other way around. If BPL gains popularity, the majority, which does not know about communications, will get the designation changed eventually one way or another.
You should read my post in the responses to the last time this was brought up. Regardless of what's using the spectrum that BPL interferes with, the fact that BPL does not in any way require or benefit from skywave propagation/ionospheric propagation and stomps all over the -only- frequency range that is pysically capable of bouncing off the atmosphere is a complete and utter waste. Not to mention that amateur radio provides long distance communications not only to third world countries, but more importantly in the event of a natural disaster. Ham radio operators are constantly pushing the limits of communications technology, what do you think the designers that work at the big communications companies do when they go home? Where do you think the communications buffs who join the big communications firms come from? Anyway, its a waste, and it tramples a service to the world that is without a doubt one of the most important ones when it comes to saving your life the next time you're stuck in a collapsed building like at the WTC towers.
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This is something I've pondered often. I think the DNS model will only persist as long as the impression that a website must be a .com does. This is fading, but I remember a long time ago when people thought there was a mistake if there was no www. on the front or it wasn't a .com.. Granted, the tech public knew better, but the average joe had no idea. (im talking back when = 6), eventually it will just make more sense to have sort of a distant cousin to a search engine type DNS system. Or maybe websites will be more or less a sentence (company slogan) or word pair (company name)? Who knows, but I agree, machine naming is going to change drasticly someday.
Heck, what if there was enough IP space such that the ASCII codes for the letters in your site name somehow made up the actual IP. That would eliminate the need for a DNS system altogether, but would waste a lot of IP space as we think about it in our current paradigm of fixed ip lengths with groupings etc etc. Perhaps future systems will not need fixed length, perhaps not. Who knows.
I had a few friends in college who built wooden computer cases, several of whom found some massive problems with grounding and one was severely shocked. Though none of them lined their cases with aluminum or other conductive sheeting, which might have avoided the problem.
Do these wooden accessories need grounding for proper shielding to avoid inbound signal interference?
Are you sure there's no 3G in the US? My Sprint LG 5350 phone says Qualcomm 3G CDMA on it and supposedly all my data connections are supposed to be over the 3G network.. I could be wrong... but i had a huge battle over the data connection and kept getting 2G connections because of the type of cable I was using (serial) and finally got a usb cable that allowed 3G calls..
if you think an item is fictitious and its worth some bucks, request escrow. There are several ebay authorized/sanctioned sources including ebay itself. Also ebay and paypal have insurance and refunds available for people who get stiffed.
Theres always the standard broadcast problem of mountainous/hilly areas as well as areas with a lot of large buildings. Theres a reason cable did so well in a lot of places; putting up a 40 foot antenna with a rotor gets expensive, then having to turn it the right direction to get it tuned right.. also wind causes a problem at times with such high antennas.
Why must there be a different distrobution for every primary use? Shouldnt linux be flexible enough to have one distrobution fits all (or at least one style of administration)?
Maybe its a terminology issue, but at least the way im thinking of it, the moon orbits around the earth primarily and then that group of objects rotates around the sun.
Hopefully it'll work better than our missile defense system... Maybe we should make that work better first..
I think it should be something like this.. If a uniformly round object's primary orbit is an orbit of our sun and meets X size requirement, it is a planet. This excludes moons that way since its primary orbit is not around the sun. Then theres just a size disctinction.. but i think aside from space debris anything larger than a few miles around should be considered a planet.
I didnt remeber the nuclear blast part, maybe im thinking of a different story.. but i thought there was an edgar allen poe story about a house that had everything automated, clean up robots, cooking robots etc.. *shrugs*
who knows how long the animals live though
nevermind.. i just read that about the same time as martian chronicles.
I believe that's an Edgar Allen Poe story if I recall, though I dont remember the name.
Quite true. Plus theres the hackers that just like to cause trouble, though I think most of those fall under the 'dont understand solaris' catagory.
True, and the desire to hack sun boxes decreases with the age of machines. Who wants to hack an ultra 10? Theyre not particularly fast. Unless you discover a nice Sun Fire V480 floating around on the network thats not tied down (ssh from specific hosts only, etc etc).. Most people just don't hack solaris. There's little gain. The types of script kiddies who do the hacking dont usually feel like porting whatever software they want to run over to solaris, or dont know how. Solaris is too much work for the unfamiliar. Theres much more advantage for a hacker to take over one of the abundant dual xeon machines running linux on the network.
I'm not sure what you mean by 'now'. Solaris has supported x86 for many a version, though laptop support has been iffy, especially w.r.t. pcmcia support. Not sure on solaris 9 and up. Solaris x86 doesn't have much of a place except in an otherwise all sun environment IMHO.. Might simplify some things. Depends on your situation I suppose.
IIRC, this is a dupe of an article from several months ago...
I wholeheartedly agree to the 'fiber the world' project. That would be a solution to just about everything communications.
Sadly, im not sure that any president would stop this. I think the bulk of it is the FCC not caring.
well, if you read a little more closely, it said stuck in a collapsed building like at the wtc towers, note the like.
In any case, if you're really in an emergency, it may be hard to drive with a severed leg, smashed torso, severe burns, exploded car, streets filled with millions of people, gas shortage, whatever, theres a lot of reasons that you might not be able to drive in a true emergency. Plus, not everywhere has mountains and it doesnt do much good if youre trying to communicate with people at the scene.. That would be like telling your local police officers that to use their radios they must drive to the mountains.
This problem was discussed in the last iteration of the BPL postings, but basically, the ham operators train regularly, if radios only work during outages, then training is worthless and when the time comes the operators will be worthless too.
That sort of thing does occur, but no more does it describe the whole of ham operations than does rice rocket drivers and tweakers and racers describe all of car driving and automotive enthusiasts.
Hamfests are something unusual, and they do often draw the geekiest of the geekies. But theyre fun, and sometimes its fun to talk about what gear you have. Hey how many computer guys do you know that want to tell you about their new Pentium 4 Extreme Edition or quad xeon setup?
I think you are reading far more into it, and I'm not sure where you get that. I simply said that hams' communications assistance was needed during 9/11. I didnt want to repost my whole post from the last time this was brought up. Mostly I meant that the communications provided by hams helped find people under rubble and get help to them. It also helped injured people who escaped the building and had smoke inhalation problems or other ailments. Please don't try and force words in my mouth.
While 1500 watts is the limit on much of the ham allocated spectrum, the rules require using the minimum to get the job done. Granted, with BPL being not licensed for broadcast, hams remain the primary and using more wattage would be merited, the signal quality on the receiving side would still be degraded substantially or lost altogether in the mess, not to mention the increased radiation and safety hazards operating above 150 watts. Once you get to a certain average power, there is a process that needs to occur to ensure safety, and regulating transmitting time needs to occur to keep within MPE levels (Maximum Permissible Exposure). If all hams had to bump to 1500 watts, there would be a lot more problems than just a few people occasionally using that much power for a specific need. When an antenna is close to another antenna, especially when the distance between antennas is less than the wavelength, massive interference will occur almost regardless of the receiving frequency and transmitting frequency. Now hopefully the lobbyists of the industry will not get BPL designated primary, because then the hams would be interfering and it would essentially put a stop to ham. For now, we have to hope that regular communications use will stop BPL and not the other way around. If BPL gains popularity, the majority, which does not know about communications, will get the designation changed eventually one way or another.
You should read my post in the responses to the last time this was brought up. Regardless of what's using the spectrum that BPL interferes with, the fact that BPL does not in any way require or benefit from skywave propagation/ionospheric propagation and stomps all over the -only- frequency range that is pysically capable of bouncing off the atmosphere is a complete and utter waste. Not to mention that amateur radio provides long distance communications not only to third world countries, but more importantly in the event of a natural disaster. Ham radio operators are constantly pushing the limits of communications technology, what do you think the designers that work at the big communications companies do when they go home? Where do you think the communications buffs who join the big communications firms come from? Anyway, its a waste, and it tramples a service to the world that is without a doubt one of the most important ones when it comes to saving your life the next time you're stuck in a collapsed building like at the WTC towers.