i think the reply was mostly saying, why change all the firmware around when existing stuff will work. we can already do mac address filtering, we can already do a lot of things.
Anyway, my knowledge of wifi isnt huge, but it doesnt seem beyond imagination for the following with existing wi-fi standards:
Register your mac address with the hotspot provider's network, then wander to any hotspot run by the same company. Unregistered macs get onto a network where the only page they can access is a registration/login page. Put in your login and register your mac address either temporarily if youre using a friends laptop or permanently if you plan on using this laptop permanently. Mac address goes into the filtering db, and you have access.
not a bad idea. But if the mindstorms is being abandoned, theres not much reason to stick with the already (relatively) poor/limited OS as it is. Why not license the right to put the lego name on it (after the product gets tested/approved by lego) and the right to use the lego shape. Lego could even make the plastics for the parts, but leave the electronics/software stuff to someone else. Even without that part of it, everyone is happy.
ISP's should be extremely clear when you sign on about what type of behavior is acceptable. If they want you to have X kb/s, throttle it to that level using whatever means is applicable, be it hardware limitations of DSL/cable, etc, or a software/firmware throttling in a router/whathaveyou. But in general, my assumption would be that if they do not specifically state when you sign on that you cant use the pipe you are paying for to full capacity, they can go call your lawyer. If they say you have 1.1mbit d/l and 768kbit u/l, then i think you should be able to top it out 24/7 by all rights. They advertise those ratings, and promise them, but they dont say, oh.. well.. you can only use it at an average of 10% duty over the course of a week/month... Lots of ISP's/colleges have pulled similar stunts. ISU for example has a capping method that as you use more bandwidth you get dropped into slower and slower access pipes until you basically cant do anything until it resets you. I somewhat understand it in a college situation, and especially when theyre up front about it, you know what youre getting. But when it comes to ISPs trying to pull similar stunts, it really gets frustrating. I can understand why they dont like 'servers' on non commercial pipes, and they seem to be relatively leniant in a lot of cases about that now, but it still lies out there as a trap in case they dont like what youre doing they reserve the right to drop you. Anyway, long story short, check your SLA/TOS/whatever you have for your uplink, if its not clearly stated in the agreement you signed/agreed to when you connected to the ISP, and any postal/emailed notifications of policy change where they give you a chance to cancel service if you don't agree, etc, and find out if you have any recourse. Talk to an admin somewhere, talk to a lawyer. Chances are they're pushing the limits of the fine print over the line.
Sort of along the same lines, and ive mentioned this in another thread a while back... its past the viewable recent posts I have so i cant link to it.. In any case. I think one of the biggest hurdles the music industry needs to solve is to decide whether they are licensing you to listen to the song, or whether they are selling you the media. They need to pick one. They constantly say you are buying the right to listen when you buy a cd, and the cd is your license, etc. But yet, if you break a cd you have to buy your license all over again? I have quite a few cd's ive had to burn because theyve gotten scratched in my car, dropped, whatever. If the industry wants my vote, let me send in the pieces of my cd and 2 bucks and send me a replacement. Until then, they're pushing more people away. Not that being able to mail in a CD will solve piracy, not by a long shot. But if they would make up their minds and not try to have it both ways, i think they would gain a little more support. I'm not sure im explaining my thoughts as well as id like, but hey ive been coding for a week straight.
I couldn't find the parent I wanted to reply to again when I scrolled back, so posting it on the root parent.
There was a link to a history of dos page, and that brings up a good point about microsoft. Microsoft has rarely innovated. For the most part, they commandeer someone else's technology and market it. Not that this is bad business practice, buying up people's IP is fair game. But microsoft bills themselves (heh, Bills... anyway...) as a massive innovation company, when really all they are is a marketing company. Take a poor sales product, sometimes fix it up, and market it with big money and get it used and associated with their name recognition and be trusted because of it (well that was more true a few years ago).
Applying patents to things people never got around to patenting maybe does not feel fair for most, but its fair game in reality.
Suddenly enforcing age old patents is within their rights, but certainly is not the friendliest of moves.
In any case, the masses some day will realize the lack of innovation at microsoft, and how much innovation there exists in the free software realm, and microsofts days will one day (though probably not soon) be numbered.
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i think we're talking two different levels. There's the OS, then there's tools. Shell scripting may seem like a basilar activity, but its really not a part of the operating system's core, which seems to define whether something is UNIX or not.
Now, given that GNU stuff is available everywhere, UNIX therefore -has- those capabilities if installed, just like anything else (Linux or otherwise). UNIX has not 'moved with the demands' as you say because those features have already been implemented, why reinvent the wheel, just install an rpm/pkg/whathaveyou.
since when does having X windows, or a particular app have any bearing on whether the os you're running is technically a UNIX, a Linux, a NeXT, a windows, etc system?
So if I ran DOS with Norton Commander installed, its not dos anymore because i installed something non-standard?
Anyway, IMHO, i dont think its a matter of 'switching to GNU', its simply 'using GNU'. Heck, even cygwin on windows can use GNU stuff for the most part. Installing GNU utilities on your windows box does not make it a unix.
Come to think of it, that may be the prime example. Cygwin looks like a unix, walks like a unix etc, to quote another poster, but its the kernel that really defines what the system technically is.
If you leave your car unlocked and it is stolen and involved in a hit and run, are you responsible? Breaking and entering in a house could be as simple as opening an unlocked door if you are an intruder on the premises. I don't think computer owners whose machines are broken into should have any liability. If you knowingly aid the use of your machine as a gateway then you should have some added liability, much like drug trafficing. I think in some cases some of these computer hijackings for DDOS can be more serious in reality than some of the drug trafficing people. Computer hackings can cause a lot of damage, even to the government. All in all, computer owners should make a reasonable effort to secure their systems, but should not be held in neglect if not properly maintained and that allows an intruder to compromise the system and use it in an attack.
I think a good portion of the problem is a mentality difference. Windows users are more set it and forget it, used to a certain level of separation from the workings of the OS whereas Unix folk are more traditionally involved in every aspect of the configuration of their system. Only recently has the abstraction come to Linux with the install-everything-in-one-go abilities of so many distributions, but still admins and older unix junkies still are aware they have to configure things and secure them. Unix people in general pay attention to security news and install patches right away. Windows people tend to click on "remind me in 2 weeks" if they even have the auto update feature installed. I know people that are years out of date on updates.
One concession about windows though, is there are so many things you cant turn off or uninstall. At least with linux you can have no open ports if you so desire.
Does this technology account for the earth rotating and having to continually repoint the microwave beam from whichever planet or moon to account for that? What happens when the planet is facing the wrong way?
<sarcasm> I know! Why dont we just make a ton of receiving dishes all the way around the equator! </sarcasm>
come to think of it. maybe they should make it one of those online collaborative revision thingies highlighted on slashdot a little while back. Then everyone could add things they remember.
What if someone made a high res digital SLR with bluetooth and developed a little hard drive box with bluetooth. Then say a wedding photographer could shove his 300gb bluetooth hard drive box in the corner of a room, and take pictures to his hearts content at massive megapixels and not worry about space. It would be fast and transparent. Then take the box home, shove an ethernet cable into the back and access the pictures, or usb, or hot swap HD rails. There are so many things bluetooth could do that nobodys doing yet.
I like how they mention the decline occurred during college summer vacation but the tone seems to say that the measured decline is an indicator of people not sharing due to RIAA junk, but they said it themselves -during the college summer vacation- meaning, no one has bandwidth anymore.
the original parent states that this article could spell bad news for the ipv6 rollout. Yet, i see no reason why it should have any bearing on ipv6 at all. Why should the ipv6 rollout wait until we have no ip space left in 20 years. Why not switch over and let the availability of space drive innovation for new ideas to use that address space. Theres nothing saying we can't migrate to ipv7, 8, 9, 10 whatever some day later on. ipv6 should proceed at whatever rate the industry is ready for, not by when we are almost out of time. Much the same with our fossil fuel situation, IMHO.
So its ok to break other people's licenses and redistribute huge chunks of code under a new license, but a page of code that is not even in place any more duplicated under their own license is practically under penalty of death.
There are directions all over for a passthrough blackbox that turns that bit off FYI.
Id guess that something would be possible to put into a custom HDTV tuner.
Either way, both ideas are illegal for what most people would do with it, and is much akin to removal of macrovision in vhs. Though, myself being a musician, i have the trouble copying work too, so i always do everything through my spdif enabled PC, which doesnt output the copyright bit by default.
Well this is still in initial RFC phase, and is probably quite a while from implementation. IPv6 may even be in swing by the time this gets rolling, maybe not. It probably won't be used to its fullest before that time though is my guess.
I think a lot of people -do- care about Dolby Digital and home theater systems. Plus progressive scan on an HDTV or other high scan line projector looks very amazing. DVD -is- a better format, and rewinding was hardly more than a nuisance on VHS, IMHO - plus rewinders were cheap.
Apparently 6.5 was a beta release that got renamed to 7.0.
"What's Ahead In Dec. 2001, MacOSRumors.com reported, "PhotoShop 6.5 is advancing rapidly and a beta is planned to be seeded in the coming months. Photoshop 6.5 has many new enhancements added, among these are, a brand new antialiasing engine that utilizes the quartz engine in OS X, live transformation previews, and a new text tool that lets you wrap text around shapes. One of the best things stated about Photoshop 6.5 is its speed. With OS X's speed enhancements since the release of 10.1 Photoshop 6.5 is outstanding. According to my source Photoshop 6.5 will ship with ImageReady 3.5..."
By Dec. 10, Adobe had decided to rename the software Photoshop 7.0. ImageReady's version number had also been updated to 7.0. See www.thinksecret.com for a preview of the new versions."
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i hadn't thought of that. So I guess then the question is what would WhyFi have that isnt forgeable that Wi-Fi wouldn't?
scary thought!
i think the reply was mostly saying, why change all the firmware around when existing stuff will work. we can already do mac address filtering, we can already do a lot of things.
Anyway, my knowledge of wifi isnt huge, but it doesnt seem beyond imagination for the following with existing wi-fi standards:
Register your mac address with the hotspot provider's network, then wander to any hotspot run by the same company. Unregistered macs get onto a network where the only page they can access is a registration/login page. Put in your login and register your mac address either temporarily if youre using a friends laptop or permanently if you plan on using this laptop permanently. Mac address goes into the filtering db, and you have access.
i thought it was "im gonna grab me some brewskis" or "im gonna grab me a brewski"
not a bad idea. But if the mindstorms is being abandoned, theres not much reason to stick with the already (relatively) poor/limited OS as it is. Why not license the right to put the lego name on it (after the product gets tested/approved by lego) and the right to use the lego shape. Lego could even make the plastics for the parts, but leave the electronics/software stuff to someone else. Even without that part of it, everyone is happy.
I'm not sure why this post only got a 2. That's one of the better replies so far, a rebuttal with knowledge behind it.
Wonder why they dont just toss in a web browser and bluetooth keyboard/mouse support?
ISP's should be extremely clear when you sign on about what type of behavior is acceptable. If they want you to have X kb/s, throttle it to that level using whatever means is applicable, be it hardware limitations of DSL/cable, etc, or a software/firmware throttling in a router/whathaveyou. But in general, my assumption would be that if they do not specifically state when you sign on that you cant use the pipe you are paying for to full capacity, they can go call your lawyer. If they say you have 1.1mbit d/l and 768kbit u/l, then i think you should be able to top it out 24/7 by all rights. They advertise those ratings, and promise them, but they dont say, oh.. well.. you can only use it at an average of 10% duty over the course of a week/month... Lots of ISP's/colleges have pulled similar stunts. ISU for example has a capping method that as you use more bandwidth you get dropped into slower and slower access pipes until you basically cant do anything until it resets you. I somewhat understand it in a college situation, and especially when theyre up front about it, you know what youre getting. But when it comes to ISPs trying to pull similar stunts, it really gets frustrating. I can understand why they dont like 'servers' on non commercial pipes, and they seem to be relatively leniant in a lot of cases about that now, but it still lies out there as a trap in case they dont like what youre doing they reserve the right to drop you. Anyway, long story short, check your SLA/TOS/whatever you have for your uplink, if its not clearly stated in the agreement you signed/agreed to when you connected to the ISP, and any postal/emailed notifications of policy change where they give you a chance to cancel service if you don't agree, etc, and find out if you have any recourse. Talk to an admin somewhere, talk to a lawyer. Chances are they're pushing the limits of the fine print over the line.
Sort of along the same lines, and ive mentioned this in another thread a while back... its past the viewable recent posts I have so i cant link to it.. In any case. I think one of the biggest hurdles the music industry needs to solve is to decide whether they are licensing you to listen to the song, or whether they are selling you the media. They need to pick one. They constantly say you are buying the right to listen when you buy a cd, and the cd is your license, etc. But yet, if you break a cd you have to buy your license all over again? I have quite a few cd's ive had to burn because theyve gotten scratched in my car, dropped, whatever. If the industry wants my vote, let me send in the pieces of my cd and 2 bucks and send me a replacement. Until then, they're pushing more people away. Not that being able to mail in a CD will solve piracy, not by a long shot. But if they would make up their minds and not try to have it both ways, i think they would gain a little more support. I'm not sure im explaining my thoughts as well as id like, but hey ive been coding for a week straight.
I couldn't find the parent I wanted to reply to again when I scrolled back, so posting it on the root parent.
There was a link to a history of dos page, and that brings up a good point about microsoft. Microsoft has rarely innovated. For the most part, they commandeer someone else's technology and market it. Not that this is bad business practice, buying up people's IP is fair game. But microsoft bills themselves (heh, Bills... anyway...) as a massive innovation company, when really all they are is a marketing company. Take a poor sales product, sometimes fix it up, and market it with big money and get it used and associated with their name recognition and be trusted because of it (well that was more true a few years ago).
Applying patents to things people never got around to patenting maybe does not feel fair for most, but its fair game in reality.
Suddenly enforcing age old patents is within their rights, but certainly is not the friendliest of moves.
In any case, the masses some day will realize the lack of innovation at microsoft, and how much innovation there exists in the free software realm, and microsofts days will one day (though probably not soon) be numbered.
i think we're talking two different levels. There's the OS, then there's tools. Shell scripting may seem like a basilar activity, but its really not a part of the operating system's core, which seems to define whether something is UNIX or not.
Now, given that GNU stuff is available everywhere, UNIX therefore -has- those capabilities if installed, just like anything else (Linux or otherwise). UNIX has not 'moved with the demands' as you say because those features have already been implemented, why reinvent the wheel, just install an rpm/pkg/whathaveyou.
since when does having X windows, or a particular app have any bearing on whether the os you're running is technically a UNIX, a Linux, a NeXT, a windows, etc system?
So if I ran DOS with Norton Commander installed, its not dos anymore because i installed something non-standard?
Anyway, IMHO, i dont think its a matter of 'switching to GNU', its simply 'using GNU'. Heck, even cygwin on windows can use GNU stuff for the most part. Installing GNU utilities on your windows box does not make it a unix.
Come to think of it, that may be the prime example. Cygwin looks like a unix, walks like a unix etc, to quote another poster, but its the kernel that really defines what the system technically is.
If you leave your car unlocked and it is stolen and involved in a hit and run, are you responsible? Breaking and entering in a house could be as simple as opening an unlocked door if you are an intruder on the premises. I don't think computer owners whose machines are broken into should have any liability. If you knowingly aid the use of your machine as a gateway then you should have some added liability, much like drug trafficing. I think in some cases some of these computer hijackings for DDOS can be more serious in reality than some of the drug trafficing people. Computer hackings can cause a lot of damage, even to the government. All in all, computer owners should make a reasonable effort to secure their systems, but should not be held in neglect if not properly maintained and that allows an intruder to compromise the system and use it in an attack.
I think a good portion of the problem is a mentality difference. Windows users are more set it and forget it, used to a certain level of separation from the workings of the OS whereas Unix folk are more traditionally involved in every aspect of the configuration of their system. Only recently has the abstraction come to Linux with the install-everything-in-one-go abilities of so many distributions, but still admins and older unix junkies still are aware they have to configure things and secure them. Unix people in general pay attention to security news and install patches right away. Windows people tend to click on "remind me in 2 weeks" if they even have the auto update feature installed. I know people that are years out of date on updates.
One concession about windows though, is there are so many things you cant turn off or uninstall. At least with linux you can have no open ports if you so desire.
Does this technology account for the earth rotating and having to continually repoint the microwave beam from whichever planet or moon to account for that? What happens when the planet is facing the wrong way?
<sarcasm> I know! Why dont we just make a ton of receiving dishes all the way around the equator! </sarcasm>
come to think of it. maybe they should make it one of those online collaborative revision thingies highlighted on slashdot a little while back. Then everyone could add things they remember.
True, if you want video card history, you gotta get down to the Hercules monochrome boards and the others in that era.
What if someone made a high res digital SLR with bluetooth and developed a little hard drive box with bluetooth. Then say a wedding photographer could shove his 300gb bluetooth hard drive box in the corner of a room, and take pictures to his hearts content at massive megapixels and not worry about space. It would be fast and transparent. Then take the box home, shove an ethernet cable into the back and access the pictures, or usb, or hot swap HD rails. There are so many things bluetooth could do that nobodys doing yet.
I like how they mention the decline occurred during college summer vacation but the tone seems to say that the measured decline is an indicator of people not sharing due to RIAA junk, but they said it themselves -during the college summer vacation- meaning, no one has bandwidth anymore.
the original parent states that this article could spell bad news for the ipv6 rollout. Yet, i see no reason why it should have any bearing on ipv6 at all. Why should the ipv6 rollout wait until we have no ip space left in 20 years. Why not switch over and let the availability of space drive innovation for new ideas to use that address space. Theres nothing saying we can't migrate to ipv7, 8, 9, 10 whatever some day later on. ipv6 should proceed at whatever rate the industry is ready for, not by when we are almost out of time. Much the same with our fossil fuel situation, IMHO.
So its ok to break other people's licenses and redistribute huge chunks of code under a new license, but a page of code that is not even in place any more duplicated under their own license is practically under penalty of death.
There are directions all over for a passthrough blackbox that turns that bit off FYI.
Id guess that something would be possible to put into a custom HDTV tuner.
Either way, both ideas are illegal for what most people would do with it, and is much akin to removal of macrovision in vhs. Though, myself being a musician, i have the trouble copying work too, so i always do everything through my spdif enabled PC, which doesnt output the copyright bit by default.
Well this is still in initial RFC phase, and is probably quite a while from implementation. IPv6 may even be in swing by the time this gets rolling, maybe not. It probably won't be used to its fullest before that time though is my guess.
I think a lot of people -do- care about Dolby Digital and home theater systems. Plus progressive scan on an HDTV or other high scan line projector looks very amazing. DVD -is- a better format, and rewinding was hardly more than a nuisance on VHS, IMHO - plus rewinders were cheap.
Apparently 6.5 was a beta release that got renamed to 7.0.
g raphics/Photoshop6.html
"What's Ahead
In Dec. 2001, MacOSRumors.com reported, "PhotoShop 6.5 is advancing rapidly and a beta is planned to be seeded in the coming months. Photoshop 6.5 has many new enhancements added, among these are, a brand new antialiasing engine that utilizes the quartz engine in OS X, live transformation previews, and a new text tool that lets you wrap text around shapes. One of the best things stated about Photoshop 6.5 is its speed. With OS X's speed enhancements since the release of 10.1 Photoshop 6.5 is outstanding. According to my source Photoshop 6.5 will ship with ImageReady 3.5..."
By Dec. 10, Adobe had decided to rename the software Photoshop 7.0. ImageReady's version number had also been updated to 7.0. See www.thinksecret.com for a preview of the new versions."
http://thetechnozone.com/macbuyersguide/software/
I'm still happily using 6.5, and even then I'd only be on 6.0 if 6.5 hadn't come as part of a package deal my company set up.