That's fine unless you care about latency. It adds up fast when you start doing PtP links and peering like that. Now add in the fact that what if one of your peers is sloppy managing their network? There are more than three major backbone providers in the U.S. The biggest ones are UUnet, AT&T, Sprint and Qwest. Head over to http://www.boardwatch.com/ and check out their list of backbone providers, it's longer than you think.
Why does everyone expect to receive a T-1 in their home for less than $50/month? It costs MONEY to deliver bandwidth. It costs money to lay fiber and copper. The technicians earn a wage to install the fiber and copper. The wages they earn is what it is because they have to be trained and have to learn how to install telecommunications equipment. This is why local loop charges can end up in the thousands of dollars range. Port charges for a T-1 are about the same between providers. If a broadband provider pays $1500/month for a T-1 and then resells that for $50/month there has to be a limit somewhere or one person could hog the entire pipe and end up causing the provider to spend $1450/month to server one customer. $50 per month for a 768kbps pipe with 5GB of monthly transfer is more than fair. NONE of our current subscribers use even 1GB in a month and most of them are businesses with multiple computers. Sure, I could sell less bandwidth with unlimited transfer but people want a fat pipe. You sell the fat pipe with unlimited transfer and a couple people can monopolize the entire pipe. Clauses in contracts stating that people who abuse the bandwidth will be charged extra are futile. Get with an attorney and draw up a contract stating they get X amount of bandwidth for X amount of dollars per month. DSL and Cable aren't going to cut it either, you have to include wireless and I don't mean these community FREEnets. ISPs are in business to make money, not to convenience people. Until this is realized by more people broadband access will be limited to certain markets where a provider is guaranteed to make money.
How can you make a comparison of one desktop environment to another? Seriously. I can see comparing Gnome to KDE and even Afterstep to Windowmaker but otherwise I never really understood the point. I think it's more or less your method of thinking that picks your desktop environment. If I were to opt for a lighweight window manager I'd probably use Windowmaker. I use KDE on all of my systems right now because of the integration between applications. If I wanted raw speed I'd use Windowmaker with gentoo as a file manager.
To me a video player should play video AND sound. Over the course of the weekend I have tried avifile, mplayer, xmovie and a shitload of other programs with mixed results. So much for trying to have one player to play my various movies. Xmovie doesn't play anything, xanim does ok with avis, avifile won't compile, mplayer gives me sound but no video. The only media player that works on my system is quicktime with wine. I have xine which handles DVD just fine but it crashes when I try to play anything else. I don't care to hear more about ogg-vorbis and OpenDivx formats either. It will be years before those formats begin to make inroads and as far as I'm concerned they are a step backwards. Don't bother e-mailing the developers either. They write shit software with shit documentation and when you ask a question you get RTFM. My question to them is: "Where IS the fucking manual?"
Federal Reserve Banks across the U.S. have adopted a new "open door" policy allowing anyone who wishes to enter the vaults unattended, GM and Ford have agreed to stop putting brakes in cars and the USDA has decided to allow drug companies to bring new drugs to market without government testing. Come on Microsoft quit lying to us. Most stable and secure Windows yet huh? Smoking is also the safest and most efficient way to good health. Evidently the definition of secure has changed quite a bit. Microsoft is now including trojan horses in their operating system to save all of the script kiddies the trouble of writing their own tools. I can't wait to see the Office.Net. I can see it now, they'll accidentally delete your files for you to save you the trouble. Yay! Give me a friggin' break. Things always come in threes. First Windows XP, then the Segway. What's next solar powered flashlights and dehydrated water?
I was a bit skeptical about this idea before I actually read the article. I would like to be able to set a couple of my virtual desktops in KDE to display contents of certain directories of my hard drive. I'm not sure if locking the user into using only multiple desktops is a good idea though.
Steatlh technology relies on "soft" curves and special radar absorbant skins. Sure you could repaint the F-14, F-15, F-16 and F-18 squadrons with the newer paint and upgrade the countermeasures but you would still have the huge radar cross sections caused by the sharp angles in the tail sections and air intakes as well as the thermal profiles from the afterburners. It could be done but the cost would be phenomenal compared to rolling out a general replacement.
Metricom went under because they had a bad business model. You can't sell a product for less than you pay for it. They died for the same reason that @home almost died. Marlon is successful because he is smart about how he sells his bandwidth, he doesn't give away the farm. It helps that he understands what he's doing and he also enjoys it. He is a very helpful person and the ISP wireless mailing list proves it. There are others(Bob, Patrick, Jaime) as well. Check it out, if anything it will be a cool learning experience.
Check out http://www.ydi.com/ They have a WiPOP in a box solution that makes it easy. You can authenticate through MAC filtering or RADIUS. As far as CPE goes take your pick. You can sell it, lease it or have them buy their own. It's not that difficult to set up and get rolling. The tough part is selling because when you say "wireless" people automatically assume it's satellite.
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For Christ's sake talk about cutting off your nose despite your face. I suppose the Debianholes of the world would pass on a life saving treatment if the drug had some sort of patent on it too. For fuck's sake it's just documentation. I think it's great that they strive for "purity" but when it boils down to something as crucial as documentation I think you have to sit back and wonder if you're pumping the neighbor's cat instead of doing your users a favor.
What do you expect for $40.00/month? Bandwidth is expensive and there is no way around that. Might as well get used to it because you won't be getting multiple T-1s for dial-up prices.
We do meter Internet access here but we also offer unlimited access plans for a flat rate. We only have the metered access for people who only check e-mail a couple times a week or maybe only a couple times a month. Add to that the fact that making money with metered access is very hard to do. Charging per page view is just plain dumb. It seems with each passing day someone else is trying to find a way to turn a quick profit off the web. Wake up folks, the only way to make money is honest hard work, not screwing the average consumer over.
802.11 works in areas the grew outward as well. You can't simply put one tower to serve the world you have to spread your PoPs out to saturate your coverage area. While it is true that 802.11 is line-of-sight with proper location of access points you can still use the Internet from the beach or the coffee shop or even while driving. Ricochet put up many access points atop light poles in major cities. Had they not done this they would have never had the coverage they provided. Cellular phone companies use many towers to service a given area also. It is all the nature of RF.
I agree whole heartedly. Bill Gates himself said that Windows NT was to be a better Unix than Unix. What did they turn out? A decent product for the desktop but a overweight terd for anything else. The licensing is too expensive and too restrictive and I don't even have to mention the swiss cheese security of NT. I wish to hell they'd just go away because frankly I'm tired of listening to their bullshit.
Wi-Lan filed for bankruptcy recently, I'm surprised they are releasing new product. Their CPE gear cost about $1500 a pop last time I checked with them, way too high for the average consumer. I'd also like to see a range of 15km out of their hardware. From what I know it uses the 900mhz unlicensed band and last time I checked, you couldn't get that kind of range out of it without huge antennas. Maybe things have changed but for right now I think I'll stick with 802.11b. It may only allow for 11mbps but it works well and the cost isn't prohibitive.
It's called the whele. It's this really cool round thing you can put on cars and stuff to make them easier to move. Oh, wait, that's already been invented.
Unfortunately no. DSL technology is limited by distance simply because after so many feet the +48VDC in the lines ceases to be. In a very simple nutshell if you put a lightbulb on one end of a DSL circuit and a battery on the other the bulb would light. This is also why DSL can't go through loaded coils, DACs, etc. As far as I'm concerned more development effort needs to be put into ISM wireless. The only major drawback to ISM is line of sight, once you overcome that the bandwidth capacity is awesome with very little latency.
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That's fine unless you care about latency. It adds up fast when you start doing PtP links and peering like that. Now add in the fact that what if one of your peers is sloppy managing their network? There are more than three major backbone providers in the U.S. The biggest ones are UUnet, AT&T, Sprint and Qwest. Head over to http://www.boardwatch.com/ and check out their list of backbone providers, it's longer than you think.
Why does everyone expect to receive a T-1 in their home for less than $50/month? It costs MONEY to deliver bandwidth. It costs money to lay fiber and copper. The technicians earn a wage to install the fiber and copper. The wages they earn is what it is because they have to be trained and have to learn how to install telecommunications equipment. This is why local loop charges can end up in the thousands of dollars range. Port charges for a T-1 are about the same between providers. If a broadband provider pays $1500/month for a T-1 and then resells that for $50/month there has to be a limit somewhere or one person could hog the entire pipe and end up causing the provider to spend $1450/month to server one customer. $50 per month for a 768kbps pipe with 5GB of monthly transfer is more than fair. NONE of our current subscribers use even 1GB in a month and most of them are businesses with multiple computers. Sure, I could sell less bandwidth with unlimited transfer but people want a fat pipe. You sell the fat pipe with unlimited transfer and a couple people can monopolize the entire pipe. Clauses in contracts stating that people who abuse the bandwidth will be charged extra are futile. Get with an attorney and draw up a contract stating they get X amount of bandwidth for X amount of dollars per month. DSL and Cable aren't going to cut it either, you have to include wireless and I don't mean these community FREEnets. ISPs are in business to make money, not to convenience people. Until this is realized by more people broadband access will be limited to certain markets where a provider is guaranteed to make money.
How can you make a comparison of one desktop environment to another? Seriously. I can see comparing Gnome to KDE and even Afterstep to Windowmaker but otherwise I never really understood the point. I think it's more or less your method of thinking that picks your desktop environment. If I were to opt for a lighweight window manager I'd probably use Windowmaker. I use KDE on all of my systems right now because of the integration between applications. If I wanted raw speed I'd use Windowmaker with gentoo as a file manager.
To me a video player should play video AND sound. Over the course of the weekend I have tried avifile, mplayer, xmovie and a shitload of other programs with mixed results. So much for trying to have one player to play my various movies. Xmovie doesn't play anything, xanim does ok with avis, avifile won't compile, mplayer gives me sound but no video. The only media player that works on my system is quicktime with wine. I have xine which handles DVD just fine but it crashes when I try to play anything else. I don't care to hear more about ogg-vorbis and OpenDivx formats either. It will be years before those formats begin to make inroads and as far as I'm concerned they are a step backwards. Don't bother e-mailing the developers either. They write shit software with shit documentation and when you ask a question you get RTFM. My question to them is: "Where IS the fucking manual?"
How about we come up with a new term that is even harder to pronounce.
Federal Reserve Banks across the U.S. have adopted a new "open door" policy allowing anyone who wishes to enter the vaults unattended, GM and Ford have agreed to stop putting brakes in cars and the USDA has decided to allow drug companies to bring new drugs to market without government testing. Come on Microsoft quit lying to us. Most stable and secure Windows yet huh? Smoking is also the safest and most efficient way to good health. Evidently the definition of secure has changed quite a bit. Microsoft is now including trojan horses in their operating system to save all of the script kiddies the trouble of writing their own tools. I can't wait to see the Office .Net. I can see it now, they'll accidentally delete your files for you to save you the trouble. Yay! Give me a friggin' break. Things always come in threes. First Windows XP, then the Segway. What's next solar powered flashlights and dehydrated water?
I was a bit skeptical about this idea before I actually read the article. I would like to be able to set a couple of my virtual desktops in KDE to display contents of certain directories of my hard drive. I'm not sure if locking the user into using only multiple desktops is a good idea though.
Steatlh technology relies on "soft" curves and special radar absorbant skins. Sure you could repaint the F-14, F-15, F-16 and F-18 squadrons with the newer paint and upgrade the countermeasures but you would still have the huge radar cross sections caused by the sharp angles in the tail sections and air intakes as well as the thermal profiles from the afterburners. It could be done but the cost would be phenomenal compared to rolling out a general replacement.
Metricom went under because they had a bad business model. You can't sell a product for less than you pay for it. They died for the same reason that @home almost died. Marlon is successful because he is smart about how he sells his bandwidth, he doesn't give away the farm. It helps that he understands what he's doing and he also enjoys it. He is a very helpful person and the ISP wireless mailing list proves it. There are others(Bob, Patrick, Jaime) as well. Check it out, if anything it will be a cool learning experience.
Check out http://www.ydi.com/ They have a WiPOP in a box solution that makes it easy. You can authenticate through MAC filtering or RADIUS. As far as CPE goes take your pick. You can sell it, lease it or have them buy their own. It's not that difficult to set up and get rolling. The tough part is selling because when you say "wireless" people automatically assume it's satellite.
For Christ's sake talk about cutting off your nose despite your face. I suppose the Debianholes of the world would pass on a life saving treatment if the drug had some sort of patent on it too. For fuck's sake it's just documentation. I think it's great that they strive for "purity" but when it boils down to something as crucial as documentation I think you have to sit back and wonder if you're pumping the neighbor's cat instead of doing your users a favor.
What do you expect for $40.00/month? Bandwidth is expensive and there is no way around that. Might as well get used to it because you won't be getting multiple T-1s for dial-up prices.
We do meter Internet access here but we also offer unlimited access plans for a flat rate. We only have the metered access for people who only check e-mail a couple times a week or maybe only a couple times a month. Add to that the fact that making money with metered access is very hard to do. Charging per page view is just plain dumb. It seems with each passing day someone else is trying to find a way to turn a quick profit off the web. Wake up folks, the only way to make money is honest hard work, not screwing the average consumer over.
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802.11 works in areas the grew outward as well. You can't simply put one tower to serve the world you have to spread your PoPs out to saturate your coverage area. While it is true that 802.11 is line-of-sight with proper location of access points you can still use the Internet from the beach or the coffee shop or even while driving. Ricochet put up many access points atop light poles in major cities. Had they not done this they would have never had the coverage they provided. Cellular phone companies use many towers to service a given area also. It is all the nature of RF.
I agree whole heartedly. Bill Gates himself said that Windows NT was to be a better Unix than Unix. What did they turn out? A decent product for the desktop but a overweight terd for anything else. The licensing is too expensive and too restrictive and I don't even have to mention the swiss cheese security of NT. I wish to hell they'd just go away because frankly I'm tired of listening to their bullshit.
Wi-Lan filed for bankruptcy recently, I'm surprised they are releasing new product. Their CPE gear cost about $1500 a pop last time I checked with them, way too high for the average consumer. I'd also like to see a range of 15km out of their hardware. From what I know it uses the 900mhz unlicensed band and last time I checked, you couldn't get that kind of range out of it without huge antennas. Maybe things have changed but for right now I think I'll stick with 802.11b. It may only allow for 11mbps but it works well and the cost isn't prohibitive.
It's called the whele. It's this really cool round thing you can put on cars and stuff to make them easier to move. Oh, wait, that's already been invented.
Unfortunately no. DSL technology is limited by distance simply because after so many feet the +48VDC in the lines ceases to be. In a very simple nutshell if you put a lightbulb on one end of a DSL circuit and a battery on the other the bulb would light. This is also why DSL can't go through loaded coils, DACs, etc. As far as I'm concerned more development effort needs to be put into ISM wireless. The only major drawback to ISM is line of sight, once you overcome that the bandwidth capacity is awesome with very little latency.