I don't think anybody needs to worry about them bending out of shape, but mine did get scratched shortly after I got it. I was working on (in) a large press and due to the tight confines my ring kept brushing across the hardened steel tooling. 6Al4V titanium alloy is NOT as hard as hardened tool steel. But in everyday activities, it hasn't been scratched any more.
The fact that so many apps depend on IE simply suggests that the apps which depend on IE are modular, not the other way around. The Windows way is that IE is at the core, and other apps are built on top of it, so if you remove IE, the other apps are broken. IE itself is not really a module.
That sounds _exactly_ like what ATTBI has done with their new network. You start a download, it'll burst up to about 250 KBytes/s, then quickly but smoothly level off to around 175 KBytes/s. Consistently, every time. If something like this is what it takes to "level the playing field" between heavy and light users, then I'm all for it. Sure, my peak download speeds aren't even half what they were with the @Home network, but honestly I never see the evening slowdowns that I used to see. This suggests that throttling is quite effective. And after all, 175 KBytes/s (around 1.5 Mbits/s) is still a great deal at $40-$50/month. Back to the story line, still nobody knows what TW's monthly limits are, so it's hard to get too worried just yet.
So it sounds like your point is: relax, when the infrastructure starts paying for itself and more people subscribe, prices will come down - way down. In the 80s the cellular infrastructure was new and cell subscribers were few, so of course the service was expensive. When I had my first cell phone (1993) airtime was $0.30/min or more; now rates are frequently $0.05/min or less. It's clear that either costs have come down, or competition has forced wireless companies to lower prices. Why can't (or hasn't) the same thing happen with internet connectivity/broadband? I don't want to get into the whole competition/monopoly issue, but certainly as the infrastructure ages, costs should at least come down.
I couldn't agree more. FreeBSD is absolutely Unix to the core. But with marketing types spreading FUD around, and The Open Group currently holding the Unix name hostage, there are differences. For example, on the freebsd.org webpage, up until a few months ago, the first paragraph read something like "FreeBSD is... a BSD Unix," while now the page says "derived from BSD Unix" since The Open Group compained over trademark issues. Anyway, I just thought the distinction (however stupid it is) might be worth mentioning.
As the original story pointed out, the MS ad campaign derides commercial Unix(c), not Unix(c)-like operating systems (*BSD/Linux.) MS is bashing Solaris/HP-UX/AIX/Tru64/Iris, not directly bashing Unix(c)-like OSes. The news.com story incorrectly refers to FreeBSD as Unix(c). So in other words, MS and Unisys didn't really get caught with their pants down, they were caught trying to pull their pants down.
Nice red herring. What you're noticing is more that a Microsoft-powered web server with OC-192 bandwidth would serve more pages than a FreeBSD-powered web server with T1 bandwidth. Try comparing apples to apples next time.
It looks like we'll have a little breathing room before the CBDTPA/SSSCA becomes law.
Does this seem to be the consensus? That it's only a matter of time? Maybe I'm just not up on my politics, but it seems to early to be accepting this as a done deal. Maybe the poster's point should have been that we'll have a little breathing room before the long , drawn-out battle over the CBDTPA/SSSCA really starts.
My impression is that when most folks encounter someone who knows _slightly_ more than the average computer user, that person gets tagged as the "computer guy." More than likely, said "computer guy" has nothing but MS experience and is likely not even an expert with those products. People don't realize that real problems (and real solutions) demand real knowledge, and real experts. And things that are really worth doing are not always easy. Many people see someone who is an "expert" in anything as someone who knows too much about it. So this ad is trying to reinforce this concept.
I think I saw it on Beyond 2000. IIRC they were showing active tidewalls (around Venice perhaps?) but they mentioned the offshoot of using the free movement of the tidewalls to generate electricity. Chalk up another one for Beyond 2000:)
Aura Sound has been producing subwoofer transducers of similar, albeit larger, design for years under the Bass Shaker line. Of course, nowadays they aren't the only ones producing the things - there are some really low-end ones that punks install in their clapped-out sedans. Honestly, I've never listened to the things, so I can't say if they're good or bad, but this is just an updated application of old technology.
As others have said, RTFA. According to the authors, garden variety visible-light LEDs have response times on the order of (tens of?) nanoseconds; that's pretty fast. Fast enough, in fact, to flash out quite a high-speed bitstream. Plus, the easiest/cheapest way to implement an LED [activity|data] indicator seems to be to simply have the LED indicate the state of each bit going by; LED off=0, LED on=1. Also according to the article, one of the hurdles they encountered was signal strength in relation to bandwidth. The amplifier they were using for their transducer was one such limiting factor. So, contrary to your assertion, and that of others, the LEDs on modems can, indeed, flash fast enough to optically transmit data; the question becomes how well can you intercept it?
For MCAD usage I think it's great that consumer/gaming 3D cards have become as good as they are. It used to be that if you wanted to do 3D CAD/MCAD you pretty much had to buy a $2000+ pro card. Nowadays you can work with relatively complex designs with a cheap gaming card. In my work, CPU utilization seems to be more of an issue.
This is purely anecdotal, not to mention hearsay, but I recall that truckers with (illegally) powerful CB radios can potentially knock out nearby vehicles. The idea was that some truckers install (multi?) kilowatt radios powered by extra batteries and big alternators. I suppose modern vehicles with sensitive ECMs and such would be more vulnerable than say, 1960's technology. Maybe EMP and resistance thereof will be design criteria for the competition.
You're on the right track resizing your NTFS partition, but you need to simply leave empty space on the disk for FreeBSD. That will make it happy (same for you:)
In my high school physics II class I experimentally measured c. There was a long service hallway that ran the length of the building, about 150 feet. We had a laser at one end and a mirror at the other end. The signal output of the laser went directly into an oscilloscope, while the beam went down the hall and back to a detector at our end. We simply measured the phase shift between the two, and voila! We came within about 6% of the accepted value of c. Not bad for a high school project, but this method sounds interesting, and there may be peripheral conclusions to be drawn, due to the electrical aspects of CAT5.
Neither this article, nor the previous one posted on/. mention what the USNA plans to do with the satellite. Many of us geeks would like to do something like this just to do it, but surely they must be doing something interesting with the satellite now that it is in orbit. What exactly is the fruit of $50,000 + 3 yrs. work + Boeing's grant?
That's right! To hell with your family that lives in the area. If you mother's cancer kills her while you're 2,000 miles away, so what?
If you've got family issues like that, your lousy job would be the least of your troubles. From what I can tell, the author is a young lad, and he didn't mention any other troubles in his life. It's all about priorities - if the job is really that bad, do something about it - either leave, work with management to improve conditions, or stop complaining about it.
So no one should have a social conscience or work to improve the realities of life?
All I'm saying is that this is the way things currently are. I'm not saying this is the way it should be, or that nobody should try to improve things, but life (including work) is not guaranteed to be pleasant, not in this country, not in any country. If it were really _that_ bad, why don't we see regular uprisings and revolts? If conditions at companies in Silicon Valley are so bad, then maybe some organization should happen... maybe a union for Manpower employees?
Not everybody can both live where they want to live and have the ideal job. If there aren't any decent jobs available in your area... news flash... you may have to move. Silicon Valley may be on hard times, but that should be anyone's cue to move on, rather than stay and work a menial job. There are jobs out there, they're just not in Silicon Valley. As far as the job the author described and the atmosphere of HP's production line: big deal, sounds like a typical warehouse. Nobody is going to say it's a good place to work, and people come and go and get let go all the time. That's just the way it is. Reality bites...
From what I've seen of the little "firewall appliances" I get the feeling that they are very limited in terms of flexibility. In other words, if you don't know what you're doing, fine, the box will work as is, but when you want to start customizing things, you start running into dead ends. This is where a *nix based PC firewall comes in; you have virtually infinite configuration flexibility, much better logging, greater frequency/ease of security patches. Firewall appliances have essentially (2) advantages: low power consumption and ease of use (take it out of the box and plug it in.)
Actually, AOL says "So easy to use" no wonder it's number 1! Just like their newest commercial, where some lady says "Don't be a chicken, it's easy." As long as ATT/Comcast doesn't try to make it "easy" it's fine by me.
I can hit my home box from work (outside world) at port 80, no problem, and I'm on ATTBI. SSH, FTP, and SMTP are no problem, either. I think ATTBI is still doing filtering at the local level, since different people are seeing different things, just as it was with AT&T@Home.
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I don't think anybody needs to worry about them bending out of shape, but mine did get scratched shortly after I got it. I was working on (in) a large press and due to the tight confines my ring kept brushing across the hardened steel tooling. 6Al4V titanium alloy is NOT as hard as hardened tool steel. But in everyday activities, it hasn't been scratched any more.
The fact that so many apps depend on IE simply suggests that the apps which depend on IE are modular, not the other way around. The Windows way is that IE is at the core, and other apps are built on top of it, so if you remove IE, the other apps are broken. IE itself is not really a module.
That sounds _exactly_ like what ATTBI has done with their new network. You start a download, it'll burst up to about 250 KBytes/s, then quickly but smoothly level off to around 175 KBytes/s. Consistently, every time. If something like this is what it takes to "level the playing field" between heavy and light users, then I'm all for it. Sure, my peak download speeds aren't even half what they were with the @Home network, but honestly I never see the evening slowdowns that I used to see. This suggests that throttling is quite effective. And after all, 175 KBytes/s (around 1.5 Mbits/s) is still a great deal at $40-$50/month. Back to the story line, still nobody knows what TW's monthly limits are, so it's hard to get too worried just yet.
So it sounds like your point is: relax, when the infrastructure starts paying for itself and more people subscribe, prices will come down - way down. In the 80s the cellular infrastructure was new and cell subscribers were few, so of course the service was expensive. When I had my first cell phone (1993) airtime was $0.30/min or more; now rates are frequently $0.05/min or less. It's clear that either costs have come down, or competition has forced wireless companies to lower prices. Why can't (or hasn't) the same thing happen with internet connectivity/broadband? I don't want to get into the whole competition/monopoly issue, but certainly as the infrastructure ages, costs should at least come down.
Yeah, but since it runs Windows you don't need those _expensive_experts_ :)
I couldn't agree more. FreeBSD is absolutely Unix to the core. But with marketing types spreading FUD around, and The Open Group currently holding the Unix name hostage, there are differences. For example, on the freebsd.org webpage, up until a few months ago, the first paragraph read something like "FreeBSD is ... a BSD Unix," while now the page says "derived from BSD Unix" since The Open Group compained over trademark issues. Anyway, I just thought the distinction (however stupid it is) might be worth mentioning.
As the original story pointed out, the MS ad campaign derides commercial Unix(c), not Unix(c)-like operating systems (*BSD/Linux.) MS is bashing Solaris/HP-UX/AIX/Tru64/Iris, not directly bashing Unix(c)-like OSes. The news.com story incorrectly refers to FreeBSD as Unix(c). So in other words, MS and Unisys didn't really get caught with their pants down, they were caught trying to pull their pants down.
Nice red herring. What you're noticing is more that a Microsoft-powered web server with OC-192 bandwidth would serve more pages than a FreeBSD-powered web server with T1 bandwidth. Try comparing apples to apples next time.
It looks like we'll have a little breathing room before the CBDTPA/SSSCA becomes law. Does this seem to be the consensus? That it's only a matter of time? Maybe I'm just not up on my politics, but it seems to early to be accepting this as a done deal. Maybe the poster's point should have been that we'll have a little breathing room before the long , drawn-out battle over the CBDTPA/SSSCA really starts.
Historically, you could s/Coke/beer
My impression is that when most folks encounter someone who knows _slightly_ more than the average computer user, that person gets tagged as the "computer guy." More than likely, said "computer guy" has nothing but MS experience and is likely not even an expert with those products. People don't realize that real problems (and real solutions) demand real knowledge, and real experts. And things that are really worth doing are not always easy. Many people see someone who is an "expert" in anything as someone who knows too much about it. So this ad is trying to reinforce this concept.
I think I saw it on Beyond 2000. IIRC they were showing active tidewalls (around Venice perhaps?) but they mentioned the offshoot of using the free movement of the tidewalls to generate electricity. Chalk up another one for Beyond 2000 :)
Aura Sound has been producing subwoofer transducers of similar, albeit larger, design for years under the Bass Shaker line. Of course, nowadays they aren't the only ones producing the things - there are some really low-end ones that punks install in their clapped-out sedans. Honestly, I've never listened to the things, so I can't say if they're good or bad, but this is just an updated application of old technology.
As others have said, RTFA. According to the authors, garden variety visible-light LEDs have response times on the order of (tens of?) nanoseconds; that's pretty fast. Fast enough, in fact, to flash out quite a high-speed bitstream. Plus, the easiest/cheapest way to implement an LED [activity|data] indicator seems to be to simply have the LED indicate the state of each bit going by; LED off=0, LED on=1. Also according to the article, one of the hurdles they encountered was signal strength in relation to bandwidth. The amplifier they were using for their transducer was one such limiting factor. So, contrary to your assertion, and that of others, the LEDs on modems can, indeed, flash fast enough to optically transmit data; the question becomes how well can you intercept it?
For MCAD usage I think it's great that consumer/gaming 3D cards have become as good as they are. It used to be that if you wanted to do 3D CAD/MCAD you pretty much had to buy a $2000+ pro card. Nowadays you can work with relatively complex designs with a cheap gaming card. In my work, CPU utilization seems to be more of an issue.
This is purely anecdotal, not to mention hearsay, but I recall that truckers with (illegally) powerful CB radios can potentially knock out nearby vehicles. The idea was that some truckers install (multi?) kilowatt radios powered by extra batteries and big alternators. I suppose modern vehicles with sensitive ECMs and such would be more vulnerable than say, 1960's technology. Maybe EMP and resistance thereof will be design criteria for the competition.
You're on the right track resizing your NTFS partition, but you need to simply leave empty space on the disk for FreeBSD. That will make it happy (same for you :)
In my high school physics II class I experimentally measured c. There was a long service hallway that ran the length of the building, about 150 feet. We had a laser at one end and a mirror at the other end. The signal output of the laser went directly into an oscilloscope, while the beam went down the hall and back to a detector at our end. We simply measured the phase shift between the two, and voila! We came within about 6% of the accepted value of c. Not bad for a high school project, but this method sounds interesting, and there may be peripheral conclusions to be drawn, due to the electrical aspects of CAT5.
Neither this article, nor the previous one posted on /. mention what the USNA plans to do with the satellite. Many of us geeks would like to do something like this just to do it, but surely they must be doing something interesting with the satellite now that it is in orbit. What exactly is the fruit of $50,000 + 3 yrs. work + Boeing's grant?
That's right! To hell with your family that lives in the area. If you mother's cancer kills her while you're 2,000 miles away, so what?
If you've got family issues like that, your lousy job would be the least of your troubles. From what I can tell, the author is a young lad, and he didn't mention any other troubles in his life. It's all about priorities - if the job is really that bad, do something about it - either leave, work with management to improve conditions, or stop complaining about it.
So no one should have a social conscience or work to improve the realities of life?
All I'm saying is that this is the way things currently are. I'm not saying this is the way it should be, or that nobody should try to improve things, but life (including work) is not guaranteed to be pleasant, not in this country, not in any country. If it were really _that_ bad, why don't we see regular uprisings and revolts? If conditions at companies in Silicon Valley are so bad, then maybe some organization should happen... maybe a union for Manpower employees?
Not everybody can both live where they want to live and have the ideal job. If there aren't any decent jobs available in your area... news flash... you may have to move. Silicon Valley may be on hard times, but that should be anyone's cue to move on, rather than stay and work a menial job. There are jobs out there, they're just not in Silicon Valley. As far as the job the author described and the atmosphere of HP's production line: big deal, sounds like a typical warehouse. Nobody is going to say it's a good place to work, and people come and go and get let go all the time. That's just the way it is. Reality bites...
From what I've seen of the little "firewall appliances" I get the feeling that they are very limited in terms of flexibility. In other words, if you don't know what you're doing, fine, the box will work as is, but when you want to start customizing things, you start running into dead ends. This is where a *nix based PC firewall comes in; you have virtually infinite configuration flexibility, much better logging, greater frequency/ease of security patches. Firewall appliances have essentially (2) advantages: low power consumption and ease of use (take it out of the box and plug it in.)
I'm using dhclient, and it works just fine with ATTBI. Maybe something is awry with your dhcpcd (or whatever dhcp client you're using.)
Actually, AOL says "So easy to use" no wonder it's number 1! Just like their newest commercial, where some lady says "Don't be a chicken, it's easy." As long as ATT/Comcast doesn't try to make it "easy" it's fine by me.
I can hit my home box from work (outside world) at port 80, no problem, and I'm on ATTBI. SSH, FTP, and SMTP are no problem, either. I think ATTBI is still doing filtering at the local level, since different people are seeing different things, just as it was with AT&T@Home.