Ya know? What if _every_ day the quality of slashdot was reduced to this April 1 crap (current article excluded)? Maybe we should take a moment to be thankful for the fact that not _every_ story submitted makes it through the editors rather than constantly bashing them for "dupes" and "lame-ass stories" that are neither "news" nor "stuff that matters". Days like this make me realize what drivel I would otherwise be submitted to in the absence of some form of reasonably intelligent screening.
hrm, doesn't seem much different than listening to the ol' 110/300 bps modem . . . after a while, you could certainly pick out certain patterns; with enough experience, i'd imagine you could decipher/emulate (eliminating parity of course;-) )
"the plaintiffs have argued that the Final Amended Rule as it pertains to the national do-not-call registry violates their rights under the first and fifth amendments to the United States Constitution because it discriminates against speech based upon content and identity of speakers and blah blah blah"
I received this yesterday - To my surprise it appears that Roadrunner neither advised their customers that such a thing was about to happen, nor do they provide an opt-out mechanism.
(reason: 550 5.7.1 Mail Refused - dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net_Residential_Range - See http://security.rr.com/residential.htm - 030813d)
I'll refer you to my previous comment on this topic. If you have the luxury of being in the house before the sheetrock, make _certain_ to take tons of pictures of plumbing and electrical runs -- it will come in very handy down the road when you're looking at a wall and thinking about cutting that hole.
Me too -- You would think that your WiFi card would light up upon crossing the border of a place called "Silicon Valley". Funny how the companies that build the infrastructure, and are suffering because of the slowdown in tech spending, haven't banded together and built their own wireless (or alternative) infrastructure. Cisco, Symbol, 3Com, etc. could certainly install wireless in this town, with very little capital outlay on their parts, and then establish a recurring monthly revenue stream from a loyal subscriber base.
But I guess I should be happy that for only $80 a month my SBC upstream DSL bandwidth has a service level guarantee of between ZERO and 128 kbps
If a company is charging top dollar for their product, _regardless_ of whether or not it's the best product on the market, they are percieved as having the financial backing to settle in litigation should their product fail to meet the requirements of the contract. Little companies just don't have enough cash to go after in the case where their product causes your company to shut down for a few days due to a bug.
To make matters worse, at least had he sent dead tree media in a nice white #10 envelope to my mailbox, i could recycle it. But what in the hell am i supposed to do with this trash folder?
hahahaha - Interesting that there are no visual cues as to _rotation_ of the record. speed, plane, elevation of stylus relative to record, but what then?
"hmm, let's see - earthling disc is flat on table, box with pointy thing on top... dude, mine's busted."
aerobics? boot camp? you're kidding. after a week, i see a robot camped on the couch with a cold can of WD-40, a copy of the latest PlayRobot Magazine and a jar of axle grease.
I've learned to never, ever, use my 7500 as an actual "lap top" -- after a while the hair burns off, your skin starts to melt, and you can read the word "Inspirion" backwards on your right leg. Interesting early engineering solution to dissapating heat though.
It's wonderful to see they're handling the CPU/GPU thermal load much more intelligently in the 8500.
So, is the 80GB/s aggregate access for the (n) processors in the box? It's a Solid State Disk -- In other words, it's memory. And, it's not _that_ fast for a shared memory architecture system.
see: STREAM Memory benchmarks
I've not read 'Linux Kernel Internals', but for a wonderful, detailed, discussion of the Unix architecture I strongly recommend Unix Internals by Uresh Vahalia. I've recommended this book to everyone who wants a better understanding of what happens "under the covers". Not only is it Chock Full of Good Stuff, it's extremely readable (i.e. you'll have a hard time choosing between it and Maxim for Porcelain Bound Literary Enlightenment)
I can't stress the importance of FFFish's comments enough. Make certain to take pictures (digital cameras are great) of *every* cable run in *every* wall before the rock goes up. It's so much easier to be able to have an "x-ray" view of your house when doing additions in the future. Additionally, it's a nice resale point for prospective future buyers ("and, should you ever want to upgrade, here is a look behind the walls").
As for the original question, skip the fiber -- go 2 RG6 and 2 CAT5 to each room, and run flexible conduit for future expansion (don't forget to run a length between the attic and the first floor/basement -- it'll save you)
THE COURT: Just as a point of curiosity, what is a DTI card?
MR. KIRCHNER: Can I ask my client? I don't know the answer to that, your Honor.
THE COURT: I'm just curious. What is it? I have an eight year old grandson who knows more about computers than I do, so when I get a change to ask a question like this, I generally take advantage of it.
MR. KIRCHNER: What that is is it's -- I'll try putting it in terms I understand, your Honor. And it's customer equipment that's co-located in our facility. In other words, they're allowed to put their router in with our equipment so that it works.
THE COURT: Thank you.
When I first read the question "What is a DTI card?" I thought to myself "how wonderful it is that our Justice System expresses interest in such things; so many people would just gloss over a TLA". Imagine my surprise when MR. KIRCHNER didn't say "Digital Trunk Interface, your Honor. It's for a T1 -- like a really fast phone line".
Oh well, back to reality.
Their "customer care" line is also powered by TTS -- good example implementation of the product, but at $5,000 it won't be running in my house any time soon... (and sorry, there doesn't appear to be an option 7)
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Ya know? What if _every_ day the quality of slashdot was reduced to this April 1 crap (current article excluded)? Maybe we should take a moment to be thankful for the fact that not _every_ story submitted makes it through the editors rather than constantly bashing them for "dupes" and "lame-ass stories" that are neither "news" nor "stuff that matters". Days like this make me realize what drivel I would otherwise be submitted to in the absence of some form of reasonably intelligent screening.
It's as bad as television.
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Well, let's see...
hrm, doesn't seem much different than listening to the ol' 110/300 bps modem . . . after a while, you could certainly pick out certain patterns; with enough experience, i'd imagine you could decipher/emulate (eliminating parity of course ;-) )
-D
"the plaintiffs have argued that the Final Amended Rule as it pertains to the national do-not-call registry violates their rights under the first and fifth amendments to the United States Constitution because it discriminates against speech based upon content and identity of speakers and blah blah blah"
;-)
Geez, telemarketing companies seem kinda sleezy
*sigh* so i'm an idiot. /me inserts foot in mouth and crawls back under rock
I received this yesterday - To my surprise it appears that Roadrunner neither advised their customers that such a thing was about to happen, nor do they provide an opt-out mechanism. (reason: 550 5.7.1 Mail Refused - dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net_Residential_Range - See http://security.rr.com/residential.htm - 030813d)
Is this a troll? Most digital cameras (including the Nikon D[12]* series, support EXIF tags which provide all that information, and more.
I'll refer you to my previous comment on this topic. If you have the luxury of being in the house before the sheetrock, make _certain_ to take tons of pictures of plumbing and electrical runs -- it will come in very handy down the road when you're looking at a wall and thinking about cutting that hole.
Me too -- You would think that your WiFi card would light up upon crossing the border of a place called "Silicon Valley". Funny how the companies that build the infrastructure, and are suffering because of the slowdown in tech spending, haven't banded together and built their own wireless (or alternative) infrastructure. Cisco, Symbol, 3Com, etc. could certainly install wireless in this town, with very little capital outlay on their parts, and then establish a recurring monthly revenue stream from a loyal subscriber base.
But I guess I should be happy that for only $80 a month my SBC upstream DSL bandwidth has a service level guarantee of between ZERO and 128 kbps
But look at accountability in another light.
If a company is charging top dollar for their product, _regardless_ of whether or not it's the best product on the market, they are percieved as having the financial backing to settle in litigation should their product fail to meet the requirements of the contract. Little companies just don't have enough cash to go after in the case where their product causes your company to shut down for a few days due to a bug.
woo hoo! where do you work? send me your address -- you only have 11 days remaining to hire me!!
To make matters worse, at least had he sent dead tree media in a nice white #10 envelope to my mailbox, i could recycle it. But what in the hell am i supposed to do with this trash folder?
hahahaha - Interesting that there are no visual cues as to _rotation_ of the record. speed, plane, elevation of stylus relative to record, but what then?
"hmm, let's see - earthling disc is flat on table, box with pointy thing on top... dude, mine's busted."
aerobics? boot camp? you're kidding. after a week, i see a robot camped on the couch with a cold can of WD-40, a copy of the latest PlayRobot Magazine and a jar of axle grease.
do-stuff-with-your-limbs indeed...
I've learned to never, ever, use my 7500 as an actual "lap top" -- after a while the hair burns off, your skin starts to melt, and you can read the word "Inspirion" backwards on your right leg. Interesting early engineering solution to dissapating heat though.
It's wonderful to see they're handling the CPU/GPU thermal load much more intelligently in the 8500.
So, is the 80GB/s aggregate access for the (n) processors in the box? It's a Solid State Disk -- In other words, it's memory. And, it's not _that_ fast for a shared memory architecture system. see: STREAM Memory benchmarks
Runs Windows CE you say? Seems I've seen something like this before...
I've not read 'Linux Kernel Internals', but for a wonderful, detailed, discussion of the Unix architecture I strongly recommend Unix Internals by Uresh Vahalia. I've recommended this book to everyone who wants a better understanding of what happens "under the covers". Not only is it Chock Full of Good Stuff, it's extremely readable (i.e. you'll have a hard time choosing between it and Maxim for Porcelain Bound Literary Enlightenment)
And, generally speaking,
1) I don't encode commercial interruptions into my MP3s for in car enjoyment (XM = $9.95 and only 30% commercial free? no thanks.)
2) I can rip a lot of music for $120/YR.
I can't stress the importance of FFFish's comments enough. Make certain to take pictures (digital cameras are great) of *every* cable run in *every* wall before the rock goes up. It's so much easier to be able to have an "x-ray" view of your house when doing additions in the future. Additionally, it's a nice resale point for prospective future buyers ("and, should you ever want to upgrade, here is a look behind the walls").
As for the original question, skip the fiber -- go 2 RG6 and 2 CAT5 to each room, and run flexible conduit for future expansion (don't forget to run a length between the attic and the first floor/basement -- it'll save you)
-D
When I first read the question "What is a DTI card?" I thought to myself "how wonderful it is that our Justice System expresses interest in such things; so many people would just gloss over a TLA". Imagine my surprise when MR. KIRCHNER didn't say "Digital Trunk Interface, your Honor. It's for a T1 -- like a really fast phone line". Oh well, back to reality.
Their "customer care" line is also powered by TTS -- good example implementation of the product, but at $5,000 it won't be running in my house any time soon... (and sorry, there doesn't appear to be an option 7)
1-877-741-4321 (from the buy page)