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  1. Re:Environment? on Linksys WET11: Bridge 30 Devices To Any Wi-Fi Network · · Score: 1

    But your cable is $1 a foot and loses signal with every foot that you add.

  2. Environment? on Linksys WET11: Bridge 30 Devices To Any Wi-Fi Network · · Score: 1

    Are these tough enough to put in an unventilated metal box on the side or roof of a building? Even on a cloudy day the temp inside my car is over 100 degrees F. Even though they are cheap, it would get pricy replacing them every month.

  3. found one on Build a Cisco PIX for 800 Australian Dollars · · Score: 2, Informative

    I found one on ebay here .

  4. Re:Goals and succeeding. on Long-Term Career Plans for Programmers? · · Score: 1

    A little cynical? Older companies also fail. I just started my own company about a month ago because I want to build something of my own. I want to have something around after I'm gone, but I am hedging my bets and had a child just in case the business doesn't last forever.

  5. Re: Double Jeopardy on Mitnick Testifies on Telco's Security · · Score: 1

    But you can only be dead once. You can rob a bank over and over (until they lock you up, I guess).

  6. Re:Need more input (with apologies to Johnny 5) on Pen-Based Linux Computing? · · Score: 1

    The problem with the 730T is that it has a pcmcia hard drive. I haven't found a distribution yet that can cope with it. My machine has a 486 something and 24 megs of ram. I think the drive was around 100 megs. I did have win95 with pen extensions working on it. Another complication is that I don't have a floppy drive for mine.

  7. Re:The NW Wasn't the First Battle for Public Schoo on Microsoft vs. Northwest Schools Part III · · Score: 1
    I can't find any info about the switch, either, but I found where he works:
    http://www.aea6.k12.ia.us/tech/tech_support.html


    Why do I feel like a stalker? For those of you that don't know, an AEA is an area education agency. There are approximately 15 of them in the state, they have a centralized library and staff that the schools can share.

  8. Check out Earth LCD on Reusing Laptop LCDs for DIY Projects? · · Score: 3, Informative

    Their site is at www.earthlcd.com. They have quite a few panels and the requisite converters for them. I've never bought anything from them but they have some cool stuff.

  9. Re:Another book on the topic... on Enigma · · Score: 1

    If they made a movie of Cryptonomicon, I would watch it in a second. Is there any chance of it happening?

  10. Re:Who cares at this point? on Sun Reconsidering Solaris 9 for x86 · · Score: 1

    But did you learn the cute little admin thing on each version of Unix (sam, linuconf, solstice, whatever abomination sco has, etc), or did you just figure out that dns stuff is in resolv.conf. Rather than make a cute frontend like smit, make your sysadmin not have to feel like he's in a different world. The only thing I really liked about AIX is that the lvm was built in from the start and it worked as expected.

  11. Re:Who cares at this point? on Sun Reconsidering Solaris 9 for x86 · · Score: 1
    If you had a sane implementation of Unix, you would never need to touch smit. AIX is an odd beast trapped on cool hardware. Unix has a spirit, and AIX just about kills it. One of my favorite quotes from the "types of system administrators":

    AIX-- doesn't much care for the OS, but loves the jackboots.

  12. Re:mechanism? on Ximian Connector 1.0 Available · · Score: 1

    I'm guessing it just uses the same com objects that the normal web interface uses. If they (ximian) told what the protocol for their connector was, it wouldn't be impossible to write your own connector.

  13. Re:Interresting review... on T1: A Survival Guide · · Score: 1

    HDSL has much higher voltage on the CO side, but it does have the correct T1 voltages on the CPE side. The higher voltages is how it gets through all of the distance.

  14. Processors? on The Incredible Shrinking Motherboard · · Score: 1

    How expensive are the processors for that board? I've not seen them out in retail.

  15. J2ME rules on New Nokia Phones - with Java · · Score: 1

    It's very slick, speed is good, but getting your own apps onto the phone is like pulling teeth. I've read many pages of info at nextel.com and motorola.com to figure out how to get stuff onto the i85s with very little luck.
    The Java api was pretty well adapted, the record store stuff is nice, but the http connections are a bit more awkward than the normal url handling in J2SE. The CLDC/MIDP spec did make one omission, lack of https transport. The motorola phones do offer it, but only for Verisign certificates. ugh.

  16. What about Open Office? on Sun to Charge for Star Office 6.0 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Is it free if you roll your own?

  17. Re:Not fashion. Justice. on Be Sues Microsoft for Violations of Antitrust Laws · · Score: 2, Insightful
    I think you'll find that I'm most definitely not a Microsoft fan. I'm a Java programmer, Oracle DBA, and have two drivers in the Linux kernel.


    You can't say with a straight face that any of the companies bitching about MS executed their strategy perfectly, especially Netscape. They sat on their ass for too many years and tried to increase the revenue on the server side first. MS went the other way and said that once we have the end user mind share, we can take the back end.

  18. Very Fashionable on Be Sues Microsoft for Violations of Antitrust Laws · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Now that it's become popular for other companies to sue Microsoft, who will the next one be? Novell seems to be a possibility. IBM should for the same reason as Be, due to OS/2.

  19. That's original. on .NETly News · · Score: 1

    I've never seen such groundbreaking ideas like having portable access to information and record keeping. The last two times someone thought of a similar idea were 1945 and 1960. Way to go.

  20. Re:Laid off MBAs and marketing on The Laid-off Techie · · Score: 1

    Did you happen to work for a company that has a fairly new building on the West side of 80/35?

  21. Re:Sysadmins are sad on Bastard Operator from Hell II (Son of the Bastard) · · Score: 2, Insightful
    System administration is a job for people that enjoy it, not one for people that enjoy feeling important. Even though we know that we are important, we let the programmers feel good about themselves, too.

    It's a dirty job, but someone said I have to do it...

  22. Re:Good stuff on Open Source Developers Mostly Pros, Not Weenies · · Score: 2

    I also work at home on things that are interesting to me but have no real relevance to my day job. As much as I would like to do driver development, there isn't too much demand for it in the area.

  23. Good stuff on Open Source Developers Mostly Pros, Not Weenies · · Score: 3, Funny

    I thought the study was pretty informative and helps dispel some of the preconceived notions of the high school kids in their basements. It's actually 27 year olds in their basements. :-)

  24. Re:MOD PARENT UP [Re:'normal' phone wire is NOT .. on Iowa ISP Providing Digital Cable Over Twisted Pair · · Score: 1

    Telephone cables are twisted, from category 1 on up. There may not be much twist, but it's there.

  25. Re:Correction on In NZ, Sharing Ethernet With A Whole CIty · · Score: 2, Informative

    If you want it to stay running, a T1 is the way to go. There is no special tag on a cable tv wire or DSL line in the CO that says "this is business class". You can get service level agreements on T1's.