*Legally, according to regulating gov't bodies, a microwave oven can LEAK 1 full WATT of power out its gaskets in the home... that's 10 times what a wireless card will put out PEAK
Breezecom hardware is absolutely beautiful. I have a 1/2 mile link running 2mbps off of indoor antennas! One's on the 2nd floor of our current building, stuck with masking tape to a window, and the others hanging on a board out of the 3rd floor window of our new building. There's a mall in between, and it works wonderfully!
(for anyone who doesn't know RF, this is just about the worst possible way to connect it, I should have climbed onto the roof, would have gotten much better signal but hey, it worked first time)
The side benefit of this is I can sit in Tim Hortons across the street, sit down to drink coffee and still be on the office LAN!
hoo-ah!
Wireless Internet in Southern Ontario available NOW. WDSL Inc.
WEP is an OK method... the keys are hashed from the MAC address of the WLAN card, so they're unique for each card. I *think* (going from memory here) they use 40 or 128bit RSA hash, but i'll have to check that one out more thoroughly.
IANAL... The only advantage I can see to the ruling (since it doesn't have jurisdiction in Canada) is to restrict iCraveTV and its officers/employees from operating or even travelling to the US?
Could they be arrested for simply crossing the border and entering US jurisdiction?
Could advertisers on iCraveTV based in the US be harrassed by association?
Does anyone know if this would effect an IPO or getting US Venture Capital or investment?
Play this scenario out for a moment: iCraveTV loses appeals, etc and the ruling stands. US government strongarms US based suppliers, network providers (sprint, mci/uunet) from relaying content into the US.
The problem really goes back to the integrity and honesty of the players. A dishonest player can easily bypass a hash by simply generating it before doing any mods to the client engine, and using the old hash to fool any verification system.
A trust ranking, kind of like e-bay user comments would work some of the time, but there is no absolutely secure way to verify an open-sourced game. The only way to know you're playing fair is to trust the other player.
The fact that Via has bought up two of the low end x86 manufacturers IMHO indicates Via is looking to run a new market for value chips. It is very similar to what they have done in the MB chipset market; they play the low cost game very well.
Now that they have 133Mhz FSB they can force the low end to use it, meaning more bang for the buck than anyone else.
Prediction: Look for very low-cost integrated motherboards with CPU's integrated and optimized. Any comments?
They are the Pepsi to Intel's Coca-Cola They are the Compaq to early IBM They are the Linux to Microsoft's Windows
They are the alternate choice for those unwilling to put up with Intel's deceptions regarding their low end processors.
Computers @ The Manor, our retail store features AMD and Intel products, yet 75-80% of the systems we sell are AMD based.
AMD has forced Intel to speed up development, and drop prices, they are operating on record low profit margins, barely paying for their upgraded fabs before they have to drop prices... yah for AMD!
I'm also on CGO@Home in Flamborough. Since they put the cap on, the 2meg modems are slower than the old Zenith 500kbit's which were amazing! My connection dies twice a day for 5-10 minutes, and uploads are less than 100kbit.
Our retail store has had to deal with CGO a number of times when their service wasn't working, blaming it on the NIC (20 minutes after the customer had been on the net in the store with their computer). On hold : 4 lines, 1.5 hours, still no answer. The only way to get through : call the cable TV guys, and have them transfer you, or get the fax number of the @Home department.
I wish I had never traded in that beloved black Zenith.
Everybody's doing it.
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If you look, almost every technology related press release has this disclaimer. It classic CYA (Cover Your Ass). Nortel, Lucent, Bell Labs, PageNet, all use it on most of their releases.
If you were a public company, and somebody in PR put out a release without that, think of the shareholder lawsuits!
Go out and grab an APC SurgeArrest Personal (PER-7T). As well as having Ground Fault checking, it CONDITIONS the line, which seems to get rid of most hum. (It works for my church's sound system anyway. It even gets rid of the hum from the outdoor flourescent sign attached to the sound system electrical panel) The Keeper
A rumor (read: I read it somewhere, but can't remember where)
Supposedly there is enough metallic content in those strips to set off airport metal detectors when large (briefcase) sized quantities are transported.
Society likes the label 'hacker'. It has been bombarded by media, to the point where most people associate it with destruction and theft of computer services.
In high school, I was a 'hacker' in the classic sense, I taught myself Netware and C/C++ (my school only taught pascal, so instantly i was labelled). Since the school network was the 'baby' of the head of computers, anyone who had any knowledge of Netware was in his eyes a hacker. Word spreads quickly through the teachers, to the point where by simply standing in the doorway of the library when a computer 30 feet away crashed, I was dragged along with 2 friends to the principals office and accused of everything from tampering with grades to breaking the computers, to hacking the network.
It took a meeting with 5 staff members, 4 of whom had never used a computer, that lasted over 4 hours to explain that 'computer telepathy' hadn't been invented yet.
Ignorance must be bliss, but it sure annoys the rest of us.
KotK
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This whole issue is just a repeat of what has happened in many other industries.
IBM had a hold on the marketplace, and was broken up, with heavy restrictions on their competitiveness. It's only been in the past few years that those restrictions have been lifted. The breakup, for a while killed IBM; but IBM came out stronger than before. Same deal with AT&T and the 'baby-bell' breakup. Most of the BB's started into new products (often at the expense of consumer-level services, but that's a point for another discussion).
Competition breeds Innovation : just look at how sad the utilities market has been : we used to have Norton Utilites, PC Tools, Mace, some other one that started with a 'B'. Symantec bought up most of them, and now we have the new bloated version.
I read about a proposal to break up Microsoft into O/S Division, Application Division, Consulting/Networks Division (can't remember where). IMHO it would force MS to develop better products because the Applications + Consulting/Networking wouldn't be able to keep paying for the development of O/S's any more.
Hey, if we get really lucky, some exec in the app division will decide to make MSOffice for Linux:-)
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You should be afraid of microwave ovens, not ISM band wireless lan cards:
... that's 10 times what a wireless card will put out PEAK
Microwave oven: 600-1000W*
Typical WLAN Card: 100mW
*Legally, according to regulating gov't bodies, a microwave oven can LEAK 1 full WATT of power out its gaskets in the home
Breezecom hardware is absolutely beautiful. I have a 1/2 mile link running 2mbps off of indoor antennas!
One's on the 2nd floor of our current building, stuck with masking tape to a window, and the others hanging on a board out of the 3rd floor window of our new building. There's a mall in between, and it works wonderfully!
(for anyone who doesn't know RF, this is just about the worst possible way to connect it, I should have climbed onto the roof, would have gotten much better signal but hey, it worked first time)
The side benefit of this is I can sit in Tim Hortons across the street, sit down to drink coffee and still be on the office LAN!
hoo-ah!
Wireless Internet in Southern Ontario available NOW. WDSL Inc.
WEP is an OK method ... the keys are hashed from the MAC address of the WLAN card, so they're unique for each card. I *think* (going from memory here) they use 40 or 128bit RSA hash, but i'll have to check that one out more thoroughly.
IANAL ... The only advantage I can see to the ruling (since it doesn't have jurisdiction in Canada) is to restrict iCraveTV and its officers/employees from operating or even travelling to the US?
Could they be arrested for simply crossing the border and entering US jurisdiction?
Could advertisers on iCraveTV based in the US be harrassed by association?
Does anyone know if this would effect an IPO or getting US Venture Capital or investment?
Play this scenario out for a moment: iCraveTV loses appeals, etc and the ruling stands. US government strongarms US based suppliers, network providers (sprint, mci/uunet) from relaying content into the US.
hmmm...
The problem really goes back to the integrity and honesty of the players. A dishonest player can easily bypass a hash by simply generating it before doing any mods to the client engine, and using the old hash to fool any verification system.
A trust ranking, kind of like e-bay user comments would work some of the time, but there is no absolutely secure way to verify an open-sourced game. The only way to know you're playing fair is to trust the other player.
The fact that Via has bought up two of the low end x86 manufacturers IMHO indicates Via is looking to run a new market for value chips. It is very similar to what they have done in the MB chipset market; they play the low cost game very well.
Now that they have 133Mhz FSB they can force the low end to use it, meaning more bang for the buck than anyone else.
Prediction: Look for very low-cost integrated motherboards with CPU's integrated and optimized. Any comments?
I sure hope AMD makes it through ...
... yah for AMD!
They are the Pepsi to Intel's Coca-Cola
They are the Compaq to early IBM
They are the Linux to Microsoft's Windows
They are the alternate choice for those unwilling to put up with Intel's deceptions regarding their low end processors.
Computers @ The Manor, our retail store features AMD and Intel products, yet 75-80% of the systems we sell are AMD based.
AMD has forced Intel to speed up development, and drop prices, they are operating on record low profit margins, barely paying for their upgraded fabs before they have to drop prices
I'm also on CGO@Home in Flamborough.
Since they put the cap on, the 2meg modems are slower than the old Zenith 500kbit's which were amazing!
My connection dies twice a day for 5-10 minutes, and uploads are less than 100kbit.
Our retail store has had to deal with CGO a number of times when their service wasn't working, blaming it on the NIC (20 minutes after the customer had been on the net in the store with their computer).
On hold : 4 lines, 1.5 hours, still no answer.
The only way to get through : call the cable TV guys, and have them transfer you, or get the fax number of the @Home department.
I wish I had never traded in that beloved black Zenith.
If you look, almost every technology related press release has this disclaimer. It classic CYA (Cover Your Ass). Nortel, Lucent, Bell Labs, PageNet, all use it on most of their releases.
If you were a public company, and somebody in PR put out a release without that, think of the shareholder lawsuits!
Go out and grab an APC SurgeArrest Personal (PER-7T).
As well as having Ground Fault checking, it CONDITIONS the line, which seems to get rid of most hum. (It works for my church's sound system anyway. It even gets rid of the hum from the outdoor flourescent sign attached to the sound system electrical panel)
The Keeper
A rumor (read: I read it somewhere, but can't remember where)
Supposedly there is enough metallic content in those strips to set off airport metal detectors when large (briefcase) sized quantities are transported.
Society likes the label 'hacker'. It has been bombarded by media, to the point where most people associate it with destruction and theft of computer services.
In high school, I was a 'hacker' in the classic sense, I taught myself Netware and C/C++ (my school only taught pascal, so instantly i was labelled). Since the school network was the 'baby' of the head of computers, anyone who had any knowledge of Netware was in his eyes a hacker. Word spreads quickly through the teachers, to the point where by simply standing in the doorway of the library when a computer 30 feet away crashed, I was dragged along with 2 friends to the principals office and accused of everything from tampering with grades to breaking the computers, to hacking the network.
It took a meeting with 5 staff members, 4 of whom had never used a computer, that lasted over 4 hours to explain that 'computer telepathy' hadn't been invented yet.
Ignorance must be bliss,
but it sure annoys the rest of us.
KotK
This whole issue is just a repeat of what has happened in many other industries.
:-)
IBM had a hold on the marketplace, and was broken up, with heavy restrictions on their competitiveness. It's only been in the past few years that those restrictions have been lifted. The breakup, for a while killed IBM; but IBM came out stronger than before.
Same deal with AT&T and the 'baby-bell' breakup. Most of the BB's started into new products (often at the expense of consumer-level services, but that's a point for another discussion).
Competition breeds Innovation : just look at how sad the utilities market has been : we used to have Norton Utilites, PC Tools, Mace, some other one that started with a 'B'. Symantec bought up most of them, and now we have the new bloated version.
I read about a proposal to break up Microsoft into O/S Division, Application Division, Consulting/Networks Division (can't remember where). IMHO it would force MS to develop better products because the Applications + Consulting/Networking wouldn't be able to keep paying for the development of O/S's any more.
Hey, if we get really lucky, some exec in the app division will decide to make MSOffice for Linux
"The pen is mighter than the sword... But what if you can't write?"
-=Ellis (D)25=-
What does my keyboard count for?