I started making regular backups onto tapes when I got a bargain on a QFA-700 tape drive in 1992 that used DC5150 and DC6250 tapes. I transferred these to CDR in 2000. These I can still read. Have not tried the tapes but do have 3 of the drives with which to rely on. I do however have 5.25 inch disks from my Apple II that were last written to in 1982 and still readable.
Except your ISP would be calling (booting you)if you tried to transfer that much data on a residential account. Comcast will boot you for more than 250GB. Most ISPs providing residential service have some clause that's something to the effect of accounts showing traffic not typical of residential usage are subject to limiting/termination.
Of course you are assuming that you would get your provided speed when transferring data across the country. Most speed tests I do get slower the farther the test site is from me. I have a 45mbps connection at the office that gets around 35mbps when I test to something within 1k miles of me. Sites on the other coast drop to around 9.
Compuserv used to use two words with a punctuation mark between them . My old password was impair?boxer. Tens maybe hundreds of millions of possibilities, simple to remember. I still use that scheme.
What most people don't realize is the machines most of us use every day are far more powerful than the Crays of the 80's. I think tomorrow I'll see if I can get the Lear-Seigler dumb terminal hooked up to on of my Linux machines. You will need a teletype to beat that!
They sell a USB module for 2.4GHz that costs around $38.
A friend got us a suriund sound system for our entertainment setup that included wireless rear speakers. Couldn't use hte rear speakers as it clobbered the WIFI. These things transmit a constant stream a really do a good job jamming WIFI. Sounds like something like this may be happening to you. Would explain the time frame.
By your logic if we defend our point of view that ball lightning can't be caused by this then we are afraid of this idea. Of course if we say nothing then obviously we can't defend our point of view! My father has seen ball lightning twice. Both times he was not near a bolt of lightning. The second time several other people over 30 feet from where he was also saw it.
Yes this was hashed out in court years ago. The analogy I read was a lathe maker wants royalties on everything made using the lathe he sold. Courts ruled you couldn't force these kinds of restrictions on people. This even extended to runtime libraries that would need to be included with the compiled code. Didn't work then won't work now.
I started getting interested in electronics in high school. After graduation I decided to attend a local community college. They had a degree in electronics engineering technology. This gave me the basics as well as exposure to the test equipment. I took my education much further on my own (none of my classmates ever designed anything electronic, most don't work in the field either).
One effective way to learn this is go to hamfests and look old printed data catalogs on IC's. National Semiconductor Analog data book, TI TTL databook, Intel microprocessor data book, etc.
Get a Heathkit trainer. This gives you a prototype breadboard and integrated power as well as other basic things needed for playing with electronics. Start with simple things like 555 timer ICs. Basic test equipment. Digital multimeter, Oscilloscope (60MHz minimum, start with an analog).
Ebay is your friend for getting some of this stuff. I have purchased a lot of my test equipment this way.
Components can be purchased there as well or if your like me (more time than money) you can salvage parts from old electronics. Friends and relatives give me junk all the time. A paint stripping heat gun will make quick work of removing components from this old stuff. Heat the bottom of the boards in sections until the solder melts. Flip the board over a hit it on the back with a stick or other similar sized tool, parts will fall out and drop onto your table. Remember this stuff is hot! A old analog tv is a treasure trove of power resistors(buy your small ones in a kit, too much trouble for such cheap parts), capacitors, transistors, voltage regulators, etc. The main deflection coil can yield hundreds of feet of enameled wire for coil making. Don't forget the power cord! Thrift stores are overloaded with things like this since the analog to digital tv switchover.
Check out your local community for HAM radio clubs. Someone there will most likely be happy to help you get started. If you find you are liking this, look at local vocational technical schools to see if they have any courses in electronics (our local college dropped it's electronics program about 8 years ago) (sniff).
Most web hosting companies don't backup uploaded content. Too resource and time consuming. We have always backed up customer data as well as config. We also host on real servers using real hardware raid. Backups are stored offsite and offline (tape). Not as cheap as some but then you get what you pay for. Your three domains would cost around $20 per month.
Manufacturers make there products to produce the best experience for the most people. Most people don't live in multi unit buildings. They live in the burbs where maybe one or two neighbors has WIFI. People want to connect to their AP in the den from their bedroom, maybe two rooms away. 5GHz doesn't penetrate walls/doors nearly as well as 2.4GHz (higher frequencies are more line of sight). 5GHz equipment won't interoperate with older WIFI equipment. It costs more to manufacture also (higher frequency components cost more).
I think this guy is missing the obvious. Who is guying the Ipods....Americans. That means every time apple sells an Ipod there is a net flow of $4 to china. I don't see the Chinese buying products manufactured here.
While it is possible to broadcast video and use the Internet as your delivery method, the Internet was meant for two-way communications. Protocols that were developed for broadcast never (Multicast, Mbone) really took off.
If you want to send the same content to thousands or even millions of people broadcast makes more sense. If you think about it satellite makes the most sense. Once you have your stuff in space you can send the same content to virtually every person on an entire continent for same cost as sending to one person. You have no other scaling of infrastructure needed to "grow your network".
With this system the more customers you have the less it should cost per customer. The only reason this doesn't work in reality is that satellite companies don't charge based on what it costs them, they charge "what the market will bear". They adopted the pricing structure of their competition (Cable companies) when they started and see no reason to change. After all there are really only two of them (not enough to provide real competition).
The thing satellite can't do very well is Internet. The system isn't setup to allow two way connection. Yes they can do this for a relatively high price, but even when they do it doesn't work very well (speed of light is not fast enough). I don't know anyone who uses satellite if they have any other choice.
Lets leave the Internet to do the things it does well and use other methods for what they do well.
While it's true DSL doesn't share the last mile bandwidth with other users, it doesn't mean the bandwidth you get isn't shared. The local Telco, Embarq (now Centurylink) provided DSL to a large part of our county with a single DS-3 (45Mbps). A friend I have who lives in the area who has no other choice,(no cable TV cable in his part of town), started complaining a couple of years ago that in the evening his connection would "get like dialup". After months of calling to complain (thats how he found out how much bandwidth they were piping to the areas headend) they told him they would be upgrading the DS-3 to and OC-3 (155Mbps). Things were fine for over a year and problem came back. He again called to complain. Would they upgrade the network again? Not this time. They told him they were going to "groom the network" whatever that means.
Bottom line, all ISPs even huge ones operate on a oversubscription model. They buy only as much bandwidth as demanded. If they are the only ones suppling broadband to a area then the "demand" just isn't there. Alter all where else are their customers going?
With all the crap that comes in via Asia, hacks SPAM, etc Maybe it would be better to cut the cables that are there now. I already null route most of china anyway.
I used to do this in lilo I tink grib supports it also. Don't know if this works with usb serial adapters.
Dell servers have a usfull feature. Redirect bios to serial. This gives you the bios until the kernel loads. After this the kernal must do it. For serail console after boot look for the line in/etc/initab thats looks like this:
Looking through my 10 inch Dobsonian a few nights ago I saw not 1, not 2, but three meteors pass through my view (lowest power eyepiece). I think it was rather unusual I have to say.
Why don't they ask the group who has been using multiband equipment for several decades. Amateur Radio operators. They have radios that operate from below 1 MHz to over 1GHz. They have been doing (without pay) emergency radio communications for a very long time now.
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http://explorer.cyberstreet.com/CET4970H-Peterson-Thesis.pdf
I started making regular backups onto tapes when I got a bargain on a QFA-700 tape drive in 1992 that used DC5150 and DC6250 tapes. I transferred these to CDR in 2000. These I can still read. Have not tried the tapes but do have 3 of the drives with which to rely on. I do however have 5.25 inch disks from my Apple II that were last written to in 1982 and still readable.
I spent many hours exploring fractals with that software. Though I had a little better graphics (EGA). Fond memories.
Except your ISP would be calling (booting you)if you tried to transfer that much data on a residential account. Comcast will boot you for more than 250GB. Most ISPs providing residential service have some clause that's something to the effect of accounts showing traffic not typical of residential usage are subject to limiting/termination.
Of course you are assuming that you would get your provided speed when transferring data across the country. Most speed tests I do get slower the farther the test site is from me. I have a 45mbps connection at the office that gets around 35mbps when I test to something within 1k miles of me. Sites on the other coast drop to around 9.
Send 1 Terrabyte of data accross the country..... Cheapest method?...Ship a 1TB hard drive.
Data will arrive sooner and cheaper than any current broadband connection.
Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of magnetic tapes!
This was the subject of my wifes honors in the major thesis at UCF.
http://explorer.cyberstreet.com/CET4970H-Peterson-Thesis.pdf
Compuserv used to use two words with a punctuation mark between them . My old password was impair?boxer. Tens maybe hundreds of millions of possibilities, simple to remember. I still use that scheme.
What most people don't realize is the machines most of us use every day are far more powerful than the Crays of the 80's. I think tomorrow I'll see if I can get the Lear-Seigler dumb terminal hooked up to on of my Linux machines. You will need a teletype to beat that!
They sell a USB module for 2.4GHz that costs around $38.
A friend got us a suriund sound system for our entertainment setup that included wireless rear speakers. Couldn't use hte rear speakers as it clobbered the WIFI. These things transmit a constant stream a really do a good job jamming WIFI. Sounds like something like this may be happening to you. Would explain the time frame.
By your logic if we defend our point of view that ball lightning can't be caused by this then we are afraid of this idea. Of course if we say nothing then obviously we can't defend our point of view! My father has seen ball lightning twice. Both times he was not near a bolt of lightning. The second time several other people over 30 feet from where he was also saw it.
Yes this was hashed out in court years ago. The analogy I read was a lathe maker wants royalties on everything made using the lathe he sold. Courts ruled you couldn't force these kinds of restrictions on people. This even extended to runtime libraries that would need to be included with the compiled code. Didn't work then won't work now.
I started getting interested in electronics in high school. After graduation I decided to attend a local community college. They had a degree in electronics engineering technology. This gave me the basics as well as exposure to the test equipment. I took my education much further on my own (none of my classmates ever designed anything electronic, most don't work in the field either).
One effective way to learn this is go to hamfests and look old printed data catalogs on IC's. National Semiconductor Analog data book, TI TTL databook, Intel microprocessor data book, etc.
Get a Heathkit trainer. This gives you a prototype breadboard and integrated power as well as other basic things needed for playing with electronics. Start with simple things like 555 timer ICs.
Basic test equipment. Digital multimeter, Oscilloscope (60MHz minimum, start with an analog).
Ebay is your friend for getting some of this stuff. I have purchased a lot of my test equipment this way.
Components can be purchased there as well or if your like me (more time than money) you can salvage parts from old electronics. Friends and relatives give me junk all the time. A paint stripping heat gun will make quick work of removing components from this old stuff. Heat the bottom of the boards in sections until the solder melts. Flip the board over a hit it on the back with a stick or other similar sized tool, parts will fall out and drop onto your table. Remember this stuff is hot! A old analog tv is a treasure trove of power resistors(buy your small ones in a kit, too much trouble for such cheap parts), capacitors, transistors, voltage regulators, etc. The main deflection coil can yield hundreds of feet of enameled wire for coil making. Don't forget the power cord! Thrift stores are overloaded with things like this since the analog to digital tv switchover.
Check out your local community for HAM radio clubs. Someone there will most likely be happy to help you get started. If you find you are liking this, look at local vocational technical schools to see if they have any courses in electronics (our local college dropped it's electronics program about 8 years ago) (sniff).
I got Kermit running on an old 8-bit Intel MDS system with 8 inch floppies from the late 70's.
Can pigs be far behind
Most web hosting companies don't backup uploaded content. Too resource and time consuming. We have always backed up customer data as well as config. We also host on real servers using real hardware raid. Backups are stored offsite and offline (tape). Not as cheap as some but then you get what you pay for. Your three domains would cost around $20 per month.
http://www.cyberstreet.com/
Manufacturers make there products to produce the best experience for the most people. Most people don't live in multi unit buildings. They live in the burbs where maybe one or two neighbors has WIFI. People want to connect to their AP in the den from their bedroom, maybe two rooms away. 5GHz doesn't penetrate walls/doors nearly as well as 2.4GHz (higher frequencies are more line of sight). 5GHz equipment won't interoperate with older WIFI equipment. It costs more to manufacture also (higher frequency components cost more).
I think this guy is missing the obvious. Who is guying the Ipods....Americans. That means every time apple sells an Ipod there is a net flow of $4 to china. I don't see the Chinese buying products manufactured here.
While it is possible to broadcast video and use the Internet as your delivery method, the Internet was meant for two-way communications. Protocols that were developed for broadcast never (Multicast, Mbone) really took off.
If you want to send the same content to thousands or even millions of people broadcast makes more sense. If you think about it satellite makes the most sense. Once you have your stuff in space you can send the same content to virtually every person on an entire continent for same cost as sending to one person. You have no other scaling of infrastructure needed to "grow your network".
With this system the more customers you have the less it should cost per customer. The only reason this doesn't work in reality is that satellite companies don't charge based on what it costs them, they charge "what the market will bear". They adopted the pricing structure of their competition (Cable companies) when they started and see no reason to change. After all there are really only two of them (not enough to provide real competition).
The thing satellite can't do very well is Internet. The system isn't setup to allow two way connection. Yes they can do this for a relatively high price, but even when they do it doesn't work very well (speed of light is not fast enough). I don't know anyone who uses satellite if they have any other choice.
Lets leave the Internet to do the things it does well and use other methods for what they do well.
While it's true DSL doesn't share the last mile bandwidth with other users, it doesn't mean the bandwidth you get isn't shared. The local Telco, Embarq (now Centurylink) provided DSL to a large part of our county with a single DS-3 (45Mbps). A friend I have who lives in the area who has no other choice,(no cable TV cable in his part of town), started complaining a couple of years ago that in the evening his connection would "get like dialup". After months of calling to complain (thats how he found out how much bandwidth they were piping to the areas headend) they told him they would be upgrading the DS-3 to and OC-3 (155Mbps). Things were fine for over a year and problem came back. He again called to complain. Would they upgrade the network again? Not this time. They told him they were going to "groom the network" whatever that means.
Bottom line, all ISPs even huge ones operate on a oversubscription model. They buy only as much bandwidth as demanded. If they are the only ones suppling broadband to a area then the "demand" just isn't there. Alter all where else are their customers going?
With all the crap that comes in via Asia, hacks SPAM, etc Maybe it would be better to cut the cables that are there now. I already null route most of china anyway.
K6-2 was a Pentium clone. I have never seen a 486 or 486 clone faster than 133MHz.
I used to do this in lilo I tink grib supports it also. Don't know if this works with usb serial adapters.
Dell servers have a usfull feature. Redirect bios to serial. This gives you the bios until the kernel loads. After this the kernal must do it. For serail console after boot look for the line in /etc/initab thats looks like this:
#s1:12345:respawn:/sbin/agetty -L ttyS0 9600 vt100
remove the #
Looking through my 10 inch Dobsonian a few nights ago I saw not 1, not 2, but three meteors pass through my view (lowest power eyepiece). I think it was rather unusual I have to say.
Why don't they ask the group who has been using multiband equipment for several decades. Amateur Radio operators. They have radios that operate from below 1 MHz to over 1GHz. They have been doing (without pay) emergency radio communications for a very long time now.
FCC now requires cellular carriers to install generators.