I first used Linux to replace the RADIUS server that would crash on a Win NT. One by one most of our ISP functions failed on Windoz and were migrated to Linux. The Linux boxes didn't break. This started in 1996.
What TPB and other sites like it do is insure that all music is free. Many indie artists would gladly give their music away to get discovered. Major labels and artists would never do this. No matter due to TPB and others all music is free. So without these sites indie artists might have an easer time getting attention.
This is what has kept windows on top for so long. Virtually everyone gets it for free. Either it comes on the computer when they buy it or they have a friend loan them a CD. Very few people buy windows.
Why bother with free things like Linux when what everyone is using is free?
It was called the Telesignature and used dual key RSA for authentication and encryption. The system used a combined scanner (chinnon planetary configuration scanner) attached to a flat bed plotter inside a security enclosure. A pen computer was used at the remote end to review and sign the document. I am listed as co-inventor as I was responsible for most of the systems design. My wife and best friend did all of the programming. We first showed the operating prototypes at Fall Comdex in 1992. My wife used a bezzier curve to smoooth the signature and many people marveled at how good the signature was.
We later did a spinoff product for mass signature reproduction called Autosignature (no patent).
Later I'll dig up some of the old brochures and scan them and put some of the picts at the link below.
I'm not sure what he is talking about I have my preferred desktop running Ubuntu now. I use the Windoz box for games and running one piece of software (platypus) that I can't get to work in Linux. Works ok via Virtualbox though.
I have been dealing with troves of infested windows boxes lately that are almost impossible to completely disinfect. One neighbor has had me reinstall Windows three time in the last year.
The Cisco 1200 series I use put out 100mw at 802.11b rates and only 30mw at 802.11g rates. This partly explains it's better range/penetration. When I install WIFI networks for hotels I generally use 802.11b radios in the Cisco APs for this reason (there Internet connection is way slower than 802.11b anyway).
In the field I frequently find that locking the radios into 11 or 5.5mbps rates will improve connection stability.
Other things to try, low rts threshold and a low fragmentation threshold.
See if neighbors will coordinate, put all the 802.11b stuff on one channel and use the others for 802.1gG stuff.
I wonder how this will effect Direct Tv? Their terms of service state that in spite of the fact you pay to acquire there receivers that you are in fact only leasing them and must return them if you cancel.
A recent/. story touted that this economy was going to kill open source because everyone was going to want to get paid for their work.
First they say the economy was going to kill OS, now they say it's helping. This does not compute! Circuits overloading....this does not compute......Hiss... bang...smoke.
Instead of asking people to type in badly form text how about answering a question only an English speaker could. Like what is the forth word from the beginning of this sentence?
This of course means I'm biased. This lady (Lesley) is the most awesome programmer I have ever met. She was able to learn a new language (C) and write a functional system in three months. This was for a completely new system which involved encryption,telephony datacom, graphics and peripheral control (scanner and plotter). She was the sole C programmer on the project with one other assembly language programmer who wrote a scale to gray viewer for the system.
As for touchy feely code.... nope almost no comments in the code. The Assembly language programmer on the project was scared that something would happen to her and he would need to take over the code and didn't understand it at all.
She has recently gone back to college (UCF) to update her knowledge. Her group in web development class consists of 3 men and two other women. I have been conversing with some of them because we have been hosting some of the group members project pages. She is the leader of the group and so far the men and women seem even in skill so far. None of the others seem anywhere near her skill level for programming however.
That having been said, after working in the computer field since 1980 have not encountered many women. It does seem to be a GUY thing.Programming seems to be even more heavily a GUY thing as I have never seen another one of these Unicorn like mystical beasts.
Working for a startup company back in 1992 we solved the distance signature problem. It was called Telesignature (patent # 5,222,138). I am listed as co-inventor ( the other person who hired me had no technical knowledge ). You would place a document into an secure enclosure and a scanner would scan it and send the image to via modem (9600bps in 1992) to a pen computer on the other end. The person would review and sign the document and the signature would be sent back and written with a pen plotter on the original document. We got lots of raves on the signature quality. Virtually no who was shown the signatures could tell it was written by a machine. We used RSA keys to ensure the whole process was tamper proof and an audit trail was left. A year alter we brought out a companion product called fax-a-check. The digital copies of the document are what actually provided proof of the transaction. The legal system at the time demanded written documents and so it seems still does.
You could lease a server at a place like serverbeach. Costs are low and bandwidth is more than enough. I have started using directadmin on a dell poweredge 2600 and it seems to work great. You don't have to compete on price alone. People HATE the support they get through most providers. Provide good support and don't be afraid to charge a fair price for all this. Most companies/people won't think twice about paying $20 per month for this type of service(more if lots of support is going to be involved). A dozen accounts like this and you have payed for the server with lots to spare.
Many of the people who have posted here are correct about the market for cheap crappy hosting being over saturated. So don't be a cheap crappy host.
A pair of Tranzeo radios would easy work of this provided you have near line of sight. A few trees should be ok.
http://www.tranzeo.com/
If you are more adventurous you could buy a couple of used Cisco 1200 APs with the older 802.11b cards in them. These can be had for as little as $60 on Ebay. These have bridging capability as well as AP functionality. A couple of panel antennas (12db to 16db should fine). You will need a couple of cables with reverse TNC on one end a N connectors on the other.
I once got a call from a client who said her WiFi wasn't working in her study. When I got their I found she was using a bluetooth mouse, 2.4GHz cordless phone, Wireless video extension (also 2.4GHz), and cooking diner in her microwave (big 2.4GHz transmitter). This piece of spectrum will only take so much. She asked if changing to a 5.8GHz phone would help. I said probably not as most transmit from the base to the phone on 5.8Ghz and the phone transmits 2.4GHz back. (900MHz would be better). As we use more and more 2.4GHz wireless stuff the performance of WiFi will drop.
A 100MBPS wired network with a switch will outperform any wireless network for the foreseeable future.
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I have run many 10meg Ethernet links over cat3 phone cable. Most Internet connections are slower than 10megs anyway.
Gee with all these problems how linux even boot and work. Never mind I have been using it on my main desktop for over a year now.
Lets look at the reasons
Faster than windows esp after windows gets
bogged down by anti-virus and anti-spyware
software.
Crashes much less.
Plays all video formats I have found
Plays all audio formats I have found
Runs with less hardware, RAM, HD, etc
Granted due to lack of third party software support I do still use windows but for most or nearly all Internet stuff linux works great.
Independence isn't something the money can buy you.
I first used Linux to replace the RADIUS server that would crash on a Win NT. One by one most of our ISP functions failed on Windoz and were migrated to Linux. The Linux boxes didn't break. This started in 1996.
What TPB and other sites like it do is insure that all music is free. Many indie artists would gladly give their music away to get discovered. Major labels and artists would never do this. No matter due to TPB and others all music is free. So without these sites indie artists might have an easer time getting attention.
This is what has kept windows on top for so long. Virtually everyone gets it for free. Either it comes on the computer when they buy it or they have a friend loan them a CD. Very few people buy windows.
Why bother with free things like Linux when what everyone is using is free?
Look at the above patient. Details on how the system was secured are included.
Most of this is moot at this point as faxed signatures are deemed legal anyway.
The teleautograpgh does not seem to include any means of preventing it from being used for forgeries.
No security measure means it could not be used for legal documents.
It is simply a means of reproducing handwriting at a distance.
Bad link address
http://explorer.cyberstreet.com/telesignature
Look at patient #5,222,138
http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=5222138.PN.&OS=PN/5222138&RS=PN/5222138
It was called the Telesignature and used dual key RSA for authentication and encryption. The system used a combined scanner (chinnon planetary configuration scanner) attached to a flat bed plotter inside a security enclosure. A pen computer was used at the remote end to review and sign the document. I am listed as co-inventor as I was responsible for most of the systems design. My wife and best friend did all of the programming. We first showed the operating prototypes at Fall Comdex in 1992. My wife used a bezzier curve to smoooth the signature and many people marveled at how good the signature was.
We later did a spinoff product for mass signature reproduction called Autosignature (no patent).
Later I'll dig up some of the old brochures and scan them and put some of the picts at the link below.
http://explorer/cyberstreet.com/telesignature
I seem to remember 2010 Space Odyssey using what they called in the movie a ballute to slow down on arrival at Jupiter.
Express PCB will do prototype PCBs for as little as $50 for three units. Free software to get started with (no autorouting but hey).
I'm not sure what he is talking about I have my preferred desktop running Ubuntu now. I use the Windoz box for games and running one piece of software (platypus) that I can't get to work in Linux. Works ok via Virtualbox though.
I have been dealing with troves of infested windows boxes lately that are almost impossible to completely disinfect. One neighbor has had me reinstall Windows three time in the last year.
No more, Ubuntu goes on this box now!
The claim would only come into play if a CLI application was used. Use a Non-cli application and viola no infringement.
The Cisco 1200 series I use put out 100mw at 802.11b rates and only 30mw at 802.11g rates. This partly explains it's better range/penetration.
When I install WIFI networks for hotels I generally use 802.11b radios in the Cisco APs for this reason (there Internet connection is way slower than 802.11b anyway).
In the field I frequently find that locking the radios into 11 or 5.5mbps rates will improve connection stability.
Other things to try, low rts threshold and a low fragmentation threshold.
See if neighbors will coordinate, put all the 802.11b stuff on one channel and use the others for 802.1gG stuff.
I wonder how this will effect Direct Tv? Their terms of service state that in spite of the fact you pay to acquire there receivers that you are in fact only leasing them and must return them if you cancel.
A recent /. story touted that this economy was going to kill open source because everyone was going to want to get paid for their work.
First they say the economy was going to kill OS, now they say it's helping. This does not compute! Circuits overloading....this does not compute......Hiss... bang...smoke.
If you don't need some ultra high bandwidth > 1000MHz then consider a used scope. Lots can be had on ebay for pennies on the dollar.
Logic analyzers the same applies.
Instead of asking people to type in badly form text how about answering a question only an English speaker could. Like what is the forth word from the beginning of this sentence?
Robert Tinney.
He sells some of his prints on ebay.
I have several of these, many no longer available.
This of course means I'm biased. This lady (Lesley) is the most awesome programmer I have ever met. She was able to learn a new language (C) and write a functional system in three months. This was for a completely new system which involved encryption ,telephony datacom, graphics and peripheral control (scanner and plotter). She was the sole C programmer on the project with one other assembly language programmer who wrote a scale to gray viewer for the system.
As for touchy feely code.... nope almost no comments in the code. The Assembly language programmer on the project was scared that something would happen to her and he would need to take over the code and didn't understand it at all.
She has recently gone back to college (UCF) to update her knowledge. Her group in web development class consists of 3 men and two other women. I have been conversing with some of them because we have been hosting some of the group members project pages. She is the leader of the group and so far the men and women seem even in skill so far. None of the others seem anywhere near her skill level for programming however.
That having been said, after working in the computer field since 1980 have not encountered many women. It does seem to be a GUY thing.Programming seems to be even more heavily a GUY thing as I have never seen another one of these Unicorn like mystical beasts.
Her project home page:
http://lpeterson.cet4583.cyberstreet.com/
Patent page for the above mentioned project
http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=5222138.PN.&OS=PN/5222138&RS=PN/5222138
Working for a startup company back in 1992 we solved the distance signature problem. It was called Telesignature (patent # 5,222,138). I am listed as co-inventor ( the other person who hired me had no technical knowledge ). You would place a document into an secure enclosure and a scanner would scan it and send the image to via modem (9600bps in 1992) to a pen computer on the other end. The person would review and sign the document and the signature would be sent back and written with a pen plotter on the original document. We got lots of raves on the signature quality. Virtually no who was shown the signatures could tell it was written by a machine. We used RSA keys to ensure the whole process was tamper proof and an audit trail was left. A year alter we brought out a companion product called fax-a-check. The digital copies of the document are what actually provided proof of the transaction. The legal system at the time demanded written documents and so it seems still does.
You could lease a server at a place like serverbeach. Costs are low and bandwidth is more than enough. I have started using directadmin on a dell poweredge 2600 and it seems to work great. You don't have to compete on price alone. People HATE the support they get through most providers. Provide good support and don't be afraid to charge a fair price for all this. Most companies/people won't think twice about paying $20 per month for this type of service(more if lots of support is going to be involved). A dozen accounts like this and you have payed for the server with lots to spare. Many of the people who have posted here are correct about the market for cheap crappy hosting being over saturated. So don't be a cheap crappy host.
A pair of Tranzeo radios would easy work of this provided you have near line of sight. A few trees should be ok. http://www.tranzeo.com/ If you are more adventurous you could buy a couple of used Cisco 1200 APs with the older 802.11b cards in them. These can be had for as little as $60 on Ebay. These have bridging capability as well as AP functionality. A couple of panel antennas (12db to 16db should fine). You will need a couple of cables with reverse TNC on one end a N connectors on the other.
Ham radio cannot be used for anything but communicating with other amateur stations. Certainly not his work.
I once got a call from a client who said her WiFi wasn't working in her study. When I got their I found she was using a bluetooth mouse, 2.4GHz cordless phone, Wireless video extension (also 2.4GHz), and cooking diner in her microwave (big 2.4GHz transmitter). This piece of spectrum will only take so much. She asked if changing to a 5.8GHz phone would help. I said probably not as most transmit from the base to the phone on 5.8Ghz and the phone transmits 2.4GHz back. (900MHz would be better). As we use more and more 2.4GHz wireless stuff the performance of WiFi will drop.
A 100MBPS wired network with a switch will outperform any wireless network for the foreseeable future.