That low speed is in large part caused by the high latency. I can't give any guarantees for a specific service, but I think you'll find with many services if you run multiple concurrent streams, you'll get around 128k on each. (You can increase the speed somewhat by connecting through a proxy server with a tuned TCP stack, or for file transfers by using something like zmodem over UDP).
Works fine on Windows on my laptop (pentium MMX, 96mb). It normally pre-loads from the startup group (like MSOffice does) - once this is done the time to open a new document is about the same in each..doc and.xls support seems good, and can be set as default (makes it easier to work with MSOffice users on a network).
802.11 doesn't define the physical layer, it can be used with at least these: DSSS, FHSS, IR. As for following the hopping pattern, from the article it sounds as if all you need is the SSID, which is hardly difficult to get hold of where a company is providing commercial services.
On the most basic level, you would need to write your own software to crack into FHSS. I don't know of any cards running FHSS supported by standard WEP crackers (which are mostly for PrismII based DSSS cards).
Even with 802.11b WEP DSSS not all companies use WEP the same way. The more ISP-oriented equipment works with different keys for each user, which makes the job much more difficult. Even with the normal consumer kit, rebooting the access point every day to restart WEP would make a cracker's job much harder.
And at the moment, there's a bit of a problem with current satellite systems. The delay. Geosynchronous satellites are rather a long way away and the latency is a bit of a killer - you'll be lucky if it's better than a modem. It's the bandwidth vs. speed thing mentioned in the article: with satellite, even if you've got the bandwidth, you don't have the speed. (Plus, I'd be interested to hear if these are secure anyway. Certainly you can sniff a downlink signal and forge an uplink signal from a much larger area than a system which is covered by ground-based antennas which gives a lot more people the opportunity to play around:-) The only good thing about geosynchronous satellite is the coverage area.
In a few years, maybe satellite will be useful: but it's going to take LEOS to sort out the latency problem, and then you need an awful lot of birds to provide the type of coverage needed to offer a commercial service (info here).
I think it's a bit silly to remove the blocks, even from d.net (just give the money to charity if a key is turned up), but especially for the other projects. Zeroing the stats is a good idea but there's no point in dropping valid data.
HST wasn't full-duplex, it used 9600/300, 9600/450, 14400/450, switching the fast channel according to whoever had the most to send. If you tried to use BiModem over it, you'd get bad throughput because of all the turnarounds. Yeuuw. The dual-standard was full duplex, but not in HST mode, only v32/v32bis.
Absolute bitch to get BiModem working on the BBS side and handle ratios correctly though. Yeuuw.
The Telebit PEP modems were much better for 2-way, they would run multiple carriers of about 300bps each and allocate each one to upstream/downstream according to the data flow. Fantastic with Bink and Janus to get the mail across as fast as possible.
The calendar/contacts entries are available as messages in IMAP folders, so you don't need some strange protocol. Just some software that can grok strange message formats. I wonder if Bynari's software can do this... (You can kind-of read them with a normal mail client, but it's not very pleasant).
Ha, just an app failing? I've seen NT service packs cause a bluescreen during bootup on two machines. I'm sure I'm not the only one - no wonder people don't apply every last fix with that kind of record.
There is also another reason why cheap, thin-clients are a good idea -- cost. A cheap, reliable PSTN phone is under $10 USD -- almost everyone can afford one of those. An IP phone with LCD display, CPU enough to handle real time VoIP, RAM, ethernet interface, DSPs, etc. is not cheap -- and the more complexity you cram into it, the more expensive it gets.
It doesn't cost *all* that much to build something like that. It's about the level of complexity of a GSM phone (the only difference really is using ethernet rather than an air interface, I don't think that changes the cost much). GSM phones are cheap enough to be as popular as landlines some places.
Not much point in doing that with the amount of differential GPS systems around from when it was originally SA (dumb move that, imho: if SA had never existed, there wouldn't have been much point in anyone coming up with DGPS).
Probably gonna screw up the 802.11 war-camelling in the Gulf area tho:)
Obviously, there's only two other licenses worth even thinking about.
First, free BSD-type licenses. Obviously using a completely free license like BSD would scare people off (see, look how everybody has stopped using Apache these days because it isn't GPL?).
And obviously, the huge number of developers makes the normal version of the second worthwhile license a little difficult to work with. I mean, how on earth are you meant to send beer to that many people? Fortunately, there is an alternative.
According to the paper on PageRank (fittingly enough, written by Larry Page), it is cleverer than that. (another presentation is here).
A tree is built - the rating is based on not just how many people link to a page, but how many people link to the page linking to the page, etc. all the way back through the tree. The rank is scaled by the number of links on a page (so a link on a page with few links ranks higher than a page on a bookmark listing).
The text linked to a page (i.e. what's inside the <a>...</a> tags is used as well as the text in the page itself (it often gives a higher quality match). Yet another reason to use good descriptive text for your links than "click here":)
Probably best to download, dd and boot from the new floppies (or CD) and use the Upgrade option. Of course, if it's a critical machine like a firewall, I'd recommend waiting a few days or weeks just to see if anything shakes out when more people have started using it.
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That low speed is in large part caused by the high latency. I can't give any guarantees for a specific service, but I think you'll find with many services if you run multiple concurrent streams, you'll get around 128k on each. (You can increase the speed somewhat by connecting through a proxy server with a tuned TCP stack, or for file transfers by using something like zmodem over UDP).
Works fine on Windows on my laptop (pentium MMX, 96mb). It normally pre-loads from the startup group (like MSOffice does) - once this is done the time to open a new document is about the same in each. .doc and .xls support seems good, and can be set as default (makes it easier to work with MSOffice users on a network).
pptp's not too bad with recent versions of all the software and using stateless encryption.
Either you've got a very fast processor, or not seen Opera.
Heathens (: Have you not discovered the way of the freeware and absolutely fantastic pfe32?
802.11 doesn't define the physical layer, it can be used with at least these: DSSS, FHSS, IR. As for following the hopping pattern, from the article it sounds as if all you need is the SSID, which is hardly difficult to get hold of where a company is providing commercial services.
On the most basic level, you would need to write your own software to crack into FHSS. I don't know of any cards running FHSS supported by standard WEP crackers (which are mostly for PrismII based DSSS cards).
Even with 802.11b WEP DSSS not all companies use WEP the same way. The more ISP-oriented equipment works with different keys for each user, which makes the job much more difficult. Even with the normal consumer kit, rebooting the access point every day to restart WEP would make a cracker's job much harder.
And at the moment, there's a bit of a problem with current satellite systems. The delay. Geosynchronous satellites are rather a long way away and the latency is a bit of a killer - you'll be lucky if it's better than a modem. It's the bandwidth vs. speed thing mentioned in the article: with satellite, even if you've got the bandwidth, you don't have the speed. (Plus, I'd be interested to hear if these are secure anyway. Certainly you can sniff a downlink signal and forge an uplink signal from a much larger area than a system which is covered by ground-based antennas which gives a lot more people the opportunity to play around :-) The only good thing about geosynchronous satellite is the coverage area.
In a few years, maybe satellite will be useful: but it's going to take LEOS to sort out the latency problem, and then you need an awful lot of birds to provide the type of coverage needed to offer a commercial service (info here).
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I think it's a bit silly to remove the blocks, even from d.net (just give the money to charity if a key is turned up), but especially for the other projects. Zeroing the stats is a good idea but there's no point in dropping valid data.
Absolute bitch to get BiModem working on the BBS side and handle ratios correctly though. Yeuuw.
The Telebit PEP modems were much better for 2-way, they would run multiple carriers of about 300bps each and allocate each one to upstream/downstream according to the data flow. Fantastic with Bink and Janus to get the mail across as fast as possible.
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Next version? But .shn has been around for ages...
The calendar/contacts entries are available as messages in IMAP folders, so you don't need some strange protocol. Just some software that can grok strange message formats. I wonder if Bynari's software can do this ... (You can kind-of read them with a normal mail client, but it's not very pleasant).
Don't you just love the way it adds "index.html" to the end of any URL ending in a slash?
For FreeBSD packages, you can do something like: pkg_add -r wget. No version number or url required.
Well, don't forget to check the GIF comments then :)
try this
dfjlgnjfjkldjgjfldjgsdfjbjlsfjdjkbnsrtjhbjksn kjsfnjksdfjnfjknjksnjkbskgfbljb
You should just be able to unbind IIS from the dialup connection...
Ha, just an app failing? I've seen NT service packs cause a bluescreen during bootup on two machines. I'm sure I'm not the only one - no wonder people don't apply every last fix with that kind of record.
Probably gonna screw up the 802.11 war-camelling in the Gulf area tho :)
First, free BSD-type licenses. Obviously using a completely free license like BSD would scare people off (see, look how everybody has stopped using Apache these days because it isn't GPL?).
And obviously, the huge number of developers makes the normal version of the second worthwhile license a little difficult to work with. I mean, how on earth are you meant to send beer to that many people? Fortunately, there is an alternative.
Probably the best license in the world.
A tree is built - the rating is based on not just how many people link to a page, but how many people link to the page linking to the page, etc. all the way back through the tree. The rank is scaled by the number of links on a page (so a link on a page with few links ranks higher than a page on a bookmark listing).
The text linked to a page (i.e. what's inside the <a>...</a> tags is used as well as the text in the page itself (it often gives a higher quality match). Yet another reason to use good descriptive text for your links than "click here" :)
Probably best to download, dd and boot from the new floppies (or CD) and use the Upgrade option. Of course, if it's a critical machine like a firewall, I'd recommend waiting a few days or weeks just to see if anything shakes out when more people have started using it.