And GTA3 is soon to be released for PC so what's the point? Should be upgraded and whatnot, hopefully it will have a lot more stuff than the PS2 release. Anyone know the exact date? I've only seen the approximate "early April" reponse so far, but April is only 8 days away.
Actually, if you've watched some of the military episodes on TLC or The Discovery Channel about miltary training, you can gain some good insight into the programs without actually doing any investigation (other than watching the shows). They provide very little commentary and just show what is going on. They do some interviews (sole interviews, the person is simply talking to the camera, no one is asking questions directly), but mainly show the process by which personnel go through in certain areas of the military. They have done documentaries on Rangers, SEALs, AF recruits, Navy recruits, and specific Marine episodes. Many of the sterotypes that you see in the movies are fairly true. Mind you that these episodes don't cover ALL of the training, they do try to cover a decent portion of the trainings. There have even been several connected episodes in which the documentary will follow a specific class all the way from their initial inductions to their final graduations/acceptances/etc.
It is obvious though that a trainer will not be screaming into a trainee's ear while they are trying to learn a specific skill, how to use some new equipment, or other similar procedures. The screaming is counterproductive as you mentioned, but the trainees would be harshly dealt with should they fail some training at certain points.
I would find it hard to download an entire DVD (what? several GB or so...) on even a cable connection. Consider the bandwidth required to serve up these movies too, even a 2.56 Tb/s line would end up being swamped should enough people try to use the service. Even if some sort of standard allowed better compression rates than even DivX or MP3 could allow, the size of a DVD could still be more than half a GB. Besides the fact that when I watch a DVD, I want to see absolutely no evidence of any sort of compression... that's why I watch em (well at least nothing I am sohpistocated enough to notice). Even compressed DivX files don't look real great. I agree with you that $35 is highway robbery though - all of the DVDs should be kept under $20 (maybe, just maybe $25 - although I would prefer to not see that until a couple more years go by). New DVD releases would go for the usual $19.99 and not-so-new movies would go for $14.99.
Implementing legit DVD distribution online would be difficult right now, hopefully new connection improvements in the future would allow such data transfer on an individual basis without loss of detail and value.
The rage is back... TI-92+ from Texas Instruments. Although the TI-92 has been around for a couple years now, and the TI-92+ was an updated version release sometime thereafter. They are still end-of-1990s, early 2000s time products.
I use my thumbs for everything on there unless I am taking a test and I have the calculator set down on a surface, then I'll use my fingers for typing things in. And then there's the keyboard. It is rather small and cramped, but you are still able to type moderately well on it without a whole lot of practice. The thumb is the one-and-only space bar machine for typing here still.
Heh, the classic high school lockdown procedures that so many administrations follow. Pretty crazy what a little bit (read: A LOT) of ignorance can do to a public high school. I was really glad when I got out of there.
You stole my post as I was trying to remember the name of the movie, lol. This was really cool though. For anyone who doesn't know, Johnny (played by Keanu Reeves) is an information courier. He had information uploaded into his mind (needed some sort of implant, I can't completely recall) and then they randomly grabbed 3 screen shots off of the TV from random channels. One copy was kept for the initiators of the carry, another was faxed (tried to be faxed) to the recipient. The screen shots were used to retrieve the information as a password. Very cool.
Volunteers who get paid... hmm what do we call that? An employee, worker, something like that, guess I'm not really sure, but it doesn't sound like a volunteer that's for sure. The money that soldiers end up getting may not be a whole lot, but it is defintely competitive with any other post-high school job that doesn't even require a diploma. Not to mention the numerous programs to provide military personnel with funding for college education afterwards.
People try to make the military sound like a divine calling, that these people so selflessly gave up everything great in their entire life to go and protect us all! That fact of the matter is that half of these people who simply join up with the navy, army, or airforce have no clue what to do with their lives. Usually they don't even have any useable job skills that are worth someone's investment (other than typical grunt work). And a large portion may not even have enough money to go on with anything else in their lives. The military is a feasible financial and short-term life solution for these people. This is not to say that these people are scum or anything, heh, they are usually far from that; this is just to say that the military isn't as selfless as some would like to think. Besides, once these people get out of the military, they usually have so many more life skills than when they entered that it would be hard to put a price on their development. Most anyone who successfully completes a military program gains financially in the short and long term (versus the time they put in) and personally on such a great degree that they wouldn't have changed their minds about their decision.
I think they mean to emphasize that it is an extremely simple and over-used strategy. I don't mind rushing games now and then, it is kinda fun to see if you still have what it takes to build up super fast. Still, I don't want to play rushing games or have to worry about someone rushing me all of the time. Its boring if you play game after game and you have to either semi-rush your opponent or risk being rushed, that just gets old.
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I haven't gone camping in a little bit, but I know things like this have been out for a long time. Maybe they're not the same implementations, as I have mainly just used the self heating meal packages, but I'm sure the idea behind it all is the same. You just have a certain chemical mix that will produce some heat when combined, and the chemicals are seperated until the user does something (the ones I used had you pull a string) and then they are combined. Here, it appears that the user needs to push a button on the bottom of the can to mix the chemicals, and they seem to just be mixing calcium oxide with water - which is definitely an exothermic process. From Encyclopedia.com:
Calcium oxide is a basic anhydride, reacting with water to form calcium hydroxide ; during the reaction (slaking) much heat is given off and the solid nearly doubles its volume.
And these setups were no joke, the meals came out piping hot. Anyways, this technology has been out for several years back since the mid to later 1990s, and this appears to just be another implementation of it - although that's not to say it isn't useful. Carrying a can around with you and being able to push a button to heat its contents up is still neat.
A few links to some of the self heating meal packages:
AlpineAire Foods - I believe these were the packages I had previously used. It appears as though they have discontinued production of their self heating meals.
Heater Meals appears to have the user apply the water themselves. I've never used these before, but they look to be more of an emergency situation use. Still, self heating meals!
Ah, well you're lucky then. Currently SE Michigan only has a couple of broadband choices (I think just 2) - all of which are less than or equal to 1 Mb. SBC Ameritech for DSL and Comcast for cable are the two I know of. The cable used to be 1.5 Mb, but with the dissolve of @Home, they bumped everyone down to 1 Mb. WideOpenWest supposedly has plans to move into the area with bandwidth selections ranging up to 10 Mb. I
ll be looking forward to that, but until then we're all stuck with Comedycast and the 1 Mb max here in SE Michigan.
That's a nifty little piece of equipment there. The specifics of the dual wan tech are slim as suspected. It would be interesting to at least hear how they went about the implementation of that. I would prolly get one of those except I don't need to have a dual setup, it would just be nice, heh. Still, for a company that is just barely exceeding its DSL or cable bandwidth where the next step up would be several hundred dollars per month more, buying this piece and getting another broadband connect would definitely be more economical in the long run.
I just find it odd that they limit the number of leasable IPs to 253 - I can't see any reasoning behind that.
And I just remembered another thing relating to this topic. Several years back (95ish - 96ish), I was able to combine connection bandwidth in a similar way. Right before cable and DSL were out, I had to rely on my good old 56k modems with the v90 and Flex technology. Still, these weren't enough. Somehow I came across an article or something talking about combining modem bandwidth to increase the perceived bandwidth of the computer/user. It involved taking two modems and dialing up to your ISP with each modem into two different accounts. It was called multilinking I think, and some company even had a proprietary version of the technology called shotgunning I believe. The bandwidth was combined/your request split somehow, and you could effectively have a 112k connection, heh. The ISP had to support the technology and it wasn't entirely stable, but if you got it going then everything was great. Now, instead of getting 5k/sec downloads, you could get a whopping 9k/sec or so and brag to everyone else. My ISP claimed to not support the technology, but at around 10 PM each night, I could get the connections going and have some wicked speed.
As well, I think you could even multilink more than two connections. You just dialed the first main connection and then dialed each additional one afterwards.
Seems like that technology would've been/could be implementated for broadband connections or any set of mulitple connections. I'll have to keep looking around for some more info.
Lots of people have both DSL and Cable. I was actually in between many different connections at one time, and for some reason I ended up with 3 DSL connections, 2 Cable connections, and a single 56k dial-up connection at my house. Don't ask me why I had all of that, but it would have been interesting to piggy back all of them.
However, what sort of NAT routers are you referring to? Are they easily obtainable software solutions, or hardware solutions? I've only seen single connection hardware gateway solutions on the end-user side of things.
And most small (I'm talking small, family/friend-type companies, not small companies on the grand scale who still gross several million a year) won't pay a couple grand for their connection unless the connection is really part of their business. Some simple just need to retrieve order information or communicate over their connections, etc. This could be done with a decent cable connection, but could manage to get bogged down at some times. To only pay an extra $50/month for an additional same service or opposing service and still be able to double their bandwidth would be a great. The slow periods in their connection could be eliminated without needing to fork over several hundred dollars a month for a fractional T1 or whatnot.
I have an original copy of National Geographic that reported on the moon landing. They included a flimsy plastic impression record that you could play to hear various sounds, of which I'm assuming the "one small step" recording was on. They've been doing this stuff for 40 years:) heh.
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But IPCop is trying to be an all-in-all solution for the small setup. I would think that an average home user with scarce extended OS skills wouldn't want to set up various routers to try and solve their problem.
Even still, I'm not sure exactly how you would set up something like this using standard routing procedures. Sure, if one connection is down, you could set up your network to refer to an alternate connection. But what if a connection is just temporarily bogged down by traffic. The alternate connection could maybe only hold half the bandwidth of the main connection, and you would want everyone to use the main connection as much as possible. But everyone who just sent requests will be referred to the alternate connection whilst the main connection clears up immediately therafter. This wouldn't work out too well (except for additional request, heh). And what if there is only one user using the connections currently, but they could stand to use more bandwidth than either connection could offer alone, but that they both could satisfy should they be used together? How would you (would it be possible?) go about setting up a routing system that would allow the user to use the bandwidth of both connections and make single request that would transverse both connections?
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Well, I was mainly interested in investigating these 'solutions-out-of-the-box' type setups. I actually haven't looked seriously into the specifics and ideas behind piggy-backing, so I'm not sure of what the algorithms for this to work would look like. Although, I would have to assume that the technology could look similar to the processes behind certain download managers, where the specific package is divided and retrieved from different servers. For any given client, the infomation they may request would be split into default chunk sizes. The server controlling the multiple connnections would then attempt to retrieve each chunk along one connection, and allow a certain amount of time before it has determined that the wait is 'too long' and request remaining chunks along an alternate connection until the former connection has caught up.
Having said that, I have tried to get some connections up and running on various *nix distros before, but could never get them working completely properly. Do you know of any references that explain the process/tweaking behind setting up these multiple connections? As far as running servers on redundant connections - I would think that you would need some client side configuration for that to work (or a new communication protocol to allow server directions in this situation, heh), which seems to be rather impractical right now, heh.
I have read over IPCop configurations and documentations several times before, and it is definitely a good solution for a simple home office or other small business network. It is fairly simple to use and setup, and fairly robust in operations. However, there is one thing that it lacks, as well as what many other solutions lack: the ability to handle redundant internet access. Although I have not looked at every single software solution for routing and networking on this scale, there still seems to be a lack of redundant-internet-connection support in the field. The ability to use multiple internet connections for backup in a single software solution, as well as to use multiple internet connections to increase overall bandwidth, seems to be missing.
Has anyone run across developing projects (or already developed projects) that are trying to accomplish this sort of feat? I have seen a hardware solution or two that have tried to work this problem, but they are rather impractical for a home office user who needs redundancy (telecommuting, etc) or expansion of their bandwidth (kids playing games while they need to transfer projects around, etc) for their home network. Can anyone comment on this subject?
Actually, you can look at the events of the airline bailout more thoroughly. Sure, the reward that you talk about seems just like that - free money. But, it looks more to be like a subsidy. We can compare it to past farmer-gov relationships. The government doesn't want the market flooded with an excess of products, otherwise the price of the products will drop out due to the extreme surplus of supply, and various farmers will go broke - which we don't want under certain circumstances because not all farmers may produce all products (as well as other reasons). So they (the gov) pay the farmers to either not produce a certain amount of a certain product for a given time period, or they buy already produced products and store them or allow them to go to waste. In this case, the gov just bought $15 billion worth of plane ticets, and the airlines didn't produce the flights (a service here, but keeping the product mentality going is more pleasing). As well, I am sure the airlines wouldn't have minded at all to not receive the bailout as long as the amount of scheduled flights remained the same. The amount of money lost far exceeded the bailout that the airlines received, so the net reward gained was still negative (the attacks can be considered a reward here - just kind of like getting underwear for Christmas is a present, heh).
Give the article a quick read, it's worth it this time. They mention that he not only had papers explaining all of his equipment, but he also had some papers signed by doctors (indicating the medical nature of the equipment I'm assuming), and he called the airport ahead of time and notified the appropriate authorities. The authorities response to the problem was effectively that "they don't talk to the workers" - or at least that was what the response sounded like to me, heh.
I read several pieces on this technology, but I'm not exactly sure about the logisitics of these types of devices. Sure, we all know that we vibrate surfaces in order to produce sounds waves. But, these vibrations seem to be pretty disastrous to things that don't want to vibrate (i.e. Your House). So, if you hooked one of these things up behind your drywall it would seem as if any amount of use would cause the wall to shake, drywall screws to become loose, plaster over the drywall to crack, base molding to come loose, and paint to chip/crack. How do they aim to create a vibration without causing all sorts of damage? Well, if we moved it to a hardwood floor (or even better, the composite material wood floors that aren't even nailed into the floor, rather they float as an entire surface together), we could end up with better results. The wood is most likely much better able to handle the vibrations and transfer them well too. But, what happens if you walk across the floor? It would seem that the power of this type of equipment wouldn't be large enough that it could vibrate an additional 150 - 200 lb person. So, as you would walk across floors, you would be creating deadspots all over the place and interfering with the workings of the 'speakers'.
Has anyone seen any articles with an in-depth analysis of how this equipment might work. Despite the poster's comment that "it sounds like there's some seriously cool science behind it." the article was very slim on any technical details.
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And GTA3 is soon to be released for PC so what's the point? Should be upgraded and whatnot, hopefully it will have a lot more stuff than the PS2 release. Anyone know the exact date? I've only seen the approximate "early April" reponse so far, but April is only 8 days away.
Yeh, now that you mention it I think he could b Mr. Clean too. Crazy, just crazy.
Actually, if you've watched some of the military episodes on TLC or The Discovery Channel about miltary training, you can gain some good insight into the programs without actually doing any investigation (other than watching the shows). They provide very little commentary and just show what is going on. They do some interviews (sole interviews, the person is simply talking to the camera, no one is asking questions directly), but mainly show the process by which personnel go through in certain areas of the military. They have done documentaries on Rangers, SEALs, AF recruits, Navy recruits, and specific Marine episodes. Many of the sterotypes that you see in the movies are fairly true. Mind you that these episodes don't cover ALL of the training, they do try to cover a decent portion of the trainings. There have even been several connected episodes in which the documentary will follow a specific class all the way from their initial inductions to their final graduations/acceptances/etc.
It is obvious though that a trainer will not be screaming into a trainee's ear while they are trying to learn a specific skill, how to use some new equipment, or other similar procedures. The screaming is counterproductive as you mentioned, but the trainees would be harshly dealt with should they fail some training at certain points.
I would find it hard to download an entire DVD (what? several GB or so...) on even a cable connection. Consider the bandwidth required to serve up these movies too, even a 2.56 Tb/s line would end up being swamped should enough people try to use the service. Even if some sort of standard allowed better compression rates than even DivX or MP3 could allow, the size of a DVD could still be more than half a GB. Besides the fact that when I watch a DVD, I want to see absolutely no evidence of any sort of compression... that's why I watch em (well at least nothing I am sohpistocated enough to notice). Even compressed DivX files don't look real great. I agree with you that $35 is highway robbery though - all of the DVDs should be kept under $20 (maybe, just maybe $25 - although I would prefer to not see that until a couple more years go by). New DVD releases would go for the usual $19.99 and not-so-new movies would go for $14.99.
Implementing legit DVD distribution online would be difficult right now, hopefully new connection improvements in the future would allow such data transfer on an individual basis without loss of detail and value.
The rage is back... TI-92+ from Texas Instruments. Although the TI-92 has been around for a couple years now, and the TI-92+ was an updated version release sometime thereafter. They are still end-of-1990s, early 2000s time products.
I use my thumbs for everything on there unless I am taking a test and I have the calculator set down on a surface, then I'll use my fingers for typing things in. And then there's the keyboard. It is rather small and cramped, but you are still able to type moderately well on it without a whole lot of practice. The thumb is the one-and-only space bar machine for typing here still.
lol!
Heh, the classic high school lockdown procedures that so many administrations follow. Pretty crazy what a little bit (read: A LOT) of ignorance can do to a public high school. I was really glad when I got out of there.
Yes, Johnny Mnemonic.
You stole my post as I was trying to remember the name of the movie, lol. This was really cool though. For anyone who doesn't know, Johnny (played by Keanu Reeves) is an information courier. He had information uploaded into his mind (needed some sort of implant, I can't completely recall) and then they randomly grabbed 3 screen shots off of the TV from random channels. One copy was kept for the initiators of the carry, another was faxed (tried to be faxed) to the recipient. The screen shots were used to retrieve the information as a password. Very cool.
Volunteers who get paid... hmm what do we call that? An employee, worker, something like that, guess I'm not really sure, but it doesn't sound like a volunteer that's for sure. The money that soldiers end up getting may not be a whole lot, but it is defintely competitive with any other post-high school job that doesn't even require a diploma. Not to mention the numerous programs to provide military personnel with funding for college education afterwards.
People try to make the military sound like a divine calling, that these people so selflessly gave up everything great in their entire life to go and protect us all! That fact of the matter is that half of these people who simply join up with the navy, army, or airforce have no clue what to do with their lives. Usually they don't even have any useable job skills that are worth someone's investment (other than typical grunt work). And a large portion may not even have enough money to go on with anything else in their lives. The military is a feasible financial and short-term life solution for these people. This is not to say that these people are scum or anything, heh, they are usually far from that; this is just to say that the military isn't as selfless as some would like to think. Besides, once these people get out of the military, they usually have so many more life skills than when they entered that it would be hard to put a price on their development. Most anyone who successfully completes a military program gains financially in the short and long term (versus the time they put in) and personally on such a great degree that they wouldn't have changed their minds about their decision.
lol, exactly what I was thinking. Jessay!
I think they mean to emphasize that it is an extremely simple and over-used strategy. I don't mind rushing games now and then, it is kinda fun to see if you still have what it takes to build up super fast. Still, I don't want to play rushing games or have to worry about someone rushing me all of the time. Its boring if you play game after game and you have to either semi-rush your opponent or risk being rushed, that just gets old.
I haven't gone camping in a little bit, but I know things like this have been out for a long time. Maybe they're not the same implementations, as I have mainly just used the self heating meal packages, but I'm sure the idea behind it all is the same. You just have a certain chemical mix that will produce some heat when combined, and the chemicals are seperated until the user does something (the ones I used had you pull a string) and then they are combined. Here, it appears that the user needs to push a button on the bottom of the can to mix the chemicals, and they seem to just be mixing calcium oxide with water - which is definitely an exothermic process. From Encyclopedia.com:
Calcium oxide is a basic anhydride, reacting with water to form calcium hydroxide ; during the reaction (slaking) much heat is given off and the solid nearly doubles its volume.
And these setups were no joke, the meals came out piping hot. Anyways, this technology has been out for several years back since the mid to later 1990s, and this appears to just be another implementation of it - although that's not to say it isn't useful. Carrying a can around with you and being able to push a button to heat its contents up is still neat.
A few links to some of the self heating meal packages:
AlpineAire Foods - I believe these were the packages I had previously used. It appears as though they have discontinued production of their self heating meals.
Heater Meals appears to have the user apply the water themselves. I've never used these before, but they look to be more of an emergency situation use. Still, self heating meals!
Looks like there was a GameCube on show available for play as well. I believe it was at ATI's stand.
Ah, well you're lucky then. Currently SE Michigan only has a couple of broadband choices (I think just 2) - all of which are less than or equal to 1 Mb. SBC Ameritech for DSL and Comcast for cable are the two I know of. The cable used to be 1.5 Mb, but with the dissolve of @Home, they bumped everyone down to 1 Mb. WideOpenWest supposedly has plans to move into the area with bandwidth selections ranging up to 10 Mb. I ll be looking forward to that, but until then we're all stuck with Comedycast and the 1 Mb max here in SE Michigan.
That's a nifty little piece of equipment there. The specifics of the dual wan tech are slim as suspected. It would be interesting to at least hear how they went about the implementation of that. I would prolly get one of those except I don't need to have a dual setup, it would just be nice, heh. Still, for a company that is just barely exceeding its DSL or cable bandwidth where the next step up would be several hundred dollars per month more, buying this piece and getting another broadband connect would definitely be more economical in the long run.
I just find it odd that they limit the number of leasable IPs to 253 - I can't see any reasoning behind that.
And I just remembered another thing relating to this topic. Several years back (95ish - 96ish), I was able to combine connection bandwidth in a similar way. Right before cable and DSL were out, I had to rely on my good old 56k modems with the v90 and Flex technology. Still, these weren't enough. Somehow I came across an article or something talking about combining modem bandwidth to increase the perceived bandwidth of the computer/user. It involved taking two modems and dialing up to your ISP with each modem into two different accounts. It was called multilinking I think, and some company even had a proprietary version of the technology called shotgunning I believe. The bandwidth was combined/your request split somehow, and you could effectively have a 112k connection, heh. The ISP had to support the technology and it wasn't entirely stable, but if you got it going then everything was great. Now, instead of getting 5k/sec downloads, you could get a whopping 9k/sec or so and brag to everyone else. My ISP claimed to not support the technology, but at around 10 PM each night, I could get the connections going and have some wicked speed.
As well, I think you could even multilink more than two connections. You just dialed the first main connection and then dialed each additional one afterwards.
Seems like that technology would've been/could be implementated for broadband connections or any set of mulitple connections. I'll have to keep looking around for some more info.
Lots of people have both DSL and Cable. I was actually in between many different connections at one time, and for some reason I ended up with 3 DSL connections, 2 Cable connections, and a single 56k dial-up connection at my house. Don't ask me why I had all of that, but it would have been interesting to piggy back all of them.
However, what sort of NAT routers are you referring to? Are they easily obtainable software solutions, or hardware solutions? I've only seen single connection hardware gateway solutions on the end-user side of things.
And most small (I'm talking small, family/friend-type companies, not small companies on the grand scale who still gross several million a year) won't pay a couple grand for their connection unless the connection is really part of their business. Some simple just need to retrieve order information or communicate over their connections, etc. This could be done with a decent cable connection, but could manage to get bogged down at some times. To only pay an extra $50/month for an additional same service or opposing service and still be able to double their bandwidth would be a great. The slow periods in their connection could be eliminated without needing to fork over several hundred dollars a month for a fractional T1 or whatnot.
I have an original copy of National Geographic that reported on the moon landing. They included a flimsy plastic impression record that you could play to hear various sounds, of which I'm assuming the "one small step" recording was on. They've been doing this stuff for 40 years
But IPCop is trying to be an all-in-all solution for the small setup. I would think that an average home user with scarce extended OS skills wouldn't want to set up various routers to try and solve their problem.
Even still, I'm not sure exactly how you would set up something like this using standard routing procedures. Sure, if one connection is down, you could set up your network to refer to an alternate connection. But what if a connection is just temporarily bogged down by traffic. The alternate connection could maybe only hold half the bandwidth of the main connection, and you would want everyone to use the main connection as much as possible. But everyone who just sent requests will be referred to the alternate connection whilst the main connection clears up immediately therafter. This wouldn't work out too well (except for additional request, heh). And what if there is only one user using the connections currently, but they could stand to use more bandwidth than either connection could offer alone, but that they both could satisfy should they be used together? How would you (would it be possible?) go about setting up a routing system that would allow the user to use the bandwidth of both connections and make single request that would transverse both connections?
Well, I was mainly interested in investigating these 'solutions-out-of-the-box' type setups. I actually haven't looked seriously into the specifics and ideas behind piggy-backing, so I'm not sure of what the algorithms for this to work would look like. Although, I would have to assume that the technology could look similar to the processes behind certain download managers, where the specific package is divided and retrieved from different servers. For any given client, the infomation they may request would be split into default chunk sizes. The server controlling the multiple connnections would then attempt to retrieve each chunk along one connection, and allow a certain amount of time before it has determined that the wait is 'too long' and request remaining chunks along an alternate connection until the former connection has caught up.
Having said that, I have tried to get some connections up and running on various *nix distros before, but could never get them working completely properly. Do you know of any references that explain the process/tweaking behind setting up these multiple connections? As far as running servers on redundant connections - I would think that you would need some client side configuration for that to work (or a new communication protocol to allow server directions in this situation, heh), which seems to be rather impractical right now, heh.
I have read over IPCop configurations and documentations several times before, and it is definitely a good solution for a simple home office or other small business network. It is fairly simple to use and setup, and fairly robust in operations. However, there is one thing that it lacks, as well as what many other solutions lack: the ability to handle redundant internet access. Although I have not looked at every single software solution for routing and networking on this scale, there still seems to be a lack of redundant-internet-connection support in the field. The ability to use multiple internet connections for backup in a single software solution, as well as to use multiple internet connections to increase overall bandwidth, seems to be missing.
Has anyone run across developing projects (or already developed projects) that are trying to accomplish this sort of feat? I have seen a hardware solution or two that have tried to work this problem, but they are rather impractical for a home office user who needs redundancy (telecommuting, etc) or expansion of their bandwidth (kids playing games while they need to transfer projects around, etc) for their home network. Can anyone comment on this subject?
Actually, you can look at the events of the airline bailout more thoroughly. Sure, the reward that you talk about seems just like that - free money. But, it looks more to be like a subsidy. We can compare it to past farmer-gov relationships. The government doesn't want the market flooded with an excess of products, otherwise the price of the products will drop out due to the extreme surplus of supply, and various farmers will go broke - which we don't want under certain circumstances because not all farmers may produce all products (as well as other reasons). So they (the gov) pay the farmers to either not produce a certain amount of a certain product for a given time period, or they buy already produced products and store them or allow them to go to waste. In this case, the gov just bought $15 billion worth of plane ticets, and the airlines didn't produce the flights (a service here, but keeping the product mentality going is more pleasing). As well, I am sure the airlines wouldn't have minded at all to not receive the bailout as long as the amount of scheduled flights remained the same. The amount of money lost far exceeded the bailout that the airlines received, so the net reward gained was still negative (the attacks can be considered a reward here - just kind of like getting underwear for Christmas is a present, heh).
Give the article a quick read, it's worth it this time. They mention that he not only had papers explaining all of his equipment, but he also had some papers signed by doctors (indicating the medical nature of the equipment I'm assuming), and he called the airport ahead of time and notified the appropriate authorities. The authorities response to the problem was effectively that "they don't talk to the workers" - or at least that was what the response sounded like to me, heh.
The device would blow up/self destruct.
I read several pieces on this technology, but I'm not exactly sure about the logisitics of these types of devices. Sure, we all know that we vibrate surfaces in order to produce sounds waves. But, these vibrations seem to be pretty disastrous to things that don't want to vibrate (i.e. Your House). So, if you hooked one of these things up behind your drywall it would seem as if any amount of use would cause the wall to shake, drywall screws to become loose, plaster over the drywall to crack, base molding to come loose, and paint to chip/crack. How do they aim to create a vibration without causing all sorts of damage? Well, if we moved it to a hardwood floor (or even better, the composite material wood floors that aren't even nailed into the floor, rather they float as an entire surface together), we could end up with better results. The wood is most likely much better able to handle the vibrations and transfer them well too. But, what happens if you walk across the floor? It would seem that the power of this type of equipment wouldn't be large enough that it could vibrate an additional 150 - 200 lb person. So, as you would walk across floors, you would be creating deadspots all over the place and interfering with the workings of the 'speakers'.
Has anyone seen any articles with an in-depth analysis of how this equipment might work. Despite the poster's comment that "it sounds like there's some seriously cool science behind it." the article was very slim on any technical details.
lol, communism. [sarcasm]now theres a social system that works well.[/sarcasm]
tried and tried, proven again and again... to fail.