I am a student working on the HPWREN project responsible for this link, and you can find out much more information about this link and the wireless network in general at our website: http://hpwren.ucsd.edu
Also note the November 1st news item that deals specifically this with link, and includes photographs of the setup here: http://hpwren.ucsd.edu/news/021101.html
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Did anyone else notice that on the beta download page (visit the "next version" link at the top of the page) that there is a button to download it via gnutella? It's nice to see someone make use of this as a way to download software.
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I'm surprised that no one has mentioned it, but giFT is a very nice open protocal modeled after the fasttrack network. (originally it used the actual fasttrack network, but now they use an open protocol called OpenFT)
Check it out at http://gift.sourceforge.net
The ncurses based frontend giFTcurs is very nice, but there also are graphical and even web-based frontends to it.
I use it under linux and have been very happy with it.
I don't mean to undermine the significance of the SETI@Home project, but personally the reason I no longer contribute to it is because a cause that is more important to me is now receiving my spare CPU cycles...Folding@Home
Perhaps alternative distributed computing projects have gotten slashdotters attention lately...
While finding extraterrestrial life is certainly fascinating, computation that could lead to cures for diseases like the Folding@Home project appeals to me in a way I can't turn down. Perhaps Team Slashdot could expand to include Folding@Home as well?
In the mean time I'll consider donating a bit more CPU time to SETI@Home, since it's been quite a while:)
I am one of those CS students who receieved a free PDA and I've never seen anyone do anything other than goof around on the internet in lecture with them.
We did however make use of another app called activeclass that was semi-interesting, allowing students to post quetions to the professor during lecture (moderated by a TA). Unfortunately it tended to take so long to input the question on the PocketPC PDAs (which I find to be clunky and sluggish, I ended up giving my PDA to a family member to use) that the question was no longer relevant by the time I entered it.
you can read about it here:
http://activecampus.ucsd.edu/
I've been using Windows XP Professional for a couple weeks now (the final version, clean install) and here's what I have to say about:
- Overall, it has a pretty nice feel to it, especially after a bit of tweaking it to get it how you want it. ( take a look at http://www.tweakxp.com for some tips for this ) The boot time and program loading times are rather fast and the OS in general seems to be very responsive, especially with a lot of RAM. (768 MB in my case) The memory management seems to be pretty good...there are some new settings under System Properties-->Advanced-->Performance Options-->Advanced that are related to this. Power users will want to mess with the view options under folder options right away. Also check out some of the new settings in the display and taskbar control panels.
- Hardware/Software Issues...I use an ASUS A7V133 Motherboard with an onbard promise ata100 cotnroller, and I was unable to set up windows or boot windows after setting it up with my main drive (ibm 60gxp ata100) connected through the ata100 mode. I tried using the windows 2000 promise driver and the native windows xp driver, but both had the same problem, so I've had to run my hard drive in ata33 mode:( I did a search on google and found another person having a similar issue, so I'm not sure what the problem is. Hopefully this will be fixed sometime soon. A bit of problems with some random software, but it was fixed in an update that was recently made available on windows update (be sure to check there for patches and driver updates)
- Remote desktop, this is a nice feature, especially since you can enable it to be used through your webserver (IIS) and run via an activex component installed on the browser of the computer using it, or through a client that you can install from the cd. The downside: if you login remotely, it will kill your local login, so only one login at a time
- Annoyances, I'm used to configuring IIS and other networking settings in windows 2000 server, and I've been noticing that many of the options are disabled (grayed out), esepcially options that are important for secure setups (ip based access permission and whatnot)...this was rather frustrating for me, but it likely was an issue with windows 2000 professional as well...basically don't expect much from it as a server, unless it's for real unimportant purposes (yeah, I know, it's silly to use it in such a fashion, but it's conveinent to have such functions available to make files available to your friends/yourself at other locations, etc)
- Gaming, seems to work great, I've had no problems with Max Payne and the Wolfenstein Multiplayer Test (although I don't know about older games)
- Concerns, although it isn't too hard to use the applications you want (ie, zonealarm for a firewall, winamp for mp3s, EAC/LAME for ripping/encoding, winZIP for zipped files, etc) odds are the average user will end up using Microsoft's programs just because it's there...this is the same sort of anti-competitive behavior we've seen in the past, although it doesn't really affect me much
- "Product Activation" somewhat annoying, probably failry effective against piracy, althought it seems to tolerate minor changes in hardware configuration (change of video card, etc)
- The new powertoys have some nice stuff, including virtual desktops similar to those found in most window managers:)
- User sitching is kinda neat, I still prefer the multi-user system of unix-ased systems
- System rollback stuff, like windows ME but expanded a bit...I disabled it, eats up lots of space, although could be nice for some people
- Stability is good, haven't had it crash once...
- Bottom Line: fairly nice, consider using it if you're using Win9x right now, although probably not worth using over windows 2000...and be sure you have a ~500 mhz+ processor and 192mb+ to make it run smoothly (and it runs quite smoothly with those specs, according to a friend)
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I am a student working on the HPWREN project responsible for this link, and you can find out much more information about this link and the wireless network in general at our website:
http://hpwren.ucsd.edu
Also note the November 1st news item that deals specifically this with link, and includes photographs of the setup here:
http://hpwren.ucsd.edu/news/021101.html
uh...the imac is $200 cheaper
Did anyone else notice that on the beta download page (visit the "next version" link at the top of the page) that there is a button to download it via gnutella? It's nice to see someone make use of this as a way to download software.
I'm surprised that no one has mentioned it, but giFT is a very nice open protocal modeled after the fasttrack network. (originally it used the actual fasttrack network, but now they use an open protocol called OpenFT)
Check it out at http://gift.sourceforge.net
The ncurses based frontend giFTcurs is very nice, but there also are graphical and even web-based frontends to it.
I use it under linux and have been very happy with it.
Pardon me for being ignorant...but what happens to the cuttings when you use a push mower?
Perhaps alternative distributed computing projects have gotten slashdotters attention lately...
While finding extraterrestrial life is certainly fascinating, computation that could lead to cures for diseases like the Folding@Home project appeals to me in a way I can't turn down. Perhaps Team Slashdot could expand to include Folding@Home as well?In the mean time I'll consider donating a bit more CPU time to SETI@Home, since it's been quite a while :)
we've grown up with computers and are terrified of direct human communication
I am one of those CS students who receieved a free PDA and I've never seen anyone do anything other than goof around on the internet in lecture with them.
We did however make use of another app called activeclass that was semi-interesting, allowing students to post quetions to the professor during lecture (moderated by a TA). Unfortunately it tended to take so long to input the question on the PocketPC PDAs (which I find to be clunky and sluggish, I ended up giving my PDA to a family member to use) that the question was no longer relevant by the time I entered it.
you can read about it here:
http://activecampus.ucsd.edu/
I've been using Windows XP Professional for a couple weeks now (the final version, clean install) and here's what I have to say about:
:( I did a search on google and found another person having a similar issue, so I'm not sure what the problem is. Hopefully this will be fixed sometime soon. A bit of problems with some random software, but it was fixed in an update that was recently made available on windows update (be sure to check there for patches and driver updates)
:)
- Overall, it has a pretty nice feel to it, especially after a bit of tweaking it to get it how you want it. ( take a look at http://www.tweakxp.com for some tips for this ) The boot time and program loading times are rather fast and the OS in general seems to be very responsive, especially with a lot of RAM. (768 MB in my case) The memory management seems to be pretty good...there are some new settings under System Properties-->Advanced-->Performance Options-->Advanced that are related to this. Power users will want to mess with the view options under folder options right away. Also check out some of the new settings in the display and taskbar control panels.
- Hardware/Software Issues...I use an ASUS A7V133 Motherboard with an onbard promise ata100 cotnroller, and I was unable to set up windows or boot windows after setting it up with my main drive (ibm 60gxp ata100) connected through the ata100 mode. I tried using the windows 2000 promise driver and the native windows xp driver, but both had the same problem, so I've had to run my hard drive in ata33 mode
- Remote desktop, this is a nice feature, especially since you can enable it to be used through your webserver (IIS) and run via an activex component installed on the browser of the computer using it, or through a client that you can install from the cd. The downside: if you login remotely, it will kill your local login, so only one login at a time
- Annoyances, I'm used to configuring IIS and other networking settings in windows 2000 server, and I've been noticing that many of the options are disabled (grayed out), esepcially options that are important for secure setups (ip based access permission and whatnot)...this was rather frustrating for me, but it likely was an issue with windows 2000 professional as well...basically don't expect much from it as a server, unless it's for real unimportant purposes (yeah, I know, it's silly to use it in such a fashion, but it's conveinent to have such functions available to make files available to your friends/yourself at other locations, etc)
- Gaming, seems to work great, I've had no problems with Max Payne and the Wolfenstein Multiplayer Test (although I don't know about older games)
- Concerns, although it isn't too hard to use the applications you want (ie, zonealarm for a firewall, winamp for mp3s, EAC/LAME for ripping/encoding, winZIP for zipped files, etc) odds are the average user will end up using Microsoft's programs just because it's there...this is the same sort of anti-competitive behavior we've seen in the past, although it doesn't really affect me much
- "Product Activation" somewhat annoying, probably failry effective against piracy, althought it seems to tolerate minor changes in hardware configuration (change of video card, etc)
- The new powertoys have some nice stuff, including virtual desktops similar to those found in most window managers
- User sitching is kinda neat, I still prefer the multi-user system of unix-ased systems
- System rollback stuff, like windows ME but expanded a bit...I disabled it, eats up lots of space, although could be nice for some people
- Stability is good, haven't had it crash once...
- Bottom Line: fairly nice, consider using it if you're using Win9x right now, although probably not worth using over windows 2000...and be sure you have a ~500 mhz+ processor and 192mb+ to make it run smoothly (and it runs quite smoothly with those specs, according to a friend)