But doesn't 802.11b use direct sequence spread spectrum? The power and duration on each frequency is so low interference shouldn't really be a concern at all. The only time I could envision an interference problem between sirius and 802.11 is if you were to have a satellite radio component in your home stereo system and an Internet-capable streaming audio component using 802.11 immediately adjacent to each other.
Look at PANSAT, a satellite built by students at the Naval Academy that uses spread spectrum. They've promised to open the satellite to use by amateurs (since it operates on amateur radio frequencies) but I don't think it'll ever be handed over. Instead, it's the government's way of settling the dispute within the amateur radio community over whether or not SS satellites will cause interference to fixed frequency operators (mainly repeaters). The military is developing a spread spectrum handheld radio for downed pilots to xmit their lat/long while avoiding enemy radio detection gear.
If Microsoft's next version of Office is for the.NET framework, and mono is fully working, There will be Office on Linux.
MS has a history of using undocumented features to make sure their software runs better than competitors' offerings under Windows. I think you can rest assured that MS won't allow their software to go platform independent. There will most definitely be SOMETHING in Office that will prevent it from running on Linux. They said Kerberos would interoperate, too.
While I may not recall my first kernel compile (late 96 or early 97), I wanted to share a small kernel compile trick. When compiling on my P75's, I usually
nice -n -20 screen make dep clean bzImage modules modules_install ; echo "Kernel done" | Mail myname@skytel.com
I started doing that in '98 when compiling on a 486 I commandeered in the server room. Saves you from doing "are we there yet?" with your box. Also lets me know when I need to head home from running my errands or eat a little faster at the dinner table.:)
It's a shame you were too nervous to risk burning karma. I can only hope you bookmarked your comment in your journal in order to look for replies.
I too started in 96, and I think its rare to find anyone who builds their own distro here. I may get six or seven, "I roll my own" replies but there are 600,000 people here. You should try compiling your own kernel sometime. You'll probably learn so much more about Linux's capabilities just by looking at all of the features that are available but deactivated by default. I'd bet you'd be shocked at what features you could activate by doing a simple recompile.
Of course, if you don't recompile because you're a desktop user and don't need to tweak the system's performance or support odd hardware, then we would love to know your name even more so we could make you our poster boy for "Linux is not too hard for the average user."
but why would you want to compile a kernel in 23 seconds?
I think this benchmark is used time and time again because its really the only one that nearly any Linux user would be able to compare their own experiences to. If they said 1.2 GFLOPS, I (and I suspect most others) could only say "Wow, that sounds like a lot. I wonder what that looks like." OTOH, I have seen how long it takes to download 33 Slackware diskettes in parallel on a v.34 modem, and I still run 3 P75's today.
I've been told that I will soon be deploying Beowulf HPC clusters to many clients, including universities and biomedical firms. If they were to tell me that the clusters will be able to do protein folds (or whatever they call it -- referring back to the nuclear simulation discussion) in "only 4 weeks", I won't have a clue as to how to scale that relative to customary performance of the day.
Sure, there are many other applications that are run on clusters, but kernel compiles are the ones that all of us do. It can give us an idea of what kind of performance you'd get out of other processor-intensive operations. And many people will tell you there are so many variables with kernel compiles that its ridiculous to compare the results.
Check out beowulf.org and see what people are doing with cluster computing. I've always wanted to open a site that compiles kernels for you. Just select the patches you want applied and paste the.config file. I'll compile it, and send back to you by email a clickable link to download your custom tarball. Of course no one here would trust a remotely compiled kernel:)
I have no idea how Lojack works, but I doubt it uses GPS
You're right it doesn't use GPS. It just broadcasts its serial number as data when activated. The controllers in the police cars use direction finding to show direction and signal strength, as well as the serial number of the unit it is receiving. The police cars equipped for tracking LoJack can be easily spotted with the four 6-inch antennas arranged in a square on the roof behind the light rack. By comparing the signal strength at each antenna, the controller in the car can determine what direction the signal is coming from.
I used to monitor LoJack's xmit freq in my car until the time I was sitting at a red light near Elizabeth, NJ when, as best I could tell, a car emitting a LoJack signal pulled up alongside, full of ne'er-do-wells. I've never listened since.:)
you could just as soon tell the person where you are
First, I wanted to reply "not if you don't know where you are." The first scenario I envisioned was of inexperienced hikers getting separated.
Hiker1: "Help! I fell and I twisted my ankle real bad!" Hiker2: "Where are you? I can't hear you!" Hiker1: "I see.. trees! Not just a few trees, but a LOT of trees! Oh, and there's some water way off through the trees!"
Now Hiker1 can xmit their position to their partner. And if their partner doesn't know NSEW, they can at least start to walk in circles and see how their movement affects their position reading.
But second, I wanted to see if anyone remembered a supergeek who built a pair of high tech boats and jackets that communicated position information over APRS. Each boat would show its passenger the distance and direction to the other boat. And while the boaters were on land, they could use an HT to xmit DTMF tones back to the boat. One command instructed the boat the calculate the distance and direction to the other boater (walking or not) and use voice synthesis to reply with the distance and direction details. I think when last I read about him (years ago) he was building the same functionality into bicycles.
My point being that distance and direction would have been a nice feature instead of or in addition to raw lat/long data.
One good thing to keep in mind is that the more recent default configurations of mailer packages are configured to deny relaying. So as mail servers get updated, reloaded and replaced, the problem of open relays will become much smaller. And the clueless sysadmins will have to learn more about their systems in order to turn that function back on. Hopefully they will have had a good speaking to regarding their decision by then, too.
but there are problems like almost nobody coming out of college with mainframe knowledge.
Which is why IBM is trying to save the mainframe by running Linux on it. Suppose a company buys a z box running Linux. They get one 48U rack for the system and another for the DLT tape libraries. They contract out one mainframe support guy from IBM, and hire 8 cheap CS college grads to run the Linux virtual servers. Or one seasoned vet and 6 kids. All IBM has to do is guarantee job security for a few new hires a year by giving them mainframe training.
How can you encrypt data with a non-public key system that anyone can decrypt except when it is stored on disk? If it is impossible to decrypt, then it's because you don't have the key. You seem to be highly confused about encryptions, and is, in turn, confusing me...
Thanks, but I'm not highly confused about encryption. In this situation, the discussion was about replacing Freenet's local file encryption with GPG. Freenet's intention is to distribute information to anyone who requests it via the client, while at the same time denying access to a local user trying to access the data as its stored on disk.
GPG offers two methods of encryption, public key and shared (or symmetric) key. When you use public key encryption, you encrypt data specifically for one person to decrypt. That's useless for this situation since you want to distribute the data to anonymous clients. When you use a symmetric key, you tell the recipient(s) the passphrase via another path. If GPG would be used in place of Freenet's on-disk encryption, then there would obviously be a symmetric key passphrase stored somewhere on the server to be read and used by the server code and used to encrypt and decrypt the data on the local disk.
Perhaps the setup routine for the Freenet server could include making up a random, 1024-bit symmetric key passphrase to be used only by the local Freenet node. You'd better hope that the encryption used to store the generated symmetric key passphrase would be strong enough to survive an attack by federal agents. Not to mention the feds could brute force the symmetric key passphrase... eventually.
My point was, if you replace Freenet's on-disk encryption (which is an unknown quantity to me at least) with a known-good system such as GPG, you need to consider the weakest point of that system. I would consider it to be the storage of the symmetric passphrase used to encrypt and decrypt all of the files in the main Freenet node's server space.
I'm a five year GPG user and I keep my keyring on my USB keychain hard drive. Am I still confused? Are you?
The purpose of GPG is either to encrypt data specifically for one person, certify exactly who created/encrypted said data, or both. Freenet was designed to encrypt data for anyone while guaranteeing anonymity of the submitter.
Yes, you could use GPG to encrypt with a symmetric key and just not sign it, but you'd still need to build an infrastructure around it. Freenet wants "plausible deniability" for the hosting server, making it impossible for anyone to decrypt the data as its stored on the disk. A symmetric key with GPG would be immediately decryptable.
Hey, retail sucks and if I stayed in college I wouldn't have this problem so I have no one to blame but myself
Please change your attitude. You certainly can succeed in the IT world, even without a college degree. You just have to sell yourself a little harder. Perhaps you have tried to break into the industry and not had much luck, I don't know, but I've done very well for myself with only a couple years of college.
1. turn off open relay.
2. click 'check me now'
3. pass check. 4. Go on probation involving random checks for 6 months, with fails being duly punished.
That's interesting that you say that. At work, when seeing a demo of a new wireless webpad, I saw a technology demo for 1GB ROMs in CompactFlash format, pressable for 10c each. I never considered the possibility that music may one day be released in that format, but it seems reasonable. The main problem I can see with that is dropping one under your seat while driving.
And of course DRM is still impossible. I doubt they'll change the media format until they have a grip on DRM.
That's $6,000 a month. It's not *that* expensive. I spent some time down there in RTP and saw plenty of ads for "why rent when you can own?" with mortgages starting at $250 a month. Not a mansion of course, but still.
You don't have to drive too far to be reminded that you are in North Carolina, after all.
I used punch cards in my 10th grade ('86) COBOL class. We had a "copy" button. You could feed a stack of punched cards, and a stack of blanks, and rip right through 'em.
While Bluetooth is a much cooler alternative, I've been waiting for the longest time for cellphones to get RJ45 ethernet jacks, complete with IP connectivity that "just works" and DHCP servers built-in to the phones.
list price for a 72 cpu license for a single box is 2.9 million. List price for those 128 cpu's w/ RAC will cost ya 7.6 million.
+1, Interesting. As I posted above, I literally have thousands of servers that the owner wants to move to Linux on S/390, but the vast majority are running Oracle on Sun or HP. Oracle has released on Linux for S/390, but its unsupported. They're just doing a "market need analysis" right now. This raises an interesting price, though. Imagine customers trying to come to them and say we want to consolidate 1,000 Sun Oracle servers to an IBM Linux mainframe.
Are you saying their question will not be "how many Oracle instances will you be running", but "how many processors are installed?" With Linux on S/390, you create a cookie-cutter version of a virtual server and can bring a new server online in under 2 minutes. How would Oracle license something like that? One box, with 4 or 16 processors running anywhere between 100 and 10,000 Oracle instances.
Agreed. I'd be thinking real hard 'bout some of IBM's big iron if I were responsible for a datacenter like that
Thanks for the plug. As the Dead Kennedys sang, "We've Got a Bigger Problem Now". I was asked to analyze between 3,000 and 7,000 servers (depending on who you ask) and start picking off machines to cut over to Linux on S/390. Only problem is, about 80% of the boxes are running Oracle on Sun or HP. Oracle has already ported to Linux on S/390, but its absolutely unsupported -- a showstopper for my customer. I offered up running Oracle under OS/390 on the same box as the virtual Linux servers, and was told Oracle on OS/390 sucks very badly.
If Oracle gets serious about supporting Linux on all platforms, not just Intel, that'll make my day, month, and year!
Free tidbit for the mainframe gang: Sterling Software, the NDM aka Connect:Direct people, have had Linux version for a while now. Yesterday, they announced they are now fully supporting NDM/CD on Linux for S/390. That's a huge help for porting to Linux on S/390. Now the data path never has to leave the box!
You plug a 3G client card into your desktop and anywhere you go
(tongue->cheek)I prefer to carry my laptop around instead(/tongue->cheek)
As a CDMA Verizon customer who regularly goes over his minutes using the Internet access, I can finally say "yee haw". Last June, when I finally got around to buying a data cable for my StarTAC, I called Verizon to confirm the setup, and the tech actually did say to me that they were going to 144k in January. 3 years late on DSL, but hey, he nailed that one perfectly! I've always joked with my friends that with the Linux firewall, I could NAT my network over my cellphone. But now? hmmm... ISDN-speed failover link.. (Rubs chin and raises eyebrow like The Rock).
But seriously, I can see some MP3-Car freaks using this to extend their network reach so they could, say, scp down some new MP3's while they drive to the store instead of sitting in the car running in the garage.:) As for me, I'd rather listen to text-to-speech of IRC or something amusing like that during the morning or evening commute. Or how about scrolling/. stories on a heads-up display in the windshield???;)
This from "Cindy" a tech at Comcast. Background: I was set as static from day 1 by the tech who said there were problems with the DHCP server at the time. Now that its crunch time, I've been trying to convert to DHCP, but haven't been getting a lease. Found out that CC changed my cust id number, so I would have never gotten an IP until I called them. Hats off to Comcast for calling my house with a prerecorded message stating that I'm still using static and have a week to convert to DHCP, lest my connectivity will be dropped.
Anyway, in talking to Cindy tonight, I said, "I can't believe you guys are going after users with Linksys boxes!" She asked, "what do you mean 'going after'?" I said, "like, pulling the plug! I have one that does wireless so I can work on my laptop anywhere in the house, and now you guys want to chain me to my desk in my basement."
"Oh, I don't think that's what they meant. See, those little firewall boxes won't work with the new network because they're only static, and can't do DHCP at all, so you're box isn't going to work after we change over the network."
Though I'm waiting for HIPERSOCKETS which would allow me to afford better use of OSA.
We didn't cover it's use in class back in December, but the instructor definitely answered an attendee's similar request with "yes, it works now." The conversation quickly went way over my head with mainframe stuff, but the gist of it was that you can setup 4 HIPERSOCKETS and create virtual LANs behind the HIPERSOCKETS.
On the last day, we watched the instructor install z/OS on the and create some Linux guests. He showed us where in the configuration files to setup the HIPERSOCKETS. So yes.. it works now, don't ask me how!:)
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But doesn't 802.11b use direct sequence spread spectrum? The power and duration on each frequency is so low interference shouldn't really be a concern at all. The only time I could envision an interference problem between sirius and 802.11 is if you were to have a satellite radio component in your home stereo system and an Internet-capable streaming audio component using 802.11 immediately adjacent to each other.
Look at PANSAT, a satellite built by students at the Naval Academy that uses spread spectrum. They've promised to open the satellite to use by amateurs (since it operates on amateur radio frequencies) but I don't think it'll ever be handed over. Instead, it's the government's way of settling the dispute within the amateur radio community over whether or not SS satellites will cause interference to fixed frequency operators (mainly repeaters). The military is developing a spread spectrum handheld radio for downed pilots to xmit their lat/long while avoiding enemy radio detection gear.
If Microsoft's next version of Office is for the .NET framework, and mono is fully working, There will be Office on Linux.
MS has a history of using undocumented features to make sure their software runs better than competitors' offerings under Windows. I think you can rest assured that MS won't allow their software to go platform independent. There will most definitely be SOMETHING in Office that will prevent it from running on Linux. They said Kerberos would interoperate, too.
See subject. Some good light saber action here and there, but the story just doesn't do for me at 31 what ANH did for me at 7.
While I may not recall my first kernel compile (late 96 or early 97), I wanted to share a small kernel compile trick. When compiling on my P75's, I usually
:)
nice -n -20 screen
make dep clean bzImage modules modules_install ; echo "Kernel done" | Mail myname@skytel.com
I started doing that in '98 when compiling on a 486 I commandeered in the server room. Saves you from doing "are we there yet?" with your box. Also lets me know when I need to head home from running my errands or eat a little faster at the dinner table.
It's a shame you were too nervous to risk burning karma. I can only hope you bookmarked your comment in your journal in order to look for replies.
I too started in 96, and I think its rare to find anyone who builds their own distro here. I may get six or seven, "I roll my own" replies but there are 600,000 people here. You should try compiling your own kernel sometime. You'll probably learn so much more about Linux's capabilities just by looking at all of the features that are available but deactivated by default. I'd bet you'd be shocked at what features you could activate by doing a simple recompile.
Of course, if you don't recompile because you're a desktop user and don't need to tweak the system's performance or support odd hardware, then we would love to know your name even more so we could make you our poster boy for "Linux is not too hard for the average user."
but why would you want to compile a kernel in 23 seconds?
.config file. I'll compile it, and send back to you by email a clickable link to download your custom tarball. Of course no one here would trust a remotely compiled kernel :)
I think this benchmark is used time and time again because its really the only one that nearly any Linux user would be able to compare their own experiences to. If they said 1.2 GFLOPS, I (and I suspect most others) could only say "Wow, that sounds like a lot. I wonder what that looks like." OTOH, I have seen how long it takes to download 33 Slackware diskettes in parallel on a v.34 modem, and I still run 3 P75's today.
I've been told that I will soon be deploying Beowulf HPC clusters to many clients, including universities and biomedical firms. If they were to tell me that the clusters will be able to do protein folds (or whatever they call it -- referring back to the nuclear simulation discussion) in "only 4 weeks", I won't have a clue as to how to scale that relative to customary performance of the day.
Sure, there are many other applications that are run on clusters, but kernel compiles are the ones that all of us do. It can give us an idea of what kind of performance you'd get out of other processor-intensive operations. And many people will tell you there are so many variables with kernel compiles that its ridiculous to compare the results.
Check out beowulf.org and see what people are doing with cluster computing. I've always wanted to open a site that compiles kernels for you. Just select the patches you want applied and paste the
I have no idea how Lojack works, but I doubt it uses GPS
:)
You're right it doesn't use GPS. It just broadcasts its serial number as data when activated. The controllers in the police cars use direction finding to show direction and signal strength, as well as the serial number of the unit it is receiving. The police cars equipped for tracking LoJack can be easily spotted with the four 6-inch antennas arranged in a square on the roof behind the light rack. By comparing the signal strength at each antenna, the controller in the car can determine what direction the signal is coming from.
I used to monitor LoJack's xmit freq in my car until the time I was sitting at a red light near Elizabeth, NJ when, as best I could tell, a car emitting a LoJack signal pulled up alongside, full of ne'er-do-wells. I've never listened since.
you could just as soon tell the person where you are
First, I wanted to reply "not if you don't know where you are." The first scenario I envisioned was of inexperienced hikers getting separated.
Hiker1: "Help! I fell and I twisted my ankle real bad!"
Hiker2: "Where are you? I can't hear you!"
Hiker1: "I see.. trees! Not just a few trees, but a LOT of trees! Oh, and there's some water way off through the trees!"
Now Hiker1 can xmit their position to their partner. And if their partner doesn't know NSEW, they can at least start to walk in circles and see how their movement affects their position reading.
But second, I wanted to see if anyone remembered a supergeek who built a pair of high tech boats and jackets that communicated position information over APRS. Each boat would show its passenger the distance and direction to the other boat. And while the boaters were on land, they could use an HT to xmit DTMF tones back to the boat. One command instructed the boat the calculate the distance and direction to the other boater (walking or not) and use voice synthesis to reply with the distance and direction details. I think when last I read about him (years ago) he was building the same functionality into bicycles.
My point being that distance and direction would have been a nice feature instead of or in addition to raw lat/long data.
One good thing to keep in mind is that the more recent default configurations of mailer packages are configured to deny relaying. So as mail servers get updated, reloaded and replaced, the problem of open relays will become much smaller. And the clueless sysadmins will have to learn more about their systems in order to turn that function back on. Hopefully they will have had a good speaking to regarding their decision by then, too.
but there are problems like almost nobody coming out of college with mainframe knowledge.
Which is why IBM is trying to save the mainframe by running Linux on it. Suppose a company buys a z box running Linux. They get one 48U rack for the system and another for the DLT tape libraries. They contract out one mainframe support guy from IBM, and hire 8 cheap CS college grads to run the Linux virtual servers. Or one seasoned vet and 6 kids. All IBM has to do is guarantee job security for a few new hires a year by giving them mainframe training.
How can you encrypt data with a non-public key system that anyone can decrypt except when it is stored on disk? If it is impossible to decrypt, then it's because you don't have the key. You seem to be highly confused about encryptions, and is, in turn, confusing me...
Thanks, but I'm not highly confused about encryption. In this situation, the discussion was about replacing Freenet's local file encryption with GPG. Freenet's intention is to distribute information to anyone who requests it via the client, while at the same time denying access to a local user trying to access the data as its stored on disk.
GPG offers two methods of encryption, public key and shared (or symmetric) key. When you use public key encryption, you encrypt data specifically for one person to decrypt. That's useless for this situation since you want to distribute the data to anonymous clients. When you use a symmetric key, you tell the recipient(s) the passphrase via another path. If GPG would be used in place of Freenet's on-disk encryption, then there would obviously be a symmetric key passphrase stored somewhere on the server to be read and used by the server code and used to encrypt and decrypt the data on the local disk.
Perhaps the setup routine for the Freenet server could include making up a random, 1024-bit symmetric key passphrase to be used only by the local Freenet node. You'd better hope that the encryption used to store the generated symmetric key passphrase would be strong enough to survive an attack by federal agents. Not to mention the feds could brute force the symmetric key passphrase... eventually.
My point was, if you replace Freenet's on-disk encryption (which is an unknown quantity to me at least) with a known-good system such as GPG, you need to consider the weakest point of that system. I would consider it to be the storage of the symmetric passphrase used to encrypt and decrypt all of the files in the main Freenet node's server space.
I'm a five year GPG user and I keep my keyring on my USB keychain hard drive. Am I still confused? Are you?
The purpose of GPG is either to encrypt data specifically for one person, certify exactly who created/encrypted said data, or both. Freenet was designed to encrypt data for anyone while guaranteeing anonymity of the submitter.
Yes, you could use GPG to encrypt with a symmetric key and just not sign it, but you'd still need to build an infrastructure around it. Freenet wants "plausible deniability" for the hosting server, making it impossible for anyone to decrypt the data as its stored on the disk. A symmetric key with GPG would be immediately decryptable.
Hey, retail sucks and if I stayed in college I wouldn't have this problem so I have no one to blame but myself
Please change your attitude. You certainly can succeed in the IT world, even without a college degree. You just have to sell yourself a little harder. Perhaps you have tried to break into the industry and not had much luck, I don't know, but I've done very well for myself with only a couple years of college.
1. turn off open relay.
2. click 'check me now'
3. pass check.
4. Go on probation involving random checks for 6 months, with fails being duly punished.
CD's are near end of life for various reasons
That's interesting that you say that. At work, when seeing a demo of a new wireless webpad, I saw a technology demo for 1GB ROMs in CompactFlash format, pressable for 10c each. I never considered the possibility that music may one day be released in that format, but it seems reasonable. The main problem I can see with that is dropping one under your seat while driving.
And of course DRM is still impossible. I doubt they'll change the media format until they have a grip on DRM.
Don't have time to read every post right now, so while I'm thinking about it..
Locate a DLP theatre near you. And for the very early poster, there are 23 theatres in the US. Its not a typo.
Life on the Screen: Identity in the Age of the Internet by Dr. Sherry Turkle.
Great book. Provides excellent insight into the psychology of RPG gamers.
That's $6,000 a month. It's not *that* expensive. I spent some time down there in RTP and saw plenty of ads for "why rent when you can own?" with mortgages starting at $250 a month. Not a mansion of course, but still.
You don't have to drive too far to be reminded that you are in North Carolina, after all.
I used punch cards in my 10th grade ('86) COBOL class. We had a "copy" button. You could feed a stack of punched cards, and a stack of blanks, and rip right through 'em.
While Bluetooth is a much cooler alternative, I've been waiting for the longest time for cellphones to get RJ45 ethernet jacks, complete with IP connectivity that "just works" and DHCP servers built-in to the phones.
list price for a 72 cpu license for a single box is 2.9 million. List price for those 128 cpu's w/ RAC will cost ya 7.6 million.
+1, Interesting. As I posted above, I literally have thousands of servers that the owner wants to move to Linux on S/390, but the vast majority are running Oracle on Sun or HP. Oracle has released on Linux for S/390, but its unsupported. They're just doing a "market need analysis" right now. This raises an interesting price, though. Imagine customers trying to come to them and say we want to consolidate 1,000 Sun Oracle servers to an IBM Linux mainframe.
Are you saying their question will not be "how many Oracle instances will you be running", but "how many processors are installed?" With Linux on S/390, you create a cookie-cutter version of a virtual server and can bring a new server online in under 2 minutes. How would Oracle license something like that? One box, with 4 or 16 processors running anywhere between 100 and 10,000 Oracle instances.
Agreed. I'd be thinking real hard 'bout some of IBM's big iron if I were responsible for a datacenter like that
Thanks for the plug. As the Dead Kennedys sang, "We've Got a Bigger Problem Now". I was asked to analyze between 3,000 and 7,000 servers (depending on who you ask) and start picking off machines to cut over to Linux on S/390. Only problem is, about 80% of the boxes are running Oracle on Sun or HP. Oracle has already ported to Linux on S/390, but its absolutely unsupported -- a showstopper for my customer. I offered up running Oracle under OS/390 on the same box as the virtual Linux servers, and was told Oracle on OS/390 sucks very badly.
If Oracle gets serious about supporting Linux on all platforms, not just Intel, that'll make my day, month, and year!
Free tidbit for the mainframe gang: Sterling Software, the NDM aka Connect:Direct people, have had Linux version for a while now. Yesterday, they announced they are now fully supporting NDM/CD on Linux for S/390. That's a huge help for porting to Linux on S/390. Now the data path never has to leave the box!
You plug a 3G client card into your desktop and anywhere you go
:) As for me, I'd rather listen to text-to-speech of IRC or something amusing like that during the morning or evening commute. Or how about scrolling /. stories on a heads-up display in the windshield??? ;)
(tongue->cheek)I prefer to carry my laptop around instead(/tongue->cheek)
As a CDMA Verizon customer who regularly goes over his minutes using the Internet access, I can finally say "yee haw". Last June, when I finally got around to buying a data cable for my StarTAC, I called Verizon to confirm the setup, and the tech actually did say to me that they were going to 144k in January. 3 years late on DSL, but hey, he nailed that one perfectly! I've always joked with my friends that with the Linux firewall, I could NAT my network over my cellphone. But now? hmmm... ISDN-speed failover link.. (Rubs chin and raises eyebrow like The Rock).
But seriously, I can see some MP3-Car freaks using this to extend their network reach so they could, say, scp down some new MP3's while they drive to the store instead of sitting in the car running in the garage.
This from "Cindy" a tech at Comcast. Background: I was set as static from day 1 by the tech who said there were problems with the DHCP server at the time. Now that its crunch time, I've been trying to convert to DHCP, but haven't been getting a lease. Found out that CC changed my cust id number, so I would have never gotten an IP until I called them. Hats off to Comcast for calling my house with a prerecorded message stating that I'm still using static and have a week to convert to DHCP, lest my connectivity will be dropped.
Anyway, in talking to Cindy tonight, I said, "I can't believe you guys are going after users with Linksys boxes!" She asked, "what do you mean 'going after'?" I said, "like, pulling the plug! I have one that does wireless so I can work on my laptop anywhere in the house, and now you guys want to chain me to my desk in my basement."
"Oh, I don't think that's what they meant. See, those little firewall boxes won't work with the new network because they're only static, and can't do DHCP at all, so you're box isn't going to work after we change over the network."
"I see. Well then, uh, thanks, I guess!"
Though I'm waiting for HIPERSOCKETS which would allow me to afford better use of OSA.
:)
We didn't cover it's use in class back in December, but the instructor definitely answered an attendee's similar request with "yes, it works now." The conversation quickly went way over my head with mainframe stuff, but the gist of it was that you can setup 4 HIPERSOCKETS and create virtual LANs behind the HIPERSOCKETS.
On the last day, we watched the instructor install z/OS on the and create some Linux guests. He showed us where in the configuration files to setup the HIPERSOCKETS. So yes.. it works now, don't ask me how!