Somebody correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe in the United States, it's the recipient of a call to cellular phone who pays the extra charges.
Generally yes, but Nextel has had no-charge incoming calls on certain plans for a couple of years. I generally use over 1700 minutes a month, but with free incoming 24x7x365 and free nights & weekends (9pm-7am), I rarely use more than 250 "plan" minutes (out of 600).
Even if they check, have you ever once seen a cashier question a signature? I haven't.
It's happened to me. I've been told my signature looks like it was made by a chicken on crack, and I've been asked to produce other signature samples. Luckily, I had wads of signed receipts in my wallet at those times to show... that was often followed by, "wow".
Then you have Wal Marts and such that you swipe the card yourself.... ugh.
It must really tick you off when Boston Market, Starbucks, and Subway don't even make me sign for charges less than $20. Have you seen in post offices where they have big signs up saying that credit cards must be signed, and "SEE ID" or "CID" is not valid? Yes, I know you sign yours, too, but there are people who don't even sign theirs.
Comcast's millions of customers could save so much money if they just built their own MythTV
I know you were being funny, but.. i have an old series 1 hacked, the Comcast HDTV/DVR, and I'm still considering doing something with Myth. The Comcast is not good enough to warrant tossing out the TiVO, but it did come with firewire activated, granting direct access to live and recorded content.. even HD content. "That's hot!" The series 1 box is just for sitcom reruns I like having around, but I want the Myth box because I'd like to record some content directly to a format that I can download without having to transcode. I also bought a G4 laptop to get my wife on wireless and off Windows while enabling direct access to the content (all that for "Learning to Fly" on Discovery Wings aka The Military Channel?!?). Lastly, I'm waiting for someone to build a Myth module that's kinda like a TiVO season pass integrated with bit torrent. That would be a killer app IMHO.
Then the Comcast box went down a week and a half ago. I travel on business a lot so I haven't had time to get it swapped out. When the box and the DVR functions work, its a godsend for $10/month. When it doesn't, its a real PITA. Thank god cc offers refunds for days without service.
0. GAIM with GAIM Encryption - Multiprotocol, multiplatform IM client and its encryption module that encrypts any IM protocol you use
It also maintains the same look and feel across Windows and Linux and is a key component when helping individuals and organizations get off Windows desktops. It may the closest thing I've seen to cross-platform OSS perfection.
My current customer (~6000 employees) already uses Thunderbird and Firefox, and they are begging to get onto Linux desktops. I introduced them to this pair recently, and the first few pockets of users are starting to show up. They've considered setting up their own Jabber server, and I'm still helping them get a better understanding of how it works (not my main job there).
Get a good client in first, then change the protocol. Wash, rinse, repeat enough times until the underlying OS is irrelevant.
Any IBMers going to San Diego for next week's conference? One of the offerings is "How to build an enterprise using only Open Source software". Should be interesting.
Unfortunately PivotTables prevents me from switching over. I don't need that many rows. I need the ability to visually slice 'n dice figures mid-conversation with PHBs and C-level executives.
Dude. You are bad for business. Especially if people were to start listening to you.
1. You can reboot IBM's management module without crashing your blades. Also, my current customer is running a drop to each of 3 NICs on each HP blade for security reasons. They *want* 21 runs to each blade chassis for some reason.
2. Not what you use blade for. Best tool for the job.
3. It sounds like you must be using IBM equipment but no one has deployed IBM Director. Someone in charge really needs to schedule a visit to get you out of hell. IBM Director can order replacements for failed components automatically and let you schedule your downtime.
4. IBM and HP both do SCSI in single-width blades now. HP does hot plug.
5. None.
6. Can't help you there, except that IBM's RDM can do scripted installs as well as image-based deployment. I can even assign an image to a blade slot so that if you swap out a blade with a blank, Director will automatically push the desired image to the new blank. Great for database and web application servers that join a live cluster.
7. If you're still thinking 1U, then I'm guessing you're not in an enterprise setting. Or a necessarily modern one.
Sorry to disrespect your low UID, but a lot of stuff has changed recently, and some newbies here might actually believe you.
I've never heard of anyone running Windows on blades. Does anyone do this?
Yes, I just finished a 3-year server consolidation deal collapsing over 700 servers to ESX on "big boxes" and Windows primarily on IBM blade. Now I'm wrapping up an 8 week SCON design project collapsing over 100 aging Windows servers to a mix of VMware and Windows on HP blades. Here's a small book on deploying Exchange on IBM's blade offering. FWIW, I'm an IBM SCON Architect. Blade is a nice alternative to ESX when customers either
a) want a good consolidation ratio but using physical servers instead of VMware (14 servers in 7U), or b) want to go nuts consolidating over 100 servers to 7U with VMware but splitting all the "eggs" across 14 different "baskets", or c) somewhere in between
BTW, HP offers 8 blades in 6U, and you can't mix RISC and Intel blades in the same chassis; advantage IBM
That is why you need a Senao 2511 or a SMC EliteConnect Wifi adapter. At 200 mW, your signal will actually be *stronger* than the AP.
And as a ham radio operator, I'm licensed for 1500 **watts**. Check out HSMM sometime. Hams realized one day that they can operate under amateur radio rules part 97 instead of unlicensed part 15 rules.
Did exactly this with Misterhouse and diald. I configured the reaction to the staircase motion sensor to be a ping to an off-network IP. Previously, I just configured diald to be "always connected" to my office VPN (an 800#). It took months before they nagged me about it, so then I moved to the motion sensor approach. It definitely stopped the nagging.
As an aside, you may be able to get free (or cheap) AOL/Yahoo!/MSN IM on your cellphone. I get all three unlimited for free on my Nextel. I only use the AOL piece and created a separate id just for the phone. ("g33kb0y" and "g33kb0ycell" for example)
When the config earned EAL2+, it was on xSeries, but according to this, they earned EAL3+ on *all* platforms. I did a little digging but couldn't find if the same applies to this certification. I know it doesn't answer your question, but it may keep your hopes up to dig some more. As an IBM consultant doing Linux on x, p, and z.. I say "cool!"
With most of the major carriers offering free minutes for calls between *any* of their customers (not just those on a family plan), is it any wonder that so many students are showing up with cellphones? I was expecting to see commentary about carriers linking up with campuses in advertising arrangements. I would expect Verizon and Cingular/AT&T to turn campuses into battlegrounds reminding everyone that all calls to any other user on their network is free all day, every day, encouraging the students to convince their friends to all use the same carrier.
I remember using the community phone in the dorm hallway 16 years ago. I'm shocked that practice went on for another 11 years!!
For the next version, why not release this with a program that wardrivers can use to automatically detect and upload changes to the server?
That's something I'll be installing when I finish my "carputer". I hacked my nav system to be a tv and take 3 input sets. I'm spec'ing a carputer for one of the input sets, and will be running gpsdrive among other things on it. GPS Drive integrates directly with Kismet and updates maps live with hit data. I prefer wigle.net myself, and built one of the wiki pages. Now whenever I get a new assignment, I usually map the surrounding area to "flesh out" the wigle data.
I'd like to get to a point whereby every time I get in the car, the carputer is constantly mapping and uploads the deltas each time I pull into my driveway.
That's not at all true. When you buy a CD, you buy the CD as a piece of personal property. You can do anything at all with it. The law may independently limit your freedom with it (e.g. you own your car but can't go 100mph in a school zone) but you still own it.
So long as you're clear that you absolutely do not OWN the copy of the music on the CD. You own the physical media but not the data represented on it. Yes, you're free to rub the physical media all over your naked body, or buy 50 copies at Walmart only to watch them glow in a microwave. You do not own the music on the CD, not even the copy of the music on the CD. You have purchased the right to do certain things with it, like listen to it, create backup copies, etc, but you not own it.
That'd be using the evidence that a person is -downloading- as colateral evidence to imply and then assume that the person must also be uploading.
Sorry, bud, when you use BT, you can see all of the IPs that are *serving* you chunks. Hence those IPs are *uploading*, get it? That's what I was referring to. The 0kb upload cap was for the investigators to use in order to obtain a list of IPs that actually are doing the sharing, without the investigators actually breaking the law to get that list. Read it over, you'll get it.
Its not illegal to download, its illegal to distribute -- share, make available, upload, however you want to think of it. How many "downloaders" have they gone after? How many uploaders/sharers?
That's also why its now open season on BitTorrent users. All they have to do is open a.torrent and get all the IPs ready to share. If they tweak their client to cap at 0 up, they never break the law by uploading and get a nice purty list of all the IPs of users who are currently and actively breaking the law. Yes their downloads will be slow, but speed is not their goal. Its that fresh new list of lawbreakers that gets 'em out of bed each morning. Like getting a newsletter of stocks that are going to double that day each and every morning.
And I am so sick of hearing "its not stealing". When you buy CDs you're buying the right to listen to a copy of the music in digital form. When you download, you're getting the copy of the music in digital form without paying for the right to listen to it. So please, from now on, be sure to use BitTorrent for all your future downloads. It should "thin out the herd" much more quickly. I'm just waiting to hear from Comcast for having so many torrents open only to be able to explain to them that they're all legal. I guess I won't hear from them until they get a notice about me.
John, I *must* be more careful with my articles and subjects. When I said "we", I was referring to "we, the United States". I'm very sorry for any misunderstanding.
Anywho, check out these google hits:
MIRACL laser. It appears to be 2m across to answer your earlier question.
story. Notice the "partial success" quote since the data flow stopped.
United Press International April 03, 2000 By PAMELA HESS
WASHINGTON, April 3 (UPI) -- A panel of defense industry experts will recommend the Pentagon develop new anti-satellite weapons and techniques that would block enemies' use of spy satellites, GPS and commercial communication systems, according to an as-yet-unreleased report by the Defense Science Board.
The panel envisions a laser weapon that could, at different power levels, temporarily "blind" or physically destroy an adversary's satellite in times of war or when "detrimental to U.S. or coalition interests," according to the report, which was obtained by "Inside the Pentagon," an independent news weekly.
The Defense Department has been developing missiles and lasers that can do just that, but has yet to deploy one. Congress has kept alive an Army effort to develop an anti-satellite missile with infusions of cash every year since 1993, the last year the Pentagon budgeted money for the program on its own. Manufacturer Boeing is expected to have three prototypes completed this June, ready for flight testing in 2001.
The Army also has the MIRACL laser, a massive and powerful laser designed to destroy or blind enemy satellites in space. It was first tested against an Air Force satellite in 1997 despite the expressed concerns of then-Russian President Boris Yeltsin to President Clinton.
Indeed, even the White House has taken a stand against anti-satellite weapons. In a 1997 letter to Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, President Clinton said he did not see a need for deployment of such a weapon. "I do not believe any threat yet justifies the near-term deployment of an operational ASAT capability," he wrote.
Clinton used his line-item veto power to delete almost $40 million for the program Congress inserted into the Pentagon's 1998 budget. The Defense Science Board report was completed in February but has not yet been publicly
(yes it does cut off there). Again, so sorry for any confusion. It was just an interesting story to me all those years ago, and it found its way into this thread. I in no way meant to indicate I took part in that test. I just thought it had high "coolness factor".
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Somebody correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe in the United States, it's the recipient of a call to cellular phone who pays the extra charges.
Generally yes, but Nextel has had no-charge incoming calls on certain plans for a couple of years. I generally use over 1700 minutes a month, but with free incoming 24x7x365 and free nights & weekends (9pm-7am), I rarely use more than 250 "plan" minutes (out of 600).
Even if they check, have you ever once seen a cashier question a signature? I haven't.
It's happened to me. I've been told my signature looks like it was made by a chicken on crack, and I've been asked to produce other signature samples. Luckily, I had wads of signed receipts in my wallet at those times to show... that was often followed by, "wow".
Then you have Wal Marts and such that you swipe the card yourself.... ugh.
It must really tick you off when Boston Market, Starbucks, and Subway don't even make me sign for charges less than $20. Have you seen in post offices where they have big signs up saying that credit cards must be signed, and "SEE ID" or "CID" is not valid? Yes, I know you sign yours, too, but there are people who don't even sign theirs.
"For [Wil's Sister], press one. For [Wil's Brother], press two. For the most annoying sound in the world, press three. For Wil, press three..."
:)
Hey Wil, did you notice you're the most annoying sound in the world?
j/k
Comcast's millions of customers could save so much money if they just built their own MythTV
I know you were being funny, but.. i have an old series 1 hacked, the Comcast HDTV/DVR, and I'm still considering doing something with Myth. The Comcast is not good enough to warrant tossing out the TiVO, but it did come with firewire activated, granting direct access to live and recorded content.. even HD content. "That's hot!" The series 1 box is just for sitcom reruns I like having around, but I want the Myth box because I'd like to record some content directly to a format that I can download without having to transcode. I also bought a G4 laptop to get my wife on wireless and off Windows while enabling direct access to the content (all that for "Learning to Fly" on Discovery Wings aka The Military Channel?!?). Lastly, I'm waiting for someone to build a Myth module that's kinda like a TiVO season pass integrated with bit torrent. That would be a killer app IMHO.
Then the Comcast box went down a week and a half ago. I travel on business a lot so I haven't had time to get it swapped out. When the box and the DVR functions work, its a godsend for $10/month. When it doesn't, its a real PITA. Thank god cc offers refunds for days without service.
You forgot:
0. GAIM with GAIM Encryption - Multiprotocol, multiplatform IM client and its encryption module that encrypts any IM protocol you use
It also maintains the same look and feel across Windows and Linux and is a key component when helping individuals and organizations get off Windows desktops. It may the closest thing I've seen to cross-platform OSS perfection.
My current customer (~6000 employees) already uses Thunderbird and Firefox, and they are begging to get onto Linux desktops. I introduced them to this pair recently, and the first few pockets of users are starting to show up. They've considered setting up their own Jabber server, and I'm still helping them get a better understanding of how it works (not my main job there).
Get a good client in first, then change the protocol. Wash, rinse, repeat enough times until the underlying OS is irrelevant.
Thanks and thanks ;)
Any IBMers going to San Diego for next week's conference? One of the offerings is "How to build an enterprise using only Open Source software". Should be interesting.
Unfortunately PivotTables prevents me from switching over. I don't need that many rows. I need the ability to visually slice 'n dice figures mid-conversation with PHBs and C-level executives.
Dude. You are bad for business. Especially if people were to start listening to you.
1. You can reboot IBM's management module without crashing your blades. Also, my current customer is running a drop to each of 3 NICs on each HP blade for security reasons. They *want* 21 runs to each blade chassis for some reason.
2. Not what you use blade for. Best tool for the job.
3. It sounds like you must be using IBM equipment but no one has deployed IBM Director. Someone in charge really needs to schedule a visit to get you out of hell. IBM Director can order replacements for failed components automatically and let you schedule your downtime.
4. IBM and HP both do SCSI in single-width blades now. HP does hot plug.
5. None.
6. Can't help you there, except that IBM's RDM can do scripted installs as well as image-based deployment. I can even assign an image to a blade slot so that if you swap out a blade with a blank, Director will automatically push the desired image to the new blank. Great for database and web application servers that join a live cluster.
7. If you're still thinking 1U, then I'm guessing you're not in an enterprise setting. Or a necessarily modern one.
Sorry to disrespect your low UID, but a lot of stuff has changed recently, and some newbies here might actually believe you.
I've never heard of anyone running Windows on blades. Does anyone do this?
Yes, I just finished a 3-year server consolidation deal collapsing over 700 servers to ESX on "big boxes" and Windows primarily on IBM blade. Now I'm wrapping up an 8 week SCON design project collapsing over 100 aging Windows servers to a mix of VMware and Windows on HP blades. Here's a small book on deploying Exchange on IBM's blade offering. FWIW, I'm an IBM SCON Architect. Blade is a nice alternative to ESX when customers either
a) want a good consolidation ratio but using physical servers instead of VMware (14 servers in 7U), or
b) want to go nuts consolidating over 100 servers to 7U with VMware but splitting all the "eggs" across 14 different "baskets", or
c) somewhere in between
BTW, HP offers 8 blades in 6U, and you can't mix RISC and Intel blades in the same chassis; advantage IBM
You have the right idea , but why limit yourself?
While you're absolutely right about the encryption, check this out. And believe you me, you won't find my call here either :)
That is why you need a Senao 2511 or a SMC EliteConnect Wifi adapter. At 200 mW, your signal will actually be *stronger* than the AP.
And as a ham radio operator, I'm licensed for 1500 **watts**. Check out HSMM sometime. Hams realized one day that they can operate under amateur radio rules part 97 instead of unlicensed part 15 rules.
I once saw 20 [networks] at once [in New York]
;)
My record for a single sitting on the 38th floor of the Hilton in midtown is **247** networks. Not all open, sure, but still...
Did exactly this with Misterhouse and diald. I configured the reaction to the staircase motion sensor to be a ping to an off-network IP. Previously, I just configured diald to be "always connected" to my office VPN (an 800#). It took months before they nagged me about it, so then I moved to the motion sensor approach. It definitely stopped the nagging.
As an aside, you may be able to get free (or cheap) AOL/Yahoo!/MSN IM on your cellphone. I get all three unlimited for free on my Nextel. I only use the AOL piece and created a separate id just for the phone. ("g33kb0y" and "g33kb0ycell" for example)
I am curious if it was on a pSeries or xSeries
When the config earned EAL2+, it was on xSeries, but according to this, they earned EAL3+ on *all* platforms. I did a little digging but couldn't find if the same applies to this certification. I know it doesn't answer your question, but it may keep your hopes up to dig some more. As an IBM consultant doing Linux on x, p, and z.. I say "cool!"
since they are part of the US Treasury dept
Used to be part of the treasury dept. They are now DHS
With most of the major carriers offering free minutes for calls between *any* of their customers (not just those on a family plan), is it any wonder that so many students are showing up with cellphones? I was expecting to see commentary about carriers linking up with campuses in advertising arrangements. I would expect Verizon and Cingular/AT&T to turn campuses into battlegrounds reminding everyone that all calls to any other user on their network is free all day, every day, encouraging the students to convince their friends to all use the same carrier.
I remember using the community phone in the dorm hallway 16 years ago. I'm shocked that practice went on for another 11 years!!
For the next version, why not release this with a program that wardrivers can use to automatically detect and upload changes to the server?
That's something I'll be installing when I finish my "carputer". I hacked my nav system to be a tv and take 3 input sets. I'm spec'ing a carputer for one of the input sets, and will be running gpsdrive among other things on it. GPS Drive integrates directly with Kismet and updates maps live with hit data. I prefer wigle.net myself, and built one of the wiki pages. Now whenever I get a new assignment, I usually map the surrounding area to "flesh out" the wigle data.
I'd like to get to a point whereby every time I get in the car, the carputer is constantly mapping and uploads the deltas each time I pull into my driveway.
And I have to drive 100 miles at the tail end of a two-day snow storm to get there, right through the area projected to get 7-14". Crap!
That's not at all true. When you buy a CD, you buy the CD as a piece of personal property. You can do anything at all with it. The law may independently limit your freedom with it (e.g. you own your car but can't go 100mph in a school zone) but you still own it.
So long as you're clear that you absolutely do not OWN the copy of the music on the CD. You own the physical media but not the data represented on it. Yes, you're free to rub the physical media all over your naked body, or buy 50 copies at Walmart only to watch them glow in a microwave. You do not own the music on the CD, not even the copy of the music on the CD. You have purchased the right to do certain things with it, like listen to it, create backup copies, etc, but you not own it.
That'd be using the evidence that a person is -downloading- as colateral evidence to imply and then assume that the person must also be uploading.
Sorry, bud, when you use BT, you can see all of the IPs that are *serving* you chunks. Hence those IPs are *uploading*, get it? That's what I was referring to. The 0kb upload cap was for the investigators to use in order to obtain a list of IPs that actually are doing the sharing, without the investigators actually breaking the law to get that list. Read it over, you'll get it.
Its not illegal to download, its illegal to distribute -- share, make available, upload, however you want to think of it. How many "downloaders" have they gone after? How many uploaders/sharers?
.torrent and get all the IPs ready to share. If they tweak their client to cap at 0 up, they never break the law by uploading and get a nice purty list of all the IPs of users who are currently and actively breaking the law. Yes their downloads will be slow, but speed is not their goal. Its that fresh new list of lawbreakers that gets 'em out of bed each morning. Like getting a newsletter of stocks that are going to double that day each and every morning.
That's also why its now open season on BitTorrent users. All they have to do is open a
And I am so sick of hearing "its not stealing". When you buy CDs you're buying the right to listen to a copy of the music in digital form. When you download, you're getting the copy of the music in digital form without paying for the right to listen to it. So please, from now on, be sure to use BitTorrent for all your future downloads. It should "thin out the herd" much more quickly. I'm just waiting to hear from Comcast for having so many torrents open only to be able to explain to them that they're all legal. I guess I won't hear from them until they get a notice about me.
John, I *must* be more careful with my articles and subjects. When I said "we", I was referring to "we, the United States". I'm very sorry for any misunderstanding.
Anywho, check out these google hits:
MIRACL laser. It appears to be 2m across to answer your earlier question.
story. Notice the "partial success" quote since the data flow stopped.
From this, this picture.
Finally, from this:
United Press International
April 03, 2000
By PAMELA HESS
WASHINGTON, April 3 (UPI) -- A panel of defense industry experts will recommend the Pentagon develop new anti-satellite weapons and techniques that would block enemies' use of spy satellites, GPS and commercial communication systems, according to an as-yet-unreleased report by the Defense Science Board.
The panel envisions a laser weapon that could, at different power levels, temporarily "blind" or physically destroy an adversary's satellite in times of war or when "detrimental to U.S. or coalition interests," according to the report, which was obtained by "Inside the Pentagon," an independent news weekly.
The Defense Department has been developing missiles and lasers that can do just that, but has yet to deploy one. Congress has kept alive an Army effort to develop an anti-satellite missile with infusions of cash every year since 1993, the last year the Pentagon budgeted money for the program on its own. Manufacturer Boeing is expected to have three prototypes completed this June, ready for flight testing in 2001.
The Army also has the MIRACL laser, a massive and powerful laser designed to destroy or blind enemy satellites in space. It was first tested against an Air Force satellite in 1997 despite the expressed concerns of then-Russian President Boris Yeltsin to President Clinton.
Indeed, even the White House has taken a stand against anti-satellite weapons. In a 1997 letter to Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, President Clinton said he did not see a need for deployment of such a weapon. "I do not believe any threat yet justifies the near-term deployment of an operational ASAT capability," he wrote.
Clinton used his line-item veto power to delete almost $40 million for the program Congress inserted into the Pentagon's 1998 budget. The Defense Science Board report was completed in February but has not yet been publicly
(yes it does cut off there). Again, so sorry for any confusion. It was just an interesting story to me all those years ago, and it found its way into this thread. I in no way meant to indicate I took part in that test. I just thought it had high "coolness factor".