BIOS passwords are reset by removing the CMOS battery (in my experience). I hold out the possibility that some computers retain their settings without a CMOS battery.
"We customers LIKE support. Microsoft has given us enough support that we like. Sure open source fixes its problems 'faster' than microsoft. But all we the customer care about is, 'IS IT FIXED YET'."
The only support you really get (for free) from Microsoft is downloading service packs and security fixes. When MS retires an OS, what happens to those fixes? You must upgrade.
After using RedHat 8.0 for 4 months, I have found the same ease and convenience of updates that MS has only I don't have to reboot unless the kernel itself is updated.
Sure, RedHat may eventually stop offering up2date packages for 8.0. That doesn't bother me because I can get updated packages and install them by hand if I don't want to upgrade.
When MS retires an OS, there is very little hope of fixing bugs and security problems because the source is closed.//begin biased opinion
As time goes on and that point becomes more and more obvious, look for closed source to go slide into the minority and open source to become the standard.//end biased opinion
As much as I wish that the US Govt would invest heavily in such free and possibly OSS, I can't really say I blame them.
If you think of the Govt as a business (which it really is) then producing software that puts patrons out of business (tax paying companies, taxes on purchased software) isn't smart for them in the short term.
Of course, in the long term, that money will likely get reinvested back to them anyway as people have more money to spend on other things.
On a sort of off topic note, it seems to me that we as (self-perceived) enlightened OSS advocates should lobby (send letters) law makers to require all agencies that produce software for any purpose to put it in the public domain. Of course if national security is at stake, they don't have to release it.
Radio has taken assaults before by thing much bigger than satellite radio.
8 tracks/cassettes/cds/mp3s -- being able to record your own media made radio look obsolete. Has it died? Not even close.
Television -- Although most reading this website (if not all) may not know it, people used to tune in to radio broadcasts much like people do prime time tv. For reference, research the performance of "War of the Worlds."
Internet broadcasts -- The above two coupled with this surely meant doom for radio. Nope.
So let me get this straight. If all of the above couldn't do it, you are telling me that a subscription only service is going to kill free radio? By free I mean listeners don't have to pay.
Radio is the number one media period. More people are listening to radio at any given moment than all other media combined. You will be hard pressed to explain the doom of that type of consumer base.
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As opposed to just being able to do a bit for bit copy like you used to be able to do pre-W2K.
I have used Sysprep and even RIS on W2K. It is NOT as easy or fast as doing straight "ghosting" of images. Problems can and do occur.
Despite what any pro-MS people want to believe, licensing is just one more step that isn't necessary in what should be an otherwise simple process.
IMHO, that is exactly why free software will succeed faster in most cases than proprietary. If you have an image with nothing but free software, you don't have to even stop to think about whether you have enough licenses to intall.
I think RedHat is barking up the right tree by charging for access to their RH Network. Then if companies want to make it easier to update software, they pay per machine. If they don't really care about some workstation set up in a dark room for nothing but scanning and it isn't even hooked to the internet, do they really need to pay for support/updates?
I think O'Reilly is great. Recently, I needed a book overnight for a Saturday delivery. I called every major bookstore in a 200 mile radius to see if they could get it for me by Saturday. No one could. O'Reilly got it to me.
802.11b and 802.11g operate in the 2.4 Ghz band. The 2.4 range offers three non-overlapping channels. 2.4 Ghz is the natural resonance frequency of water (i.e. microwave ovens).
802.11a operates on the 5.3 Ghz range. It offers eight non-overlapping channels.
You don't hear much about 802.11a because it is newer and has less market penetration than 802.11b. It hasn't had time to come into its own yet.
You should probably expect to hear more about it as the 2.4 range gets really saturated.
Would it be possible to have multiple lasers all burning at once to increase speed? Like dual lasers working on opposite sides of the disk.
Of course, the software logic required to keep the lasers out of each others layers could be complex, but it seems from an ignorant stance that you could immediately double write speed that way. Add three and would you triple?
Anyone that knows more than me have a word on this?
My guess (strictly a guess) is that companies that do not provide such info don't have the personnel capable of dealing with that many calls.
You could always search the yellow pages (or your area's equivalent) for their number. If they do not have one listed, you might want to question the quality and capabilities of that company anyway.
I think you are confused as to what an amp is and what it does and doesn't do.
An amplifier takes raw signal (including noise) and amplifies the power on it in the direction it is set to amplify. There are bidirectional amplifiers to do it in both directions.
Amps are best placed as close to the antenna as possible to reduce loss and noise. As a signal travels across cable, noise and loss increase. Thus, a short "jumper" cable is ideal to connect the antenna to the amp.
Putting an amp on one side of the communication pathway will improve the signal and perhaps the distance a bit. The biggest improvement will be in the quality of the wireless link at the far reaches of the original signal.
To greatly improve distance, it is absolutely necessary to amplify on both ends. The end goal is to improve your signal to noise ratio. The weaker your signal from the other end, the worse that ratio becomes.
I think it took me a total of about 8 seconds to think of a workaround to network data gathering.
Find an aspiring country that doesn't give a shit about President Bush beating his chest wanting data and set up a VPN tunnel through their network.
Problem solved.
It seems to me it is our responsibility as those in the know to inform those not in the know that stupid ideas like this are just that and nothing more.
We did it with Circuit City and DivX. We can do it again.
I am not advocating any sort of action one way or another. However, I feel compelled to point out the major flaw in that philosophy.
Just because you change your attitude and turn the other cheek does not guarantee that the other person will change theirs too. Quite likely they will just go ahead and hit the other cheek.
For historical reference, read about Hitler and WW2.
So if NT SP4 had been automatically updating servers and workstations everywhere, that would have been a good thing?
You couldn't pay me to have my system automatically update itself with patches tested quite possibly only from the company that created it.
I would rather my system be vulnerable for a day or two than have the contents of my hard drive obliterated.
What if some patch disabled a computer's networking? What is Ma an Pa gonna do when that is the only computer they have? Download a fix using broken networking?
IMHO, automatic updating is a monumental disaster waiting to happen.
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So is oxygen.
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Drinking alcohol in moderation does no such thing in the long term. I have a few thousand years of human consumption to back up my assertations.
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Alcohol in and of itself is not bad for you. The abuse of it, however, is bad for you.
If the fact that too much alcohol is can damage your health means that it is harmful then you might as well add food, oxygen, water, exercise, sexual orgasms, sunlight and sleep.
Too much of any good thing can and usually is a bad thing.
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PIX is Cisco and there isn't a Linux company on the market that can beat their support. Match it MAYBE, but not beat it.
Bad signs from my ordering experience . . .
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I have zero confidence in Mandrake. After purchasing an Open Brick from them a little over a month ago, I heard nothing from them. My credit card was charged, but I didn't receive so much as a confirmation e-mail.
After two weeks of silence, I sent them an e-mail requesting correspondence. Three days more of silence I sent a letter indicating I was on the brink of turning in the charge as fraudulent to my credit card company. One more week of silence and I sent them one last e-mail informing them that I was calling my bank the next business day to have them pursue the charge.
The very next morning I had an e-mail from them telling me they have been having e-mail problems. For an entire month? What kind of garbage are they running e-mail servers on?
I informed them they had two days to respond to my query before I reported the charge. Finally they said they would ship it as soon as possible. That was almost a week ago.
There exists the greatest possiblity I will NEVER buy from them again. I urge you caution in your purchases.
It all boils down to mathematics. Every employee costs money. Consider the following:
S = Salary/Hourly Wage B = Benefits A = Administrative overhead (payroll, etc) I = Business insurance cost per person R = Revenue from your work P = Profit from your work
P = R - (S + B + A + I)
Viewing this model you can draw several quick conclusions. First, if you are doing billable work, then the quickest way to get a pay increase is to increase your billable rate.
Second, no matter how long you work for the company, at any given moment there exists a maximum amount you can be paid before your company loses money.
It is pretty standard to get paid between 25 and 33 percent of your billable rate. Any less than that probably indicates a boss that is ripping you off royally.
Direction finding is becoming more and more based on GPS than anything. GPS has nothing to do with the magnetic field. It disappearing wouldn't cause it to fail at all.
The same goes for communications with the exception of possible solar flare interference periodically.
It seems to me that while the pole disappearing/changing could cause significant change it isn't a showstopper for much of anything except the use of all current compasses and perhaps sunbathing.
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BIOS passwords are reset by removing the CMOS battery (in my experience). I hold out the possibility that some computers retain their settings without a CMOS battery.
"We customers LIKE support. Microsoft has given us enough support that we like. Sure open source fixes its problems 'faster' than microsoft. But all we the customer care about is, 'IS IT FIXED YET'."
//begin biased opinion
//end biased opinion
The only support you really get (for free) from Microsoft is downloading service packs and security fixes. When MS retires an OS, what happens to those fixes? You must upgrade.
After using RedHat 8.0 for 4 months, I have found the same ease and convenience of updates that MS has only I don't have to reboot unless the kernel itself is updated.
Sure, RedHat may eventually stop offering up2date packages for 8.0. That doesn't bother me because I can get updated packages and install them by hand if I don't want to upgrade.
When MS retires an OS, there is very little hope of fixing bugs and security problems because the source is closed.
As time goes on and that point becomes more and more obvious, look for closed source to go slide into the minority and open source to become the standard.
As much as I wish that the US Govt would invest heavily in such free and possibly OSS, I can't really say I blame them.
If you think of the Govt as a business (which it really is) then producing software that puts patrons out of business (tax paying companies, taxes on purchased software) isn't smart for them in the short term.
Of course, in the long term, that money will likely get reinvested back to them anyway as people have more money to spend on other things.
On a sort of off topic note, it seems to me that we as (self-perceived) enlightened OSS advocates should lobby (send letters) law makers to require all agencies that produce software for any purpose to put it in the public domain. Of course if national security is at stake, they don't have to release it.
Since that is such a broad range of frequencies, one of two things will happen --
1) They will form the maximum rate at the lowest possible maximum in that whole spectrum or
2) Make the maximum rate variable over the given frequencies
Personally I hope it is variable because otherwise you are wasting potential bandwidth.
Radio has taken assaults before by thing much bigger than satellite radio.
8 tracks/cassettes/cds/mp3s -- being able to record your own media made radio look obsolete. Has it died? Not even close.
Television -- Although most reading this website (if not all) may not know it, people used to tune in to radio broadcasts much like people do prime time tv. For reference, research the performance of "War of the Worlds."
Internet broadcasts -- The above two coupled with this surely meant doom for radio. Nope.
So let me get this straight. If all of the above couldn't do it, you are telling me that a subscription only service is going to kill free radio? By free I mean listeners don't have to pay.
Radio is the number one media period. More people are listening to radio at any given moment than all other media combined. You will be hard pressed to explain the doom of that type of consumer base.
As opposed to just being able to do a bit for bit copy like you used to be able to do pre-W2K.
I have used Sysprep and even RIS on W2K. It is NOT as easy or fast as doing straight "ghosting" of images. Problems can and do occur.
Despite what any pro-MS people want to believe, licensing is just one more step that isn't necessary in what should be an otherwise simple process.
IMHO, that is exactly why free software will succeed faster in most cases than proprietary. If you have an image with nothing but free software, you don't have to even stop to think about whether you have enough licenses to intall.
I think RedHat is barking up the right tree by charging for access to their RH Network. Then if companies want to make it easier to update software, they pay per machine. If they don't really care about some workstation set up in a dark room for nothing but scanning and it isn't even hooked to the internet, do they really need to pay for support/updates?
I think O'Reilly is great. Recently, I needed a book overnight for a Saturday delivery. I called every major bookstore in a 200 mile radius to see if they could get it for me by Saturday. No one could. O'Reilly got it to me.
Hats off to them.
802.11b and 802.11g operate in the 2.4 Ghz band. The 2.4 range offers three non-overlapping channels. 2.4 Ghz is the natural resonance frequency of water (i.e. microwave ovens).
802.11a operates on the 5.3 Ghz range. It offers eight non-overlapping channels.
You don't hear much about 802.11a because it is newer and has less market penetration than 802.11b. It hasn't had time to come into its own yet.
You should probably expect to hear more about it as the 2.4 range gets really saturated.
If the sound does become a problem, how about adding a little sound proof (dampening) enclosure around it?
Just a thought.
I think space agencies should auction off on e-bay the right to name new celestial bodies. Why not? Everything else is for auction. Could be fun.
"Class, this is a picture of YourMomNaked as it completes its orbit cycle."
Would it be possible to have multiple lasers all burning at once to increase speed? Like dual lasers working on opposite sides of the disk.
Of course, the software logic required to keep the lasers out of each others layers could be complex, but it seems from an ignorant stance that you could immediately double write speed that way. Add three and would you triple?
Anyone that knows more than me have a word on this?
My guess (strictly a guess) is that companies that do not provide such info don't have the personnel capable of dealing with that many calls.
You could always search the yellow pages (or your area's equivalent) for their number. If they do not have one listed, you might want to question the quality and capabilities of that company anyway.
I think you are confused as to what an amp is and what it does and doesn't do.
An amplifier takes raw signal (including noise) and amplifies the power on it in the direction it is set to amplify. There are bidirectional amplifiers to do it in both directions.
Amps are best placed as close to the antenna as possible to reduce loss and noise. As a signal travels across cable, noise and loss increase. Thus, a short "jumper" cable is ideal to connect the antenna to the amp.
Putting an amp on one side of the communication pathway will improve the signal and perhaps the distance a bit. The biggest improvement will be in the quality of the wireless link at the far reaches of the original signal.
To greatly improve distance, it is absolutely necessary to amplify on both ends. The end goal is to improve your signal to noise ratio. The weaker your signal from the other end, the worse that ratio becomes.
that climaxing right at the moment of guessing the root password to a nice big supercomputer would be so choice.
I think it took me a total of about 8 seconds to think of a workaround to network data gathering.
Find an aspiring country that doesn't give a shit about President Bush beating his chest wanting data and set up a VPN tunnel through their network.
Problem solved.
It seems to me it is our responsibility as those in the know to inform those not in the know that stupid ideas like this are just that and nothing more.
We did it with Circuit City and DivX. We can do it again.
I am not advocating any sort of action one way or another. However, I feel compelled to point out the major flaw in that philosophy.
Just because you change your attitude and turn the other cheek does not guarantee that the other person will change theirs too. Quite likely they will just go ahead and hit the other cheek.
For historical reference, read about Hitler and WW2.
So if NT SP4 had been automatically updating servers and workstations everywhere, that would have been a good thing?
You couldn't pay me to have my system automatically update itself with patches tested quite possibly only from the company that created it.
I would rather my system be vulnerable for a day or two than have the contents of my hard drive obliterated.
What if some patch disabled a computer's networking? What is Ma an Pa gonna do when that is the only computer they have? Download a fix using broken networking?
IMHO, automatic updating is a monumental disaster waiting to happen.
So is oxygen.
Drinking alcohol in moderation does no such thing in the long term. I have a few thousand years of human consumption to back up my assertations.
Alcohol in and of itself is not bad for you. The abuse of it, however, is bad for you.
If the fact that too much alcohol is can damage your health means that it is harmful then you might as well add food, oxygen, water, exercise, sexual orgasms, sunlight and sleep.
Too much of any good thing can and usually is a bad thing.
PIX is Cisco and there isn't a Linux company on the market that can beat their support. Match it MAYBE, but not beat it.
I have zero confidence in Mandrake. After purchasing an Open Brick from them a little over a month ago, I heard nothing from them. My credit card was charged, but I didn't receive so much as a confirmation e-mail.
After two weeks of silence, I sent them an e-mail requesting correspondence. Three days more of silence I sent a letter indicating I was on the brink of turning in the charge as fraudulent to my credit card company. One more week of silence and I sent them one last e-mail informing them that I was calling my bank the next business day to have them pursue the charge.
The very next morning I had an e-mail from them telling me they have been having e-mail problems. For an entire month? What kind of garbage are they running e-mail servers on?
I informed them they had two days to respond to my query before I reported the charge. Finally they said they would ship it as soon as possible. That was almost a week ago.
There exists the greatest possiblity I will NEVER buy from them again. I urge you caution in your purchases.
It all boils down to mathematics. Every employee costs money. Consider the following:
S = Salary/Hourly Wage
B = Benefits
A = Administrative overhead (payroll, etc)
I = Business insurance cost per person
R = Revenue from your work
P = Profit from your work
P = R - (S + B + A + I)
Viewing this model you can draw several quick conclusions. First, if you are doing billable work, then the quickest way to get a pay increase is to increase your billable rate.
Second, no matter how long you work for the company, at any given moment there exists a maximum amount you can be paid before your company loses money.
It is pretty standard to get paid between 25 and 33 percent of your billable rate. Any less than that probably indicates a boss that is ripping you off royally.
The 1 watt limit only applies to point to multipoint. For point to point, you can do 4 watts. BIG difference.
Theoretically you could get 802.11b over 80 miles with ideal conditions.
Direction finding is becoming more and more based on GPS than anything. GPS has nothing to do with the magnetic field. It disappearing wouldn't cause it to fail at all.
The same goes for communications with the exception of possible solar flare interference periodically.
It seems to me that while the pole disappearing/changing could cause significant change it isn't a showstopper for much of anything except the use of all current compasses and perhaps sunbathing.