Wrong, the rules that govern the ISM band that 802.11 run on specifically prohibit the use of any external amplifier, so no you cannot hook up an amp legally. Now if it causes no interference you probably won't be fined as the FCC does not have a large enforcement budget, but you are still running foul of the law.
Huh? Unless you have unwisely maxed out your switches before planning the upgrade you would simply interconnect the new physical switches into the fabric through ISL's and then move host over to the new distribution layer switches. You would be vulnerable for the length of time it takes to move a cable from one distribution switch to the new one and only for that single host which is most likely a member of a cluster. As far as the two copies comment, no you would likely have very frequent snapshots within the storage pool at each site which are going to be stored in different cabinets if things are correctly designed. Beyond that many very large companies will have three or more redundant sites, though it gets terribly expensive beyond three from what I have seen and is largely unnecessary as you can get great geographical dispersion with three sites.
Good devs from the Diablo team, hardly. There were many known and published bugs with the item generation system from Diablo I that made it into Diablo 2. I put more stock in the third party total conversion crowd then I do in the guys that programmed on Diablo. Now the graphics artists and designers were quite good, but the guys who were supposed to make the nuts and bolts work didn't do such a great job. Oh and don't forget that Diablo 2 was unplayable online until at least 1.03, but that might have been as much about overwhelming success as it was about the crappy network and server code.
Of course, it could equally be argued that without Linux, the GNU user space tools would just be a nice collection of tools with no OS to run on...
Not true, they run just fine on Solaris including Open Solaris which is OSS. In fact I MUCH prefer Solaris with the GNU tools loaded, the old SysV tools suck by comparison and I only use them for the rare script that breaks on the GNU tools (They are overall very good about preserving backward compatibility and man will almost always tell you when they don't). I know many of the stogy Solaris admin's don't like to load anything that didn't come on the first install disk, but if you have control of your environment and have linux experience it is really nice to load the GNU toolset.
Holy crap, with LTO4 that's a LOT of data, at least 4.8TB without compression! (800GB/tape * 6 tapes). Of course as MS Research found the best way to ship data around is to airmail 1&2U servers full of disks between offices.
For how many years will 32-bit x86 CPUs continue to be sold in the mass market?
Indefinitely since all x64 CPU's are backwards compatible with the full x86 ISA and can run the x86 version of Windows. Now if the question is will MS support x86 mode with the next desktop version of Windows, the answer is probably but noone, even MS, knows.
You can, but the cables aren't really made for that, they have a lead from the shield exposed on one end of the cable which is used to complete the ground to earth, either through a grounding bar on the patch panel or through the grounding circuit of the switch.
but can it handle 500 people in a room all using the connection ?
A well designed network running on 802.11b can handle that for some measure of traffic. I know both the Microsoft and Intel campuses have wireless networks that can handle hundreds or thousands of people in their larger conference rooms/auditoriums. I know one of the tests at MS when they upgraded to.11g/.11a was to have everyone check out some presentation on their laptops at the same time, there were some hicups initially but they eventually got the network to where they could do it.
but if you complained about an email problem, it would be reasonable to expect that the sysadmin will end up seeing your email message.
Only in a crappy email system, I know both Notes and Exchange have tools that allow the admin to monitor the flow of the message and examine envelope information without reading the contents. The only time I ever needed an actual message was bounce messages and to examine forged headers when they were outside the normal headers the tool exposed.
Only if you use an STP compatible switch (rare) otherwise you have just created a giant aerial. That was just one of the things I routinely found when I was a consultant, people figured the cables were more expensive and said shielded so they MUST be better.
I live in a country(Ireland) where if you are imprisoned under a law that is later found to be unconstitutional, you don't automatically gain your freedom when it is struck down
You don't in the US either. Clarence Gideon won before the Supreme Court the right to council and instead of being freed his case was remanded back to the Florida Supreme Court which ordered council provided and he was retried link. This is not unusual in US Supreme Court cases, very rarely is a law simply overturned. More often a portion of the law is struck down or a procedure of court is examined, this rarely results in an outright acquittal. While your cited case seems an odd outcome given that the arrest warrant was upheld after the law was overturned. I don't claim to understand the timing of things, perhaps the warrant was issued before the law was overturned and they applied an absolute ex post facto interpretation to their ruling where no new prosecutions could begin under the struck law but that the old cases and cases in process were not overturned. Law is a human endeavor and is by that nature imperfect, some of the time there are shades of grey that absolute logic would not allow for. It would seem in this case that the Supreme Court of Ireland ruled that the law itself was outmoded and should not be used but they also did not want to allow criminals free just because the particular law didn't fit a narrow reading of the constitution, they just wanted the prosecution and court to use more modern tools to weigh future cases.
Uh, how does any of that contradict what I said? I said none of the components needed for a modern high speed computer are going to survive at those temperatures and you pointed to some components that can at MUCH lower performance levels, well duh. I believe I said I guess if you just need a high temp microcontroller this is useful but I don't think it solves a lot of general case high temp problems which is EXACTLY the kind of application you describe. Way to jump down my throat over nothing....
More importantly none of the components around chip can survive such temperatures. For instance I don't know of any high K dielectric that would survive, making the motherboard break down. Also there isn't an solder that can take that kind of heat so the chip would just fall out. It's great making one component robust but a computer is a lot more than one component. I guess if you just need a high temp microcontroller this is useful but I don't think it solves a lot of general case high temp problems.
I doubt it. Cable providers have to have a tier with just the broadcast channels for a reasonable price, Time Warner calls it lifeline serve and it costs an average of ~$11/month and then there is standard service which is ~70 channels at ~$54/month.
There's that whole problem of speed, I assume even an ultralight plane like this can make better headway then even the fastest semi rigid airships like the Zeppelin NT @ 125 km/h.
fanboi, hardly. I'm quite the MS critic if you bother to read my post history, but MSSQL 2005 is something they got right and I give credit where credit is due. Actually we are having our issues with Oracle at the moment and that combines with their outrageous licensing policies has me a bit peaved off. They have an admitted bug that affects all 10gR2 versions prior to 10.2.0.4 which sends random dates at times to the Oracle Enterprise Management DB causing different OEM tools like DB replication to fail yet they have refused to issue a backport patch on Windows which is going to force us to do full regression testing of all of our apps so we can put the fix in place.
After having used the conversation tool with NWN1 to do a somewhat serious PW I can say without a doubt that they have a sucky job when it comes to the tools available. The conversation editor sucks and there was no MDI to allow you to switch between the conversation editor, script editor, and other tools so you have to copy your work into a text file, work on it there and then paste it into the conversation editor. Even for an internal development tool I can't believe they didn't ask for more zots to be allocated to working tools, and to have released that to the mod community was a sad, sick joke.
Even better is the RODC or Read Only Domain Controller program. This will allow you to place a DC out in the world that contains no sensitive data other than that which you specifically enable via policy, so if you have a site that needs a DC but where you don't trust the physical security you can place a DC that only contains the password hashes for the people normally located at that site. This way your affected surface is reduced to only those account, much easier than having everyone in the domain change their passwords!
The problem here is that Windows only allows passwords that are 15 characters (I don't immediately know the base character set windows uses without looking it up).
Wrong! Windows 2000+ based OS's and Active Directory allow for 64 character passwords using the entire Unicode character set. These tables attack the LMHash which is the legacy hash algorithm which stored the password hash into two 7 character hashes. Using a 15+ character password disables the LMHash from being stored. There is also a policy to disable them available in 2003 and XP (Network security: Do not store LAN Manager hash value on next password change)which is default for Vista and will be default for Server 2008.
Btw even the depricated LMHash function used a 142-character character set, not bad for something written in the 80's!
You are charged per core and can only go below the number of physical cores in the machine if the architecture has hard partitioning of resources, for instance a zone with hard resource limits is acceptable but a container with soft limits is not (well, it is but you need licenses for the max possible resources the container has access to).
Uh, MSSQL 2005 is a serious enterprise DB, this isn't SQL 7 anymore. Also none of our enterprise software supports PostgreSQL so invalidating our 6 or 7 figure support contracts just isn't an option even if it WOULD work.
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Use it to power absorption chillers.
Wrong, the rules that govern the ISM band that 802.11 run on specifically prohibit the use of any external amplifier, so no you cannot hook up an amp legally. Now if it causes no interference you probably won't be fined as the FCC does not have a large enforcement budget, but you are still running foul of the law.
Huh? Unless you have unwisely maxed out your switches before planning the upgrade you would simply interconnect the new physical switches into the fabric through ISL's and then move host over to the new distribution layer switches. You would be vulnerable for the length of time it takes to move a cable from one distribution switch to the new one and only for that single host which is most likely a member of a cluster. As far as the two copies comment, no you would likely have very frequent snapshots within the storage pool at each site which are going to be stored in different cabinets if things are correctly designed. Beyond that many very large companies will have three or more redundant sites, though it gets terribly expensive beyond three from what I have seen and is largely unnecessary as you can get great geographical dispersion with three sites.
In most crashes the majority of people die of smoke inhalation, not burns or trauma from the crash so it's a very legitimate concern.
Good devs from the Diablo team, hardly. There were many known and published bugs with the item generation system from Diablo I that made it into Diablo 2. I put more stock in the third party total conversion crowd then I do in the guys that programmed on Diablo. Now the graphics artists and designers were quite good, but the guys who were supposed to make the nuts and bolts work didn't do such a great job. Oh and don't forget that Diablo 2 was unplayable online until at least 1.03, but that might have been as much about overwhelming success as it was about the crappy network and server code.
Except in a VPN environment your local segment is usually just the VPN concentrator.
Of course, it could equally be argued that without Linux, the GNU user space tools would just be a nice collection of tools with no OS to run on...
Not true, they run just fine on Solaris including Open Solaris which is OSS. In fact I MUCH prefer Solaris with the GNU tools loaded, the old SysV tools suck by comparison and I only use them for the rare script that breaks on the GNU tools (They are overall very good about preserving backward compatibility and man will almost always tell you when they don't). I know many of the stogy Solaris admin's don't like to load anything that didn't come on the first install disk, but if you have control of your environment and have linux experience it is really nice to load the GNU toolset.
Holy crap, with LTO4 that's a LOT of data, at least 4.8TB without compression! (800GB/tape * 6 tapes). Of course as MS Research found the best way to ship data around is to airmail 1&2U servers full of disks between offices.
For how many years will 32-bit x86 CPUs continue to be sold in the mass market?
Indefinitely since all x64 CPU's are backwards compatible with the full x86 ISA and can run the x86 version of Windows. Now if the question is will MS support x86 mode with the next desktop version of Windows, the answer is probably but noone, even MS, knows.
You can, but the cables aren't really made for that, they have a lead from the shield exposed on one end of the cable which is used to complete the ground to earth, either through a grounding bar on the patch panel or through the grounding circuit of the switch.
but can it handle 500 people in a room all using the connection ?
.11g/.11a was to have everyone check out some presentation on their laptops at the same time, there were some hicups initially but they eventually got the network to where they could do it.
A well designed network running on 802.11b can handle that for some measure of traffic. I know both the Microsoft and Intel campuses have wireless networks that can handle hundreds or thousands of people in their larger conference rooms/auditoriums. I know one of the tests at MS when they upgraded to
but if you complained about an email problem, it would be reasonable to expect that the sysadmin will end up seeing your email message.
Only in a crappy email system, I know both Notes and Exchange have tools that allow the admin to monitor the flow of the message and examine envelope information without reading the contents. The only time I ever needed an actual message was bounce messages and to examine forged headers when they were outside the normal headers the tool exposed.
Only if you use an STP compatible switch (rare) otherwise you have just created a giant aerial. That was just one of the things I routinely found when I was a consultant, people figured the cables were more expensive and said shielded so they MUST be better.
I live in a country(Ireland) where if you are imprisoned under a law that is later found to be unconstitutional, you don't automatically gain your freedom when it is struck down
You don't in the US either. Clarence Gideon won before the Supreme Court the right to council and instead of being freed his case was remanded back to the Florida Supreme Court which ordered council provided and he was retried link. This is not unusual in US Supreme Court cases, very rarely is a law simply overturned. More often a portion of the law is struck down or a procedure of court is examined, this rarely results in an outright acquittal. While your cited case seems an odd outcome given that the arrest warrant was upheld after the law was overturned. I don't claim to understand the timing of things, perhaps the warrant was issued before the law was overturned and they applied an absolute ex post facto interpretation to their ruling where no new prosecutions could begin under the struck law but that the old cases and cases in process were not overturned. Law is a human endeavor and is by that nature imperfect, some of the time there are shades of grey that absolute logic would not allow for. It would seem in this case that the Supreme Court of Ireland ruled that the law itself was outmoded and should not be used but they also did not want to allow criminals free just because the particular law didn't fit a narrow reading of the constitution, they just wanted the prosecution and court to use more modern tools to weigh future cases.
You're confusing revenue with profit....
Uh, how does any of that contradict what I said? I said none of the components needed for a modern high speed computer are going to survive at those temperatures and you pointed to some components that can at MUCH lower performance levels, well duh. I believe I said I guess if you just need a high temp microcontroller this is useful but I don't think it solves a lot of general case high temp problems which is EXACTLY the kind of application you describe. Way to jump down my throat over nothing....
More importantly none of the components around chip can survive such temperatures. For instance I don't know of any high K dielectric that would survive, making the motherboard break down. Also there isn't an solder that can take that kind of heat so the chip would just fall out. It's great making one component robust but a computer is a lot more than one component. I guess if you just need a high temp microcontroller this is useful but I don't think it solves a lot of general case high temp problems.
but where I live basic cable is some $30/month.
I doubt it. Cable providers have to have a tier with just the broadcast channels for a reasonable price, Time Warner calls it lifeline serve and it costs an average of ~$11/month and then there is standard service which is ~70 channels at ~$54/month.
There's that whole problem of speed, I assume even an ultralight plane like this can make better headway then even the fastest semi rigid airships like the Zeppelin NT @ 125 km/h.
fanboi, hardly. I'm quite the MS critic if you bother to read my post history, but MSSQL 2005 is something they got right and I give credit where credit is due. Actually we are having our issues with Oracle at the moment and that combines with their outrageous licensing policies has me a bit peaved off. They have an admitted bug that affects all 10gR2 versions prior to 10.2.0.4 which sends random dates at times to the Oracle Enterprise Management DB causing different OEM tools like DB replication to fail yet they have refused to issue a backport patch on Windows which is going to force us to do full regression testing of all of our apps so we can put the fix in place.
After having used the conversation tool with NWN1 to do a somewhat serious PW I can say without a doubt that they have a sucky job when it comes to the tools available. The conversation editor sucks and there was no MDI to allow you to switch between the conversation editor, script editor, and other tools so you have to copy your work into a text file, work on it there and then paste it into the conversation editor. Even for an internal development tool I can't believe they didn't ask for more zots to be allocated to working tools, and to have released that to the mod community was a sad, sick joke.
Even better is the RODC or Read Only Domain Controller program. This will allow you to place a DC out in the world that contains no sensitive data other than that which you specifically enable via policy, so if you have a site that needs a DC but where you don't trust the physical security you can place a DC that only contains the password hashes for the people normally located at that site. This way your affected surface is reduced to only those account, much easier than having everyone in the domain change their passwords!
The problem here is that Windows only allows passwords that are 15 characters (I don't immediately know the base character set windows uses without looking it up).
Wrong! Windows 2000+ based OS's and Active Directory allow for 64 character passwords using the entire Unicode character set. These tables attack the LMHash which is the legacy hash algorithm which stored the password hash into two 7 character hashes. Using a 15+ character password disables the LMHash from being stored. There is also a policy to disable them available in 2003 and XP (Network security: Do not store LAN Manager hash value on next password change)which is default for Vista and will be default for Server 2008. Btw even the depricated LMHash function used a 142-character character set, not bad for something written in the 80's!
You are charged per core and can only go below the number of physical cores in the machine if the architecture has hard partitioning of resources, for instance a zone with hard resource limits is acceptable but a container with soft limits is not (well, it is but you need licenses for the max possible resources the container has access to).
Uh, MSSQL 2005 is a serious enterprise DB, this isn't SQL 7 anymore. Also none of our enterprise software supports PostgreSQL so invalidating our 6 or 7 figure support contracts just isn't an option even if it WOULD work.