It's not going to help the influx of spam from China, Taiwan or Russia, which is where I seem to receive most of my spam.
I think the Senate, as usual, passed a do-nothing measure that will have not an ounce of effect on the literally 350 spams I receive a day. (Yes, I do use spam filtering.) Congress would be better off to provide tax credits for companies producing filters, starting a massive education campaign on how you can stop unwanted e-mails using these filters, and investing heavily in research projects to improve filtering.
But this is a bunch of more fucking useless bullshit--par for the course for this Administration.
OK, I know RAM is cheap these days, and most people should have at least 128MB on modern machines, but I just have to ask--why would a simple network file retrieving application (let's face it, that's all this is with a little security thrown in) need that much memory? Damn...
I know that the vast majority of/. readers believe that the Net would be a better place with Internet Explorer. Hell, I'm one of them, having had to deal with the cleanup after having my users hit with its exploits.
But please realize that this patent bullshit has gone a little too far. Microsoft has already promised to patch IE to remove the offending patent work--isn't that enough? What we are all witnessing is the tyranny of the patent system as we know it. Just because it negatively affects Microsoft for once doesn't mean that it's good in any way.
Let's do what we can to get this mess straightened out once and for all for the good of the economy and innovation. Let's not rejoice in this unfair punishment.
Remember back in the day when the original line of Macs and their immediate successors had maybe not a huge, but at least somewhat significant market share? You could see that looking in the Byte magazine articles of the mid-to-late 80s. They actually made software for Macs! You don't see too much of it anymore, sadly.
You are absolutely right. They were able to charge more because they worked better, offered better features than the Wintel boxen with its myriad, incompatible graphics adapters, and were generally a hell of a lot easier to use. But as soon as Windows was released and a common set of standards for graphics cards and buses were introduced, thus allowing the price to drop, Apple did not follow suit. Arrogantly, I believe they thought that their platform was still better. It might have been, but is it really worth the 50-80% premium in price?
Anyway, what Apple needs to do now is lower their prices even further to bring them on par with the likes of the mass-market Dells. Otherwise, Apple may find itself a thing of the past.
If you thought hauling around a portable studio in a laptop was pretty cool, there are already recording devices from the likes of Fostex and Korg that incorporate four- and eight-track multitrack recorders into handheld packages. About the only thing that keeps these things from getting smaller is the size of the jacks required to get audio in to and out of the device.
With CF and MMC media becoming smaller and cheaper, to the point where you can now get 256MB for less than $50, combined with advanced adaptive audio compression techniques like MP3 and MP4, are going to make these things as powerful as a Sonar-equipped laptop in a couple years' time. I like to take it with me when I go to shows or open-mic nights and get a 'hard copy', so to speak, of my performances. If I like them, the quality is high enough that with a little mastering compression, EQ and reverb, I've got an instant live recording.
Several MacFixIt readers have noted a problem where iMac and eMac systems (primarily) display a blue screen at startup rather than proceeding to the Desktop.
Ahh... seems I installed XP Service Pack 1 on my iMac by mistake. My bad.
Do you have British citizenship yourself? Your eligibility depends upon your father or mother's status.
I don't have British citizenship myself, since my parents were both born in Canada. However, I remember reading that Commonwealth citizens who can show that they had at least one grandparent with UK citizenship can apply for something called the 'right of return', which allowed for a UK work visa for up to four years. I believe this right grants nothing more than that. At the very least, it would be a great way to see how life is in Europe.
My wife is a US citizen and her mother and grandmother were UK born (but are now both naturalized US citizens). I wonder if that confers any special benefits to her (perhaps the ability to apply for British citizenship). I doubt it, but I'll definitely give the Home Office web site a try.
Then again, here I am talking about immigration when I juse waded through 3 1/2 years of INS bureaucracy to obtain permanent residency here--what kind of fool must I be to want to go through something like that again?:-)
I would, right now without hesitation, take a 15% pay cut for five weeks' vacation a year.
What is so funny to me is the huge emphasis that the government and pressure groups put on the notion of 'family' here in the US, and yet at the same time don't want to give workers the rights to rear their children (in opposing the Family Leave Act), nor want to give them enough time off to actually spend time with them.
The average American worker works an obscene amount of hours. I am 100% positive this does not stem from any sort of American 'work ethic', but rather from the fact that you have to be seen as working more than your co-worker in order not only to get ahead, but to simply keep your job. The high levels of stress that follows are what lead to domestic problems like drug abuse, alcoholism and violence.
The idea of four weeks' vacation would never fly here, because greedy CEOs and stockholders don't want to see their all-precious profits possibly drop. But imagine the long-term benefits: Lower health care costs (rested workers are less stressed; less stressed workers are healthier), more motivated employees, and a happier populace with spare time to spend money vacationing.
It's a win-win situation, but I'll never see it in my lifetime. I'm a Canadian living in the US, and I've been thinking about using my right of return privileges (my grandfather was a UK citizen) to go to the UK and work for a few years. Sounds like, as usual, the Europeans don't have their heads up their asses like in this country.
The RIAA fully realize that they are the 'bad guy' and that they are seen as such by the eyes of the world. They have one goal in mind, and one goal only--protect their way of business and revenue stream at any cost.
I agree this looks really bad on the RIAA (I don't remember minors being targetted before), but those who think this spate of publicity is going to stop them are dead wrong. They've already shown that they're willing to go to any length to kill the file-sharing phenomenon.
I can see the outcome of this case right now: The RIAA will probably have to respond to the negative publicity and probably drop the suit against the twelve-year-old girl. The rest of the cases will go on as planned. One poor target isn't going to be the downfall of their enforcement operations.
That's fine, but the less new people who replace the rapidly growing silent keys, there won't be a lot of people to chew the rag on HF (using Morse) left.
And with less people in the hobby, where is the motivation for Yaesu, Kenwood, Icom, etc. to innovate and build new transceivers? There are a lot fewer vendors selling ham equipment than there were 20 years ago. I want to see new equipment. I want people to be excited about ham radio.
One of the other replies to your comment is dead on. The technical test is still there, so the burgeoning ham has to learn about basic electronics, amplifiers, and rules. It's not like the ticket is granted for a few bucks and an online application form. But forcing new recruits to pound brass is anachronistic and off-putting. I don't think the loss of the code requirement is going to turn HF into CB radio. It's a world of difference.
I know the old-timers don't want to hear this, but it's really about time that this outdated modulation and transmission scheme no longer be required. They old-timers won't admit it to others, but they know that their hobby isn't growing because of the code requirements.
Kids these days--the very people you want to get excited about ham radio--have absolutely no interest in pounding the brass, fumbling over the differences between A and N and trying to copy what others have to say via Morse. Remember, they're growing up in a HDTV, 500-channel, broadband Internet world. It's absolutely no surprise that they think sending letters with dits and dahs is draconian. It is.
Let's give the customary 2-meter and 6-meter privileges to new tickets and push the cutting-edge technologies like PSK31 on the newbies. Show them that ham radio can truly be exciting and modern. But it really is about time the code went the way of the dinosaur. Don't outlaw it--just make it optional.
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Not only does the US fund the weaponry that allows the illegal incursions into Palestinean soveriegn terrority (in the name of "the war against terrorism"), it allows the Israeli people to have one of the highest standards of living in the Middle East while families in Palestine starve and worry about food, clean water and medical care.
And Americans cry and wail and wonder why (and I actually heard this coming from some Midwestern mother of three after some recent attacks in the Middle East) why do they hate us so much? They must hate our freedoms.
Yeah, that's it. They hate our freedom. Look how we continue to support a regime that enslaves and subjugates the Arab people of the MIddle East for the US's own oil thirst. No wonder this is the stupidest country on the planet.
How was he supposed to have figured this out? Standing on his head and chanting mystical phrases while smoke billowed into the characters of the source code?
I'd love to see what the Linux community would say if some intravenous drug pump running an embedded version of Linux had a bug that caused it to fail and kill a patient?
They'd probably cry, 'But we already released a fix! They didn't install this patch, and this patch, and this patch, and then recompiled.'
Don't blame the software companies for the "sh*t quality" of their software, as you say--blame the system administrator who didn't install the already-available fixes or patches. That by far is your guilty party right there.
It saddens me as a developer that you can't even deign to write a P2P add without the assumption that it will be used for sharing copyrighted materials and thus shut down by the RIAA/MPAA. It's really amazing to see what lengths these bastards will go to to protect their industry after a major, earth-shattering shift in their profit model.
I urge everyone reading this to be very diligent in your boycott of buying new music or going to see movies. I haven't bought a CD in 22 months and haven't seen a movie since (believe it or not) 1999. You can't cheat and plead, just one movie! It's the Matrix! I have to see it.Nothing but the bottom line is going to get through to these people. If these folks don't get the message and soon, you may find yourself asking for permission to write anything on your machine that moves bits around.
I lost three good friends (including the best man at my wedding and his girlfriend) in the WTC attacks, and you're making jokes about terrorists wanting information? Jesus fucking Christ.
Look, I can take a joke like the next guy, but when I heard that NYC had been plunged into darkness due to a massive power outage, my mind immediately thought of another attack. I know you were just trying to make a joke for karma, but you have NO IDEA of the pain that myself and millions of others felt that day and still feel to this day. And while I respect your right to free speech and to say what you want, that doesn't make it a particularly funny or nice thing to say.
That being said, I think I'll stay far away from Texas. It's like looking back in time 100 years.
100 is a number the figures prominently here in Texas. The temperatures always seem to be above it, while the locals' IQs average well below it.
This is probably one of the back-asswardest states in the Union and since you appear to have half a brain, I'd recommend staying the hell away from it and let it degenerate into the backwards, inbred garbage dump it is rapidly becoming.
Try not to be so pro-US that you lose sight of reality.
Tax rates in the EU are not 'very high'--in fact, they are in line with the rest of the world. It's just the base US tax rate is comparitively low. When you look at the taxes being raised by the destitute states to make up for the shortfall in revenue caused by the Administration's foolish and useless economic policies, I'm sure tax rates in places like California, New York and Massachusetts come very close to those which an EU citizen would pay. And they're getting high-quality health care and a social safety net that is second to none. For the high taxes paid by US citizens, they continue to see cuts in services and a crumbling safety net.
Unemployment is also not 'very high', as you suggest. I'd suggest taking a look at the US' rapidly rising unemployment rate, a value that shows no signs of declining while Mr. Bush and his Administration give tax cuts to those who need it least while leaving the vast majority of the populace with less and less money to spend and the constant fear of layoffs or other job losses.
Before you go trumpeting your precious US GDP and its far superior spending power, I suggest you check your facts.
While the Icom R-3 truly is a cool little gadget, I wish to caution those who are buying one for video monitoring purposes. It has a lot of features, to be sure, but as I found out the hard way, for the hardcore video monitoring enthusiast or TV DXer, it has some serious limitations.
Its sensitivity is lacking, so unless it encounters a very strong video signal (especially on 2.4GHz, where a lot of wireless cameras broadcast their signals), do not expect a very watchable or even decodeable picture.
Secondly, the video screen eats the hell out of the battery life. You'll find yourself reaching for the AC adapter quite frequently. This device tends to use the LCD screen to display a lot of configuration/tuning information, even in non-video mode, so beware if you buy this to use as a general-purpose scanner.
After 10 months of R3 ownership, my feelings are still mixed. It's pretty cool to walk around and stumble on 2.4GHz video, especially from wireless security cameras, but as a general-purpose scanning receiver or for attempting to receive TV DX in these skip-prone months, it falls sadly short.
I wish I had read this article before going out and purchasing my Linksys BEFW (sorry, can't remember the rest of the model number) wireless access point. It seems to drop connections at random, requiring a reboot of the router by pulling out and reinserting the power cord. The logs it gives are nowhere near as comprehensive as the ones that snort would send me every morning, and while I can configure port forwarding and IPSEC passthrough, etc., I miss the fine-grained control I had over all the options when I had a Linux router.
A mini-ITX case and some assorted hardware and I could have made a much more configurable, sturdy access point for only a little more money. Sigh.
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It's not going to help the influx of spam from China, Taiwan or Russia, which is where I seem to receive most of my spam.
I think the Senate, as usual, passed a do-nothing measure that will have not an ounce of effect on the literally 350 spams I receive a day. (Yes, I do use spam filtering.) Congress would be better off to provide tax credits for companies producing filters, starting a massive education campaign on how you can stop unwanted e-mails using these filters, and investing heavily in research projects to improve filtering.
But this is a bunch of more fucking useless bullshit--par for the course for this Administration.
From the iTunes 4 download page for Win2K/XP:
128 MB RAM minimum/256 RAM recommended
OK, I know RAM is cheap these days, and most people should have at least 128MB on modern machines, but I just have to ask--why would a simple network file retrieving application (let's face it, that's all this is with a little security thrown in) need that much memory? Damn...
The colour of the Dubya, Cheney and Rumsfeld bills would be yellow then I guess, since they all escaped military deployment through their connections.
I know that the vast majority of /. readers believe that the Net would be a better place with Internet Explorer. Hell, I'm one of them, having had to deal with the cleanup after having my users hit with its exploits.
But please realize that this patent bullshit has gone a little too far. Microsoft has already promised to patch IE to remove the offending patent work--isn't that enough? What we are all witnessing is the tyranny of the patent system as we know it. Just because it negatively affects Microsoft for once doesn't mean that it's good in any way.
Let's do what we can to get this mess straightened out once and for all for the good of the economy and innovation. Let's not rejoice in this unfair punishment.
Remember back in the day when the original line of Macs and their immediate successors had maybe not a huge, but at least somewhat significant market share? You could see that looking in the Byte magazine articles of the mid-to-late 80s. They actually made software for Macs! You don't see too much of it anymore, sadly.
You are absolutely right. They were able to charge more because they worked better, offered better features than the Wintel boxen with its myriad, incompatible graphics adapters, and were generally a hell of a lot easier to use. But as soon as Windows was released and a common set of standards for graphics cards and buses were introduced, thus allowing the price to drop, Apple did not follow suit. Arrogantly, I believe they thought that their platform was still better. It might have been, but is it really worth the 50-80% premium in price?
Anyway, what Apple needs to do now is lower their prices even further to bring them on par with the likes of the mass-market Dells. Otherwise, Apple may find itself a thing of the past.
If you thought hauling around a portable studio in a laptop was pretty cool, there are already recording devices from the likes of Fostex and Korg that incorporate four- and eight-track multitrack recorders into handheld packages. About the only thing that keeps these things from getting smaller is the size of the jacks required to get audio in to and out of the device.
With CF and MMC media becoming smaller and cheaper, to the point where you can now get 256MB for less than $50, combined with advanced adaptive audio compression techniques like MP3 and MP4, are going to make these things as powerful as a Sonar-equipped laptop in a couple years' time. I like to take it with me when I go to shows or open-mic nights and get a 'hard copy', so to speak, of my performances. If I like them, the quality is high enough that with a little mastering compression, EQ and reverb, I've got an instant live recording.
Several MacFixIt readers have noted a problem where iMac and eMac systems (primarily) display a blue screen at startup rather than proceeding to the Desktop.
Ahh... seems I installed XP Service Pack 1 on my iMac by mistake. My bad.
In Soviet Russia, Kazaa sues the RI--
Ah, never mind, fuck it. Who wants a beer?
HOw about we concentrate on basic human needs like food, clean, running water and shelter before we go doling out handhelds to people?
I'm not at all against technology education and maximizing its use wherever possible, but there truly are some things that must take priority here.
Do you have British citizenship yourself? Your eligibility depends upon your father or mother's status.
:-)
I don't have British citizenship myself, since my parents were both born in Canada. However, I remember reading that Commonwealth citizens who can show that they had at least one grandparent with UK citizenship can apply for something called the 'right of return', which allowed for a UK work visa for up to four years. I believe this right grants nothing more than that. At the very least, it would be a great way to see how life is in Europe.
My wife is a US citizen and her mother and grandmother were UK born (but are now both naturalized US citizens). I wonder if that confers any special benefits to her (perhaps the ability to apply for British citizenship). I doubt it, but I'll definitely give the Home Office web site a try.
Then again, here I am talking about immigration when I juse waded through 3 1/2 years of INS bureaucracy to obtain permanent residency here--what kind of fool must I be to want to go through something like that again?
Thanks for the tip.
I would, right now without hesitation, take a 15% pay cut for five weeks' vacation a year.
What is so funny to me is the huge emphasis that the government and pressure groups put on the notion of 'family' here in the US, and yet at the same time don't want to give workers the rights to rear their children (in opposing the Family Leave Act), nor want to give them enough time off to actually spend time with them.
The average American worker works an obscene amount of hours. I am 100% positive this does not stem from any sort of American 'work ethic', but rather from the fact that you have to be seen as working more than your co-worker in order not only to get ahead, but to simply keep your job. The high levels of stress that follows are what lead to domestic problems like drug abuse, alcoholism and violence.
The idea of four weeks' vacation would never fly here, because greedy CEOs and stockholders don't want to see their all-precious profits possibly drop. But imagine the long-term benefits: Lower health care costs (rested workers are less stressed; less stressed workers are healthier), more motivated employees, and a happier populace with spare time to spend money vacationing.
It's a win-win situation, but I'll never see it in my lifetime. I'm a Canadian living in the US, and I've been thinking about using my right of return privileges (my grandfather was a UK citizen) to go to the UK and work for a few years. Sounds like, as usual, the Europeans don't have their heads up their asses like in this country.
The RIAA fully realize that they are the 'bad guy' and that they are seen as such by the eyes of the world. They have one goal in mind, and one goal only--protect their way of business and revenue stream at any cost.
I agree this looks really bad on the RIAA (I don't remember minors being targetted before), but those who think this spate of publicity is going to stop them are dead wrong. They've already shown that they're willing to go to any length to kill the file-sharing phenomenon.
I can see the outcome of this case right now: The RIAA will probably have to respond to the negative publicity and probably drop the suit against the twelve-year-old girl. The rest of the cases will go on as planned. One poor target isn't going to be the downfall of their enforcement operations.
That's fine, but the less new people who replace the rapidly growing silent keys, there won't be a lot of people to chew the rag on HF (using Morse) left.
And with less people in the hobby, where is the motivation for Yaesu, Kenwood, Icom, etc. to innovate and build new transceivers? There are a lot fewer vendors selling ham equipment than there were 20 years ago. I want to see new equipment. I want people to be excited about ham radio.
One of the other replies to your comment is dead on. The technical test is still there, so the burgeoning ham has to learn about basic electronics, amplifiers, and rules. It's not like the ticket is granted for a few bucks and an online application form. But forcing new recruits to pound brass is anachronistic and off-putting. I don't think the loss of the code requirement is going to turn HF into CB radio. It's a world of difference.
I know the old-timers don't want to hear this, but it's really about time that this outdated modulation and transmission scheme no longer be required. They old-timers won't admit it to others, but they know that their hobby isn't growing because of the code requirements.
Kids these days--the very people you want to get excited about ham radio--have absolutely no interest in pounding the brass, fumbling over the differences between A and N and trying to copy what others have to say via Morse. Remember, they're growing up in a HDTV, 500-channel, broadband Internet world. It's absolutely no surprise that they think sending letters with dits and dahs is draconian. It is.
Let's give the customary 2-meter and 6-meter privileges to new tickets and push the cutting-edge technologies like PSK31 on the newbies. Show them that ham radio can truly be exciting and modern. But it really is about time the code went the way of the dinosaur. Don't outlaw it--just make it optional.
Not only does the US fund the weaponry that allows the illegal incursions into Palestinean soveriegn terrority (in the name of "the war against terrorism"), it allows the Israeli people to have one of the highest standards of living in the Middle East while families in Palestine starve and worry about food, clean water and medical care.
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And Americans cry and wail and wonder why (and I actually heard this coming from some Midwestern mother of three after some recent attacks in the Middle East) why do they hate us so much? They must hate our freedoms
Yeah, that's it. They hate our freedom. Look how we continue to support a regime that enslaves and subjugates the Arab people of the MIddle East for the US's own oil thirst. No wonder this is the stupidest country on the planet.
How was he supposed to have figured this out? Standing on his head and chanting mystical phrases while smoke billowed into the characters of the source code?
This is absolutely how reverse engineering works. And, in fact, this is almost exactly how I've been working the reverse engineering of Ten-Tec RX-320D receiver BIOS. I disassembled the source into ADSP-2101 assembly and have been meticulously putting together a pseudo-C version which is a lot easier to read and gives a much better representation of the function of the code. Just disassembling code does not count as reverse engineering--the idea is to figure out exactly what the original source does at a much higher level than the mere instruction. Ideally, reverse engineering should yield enough information about the product in question that a client can use the driver/library without ever needing to know about what's underneath. Disassembling the ROM of a Palm VIIx isn't going to get you very far with regards to figuring out the low-level interface to the radio library. Turning that disassembly into the knowledge suitable for interfacing is most certainly reverse engineering.
And that's exactly what this guy is doing.
I'd love to see what the Linux community would say if some intravenous drug pump running an embedded version of Linux had a bug that caused it to fail and kill a patient?
They'd probably cry, 'But we already released a fix! They didn't install this patch, and this patch, and this patch, and then recompiled.'
Don't blame the software companies for the "sh*t quality" of their software, as you say--blame the system administrator who didn't install the already-available fixes or patches. That by far is your guilty party right there.
this is getting fucking ridiculous.
It saddens me as a developer that you can't even deign to write a P2P add without the assumption that it will be used for sharing copyrighted materials and thus shut down by the RIAA/MPAA. It's really amazing to see what lengths these bastards will go to to protect their industry after a major, earth-shattering shift in their profit model.
I urge everyone reading this to be very diligent in your boycott of buying new music or going to see movies. I haven't bought a CD in 22 months and haven't seen a movie since (believe it or not) 1999. You can't cheat and plead, just one movie! It's the Matrix! I have to see it. Nothing but the bottom line is going to get through to these people. If these folks don't get the message and soon, you may find yourself asking for permission to write anything on your machine that moves bits around.
I lost three good friends (including the best man at my wedding and his girlfriend) in the WTC attacks, and you're making jokes about terrorists wanting information? Jesus fucking Christ.
Look, I can take a joke like the next guy, but when I heard that NYC had been plunged into darkness due to a massive power outage, my mind immediately thought of another attack. I know you were just trying to make a joke for karma, but you have NO IDEA of the pain that myself and millions of others felt that day and still feel to this day. And while I respect your right to free speech and to say what you want, that doesn't make it a particularly funny or nice thing to say.
Asshole.
That being said, I think I'll stay far away from Texas. It's like looking back in time 100 years.
100 is a number the figures prominently here in Texas. The temperatures always seem to be above it, while the locals' IQs average well below it.
This is probably one of the back-asswardest states in the Union and since you appear to have half a brain, I'd recommend staying the hell away from it and let it degenerate into the backwards, inbred garbage dump it is rapidly becoming.
No.
Next question, please.
Try not to be so pro-US that you lose sight of reality.
Tax rates in the EU are not 'very high'--in fact, they are in line with the rest of the world. It's just the base US tax rate is comparitively low. When you look at the taxes being raised by the destitute states to make up for the shortfall in revenue caused by the Administration's foolish and useless economic policies, I'm sure tax rates in places like California, New York and Massachusetts come very close to those which an EU citizen would pay. And they're getting high-quality health care and a social safety net that is second to none. For the high taxes paid by US citizens, they continue to see cuts in services and a crumbling safety net.
Unemployment is also not 'very high', as you suggest. I'd suggest taking a look at the US' rapidly rising unemployment rate, a value that shows no signs of declining while Mr. Bush and his Administration give tax cuts to those who need it least while leaving the vast majority of the populace with less and less money to spend and the constant fear of layoffs or other job losses.
Before you go trumpeting your precious US GDP and its far superior spending power, I suggest you check your facts.
While the Icom R-3 truly is a cool little gadget, I wish to caution those who are buying one for video monitoring purposes. It has a lot of features, to be sure, but as I found out the hard way, for the hardcore video monitoring enthusiast or TV DXer, it has some serious limitations.
Its sensitivity is lacking, so unless it encounters a very strong video signal (especially on 2.4GHz, where a lot of wireless cameras broadcast their signals), do not expect a very watchable or even decodeable picture.
Secondly, the video screen eats the hell out of the battery life. You'll find yourself reaching for the AC adapter quite frequently. This device tends to use the LCD screen to display a lot of configuration/tuning information, even in non-video mode, so beware if you buy this to use as a general-purpose scanner.
After 10 months of R3 ownership, my feelings are still mixed. It's pretty cool to walk around and stumble on 2.4GHz video, especially from wireless security cameras, but as a general-purpose scanning receiver or for attempting to receive TV DX in these skip-prone months, it falls sadly short.
I wish I had read this article before going out and purchasing my Linksys BEFW (sorry, can't remember the rest of the model number) wireless access point. It seems to drop connections at random, requiring a reboot of the router by pulling out and reinserting the power cord. The logs it gives are nowhere near as comprehensive as the ones that snort would send me every morning, and while I can configure port forwarding and IPSEC passthrough, etc., I miss the fine-grained control I had over all the options when I had a Linux router.
A mini-ITX case and some assorted hardware and I could have made a much more configurable, sturdy access point for only a little more money. Sigh.
like, what was he downloading when the bombs were dropping on Iraq?
:-)
Perhaps it was You Dropped A Bomb On Me, by the Gap Band?