Long version: Speed of Light = 299792.458 kilometers / second Geostationary satellites are at an altitude of ~35786 kilometers.
This means that just for the radio wave to travel to and from the satellite, you are adding around 238 milliseconds. That is just one way, the return trip is another 238ms MINIMUM.
This doesn't account for signal conversions, modulation, demodulation(the preceeding are mostly negligable), latency from the ground station to the host, etc. You would be lucky to EVER see under 580ms ping using satellite.
My terminology may be a little different than others are used to, that is because I am a Satellite Network Controller in the Army and use the military terms.
Point 1: Looked at routers that load-balance, but do so horribly. Counter-Point 1: The RV016 uses weighted round-robin or various other methods, depending on your preference.
Point 2: I've considered splitting up my network users to use several incoming DSL lines, only to be confronted with intranet accessibility issues. Counter-Point 2: The Linksys can do this for up to SEVEN WAN connections. It can split by IP range(multiple ranges), protocol(SPI), and port.
Point 3: None of these provide the kind of redundancy and control that I'd like Counter-Point 3: The RV016 provides failover and extensive control.
Point 4: Certainly not with a nice pleasant UI that doesn't cause me great grief. Counter-Point 4: The RV016 is as easy as they come.
For those that don't get the joke. It is a reference to when StarForce posted the torrent for GalCivII on their website because StarDock didn't use any copy prevention mechanism on the game.
What the OP should do is this: At the next meeting they have, play buzzword bingo.
How to play: Before the meeting, make a bingo sheet of buzzwords. As the meeting progresses and people use the buzzwords you mark your bingo board. Once you have a bingo you do as you would in any bingo game!
I actually had a supervisor of mine (a LTC) do this once at a briefing. It was priceless.
Bases close to the Mexican border, for example. They do that because they know that if they don't, the younger soldiers will go across the border to drink.
If I'm wrong, well, I missed out on three years of drinking, damnit. (I'm 22 now).
The pool timer will shut down electricity at a specified time, the UPS will give the kids a warning, along with an annoying beep. As long as the kids don't have physical access to reroute the power, you shouldn't have a problem.
Intel released their single-board-computer into the Asian market about a year ago. Low power(12W TDP), small size(about 190x170mm), and cheap performance. It has a 1.0GHZ Shelton CPU (Cacheless 130NM PentiumM), built in sound, video, lan, usb, etc. Only thing this board is lacking is a serial port, but that only matters if you actually use one. I use one of these for my mini-torrent box. You can pick them up on ebay for less than $100 shipped. Just search for Intel+ITX, there is a guy that puts up 1 or two a week.
All manufacturers have gone back to a 3 or 5 year warranty(thanks to pressure from Seagate's standard 5 year).
Maxtor and Western Digital offer 3 years on most drives and 5 years on the premium drives. Seagate offers 5 years across the board. Samsung is 3 years across the board. Hitachi is a mix, some drives have 1 year(OEM), most have 3 year, enterprise(SCSI) have 5 year.
You see, the program will never work, and if it does, it will be highly prone to crashing.
Government software contraacts tend to work likt this: Govt gives contract to Boeing. Boeing subcontracts to 10 different software companies. Each one writes a portion of the code for the modules with no contact whatsoever with the other subcontractors. The interface guys use Assembly for PPC, the Network guys use C++, the Disk I/O guys use Java, etc. You get my point. Then they try to combine the whole thing, assign that task to one person, and wonder why the program can't do a damn thing and half the interface doesnt work. They'll spend the next 10 years working on the contract fixing the bugs and the project will eventually be finished. But by that time it wont run on any of todays hardware. Rinse, repeat.
But no one really cares. I guess that is the advantage to being in a gaming community with an average age of around 25. We're a FPS community, we use TeamSpeak, but whe a woman gets on the channel, she is just another player as far as we're concerned.
The thing is, that's exactly how I have it setup. WindowsXP, running headless, only power and ethernet. I use VNC to control the box. Could I use linux? Yep. Do I care to when this box does its intended purpose perfectly well? Nope. I should note that this machine doubles as a FreeDSB router when at LAN parties(load balances 4 cable modems).
Just to give you guys an idea of the performance spread:
System 1: (Game Box) Processor AMD Athlon(tm) 64 2549MHz Display Card NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GTX Memory 2048MB Operating System Microsoft Windows XP Free Disk Space 102.48GB Display Card Memory 256MB Display Driver Version 7.8.0.3 DirectX Version 9.0c Optical Drive CD/DVD Sound Card Realtek AC97 Audio Your system is among the top 2% of all systems scanned by the Game Advisor.
System 2: (File Box) Processor AMD Athlon(tm) 64 1809MHz Display Card ATI RADEON 9500 Memory 512MB Operating System Microsoft Windows XP Free Disk Space 219.49GB Display Card Memory 128MB Display Driver Version 6.14.10.6505 DirectX Version 9.0c Optical Drive CD/DVD Sound Card Realtek AC97 Audio Your system is among the top 14% of all systems scanned by the Game Advisor.
System 3: (Bittorrent Box) Processor Intel Pentium M 1000MHz Display Card Intel(R) 82845G/GL/GE/PE/GV Memory 512MB Operating System Microsoft Windows XP Free Disk Space 94.6GB Display Card Memory 1MB Display Driver Version 6.14.10.3762 DirectX Version 9.0c Optical Drive CD/DVD Sound Card Realtek AC97 Audio 93% of the systems scanned by the Game Advisor rank higher in performance than your system.
Halo is the XBOX killer-app. If they can't do what they want through emulation, I wouldn't be supprised if they recompiled the xbe and ran that off the HDD.
Great LCD. If you have ANY pixel problems or backlight problems(Take a picture with a digital camera and a black screen, much easier to detect backlight issues) make sure to RMA it to Dell for a replacement. Dell pays shipping both ways, continue to do this for as long as you don't get a perfect LCD.
Do not settle for the SLIGHTEST backlight problems, they get worse with age. Mine was near perfect, but now, a year later, the backlight is starting to bleed a bit, not really noticable unless I look, but it is only going to get worse.
Plasters are good for covering blisters, too, until you can deal with them properly.
Not sure what you mean by plasters. Duct tape is the ultimate blister cover for blisters on on the toes. I always duct tape my heels when I'm about to go on a road march(10K and up). Not only provides protection from futher irritation, prevents the iritation from happening in the first place.
Make sure you have more air being forced in that being sucked out. Filter all the intake fans. Reduces dust by over 90% from my personal experience. My monthly cleanings are now annual.
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Speed of Light = 299792.458 kilometers / second
Geostationary satellites are at an altitude of ~35786 kilometers.
This means that just for the radio wave to travel to and from the satellite, you are adding around 238 milliseconds. That is just one way, the return trip is another 238ms MINIMUM.
This doesn't account for signal conversions, modulation, demodulation(the preceeding are mostly negligable), latency from the ground station to the host, etc. You would be lucky to EVER see under 580ms ping using satellite.
Even the providers do not recommend gaming.
Link: http://www.wafa.ae/en/vsat/aboutsatinternetpg2.as
My terminology may be a little different than others are used to, that is because I am a Satellite Network Controller in the Army and use the military terms.
No, 2*128 Vs. 2^128
Solution: Linksys RV016, $400
Point 1: Looked at routers that load-balance, but do so horribly.
Counter-Point 1: The RV016 uses weighted round-robin or various other methods, depending on your preference.
Point 2: I've considered splitting up my network users to use several incoming DSL lines, only to be confronted with intranet accessibility issues.
Counter-Point 2: The Linksys can do this for up to SEVEN WAN connections. It can split by IP range(multiple ranges), protocol(SPI), and port.
Point 3: None of these provide the kind of redundancy and control that I'd like
Counter-Point 3: The RV016 provides failover and extensive control.
Point 4: Certainly not with a nice pleasant UI that doesn't cause me great grief.
Counter-Point 4: The RV016 is as easy as they come.
Find a phone you like with bluetooth. Done.
I had a 486 DX2 66 that played 128kbit MP3s fine, as long as you set the sound output to 8bit and did NOTHING else.
For those that don't get the joke. It is a reference to when StarForce posted the torrent for GalCivII on their website because StarDock didn't use any copy prevention mechanism on the game.
Bingo!
Exactly!
What the OP should do is this: At the next meeting they have, play buzzword bingo.
How to play: Before the meeting, make a bingo sheet of buzzwords. As the meeting progresses and people use the buzzwords you mark your bingo board. Once you have a bingo you do as you would in any bingo game!
I actually had a supervisor of mine (a LTC) do this once at a briefing. It was priceless.
You would have to be stupid to post on slashdot under your real name.
That only applies to certain bases.
Bases close to the Mexican border, for example. They do that because they know that if they don't, the younger soldiers will go across the border to drink.
If I'm wrong, well, I missed out on three years of drinking, damnit. (I'm 22 now).
Madison county (Jackson) is 9.75% now. I don't really mind the sales tax as much as I would mind and income tax.
The pool timer will shut down electricity at a specified time, the UPS will give the kids a warning, along with an annoying beep. As long as the kids don't have physical access to reroute the power, you shouldn't have a problem.
Intel released their single-board-computer into the Asian market about a year ago. Low power(12W TDP), small size(about 190x170mm), and cheap performance. It has a 1.0GHZ Shelton CPU (Cacheless 130NM PentiumM), built in sound, video, lan, usb, etc. Only thing this board is lacking is a serial port, but that only matters if you actually use one. I use one of these for my mini-torrent box. You can pick them up on ebay for less than $100 shipped. Just search for Intel+ITX, there is a guy that puts up 1 or two a week.
As long as the hat doesn't have "Wizzard" in sequins, that's A-OK with me. Gods know we don't need another Rincewind running around.
All manufacturers have gone back to a 3 or 5 year warranty(thanks to pressure from Seagate's standard 5 year).
Maxtor and Western Digital offer 3 years on most drives and 5 years on the premium drives. Seagate offers 5 years across the board. Samsung is 3 years across the board. Hitachi is a mix, some drives have 1 year(OEM), most have 3 year, enterprise(SCSI) have 5 year.
This is just a smart tactic to create lockin and ensure future revenue.
You see, the program will never work, and if it does, it will be highly prone to crashing.
Government software contraacts tend to work likt this:
Govt gives contract to Boeing. Boeing subcontracts to 10 different software companies. Each one writes a portion of the code for the modules with no contact whatsoever with the other subcontractors. The interface guys use Assembly for PPC, the Network guys use C++, the Disk I/O guys use Java, etc. You get my point. Then they try to combine the whole thing, assign that task to one person, and wonder why the program can't do a damn thing and half the interface doesnt work. They'll spend the next 10 years working on the contract fixing the bugs and the project will eventually be finished. But by that time it wont run on any of todays hardware. Rinse, repeat.
Who says we're an average community?
Because we cater to some older games(Q3F/ETF, Q3 versions of QWTF) we draw an older crowd.
But no one really cares. I guess that is the advantage to being in a gaming community with an average age of around 25. We're a FPS community, we use TeamSpeak, but whe a woman gets on the channel, she is just another player as far as we're concerned.
The thing is, that's exactly how I have it setup. WindowsXP, running headless, only power and ethernet. I use VNC to control the box. Could I use linux? Yep. Do I care to when this box does its intended purpose perfectly well? Nope. I should note that this machine doubles as a FreeDSB router when at LAN parties(load balances 4 cable modems).
Just to give you guys an idea of the performance spread:
System 1: (Game Box)
Processor AMD Athlon(tm) 64 2549MHz
Display Card NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GTX
Memory 2048MB
Operating System Microsoft Windows XP
Free Disk Space 102.48GB
Display Card Memory 256MB
Display Driver Version 7.8.0.3
DirectX Version 9.0c
Optical Drive CD/DVD
Sound Card Realtek AC97 Audio
Your system is among the top 2% of all systems scanned by the Game Advisor.
System 2: (File Box)
Processor AMD Athlon(tm) 64 1809MHz
Display Card ATI RADEON 9500
Memory 512MB
Operating System Microsoft Windows XP
Free Disk Space 219.49GB
Display Card Memory 128MB
Display Driver Version 6.14.10.6505
DirectX Version 9.0c
Optical Drive CD/DVD
Sound Card Realtek AC97 Audio
Your system is among the top 14% of all systems scanned by the Game Advisor.
System 3: (Bittorrent Box)
Processor Intel Pentium M 1000MHz
Display Card Intel(R) 82845G/GL/GE/PE/GV
Memory 512MB
Operating System Microsoft Windows XP
Free Disk Space 94.6GB
Display Card Memory 1MB
Display Driver Version 6.14.10.3762
DirectX Version 9.0c
Optical Drive CD/DVD
Sound Card Realtek AC97 Audio
93% of the systems scanned by the Game Advisor rank higher in performance than your system.
Halo is the XBOX killer-app. If they can't do what they want through emulation, I wouldn't be supprised if they recompiled the xbe and ran that off the HDD.
Great LCD. If you have ANY pixel problems or backlight problems(Take a picture with a digital camera and a black screen, much easier to detect backlight issues) make sure to RMA it to Dell for a replacement. Dell pays shipping both ways, continue to do this for as long as you don't get a perfect LCD.
Do not settle for the SLIGHTEST backlight problems, they get worse with age. Mine was near perfect, but now, a year later, the backlight is starting to bleed a bit, not really noticable unless I look, but it is only going to get worse.
Plasters are good for covering blisters, too, until you can deal with them properly. Not sure what you mean by plasters. Duct tape is the ultimate blister cover for blisters on on the toes. I always duct tape my heels when I'm about to go on a road march(10K and up). Not only provides protection from futher irritation, prevents the iritation from happening in the first place.
Only the vietnam era jungle boots, not the ones you buy from Altama. You're better off with a commercial solution if you want safety soles.
Make sure you have more air being forced in that being sucked out. Filter all the intake fans. Reduces dust by over 90% from my personal experience. My monthly cleanings are now annual.