nope, repeaters are not at all the same as a real wireless to wireless router. They do not segment the network or do anything more than simple decode=>retransmit.
a mesh network will allow you to make a multihop wireless network much in the same way as if you had a number of wired network interfaces in your Cisco router. This makes things a lot easier, since the wireless network can be extended in an easy-to-configure way, without any wires. Also, the multihop routing capability increases the capacity of wireless networks. The repeaters actually decrease capacity...
This marks a glorious day for trolls like me to finally break into the open market and spread our trolldem to faraway lands through trollful globalization of the trolltech enterprise.
no.... this is about engineers applying the theoretical results of the last few years into real systems. in fact, the theory is old. at least half a decade or more.
what is different is new hardware that makes implementing these systems feasible.
I think the biggest win is the ease of finding files. Theoretically this would allow file information to propagate, and I tihnk the most interesting problem that will be faced is stability. How do you make effective searches that do not loop around the network?
This could be a really cool development, and there is a lot of research in the EE/CS community right now going in to studying these decentralized networks. They show great promise!
I worked on a satellite mission where we had some trouble. Due to an error the satellite wound up pointing 16 degrees away from the sun in a higher-than-expected orbit of 443 miles (714 kilometers) above Earth.
The misalignment meant the spacecraft was unable to look directly at the sun's center to record the amount of radiation streaming toward Earth. To accurately measure sunlight, the darn thing needed to be pointed to within a quarter of a degree of dead center.
It took about four and a half months to fix that problem, due to uplink difficulties. Ground controllers from first had to slow the spacecraft's spin in order to transmit a series of software "patches" and then gradually speed it up to see how well the commands worked.
oh man, i cannot WAIT to compile 6-way gentoo... I would probably compile it independently on all 6 (x)boxes to get maximum performance and utilization..
gentoo + xbox + beowulf = shweeeeng!
this is almost as cool as the type-R stickers & super-wing on the back of my civic.
Why is it always acceptable--preferable--to refer to anyone with a different belief than ourselves as a ``zealot''? This word is being way overused lately. ``Cease!'' sayeth the style police.
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i for one welcome our new GLBT overlords.
Looking forward to the official GNAA reply.
Cheers!
linux is dead! long live freebsd!
i'm just KIDDING.
nope, repeaters are not at all the same as a real wireless to wireless router. They do not segment the network or do anything more than simple decode=>retransmit.
a mesh network will allow you to make a multihop wireless network much in the same way as if you had a number of wired network interfaces in your Cisco router. This makes things a lot easier, since the wireless network can be extended in an easy-to-configure way, without any wires. Also, the multihop routing capability increases the capacity of wireless networks. The repeaters actually decrease capacity...
If my patent application for the BitwiseIsNot operator says anything, this one will be rejected. My idea was pretty novel at the time, though.
BitwiseIsNot: a binary bit-level operation that returns 1 in the bits where the two numbers differ and 0 else. I call it BitwiseIsNot.
e.g. 0110 BitwiseIsNot 1111 = 1001.
For each bit you can write it A BitwiseIsNot B = AB + A'B'
If I h ad a patent lawyer and a few million dollars, then I'd surely have gotten that patent.
This marks a glorious day for trolls like me to finally break into the open market and spread our trolldem to faraway lands through trollful globalization of the trolltech enterprise.
hip hip hurray!
herbivore: the privacy-conscious, vegan e-mail snooper.
no.... this is about engineers applying the theoretical results of the last few years into real systems. in fact, the theory is old. at least half a decade or more.
what is different is new hardware that makes implementing these systems feasible.
right. it wasn't supposed to be funny.... your guess is as good as mine why it was.. it's not...
i guess it gives people something to make games about, though....
because we spend our money on the latest and greatest weapons and warfare.
inarguably.
what's that supposed 2 mean, dawg?
in soviet russia, bittorrent decentralizes you!
I think the biggest win is the ease of finding files. Theoretically this would allow file information to propagate, and I tihnk the most interesting problem that will be faced is stability. How do you make effective searches that do not loop around the network?
This could be a really cool development, and there is a lot of research in the EE/CS community right now going in to studying these decentralized networks. They show great promise!
People are discovering that when you buy any product that is subject to "activation", you haven't really bought anything.
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Now that's a heavy handed statement right there. .
I mean come on, that's not really the case and you know it.
myself and others are already awaiting the sequel
mobile beowulf...... it's coming d00dz.
I worked on a satellite mission where we had some trouble. Due to an error the satellite wound up pointing 16 degrees away from the sun in a higher-than-expected orbit of 443 miles (714 kilometers) above Earth.
The misalignment meant the spacecraft was unable to look directly at the sun's center to record the amount of radiation streaming toward Earth. To accurately measure sunlight, the darn thing needed to be pointed to within a quarter of a degree of dead center.
It took about four and a half months to fix that problem, due to uplink difficulties. Ground controllers from first had to slow the spacecraft's spin in order to transmit a series of software "patches" and then gradually speed it up to see how well the commands worked.
Then things were fixed.
Moral of the story: it is a tough job indeed!
this is old news. how do stories like this get through?
oh man, i cannot WAIT to compile 6-way gentoo... I would probably compile it independently on all 6 (x)boxes to get maximum performance and utilization..
gentoo + xbox + beowulf = shweeeeng!
this is almost as cool as the type-R stickers & super-wing on the back of my civic.
In C:
while(dems suck) {
for(i=0;i
In PERL:
while (chomp $_)
{
s/who you like/who you dislike + four more years/g;
print
}
FOUR MORE YEARS!!!!!!!
FOUR MORE YEARS!!!!!!!
FOUR MORE YEARS!!!!!!!
What are you, some kind of Solaris zealot?
Why is it always acceptable--preferable--to refer to anyone with a different belief than ourselves as a ``zealot''? This word is being way overused lately. ``Cease!'' sayeth the style police.
you're a zealot, just for questioning that.
Ni är så dålig.
really, stop being dorks, dorks.
being the latin master that i am:
you are dorki malorki.
for captain obvious.
hahaha lol
No, it is already dead, fool.
silly trolls...