Seeing as how the 2.4 Ghz range is very effectively blocked by things with a high concentration of water (2.4 Ghz is the resonance frequency of water, that's why your microwave uses it), and seeing as how most outdoor obstacles are going to be of the organic persuasion (trees, bushes, office buildings full of decorative plants), line of sight is actually a near-requirement for any long-distance 802.11b application.
Ummmm, that's rather like requiring every Mom & Pop convenience store to have a police liason officer... The last ISP I worked for had exactly 3 employees and 2 owners (2 support techs, one billing manager, and the owners backed up the techs and did the network management). Having a dedicated liason person is just inreasonable to expect from most non-national ISP's.
I read this article a couple days ago (even submitted it to/. ), and I think the main message to grep out of this is for the MPAA and RIAA to back up their arguments with proof. Eric provides hard data in the form of sales figures that show, pretty conclusively, that the existence of free copies of his books actually increased sales (een those that were made freely available). While I will grant that the book publishing industry and the music/movie publishing industry are different animals, I would call upon the RIAA/MPAA to give us some data to back up their arguments. Take a chance, do some research, make pretty graphs, whatever! Just stop treating us (your customers) like theives, ok?
Jabber is not just an IM client, it's also the server/protocol. Thus you can implement an IM solution where it would otherwise be impractical or pose a security hazard. I work for a medical firm, and the security issues with sending patient/sensitive information over a third-party IM network are enough to give people nightmares. They don't scare me, though. cause it's something that I would NEVER EVER allow to happen in my network.
Trillian, OTOH, while it's a great program (I use it myself) is nothing more than a combined front-end client for the existing IM services. Trillian will not help you when you are in a situation where opening a hole in the firewall for IM traffic is just not feasible (assuming that your networked office has Internet access to begin with, and that is NOT a given in the health care field)
Linksys, D-Link, Netgear and several others make them. They're called Cable/DSL routers w/ Wireless Access Points. They all work on the same principle of outbound WAN port on one side, smal hub/WAP on the other.
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Seeing as how the 2.4 Ghz range is very effectively blocked by things with a high concentration of water (2.4 Ghz is the resonance frequency of water, that's why your microwave uses it), and seeing as how most outdoor obstacles are going to be of the organic persuasion (trees, bushes, office buildings full of decorative plants), line of sight is actually a near-requirement for any long-distance 802.11b application.
Ummmm, that's rather like requiring every Mom & Pop convenience store to have a police liason officer... The last ISP I worked for had exactly 3 employees and 2 owners (2 support techs, one billing manager, and the owners backed up the techs and did the network management). Having a dedicated liason person is just inreasonable to expect from most non-national ISP's.
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I'm only mostly joking here. That would keep all licences short and sweet. Case in Point: the GPL in haiku.
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Trillian, OTOH, while it's a great program (I use it myself) is nothing more than a combined front-end client for the existing IM services. Trillian will not help you when you are in a situation where opening a hole in the firewall for IM traffic is just not feasible (assuming that your networked office has Internet access to begin with, and that is NOT a given in the health care field)
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Linksys, D-Link, Netgear and several others make them. They're called Cable/DSL routers w/ Wireless Access Points. They all work on the same principle of outbound WAN port on one side, smal hub/WAP on the other.
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Um.....you'd be wrong then. This game may be short on graphics but long on gameplay. Try the demo before you pronounce judgement.
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