Forgot to say - they do come at quite a cost compared other solutions - but we went with them specifically because we could minimize the number of APs actually needed to cover the area.. ~20 arrays compared to ~100+ APs..
I'll second the Xirrus arrays as being a good option. We use them in a school environment - so very different to what you require - but they do have several features which may be of use to you... The arrays all come with multiple radios (4, 8, 16 etc) and some of these can be configured to 'back haul' your data with a directional antenna while the other radios in the array provide a multi-directional network for your clients..
The outdoor enclosures also look really good - temp controlled and a rugged design that should be able to take a beating from critters/kids etc..
Obviously trees / etc will cause nightmares - but with careful placing we've been able to serve multi-story solid concrete buildings with a single array (providing plenty of throughput for ~100 clients all doing network intensive stuff at ones) - so your mileage may vary... But they (at least in Australia they do) offer a no-commitment site survey which was better than I was offered from the other big names resellers when we were researching last year..
Re:MOD PARENT TWO SQUARES RIGHT AND ONE FORWARD!
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RF Connector Chess Set
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For those who are interested in checking out your own security (I'm just about to do this!) the WPA Cracker that has been released is available here: WPA Cracker.
I'm from Australia and so it makes little diffence where the regulation is being implemented in this particular example..
I just wish there was some way for the IETF to impose good practices on VoIP carriers and telcos in an *international* manner - rather than state by state or nation by nation.
Regulation of VoiP is inevitable - especially as it starts to become more main stream (and especially when the major carriers begin to switch over to it).
I just wish the regulation would start by getting all carriers to allow user defined ENUM records - and allow the Voip revolution to start in a big way.
If I can specify a SIP address in Enum for my own home phone number, then anyone using SIP phones that looked up ENUM could be routed to this number, and bypass the carrier all together.. But how many carriers can we actually see implementing this without some form of government intervention??
Was expecting this device / software to be for general control of car systems (engine performance, monitoring etc) but from here:
http://linuxdevices.com/news/NS6531324140.html
What is "telematics"?
Telematics is a fairly new word sometimes defined as the combination of telecommunications and computing, or, alternatively, "telemetry" (radio-based instrumentation) and "informatics" (information management using statistics and computers).
Automotive telematics, then, is the application of telematics to the automotive market. Metrowerks lists examples of automotive telematics that include:
* Call center services such as GM OnStar
* In-car navigation and guidance systems
* Car/cellphone integration (for example, for hands-free operation through the radio and a dash-mounted microphone)
* XM radio and Becker Online Pro
* Fleet management systems such as Qualcomm Omnitracs
What automotive telematics is not
Automotive telematics does not include areas of automotive computing that involve powertrain management (such as fuel-injection microcontrollers), or what Metrowerks terms "body/safety/chassis" computing applications. These applications are typically based on proprietary process-based real-time OSes such as QNX, VxWorks, AE, LynxOS and others.
I didn't say it was new.. I said it was being brought to the masses:) This is a Good Thing!! And I'd assume (not having used BeOS) that it does it differently (allowing all types of files to be browsed interactively through a real time search..)
The obvious advantage is that it takes less time to find what you're after - but when hundreds of thousands of users start using this on their desktop, what will be next.. ? Perhaps a move away from straight hyperlinked navigation on the web - perhaps real time searching (as opposed to search engine type searching) for moving around websites may be possible.. ? I would *love* this.. So often I have to drill down through 10 levels of a website to find what I'm after, when a simple Go To: "geforce4 driver linux" or "contact address map" would give me want I wanted straight away...
More exposure to this sort of facility through something like OS X will only spur on development in other areas.. Bring it on:D
I'd been thinking about this for years - having a "SQL" like file system - and now Mac are in bringing it to the masses! Well, close anyway.. Spotlight uses metadata from all the files on your system to help you easily locate (search) for what you are after, no matter what type of info it is (contact, or PDF, or text file..)
You can seem from some of the pics on the page shown just how easy it will be to use spotlight. . At the top of every finder window - type the "keywords" and you're there.. Being able to store your "searches" will make this *really* powerful..
Once Tiger comes out I'm seriously considering moving to a Mac platform.. . I never thought I'd see the day...:'(
As many have stated this article leaves some importnant cards out of it's line up.
To me, the Intel i740 was the pick of the "early" 2D/3D cards. While not as *powerful* as the TNTs the i740 was an absolute bargain. I seem to remember picking one up for about $100 AUD (~$50 US?) with 8mb RAM.
It really was the first *affordable* video card *many* gamers found..
With apps I use every day like OpenOffice.org, Gaim, SquirrelMail - and those that save me loads of time, phpMyAdmin and TightVNC it's such a hard choice!!
Now if only PHP-Nuke was on the list - it's what has revolutionalised my life as a webmaster!!
It was a long while coming, but a faster, more secure, less bloated browser that actually adhered to internet standards..
As you may have guessed, I'm refering to Mozilla Firebird (not plain old Mozilla). It's the first time I've given up IE when working under Windows in years..! (Read about my reasons here)
But why take down the page?? Sure M$ might be working to fix the bugs, (they ought to!!) but we need sites that *do contain* this information. We, as IT Managers and other "technical" people, need to point out the vulnerabilities in IE to others.. Both to promote other browsers, and also to get them to patch their copies of IE..
Samba 3, Squid and NTLM Authentication - a change!
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One thing that does change with Samba 3 is the way that you need to configure Squid to use NTLM authentication...
If you upgrade and try using the old authenticators built with squid, you'll be stuck. Samba 3 comes with it's own helper utility (ntlm_auth) to work with other applications such as Squid.
I have written a Samba 3 / Squid Walkthrough that takes users step by step through getting this going.
Find out about it here: http://itmanagers.net/article-4--0-0.html
I read the Belgariad / Mallorean / Belgarath / Polgara and enjoyed them very much as a "light" read. Very humourous but terribly terribly repetitive. I found reading the Mallorean quite painful as it seemed like the Belgariad all over again..
I'm currently Re-reading the LoTR - and I'd missed half of the "similarities" between it and the Eddings books;) Here is just a couple of examples..
Magic Ring vs Magic Orb Gandalf runs off to research, Belgarath runs off to research Frodo offering ring to others, Eriond? offering Orb to others Dark lord not killed but "sleeping"
There are a heap more - but hard to think of off the top of my head. Not knocking the series - it is a good read (if you like Fantasy, come on folks, this isn't Sci-Fi!)
I finished Misspent Youth last night. Once again, fantastic.
I started with The Reality Dysfunction also, and had nice long waits between books:) Love all his work..
He delves into both technological developments and genetic developments and makes some very interesting "predictions". While the different series have their similarities in technology he does a fantastic job of making each unique.
If you are a Sci-Fi fan and haven't read Peter F. Hamilton's work - you're missing out on a real treat!
I bought my PDA (Second hand Handspring Visor Prism) thinking I'd set all my appointments in it's diary - but found I'm just too disorganised genearlly to make good use of one..
Instead I've found it invalubale for keeping track of time spent on differnet jobs (Self employed - IT maintainence for different places) and for keeping track of the miles travelled in my car.
For these purposes my PDA is an essential now - I couldn't go back - as for the "Planner", when I get organised I'll give it another go...!
I'd been using Logo for a couple of years when I got to take time out of class to do some programming work for a competition (this was Year 6). I chose to do my program in Logo over basic - because it was a much better platform for doing visual presentations..
Not only was it a great foundation for Geometry but you could create functions, loops and many other programming fundementals.... I'm very happy to see this great old platform getting another go!
In a follow up from Mark Rein he says that they should be shipping the Linux client on the CD with the Windows one.. And the Linux client should also be released for the demo!!! Very exciting stuff!
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Forgot to say - they do come at quite a cost compared other solutions - but we went with them specifically because we could minimize the number of APs actually needed to cover the area.. ~20 arrays compared to ~100+ APs..
I'll second the Xirrus arrays as being a good option. We use them in a school environment - so very different to what you require - but they do have several features which may be of use to you... The arrays all come with multiple radios (4, 8, 16 etc) and some of these can be configured to 'back haul' your data with a directional antenna while the other radios in the array provide a multi-directional network for your clients..
The outdoor enclosures also look really good - temp controlled and a rugged design that should be able to take a beating from critters/kids etc ..
Obviously trees / etc will cause nightmares - but with careful placing we've been able to serve multi-story solid concrete buildings with a single array (providing plenty of throughput for ~100 clients all doing network intensive stuff at ones) - so your mileage may vary... But they (at least in Australia they do) offer a no-commitment site survey which was better than I was offered from the other big names resellers when we were researching last year..
Obviously a Rookie...
"These are not the Chess pieces you are looking for.. Move along.."
For those who are interested in checking out your own security (I'm just about to do this!) the WPA Cracker that has been released is available here: WPA Cracker.
:S
I wonder if 13 characters is short
This patch would still be compiling by the time I got to Slashdot... ;-)
I'm from Australia and so it makes little diffence where the regulation is being implemented in this particular example..
:'(
I just wish there was some way for the IETF to impose good practices on VoIP carriers and telcos in an *international* manner - rather than state by state or nation by nation.
Yeah, that's going to happen
Regulation of VoiP is inevitable - especially as it starts to become more main stream (and especially when the major carriers begin to switch over to it).
I just wish the regulation would start by getting all carriers to allow user defined ENUM records - and allow the Voip revolution to start in a big way.
If I can specify a SIP address in Enum for my own home phone number, then anyone using SIP phones that looked up ENUM could be routed to this number, and bypass the carrier all together.. But how many carriers can we actually see implementing this without some form of government intervention??
http://linuxdevices.com/news/NS6531324140.html
Aliens from mars invade New York City...
Hey, it's not that unbelieveble..? ??!
I didn't say it was new.. I said it was being brought to the masses :) This is a Good Thing!! And I'd assume (not having used BeOS) that it does it differently (allowing all types of files to be browsed interactively through a real time search..)
:D
The obvious advantage is that it takes less time to find what you're after - but when hundreds of thousands of users start using this on their desktop, what will be next.. ? Perhaps a move away from straight hyperlinked navigation on the web - perhaps real time searching (as opposed to search engine type searching) for moving around websites may be possible.. ? I would *love* this.. So often I have to drill down through 10 levels of a website to find what I'm after, when a simple Go To: "geforce4 driver linux" or "contact address map" would give me want I wanted straight away...
More exposure to this sort of facility through something like OS X will only spur on development in other areas.. Bring it on
I'd been thinking about this for years - having a "SQL" like file system - and now Mac are in bringing it to the masses! Well, close anyway.. Spotlight uses metadata from all the files on your system to help you easily locate (search) for what you are after, no matter what type of info it is (contact, or PDF, or text file..)
:'(
You can seem from some of the pics on the page shown just how easy it will be to use spotlight. . At the top of every finder window - type the "keywords" and you're there.. Being able to store your "searches" will make this *really* powerful..
Once Tiger comes out I'm seriously considering moving to a Mac platform.. . I never thought I'd see the day...
If you only want a web browser - Mozilla FireFox is already *much* faster than the standard Mozilla... Fast enough to run on a Windoze box!
As many have stated this article leaves some importnant cards out of it's line up.
To me, the Intel i740 was the pick of the "early" 2D/3D cards. While not as *powerful* as the TNTs the i740 was an absolute bargain. I seem to remember picking one up for about $100 AUD (~$50 US?) with 8mb RAM.
It really was the first *affordable* video card *many* gamers found..
With apps I use every day like OpenOffice.org, Gaim, SquirrelMail - and those that save me loads of time, phpMyAdmin and TightVNC it's such a hard choice!!
Now if only PHP-Nuke was on the list - it's what has revolutionalised my life as a webmaster!!
we all depend on IE too much
It was a long while coming, but a faster, more secure, less bloated browser that actually adhered to internet standards..
As you may have guessed, I'm refering to Mozilla Firebird (not plain old Mozilla). It's the first time I've given up IE when working under Windows in years..! (Read about my reasons here)
But why take down the page?? Sure M$ might be working to fix the bugs, (they ought to!!) but we need sites that *do contain* this information. We, as IT Managers and other "technical" people, need to point out the vulnerabilities in IE to others.. Both to promote other browsers, and also to get them to patch their copies of IE..
One thing that does change with Samba 3 is the way that you need to configure Squid to use NTLM authentication...
If you upgrade and try using the old authenticators built with squid, you'll be stuck. Samba 3 comes with it's own helper utility (ntlm_auth) to work with other applications such as Squid.
I have written a Samba 3 / Squid Walkthrough that takes users step by step through getting this going.
Find out about it here:
http://itmanagers.net/article-4--0-0.html
I'm a big user of Gaim's M$N plugin.. Gaim doesn't show the advertisments which pop up in M$N / Windows Messenger..
This seems to me the only *real reason* Micro$oft would want to stamp out 3rd party clients.. Loss of advertising revenue...
I read the Belgariad / Mallorean / Belgarath / Polgara and enjoyed them very much as a "light" read. Very humourous but terribly terribly repetitive. I found reading the Mallorean quite painful as it seemed like the Belgariad all over again..
;) Here is just a couple of examples..
I'm currently Re-reading the LoTR - and I'd missed half of the "similarities" between it and the Eddings books
Magic Ring vs Magic Orb
Gandalf runs off to research, Belgarath runs off to research
Frodo offering ring to others, Eriond? offering Orb to others
Dark lord not killed but "sleeping"
There are a heap more - but hard to think of off the top of my head. Not knocking the series - it is a good read (if you like Fantasy, come on folks, this isn't Sci-Fi!)
I finished Misspent Youth last night. Once again, fantastic.
:) Love all his work..
I started with The Reality Dysfunction also, and had nice long waits between books
He delves into both technological developments and genetic developments and makes some very interesting "predictions". While the different series have their similarities in technology he does a fantastic job of making each unique.
If you are a Sci-Fi fan and haven't read Peter F. Hamilton's work - you're missing out on a real treat!
I bought my PDA (Second hand Handspring Visor Prism) thinking I'd set all my appointments in it's diary - but found I'm just too disorganised genearlly to make good use of one..
Instead I've found it invalubale for keeping track of time spent on differnet jobs (Self employed - IT maintainence for different places) and for keeping track of the miles travelled in my car.
For these purposes my PDA is an essential now - I couldn't go back - as for the "Planner", when I get organised I'll give it another go...!
I'd been using Logo for a couple of years when I got to take time out of class to do some programming work for a competition (this was Year 6). I chose to do my program in Logo over basic - because it was a much better platform for doing visual presentations..
Not only was it a great foundation for Geometry but you could create functions, loops and many other programming fundementals.... I'm very happy to see this great old platform getting another go!
In a follow up from Mark Rein he says that they should be shipping the Linux client on the CD with the Windows one.. And the Linux client should also be released for the demo!!! Very exciting stuff!
Yep! The US needs to hurry up and build their Anti-nuke shield quicker ;)
The picture looks like something out of Total Annihilation....
Someothing to power my K-Bot lab.. YAY!