I'm a long time MetaFilter member and they leave a very small time window (one or two minutes?) to edit for spelling/grammar. Also, the mods aggressively suspend or ban folks who abuse the edit feature to change the actual messaging in posts.
I set up a few Locustworld APs in my neighborhood using old laptops. Works good for what I need, We've got about 10 folks who use it, mostly for access at the beach or on the lake. Our MeshNetworks stuff is designed for commercial use and we do need to qualify buyers. Not my choice, business types decide that stuff. I'm just glad I get to play with it.
Did you read our site? We have high-speed mobility and geo-location. Problems that Rooftop couldn't solve. Also our root technology was licensed from ITT, which developed it for a DARPA project years before Rooftop. Rooftop is a fixed wireless solution and rumor has it that TESCO has discontinued support for this product.
The company I work for has been doing this for over 2 years. Seems like Intel is way behind the curve on this one. You can see what we've been doing @ http://www.meshnetworks.com.
I took the Global Knowledge "Introduction to Cisco Router Configuration" (ICRC) on my employer's dime and it was all about configuring routers for a real working environment. That was about 6 years ago and I think it has changed a bit since then, but it was a good class for learning how to configure all the popular WAN/LAN interfaces and basic router setup. The "Advance Cisco Router Configuration" class was good also with lots of training and practice setting up ACLs, VPNs, etc. Each was only a week but the instructor was excellent and every 2 people shared a router/laptop. This class did help a lot with the TCP/IP and subnet part of the CCNA test, helped me unlearn the M$ way I was taught. Not sure how the quality of their training is now, but at the time the emphasis on all the Global Knowledge classes I took was on real, usable training, it wasn't a cert training mill.
Having 1 party in power is a good thing? I'm sure the Jews would disagree! Look what happened in Germany when 1 party had total control. Sure the technological innovations during the Nazi party's rule were amazing, but at what cost? I see Dubya and his buddies heading down a similar path and most people are so willing to give up their feedoms for security it's pathetic.What's to be gained by manned missions with the current speed of our spacecraft? Spend that money on creating new propulsion systems and test them on relativly cheap unmanned missions until the designs are proven. Or better yet spend the money on researching alternative power systems for use down here. Ooops! What am I thinking? Then where would Bush and his buddies make their fortune?
Why would you point the finger at Paul Allen? If you look at him and his companys, he's nowhere near the tyrant Gates is, that's one of the reasons he left M$. He also donates to a lot of cool and very geek worthy causes. But then what should we expect from an anonymous coward?
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Maybe because we're the only ones actually doing something, instead of whining!
I agree totally. Where I used to work there were 3 admin types ( Desk not Sys), going to school to become MCSEs. They had no troubleshooting skills what-so-ever and didn't even like computers, they just wanted better pay. At my present company I got to interview and hire a junior admin, and the best I found was a 20 year old kid, with no certs, who did this stuff because he Liked It. Once I interviewed him I knew I had found the holy grail, and he got the job. I have no interest in people who went to school to get their certs. My friends and I got our certs by building home LANs and learning the info ourselves, we liked it, and would do it for free. I believe good troubleshooting skills are not learned it's something you have or don't, they can be refined but you need to start with the stubbornness and curiosity you were born with.
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I'm a long time MetaFilter member and they leave a very small time window (one or two minutes?) to edit for spelling/grammar. Also, the mods aggressively suspend or ban folks who abuse the edit feature to change the actual messaging in posts.
I set up a few Locustworld APs in my neighborhood using old laptops. Works good for what I need, We've got about 10 folks who use it, mostly for access at the beach or on the lake. Our MeshNetworks stuff is designed for commercial use and we do need to qualify buyers. Not my choice, business types decide that stuff. I'm just glad I get to play with it.
Did you read our site? We have high-speed mobility and geo-location. Problems that Rooftop couldn't solve. Also our root technology was licensed from ITT, which developed it for a DARPA project years before Rooftop. Rooftop is a fixed wireless solution and rumor has it that TESCO has discontinued support for this product.
The company I work for has been doing this for over 2 years. Seems like Intel is way behind the curve on this one. You can see what we've been doing @ http://www.meshnetworks.com .
I took the Global Knowledge "Introduction to Cisco Router Configuration" (ICRC) on my employer's dime and it was all about configuring routers for a real working environment. That was about 6 years ago and I think it has changed a bit since then, but it was a good class for learning how to configure all the popular WAN/LAN interfaces and basic router setup. The "Advance Cisco Router Configuration" class was good also with lots of training and practice setting up ACLs, VPNs, etc. Each was only a week but the instructor was excellent and every 2 people shared a router/laptop. This class did help a lot with the TCP/IP and subnet part of the CCNA test, helped me unlearn the M$ way I was taught. Not sure how the quality of their training is now, but at the time the emphasis on all the Global Knowledge classes I took was on real, usable training, it wasn't a cert training mill.
Having 1 party in power is a good thing? I'm sure the Jews would disagree! Look what happened in Germany when 1 party had total control. Sure the technological innovations during the Nazi party's rule were amazing, but at what cost? I see Dubya and his buddies heading down a similar path and most people are so willing to give up their feedoms for security it's pathetic.What's to be gained by manned missions with the current speed of our spacecraft? Spend that money on creating new propulsion systems and test them on relativly cheap unmanned missions until the designs are proven. Or better yet spend the money on researching alternative power systems for use down here. Ooops! What am I thinking? Then where would Bush and his buddies make their fortune?
Why would you point the finger at Paul Allen? If you look at him and his companys, he's nowhere near the tyrant Gates is, that's one of the reasons he left M$. He also donates to a lot of cool and very geek worthy causes. But then what should we expect from an anonymous coward?
Maybe because we're the only ones actually doing something, instead of whining!
I agree totally. Where I used to work there were 3 admin types ( Desk not Sys), going to school to become MCSEs. They had no troubleshooting skills what-so-ever and didn't even like computers, they just wanted better pay. At my present company I got to interview and hire a junior admin, and the best I found was a 20 year old kid, with no certs, who did this stuff because he Liked It. Once I interviewed him I knew I had found the holy grail, and he got the job. I have no interest in people who went to school to get their certs. My friends and I got our certs by building home LANs and learning the info ourselves, we liked it, and would do it for free. I believe good troubleshooting skills are not learned it's something you have or don't, they can be refined but you need to start with the stubbornness and curiosity you were born with.