It shows you all the insane registry hacking programs do, overriding or overwriting of DLLs, in general just a lot of bad behavior you see in Windoze. It runs on every desktop where I work and will stop most trojans from installing due to stupid "Oh, lets click on virus.exe" and run it.
Even if they're not making money off it (no clue tbqh), it probably has some cool tidbits of code...
If you are going to be away a simple list to start with is: 1. Conserve electricity, unplug everything or just flip your breakers off (if you have nothing remote to access) 2. If you use natural gas, you can shut it off at your house or just cut off the heater/water heater. 3. Turn off your water. Look for your water shutoff valve and just turn it off... 4. Cover your pipes! If it gets cold, even if you've shut off your water, wrap your pipes up near the shut off valve.
If you need something on inside, need to monitor, or a certain temperature... (plants?) I hope then you would have: 1. Programmable thermostat to set temperature versus time. 2. Maybe a remote IP camera to take a peek inside your house, maybe with a timed light. ZoneMinder is a great piece of software to use with that. 3. There are several temperature sensors you can get, but if you are a HW geek you could check out integrating a kit from Maxim: http://www.maxim-ic.com/products/ibutton/products/ ibuttons.cfm#sensor
Look IBM has world class fabs for SoC's, can do low power, high performance computing and have major mind share in the ASIC world. Their high volume/high profit market is not what Apple is selling. They did the PowerPC 970 for Apple and d they are the highest volume runner, which for IBM is the proverbial drop in the bucket. It adds more visibility but not revenue.
If Apple delivered more product or *gasp* payed IBM to develop low power processors for the laptop market, they couldn't complain. Should Apple have paid IBM for development when getting it from AMD/Intel in the x86 world would be free? No, but people should believe that it was because their vendor was incapable. It was just the Apple itself isn't significant enough to justify chip development with low payoff for IBM.
Let's see... you created a Linux distribution based on recompiling every piece of SW it would use. Therefore burning hundereds of hours and megawatts to squeeze performance out that is negligible at best, slower or non-functional at worst. Wow, I hope he brings that wonderful package philiosophy to Microsoft. Well, I hope he at least milks them for some good salary (sorry dude, stock options are out nowadays).
-Ho
The 802.11 basic standard does not support voice!
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802.11 standard was modeled around having a CSMA/A algorithm that tried to be as much like Ethernet as possible. There is no provision in the BASIC standard to provide for clients to shut up for higher priority voice clients at all! This means that a data client can blow the voice guy to kingdom come.
There are extensions to the 802.11 standard like 802.11e and WME that will allow priority queuing and some minimalistic scheduling to take place. Other companies play tricks with the protocol to allow for voice clients to perform better under the BASIC standard but there are drawbacks.
In the end, it is too early to judge VOIP over WLAN because clients and access points have yet to adopt extensions to the basic standard.
With Ximian in hand, and word of GNOME afoot doesn't it seem logical that YAST will go through a major change and go the GTK/GNOME route? It seems to me that YAST on SUSE with integration with KDE may become unsupported. This is too bad becaues in SUSE 9 it is pretty slick for those users who are not experts. I wonder what kind of future the whole of GNOME/Ximian/SUSE will hold...
Personally you have to be careful about many of the "PC" based scopes that are out there. They usually suffer from bad analog bandwidth and short memory depth. Also you have to pay particular attention to many of the voltage/impendance limits of "PC" scopes.
Personally taking a trip down to your local electronics swap meet is not a bad idea if you have one nearby. Hear in SiValley there are a few around on the weekends where you get some older Tek/HP *cough* Agilent scopes for pennies on the dollar. Sometimes they need some work but most people are honest about it.
Having gone through high cpu/disk load crashes over multiple kernels, I would suggest a good test plan before embarking on any new kernel.
Our most recent experience with 'stable' kernels (specifically drivers in our case) was the default kernel in RH 8. It had some very subtle issues with Intel's GigPHY/MAC chipset that caused crashes only under specific high load every three to four days. Crashes were not repeatable in specific time frames but would eventually happen. I suggest finding a characteristic set of applications/loading of disk/mem/CPU applications and then test out your favorite kernel under all those circumstances. Many programs that run huge FFTs or other number crunching applications are many times too specific to cause failures. We in this example used a program to calculate huge FFTs while doing looping network file transfers to test without issues... nothing beats the real thing!
Also don't think that even 2.4.x series kernels are above this... as I stated earlier even a heavily patched 2.4.18 kernel could be your downfall... so maybe a 2.5.x kernel is okay but beat the crap out of it before putting both feet in.
I get So Sick of people bashing distro's
because of support EOL. Look, these packages are
out there and get fixed usually with or without
the distribution support. Upgrade what you need.
If you want things to be *automagic* then you will
likely have to pay for them. If you want packages
upgraded for your old distro's you know 'ol RedHat
will have to update the source for their Advanced
Server/Workstation product anyhow so just build it
man! I think too much of free and easy has adled
the reasonable expectations of too many people.
Have you noticed all the wonderful Apple propaganda from CmdrTaco in the last few weeks? I guess he wasn't around long enough to know that Apple would produce a good product only to shaft its users later on with inferiority and higher prices. Oh well live and learn 'Taco!:) Hope that laptop is holding up well because it ain't getting much faster any time soon!
Ho Kooshy Fly
Wow, talk about using you're 802.11b spectrum. Imagine having at home the following devices (assuming they detected the correct clear band!):
1. Intel's new fangled wireless media gateway on channel 1.
2. Your access point on channel 3 with your other PC's.
3. Your wireless home alarm system on channel 5, burgulars love this one!:)
4. Your cordless phone around channel 7.
5. Your wireless headphones on channel 9.
6. Your X-10 video camera blowing away channel 11!
Sounds crowded, then again who will have so many wireless gadgets at the same time? Oh wait I do!
(channels spaced according to 802.11b standard 20MHz+guard band)
Ho
This kit is all well and nice, but since Sony's copy protection exists for their custom DVDs it is all but impossible to play created games in normal systems. Obviously Sony wants to make money from the kits but what they really want is to make money for their games. Undoubtedly, they must feel that they lose more money from no copy protection than from more developers. Whether or not this is the case (it is probably is true), maybe a method for reading special DVD's for non corporate content should have been thought of. Oh well.
Ho Kooshy Fly
Look man, evaluate the product not their web site. You can still go get specifications for the Zaurus just run Netscape and be a little forgiving. And don't be such arses when it comes to their choice of Opera. Opera is lightweight and has already been used in many embedded products and has itself been proven. No doubt it was a ignorant thing but the product has some good qualities. I picked up mine and have the 802.11b CF card and it is amazing. Don't knock till you try it and talk about merits and faults of the product not advetisments.
Ho
One thing to make sure you don't forget about is the height/length restrictions some of these small systems have for PCI cards. For many people it may not matter since much hardware is already built into the board, but I have seen people be burned when there old Voodoo 3/PCI couldn't fit into the system! Just FYI.
Fly
Even advanced systems that help out line of site problems with fixed wireless have mostly lost money. What about Sprint my friend? The largest provider of fixed wireless wouldn't even invest in anything more advanced than upconverting cable-modem signalling/modulation directly and now wants to pull out of the market. This will not happen soon. I speak from personal experience there will be nothing gained from fixed wireless by an evaporation of DSL users. DSL users have already been slighted for some time and have not gone in droves to Sprint, because they could not provide cost effective access.
This is not likely. Qwest like many other network infrastructure providers will likely drop you the first excuse they get. They cannot afford to pay any higher costs to keep your broadband around by investing in more equipment and facilities. What's worse for you is that many regional bells don't care enough about you to even pick up your service. They are infamous for being unable to provide service to an area for which had service previously.
Currently many telco's are not making much of a profit. Many of those guys like Verizon, SBC etc.. are not investing in new technology even though they are some of the more healthy telco's out there. This effort is spurred by the FCC to try to encourage regional bells to spend more money and help pull the telecom industry out of depression. Unfortunately the real problem is NOT in regional bells, it is in the wireless and other larger telco providers like AT&T. They are laden with debt and will drag down the telecom industry for the next few years. Such is the hangover of too much spending.
Alan
Let's see, cross border politics and free speech limitation jumping borders? I think another case of Yahoo vs. France will be in order except this time on a scale so much larger than before. Unfortunately this is another case of European moralism being trancendent across borders and the Internet pushing for their stance. How many times will the list of banned items/or free speech be changed to accommodate their subjective restriction lists? Absurd isn't a word that does justice to this kind of narrow visioned policy.
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It shows you all the insane registry hacking programs do, overriding or overwriting of DLLs, in general just a lot of bad behavior you see in Windoze. It runs on every desktop where I work and will stop most trojans from installing due to stupid "Oh, lets click on virus.exe" and run it.
Even if they're not making money off it (no clue tbqh), it probably has some cool tidbits of code...
-Ho
If you are going to be away a simple list to start with is:
/ ibuttons.cfm#sensor
1. Conserve electricity, unplug everything or just flip your breakers off (if you have nothing remote to access)
2. If you use natural gas, you can shut it off at your house or just cut off the heater/water heater.
3. Turn off your water. Look for your water shutoff valve and just turn it off...
4. Cover your pipes! If it gets cold, even if you've shut off your water, wrap your pipes up near the shut off valve.
If you need something on inside, need to monitor, or a certain temperature... (plants?)
I hope then you would have:
1. Programmable thermostat to set temperature versus time.
2. Maybe a remote IP camera to take a peek inside your house, maybe with a timed light. ZoneMinder is a great piece of software to use with that.
3. There are several temperature sensors you can get, but if you are a HW geek you could check out integrating a kit from Maxim: http://www.maxim-ic.com/products/ibutton/products
-Ho
Look IBM has world class fabs for SoC's, can do low power, high performance computing and have major mind share in the ASIC world. Their high volume/high profit market is not what Apple is selling. They did the PowerPC 970 for Apple and d they are the highest volume runner, which for IBM is the proverbial drop in the bucket. It adds more visibility but not revenue.
If Apple delivered more product or *gasp* payed IBM to develop low power processors for the laptop market, they couldn't complain. Should Apple have paid IBM for development when getting it from AMD/Intel in the x86 world would be free? No, but people should believe that it was because their vendor was incapable. It was just the Apple itself isn't significant enough to justify chip development with low payoff for IBM.
-Ho
Let's see... you created a Linux distribution based on recompiling every piece of SW it would use. Therefore burning hundereds of hours and megawatts to squeeze performance out that is negligible at best, slower or non-functional at worst. Wow, I hope he brings that wonderful package philiosophy to Microsoft. Well, I hope he at least milks them for some good salary (sorry dude, stock options are out nowadays).
-Ho
802.11 standard was modeled around having a CSMA/A algorithm that tried to be as much like Ethernet as possible. There is no provision in the BASIC standard to provide for clients to shut up for higher priority voice clients at all! This means that a data client can blow the voice guy to kingdom come.
There are extensions to the 802.11 standard like 802.11e and WME that will allow priority queuing and some minimalistic scheduling to take place. Other companies play tricks with the protocol to allow for voice clients to perform better under the BASIC standard but there are drawbacks.
In the end, it is too early to judge VOIP over WLAN because clients and access points have yet to adopt extensions to the basic standard.
-Ho
With Ximian in hand, and word of GNOME afoot doesn't it seem logical that YAST will go through a major change and go the GTK/GNOME route? It seems to me that YAST on SUSE with integration with KDE may become unsupported. This is too bad becaues in SUSE 9 it is pretty slick for those users who are not experts. I wonder what kind of future the whole of GNOME/Ximian/SUSE will hold...
-Fly
Personally you have to be careful about many of the "PC" based scopes that are out there. They usually suffer from bad analog bandwidth and short memory depth. Also you have to pay particular attention to many of the voltage/impendance limits of "PC" scopes.
Personally taking a trip down to your local electronics swap meet is not a bad idea if you have one nearby. Hear in SiValley there are a few around on the weekends where you get some older Tek/HP *cough* Agilent scopes for pennies on the dollar. Sometimes they need some work but most people are honest about it.
-Ho
Having gone through high cpu/disk load crashes over multiple kernels, I would suggest a good test plan before embarking on any new kernel.
Our most recent experience with 'stable' kernels (specifically drivers in our case) was the default kernel in RH 8. It had some very subtle issues with Intel's GigPHY/MAC chipset that caused crashes only under specific high load every three to four days. Crashes were not repeatable in specific time frames but would eventually happen. I suggest finding a characteristic set of applications/loading of disk/mem/CPU applications and then test out your favorite kernel under all those circumstances. Many programs that run huge FFTs or other number crunching applications are many times too specific to cause failures. We in this example used a program to calculate huge FFTs while doing looping network file transfers to test without issues... nothing beats the real thing!
Also don't think that even 2.4.x series kernels are above this... as I stated earlier even a heavily patched 2.4.18 kernel could be your downfall... so maybe a 2.5.x kernel is okay but beat the crap out of it before putting both feet in.
-Ho
I get So Sick of people bashing distro's because of support EOL. Look, these packages are out there and get fixed usually with or without the distribution support. Upgrade what you need. If you want things to be *automagic* then you will likely have to pay for them. If you want packages upgraded for your old distro's you know 'ol RedHat will have to update the source for their Advanced Server/Workstation product anyhow so just build it man! I think too much of free and easy has adled the reasonable expectations of too many people.
HKF
Have you noticed all the wonderful Apple propaganda from CmdrTaco in the last few weeks? I guess he wasn't around long enough to know that Apple would produce a good product only to shaft its users later on with inferiority and higher prices. Oh well live and learn 'Taco! :) Hope that laptop is holding up well because it ain't getting much faster any time soon!
Ho Kooshy Fly
Wow, talk about using you're 802.11b spectrum. Imagine having at home the following devices (assuming they detected the correct clear band!): 1. Intel's new fangled wireless media gateway on channel 1. 2. Your access point on channel 3 with your other PC's. 3. Your wireless home alarm system on channel 5, burgulars love this one! :)
4. Your cordless phone around channel 7.
5. Your wireless headphones on channel 9.
6. Your X-10 video camera blowing away channel 11!
Sounds crowded, then again who will have so many wireless gadgets at the same time? Oh wait I do!
(channels spaced according to 802.11b standard 20MHz+guard band)
Ho
This kit is all well and nice, but since Sony's copy protection exists for their custom DVDs it is all but impossible to play created games in normal systems. Obviously Sony wants to make money from the kits but what they really want is to make money for their games. Undoubtedly, they must feel that they lose more money from no copy protection than from more developers. Whether or not this is the case (it is probably is true), maybe a method for reading special DVD's for non corporate content should have been thought of. Oh well. Ho Kooshy Fly
Look man, evaluate the product not their web site. You can still go get specifications for the Zaurus just run Netscape and be a little forgiving. And don't be such arses when it comes to their choice of Opera. Opera is lightweight and has already been used in many embedded products and has itself been proven. No doubt it was a ignorant thing but the product has some good qualities. I picked up mine and have the 802.11b CF card and it is amazing. Don't knock till you try it and talk about merits and faults of the product not advetisments. Ho
One thing to make sure you don't forget about is the height/length restrictions some of these small systems have for PCI cards. For many people it may not matter since much hardware is already built into the board, but I have seen people be burned when there old Voodoo 3/PCI couldn't fit into the system! Just FYI. Fly
Fixed wireless huh?
Even advanced systems that help out line of site problems with fixed wireless have mostly lost money. What about Sprint my friend? The largest provider of fixed wireless wouldn't even invest in anything more advanced than upconverting cable-modem signalling/modulation directly and now wants to pull out of the market. This will not happen soon. I speak from personal experience there will be nothing gained from fixed wireless by an evaporation of DSL users. DSL users have already been slighted for some time and have not gone in droves to Sprint, because they could not provide cost effective access.
Alan
This is not likely. Qwest like many other network infrastructure providers will likely drop you the first excuse they get. They cannot afford to pay any higher costs to keep your broadband around by investing in more equipment and facilities. What's worse for you is that many regional bells don't care enough about you to even pick up your service. They are infamous for being unable to provide service to an area for which had service previously.
Alan
Currently many telco's are not making much of a profit. Many of those guys like Verizon, SBC etc.. are not investing in new technology even though they are some of the more healthy telco's out there. This effort is spurred by the FCC to try to encourage regional bells to spend more money and help pull the telecom industry out of depression. Unfortunately the real problem is NOT in regional bells, it is in the wireless and other larger telco providers like AT&T. They are laden with debt and will drag down the telecom industry for the next few years. Such is the hangover of too much spending. Alan
Let's see, cross border politics and free speech limitation jumping borders? I think another case of Yahoo vs. France will be in order except this time on a scale so much larger than before. Unfortunately this is another case of European moralism being trancendent across borders and the Internet pushing for their stance. How many times will the list of banned items/or free speech be changed to accommodate their subjective restriction lists? Absurd isn't a word that does justice to this kind of narrow visioned policy.