I see a lot of people already recommending elaborate setups. But really, a simple 802.11b router will do the job. Sure, it maxes out at maybe 6Mb/sec for consumer gear, but how fast is the Internet connection? If you have a 2Mb/sec cable modem it doesn't matter how many users are in the shop, the bottleneck is still the Internet.
I also don't think you'll have a big problem with Kazaa users and the like. It's a small coffee shop, right? Think someone is going to sit for hours and hours just to do that? If you're worried you could throttle bandwidth or block ports...but that's sort of a hassle. If you block say, everything but 80 and 25 I'd hate it when I couldn't VPN to the office.
The big question is, do you want turn by turn directions? If so look at the Garmin GPS V. I have that one and it's great. You can take it out of the car and carry it with you or leave it mounted. If you don't need that then the 76S is very good and was my choice had I not needed turn-by-turn.
The local Goodwills here (Raleigh, NC) do not accept any computer equipment. I think this is a pretty new decision, but they have signs up now. No more.
Time Warner will start deploying the Scientific Atlanta HD PVR soon as well. I can't wait. Right now I have a TiVo for normal TV that I can't use when I watch an HD feed. That's really cut in to my TiVo use as I normally use it to rewind and pause sports, which are commonly in HD now.
Their compression agent doesn't support Mac. Dial-up ISPs now compress stuff before sending it to help speed things up.
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Bad power kills systems. Not even mentioning data integrity. Put a dumb terminal on a bad power source will kill it in no time. A UPS can help clean that up.
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So pay it off the first month. BOOM! You get the PC for $299. You only get charged interest if you float the balance.
You misread. The original poster is blaming some security hole when there isn't one. This isn't a security problem, it's a people problem. Someone has to take the blame. It's the person sending the virus. But the person receiving it needs to pay a bit of attention.
You misread. I didn't say the bomber was not at fault. The original poster is blaming some security hole when there isn't one. This isn't a security problem, it's a people problem.
WHAT? Who? Where? These viruses don't use some security exploit. They get the user to run the attachment..plain and simple. If the user runs a file that is no ones fault but the user.
My Garmin GPS V uses those. They are very accurate. I've only had them be wrong in a few spots, mainly in tiny little towns. I wish they would update them sooner though and add more landmarks and items.
I think it just prolongs it. VPNs between companies is becoming very popular. Now you don't need to drop money every month for a connect. A VPN is free. We're now hitting issues with conflicting private addresses and it's not going to get better. You end up having to do NAT in all sorts of places and that gets complex and error prone.
I like the idea of NAT to hide addresses from public view, but unique internal addresses isn't a bad thing. Just NAT the internals to a block of externals.
How long do they guarantee support for on the Enterprise releases? I would expect at least 5 years or they aren't worth the price. We still have NT4 boxes on servers taht don't need an upgrade.
Thanks to using off the shelf parts it's as cheap as a PS2 that doesn't have a NIC or hard drive. Not to mention HDTV and real DD5.1 support. Not bad for "thrown together".
I got the D300 for my wife. She took photography in school and has always wanted a dark room, but that's not an option in an apartment. We love it. This is my first SLR I've really used. We're getting great pictures with the kit lens and I'm already looking to expand.
For $999 (w/ lens) it's a great deal. It has an excellent CMOS sensor and is easy enough for even me to use. While $1K isn't "cheap", it's very inexpensive for what you get. For us the cost upgrade to the D10 (body only) just wasn't worth it.
I hope it's faster than the current chips. I have a Compaq TabletPC with the current 1GHz Crusoe and while functional, it isn't that fast. The Pentium low power chips are faster. Even doing normal daily business tasks I couldn't see using one as my main PC.
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I see a lot of people already recommending elaborate setups. But really, a simple 802.11b router will do the job. Sure, it maxes out at maybe 6Mb/sec for consumer gear, but how fast is the Internet connection? If you have a 2Mb/sec cable modem it doesn't matter how many users are in the shop, the bottleneck is still the Internet.
I also don't think you'll have a big problem with Kazaa users and the like. It's a small coffee shop, right? Think someone is going to sit for hours and hours just to do that? If you're worried you could throttle bandwidth or block ports...but that's sort of a hassle. If you block say, everything but 80 and 25 I'd hate it when I couldn't VPN to the office.
The big question is, do you want turn by turn directions? If so look at the Garmin GPS V. I have that one and it's great. You can take it out of the car and carry it with you or leave it mounted. If you don't need that then the 76S is very good and was my choice had I not needed turn-by-turn.
The local Goodwills here (Raleigh, NC) do not accept any computer equipment. I think this is a pretty new decision, but they have signs up now. No more.
Time Warner will start deploying the Scientific Atlanta HD PVR soon as well. I can't wait. Right now I have a TiVo for normal TV that I can't use when I watch an HD feed. That's really cut in to my TiVo use as I normally use it to rewind and pause sports, which are commonly in HD now.
How much did Delta Webhosting spend to get that cable to your house? Oh wait, they didn't.
It costs money to be a telco or cable company. A lot of that money goes in to infrastructure.
Their compression agent doesn't support Mac. Dial-up ISPs now compress stuff before sending it to help speed things up.
Bad power kills systems. Not even mentioning data integrity. Put a dumb terminal on a bad power source will kill it in no time. A UPS can help clean that up.
So pay it off the first month. BOOM! You get the PC for $299. You only get charged interest if you float the balance.
You misread. The original poster is blaming some security hole when there isn't one. This isn't a security problem, it's a people problem. Someone has to take the blame. It's the person sending the virus. But the person receiving it needs to pay a bit of attention.
You misread. I didn't say the bomber was not at fault. The original poster is blaming some security hole when there isn't one. This isn't a security problem, it's a people problem.
WHAT? Who? Where? These viruses don't use some security exploit. They get the user to run the attachment..plain and simple. If the user runs a file that is no ones fault but the user.
Go look up public key encryption. If it were just that simple to brute force a private key or figure it out from the public key, we'd all be screwed.
My Garmin GPS V uses those. They are very accurate. I've only had them be wrong in a few spots, mainly in tiny little towns. I wish they would update them sooner though and add more landmarks and items.
I think it just prolongs it. VPNs between companies is becoming very popular. Now you don't need to drop money every month for a connect. A VPN is free. We're now hitting issues with conflicting private addresses and it's not going to get better. You end up having to do NAT in all sorts of places and that gets complex and error prone.
I like the idea of NAT to hide addresses from public view, but unique internal addresses isn't a bad thing. Just NAT the internals to a block of externals.
How long do they guarantee support for on the Enterprise releases? I would expect at least 5 years or they aren't worth the price. We still have NT4 boxes on servers taht don't need an upgrade.
You don't have to buy memory cards. I can download new levels/maps/whatever from online games. It works very well.
XBox supports HDTV resolutions. A lot of new games do 720P. They all do 480P. One or two do 1080i.
Thanks to using off the shelf parts it's as cheap as a PS2 that doesn't have a NIC or hard drive. Not to mention HDTV and real DD5.1 support. Not bad for "thrown together".
Does anyone keep a list of certs to deny?
I got the D300 for my wife. She took photography in school and has always wanted a dark room, but that's not an option in an apartment. We love it. This is my first SLR I've really used. We're getting great pictures with the kit lens and I'm already looking to expand.
For $999 (w/ lens) it's a great deal. It has an excellent CMOS sensor and is easy enough for even me to use. While $1K isn't "cheap", it's very inexpensive for what you get. For us the cost upgrade to the D10 (body only) just wasn't worth it.
But very cheap for a great 6.3MP Digital SLR.
They had to cheapen it. It's not a pro camera. Who would buy the D10 if the D300 had all of the D10 features for $400 less?
I love our D300. We're not a pro but want a good SLR and this does the job.
You are so right. It's easy to build a digital VCR. But most of my TiVo use isn't a digital VCR. It's mainly in rewinding and pausing live TV.
It's also so well integrated you forget it is even there. I have yet to see a home built PC solution get anywhere close to the integration.
I hope it's faster than the current chips. I have a Compaq TabletPC with the current 1GHz Crusoe and while functional, it isn't that fast. The Pentium low power chips are faster. Even doing normal daily business tasks I couldn't see using one as my main PC.
Old, patched exploit. Want to give your CC number to these guys? Maybe not.
I bet Slashdot wouldn't be so smug if the attacker had gotten in via the also patched SSH exploits that were out recently.