It's a device to device wireless technology...
Uh... that was a pretty useless remark, skinfitz.
No more useless than referring to a computer as a "peripheral" as in the original statement.
Whether you like it or not, Bluetooth CAN be used for LAN access. I'm not saying it's better or worse than any other technology (802.11b for example) merely that it CAN be used for LAN access. I was replying to someone who was clearly inferring that it was incapable of operating in this manner. Bluetooth is a cable replacement technology. LAN cables are among the type of cable that CAN be replaced by Bluetooth. Do your research.
No, no, no. Bluetooth is not a computer-to-computer network technology.
Not strictly accurate. It's a device to device wireless technology, and (you guessed it) a computer is a device.
Bluetooth devices have to be paired before they can be used together, and once paired, they can be used at any time without authentication.
Not always. This is controlled in software.
Think of Bluetooth as a computer-to-peripheral technology. Anyplace you'd use a serial cable, or a USB cable, or a parallel cable, you can-- at least in principle-- use Bluetooth.
notice that Gateway and Dell are trying to get people to buy Mac-like computers. They are much cheaper then the Mac, but they are still not upgradeable.
Yeah - I've seen those. I think any machine that cant be significantly upgraded is a shame, particularly PC hardware as lets be honest here Mac's do age better (but only because they are so expensive and there is not the latest and greatest out every 5 mins). Depends on cost though - I'd spend $100 on a device that I knew would be obsolete in a year or two (DVD player etc) but I like my computers to be modularly upgradable so I can spread the cost.
"Isn't it about time my friend and I could sit opposite each other on the train and share documents or images without having to build a small network?!"
Firslty, if you connect them via infrared then you just made a network.
Secondly, there is a solution - it's called Bluetooth and you might have heard of it.
Quite interesting reading this discussion - in the UK we've had cameras everywhere for some time now and the excuse is always that it "would have prevented [insert recent crime]". Problem is they have been proven to not really affect the level of crime, but can seriously improve investigations.
If governments could get away with it, we'd all be subcutaneously tagged with GPS tracking devices with cameras in our homes, this, naturally would also "would have prevented [insert recent crime]" which is the generic argument that "they" use.
We've sadly had a few prominent child abductions and murders recently in the UK, and I predicted that someone would bring out some form of implanted child tracking device. Lo and behold the nutter Kevin Warwick has the same idea and uses it to get some publicity.
So we all get our kids chipped... now - how many people think that once it becomes "standard practice" to have children chipped at birth, how long will it be before it's illegal to remove the chips?
I've wondered if it would be possible to construct some form of headwear / necklace etc. that emits "bright" IR with the aim of over exposing the image of the head
Just get your users to install your cert into their browser - wont nag you after that.
It will be fine for your internal users (and transparent if you have a PKI infrastructure like Active Directory), but it depends on how many external users you have and how many hoops they are willing to jump through.
All you need to do is put a windows or linux box (if you can get drivers for linux - I'm assuming you can as some kind soul normally hacks them together) and make it into a gateway - there's something called a network you see, which is what what the funny plug on the back of your Mac is for - yes - the one you hooked up to the phone that didn't do anything.
Duh.
Expense? Well if you can spring for the Satellite gear you can easily afford a cheap box to be your gateway. I've recently designed the network systems for a bus that gets it Internet connectivity via satellite and it works fine - Windows 2000 as a gateway, and any client you like. I'm putting 802.11b on it soon and going to put some warchalking symbols on it and let anyone who knows how use it. Yes it would work with Macintosh.
Speaking as a UK academic sysadmin, transparent bandwidth control is something I also do. Our academic link to the net is only 2Mbit at present and all it takes is a few bandwidth hogs trying to download warez or using P2P applcations to really slow down access for legitimate users.
One thing I have done is limit bandwidth according to MIME type - download HTML and it runs at top speed. Download binary files from certain segments on the network and your bandwidth is limited. This I implemented after finding someone downloading a 600Mb RAR file (OfficeXP.rar - go figure - The only thing that is puzzling me is exactly what he was going to do with it - he didnt have access to a burner and so had no way of getting the data off the box.)
As for P2P applications, there is no way I would (or could) allow these things to run otherwise I'd be opening us up to all kinds of problems along with having FACT on my back. These guys visit me from time to time and ask what I'm doing to stop copyright infringement(!). Exactly how legal this is I'm not sure however if they suspect something they can arrange a search by the police which obviously could cause problems.
Quite frankly I'm surprised that UCI allow P2P at all, and suspect that in the near future this sort of thing will be getting blocked from the peer or be a condition of bandwidth provision.
From the article: In the two years since that day,...
The incident in question happened two years ago - I guess I'm not the only one who submits articles here only to see them "pending" for a long time. But I'm not bitter.
A simple solution would be to identify repeated SPAM (i.e. University Diplomas) then host a website to collect payments using PayPal / Amazon Honour System or whatever to collect small donations from people who are fed up receiving the same crap all the time.
Use the money to hire a hitman to eliminate the originator.
Shouldnt that be 20 times more than the US officially taps?
Arn't all international calls routed via satellite into and out of the US are open season as far as tapping is concerned as US law doesn't require a warrant for this type of tap?
Sorry you had a bad experience. Unfortunately I don't own the server and so am not directly responsible for it's up time. If you can suggest a good reliable (reasonably priced) alternative I'll investigate.
At that speed, the plane itself is like a sausage skin," said Professor of Structural Engineering, Mete Sozen.
"It doesn't have much strength and virtually crumbles on impact.
Instead the combined mass of everything inside the plane, particularly the fuel, that had the effect of a huge river crashing into the Pentagon.
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It's a device to device wireless technology ...
Uh... that was a pretty useless remark, skinfitz.
No more useless than referring to a computer as a "peripheral" as in the original statement.
Whether you like it or not, Bluetooth CAN be used for LAN access. I'm not saying it's better or worse than any other technology (802.11b for example) merely that it CAN be used for LAN access. I was replying to someone who was clearly inferring that it was incapable of operating in this manner. Bluetooth is a cable replacement technology. LAN cables are among the type of cable that CAN be replaced by Bluetooth. Do your research.
Oh I'm sorry - I thought the topic was about how to link a Mac laptop to a PC laptop for which my answer about bluetooth is OBVIOUSLY offtopic.
Talk about idiot moderators.
No, no, no. Bluetooth is not a computer-to-computer network technology.
Not strictly accurate. It's a device to device wireless technology, and (you guessed it) a computer is a device.
Bluetooth devices have to be paired before they can be used together, and once paired, they can be used at any time without authentication.
Not always. This is controlled in software.
Think of Bluetooth as a computer-to-peripheral technology. Anyplace you'd use a serial cable, or a USB cable, or a parallel cable, you can-- at least in principle-- use Bluetooth.
...or LAN cable...
notice that Gateway and Dell are trying to get people to buy Mac-like computers. They are much cheaper then the Mac, but they are still not upgradeable.
Yeah - I've seen those. I think any machine that cant be significantly upgraded is a shame, particularly PC hardware as lets be honest here Mac's do age better (but only because they are so expensive and there is not the latest and greatest out every 5 mins). Depends on cost though - I'd spend $100 on a device that I knew would be obsolete in a year or two (DVD player etc) but I like my computers to be modularly upgradable so I can spread the cost.
"Isn't it about time my friend and I could sit opposite each other on the train and share documents or images without having to build a small network?!"
Firslty, if you connect them via infrared then you just made a network.
Secondly, there is a solution - it's called Bluetooth and you might have heard of it.
...so you are saying that Apple deliberately make the Mac not fully upgradable[1] thus forcing users to buy a completely new Mac periodically?
[1]sorry Mac users, but being able to put in an extra DIMM does not constitute "fully upgradable"
Are you really trying to just obsolete all your old software so everyone is forced to upgrade to your latest and greatest OS & computers...
Hey Apple did it...twice.
If folks can get a better, faster, cheaper online experience by ditching AOL, they'll do it in a heartbeat.
What do you mean " if "?
Quite interesting reading this discussion - in the UK we've had cameras everywhere for some time now and the excuse is always that it "would have prevented [insert recent crime]". Problem is they have been proven to not really affect the level of crime, but can seriously improve investigations.
If governments could get away with it, we'd all be subcutaneously tagged with GPS tracking devices with cameras in our homes, this, naturally would also "would have prevented [insert recent crime]" which is the generic argument that "they" use.
We've sadly had a few prominent child abductions and murders recently in the UK, and I predicted that someone would bring out some form of implanted child tracking device. Lo and behold the nutter Kevin Warwick has the same idea and uses it to get some publicity.
So we all get our kids chipped... now - how many people think that once it becomes "standard practice" to have children chipped at birth, how long will it be before it's illegal to remove the chips?
Oh hello Big Brother - you're late.
I've wondered if it would be possible to construct some form of headwear / necklace etc. that emits "bright" IR with the aim of over exposing the image of the head
No I mean the REAL Borg!
The green one looks like it's been assimilated - you have to admit The Borg® had impeccable taste for equipment design.
Well done that man!
Just get your users to install your cert into their browser - wont nag you after that.
It will be fine for your internal users (and transparent if you have a PKI infrastructure like Active Directory), but it depends on how many external users you have and how many hoops they are willing to jump through.
Alias Poweranimator on SGI used to use mouse gestures (before it was A|W then Maya) and so does 3DS MAX.
All you need to do is put a windows or linux box (if you can get drivers for linux - I'm assuming you can as some kind soul normally hacks them together) and make it into a gateway - there's something called a network you see, which is what what the funny plug on the back of your Mac is for - yes - the one you hooked up to the phone that didn't do anything.
Duh.
Expense? Well if you can spring for the Satellite gear you can easily afford a cheap box to be your gateway. I've recently designed the network systems for a bus that gets it Internet connectivity via satellite and it works fine - Windows 2000 as a gateway, and any client you like. I'm putting 802.11b on it soon and going to put some warchalking symbols on it and let anyone who knows how use it. Yes it would work with Macintosh.
Speaking as a UK academic sysadmin, transparent bandwidth control is something I also do. Our academic link to the net is only 2Mbit at present and all it takes is a few bandwidth hogs trying to download warez or using P2P applcations to really slow down access for legitimate users.
One thing I have done is limit bandwidth according to MIME type - download HTML and it runs at top speed. Download binary files from certain segments on the network and your bandwidth is limited. This I implemented after finding someone downloading a 600Mb RAR file (OfficeXP.rar - go figure - The only thing that is puzzling me is exactly what he was going to do with it - he didnt have access to a burner and so had no way of getting the data off the box.)
As for P2P applications, there is no way I would (or could) allow these things to run otherwise I'd be opening us up to all kinds of problems along with having FACT on my back. These guys visit me from time to time and ask what I'm doing to stop copyright infringement(!). Exactly how legal this is I'm not sure however if they suspect something they can arrange a search by the police which obviously could cause problems.
Quite frankly I'm surprised that UCI allow P2P at all, and suspect that in the near future this sort of thing will be getting blocked from the peer or be a condition of bandwidth provision.
From the article: In the two years since that day,...
The incident in question happened two years ago - I guess I'm not the only one who submits articles here only to see them "pending" for a long time. But I'm not bitter.
A simple solution would be to identify repeated SPAM (i.e. University Diplomas) then host a website to collect payments using PayPal / Amazon Honour System or whatever to collect small donations from people who are fed up receiving the same crap all the time.
Use the money to hire a hitman to eliminate the originator.
I think this would make a great deterrent.
I hope Google keeps this up - having to register to read a news article (free or no) is idiotic.
I wonder how many registrations they get that are actually valid information?
but isn't the biggest thing against single-sign-on the fact that there's a single point of failure? why would open source change that?
Because it would crash more often and absultely no non geek types would be able to use it. That's how.
I thought simply "Being Bon Jovi" would have been sufficient deterrent against piracy?
Shouldnt that be 20 times more than the US officially taps?
Arn't all international calls routed via satellite into and out of the US are open season as far as tapping is concerned as US law doesn't require a warrant for this type of tap?
Sorry you had a bad experience. Unfortunately I don't own the server and so am not directly responsible for it's up time. If you can suggest a good reliable (reasonably priced) alternative I'll investigate.
At that speed, the plane itself is like a sausage skin," said Professor of Structural Engineering, Mete Sozen. "It doesn't have much strength and virtually crumbles on impact.
Instead the combined mass of everything inside the plane, particularly the fuel, that had the effect of a huge river crashing into the Pentagon.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/2255459.stm
I can just picture the faces of all the rich people who run out to buy one of these when they get it home and read the small print:
Batteries not included