Think of WarDriving not as a useful activity, but more as a recreational activity. Likewise for WarBicycling, WarWalking, WarFlying, or any other activity where what you are doing ammounts to either documenting WiFi coverage, or simply counting the number of AP's between two points on a path.
Yes, you and I both know of people who plot APs and their coverage on maps. Some even document the SSIDs there, and sometimes what the cost associated with each AP is, as well as other information.
At the same time you and I both know of people who spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on sailing equipment just to spend a few hours a couple of times a month, in the summer, sailing on a lake, or possibly the ocean. You probably know people who take a notebook (paper type) when they go on a walk, and record the types of flowers they see in different parts of the city parks they walk in.
WarDriving (and variations) are a recreational activity that costs something in between those two other recreational activity, and if you do it on a bike, or while walking, is likely to be healthier for you than sitting in front of the TV.
You haven't looked at the amount of interest your money at the bank is earning, and compared it to the interest you are paying on loans lately have you?
There is a significant difference in the rates involved. Some of that difference goes to pay the bank employees. Very little of it goes to paying interest to the customers saving at that bank. Current interest rates for "regular savings" at the bank I deal with are 0.10%, or annually 1 dollar for every thousand dollars you save.
If you can open an Indexed account, the rate iscurrently 0.50%, or $5 for every $1000 saved per year.
APR on a variable rate line of credit for 10,000 over 10 years is 5.990% (and can go up or possibly down)
That means that for every 1000 dollars you 'save' that the bank loans out, they get between $54.90 and $58.90 every year, and you get between $1 and $5 that year. The ratio is worse if they only give out fixed rate loans, as those are going out at 8.440% now, changing the money they get to be between $79.40 and $83.40 a year, vs. your $1 to $5.
Granted there are other options for saving money at the bank. CD's for example, if you can drop 25,000 for between 60 and 144 months, can get you as high as 3.15% (maybe higher at other locations, or with other banks)
All numbers above from Wells Fargo, for Minnesota.
-Rusty
Re:Why do you need a hosted shell account? Reasons
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You provide support for a corporate entity with multiple access connections and have to regularly check to see which are up/down, and find out why.
You are an out of work, homeless, software developer, and the library won't let you compile software on one of their computers.
You happen to be interested in writing new software to spam the internet, but don't want direct evidence of it being your system sending it out. (not a legitimate reason, but it wouldn't surprise me if someone wanted to do just this. It's probably the primary reason you might find it hard to find a hosted shell account as well.)
You have a mail server set up at home, doing secure imap, which is the only hole in your firewall, and would like to read your mail at an Internet cafe, or public library, without having to put a copy of that pine config on every computer you touch.
And this is well bourn out by the evidence with regards to attacks on web servers. As has been well documented, IIS servers have been vulnerable at various times to several well known viruses, which have been able to spread themselves to other IIS web servers.
It is a well known factoid that IIS web servers provide the vast majority of the content available on the Internet. As a result they have been targeted by virus writers and script kiddies the world over for attacks.
On the other hand there is an open source web server that has a very low volume of sales, known as Apache, that because it provides such a low volume of the content of the Internet, has remained of little interest to virus writers and script kiddies.
Should Apache ever take off and become popular, it is likely that it will become a significant target of attack.
What's that you say? Apache actually serves more than half the content of the Internet? Damn! There goes this bit of evidence.
at the Tivo community online. Your situation is hardly novel.
Some of the solutions have been mentioned here, flower pots, getting the landlord to agree to a roof mount, etc.
There are others who simply take the window, open it up, make sure that the window screen is fibreglass instead of wire, mount the dish on what becomes a piece of furniture, pointing out the window. When it gets cold they fill the void where the window would otherwise be, with a couple of pieces of plexiglass. It doesn't even have to be transparent.
Then there are the phased array antenas, which I agree cost too much for most appartment dwellers.
On the other hand, pretty much nothing I can do will help me. Physics is working against my getting sattelite reception from my appartment. Unless someone comes up with a way to position a satelite near the north pole, I have too much building in my way.
To my certain knowledge, BeOS had 'task grouping' in version 4 which I beleive predates April 1999. Since I did not use BeOS before version 4, I do not know when it was introduced as a BeOS feature.
Well, not yet anyway. (blink, bounce, or make noises) With 'digital paper', who knows what will be coming up next.
At the same time they seem to be really handy places for AOL to toss CDs.
Personally I think that the reason people don't seem to mind ads in print media as much as they do on the web, is really more by virtue of the fact that the web provides a way for the 'prospective customer' to express their disgust, and find others who have the same response. Readers Digest, Smithsonian, Playboy, Maxim, National Geographic etc. just don't provide the same level of feedback as setting up a website to complain about X-10 popunder ads, and adding the URL to your sig on Yahoo and Slashdot.
When it gets down to the Newspaper level, those who delivered papers know that there is not enough in sales of a 25 or 50c paper to pay the expense of delivering the paper, and pay the editor, reporters, and so on. Compare the cost of handling that much paper, and delivering it within a couple of hours of it comming off the press, with the cost and speed of delivering a first class letter across town.
The remainder of the expenses for running a paper are paid for out of advertizements.
Ok, magazines I buy and read (or look through) Smithsonian (subscriber read 2of5 issues) Yoga Journal (newstand purchases, 4-6 a year) Popular Science (1-2 a year) Scientific America (2-3 a year) Playboy SEs (2-4 a year) Life Photo SE's, (0~2 a year) Sports Illustrated (1 every couple of years) Discover (1 per year) Newsweek (1 per year) National Geographic (1 per year)
Online I generally read a much narrower variety of computer related stuff.
Think of it, not as punishment, but as a reward for your loyalty. While other bands only give you a CD with some music on it, or if a data track is included, perhaps some video of the band performing as well, The Beastie Boys are giving you some ephemeral software as well. All for no additional cost.
Something tells me that there are more than a few lumber yards outside of the US, selling two and a half metre 5x10's. 2" = 5.08 cm, 4" = 10.16 cm. A 2x4 is not truely 2" by 4", as we do not buy rough cut lumber these days. It is not unusual to end up with lumber that is as much as 3/8" less per dimension than advertised. As a result, a 5cm x 10cm piece of lumber is likely to be more wood than a us 2x4. As the alternative, the 'finished' 2x4 is much more likely to be dimensionally similar to a 4cm x 8cm piece of lumber.
from releasing the source of Solairs as Open Source, (not that I really expect Sun would anyway, I happen to think Sun pumped that story for their own 'Press') because TSCOG thinks they have control over the licences that Sun distributes Solaris under. Licences which may not have the pull TSCOG thought they had, because TSCOG do not own what they thought they owned.
Does this mean that we will se Sun thumb their nose at TSCOG, prepare to release Solairs as Open Source, only to be shot down again, this time by their new working arangements with Microsoft?
This leads to an observation that I think is relavent.
The 'safety' of cars has improved vastly over the years. However the ratio between the number of cars on the roads, to the number of deaths as a result of accidents seems to be fairly static.
A cynic would say that improving the 'Safety' of the car has nothing to do with the likelyhood that someone will be killed.
The reality is that when people feel 'Safer' they tend to do things they would not if they felt insecure. If someone told you that if you bumped into a car, or object such that a murcury switch would triger an explosion that would blow your car to bits, you included, you are more likely to pay attention to your surroundings than someone who is aware that the the safety system in their new car will protect them should they run their new car into a brick wall at 45 miles per hour.
The corrolary is that if you are aware that the slightest misshap with security in your corporate environment has the potential to close your business entirely, then you are likely to pay more attention to security issues than someone who thinks that their security is solid. That does not mean that you are in a better position, just that you are more aware of the potential issue, and are less likely to be caught with your pants down.
Unless they own over half of the "media" in the area, including TV, Cable, and local Print media, the FCC does not consider them to have a fraction to be concerned about.
This is one of the reasons US West (before merger with Qwest) had to drop interest in some of the Cable companies they had purchased when they had partner ownership with both Time Warner, and Disney. As a result some of the markets they were in included all of the media outlets.
I would have to say that Yes they do. I have yet to see a via based [U]DMA chipset that can do better than 33mbps.
My experience in simply replacing a via chipset motherboard, with a NForce2 chipset motherboard is that the twice weekly lockups during video capture experienced on the Via chipset completely disappeared on the NForce2 chipset, using the very same video capture cards, hard drives, video card etc.
Even when I used an SIIG IDE card to drive the hard drives I still ran into problems, indicating that the bottleneck was where the video capture cards were attempting to cross the motherboard to get to the IDE controller, and not just with the IDE controller.
At the same time I have had no problems with these chipsets in a 'workstation' environment where I am not streaming fairly high volumes of data (or merging multiple streams into a couple of files on a hard drive). Your milage may vary.
-Rusty
Remap the key, keep the functionality.
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Having a predelection towards holding onto and repairing old hardware, I have a couple of old typewriters. (Including ones where to type the number 1, you use the lowercase L key, because there is no '1' key.)
In most cases the 'Caps Lock' key takes two fingers to engage, and one to disengage. Mostly the two fingers are required because the mechinism is so disused that the key doesn't want to respond, but in any case it is a heavy key to use. To disengage the Caps Lock feature you hit the Shift key.
I would suggest that the Caps Lock key on it's own be treated as a Meta key, or Escape key, however if you do a 'Shift'-'Caps Lock' combination it engages the caps-lock, and if you hit and release 'Shift' again without another key (or perhaps with only a letter key) it drops the Caps Lock status.
Granted I suspect that most typists who learned on mechanical and early electric typewriters have adjusted to the computer keyboard, so you probably are not going to 'impress' anyone with the feature, but it would make sense as a result.
I am thinking they will have to figure out how to do this with my middle finger nail, or my middle finger knuckle. Not sure I want to imprint any other surface, either to my music player, or their forheads...
I have friends who are in excelent shape, yet are still Type 2 diabetics. Just because the leading cause of Type 2 diabetes is obesity, does not mean that all people who have become type 2 diabetics are overweight.
Type 2 diabeties has killed two uncles and an aunt of mine. So I have a reason to pay attention to the subject, and do what I can to stay healthy.
I do partially agree with you. If you have aquired Type 2 Diabetes as a result of your choice in lifestyle, (over eating mostly) it is your responsibility to do whatever it takes to remedy the cause of your case. If that means get on a healty diet and exercise regime, then do that. No, it won't cure all your ills, but a large percentage of people who do loose weight, and correct their diet have a much more managable situation. At that point this treatment may even cure your condition. This treatment may also help you get to the better situation.
As long as you don't manage the device via your wireless connection, changing the password and leaving WEP disabled does not present a security problem for the router.
Once you have configured the router to perform the tasks you need, most people never have a need to log into the router again. As a result the new password does not appear on the wireless net any more for the vast majority of the users who do set the password.
Some of us do things like checking statistics, setting up port forwarding, etc. that do require a login. When done from a wired connection, the security of the password is maintained. (exception, local/appartment network hubs may expose your password to other appartment dwellers who are on the same hub. Not an issue for the vast majority of cable modem and dsl subscribers.) The AP does not broadcast all traffic seen on the wire net across the wireless net, only broadcast traffic (which logins are not) and traffic destined for a known wireless device.
Perhaps the easiest way to fix the issue is to set up a dmz host pointing to an IP address in your network that:
It's also possible that later itterations of this camera will not have the code included. I personally suspect that it is very likely that someone with an earlier model of the camera will provide the binaries from the older version which will be the basis for patching the newer versions with that same code again.
Likewise as people discover problems with doing just that, (perhaps various address space variables outside of the patched space will be set with flag bits that will cause malfunctions, such as never raising the mirror within the patched space) programmers will take a look at the code, make corrections, and may even look at the general camera code to let Cannon know of other flaws that may have incidentally been introduced.
Do I expect that to happen? (well perhaps not providing feedback to Cannon, but) Generally yes.
I strongly suspect however that the Rebel is due for a short shelf life, and the Rebel 2 will have less capable hardware in addition to less featureful software.
Yep, the protocol is "low bandwidth", then again that does nothing for the utilization bandwidth that the server's experience.
By default, Windows 2k (and beyond) when time service is started all hit Microsoft's time server. Can't think of a better way to burn up Microsoft's bandwidth myself, but such is life.
By default Netgear routers (up until the last six months or so) all attemmpted to get their time reference from the University of Wisconsin't time server. There was a flaw in the software that caused the implementation that caused the devices to pull down time samples repeatedly, and this caused an effective denial of service to the UW connectivity for the location that provided that clock service. (perhaps a fix would have been to alter the dns entry to point back to microsoft's server, though that might have been actionable.)
Additionally just because a time server is available today, does not mean that it will be publically available tomorrow.
Personally I like the option of using Tick and Tock, over using a gps time source, because Tick and Tock have been corrected for cosmic clock drift, while the gps clocks have not been so adjusted.
But that's just me. Use your own adjusted time source.
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Think of WarDriving not as a useful activity, but more as a recreational activity. Likewise for WarBicycling, WarWalking, WarFlying, or any other activity where what you are doing ammounts to either documenting WiFi coverage, or simply counting the number of AP's between two points on a path.
Yes, you and I both know of people who plot APs and their coverage on maps. Some even document the SSIDs there, and sometimes what the cost associated with each AP is, as well as other information.
At the same time you and I both know of people who spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on sailing equipment just to spend a few hours a couple of times a month, in the summer, sailing on a lake, or possibly the ocean. You probably know people who take a notebook (paper type) when they go on a walk, and record the types of flowers they see in different parts of the city parks they walk in.
WarDriving (and variations) are a recreational activity that costs something in between those two other recreational activity, and if you do it on a bike, or while walking, is likely to be healthier for you than sitting in front of the TV.
-Rusty
And the toss it in the bank to earn interest.
You haven't looked at the amount of interest your money at the bank is earning, and compared it to the interest you are paying on loans lately have you?
There is a significant difference in the rates involved. Some of that difference goes to pay the bank employees. Very little of it goes to paying interest to the customers saving at that bank. Current interest rates for "regular savings" at the bank I deal with are 0.10%, or annually 1 dollar for every thousand dollars you save.
If you can open an Indexed account, the rate iscurrently 0.50%, or $5 for every $1000 saved per year.
APR on a variable rate line of credit for 10,000 over 10 years is 5.990% (and can go up or possibly down)
That means that for every 1000 dollars you 'save' that the bank loans out, they get between $54.90 and $58.90 every year, and you get between $1 and $5 that year. The ratio is worse if they only give out fixed rate loans, as those are going out at 8.440% now, changing the money they get to be between $79.40 and $83.40 a year, vs. your $1 to $5.
Granted there are other options for saving money at the bank. CD's for example, if you can drop 25,000 for between 60 and 144 months, can get you as high as 3.15% (maybe higher at other locations, or with other banks)
All numbers above from Wells Fargo, for Minnesota.
-Rusty
You provide support for a corporate entity with multiple access connections and have to regularly check to see which are up/down, and find out why.
You are an out of work, homeless, software developer, and the library won't let you compile software on one of their computers.
You happen to be interested in writing new software to spam the internet, but don't want direct evidence of it being your system sending it out. (not a legitimate reason, but it wouldn't surprise me if someone wanted to do just this. It's probably the primary reason you might find it hard to find a hosted shell account as well.)
You have a mail server set up at home, doing secure imap, which is the only hole in your firewall, and would like to read your mail at an Internet cafe, or public library, without having to put a copy of that pine config on every computer you touch.
Just some ideas.
-Rusty
Must have missed that last paragraph...
Actually OSX does not require the admin's password. It requires the user's password, and that the user be approved to install software.
This is consistent with how SUID is designed to work.
-Rusty
And this is well bourn out by the evidence with regards to attacks on web servers. As has been well documented, IIS servers have been vulnerable at various times to several well known viruses, which have been able to spread themselves to other IIS web servers.
It is a well known factoid that IIS web servers provide the vast majority of the content available on the Internet. As a result they have been targeted by virus writers and script kiddies the world over for attacks.
On the other hand there is an open source web server that has a very low volume of sales, known as Apache, that because it provides such a low volume of the content of the Internet, has remained of little interest to virus writers and script kiddies.
Should Apache ever take off and become popular, it is likely that it will become a significant target of attack.
What's that you say? Apache actually serves more than half the content of the Internet? Damn! There goes this bit of evidence.
-Rusty
at the Tivo community online. Your situation is hardly novel.
Some of the solutions have been mentioned here, flower pots, getting the landlord to agree to a roof mount, etc.
There are others who simply take the window, open it up, make sure that the window screen is fibreglass instead of wire, mount the dish on what becomes a piece of furniture, pointing out the window. When it gets cold they fill the void where the window would otherwise be, with a couple of pieces of plexiglass. It doesn't even have to be transparent.
Then there are the phased array antenas, which I agree cost too much for most appartment dwellers.
On the other hand, pretty much nothing I can do will help me. Physics is working against my getting sattelite reception from my appartment. Unless someone comes up with a way to position a satelite near the north pole, I have too much building in my way.
-Rusty
To my certain knowledge, BeOS had 'task grouping' in version 4 which I beleive predates April 1999. Since I did not use BeOS before version 4, I do not know when it was introduced as a BeOS feature.
Then again, I could be wrong.
-Rusty
Well, not yet anyway. (blink, bounce, or make noises) With 'digital paper', who knows what will be coming up next.
At the same time they seem to be really handy places for AOL to toss CDs.
Personally I think that the reason people don't seem to mind ads in print media as much as they do on the web, is really more by virtue of the fact that the web provides a way for the 'prospective customer' to express their disgust, and find others who have the same response. Readers Digest, Smithsonian, Playboy, Maxim, National Geographic etc. just don't provide the same level of feedback as setting up a website to complain about X-10 popunder ads, and adding the URL to your sig on Yahoo and Slashdot.
When it gets down to the Newspaper level, those who delivered papers know that there is not enough in sales of a 25 or 50c paper to pay the expense of delivering the paper, and pay the editor, reporters, and so on. Compare the cost of handling that much paper, and delivering it within a couple of hours of it comming off the press, with the cost and speed of delivering a first class letter across town.
The remainder of the expenses for running a paper are paid for out of advertizements.
Ok, magazines I buy and read (or look through)
Smithsonian (subscriber read 2of5 issues)
Yoga Journal (newstand purchases, 4-6 a year)
Popular Science (1-2 a year)
Scientific America (2-3 a year)
Playboy SEs (2-4 a year)
Life Photo SE's, (0~2 a year)
Sports Illustrated (1 every couple of years)
Discover (1 per year)
Newsweek (1 per year)
National Geographic (1 per year)
Online I generally read a much narrower variety of computer related stuff.
-Rusty
Think of it, not as punishment, but as a reward for your loyalty. While other bands only give you a CD with some music on it, or if a data track is included, perhaps some video of the band performing as well, The Beastie Boys are giving you some ephemeral software as well. All for no additional cost.
Don't you feel loved?
Me either.
-Rusty
The bumbling petitioner...
lumber...
Something tells me that there are more than a few lumber yards outside of the US, selling two and a half metre 5x10's. 2" = 5.08 cm, 4" = 10.16 cm. A 2x4 is not truely 2" by 4", as we do not buy rough cut lumber these days. It is not unusual to end up with lumber that is as much as 3/8" less per dimension than advertised. As a result, a 5cm x 10cm piece of lumber is likely to be more wood than a us 2x4. As the alternative, the 'finished' 2x4 is much more likely to be dimensionally similar to a 4cm x 8cm piece of lumber.
Then again, I should get some sleep.
-Rusty
Perhaps the login itself will require generating a new Haiku. Only creative users with a tallent for Haiku get to use that feature...
-Rusty
Any chance on shorting the stock?
from releasing the source of Solairs as Open Source, (not that I really expect Sun would anyway, I happen to think Sun pumped that story for their own 'Press') because TSCOG thinks they have control over the licences that Sun distributes Solaris under. Licences which may not have the pull TSCOG thought they had, because TSCOG do not own what they thought they owned.
Does this mean that we will se Sun thumb their nose at TSCOG, prepare to release Solairs as Open Source, only to be shot down again, this time by their new working arangements with Microsoft?
-Rusty
This leads to an observation that I think is relavent.
The 'safety' of cars has improved vastly over the years. However the ratio between the number of cars on the roads, to the number of deaths as a result of accidents seems to be fairly static.
A cynic would say that improving the 'Safety' of the car has nothing to do with the likelyhood that someone will be killed.
The reality is that when people feel 'Safer' they tend to do things they would not if they felt insecure. If someone told you that if you bumped into a car, or object such that a murcury switch would triger an explosion that would blow your car to bits, you included, you are more likely to pay attention to your surroundings than someone who is aware that the the safety system in their new car will protect them should they run their new car into a brick wall at 45 miles per hour.
The corrolary is that if you are aware that the slightest misshap with security in your corporate environment has the potential to close your business entirely, then you are likely to pay more attention to security issues than someone who thinks that their security is solid. That does not mean that you are in a better position, just that you are more aware of the potential issue, and are less likely to be caught with your pants down.
-Rusty
Unless they own over half of the "media" in the area, including TV, Cable, and local Print media, the FCC does not consider them to have a fraction to be concerned about.
This is one of the reasons US West (before merger with Qwest) had to drop interest in some of the Cable companies they had purchased when they had partner ownership with both Time Warner, and Disney. As a result some of the markets they were in included all of the media outlets.
-Rusty
I would have to say that Yes they do. I have yet to see a via based [U]DMA chipset that can do better than 33mbps.
My experience in simply replacing a via chipset motherboard, with a NForce2 chipset motherboard is that the twice weekly lockups during video capture experienced on the Via chipset completely disappeared on the NForce2 chipset, using the very same video capture cards, hard drives, video card etc.
Even when I used an SIIG IDE card to drive the hard drives I still ran into problems, indicating that the bottleneck was where the video capture cards were attempting to cross the motherboard to get to the IDE controller, and not just with the IDE controller.
At the same time I have had no problems with these chipsets in a 'workstation' environment where I am not streaming fairly high volumes of data (or merging multiple streams into a couple of files on a hard drive). Your milage may vary.
-Rusty
Having a predelection towards holding onto and repairing old hardware, I have a couple of old typewriters. (Including ones where to type the number 1, you use the lowercase L key, because there is no '1' key.)
In most cases the 'Caps Lock' key takes two fingers to engage, and one to disengage. Mostly the two fingers are required because the mechinism is so disused that the key doesn't want to respond, but in any case it is a heavy key to use. To disengage the Caps Lock feature you hit the Shift key.
I would suggest that the Caps Lock key on it's own be treated as a Meta key, or Escape key, however if you do a 'Shift'-'Caps Lock' combination it engages the caps-lock, and if you hit and release 'Shift' again without another key (or perhaps with only a letter key) it drops the Caps Lock status.
Granted I suspect that most typists who learned on mechanical and early electric typewriters have adjusted to the computer keyboard, so you probably are not going to 'impress' anyone with the feature, but it would make sense as a result.
Just a thought....
-Rusty
I am thinking they will have to figure out how to do this with my middle finger nail, or my middle finger knuckle. Not sure I want to imprint any other surface, either to my music player, or their forheads...
I have friends who are in excelent shape, yet are still Type 2 diabetics. Just because the leading cause of Type 2 diabetes is obesity, does not mean that all people who have become type 2 diabetics are overweight.
Type 2 diabeties has killed two uncles and an aunt of mine. So I have a reason to pay attention to the subject, and do what I can to stay healthy.
I do partially agree with you. If you have aquired Type 2 Diabetes as a result of your choice in lifestyle, (over eating mostly) it is your responsibility to do whatever it takes to remedy the cause of your case. If that means get on a healty diet and exercise regime, then do that. No, it won't cure all your ills, but a large percentage of people who do loose weight, and correct their diet have a much more managable situation. At that point this treatment may even cure your condition. This treatment may also help you get to the better situation.
-Rusty
Once you have configured the router to perform the tasks you need, most people never have a need to log into the router again. As a result the new password does not appear on the wireless net any more for the vast majority of the users who do set the password.
Some of us do things like checking statistics, setting up port forwarding, etc. that do require a login. When done from a wired connection, the security of the password is maintained. (exception, local/appartment network hubs may expose your password to other appartment dwellers who are on the same hub. Not an issue for the vast majority of cable modem and dsl subscribers.) The AP does not broadcast all traffic seen on the wire net across the wireless net, only broadcast traffic (which logins are not) and traffic destined for a known wireless device.
Perhaps the easiest way to fix the issue is to set up a dmz host pointing to an IP address in your network that:
-Rusty
... that only large businesses should be allowed to run mail servers that can send e-mail.
Glad to see so many people here who are interested in maintaining a free system.
-Rusty
Perhaps.
It's also possible that later itterations of this camera will not have the code included. I personally suspect that it is very likely that someone with an earlier model of the camera will provide the binaries from the older version which will be the basis for patching the newer versions with that same code again.
Likewise as people discover problems with doing just that, (perhaps various address space variables outside of the patched space will be set with flag bits that will cause malfunctions, such as never raising the mirror within the patched space) programmers will take a look at the code, make corrections, and may even look at the general camera code to let Cannon know of other flaws that may have incidentally been introduced.
Do I expect that to happen? (well perhaps not providing feedback to Cannon, but) Generally yes.
I strongly suspect however that the Rebel is due for a short shelf life, and the Rebel 2 will have less capable hardware in addition to less featureful software.
Then again, that's just my suspicions...
-Rusty
Yep, the protocol is "low bandwidth", then again that does nothing for the utilization bandwidth that the server's experience.
By default, Windows 2k (and beyond) when time service is started all hit Microsoft's time server. Can't think of a better way to burn up Microsoft's bandwidth myself, but such is life.
By default Netgear routers (up until the last six months or so) all attemmpted to get their time reference from the University of Wisconsin't time server. There was a flaw in the software that caused the implementation that caused the devices to pull down time samples repeatedly, and this caused an effective denial of service to the UW connectivity for the location that provided that clock service. (perhaps a fix would have been to alter the dns entry to point back to microsoft's server, though that might have been actionable.)
Additionally just because a time server is available today, does not mean that it will be publically available tomorrow.
Personally I like the option of using Tick and Tock, over using a gps time source, because Tick and Tock have been corrected for cosmic clock drift, while the gps clocks have not been so adjusted.
But that's just me. Use your own adjusted time source.
-Rusty