Depends upon the actual implementation involved. If the AP has a secure web server built in, and uses an encrypted tunnel to check on the credit card and start billing for time, you should never see a decrypted card number outside of that box.
This would require that the web page that you go to to "log in" to the AP redirects to the secure server. I doubt that this would be a significant problem.
For Verizon DSL or fixed rate customers, authentication could be accomplished through an RSA or PGP/GPG public key authentication check. You would have to sign up for it from home, and generate a public/private key set, give Verizon the public key, and keep the private key on whatever device you are going to use on the network. Yes this would present a potential hacking threat, so I would want to use a seprate key than I use for my own e-mail, or stuff I sign.
Obviously these are hardly the only possible solutions.
The problem with your analogy is that in most cases, the software running on the mainframe was open source. In fact there are several cases where customers supplied mainframe manufacturers with bug fixes to the operating system.
Note that the provision in the bill that states that a reason for chosing a proprietary solution over an open source solution does not exclude reasons such as "Our users are familiar with the operations of the proprietary solution and training them to use the open source solution will cost more than the price difference." and "The cost associated with converting all required documents (hardcopy) detailing operating procedures outweigh the ongoing costs of staying with the proprietary solution."
Granted both "reasons" are contrived, and can easily be disproven, however the bill does not detail that a provable solid reason has to exist, just that one must be presented.
Build a diagonal baffle. Simply find some 2x4's, build an A frame, lay on some sheetrock, then carpet the thing. Placing it diagonally through the room will eliminate a significant amount of echo that is causing problems for you. If you can find a business that had a dropped celing that they are remodeling, you may be able to get better accoustic dampening with the panels than with carpeting.
If you really want to dampen sound, you may even want to fill your walls with sand. This will reduce the amount of audio that is passed through them as well.
Granted the diagonal baffel would not help if you are recording in a closet, or a bathroom, (at least not most of either that I have experience with, but in anything over a 10'x10' room it should help. As a quick experiment, get a couple of twin-size or full-size matresses, lean them against each other in the middle of the room diagonally, and see what kind of an effect that has on the sound quality of the room.
I think that one of the things that may need to be specified is that there are two primary ways to use a PDA. You can use it as an application specific device (ASD), or you can use it as a general computing device (GCD).
What PalmOS is doing is expanding their sales into more ASD, as they discover that the market seems to be saturated for GCD type PDAs at the level that Palm, Sony and a couple of other companies have been selling.
In all honesty, WinCE (whatever version) and Embeded Linux (in a variety of forms) with appropriate hardware make better GCD based PDAs than PalmOS (in current implementations) does. That may change with PalmOS 6.0, depending upon how much of what was in BeIA that they stripped out and or replaced.
On the other hand, if you need a device for inventory management, or a phone list on a cell phone, or for package tracking, etc. the lower hardware costs associated with a PalmOS device can significantly reduce the cost of each device, making a device that you can sell more of to your customers, because you can pass the savings on, or draw more profit off of the ongoing service charges.
Then again, who knows what will happen with PalmOS 6.0. All the cost savings may be out the window.
Low level micro-coding will pretty much always have a purpose. Especially for micro-controllers.
I know that there are a lot of people who will point out that today's optimizing compilers can often produce tighter code than an average programer writing in Assembly. I won't even contest that, because I am pretty sure that the few of us that are completly incompetent at writing code in assembly are affecting the "average" in question. Of course that means that just about any competent Assembly programmer can write tighter code than an optimizing compiler can. (Today.)
Personally I think that if ASICs continue as they are, Coding at the bare metel is going to continue to be important as the ASIC will present an API to the system it is installed in. The ASIC itself may be running a higher level OS, but for the near future will not itself need to multi-task. As a result the OS involved will be very limited in capability, and may itself be written in Assembly. I would expect it to be an interupt driven OS that responds either to environmental or api interupts, which ammount to the same thing.
Yes memory is getting physically smaller with higher capacity, and these ASIC processors are getting faster. As a result it is possible to run more bloated softare with no appreciable impact to performance. At the same time there will always be instances where a 1/100" delay will be the difference between the user's life, and death. You may not be interested in working on a project where such is the requirement, but someone will. Provide them with the information they need to succeed.
Then again, I could be wrong. Expert Systems may be able to take arbitrary instructions and produce machine code up to the requirements. I just don't see that happening within the next couple of years. I may have tunnel vision.
Unfortunately if you use it for all of this, you will probably want to keep a portable battery pack handy to keep it running.
I suspect that if you give it "normal usage" use, that the batteries will need charging every other day. (Normal ussage pattern being gba use, twice a day for 45 min each, mp3 use 15-30 min a day, and phone use for 15 min a day. Camera use would be minimal impact unless you are treating it as a video camera.) PDA functions (alarms primarily) would have almost no impact, and could even be handled on your carrier's hardware rather than the phone itself.
Here is the problem. Unless your cloths appear as a representative of something that normally appears where you are, in the shape you happen to be, (bush, pile of sand, or dirt, etc.) the display has to project a different image in every direction that someone happens to be.
It would be easier to build the technology described in "The Free Lunch" (by Spider Robinson) that uses cameras to find lenses (including organic eyes) and projectors to project a replacement image of the location appropriate to that lens that does not include the object being obscured.
The questions then becomes how do two of these systems interact if they come within sensor range of each other? and how does the system deal with magnification? Can one system obscure the fact that it exists to another system? Can systems be built to recognize each other and ignore the projections of each other? Can one be set up so that it recongizes friend or foe, and flags foe for the user?
If someone is using a 10x scope, or a 1000mm lense on a 35mm camera, is the image that is projected to the lense appropriate for the magnification involved?
One other question is what is the range of the sensors? Will it project at ranges of 50 and 50,000 meters? Will it handle lenses that are on satelites or high flying platforms (U2, SR71, other varients) appropriately? What will the effect of walking in and out of sensor range be? Will you see someone until you get to within some distance of them, they disappear, only to re-appear once you get back out of sensor range?
Will the black or silvered lenses of highway patrol officers shades prevent such a system from hiding the fact that you are traveling at 95 kph in a 50 kph zone?
I would think that for objects in motion the image projected, or if you insist on this being clothing covered in lcd panels then displayed on your attire, would always lag behind the actual background of your environment. It would take a significant amount of computational horsepower to create images appropriate to each of 365 degrees horizontally, much less the thousands of potential camera images (considering just three cameras each cardinal degree, stacked on top of each other is 1096 cameras and that doesn't even come close to the number that may potentially be pointed in your direction.)
At that point the question is what is "good enough"? If the projection or display can make me look like an innocuous bush, or (if I move on hands and feet, or knees) like a dog, or a statue of Sadam (probably not a good idea) is that "good enough"?
...When businesses in the US discover that they can not do business with people overseas. They are going to do market research, and their researchers are going to say "Our potential customers are using a more advanced networking technology than we are."
At that point, Marketing is going to turn to Management and ask "Why arn't we using this next generation networking technology?" To which Management is going to go to IS, and ask the same question.
IS is going to report the following.
We haven't tested it fully.
Our ISP doesn't support it.
Our Co-Lo doesn't have it deployed.
Management is then going to ask "How long it will take to deploy?", and "How long do you expect to continue working here?". At different companies different emphasis is going to be placed on those two questions.
ISP's and CoLos will have the same set of problems. Large businesses are going to ask why they are not ready for IPv6, and will have to seriously look into how much longer it will take before they start loosing their big customers.
At that point, IPv6 will be discovered as already existing in just about every router and server OS that is out there. The exceptions will be hardware that is due for replacemnt shortly anyway.
People who have been fighting with silly problems with IPv4, will crack open the manuals on IPv6 and realize that almost 90% of the problems they have been fighting with, dhcp, ddns, IPsec, IPNat, are already built into the technology that they already have deployed and mearly need to add a few statements to interfaces on routers in their network.
The early adopters are going to move their CoLos out of the US to countries where the CoLos have already deployed IPv6 in their infrastructure. Some of them will prosper on the added business, some will not get it right and will fail.
Nay-sayers on Slashdot will point at the failures in the early adopters and say "I told you so, the technology ain't ready."
Are there problems with the above senario? Sure. There are problems with some of the deployed IPv6 stacks on some Cisco routers. There are questions about the efficacy of using some of the applications that businesses are using on IPv4 being migrated to IPv6. I understand that there are Novel 3.2 servers out there that are still in use because the company using the server has a functioning solution even if spport costs in the future are going to skyrocket.
Those of you complaining about being out of work, might want to spend some time at the library and brush up on both your IPv4 and IPv6 knowledge. You will then have a potential advantage over those people currently working, fighting with IPv4 problems and ignoring the possibility of using IPv6, because "No one has found a real need for it."
That presumes that the IS staff is up to that work, that the cost of the additional work necessary is going to be defrayed by additional productivity of the people using the applications.
One of the problems with upgrading to Excel is that in current and upcomming versions the file format is proprietary and may not lend itself to backwards porting to a format that the programmers can work with. Breaking up Excell workbooks and saving each page as a Lotus Spreadsheet, or better yet a csv file, takes training on the part of the user, or a secondary process that has to be run either on the workstation or the mainframe.
In a tight economy, costs are going to be carefully reviewed. A lot of projects that would be relevent will be canceled as well.
I know of companies that still use punch cards. Sure they could update, but as long as they have punch cards, and the equipment works, why break it.
The problem with calling it a black market is that in the black market, the person making available the material in the black market is earning something for providing it (when it leaves his or her hands.)
In this case, the fact that I get a copy of a piece of music does not deprive the person making that piece of music available, nor do I end up profiting from providing the same piece of music.
This does not even qualify as a barter economy, as there is not equivalency, one copy of a Perl Jam song is not the equivalent of.5 a They Might Be Giants song.
-Jay
Re:simple key to wireless security?
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That presumes that every tool you intend to use, has support for SSL built in, or you are proxying all traffic across an SSL encrypted link.
Is this do-able? Sure.
Is this widely documented as a simple general solution for all operating systems that support WiFi connectivity? I don't think so. If so, is it cross platform? Again, I am not aware of any, but then I have not done any research papers on this topic.
Then again, I could be wrong. It's happened before, and I expect it will happen again.
-Rusty
Re:Did they discuss "all in one" wireless routers?
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essid and mac limiting would be helpful. disable dhcp serving on the router, and provide it at a server, with the network not participating in the internal network, except to a security server that requires a ssh session to route traffic elsewhere in the network, then only out the gateway to the Internet.
That's just a start. You can require rsa key ssh tunnels into the security server for the WiFi attached device, which implements a VPN to provide access to your own network for authorized users.
Obviously there are more options, but if you want to provide a secure sollution for your client, this would be a good start. Adding a security and dhcp server would also provide for better income potential.
What, you haven't seen those wireless keyboards and mice?
Personally I would love to see a computer training room where all of 12 or 24 computers are all using wireless keyboards and mice. I would love to see the expression on the administrators face when the mice and keyboards are all randomly moved from one workstation to another, mouse a to system b, keyboard a to system c. a, b and c, randomly allocated.
Of course all of these systems are using integrated displays, with internal battery systems, and everyone checks out the computer from it's re-charger as they sign in to class.
Hey, no wires, and concurrently, no training. (too expensive, to cumbersom.)
What I find interesting is that everyone that replied, foccused on line two. I get the feeling that none of them went on to read paragraph three, or four. Much less comment on them.
The video card that the reviewer used is a "Creative Geforce 3Ti200 64Mb Detonators v42.70". I had to go all the way down to "Geforce 3Ti200" to get a usable hit out of google. The hit that I found most interesting was at fadainc where the reviewer noted that when he updated the AGP drivers his system went from 2000 on 3DMark2000, to 7000. That's a bit more than 23%, which suggest that our reviewer above, may have gotten that much of a boost simply by replacing the motherboard. The CPU very well may have had nothing to do with the improvement.
I will grant that a benchmark framerate higher than your refresh rate shows that the game may be more playable during normal gameplay. I will also note that even the subject makes reference to this thread being about being a stick in the mud.
I still would like to know if there is an improvement in CPU bound procesing, rather than GPU bound processing which can often be off-loaded to the video card. As the video card in question is a Geforce 3 card, I suspect that Most of the video processing is ofloaded from the CPU.
Obviously, I could be wrong, I have been in the past, and I reserve the right to be in the future.
Some people may argue that PDA's are a significant inovation. All a PDA is, and really ever will be, is a portable computer that is capable of presenting a Personal Information Manager of some sort. PIMs have been around since at least the early 80s.
Variations on the PIM concept existed as notes a programmer would put in his own source code to do certain things at certain times, as well as calander and address book applications on various OS's including Unix from the early 70s. I would be surprised if there wasn't some user definable alarm and scheduling system on earlier systems as well.
Spreadsheets. I am not aware of any other application that can be said to have had as much of an impact on computers. The spreadsheet on an Apple II was what brought personal computers into buisness, and was what gave users the power to do their own research and experimentation.
Once Personal computers came out, and Lotus came up with 1-2-3, the economics of volume production became powerful enough that costs dropped to the point that personal computers became useable for other activities (word processing was already being done on mini and main frames, so it doesn't count, databases have been on mainframes for a very long time, etc.)
Eventually costs got to the point where users could afford a computer simply to play games on. Of course then Games got to the point where a good gaming machine costs more than an excelent business grade PC.
Recall that in Ep 4, Chewbacca is identified as being over 200 years old. 20 years earlier means over 180 years old. I think Meyhew being 30 years older isn't going to make much of a difference. It does not bring him appreciably closer to either age for Chewbacca
-Rusty
Re:Hey, it could bode *well* for the movie...
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Just as a point of note, Jabba was in ep 1. Recall he was in control at the pod races.
Boba is the son of Jenga, who is the model for all the Storm Trooper clones.
In other words, the only members of the other circles who haven't been involved are Han and Chewie. Time to bring them in.
Recall from ep 4, and 6, Obi Wan took the son of Anakin to the one place he was sure that Anakin would never return to.
It would not surprise me if Chewie turns out to have been a slave to Jaba and Obi Wan, or even Anakin frees him. It would explain his antipathy towards the cuffs in ep 4.
I understand that the review is somewhat game centered, I suspect the review site is as well, but this review does nothing for me.
Any frame rate that exceeds the refresh rate of your display is effectively wasted. You just won't see the extra frames. A 23% improvement just means that many more frames you won't see.
In all honesty, since he had to replace both the CPU and the Motherboard, the improvement provided by the combination will touch a few other things that should be presented. Since he chose to use the same video card, how much of the processing load was offloaded to the card? Is there a way to see comparable information wrt the hard drive?
For a closer to purer CPU comparison, I would like to know what kind of improvement to processing Seti@home blocks, or any of the other distributed computing projects.
Worse, the damn overlay commercials that you see on TNT or UPN (was that Fox, maybe?). Til Moore's law lets us re-render them on the fly, probably is no fix at all.
If you are interested in these shows, and want to get the overlay's removed, check to see if they interfear with Close Captioning. On some shows I have seen reformats of the screen (shrinking the program) to accomodate an ad, which interupts the close caption information making that portion of the show unavailable to hearing impared viewers.
I suspect that this is a major no-no, though I do not have evidence to back it up. It is possible that it falls under ADA, though I would suspect it is more likely to fall under an FCC regulation myself.
Pay attention. This is a ~30 second skip. It is not a commercial skip. You have no assurance that you will not be dropped back into the commercial half way through it's play, nor that you won't be dropped 25 or more seconds into the program. It does nothing to detect the begining or end of commercials.
At the same time it is a great undocumented feature that I happen to take advantage of.
Other things it will not do that the RePlay 4k's are reputed to do is record the program without the commercials. This is completely different from using a button on your remote to skip forwards 30 seconds, or back 6 seconds.
You may have a defective remote if the "enter" button is your skip forward button. On the remote I use it is the button with the ->| symbol on it, similar to a tab forward button. The skip back button is the one with an arrow in a three quarter counter clockwise direction. I do not loose my "Last Channel" functionality, though I do loose my ability to skip to the quarter hour or half hour marks in recorded material. (I never have figured out what advantage that provided me however.)
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Depends upon the actual implementation involved. If the AP has a secure web server built in, and uses an encrypted tunnel to check on the credit card and start billing for time, you should never see a decrypted card number outside of that box.
This would require that the web page that you go to to "log in" to the AP redirects to the secure server. I doubt that this would be a significant problem.
For Verizon DSL or fixed rate customers, authentication could be accomplished through an RSA or PGP/GPG public key authentication check. You would have to sign up for it from home, and generate a public/private key set, give Verizon the public key, and keep the private key on whatever device you are going to use on the network. Yes this would present a potential hacking threat, so I would want to use a seprate key than I use for my own e-mail, or stuff I sign.
Obviously these are hardly the only possible solutions.
-Rusty
.. without the pool party though.
The problem with your analogy is that in most cases, the software running on the mainframe was open source. In fact there are several cases where customers supplied mainframe manufacturers with bug fixes to the operating system.
Note that the provision in the bill that states that a reason for chosing a proprietary solution over an open source solution does not exclude reasons such as "Our users are familiar with the operations of the proprietary solution and training them to use the open source solution will cost more than the price difference." and "The cost associated with converting all required documents (hardcopy) detailing operating procedures outweigh the ongoing costs of staying with the proprietary solution."
Granted both "reasons" are contrived, and can easily be disproven, however the bill does not detail that a provable solid reason has to exist, just that one must be presented.
Then again, IANAL
-Rusty
Build a diagonal baffle. Simply find some 2x4's, build an A frame, lay on some sheetrock, then carpet the thing. Placing it diagonally through the room will eliminate a significant amount of echo that is causing problems for you. If you can find a business that had a dropped celing that they are remodeling, you may be able to get better accoustic dampening with the panels than with carpeting.
If you really want to dampen sound, you may even want to fill your walls with sand. This will reduce the amount of audio that is passed through them as well.
Granted the diagonal baffel would not help if you are recording in a closet, or a bathroom, (at least not most of either that I have experience with, but in anything over a 10'x10' room it should help. As a quick experiment, get a couple of twin-size or full-size matresses, lean them against each other in the middle of the room diagonally, and see what kind of an effect that has on the sound quality of the room.
-Rusty
I think that one of the things that may need to be specified is that there are two primary ways to use a PDA. You can use it as an application specific device (ASD), or you can use it as a general computing device (GCD).
What PalmOS is doing is expanding their sales into more ASD, as they discover that the market seems to be saturated for GCD type PDAs at the level that Palm, Sony and a couple of other companies have been selling.
In all honesty, WinCE (whatever version) and Embeded Linux (in a variety of forms) with appropriate hardware make better GCD based PDAs than PalmOS (in current implementations) does. That may change with PalmOS 6.0, depending upon how much of what was in BeIA that they stripped out and or replaced.
On the other hand, if you need a device for inventory management, or a phone list on a cell phone, or for package tracking, etc. the lower hardware costs associated with a PalmOS device can significantly reduce the cost of each device, making a device that you can sell more of to your customers, because you can pass the savings on, or draw more profit off of the ongoing service charges.
Then again, who knows what will happen with PalmOS 6.0. All the cost savings may be out the window.
-Rusty
Low level micro-coding will pretty much always have a purpose. Especially for micro-controllers.
I know that there are a lot of people who will point out that today's optimizing compilers can often produce tighter code than an average programer writing in Assembly. I won't even contest that, because I am pretty sure that the few of us that are completly incompetent at writing code in assembly are affecting the "average" in question. Of course that means that just about any competent Assembly programmer can write tighter code than an optimizing compiler can. (Today.)
Personally I think that if ASICs continue as they are, Coding at the bare metel is going to continue to be important as the ASIC will present an API to the system it is installed in. The ASIC itself may be running a higher level OS, but for the near future will not itself need to multi-task. As a result the OS involved will be very limited in capability, and may itself be written in Assembly. I would expect it to be an interupt driven OS that responds either to environmental or api interupts, which ammount to the same thing.
Yes memory is getting physically smaller with higher capacity, and these ASIC processors are getting faster. As a result it is possible to run more bloated softare with no appreciable impact to performance. At the same time there will always be instances where a 1/100" delay will be the difference between the user's life, and death. You may not be interested in working on a project where such is the requirement, but someone will. Provide them with the information they need to succeed.
Then again, I could be wrong. Expert Systems may be able to take arbitrary instructions and produce machine code up to the requirements. I just don't see that happening within the next couple of years. I may have tunnel vision.
-Rusty
Unfortunately if you use it for all of this, you will probably want to keep a portable battery pack handy to keep it running.
I suspect that if you give it "normal usage" use, that the batteries will need charging every other day. (Normal ussage pattern being gba use, twice a day for 45 min each, mp3 use 15-30 min a day, and phone use for 15 min a day. Camera use would be minimal impact unless you are treating it as a video camera.) PDA functions (alarms primarily) would have almost no impact, and could even be handled on your carrier's hardware rather than the phone itself.
Then again, I have been known to be wrong.
-Rusty
Here is the problem. Unless your cloths appear as a representative of something that normally appears where you are, in the shape you happen to be, (bush, pile of sand, or dirt, etc.) the display has to project a different image in every direction that someone happens to be.
It would be easier to build the technology described in "The Free Lunch" (by Spider Robinson) that uses cameras to find lenses (including organic eyes) and projectors to project a replacement image of the location appropriate to that lens that does not include the object being obscured.
The questions then becomes how do two of these systems interact if they come within sensor range of each other? and how does the system deal with magnification? Can one system obscure the fact that it exists to another system? Can systems be built to recognize each other and ignore the projections of each other? Can one be set up so that it recongizes friend or foe, and flags foe for the user?
If someone is using a 10x scope, or a 1000mm lense on a 35mm camera, is the image that is projected to the lense appropriate for the magnification involved?
One other question is what is the range of the sensors? Will it project at ranges of 50 and 50,000 meters? Will it handle lenses that are on satelites or high flying platforms (U2, SR71, other varients) appropriately? What will the effect of walking in and out of sensor range be? Will you see someone until you get to within some distance of them, they disappear, only to re-appear once you get back out of sensor range?
Will the black or silvered lenses of highway patrol officers shades prevent such a system from hiding the fact that you are traveling at 95 kph in a 50 kph zone?
I would think that for objects in motion the image projected, or if you insist on this being clothing covered in lcd panels then displayed on your attire, would always lag behind the actual background of your environment. It would take a significant amount of computational horsepower to create images appropriate to each of 365 degrees horizontally, much less the thousands of potential camera images (considering just three cameras each cardinal degree, stacked on top of each other is 1096 cameras and that doesn't even come close to the number that may potentially be pointed in your direction.)
At that point the question is what is "good enough"? If the projection or display can make me look like an innocuous bush, or (if I move on hands and feet, or knees) like a dog, or a statue of Sadam (probably not a good idea) is that "good enough"?
Maybe it is. Maybe it isn't.
-Rusty
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-Rusty
At that point, Marketing is going to turn to Management and ask "Why arn't we using this next generation networking technology?" To which Management is going to go to IS, and ask the same question.
IS is going to report the following.
Management is then going to ask "How long it will take to deploy?", and "How long do you expect to continue working here?". At different companies different emphasis is going to be placed on those two questions.
ISP's and CoLos will have the same set of problems. Large businesses are going to ask why they are not ready for IPv6, and will have to seriously look into how much longer it will take before they start loosing their big customers.
At that point, IPv6 will be discovered as already existing in just about every router and server OS that is out there. The exceptions will be hardware that is due for replacemnt shortly anyway.
People who have been fighting with silly problems with IPv4, will crack open the manuals on IPv6 and realize that almost 90% of the problems they have been fighting with, dhcp, ddns, IPsec, IPNat, are already built into the technology that they already have deployed and mearly need to add a few statements to interfaces on routers in their network.
The early adopters are going to move their CoLos out of the US to countries where the CoLos have already deployed IPv6 in their infrastructure. Some of them will prosper on the added business, some will not get it right and will fail.
Nay-sayers on Slashdot will point at the failures in the early adopters and say "I told you so, the technology ain't ready."
Are there problems with the above senario? Sure. There are problems with some of the deployed IPv6 stacks on some Cisco routers. There are questions about the efficacy of using some of the applications that businesses are using on IPv4 being migrated to IPv6. I understand that there are Novel 3.2 servers out there that are still in use because the company using the server has a functioning solution even if spport costs in the future are going to skyrocket.
Those of you complaining about being out of work, might want to spend some time at the library and brush up on both your IPv4 and IPv6 knowledge. You will then have a potential advantage over those people currently working, fighting with IPv4 problems and ignoring the possibility of using IPv6, because "No one has found a real need for it."
After all, I could be wrong.
-Rusty
I understand that you send all your paper mail through the post office as post cards. Right?
Same idea.
-Rusty
Where did you say your garden was again? Are you sure? I could have sworn that the locals were using that as a garbage heap. :)
-Rusty
That presumes that the IS staff is up to that work, that the cost of the additional work necessary is going to be defrayed by additional productivity of the people using the applications.
One of the problems with upgrading to Excel is that in current and upcomming versions the file format is proprietary and may not lend itself to backwards porting to a format that the programmers can work with. Breaking up Excell workbooks and saving each page as a Lotus Spreadsheet, or better yet a csv file, takes training on the part of the user, or a secondary process that has to be run either on the workstation or the mainframe.
In a tight economy, costs are going to be carefully reviewed. A lot of projects that would be relevent will be canceled as well.
I know of companies that still use punch cards. Sure they could update, but as long as they have punch cards, and the equipment works, why break it.
-Rusty
The problem with calling it a black market is that in the black market, the person making available the material in the black market is earning something for providing it (when it leaves his or her hands.)
.5 a They Might Be Giants song.
In this case, the fact that I get a copy of a piece of music does not deprive the person making that piece of music available, nor do I end up profiting from providing the same piece of music.
This does not even qualify as a barter economy, as there is not equivalency, one copy of a Perl Jam song is not the equivalent of
-Jay
That presumes that every tool you intend to use, has support for SSL built in, or you are proxying all traffic across an SSL encrypted link.
Is this do-able? Sure.
Is this widely documented as a simple general solution for all operating systems that support WiFi connectivity? I don't think so. If so, is it cross platform? Again, I am not aware of any, but then I have not done any research papers on this topic.
Then again, I could be wrong. It's happened before, and I expect it will happen again.
-Rusty
essid and mac limiting would be helpful. disable dhcp serving on the router, and provide it at a server, with the network not participating in the internal network, except to a security server that requires a ssh session to route traffic elsewhere in the network, then only out the gateway to the Internet.
That's just a start. You can require rsa key ssh tunnels into the security server for the WiFi attached device, which implements a VPN to provide access to your own network for authorized users.
Obviously there are more options, but if you want to provide a secure sollution for your client, this would be a good start. Adding a security and dhcp server would also provide for better income potential.
-Rusty
What, you haven't seen those wireless keyboards and mice?
Personally I would love to see a computer training room where all of 12 or 24 computers are all using wireless keyboards and mice. I would love to see the expression on the administrators face when the mice and keyboards are all randomly moved from one workstation to another, mouse a to system b, keyboard a to system c. a, b and c, randomly allocated.
Of course all of these systems are using integrated displays, with internal battery systems, and everyone checks out the computer from it's re-charger as they sign in to class.
Hey, no wires, and concurrently, no training. (too expensive, to cumbersom.)
-Rusty
What I find interesting is that everyone that replied, foccused on line two. I get the feeling that none of them went on to read paragraph three, or four. Much less comment on them.
The video card that the reviewer used is a "Creative Geforce 3Ti200 64Mb Detonators v42.70". I had to go all the way down to "Geforce 3Ti200" to get a usable hit out of google. The hit that I found most interesting was at fadainc where the reviewer noted that when he updated the AGP drivers his system went from 2000 on 3DMark2000, to 7000. That's a bit more than 23%, which suggest that our reviewer above, may have gotten that much of a boost simply by replacing the motherboard. The CPU very well may have had nothing to do with the improvement.
I will grant that a benchmark framerate higher than your refresh rate shows that the game may be more playable during normal gameplay. I will also note that even the subject makes reference to this thread being about being a stick in the mud.
I still would like to know if there is an improvement in CPU bound procesing, rather than GPU bound processing which can often be off-loaded to the video card. As the video card in question is a Geforce 3 card, I suspect that Most of the video processing is ofloaded from the CPU.
Obviously, I could be wrong, I have been in the past, and I reserve the right to be in the future.
-Rusty
replying to my own post, how droll...
Some people may argue that PDA's are a significant inovation. All a PDA is, and really ever will be, is a portable computer that is capable of presenting a Personal Information Manager of some sort. PIMs have been around since at least the early 80s.
Variations on the PIM concept existed as notes a programmer would put in his own source code to do certain things at certain times, as well as calander and address book applications on various OS's including Unix from the early 70s. I would be surprised if there wasn't some user definable alarm and scheduling system on earlier systems as well.
-Rusty
Spreadsheets. I am not aware of any other application that can be said to have had as much of an impact on computers. The spreadsheet on an Apple II was what brought personal computers into buisness, and was what gave users the power to do their own research and experimentation.
Once Personal computers came out, and Lotus came up with 1-2-3, the economics of volume production became powerful enough that costs dropped to the point that personal computers became useable for other activities (word processing was already being done on mini and main frames, so it doesn't count, databases have been on mainframes for a very long time, etc.)
Eventually costs got to the point where users could afford a computer simply to play games on. Of course then Games got to the point where a good gaming machine costs more than an excelent business grade PC.
-Rusty
Recall that in Ep 4, Chewbacca is identified as being over 200 years old. 20 years earlier means over 180 years old. I think Meyhew being 30 years older isn't going to make much of a difference. It does not bring him appreciably closer to either age for Chewbacca
-Rusty
Just as a point of note, Jabba was in ep 1. Recall he was in control at the pod races.
Boba is the son of Jenga, who is the model for all the Storm Trooper clones.
In other words, the only members of the other circles who haven't been involved are Han and Chewie. Time to bring them in.
Recall from ep 4, and 6, Obi Wan took the son of Anakin to the one place he was sure that Anakin would never return to.
It would not surprise me if Chewie turns out to have been a slave to Jaba and Obi Wan, or even Anakin frees him. It would explain his antipathy towards the cuffs in ep 4.
-Rusty
I understand that the review is somewhat game centered, I suspect the review site is as well, but this review does nothing for me.
Any frame rate that exceeds the refresh rate of your display is effectively wasted. You just won't see the extra frames. A 23% improvement just means that many more frames you won't see.
In all honesty, since he had to replace both the CPU and the Motherboard, the improvement provided by the combination will touch a few other things that should be presented. Since he chose to use the same video card, how much of the processing load was offloaded to the card? Is there a way to see comparable information wrt the hard drive?
For a closer to purer CPU comparison, I would like to know what kind of improvement to processing Seti@home blocks, or any of the other distributed computing projects.
-Rusty
Worse, the damn overlay commercials that you see on TNT or UPN (was that Fox, maybe?). Til Moore's law lets us re-render them on the fly, probably is no fix at all.
If you are interested in these shows, and want to get the overlay's removed, check to see if they interfear with Close Captioning. On some shows I have seen reformats of the screen (shrinking the program) to accomodate an ad, which interupts the close caption information making that portion of the show unavailable to hearing impared viewers.
I suspect that this is a major no-no, though I do not have evidence to back it up. It is possible that it falls under ADA, though I would suspect it is more likely to fall under an FCC regulation myself.
-Rusty
Pay attention. This is a ~30 second skip. It is not a commercial skip. You have no assurance that you will not be dropped back into the commercial half way through it's play, nor that you won't be dropped 25 or more seconds into the program. It does nothing to detect the begining or end of commercials.
At the same time it is a great undocumented feature that I happen to take advantage of.
Other things it will not do that the RePlay 4k's are reputed to do is record the program without the commercials. This is completely different from using a button on your remote to skip forwards 30 seconds, or back 6 seconds.
You may have a defective remote if the "enter" button is your skip forward button. On the remote I use it is the button with the ->| symbol on it, similar to a tab forward button. The skip back button is the one with an arrow in a three quarter counter clockwise direction. I do not loose my "Last Channel" functionality, though I do loose my ability to skip to the quarter hour or half hour marks in recorded material. (I never have figured out what advantage that provided me however.)
-Rusty