Re:WUSB - How? And more importantly, WHY?
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OK but imagine if you have a lot of USB devices, maybe 10 or 20. It's not realistic to have them all going into a USB hub. This system would allow lots of devices to be used as and when without annoying cables cluttering the place up.
I do admit that there seem to be potential issues with regards hardware conflicts and security; but it's stil something which should be looked into.
I have a 3Com wi-fi network card which claims to have a nitro setting. When using it with my 3Com router it appears to take up more than one channel. Is this the case?
I've just installed a wireless network in my house and I love it. I love being able to walk around and surf the web without the need to trail cables everywhere. I think you're wrong about the demise of wireless networking. I think its the way forward, even if not in its current wi-fi form.
I am a bit confused with all this talk about the on-line music shop they 'plan' to launch. I've been using the one they offer in the UK for months now. The library isn't quite as extensive as Apple's but at least you don't have to use crappy iTunes.
So just for the record: Microsoft do already sell music from Windows Media player for Windows Media Player in the UK.
The IR port ey?:-) Well what sort of subject allows you to use your laptop in an exam anyway? (apart from computer science)
I really think they should come up with a secure system to allow people to type essay-based exams. Throughout the term at uni they make us type all our essays and then expect us to be able to handwrite as much in a fraction of the time during exams. It seems pretty stupid to me.
Um, not sure about the first bit but as for the second I do agree. People have suggested I use low-cost airlines but the whole process just seems like a pain in the ass. And I haven't heard about EasyJet offering wi-fi yet!
Speaking of which, if I'm planning on travelling by air should I remove my wi-fi network card?
This is really great news. When I go and visit my girlfriend in Edinburgh I have to do without an Internet connection for up to 3 hours; clearly far too long for anyone:-)
With regards wireless networks in general, I know that when wi-fi network cards are in ad hoc mode you can stumble across other cards in ad hoc mode but is there any way to communicate with them? For example, not only being able to tell another card is present, but ask the owner of the card if they want a game of Quake?
Again (just with the patents on HTML filed by Amazon and the pop-under ad company) we are seeing the combination of business orientated capitalism taking over from free software. We need a body, or something incorporated into law, that keeps open source just that, open and free. I'm not sure how it would work but it needs thinking about otherwise the two worlds of capitalism and open-free software will continue to clash in this way
I think what we have here is the convergence of the capitalist world and the open source world. First it was Amazon patenting their use of cookies with the One Click Ordering Facilty. I admit that what they have done is use an existing technology in an inventive way but what gives them the right to stop others doing it to? Are you trying to tell me that the people who coded Amazon and also the Pop Under 'creators' inquestion have never looked at other peoples code and resued it? This is what has helped the Internet grow, people sharing code, ideas and helping each other create solutions.
All it takes now is a few more large companies to patent other parts of the web and the whole open source ethos will begin to crumble even faster. I can see a time when Microsoft try to patent http://!!!:-) Well maybe thats a little far off but the idea is still the same.
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OK but imagine if you have a lot of USB devices, maybe 10 or 20. It's not realistic to have them all going into a USB hub. This system would allow lots of devices to be used as and when without annoying cables cluttering the place up. I do admit that there seem to be potential issues with regards hardware conflicts and security; but it's stil something which should be looked into.
I have a 3Com wi-fi network card which claims to have a nitro setting. When using it with my 3Com router it appears to take up more than one channel. Is this the case?
I've just installed a wireless network in my house and I love it. I love being able to walk around and surf the web without the need to trail cables everywhere. I think you're wrong about the demise of wireless networking. I think its the way forward, even if not in its current wi-fi form.
I am a bit confused with all this talk about the on-line music shop they 'plan' to launch. I've been using the one they offer in the UK for months now. The library isn't quite as extensive as Apple's but at least you don't have to use crappy iTunes. So just for the record: Microsoft do already sell music from Windows Media player for Windows Media Player in the UK.
The IR port ey? :-) Well what sort of subject allows you to use your laptop in an exam anyway? (apart from computer science)
I really think they should come up with a secure system to allow people to type essay-based exams. Throughout the term at uni they make us type all our essays and then expect us to be able to handwrite as much in a fraction of the time during exams. It seems pretty stupid to me.
Um, not sure about the first bit but as for the second I do agree. People have suggested I use low-cost airlines but the whole process just seems like a pain in the ass. And I haven't heard about EasyJet offering wi-fi yet! Speaking of which, if I'm planning on travelling by air should I remove my wi-fi network card?
I don't think she'd let me go straight on-line :-) Which is food for thought guys, think of all the /. ing I'm missing on the train!
This is really great news. When I go and visit my girlfriend in Edinburgh I have to do without an Internet connection for up to 3 hours; clearly far too long for anyone :-)
With regards wireless networks in general, I know that when wi-fi network cards are in ad hoc mode you can stumble across other cards in ad hoc mode but is there any way to communicate with them? For example, not only being able to tell another card is present, but ask the owner of the card if they want a game of Quake?
Again (just with the patents on HTML filed by Amazon and the pop-under ad company) we are seeing the combination of business orientated capitalism taking over from free software. We need a body, or something incorporated into law, that keeps open source just that, open and free. I'm not sure how it would work but it needs thinking about otherwise the two worlds of capitalism and open-free software will continue to clash in this way
I think what we have here is the convergence of the capitalist world and the open source world. First it was Amazon patenting their use of cookies with the One Click Ordering Facilty. I admit that what they have done is use an existing technology in an inventive way but what gives them the right to stop others doing it to? Are you trying to tell me that the people who coded Amazon and also the Pop Under 'creators' inquestion have never looked at other peoples code and resued it? This is what has helped the Internet grow, people sharing code, ideas and helping each other create solutions. All it takes now is a few more large companies to patent other parts of the web and the whole open source ethos will begin to crumble even faster. I can see a time when Microsoft try to patent http://!!! :-) Well maybe thats a little far off but the idea is still the same.