I would say MP3 is sufficiently open that you aren't in danger of corrupting your free OSS ideals.
Bzzzt, thank you but not true. My collection of personal recordings can't be in MP3 because there's no licensed Linux encoder. I own the copyright on them and can legally distribute them, just not in MP3 format.
And since my 'free OSS ideals' require me to do the right thing, I use OGG.
I just recently introduced my 10 year old niece to the old original Adventure game. Now every time I visit I have to set my laptop up to let her play.
No graphics, no action, just plain brain stimulating text.
I'd forgotton how much fun it was to play
"You are standing at the end of a road before a small brick building.
Around you is a forest. A small stream flows out of the building and down a
gully."
I'll agree that obstructive sleep apnea can really cause problems. I had it for over fifteen years, family and girlfriends often commented about my snoring and periods at night when I would stop breathing.
I finally had such a hard time staying awake thru the day that I finally had a sleep study done. It showed my blood oxygen dropping to as low as 47% (they like to be above 98%) and in fact had to wake me up during the study to go on oxygen.
Since then nightly use of a CPAP machine has made all the difference in the world.
It's irresponsible to allow employees to use a third party IM system for corporate business. Especially one over which they have no control. Just imagine all the wonderful corporate info flying around unprotected.
If I were a CEO and someone proposed linking like this I'd have their head on a platter.
An internal system like Jabber is the only way to go.
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How about ad-hoc 802.11 lan's linked via ham radio?
I've been preaching the benefits of this for several years now and the local ham community is starting to come around. More and more local Amateur Radio Emergency Service / Radio Amateur Civil Emergency Service (ARES/RACES) groups are becoming involved. 802.11 networks linked via packet radio TCP/IP based networks, with gateways to the internet as well as radio links amongst themselves.
See http://wetnet.net for details about our local Field Day plans.
N7IPB
Checkout the Xastir project
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http://www.xastir.org
The Xastir project makes use of all kinds of different map types and can serve as example code for manipulating them all, including the Tiger maps.
The question is, though - why would a company who makes spyware (whose very nature is to be secretive and hard to remove) want to follow Google's principles?"
Because if they don't I'm going to take a cluebat to their pointy little heads?
Try 802.11, + your favorite linux distro for routers + one of the mobile IP implementations.
That should do the trick, giving you mobility from lan to lan while still maintining your original IP connections.
You will still have some problems with access while moving, since 802.11 isn't designed to handle devices moving at highway speeds. But once you slow down you should recover your connection.
My service is with isomedia http://www.isomedia.com. I pay $22.50/month plus an additional $5 for a static IP on top of my verizon DSL line. No hastles, no problems with servers etc.
What most of the posters here don't seem to get is this has been a conscious decision on the part of the manufacturers. It wasn't always this way.
And as for 56k modems, they are not 56k bits, never have been 56k bits and never will be 56k bits per second. They are restricted by law to something less than that to "protect" the phone network.
I don't know who his ISP is, but mine is isomedia.com and what I do with my DSL connection is my business, not theirs. They could care less what I run.
There are dozens of other ISP's around here that don't limit servers either. From what I can tell it's ONLY the big ISP's that do this and why I and my friends avoid them like the plague.
And don't get me started about the cable outfits with little or no choice in ISP's...
I sure hope Marketecture and Tarchitecture are figments of the reviewers imagination. If the author of the book uses them then it's a sure sign to me that the book isn't worth owning.
If you mean "marketing architecture" then say "marketing architecture". Making up words is a sure sign the author is an idiot.
I couldn't agree more, however for an additional reason.
I contract with an ISP for Internet access, not just email and web browsing. I run my own servers for everything and expect complete, unfettered access via any port I choose to use. I don't want anything from my ISP other than a pipe for packets. If mine were to start blocking ports I'd be looking for another in an instant.
Blocking any port restricts my ability to use my connection for my own uses and is not what I pay for.
And don't even get me started about what a poor excuse filters are as a solution.
More intelligent map handling is in the works for Xastir. For things like Tiger maps it already doesn't read thru every map for each redraw and the maps are nicely detailed. And organizing the tigermap sets is high on the list of todo's.
"Now, IANAL, but I read that as saying: No nicknames, no ads and banners, no mp3's, and no software piracy. Not to mention that encryption is illegal over the air, so your passwords are available for the world to see."
Nicknames are fine, just make sure you ID periodically. A simple ping of the nearest gateway with your callsign embedded will do.
No ads and banners? Well no, not if it's coming from your server, but banners while browsing are no problem.
Mp3's are just data, No problem.
No Software Piracy, Well of course, no illegal acts.
And encryption for the purpose of control is allowed, just don't use it for everything.
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Bzzzt, thank you but not true. My collection of personal recordings can't be in MP3 because there's no licensed Linux encoder. I own the copyright on them and can legally distribute them, just not in MP3 format.
And since my 'free OSS ideals' require me to do the right thing, I use OGG.
I just recently introduced my 10 year old niece to the old original Adventure game. Now every time I visit I have to set my laptop up to let her play.
No graphics, no action, just plain brain stimulating text.
I'd forgotton how much fun it was to play
"You are standing at the end of a road before a small brick building. Around you is a forest. A small stream flows out of the building and down a gully."
I'll agree that obstructive sleep apnea can really cause problems. I had it for over fifteen years, family and girlfriends often commented about my snoring and periods at night when I would stop breathing.
I finally had such a hard time staying awake thru the day that I finally had a sleep study done. It showed my blood oxygen dropping to as low as 47% (they like to be above 98%) and in fact had to wake me up during the study to go on oxygen.
Since then nightly use of a CPAP machine has made all the difference in the world.
Any responsible corporation would use this.
It's irresponsible to allow employees to use a third party IM system for corporate business. Especially one over which they have no control. Just imagine all the wonderful corporate info flying around unprotected.
If I were a CEO and someone proposed linking like this I'd have their head on a platter.
An internal system like Jabber is the only way to go.
I've been preaching the benefits of this for several years now and the local ham community is starting to come around. More and more local Amateur Radio Emergency Service / Radio Amateur Civil Emergency Service (ARES/RACES) groups are becoming involved. 802.11 networks linked via packet radio TCP/IP based networks, with gateways to the internet as well as radio links amongst themselves.
See http://wetnet.net for details about our local Field Day plans.
N7IPB
http://www.xastir.org
The Xastir project makes use of all kinds of different map types and can serve as example code for manipulating them all, including the Tiger maps.
Because if they don't I'm going to take a cluebat to their pointy little heads?
Try 802.11, + your favorite linux distro for routers + one of the mobile IP implementations. That should do the trick, giving you mobility from lan to lan while still maintining your original IP connections. You will still have some problems with access while moving, since 802.11 isn't designed to handle devices moving at highway speeds. But once you slow down you should recover your connection.
My service is with isomedia http://www.isomedia.com. I pay $22.50/month plus an additional $5 for a static IP on top of my verizon DSL line. No hastles, no problems with servers etc.
To bad you require flash to see the site. I might have found something I liked, but forcing me to load flash isn't going to do it.
Absolutely right!
What most of the posters here don't seem to get is this has been a conscious decision on the part of the manufacturers. It wasn't always this way.
And as for 56k modems, they are not 56k bits, never have been 56k bits and never will be 56k bits per second. They are restricted by law to something less than that to "protect" the phone network.
I'd like to see someone take them on too.
This is exactly what I would expect any competent ISP to do.
I don't know who his ISP is, but mine is isomedia.com and what I do with my DSL connection is my business, not theirs. They could care less what I run.
There are dozens of other ISP's around here that don't limit servers either. From what I can tell it's ONLY the big ISP's that do this and why I and my friends avoid them like the plague.
And don't get me started about the cable outfits with little or no choice in ISP's...Checkout echolinux and thebridge at http://cqinet.sourceforge.net/
I sure hope Marketecture and Tarchitecture are figments of the reviewers imagination.
If the author of the book uses them then it's a sure sign to me that the book isn't worth owning.
If you mean "marketing architecture" then say "marketing architecture".
Making up words is a sure sign the author is an idiot.
Why yes, I am in a bad mood this morning.
I couldn't agree more, however for an additional reason.
I contract with an ISP for Internet access, not just email and web browsing. I run my own servers for everything and expect complete, unfettered access via any port I choose to use. I don't want anything from my ISP other than a pipe for packets. If mine were to start blocking ports I'd be looking for another in an instant.
Blocking any port restricts my ability to use my connection for my own uses and is not what I pay for.
And don't even get me started about what a poor excuse filters are as a solution.
More intelligent map handling is in the works for Xastir. For things like Tiger maps it already doesn't read thru every map for each redraw and the maps are nicely detailed. And organizing the tigermap sets is high on the list of todo's.
If you see features that are needed, come on by the sourceforge project page at http://sourceforge.net/projects/xastir/ and leave a feature request. Or join us on the mailing lists at: http://krypton.hscs.virginia.edu/mailman/listinfo/ xastir-dev
and http://krypton.hscs.virginia.edu/mailman/listinfo/ xastir
The developers are active and very responsive to reasonable feature requests. (heck we even accept some of the unreasonable ones :-)
Nicknames are fine, just make sure you ID periodically. A simple ping of the nearest gateway with your callsign embedded will do.
No ads and banners? Well no, not if it's coming from your server, but banners while browsing are no problem.
Mp3's are just data, No problem.
No Software Piracy, Well of course, no illegal acts.
And encryption for the purpose of control is allowed, just don't use it for everything.
73's, N7IPB