You haven't mentioned how far you are from the transmitters, or if you've got a realistic line-of-site to them (or not).
It's possible the DB8 is overkill, and you're picking up a lot of multipath. If you're not too far from the transmitters, try something smaller (like a DB2 or DB4 from the same folks).
You've got it pointed at the towers, but does that take it through a brick wall and the neighbor's apartment? Can you point it out a window to face the transmitters?
Believe it or not, directing it towards the transmitters might not be your best option. If line-of-sight is poor, you might be better off facing AWAY from the transmitters and picking up the signal bouncing off a nearby building. Try creatively positioning the antenna in a few random places (preferably facing out the window) and see what happens.
Also, do check with the folks on avsforum.com; there are regional-threads and people from your area can probably advise you best.
Finally, it's easier to advise if we know the geography. What's the zip code? Nearest cross street or a nearby address? Something to give us an idea what we're dealing with...
My company uses SameTime as well. It works well, very rarely does it go down, and its not a resource hog. We've got users in several offices and remote locations connecting to it. Sure, it doesn't have all the snazzy features something like AIM would have, but you generally don't need that in an office environment.
If you want a "Start Menu equivalent", open up a Finder window. Find your Applications folder. Drag it into your Dock just beside your trash can. Now, right-click or control-click on it. Boom! Instant menu that you can get quick access to all your applications. And its not as cluttered and useless as the Start menu.
As far as keyboard shortcuts go, Command-C and Command V etc are much easier to hit than Ctrl-C and Ctrl-V. You can hit Command with your thumb and its very easy to thumbCommand. Trust me, it may seem "backwards" at first but once you're used to it you find it much easier. I'm on a PC for 8 hours a day at work, and I hate using CTRL because it slows me down.
You can right-click. Just get a 2 button mouse. It'll work just as you expect.
Do you know how to uninstall an application on the Mac? Drag it to your Trash Can. That's it. Gone.
Hey I'm not saying kill enterprise because JMS would do better...
I'm saying
1) kill enterprise, its done
2) take a break and come back with fresh blood
2a) it would be spiffy if that fresh blood happened to be JMS
trek hasn't had a break since TNG started; its been on the air constantly since 1987. That's a long time really. I don't think its been the same since Roddenberry died.
Its time to cut your losses, take a little time off, and come back refreshed with an awesome Trek series.
Enterprise is the least innovative and most boring Trek series ever. Yeah, its gotten better in more recent episodes, but still isn't what it should be.
Trek needs to take a break, and come back in a year or two or three with fresh blood. I rather like the idea of J. Michael Straczynski - he did a great job with Babylon 5, and Jeremiah, and The Real Ghostbusters;-}
Actually I think the nature of this article is a bit different. More like "this rather expensive piece of hardware that has no official Mac support actually *works* with no hassle. So you can go buy it with little risk of it not working". I've been looking at these cards myself for a while, but none of them have Mac compatability listed on their websites. Its nice to know I could go get one, pop it in, and not worry about having wasted $300. (c:
isa's been going away for a while... my mobo is a few months old and doesn't have isa....
and if you can't spare $20 to get a pci network card, then you prolly wanna look at a more affordable motherboard;-}
It seems that a large part of the original article attempts to make comparisons between medicines and document file formats. The first thought that comes to my mind is that it's not a valid comparison at all - simply because medicines are subject to government regulation and file formats aren't.
More importantly, I think, is this: If Company X puts out a buggy file format, it may cause some problems here and there, but it can always be fixed with a patch down the road. If Company Y puts out a bad drug, people die. And I think we can all agree that that's bad.
I remember a few years ago, someone I worked with was trying to open some old WordPerfect files. It was an older WP format, and nothing we had could open them; not even a new version of WP! (Nothing against WP, of course). Ideally, I'd love to see file formats become open, especially ones like M$-Word that have an annoying presence everywhere. However, I do understand how this crazy "capitolism" thing works, and realize that M$ isn't quite likely to release.doc specifications anytime soon. However,.doc is still current and in-use. Their current format has been basically the same since Word97, and is still in use today. What if M$ stopped using their current.doc format and moved to something new? Perhaps after , their older format could be released to the public. Its no longer useful to them, and it would get them off the hook for supporting it.
Now, I'm aware that M$ isn't likely to just say "here you go community, have some free knowledge from your friends at Micro$oft!", I'm simply using it as an example. A couple years after any company changes formats would be a good time to release the specifications. They're no longer relying on it, and at some point probably won't want to support it.
I don't get it. that doesn't have much to do with the article...
Besides, I've seen XP run slower than other MS operating systems. IMHO, Win2K is the best of MS's offerings so far.
In reality, I use Linux and Mac OS X, both of which run much more stable, secure, and efficient than anything Microsoft has come out with.
Getting back on topic, I have an 802.11b card for my PowerBook. It's not an AirPort card, it's one of those Orinoco cards. Nobody makes OS X drivers for any of their cards except Apple. In order to get this card to work, I had to get open source drivers from http://wirelessdriver.sourceforge.net/ and it works quite well. Compared to the Orinoco drivers under OS 9.2.2, I don't see a difference. So, perhaps before your switch to WinXP there was something misconfigured, or perhaps bloatware or spyware or a virus taking up bandwidth and whatever it was got wiped out during the upgrade. Just a theory.
Hmmm, still not on topic. OK lets try this...
This guy in SF is crazy, but in the good way. Maybe someday I'll set up a rediculously-long-distance WAN just for kicks. Hmmm I'm supposed to move within a few months, maybe then;-}
Hehe, I just work the helpdesk; nobody asks me for my opinions on what to do...
The 8-month-year isn't exactly true. There are multiple campus locations and when students go home they typically dial into the other-campus access numbers. Also, many stay at the main campus over the summer. That also doesn't include all the faculty and staff who use the computing services all year.
Besides, while computer usage may be lower during the summer, they still decide to upgrade servers and systems (like the all important kerberos authentication) in the middle of March!
Virus scanning is very important, obviously, and we stress it over and over again to callers - as well as the Outlook thing. We, too, have a site license to NAV. We do not, however, do scanning on the server. I don't exactly know why; I've assumed it had something to do with privacy and filtering.
But it still comes back to Outlook. If nobody used Outlook (and we could actually REMOVE it), viruses like SirCam, Klez, PrettyPark, etc. wouldn't have gotten very far at all, instead of bringing down entire offices.
I saw other posts that said "don't distribute anything". I kinda like that, but would like to suggest "We reccomend." By all means, pick a broad array of products to support. People should be able to call in with Windows, Mac, and Linux. People should be able to use Netscape, Mozilla, and IE. People should be able to use Eudora, and even Outlook should be supported... but maybe distribute a CD with a few applications that people can use - if they want - without having to download them. Throw netscape, mozilla, eudora, ws_ftp, whatever... and maybe even advise people to steer clear of Outlook. Ultimately, the choice must be the end user.
I work tech support for a large University who will remain nameless so they don't get angry at me. We get calls all the time from people trying to use email, and more importantly virus problems. Let me just make it clear. Outlook has some serious security vulnerabilities. With the Klez virus running around right now, we're all going a little nuts... and like every other headline-making-virus in the past 4 years, it's exploiting vulnerabilities in MS Outlook and Outlook Express. The one piece of advice I can give is DO NOT EVER reccomend that someone use Outlook!
We have some kind of site license to give out an ad-free version of Eudora, but I also find that Netscape's Messenger works just fine. There are a billion other free email programs out there that I don't have experience with. Outlook is the ONLY one with these vulnerabilities! Some people may be smart enough to not click on an unknown attachment, but with some viruses and Outlook, you don't even have to click on it.
From a support perspective, taking away the security issues, I've found that it's just easier to walk people through the settings on Netscape and Eudora (keep in mind this is over the phone) than it is on Outlook.
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You haven't mentioned how far you are from the transmitters, or if you've got a realistic line-of-site to them (or not).
It's possible the DB8 is overkill, and you're picking up a lot of multipath. If you're not too far from the transmitters, try something smaller (like a DB2 or DB4 from the same folks).
You've got it pointed at the towers, but does that take it through a brick wall and the neighbor's apartment? Can you point it out a window to face the transmitters?
Believe it or not, directing it towards the transmitters might not be your best option. If line-of-sight is poor, you might be better off facing AWAY from the transmitters and picking up the signal bouncing off a nearby building. Try creatively positioning the antenna in a few random places (preferably facing out the window) and see what happens.
Also, do check with the folks on avsforum.com; there are regional-threads and people from your area can probably advise you best.
Finally, it's easier to advise if we know the geography. What's the zip code? Nearest cross street or a nearby address? Something to give us an idea what we're dealing with...
My company uses SameTime as well. It works well, very rarely does it go down, and its not a resource hog. We've got users in several offices and remote locations connecting to it. Sure, it doesn't have all the snazzy features something like AIM would have, but you generally don't need that in an office environment.
As far as keyboard shortcuts go, Command-C and Command V etc are much easier to hit than Ctrl-C and Ctrl-V. You can hit Command with your thumb and its very easy to thumbCommand. Trust me, it may seem "backwards" at first but once you're used to it you find it much easier. I'm on a PC for 8 hours a day at work, and I hate using CTRL because it slows me down.
You can right-click. Just get a 2 button mouse. It'll work just as you expect.
Do you know how to uninstall an application on the Mac? Drag it to your Trash Can. That's it. Gone.
Hope this helps a bit!
I'm saying 1) kill enterprise, its done 2) take a break and come back with fresh blood 2a) it would be spiffy if that fresh blood happened to be JMS
trek hasn't had a break since TNG started; its been on the air constantly since 1987. That's a long time really. I don't think its been the same since Roddenberry died.
Its time to cut your losses, take a little time off, and come back refreshed with an awesome Trek series.
Trek needs to take a break, and come back in a year or two or three with fresh blood. I rather like the idea of J. Michael Straczynski - he did a great job with Babylon 5, and Jeremiah, and The Real Ghostbusters ;-}
Actually I think the nature of this article is a bit different. More like "this rather expensive piece of hardware that has no official Mac support actually *works* with no hassle. So you can go buy it with little risk of it not working". I've been looking at these cards myself for a while, but none of them have Mac compatability listed on their websites. Its nice to know I could go get one, pop it in, and not worry about having wasted $300. (c:
isa's been going away for a while... my mobo is a few months old and doesn't have isa.... and if you can't spare $20 to get a pci network card, then you prolly wanna look at a more affordable motherboard ;-}
More importantly, I think, is this: If Company X puts out a buggy file format, it may cause some problems here and there, but it can always be fixed with a patch down the road. If Company Y puts out a bad drug, people die. And I think we can all agree that that's bad.
I remember a few years ago, someone I worked with was trying to open some old WordPerfect files. It was an older WP format, and nothing we had could open them; not even a new version of WP! (Nothing against WP, of course). Ideally, I'd love to see file formats become open, especially ones like M$-Word that have an annoying presence everywhere. However, I do understand how this crazy "capitolism" thing works, and realize that M$ isn't quite likely to release .doc specifications anytime soon. However, .doc is still current and in-use. Their current format has been basically the same since Word97, and is still in use today. What if M$ stopped using their current .doc format and moved to something new? Perhaps after , their older format could be released to the public. Its no longer useful to them, and it would get them off the hook for supporting it.
Now, I'm aware that M$ isn't likely to just say "here you go community, have some free knowledge from your friends at Micro$oft!", I'm simply using it as an example. A couple years after any company changes formats would be a good time to release the specifications. They're no longer relying on it, and at some point probably won't want to support it.
Besides, I've seen XP run slower than other MS operating systems. IMHO, Win2K is the best of MS's offerings so far.
In reality, I use Linux and Mac OS X, both of which run much more stable, secure, and efficient than anything Microsoft has come out with.
Getting back on topic, I have an 802.11b card for my PowerBook. It's not an AirPort card, it's one of those Orinoco cards. Nobody makes OS X drivers for any of their cards except Apple. In order to get this card to work, I had to get open source drivers from http://wirelessdriver.sourceforge.net/ and it works quite well. Compared to the Orinoco drivers under OS 9.2.2, I don't see a difference. So, perhaps before your switch to WinXP there was something misconfigured, or perhaps bloatware or spyware or a virus taking up bandwidth and whatever it was got wiped out during the upgrade. Just a theory.
Hmmm, still not on topic. OK lets try this... This guy in SF is crazy, but in the good way. Maybe someday I'll set up a rediculously-long-distance WAN just for kicks. Hmmm I'm supposed to move within a few months, maybe then ;-}
Hehe, I just work the helpdesk; nobody asks me for my opinions on what to do... The 8-month-year isn't exactly true. There are multiple campus locations and when students go home they typically dial into the other-campus access numbers. Also, many stay at the main campus over the summer. That also doesn't include all the faculty and staff who use the computing services all year. Besides, while computer usage may be lower during the summer, they still decide to upgrade servers and systems (like the all important kerberos authentication) in the middle of March! Virus scanning is very important, obviously, and we stress it over and over again to callers - as well as the Outlook thing. We, too, have a site license to NAV. We do not, however, do scanning on the server. I don't exactly know why; I've assumed it had something to do with privacy and filtering. But it still comes back to Outlook. If nobody used Outlook (and we could actually REMOVE it), viruses like SirCam, Klez, PrettyPark, etc. wouldn't have gotten very far at all, instead of bringing down entire offices. I saw other posts that said "don't distribute anything". I kinda like that, but would like to suggest "We reccomend ." By all means, pick a broad array of products to support. People should be able to call in with Windows, Mac, and Linux. People should be able to use Netscape, Mozilla, and IE. People should be able to use Eudora, and even Outlook should be supported... but maybe distribute a CD with a few applications that people can use - if they want - without having to download them. Throw netscape, mozilla, eudora, ws_ftp, whatever... and maybe even advise people to steer clear of Outlook. Ultimately, the choice must be the end user.
I work tech support for a large University who will remain nameless so they don't get angry at me. We get calls all the time from people trying to use email, and more importantly virus problems. Let me just make it clear. Outlook has some serious security vulnerabilities. With the Klez virus running around right now, we're all going a little nuts... and like every other headline-making-virus in the past 4 years, it's exploiting vulnerabilities in MS Outlook and Outlook Express. The one piece of advice I can give is DO NOT EVER reccomend that someone use Outlook! We have some kind of site license to give out an ad-free version of Eudora, but I also find that Netscape's Messenger works just fine. There are a billion other free email programs out there that I don't have experience with. Outlook is the ONLY one with these vulnerabilities! Some people may be smart enough to not click on an unknown attachment, but with some viruses and Outlook, you don't even have to click on it. From a support perspective, taking away the security issues, I've found that it's just easier to walk people through the settings on Netscape and Eudora (keep in mind this is over the phone) than it is on Outlook.