Where I work our internet connection is via a WISP that uses this "technology". We have a Primestar dish on an elevated pole aimed at a mountaintop 12 miles away. 5Ghz and also a backup 802.11b radio with Yagi antenna that needs an amplifier to go that distance, but does so fairly well. The less-informed employees think the "dish" points to a satellite, not noticing the odd angle it's mounted at:)
Better late than never... A reply to a query I sent Wal-Mart about this:
Dear Mr. Dingus,
Thank you for contacting us at Walmart.com. Your comments and questions are very important to us as we strive to meet your needs.
We are writing you regarding DVDs that could potentially be lost in the mail. On occasion, the post office can misplace mail during transit. If this were to ever happen to a DVD that you are awaiting receipt of or have shipped to us, you will not be held responsible. The $17.88 charge only applies to DVDs that customers damage, lose, or choose to keep after a DVD subscription has been cancelled. We hope this answers any questions you may have.
If we may be of further assistance, please email us at help@walmart.com, or call us at 1-800-966-6546. We're here to serve you from 7:00 AM EST to 2:00 AM EST, 7 days a week!
I clicked around and found some terms of service which have this stipulation:
You may cancel the service anytime. If you choose to cancel you will have 7 days to return the DVDs you have rented. For each DVD not returned, a $17.88 fee will be charged to your credit card.
So that sounds a bit better than having to pay for any DVDs stolen by the mailman or honestly "lost" or whatever. I'm *I* am financially responsible for the warehouse folks and USPS folks, forget it...
Linksys and similar NAT devices are cheap now. What if you used 2 in sequence? I've done this before, but not for this type of reason. I know it will physically work but wonder about what it would do to this ability to count machines behind a NAT router?
My point was that I got the ISO's today from RHN and the hostname resolves to an IP that also resolves to an.akamai.net host.
# host a198.g.akamai.net a198.g.akamai.net has address 80.15.249.216 a198.g.akamai.net has address 80.15.249.217
# host download-2.rhn.redhat.com download-2.rhn.redhat.c om is an alias for rhn.redhat.com.edgesuite.net. rhn.redhat.com.edge suite.net is an alias for a198.g.akamai.net. a198.g.akamai.net has address 80.15.249.216 a198.g.akamai.net has address 80.15.249.217
# host 80.15.249.216 Host 216.249.15.80.in-addr.arpa not found: 3(NXDOMAIN)
So I'd suspect RedHat has some kind of deal with them to provide some additional bandwidth. This IP from a traceroute _appears_ to be in Atlanta.
# host download-2.rhn.redhat.com download-2.rhn.redhat.c om is an alias for rhn.redhat.com.edgesuite.net. rhn.redhat.com.edge suite.net is an alias for a198.g.akamai.net. a198.g.akamai.net has address 80.15.249.216 a198.g.akamai.net has address 80.15.249.217
Got mine from Akami...
# host download-2.rhn.redhat.com
download-2.rhn.redhat.com is an alias for rhn.redhat.com.edgesuite.net.
rhn.redhat.com.edgesuite.net is an alias for a198.g.akamai.net.
a198.g.akamai.net has address 80.15.249.216
a198.g.akamai.net has address 80.15.249.217
Charter cable has some kind of deal with Microsoft making MSN our "ISP". My Linksys router gets a standard DHCP'ed IP address and my Linux machine connects to the net through it just fine. Only difference I can see is the Charter logo on the MSN web site at http://charter.msn.com This ISP "deal" means nothing of substance. Of course locally there used to be FAQs and local support info at http://www.chartertn.net which now just redirects to MSN. Geez...
Argh.. We still sell and use SCO OpenServer 5.0.x in many customer sites. We integrated Cleo's SNA/SDLC/3270/HLLAPI/??? product into ours on SCO years ago and it's hard to move away from it now. Can anyone suggest a good Linux alternative? Our application runs fine on Linux without the SNA integration. So if we can do it some other way, no more SCO! That would have made me happy before they went and did this:)
Cleo SNA product: http://www.cleo.com/products/gateway.asp
Heh.. This is like a theory a friend of mine had. Back when toll-free numbers ran you.25/minute he claimed AT&T and others dialed every customers line in rotation and hung up causing an extra call on their bill that month. Multiply that quarter by however many people they could call was a nice little chunk of change. Hmm...
Some caller on CNN is saying right before it happened he was watching and there was a plane very close to the shuttle. How the heck can he tell how close something is at 200,000 altitude? The FUD has begun...
You're not _entirely_ wrong with your statements here, but you are spouting on about a bunch of things you obviously know nothing of. EXT2 has never *lost* data for me. It may not be the greatest thing in the world but it doesn't "lose data like a firehose spouts water". My only real complaint with EXT2 has been longer reboots after a power outage because of no journaling and filesystem integrity checks. That's ancient history though, all the servers I maintain now use journaling and boot right up with very little complaints after an unexpected power outage. Get past linux of 1996 and into the 2000's at least.
You think Linux crashes more than Windows. Heh.. Whatever. My company maintains Linux servers for at last count 62 different customers at different sites in 3 states. For the most part I single-handedly support them myself. I don't have to do all that much... I end up fiddling with backup software a lot more than the OS. Tape drives suck! DVD-RAM isn't all that bad.. But anyway, all these servers run RedHat from version 7.1 through 8.0 with all appropriate patches installed, provide domain login services to a bunch of Windows PCs with file/print sharing, run a heavily-used MySQL database as a backend to the client software, etc...
Maybe Linux is ready for the desktop, maybe not... In the server space though it already rules the show as far as I'm concerned.
Paul Brown did better than this in the 80's. A battery which converted decaying gamma rays *directly* to electrical energy. He was harassed by the NSA and others and is now dead. He was arrested for running a meth lab in his basement, more than once. Yeah right... Free or inexpensive energy is something _they_ don't want you to have.
http://www.rexresearch.com/nucell/nucell.htm
and
http://users.erols.com/iri/Pauleulogy.htm
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Where I work our internet connection is via a WISP that uses this "technology". We have a Primestar dish on an elevated pole aimed at a mountaintop 12 miles away. 5Ghz and also a backup 802.11b radio with Yagi antenna that needs an amplifier to go that distance, but does so fairly well. The less-informed employees think the "dish" points to a satellite, not noticing the odd angle it's mounted at :)
http://www.planetc.com/ is the ISP
Better late than never... A reply to a query I sent Wal-Mart about this:
Dear Mr. Dingus,
Thank you for contacting us at Walmart.com. Your comments and questions are very important to us as we strive to meet your needs.
We are writing you regarding DVDs that could potentially be lost in the mail. On occasion, the post office can misplace mail during transit.
If this were to ever happen to a DVD that you are awaiting receipt of or have shipped to us, you will not be held responsible. The $17.88 charge only applies to DVDs that customers damage, lose, or choose to keep after a DVD subscription has been cancelled. We hope this answers any questions you may have.
If we may be of further assistance, please email us at help@walmart.com, or call us at 1-800-966-6546. We're here to serve you from 7:00 AM EST
to 2:00 AM EST, 7 days a week!
Sincerely,
Billy Hutto
Customer Service at Walmart.com
I clicked around and found some terms of service which have this stipulation:
You may cancel the service anytime. If you choose to cancel you will have 7 days to return the DVDs you have rented. For each DVD not returned, a $17.88 fee will be charged to your credit card.
So that sounds a bit better than having to pay for any DVDs stolen by the mailman or honestly "lost" or whatever. I'm *I* am financially responsible for the warehouse folks and USPS folks, forget it...
One device I didn't see listed anywhere is the Dish Networks 721 PVR.
e iv ers/dishpvr721/index.shtml
http://www.dishnetwork.com/content/products/rec
The link to GNU GPL compliance http://208.45.37.181/ even runs ON a 721... Satellite receiver serving web pages, heh heh.
There is a lot of mesh networking technology available now. Do some searching on "mesh" and "community". Example: http://www.kingsbridgelink.co.uk/
Linksys and similar NAT devices are cheap now. What if you used 2 in sequence? I've done this before, but not for this type of reason. I know it will physically work but wonder about what it would do to this ability to count machines behind a NAT router?
My point was that I got the ISO's today from RHN and the hostname resolves to an IP that also resolves to an .akamai.net host.
c om is an alias for rhn.redhat.com.edgesuite.net.e suite.net is an alias for a198.g.akamai.net.
# host a198.g.akamai.net
a198.g.akamai.net has address 80.15.249.216
a198.g.akamai.net has address 80.15.249.217
# host download-2.rhn.redhat.com
download-2.rhn.redhat.
rhn.redhat.com.edg
a198.g.akamai.net has address 80.15.249.216
a198.g.akamai.net has address 80.15.249.217
# host 80.15.249.216
Host 216.249.15.80.in-addr.arpa not found: 3(NXDOMAIN)
So I'd suspect RedHat has some kind of deal with them to provide some additional bandwidth. This IP from a traceroute _appears_ to be in Atlanta.
Oops, should have previewed:
c om is an alias for rhn.redhat.com.edgesuite.net.e suite.net is an alias for a198.g.akamai.net.
# host download-2.rhn.redhat.com
download-2.rhn.redhat.
rhn.redhat.com.edg
a198.g.akamai.net has address 80.15.249.216
a198.g.akamai.net has address 80.15.249.217
Got mine from Akami... # host download-2.rhn.redhat.com download-2.rhn.redhat.com is an alias for rhn.redhat.com.edgesuite.net. rhn.redhat.com.edgesuite.net is an alias for a198.g.akamai.net. a198.g.akamai.net has address 80.15.249.216 a198.g.akamai.net has address 80.15.249.217
Charter cable has some kind of deal with Microsoft making MSN our "ISP". My Linksys router gets a standard DHCP'ed IP address and my Linux machine connects to the net through it just fine. Only difference I can see is the Charter logo on the MSN web site at http://charter.msn.com This ISP "deal" means nothing of substance. Of course locally there used to be FAQs and local support info at http://www.chartertn.net which now just redirects to MSN. Geez...
Argh.. We still sell and use SCO OpenServer 5.0.x in many customer sites. We integrated Cleo's SNA/SDLC/3270/HLLAPI/??? product into ours on SCO years ago and it's hard to move away from it now. Can anyone suggest a good Linux alternative? Our application runs fine on Linux without the SNA integration. So if we can do it some other way, no more SCO! That would have made me happy before they went and did this :)
p
Cleo SNA product:
http://www.cleo.com/products/gateway.as
Heh.. This is like a theory a friend of mine had. Back when toll-free numbers ran you .25/minute he claimed AT&T and others dialed every customers line in rotation and hung up causing an extra call on their bill that month. Multiply that quarter by however many people they could call was a nice little chunk of change. Hmm...
The US Post Office schills for Microsoft...
Some caller on CNN is saying right before it happened he was watching and there was a plane very close to the shuttle. How the heck can he tell how close something is at 200,000 altitude? The FUD has begun...
Go to the support page: http://www.arklinux.org/support.php Warning though, it takes you to a quite offensive picture!
No problem, this antenna should be compatible with DiSH Network as well. I have a Sony DirecTV dish I use with my DiSH system just fine.
You're not _entirely_ wrong with your statements here, but you are spouting on about a bunch of things you obviously know nothing of. EXT2 has never *lost* data for me. It may not be the greatest thing in the world but it doesn't "lose data like a firehose spouts water". My only real complaint with EXT2 has been longer reboots after a power outage because of no journaling and filesystem integrity checks. That's ancient history though, all the servers I maintain now use journaling and boot right up with very little complaints after an unexpected power outage. Get past linux of 1996 and into the 2000's at least. You think Linux crashes more than Windows. Heh.. Whatever. My company maintains Linux servers for at last count 62 different customers at different sites in 3 states. For the most part I single-handedly support them myself. I don't have to do all that much... I end up fiddling with backup software a lot more than the OS. Tape drives suck! DVD-RAM isn't all that bad.. But anyway, all these servers run RedHat from version 7.1 through 8.0 with all appropriate patches installed, provide domain login services to a bunch of Windows PCs with file/print sharing, run a heavily-used MySQL database as a backend to the client software, etc... Maybe Linux is ready for the desktop, maybe not... In the server space though it already rules the show as far as I'm concerned.
Sounds like this "paper" which is mostly plastic. http://www.hp.ca/catalog/supplies/supplies_details .php?sku=Q1298A&LANGUAGE=en
Same old argument they've made forever... 7 distros release patches for the same kernel bug goes down as 7 bugs for Linux. Yeah, whatever...
Paul Brown did better than this in the 80's. A battery which converted decaying gamma rays *directly* to electrical energy. He was harassed by the NSA and others and is now dead. He was arrested for running a meth lab in his basement, more than once. Yeah right... Free or inexpensive energy is something _they_ don't want you to have. http://www.rexresearch.com/nucell/nucell.htm and http://users.erols.com/iri/Pauleulogy.htm
With Mozilla at least. www.amsouth.com has no problems at all.