It was the president thinking he was sending a private message to wolf joking around, he screwed up and it was public. Now it's a coverup they say a joker did it.
Not so - this stuff is realativley cheap - cheaper than offering dialup service for up to 11mbps! I am doing it at my ISP, we are small 700 users at a little over a year in business. I am actually tempted in an area where T1's for dialup cost $1300 a month to drop dialup and go full wireless.
I have 11mbps to my home with lucent wavelan from my ISP (which I am the network engineer for) 5 miles away.
Someone asked, "why wireless? why not fiber to the home?" Well, no matter what cable/fibre you use you know the telco or the cable or the power company is going to own it, and paying rent and upkeep on all those lines will add to the cost of the service.
I live in an area with no ISDN even, it would cost me $300 a month to get a T1 from my ISP to the house and about $4k for routers and DSU's etc... this way I spend $300, and no monthly fee. And 11Mbps!
The only reason they can say win2k is so stable now is because most everything won't work on it, and if you can't run anything on it, what's gonna bring it down? (Besides the 65,000) bugs wrong with it internally.
I told some friends "Now watch, microsoft probably caused the whole thing and is gonna blame it on linux." The later half is true, it sure would be nice if it could be found out the whole statement was true. First the halloween documents, then the anti-linux (linuxmyths) page, and now maybe the DDoS - love to see MS get sued for that 1.2+ billion!
I am sure ASUS, and EPOX would be glad to hear you call their products junk. These machines are servers - at the time the only place I cut costs was AMD, because I believed in the product at that time to be equal to intel and less expensive, at the same time. There's nothing but excellent brand name products in these machines - hand picked to be very linux friendly. Now it's Dual Intels all the way. The speeds AMD is reaching is making me want to try them again, but I am reluctant, we had many (6+) machines with problems as such back when the 350's first came out, AMD ignored our questions, all we wanted was some input to help us figure out what it was. I got the same problems with 350's at 350Mhz as I did with trying to overclock a 300 to 350, makes me think AMD just couldn't stand up to the pressure of actually working the CPU.
I haven't had an AMD processor yet I haven't had to underclock to make stable for server use. I stopped using AMD back when the first athlons appeared.
Linux is updated on a daily basis in many ways, and using a newer distribution with new glibc, newer apache, samba, kernel, etc. Could be a little more realistic. Granted NT might still be faster but who's making more improvements faster?
Show how fast linux is catching up by using updated software and do another test today!
Actually it is quite a bit different. Netscape is not tied in with the operating system. Even if people wanted to use NS they still have to have explorer. I bet even if you gave NS away right on the CD with windows it wouldn't make much difference because people would say "I have to have IE on my computer, why would I want 2 browsers on it?"
That's really nice. It's like microsoft being able to apply a tax to every linux, BeOS, UNIX sale just because their business is failing. This is along the sames lines of if someone made fecies an alternative auto-fuel I would have to pay 10 cents for evey crap I took. If my companie went out of business it sure would be nice to be able to just start taking other peoples money for no good reason!
They can't keep it up! I have yet to try to get to the win2000test box and have it be up! I bet I have tried at least 20 times over the last few days, and not 1 time can I get a webpage, ping, or nmap, it's always down.
If your provider isnt' filtering or routing right then you are basically on a network bridge, it will be just as if your computer were directly plugged into your providers hub. This means 1) you can see other peoples network shares, and they can see yours. 2) you can use a packet sniffer to spy on others, probably including your ISP if they are that stupid, and others can do the same to you. 3) you will be open to more attacks since some really are only effective at high speeds. But it will raise your connection speed margin compared to the rest of the world, so it will be harder for people to simply flood you out.
I have been running dual S370 433's now for a while using the ms-6905 card, it allows running the celeron at 100mhz, voltage changing, and dual proccessors all with a couple jumper changes. Doing seti@home is more fun that way;-)
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I've been playing Janes Lonbow a lot lately ;-)
I am a network engineer for an ISP in Cheboygan MI that offers wireless internet to home and business.
We use the unlicensed 2.4GHz band, our equipment can provide up to about 8Mbps to the client.
yes, the limit in the US for microwave without a license is 500mA. Although microwave ovens seem to leak more than this even brand new.
How long before AOL or ATT buys up all the air waves so they don't have wireless ISP's competing with their cable/DSL stuff?
It was the president thinking he was sending a private message to wolf joking around, he screwed up and it was public. Now it's a coverup they say a joker did it.
Not so - this stuff is realativley cheap - cheaper than offering dialup service for up to 11mbps! I am doing it at my ISP, we are small 700 users at a little over a year in business.
I am actually tempted in an area where T1's for dialup cost $1300 a month to drop dialup and go full wireless.
I have 11mbps to my home with lucent wavelan from my ISP (which I am the network engineer for) 5 miles away.
Someone asked, "why wireless? why not fiber to the home?" Well, no matter what cable/fibre you use you know the telco or the cable or the power company is going to own it, and paying rent and upkeep on all those lines will add to the cost of the service.
I live in an area with no ISDN even, it would cost me $300 a month to get a T1 from my ISP to the house and about $4k for routers and DSU's etc... this way I spend $300, and no monthly fee. And 11Mbps!
Wait till it's up against win2k, 99% odd problems!
The only reason they can say win2k is so stable now is because most everything won't work on it, and if you can't run anything on it, what's gonna bring it down? (Besides the 65,000) bugs wrong with it internally.
I told some friends "Now watch, microsoft probably caused the whole thing and is gonna blame it on linux." The later half is true, it sure would be nice if it could be found out the whole statement was true. First the halloween documents, then the anti-linux (linuxmyths) page, and now maybe the DDoS - love to see MS get sued for that 1.2+ billion!
I am sure ASUS, and EPOX would be glad to hear you call their products junk. These machines are servers - at the time the only place I cut costs was AMD, because I believed in the product at that time to be equal to intel and less expensive, at the same time. There's nothing but excellent brand name products in these machines - hand picked to be very linux friendly. Now it's Dual Intels all the way. The speeds AMD is reaching is making me want to try them again, but I am reluctant, we had many (6+) machines with problems as such back when the 350's first came out, AMD ignored our questions, all we wanted was some input to help us figure out what it was. I got the same problems with 350's at 350Mhz as I did with trying to overclock a 300 to 350, makes me think AMD just couldn't stand up to the pressure of actually working the CPU.
I haven't had an AMD processor yet I haven't had to underclock to make stable for server use. I stopped using AMD back when the first athlons appeared.
Linux is updated on a daily basis in many ways, and using a newer distribution with new glibc, newer apache, samba, kernel, etc. Could be a little more realistic. Granted NT might still be faster but who's making more improvements faster?
Show how fast linux is catching up by using updated software and do another test today!
Actually it is quite a bit different. Netscape is not tied in with the operating system. Even if people wanted to use NS they still have to have explorer. I bet even if you gave NS away right on the CD with windows it wouldn't make much difference because people would say "I have to have IE on my computer, why would I want 2 browsers on it?"
That's really nice. It's like microsoft being able to apply a tax to every linux, BeOS, UNIX sale just because their business is failing.
This is along the sames lines of if someone made fecies an alternative auto-fuel I would have to pay 10 cents for evey crap I took.
If my companie went out of business it sure would be nice to be able to just start taking other peoples money for no good reason!
That's really nice. It's like microsoft being able to apply a tax to every linux, BeOS, UNIX sale just because their business is failing. This is along the sames lines of if someone made fecies an alternative auto-fuel I would have to pay 10 cents for evey crap I took. If my companie went out of business it sure would be nice to be able to just start taking other peoples money for no good reason!
Like they'll have a chance to do it, in 10 years at the growth rate of linux they won't be here.
And I wouldn't bank on everyone having high speed by then either.
They can't keep it up! I have yet to try to get to the win2000test box and have it be up! I bet I have tried at least 20 times over the last few days, and not 1 time can I get a webpage, ping, or nmap, it's always down.
If your provider isnt' filtering or routing right then you are basically on a network bridge, it will be just as if your computer were directly plugged into your providers hub.
This means
1) you can see other peoples network shares, and they can see yours.
2) you can use a packet sniffer to spy on others, probably including your ISP if they are that stupid, and others can do the same to you.
3) you will be open to more attacks since some really are only effective at high speeds. But it will raise your connection speed margin compared to the rest of the world, so it will be harder for people to simply flood you out.
Yeah, I'd think the motherboard the card would attach to would have to have bios support for 2 cpu anyway.
I have been running dual S370 433's now for a while using the ms-6905 card, it allows running the celeron at 100mhz, voltage changing, and dual proccessors all with a couple jumper changes. Doing seti@home is more fun that way ;-)