Just over two years ago I quit my job as the networking guy in the core systems team at a higher education college to work part time as a salesman for a small company that took photos from small remote control airships and to train as a teacher of the Alexander Technique. I'm still on the course, but the company folded within six months, and after a few months of unemployment and temping I now live in a different city. Though the whole process was chaotic both personally and financially, I'm now still poorer and still happier. Money comes and goes, but time just goes. I say go for it.
QoS and multicast are built into ipv6, and both will make a big difference to internet broadcast media. With multicast it will cost a media source as much bandwith to transmit to a million viewers as to one, with little cost to the intervening routers. The Quality of Service stuff means that not only will my SOHO router know to shift my VOIP and game traffic first and the P2P stuff last, but so will the other routers involved.
Regardless of the ipv6 transition, I'd expect a large proportion of routers to be replaced in the next 2-10 years, and if your hardware can't support a firmware upgrade then you need to replace it anyway.
Computer games are just the latest incarnation of the human desire to _play_ at violence. It's fine to play cops and robbers so long as you know when you're the bad guys.
Maybe this is the opportunity for an open-sourced funding effort. Could the developers offer a portion of stock to be bought on a co-operative basis by anyone who's willing? Ten euros a share or something. Community ownership of a community project.
Fourteen months ago I quit my job as the network engineer in the core IT systems team at York St John College in York, Northern Europe. For ages I'd wanted to do a course in Birmingham that starts each January, and my friend Dan offered me a three day a week job at his company, Skycell. That would mean I could stay in York and still do my course, three hours' train ride away. I took it.
The company folded five months later. It was quite painful, financially speaking, but I had some savings so it wasn't totally disastrous. I'm now living in Birmingham, I'm doing my course, and I have a job that I like that fits round it nicely. It was quite a chaotic time, but I'm glad I did it - it's all worked out well, and if I hadn't I'd probably still be in the same old job.
I had to disable PeerGuardian to get the world community agent to work. Has anyone else had this problem? Does anyone know if IBM are helping out the Evil Empire, or whether this is a mistake in Meth Labs' anti-P2P blocklist?
There must be loads of us who'd like some information as to which of these devices is the best ogg player. Does anyone have any experience of the oggs from these articles?
People make different judgements about how much lossy compression to apply, and those judgements change over time. There are still a lot of 128kbps MP3s floating around: five years ago, when hard disks were a lot smaller, 128kpbs MP3 was a good trade-off of space against quality. Now that hard disks are a lot bigger and compression technology has moved on, the same person might compress to a quality 6 Vorbis.
When a music distribution service provides their music in a lossless format, people can make their own judgement about how much quality to lose in converting it to their favourite compression format at their own choice of bit rate.
Pontis have replied to my e-mail. If it takes them 10 days to respond to an e-mail, though, I can't imagine how long it will take them to produce software.
Michael Schwarzfischer@pontis says:
Hello Mr. Parker,
we are working on a firmware version with ogg vorbis support, but there are still some technical problems to solve. So I can't tell you, when it will be released.
We don't have a mailing list, but if ogg vorbis is available, it will be announced on our homepage.
Best regards
Michael Schwarzfischer michael.schwarzfischer@pontis.de Pontis Media GmbH Am Gleis 1 92521 Schwarzenfeld
It doesn't always work, though, sadly. Our DVD player is designed to play DVD-Rs (though we haven't tested that) but won't play the DVD+Rs we've tried in it.
Sadly, their web page says that Ogg Vorbis support is "available soon from PONTIS", rather than available right now. I've e-mailed them asking when it's likely to appear, and I'll post here if I hear anything.
Interesting point. I think your pyramid scheme example may be more pertinent than you realise. Although the scheme overall cannot make a profit, the first tier or two might well do. An unscrupulous person wanting to make some quick money could cash in on his reputation by joining such a scheme and praising it to his foolish peers, who he sells on to.
Please don't get Proxomitron: we, and I'm sure many other sites, use the referrer header to tell us about broken links from other web sites to ours. Without the referrer header, we can't inform the owners of the referring page of the broken link.
There's an interesting discussion on the referrer header on someone's weblog.
There's an important difference: permission. If the NSA want to map the social networks of e-mail and telephone communications in Britain (as indeed they do) then I have a problem with that: I don't want anyone collecting or using this information without my permission. If the e-mail gods at the college where I work suggested mapping social networks within the college's e-mail system, and a load of us thought it would be an interesting project, we've all agreed, so it's "neat".
We had a similar problem, linking two buildings just over 100m apart, one of which is grade 1 listed. We linked them using 802.11b, using Cisco Aeronet. On the non-listed side is a yagi and on the listed side is a small flat aerial inside a window. It's been in for a couple of months now, and we've had a solid 11mbps connection for the whole time.
NYT has had so many links from/. now that all my favourite usernames are taken. I had to go for evilbillgates1 in the end. Which of you has billgates and evilbillgates, I wonder?
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Great. Can we have the same facility for Android, too?
Just over two years ago I quit my job as the networking guy in the core systems team at a higher education college to work part time as a salesman for a small company that took photos from small remote control airships and to train as a teacher of the Alexander Technique. I'm still on the course, but the company folded within six months, and after a few months of unemployment and temping I now live in a different city. Though the whole process was chaotic both personally and financially, I'm now still poorer and still happier. Money comes and goes, but time just goes. I say go for it.
QoS and multicast are built into ipv6, and both will make a big difference to internet broadcast media. With multicast it will cost a media source as much bandwith to transmit to a million viewers as to one, with little cost to the intervening routers. The Quality of Service stuff means that not only will my SOHO router know to shift my VOIP and game traffic first and the P2P stuff last, but so will the other routers involved.
Regardless of the ipv6 transition, I'd expect a large proportion of routers to be replaced in the next 2-10 years, and if your hardware can't support a firmware upgrade then you need to replace it anyway.
Computer games are just the latest incarnation of the human desire to _play_ at violence. It's fine to play cops and robbers so long as you know when you're the bad guys.
How do I mod the article flamebait?
Fourteen months ago I quit my job as the network engineer in the core IT systems team at York St John College in York, Northern Europe. For ages I'd wanted to do a course in Birmingham that starts each January, and my friend Dan offered me a three day a week job at his company, Skycell. That would mean I could stay in York and still do my course, three hours' train ride away. I took it.
The company folded five months later. It was quite painful, financially speaking, but I had some savings so it wasn't totally disastrous. I'm now living in Birmingham, I'm doing my course, and I have a job that I like that fits round it nicely. It was quite a chaotic time, but I'm glad I did it - it's all worked out well, and if I hadn't I'd probably still be in the same old job.
I had to disable PeerGuardian to get the world community agent to work. Has anyone else had this problem? Does anyone know if IBM are helping out the Evil Empire, or whether this is a mistake in Meth Labs' anti-P2P blocklist?
There must be loads of us who'd like some information as to which of these devices is the best ogg player. Does anyone have any experience of the oggs from these articles?
People make different judgements about how much lossy compression to apply, and those judgements change over time. There are still a lot of 128kbps MP3s floating around: five years ago, when hard disks were a lot smaller, 128kpbs MP3 was a good trade-off of space against quality. Now that hard disks are a lot bigger and compression technology has moved on, the same person might compress to a quality 6 Vorbis.
When a music distribution service provides their music in a lossless format, people can make their own judgement about how much quality to lose in converting it to their favourite compression format at their own choice of bit rate.
Pontis have replied to my e-mail. If it takes them 10 days to respond to an e-mail, though, I can't imagine how long it will take them to produce software.
Pontis Media GmbH
Michael Schwarzfischer@pontis says:
Hello Mr. Parker,
we are working on a firmware version with ogg vorbis support, but there are still some technical problems to solve. So I can't tell you, when it will be released.
We don't have a mailing list, but if ogg vorbis is available, it will be announced on our homepage.
Best regards
Michael Schwarzfischer
michael.schwarzfischer@pontis.de
Am Gleis 1
92521 Schwarzenfeld
Tel: 09435/ 54 07 0
Fax 09435/ 54 07 40
http://www.pontis.com
http://www.peros.com
It doesn't always work, though, sadly. Our DVD player is designed to play DVD-Rs (though we haven't tested that) but won't play the DVD+Rs we've tried in it.
Sadly, their web page says that Ogg Vorbis support is "available soon from PONTIS", rather than available right now. I've e-mailed them asking when it's likely to appear, and I'll post here if I hear anything.
Interesting point. I think your pyramid scheme example may be more pertinent than you realise. Although the scheme overall cannot make a profit, the first tier or two might well do. An unscrupulous person wanting to make some quick money could cash in on his reputation by joining such a scheme and praising it to his foolish peers, who he sells on to.
Please don't get Proxomitron: we, and I'm sure many other sites, use the referrer header to tell us about broken links from other web sites to ours. Without the referrer header, we can't inform the owners of the referring page of the broken link. There's an interesting discussion on the referrer header on someone's weblog.
There's an important difference: permission. If the NSA want to map the social networks of e-mail and telephone communications in Britain (as indeed they do) then I have a problem with that: I don't want anyone collecting or using this information without my permission. If the e-mail gods at the college where I work suggested mapping social networks within the college's e-mail system, and a load of us thought it would be an interesting project, we've all agreed, so it's "neat".
Yes, but I don't have to deal with 15-30 murders every morning.
It may be a piddly $50 in the US, but it's a £57 (%90) router in England.
We had a similar problem, linking two buildings just over 100m apart, one of which is grade 1 listed. We linked them using 802.11b, using Cisco Aeronet. On the non-listed side is a yagi and on the listed side is a small flat aerial inside a window. It's been in for a couple of months now, and we've had a solid 11mbps connection for the whole time.
NYT has had so many links from /. now that all my favourite usernames are taken. I had to go for evilbillgates1 in the end. Which of you has billgates and evilbillgates, I wonder?