I called our ISP about our T1 to the Internet being down (we're talking a 1'st tier ISP, not the guy around the corner). After some rudimentary troubleshooting the first level tech said that she was going to refer me to a second level technician, but that I needed to send an email to the second level tech to initiate the support request....think about it.
This is the same dim bulb that after I told her I couldn't ping the first hop by I.P. Address, told me "O.K., but have you tried to ping it by name?"
I own a Toyota Prius, which is a Parallel type hybrid, meaning that the electrical drive systems operate parallel to the gasoline drive train, and can be switched on and off. The honda hybrid system is a serial system, in which the gas drive train and the electrical drive train are in line with each other and the electrical drive train operates all of the time.
The practical difference is that the parallel system gets less gas mileage (real life results 45-47 MPG) but is environmentally cleaner owing to the fact that the engine can be shut off at idle, when most of your engine emissions occur. The serial system gets more mileage, but my experience is that they don't have as much power. My Prius blows the doors off of my boss' Civic hybrid.
So keep in mind that there are differences between the designs. Just because you like or dislike one, doesn't mean that you won't feel different about the other.
I have never found myself wishing for more pickup. Acceleration is excellent, and it has surprising climbing power. My daily climb up 2000 feet (over 50 miles) never requires me to move over to the slow lane.
The car is roomy. The trunk is very functional, and it is a four door. The cup holders suck.
All that being said, you could probably get the same mileage out of a cheaper conventional compact car. Hybrids are about $3000 to $4000 more than a cheap gasoline powered compact, so you really need to have some commitment to the environmental benefits. If all you are looking for is good gas mileage, buy a Toyota Echo or something similar.
Bottom line: I have no regrets about the Prius, and I am debating trading this one in on the new 2004, which is a four door hatchback instead a trunk.
I'm just as whiney as the next guy about Big Brother, but businesses monitoring their facilities for 802.11 traffic is not about Big Brother, it is about network security.
What use is hardening your wired network if someone can put a $99.00 wireless access point on your network and open a gaping hole in your security. For this reason it seems prudent network security to monitor for these "rogue" wireless access points.
We use a product called AirMagnet, which is an iPaq based, packet sniffer developed by the guy who developed NetXray (now known as Sniffer) to periodically survey the facilities for these rogue access points. We've have added a 4db gain directional antenna to really hone in on these access points. Another advantage of this product is that we can use it to ensure that our legitimate wireless access points are configured securely.
It would be nice to have a distributed system to perform these surveys automagically, but the solutions I have seen (including AirMagnet's) are a bit cost prohibitive.
Most people wouldn't consider packet sniffing, intrusion detection, and other wired network monitoring as "workplace surveillance", so why rail against 802.11 sniffing as another example of Big Brother's "workplace surveillance"? What you call surveillance in this example, I call basic network security.
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I'm sure it will be a real ice breaker at the next company meeting when the two people riding backwards puke on their coworkers!
I called our ISP about our T1 to the Internet being down (we're talking a 1'st tier ISP, not the guy around the corner). After some rudimentary troubleshooting the first level tech said that she was going to refer me to a second level technician, but that I needed to send an email to the second level tech to initiate the support request....think about it.
This is the same dim bulb that after I told her I couldn't ping the first hop by I.P. Address, told me "O.K., but have you tried to ping it by name?"
I own a Toyota Prius, which is a Parallel type hybrid, meaning that the electrical drive systems operate parallel to the gasoline drive train, and can be switched on and off. The honda hybrid system is a serial system, in which the gas drive train and the electrical drive train are in line with each other and the electrical drive train operates all of the time.
The practical difference is that the parallel system gets less gas mileage (real life results 45-47 MPG) but is environmentally cleaner owing to the fact that the engine can be shut off at idle, when most of your engine emissions occur. The serial system gets more mileage, but my experience is that they don't have as much power. My Prius blows the doors off of my boss' Civic hybrid.
So keep in mind that there are differences between the designs. Just because you like or dislike one, doesn't mean that you won't feel different about the other.
I have never found myself wishing for more pickup. Acceleration is excellent, and it has surprising climbing power. My daily climb up 2000 feet (over 50 miles) never requires me to move over to the slow lane.
The car is roomy. The trunk is very functional, and it is a four door. The cup holders suck.
All that being said, you could probably get the same mileage out of a cheaper conventional compact car. Hybrids are about $3000 to $4000 more than a cheap gasoline powered compact, so you really need to have some commitment to the environmental benefits. If all you are looking for is good gas mileage, buy a Toyota Echo or something similar.
Bottom line: I have no regrets about the Prius, and I am debating trading this one in on the new 2004, which is a four door hatchback instead a trunk.
I'm just as whiney as the next guy about Big Brother, but businesses monitoring their facilities for 802.11 traffic is not about Big Brother, it is about network security. What use is hardening your wired network if someone can put a $99.00 wireless access point on your network and open a gaping hole in your security. For this reason it seems prudent network security to monitor for these "rogue" wireless access points. We use a product called AirMagnet, which is an iPaq based, packet sniffer developed by the guy who developed NetXray (now known as Sniffer) to periodically survey the facilities for these rogue access points. We've have added a 4db gain directional antenna to really hone in on these access points. Another advantage of this product is that we can use it to ensure that our legitimate wireless access points are configured securely. It would be nice to have a distributed system to perform these surveys automagically, but the solutions I have seen (including AirMagnet's) are a bit cost prohibitive. Most people wouldn't consider packet sniffing, intrusion detection, and other wired network monitoring as "workplace surveillance", so why rail against 802.11 sniffing as another example of Big Brother's "workplace surveillance"? What you call surveillance in this example, I call basic network security.