I agree. Wireless is the only way to go.
Dial-up has incredibly small margins--you'll end up making pennies per customer.
DSL is the game of the Telcos.. you'll end up re-selling someone else's service.
Cable is even worse.. It's resell or lease connections.. both are next to impossible in the US, don't know about AU.
Wireless is the only way to have complete control over your margins, and still make a profit. The initial equipment costs are high, but they are for the other options too. Though, in a rural area, you may possibly be able to find some cheap tower space (farms with CB towers or radio station towers), or even build your own tower. With the right equipment you can reach pretty far, and with a good network topology you can break your access points geographically and hop to many neighborhoods.
Then charge them for it! If they've modifications, it's that much more billable time you can spend tracing what they've done. You can optionally do an md5sum of their binaries and charge an extra fee for modified ones if you wish, but my advice is just to go hourly. Denying support to a (potentially) paying customer is usually not very good for business.
And remember, depending on your license, their changes may be available for your use, so there's free coding there you can possibly take advange of;)
That solves half of the problem. The other half, is that wireless networks have much less bandwidth available, and anyone joining the network can take advantage of that bandwidth for their own gain. eg. using the company's internet connection, or just utilizing the access points for your own point-to-point pleasure.
This works better in smaller homes/apartments, and as long as you don't turn the thermostat too high. If the A/C has to work double time to get the temp back to a comfortable level, then you lose all your savings.
I practice this in my apartment, and it works great. I set the thermostat to around 80 when I leave, then back down to 72 when I return, but my apartment is only one bedroom.
As a sys admin who is currently dealing with problems with the air conditioning system for my server room, I think it would be great to have a way to monitor and tune its performance remotely.
Can't wait for this to hit the states.
Hey, I _like_ the banner ads on slashdot.
It's one of the few ways I get to find out about new products/sites that are related to the subject matter here. Besides, a lot of them (like the ThinkGeek ones) are pretty damned funny.
There's a difference between banners and _excessive banners_, and I don'tthink that slashdot has crossed that line.
I, for one, would like to see more of this. Maybe if there was a community set of banners, banner ads in general would move up a notch when it comes to taste, and we wouldn't NEED to block them so much.
You're implying that closed-source software comes with a warranty and GPL'd software does not. This isn't the case. There is no liability assumed with closed-source software either.
Wow, amazingly the site ISN'T blocked by my company. Thankfully, though, this is my last day here, and I'll be moving on to a company that doesn't filter information out. HNN's still bein slashdotted, so I can't read the article anyway.. bah
Moving to an open environment at this point would be a logical step. Think about it: if the company you had been relying on suddently vanished and left you with these operating systems that no one will maintain, what do you do? At this point, I'd really be looking for some way for this not to happen again. It's obvious that there's many companies maintaining/support Linux and other OS Unices. I think there will be a large push to these systems, large part due to the fact that they won't get another SCO. Linux is probably just about the easiest platform to migrate over to from SCO, anyway. Definitely much easier than Solaris or anything non-intel based. Also, SCO was really more in the lower-end market. Especially point-of-sale type operations. I've run across SCO in many unexpected locations across the years, running in boxes where one would expect to see Linux nowadays.
Bad idea. The gov't can subpoena your private key in this case. Once that happens, they've got it. You'll have to get another and destroy everything that was encrypted with the old. It's much better to have the policy of not keeping anything that's not useful to you. As an ISP, all the ISP needs to keep in its logs is things that affect its own performance and security. Anything else is useless, therefore shouldn't be wasting disk space. Keeping that policy will keep the FBI off of the ISP's backs, and hopefully therefore out of court.
because the government steals enough money from us without our consent. The money will be better off spent on companies who really know how to manage bandwidth and links.
What would the world be like if major companies owned the highways and freeways? Well, I can see a little bit more PRIDE taken in building roads. The government's spending habits aren't always for the long run--they depend on spending the budget in a few more years to rebuild what's been built. From a politician's view, it's great. Every few years a new road (even though it's premature). Where a company would invest the money in building better roads that last longer.
So what ARE the ingredients? I couldn't find them on the web site. If it's really open source, they should be releasing early, often, which means now. And it better be full of caffeine!
Configure your workstation's kernel to support transparent proxy, then configure squid to do the same. There is a howto in the LDP that should show you this. Set up squid to use the MS proxy server as its outbound connection Then redirect all outbound packets for port 80 to your squid proxy. This should make it transparent, and work as well as it can. Some things may break, but it's probably the best you can do.
What's the possibility of someone creating underwater cellular/gsm towers? It'd take a whole lot less power than what's required to reach a satellite, and we've already got fiber optic on the sea floor, so why can't we tap into that and build towers that hang below the surface of the water (over the surface would probably be dangerous). I imagine the signal could be boosted much higher than is allowed on land, and the lack of obstructions should make reception great.. Anybody know if this is/isn't possible?
Someone needs to create a daily web page with all these comics (UF, AY2K, GPF, etc.) so we can see them all every day. Or is this done already? Anyone know?
Looks like your consultant is shooting himself in the foot. There are many ways to produce failover-- a couple bash scripts could probably do it. I think your consultant just wants to make a sale of some of that expensive hardware, or is not creative enough to think of alternative methods.
yeah, sure. You're totally right. Lets stick to lawyers and politicians to tell us how to think and act. People who dedicate themselves to an ideal and apply themselves to it have _nothing_ important to say about their motivations and beliefs.
It sends subliminal messages, visually, and if you have a sound card, aurally! Those little bounces and shapes it makes are just a cover for what it's really doing!
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I agree. Wireless is the only way to go.
Dial-up has incredibly small margins--you'll end up making pennies per customer.
DSL is the game of the Telcos.. you'll end up re-selling someone else's service.
Cable is even worse.. It's resell or lease connections.. both are next to impossible in the US, don't know about AU.
Wireless is the only way to have complete control over your margins, and still make a profit. The initial equipment costs are high, but they are for the other options too. Though, in a rural area, you may possibly be able to find some cheap tower space (farms with CB towers or radio station towers), or even build your own tower. With the right equipment you can reach pretty far, and with a good network topology you can break your access points geographically and hop to many neighborhoods.
Example: Internet Explorer. MS doesn't charge for it, but should they not be responsible for the damages it causes?
Then charge them for it! If they've modifications, it's that much more billable time you can spend tracing what they've done. You can optionally do an md5sum of their binaries and charge an extra fee for modified ones if you wish, but my advice is just to go hourly. Denying support to a (potentially) paying customer is usually not very good for business. ;)
And remember, depending on your license, their changes may be available for your use, so there's free coding there you can possibly take advange of
That solves half of the problem. The other half, is that wireless networks have much less bandwidth available, and anyone joining the network can take advantage of that bandwidth for their own gain. eg. using the company's internet connection, or just utilizing the access points for your own point-to-point pleasure.
I think the logical defense here is: These radio waves are passing through my body. I think I have a right to analize them as I see fit.
Well, It would be easier to know when it's time to clean it :)
but it's insignificant compared to the amount of weight that a soldier normally carries
The point is, to be able to tell that the AC is not working up BEFORE the routers die.
This works better in smaller homes/apartments, and as long as you don't turn the thermostat too high. If the A/C has to work double time to get the temp back to a comfortable level, then you lose all your savings.
I practice this in my apartment, and it works great. I set the thermostat to around 80 when I leave, then back down to 72 when I return, but my apartment is only one bedroom.
As a sys admin who is currently dealing with problems with the air conditioning system for my server room, I think it would be great to have a way to monitor and tune its performance remotely.
Can't wait for this to hit the states.
(refrains from bad tape drive/tar puns)
Hey, I _like_ the banner ads on slashdot.
It's one of the few ways I get to find out about new products/sites that are related to the subject matter here. Besides, a lot of them (like the ThinkGeek ones) are pretty damned funny.
There's a difference between banners and _excessive banners_, and I don'tthink that slashdot has crossed that line.
I, for one, would like to see more of this. Maybe if there was a community set of banners, banner ads in general would move up a notch when it comes to taste, and we wouldn't NEED to block them so much.
You're implying that closed-source software comes with a warranty and GPL'd software does not. This isn't the case. There is no liability assumed with closed-source software either.
Wow, amazingly the site ISN'T blocked by my company. Thankfully, though, this is my last day here, and I'll be moving on to a company that doesn't filter information out.
HNN's still bein slashdotted, so I can't read the article anyway.. bah
Moving to an open environment at this point would be a logical step.
Think about it: if the company you had been relying on suddently vanished and left you with these operating systems that no one will maintain, what do you do? At this point, I'd really be looking for some way for this not to happen again. It's obvious that there's many companies maintaining/support Linux and other OS Unices. I think there will be a large push to these systems, large part due to the fact that they won't get another SCO.
Linux is probably just about the easiest platform to migrate over to from SCO, anyway. Definitely much easier than Solaris or anything non-intel based. Also, SCO was really more in the lower-end market. Especially point-of-sale type operations. I've run across SCO in many unexpected locations across the years, running in boxes where one would expect to see Linux nowadays.
>I think that ELM has a much longer burn time, and a stronger, prouder smell, that reminds me of my heritage.
Yes! And as we all know, Pine Is Not Elm
Bad idea. The gov't can subpoena your private key in this case. Once that happens, they've got it. You'll have to get another and destroy everything that was encrypted with the old. It's much better to have the policy of not keeping anything that's not useful to you. As an ISP, all the ISP needs to keep in its logs is things that affect its own performance and security. Anything else is useless, therefore shouldn't be wasting disk space.
Keeping that policy will keep the FBI off of the ISP's backs, and hopefully therefore out of court.
because the government steals enough money from us without our consent. The money will be better off spent on companies who really know how to manage bandwidth and links.
What would the world be like if major companies owned the highways and freeways? Well, I can see a little bit more PRIDE taken in building roads. The government's spending habits aren't always for the long run--they depend on spending the budget in a few more years to rebuild what's been built. From a politician's view, it's great. Every few years a new road (even though it's premature). Where a company would invest the money in building better roads that last longer.
So what ARE the ingredients? I couldn't find them on the web site. If it's really open source, they should be releasing early, often, which means now. And it better be full of caffeine!
Configure your workstation's kernel to support transparent proxy, then configure squid to do the same. There is a howto in the LDP that should show you this. Set up squid to use the MS proxy server as its outbound connection Then redirect all outbound packets for port 80 to your squid proxy. This should make it transparent, and work as well as it can. Some things may break, but it's probably the best you can do.
What's the possibility of someone creating underwater cellular/gsm towers? It'd take a whole lot less power than what's required to reach a satellite, and we've already got fiber optic on the sea floor, so why can't we tap into that and build towers that hang below the surface of the water (over the surface would probably be dangerous). I imagine the signal could be boosted much higher than is allowed on land, and the lack of obstructions should make reception great.. Anybody know if this is/isn't possible?
Someone needs to create a daily web page with all these comics (UF, AY2K, GPF, etc.) so we can see them all every day. Or is this done already? Anyone know?
Looks like your consultant is shooting himself in the foot. There are many ways to produce failover-- a couple bash scripts could probably do it. I think your consultant just wants to make a sale of some of that expensive hardware, or is not creative enough to think of alternative methods.
yeah, sure. You're totally right. Lets stick to lawyers and politicians to tell us how to think and act. People who dedicate themselves to an ideal and apply themselves to it have _nothing_ important to say about their motivations and beliefs.
It sends subliminal messages, visually, and if you have a sound card, aurally! Those little bounces and shapes it makes are just a cover for what it's really doing!