in my area they havn't yet deployed the 'high speed' part of the service yet. The promise they will open up the pipe sometime in 2005. (we all know how that goes)
I'm a Network Administrator and we give these card to all of our systems installers for remote access to our corporate VPN.
Its from Verizon and Its called NATIONAL BROADBAND Access. Its $80.00/mnth (just like yours) and offers me very portable Dial up speed access. It uses technology called EVDO-1x and CDMA... although I'm really not sure what that means... The High Speed access is being beta tested in Washington D.C. and San Diego. I was in SAn Diego last summer and had the opportunity to preview the 'High speed' access. I think I saved my performace graph from a bandwith test site:
2004-07-28 19:17:44 EST: 706 / 351 Your download speed : 723821 bps, or 706 kbps. A 88.3 KB/sec transfer rate. Your upload speed : 359969 bps, or 351 kbps.
Not too shabby for a truely portable i-net connection... and no... nothing is filtered. (You can even buy a static ip)
I administer my dentists network and he gives me free cleanings, fillings, caps, whatever... I had a small skiing accident last year and tore my lower lip from my gumline. He sewed me back up with 14 stiches, gave me a pat on the back and said take care. Its a nice trade!
I wonder if this was scored 5 Funny for the misspelling of remarkable. Its always funny when the joke is on the joker. (should obviously be: remarkably)
To keep this somewhat on topic... I use both Ethereal and TCPdump.
-Going for that negative Karma Baby!
I don't believe for one second that the web surfing behavior will be monitored. This 'annonymous proxy' is merely a way of getting what the USA wants (a log of as much iranian traffic as possible) while giving what they want (an un filtered connection) I don't see this as giving any freedom to anyone.
I'm offering a possible solution. Not simply accepting that no solution exists. Pessimists like you (you probably think of yourself as a realist) are doing nothing to help this situation. Why do you sit back and simply accept the way things are? I never said it would be easy. Neither is world peace... But are either not worth striving for?
A 'standard' desktop will help stabilize the linux community. Right now there are myriad GUI's to choose from. This makes it difficult for the 'proficient windows user' (not an oxymoron, moron) to migrate from windows to linux. I am a network administrator using both NT and Linux as server os's . I consider myself proficient at both. However, regarding Linux I find myself using the CLI instead of the GUI because its the only thing that always works. to explain: I find a GUI based tool that I'd like to use in Linux, But it only works well with one desktop environment. My coices are to flip flop between GUI's or not to bother with the tool at all. Usually, if the tool doesn't work with my primary GUI of choice (GNOME) I don't use the took at all. This impacts my useability of Linux. I don't want to learn 30 or even 5 ways of doing the same thing in different GUI's. If I'm helping my friends with their Linux distros I am forced to be proficient in more than one GUI. Even if there were only 5 different GUI's out there... thats 5 different areas where a Linux 'expert' needs to become proficient where With Windows its allways only one. Thats 5 different ways in which the Linux comunity becomes fragmented. It is easier to become proficient with Windows than it is to become proficient with Linux. (I'm talking about Linux in terms of GUI) Yes, I strongly feel that a 'standard' GUI needs to be had. I'm not saying that the choice of GUI should be removed (after all Windows once allowed for an alternate Interface (remember editing that win.ini file?)) I'm just saying that we need to have a standard 'default' GUI... Not everyone is going to choose the same distro... so.. as it is right now we are falling prey to whatever GUI is the disto developers favorite. Lets make ourselves a tighter community and agree on one GUI to promote. Lets make a Linux Standard GUI. I don't care which one is chosen...
If you actually take the time to dicypher which is the correct download; you will find that there is a multi os version. Its a zip file download with three versions contained within. 1 a Linux version 2 a win 2000\XP text menu only version (works fine) and a GUI version that will not work on @K or XP. Just thought you might like to look a little deeper before you call someone a doofus. -Peace-
Dude, If yer gunna correct someone... get it right yourself. Its Z1ON0101
Your's wouldn't have worked even if the validating server was case insensitive.
I'm using a 20" Silicon Graphics GDM-20E21 monitor that I resurected from beside a dumpster where I live. Granted, it didn't work when I scavanged it... but 80$ woth of ic's later and I had a totally boss monitor for basically free. Also note that upon opening it up I realized that it really was just a sony monitor underneath. _Exactly_ the same schematic as the sony GDM-20.
Personally I strongly believe that Sony monitors are one of the best/affordable monitors on the market. They have had their trinitron series out and about since Noah floated his ark. They are tried and true. If one should break (they rarely do) they are _very_ servicable. I'm the IT geek for a pro A/V systems house. My company uses sony monitors almost exclusively. They really are the most reliable monitors I have had the pleasure of working with. Take a look around at really old televisions. If they are older than 15 years (and they are not dead) they are probably built around a trinitron tube.
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I suspect the window of avoidance to be about one minute (before it's written down)."
--snip
When they pick up a pen to write it down SLAP it outta their hands. If they go to a computer to write it down... pull the plug or throw their monitor off their dest. That should sufficiently divert them from their task of putting their idea into ink.
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in my area they havn't yet deployed the 'high speed' part of the service yet. The promise they will open up the pipe sometime in 2005. (we all know how that goes)
... although I'm really not sure what that means... The High Speed access is being beta tested in Washington D.C. and San Diego. I was in SAn Diego last summer and had the opportunity to preview the 'High speed' access. I think I saved my performace graph from a bandwith test site:
I'm a Network Administrator and we give these card to all of our systems installers for remote access to our corporate VPN.
Its from Verizon and Its called NATIONAL BROADBAND Access. Its $80.00/mnth (just like yours) and offers me very portable Dial up speed access. It uses technology called EVDO-1x and CDMA
2004-07-28 19:17:44 EST: 706 / 351
Your download speed : 723821 bps, or 706 kbps.
A 88.3 KB/sec transfer rate.
Your upload speed : 359969 bps, or 351 kbps.
Not too shabby for a truely portable i-net connection... and no... nothing is filtered. (You can even buy a static ip)
-Michael
Microsoft can buy whatever and whomever it wants...
The term is actually "I couldn't care less" Its the little "n't" that is often forgotten / left out.
"I could not care less" is proper... but not the phrase in question
I administer my dentists network and he gives me free cleanings, fillings, caps, whatever... I had a small skiing accident last year and tore my lower lip from my gumline. He sewed me back up with 14 stiches, gave me a pat on the back and said take care. Its a nice trade!
I want to see which celebrity John Travolta looks like.
Has anyone tried uploading a pic of a celebrities face and seeing if that celebrity was returned as a look-alike?
I wonder if this was scored 5 Funny for the misspelling of remarkable. Its always funny when the joke is on the joker. (should obviously be: remarkably) To keep this somewhat on topic... I use both Ethereal and TCPdump. -Going for that negative Karma Baby!
I meant to say "I don't believe that the web surfing habits WON'T be monitored" sorry for the misunderstanding.
-Me again
I don't believe for one second that the web surfing behavior will be monitored. This 'annonymous proxy' is merely a way of getting what the USA wants (a log of as much iranian traffic as possible) while giving what they want (an un filtered connection) I don't see this as giving any freedom to anyone.
I'm offering a possible solution. Not simply accepting that no solution exists. Pessimists like you (you probably think of yourself as a realist) are doing nothing to help this situation. Why do you sit back and simply accept the way things are? I never said it would be easy. Neither is world peace... But are either not worth striving for?
It worked for Microsoft. They stole the Macintosh GUI. Why cant it work for us? I bet it can. I bet it WILL if we ever come up with a standard!
A 'standard' desktop will help stabilize the linux community. Right now there are myriad GUI's to choose from. This makes it difficult for the 'proficient windows user' (not an oxymoron, moron) to migrate from windows to linux. I am a network administrator using both NT and Linux as server os's . I consider myself proficient at both. However, regarding Linux I find myself using the CLI instead of the GUI because its the only thing that always works. to explain: I find a GUI based tool that I'd like to use in Linux, But it only works well with one desktop environment. My coices are to flip flop between GUI's or not to bother with the tool at all. Usually, if the tool doesn't work with my primary GUI of choice (GNOME) I don't use the took at all. This impacts my useability of Linux. I don't want to learn 30 or even 5 ways of doing the same thing in different GUI's. If I'm helping my friends with their Linux distros I am forced to be proficient in more than one GUI. Even if there were only 5 different GUI's out there... thats 5 different areas where a Linux 'expert' needs to become proficient where With Windows its allways only one. Thats 5 different ways in which the Linux comunity becomes fragmented. It is easier to become proficient with Windows than it is to become proficient with Linux. (I'm talking about Linux in terms of GUI) Yes, I strongly feel that a 'standard' GUI needs to be had. I'm not saying that the choice of GUI should be removed (after all Windows once allowed for an alternate Interface (remember editing that win.ini file?)) I'm just saying that we need to have a standard 'default' GUI... Not everyone is going to choose the same distro... so.. as it is right now we are falling prey to whatever GUI is the disto developers favorite. Lets make ourselves a tighter community and agree on one GUI to promote. Lets make a Linux Standard GUI. I don't care which one is chosen...
I think you mean alias not acronym.
If you actually take the time to dicypher which is the correct download; you will find that there is a multi os version. Its a zip file download with three versions contained within. 1 a Linux version 2 a win 2000\XP text menu only version (works fine) and a GUI version that will not work on @K or XP. Just thought you might like to look a little deeper before you call someone a doofus. -Peace-
Dude, If yer gunna correct someone... get it right yourself. Its Z1ON0101 Your's wouldn't have worked even if the validating server was case insensitive.
I'm using a 20" Silicon Graphics GDM-20E21 monitor that I resurected from beside a dumpster where I live. Granted, it didn't work when I scavanged it... but 80$ woth of ic's later and I had a totally boss monitor for basically free. Also note that upon opening it up I realized that it really was just a sony monitor underneath. _Exactly_ the same schematic as the sony GDM-20.
Personally I strongly believe that Sony monitors are one of the best/affordable monitors on the market. They have had their trinitron series out and about since Noah floated his ark. They are tried and true. If one should break (they rarely do) they are _very_ servicable. I'm the IT geek for a pro A/V systems house. My company uses sony monitors almost exclusively. They really are the most reliable monitors I have had the pleasure of working with. Take a look around at really old televisions. If they are older than 15 years (and they are not dead) they are probably built around a trinitron tube.
Isn't it redundant to say this is the first AND largest... If it is the first... it MUST BE the largest.
RTFM
I really enjoyed seeing this post third on the list. I give it a (score:3 funny)
So whos got this cached and can fork over some bandwidth?
-troll me out
snip-- I suspect the window of avoidance to be about one minute (before it's written down)." --snip When they pick up a pen to write it down SLAP it outta their hands. If they go to a computer to write it down... pull the plug or throw their monitor off their dest. That should sufficiently divert them from their task of putting their idea into ink.
Any theories on what existed 14 Billion Years and one day ago? -Just curious