I know a couple of people that use old powerbooks for this kind of job - with a pcmia ethernet card plus the built-in one and running BSD they can be used as true firewalls as well. The G3 based ones draw hardly any power.
I was in a similar situation - after seeing these I went and got an old G3 iMac. It's great - it runs really cheaply, quite fast, and has NO FANS!
I simply switched on apache, postfix, and installed mySql and a few other bits, hooked it up to the stereo and the plasma screen, and now I have a file/music/web/mail/photo/ftp server. Very cheap and super easy.
The only problem was that it got me hooked on Mac's;)
As an alternative you could try this from the Yellowdog Linux crowd. Very small (fits in a 5 1/4" drive bay) and the G3 ones would be very quiet and easy on the power.
Ok, fair enough. I have to admit I was getting a bit agitated - that was simply to do with the attitute of a lot of posters/comments rather than the merits of this particular case.
However, the article does state the Koreans looked at the death rates in 10 regions with AM radio-transmitting towers broadcasting at more than 100 kilowatts and compared them with control areas without transmitters. The substantially higher cancer mortality in those who lived within two kilometers of the towers led researchers to conclude that more investigation was needed.
So they didn't just rock up to one tower and find 5 people with leukemia rather than 3....they found this at 10 different locations, which starts to lower the chances of 'clumping' skewing results. It's pretty pointless us arguing over details when we're getting these from a Wired article of all places, but my beef is that people here are quite willing to accept that FTL communication is possible with paired photons yet scoff at the thought that concentrations of EM radiation might screw with our cells.
And even if this is a huge fuss over a small number of deaths, getting to know more about the mechanisms and effects of EM radiation can't be a bad thing.
...with all the people outrightly dismissing this study? Who are they to presume that we know everything there is to know about electromagnetic radiation? Shit, we discover new things about our environment everyday.
Light pulsing at certain intervals can give you a fit. Who's to say that certain modulations at certain frequencies can't interact with your bone marrow in some -as yet undiscovered way- that can cause cancer?
It's a little shocking to see so many bright people here with clamped shut minds. Let these guys do their study. I'm sure they know as good as any ego here that "non ionising radiation doesn't cause cancer...blah blah blah". If we all went around not bothering to study things because we already 'knew' better, where the hell would be be today? They've found something, and they're going to study it. And then we'll know a bit more about the possible causes of cancer. Good!
I think you've nailed the problem well and good. In my own experience: in the UK a lot more trust is placed in professionals, and individuals are willing to accept responsibility. In the US everyone tries to diminish/offload responsibility and hence people are rarely willing to trust a professional opinion.
This is why the system works to a large extent in the UK, and would never work in the US.
I've no love for Telstra, but it is good that they did at least consider Linux.
What this means is that in 4 years when their indenture to Microsoft is up they will likely consider an Open Source alternative again. If their IT budget is under the same pressure then and their alternatives are using Linux/OSS on existing machines or upgrading all their machines to Longhorn + required hardware, Microsoft may not be celebrating a win.
I think this is the best incentive for people not to add bloat and extraneous features to key OSS components (I'm looking at you Gnome guys and Kevelopers).
I don't think it's so much the pattern of outages they're worried about (BTW aren't outages supposed to be random? Do you know something we don't?;-) ). They're more worried about specific information on easy targets being available....for example (from the FA):
SBC Communications Inc. reported in January that 43,224 customers lost service for three and a half hours because frozen water pipes burst in a central switching office in Stamford, Connecticut. Water seeped down two floors and "damaged the Symmetricom Digital Clock Distributor."
Who really cares though (except the people who want to know why their phones weren't working...). If you really want to disrupt cell phone networks you could just look for the building with all the antenna's sticking out the top and torch that one.
Any major service, public or private, should be accountable to it's customers - terrorists be damned.
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Apple can up with this idea many many many years ago, before desktop OS's had things like m u l t i t a s k i n g . It was a clever way to get around the limitations of not having a true multitasking environment. So they're actually re-implementing an old idea o f t h e i r o w n in response to the way people use their computers now (major specific apps supplemented by minor universal apps).
The only reasons you'll be modded down are for getting it wrong, and more importantly...being off-topic.
Hey yeah, I care. I don't know if you read replies, but you might want to look at MusicMobs.com. It's a great way to find new music by seeing what other people with similar taste to you listen to.
Hi, sorry you posted AC. I'll wonder if you ever read my reply;)
I didn't really mean to be pejorative about Tracy Emin's work - it's just that I think (personally, but that's what opinions are about) that there's something lacking in a lot of art at the moment. It's not that I'm anti-progressive or anything...I really believe that a lot of art has become very much about the 'self' in a way that I find distasteful. It seems to really have turned away from the spirit of innovation and exploration that was so fantastic and enlivening about early 20th century art.
I think some of this has been regained by recent forays into generated art...not just because it is a 'new' medium, but because the art is more interested in process than result. I must admit that I posted the link to Praystation before checking - it has changed *a lot* since I took an interest in it. It seems to have become quite commercial, however in their archive you can find some of the things that first attracted me.
And again, I love John's work because he is *so* interested in the process. The art comes out of his intuition for the process...I guess that this is what you see in graphic artist side of his work.
I do love a lot of the Cool Britania crowd, having lived & loved among them. I find it sort of like sucking sugar though. Tastey as it is, after a while you find yourself craving something more raw and honest.
Anyway, thanks for your comment:) Such a rare and insightful reply!
The idea of 'generated art' is pretty cool I think. It's certainly a big step back to the roots of Modernist art - which was about explorations of tone/colour/form/balance and not necessarily subject. Unfortunately lots of art at the moment is really quite selfish - Tracy Emin's unmade bed for example...it seems to be a symptom of the voyeristic phase our culture is going through (Big Brother, Blogging, etc)
This k++ (or whatever) is an ok example, but there are some truly fantastic sites around..Try Pray Station or (one of my hero's) John Maeda. John's work is incredibly beautiful, and he's a half decent coder to boot.
I don't know if you read late replies, but Apple's AP's are configurable through the AP Admin utility. It's avalible for both Mac & PC (was only offically supported on Mac, although I think that recently changed, and is now fully supported on both). You can use the AP Admin to set static IP's, configure for use with RADIUS servers, set for WEP 40/128bit, WPA, do port mapping, limit MAC addresses, etc.
As for the audio decoding, I'm going to take a guess that iTunes is actually going to stream to the AE rather than uploading individual songs to it (there is network streaming built into iTunes already, so it would make sense). The point being that anything that iTunes can play, the AE should play too. So with the OOG plugin for iTunes you can play MP3, OOG and AAC. iTunes can automagically convert all your WMA's to AAC too. And face it, you don't want to be mucking around with WMA's do you?
The interface may be a little limiting - as above I'm guessing this will recieve an iTunes stream. It may therefore accept ANY Quicktime stream....or it may be tied to iTunes. It would be really nice if Apple released iTunes for Linux - in the meantime if you can beg/borrow/steal a Powerbook or iBook you might want to try YellowDogLinux with OSX. Sweet.
You say "not much smaller" - but what is your reference. That whole centimeter taller & those few mills wider and thicker will actually be quite noticable.
For example the original iPod was 1.8cm deep - the new ones feel like they're half the thickness.
I'm sure some people won't mind, but really - it's much bigger, and much heavier (all things being relative).
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I was in a similar situation - after seeing these I went and got an old G3 iMac. It's great - it runs really cheaply, quite fast, and has NO FANS!
I simply switched on apache, postfix, and installed mySql and a few other bits, hooked it up to the stereo and the plasma screen, and now I have a file/music/web/mail/photo/ftp server. Very cheap and super easy.
The only problem was that it got me hooked on Mac's ;)
As an alternative you could try this from the Yellowdog Linux crowd. Very small (fits in a 5 1/4" drive bay) and the G3 ones would be very quiet and easy on the power.
What a stirling effort!
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Har har, lp again!
Hello, are you Steve "Boom!" Jobs by any chance? Boom-!
However, the article does state the Koreans looked at the death rates in 10 regions with AM radio-transmitting towers broadcasting at more than 100 kilowatts and compared them with control areas without transmitters. The substantially higher cancer mortality in those who lived within two kilometers of the towers led researchers to conclude that more investigation was needed.
So they didn't just rock up to one tower and find 5 people with leukemia rather than 3....they found this at 10 different locations, which starts to lower the chances of 'clumping' skewing results. It's pretty pointless us arguing over details when we're getting these from a Wired article of all places, but my beef is that people here are quite willing to accept that FTL communication is possible with paired photons yet scoff at the thought that concentrations of EM radiation might screw with our cells.
And even if this is a huge fuss over a small number of deaths, getting to know more about the mechanisms and effects of EM radiation can't be a bad thing.
Light pulsing at certain intervals can give you a fit. Who's to say that certain modulations at certain frequencies can't interact with your bone marrow in some -as yet undiscovered way- that can cause cancer?
It's a little shocking to see so many bright people here with clamped shut minds. Let these guys do their study. I'm sure they know as good as any ego here that "non ionising radiation doesn't cause cancer...blah blah blah". If we all went around not bothering to study things because we already 'knew' better, where the hell would be be today? They've found something, and they're going to study it. And then we'll know a bit more about the possible causes of cancer. Good!
This is why the system works to a large extent in the UK, and would never work in the US.
I think you'll find that the parent is talking about Yellow Dog Linux. Sorry if that wink meant you knew and were making a joke.
What this means is that in 4 years when their indenture to Microsoft is up they will likely consider an Open Source alternative again. If their IT budget is under the same pressure then and their alternatives are using Linux/OSS on existing machines or upgrading all their machines to Longhorn + required hardware, Microsoft may not be celebrating a win.
I think this is the best incentive for people not to add bloat and extraneous features to key OSS components (I'm looking at you Gnome guys and Kevelopers).
OGIWIHMP! Oh God I wish I had mod points!
Except this baby seems to work just fine.
SBC Communications Inc. reported in January that 43,224 customers lost service for three and a half hours because frozen water pipes burst in a central switching office in Stamford, Connecticut. Water seeped down two floors and "damaged the Symmetricom Digital Clock Distributor."
Who really cares though (except the people who want to know why their phones weren't working...). If you really want to disrupt cell phone networks you could just look for the building with all the antenna's sticking out the top and torch that one.
Any major service, public or private, should be accountable to it's customers - terrorists be damned.
What a great post. You're now on my friends list.
The only reasons you'll be modded down are for getting it wrong, and more importantly...being off-topic.
Hey yeah, I care. I don't know if you read replies, but you might want to look at MusicMobs.com. It's a great way to find new music by seeing what other people with similar taste to you listen to.
Ahhh...SCO. Endless opportunities for trashing :).
I didn't really mean to be pejorative about Tracy Emin's work - it's just that I think (personally, but that's what opinions are about) that there's something lacking in a lot of art at the moment. It's not that I'm anti-progressive or anything...I really believe that a lot of art has become very much about the 'self' in a way that I find distasteful. It seems to really have turned away from the spirit of innovation and exploration that was so fantastic and enlivening about early 20th century art.
I think some of this has been regained by recent forays into generated art...not just because it is a 'new' medium, but because the art is more interested in process than result. I must admit that I posted the link to Praystation before checking - it has changed *a lot* since I took an interest in it. It seems to have become quite commercial, however in their archive you can find some of the things that first attracted me.
And again, I love John's work because he is *so* interested in the process. The art comes out of his intuition for the process...I guess that this is what you see in graphic artist side of his work.
I do love a lot of the Cool Britania crowd, having lived & loved among them. I find it sort of like sucking sugar though. Tastey as it is, after a while you find yourself craving something more raw and honest.
Anyway, thanks for your comment :) Such a rare and insightful reply!
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This k++ (or whatever) is an ok example, but there are some truly fantastic sites around..Try Pray Station or (one of my hero's) John Maeda. John's work is incredibly beautiful, and he's a half decent coder to boot.
Hehehe. Sorry. Couldn't resist. But it'll be worth it even for the negative mods.
I knew there was a reason I loved OSX so much. Thanks!
As for the audio decoding, I'm going to take a guess that iTunes is actually going to stream to the AE rather than uploading individual songs to it (there is network streaming built into iTunes already, so it would make sense). The point being that anything that iTunes can play, the AE should play too. So with the OOG plugin for iTunes you can play MP3, OOG and AAC. iTunes can automagically convert all your WMA's to AAC too. And face it, you don't want to be mucking around with WMA's do you?
The interface may be a little limiting - as above I'm guessing this will recieve an iTunes stream. It may therefore accept ANY Quicktime stream....or it may be tied to iTunes. It would be really nice if Apple released iTunes for Linux - in the meantime if you can beg/borrow/steal a Powerbook or iBook you might want to try YellowDogLinux with OSX. Sweet.
...excellent comment. Pity about the mod.
For example the original iPod was 1.8cm deep - the new ones feel like they're half the thickness.
I'm sure some people won't mind, but really - it's much bigger, and much heavier (all things being relative).
You are totally right. This article is a non-issue.
Only the GPL and LGPL so-called "viral" licenses effectively grants all downstream users the right to freely use the software.
This is one of those times I wish we could moderate a topic as "troll". It's complete FUD.