For a few months I was working at home, and despite the fact I don't live alone, it does get lonely. I'm now working at home most of the time, but I work in office about 15 hours a week. I'm enjoying this quite a bit. You may want to try something like that. Try to get to the office as often as possible for meetings concerning your work as an excuse to leave the house if you want.
There probably isn't really a need to rent an office. With a good notebook (may I suggest a 17" PowerBook) and a decent mobile internet access plan, the world is your office. Weather permitting, find a local park, or just spend a few hours in a coffee house (if they'll let you!) I've found that there's plenty of ways to work out of the house, you just have to be creative about it.
I use a Nokie 6310i GPRS with my 12" PowerBook. The lag is a pain with my carrier (~750 ms ping times with T-Mobile in the US) but it works. It's mucho convient to use the Bluetooth, instead of having to connect a wire or something... I don't even have to take the phone outta my pocket!
As I understand it, X10 stuff runs it networking through your power lines- which is a pretty good idea... Question- how far does the signal travel? Can anything past my circuit breakers control the devices? Does it work accross the different circuits in my house? Even better, is it possible to encrypt the communications? How does that sort of stuff work out for those of us who live in apartments?
I have to experience in HA, but I'd like to get some... It seems like it would be useful to have some sort of serial over 802.11x. I've used wireless serial transmitters/recievers, but you can only have one pair per channel on the ones I used. Perhaps something like bluetooth is more appropriate, but I don't know much about the technology. Either way, the whole point is just so one can connect some misc. device and use it accross the house somewhere. Does something like this exist?
The other thing I'm curious about is some sort of wireless soundcard. Do they exist, or does a speaker/mic combo have to be wired to a computer sound card... Basically if my server's in the basement (it is) and I want to have an audio interface to it two floors up in my bedroom, can I do it wirelessly?
Please forgive the ignorance, if those are just stupid questions... (direct flames to/dev/null)
I run QMail on my house network, so just me there. I also do the IT work for a small company, so it serves about 6 people there.
I don't have any experience with Postfix, so I won't knock it. Yeah, QMail wasn't easy to set up, but I think it's worth the trouble.
The real issue is the mailbox format. It is possible to run more than one imap daemon. Your choices are Maildir, Maildir and Maildir. There are others, but Maildir is really the best. Most IMAP, servers, however, require a patch to use Maildir. Courier was built with Maildir natively. I've now been running Courier for 6months and it's the best IMAP daemon I've ever ran.
You'll also need an SMTP server, which you didn't mention. Qmail, in my humble opinion, is the only solution out there. I found setup to be a little more complex than I felt necessary, but since I set it up, there hasn't been a hiccup. It easily allows you to instert ANYTHING into the chain the mail follows, so it extremely configurable.
Don't even bother looking at anything but QMail and Courier-IMAP.
I started programming when I was in fourth grade. They should be able to understand some basic (that's basic, not necessarily BASIC) code. Just write some quick code to do some flashy stuff, and show it off.
I still don't see an issue. If it becomes more widespread, it's only because it's a good idea, and it works. You are sounding like someone who wishes to halt free flow of ideas. What's more, the more people use wireless (and need more bandwidth), the faster the technology will develop and the more bandwidth will be available (to stream higher quality video:), and it's even possible that a greater range of frequencies could be alloted to wireless technology.
Personally, I think's it's a good idea to transmit most if not everything over the same media, such as 802.11x. It offers far superior flexibility. Hell, if he's already streaming it digitally, he can just as easily make it available over the internet for students who may not be in school.
I just added this plan on to my cell phone service. I use it with my Nokia 6310i (not available from T-Mobile) which has bluetooth and my 12" Powerbook (also has bluetooth) and I have nothing but good things to say about it. Setting it up wasn't hard, and I've always been able to connection when my cell gets any service.
Most places I connect at, the signal isn't great, but it's always faster than using my phone to dial up. I'm not sure whether it's a GPRS limitation, or my cell phone, but I can't use both GPRS and voice at the same time, and I have to "dial up" to the GRPS provider (T-Mobile.) Neither is too much trouble, however.
Just don't stop... seriously... When I'm on a roll, I don't stop for anything. Just give me an IV and some caffine. I stop when the program is done- or my blood sugar level drops below 10.
Coding? First thing in the morning? Well perhaps if by morning you mean black of night... then yeah. I rarely even both trying to program when the sun is up. I can do it, but not well.
The support is only online- no phone, but they'be always been prompt- no more than about a business day. I previosly hosted with Communitech (years ago) until a rate hike, then started looking for a new hoster. My only regret is not going directly to phpwebhosting.com
I'm using the latest iteration of Apache, and I like it. I'm running it along with PHP and mod_perl, and it all seems to be working well. I've not had any stability issues, and setting it up (I always compile from source) was extremely easy. I choose to compile ALL of the modules, and it still compiled in very little time. I wouldn't ever even think of going back to 1.x
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For a few months I was working at home, and despite the fact I don't live alone, it does get lonely. I'm now working at home most of the time, but I work in office about 15 hours a week. I'm enjoying this quite a bit. You may want to try something like that. Try to get to the office as often as possible for meetings concerning your work as an excuse to leave the house if you want.
There probably isn't really a need to rent an office. With a good notebook (may I suggest a 17" PowerBook) and a decent mobile internet access plan, the world is your office. Weather permitting, find a local park, or just spend a few hours in a coffee house (if they'll let you!) I've found that there's plenty of ways to work out of the house, you just have to be creative about it.
I use a Nokie 6310i GPRS with my 12" PowerBook. The lag is a pain with my carrier (~750 ms ping times with T-Mobile in the US) but it works. It's mucho convient to use the Bluetooth, instead of having to connect a wire or something... I don't even have to take the phone outta my pocket!
What's next? Could I be put on death row for killing my buddy in Halo?
My friend has a recording studio...
As I understand it, X10 stuff runs it networking through your power lines- which is a pretty good idea... Question- how far does the signal travel? Can anything past my circuit breakers control the devices? Does it work accross the different circuits in my house? Even better, is it possible to encrypt the communications? How does that sort of stuff work out for those of us who live in apartments?
I have to experience in HA, but I'd like to get some... It seems like it would be useful to have some sort of serial over 802.11x. I've used wireless serial transmitters/recievers, but you can only have one pair per channel on the ones I used. Perhaps something like bluetooth is more appropriate, but I don't know much about the technology. Either way, the whole point is just so one can connect some misc. device and use it accross the house somewhere. Does something like this exist?
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The other thing I'm curious about is some sort of wireless soundcard. Do they exist, or does a speaker/mic combo have to be wired to a computer sound card... Basically if my server's in the basement (it is) and I want to have an audio interface to it two floors up in my bedroom, can I do it wirelessly?
Please forgive the ignorance, if those are just stupid questions... (direct flames to
I run QMail on my house network, so just me there. I also do the IT work for a small company, so it serves about 6 people there. I don't have any experience with Postfix, so I won't knock it. Yeah, QMail wasn't easy to set up, but I think it's worth the trouble.
The real issue is the mailbox format. It is possible to run more than one imap daemon. Your choices are Maildir, Maildir and Maildir. There are others, but Maildir is really the best. Most IMAP, servers, however, require a patch to use Maildir. Courier was built with Maildir natively. I've now been running Courier for 6months and it's the best IMAP daemon I've ever ran.
You'll also need an SMTP server, which you didn't mention. Qmail, in my humble opinion, is the only solution out there. I found setup to be a little more complex than I felt necessary, but since I set it up, there hasn't been a hiccup. It easily allows you to instert ANYTHING into the chain the mail follows, so it extremely configurable.
Don't even bother looking at anything but QMail and Courier-IMAP.
I started programming when I was in fourth grade. They should be able to understand some basic (that's basic, not necessarily BASIC) code. Just write some quick code to do some flashy stuff, and show it off.
I still don't see an issue. If it becomes more widespread, it's only because it's a good idea, and it works. You are sounding like someone who wishes to halt free flow of ideas. What's more, the more people use wireless (and need more bandwidth), the faster the technology will develop and the more bandwidth will be available (to stream higher quality video :), and it's even possible that a greater range of frequencies could be alloted to wireless technology.
Personally, I think's it's a good idea to transmit most if not everything over the same media, such as 802.11x. It offers far superior flexibility. Hell, if he's already streaming it digitally, he can just as easily make it available over the internet for students who may not be in school.
And why are you posting anonymously?
Our bandwidth? Unless you share his wireless network, I'm a bit confused... What do you care what he does with the air waves in and around his skool?
I just added this plan on to my cell phone service. I use it with my Nokia 6310i (not available from T-Mobile) which has bluetooth and my 12" Powerbook (also has bluetooth) and I have nothing but good things to say about it. Setting it up wasn't hard, and I've always been able to connection when my cell gets any service. Most places I connect at, the signal isn't great, but it's always faster than using my phone to dial up. I'm not sure whether it's a GPRS limitation, or my cell phone, but I can't use both GPRS and voice at the same time, and I have to "dial up" to the GRPS provider (T-Mobile.) Neither is too much trouble, however.
'nough said
Just don't stop... seriously... When I'm on a roll, I don't stop for anything. Just give me an IV and some caffine. I stop when the program is done- or my blood sugar level drops below 10.
Coding? First thing in the morning? Well perhaps if by morning you mean black of night... then yeah. I rarely even both trying to program when the sun is up. I can do it, but not well.
Make smarter coders!
The support is only online- no phone, but they'be always been prompt- no more than about a business day. I previosly hosted with Communitech (years ago) until a rate hike, then started looking for a new hoster. My only regret is not going directly to phpwebhosting.com
I'm using the latest iteration of Apache, and I like it. I'm running it along with PHP and mod_perl, and it all seems to be working well. I've not had any stability issues, and setting it up (I always compile from source) was extremely easy. I choose to compile ALL of the modules, and it still compiled in very little time. I wouldn't ever even think of going back to 1.x