Have to agree here too. There now follows a gratuitous Linux story to keep slashdotters happy...
I purchased three 10/100 NICs for 2.42 (TWO POUNDS FORTY TWO!) each and threw one in a Redhat 9 box to replace an ageing 10Mbit 3Com card. The new NIC was automatically detected and configured and set to 100Mbit/full duplex without a hitch.
Ebuyer's prices for blank DVDs can be great, but they can be even better Here
Wow, imagine being infected with spyware and so everywhere you looked a little box with a penis enlargement ad appeared in the top right hand corner of your vision
Then SCO claims the system uses some of their code and they now OWN YOUR ASS
Surely the ultimate solution is to develop a self-repairing/marking road surface so we don't need to cone off the road for maintenance in the first place!?
Tunneling, cable laying and undergound maintenance etc. could be done from the side of the road too.
Mind you, I can see the labour ('labor' for the yanks) unions not being too pleased about this.
I could have done much better if I'd really wanted to use Irish stereotypes don't you think!? Tongue was firmly in cheek when writing my posting - lighten up.
Blue LEDs are not THAT much more expensive than the other colours now, especially if you buy in bulk
I used to have a role in electronics R&D and when the blue LED first became available (around 1983-4?) and they cost around 30UKP each for quantity, compared to plain red at around 0.08 each.
Sometimes when I'm on a business trip to Middlebrough or Kingston upon Hull in the UK, I drop in to the local 'pound shop' type stores where LED key ring flashlights in various colours (high-brightness red, green, purple, blue or white) are all 1UKP each. Considering that the white and blue key rings are fitted with two CR1620 lithium batteries, it's actually also a good way to buy the batteries alone because they're normally about UKP1.99 each elsewhere!
I once held two weeks' technical training in a hotel for a major UK field service company. All the students (45) stayed in the hotel too and they were all around 17-20 years old - some had not stayed away from home before!
As you can imagine, there were some rather late night parties and although the hotel staff had cleared out the room mini-bars as requested by the FS company, the students had sufficient intelligence to stock up from the local spermarket.
One night, however, 'Labatts Ice' bottled beer was on special offer and so was purchased in significant quantities - sadly the bottles would not fit on the mini-bar shelves...no problem, the students simply split open the packs and depositied the bottles in the ornamental fountain in reception and went in regular convoy throughout the night to fetch and replenish stocks! The culprits were tracked down by the trails of water leading back to their rooms and were politely requested not to use the fountain as a fridge.
A couple of days later, someone tipped a couple of bottles of red food colouring into the fountain!
Shannon's Law etc. will mean squat when the marketing guys ride in to town on this one. Stand by for lots of asterisks in the text referring to notes in small print that you just can't seem to find.
Ok, so it's megabytes eh? Does this mean 8 parallel data streams to each phone - love to see the skew control on that - or that the actual fundamental data rate is a serial stream at around 800 megabits per second - or do we just shrug and continue to make calls on our good ole (non 3G, non 2.5G) GSM phones that happen to do the job (ie: work as a phone) adequately.
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I was discussing this elsewhere recently as I have a single system running RH9 in a small business and it's mainly used for a file and print server and Intranet server.
Putting aside the issue of paying for a RHEL licence, which is not horrendous (but a little OTT considering what it costs now!), condensing the advice I was given from various sources, it seemed to boil down to this for us:
Fedora's 'bleeding edge' might introduce unwanted hassle for us, so stay away
Fedora Legacy project will provide support updates to RH9 so could we redirect yum to the right location and live with RH9 for the forseeable future
We could migrate to Whitebox Linux to effectively get RHEL 3
I'm not a Linux newbie but I'm no way a guru either, so how does that sound to you - I'm especially wondering if Whitebox is the way to go for simplicity, but am also cautious about support levels and bug fixes - our needs are simple, but I don't want the server stuffed by a wierd quirk...and stuff on the Whitebox site about 'x' not working because 'I forgot...' is a tad unnerving!
If we part company with RH, what's the likely hassle factor of going to, say, FeeeBSD or [insert your favourite distro here]?
I prefer to use the spray can conductive coating paint used for amateur radio and electronics: if you spray a thin enough coating on your head the whole mask remains flexible, plus you can chalk reminders or to-do lists on the grey, matt finish.
As an added bonus, you can ignite non-safety matches anywhere on your head.
Yup, it was a bit of a confusing headline...for 'satellite', read 'remote' - NOT 'shiny thing up thar somewhere in space'.
Made me think though:
OK, Mars rovers are using solid state 'disk' but if someone was mad enough to go down the hard-disk-in-a satellite route (I presume they haven't!??)
1) Hard disks won't work in a vacuum so you'd have to seal them in airtight cases filled with..er..air, or would you use something inert like nitrogen and then would this affect the disk's head aerodynamics?
2) How would the satellite in which they are fitted cope with the rotational forces of the platters?
3) How would (non) gravity affect the 'heads on a cushion of air' principle of operation
4) let's skip radiation and heat issues etc..
Final thought: are there/have there been any hard disks in space ie: aboard the shuttle or space stations - ISTR a picture of a space station or shuttle with an IBM notebook in a corner - if so, do they present any form of gyroscopic issue?
A company proposed an 802.11a wireless broadband network sharing a 2Mb leased line for our '6 village' area on the South Coast of the UK. We're not a million miles from civilisation (nearest big town is about 6 miles), but we're 'rural' and so our phone exchanges were not likely to be broadband enabled for a short while.
Monthly charges were about the same as POTS-based broadband, plus the client kit costs, but I felt that since there were quite a few small businesses in the area POTS broadband would happen eventually and so I stuck to my single channel ISDN.
At a kick-off meeting for the network, I raised concerns about the likelihood of POTS-based broadband coming to the area and diluting the wireless user base (it needed to maintain a certain number of subscribers to pay for the kit maintenance costs, power and also keep up the rental on the leased line), but was dismissed by those excited (IMHO) by the technology aspects of the system and perhaps the thrill of having a funny-shaped antenna on their roof!
Guess what, the company providing the infrastructure went bust before the roll-out was complete. I understand some of the kit may have been taken by creditors and so the system's now not intact and no buyer for the network installation could be found because many of those approached (about 10) realised that there was a local phone exchange likely to be broadband enabled 'sometime'. The final (post-going-bust) nail in the coffin was that broadband came to the area in December 2003 (2 months after the wireless provider went bust) via the local phone exchange.
The Australian solution looks like the right thing for the right demographics, the solution proposed in our area seemed to be pandering to the impatient and the technophiles, and not well thought out business-wise.
Yup, but it a classic case of patenting something already in use - Marconi patented the idea first (1896) and even though later rulings went against this patent, by then Marconi's business empire was so large it kinda just kept rolling along.
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Have to agree here too. There now follows a gratuitous Linux story to keep slashdotters happy...
I purchased three 10/100 NICs for 2.42 (TWO POUNDS FORTY TWO!) each and threw one in a Redhat 9 box to replace an ageing 10Mbit 3Com card. The new NIC was automatically detected and configured and set to 100Mbit/full duplex without a hitch.
Ebuyer's prices for blank DVDs can be great, but they can be even better Here
...Yep, thanks for that one, this subject's now fully done. No more comments from anyone please.
G'nite all.
Surely the ultimate solution is to develop a self-repairing/marking road surface so we don't need to cone off the road for maintenance in the first place!?
Tunneling, cable laying and undergound maintenance etc. could be done from the side of the road too.
Mind you, I can see the labour ('labor' for the yanks) unions not being too pleased about this.
I could have done much better if I'd really wanted to use Irish stereotypes don't you think!?
Tongue was firmly in cheek when writing my posting - lighten up.
There's no fscking way I'm flying Ryanair into Dublin for the forseeable future then! Dive Dive Dive.
Bullshit - if you are a REAL Dublin resident, you'd either be:
1) In a pub
2) Busking outside Bewley's Oriental Tea Rooms
3) Trying to find a parking space around St. Stephens green
4) Stuck in road traffic somewhere along the banks of the Liffey
Sleeping - my ar*e
Blue LEDs are not THAT much more expensive than the other colours now, especially if you buy in bulk
I used to have a role in electronics R&D and when the blue LED first became available (around 1983-4?) and they cost around 30UKP each for quantity, compared to plain red at around 0.08 each.
Sometimes when I'm on a business trip to Middlebrough or Kingston upon Hull in the UK, I drop in to the local 'pound shop' type stores where LED key ring flashlights in various colours (high-brightness red, green, purple, blue or white) are all 1UKP each. Considering that the white and blue key rings are fitted with two CR1620 lithium batteries, it's actually also a good way to buy the batteries alone because they're normally about UKP1.99 each elsewhere!
Tell the CIO/CTO it may allow outsiders to see their Pr0n stash and things might speed up.
I once held two weeks' technical training in a hotel for a major UK field service company. All the students (45) stayed in the hotel too and they were all around 17-20 years old - some had not stayed away from home before!
As you can imagine, there were some rather late night parties and although the hotel staff had cleared out the room mini-bars as requested by the FS company, the students had sufficient intelligence to stock up from the local spermarket.
One night, however, 'Labatts Ice' bottled beer was on special offer and so was purchased in significant quantities - sadly the bottles would not fit on the mini-bar shelves...no problem, the students simply split open the packs and depositied the bottles in the ornamental fountain in reception and went in regular convoy throughout the night to fetch and replenish stocks! The culprits were tracked down by the trails of water leading back to their rooms and were politely requested not to use the fountain as a fridge.
A couple of days later, someone tipped a couple of bottles of red food colouring into the fountain!
Oh, happy days!
...do we persuade Darl to bend over?
Over to you...
"...The system then returns parts having similar shapes. They call it shape searching..."
p -suitable-names overlords.
I, for one, welcome our no-flies-on-them-then-when-it-comes-to-thinking-u
Shannon's Law etc. will mean squat when the marketing guys ride in to town on this one. Stand by for lots of asterisks in the text referring to notes in small print that you just can't seem to find.
Ok, so it's megabytes eh? Does this mean 8 parallel data streams to each phone - love to see the skew control on that - or that the actual fundamental data rate is a serial stream at around 800 megabits per second - or do we just shrug and continue to make calls on our good ole (non 3G, non 2.5G) GSM phones that happen to do the job (ie: work as a phone) adequately.
Putting aside the issue of paying for a RHEL licence, which is not horrendous (but a little OTT considering what it costs now!), condensing the advice I was given from various sources, it seemed to boil down to this for us:
- Fedora's 'bleeding edge' might introduce unwanted hassle for us, so stay away
- Fedora Legacy project will provide support updates to RH9 so could we redirect yum to the right location and live with RH9 for the forseeable future
- We could migrate to Whitebox Linux to effectively get RHEL 3
I'm not a Linux newbie but I'm no way a guru either, so how does that sound to you - I'm especially wondering if Whitebox is the way to go for simplicity, but am also cautious about support levels and bug fixes - our needs are simple, but I don't want the server stuffed by a wierd quirk...and stuff on the Whitebox site about 'x' not working because 'I forgot...' is a tad unnerving!If we part company with RH, what's the likely hassle factor of going to, say, FeeeBSD or [insert your favourite distro here]?
Ta!
Isn't it $699 per licence?
I prefer to use the spray can conductive coating paint used for amateur radio and electronics: if you spray a thin enough coating on your head the whole mask remains flexible, plus you can chalk reminders or to-do lists on the grey, matt finish.
As an added bonus, you can ignite non-safety matches anywhere on your head.
Yup, it was a bit of a confusing headline...for 'satellite', read 'remote' - NOT 'shiny thing up thar somewhere in space'.
Made me think though:
OK, Mars rovers are using solid state 'disk' but if someone was mad enough to go down the hard-disk-in-a satellite route (I presume they haven't!??)
1) Hard disks won't work in a vacuum so you'd have to seal them in airtight cases filled with..er..air, or would you use something inert like nitrogen and then would this affect the disk's head aerodynamics?
2) How would the satellite in which they are fitted cope with the rotational forces of the platters?
3) How would (non) gravity affect the 'heads on a cushion of air' principle of operation
4) let's skip radiation and heat issues etc..
Final thought: are there/have there been any hard disks in space ie: aboard the shuttle or space stations - ISTR a picture of a space station or shuttle with an IBM notebook in a corner - if so, do they present any form of gyroscopic issue?
A company proposed an 802.11a wireless broadband network sharing a 2Mb leased line for our '6 village' area on the South Coast of the UK. We're not a million miles from civilisation (nearest big town is about 6 miles), but we're 'rural' and so our phone exchanges were not likely to be broadband enabled for a short while.
Monthly charges were about the same as POTS-based broadband, plus the client kit costs, but I felt that since there were quite a few small businesses in the area POTS broadband would happen eventually and so I stuck to my single channel ISDN.
At a kick-off meeting for the network, I raised concerns about the likelihood of POTS-based broadband coming to the area and diluting the wireless user base (it needed to maintain a certain number of subscribers to pay for the kit maintenance costs, power and also keep up the rental on the leased line), but was dismissed by those excited (IMHO) by the technology aspects of the system and perhaps the thrill of having a funny-shaped antenna on their roof!
Guess what, the company providing the infrastructure went bust before the roll-out was complete. I understand some of the kit may have been taken by creditors and so the system's now not intact and no buyer for the network installation could be found because many of those approached (about 10) realised that there was a local phone exchange likely to be broadband enabled 'sometime'. The final (post-going-bust) nail in the coffin was that broadband came to the area in December 2003 (2 months after the wireless provider went bust) via the local phone exchange.
The Australian solution looks like the right thing for the right demographics, the solution proposed in our area seemed to be pandering to the impatient and the technophiles, and not well thought out business-wise.
"All I said WAS that this new Jehovah Linux 1.0 installation is fit enough for SCO to sue"
Calm down, it's only a sig. Bad day at the office?
Yup, but it a classic case of patenting something already in use - Marconi patented the idea first (1896) and even though later rulings went against this patent, by then Marconi's business empire was so large it kinda just kept rolling along.
And I'll refer to my copy of "The Marconi Book of Wireless", first edition 1936, if I need any insight - thanks!
Nope, it's because the M$ roadmap is Soooooo clear:
1) Buy one version of our product today
2) Purchase 'the latest version' upgrade every year or so for the rest of your life.
3) We profit $$$
Nasa purchases the telescope and lashes it to Hubble - hey presto, cheap fix, NASA saves money by recycling and everyone's happy.