500 meters is about 1,640 feet. I do that to my parents place now. I just got two Linksys routers running dd-wrt and two good outdoor antennas. With dd-wrt I cranked up the radio output a bit and have no problem getting full throughput over about that same distance.
Did anyone check out this guys site? It's full of "fictional products". It shows the "Power Pizza Box" in a flash with a cellphone/stun gun. Who would actually put their laptop in a pizza box anyway?
Firefox 1.0 is perfectly stable on my WinXP machine at work, other than a couple of extentions magically disappeared after the upgrade.
My Linux box did an auto-update from 1.0PR and now does some strange things. Opening a link in a new tab opens the tab, but doesn't load the page, is the most anyoying. I'm thinking of re-installing when a new rpm is available. Even so, it's stable.
I wonder how many calls that number is going to get... This is a BRILLIANT idea! Just post the phone number of some enemy, ex-wife, or coworker on Slashdot and watch the fun!
That's a F50, I still have one in the computer room. Even back in 1999, these weren't high-end. They were originally designed to be workgroup servers. They made good file servers, test boxes for larger applications, or even production boxes for smaller apps or fewer users. They were higher up the food chain than the 43P, which is a desktop "server", IBM sold a lot of firewalls on 43Ps.
The disk expansion unit looks like a 7133. They carry up to 16 SSA disks. They rocked back then. I still have one in production. Faster than SCSI, with real concurrent bi-directional transfers, all one a dinky little 4 wire cable. And they're hot-swappable, hardware RAID support, and can have multiple paths to one machine.
I did a quick scan, but didn't see anyone post this. Forgive me if it's already been said...
Florida pawn brokers have a damn good union. A person whose property is stolen is required to pay the pawn broker to get his stuff back, but usually only what the pawn shop payed the thief. If you know your serial numbers, makes, and models, it's not usually too awfully hard to find your stuff, assuming you can actually get someone to look for it.
We had some lawn equipment go missing repeatedly in Florida. Each time, it showed up in some pawn shop, and the theif got their slap on the wrists. And we were out a couple of hundred bucks. Florida sees it as making sure there is only one victim, of course they're a victim twice. Not only can't you use your stuff because it's missing, but you have to pay someone to get it back. Otherwise, they'd be dealing with both the theft victim, and the pawn shop trying to get their money back seperately. Try getting your cash back from a guy that was so poor he was already stealing your weed whacker to buy pot.
At work we dumped Redhat because they stopped support for workstations. There was no budget for their Enterprise package, and other admins thought that Fedora was too bleeding edge. So, another admin got us using Arch Linux. That's right, we went from using one of the top distros, because of no support, to using one of the smallest distros, with no support. It's nice and minimalist,though.
I have mixed feelings on this. It's interesting, though. The government actually saves money, cause it costs more than to 20B now to issue and enforce copyrights and all the overhead that goes along with it. But, I have a hard time supporting another "entitlement".
Also, $100 per person isn't enough. What you'll get, IMHO, is simular to today's "free" music scene. The little guys get more exposure, but they're drowned in a sea of content. Just finding the good stuff can be difficult. The entertainment industry currently employs a heck of a lot more than 500,000 people, most of them making a lot more than $40k a year, so anybody that's ever been in anything won't go for it.
The current system COULD work, unfortunately the "Mischiefs of Faction" have induced our government into perverting the original intent and plan of copyrights.
What I'd like to see is a way for individuals to give money via paypal to whatever cause they want, and the money goes directly into buying off politicians. Really, the amount of money some of these companies pay political campains to curry favor is pittiful if spread across a large group. It's about time our government came clean, usually the biggest wallet get's their way, let the people put their money where their poll numbers are. SCO and M$ would be toast just based on the donations from the/. crowd.
Localization is difficult and expensive to get right. The only real way to do it is to get someone who's very fluent in both languages AND regional dialects and get them to translate. Then, if your not using synthesized voices, you have to hire voice artists (who also speak the target language and possibly the dialect so you get the pronunciation right) to re-record every line. Some of these games have HUGE voice files. Thankfully, software to render voices in real-time is comming along pretty well.
Remember back in the day, when copy protected 5 1/4" floppies were all the rage? The software would lock up and freak out. And within a couple of days somebody would post a program to copy the disk without the protection to your local BBS. Sometimes just copying the floppy would make the software more stable. Remember dongles (some companies STILL use them)?! Remember the dongle remover programs that tricked the program into thinking there was a dongle there when there wasn't?
Copy protection rarely stops piracy, and usually screws with the customer. Online activation is just the newest wave. Even M$ can't get it right. Has anyone met somebody who really really likes online activation?
IMHO, the best way to fight piracy is to have a great product that's reasonably priced. And the purchase price buys you support and updates. Each CD key can only register once for a support/update password, so those who pirate the software don't get support. And catching a pirated key/support p assword combination is as easy as running your HTTP logs through an analysis program.
No vendor will ever completely stamp out piracy, the best they can hope to do is making purchasing the product as attractive as possible.
HUGE misinformed flamebait! Don't you believe it. We just migrated from enterprise Novell servers that were barely keeping up with DNS to linux that totally rocks. We hammer those machines, and they barely notice, AND they just plain work better. For being an Enterprise NOS, Novell's DNS implimentation sucks rocks. I've also replaced IIS servers with Apache on identical hardware, Apache blows IIS away, even with non mod-perl scripts replacing ASP pages.
I'm now in a predominantly M$ shop, and believe me, M$ is VERY restrictive.
And, I'm sure SMP was in 2.4.9... Oh, and even back then reizer was the choice for robust file systems. Now, EXT3 seems solid. My IBM servers run JFS, unfortunately IBM was a day late porting it to Linux.
I will say, though, that Win2k is probably the best Windows release to date. We still have a boat load of problems with it, and the weekly patches eat up time like crazy, and half the time the patches break other stuff.... And it still doesn't perform like linux for network services like DNS or web serving. I just wish more commercial software vendors supported it. I'm starting to see some, our enterprise online radiology imaging package is available on Linux vs. Sun now.
Now, back to topic... Linux is pretty awsome on a laptop, as long as the hardware support is there. The support for my Toshiba notebook is only marginal, it takes a day or two of tweaking to get Redhat working on it. Hopfully Toshiba will do a good job of using Linux supported hardware on this thing.
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500 meters is about 1,640 feet. I do that to my parents place now. I just got two Linksys routers running dd-wrt and two good outdoor antennas. With dd-wrt I cranked up the radio output a bit and have no problem getting full throughput over about that same distance.
Did anyone check out this guys site? It's full of "fictional products". It shows the "Power Pizza Box" in a flash with a cellphone/stun gun. Who would actually put their laptop in a pizza box anyway?
Firefox 1.0 is perfectly stable on my WinXP machine at work, other than a couple of extentions magically disappeared after the upgrade. My Linux box did an auto-update from 1.0PR and now does some strange things. Opening a link in a new tab opens the tab, but doesn't load the page, is the most anyoying. I'm thinking of re-installing when a new rpm is available. Even so, it's stable.
I wonder how many calls that number is going to get... This is a BRILLIANT idea! Just post the phone number of some enemy, ex-wife, or coworker on Slashdot and watch the fun!
That's a F50, I still have one in the computer room. Even back in 1999, these weren't high-end. They were originally designed to be workgroup servers. They made good file servers, test boxes for larger applications, or even production boxes for smaller apps or fewer users. They were higher up the food chain than the 43P, which is a desktop "server", IBM sold a lot of firewalls on 43Ps. The disk expansion unit looks like a 7133. They carry up to 16 SSA disks. They rocked back then. I still have one in production. Faster than SCSI, with real concurrent bi-directional transfers, all one a dinky little 4 wire cable. And they're hot-swappable, hardware RAID support, and can have multiple paths to one machine.
I did a quick scan, but didn't see anyone post this. Forgive me if it's already been said...
Florida pawn brokers have a damn good union. A person whose property is stolen is required to pay the pawn broker to get his stuff back, but usually only what the pawn shop payed the thief. If you know your serial numbers, makes, and models, it's not usually too awfully hard to find your stuff, assuming you can actually get someone to look for it.
We had some lawn equipment go missing repeatedly in Florida. Each time, it showed up in some pawn shop, and the theif got their slap on the wrists. And we were out a couple of hundred bucks. Florida sees it as making sure there is only one victim, of course they're a victim twice. Not only can't you use your stuff because it's missing, but you have to pay someone to get it back. Otherwise, they'd be dealing with both the theft victim, and the pawn shop trying to get their money back seperately. Try getting your cash back from a guy that was so poor he was already stealing your weed whacker to buy pot.
At work we dumped Redhat because they stopped support for workstations. There was no budget for their Enterprise package, and other admins thought that Fedora was too bleeding edge. So, another admin got us using Arch Linux. That's right, we went from using one of the top distros, because of no support, to using one of the smallest distros, with no support. It's nice and minimalist,though.
I have mixed feelings on this. It's interesting, though. The government actually saves money, cause it costs more than to 20B now to issue and enforce copyrights and all the overhead that goes along with it. But, I have a hard time supporting another "entitlement".
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Also, $100 per person isn't enough. What you'll get, IMHO, is simular to today's "free" music scene. The little guys get more exposure, but they're drowned in a sea of content. Just finding the good stuff can be difficult. The entertainment industry currently employs a heck of a lot more than 500,000 people, most of them making a lot more than $40k a year, so anybody that's ever been in anything won't go for it.
The current system COULD work, unfortunately the "Mischiefs of Faction" have induced our government into perverting the original intent and plan of copyrights.
What I'd like to see is a way for individuals to give money via paypal to whatever cause they want, and the money goes directly into buying off politicians. Really, the amount of money some of these companies pay political campains to curry favor is pittiful if spread across a large group. It's about time our government came clean, usually the biggest wallet get's their way, let the people put their money where their poll numbers are. SCO and M$ would be toast just based on the donations from the
Localization is difficult and expensive to get right. The only real way to do it is to get someone who's very fluent in both languages AND regional dialects and get them to translate. Then, if your not using synthesized voices, you have to hire voice artists (who also speak the target language and possibly the dialect so you get the pronunciation right) to re-record every line. Some of these games have HUGE voice files. Thankfully, software to render voices in real-time is comming along pretty well.
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Remember back in the day, when copy protected 5 1/4" floppies were all the rage? The software would lock up and freak out. And within a couple of days somebody would post a program to copy the disk without the protection to your local BBS. Sometimes just copying the floppy would make the software more stable. Remember dongles (some companies STILL use them)?! Remember the dongle remover programs that tricked the program into thinking there was a dongle there when there wasn't?
Copy protection rarely stops piracy, and usually screws with the customer. Online activation is just the newest wave. Even M$ can't get it right. Has anyone met somebody who really really likes online activation?
IMHO, the best way to fight piracy is to have a great product that's reasonably priced. And the purchase price buys you support and updates. Each CD key can only register once for a support/update password, so those who pirate the software don't get support. And catching a pirated key/support p assword combination is as easy as running your HTTP logs through an analysis program.
No vendor will ever completely stamp out piracy, the best they can hope to do is making purchasing the product as attractive as possible.
HUGE misinformed flamebait! Don't you believe it. We just migrated from enterprise Novell servers that were barely keeping up with DNS to linux that totally rocks. We hammer those machines, and they barely notice, AND they just plain work better. For being an Enterprise NOS, Novell's DNS implimentation sucks rocks. I've also replaced IIS servers with Apache on identical hardware, Apache blows IIS away, even with non mod-perl scripts replacing ASP pages. I'm now in a predominantly M$ shop, and believe me, M$ is VERY restrictive. And, I'm sure SMP was in 2.4.9... Oh, and even back then reizer was the choice for robust file systems. Now, EXT3 seems solid. My IBM servers run JFS, unfortunately IBM was a day late porting it to Linux. I will say, though, that Win2k is probably the best Windows release to date. We still have a boat load of problems with it, and the weekly patches eat up time like crazy, and half the time the patches break other stuff.... And it still doesn't perform like linux for network services like DNS or web serving. I just wish more commercial software vendors supported it. I'm starting to see some, our enterprise online radiology imaging package is available on Linux vs. Sun now. Now, back to topic... Linux is pretty awsome on a laptop, as long as the hardware support is there. The support for my Toshiba notebook is only marginal, it takes a day or two of tweaking to get Redhat working on it. Hopfully Toshiba will do a good job of using Linux supported hardware on this thing.