So, this is supposed to allow Vonage users to use Wi-Fi handsets? I'm not clear what these routers do differently than any other router that supports SIP NAT traversal. The article mentions selling this to hotspot operators; what does this router offer an operator? Can somebody explain?
Come on... these guys are a bunch of enthused hobbiests working on the infrastructure for Apache -- apparently they were not working on the *software* itself, just the systems that *support* the software in various ways. Most boring, uninspiring article I've ever skimmed.
Expose', built into OS X, has similar functionality in terms of viewing all your windows at once. There's also a utility called Desktop Manager that will give you multiple desktops on OS X, with very spiffy transitions to boot: http://the.taoofmac.com/space/Desktop%20Manager
The difference is simple. A given product or service might have a 10-20% profit margin, but labeling it a "solution" allows a 70-90% margin, not to mention a couple man-weeks of billable hours for "integration".
Their site has a ridiculously obvious list of their top 10 best and worst shows for families (i.e., children). Well gee golly, who would've thought that shows designed for ADULTS shouldn't necessarily be seen by children, and shows DESIGNED FOR FAMILIES are appropriate for them?! No duh that my 8-year-old shouldn't be watching CSI and Bachelorette, but a home improvement show might be okay! Sigh. Aren't there real problems these people could be fighting?
Be careful of the difference between a gift and a present. A present is something the giver likes himself, but a gift is something the giver thinks the recipient will like.
This would not have helped prevent 9/11, as the summary claims. All the hijackers had successfully obtained legal ID, and did not use forgeries. It's already significantly easier to forge the source documents (Birth certificate, SSN card) that will get you a license, anyway, so making licenses more complicated (hence expensive) to produce and verify will solve nothing.
Everybody get your fire-retardant suits on for the ensuing flamewar...
The core differences between distros are package management, the version of the kernel, and the version of libc. Debian might work fine for what you want it to do, but a subtle problem might occur that you didn't catch during testing, due to a version difference. I've found that shoehorning, as you mentioned, is generally a bad idea. Shoehorn too much, and your feet will hurt.
Given your conservative environment, I think RedHat's Enterprise Linux product line is more appropriate. RedHat can sell you a commercial support contract, and they promise software updates for 5 years. Also, future Linux admins are more likely to be familiar with RedHat, which avoids needing to learn Debian's quirks. Also, IBM or other commercial software (like Oracle) is more likely to be supported on RedHat.
I've been a RealRhapsody and Napster subscriber for a while, and have gotten annoyed with having DRM even after I purchase a song to keep "forever".
Recently I bought a few CD's from AllofMp3.com, which is a Russian company that lets you buy any song, which they encode on-the-fly to any format you want. You pay them one US cent per MB. So, your 4MB MP3 costs you *four cents*, with no DRM attached. A CD, encoded in 320kbps AAC, might cost 60 cents. Theoretically, this is legal, because they're licensed by the Russian equivalent of the RIAA. In case you're wondering, no, I haven't seen any fraudulent CC charges.
NIST says that to convert from inches to centimeters, multiply by 2.54. Inverting that (1 / 2.54) yields 0.3937 inches per cm, and multiplying that by 100 yields 39.37 inches per meter.
For more conversion factors, go to:
http://physics.nist.gov/Pubs/SP811/appenB8.html
Umm... HTML and HTTP *are* open standards that are backed heavily by Microsoft that give power and flexibility to developers.:)
If you were using something other than HTML and HTTP, you wouldn't be doing Web development; you'd be doing some other kind of development.
Macromedia Flash applications backed by SOAP look very interesting for apps requiring more GUI-like, real-time interaction. This is basically what Java applets were intended for.
One fundamental challenge for even 3G (such as 1xRTT, up to 144kbps) is the bandwidth of the cell site's backhaul link. With 3G, instead of bringing maybe one or two T1's to a cell site, carriers have to bring at least one more. In many cases, wireless broadband is completely overbearing for cells that already drop calls due to overloading. When you realize that each point-to-point T1 costs about a grand a month, you'll understand why deploying high-speed cellular data is so cost-prohibitive, and why this "4G" will never materialize in the US.
In any market, there are two general ways to compete: price and quality. Competing on price is always a losing battle for all players except the largest; therefore, the way to compete successfully long-term is almost always by providing a better product or service.
Specifically regarding IT and other professional positions, the trick lies in possessing deep, domain-specific knowledge. The more focused the domain, the better. Your domain could be intimate knowledge of a company's specific procedures and systems, a specific technical platform, or, best of all, technology applied to a specific industry. If you're at the top of your game in, say, health club technology, you'll always have work. It's a wide enough field to have a lot of clients or employers, but narrow enough that you'll likely have little competition.
While you master one domain, it's important to maintain a "bell curve" of related and diversified skills. At the top of the bell curve are your core competencies, while further down the curve are other, lesser skill areas that you could easily move into as market demands shift. Know everything about a couple of things, be good at a few more, and and know how to spell a bunch of other stuff.
To solve the problem of packet mis-ordering, the client implementation could wait for the ICMP "Port Unreachable" message before transmitting the next knock. This is assuming active connection rejection by the server, rather than dropping incoming SYNs.
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So, this is supposed to allow Vonage users to use Wi-Fi handsets? I'm not clear what these routers do differently than any other router that supports SIP NAT traversal. The article mentions selling this to hotspot operators; what does this router offer an operator? Can somebody explain?
2005 will be the 50th of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Um.... 1955??
Come on... these guys are a bunch of enthused hobbiests working on the infrastructure for Apache -- apparently they were not working on the *software* itself, just the systems that *support* the software in various ways. Most boring, uninspiring article I've ever skimmed.
Great -- let's add *more* braindead preteens to IRC, as if there weren't enough already...
Surely if the law is not applicable, then they are legal (both theoretically and in practice)?
In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they are not.
Expose', built into OS X, has similar functionality in terms of viewing all your windows at once. There's also a utility called Desktop Manager that will give you multiple desktops on OS X, with very spiffy transitions to boot: http://the.taoofmac.com/space/Desktop%20Manager
The difference is simple. A given product or service might have a 10-20% profit margin, but labeling it a "solution" allows a 70-90% margin, not to mention a couple man-weeks of billable hours for "integration".
I just hope I'm in a nearby bar with my new intergalactic friend when the bulldozer comes to plow over my house...
Their site has a ridiculously obvious list of their top 10 best and worst shows for families (i.e., children). Well gee golly, who would've thought that shows designed for ADULTS shouldn't necessarily be seen by children, and shows DESIGNED FOR FAMILIES are appropriate for them?! No duh that my 8-year-old shouldn't be watching CSI and Bachelorette, but a home improvement show might be okay! Sigh. Aren't there real problems these people could be fighting?
STFW, Search The Friendly Web, has been established for many years.
Be careful of the difference between a gift and a present. A present is something the giver likes himself, but a gift is something the giver thinks the recipient will like.
Interesting. Downside is the limited bitrate of the sound. Assuming CD quality audio, that's only 176,400 bytes per second.
This would not have helped prevent 9/11, as the summary claims. All the hijackers had successfully obtained legal ID, and did not use forgeries. It's already significantly easier to forge the source documents (Birth certificate, SSN card) that will get you a license, anyway, so making licenses more complicated (hence expensive) to produce and verify will solve nothing.
Baking a cake is a chemical reaction, whereas this is a change of the matter's state, which is a physical reaction.
Everybody get your fire-retardant suits on for the ensuing flamewar...
The core differences between distros are package management, the version of the kernel, and the version of libc. Debian might work fine for what you want it to do, but a subtle problem might occur that you didn't catch during testing, due to a version difference. I've found that shoehorning, as you mentioned, is generally a bad idea. Shoehorn too much, and your feet will hurt.
Given your conservative environment, I think RedHat's Enterprise Linux product line is more appropriate. RedHat can sell you a commercial support contract, and they promise software updates for 5 years. Also, future Linux admins are more likely to be familiar with RedHat, which avoids needing to learn Debian's quirks. Also, IBM or other commercial software (like Oracle) is more likely to be supported on RedHat.
carry astronauts or robots to the surface of Earth or Mars
Maybe one day we'll even send people to Earth!
I've been a RealRhapsody and Napster subscriber for a while, and have gotten annoyed with having DRM even after I purchase a song to keep "forever".
Recently I bought a few CD's from AllofMp3.com, which is a Russian company that lets you buy any song, which they encode on-the-fly to any format you want. You pay them one US cent per MB. So, your 4MB MP3 costs you *four cents*, with no DRM attached. A CD, encoded in 320kbps AAC, might cost 60 cents. Theoretically, this is legal, because they're licensed by the Russian equivalent of the RIAA. In case you're wondering, no, I haven't seen any fraudulent CC charges.
NIST says that to convert from inches to centimeters, multiply by 2.54. Inverting that (1 / 2.54) yields 0.3937 inches per cm, and multiplying that by 100 yields 39.37 inches per meter.
For more conversion factors, go to:
http://physics.nist.gov/Pubs/SP811/appenB8.html
search for "inch (in)"
Umm... HTML and HTTP *are* open standards that are backed heavily by Microsoft that give power and flexibility to developers. :)
If you were using something other than HTML and HTTP, you wouldn't be doing Web development; you'd be doing some other kind of development.
Macromedia Flash applications backed by SOAP look very interesting for apps requiring more GUI-like, real-time interaction. This is basically what Java applets were intended for.
One fundamental challenge for even 3G (such as 1xRTT, up to 144kbps) is the bandwidth of the cell site's backhaul link. With 3G, instead of bringing maybe one or two T1's to a cell site, carriers have to bring at least one more. In many cases, wireless broadband is completely overbearing for cells that already drop calls due to overloading. When you realize that each point-to-point T1 costs about a grand a month, you'll understand why deploying high-speed cellular data is so cost-prohibitive, and why this "4G" will never materialize in the US.
Just apply some bearing grease!
It's like deja vu all over again...
In any market, there are two general ways to compete: price and quality. Competing on price is always a losing battle for all players except the largest; therefore, the way to compete successfully long-term is almost always by providing a better product or service.
Specifically regarding IT and other professional positions, the trick lies in possessing deep, domain-specific knowledge. The more focused the domain, the better. Your domain could be intimate knowledge of a company's specific procedures and systems, a specific technical platform, or, best of all, technology applied to a specific industry. If you're at the top of your game in, say, health club technology, you'll always have work. It's a wide enough field to have a lot of clients or employers, but narrow enough that you'll likely have little competition.
While you master one domain, it's important to maintain a "bell curve" of related and diversified skills. At the top of the bell curve are your core competencies, while further down the curve are other, lesser skill areas that you could easily move into as market demands shift. Know everything about a couple of things, be good at a few more, and and know how to spell a bunch of other stuff.
Thinkgeek has the Forever Flashlight that uses Faraday's Principle of Induction to generate power for superbright LEDs.
To solve the problem of packet mis-ordering, the client implementation could wait for the ICMP "Port Unreachable" message before transmitting the next knock. This is assuming active connection rejection by the server, rather than dropping incoming SYNs.