I've been very impressed with Linksys lately. There is, however, one thing that they need to not bring over from the Cisco side: boot times.
Cisco's stuff may be nearly bulletproof, but the damn things take forever to power on. A 350 AP or BR can easily take over 3 minutes to boot. I really hope that they can find a way around boot speed issues. The public at large will not be as willing to wait as a network admin.
Here is a nice list of directional antennas. They aren't exactly exmensive if you are willing to go with an ugly reflector grid model. 15dBi for $40 and 19dBi for $45.
Also, to those confused about how antenna gain works. The gain is measured in comparison to the output of an isotropic radiator, basically something that puts out the same signal strength in all directions. So that means that any unamped antenna with a gain higher than 1dBi is directional in some sense, because the total radiated power is still the same. So-called omnidirectional antennas really are only omnidirectional in the horizontal plane, if you go up or down their signal strength drops off rapidly.
That isn't the point. The point is to tie up the phone for as long as possible. As it is an 800 number, they get charged for the call. Even if they get the number for 5 cents a minute, a weekend long fax could easily cost them $150 for no return. Also, with you on the line, there is the possibility that those who are actually interested in the service will be unable to get through.
Actually this does work, and it works very very well.
The trick is in the timing. call on Friday after buisness hours, and let it fax. Once the paper you are faxing starts to come through your machine, loop it back around and tape it together to form a nice continuous loop. I've heard of this fax continuing all weekend until somebody comes in Monday to shut it off.
It may be useless to you, but it isn't useless to the cellphone provider, who more than likely charges some fee for every ringtone downloaded and ever IM sent or recieved.
Normally you can go down the list of features on a new cellphone, and almost all of them will make the provider money in some way or another.
It leads to another whole set of different things to tweak. Wood grain spacing, denisity, type sepcies, and even where the tree was grown could all alter the sonic properties.
Of course, true to hi-fi traditions, the best wood will bee the rarest tree on the planet soaked in the oldest and most expensive saki, thereby keeping high end speaker prices in the upper statosphere.
Yeah, you are right, that'll teach me to try and be smart in the morning before I've had any caffine. I wish I could split my post in two, the applet is nifty and useful, the other part needs to get modded down into oblivion.
The worst part is I really have no excuse for it. I was involved with a radiosonde launch last week that almost got to the altidue they are talking about. The pressure and temp at burst (almost 25km) were around 27mBar and -65C respectivly. That's damn cold!
For those of you wondering how to convert between Mach numbers and mph or m/s, here's a nifty java tool that lets you see how altitude affects the Mach number.
basically the higher you go, the less air there is, and the slower sound travels. So, the mach number, which is the ratio of your speed to the speed of sound, will be higher at high altitudes if the speed is constant.
I get spam from the #10 guy, but unfortunatly he's recently sold my address so now I get spam from some guy in Lativa as well. While the volume hasn't gone up, the content has changed from being viagra sales to being ads for beastiality. Plus the new spams seem to be harder to filter, loaded with many false html tags trying to get them through. Only 4 emails a day or so make it past the mail filters my ISP uses, but I still don't want that shit in my indox.
You try to emerge winex. It tells you what source tarball you need and where to put it. You must download the source tarball from Transgaming and place it where portage told you to put it. Then when you run the emerge command again, the installation procedes as usual. The new ebuild simply has been updated to work with a newer winex tarball version.
Here's what you get as an output from portage:
>>> emerge (1 of 1) app-emulation/winex-transgaming-3.3 to/ !!! winex3_3.3-1.i386.tgz not found in/usr/portage/distfiles.
!!! app-emulation/winex-transgaming-3.3 has fetch restriction turned on. !!! This probably means that this ebuild's files must be downloaded !!! manually. See the comments in the ebuild for more information.
* Please download the appropriate WineX archive (winex3_3.3-1.i386.tgz)
* from http://www.transgaming.com/ (requires a Transgaming subscription)
*
* Then put the file in/usr/portage/distfiles
Simple, take powerful electromagnet, use it to wipe data off the deviced hard drives without anyone noticing. When the machines turn in 0 votes after people have been going into the booth all day it will be fairly obvious something is up.
To me those look a lot like a grid pattern of some sort on the lens, like those black hashmarks you see in moon pictures.
Perhaps it is just a bad picture, Nasa has a much clearer one. I don't see anything like that on the picture linked in the article, but maybe I'm just missing it.
There's already something somewhat like that for buisnesses.
Computrace allows for tracking of stolen computers when they come online. The client "phones home" every now and then and is generally ignored unless you contact them and tell them the computer is missing or stolen. I'd assume one an IP address has been associated with the stolen hardware all that would be required to find it would be a few subpoenas in the right places.
What's even more interesting is that the client can be issued a command to delete everything on the stolen machine, if the company is willing to fork over $200 every time it happens.
Sure, it isn't cheap at $50 for a year of monitoring per machine, but short of replacing the hard drive there's apparently not much a theif can do to get rid of it. According to their FAQ thier agent can survive a repartition and reformat, although I have a hard time seeing how.
I don't think the companies would be so hostile if they had know ahead of time that they would be paying Rambus royalties. I think the issue was more that Rambus slipped their patented process into the design and then, when it was too late to remove it, they told everyone to pay up. I think the manufacturers were rightfully pissed off. This is with SDRAM (and by extension DDR) tech, not RDRAM, which everyone expects Rambus to charge for.
That said I think it is unsuprizing that Intel and the manufacturers would look somewhere else for the next generation of RAM technologies. They'd be foolish to deal with a companay that had tricked them before.
Send a picture of your sweetheart off with $4,000 and in a month or so you'll get back a 3/4 carat diamond the exact same color of her eyes. I have a hard time believing that the fact that it wasn't "natural' would really set somebody off because after all it is still a diamond and not only that, but it is her diamond.
It refers to the practice of trying to mke it look like there is a grass-roots movement afoot about a particular subject or person. Often it involves fake letters of praise that are designed to look like they came from normal people. Paid reviewers and such can also be used.
The term Astroturfing fits because what is happening is a fake grass-roots movement. Fake grass = astroturf.
Windows XP is based on the Win2k kernel IIRC. Assuming that code is part of what got leaked everything after Windows ME could be in for a world of hurt.
No it isn't really, but start doing other things like browsing the web and workign with OO.o and the CPU will hit 99% and things will get unresponsive (but the recording doesn't mess up). This could be the 2.4.24 kernel I'm using, I'll have to try a 2.6. Also I'm using PC-133 memory (1GB of it, but it is still slow), which could lag things down.
As far as MPEG-4, I think if you have the codec installed on your machine it will be able to record in it, but I'm not certain. I never did anything special to enable it.
The RIAA's buisness would be much better if people didn't know how to store their media.
They don't want you to keep cds for a long time, they'd be perfectly happy if everyone scratched up their cds and had to buy new ones every couple years. Much of their buisness comes from people buying stuff they already have bought in the past, it doesn't matter if it is on an old format like tape or if they just destryed the original.
I think the CD-RW boom has hurt the music industry in this way. Now, you can make a perfect backup to use in your car, or while exercising, or at work. It costs ten cents so you don't have to worry about scratching them. Ever since I had a few of my cds stolen, I use copies for most everything. Short of a fire in my room, the originals are safe.
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I have an old Turtle Beach montego II card, which is Aureal (remember them?) based. It supposedly has a hardware mixer that is supported by Alsa, so I'll have to see. I'll have to swap it out with the Fm801-based card I have in at the moment.
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Cisco's stuff may be nearly bulletproof, but the damn things take forever to power on. A 350 AP or BR can easily take over 3 minutes to boot. I really hope that they can find a way around boot speed issues. The public at large will not be as willing to wait as a network admin.
Also, to those confused about how antenna gain works. The gain is measured in comparison to the output of an isotropic radiator, basically something that puts out the same signal strength in all directions. So that means that any unamped antenna with a gain higher than 1dBi is directional in some sense, because the total radiated power is still the same. So-called omnidirectional antennas really are only omnidirectional in the horizontal plane, if you go up or down their signal strength drops off rapidly.
That isn't the point. The point is to tie up the phone for as long as possible. As it is an 800 number, they get charged for the call. Even if they get the number for 5 cents a minute, a weekend long fax could easily cost them $150 for no return. Also, with you on the line, there is the possibility that those who are actually interested in the service will be unable to get through.
The trick is in the timing. call on Friday after buisness hours, and let it fax. Once the paper you are faxing starts to come through your machine, loop it back around and tape it together to form a nice continuous loop. I've heard of this fax continuing all weekend until somebody comes in Monday to shut it off.
Normally you can go down the list of features on a new cellphone, and almost all of them will make the provider money in some way or another.
Of course, true to hi-fi traditions, the best wood will bee the rarest tree on the planet soaked in the oldest and most expensive saki, thereby keeping high end speaker prices in the upper statosphere.
The worst part is I really have no excuse for it. I was involved with a radiosonde launch last week that almost got to the altidue they are talking about. The pressure and temp at burst (almost 25km) were around 27mBar and -65C respectivly. That's damn cold!
basically the higher you go, the less air there is, and the slower sound travels. So, the mach number, which is the ratio of your speed to the speed of sound, will be higher at high altitudes if the speed is constant.
I get spam from the #10 guy, but unfortunatly he's recently sold my address so now I get spam from some guy in Lativa as well. While the volume hasn't gone up, the content has changed from being viagra sales to being ads for beastiality. Plus the new spams seem to be harder to filter, loaded with many false html tags trying to get them through. Only 4 emails a day or so make it past the mail filters my ISP uses, but I still don't want that shit in my indox.
Sure, they may only be asking for $1.65million, but where they will really get ya is on shipping.
Here's how it works in gentoo:
/ /usr/portage/distfiles.
/usr/portage/distfiles
You try to emerge winex. It tells you what source tarball you need and where to put it. You must download the source tarball from Transgaming and place it where portage told you to put it. Then when you run the emerge command again, the installation procedes as usual. The new ebuild simply has been updated to work with a newer winex tarball version.
Here's what you get as an output from portage:
>>> emerge (1 of 1) app-emulation/winex-transgaming-3.3 to
!!! winex3_3.3-1.i386.tgz not found in
!!! app-emulation/winex-transgaming-3.3 has fetch restriction turned on.
!!! This probably means that this ebuild's files must be downloaded
!!! manually. See the comments in the ebuild for more information.
* Please download the appropriate WineX archive (winex3_3.3-1.i386.tgz)
* from http://www.transgaming.com/ (requires a Transgaming subscription)
*
* Then put the file in
Simple, take powerful electromagnet, use it to wipe data off the deviced hard drives without anyone noticing. When the machines turn in 0 votes after people have been going into the booth all day it will be fairly obvious something is up.
Perhaps it is just a bad picture, Nasa has a much clearer one. I don't see anything like that on the picture linked in the article, but maybe I'm just missing it.
What's even more interesting is that the client can be issued a command to delete everything on the stolen machine, if the company is willing to fork over $200 every time it happens.
Sure, it isn't cheap at $50 for a year of monitoring per machine, but short of replacing the hard drive there's apparently not much a theif can do to get rid of it. According to their FAQ thier agent can survive a repartition and reformat, although I have a hard time seeing how.
I remember typing 'funds" would give you $10,000 but the money was useless because you were an ant.
That said I think it is unsuprizing that Intel and the manufacturers would look somewhere else for the next generation of RAM technologies. They'd be foolish to deal with a companay that had tricked them before.
Send a picture of your sweetheart off with $4,000 and in a month or so you'll get back a 3/4 carat diamond the exact same color of her eyes. I have a hard time believing that the fact that it wasn't "natural' would really set somebody off because after all it is still a diamond and not only that, but it is her diamond.
These people could make a fortune.
The term Astroturfing fits because what is happening is a fake grass-roots movement. Fake grass = astroturf.
Am I the only one who just spits out a random string of numbers when they ask for phone number or zip code info at the checkout?
Windows XP is based on the Win2k kernel IIRC. Assuming that code is part of what got leaked everything after Windows ME could be in for a world of hurt.
Oh, we can bitch all we want about it, as we have the right to free speach.
Now, whether we have a good basis for our complaints or not is the real question.
Watch the books be edited in "special editions" that all of a sudden are exactly like the movies.
As far as MPEG-4, I think if you have the codec installed on your machine it will be able to record in it, but I'm not certain. I never did anything special to enable it.
They don't want you to keep cds for a long time, they'd be perfectly happy if everyone scratched up their cds and had to buy new ones every couple years. Much of their buisness comes from people buying stuff they already have bought in the past, it doesn't matter if it is on an old format like tape or if they just destryed the original.
I think the CD-RW boom has hurt the music industry in this way. Now, you can make a perfect backup to use in your car, or while exercising, or at work. It costs ten cents so you don't have to worry about scratching them. Ever since I had a few of my cds stolen, I use copies for most everything. Short of a fire in my room, the originals are safe.
I have an old Turtle Beach montego II card, which is Aureal (remember them?) based. It supposedly has a hardware mixer that is supported by Alsa, so I'll have to see. I'll have to swap it out with the Fm801-based card I have in at the moment.