Finland has half the population density of the US, yet is almost entirely covered, including things like trains, subways and ferries. The claim that US carriers can't leverage economies of scale with twice the population density, higher plan prices and exploitative contract lock-ins seems a bit incompetent to me.
We ran into a similar issue (does a network admin run the routers or Windows boxes?) and anything with engineer and architect got nixed because those titles imply having passed a professional exam entitling one to the use of said title, and since there are no state approved "network engineer" or "network architect" degrees and exams we couldn't use such terms in titles either.
I tried MythTV (okay, Mythbuntu) as well, but never got it to work worth anything. It wouldn't play hardly any of the files I had:-(
That being said, my TV is a plasma, (Samsung 50") and other than taking some care against leaving a static image for hours on the screen, the picture quality (over VGA) is outstanding. Both Ubuntu and Windows autodetected the screen and used its native resolution without any trouble.
Well, the setup wasn't "fancy." It was my old desktop PC hooked up to the VGA input on my TV, with stereo analog audio into the amp. No different than watching it from a monitor with headphones or computer speakers. As far as drive sharing and, I don't know how common that is for the average user, but I'd imagine that's a pretty basic use as well.
I played for weeks trying to get Ubuntu to work as a HTPC. All the media players I found in the repository either had horrid tearing problems, jerky motion, no audio, crashed constantly, or could not display the subtitles in a sane size on my plasma TV -- either tiny scribble or humongous letters, despite changing the settings I could find for the subtitle font. (Not to mention that the SB card defaulted to digital out and no peep on analog, and good luck finding that switch in the GUI...) Put Vista on it, downloaded CCCP, everything works fine -- it even had native drivers for my ATI Remote Wonder II, which never worked under Ubuntu either. Also, setting up SMB workgroup in Ubuntu is akin to waterboarding -- there needs to be a decent GUI or even text-based setup for that, and integration into system accounts and passwords. All of this can presumably be fixed, but when someone who uses CentOS for a living at work gives up after two weeks it can't be much easier for the average teen who just wants to watch anime. Okay, done ranting;-)
On all the Nokia Symbian phones I've owned, whether or not you can install unsigned applications was a phone setting. On all of them you could install unsigned apps by changing the phone setting and accepting the warning. None of them required the Symbian signed stuff.
Actually, foreign students pay around triple, depending on school, the tuition of citizens and residents. In many institutions they in fact bring in the funds to subsidize the Americans that share their classes. Less foreign students means higher tuition for Americans.
In the Tampa Bay area to get broadband over cable or FiOS or DSL you're looking at more like ~$50 for basic service, if it's unbundled. If you pay for an landline and get dialup it's cheaper, but not by that much.
Actually, the problem is that putting electricity through a wire generates a magnetic field. The high-temperature superconductors are very sensitive to magnetic fields, which quench the superconductivity. Consequently, they suck at getting any significant amount of power through them.
What I do not understand is the insistence to measure everything by total amount transmitted. In Scandinavia the tiering is based on speed: if you have a cheap plan, the amount of data is unlimited, but you are restricted to 386 kb or so. If you pay up, you get the full 2+ Mb. That achieves the reduction of load on the radio channel just as effectively.
In direct contradiction to the "we're the first!" in the article, apparently ISPs elsewhere on the planet (according to a recent discussion on a network operator's mailing list) do place customers in "quarantine" if the ISP believes they've been infected, where the customer's access is restricted to mitigate the risk of the infection but allow them to patch up and do basic things. Presumably depending on how draconian such restrictions are determines how palatable they will be. Even so, I agree; injecting pop-ups into my connections is just creepy and I'd rather they email me or call me.
Depends how smart their profiles are. Many worms are distinctly different from bittorrent and any normal use in their scanning of address ranges and attempts to log in or go to known control sites or download known malware packages. I work at a large university and we use netflow info all the time to pinpoint infected machines on campus with a very high accuracy.
Because they have more street cred than Tolly? (Not saying much.)
Actually, after having done two in-depth in-house reviews of two different technologies for our purchasing, we were amused to find out that in both cases our "short list" ended up looking almost identical to the Gartner "Magic Quadrant." It's also useful in justifying "Why did you pick these products for evaluation" to management. So, used carefully, with common sense, they can be of use in an enterprise environment.
Even if it was funded with taxpayer money? Even if the patent prevents or significantly hinders companies and other universities from furthering the research?
In the case of Cisco, for example, it doesn't matter how much you hack the Linksys brand gizmos. They won't come even close to something real running IOS. You may get a lot of the same "features" on paper, but when you actually start to use them and expect them to work, or a standard interface to configure and debug what's happening (or not happening), the professional gear wins hands down. For people who have enough time to play with dd-wrt and such these are an awesome deal. For the core markets of Cisco, Juniper, Foundry et alia, where companies want guaranteed life cycles, support and reliability so they don't waste the time of highly paid network engineers on easily avoidable troubleshooting, these are hardly any threat at all.
More's the pity, because I want something that does WPA2, 5 GHz N, and doesn't croak when doing video file transfers. My current (closed source) Netgear dies whenever the wireless sees any significant amount of SMB traffic:-(
I work with enterprise-class wireless and routers, and I'm really getting testy with this SOHO crap that is being peddled. On the flip side, I don't have $500-$1500 to spend on a decent wireless + router combo of the professional style, so the search goes on.
I had to make significant tuning to the NAT translation table size / age outs on my DD-WRT / WRT54GL combo. Until then bittorrent would have so many connections that they filled up the router RAM and it didn't deal with it at all gracefully. After the changes it was very stable (but ended in the close because I needed 5 GHz, 2.4 is totally useless due to neighbors saturating the spectrum.)
On my most recent re-entries, I was printed and photographed at the Port of Miami and Hartsfield in Atlanta. I wasn't a year ago in Washington DC, so go fig. Citizens I traveled with weren't.
Also, the officer always asks something in the language corresponding to the nationality listed on my GC. They don't seem to have enough training to actually understand the response, so presumably as long as you don't look clueless when spoken to in what they think is your language you pass that test.
Lots of photos in RAW format. Also, scans of family albums and photos. Doesn't really much matter if they're RAW or DNG, as long as they're lossless sensor images, they're going to be big. Even being pretty picky with the ones I keep it adds up to 5-20 GB a year. (Then again, I do a lot of photography.)
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Finland has half the population density of the US, yet is almost entirely covered, including things like trains, subways and ferries. The claim that US carriers can't leverage economies of scale with twice the population density, higher plan prices and exploitative contract lock-ins seems a bit incompetent to me.
We ran into a similar issue (does a network admin run the routers or Windows boxes?) and anything with engineer and architect got nixed because those titles imply having passed a professional exam entitling one to the use of said title, and since there are no state approved "network engineer" or "network architect" degrees and exams we couldn't use such terms in titles either.
I tried MythTV (okay, Mythbuntu) as well, but never got it to work worth anything. It wouldn't play hardly any of the files I had :-(
That being said, my TV is a plasma, (Samsung 50") and other than taking some care against leaving a static image for hours on the screen, the picture quality (over VGA) is outstanding. Both Ubuntu and Windows autodetected the screen and used its native resolution without any trouble.
Well, the setup wasn't "fancy." It was my old desktop PC hooked up to the VGA input on my TV, with stereo analog audio into the amp. No different than watching it from a monitor with headphones or computer speakers.
As far as drive sharing and, I don't know how common that is for the average user, but I'd imagine that's a pretty basic use as well.
I played for weeks trying to get Ubuntu to work as a HTPC. All the media players I found in the repository either had horrid tearing problems, jerky motion, no audio, crashed constantly, or could not display the subtitles in a sane size on my plasma TV -- either tiny scribble or humongous letters, despite changing the settings I could find for the subtitle font. (Not to mention that the SB card defaulted to digital out and no peep on analog, and good luck finding that switch in the GUI...) Put Vista on it, downloaded CCCP, everything works fine -- it even had native drivers for my ATI Remote Wonder II, which never worked under Ubuntu either. Also, setting up SMB workgroup in Ubuntu is akin to waterboarding -- there needs to be a decent GUI or even text-based setup for that, and integration into system accounts and passwords. All of this can presumably be fixed, but when someone who uses CentOS for a living at work gives up after two weeks it can't be much easier for the average teen who just wants to watch anime. Okay, done ranting ;-)
On all the Nokia Symbian phones I've owned, whether or not you can install unsigned applications was a phone setting. On all of them you could install unsigned apps by changing the phone setting and accepting the warning. None of them required the Symbian signed stuff.
Actually, foreign students pay around triple, depending on school, the tuition of citizens and residents. In many institutions they in fact bring in the funds to subsidize the Americans that share their classes. Less foreign students means higher tuition for Americans.
In the Tampa Bay area to get broadband over cable or FiOS or DSL you're looking at more like ~$50 for basic service, if it's unbundled. If you pay for an landline and get dialup it's cheaper, but not by that much.
Actually, the problem is that putting electricity through a wire generates a magnetic field. The high-temperature superconductors are very sensitive to magnetic fields, which quench the superconductivity. Consequently, they suck at getting any significant amount of power through them.
What I do not understand is the insistence to measure everything by total amount transmitted. In Scandinavia the tiering is based on speed: if you have a cheap plan, the amount of data is unlimited, but you are restricted to 386 kb or so. If you pay up, you get the full 2+ Mb. That achieves the reduction of load on the radio channel just as effectively.
In direct contradiction to the "we're the first!" in the article, apparently ISPs elsewhere on the planet (according to a recent discussion on a network operator's mailing list) do place customers in "quarantine" if the ISP believes they've been infected, where the customer's access is restricted to mitigate the risk of the infection but allow them to patch up and do basic things. Presumably depending on how draconian such restrictions are determines how palatable they will be.
Even so, I agree; injecting pop-ups into my connections is just creepy and I'd rather they email me or call me.
Depends how smart their profiles are. Many worms are distinctly different from bittorrent and any normal use in their scanning of address ranges and attempts to log in or go to known control sites or download known malware packages. I work at a large university and we use netflow info all the time to pinpoint infected machines on campus with a very high accuracy.
Because they have more street cred than Tolly? (Not saying much.)
Actually, after having done two in-depth in-house reviews of two different technologies for our purchasing, we were amused to find out that in both cases our "short list" ended up looking almost identical to the Gartner "Magic Quadrant." It's also useful in justifying "Why did you pick these products for evaluation" to management. So, used carefully, with common sense, they can be of use in an enterprise environment.
Even if it was funded with taxpayer money? Even if the patent prevents or significantly hinders companies and other universities from furthering the research?
In the case of Cisco, for example, it doesn't matter how much you hack the Linksys brand gizmos. They won't come even close to something real running IOS. You may get a lot of the same "features" on paper, but when you actually start to use them and expect them to work, or a standard interface to configure and debug what's happening (or not happening), the professional gear wins hands down. For people who have enough time to play with dd-wrt and such these are an awesome deal. For the core markets of Cisco, Juniper, Foundry et alia, where companies want guaranteed life cycles, support and reliability so they don't waste the time of highly paid network engineers on easily avoidable troubleshooting, these are hardly any threat at all.
Supports no 802.11n routers. Let alone 5 GHz 802.11n routers. At least as of my checking half an hour ago.
More's the pity, because I want something that does WPA2, 5 GHz N, and doesn't croak when doing video file transfers. My current (closed source) Netgear dies whenever the wireless sees any significant amount of SMB traffic :-(
I work with enterprise-class wireless and routers, and I'm really getting testy with this SOHO crap that is being peddled. On the flip side, I don't have $500-$1500 to spend on a decent wireless + router combo of the professional style, so the search goes on.
I had to make significant tuning to the NAT translation table size / age outs on my DD-WRT / WRT54GL combo. Until then bittorrent would have so many connections that they filled up the router RAM and it didn't deal with it at all gracefully. After the changes it was very stable (but ended in the close because I needed 5 GHz, 2.4 is totally useless due to neighbors saturating the spectrum.)
I would also think that any of Asimov's works including the three laws of robotics would be pretty relevant.
I guess the University of South Florida falls into that dark matter. (2620:0:c30::)
On my most recent re-entries, I was printed and photographed at the Port of Miami and Hartsfield in Atlanta. I wasn't a year ago in Washington DC, so go fig. Citizens I traveled with weren't.
Also, the officer always asks something in the language corresponding to the nationality listed on my GC. They don't seem to have enough training to actually understand the response, so presumably as long as you don't look clueless when spoken to in what they think is your language you pass that test.
US Residents are also fingerprinted and photographed routinely upon re-entry.
Servers = static or reserved DHCP
Printers = reserved DHCP
Network gear = static, but competely under control, right?
Random network devices = reserved DHCP (signage, VoIP phones, card access, cameras, speakers, projectors, control processors, energy management etc.)
The title is pretty misleading, as it omits "US." One might also look outside of the US borders for some examples of how new nuclear power plants are coming along -- or aren't.
Lots of photos in RAW format. Also, scans of family albums and photos. Doesn't really much matter if they're RAW or DNG, as long as they're lossless sensor images, they're going to be big. Even being pretty picky with the ones I keep it adds up to 5-20 GB a year. (Then again, I do a lot of photography.)