I also want to know what has been made to add more non-combat, non-lock-picking roleplay. What in 4th edition stimulates the imagination more than 3rd, getting people to get more into the heads of their characters, more willing to interact with other PCs and NPCs? What is there to help DMs create more lifelike settings and social interactions? What makes characters less of a class/role stereotype and more of a unique individual?
Also, the article is a bit unclear as to just what he obtained. If he used programmatic tools to harvest information out of whois, he was in violation of the terms under which this information is provided. Just do a whois query on any.com and actually read the disclaimer.
That's actually one of the major reasons. At my university anything that goes between buildings is fiber because then you don't have to worry about lightning or even more static ground issues you run into. Just running copper from here to there is not nearly as simple as you'd think and by the time you factor in grounding and isolation equipment for copper, you're talking about a fair bit of money and space requirements.
Also, it's fairly common practice to not use autoconfigured or throwaway addresses for things such as gateways and DNS servers. Then you end up with::1. Depending on your network, the prefix is going to always be the same, or only have a few changing portions, so suddenly the addresses are a lot more manageable.
No. It's the only sane way to allow for changes in network address assignments and for zero-configuration networking on machines. In larger installations it also allows for essentially statistical multiplexing; not every computer hooked up to the network is going to be on at the same time, so the total number of addresses needed is lower than the number of computers.
When Google decides to support it and when your ISP decides to support it. My university is natively IPv6 connected, and for any of the few places that have IPv6 running I use IPv6 on stock Vista 64 bit, no changes necessary. Client and server OSs, routers/switches and a lot of applications support it just fine today. Our FTP mirror syncs some distros using rsync over IPv6, and there are some public audio streaming servers and random other resources on the net, although presently precious few.
My gripe with the local Apple store is twofold. First, a lot of the products a broken; almost none of the digital cameras on display ever work, and quite often many of the headphones and speakers and such are out of order as well. A lot of these display items also lack clearly marked prices, which I always consider to be very bad form. Second, it's nice to have a support section (Genius Bar), but if I have to make an appointment and wait for two hours to talk to someone to ask a simple pre-sales question which the sales staff couldn't answer, I'm definitely not going to be impressed.
That's the same for us in Florida. There really is no comparable store for the breadth of selection, as sad as it is. BestBuy and Circuit City just don't cut it. I really do hope that this will give Fry's incentive to swoop in.
What's ironic is that US T-Mobile subscribers can't get it. I wonder what would happen if a German T-Mobile iPhone subscriber were to come over to the US with their phone...
I have nothing against Linux, and think the product is pretty interesting, but the review was bad. It was not at all well written with a lot stylistic and grammatical errors, it gloosed over most technical aspects in the most superficial of fashions, and the tone of the review was very biased; any shortcomings were either excused or ignored. What draft of N was the wireless? Will it support draft 2? Will ASUS guarantee it can be upgraded to the N-standard when it comes out? Which of the two frequency bands did it work in? Did the integrated linux support WPA 2? There are a lot of very basic questions that were never touched, many of which could result in this motherboard being pretty useless.
I beg to disagree. 1) You need to know what is in your radio environment, either via an integrated product like Cisco's or Aruba's or that of any number of other vendors, or a third-party solution, to guarantee that there are no wireless networks being broadcast that your users could accidentally associate with. 2) You need to have control over laptops and other portables anyway; as part of this you can only allow them to associate to your WPA2 enterprise protected network, or only communicate over a VPN connection. 3) You field your wireless network using WPA2 enterprise encryption; it's secure enough (no shared codes, no pre-shared anything) and you can always use a VPN on top of that. It provides access control so people without credentials can't get on, you can exactly pinpoint users (even as far as triangulated location with a lot of the aforementioned products) and it's actually really nice for troubleshooting, as you can get RF statistics per username. 4) You treat wireless as a separately firewalled network with tight controls and monitoring.
We run a WiFi network of 500 APs in addition to our day jobs of managing 1000+ switches and routers, all with four people. If you plan ahead and get good products, WiFi is not a headache at all.
There's the problem of wiring and cost; especially in a retrofit situation wiring up a conference table often requires a poke-through or trenching to get the cables there, and this can be expensive enough to be nixed by managers. Even in new construction in my organization our suggestions for data jack locations are constantly overruled by reasons of "Nobody's ever going to need that" and "floor boxes are ugly" and the like. I'd be well set if "I told you so" would bring me any joy. Even the low-tech solution of a tapered, metal under-carpet ramp/channel that can withstand the tread of feet is often nixed as a tripping hazard.
Because the single cable carries video and audio from your HD tuner box / computer / gaming console / HD disc player to your receiver which you use to pick what source you're watching and listening to. Both video and audio want to go from the source to there. From there audio wants to go to the speakers, video to the screen.
Our university employment system. If I ever want vacation I need IE. Some Cisco products I must use at work only work with IE. There are real world situations where people are forced to use IE. I'm encountering them less and less, but they do still exist.
To certify every cell phone to be safe in flight would require a lot of study and creating new standards, restricting the design criteria of avionics and testing of every possible cell phone model. That could be pretty darn expensive.
Not to mention that we live in a global world; how do you certify that a Chinese passenger's Chinese cell phone doesn't interfere with a Russian plane's avionics flying into the US? Getting everyone on the planet to agree to these things is a pretty impressive challenge.
Cellular carriers have looked at it very seriously for the next generation (4G?) networks, as one potential idea is to do packetized voice, and the number of addressable devices is potentially huge, and depending on how mobility is done, each device may need several addresses.
The U.S. federal government has mandated it, so anyone wishing to get into that business needs it.
That being said, my university has been running IPv6 for a few years now -- we luckily have native IPv6 feed from I2 -- and all of our routers (Cisco IOS), servers (various variants of Linux) and clients (MacOS X, Linux, Windows XP) have supported it just fine.
That's not exactly true. First, typically NAC requires the user to have valid credentials and provides some accountability -- if a PC turns out to have a virus, at least a person responsible for it can be found and contacted. NAC can, pretty reliably if done right, confirm that the machine in question has update services running, has an active antivirus (as opposed to just a process with the same name) and is running proper patch levels and virus definitions. This alone fixes the vast majority of security breaches at most institutions. If all machines are authenticated via 802.1x, and must be added to a domain by an admin and have pushed policies enabled, NAC doesn't buy you a ton. But in a university environment, for example, where the managers don't control the machines, a way to enforce a minimum compliance is very, very attractive.
Not per se, that I know of. But in the town I live in, there is a cruise ship terminal, aquarium and shopping/dining/movie complex with a parking garage. As it happens, the garage has a beautiful view of downtown and all the neon of the above establishments. I went there once with a friend to take pictures. The garage staff told us to quit and prevented us from leaving until a sheriff showed up. He went through all of our pictures (thank goodness for digital), called in our driver's license numbers, and advised us that there was to be no photography anywhere in the area. Considering that this is complex that processes hundreds of thousands of tourists a year, not to mention all the people going to the clubs and restaurants, this was obviously ridiculous, but we didn't feel like pressing the point; we did however ask how we could get permission to take photos there, since it had some unique views, and were told that we couldn't.
I figure that it's reasonable to assume that people at a university level to have basic learning skills. I do not see why it would be bad to teach people how to learn. Saying that it's entirely up to the student is something I don't agree with at all. Learning to learn is also a lifelong process, and much of what works and doesn't also depends on the professor's teaching style.
Besides, in reality, I know that at least I get distracted by AIM, web surfing and what not in class. On one hand it can be good, as we can look up supplementary material or figure out how to spell some name the professor mentioned without having to interrupt the class for it, but on the other I definitely concede that laptops can be a distraction.
Because the capacity of optical fiber is so high, this optical-wireless network
Well, except the new free space optics solution -- which isn't new per se, companies have had niche products for years -- isn't constrained in an optical fiber which would prevent interference. Instead it uses free space, and this immediately limits your bandwidth as you ultimately have to share it with people nearby you or nearby the other end of the air interface.
I only have experience with "enterprise class" gigabit (read: Cisco), and as an earlier poster pointed out, whether the autosense is there depends on the equipment. Some switches/routers have it, some don't. The newer the gear the higher the likelihood that it exists, though. Admittedly, you only need it on one end, but still. Autosense is good for straight cables, or gigabit crossed cables. A regular crossed cable won't work at all, whether autosensing or not.
Bzzzt. Because 48 Volts is the standard used for all the DC equipment telephone companies have been using for years. Cisco, for example, makes a large portion of their product line with 48 V DC power supplies as well.
Mind you, the 48 V DC systems are not simple or easy to wire. You're talking very significant amperages, which means very beefy conductors, and with batteries in the picture a risk of nasty stuff if you drop your screw driver in the wrong place.
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I also want to know what has been made to add more non-combat, non-lock-picking roleplay. What in 4th edition stimulates the imagination more than 3rd, getting people to get more into the heads of their characters, more willing to interact with other PCs and NPCs? What is there to help DMs create more lifelike settings and social interactions? What makes characters less of a class/role stereotype and more of a unique individual?
Also, the article is a bit unclear as to just what he obtained. If he used programmatic tools to harvest information out of whois, he was in violation of the terms under which this information is provided. Just do a whois query on any .com and actually read the disclaimer.
That's actually one of the major reasons. At my university anything that goes between buildings is fiber because then you don't have to worry about lightning or even more static ground issues you run into. Just running copper from here to there is not nearly as simple as you'd think and by the time you factor in grounding and isolation equipment for copper, you're talking about a fair bit of money and space requirements.
Also, it's fairly common practice to not use autoconfigured or throwaway addresses for things such as gateways and DNS servers. Then you end up with ::1. Depending on your network, the prefix is going to always be the same, or only have a few changing portions, so suddenly the addresses are a lot more manageable.
No. It's the only sane way to allow for changes in network address assignments and for zero-configuration networking on machines. In larger installations it also allows for essentially statistical multiplexing; not every computer hooked up to the network is going to be on at the same time, so the total number of addresses needed is lower than the number of computers.
When Google decides to support it and when your ISP decides to support it. My university is natively IPv6 connected, and for any of the few places that have IPv6 running I use IPv6 on stock Vista 64 bit, no changes necessary. Client and server OSs, routers/switches and a lot of applications support it just fine today. Our FTP mirror syncs some distros using rsync over IPv6, and there are some public audio streaming servers and random other resources on the net, although presently precious few.
My gripe with the local Apple store is twofold. First, a lot of the products a broken; almost none of the digital cameras on display ever work, and quite often many of the headphones and speakers and such are out of order as well. A lot of these display items also lack clearly marked prices, which I always consider to be very bad form.
Second, it's nice to have a support section (Genius Bar), but if I have to make an appointment and wait for two hours to talk to someone to ask a simple pre-sales question which the sales staff couldn't answer, I'm definitely not going to be impressed.
Sony Ericsson isn't any better. I was told point blank by SE USA that they will not sell me nor refer me to a vendor for a USB cable for my K600i.
That's the same for us in Florida. There really is no comparable store for the breadth of selection, as sad as it is. BestBuy and Circuit City just don't cut it. I really do hope that this will give Fry's incentive to swoop in.
What's ironic is that US T-Mobile subscribers can't get it. I wonder what would happen if a German T-Mobile iPhone subscriber were to come over to the US with their phone...
I have nothing against Linux, and think the product is pretty interesting, but the review was bad. It was not at all well written with a lot stylistic and grammatical errors, it gloosed over most technical aspects in the most superficial of fashions, and the tone of the review was very biased; any shortcomings were either excused or ignored. What draft of N was the wireless? Will it support draft 2? Will ASUS guarantee it can be upgraded to the N-standard when it comes out? Which of the two frequency bands did it work in? Did the integrated linux support WPA 2? There are a lot of very basic questions that were never touched, many of which could result in this motherboard being pretty useless.
I checked my university's traffic statistics, and I can't see any significant change in traffic volume around the time of Halo's release.
That being said and speaking as a network professional, yes, the original post was pretty useless.
I beg to disagree.
1) You need to know what is in your radio environment, either via an integrated product like Cisco's or Aruba's or that of any number of other vendors, or a third-party solution, to guarantee that there are no wireless networks being broadcast that your users could accidentally associate with.
2) You need to have control over laptops and other portables anyway; as part of this you can only allow them to associate to your WPA2 enterprise protected network, or only communicate over a VPN connection.
3) You field your wireless network using WPA2 enterprise encryption; it's secure enough (no shared codes, no pre-shared anything) and you can always use a VPN on top of that. It provides access control so people without credentials can't get on, you can exactly pinpoint users (even as far as triangulated location with a lot of the aforementioned products) and it's actually really nice for troubleshooting, as you can get RF statistics per username.
4) You treat wireless as a separately firewalled network with tight controls and monitoring.
We run a WiFi network of 500 APs in addition to our day jobs of managing 1000+ switches and routers, all with four people. If you plan ahead and get good products, WiFi is not a headache at all.
There's the problem of wiring and cost; especially in a retrofit situation wiring up a conference table often requires a poke-through or trenching to get the cables there, and this can be expensive enough to be nixed by managers. Even in new construction in my organization our suggestions for data jack locations are constantly overruled by reasons of "Nobody's ever going to need that" and "floor boxes are ugly" and the like. I'd be well set if "I told you so" would bring me any joy.
Even the low-tech solution of a tapered, metal under-carpet ramp/channel that can withstand the tread of feet is often nixed as a tripping hazard.
Because the single cable carries video and audio from your HD tuner box / computer / gaming console / HD disc player to your receiver which you use to pick what source you're watching and listening to. Both video and audio want to go from the source to there. From there audio wants to go to the speakers, video to the screen.
Our university employment system. If I ever want vacation I need IE. Some Cisco products I must use at work only work with IE. There are real world situations where people are forced to use IE. I'm encountering them less and less, but they do still exist.
To certify every cell phone to be safe in flight would require a lot of study and creating new standards, restricting the design criteria of avionics and testing of every possible cell phone model. That could be pretty darn expensive.
Not to mention that we live in a global world; how do you certify that a Chinese passenger's Chinese cell phone doesn't interfere with a Russian plane's avionics flying into the US? Getting everyone on the planet to agree to these things is a pretty impressive challenge.
Cellular carriers have looked at it very seriously for the next generation (4G?) networks, as one potential idea is to do packetized voice, and the number of addressable devices is potentially huge, and depending on how mobility is done, each device may need several addresses.
The U.S. federal government has mandated it, so anyone wishing to get into that business needs it.
That being said, my university has been running IPv6 for a few years now -- we luckily have native IPv6 feed from I2 -- and all of our routers (Cisco IOS), servers (various variants of Linux) and clients (MacOS X, Linux, Windows XP) have supported it just fine.
That's not exactly true. First, typically NAC requires the user to have valid credentials and provides some accountability -- if a PC turns out to have a virus, at least a person responsible for it can be found and contacted.
NAC can, pretty reliably if done right, confirm that the machine in question has update services running, has an active antivirus (as opposed to just a process with the same name) and is running proper patch levels and virus definitions. This alone fixes the vast majority of security breaches at most institutions.
If all machines are authenticated via 802.1x, and must be added to a domain by an admin and have pushed policies enabled, NAC doesn't buy you a ton. But in a university environment, for example, where the managers don't control the machines, a way to enforce a minimum compliance is very, very attractive.
Not per se, that I know of. But in the town I live in, there is a cruise ship terminal, aquarium and shopping/dining/movie complex with a parking garage. As it happens, the garage has a beautiful view of downtown and all the neon of the above establishments. I went there once with a friend to take pictures. The garage staff told us to quit and prevented us from leaving until a sheriff showed up. He went through all of our pictures (thank goodness for digital), called in our driver's license numbers, and advised us that there was to be no photography anywhere in the area. Considering that this is complex that processes hundreds of thousands of tourists a year, not to mention all the people going to the clubs and restaurants, this was obviously ridiculous, but we didn't feel like pressing the point; we did however ask how we could get permission to take photos there, since it had some unique views, and were told that we couldn't.
I figure that it's reasonable to assume that people at a university level to have basic learning skills. I do not see why it would be bad to teach people how to learn. Saying that it's entirely up to the student is something I don't agree with at all. Learning to learn is also a lifelong process, and much of what works and doesn't also depends on the professor's teaching style.
Besides, in reality, I know that at least I get distracted by AIM, web surfing and what not in class. On one hand it can be good, as we can look up supplementary material or figure out how to spell some name the professor mentioned without having to interrupt the class for it, but on the other I definitely concede that laptops can be a distraction.
Because the capacity of optical fiber is so high, this optical-wireless network
Well, except the new free space optics solution -- which isn't new per se, companies have had niche products for years -- isn't constrained in an optical fiber which would prevent interference. Instead it uses free space, and this immediately limits your bandwidth as you ultimately have to share it with people nearby you or nearby the other end of the air interface.
I only have experience with "enterprise class" gigabit (read: Cisco), and as an earlier poster pointed out, whether the autosense is there depends on the equipment. Some switches/routers have it, some don't. The newer the gear the higher the likelihood that it exists, though. Admittedly, you only need it on one end, but still. Autosense is good for straight cables, or gigabit crossed cables. A regular crossed cable won't work at all, whether autosensing or not.
...except if it's a gigabit crossover cable, where you have to cross the other pairs too, and you loose the white/color;color interleaving scheme.
Bzzzt. Because 48 Volts is the standard used for all the DC equipment telephone companies have been using for years. Cisco, for example, makes a large portion of their product line with 48 V DC power supplies as well.
Mind you, the 48 V DC systems are not simple or easy to wire. You're talking very significant amperages, which means very beefy conductors, and with batteries in the picture a risk of nasty stuff if you drop your screw driver in the wrong place.