I was always under the impression with wifi that retransmissions were done at the link level. When you do a ping packets are often delayed for 100s of ms. indicating retransmits. I was also under the impression that wifi was all algibra being developed by the csiro to effectivly turn almost noise into some sort of coherent siginal. surely this packet level correction can be done with more buffering at an in between layer. Alternatively a transparent proxy at the ap. You wouldn't want it at the server as it would be sending redundent data over links that don't need it.
Is this possible? In the universe for FTL does all matter fly apart? Maybe we are going backwards and just think we are going forwards? How would we know?
This seems like the equivalent of taking someone to court to take your number out of the phone book when I they should have just asked for a silent number. You can't efficiently index something without taking a copy of it.
I generally think in programming it's the exceptions that cause the problems. I usually only look at averages and maximums, however it must be said many performance problems are caused by a exponential increase in execution time with a linear increase in load/dataset size. I don't really know stats but it's pretty easy to see when this is the case. There are many things that stats will never predict, i.e. when you are going to hit a wall without an underlying knowledge of where the walls are and how close you are to them and what/how you move towards them. It's all pipes and data in the end. You should know what's going to break it (exceptions to your assumptions) and where your bottlenecks are, and what path is going to get followed in what situations. That can get tricky in database queries, say oracle, with stats determining your execution plan. How often does the full table scan in a loop seem to cause a query to never return? Google oracle stats execution plan. I guess it keeps DBAs in a job.
Sure you can track the ip address, but having your picture plasted across the net may make people worry a bit more about stealing laptops with inbuilt cameras if the idea takes off. It wouldn't surprise me if this hasn't already happened. People just love those stories of thieves being caught red handed.
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I was always under the impression with wifi that retransmissions were done at the link level. When you do a ping packets are often delayed for 100s of ms. indicating retransmits. I was also under the impression that wifi was all algibra being developed by the csiro to effectivly turn almost noise into some sort of coherent siginal. surely this packet level correction can be done with more buffering at an in between layer. Alternatively a transparent proxy at the ap. You wouldn't want it at the server as it would be sending redundent data over links that don't need it.
Is this possible? In the universe for FTL does all matter fly apart? Maybe we are going backwards and just think we are going forwards? How would we know?
This seems like the equivalent of taking someone to court to take your number out of the phone book when I they should have just asked for a silent number. You can't efficiently index something without taking a copy of it.
I generally think in programming it's the exceptions that cause the problems. I usually only look at averages and maximums, however it must be said many performance problems are caused by a exponential increase in execution time with a linear increase in load/dataset size. I don't really know stats but it's pretty easy to see when this is the case. There are many things that stats will never predict, i.e. when you are going to hit a wall without an underlying knowledge of where the walls are and how close you are to them and what/how you move towards them. It's all pipes and data in the end. You should know what's going to break it (exceptions to your assumptions) and where your bottlenecks are, and what path is going to get followed in what situations. That can get tricky in database queries, say oracle, with stats determining your execution plan. How often does the full table scan in a loop seem to cause a query to never return? Google oracle stats execution plan. I guess it keeps DBAs in a job.
Isn't there a basic right to remain silent. He shouldn't have to tell anyone the password.
Sure you can track the ip address, but having your picture plasted across the net may make people worry a bit more about stealing laptops with inbuilt cameras if the idea takes off. It wouldn't surprise me if this hasn't already happened. People just love those stories of thieves being caught red handed.
If looks could kill