Our corporate policy (set by me) is "We don't upgrade". It's worked remarkably well, but I have had to conceed from time to time when a certain megacorp forced us to abandon servers with uptime measured in hundreds of days, to avoid a set of newly discovered vulnerabilities.
Upgrading didn't fix the problem, in the long run, anyway. The work-around has been to install an IPcop firewall, and hope for the best.
I've got a long tail of woe, which I won't bore you with, suffice it to say, Windows 2000 shouldn't ever be exposed to the internet, and you should NEVER use your real domain name for your active directory name.
"See, we have this strange faith in democracy. If we spread democracy to the Middle East, it will break up the madras and the religion of "peace" that is preached in the name of Islam. You know, the version wher 10 year old boys are taught that Allah wants them to strap explosives to their chests and blow themselves up in pizza parlors filled with young Jews?"
This is the same faith that sees no problem with overthrowing governments, and bringing people like Saddam Hussein into power, when it's convinient.
The same faith that sees no problem with using a 500 pound "precision bomb" to take out a single person by dropping it into an apartment building. Then being surpised, but unworried when "collateral damange" happens, and 15 others are killed.
The same faith that supplies Weapons of Mass Destruction to our temporary allies. Faith that doesn't flinch when they get used.
The same faith that supports a man who lied to justify an invasion, while having no plan for the aftermath of that invasion.
The same faith in a leader who has made the world less safe, and made the US weaker.
oh... I wish I had your faith, then I'd be able to sleep at night, instead of worrying about death from a Korean or Iranian, or loose Russian nuke.
oh... to have the faith and naivety of a 4 year old again...
WiMax is not a hotspot replacement. It's for Metropolitan Area Networks, not for your laptop. I'd suggest you pine instead for UltraWideBand, for fast short links to your local server.
For internet access, WiFi outstrips DSL, Cable, and even Corporate T1s. I'm more concerned about getting honest Broadband (100 Megabits/sec or more) to the home. Cordless internet is fast enough for now.
I've had to take two old Windows machines and turn them into a Linux Firewall, and a Linux DNS server, because Windows Server isn't secure enough to face the internet, and doesn't play well behind firewalls.
Google couldn't exist without the internet, and HTML. The reason Google is so good is that they are the best on the planet (except maybe the NSA) at extracting metadata from the internet. The pagerank algorithm lives on links, which don't exist on most people's hard drives. Searching and indexing hard drives, like the "find" in Windows, isn't the same, isn't close, and is very likely to disappoint someone expecting Google quality results.
It's a whole system, the Google/InterNet/Authors... you can't have parts of it standing alone.
I'd find a friend I strongly trust, have them throw the new hardware in their gas oven, with just the pilot light, and let the elevated temperatures force the outgassing. Make sure you don't go past 140, and I think you'll be fine. Alternatively, you could use some outdoor heated and somewhat vented container to accomplish the task.
Also make darned sure you remove all of the batteries from it. You'll defintely shorten the life of any batteries that you accidentally heat this way.
I'd be strongly interested to get feedback on this idea.
The Bible is NOT consistent across translations, editions, etc... its all based on interpretations of interpretations.... the Declaration of Independence might be a better choice for a long term stable source to compare copies against.
Of course if you did that, there's the danger of noticing that George W. seems to be committing the same sins as George III...
My parent's house has tin foil backing on the insulation. It also has an layer of foam insulation with foil backing on both sides, on the exterior, under the siding. This thing would NEVER see through the faraday cage this inadvertantly creates.
Also, most older buildings have steel mesh with plaster on them as a wall surface. It's frustrated quite a few hospital WiFi projects.
The judge may be ignorant of the intricies of TCP/IP routing, but that does NOT make him stupid. The person filing the lawsuit is the ignorant/stupid one.
There are reasons for the current InterNet architecture, if the ISPs customer can't understand them, they should immediately be forced to renumber to the 10.x.x.x address space.:-)
IP6 isn't going to make it easier. To do hardware routing, you need a lookup table in RAM... for every possible address, you need to know the destination port. Hardware routing is the only thing that's going to be able to keep up at the backbone.
So, if you have 2^128 addresses, there isn't enough RAM on the planet to implement a full table, and you have to start compressing it, slowing things way down, or alternatively, you have to implement CAM (content addressible memory). This is a whole new chipset in either case. Yuck!
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You obviously don't understand routing. In order to have IP address portability like you want, all of the core routers on the internet would have to have an entry for each and every discreet IP address on the internet... 4 Billion+ addresses, lets say 16 bytes each, that's 64 GIGAbytes of RAM, just for the routing table!
It's just not practical for small networks (class C or smaller) to be portable.
It sucks when you're a customer who doesn't have a portable address block, but it's not practical to hand them out to small companies. I wish my company could be dual homed, but it ain't gonna happen. </FirstImpression>
We use the Gyration GyroRemote, which works quite well on the Trade Show floor. They use commodity AAA alkaline batteries, so you don't have to worry about keeping them charged.
I've never used comments, but I use keywords all the time, which go into the database, not into the file. It's a good idea (through I haven't) to back up the database.
For editing photos, I use Paint Shop Pro from JASC.
I use ThumbsPlus 6.0 by Cerious software, it makes thumbnails and stores them in an SQL or Access97 compatible database. You can add keywords to the files for searching, etc. It also makes web pages with thumbnails, etc, etc.
It also features a slideshow mode which I use to browse the photos I take, and make my picks for keepers. I recommend this to everyone who asks.
Now I can search manually by date (October 2000 was our honeymoon, for example), or by Keyword (such as DoorCounty, or RoadTrip). I'm carrying the last 3 years around on my laptop, weeding out the lesser half in terms of quality.
Even better is the swivel design of the old Nikon Coolpix 995. You can get really close to macro subjects, and still avoid shadows. Its handy to have a viewing tube (cardboard, tape, rubber bands) to keep the sun off the viewfinder, though.
It's a great set of tips. The best thing about digital is that you can afford to make mistakes, and the cost of practice has gone to zero. The key is to take pictures, look at them, then take more. If you commit yourself to taking 10 pictures a day, you'll start to notice things, and develop an eye for it.
I store mine in folders by date, in c:\photos\yyyy\yyyymmdd\DSCNxxxx.jpg, and it works very well for me.
Dark Matter is a goofy, overly complicated theory to try to explain something obvious. Gravitons don't come from matter, gravitons, like any other particle... PUSH, they don't pull.
Gravitation is a shadowing effect. (Yes, all the formulae still work, except when you get out towards the edges of space)
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Upgrading didn't fix the problem, in the long run, anyway. The work-around has been to install an IPcop firewall, and hope for the best.
I've got a long tail of woe, which I won't bore you with, suffice it to say, Windows 2000 shouldn't ever be exposed to the internet, and you should NEVER use your real domain name for your active directory name.
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This is the same faith that sees no problem with overthrowing governments, and bringing people like Saddam Hussein into power, when it's convinient.
The same faith that sees no problem with using a 500 pound "precision bomb" to take out a single person by dropping it into an apartment building. Then being surpised, but unworried when "collateral damange" happens, and 15 others are killed.
The same faith that supplies Weapons of Mass Destruction to our temporary allies. Faith that doesn't flinch when they get used.
The same faith that supports a man who lied to justify an invasion, while having no plan for the aftermath of that invasion.
The same faith in a leader who has made the world less safe, and made the US weaker.
oh... I wish I had your faith, then I'd be able to sleep at night, instead of worrying about death from a Korean or Iranian, or loose Russian nuke.
oh... to have the faith and naivety of a 4 year old again...
For internet access, WiFi outstrips DSL, Cable, and even Corporate T1s. I'm more concerned about getting honest Broadband (100 Megabits/sec or more) to the home. Cordless internet is fast enough for now.
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We have the ThermoNuclear Bomb, do we really need anything bigger than 100 Megatons?
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NOT
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And it's fun for you to play with as well.
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US, US, uber alles
uber alles in der Welt.... o/~
It's a whole system, the Google/InterNet/Authors... you can't have parts of it standing alone.
--Mike--
Also make darned sure you remove all of the batteries from it. You'll defintely shorten the life of any batteries that you accidentally heat this way.
I'd be strongly interested to get feedback on this idea.
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Did you know the Pentagon lost $1,000,000,000 in CASH!?!?
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Of course if you did that, there's the danger of noticing that George W. seems to be committing the same sins as George III...
Also, most older buildings have steel mesh with plaster on them as a wall surface. It's frustrated quite a few hospital WiFi projects.
If they could do it then, why can't they do it now?
--Mike--
There are reasons for the current InterNet architecture, if the ISPs customer can't understand them, they should immediately be forced to renumber to the 10.x.x.x address space. :-)
--Mike--
So, if you have 2^128 addresses, there isn't enough RAM on the planet to implement a full table, and you have to start compressing it, slowing things way down, or alternatively, you have to implement CAM (content addressible memory). This is a whole new chipset in either case. Yuck!
--Mike--
You obviously don't understand routing. In order to have IP address portability like you want, all of the core routers on the internet would have to have an entry for each and every discreet IP address on the internet... 4 Billion+ addresses, lets say 16 bytes each, that's 64 GIGAbytes of RAM, just for the routing table!
It's just not practical for small networks (class C or smaller) to be portable.
It sucks when you're a customer who doesn't have a portable address block, but it's not practical to hand them out to small companies. I wish my company could be dual homed, but it ain't gonna happen.
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May I recommend 192.168.*.* and 127.0.0.1
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Oh... You DO get it...
Well said!
</Reconsider> --Mike--
We use the Gyration GyroRemote, which works quite well on the Trade Show floor. They use commodity AAA alkaline batteries, so you don't have to worry about keeping them charged.
--Mike--
For editing photos, I use Paint Shop Pro from JASC.
--Mike--
It also features a slideshow mode which I use to browse the photos I take, and make my picks for keepers. I recommend this to everyone who asks.
Now I can search manually by date (October 2000 was our honeymoon, for example), or by Keyword (such as DoorCounty, or RoadTrip). I'm carrying the last 3 years around on my laptop, weeding out the lesser half in terms of quality.
--Mike--
--Mike--
I store mine in folders by date, in c:\photos\yyyy\yyyymmdd\DSCNxxxx.jpg, and it works very well for me.
--Mike--
Gravitation is a shadowing effect. (Yes, all the formulae still work, except when you get out towards the edges of space)
--Mike--