City Net is not installing these cables in pipes to every home. The go to larger buildings, and commercial/industrial areas. The point isn't to get broadband for the home user, we (I live in Omaha, one of the cities this is going into) already have a broad availability of cable modems and dsl, which is good for the home user, but limited.
Omaha is layed out like a grid, a few stretches of fiber down the main streets, and you'll be within a few hundred feet of a fiber line. Closer if the building is downtown or in west omaha I asume, where most of the commercial buildings are.
With fiber, a company can get REALLY fast connections. Something that's not possible with other mediums. Somebody like mutual of omaha could link a few of their buildings together for a fraction of the cost of having the telco provide them fiber.
As for radio, a company is providing radio based internet access using stations on top of grain silos in Iowa and Nebraska. It's won't really be in Omaha, but it'll be cool to see some of these rural towns get cheap broadband. I wish we had something like this in rural ohio where I'm originally from. Line of site is a bit of a problem there...
I live in Omaha, despite being right dead in the center of the US, most telecomm bypasses us. It goes through Kansas City instead. It's not to far away, but still far enough to raise the cost of broadband alot. It's nice to see our medium size city finally getting some fiber installed to most of the buildings. There are alot of major companies in Omaha, this can do nothing but good in helping this city grow. I'm looking foward to it. Maybe I can find out more info on when they're doing it and check out one of the sewer funk covered bots;)
On an unrelated note, a former spawn company of Inacom is building a data center in Omaha. I'm looking forward to being able to drive 2 minutes (really, it's down the street from my apt) to install a new server, instead of hopping a flight 1000 miles to where our servers curently are. It's to bad one of the major datacenter companies didn't do this first, they're going to miss out on the market. I just hope the racks don't cost and arm and a leg.
Background: I'm in the Air Force, enlisted, I fix mainly vax clusters.
In our office we have lots of nt4/office machines. I do almost everything on a computer, even though I maintain our mostly paper/fiche library of tech data, I keep all that information in a card catalog type app I wrote. We use ms exchange for keeping track of most apointments, and exchanging messages between shifts. All our data on what we did on each job is tracked on a computer (secured properly of course).
What I find odd is, with all this technology, and we still go through ALOT of paper. It's not the worker bees doing it either. It's 80% bureaucratic bs. ALOT could be solved if we had digital signatures. Why should I have to sign my leave form? I fill it out on the computer, but I print it out and save my copy, copy for my boss, copy for the main office. Why couldn't this be done with a computer? Why do people feel a need to print emails? In my mind, printing an email falls under FWA (Fraud Waste and Abuse, what the military calls using things the wrong way), there is NO need for somebody to print out an email saying, "This meeting is now at 1300". Why does the MPF (Military Personal Office) need to send me a rip of my current data on paper to check? Why not pgp it and send it to me through email on the unclassified lan? Why do I walk in every day and find a new breifing on something for me to sign? Can't I be emailed this?
On a good (or sad, depending on your point of view) I think the Air Force has one of the best paperless offices I've ever seen. All our publications/forms are online, in electronic searchable form. I can find the latest regs on what my uniform should look like in a few keystrokes, no trees kill once a year printing the newest version for everybody. Almost all our tech data is going electronic, so I can carry a computer with all I need on it, instead of grabbing a few books/fiche out of our almost half million page library. Having a find key for my data would speed up my ability to fix things ALOT. I can email somebody at another base, or a contractor, and have a response in a few minutes, no need to go through mail/distro/whatever, and no trees killed.
The bottom line is, if the 'old timers' could get past wanting everything on paper, and people used secure digital signatures, we could save alot of paper.
I helped start a small non-profit isp in a rural area in about 95. We piggy backed a local college's non-profit status, payed them a bit to use their server and their modem bank, and charged $8/month for access. Shell, everything. We provided free tech support, and setup at your home for $15. Plus, classes for free. Now (I'm no longer involved much, just the ocasional input to the board, since I moved) They're up to 300+ lines for the isp end i believe, that they share with the school and they've bought the school an additional T1. We called it a FeeNet since we were non-profit but still charged to keep the leeching down. We have had a few grants also.
Its interesting that I note that most uber-smart unix geeks I know are just throwing in the towel and running an SSH client from windows into their BSD boxes. Why? Because they're tired of seeing "plugin not suported" when they try to do anything interesting on the web.
I hear that. I used to run Linux on my main pc (dual 550mhz), and mac os on my G3. Programing/Email/Admin/etc on the Linux box, Design/Multimedia/etc on the mac. After constantly fighting with linux to get almost anything multimedia running, with almost the same true for the mac os, I decided to make a change. I'm not saying that linux/mac suck, they have their place, just for my needs, I needed something different. I now have debian on my g3 as my masq box, and general linux use machine. Windows (2000 of course) runs on my main machine, with dual monitors. SSH and VNC let me control the mac from one area. I now I can play games, view things like asf movies (without crashing or 3 hours of configuration), while running a bash shell, and whatever x11 apps I can live without on vnc. It's worked out very nicely for me. I miss the ability to configure X11 windows managers, and being able to REALLY fix my computer when it breaks (windows is still like shooting a fish an a barrell when something messes up). But I like it, I suspect others do the same thing I do.
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I don't think they way they did it would apply to space travel, but what about time travel? I suppose you could encase something in this gas, and achive time travel. But then again, if space and time are relavent, I guess it would be possible to travel with it... I'm not up on this subject at all, but does anybody care to post a real educated view on this?
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Here's a report from 1999 on the status of the project.
Imagine a universe in which every joe shmoe could sell MP3s on his website and keep the lot. One of us is imagining a real possibility here, one of us is fantasising.
What about a background process that contains an encrypted file and checks a web server for that file, if it doesn't find it, or that exact encrypted file, then nothing happens. If it finds the file (which you put there when your laptop was stolen) then it prompts you for the pass phrase to stop whatever will happen when it finds that file.
I think this has been done, if not, it would be trivial to do.
...wait a second...this smells fishy. Aren't they breaking GPL somehow? I know it sounds weird, but they don't give you a system SOURCE CD! RMS will be furious if he finds out about this!;-)
Has anybody written oracle asking for the source of the programs they've modified? If not we shouldn't complain, all they have to do is provide source on demand, not include it if you don't need it, or post it on an ftp/web server.
It's already an xterminal. Think of it as a linux box with no hard drive that runs off a cdrom, it already has a modem, ethernet, etc. I think net booting it wouldn't be a problem either.
Don't forget your electricity 101 rules of inductance and capacitance. The twisting of twisted pair is designed to be an almost perfect balance for signaling quality through the wires contained in the shielding. You inhibit that quality when you have lots of cables in a bundle (capacitor) or you make it go through turns (inductor). Sheilding helps, but shielding is only so good, even on the best quality shielded twisted pair you should watch how many cables you bundle together. Really watch if you're using UTP.
That's one of the reasons a full 56k modem is not allowed, to much signal in your pair goes into the other pairs in the bundle of wires on the pole.
I'm left handed, I use my mouse in my left hand. Yes, I can also use it in my right hand, but I prefer left. So does almost every left handed graphic designer I've met. We all know that a large chunk of apple's market (especially people complaining about the puck) are graphics people. People who need a comfortable mouse, that's easy to use and accurate for their design apps. Personally both of my mice are uni-handed. A generic 3 button serial mouse on my linux pc, and a 3 button usb 'contour unimouse' on my G3. I would like a chance to try using a comfortable left-handed mouse, but they are rare, and usually low end low quality mice or the other end of the spectrum. So I just go for the uni-mice. I need to get in touch with Ned Flanders and see if he'll help me out at his left-handed store.
Ok, I have to ask -again-, is there dual head support for the G400 yet? I bought this card to use two monitors with Xinerama months ago, and have yet to see even an alpha/beta release of the code. I know they're working on it, and it probobly isn't stable yet, but how about release early and release often? I for one would be willing to isolate bugs and test it, I'm sure others would be too.
I was going to go on saturday with another Omaha LUG member, but we both decided the weekend could be better spent doing other things after reading this review.
I wondered how this event would turn out from the start, not much of a website, I've seen no other promotion materials, high entry fees, etc. It's to bad those of us in the midwest have to go to either coast just to hang out with geeks for a few days.
On the bright side, if anybody is in the Omaha, NE area and would like to attend our LUG meeting on sunday, you're more than welcome. See: http://olug.bstc.net/meet.shtml for more details. I think I'm going to end up giving a short talk on zope sunday also.
Check out This page if you'd like to make pi yourself on your home machine. The longest string the person writing the page knows of for a home computer is 256 million digits with a 400mhz pII. That took 3 days using version 2.2 of Carey Bloodworth's program.
I would REALLY like to know also. I dug through the mga driver source and have found nothing relating to g400 dual head support. This is the #1 feature myself, and most of my friends with g400s want.
I registered my new G400 DualHead I bought this weekend online. I don't recall there being a box marked 'Linux'. I did write in that a major factor in me buying it was Linux support. Has anybody else noticed there being anything in the boxed version regarding Linux. My oem card had no box, just card, cable, disc.
I'm really glad I bought this card, it just keeps getting better.
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City Net is not installing these cables in pipes to every home. The go to larger buildings, and commercial/industrial areas. The point isn't to get broadband for the home user, we (I live in Omaha, one of the cities this is going into) already have a broad availability of cable modems and dsl, which is good for the home user, but limited.
Omaha is layed out like a grid, a few stretches of fiber down the main streets, and you'll be within a few hundred feet of a fiber line. Closer if the building is downtown or in west omaha I asume, where most of the commercial buildings are.
With fiber, a company can get REALLY fast connections. Something that's not possible with other mediums. Somebody like mutual of omaha could link a few of their buildings together for a fraction of the cost of having the telco provide them fiber.
As for radio, a company is providing radio based internet access using stations on top of grain silos in Iowa and Nebraska. It's won't really be in Omaha, but it'll be cool to see some of these rural towns get cheap broadband. I wish we had something like this in rural ohio where I'm originally from. Line of site is a bit of a problem there...
I live in Omaha, despite being right dead in the center of the US, most telecomm bypasses us. It goes through Kansas City instead. It's not to far away, but still far enough to raise the cost of broadband alot. It's nice to see our medium size city finally getting some fiber installed to most of the buildings. There are alot of major companies in Omaha, this can do nothing but good in helping this city grow. I'm looking foward to it. Maybe I can find out more info on when they're doing it and check out one of the sewer funk covered bots ;)
On an unrelated note, a former spawn company of Inacom is building a data center in Omaha. I'm looking forward to being able to drive 2 minutes (really, it's down the street from my apt) to install a new server, instead of hopping a flight 1000 miles to where our servers curently are. It's to bad one of the major datacenter companies didn't do this first, they're going to miss out on the market. I just hope the racks don't cost and arm and a leg.
Background: I'm in the Air Force, enlisted, I fix mainly vax clusters.
In our office we have lots of nt4/office machines. I do almost everything on a computer, even though I maintain our mostly paper/fiche library of tech data, I keep all that information in a card catalog type app I wrote. We use ms exchange for keeping track of most apointments, and exchanging messages between shifts. All our data on what we did on each job is tracked on a computer (secured properly of course).
What I find odd is, with all this technology, and we still go through ALOT of paper. It's not the worker bees doing it either. It's 80% bureaucratic bs. ALOT could be solved if we had digital signatures. Why should I have to sign my leave form? I fill it out on the computer, but I print it out and save my copy, copy for my boss, copy for the main office. Why couldn't this be done with a computer? Why do people feel a need to print emails? In my mind, printing an email falls under FWA (Fraud Waste and Abuse, what the military calls using things the wrong way), there is NO need for somebody to print out an email saying, "This meeting is now at 1300". Why does the MPF (Military Personal Office) need to send me a rip of my current data on paper to check? Why not pgp it and send it to me through email on the unclassified lan? Why do I walk in every day and find a new breifing on something for me to sign? Can't I be emailed this?
On a good (or sad, depending on your point of view) I think the Air Force has one of the best paperless offices I've ever seen. All our publications/forms are online, in electronic searchable form. I can find the latest regs on what my uniform should look like in a few keystrokes, no trees kill once a year printing the newest version for everybody. Almost all our tech data is going electronic, so I can carry a computer with all I need on it, instead of grabbing a few books/fiche out of our almost half million page library. Having a find key for my data would speed up my ability to fix things ALOT. I can email somebody at another base, or a contractor, and have a response in a few minutes, no need to go through mail/distro/whatever, and no trees killed.
The bottom line is, if the 'old timers' could get past wanting everything on paper, and people used secure digital signatures, we could save alot of paper.
Wrong.
I helped start a small non-profit isp in a rural area in about 95. We piggy backed a local college's non-profit status, payed them a bit to use their server and their modem bank, and charged $8/month for access. Shell, everything. We provided free tech support, and setup at your home for $15. Plus, classes for free. Now (I'm no longer involved much, just the ocasional input to the board, since I moved) They're up to 300+ lines for the isp end i believe, that they share with the school and they've bought the school an additional T1. We called it a FeeNet since we were non-profit but still charged to keep the leeching down. We have had a few grants also.
Drat, you should have warned me sooner. At least I threw in something from the last boyscout. That's gotta be worth something... Right?
Now we just need to give the players some guns like in the last boy scout. Then have the mics in their gear pick up a player saying 'Whoa.'
I can see it now, the cameras pan in, millions of pixels are processed, and the result shows the crowd reality, or does it?
As the crowd sees the instant replay of the player scoring the touchdown you can hear whispers in the crowd saying he is the chosen one.
Its interesting that I note that most uber-smart unix geeks I know are just throwing in the towel and running an SSH client from windows into their BSD boxes. Why? Because they're tired of seeing "plugin not suported" when they try to do anything interesting on the web.
I hear that. I used to run Linux on my main pc (dual 550mhz), and mac os on my G3. Programing/Email/Admin/etc on the Linux box, Design/Multimedia/etc on the mac. After constantly fighting with linux to get almost anything multimedia running, with almost the same true for the mac os, I decided to make a change. I'm not saying that linux/mac suck, they have their place, just for my needs, I needed something different. I now have debian on my g3 as my masq box, and general linux use machine. Windows (2000 of course) runs on my main machine, with dual monitors. SSH and VNC let me control the mac from one area. I now I can play games, view things like asf movies (without crashing or 3 hours of configuration), while running a bash shell, and whatever x11 apps I can live without on vnc. It's worked out very nicely for me. I miss the ability to configure X11 windows managers, and being able to REALLY fix my computer when it breaks (windows is still like shooting a fish an a barrell when something messes up). But I like it, I suspect others do the same thing I do.
I don't think they way they did it would apply to space travel, but what about time travel? I suppose you could encase something in this gas, and achive time travel. But then again, if space and time are relavent, I guess it would be possible to travel with it... I'm not up on this subject at all, but does anybody care to post a real educated view on this?
Here's a report from 1999 on the status of the project.
Isn't this what the RIAA does with CDs?
It's not slashcode, it's squishdot. A zope/python slashdot clone.
What about a background process that contains an encrypted file and checks a web server for that file, if it doesn't find it, or that exact encrypted file, then nothing happens. If it finds the file (which you put there when your laptop was stolen) then it prompts you for the pass phrase to stop whatever will happen when it finds that file.
I think this has been done, if not, it would be trivial to do.
Oh well, patents suck
If they have not modified the software in any way, only compiled it, do they have to give you the source?
No, that's why I said "the source of the packages they've modified."
...wait a second...this smells fishy. Aren't they breaking GPL somehow? I know it sounds weird, but they don't give you a system SOURCE CD! RMS will be furious if he finds out about this! ;-)
Has anybody written oracle asking for the source of the programs they've modified? If not we shouldn't complain, all they have to do is provide source on demand, not include it if you don't need it, or post it on an ftp/web server.
It's already an xterminal. Think of it as a linux box with no hard drive that runs off a cdrom, it already has a modem, ethernet, etc. I think net booting it wouldn't be a problem either.
Don't forget your electricity 101 rules of inductance and capacitance. The twisting of twisted pair is designed to be an almost perfect balance for signaling quality through the wires contained in the shielding. You inhibit that quality when you have lots of cables in a bundle (capacitor) or you make it go through turns (inductor). Sheilding helps, but shielding is only so good, even on the best quality shielded twisted pair you should watch how many cables you bundle together. Really watch if you're using UTP.
That's one of the reasons a full 56k modem is not allowed, to much signal in your pair goes into the other pairs in the bundle of wires on the pole.
I'm left handed, I use my mouse in my left hand. Yes, I can also use it in my right hand, but I prefer left. So does almost every left handed graphic designer I've met. We all know that a large chunk of apple's market (especially people complaining about the puck) are graphics people. People who need a comfortable mouse, that's easy to use and accurate for their design apps. Personally both of my mice are uni-handed. A generic 3 button serial mouse on my linux pc, and a 3 button usb 'contour unimouse' on my G3. I would like a chance to try using a comfortable left-handed mouse, but they are rare, and usually low end low quality mice or the other end of the spectrum. So I just go for the uni-mice. I need to get in touch with Ned Flanders and see if he'll help me out at his left-handed store.
Ok, I have to ask -again-, is there dual head support for the G400 yet? I bought this card to use two monitors with Xinerama months ago, and have yet to see even an alpha/beta release of the code. I know they're working on it, and it probobly isn't stable yet, but how about release early and release often? I for one would be willing to isolate bugs and test it, I'm sure others would be too.
http://kong.bstc.net/list proc/archive/June2000/0040.shtml
I was going to go on saturday with another Omaha LUG member, but we both decided the weekend could be better spent doing other things after reading this review.
I wondered how this event would turn out from the start, not much of a website, I've seen no other promotion materials, high entry fees, etc. It's to bad those of us in the midwest have to go to either coast just to hang out with geeks for a few days.
On the bright side, if anybody is in the Omaha, NE area and would like to attend our LUG meeting on sunday, you're more than welcome. See: http://olug.bstc.net/meet.shtml for more details. I think I'm going to end up giving a short talk on zope sunday also.
Check out This page if you'd like to make pi yourself on your home machine. The longest string the person writing the page knows of for a home computer is 256 million digits with a 400mhz pII. That took 3 days using version 2.2 of Carey Bloodworth's program.
How far can you get?
I got no dns error for that link, try this link instead.
I would REALLY like to know also. I dug through the mga driver source and have found nothing relating to g400 dual head support. This is the #1 feature myself, and most of my friends with g400s want.
http://www.freshmeat.ne t/appindex/1999/08/23/935391329.html
As soon as I mentioned this article to a friend he likened it to the abused wife syndrom.
People don't like what microsoft is doing, but they're afraid of what will happen if they try to leave...
I registered my new G400 DualHead I bought this weekend online. I don't recall there being a box marked 'Linux'. I did write in that a major factor in me buying it was Linux support. Has anybody else noticed there being anything in the boxed version regarding Linux. My oem card had no box, just card, cable, disc.
I'm really glad I bought this card, it just keeps getting better.