Military R&D is a necessary evil. We could stop it today, but I can promise you Iran, China, and North Korea (among others) won't do the same. Granted we're a few steps ahead and it'll take them a while to catch up, but when it comes to war, I'd rather be as far ahead as I can be. That's the reason Desert Storm was so short, because we had the technology and money behind it. We didn't start that war, but I'm sure glad we had what we did or it would have been a lot longer or had a lot more casualties, but probably both.
Just remember, there are a lot of technologies we use every day that developed out of war, like it or not. I hope it changes some day too, but I highly doubt it. It's human nature to kill eachother.
I never said I agree with it, and in fact I don't. I'm mearly saying you can't fight all the issues you disagree with the government on, so you have to choose your battles that are worth your time/effort to fight. This, to me, simply isn't worth that time and effort.
Whatever. How is the government keeping track of what hotel rooms and cars I reserve giving up an "Essential Liberty" for a little "Temporary Safety"? This is only true for the tinfoil hat wearing crowd, of which I am not a part. Worse that happens is I get a bit more junk mail from Avis or Holiday Inn. Big whoop-de-doo.
If they don't waste it on this, they'll waste it on something else. They're never going to spend our tax dollars wisely and only collect exactly what they need, refunding everything they don't. So as long as the roads I drive are paved and other things I immediately care about are, in fact, being taken care of, I honestly don't care what they do. Hey, people have jobs because of it, and are spending their pay checks, all helping the big economic wheel go round and round.
Besides, the one time this data can be used to stop something terrible from happening or find someone that commited said act, I think all the money spent would be more than worth it. If I have to give up some specific "freedom" or "privacy", that I could care less about actually giving up in the first place, then so be it.
Call me a sheeple or lazy if you want, but something like this just isn't worth fighting to me.
Yea yea, it's the "gateway drug" and I'm sure they'll use it to pass similar, and worse, laws later on, but does anyone really care about this? I don't. If they want to keep on record that I rented a car and a hotel room for a week in Vegas 3 years ago, kudos to them. I have other things to worry about.
That's the problem. C# is open and can be completely cross platform, but.NET isn't. To me, though, the greatest part of using C# is having the.NET framework available to you. Mono is having to recreate the.NET framework on Linux, while Java's framework is already there (though not open source).
I'd rather use Java and have its full framwork available to me than use C# and a crippled, albeit quickly catching up,.NET framework. Six of one, half dozen of another, I suppose.
Yep, cause we're rolling in our $0.50/gal gas prices right now. Yippe, bring back the standard big blocks of the late '60s! Our government really needs to hurry up and get that secret gas pipeline across the Atlantic finished so we can procede to screw the Iraqis out of their resources!
Oh, wait, never mind. Our prices are quite a bit higher than before we started the war.
Hmmm, that's pretty interesting. If you ever leaked your partners data, they'd still have yours. Kind of like an assured mutual destruction type setup.
Hey ass, the American flag, in its purist and original form, stand for the freedoms of its people. So the people that died for that flag died for freedom.
Whatever you foreign scum. Until someone from the US asks you to speak, you be quiet.
Or, something along those lines that doesn't make me sound like I think I'm a higher form of life.
SBC told me they wouldn't provide DSL service if I canceled my phone service from them (I was thinking of moving to cell only). This was about a month ago in the NE Ohio area.
I personally think it's bull shit. If the local cable company didn't cap their bandwidth at 256k I'd move to them.
Same here. I'm monitoring 595 services on 99 hosts right now on a single P4 2.8Ghz desktop box, running mySQL and MRTG to monitor about 60 hosts, though it's starting to chung as I'm in the process of moving to Cacti and it's running at the same time.
For that number of boxes, you shouldn't need to get any cluster, though a second redundant box would make sense incase the first dies.
As for the Windows machines, check out NRPE-NT. It's a service that'll run on each Windows box and run any required plugins. It ships with ones for memory/cpu/event log/etc, though I wrote my own for the event logs. If you have any sort of push install setup there (or even AD with GPO's) it shouldn't be a problem to install.
We split the power pack from the WAP, so it was only transmitting the voltage the WAP used (don't recall what that or the current was). Damned if I know if it violated the local codes... I was just a wire monkey for the day.
It would be a pain, trust me. A buddy of mine works for a company that provides WiFi access in hotels, and they needed help setting up a large one this past weekend near Sandusky, OH. Because of the thick walls in this older place, they needed another WAP every 6-8 rooms to get good coverage.
There were only one or two recepticles per floor (in the ceiling tiles), so power was at a premium. They got the clever idea of taking a biscut with two keystones, crossing the green/orange pair to the other keystone for data, and tying the WAP's severed power cable to the brown/blue pair off the original keystone. We did the same with the other end of the WAP's power inverter near the switch. This way we had an 8 port surge protector where the switch was plugged in, and ran the power over the blue/brown pair to the WAPs. Cable from switch into one port, patch cable from the other port into the WAP for data, and the power cable hung out the back. Cheap and dirty method, but worked great.
Unfortunatley, and the reason I was brough in to help, they found out the brown pair alone couldn't carry the current far enough (past a few rooms) to keep the WAP on for more than a few minutes. We had to convert them all to use both the blue and the brown pair to work right.
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We use the Altera MAX 7000S in our digital systems classes. The software it uses, Quartus II. is very easy to use and can do pretty much anything you'd ever need. All you have to do is wire up the board once, then download your projects there. 16 dip switches, 4 push buttons, 2 seven segment displays, 16 leds, and pin outs for everything. Plus PS/2, VGA ports, and a bunch of voltage/temp/IO sensors. Nifty little device...
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Military R&D is a necessary evil. We could stop it today, but I can promise you Iran, China, and North Korea (among others) won't do the same. Granted we're a few steps ahead and it'll take them a while to catch up, but when it comes to war, I'd rather be as far ahead as I can be. That's the reason Desert Storm was so short, because we had the technology and money behind it. We didn't start that war, but I'm sure glad we had what we did or it would have been a lot longer or had a lot more casualties, but probably both.
Just remember, there are a lot of technologies we use every day that developed out of war, like it or not. I hope it changes some day too, but I highly doubt it. It's human nature to kill eachother.
I never said I agree with it, and in fact I don't. I'm mearly saying you can't fight all the issues you disagree with the government on, so you have to choose your battles that are worth your time/effort to fight. This, to me, simply isn't worth that time and effort.
Whatever. How is the government keeping track of what hotel rooms and cars I reserve giving up an "Essential Liberty" for a little "Temporary Safety"? This is only true for the tinfoil hat wearing crowd, of which I am not a part. Worse that happens is I get a bit more junk mail from Avis or Holiday Inn. Big whoop-de-doo.
If they don't waste it on this, they'll waste it on something else. They're never going to spend our tax dollars wisely and only collect exactly what they need, refunding everything they don't. So as long as the roads I drive are paved and other things I immediately care about are, in fact, being taken care of, I honestly don't care what they do. Hey, people have jobs because of it, and are spending their pay checks, all helping the big economic wheel go round and round.
Besides, the one time this data can be used to stop something terrible from happening or find someone that commited said act, I think all the money spent would be more than worth it. If I have to give up some specific "freedom" or "privacy", that I could care less about actually giving up in the first place, then so be it.
Call me a sheeple or lazy if you want, but something like this just isn't worth fighting to me.
Yea yea, it's the "gateway drug" and I'm sure they'll use it to pass similar, and worse, laws later on, but does anyone really care about this? I don't. If they want to keep on record that I rented a car and a hotel room for a week in Vegas 3 years ago, kudos to them. I have other things to worry about.
Imagine the implications of this with the adult entertainment industry!
Now that's entertainment!
That's the problem. C# is open and can be completely cross platform, but .NET isn't. To me, though, the greatest part of using C# is having the .NET framework available to you. Mono is having to recreate the .NET framework on Linux, while Java's framework is already there (though not open source).
.NET framework. Six of one, half dozen of another, I suppose.
I'd rather use Java and have its full framwork available to me than use C# and a crippled, albeit quickly catching up,
Indeed, especially since they've already found Bush guilty.
Indeed. Never know, yours might be next.
*Que sadistic music*
Yep, cause we're rolling in our $0.50/gal gas prices right now. Yippe, bring back the standard big blocks of the late '60s! Our government really needs to hurry up and get that secret gas pipeline across the Atlantic finished so we can procede to screw the Iraqis out of their resources!
Oh, wait, never mind. Our prices are quite a bit higher than before we started the war.
Hmmm, that's pretty interesting. If you ever leaked your partners data, they'd still have yours. Kind of like an assured mutual destruction type setup.
We use the same system and it works great. It's already come in hand a few times this year.
Hey ass, the American flag, in its purist and original form, stand for the freedoms of its people. So the people that died for that flag died for freedom.
That comment just pisses me off to no end.
Whatever you foreign scum. Until someone from the US asks you to speak, you be quiet. Or, something along those lines that doesn't make me sound like I think I'm a higher form of life.
SBC told me they wouldn't provide DSL service if I canceled my phone service from them (I was thinking of moving to cell only). This was about a month ago in the NE Ohio area. I personally think it's bull shit. If the local cable company didn't cap their bandwidth at 256k I'd move to them.
KDE/Gnome come with a lot more games by default than Windows.
Same here. I'm monitoring 595 services on 99 hosts right now on a single P4 2.8Ghz desktop box, running mySQL and MRTG to monitor about 60 hosts, though it's starting to chung as I'm in the process of moving to Cacti and it's running at the same time.
For that number of boxes, you shouldn't need to get any cluster, though a second redundant box would make sense incase the first dies.
As for the Windows machines, check out NRPE-NT. It's a service that'll run on each Windows box and run any required plugins. It ships with ones for memory/cpu/event log/etc, though I wrote my own for the event logs. If you have any sort of push install setup there (or even AD with GPO's) it shouldn't be a problem to install.
Here here. That show was great.
I don't think it's Slashdot, so much as the author of the review. These are submitted by readers after all...
I owned cards with both of their major chipsets and highly enjoyed them for their time. Too bad Micron had to buy them and demolish their offerings...
Huh. Doesn't seem too bad. I'm getting a nice constant 80k/sec download and the page loaded right up.
We split the power pack from the WAP, so it was only transmitting the voltage the WAP used (don't recall what that or the current was). Damned if I know if it violated the local codes... I was just a wire monkey for the day.
It would be a pain, trust me. A buddy of mine works for a company that provides WiFi access in hotels, and they needed help setting up a large one this past weekend near Sandusky, OH. Because of the thick walls in this older place, they needed another WAP every 6-8 rooms to get good coverage.
There were only one or two recepticles per floor (in the ceiling tiles), so power was at a premium. They got the clever idea of taking a biscut with two keystones, crossing the green/orange pair to the other keystone for data, and tying the WAP's severed power cable to the brown/blue pair off the original keystone. We did the same with the other end of the WAP's power inverter near the switch. This way we had an 8 port surge protector where the switch was plugged in, and ran the power over the blue/brown pair to the WAPs. Cable from switch into one port, patch cable from the other port into the WAP for data, and the power cable hung out the back. Cheap and dirty method, but worked great.
Unfortunatley, and the reason I was brough in to help, they found out the brown pair alone couldn't carry the current far enough (past a few rooms) to keep the WAP on for more than a few minutes. We had to convert them all to use both the blue and the brown pair to work right.
We use the Altera MAX 7000S in our digital systems classes. The software it uses, Quartus II. is very easy to use and can do pretty much anything you'd ever need. All you have to do is wire up the board once, then download your projects there. 16 dip switches, 4 push buttons, 2 seven segment displays, 16 leds, and pin outs for everything. Plus PS/2, VGA ports, and a bunch of voltage/temp/IO sensors. Nifty little device...
...starting Wednesday.
Hmm
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Accurate and, sorta, timely reporting there killer.