I don't own a satphone myself to know for sure, but I do work at a place that supplies a component for them. I think satphones are made in the US. The production volumes are too low for offshore factories to make sense.
You can rent them for $100 a week or less. Airtime is still pretty steep though, so this method would probably limited to the key exchange role of a larger cryptosystem.
That effect will be quite small. Even on a surface stripline, most of the fields are interior to the PCB material because that is where the ground plane is. Comparing the equations on http://www.emclab.umr.edu/pcbtlc/index.html and using a typical PCB e_r of 4 to 4.2, I get a difference in Z0 of less than 15%.
Heh, the friend on the outside was, in my case, myself. Finding certain sites mysteriously inaccessible, I SSH'ed to my Slackware box dutifully running back home. (They seem to have this weird phobia about Taiwanese independence.) Luckily, no skull-bashers came through my hotel door.
Maybe guys like me help to run interference for the regular folks there.
Heh, heh. Hibernate does work for me, but not suspend. I never got suspend to work with any version of Win, and never knew what properly working suspend looked like until I installed Slackware. Now my laptop can join in and bask in the glow of glorious uptimes.
That's hibernate on Win2K. I can't get XP to do anything correctly (not even power off, as mentioned above).
Make sure you have the necessary passwords set up. Well, that's usually the source of this problem when using a Samba server (run the smbpasswd command). But you say you are using Win servers, so I can't help you much because I don't know diddly about adminning Win.
And if the network uses a security domain (so you enter a password once at login and it works for all the shares, email, etc.) then you may have to get the machine admitted to the domain. I don't know how that works either. Win appears to use a (non-standard?) Kerberos implementation for that.
it would be nice for konqueror to show windows shares when used in filesystem browsing mode.
Already there, and it's easy. Just enter a URL of the form smb://hostname/sharename
Now search the whole network for shares like windows does? All I know is nmap (or a graphical frontend thereof). I don't think Konq can browse around a WINS domain tree (but half the time that doesn't work usefully on Win either).
Cross-version interoperability of Word is worse. I've seen documents become unreadable from being worked on by both Word 6 & Word 97. The solution: buy the latest version for everyone and retype a thousand pages of complex technical documentation from hardcopy. (It was the only way to clean out all vestiges of Word 6.) Those few of us still using Word 6 submitted changes by giving marked-up hardcopy to the techwriters, completely defeating the whole point of a word processor.
Only if you accept the notion that "intellectual property" is, in fact, property. If you consider copyrights to be a form of regulation (a more reasonable view, IMO) then, in a free market, free of copyright regulation, we would all be able to make copies of Word at negligible cost. Nobody would care if Word were required and nobody would have designed Word with all those monopoly-protecting obfuscatory features.
I'm first in line to defend the merits of capitalism, but the scope of monopoly rights granted by copyright has nothing to do with capitalism.
dns gets poisoned and sends me to a phishing bank site
That's what signed SSL keys are for. If the signature doesn't match you get a warning. You're not banking in the clear on http: are you? On an unpatched Win box? With IE?
Heh, not only is Outlook/Exchange a server hog, it is a bandwidth hog. The location I am working is upgrading its T1 link largely because Outlook cannot handle network latencies. The source of the latency? Congestion caused by (among other things) Outlook's own traffic!
Outlook webmail looks like a full featured Outlook. But it is hobbled by arbitrary limits on message length, clumsily handles text fields (like the To: address list), and doesn't even compose replies properly when I use it. Squirrel Mail would be an improvement.
I still use it though, because it is the simplest way to use our internal Exchange server with a Linux workstation. For me, it's better to use a crappy email solution on a good OS than the use a less-crappy (but still crappy because it is Outlook) email on the annoyingly locked-down Windows (a crappy OS) we get from the IT people. On balance it is less crap.
As I understand US contitutional law each state counts as its own jurisdiction
That's sort of true. The US gov't has separation of powers (unlike HM's unitary form of gov't), so on matters where the state has power, the case law and precedent (and for that matter statutory law) are separate. The supreme court of the US can still intervene, but this is somewhat rare these days
since the current composition of the SCOTUS is somewhat sympathetic to federal separation of powers. For example, a presidential election (a federal matter) will get them to cross swords with the FL Supreme Court, but they are completely aloof from the Terry Shiavo case, where the conservative legislature & governor are in a colossal turf war with the liberal court.
The federal system is divided up into districts, nine of them, I believe. These districts are created by congress, but the judgeships are tenured appointments. (By contrast, Congress is prohibited from redrawing state lines.) Since all nine districts are using the same statutory law, there is more cross-pollenization of case law than what you see on the state level. Though even states have a penchant for "harmonizing" statutory law (the UCITA, for example, was proposed as a "standard" set of laws that could be passed in a single stroke).
Win XP does something like this. It tries to guess what programs you usually run and then preloads them when the disk is idle. Of course we have to wonder if Microsoft's own software gets higher priority, so Outlook (erroneously) looks like less of a pig relative to competing clients.
I think that is hardware dependent. The orginal IBM PC did a memory test after reboot. But more recent hardware doesn't seem to. I know that Win2k will jump back to the Windows boot menu, making it imposible to go into BIOS setup (or boot Knoppix) without cycling the power.
As soon as I can afford a USB keychain thingy
You haven't been checking the prices lately. Skip a few lunches times and get
64 MB for under $15. Or schmooze around a trade show; they are cheap enough now for marketing freebies (preloaded with marketing literature, of course).
Can't remember the soure, but because cd read rates are slow and microprocessors are fast, you wouldn't want to leave the data uncompressed. Early attempts at live cd's, before the cloop device was introduced, were too slow to be practical.
working for Bill Gates' company is not a natural human right, so what is objectionable about this
I don't subscribe to the knee-jerk anti-corporatism that often floats around here, but it is fair to say that Microsoft, being a business corporation, is limited by its charter to act like a business. When Bill Gates uses his charge as a corporate officer to meddle in politcs (beyond that in which Microsoft has a direct fiduciary interest like negotiating a tax abatement or some such), it is tantamount to running a political campaign on the company dime. The stockholders haven't given permission for it, so such behavior constitutes malfeasance.
Now if Gates threatened to buy the company from Microsoft for twice what it was worth out of his own personal fortune (he would have to set up some sort of blind trust to do this properly since he has a role as both buyer & seller in such a transaction), and then lay everyone off, then that would clear him of malfeasance. We could still call him obnoxious for that, though.
Good links there, but the 2003 date seems too late to be the case that was described to me (I seem to remember it as being in the early 90's...before the internet horizon). That would make Vox2 at least the 3rd concern to be snagged by this patent.
By looking at the patents...well that third one is out to lunch... but it looks like you could work around those patents by hooking to the cellphone through Bluetooth, or putting adapters at each phone to communicate through the phone lines by something other than analog POTS.
You and at least two other people. But none of them went to market until recently because the only cost-effective ways of hooking a cellphone to a landline phone were patented in 1984. The company that had the patent wasn't able to competently manufacture it, but they found out they could make more money suing people who re-discovered their idea than they could actually making a product.
I was informed of this by someone who--you guessed it--developed a product to deliver a dial tone from a cellphone. Fortunately he caught wind of the issue before he had sunk too much money in development. A previous company had to pay $1 million after getting ambushed by this patent.
I wish I had links to document this. It is a textbook example of how the current patent system stifles innovation instead of promoting it.
Heh, I'm waiting for the virus that redirects search.msn.com, google.com, yahoo.com. etc. toward look-alikes with tons of ads. That would be evil adware!
Ow, you are giving me nightmarish visions of paging through an MSWord document (not because I actually want to use Word, but because it was sent to me as a.doc) and having Clippy pop up and with a pile of annoying MSN search results for me.
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You can rent them for $100 a week or less. Airtime is still pretty steep though, so this method would probably limited to the key exchange role of a larger cryptosystem.
Close enough for digital circuits!
Maybe guys like me help to run interference for the regular folks there.
That's hibernate on Win2K. I can't get XP to do anything correctly (not even power off, as mentioned above).
You mean to say that suspend in XP actually worked for you once? I could never get that to work. I can't even get XP to power off correctly.
And if the network uses a security domain (so you enter a password once at login and it works for all the shares, email, etc.) then you may have to get the machine admitted to the domain. I don't know how that works either. Win appears to use a (non-standard?) Kerberos implementation for that.
Already there, and it's easy. Just enter a URL of the form smb://hostname/sharename
Now search the whole network for shares like windows does? All I know is nmap (or a graphical frontend thereof). I don't think Konq can browse around a WINS domain tree (but half the time that doesn't work usefully on Win either).
I've avoided Word like the plague ever since.
I'm first in line to defend the merits of capitalism, but the scope of monopoly rights granted by copyright has nothing to do with capitalism.
That's what signed SSL keys are for. If the signature doesn't match you get a warning. You're not banking in the clear on http: are you? On an unpatched Win box? With IE?
BTW, if you are installing Linux, on Dell laptops at least, check for BIOS upgrades. Sure makes X happier.
Heh, not only is Outlook/Exchange a server hog, it is a bandwidth hog. The location I am working is upgrading its T1 link largely because Outlook cannot handle network latencies. The source of the latency? Congestion caused by (among other things) Outlook's own traffic!
I still use it though, because it is the simplest way to use our internal Exchange server with a Linux workstation. For me, it's better to use a crappy email solution on a good OS than the use a less-crappy (but still crappy because it is Outlook) email on the annoyingly locked-down Windows (a crappy OS) we get from the IT people. On balance it is less crap.
My Shuttle PC has optical out. The brushed aluminum case is, IMO, rather comely.
That's sort of true. The US gov't has separation of powers (unlike HM's unitary form of gov't), so on matters where the state has power, the case law and precedent (and for that matter statutory law) are separate. The supreme court of the US can still intervene, but this is somewhat rare these days since the current composition of the SCOTUS is somewhat sympathetic to federal separation of powers. For example, a presidential election (a federal matter) will get them to cross swords with the FL Supreme Court, but they are completely aloof from the Terry Shiavo case, where the conservative legislature & governor are in a colossal turf war with the liberal court.
The federal system is divided up into districts, nine of them, I believe. These districts are created by congress, but the judgeships are tenured appointments. (By contrast, Congress is prohibited from redrawing state lines.) Since all nine districts are using the same statutory law, there is more cross-pollenization of case law than what you see on the state level. Though even states have a penchant for "harmonizing" statutory law (the UCITA, for example, was proposed as a "standard" set of laws that could be passed in a single stroke).
Win XP does something like this. It tries to guess what programs you usually run and then preloads them when the disk is idle. Of course we have to wonder if Microsoft's own software gets higher priority, so Outlook (erroneously) looks like less of a pig relative to competing clients.
I think that is hardware dependent. The orginal IBM PC did a memory test after reboot. But more recent hardware doesn't seem to. I know that Win2k will jump back to the Windows boot menu, making it imposible to go into BIOS setup (or boot Knoppix) without cycling the power.
As soon as I can afford a USB keychain thingy
You haven't been checking the prices lately. Skip a few lunches times and get 64 MB for under $15. Or schmooze around a trade show; they are cheap enough now for marketing freebies (preloaded with marketing literature, of course).
Can't remember the soure, but because cd read rates are slow and microprocessors are fast, you wouldn't want to leave the data uncompressed. Early attempts at live cd's, before the cloop device was introduced, were too slow to be practical.
I don't subscribe to the knee-jerk anti-corporatism that often floats around here, but it is fair to say that Microsoft, being a business corporation, is limited by its charter to act like a business. When Bill Gates uses his charge as a corporate officer to meddle in politcs (beyond that in which Microsoft has a direct fiduciary interest like negotiating a tax abatement or some such), it is tantamount to running a political campaign on the company dime. The stockholders haven't given permission for it, so such behavior constitutes malfeasance.
Now if Gates threatened to buy the company from Microsoft for twice what it was worth out of his own personal fortune (he would have to set up some sort of blind trust to do this properly since he has a role as both buyer & seller in such a transaction), and then lay everyone off, then that would clear him of malfeasance. We could still call him obnoxious for that, though.
By looking at the patents...well that third one is out to lunch... but it looks like you could work around those patents by hooking to the cellphone through Bluetooth, or putting adapters at each phone to communicate through the phone lines by something other than analog POTS.
Look at the Alphasmart. Full size keyboard, monochrome display, Palm OS, Cheap (though not sub-$100).
I was informed of this by someone who--you guessed it--developed a product to deliver a dial tone from a cellphone. Fortunately he caught wind of the issue before he had sunk too much money in development. A previous company had to pay $1 million after getting ambushed by this patent.
I wish I had links to document this. It is a textbook example of how the current patent system stifles innovation instead of promoting it.
Heh, I'm waiting for the virus that redirects search.msn.com, google.com, yahoo.com. etc. toward look-alikes with tons of ads. That would be evil adware!
Ow, you are giving me nightmarish visions of paging through an MSWord document (not because I actually want to use Word, but because it was sent to me as a .doc) and having Clippy pop up and with a pile of annoying MSN search results for me.