I don't see the appeal of wireless on a home LAN either.
Actually wireless is exceptionally useful in the home.
I live in an appartment and I have no control over where the phone comes in. Now, rather than having a very long phone line strung across the floor or ceiling I put my DSL modem on a wireless bridge to my router/AP. (I know I'm going to get slammed for this security wise, but I have taken some steps to harden the link.)
Furthermore I use the same wireless AP to move ethernet availability to my Media Center in the master bedroom without the need for a cat5 cable running down the hall.
Addressing security, I simply make my network harder to hack or connect to than the other half dozen APs I can "see" from my PC.
-nB
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Yes you can. The Intel PROSet driver works far better when compared to the zero config. Set up a list of preferred APs and the PROSet tools will connect in order of preference and NOT continue to bump you around to other APs when they show up as long as any on your preferences are available. If you wan't I beleive you can even turn that off and go for a fully static config.
I solved all my reception problems in one fell swoop. I fully discontinued my use of cellular services. No phone, No pager. It took me a couple weeks to get over my withdrawls, but I am now very very happy.
No longer can my employer get me whenever they want. No longer can my friends pester me 24x7. No longer am I distracted by my phone while driving. It actually made a positive difference in my life to ditch that particular technology.
written on my notebook connected to the internet by 802.11x;) -nB
"Tho I wish MS would enforce their copy protections, [...] will be the day Linux goes mainstream"
I agree with you on that point but not the following one,
Cheers,
-nB
"It's impossible for, lets say MS, to lose money on people copying WinXP"
That is utter horseshit.
The point is M$ spent tons of money on development costs (new machines for compiling, Human Resources {staff}, Servers to store all the source code, overhead, marketing, etc.) with the expectation that said costs would be recovered by sales of the software. If everyone copies the software and nobody buys it you will find that the company goes bankrupt. Now while this may not be a *bad* thing when applied to M$, it is a bad practice in general.
Someone commented about recording artists... They are under the same guise. Concerts and tours (in general) are not large money making operations, they are advertising. That advertising results in album sales, which are the real revenue stream.
Great for you!, What I was getting at is that IMHO most people, when faced with two video cards, closely related in specification will likely buy the same brand as they had before (unless experience == bad). I don't understand the need for this level of power consumption and processing horsepower in a video card for even the most demanding games. I can only think the nVidia or ATI cards would really shine in their respective demos and in scientific rendering applications (nMRI, 3-modeling, etc.)
just my 2c
-nB
At what point is there simply too much noise Vs. signal about how good one card is VS. the other. If you're a fan of nVidia you're going to buy their card no mater what and likewise for ATI no?
-nB
As stated earlier, I think that the "natural selection of data" is a good thing. I keep a multimedia journal of significant events in my families life on my computer. Every 4 gigs I burn two copies to DVD, one in the bank and one at home. That's it, and only for my kids really. Anything else I doubt anyone would be interested in.
True, though that won't stop them from trying. That is the ultimate in "big brother". How will they prevent someone from using Google to view a page ala proxy, or from using proxy servers all together?
-nB
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I don't see the appeal of wireless on a home LAN either.
Actually wireless is exceptionally useful in the home.
I live in an appartment and I have no control over where the phone comes in. Now, rather than having a very long phone line strung across the floor or ceiling I put my DSL modem on a wireless bridge to my router/AP. (I know I'm going to get slammed for this security wise, but I have taken some steps to harden the link.)
Furthermore I use the same wireless AP to move ethernet availability to my Media Center in the master bedroom without the need for a cat5 cable running down the hall.
Addressing security, I simply make my network harder to hack or connect to than the other half dozen APs I can "see" from my PC.
-nB
Yes you can. The Intel PROSet driver works far better when compared to the zero config. Set up a list of preferred APs and the PROSet tools will connect in order of preference and NOT continue to bump you around to other APs when they show up as long as any on your preferences are available. If you wan't I beleive you can even turn that off and go for a fully static config.
HTH,
-nB
I solved all my reception problems in one fell swoop. I fully discontinued my use of cellular services. No phone, No pager. It took me a couple weeks to get over my withdrawls, but I am now very very happy.
No longer can my employer get me whenever they want. No longer can my friends pester me 24x7. No longer am I distracted by my phone while driving. It actually made a positive difference in my life to ditch that particular technology.
written on my notebook connected to the internet by 802.11x ;) -nB
Starting with the end of your comment:
"Tho I wish MS would enforce their copy protections, [...] will be the day Linux goes mainstream"
I agree with you on that point but not the following one,
Cheers, -nB"It's impossible for, lets say MS, to lose money on people copying WinXP"
That is utter horseshit.
The point is M$ spent tons of money on development costs (new machines for compiling, Human Resources {staff}, Servers to store all the source code, overhead, marketing, etc.) with the expectation that said costs would be recovered by sales of the software. If everyone copies the software and nobody buys it you will find that the company goes bankrupt. Now while this may not be a *bad* thing when applied to M$, it is a bad practice in general.
Someone commented about recording artists... They are under the same guise. Concerts and tours (in general) are not large money making operations, they are advertising. That advertising results in album sales, which are the real revenue stream.
Great for you!, What I was getting at is that IMHO most people, when faced with two video cards, closely related in specification will likely buy the same brand as they had before (unless experience == bad). I don't understand the need for this level of power consumption and processing horsepower in a video card for even the most demanding games. I can only think the nVidia or ATI cards would really shine in their respective demos and in scientific rendering applications (nMRI, 3-modeling, etc.) just my 2c -nB
At what point is there simply too much noise Vs. signal about how good one card is VS. the other. If you're a fan of nVidia you're going to buy their card no mater what and likewise for ATI no? -nB
As stated earlier, I think that the "natural selection of data" is a good thing. I keep a multimedia journal of significant events in my families life on my computer. Every 4 gigs I burn two copies to DVD, one in the bank and one at home. That's it, and only for my kids really. Anything else I doubt anyone would be interested in.
True, though that won't stop them from trying. That is the ultimate in "big brother". How will they prevent someone from using Google to view a page ala proxy, or from using proxy servers all together? -nB