cat5 is not rated for it, but it works fine. Same as I can run 100Mbps over telephone wire. what suffers is an exponential increase is BER (bit error rate) over distance. 802.3 specs 100 meters with a nominally low BER, with cat 5 you likely will either not be able to run 100 meters, or you will be able to maintain a link, but have a very high BER.
Depending on the PHY in use I can run as far as 50 meters on goo ol telco cable with 100Mbps (black widow phy on each end). With those same PHYs on cat5 I could pull > 250meters with no BER of notice. -nB
I like coding in my lab, after hours when nearly everyone has gone home. Janitor comes by around 7:30/8:00 and I thank him, listening to techno or classical, depending, I'll get more done in that span between 5:30 and 9:30 then many others in my department will get done in an entire week. Alas, the powers that be have banned overtime, so now I don't pump out as much code. To witt, here I am, as always in the afternoon...
Are you sure? Would you work under someone who had an MBA, was a pre-law, and was responsible for the legal department at a largish company? Because that's the exact structure of my company's legal department. Last I heard our head council had wide latitude, but technically worked for a MBA toting pre-law.
Point is, in any large organization you need someone to make the translation from management to rank and file. That person needs aptitude in both, rather than narrow specialty in one. I have had many managers in my tech life. The best ones were not technologists, they were managers that understood tech. In this case I hope that's how this guy is, a solid manager, who understands enough about technology to identify the right people to hand tasks to and trust them with the results.
In a small firm, especially one focused on the law business I would agree with you 100%. The head boss should be a lawyer, and the structure works from there, but in a large organization, that won't hold up, same thing here... the government is a non-trivial sized organization. Respectfully, -nB
Seriously though, at the time including a browser or media player was a big deal. They were seen as additional programs, similar to Word, Excel, etc. that should be sold separately. Since MS bundled them we have all come to expect these programs to be free, thus "hurting" other businesses. -nB
My pet peeve: Where I work I can defer everything till I'm ready (usually before I go home): Backup, Patches, etc., except one thing: McAffe Virus scan, which is set to random (but during working hours) system scans. Once that launches my machine is basically unusable for ~30min to an hour. I simply don't work during that period as it's so bad that explorer will freeze, mouse is jumpy. And I can not re-schedule or abort it.
For extra credit since on-access scanning is on, have the backup utility try and launch a file indexing, and miss the timer to defer, while system scan is going. Now you have two scanners trying to touch every file on the machine. last time this happened it took almost 4 hours before it was done.:( -nB
Seller is not obligated to collect tax in CA... According to my seller permit, I can notify the customer that I do no collect the state sales tax, and that they are obligated to pay the use tax.
Sellers that do this, however, I suspect get audited very very frequently. -nB
never mind I've already seen my taxes go up this year and I make < $100K/yr... I recognize that BO didn't sign this tax increase, my state asshats did, but still, up it went, by 1% of all goods I consume that are not foodstuffs bought from a grocery store in an unprepared state. -nB
What encryption does your service use on your end? What encryption is used to TX/RX the data from the client? I particularly like the de-duplication aspect, however I don't trust you (as I am sure you do not trust me). Is there any issue with uploading TrueCrypt container files to your service (maximum single file size, etc.?) Looks good, especially for $1/gig/year... -nB
you are, in fact not wrong as far as you went. Specifically look at a "fixed value" Money Unit (gold, silver, etc.) The price of many goods not heavily dependent on technological improvement (a loaf of bread in your example), costs relatively the same fraction of an ounce of gold as it did in years past. Sadly I do not have a link handy to the reference, and the ref I had was before the economy with apeshit recently, but from the 70's through the early 2000's it was relatively static, a loaf of bread changed in price, but in fact tracked fairly statically with gold. -nB
I completely understand you point, but in effect I'm saying that if it's not a two way street, then neither direction should be allowed to be binding. That simple.
(of course I realize that just because it's right/just/fair/unjust/mean/unfair has no bearing on the illegal/legal aspects). -nB
But the other half of those click-wraps indicate that if you don't agree to the terms of the license then you should click cancel and return the product. I don't know of any retailers that refund money on open software, so wouldn't that constitute the vendor not upholding their end of the bargain, thus voiding said contract? I went through this once and ultimately was unable to get a refund. The packaging was too vague to know if the software met my needs, and it wasn't until I placed the CD in my machine that I could access the CHM help files (that were not available on-line). At this point it became clear that the product was unusable, so I did not install it and tried to return it. The store said "it's been opened, it's yours", the manufacturer said "get your refund from the store, we can't cut you a check". IMHO that means that the EULA stating I could return it was void. -nB
At my old apartment we had someone stealing gas on the peak of the market. Since my truck is crap it was an easy target. They stole almost an entire 30 gallon tank full.
I found out who it was by disconnecting my fill spout from the tank (and piping a new fill spout from the tool box in the bed), and putting in a mini tank on the OEM filler. Filled it with about 3 gallons of nitromethane and 2 gallons of diesel. All of a sudden one day this (asshat) ricer had his engine almost explode. It was quite funny. -nB
only if it is true to the book and not like starship troopers (or I robot for that matter).
Honestly I would love to se either author's future history timelines made into a movie franchise. Either could get you ~30 hours of movie footage over 10-15 movies. Releasing one a year that's a 15 year timeline of revenue without re-hashing existing story lines. You could release every 6 months I suppose. Thing is I doubt any studio is even remotely interested in a project of that magnitude. -nB
How about the fact that some of us really did pay for the CS3 that we're using? I was on Premeire 6 and PS5 for a long time because I couldn't justify paying to upgrade to the latest release. Finally ponied up and bought CS3 and yes it is vastly better, and worth the money, but by the time I upgrade they'll likely be on CS12 because it's so damn expensive. Adobe is one of three apps that I keep windows around for. As to Office, I got that for $10 through a HomeWare program, so why pirate it?
Point is, I use Ubuntu LTS for most of my development work, except Win32 C++, where I use VS2003, video editing where I use CS3, and image manipulation, where I again use CS3. None of those behave all that well under Wine.
In my case pirating would cost me more than buying, given that if I got called on it it would ruin my business. -nB
funny I went the other path from you. I went from CP/M to DOS and cried. then got WFW3.11 and it was crap, upgraded to NT3.51 and it was awesome. Encountered NT4.0 at work and stayed away until SP6a, then finally upgraded. My employer provided a PC with Win2KPro thus I upgraded to that, finally encountered the "consumer" line OS with XPSP2 and have been entirely happy with it. I have Vista machines at work and aside from the eye-candy I have no reason to upgrade at home. Ditto on the Win7 releases I've seen so far. On the flip side I grab new linux distros and play with them whenever they come out, and I've been running on Ubuntu LTS versions for all my non windows centric tasks. Couldn't be happier. -nB
wireless mesh networks. separate peer links with separate tie-ins to the internet? neither of those would be considered "the Internet" but they would function as such. -nB
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cat5 is not rated for it, but it works fine. Same as I can run 100Mbps over telephone wire.
what suffers is an exponential increase is BER (bit error rate) over distance. 802.3 specs 100 meters with a nominally low BER, with cat 5 you likely will either not be able to run 100 meters, or you will be able to maintain a link, but have a very high BER.
Depending on the PHY in use I can run as far as 50 meters on goo ol telco cable with 100Mbps (black widow phy on each end). With those same PHYs on cat5 I could pull > 250meters with no BER of notice.
-nB
I like coding in my lab, after hours when nearly everyone has gone home.
Janitor comes by around 7:30/8:00 and I thank him, listening to techno or classical, depending, I'll get more done in that span between 5:30 and 9:30 then many others in my department will get done in an entire week. Alas, the powers that be have banned overtime, so now I don't pump out as much code. To witt, here I am, as always in the afternoon...
-nB
fair enough then ;)
Are you sure?
Would you work under someone who had an MBA, was a pre-law, and was responsible for the legal department at a largish company? Because that's the exact structure of my company's legal department. Last I heard our head council had wide latitude, but technically worked for a MBA toting pre-law.
Point is, in any large organization you need someone to make the translation from management to rank and file. That person needs aptitude in both, rather than narrow specialty in one. I have had many managers in my tech life. The best ones were not technologists, they were managers that understood tech. In this case I hope that's how this guy is, a solid manager, who understands enough about technology to identify the right people to hand tasks to and trust them with the results.
In a small firm, especially one focused on the law business I would agree with you 100%. The head boss should be a lawyer, and the structure works from there, but in a large organization, that won't hold up, same thing here... the government is a non-trivial sized organization.
Respectfully,
-nB
good idea.
I'll file the papers immediately.
Seriously though, at the time including a browser or media player was a big deal. They were seen as additional programs, similar to Word, Excel, etc. that should be sold separately. Since MS bundled them we have all come to expect these programs to be free, thus "hurting" other businesses.
-nB
FWIW it doesn't stimulate the wake-up response either. I've nearly fallen asleep at the wheel on the road under that lighting...
My pet peeve:
Where I work I can defer everything till I'm ready (usually before I go home): Backup, Patches, etc., except one thing:
McAffe Virus scan, which is set to random (but during working hours) system scans. Once that launches my machine is basically unusable for ~30min to an hour. I simply don't work during that period as it's so bad that explorer will freeze, mouse is jumpy. And I can not re-schedule or abort it.
For extra credit since on-access scanning is on, have the backup utility try and launch a file indexing, and miss the timer to defer, while system scan is going. Now you have two scanners trying to touch every file on the machine. last time this happened it took almost 4 hours before it was done. :(
-nB
Seller is not obligated to collect tax in CA...
According to my seller permit, I can notify the customer that I do no collect the state sales tax, and that they are obligated to pay the use tax.
Sellers that do this, however, I suspect get audited very very frequently.
-nB
never mind I've already seen my taxes go up this year and I make < $100K/yr...
I recognize that BO didn't sign this tax increase, my state asshats did, but still, up it went, by 1% of all goods I consume that are not foodstuffs bought from a grocery store in an unprepared state.
-nB
fine then I want less services.
Specifically I don't want services not enumerated in the US or state constitution.
FWIW we're building a 400Sq Ft cottage. We own the land already.
$60,000...
I really want to know where houses are selling under $100K
What encryption does your service use on your end?
What encryption is used to TX/RX the data from the client?
I particularly like the de-duplication aspect, however I don't trust you (as I am sure you do not trust me). Is there any issue with uploading TrueCrypt container files to your service (maximum single file size, etc.?)
Looks good, especially for $1/gig/year...
-nB
5 bucks says some exploits launch just to poke holes in their statement.
Next major worm will only target Vista and will spam MS addresses with
EPIC FAIL
This spam was sent from a compromised Vista machine.
you are, in fact not wrong as far as you went.
Specifically look at a "fixed value" Money Unit (gold, silver, etc.)
The price of many goods not heavily dependent on technological improvement (a loaf of bread in your example), costs relatively the same fraction of an ounce of gold as it did in years past. Sadly I do not have a link handy to the reference, and the ref I had was before the economy with apeshit recently, but from the 70's through the early 2000's it was relatively static, a loaf of bread changed in price, but in fact tracked fairly statically with gold.
-nB
You do realize this puts a bit of responsibility on the individual, right? Nothing to be scared of...
You and I must not be in the same country... I live in the USA, where are you?
I completely understand you point, but in effect I'm saying that if it's not a two way street, then neither direction should be allowed to be binding. That simple.
(of course I realize that just because it's right/just/fair/unjust/mean/unfair has no bearing on the illegal/legal aspects).
-nB
But the other half of those click-wraps indicate that if you don't agree to the terms of the license then you should click cancel and return the product. I don't know of any retailers that refund money on open software, so wouldn't that constitute the vendor not upholding their end of the bargain, thus voiding said contract? I went through this once and ultimately was unable to get a refund. The packaging was too vague to know if the software met my needs, and it wasn't until I placed the CD in my machine that I could access the CHM help files (that were not available on-line). At this point it became clear that the product was unusable, so I did not install it and tried to return it. The store said "it's been opened, it's yours", the manufacturer said "get your refund from the store, we can't cut you a check". IMHO that means that the EULA stating I could return it was void.
-nB
At my old apartment we had someone stealing gas on the peak of the market.
Since my truck is crap it was an easy target. They stole almost an entire 30 gallon tank full.
I found out who it was by disconnecting my fill spout from the tank (and piping a new fill spout from the tool box in the bed), and putting in a mini tank on the OEM filler. Filled it with about 3 gallons of nitromethane and 2 gallons of diesel. All of a sudden one day this (asshat) ricer had his engine almost explode. It was quite funny.
-nB
best explanation yet.
I salute you.
-nB
only if it is true to the book and not like starship troopers (or I robot for that matter).
Honestly I would love to se either author's future history timelines made into a movie franchise. Either could get you ~30 hours of movie footage over 10-15 movies. Releasing one a year that's a 15 year timeline of revenue without re-hashing existing story lines. You could release every 6 months I suppose. Thing is I doubt any studio is even remotely interested in a project of that magnitude.
-nB
How about the fact that some of us really did pay for the CS3 that we're using?
I was on Premeire 6 and PS5 for a long time because I couldn't justify paying to upgrade to the latest release. Finally ponied up and bought CS3 and yes it is vastly better, and worth the money, but by the time I upgrade they'll likely be on CS12 because it's so damn expensive. Adobe is one of three apps that I keep windows around for. As to Office, I got that for $10 through a HomeWare program, so why pirate it?
Point is, I use Ubuntu LTS for most of my development work, except Win32 C++, where I use VS2003, video editing where I use CS3, and image manipulation, where I again use CS3. None of those behave all that well under Wine.
In my case pirating would cost me more than buying, given that if I got called on it it would ruin my business.
-nB
funny I went the other path from you.
I went from CP/M to DOS and cried.
then got WFW3.11 and it was crap, upgraded to NT3.51 and it was awesome. Encountered NT4.0 at work and stayed away until SP6a, then finally upgraded.
My employer provided a PC with Win2KPro thus I upgraded to that, finally encountered the "consumer" line OS with XPSP2 and have been entirely happy with it. I have Vista machines at work and aside from the eye-candy I have no reason to upgrade at home. Ditto on the Win7 releases I've seen so far.
On the flip side I grab new linux distros and play with them whenever they come out, and I've been running on Ubuntu LTS versions for all my non windows centric tasks. Couldn't be happier.
-nB
that much I understand (see link in my sig). In the case of Google though, I have a feeling they could afford the legal bill.
how about the fact that titles traditionally can not be (C) ?
-nB
wireless mesh networks.
separate peer links with separate tie-ins to the internet?
neither of those would be considered "the Internet" but they would function as such.
-nB