My nokias sync, do share net, and some even support sending SMS stright from the address book, my iPhone does not.
That is something that still does not fit in my head. Still I am happier with the iphone.... but if they bridge this gap for me it is the absolute winner.....
Even if Nokia used Safari (which it does not), it would still suck to use it on a screen half the size, and operate it with buttons.
I own an e65 nokia (quite pricey and feature rich business edition Nokia) and I changed it to an iPhone, mainly because of the interface (buttons, small screen) and the browser (which SUCKS IMO),
I actually happen to use my phone to check pages, email over GPRS, and use the phone as a browser many times over WIFI while listening to music.... oh well, now listening music on the E65 is just an other thing that sucks terribly.....
so "people just need to know "... check your facts before lecturing people about what THEIR phone has, otherwise it is clear that you do not know or own any of the devices you mentioned.....
features that everyone raves about on the iPhone, but I've never used them. It doesn't even occur to me to use them because I feel like I need a PhD in computer science with a specialization in programing for imbedded devices to figure out how to use the damn features.
Hah, thank you. I own a Nokia e65, which is as expensive as an iPhone, but I simply do not feel like using these functions, because they suck with the interface provided...
I "accidentally" bought an iPhone (I had a site I had to format for iPhone so I had to get a phone), and after that I just kept the phone. Even though some features (such as net sharing with a laptop) are missing, I am still happier because YOU CAN USE THE DAMN THING.... unlike the 40 others......
I also totally agree with your other points about Apple VS not apple, but I made the switch from Linux desktop (as I dropped Windows 10 years ago, even though I had to use it here and there)
I went to school in eastern Europe, where we got a STRONG education=good education with a hard exam system.
Still sometimes it is not quantity of knowledge but positive spirit what people should be getting.
I read some negative comments, and I feel sorry for the people posting them.,,,,
Well, just my opinion.... and while I read a lot of interesting TECH stuff on/. (and thank for it), this is really a piece (the video) I am thankful for.
Foxconn makes the Xbox X-clamp. That famous piece of (crap) component which fails to hold the heat sinks in a way on the processor in a way that it does not overheat and melt off the circuit board.
Yes, it is also bad design with too much heat in a too small box... but the xclamp is definitely a piece of trash.....
Keywords are rrod xbox, xclamp xbox....
Yeah, so foxconn is a name I will now double remember, and MS hardware went to the same place where I put the software a long time ago. I am just pissed that I had to re-purchase all the online games I play for the PS3. Hope that does not have any Foxconn crap in it...
But seriously, ignore the person and ban his account. If he comes back, submit his email addresses to all the pron, medicine, debt consolidation and similar sites. Also put his address in a hidden field to multiple sites (so dumb scrapers will scrape it).
Get his phone number (social engineering) and submit that too everywhere, in fact, go to a pharmacy site and order something to him, his phone number will gets endless buy this - buy that calls...
Wow.... well.... I own 3 of them (+one on my Macbook) and they were all a good investment for me.
If you prefer the default vendor trash that came with your last windows computer, than you are a different person. Despite your quite recognizable ignorance I do not call you a WANKER.
Oh wait, maybe it is your default keyboard that makes "you are" into your, or you never type so you do not know how to spell this word (2 words) correctly. No my first language is not English either.
I am an input device junkie, and have to buy some new gadget every 2 months. Bet it an iphone, a trackball, the new apple wireless keyboard, or a wii controller, even though I do not own a wii.
At work I use an Apple aluminium keyboard and a logitech trackball (trackman wheel), and these two can freak out tech in a way, they are scared to attempt to take my controls over.
My colleagues, even being technical people, absolutely do not give a shit if they get the company standard Dell keyboard, and the cheapest crap optical mouse. They just do not.
I see it right now where I am working, and saw it at HP. Hp keyboards and mouses (mice??) are REALLY crap quality, and still, out of 50 people 1 actually brought a mouse and keyboard to work on something they are accustomed to.
Financial issue? Dunno. I bought the same keyboard and trackball for home and work, so I guess they could do that if they cared.
Where am I getting with this? Well, if techs do not care and just use whatever crap you give to them, then why would an average user switch to any other device other than a keyboard and a mouse? When so many users do not care to shell out +$5 to get DSL instead of sloooooow dialup.
I think this is one of thouse "solar cell triples efficiency, tomorrow we can forget about car batteries" article you see every two months here..
I might be very well wrong, but when people look at me strange to try every good looking input device, I doubt they would get rid of their trusted crappy mouse within the next 10 years
Well, for people who need all the scripting, and UNIX stuff you would except with a working desktop YES.
It is not a Linux adoption, but a UnIX adoption/alternative. I work in a fully Windows environment on OSX (my direct boss who is also a tech is the only MAC user around). 800+ sites on windows, 500+ call center.
When you want to get the job done you need a real terminal with bash and all the goodies and vi. All that on a working desktop, and there is no 4 hours off trying to see why X does not start on the new nvidia binary (crap) linux driver.
No I am not a mac freak... I just need a unix machine with a stable working desktop, and still ove linux on my 'other" company's servers.
Technically without HW maintenance, and almost no upgrades. That includes web software updates, which lead to various old wordpress, postnuke, phpbb attacks.
While from time to time these attack succeeded to change the index page or do some stuff, they never actually succeeded to install any root kit, spam bot or do similar damage.
Why ? Because all the code was compiled for Linux, and even after successfully exploiting bad web programs they were called from the temp dirs : THEY DID NOT RUN. that is a prime example of security through obscurity....
Now is it really safe : no, but it luckily protected the server against these attacks, and probably the not so obscure Linux boxes fell....
Just my 2c... Obscurity should not be used for security, but if you ask me if I wanted a car alarm EVERY ONE has, or one that NO ONE HAS, I go with the latter.....
But it seems that "many connections" kill these devices. Many connections, which boil down to: BitTorrent or "too many" devices.
At my house, networked devices are around 30. (4 laptops, 1 PC, 2 Mac minis, PS3, 2 Wifi phones, 4 access points, 3 VOIP ATAs, NSLU2 (asterisk, bluetooth proximity), Xbox 360 (just red-ringed out)...... and so on. This between 5 members of the family, but I am admittedly responsible for 90% of the smog. Of course I love this planet, so most of the time they are not on at the same time..
Looking at my routers' MAC address list makes me feel like I am in an office of 15.
Anyway. My ISP provided DSL box can keep up with this from 6-24 hours, sometimes crapping out after 4. That is some cheap crap I am forced to pay a Buck for, (Globespan Virata). This box is not even configured to do NAT, as I have a fixed IP router behind it.
So, I reverted back to my old box (which my provider said was incompatible, unreliable, but turned out they killed everyone's connection, gave this lie, so they could push their $1 box on you, for which they do not give password). There is in fact no password, so I can install crap on the whole districts routers, or shut them down.
Anyway, so put my old (and not working) Zyxel box back in (no MAC address restriction for public IP clients is in place), and turns out that the box miraculously works again with the 2+ year old settings on it.
The box is NOT freezing, but it is not doing NAT. So my connection (DSL) is stable again. Rock solid.
Router: bought this nice shiny WRT54G (V8), shich is sadly VxWorks (Vx_IT_DOES_NOT_WORK(S)).
Same thing, reboots in 1-2days, or no net, Then again, with all the machines on, 4 hours and it is toast.
So I went ahead, and bought this $35 WRT54G (Version 1) access point with Linux Pre-installed on Ebay. Lazyness won, and got the pre-installed version, but you can do it yourself as well.
Guess what: The thing has 3 months+ uptimes. I once set some stupidity and it lost some config data, other than that it is rock solid. DD-WRT. NEVER HAVE TO REBOOT. The only downtime comes from the sometimes 3+ hours nightly power failures, for which 6+2 UPSes do not provide enough remedy. Ok, the router is outside on an old UPS that can hold up for an hour and a half with zyxel modem+wrt. I have 2x1000, 3x 750, 1x550, 2x350, and the higher capacity ones are reserved for my ps3, my projector and my Mac computers (a mac mini has 3hours+ on a 1000VA, with a 22' lcd, which I really appreciate.)
The V1 vs V8 is a shocking difference, they replaced the antennas with cheap-o ones, the status leds are now minimal, on the old you had a bunch, giving nice status. Also the memory sizze is a fraction of the original.
What also helps: DEDICATE a ROUTER and a separate CABLE/DSL device. Most of these consumer boxes are designed to nat for Grandma's and Grandpa's 2 laptops. They crap out if you are downloading Pr0n from 150 seeds, play 64-player online matches, and have 15 ssh connections, and work on 3+ workstations while conferencing on VOIP.
I also figured, that cheap access points are pretty stable, if you only use them to provide WIFI, and not do NAT. I have a wrt54gC (the C is the tiny device, the size of a sipura 3102 or PAP-2t). The device is rock solid as an AP, but if you nat 5+ devices over it, it crashes in 3 hours.
I just got a TimeCapsule, and this far it works, but it barely has 5 hour uptime, so I will see. Naturally in AP mode, and no NAT-ting.
Well, just my 5 cents. I used to do net/unix admin for years, but now I stay away from it as I turned to programming full time..... no 2 shifts, no support calls...... still, I like to keep a complex network and play around....
Hope that helps you out there with 10+ bit-sucking devices leaching 24-7
And even though I completely agree today with what I wrote yesterday, probably I would give a nicer packaging now, without those evil alcoholic beverages in my system.
Oh well.... at least I have a reason not to go to the gym with my wife. Instead, I might just go for a ride on my motorbike.... that is exercise too....:O
If you had read the post, you would have seen "people download/buy a book on".
Anyways, almost all the documentation for WEB programming is freely available. So the pirate bay comment is not quite valid, not quite nice. I agree.
Apologies. On the other hand I do own a large selection of downloaded ebooks, but mostly related to other scientific fields.
These are books I would never read beginning to end, but I downloaded them so I can take a look into them to know if they interest me or not.
Even though I downloaded almost all William Gibson books, I own them on the shelf, and read the "land based/real" version of them. Still, to search for a quote or just have them "in case" is an option I do not want to not have.
Anyway, that might not justify stealing IP for most. I am a terrible person and will burn in hell.
Huhh, I am obviously as much of a rebel "linux/bsd/whatever" user as you.
But unlike you I own an iphone, and know that you can activate without iTunes.
Now if you ask me if I wanted one and paid for one and got suckered into AT&T: no. A web project paid me for it (iphone format site ="web app"), and I jail-broken it to use it in Costa Rica.
If you are such a rebel, probably soon you will learn, that by owning a Mac (with OSX), you can drop windows (or run it via Parallels or VmWare or dual boot), and you will get a perfect UNIX computer with a desktop that actually works, and an OS that actually HAS DRIVERS for most of the things you need to "HACK" (or cry for) for weeks on Linux.
Do I hate linux? Perfect for the server, no thanks anymore for my desktop. I want to get stuff done other than figuring out why X crashed and has no driver for my new card.
You want an iphone? Get a mac or windows.
The again, no offense; I spent days, nights, weeks doing stuff, hacking my drivers and all. Was very useful, and I can do many things most admins cannot on a linux box, but I need to get work done without the constant DICKING around fixing shit. So I got a Macbook and a Mini Mac. They were my best ever hardware purchase.
Iphone: yeah it is fine. My Nokia has 5x the functions (E565), cost more, and guess what: I hate it because the interface is from the last century, and when I try to type an URL it takes me 5x the time. So yes. I love my iphone, and my Macs.
Why ? As a programmer and admin(with multiple clients) I suffer enough solving CRAP, so I want systems that work with a slick interface.
OK, had a busi programming/meeting/fixing week, adn I am past my 2nd vodka-redbull...
Cheers and no offense, just do not be an ass, there are folks out there who are not morons and like *nix systems. BTW the iphone is based on BSD, so get one and you can rebel even more!
Long working hours, no compensation 6-day work weeks
I am in the Casino/Sports Betting industry and good enough to tell them 7-15 5days a week or bye-bye.. but most of my colleagues are working for shit, 6 days a week 2 shifts... That is in Costa Rica....
Moral of the story : learn stuff, do not count on training, have an attitude, and be good....
We just lost a support guy who was answering phones (software developer engineer), and a designer, because he was sick of answering the phone on sunday afternoons - yes, designers make nice pix 9-5, then they wanna go home and be with their family or smoke pot.... they are artists, just like programmers....
BOSSES DO NOT UNDERSTAND THAT. Period. But they will learn, as all you IT people stop being pussies and tell that what you want, then do not make exclusions.
I can do it, you can do it...
OK, terrible week, 8+ 4-5 hours a week of coding at work + coding at home (for other clients).... so I had my Friday night drinks before shooting some people on PS3...
Anyways, everyone stop whining, start downloading ebooks from pirate bay, learn how to use prototpype, PHP and get a job and have an attitude.
Problem is: people (especially in the US) want free (mostly useless) training. Elsewhere (esp, Europe and Asia) people download/buy a book on whatever, and then write a program just to learn it. They end up in a good job where they perfect.... Problem solved.
Ok that is the drunk version, but I went to all kinds of trainings, and 99% was useless. Just write an app that does.SOMETHING. in language @#$%, then you learn something. Then read a book about it, and you will be better than any certified monkey.
For the record: I am a software engineer with many years in unix/net administration, and I coded PHP/MYSQL before landing in a full time coding MSSQL ASP (!!!JSCRIPT!!), and JS.
I am working on a sportsbook software, and have 3x the assignments I can do. I am a healty nerd who rides bikes, exercises and scuba dives I do not live in my grandma's basement. In other words; I am a normal person and can learn enough technologies and sustain+save well enough, because I care and want to train.
Can you do it? Yes. Just want it?
No I am not the writer of "Oprah you can do it" or "Chicken soup for the soul"... I am jsut a slightly drunk (now) programmer/IT admin/tech geek who thinks that instead of all the wining, all these people can make a very nice living without ripping people off, and without learning things day by day.
ahmm.... I go and watch some chick-flick my wife wants to watch.... life is not perfect
Well, you have gotten some nasty comments. Not all It has to be programming, and I am sure that a lot of the people who wrote comments like "not a programmer in IT is useless." are in fact hobby programmers and never worked as a full time coder.
I do not suggest the manager route, besides becoming a manager with no experience is not really an option, unless it is CS or TS and you want a heart attack pretty early.
My idea was to become network/unix admin, which I was from 94-2000. In the meantime I was programming this and that, and in 2000 I started running a network of sites which landed me in a full time web developer position (not designer, developer).
Go whichever route you want, however always know some programming, and some scripting (unless you are a manager for which you only need arrogance, not caring and a strong elbow to kill off the competition for the next position.
I saw numerous DBAs, unix admins, windows admins, network guys, and a lot of them failed in larger environments for one reason: they did not know any practical programming, nor the had an engineers' mind set. They were unable to process or manage large amount of configs, scripts, data... etc, because they lacked the skill of writing their own scripts and programs.
On the downsides: an admin job gives you sometimes lazy days, but night calls, on call, afternoon and night shifts......
A programming job gives you weekends and 9-5, however the "code factory" never stops... at least not where I work... one project after the other....
In either way, do not become a manager of coders without coding knowledge.. those bastards (us) will do their private websites and other projects in front of your eyes, and you won't have a clue what they are really working on.
Actually this is the same in any job. IT people have a good chance to get "side jobs" (where I live at least), and sometimes these projects happen at their day jobs.
So this is my 2c, hope it helps....
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If you like or know Apple you might already know "time capsule".
I am recently considering it for home use. Has no raid, but you can use it for various other tasks.
It has gigabit ports, so as a network storage it can be quite fast. Also you can add an external disk, so you might be able to raid them (well, mirroring mode), use it as an access point or wireless disk besides a print server.
Well, then again, I like it because I need a cheap gigabit solution, and having a large disk as backup comes handy besides the new long-range WIFI.
Just my 2c, for the price it is a nice option.
An other could be a NSLU with linux and several usb disks, but for me anything other than firewire is not a favoured solution. Please do not bother about specs and read reviews before telling how much USB is faster than firewire. It is NOT most of the time....
No, but really.... what a stupidity. GTA was violent, sexual, outrageous, criminal, drug and alcohol using.
You buy the game to behave like that, and anyone who is offended by the hot coffee thing should get a wii an play super mario (no offense to wii owners meant).
just my2c...
Besides that, I think III was the best GTA.. 4 is nice, but I feel that there is little to do other than 'hang out' with your lame buddies.
Pretty much do the same, however I replaced 3 large Linux/Windows/BSD pcs with a MAC mini and a Macbook. Both go to sleep quite fast, and last long on UPS.
In Costa Rica there is only 1 power company : the government, so there is nothing to do there.
I also agree with not judging people over one thing they do.
It is like my colleagues telling me why I leave the office computer on (BTW it goes into sleep when I press the button, and draws very little (MAC G5)........ then they go to Mac donalds while I drink a Soy yoghurt and an organic pita sandwich (vegan).....
Also riding a bike instead of driving a car can help to offset all these which I try to do (unless it is rainy season and is pouring)....
Then again, the "shit in the garden" thing is kind of a good analogy, but I really wonder what else the person does besides turning off a pc....
Being a programmer/solution engineer, I can attest, that the shower and the toilet are two places where solutions are born. So why not a laptop... you might as well quickly put it on paper... err.... keyboard.
Then again, I only have a shower (cultural thing in Costa Rica) and no actual bathtub (only thing I miss from good old Europe). I know for a fact, that if I had a bathtub/jacuzzi, I would have a minimal machine there for web browsing, music and TV (well, podcasts and movies, as I do not watch TV... OK maybe NATGEO and Discovery).
Well, actually one part of buying an iPhone was to have a device with me all the time which is capable to browse the web better than most cellular devices.
That includes the toilet, and is wonderful to check morning news on it:) I figured, that if you had the space to have a laptop there, you could stream the TV there, and watch TV news.... Dunno.... I have a shared toilet/bathroom, so a laptop there could serve more purpose there than doing whatever your filthy mind imagined there.....
YES: for a... garage computer: to check that "how to fix my XYZ headlamps.
bedroom computer: to browse around, without having to put your shiny macbook next to the bed so your SO can step on it in the morning
kitchen computer: recipes...
living room computer: to IMDB that movie trailer, or to run MTR (multi trace route) during an online game, to see your current latency (ping)
asterisk/appliance box: damaged screen, damaged keyboard/touchpad? Still perfect for a quiet always on application. Well I run my asterisk on NSLU, but my close next guess was my OOOLD vaio... before it died finally..
A 5 year old machine should also have DVD playback capabilities, USB ports, etc, so they are perfect as a car pc, toilet pc, bathroom pc.... or whatever...
I actually have a 6+ year old Toshiba near my bed. It annoys the hell out of me with windows on it, and it is slow as hell, but to quickly google something, or spend a lazy Saturday morning "surfing the net", it is perfect. Oh yeah... when I am next to a machine I end up working, or reading dox, except when the machine is useless for anything else than "surfing"...
Slashdot Mirror
nonono... I meant to send SMS to a contact from your MAC/OSX from the machine's address book :)
You just need a paired nokia (or other supported phone - not iphone), and just type a message that gets sent through your phone :)
That one also makes me dizzy.....
My nokias sync, do share net, and some even support sending SMS stright from the address book, my iPhone does not.
That is something that still does not fit in my head. Still I am happier with the iphone.... but if they bridge this gap for me it is the absolute winner.....
Even if Nokia used Safari (which it does not), it would still suck to use it on a screen half the size, and operate it with buttons.
I own an e65 nokia (quite pricey and feature rich business edition Nokia) and I changed it to an iPhone, mainly because of the interface (buttons, small screen) and the browser (which SUCKS IMO),
I actually happen to use my phone to check pages, email over GPRS, and use the phone as a browser many times over WIFI while listening to music.... oh well, now listening music on the E65 is just an other thing that sucks terribly.....
so "people just need to know " ... check your facts before lecturing people about what THEIR phone has, otherwise it is clear that you do not know or own any of the devices you mentioned.....
features that everyone raves about on the iPhone, but I've never used them. It doesn't even occur to me to use them because I feel like I need a PhD in computer science with a specialization in programing for imbedded devices to figure out how to use the damn features.
Hah, thank you. I own a Nokia e65, which is as expensive as an iPhone, but I simply do not feel like using these functions, because they suck with the interface provided...
I "accidentally" bought an iPhone (I had a site I had to format for iPhone so I had to get a phone), and after that I just kept the phone. Even though some features (such as net sharing with a laptop) are missing, I am still happier because YOU CAN USE THE DAMN THING .... unlike the 40 others ......
I also totally agree with your other points about Apple VS not apple, but I made the switch from Linux desktop (as I dropped Windows 10 years ago, even though I had to use it here and there)
I wish my schools had figures like this guy...
I went to school in eastern Europe, where we got a STRONG education=good education with a hard exam system.
Still sometimes it is not quantity of knowledge but positive spirit what people should be getting.
I read some negative comments, and I feel sorry for the people posting them.,,,,
Well, just my opinion.... and while I read a lot of interesting TECH stuff on /. (and thank for it), this is really a piece (the video) I am thankful for.
Cheers
Foxconn makes the Xbox X-clamp. That famous piece of (crap) component which fails to hold the heat sinks in a way on the processor in a way that it does not overheat and melt off the circuit board.
Yes, it is also bad design with too much heat in a too small box... but the xclamp is definitely a piece of trash.....
Keywords are rrod xbox, xclamp xbox ....
Yeah, so foxconn is a name I will now double remember, and MS hardware went to the same place where I put the software a long time ago. I am just pissed that I had to re-purchase all the online games I play for the PS3. Hope that does not have any Foxconn crap in it...
See what you did? Instead of going straight to dirty tactics now you slashdotted your own site and exceeded your CPU limit.
But seriously, ignore the person and ban his account. If he comes back, submit his email addresses to all the pron, medicine, debt consolidation and similar sites. Also put his address in a hidden field to multiple sites (so dumb scrapers will scrape it).
Get his phone number (social engineering) and submit that too everywhere, in fact, go to a pharmacy site and order something to him, his phone number will gets endless buy this - buy that calls...
Hmm... if that does not work hire Frank Rizzo ...
Wow.... well.... I own 3 of them (+one on my Macbook) and they were all a good investment for me.
If you prefer the default vendor trash that came with your last windows computer, than you are a different person. Despite your quite recognizable ignorance I do not call you a WANKER.
Oh wait, maybe it is your default keyboard that makes "you are" into your, or you never type so you do not know how to spell this word (2 words) correctly. No my first language is not English either.
Anyway, you could learn some respect.
I am an input device junkie, and have to buy some new gadget every 2 months. Bet it an iphone, a trackball, the new apple wireless keyboard, or a wii controller, even though I do not own a wii.
At work I use an Apple aluminium keyboard and a logitech trackball (trackman wheel), and these two can freak out tech in a way, they are scared to attempt to take my controls over.
My colleagues, even being technical people, absolutely do not give a shit if they get the company standard Dell keyboard, and the cheapest crap optical mouse. They just do not.
I see it right now where I am working, and saw it at HP. Hp keyboards and mouses (mice??) are REALLY crap quality, and still, out of 50 people 1 actually brought a mouse and keyboard to work on something they are accustomed to.
Financial issue? Dunno. I bought the same keyboard and trackball for home and work, so I guess they could do that if they cared.
Where am I getting with this? Well, if techs do not care and just use whatever crap you give to them, then why would an average user switch to any other device other than a keyboard and a mouse? When so many users do not care to shell out +$5 to get DSL instead of sloooooow dialup.
I think this is one of thouse "solar cell triples efficiency, tomorrow we can forget about car batteries" article you see every two months here..
I might be very well wrong, but when people look at me strange to try every good looking input device, I doubt they would get rid of their trusted crappy mouse within the next 10 years
Well, for people who need all the scripting, and UNIX stuff you would except with a working desktop YES.
It is not a Linux adoption, but a UnIX adoption/alternative. I work in a fully Windows environment on OSX (my direct boss who is also a tech is the only MAC user around). 800+ sites on windows, 500+ call center.
When you want to get the job done you need a real terminal with bash and all the goodies and vi. All that on a working desktop, and there is no 4 hours off trying to see why X does not start on the new nvidia binary (crap) linux driver.
No I am not a mac freak... I just need a unix machine with a stable working desktop, and still ove linux on my 'other" company's servers.
Cheers
I had a BSD box for 4 years at a hosting service.
Technically without HW maintenance, and almost no upgrades. That includes web software updates, which lead to various old wordpress, postnuke, phpbb attacks.
While from time to time these attack succeeded to change the index page or do some stuff, they never actually succeeded to install any root kit, spam bot or do similar damage.
Why ? Because all the code was compiled for Linux, and even after successfully exploiting bad web programs they were called from the temp dirs : THEY DID NOT RUN. that is a prime example of security through obscurity....
Now is it really safe : no, but it luckily protected the server against these attacks, and probably the not so obscure Linux boxes fell....
Just my 2c ... Obscurity should not be used for security, but if you ask me if I wanted a car alarm EVERY ONE has, or one that NO ONE HAS, I go with the latter.....
But it seems that "many connections" kill these devices. Many connections, which boil down to: BitTorrent or "too many" devices.
At my house, networked devices are around 30. (4 laptops, 1 PC, 2 Mac minis, PS3, 2 Wifi phones, 4 access points, 3 VOIP ATAs, NSLU2 (asterisk, bluetooth proximity), Xbox 360 (just red-ringed out) ...... and so on. This between 5 members of the family, but I am admittedly responsible for 90% of the smog. Of course I love this planet, so most of the time they are not on at the same time..
Looking at my routers' MAC address list makes me feel like I am in an office of 15.
Anyway. My ISP provided DSL box can keep up with this from 6-24 hours, sometimes crapping out after 4. That is some cheap crap I am forced to pay a Buck for, (Globespan Virata). This box is not even configured to do NAT, as I have a fixed IP router behind it.
So, I reverted back to my old box (which my provider said was incompatible, unreliable, but turned out they killed everyone's connection, gave this lie, so they could push their $1 box on you, for which they do not give password). There is in fact no password, so I can install crap on the whole districts routers, or shut them down.
Anyway, so put my old (and not working) Zyxel box back in (no MAC address restriction for public IP clients is in place), and turns out that the box miraculously works again with the 2+ year old settings on it.
The box is NOT freezing, but it is not doing NAT. So my connection (DSL) is stable again. Rock solid.
Router: bought this nice shiny WRT54G (V8), shich is sadly VxWorks (Vx_IT_DOES_NOT_WORK(S)).
Same thing, reboots in 1-2days, or no net, Then again, with all the machines on, 4 hours and it is toast.
So I went ahead, and bought this $35 WRT54G (Version 1) access point with Linux Pre-installed on Ebay. Lazyness won, and got the pre-installed version, but you can do it yourself as well.
Guess what: The thing has 3 months+ uptimes. I once set some stupidity and it lost some config data, other than that it is rock solid. DD-WRT. NEVER HAVE TO REBOOT. The only downtime comes from the sometimes 3+ hours nightly power failures, for which 6+2 UPSes do not provide enough remedy. Ok, the router is outside on an old UPS that can hold up for an hour and a half with zyxel modem+wrt. I have 2x1000, 3x 750, 1x550, 2x350, and the higher capacity ones are reserved for my ps3, my projector and my Mac computers (a mac mini has 3hours+ on a 1000VA, with a 22' lcd, which I really appreciate.)
The V1 vs V8 is a shocking difference, they replaced the antennas with cheap-o ones, the status leds are now minimal, on the old you had a bunch, giving nice status. Also the memory sizze is a fraction of the original.
What also helps: DEDICATE a ROUTER and a separate CABLE/DSL device. Most of these consumer boxes are designed to nat for Grandma's and Grandpa's 2 laptops. They crap out if you are downloading Pr0n from 150 seeds, play 64-player online matches, and have 15 ssh connections, and work on 3+ workstations while conferencing on VOIP.
I also figured, that cheap access points are pretty stable, if you only use them to provide WIFI, and not do NAT. I have a wrt54gC (the C is the tiny device, the size of a sipura 3102 or PAP-2t). The device is rock solid as an AP, but if you nat 5+ devices over it, it crashes in 3 hours.
I just got a TimeCapsule, and this far it works, but it barely has 5 hour uptime, so I will see. Naturally in AP mode, and no NAT-ting.
Well, just my 5 cents. I used to do net/unix admin for years, but now I stay away from it as I turned to programming full time..... no 2 shifts, no support calls ...... still, I like to keep a complex network and play around ....
Hope that helps you out there with 10+ bit-sucking devices leaching 24-7
Not that fast! This is the weekend, and the day is not over yet!
You have no idea of the HEADACHE!
And even though I completely agree today with what I wrote yesterday, probably I would give a nicer packaging now, without those evil alcoholic beverages in my system.
Oh well.... at least I have a reason not to go to the gym with my wife. Instead, I might just go for a ride on my motorbike.... that is exercise too....:O
If you had read the post, you would have seen "people download/buy a book on".
Anyways, almost all the documentation for WEB programming is freely available. So the pirate bay comment is not quite valid, not quite nice. I agree.
Apologies. On the other hand I do own a large selection of downloaded ebooks, but mostly related to other scientific fields.
These are books I would never read beginning to end, but I downloaded them so I can take a look into them to know if they interest me or not.
Even though I downloaded almost all William Gibson books, I own them on the shelf, and read the "land based/real" version of them. Still, to search for a quote or just have them "in case" is an option I do not want to not have.
Anyway, that might not justify stealing IP for most. I am a terrible person and will burn in hell.
Huhh, I am obviously as much of a rebel "linux/bsd/whatever" user as you.
But unlike you I own an iphone, and know that you can activate without iTunes.
Now if you ask me if I wanted one and paid for one and got suckered into AT&T: no. A web project paid me for it (iphone format site ="web app"), and I jail-broken it to use it in Costa Rica.
If you are such a rebel, probably soon you will learn, that by owning a Mac (with OSX), you can drop windows (or run it via Parallels or VmWare or dual boot), and you will get a perfect UNIX computer with a desktop that actually works, and an OS that actually HAS DRIVERS for most of the things you need to "HACK" (or cry for) for weeks on Linux.
Do I hate linux? Perfect for the server, no thanks anymore for my desktop. I want to get stuff done other than figuring out why X crashed and has no driver for my new card.
You want an iphone? Get a mac or windows.
The again, no offense; I spent days, nights, weeks doing stuff, hacking my drivers and all. Was very useful, and I can do many things most admins cannot on a linux box, but I need to get work done without the constant DICKING around fixing shit. So I got a Macbook and a Mini Mac. They were my best ever hardware purchase.
Iphone: yeah it is fine. My Nokia has 5x the functions (E565), cost more, and guess what: I hate it because the interface is from the last century, and when I try to type an URL it takes me 5x the time. So yes. I love my iphone, and my Macs.
Why ? As a programmer and admin(with multiple clients) I suffer enough solving CRAP, so I want systems that work with a slick interface.
OK, had a busi programming/meeting/fixing week, adn I am past my 2nd vodka-redbull ...
Cheers and no offense, just do not be an ass, there are folks out there who are not morons and like *nix systems. BTW the iphone is based on BSD, so get one and you can rebel even more!
Long working hours, no compensation
6-day work weeks
I am in the Casino/Sports Betting industry and good enough to tell them 7-15 5days a week or bye-bye .. but most of my colleagues are working for shit, 6 days a week 2 shifts ... That is in Costa Rica....
Moral of the story : learn stuff, do not count on training, have an attitude, and be good. ...
We just lost a support guy who was answering phones (software developer engineer), and a designer, because he was sick of answering the phone on sunday afternoons - yes, designers make nice pix 9-5, then they wanna go home and be with their family or smoke pot .... they are artists, just like programmers ....
BOSSES DO NOT UNDERSTAND THAT. Period. But they will learn, as all you IT people stop being pussies and tell that what you want, then do not make exclusions.
I can do it, you can do it ...
OK, terrible week, 8+ 4-5 hours a week of coding at work + coding at home (for other clients).... so I had my Friday night drinks before shooting some people on PS3 ...
Anyways, everyone stop whining, start downloading ebooks from pirate bay, learn how to use prototpype, PHP and get a job and have an attitude.
Problem is: people (especially in the US) want free (mostly useless) training. Elsewhere (esp, Europe and Asia) people download/buy a book on whatever, and then write a program just to learn it. They end up in a good job where they perfect.... Problem solved.
Ok that is the drunk version, but I went to all kinds of trainings, and 99% was useless. Just write an app that does .SOMETHING. in language @#$%, then you learn something. Then read a book about it, and you will be better than any certified monkey.
For the record: I am a software engineer with many years in unix/net administration, and I coded PHP/MYSQL before landing in a full time coding MSSQL ASP (!!!JSCRIPT!!), and JS.
I am working on a sportsbook software, and have 3x the assignments I can do. I am a healty nerd who rides bikes, exercises and scuba dives I do not live in my grandma's basement. In other words; I am a normal person and can learn enough technologies and sustain+save well enough, because I care and want to train.
Can you do it? Yes. Just want it?
No I am not the writer of "Oprah you can do it" or "Chicken soup for the soul" ... I am jsut a slightly drunk (now) programmer/IT admin/tech geek who thinks that instead of all the wining, all these people can make a very nice living without ripping people off, and without learning things day by day.
ahmm.... I go and watch some chick-flick my wife wants to watch .... life is not perfect
Just my 2c ..
Well, you have gotten some nasty comments. Not all It has to be programming, and I am sure that a lot of the people who wrote comments like "not a programmer in IT is useless." are in fact hobby programmers and never worked as a full time coder.
I do not suggest the manager route, besides becoming a manager with no experience is not really an option, unless it is CS or TS and you want a heart attack pretty early.
My idea was to become network/unix admin, which I was from 94-2000. In the meantime I was programming this and that, and in 2000 I started running a network of sites which landed me in a full time web developer position (not designer, developer).
Go whichever route you want, however always know some programming, and some scripting (unless you are a manager for which you only need arrogance, not caring and a strong elbow to kill off the competition for the next position.
I saw numerous DBAs, unix admins, windows admins, network guys, and a lot of them failed in larger environments for one reason: they did not know any practical programming, nor the had an engineers' mind set. They were unable to process or manage large amount of configs, scripts, data ... etc, because they lacked the skill of writing their own scripts and programs.
On the downsides: an admin job gives you sometimes lazy days, but night calls, on call, afternoon and night shifts ......
A programming job gives you weekends and 9-5, however the "code factory" never stops ... at least not where I work... one project after the other ....
In either way, do not become a manager of coders without coding knowledge .. those bastards (us) will do their private websites and other projects in front of your eyes, and you won't have a clue what they are really working on.
Actually this is the same in any job. IT people have a good chance to get "side jobs" (where I live at least), and sometimes these projects happen at their day jobs.
So this is my 2c, hope it helps ....
If you like or know Apple you might already know "time capsule".
I am recently considering it for home use. Has no raid, but you can use it for various other tasks.
It has gigabit ports, so as a network storage it can be quite fast. Also you can add an external disk, so you might be able to raid them (well, mirroring mode), use it as an access point or wireless disk besides a print server.
Well, then again, I like it because I need a cheap gigabit solution, and having a large disk as backup comes handy besides the new long-range WIFI.
Just my 2c, for the price it is a nice option.
An other could be a NSLU with linux and several usb disks, but for me anything other than firewire is not a favoured solution. Please do not bother about specs and read reviews before telling how much USB is faster than firewire. It is NOT most of the time....
No, but really .... what a stupidity. GTA was violent, sexual, outrageous, criminal, drug and alcohol using.
You buy the game to behave like that, and anyone who is offended by the hot coffee thing should get a wii an play super mario (no offense to wii owners meant).
just my2c ...
Besides that, I think III was the best GTA .. 4 is nice, but I feel that there is little to do other than 'hang out' with your lame buddies.
Agreed.
Pretty much do the same, however I replaced 3 large Linux/Windows/BSD pcs with a MAC mini and a Macbook. Both go to sleep quite fast, and last long on UPS.
In Costa Rica there is only 1 power company : the government, so there is nothing to do there.
I also agree with not judging people over one thing they do.
It is like my colleagues telling me why I leave the office computer on (BTW it goes into sleep when I press the button, and draws very little (MAC G5)........ then they go to Mac donalds while I drink a Soy yoghurt and an organic pita sandwich (vegan).....
Also riding a bike instead of driving a car can help to offset all these which I try to do (unless it is rainy season and is pouring)....
Then again, the "shit in the garden" thing is kind of a good analogy, but I really wonder what else the person does besides turning off a pc....
Being a programmer/solution engineer, I can attest, that the shower and the toilet are two places where solutions are born. So why not a laptop... you might as well quickly put it on paper ... err.... keyboard.
Then again, I only have a shower (cultural thing in Costa Rica) and no actual bathtub (only thing I miss from good old Europe). I know for a fact, that if I had a bathtub/jacuzzi, I would have a minimal machine there for web browsing, music and TV (well, podcasts and movies, as I do not watch TV ... OK maybe NATGEO and Discovery).
Well, actually one part of buying an iPhone was to have a device with me all the time which is capable to browse the web better than most cellular devices.
That includes the toilet, and is wonderful to check morning news on it :) I figured, that if you had the space to have a laptop there, you could stream the TV there, and watch TV news .... Dunno .... I have a shared toilet/bathroom, so a laptop there could serve more purpose there than doing whatever your filthy mind imagined there .....
For work, play, school ? Absolutely not.
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... when I am next to a machine I end up working, or reading dox, except when the machine is useless for anything else than "surfing"...
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YES: for a
garage computer: to check that "how to fix my XYZ headlamps.
bedroom computer: to browse around, without having to put your shiny macbook next to the bed so your SO can step on it in the morning
kitchen computer: recipes
living room computer: to IMDB that movie trailer, or to run MTR (multi trace route) during an online game, to see your current latency (ping)
asterisk/appliance box: damaged screen, damaged keyboard/touchpad? Still perfect for a quiet always on application. Well I run my asterisk on NSLU, but my close next guess was my OOOLD vaio
A 5 year old machine should also have DVD playback capabilities, USB ports, etc, so they are perfect as a car pc, toilet pc, bathroom pc.... or whatever
I actually have a 6+ year old Toshiba near my bed. It annoys the hell out of me with windows on it, and it is slow as hell, but to quickly google something, or spend a lazy Saturday morning "surfing the net", it is perfect. Oh yeah
just my 2c