If your end users will need to run 24 hours a day you will need to test 24 hours a day.
We have number of little (Linux of course) boxes using 3G USB modems here in Sweden, and have discovered that Telia does all sorts of maintenance at night and at weekends.
Furthermore the latency (as measured by ping) varies quite a bit depending on time of day, i.e. when the local farmers are downloading their porn.
Another thing we've come across is that the versions of the USB modems changes with great frequency! Which of course means when they break you have to be very careful who changes them.
I'm surprised not to see any comments regarding the ridiculousness of drawing any conclusions based on a sample so small. I'm sure that another sample of less than two hundred could be used to prove the exact opposite.
Take a look at www.abacus4.com. Sorry we're not open source, but we are cheap, and would probably do this job for you in a nice, simple way.
ABACUS4 is a process control and SCADA system which runs under the Linux Operating system on industrial PC hardware using a large range of industrial process I/O subsystems.
We can supply anything between the system software alone, up to a complete turnkey packaged system.
Contact me if this is interesting to you. Good luck!
Here in Sweden the SEB http://www.seb.se/ issues each Internet Bank customer a little keypad (digipass) which gives a time limited code in response to two 6 digit numbers requested by the website at login time.
To use the digipass you need a PIN.
So you can phish all you want, the only way to break in is to steal the digipass, and know the PIN. I've had my digipass for years now, I can't remember when this system started!
Other banks here have used other methods, but many are moving over to similar systems.
Furthermore the SEB Internet banking is miles ahead of the HSBC which I also have in England. They ask for certain digits out of a ten digit number that you have to have given them in setting up the system.
I think it would pay you to take a look at a more recent Slackware distibution. Quite a lot's happened since the 3.X days.
Once on the security mailing list you get advised whenever a new package has been updated to fix some security hole, and then you can just upgradepkg from the new package, if you need to.
If I understand it right anyone convicted in the US looses their right to vote - why?
I recently heard that every US president since WW2 would have been convicted and sentenced to death if ever tried by the same standards as at Nuremburg.
Here in Sweden every citizen has the right to vote, however stupid/criminal/insane (maybe there are some restrictions there) they are, and I think it's much the same over most of Europe.
Anyway, what does it matter what I think, you people in the US vote for my future anyway.
Slackware - http://www.slackware.com/. The latest version 8.1 has just come out in the last few days, but the older versions will all do this.
There are boot and root floppies, and the second CD is a bootable standalone system. If you boot from the standard bootable floppy you can from the boot: prompt tell it that you want the CD (/dev/hdb, or/dev/hdc or what ever) as the root - and away you go!
Good luck
This is absolutly the right answer. I live in Sweden where we have real cold (-10C this morning). When the ice makes bike riding impossible, I usually walk, although I have only about a mile, so that might be a problem.
Many people ride in the summer and take the bus in the winter here.
My ~25 year old racer (Claud Butler, £80UK new 1977) is still going strong, and isn't attractive for the thieves either!
When the power companies go bust, or the power lines break under the weight of the wet snow, and the busses slide off the road - your feet should still work even if you need to buy yourself some good boots!
Best of luck with real low tech walking - its fun!
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If your end users will need to run 24 hours a day you will need to test 24 hours a day.
We have number of little (Linux of course) boxes using 3G USB modems here in Sweden, and have discovered that Telia does all sorts of maintenance at night and at weekends.
Furthermore the latency (as measured by ping) varies quite a bit depending on time of day, i.e. when the local farmers are downloading their porn.
Another thing we've come across is that the versions of the USB modems changes with great frequency! Which of course means when they break you have to be very careful who changes them.
Good luck!
I'm surprised not to see any comments regarding the ridiculousness of drawing any conclusions based on a sample so small. I'm sure that another sample of less than two hundred could be used to prove the exact opposite.
Take a look at www.abacus4.com. Sorry we're not open source, but we are cheap, and would probably do this job for you in a nice, simple way.
ABACUS4 is a process control and SCADA system which runs under the Linux Operating system on industrial PC hardware using a large range of industrial process I/O subsystems.
We can supply anything between the system software alone, up to a complete turnkey packaged system.
Contact me if this is interesting to you. Good luck!
Here in Sweden the SEB http://www.seb.se/ issues each Internet Bank customer a little keypad (digipass) which gives a time limited code in response to two 6 digit numbers requested by the website at login time.
To use the digipass you need a PIN.
So you can phish all you want, the only way to break in is to steal the digipass, and know the PIN. I've had my digipass for years now, I can't remember when this system started!
Other banks here have used other methods, but many are moving over to similar systems.
Furthermore the SEB Internet banking is miles ahead of the HSBC which I also have in England. They ask for certain digits out of a ten digit number that you have to have given them in setting up the system.
I think it would pay you to take a look at a more recent Slackware distibution. Quite a lot's happened since the 3.X days.
Once on the security mailing list you get advised whenever a new package has been updated to fix some security hole, and then you can just upgradepkg from the new package, if you need to.
If I understand it right anyone convicted in the US looses their right to vote - why?
I recently heard that every US president since WW2 would have been convicted and sentenced to death if ever tried by the same standards as at Nuremburg.
Here in Sweden every citizen has the right to vote, however stupid/criminal/insane (maybe there are some restrictions there) they are, and I think it's much the same over most of Europe.
Anyway, what does it matter what I think, you people in the US vote for my future anyway.
You said it yourself - cable. If you both have ethernet you can just use a single swapped cable. Lo tech = cheap, quick easy reliable etc. etc.
Slackware - http://www.slackware.com/. The latest version 8.1 has just come out in the last few days, but the older versions will all do this. There are boot and root floppies, and the second CD is a bootable standalone system. If you boot from the standard bootable floppy you can from the boot: prompt tell it that you want the CD (/dev/hdb, or /dev/hdc or what ever) as the root - and away you go!
Good luck
I can't see which country he represents, or is he wearing Debian on his back?
Well done anyway.
This is absolutly the right answer. I live in Sweden where we have real cold (-10C this morning). When the ice makes bike riding impossible, I usually walk, although I have only about a mile, so that might be a problem.
Many people ride in the summer and take the bus in the winter here.
My ~25 year old racer (Claud Butler, £80UK new 1977) is still going strong, and isn't attractive for the thieves either!
When the power companies go bust, or the power lines break under the weight of the wet snow, and the busses slide off the road - your feet should still work even if you need to buy yourself some good boots!
Best of luck with real low tech walking - its fun!