I have to agree with corebreech, the quality of satellite is well beyond what I ever got from Comcast/AT&T, the TiVO is built into my satellite reciever so there are no funky issues with IR blasters, it has dual tuners, it cost $99, I was able to add disk space to it, an ethernet adapter (USB) and I can yank shows off of it.
The DVR/PVR units that TW and Comcast are selling their customers are sub-par, and not hackable AFAIK.
I've known a few people who were snobs about their TW PVR units, until I brought them over to check out my DirecTV Tivo, they've been converted =)
Until cable providers start providing PVR's that allow you to skip commercials decently (along with the rest of the great tivo features), they'll always be sub-par.
Well, I live in a major flight path to the airport (~8 miles away) so we get a lot of very low flying aircraft on approach, occasionally I _do_ get a blip on the satellite that coincides with an airplane flying over.
Hey moron, my tivo *is* my IRD (satellite receiver) so it has all the menus/guides built in, and there is no seperate charges for the tivo service (I have a premiere account).
The philips DSR704 is $99 at best buy, comes with a 40G drive. I upgraded it to a capacity of 320GB and it's the greatest thing on earth. =)
The basic claim (which is what matters, not the invention descriptions) has seven steps, ALL of which much happen for the patent to cover your activities:
1. A method for redirecting an original destination address access request to a redirected destination address, the method comprising the steps of:
receiving, at a gateway device, all original destination address access requests originating from a computer;
determining, at the gateway device, which of the original destination address requests require redirection;
storing the original destination address if redirection is required;
modifying, at the gateway device, the original destination address access request and communicating the modified request to a redirection server if redirection is required;
responding, at the redirection server, to the modified request with a browser redirect message that reassigns the modified request to an administrator-specified, redirected destination address;
intercepting, at the gateway device, the browser redirect message and modifying it with the stored original destination address; and
sending the modified browser redirect message to the computer, which automatically redirects the computer to the redirected destination address.
That sounds like a great idea for a home machine, or even a dedicated box.
But if you're trying to maintain an open collection of machines like Debian is, where developers from all over the world can connect from wherever they are (dialup/dhcp/cable/travelling) you can't easily restrict their IP.
It's like saying a mail server should only accept mail from ip a.b.c.d - it just doesnt work.
How many people really need access to ssh into a web server? Surely you can manage to restrict access to the handful of people who should be accessing it. If they're on the road, they can ssh home or do without. Is it really worth having systems compromised just so that joe blow can ssh in from a friends house?
As a side note, I'm curious as to why, beyond the initial announcement, everyone is being so quiet about it in the debian world.
While unloading my PC from the back of my car for a lan party, I accidently dumped quite a bit of snow directly into the inside of the case, there was snow on the trunk, and no sides on my case.. opened the trunk and it slid right down onto the rear window, then directly into the trunk. I dumped out the snow, powered it up and --- nothing. After completely disassembling the system, drying it, and putting it all back together it came right up. I'm still using that system now (more than a year later) with no problems.
Christ, no kidding. Who cares about a 1km wireless link? And only 2mbit? We worked on 20 mile 11mbit links *daily* at a wireless ISP I worked for, using run of the mill 802.11b equipment. Just because *your* AP/Antenna combination only get you 500 feet doesn't mean that someone with a little clue can't get 20 miles off it. Really people, these articles are like saying 'wow! he got up to 20 mph in his corvette by pushing on the gas pedal harder!'
[sni] > In WC3, its still essentially a 2D game. There are 3 levels of play, just like Starcraft, but the ramps are so large, that for the most part have no strategic value.
Have you tried the Insert/Delete Pageup/Pagedown buttons? You can actually move the viewing position all the way around. There's definitely detail there.
Nato surveillance flights in the Balkans are beaming their pictures over an insecure satellite link - and anyone can tune in and watch their operations live.
The discovery was made last November by John Locker, a satellite enthusiast in north west England.
Satellite enthusiast John Locker John Locker tried to alert the US military He told Newsnight that he spent months e-mailing and faxing US and other Allied military officers to warn them of the dangers before finally deciding to go public.
Our investigation produced responses from Nato and American spokesmen that the pictures were unclassified. They said they would reveal nothing of value to a potential enemy.
One officer even told me that the broadcasts contained no information about the position or types of aircraft conducting the surveillance missions.
Watch and learn
Having reviewed many hours of pictures from recent operations, I can say this is quite wrong.
Satellite image The images contain a wealth of information The symbols around the edge of the pictures show the aircrafts' position, altitude and heading. Omitting this information would make the broadcasts useless to Nato intelligence analysts.
What's more, regular watching of the satellite channels allows you to learn much about the technical capabilities of sophisticated spy planes like the P-3 Orion and unmanned drones such as the Hunter.
During broadcasts by these aircraft, the letters 'P-3' or 'Hunt' are helpfully included on the bottom of the picture.
I have seen some of these aircraft operating during my reporting from Balkan trouble spots, and would have assumed that the presence of aerial surveillance was usually revealed by the sound of an aircraft or drone overhead.
Reviewing the Nato footage, it is apparent though that planes like the P-3 can track a target from up to 20 miles away, through cloud, at night.
Why is this secret trap door open ? Since official spokesmen will not even concede there is a problem, it is hard to get them to discuss how it might have occurred.
New priority
Instead contacts suggest that the timing of the unencrypted pictures' first appearance, 11 November 2001 is significant.
America's response to the 11th September terrorist attacks was gearing up, and surveillance of Afghanistan began soaking up all the available military secure satellite channels.
The US military have not introduced encoding even of the type used by commercial broadcasters
Mark Urban Shunting the Balkan operations onto an insecure transmission was a matter of priorities, say analysts. The problem is, that doing so endangers a whole host of Nato operations ranging from hunting for Radovan Karadzic to stopping Albanian guerrillas infiltrating into Macedonia.
It is surprising though that in all the months since John Locker started warning people that the signals could be pulled down by anyone using amateur equipment, the US military have not introduced encoding even of the type used by commercial broadcasters.
The military procurement bureaucracy apparently cannot come up with a set top decoding box quickly enough.
Who might be watching these transmissions, apart from retirees like Mr Locker ? Last month Nato raided two Bosnian Serb military installations, saying they were eavesdropping of the alliance's signals.
Those able to monitor the transmissions around the clock - like a military intelligence department or guerrilla group - will learn much from them.
At the very least the broadcasts allow a Karadzic or a smuggler to check before they step outside their front door whether any Nato surveillance aircraft are in the sky and what they are doing.
WATCH/LISTEN
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How do you figure $200 per 1 mile on the wireless side? With a $49 D-Link DWL-650 (PCMCIA wireless card), a linux box (find an old 486) and an 8db omnidirectional antenna you can easily go 5-10 miles, with an amp to bring it up to the max EIRP of 4 watts (FCC limitS) you could probably get 15 miles with the right antennas on the client side.
The access points can do it, but the lack of protection for the businesses in the frequency space makes it too dangerous for the larger companies, while smaller ISP's might try using it here and there. (I worked for one, it's bankrupt now)
It continues to amaze me that people are astounded that a 2.4ghz signal could manage to travel more than 500 feet, this article speaks as if 7km is something to brag about.. I've personally setup 20 mile links with "standard components" without any problem.
As for the last mile, I sincerely doubt it will happen on a medium that the telco/cable co cannot fully control, and last time I looked there wasn't any frequency space near the 2.4ghz ISM band available for national use (in case an ISP decided they wanted to use their own licensed frequency).
Yes, Morpheus has started using the *open source* program called Gnucleus (gnucleus.sourceforge.net), gee wiz.
People hurd towards stupid programs because they're stupid lemmings, it used to be napster, now it's kazaa/morpheus/[insert latest filesharing+trojan program here]
I've been building systems since around '95, I know full well how much crap ECS/PC Chips/whatever have put out onto the market. The point is that their latest product has been not only decent, but very good. The onboard sounds is *fine*, it's not spectacular, but I'm not plugging it into a dolby surround sound theatre either! The onboard LAN makes a good backup for LAN parties where I might need the use of another 100mbit port. 5 PCI slots are pretty good (6 being great, the server motherboards with more being awesome) when you see motherboards that have 2 and 3 PCI slots (such as some of the previous PC Chips based boards). How is LAN and modem a waste of money? You are aware that some people dial into the internet and still use a lan right? You know that modems are capable of other things such as Fax transmit/recieve, phone calls, etc. The board got better marks than everything else when it came out, and was only toppled by the KT266a chipset. Regardless of any of the onboard features (none of which cost me more money) the board is still the cheapest and most reliable for my uses (gaming, low end server, desktop).
You sir, are a moron, you have no idea what you're talking about, and a review 'by company' was one of the worst ideas I've seen in a while, it's completely biased, yet useless.
You obviously haven't taken the time to upgrade the BIOS on the board, I've got a 1.4GHz system running linux/windows with this motherboard, the onboard LAN works great, the onboard sounds works great, the whole system works great.
I've got the following in the system: Compaq NC3131 Quad Ethernet 100mbit PCI SB Live! Voodoo3 3000 AGP Hauppauge WinTV Card Adaptec AIC-788x UW SCSI controller D-Link DWL-500 3 60 Gig IBM Deskstar hard drives 1 12X DVD-ROM Drive 1 12x4x32 CD-RW SCSI Drive
It's stable, yes, it puts a lot of things on the same IRQ:
After seeing the ECS/PC Chips writeup in the article I promptly hit the back button in my browser, the guy is obviously either biased, or simply never used any of the boards himself.
I've got *tons* of SiS 735 based systems in use either at my home, or friends who I recommended them to. None of them crash, none of them have any other problems, they have good onboard sound, 100mbit LAN, onboard modem, and 5 PCI slots. How is this not feature rich? These boards were more honestly reviewed at tomshardware (who is accused of being biased himself, obviously the review of the SiS boards wasn't).
I've actually worked with the very high end (ie: EXPENSIVE) Tektronix wax (aka, crayola) printers, it was very simple considering it runs a printer daemon available via TCP/IP, connect, dump your data, and wait the 5 seconds for it to spit out your page. This was all easily automated with the available printer config tools. (it's a network printer, duh)
I've been playing WC3 beta for a little over a week, what race you're playing as *definitely* has a bearing on how you do at what point in a game, the Night Elfs don't have a good late game for example, but the Humans have a good mid-late game. Different races are able to harvest resources faster or have cheaper units. Maybe this is why he got "crushed" =)
Actually I helped build (and personally secured and maintained the actual network) of what was then then largest 802.11 (3mbit frequency hopping spread spectrum) network (it's now the second largest, and the company went bankrupt =)
it worked okay except for the crackhead 'engineer' using zip ties to hold the antennas to grain elevators and water towers that nobody was paying for access to.. oh, knowing something about RF to begin with helps when you claim to be an RF engineer =)
Good idea, bad implementation, that's why the company went bankrupt.. unfortunately this guy will just move on to the next unwitting company and get screwed again.
Actually it sounds like you have a poor connection, haved you tried checking the signal levels on your cable modem? This is exactly what happens when you have the bare minimum signal needed to stay connected, then you start moving data, and the cable modem goes kaput. Get a service tech to come out and check your levels, cable, and remove those nasty 5-600mhz splitters.
(get RG6 rated 5Mhz-1.5Ghz rated splitters, or make $CABLE_COMPANY_HERE put some in)
That's not true, most of the people who claim to be capped at 2mbit are really seeing ~200KB/s transfers on a 1.5mbit cap, (1.5mbit = 187.5KB/s) HTTP/FTP don't really have enough overhead to be noticable, and TCP/IP isn't all _that_ noticable if you're using a decent packet size, in the end it's not enough to worry about, and it's certainly not the difference between 187.5 and 150 (37.5).
You sir, are incorrect, I'm sure AT&T gave you the same lies that they told me (about there not being any 'cap', but that it was a hardware limitation) it most definitely is not a hardware limitation.
I have successfully tested multiple cable modems (without a cap, on a test network designed just like any other cable network) and they will all have no problem hitting up to 10Mbit/s downstream (on the modems with a 10Mbit ethernet port) or around 35Mbit/s on ones with 100Mbit ethernet ports, don't be fooled by the lies, try actually reading RFC2669 (the DOCSIS specification).
FYI, on a 'real' cable connection:
ncftp.../pub/linux/kernel/v2.4 > get linux-2.4.16.tar.gz
linux-2.4.16.tar.gz: 28.28 MB 514.38 kB/s (4.115MBit/s)
granted, it only took 54.97 seconds, but it's longer than what could be considered a 'burst', you do know that DOCSIS provides for a certain burst level by default, right?
ncftp...local/hdb1/home/username > put linux-2.4.16.tar.gz
linux-2.4.16.tar.gz: 28.28 MB 130.26 kB/s (1.042MBit/s)
Unfortunately the upstream is saturated by idiots running KaZaa, and morpheus
Absolutely, company hierarchies are stupid and wasteful (micromanagement), so is trying to read 'body language', I myself prefer the WYSIWYG, approach.. It's so much simpler to just say what you mean to people, no guessing games, no fights later (ie, the typical 'I didn't actually MEAN that, you should have known better!' behavior exhibited by wifes/girlfriends).
I prefer to not deal with people, and I've believed for a long time that the human raced is doomed to become extinct from simple stupidity. While it's kind of spooky that the descriptions in the article hit very close to home, I actually found it reassuring that large amounts of intelligent people who don't display or recognize the BS are spawning.
Let the stupid people's genes die, long live the geeks IMO.
This was better than your typical 'i changed a few settings in my BIOS' article, although I'm not sure how much I trust [most] macintosh users with a soldering iron on a laptop motherboard.. As for
the people saying it doesn't make much difference,
it really does when you consider that you're bumping it up on both the bus and the actual cpu speed.. *slurp*
i loved this game to death, it's too bad they aren't using a decent well-tested engine though, but then, maybe it will be better than the ones currently in use (mostly from id)...
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I have to agree with corebreech, the quality of satellite is well beyond what I ever got from Comcast/AT&T, the TiVO is built into my satellite reciever so there are no funky issues with IR blasters, it has dual tuners, it cost $99, I was able to add disk space to it, an ethernet adapter (USB) and I can yank shows off of it.
The DVR/PVR units that TW and Comcast are selling their customers are sub-par, and not hackable AFAIK.
I've known a few people who were snobs about their TW PVR units, until I brought them over to check out my DirecTV Tivo, they've been converted =)
Until cable providers start providing PVR's that allow you to skip commercials decently (along with the rest of the great tivo features), they'll always be sub-par.
Well, I live in a major flight path to the airport (~8 miles away) so we get a lot of very low flying aircraft on approach, occasionally I _do_ get a blip on the satellite that coincides with an airplane flying over.
Of course, I'm in a rather unique situation =)
Hey moron, my tivo *is* my IRD (satellite receiver) so it has all the menus/guides built in, and there is no seperate charges for the tivo service (I have a premiere account).
The philips DSR704 is $99 at best buy, comes with a 40G drive. I upgraded it to a capacity of 320GB and it's the greatest thing on earth. =)
They applied for a very specific patent:
The basic claim (which is what
matters, not the invention descriptions) has seven steps, ALL of which much
happen for the patent to cover your activities:
1. A method for redirecting an original destination address access request
to a redirected destination address, the method comprising the steps of:
receiving, at a gateway device, all original destination address access
requests originating from a computer;
determining, at the gateway device, which of the original destination
address requests require redirection;
storing the original destination address if redirection is required;
modifying, at the gateway device, the original destination address access
request and communicating the modified request to a redirection server if
redirection is required;
responding, at the redirection server, to the modified request with a
browser redirect message that reassigns the modified request to an
administrator-specified, redirected destination address;
intercepting, at the gateway device, the browser redirect message and
modifying it with the stored original destination address; and
sending the modified browser redirect message to the computer, which
automatically redirects the computer to the redirected destination address.
It shouldn't matter if someone got your password, why weren't the machines restricted access by IP?
Everyone knows to deny all, allow
Hey, RedHat comes with a firewall turned on by default, maybe you should wipe those compromised boxes and install it =)
While unloading my PC from the back of my car for a lan party, I accidently dumped quite a bit of snow directly into the inside of the case, there was snow on the trunk, and no sides on my case.. opened the trunk and it slid right down onto the rear window, then directly into the trunk. I dumped out the snow, powered it up and --- nothing. After completely disassembling the system, drying it, and putting it all back together it came right up. I'm still using that system now (more than a year later) with no problems.
Christ, no kidding. Who cares about a 1km wireless link? And only 2mbit? We worked on 20 mile 11mbit links *daily* at a wireless ISP I worked for, using run of the mill 802.11b equipment.
Just because *your* AP/Antenna combination only get you 500 feet doesn't mean that someone with a little clue can't get 20 miles off it. Really people, these articles are like saying 'wow! he got up to 20 mph in his corvette by pushing on the gas pedal harder!'
big flipping woo hoo.
[sni]
> In WC3, its still essentially a 2D game. There are 3 levels of play, just like Starcraft, but the ramps are so large, that for the most part have no strategic value.
Have you tried the Insert/Delete Pageup/Pagedown buttons? You can actually move the viewing position all the way around. There's definitely detail there.
Took forever to bring it up..
By Mark Urban
Newsnight's Diplomatic Editor
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Nato surveillance flights in the Balkans are beaming their pictures over an insecure satellite link - and anyone can tune in and watch their operations live.
The discovery was made last November by John Locker, a satellite enthusiast in north west England.
Satellite enthusiast John Locker
John Locker tried to alert the US military
He told Newsnight that he spent months e-mailing and faxing US and other Allied military officers to warn them of the dangers before finally deciding to go public.
Our investigation produced responses from Nato and American spokesmen that the pictures were unclassified. They said they would reveal nothing of value to a potential enemy.
One officer even told me that the broadcasts contained no information about the position or types of aircraft conducting the surveillance missions.
Watch and learn
Having reviewed many hours of pictures from recent operations, I can say this is quite wrong.
Satellite image
The images contain a wealth of information
The symbols around the edge of the pictures show the aircrafts' position, altitude and heading. Omitting this information would make the broadcasts useless to Nato intelligence analysts.
What's more, regular watching of the satellite channels allows you to learn much about the technical capabilities of sophisticated spy planes like the P-3 Orion and unmanned drones such as the Hunter.
During broadcasts by these aircraft, the letters 'P-3' or 'Hunt' are helpfully included on the bottom of the picture.
I have seen some of these aircraft operating during my reporting from Balkan trouble spots, and would have assumed that the presence of aerial surveillance was usually revealed by the sound of an aircraft or drone overhead.
Reviewing the Nato footage, it is apparent though that planes like the P-3 can track a target from up to 20 miles away, through cloud, at night.
Why is this secret trap door open ? Since official spokesmen will not even concede there is a problem, it is hard to get them to discuss how it might have occurred.
New priority
Instead contacts suggest that the timing of the unencrypted pictures' first appearance, 11 November 2001 is significant.
America's response to the 11th September terrorist attacks was gearing up, and surveillance of Afghanistan began soaking up all the available military secure satellite channels.
The US military have not introduced encoding even of the type used by commercial broadcasters
Mark Urban
Shunting the Balkan operations onto an insecure transmission was a matter of priorities, say analysts. The problem is, that doing so endangers a whole host of Nato operations ranging from hunting for Radovan Karadzic to stopping Albanian guerrillas infiltrating into Macedonia.
It is surprising though that in all the months since John Locker started warning people that the signals could be pulled down by anyone using amateur equipment, the US military have not introduced encoding even of the type used by commercial broadcasters.
The military procurement bureaucracy apparently cannot come up with a set top decoding box quickly enough.
Who might be watching these transmissions, apart from retirees like Mr Locker ? Last month Nato raided two Bosnian Serb military installations, saying they were eavesdropping of the alliance's signals.
Those able to monitor the transmissions around the clock - like a military intelligence department or guerrilla group - will learn much from them.
At the very least the broadcasts allow a Karadzic or a smuggler to check before they step outside their front door whether any Nato surveillance aircraft are in the sky and what they are doing.
WATCH/LISTEN
ON THIS STORY
The BBC's Mark Urban
"A serious threat to Nato continues"
Newsnight
Home
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Latest programme
Recent highlights
About Newsnight
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Newsnight's diplomatic editor answers your questions on security breaches in NATO's military surveillance.
NATO security risk?
How do you figure $200 per 1 mile on the wireless side? With a $49 D-Link DWL-650 (PCMCIA wireless card), a linux box (find an old 486) and an 8db omnidirectional antenna you can easily go 5-10 miles, with an amp to bring it up to the max EIRP of 4 watts (FCC limitS) you could probably get 15 miles with the right antennas on the client side.
The access points can do it, but the lack of protection for the businesses in the frequency space makes it too dangerous for the larger companies, while smaller ISP's might try using it here and there. (I worked for one, it's bankrupt now)
It continues to amaze me that people are astounded that a 2.4ghz signal could manage to travel more than 500 feet, this article speaks as if 7km is something to brag about.. I've personally setup 20 mile links with "standard components" without any problem.
As for the last mile, I sincerely doubt it will happen on a medium that the telco/cable co cannot fully control, and last time I looked there wasn't any frequency space near the 2.4ghz ISM band available for national use (in case an ISP decided they wanted to use their own licensed frequency).
Yes, Morpheus has started using the *open source* program called Gnucleus (gnucleus.sourceforge.net), gee wiz.
People hurd towards stupid programs because they're stupid lemmings, it used to be napster, now it's kazaa/morpheus/[insert latest filesharing+trojan program here]
Which brings me back to my motto:
Stupid people shouldn't breed.
You sir, are the ignorant ass.
I've been building systems since around '95, I know full well how much crap ECS/PC Chips/whatever have put out onto the market. The point is that their latest product has been not only decent, but very good. The onboard sounds is *fine*, it's not spectacular, but I'm not plugging it into a dolby surround sound theatre either! The onboard LAN makes a good backup for LAN parties where I might need the use of another 100mbit port. 5 PCI slots are pretty good (6 being great, the server motherboards with more being awesome) when you see motherboards that have 2 and 3 PCI slots (such as some of the previous PC Chips based boards). How is LAN and modem a waste of money? You are aware that some people dial into the internet and still use a lan right? You know that modems are capable of other things such as Fax transmit/recieve, phone calls, etc. The board got better marks than everything else when it came out, and was only toppled by the KT266a chipset. Regardless of any
of the onboard features (none of which cost me more money) the board is still the cheapest and most reliable for my uses (gaming, low end server, desktop).
You sir, are a moron, you have no idea what you're talking about, and a review 'by company' was one of the worst ideas I've seen in a while, it's completely biased, yet useless.
You obviously haven't taken the time to upgrade the BIOS on the board, I've got a 1.4GHz system running linux/windows with this motherboard, the onboard LAN works great, the onboard sounds works great, the whole system works great.
I've got the following in the system:
Compaq NC3131 Quad Ethernet 100mbit PCI
SB Live!
Voodoo3 3000 AGP
Hauppauge WinTV Card
Adaptec AIC-788x UW SCSI controller
D-Link DWL-500
3 60 Gig IBM Deskstar hard drives
1 12X DVD-ROM Drive
1 12x4x32 CD-RW SCSI Drive
It's stable, yes, it puts a lot of things on the same IRQ:
5: 15 XT-PIC eth0
8: 1 XT-PIC rtc
10: 13008 XT-PIC Ricoh Co Ltd RL5c475, prism2_cs, bttv, EMU10K1
11: 176023 XT-PIC aic7xxx
12: 35035 XT-PIC PS/2 Mouse
14: 66203 XT-PIC ide0
15: 16239 XT-PIC ide1
But guess what, THATS WHAT IRQ SHARING IS FOR.
After seeing the ECS/PC Chips writeup in the article I promptly hit the back button in my browser, the guy is obviously either biased, or simply never used any of the boards himself.
I've got *tons* of SiS 735 based systems in use either at my home, or friends who I recommended them to. None of them crash, none of them have any other problems, they have good onboard sound, 100mbit LAN, onboard modem, and 5 PCI slots. How is this not feature rich? These boards were more honestly reviewed at tomshardware (who is accused of being biased himself, obviously the review of the SiS boards wasn't).
/. needs to stop giving these idiots attention.
I've actually worked with the very high end (ie: EXPENSIVE) Tektronix wax (aka, crayola) printers, it was very simple considering it runs a printer daemon
available via TCP/IP, connect, dump your data, and wait the 5 seconds for it to spit out your page. This was all easily automated with the available printer config tools. (it's a network printer, duh)
I've been playing WC3 beta for a little over a week, what race you're playing as *definitely* has a bearing on how you do at what point in a game, the Night Elfs don't have a good late game for example, but the Humans have a good mid-late game. Different races are able to harvest resources faster or have cheaper units. Maybe this is why he got "crushed" =)
Actually I helped build (and personally secured and maintained the actual network) of what was then then largest 802.11 (3mbit frequency hopping spread spectrum) network (it's now the second largest, and the company went bankrupt =)
it worked okay except for the crackhead 'engineer' using zip ties to hold the antennas to grain elevators and water towers that nobody was paying for access to.. oh, knowing something about RF to begin with helps when you claim to be an RF engineer =)
Good idea, bad implementation, that's why the company went bankrupt.. unfortunately this guy will just move on to the next unwitting company and get screwed again.
Actually it sounds like you have a poor connection, haved you tried checking the signal levels on your cable modem? This is exactly what happens when you have the bare minimum signal needed to stay connected, then you start moving data, and the cable modem goes kaput. Get a service tech to come out and check your levels, cable, and remove those nasty 5-600mhz splitters.
(get RG6 rated 5Mhz-1.5Ghz rated splitters, or make $CABLE_COMPANY_HERE put some in)
That's not true, most of the people who claim to be capped at 2mbit are really seeing ~200KB/s transfers on a 1.5mbit cap, (1.5mbit = 187.5KB/s) HTTP/FTP don't really have enough overhead to be noticable, and TCP/IP isn't all _that_ noticable if you're using a decent packet size, in the end it's not enough to worry about, and it's certainly not the difference between 187.5 and 150 (37.5).
You sir, are incorrect, I'm sure AT&T gave you the same lies that they told me (about there not being any 'cap', but that it was a hardware limitation) it most definitely is not a hardware limitation.
.../pub/linux/kernel/v2.4 > get linux-2.4.16.tar.gz
...local/hdb1/home/username > put linux-2.4.16.tar.gz
I have successfully tested multiple cable modems (without a cap, on a test network designed just like any other cable network) and they will all have no problem hitting up to 10Mbit/s downstream (on the modems with a 10Mbit ethernet port) or around 35Mbit/s on ones with 100Mbit ethernet ports, don't be fooled by the lies, try actually reading RFC2669 (the DOCSIS specification).
FYI, on a 'real' cable connection:
ncftp
linux-2.4.16.tar.gz: 28.28 MB 514.38 kB/s (4.115MBit/s)
granted, it only took 54.97 seconds, but it's longer than what could be considered a 'burst', you do know that DOCSIS provides for a certain burst level by default, right?
ncftp
linux-2.4.16.tar.gz: 28.28 MB 130.26 kB/s (1.042MBit/s)
Unfortunately the upstream is saturated by idiots running KaZaa, and morpheus
Absolutely, company hierarchies are stupid and wasteful (micromanagement), so is trying to read 'body language', I myself prefer the WYSIWYG, approach.. It's so much simpler to just say what you mean to people, no guessing games, no fights later (ie, the typical 'I didn't actually MEAN that, you should have known better!' behavior exhibited by wifes/girlfriends).
I prefer to not deal with people, and I've believed for a long time that the human raced is doomed to become extinct from simple stupidity. While it's kind of spooky that the descriptions in the article hit very close to home, I actually found it reassuring that large amounts of intelligent people who don't display or recognize the BS are spawning.
Let the stupid people's genes die, long live the geeks IMO.
This was better than your typical 'i changed a few settings in my BIOS' article, although I'm not sure how much I trust [most] macintosh users with a soldering iron on a laptop motherboard.. As for
the people saying it doesn't make much difference,
it really does when you consider that you're bumping it up on both the bus and the actual cpu speed.. *slurp*
i loved this game to death, it's too bad they aren't using a decent well-tested engine though, but then, maybe it will be better than the ones currently in use (mostly from id)...