4G definition is quite precise (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4G ) Following the ITU recommandation, a 4G wireless broadband network has to deliver a data rate between 100 Mbps to 1 GHz, depending if you are mobile (read: moving) or stationary.
Just an extra info on this: a cell phone will not be able to connect, not because that the plane is too far away from the tower, but rather due to the speed of the plane itself. Above 300km/h a cell phone cannot stay attached to a wireless network. It is also why in the landing approch (when the plane is slowing down) that you may (can, most of the time) connect to cell site.
I never switch off my phone on a plane and I fly about 20 time per year. As far as I know, those planes had always taken off and landed correctly.
That would be a very very bad design/conception if such a low-power transmission would interfere with plane control. Specially since cell-tower transmit (and reach the plane) with 10x time the power of those cell phone.
There is for sure some free alternative out there, but on the off-the-self side non-free software, but for sure you cannot ignore IBM/Tivoli Netcool.
The Netcool suite have been purchased by IBM a few years ago. That portfolio came from Micromuse which was really telecom oriented. That suite can monitor easily the required 5000 nodes. Across the suite, there are multiple products that covers most of NMS needs from basinc alarm/stats collections such as receiving/parsing SNMP traps, SNMP pooling, node discovery; up to higher-level business requirement like alarm management, ajax or java GUI for alarm display; dashboarding, etc.
Rogers Wireless, the bigest Wireless carrier in Canada as also lauched HSDPA last week. The current [real] speed is about 1.4Mbps.. which is really good for an un-tuned/new network!
Just because they would like to make money with the OS and the Hardware.. If we can hack the OS to run on a simple PC, they wont sell hardware anymore..
I am working for that kind of company that require to use Java.
Fortunatly, we are allowed to use some other languages (C,C++, Bash,...). However, when its possible, we should use Java. For my point of view, it makes sense. Let me explain why:
We are working in a Unix environment (Sun server/station, few HPUX, etc); for people (like me) that support all applications, it really more easy when the application has been developped using only one (or very few) language.
I have met someone yesterday, I asked to our group to support its application. Look at that:
The application is running on a PC (windows), developped with at least 8 differents programming languages (VB.Net, C#, VC++, Python, nawk, just over the top of my head).
How can we support that? We do not have any expertise to deploy and support this application - across the country!
I just switched to Linux, and i' a little bit afraid how many companie still asking "only" IE? Since i've swiched on linux, i'm no longer able to connect to my online banking.
What we should do to force those companie to make their website more W3C complient?
Abbott & Costello take on computers in the 21st century......
ABBOTT: Computer Support Group. Can I help you?
COSTELLO: Thanks. I'm setting up a home office in the den, and I'm thinking of buying a computer.
COSTELLO: No, the name is Lou. -
ABBOTT: Your computer?
COSTELLO: I don't own a computer. I want to buy one. -
ABBOTT: Mac?
COSTELLO: I told you, my name is Lou. -
ABBOTT: What about Windows?
COSTELLO: Why? Does it get stuffy? -
ABBOTT: Do you want a computer with Windows?
COSTELLO: I don't know. What do I see when I look out the windows? -
ABBOTT: Wallpaper.
COSTELLO: Never mind the windows. I need a computer and software. -
ABBOTT: Software that runs on Windows?
COSTELLO: No, on the computer! I need something I can use to write proposals, track expenses. You know, run a business. What have you got? -
ABBOTT: Office.
COSTELLO: Yeah, for my office. Can you recommend anything? -
ABBOTT: I just did.
COSTELLO: You just did what? -
ABBOTT: Recommend something.
COSTELLO: You recommended something? -
ABBOTT: Yes.
COSTELLO: For my office? -
ABBOTT: Yes.
COSTELLO: Okay, what did you recommend for my office? -
ABBOTT: Office.
COSTELLO: Yes, for my office. -
ABBOTT: Office for Windows.
COSTELLO: I already have an office and it already has windows! Let's say I'm sitting at my computer, and I want to type a proposal. What do I need? -
ABBOTT: Word.
COSTELLO: If I'm writing a proposal, I'm going to need lots of words. But what program do I load? -
ABBOTT: Word.
COSTELLO: What word? -
ABBOTT: The Word in Office.
COSTELLO: The only word in office is office. -
ABBOTT: The Word in Office for Windows.
COSTELLO: Which word in "office for windows?" -
ABBOTT: The Word you get when you click the blue W.
COSTELLO: I'm going to click your big W if you don't give me a straight answer. Let's forget about words for a minute. What do I need if I want to watch a movie over the Internet? -
ABBOTT: RealOne.
COSTELLO: Maybe a real movie, maybe a cartoon. What I watch is none of your business. But what do I need to watch it? -
ABBOTT: RealOne.
COSTELLO: If it's a long movie I'll also want to watch reels two, three and four. Can I watch reel four? -
ABBOTT: Of course.
COSTELLO: Great! With what? -
ABBOTT: RealOne.
COSTELLO: Okay, so I'm sitting at my computer and I want to watch a movie. What do I do? -
ABBOTT: You click the blue 1.
COSTELLO: I click the blue one what? -
ABBOTT: The blue 1.
COSTELLO: Is that different from the blue W? -
ABBOTT: Of course it is. The blue 1 is RealOne. The blue W is Word.
COSTELLO: What word? -
ABBOTT: The Word in Office for Windows.
COSTELLO: But there's three words in "office for windows!" -
ABBOTT: No, just one. But it's the most popular Word in the world.
COSTELLO: It is?
ABBOTT: Yes, although to be fair there aren't many other Words left. It pretty much wiped out all the other Words. -
COSTELLO: And that word is the real one? -
ABBOTT: No. RealOne has nothing to do with Word. RealOne isn't even part of Office.
COSTELLO: Never mind; I don't want to get started with that again. But I also need something for bank accounts, loans, and so on. What do you have to help me track my money? -
ABBOTT: Money.
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4G definition is quite precise (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4G ) Following the ITU recommandation, a 4G wireless broadband network has to deliver a data rate between 100 Mbps to 1 GHz, depending if you are mobile (read: moving) or stationary.
Just an extra info on this: a cell phone will not be able to connect, not because that the plane is too far away from the tower, but rather due to the speed of the plane itself. Above 300km/h a cell phone cannot stay attached to a wireless network. It is also why in the landing approch (when the plane is slowing down) that you may (can, most of the time) connect to cell site.
I never switch off my phone on a plane and I fly about 20 time per year. As far as I know, those planes had always taken off and landed correctly. That would be a very very bad design/conception if such a low-power transmission would interfere with plane control. Specially since cell-tower transmit (and reach the plane) with 10x time the power of those cell phone.
6.4 MB per day
2.3GB per year
--
4.6GB per DVD
1 DVD per 2 years
--
1$ per DVD
0.50$ per year.
Seems even more economical.
There is for sure some free alternative out there, but on the off-the-self side non-free software, but for sure you cannot ignore IBM/Tivoli Netcool.
The Netcool suite have been purchased by IBM a few years ago. That portfolio came from Micromuse which was really telecom oriented. That suite can monitor easily the required 5000 nodes. Across the suite, there are multiple products that covers most of NMS needs from basinc alarm/stats collections such as receiving/parsing SNMP traps, SNMP pooling, node discovery; up to higher-level business requirement like alarm management, ajax or java GUI for alarm display; dashboarding, etc.
Feel free to have a look: http://www-01.ibm.com/software/tivoli/sw-atoz/indexN.html
My only interresting question is: does it run linux? Is ATI going to finally add Linux supports to their tv-in videocard?!
... and actually, it is RIM, not RIMM as mentionned in the text.
From what I recall, the fastest hand-over can be done at about 180km/h
Rogers Wireless, the bigest Wireless carrier in Canada as also lauched HSDPA last week. The current [real] speed is about 1.4Mbps.. which is really good for an un-tuned/new network!
We also use Micromuse (IBMuse?) Netcool. Nagios does not support Failover pretty well. Our NOC prefer the real X11 Netcool :)
Actually, the PDF version on DVD is better than the movie!
Just because they would like to make money with the OS and the Hardware.. If we can hack the OS to run on a simple PC, they wont sell hardware anymore..
I am working for that kind of company that require to use Java.
Fortunatly, we are allowed to use some other languages (C,C++, Bash,...). However, when its possible, we should use Java. For my point of view, it makes sense. Let me explain why:
We are working in a Unix environment (Sun server/station, few HPUX, etc); for people (like me) that support all applications, it really more easy when the application has been developped using only one (or very few) language.
I have met someone yesterday, I asked to our group to support its application. Look at that:
The application is running on a PC (windows), developped with at least 8 differents programming languages (VB.Net, C#, VC++, Python, nawk, just over the top of my head).
How can we support that? We do not have any expertise to deploy and support this application - across the country!
We should we do?
I just switched to Linux, and i' a little bit afraid how many companie still asking "only" IE? Since i've swiched on linux, i'm no longer able to connect to my online banking.
What we should do to force those companie to make their website more W3C complient?
Do you know alternc? http://www.alternc.net
:(
Its a great web hosting application, free and open source (gpl). Its done with php4.
However, this app can only run on debian/woody
The question is:
Why Win2000 is not affected by Land, but WinXP SP2 is!
Did Microsoft forgot to applied this patch? Or they removed it from the ip stack for somewhat reason..
Yes, ive more than 5 years of experiece yes, we have more 100+ users (20K) yes, more than 10+ servers Yes, we run solaris.. 24/7 support from Sun
Videotron (biggest cable internet provider, in Quebec/Canada) did, long time ago..
You had to paid almost twice if you used 2 computer and a router.. (they did/do the same thing for TV cable.. its per-tv fee)
Wow firefox with 10% of the market..
Did you remember when Netscape held more then 50% ? IE hold a very big part of the market since few year!
Now firefox will eat some percent each day.. I hope to see a big war...
Abbott & Costello take on computers in the 21st century......
ABBOTT: Computer Support Group. Can I help you?
COSTELLO: Thanks. I'm setting up a home office in the den, and I'm thinking of buying a computer.
COSTELLO: No, the name is Lou. - ABBOTT: Your computer?
COSTELLO: I don't own a computer. I want to buy one. - ABBOTT: Mac?
COSTELLO: I told you, my name is Lou. - ABBOTT: What about Windows?
COSTELLO: Why? Does it get stuffy? - ABBOTT: Do you want a computer with Windows?
COSTELLO: I don't know. What do I see when I look out the windows? - ABBOTT: Wallpaper.
COSTELLO: Never mind the windows. I need a computer and software. - ABBOTT: Software that runs on Windows?
COSTELLO: No, on the computer! I need something I can use to write proposals, track expenses. You know, run a business. What have you got? - ABBOTT: Office.
COSTELLO: Yeah, for my office. Can you recommend anything? - ABBOTT: I just did.
COSTELLO: You just did what? - ABBOTT: Recommend something.
COSTELLO: You recommended something? - ABBOTT: Yes.
COSTELLO: For my office? - ABBOTT: Yes.
COSTELLO: Okay, what did you recommend for my office? - ABBOTT: Office.
COSTELLO: Yes, for my office. - ABBOTT: Office for Windows.
COSTELLO: I already have an office and it already has windows! Let's say I'm sitting at my computer, and I want to type a proposal. What do I need? - ABBOTT: Word.
COSTELLO: If I'm writing a proposal, I'm going to need lots of words. But what program do I load? - ABBOTT: Word.
COSTELLO: What word? - ABBOTT: The Word in Office.
COSTELLO: The only word in office is office. - ABBOTT: The Word in Office for Windows.
COSTELLO: Which word in "office for windows?" - ABBOTT: The Word you get when you click the blue W.
COSTELLO: I'm going to click your big W if you don't give me a straight answer. Let's forget about words for a minute. What do I need if I want to watch a movie over the Internet? - ABBOTT: RealOne.
COSTELLO: Maybe a real movie, maybe a cartoon. What I watch is none of your business. But what do I need to watch it? - ABBOTT: RealOne.
COSTELLO: If it's a long movie I'll also want to watch reels two, three and four. Can I watch reel four? - ABBOTT: Of course.
COSTELLO: Great! With what? - ABBOTT: RealOne.
COSTELLO: Okay, so I'm sitting at my computer and I want to watch a movie. What do I do? - ABBOTT: You click the blue 1.
COSTELLO: I click the blue one what? - ABBOTT: The blue 1.
COSTELLO: Is that different from the blue W? - ABBOTT: Of course it is. The blue 1 is RealOne. The blue W is Word.
COSTELLO: What word? - ABBOTT: The Word in Office for Windows.
COSTELLO: But there's three words in "office for windows!" - ABBOTT: No, just one. But it's the most popular Word in the world.
COSTELLO: It is?
ABBOTT: Yes, although to be fair there aren't many other Words left. It pretty much wiped out all the other Words. -
COSTELLO: And that word is the real one? - ABBOTT: No. RealOne has nothing to do with Word. RealOne isn't even part of Office.
COSTELLO: Never mind; I don't want to get started with that again. But I also need something for bank accounts, loans, and so on. What do you have to help me track my money? - ABBOTT: Money.
The problem: MS Solution? : use linux!
This is a great news! (a bad for spammers)
:)
And now, Spam assassin is under Apache Licence
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