How much space left on your hard drive? If you've got 20 gig to spare, the installer utility will let you resize your Ubuntu partition a little smaller, and you'll have plenty of room to give Linspire a try. Your box will also get a +1 in geek attraction for being able to boot more than one distro.:)
As Win98 rolled out, the Winmodems often included in new PCs had the ability to feed modem audio to and from the soundcard on the PC.
It basically turned your (then) $1000 computer into a $1000 telephone. At the time, tons of people bragged up a storm about their free calls-- until the phone bill arrived. I suspect whomever was footing the bill for your modem line wasn't watching the phone bill too closely.
To the wisdom offered by others, I would add these insights:
1. Approach your budget from a project perspective. This means that instead of giving your boss a Christmas list, you present a group of project proposals. Each proposal identifies who, what and how much.
2. Prioritize these projects, getting your boss' input. Budgeting/funding decisions are then made on whole projects. With a list of prioities already in place, what to cut is then an easy thing to do.
3. Include plans on re-using old parts, or how you plan to dispose of these things. Smaller businesses all too often either throw away perfectly good technology, or keep junk in the basement (or both). For example, RAM from an old machine can make for a free upgrade for a box waiting to be upgraded.
4. By staggering the implementation of new technology, old units kept at the company for re-use become your "loaner fleet"-- machines you can rapidly swap with similar machines that go down. This lowers the cost for your employer and makes you look like a star.
5. Don't forget the $20 killers-- keyboards, mice, UPS batteries, etc. Standardize these things and find the vendor with the best price. A bad UPS can cost hundreds of dollars of lost labor alone if it fails at a crucial point. Don't forget to UPS the comapny's network, too. (I have never found a smaller company with UPS protection for their network. It's a little hard to emergency save to the file server if the network is dark.)
First, the old and new band plans would help illustrate things. When someone was granted an MMDS or ITFS license, they received permission for certain channels. Typically, people applied for omnidirectional coverage, giving them a protected 35 mile circle. Most markets aren't saturated-- the problem has been consumer acceptance. (Markets have tended to be specialized niche markets. Satellite based DBS arose and answered most of the market need MMDS was envisioned to serve.)
The realignment of the band is underway as of January 10. The stated purpose of the realignment is creating a place for innovative broadband technologies, especially those that will serve rural markets. If you want to apply for a license, here's the web page. (A starting point only.)
Nextel, MCI and Sprint only? That begs evidence. While Sprint and others have a strong presence in the market, they are far from monopolizing anything. In many markets, they have to lease stations owned by others. As to the sentiment that all licenses are gone, and if anything pops up, it will be auctioned, again that begs for evidence. Got to the FCC ULS search, and enter callsign WQBG566. They were granted a BRS license the end of September. (They are in group MD-- commercial, not in the VX educational group.) I'm sure there are more recent grants, I'm just to lazy/busy to track down others. With the links I've given here, it shouldn't be too hard to get tons of info.
It's just that I'm too busy/lazy. Did I mention that?;-)
If you are interested in the hardware for BRS spectrum, check out Navini's website. Their (near WiMax) NLOS equipment is available for several licensed bands.
The FCC regulates the Broadband Radio Services (BRS). This is (now) typically broadband internet access, and happens in from 2.495 GHz to 2.690 GHz, and uses spectrum formerly set aside for (oxymoron alert) wireless cable TV. You, too can get a license in this band for a $230 filing fee, today.
There is another band, 3.400 GHz to 3.600 GHz that's also currently set up for licensed wireless data, a la wi-fi. I don't have a link to this service unfortunately.
What the new announcement from the FCC adds to the party is something similar to GMRS or business band radios-- shared spectrum open only to licensed users. TFA mentions Part 90 as the section of rules that will cover this new spectrum. That's the same section of rules that covers business band radios (and whose licenses cost $100-ish). I would also expect frequency coordination to come into play at some point with this new service, just like you have with other Part 90 services. (Coordination tries to prevent harmful interference and squabbling.)
Who is the ISP involved? Are we talking a major provider of pipe, or are we talking small fish? Someone in this esteemed crowd *must* know who it is and also be willing to spill....
After all, with tools like RockXP around, won't it just be easier to trade/hijack legitimate activation files and eliminate the middle man in this scenario? At least with online activation Microsoft has a fair idea where the piracy problem is coming from-- they know which keys are the real problem, and also (typically) have a good idea of the IPs where the piracy is occurring. The telephone route will just push the pirates farther underground, and make them harder to find, IMHO.
If MSFT wantes to punish piracy, they have a perfect avenue right now-- add a kill routine to the activation process. Heck, the more certain the piracy, the more massive the kill. Since an OS pirate is probably running other pirated software, you're able to kill multiple birds with one stone. Just ask DirecTV or Dish Network-- their boxes detect piracy, and it's game over for the box. If it's their mistake they fix it, and they make very very few mistakes.
Just like the subject says. I installed it on a WinXP Pro SP2 machine. I started it, ran a scan. Interesting that it thinks RealVNC is spyware... I can understand why, but it felt like overkill. The real issue: while the MS anti-spyware was running (realtime "protection"), PopFile, my favorite spam catcher was all whacked out. It would grab e-mail from the server, but pass blanks to MS Outlook. Take the MS beta out of the equation, and everything worked. Put it back in, and presto! Popfile is FUBAR level 3. Back to Ad-aware.
Ah! The annoying keyboard... one wiggle and the expansion pack caused a reboot... the (even by the standards then) junky B/W display. It could use a regular cassette recorder for storage, which is still a great thing in my mind. Speaking of tape storage, the variable space was written to tape when you saved the program. I exploited this feature in '83 writing a custom spreadsheet/accounting program for someone. Used every last byte of RAM the machine could handle. Instead of saving a data file, you just saved the whole darned thing each time. Kludgy, but it worked. It still surprises me how much I could get done back then in space that is unthinkable today.
Calling an RS-18 missile "Satan" was a (basically US) military thing-- sorry to burst the "cool name" bubble. They (then Soviets) referred to the RS-18 as the "Voyevoda," a noun that refers to a leader-- a leader whose power is achieved by being the toughest kid on the block. It's like the west calling a tank "Patton," etc. The US/NATO used "SS" instead of "RS" to refer to Soviet missiles, so the RS-18 becomes the SS-18 in NATOspeak. Here's where the fun starts.
OK, say it with me: s-s-eighteen... ss-eighteen... s-eighteen... s-eight-en... satan. In an era when you refer to the other side as the evil empire, cool names that emphasize the whole evil thing tend to stick.
Just thought you might want to know...
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I don't know what's worse-- the Geraldo quality news story, or the slashdotter over-reaction. If everyone had waited a few hours (Noon Eastern, to be exact), the updated track forecast would have been out.
Guess what? It's going to track far southwest of the Cape by current estimates, and the local forecast, is only calling for tropical force winds to maybe category 1 hurricane winds at the Cape. Science will be safe. Only families and lives will be destroyed in the next few days. Comforting, huh?
The far bigger threat to NASA is the budgetary process in Congress. If every writer in this thread wrote a letter to Congress, rather than worrying out loud about the weather, maybe we could get NASA real resources. In the mean time, send a little support to the Red Cross.
The first thing I thought of was hex. Does anyone else remember what it was like learning other numbering systems? You know, binary (base 2), base 3 etc, to octal (base 8) and ultimately to hexadecimal (base 16).
If one of these researchers thinking in base 10 (decimal), talking to someone who thought in octal, would they be reporting "gee, these folks have no concept of the number 9." Duh! Their numbering system doesn't rely on that decimal concept. Just because you think something is important doesn't mean that others feel it important.
Even more down to home, do you buy six bananas, or a small bunch?
Except that the list has never resulted in a terrorist being arrested. For that matter, it has never resulted in anyone at all being arrested.
Think it through logically. A terrorist wants to get on a flight. They invent a new alias. They get on the flight without a problem, thanks to a nifty fake drivers license they whipped together in no time at all. Next time? New alias for the flight. The no-fly list will only catch extremely stupid terrorists, of whom logic says should be simple enough to catch without it.
That switch in your radio was to allow for different channel spacing, and different frequency ranges for those bands. Most notably, in Europe, the AM/MW stations are 9 KHz apart. In the US and other places, they are 10 KHz apart. That's no problem if your radio indicates frequency by an orange stick making a vague reference to a printed frequency scale (old radios), but is murder if you've got a digital tuner.
DAB uses 217.5 MHz to 230 MHz (UK currently, called Band III) and also 1452 to 1492 MHz (Canada and Germany, called L-band). Radios being built are designed to work on both bands. DAB transmitters in Band III can cover the same area as an FM station using a fraction of the energy. The L-band is more problematic in terms of coverage, and let's not even begin to talk about comparing either to the reach of high power clear channel AM stations.
My bad. What I was thinking (and apparently didn't have the sense to write down) was that XP as a network "server" is intended only in a smallish network environment, such as a small business or typical home user. I didn't mean to offer the flamebait that XP can't be found in a corp environment-- it is certainly on many desktops, either in home-rolled or stock releases.
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How much space left on your hard drive? If you've got 20 gig to spare, the installer utility will let you resize your Ubuntu partition a little smaller, and you'll have plenty of room to give Linspire a try. Your box will also get a +1 in geek attraction for being able to boot more than one distro. :)
Seems that buying up dark fiber might be a very lucrative investment. Your backbone in a pissing match? Jump on GoogleBone....
As Win98 rolled out, the Winmodems often included in new PCs had the ability to feed modem audio to and from the soundcard on the PC.
It basically turned your (then) $1000 computer into a $1000 telephone. At the time, tons of people bragged up a storm about their free calls-- until the phone bill arrived. I suspect whomever was footing the bill for your modem line wasn't watching the phone bill too closely.
To the wisdom offered by others, I would add these insights:
1. Approach your budget from a project perspective. This means that instead of giving your boss a Christmas list, you present a group of project proposals. Each proposal identifies who, what and how much.
2. Prioritize these projects, getting your boss' input. Budgeting/funding decisions are then made on whole projects. With a list of prioities already in place, what to cut is then an easy thing to do.
3. Include plans on re-using old parts, or how you plan to dispose of these things. Smaller businesses all too often either throw away perfectly good technology, or keep junk in the basement (or both). For example, RAM from an old machine can make for a free upgrade for a box waiting to be upgraded.
4. By staggering the implementation of new technology, old units kept at the company for re-use become your "loaner fleet"-- machines you can rapidly swap with similar machines that go down. This lowers the cost for your employer and makes you look like a star.
5. Don't forget the $20 killers-- keyboards, mice, UPS batteries, etc. Standardize these things and find the vendor with the best price. A bad UPS can cost hundreds of dollars of lost labor alone if it fails at a crucial point. Don't forget to UPS the comapny's network, too. (I have never found a smaller company with UPS protection for their network. It's a little hard to emergency save to the file server if the network is dark.)
First, the old and new band plans would help illustrate things. When someone was granted an MMDS or ITFS license, they received permission for certain channels. Typically, people applied for omnidirectional coverage, giving them a protected 35 mile circle. Most markets aren't saturated-- the problem has been consumer acceptance. (Markets have tended to be specialized niche markets. Satellite based DBS arose and answered most of the market need MMDS was envisioned to serve.)
;-)
The realignment of the band is underway as of January 10. The stated purpose of the realignment is creating a place for innovative broadband technologies, especially those that will serve rural markets. If you want to apply for a license, here's the web page. (A starting point only.)
Nextel, MCI and Sprint only? That begs evidence. While Sprint and others have a strong presence in the market, they are far from monopolizing anything. In many markets, they have to lease stations owned by others. As to the sentiment that all licenses are gone, and if anything pops up, it will be auctioned, again that begs for evidence. Got to the FCC ULS search, and enter callsign WQBG566. They were granted a BRS license the end of September. (They are in group MD-- commercial, not in the VX educational group.) I'm sure there are more recent grants, I'm just to lazy/busy to track down others. With the links I've given here, it shouldn't be too hard to get tons of info.
It's just that I'm too busy/lazy. Did I mention that?
If you are interested in the hardware for BRS spectrum, check out Navini's website. Their (near WiMax) NLOS equipment is available for several licensed bands.
The FCC regulates the Broadband Radio Services (BRS). This is (now) typically broadband internet access, and happens in from 2.495 GHz to 2.690 GHz, and uses spectrum formerly set aside for (oxymoron alert) wireless cable TV. You, too can get a license in this band for a $230 filing fee, today.
There is another band, 3.400 GHz to 3.600 GHz that's also currently set up for licensed wireless data, a la wi-fi. I don't have a link to this service unfortunately.
What the new announcement from the FCC adds to the party is something similar to GMRS or business band radios-- shared spectrum open only to licensed users. TFA mentions Part 90 as the section of rules that will cover this new spectrum. That's the same section of rules that covers business band radios (and whose licenses cost $100-ish). I would also expect frequency coordination to come into play at some point with this new service, just like you have with other Part 90 services. (Coordination tries to prevent harmful interference and squabbling.)
Who is the ISP involved? Are we talking a major provider of pipe, or are we talking small fish? Someone in this esteemed crowd *must* know who it is and also be willing to spill....
After all, with tools like RockXP around, won't it just be easier to trade/hijack legitimate activation files and eliminate the middle man in this scenario? At least with online activation Microsoft has a fair idea where the piracy problem is coming from-- they know which keys are the real problem, and also (typically) have a good idea of the IPs where the piracy is occurring. The telephone route will just push the pirates farther underground, and make them harder to find, IMHO.
If MSFT wantes to punish piracy, they have a perfect avenue right now-- add a kill routine to the activation process. Heck, the more certain the piracy, the more massive the kill. Since an OS pirate is probably running other pirated software, you're able to kill multiple birds with one stone. Just ask DirecTV or Dish Network-- their boxes detect piracy, and it's game over for the box. If it's their mistake they fix it, and they make very very few mistakes.
Just like the subject says. I installed it on a WinXP Pro SP2 machine. I started it, ran a scan. Interesting that it thinks RealVNC is spyware... I can understand why, but it felt like overkill. The real issue: while the MS anti-spyware was running (realtime "protection"), PopFile, my favorite spam catcher was all whacked out. It would grab e-mail from the server, but pass blanks to MS Outlook. Take the MS beta out of the equation, and everything worked. Put it back in, and presto! Popfile is FUBAR level 3. Back to Ad-aware.
Just thought you'd want to know.
Ah! The annoying keyboard... one wiggle and the expansion pack caused a reboot... the (even by the standards then) junky B/W display. It could use a regular cassette recorder for storage, which is still a great thing in my mind. Speaking of tape storage, the variable space was written to tape when you saved the program. I exploited this feature in '83 writing a custom spreadsheet/accounting program for someone. Used every last byte of RAM the machine could handle. Instead of saving a data file, you just saved the whole darned thing each time. Kludgy, but it worked. It still surprises me how much I could get done back then in space that is unthinkable today.
In Korea, only the old people get hit by asteroids.
Calling an RS-18 missile "Satan" was a (basically US) military thing-- sorry to burst the "cool name" bubble. They (then Soviets) referred to the RS-18 as the "Voyevoda," a noun that refers to a leader-- a leader whose power is achieved by being the toughest kid on the block. It's like the west calling a tank "Patton," etc. The US/NATO used "SS" instead of "RS" to refer to Soviet missiles, so the RS-18 becomes the SS-18 in NATOspeak. Here's where the fun starts.
OK, say it with me: s-s-eighteen... ss-eighteen... s-eighteen... s-eight-en... satan. In an era when you refer to the other side as the evil empire, cool names that emphasize the whole evil thing tend to stick.
Just thought you might want to know...
http://packages.debian.org/testing/admin/synaptic. html
All opinion, often wrapped in the illusion of fact. Neither blogs nor talk radio are journalistic endeavors.
Really?
What about the Navini gear? (www.navini.com) There are plenty of WISPs using the Navini gear....
...2) Every box must be able to FAIL ON ITS OWN
That requirement makes it obvious why they needed to switch from Unix to a Microsoft product, doesn't it?
Unless they build a larger shell to contain the radiation, and put a couple 'bots in there to harvest the fissionable material.
Burying it? A shovel is a pretty low tech workaround to that kind of security.
I don't know what's worse-- the Geraldo quality news story, or the slashdotter over-reaction. If everyone had waited a few hours (Noon Eastern, to be exact), the updated track forecast would have been out.
Guess what? It's going to track far southwest of the Cape by current estimates, and the local forecast, is only calling for tropical force winds to maybe category 1 hurricane winds at the Cape. Science will be safe. Only families and lives will be destroyed in the next few days. Comforting, huh?
The far bigger threat to NASA is the budgetary process in Congress. If every writer in this thread wrote a letter to Congress, rather than worrying out loud about the weather, maybe we could get NASA real resources. In the mean time, send a little support to the Red Cross.
one, two, many
The first thing I thought of was hex. Does anyone else remember what it was like learning other numbering systems? You know, binary (base 2), base 3 etc, to octal (base 8) and ultimately to hexadecimal (base 16).
If one of these researchers thinking in base 10 (decimal), talking to someone who thought in octal, would they be reporting "gee, these folks have no concept of the number 9." Duh! Their numbering system doesn't rely on that decimal concept. Just because you think something is important doesn't mean that others feel it important.
Even more down to home, do you buy six bananas, or a small bunch?
Except that the list has never resulted in a terrorist being arrested. For that matter, it has never resulted in anyone at all being arrested.
Think it through logically. A terrorist wants to get on a flight. They invent a new alias. They get on the flight without a problem, thanks to a nifty fake drivers license they whipped together in no time at all. Next time? New alias for the flight. The no-fly list will only catch extremely stupid terrorists, of whom logic says should be simple enough to catch without it.
That switch in your radio was to allow for different channel spacing, and different frequency ranges for those bands. Most notably, in Europe, the AM/MW stations are 9 KHz apart. In the US and other places, they are 10 KHz apart. That's no problem if your radio indicates frequency by an orange stick making a vague reference to a printed frequency scale (old radios), but is murder if you've got a digital tuner.
DAB uses 217.5 MHz to 230 MHz (UK currently, called Band III) and also 1452 to 1492 MHz (Canada and Germany, called L-band). Radios being built are designed to work on both bands. DAB transmitters in Band III can cover the same area as an FM station using a fraction of the energy. The L-band is more problematic in terms of coverage, and let's not even begin to talk about comparing either to the reach of high power clear channel AM stations.
There's also the mechanical issue of torque-- as the gears are shifted up, less motion may be needed at the powering end, but at greater torque.
Simple demonstration: start pedalling your bike in a higher gear, vs a lower gear. The higher gear requires more force.
That's not puke yellow. It's called tubgirl yellow.
My bad. What I was thinking (and apparently didn't have the sense to write down) was that XP as a network "server" is intended only in a smallish network environment, such as a small business or typical home user. I didn't mean to offer the flamebait that XP can't be found in a corp environment-- it is certainly on many desktops, either in home-rolled or stock releases.