I've been using skype for quite a while now, and even though it looks pretty cool, and the phones you can get are slick, until they support incoming calls with it, I can't really see it taking off.
I know it's just supposed to be a replacement for long distance charges, but come on people, start becoming full-on VOIP!
Or maybe I'm wrong, maybe you can get incoming (not skype-to-skype, an actual phone number) calls.
In 1985, my school has a computer lab, and it was filled with Apples. What happened?? McDonalds spends a crapload of money getting kids hooked young
Honestly, I don't know. I guess it's probably because the school's have never really been funded as much as they should be. This leads to cuts obviously, and in the late 80's, early 90's, the technology department of the local school distric had little to no say regarding finances. So maybe it is like McDonalds, not because of getting them started young, but because of price. If you can charge next to nothing for something, the quality of it somehow becomes blurred. x86's were much cheaper than their RISC counterparts. Fortunatly, this is changing now (mostly the prestige factor), and maybe we will see the rise of Apple and the industry as a whole.
What makes you think that people would respond any differnetly than they do now? We (I?) scream high and low that M$ doesn't give a shit about the user, and that there is huge potentential in Linux, and orgasmic computing experiences awaiting them with Apple, but it doesn't matter. They don't believe it. Computers suck, they break down, get virii and spyware. It's just what they do.
I think it's mostly just beacause the average person dosn't really care that much about thier computer... especially not enough to learn another OS, even if it is still point and click
I'd want to go back for all the crazy amounts of money you could make in the process.
Imagine in 1985 investing a few thousand in M$... or perhaps cashing in on the bre-x scandal. Or just betting correctly on the superbowl at the _start_ of every year. Wouldn't need to work man...
Last time I checked there was no SAMBA for windows... nor has microsoft _EVER_ created a cross platform application (save for mac IE, office)
I'm still waiting around for my IE Linux version so I can go to windows update.
Joking aside, isn't anyone else getting sick of all the pure bullshit this guy spews from his mouth? Everytime I see him he's talking about how unsecure open source is, and how rock solid Windows is, as he's crashing media player, and millions of windows boxes are being owned.
I'm almost surprised that/. posted this anyways. I know that they probably have to because it's IT related, but come on! Gates says Linux sucks at everything, 400 new IE vulnerbilities found, and in Soviet Russia car drives you!
whatever, I've switched, I'm through listening to this guy's lies.
If they offer it as a service (to host out of gmail) then the user would only have to worry about it cutting into thier storage space. Google wouldn't really care, they have a boatload of bandwith anyways. The only thing is that they'd have to be responsible for that data.
They probably won't allow hosting out of gmail, but I won't be too surprised when they are offering dirt cheap hosting to go with thier dirt cheap domain names. It's all about market share with Google.
That's awesome! I'll just install gaim on a windows machine, then microsoft will be open source. Then they'll lose all thier moneys and be communist, because all open source people worship Marxism, and they're nazi terrorists.
Seriously though, stop trolling. Go outside, it's nice out, throw a frisbee or something.
It may also have to do with the fact that when these adults are surfing the pron, they dont really care what's an ad or a website, so long as it has boobs
Maybe I just have no buisness sence... but if you had a bunch of money, and wanted to enter a new market, wouldn't you want to start out by charging less than you could get away with, just to gain in market share? How is this just microsoft that's doing it?
Apple's doing the same thing right now with the mac mini. Once they get a mac on every desktop, they will sell more high end macs, and more people will be happy. This is very similar to M$'s Server 2003 web edition. They just want to sell a cheap server platform so people can try it out without much initial investment in hopes that they then want to purchase more high end server platforms. They are doing this because they are trying to get market share, not because they like to sell things for cheap, or enjoy taking a loss.
Even straightforward phishing attacks are getting more sophisticated. Spelling errors and mangled Web addresses made early scams easy to spot, but scam artists now commonly include legitimate-looking links within their Web addresses, said Kate Trower, associate product manager of protection software for EarthLink Inc.
I have noticed this lately as well... so now I scrutenize every email I get, hovering over links, and occasionally, entering the first line or so into google. I do consider myself to be pretty good at figuring out if it's a phish or not though. I found a fun little phishing-finding-outting test to take on i-am-bored.com. Try it out and see how well you do!
Skype stores its buddy information in teh Windows Registry. Buddy list is digitally singed and encrypted.....
Strange, I have it installed on my linux machine... and it doesn't have a windows registry... guess I dont have the capability of storing a buddy list.
This is taken from Cisco, should tell you everything that you wanted to know about coax cables. In short, you can achieve up to 100Mb/s with it, but that might start to infringe on your TV and such...
Anyways, here it is:
This page provides detailed information about coaxial cable.
Coaxial cable consists of a copper conductor surrounded by a layer of flexible insulation. The center conductor can also be made of tin plated aluminium cable allowing for the cable to be manufactured inexpensively. Over this insulating material is a woven copper braid or metallic foil that acts as the second wire in the circuit and as a shield for the inner conductor. This second layer, or shield also reduces the amount of outside electromagnetic interference. Covering this shield is the cable jacket.
For LANs, coaxial cable offers several advantages. It can be run longer distances than shielded twisted pair, STP, unshielded twisted pair, UTP, and screened twisted pair, ScTP, cable without the need for repeaters. Repeaters regenerate the signals in a network so that they can cover greater distances. Coaxial cable is less expensive than fiber-optic cable and the technology is well known. It has been used for many years for many types of data communication such as cable television.
It is important to consider the size of a cable. As the thickness increases, it becomes more difficult to work with a cable. Remember that cable must be pulled through conduits and troughs that are limited in size. Coaxial cable comes in a variety of sizes. The largest diameter was specified for use as Ethernet backbone cable since it has greater transmission lengths and noise rejection characteristics. This type of coaxial cable is frequently referred to as Thicknet. This type of cable can be too rigid to install easily in some situations. Generally, the more difficult the network media is to install, the more expensive it is to install. Coaxial cable is more expensive to install than twisted-pair cable. Thicknet cable is rarely used anymore aside from special purpose installations.
In the past, Thinnet coaxial cable with an outside diameter of only 0.35 cm was used in Ethernet networks. It was especially useful for cable installations that required the cable to make many twists and turns. Since Thinnet was easier to install, it was also cheaper to install. This led some people to refer to it as Cheapernet. The outer copper or metallic braid in coaxial cable comprises half the electric circuit. A solid electrical connection at both ends is important to properly ground the cable. Poor shield connection is one of the biggest sources of connection problems in the installation of coaxial cable. Connection problems result in electrical noise that interferes with signal transmission. For this reason Thinnet is no longer commonly used nor supported by latest standards, 100 Mbps and higher, for Ethernet networks.
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I've been using skype for quite a while now, and even though it looks pretty cool, and the phones you can get are slick, until they support incoming calls with it, I can't really see it taking off.
I know it's just supposed to be a replacement for long distance charges, but come on people, start becoming full-on VOIP!
Or maybe I'm wrong, maybe you can get incoming (not skype-to-skype, an actual phone number) calls.
In 1985, my school has a computer lab, and it was filled with Apples. What happened?? McDonalds spends a crapload of money getting kids hooked young
Honestly, I don't know. I guess it's probably because the school's have never really been funded as much as they should be. This leads to cuts obviously, and in the late 80's, early 90's, the technology department of the local school distric had little to no say regarding finances. So maybe it is like McDonalds, not because of getting them started young, but because of price. If you can charge next to nothing for something, the quality of it somehow becomes blurred. x86's were much cheaper than their RISC counterparts. Fortunatly, this is changing now (mostly the prestige factor), and maybe we will see the rise of Apple and the industry as a whole.
Or telling people how computers would change
What makes you think that people would respond any differnetly than they do now? We (I?) scream high and low that M$ doesn't give a shit about the user, and that there is huge potentential in Linux, and orgasmic computing experiences awaiting them with Apple, but it doesn't matter. They don't believe it. Computers suck, they break down, get virii and spyware. It's just what they do.
I think it's mostly just beacause the average person dosn't really care that much about thier computer... especially not enough to learn another OS, even if it is still point and click
I'd want to go back for all the crazy amounts of money you could make in the process.
Imagine in 1985 investing a few thousand in M$... or perhaps cashing in on the bre-x scandal. Or just betting correctly on the superbowl at the _start_ of every year. Wouldn't need to work man...
sweet, I'll finally have fuel for my flux capacitor so I can get back to the 80's!
Last time I checked there was no SAMBA for windows... nor has microsoft _EVER_ created a cross platform application (save for mac IE, office)
I'm still waiting around for my IE Linux version so I can go to windows update.
Joking aside, isn't anyone else getting sick of all the pure bullshit this guy spews from his mouth? Everytime I see him he's talking about how unsecure open source is, and how rock solid Windows is, as he's crashing media player, and millions of windows boxes are being owned.
I'm almost surprised that /. posted this anyways. I know that they probably have to because it's IT related, but come on! Gates says Linux sucks at everything, 400 new IE vulnerbilities found, and in Soviet Russia car drives you!
whatever, I've switched, I'm through listening to this guy's lies.
Actually, if they couple that with their spam filter, I'd pay a hefty chunk of change for it.
<drools>
They probably won't allow hosting out of gmail, but I won't be too surprised when they are offering dirt cheap hosting to go with thier dirt cheap domain names. It's all about market share with Google.
can I host my website out of gmail?
Seriously though, stop trolling. Go outside, it's nice out, throw a frisbee or something.
that you could already do that... mind you it'll probably be a 486 with 16Mb of RAM...
Maybe a better idea would be to edit all the email server's /etc/hosts file to point hotmail, yahoo, and gmail to localhost?
It may also have to do with the fact that when these adults are surfing the pron, they dont really care what's an ad or a website, so long as it has boobs
Apple's doing the same thing right now with the mac mini. Once they get a mac on every desktop, they will sell more high end macs, and more people will be happy. This is very similar to M$'s Server 2003 web edition. They just want to sell a cheap server platform so people can try it out without much initial investment in hopes that they then want to purchase more high end server platforms. They are doing this because they are trying to get market share, not because they like to sell things for cheap, or enjoy taking a loss.
Or maybe I'm just crazy.
use mirrordot.org
I have noticed this lately as well... so now I scrutenize every email I get, hovering over links, and occasionally, entering the first line or so into google. I do consider myself to be pretty good at figuring out if it's a phish or not though. I found a fun little phishing-finding-outting test to take on i-am-bored.com. Try it out and see how well you do!
Strange, I have it installed on my linux machine... and it doesn't have a windows registry... guess I dont have the capability of storing a buddy list.
maybe you americans should just stick to your basketball (invented BTW, by a canadian).
http://www.eyetech.co.uk/search.php?SearchStr=&Sea rchCat=AMA1
um.. I mean a friend of his thrid cousins brother... I guess that makes it a friend of a fifth cousin?
sorry about that, I realized it right after I posted...
wouldn't that make him a friend of his fourth cousin? (not a genealogy expert)
make sure your speakers are on
This is taken from Cisco, should tell you everything that you wanted to know about coax cables. In short, you can achieve up to 100Mb/s with it, but that might start to infringe on your TV and such...
Anyways, here it is:
This page provides detailed information about coaxial cable.
Coaxial cable consists of a copper conductor surrounded by a layer of flexible insulation. The center conductor can also be made of tin plated aluminium cable allowing for the cable to be manufactured inexpensively. Over this insulating material is a woven copper braid or metallic foil that acts as the second wire in the circuit and as a shield for the inner conductor. This second layer, or shield also reduces the amount of outside electromagnetic interference. Covering this shield is the cable jacket.
For LANs, coaxial cable offers several advantages. It can be run longer distances than shielded twisted pair, STP, unshielded twisted pair, UTP, and screened twisted pair, ScTP, cable without the need for repeaters. Repeaters regenerate the signals in a network so that they can cover greater distances. Coaxial cable is less expensive than fiber-optic cable and the technology is well known. It has been used for many years for many types of data communication such as cable television.
It is important to consider the size of a cable. As the thickness increases, it becomes more difficult to work with a cable. Remember that cable must be pulled through conduits and troughs that are limited in size. Coaxial cable comes in a variety of sizes. The largest diameter was specified for use as Ethernet backbone cable since it has greater transmission lengths and noise rejection characteristics. This type of coaxial cable is frequently referred to as Thicknet. This type of cable can be too rigid to install easily in some situations. Generally, the more difficult the network media is to install, the more expensive it is to install. Coaxial cable is more expensive to install than twisted-pair cable. Thicknet cable is rarely used anymore aside from special purpose installations.
In the past, Thinnet coaxial cable with an outside diameter of only 0.35 cm was used in Ethernet networks. It was especially useful for cable installations that required the cable to make many twists and turns. Since Thinnet was easier to install, it was also cheaper to install. This led some people to refer to it as Cheapernet. The outer copper or metallic braid in coaxial cable comprises half the electric circuit. A solid electrical connection at both ends is important to properly ground the cable. Poor shield connection is one of the biggest sources of connection problems in the installation of coaxial cable. Connection problems result in electrical noise that interferes with signal transmission. For this reason Thinnet is no longer commonly used nor supported by latest standards, 100 Mbps and higher, for Ethernet networks.
what department would that be exaclly?
here's the installer