"The reason they don't do that is that while nearly everybody wants the encryption actually setting it up is challenging for geeks."
WTF am I reading, here? Are you completely new to setting up encryption on a router and computers for a network connection?
Log into router Go to Wireless settings Pick your encryption and input a key if required Save settings Go to other computer, try connecting to the network. Provide key (if required.) You're online.
Oh, and we literally have push-button connection, now. you simply try connecting to the secure network and walk over to the router and press the connect button - auto-configured and ready to go.
Seriously, if it's any harder than that, you need to give up technology as a career choice.
LINUX IS A FUCKING KERNEL. The distros comprise the operating system.
Until/. can make this distinction and keep it consistent (and totally disavow any article containing the phrase 'Linux Operating System') this site should not be operating as any sort of distribution site.
It's just as bad as Fox with the spouted nonsense in the actual story.
Sorry, Tako (octopus,) you need to lose your geek-cred license for this site until your brain-dead editors can get their shit right.
"Is the CB spectrum really crowded enough to still need 40 channels somewhere?"
Most of Middle USA, the entirety of the Interstate system, and most major cities with trucking depots (like Memphis, Chicago, Dallas, Houston, Los Angeles, etc.)
Even FRS/GMRS is crowded in those areas. Been there, tested that. FCC is slacking, half of the GMRS band is taken by unregistered/unlicensed people.
"I'm curious when the FCC is going to figure out that hardly any broadcasters remained on their former analog channels 2 through 6. (54 to 88 MHz, minus a 4 MHz gap between channels 4 and 5)"
Never, because there are at least three separate pirate stations that use that range. It appears as used to the FCC as anybody else.
54.88765 MHz was my favorite back in Memphis. Had to use an OLD multi-range radio with shortwave capability to access it, but that had the BEST indie techno ever. And the Chinese broadcasts were quite interesting, too, when my pal was over to translate.
"The only channels "freed up" when US NTSC ended was 52-69 and they've already been designated for Cellular and Emergency Radio usage."
Excuse me? I'm getting 53 DTV and 59 DTV on my antenna.
Better re-check what did or did not get taken out *AND* in which areas, pal. Hollywood and Mexico seem to still be broadcasting across ALL the channels you just mentioned. I just turned my TV on to check, and I *JUST* bought a nice non-powered antenna just so I could watch the OTA Korean soap operas.
No, we are reaching a point where we need to figure out and list exactly how much bandwidth each given range of frequencies has, then we need to figure out which available devices best fit those ranges, and then restrict them to those ranges and that bandwidth allocation. Let them fight over the subchannels.
"augment emerging networks that operate in the unlicensed 'white spaces' recently freed up by the end of analog TV broadcasts"
Want to re-read what you quoted? It clearly implies that these networks *ARE* running in unused TV channel-space and that the technology in question will ENHANCE (augment) the capability of those networks to operate in that frequency range by skipping back and forth across detected unused frequencies within that range.
Hey, if you want the site stable, tell the nimrods to move to something more stable and less likely to get exploited, like the motherfucking standard of the web - HTML.
Or get the rest of the site to tell them to fuck off until they do.
"We had a 900mhz unit in town, aimed at an AP on the other side of town with a clear LOS (i dont know why they did this is town, it happened before I was there) and we couldnt get it to work for our life. We had a spectrum analyzer and couldnt even get a lock on what was causing the issue."
HPS and fluorescent magnetic ballasts, most likely. Not very much else typically causes spikes in that range out in the wide open. Malfunctioning magnetic ballasts destroyed cell and cordless capability at an old apartment in Memphis.
"Soon maybe some random personal site can't even be slashdotted..."
You poor suckers don't even have the power to take out my site any longer. Well, you never had that capability anyways, apparently the majority of the so-called network engineers here can't build a/.-proof website, yet I can maintain my store against a redditing, digging, slashdotting, and fucking 4chan DDoS on the same day (and did so two weeks ago while asking for help with assholes stealing my website content,) with a PIECE OF SHIT CELERON SERVER.
Did you get the ability to disable ads on slashdot, yet, like I have?
Because that's my punishment for them until they start fucking proofreading and editing their stories.
Editing for sensation is bullshit, when better and longer conversation (and thus more pageviews/adviews) can be had without trying to fucking troll us.
I'd love to smack every/. editor across the face for some of their shit, including stuff from my own submissions that was omitted to get the fuel burning, only to have ME get burned in the process by the rest of the slashdotters fooled by the fucking editing.
FUCKING SAMZENPUS - DON'T *EVER* LET ME FIND OUT WHERE YOU LIVE, ASSHOLE. I WILL RIP YOU A NEW ASSHOLE FOR YOUR BULLSHIT.
"you need to burn the homebrew to a boot disk, which isn't just an ordinary disk image."
Uh, what? That's how we first got homebrew on the DC, by using the boot sectors from a disc image and having DC-readable code after the header. Same way we hacked the original PSX to make it read burned discs (minus the need for the lid open/disc swap.) This is well before VMU hacks and whatnot.
"To effectively hold them, you had to inflict wrist strain upon yourself."
What kind of fucked-up wrists do you have that can't bend 13 degrees inwards? I've got shattered rebuilt wrists and I can *EASILY* hold the controller. Typical humans have a 30 degree inwards bend without needing rotation.
It's Brazil, you miss the high end of everything until maybe two years later, unless you pay an exorbitantly high price to have it in your hands at that moment.
"The Playstation's controller, on the other hand, is a complete, intolerable piece of junk."
Only if you have tiny woman hands. In the meantime, there's no other controller that works with my hands in such a proper ergonomic fashion.
Try your assertion when you've got hands that can swallow a basketball. Even the 360 controllers and old XBox controllers were more of a pain on my hands.
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"Solid-state drives have about as much chance of replacing disk drives, as solid-state cartridges replacing discs in Gaming. "
So we move back to an SD/CF like storage card like the TG16 used instead of some bulky cartridge like the NES/Genesis/SNES
OUM MLC is FAR different than anything in typical use.
Try 10^8 read/write.
"The summary probably makes more sense when you're high."
Well, not really. Hell, the program itself doesn't even make sense sober or stoned. I think GIMP has a more usable UI.
"RAM is too cheap and disk is too slow"
Your disks might be too slow, but OUM-based MLC flash drives are so fast most current SSDs would look like 80's tech.
It is a permanent fix. The gearing ratio was just SLIGHTLY off which caused a GREAT many first-gen DC systems to fail.
"The reason they don't do that is that while nearly everybody wants the encryption actually setting it up is challenging for geeks."
WTF am I reading, here? Are you completely new to setting up encryption on a router and computers for a network connection?
Log into router
Go to Wireless settings
Pick your encryption and input a key if required
Save settings
Go to other computer, try connecting to the network.
Provide key (if required.)
You're online.
Oh, and we literally have push-button connection, now. you simply try connecting to the secure network and walk over to the router and press the connect button - auto-configured and ready to go.
Seriously, if it's any harder than that, you need to give up technology as a career choice.
Our laws of physics are supposedly only local to our area of space.
http://arxiv.org/abs/1008.3907
"I wouldn't call it amazingly good, "
I would, how many other people do you know capable of quick rational action in a very dire, time-is-of-the-essence emergency?
"The open-source Linux operating system"
LINUX IS A FUCKING KERNEL. The distros comprise the operating system.
Until /. can make this distinction and keep it consistent (and totally disavow any article containing the phrase 'Linux Operating System') this site should not be operating as any sort of distribution site.
It's just as bad as Fox with the spouted nonsense in the actual story.
Sorry, Tako (octopus,) you need to lose your geek-cred license for this site until your brain-dead editors can get their shit right.
"Is the CB spectrum really crowded enough to still need 40 channels somewhere?"
Most of Middle USA, the entirety of the Interstate system, and most major cities with trucking depots (like Memphis, Chicago, Dallas, Houston, Los Angeles, etc.)
Even FRS/GMRS is crowded in those areas. Been there, tested that. FCC is slacking, half of the GMRS band is taken by unregistered/unlicensed people.
"I'm curious when the FCC is going to figure out that hardly any broadcasters remained on their former analog channels 2 through 6. (54 to 88 MHz, minus a 4 MHz gap between channels 4 and 5)"
Never, because there are at least three separate pirate stations that use that range. It appears as used to the FCC as anybody else.
54.88765 MHz was my favorite back in Memphis. Had to use an OLD multi-range radio with shortwave capability to access it, but that had the BEST indie techno ever. And the Chinese broadcasts were quite interesting, too, when my pal was over to translate.
"The only channels "freed up" when US NTSC ended was 52-69 and they've already been designated for Cellular and Emergency Radio usage."
Excuse me? I'm getting 53 DTV and 59 DTV on my antenna.
Better re-check what did or did not get taken out *AND* in which areas, pal. Hollywood and Mexico seem to still be broadcasting across ALL the channels you just mentioned. I just turned my TV on to check, and I *JUST* bought a nice non-powered antenna just so I could watch the OTA Korean soap operas.
No, we are reaching a point where we need to figure out and list exactly how much bandwidth each given range of frequencies has, then we need to figure out which available devices best fit those ranges, and then restrict them to those ranges and that bandwidth allocation. Let them fight over the subchannels.
"augment emerging networks that operate in the unlicensed 'white spaces' recently freed up by the end of analog TV broadcasts"
Want to re-read what you quoted? It clearly implies that these networks *ARE* running in unused TV channel-space and that the technology in question will ENHANCE (augment) the capability of those networks to operate in that frequency range by skipping back and forth across detected unused frequencies within that range.
Obviousness is not a strong point of /. programmers or editors.
In fact, given the differences between the systems, I'd suspect /. made this default so they could serve up more advertisement stuff on the fly.
/. won't go back to the old system totally.
Hey, if you want the site stable, tell the nimrods to move to something more stable and less likely to get exploited, like the motherfucking standard of the web - HTML.
Or get the rest of the site to tell them to fuck off until they do.
Good luck with either.
"We had a 900mhz unit in town, aimed at an AP on the other side of town with a clear LOS (i dont know why they did this is town, it happened before I was there) and we couldnt get it to work for our life. We had a spectrum analyzer and couldnt even get a lock on what was causing the issue."
HPS and fluorescent magnetic ballasts, most likely. Not very much else typically causes spikes in that range out in the wide open. Malfunctioning magnetic ballasts destroyed cell and cordless capability at an old apartment in Memphis.
"IIRC it was ruled that a commercial operator cannot use the ISM bands for a cell network in Canada.'
IIRC as well you can't even run in that band without severely limiting the transmitting power of the device.
A decade ago, when I was in Quebec, the 900 MHz phones sucked not even a room away from the base station.
"Soon maybe some random personal site can't even be slashdotted..."
You poor suckers don't even have the power to take out my site any longer. Well, you never had that capability anyways, apparently the majority of the so-called network engineers here can't build a /.-proof website, yet I can maintain my store against a redditing, digging, slashdotting, and fucking 4chan DDoS on the same day (and did so two weeks ago while asking for help with assholes stealing my website content,) with a PIECE OF SHIT CELERON SERVER.
Did you get the ability to disable ads on slashdot, yet, like I have?
Because that's my punishment for them until they start fucking proofreading and editing their stories.
Editing for sensation is bullshit, when better and longer conversation (and thus more pageviews/adviews) can be had without trying to fucking troll us.
I'd love to smack every /. editor across the face for some of their shit, including stuff from my own submissions that was omitted to get the fuel burning, only to have ME get burned in the process by the rest of the slashdotters fooled by the fucking editing.
FUCKING SAMZENPUS - DON'T *EVER* LET ME FIND OUT WHERE YOU LIVE, ASSHOLE. I WILL RIP YOU A NEW ASSHOLE FOR YOUR BULLSHIT.
Uh, no, we used the DC IDE-HD interface, because any other way was too damn slow.
"you need to burn the homebrew to a boot disk, which isn't just an ordinary disk image."
Uh, what? That's how we first got homebrew on the DC, by using the boot sectors from a disc image and having DC-readable code after the header. Same way we hacked the original PSX to make it read burned discs (minus the need for the lid open/disc swap.) This is well before VMU hacks and whatnot.
"To effectively hold them, you had to inflict wrist strain upon yourself."
What kind of fucked-up wrists do you have that can't bend 13 degrees inwards? I've got shattered rebuilt wrists and I can *EASILY* hold the controller. Typical humans have a 30 degree inwards bend without needing rotation.
Were you born defective?
It's Brazil, you miss the high end of everything until maybe two years later, unless you pay an exorbitantly high price to have it in your hands at that moment.
"The Playstation's controller, on the other hand, is a complete, intolerable piece of junk."
Only if you have tiny woman hands. In the meantime, there's no other controller that works with my hands in such a proper ergonomic fashion.
Try your assertion when you've got hands that can swallow a basketball. Even the 360 controllers and old XBox controllers were more of a pain on my hands.