Gigabit Ethernet all but eliminates half-duplex (it's technically in the standard, but nobody implements it properly, and autonegotiation is required), so collisions are no longer a concern.
The length restriction is still in the standard, but most of the time it will still establish a link at 110 meters of Cat5, let alone Cat5e or Cat6.
For future reference, Windows Server 2008 is essentially the server edition of Vista. This isn't a totally accurate statement, mind you, but it's good enough for a simple explanation.
For me though, one of the biggest helpers in making sure I get a wide variety of genres is the mod community. I play Half-Life and Half-Life 2 mods quite a bit, and I get everything from ultra-realism "one-shot-one-kill" in Insurgency and Resistance and Liberation to hilarious adventures in bayoneting with The Battlegrounds (seriously, this mod is fun), to unrealistic sci-fi (in that "limited by only the imagination of the developers" scene) brought by Dystopia.
I haven't found the need to buy any games in the past several years for the sake of entering a new genre; the third-party mod community has me taken care of.
I've really only seen SC and LC on switches, too. I've seen a few really old switches that used MTRJ, but nothing made since about 2001.
I mean, switches often have GBIC or SFP slots instead of hard-wired interfaces, but I'd consider that a plus, since fiber ports can wear out; it's easier to switch out a dead SFP on a 48-port switch than to try to diagnose an issue with the hard-wired port.
Nowadays at the switch, SFPs are pretty standard, and LC fiber is pretty easy to work with. Even at the NIC, where I'd rather have a hard-wired port because it's cheaper than an SFP, LC is pretty standard, and SC is the only other interface I've seen.
Yeah, a couple months ago I changed my 401k contributions so that 2% would go into the gold market, because I figured it was stable.
A month later, the money I put into gold was the only thing that didn't go up. Fortunately, I didn't have much money going in, so I only lost about a nickel by investing in gold.
This past year's "Treehouse of Horror" had a story along the same lines; actors were refusing to put their likeness on certain products, or star in certain movies, so they used Homer's new-found affinity for killing celebrities (found after he accidently put Krusty through a woodchipper) to kill off a bunch of celebrities so they could posthumously endorse products.
For all of you who stopped watching The Simpsons in the past few years, check out that one episode, at least.
I'm pretty sure the Paul Newman Foundation is his executor. As long as you see Newman's Own food on the shelves, I think they'll be able to fight it.;)
Log out will close all of my applications (thankfully I know that, but a novice user from Windows will definitely be frustrated).
Actually, this is exactly how Windows does it. As of XP, "Log Out", closes your apps and goes to the login screen. "Switch User" keeps your apps alive and goes to the login screen (only if you have "Fast User Switching" enabled, but that's on by default). "Lock Screen" does the same thing as in Gnome too; it suspends your session, and only you, or an admin user, can log in. Other "standard" users are completely locked out of the computer.
Call this behavior confusing if you wish, but Gnome is consistent with Windows (and hence, with the behavior that Windows users will expect) in this case.
My biggest problem with Wifi is that I live in a densely populated area, so there's a ton of interference. Sitting on my couch, my wireless NIC's software can see 10 networks that don't hide their SSID.
In reality, 10BASE-T might even be an improvement over my current connection, from my couch to my wireless router, 15 feet away. 100BASE-TX certainly is.
GigE has half-duplex in the standard, but practically nobody supports it. Autonegotiation is required at Gig speeds, and I haven't come across a single device that supports half-duplex, but not full, so there should never be an instance in which two devices negotiate a half-duplex Gig link.
10Gig finally dropped half-duplex for good.
Even if you're using half-duplex, as long as you're using switches and not repeaters, you'll never have more than two devices on a collision domain, so it's with modern equipment, Ethernet is a point-to-point technology, even though it was originally a shared bus technology.
So maybe if we were able to cool everything down to absolute zero, the atoms would be close enough together that pushing on one atom would exact instant force upon the next one!
So maybe if we manage to reach absolute zero, we'll also be able to transmit information at faster-than-light speeds!
What I think fiber to the desktop needs is the equivalent to 10baseT - an open, low cost standard that is cheap and easy to use. Right now you have a dozen of propriatary connectors. Some are tougher, some are cheaper, etc... We need the equivalent of the RJ-45.
I worked through college at a networking lab dealing with Gigabit Ethernet, but 10Gig, but while there are tons of connectors out there, but only two are really ever used on the NIC: SC and LC
SC has historically been used more, but LC has taken over as the dominant interface, because you can have a much higher port density; with LC, you can have a 48-port 1U switch, and you can have a 4-port NIC in a standard PCI/PCIe slot.
Personally, I think if you wanted to use fiber in a home or small office setting, 1000BASE-SX will be the best choice for a while. SX (850nm light) is cheaper than LX (1310nm), and it'll work well over any distance you'd see inside a building. Also, it's "fast enough" for most applications, especially since you're unlikely to have anywhere near 1Gbps to the external network in that kind of setting.
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Gigabit Ethernet all but eliminates half-duplex (it's technically in the standard, but nobody implements it properly, and autonegotiation is required), so collisions are no longer a concern.
The length restriction is still in the standard, but most of the time it will still establish a link at 110 meters of Cat5, let alone Cat5e or Cat6.
Well, it made for a good edition of Movies in Fifteen Minutes...
Seeing Mark Wahlberg trying to talk a plant out of hurting him was pretty funny, too.
Plus you may have signed a non-compete agreement with the company, I imagine.
I'd heard it was global warming.
Of course, M. Night Shyamalan tells us that it's "...an act of nature, and we'll never fully understand it."
Windows 2003 == Windows Server 2003.
In essence, it's the server edition of XP-SP2.
For future reference, Windows Server 2008 is essentially the server edition of Vista. This isn't a totally accurate statement, mind you, but it's good enough for a simple explanation.
I have very little experience with Win7 (just a small amount of time in a VM hosted inside WinXP on a system with only 1GB of DDR ram).
What's changed in the Win7 interface that reduces usability?
I'm not sure there's a single industry in which the average business puts out a product without at least starting to plan the next one.
I'll agree to some extent: http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2005/5/23/
For me though, one of the biggest helpers in making sure I get a wide variety of genres is the mod community. I play Half-Life and Half-Life 2 mods quite a bit, and I get everything from ultra-realism "one-shot-one-kill" in Insurgency and Resistance and Liberation to hilarious adventures in bayoneting with The Battlegrounds (seriously, this mod is fun), to unrealistic sci-fi (in that "limited by only the imagination of the developers" scene) brought by Dystopia.
I haven't found the need to buy any games in the past several years for the sake of entering a new genre; the third-party mod community has me taken care of.
I've really only seen SC and LC on switches, too. I've seen a few really old switches that used MTRJ, but nothing made since about 2001.
I mean, switches often have GBIC or SFP slots instead of hard-wired interfaces, but I'd consider that a plus, since fiber ports can wear out; it's easier to switch out a dead SFP on a 48-port switch than to try to diagnose an issue with the hard-wired port.
Nowadays at the switch, SFPs are pretty standard, and LC fiber is pretty easy to work with. Even at the NIC, where I'd rather have a hard-wired port because it's cheaper than an SFP, LC is pretty standard, and SC is the only other interface I've seen.
Yeah, a couple months ago I changed my 401k contributions so that 2% would go into the gold market, because I figured it was stable.
A month later, the money I put into gold was the only thing that didn't go up. Fortunately, I didn't have much money going in, so I only lost about a nickel by investing in gold.
This past year's "Treehouse of Horror" had a story along the same lines; actors were refusing to put their likeness on certain products, or star in certain movies, so they used Homer's new-found affinity for killing celebrities (found after he accidently put Krusty through a woodchipper) to kill off a bunch of celebrities so they could posthumously endorse products.
For all of you who stopped watching The Simpsons in the past few years, check out that one episode, at least.
I thought Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles was excellent, despite the lack of Arnold.
(past tense because of rumors that the show's finished... :( )
I'm pretty sure the Paul Newman Foundation is his executor. As long as you see Newman's Own food on the shelves, I think they'll be able to fight it. ;)
Every single Batman & Spider-man movie has been rated below R.
Hmm... I could've sworn The Dark Knight was rated R, but I looked it up, and you're right!
Log out will close all of my applications (thankfully I know that, but a novice user from Windows will definitely be frustrated).
Actually, this is exactly how Windows does it. As of XP, "Log Out", closes your apps and goes to the login screen. "Switch User" keeps your apps alive and goes to the login screen (only if you have "Fast User Switching" enabled, but that's on by default). "Lock Screen" does the same thing as in Gnome too; it suspends your session, and only you, or an admin user, can log in. Other "standard" users are completely locked out of the computer.
Call this behavior confusing if you wish, but Gnome is consistent with Windows (and hence, with the behavior that Windows users will expect) in this case.
Give me free beer, and I'll give you more free speech than you can handle.
Impossible, if you run Wubi.
My biggest problem with Wifi is that I live in a densely populated area, so there's a ton of interference. Sitting on my couch, my wireless NIC's software can see 10 networks that don't hide their SSID.
In reality, 10BASE-T might even be an improvement over my current connection, from my couch to my wireless router, 15 feet away. 100BASE-TX certainly is.
I've met plenty of morons that don't love token ring.
You may be on to something for the relationship the other way, but being a moron does not imply love for Token Ring.
GigE has half-duplex in the standard, but practically nobody supports it. Autonegotiation is required at Gig speeds, and I haven't come across a single device that supports half-duplex, but not full, so there should never be an instance in which two devices negotiate a half-duplex Gig link.
10Gig finally dropped half-duplex for good.
Even if you're using half-duplex, as long as you're using switches and not repeaters, you'll never have more than two devices on a collision domain, so it's with modern equipment, Ethernet is a point-to-point technology, even though it was originally a shared bus technology.
Nope. Token Ring died because all of the tokens fell out, and couldn't be found.
So maybe if we were able to cool everything down to absolute zero, the atoms would be close enough together that pushing on one atom would exact instant force upon the next one!
So maybe if we manage to reach absolute zero, we'll also be able to transmit information at faster-than-light speeds!
Maybe for you, but my vision is significantly better than average. I won't be happy until we have twice that in each dimension.
What I think fiber to the desktop needs is the equivalent to 10baseT - an open, low cost standard that is cheap and easy to use. Right now you have a dozen of propriatary connectors. Some are tougher, some are cheaper, etc... We need the equivalent of the RJ-45.
I worked through college at a networking lab dealing with Gigabit Ethernet, but 10Gig, but while there are tons of connectors out there, but only two are really ever used on the NIC: SC and LC
A link from Belkin on the types of fiber:
http://www.belkin.com/networking/fiber/
SC has historically been used more, but LC has taken over as the dominant interface, because you can have a much higher port density; with LC, you can have a 48-port 1U switch, and you can have a 4-port NIC in a standard PCI/PCIe slot.
Personally, I think if you wanted to use fiber in a home or small office setting, 1000BASE-SX will be the best choice for a while. SX (850nm light) is cheaper than LX (1310nm), and it'll work well over any distance you'd see inside a building. Also, it's "fast enough" for most applications, especially since you're unlikely to have anywhere near 1Gbps to the external network in that kind of setting.
It would be really awkward if we sent a mission to that planet, only to find out that our speed of travel was less than the speed of expansion...
"Crap."