Can't believe that no one has added this link yet (maybe I missed it eh) http://www.dashpc.com/ This guy rocks - besides mp3 he has a really nice tcl interface, plays movies on multiple screens - gps and 802.11 (bringing a new meaning to wardriving methinks)
Even has a sourceforge project up for the code! Look and learn.
BFD - Get the Lucent/Orinoco "outdoor router". Been doing that for years.
I helped to found an ISP that offers 802.11 broadband. We have "towers" around the city that are basically repeaters aiming back to the CO. I believe our longest hop from a tower to the CO is 6 miles (not KM). And then our futhest customer is at least that far away from the tower - you do the math.
One problem we have had is that over 10 miles or more than one repeater you start to have latency issues on that link. Nothing like Satellite, but it's there.
Lots of tricks in the interference and power limit areas. This is where our "trade secrets" reside and keep us the #1 provider in our area. My advice - talk to an actual RF engineer or at least a ham that plays with sattelite and microwave modes...
The Zaurus with a built in CDMA/AMPS phone - I use a Kyocera 6035 now and I will never go back to carrying 2 devices! Also - need ~20gb HDD and 802.11. Included - not $500 options.
I helped found an ISP based on 802.11. Been there done that.
As stated above - put your access points on opposite ends of the spectrum. Use WAP. Stops the casual observer (and this isn't a military installation after all). Any financial interaction your tennants have should be done with the protection of SSL or some other scheme anyway - that's their problem.
For access control DHCP/MAC again stops the casual moron with a power book. For net access setup a proxy sever and require login/password authentication to get out. Squid handles this nicely. You can then also do things like porn filters and such based on login. (if you want to go down that road)
As far as interference goes we have run multiple different 2.4gHz networks and wireless phones in the same room - 802.11 works every time. If the signal is already running at 1mb and you have strong "near field" interference (cordless phone right next to the AP) you will drop a significant portion of packets.
Oh, and just bite the bullet and use Lucent/Orinoco cards and access points. We've tried em all. Lucent rules the roost.
Ok no more troting out the law of thermodynamics and debating renewables. The fact is that at some point we must give up our beloved hydrocarbons and Hydrogen is the best bet.
Shocking solution => Wind Mills! ooh aah.
Centuries of farmers and most of the residents of Holland will tell you they pump water like nothing else. Hook up a turbine and they also generate shit loads of electricity - already as cheap as coal. (tried to find a reference on cost here - I'm sure pacificorp has the data somewhere on their site but my job is limiting my search time today).
After they are setup and pumping/cracking who the F cares about the energy input. Keep it simple stupid - Lasers in orbit, come on, thats like boiling water with a nuke. Oh I forgot, we do that too. Stupid Humans!
I'd take staying home with my wife and awesome kids over the "meat market" any day. Too bad you don't understand.
But then with that attitude I'll wager it won't be long...
One thing I will definitely toast tonight is my wife and fam! They rock!
WRONG! I have a Kycera and love it - and YES YOU CAN dial from the contacts - it requires a very tricky and technical tap on the phone number.
I wanna see you get a page, talk to the user, re-start an AIX printer. Then check the start time for the movie you're going to see and have your wife straigten out your schedule with your phone buster.
This device freed me of carying a pager, cell, pda and sometimes laptop. I'll never go back!
Here's my story - Years ago my wife purchased a $300 HP Calculator as a present for my brother in law who was working on his engineering degree at the time.
Our old house had a yard and 6 foot fence encircling the house. Inside that yard was my beloved Alaskan Malamute (Dogzilla).
Normal UPS guy was great - saw Dogzilla would put packages in garage - outside fence - whereever DZ could not reach it.
x-mas help (moron) assigned to deliver said caluculator came-saw-tossed. HP landed in the waiting jaws of DZ. Amazing what a big dog can do to a caclulator.
Wife arrived home @ 12am and promptly woke up the UPS supervisor. We had a new calc on the way the next day. Guess what... Moron does same thing - 2 more times! That caclulator cost UPS more than 1k... Go figure.
It was pretty priceless to see my brother-in-law's face when he opened his present and it was a chewed almost-beyond-recognition calc. He got the final replacement 2 weeks later.
An actual installer! It understands the differences in Distros and even puts links/launchers/icons into the menu systems of BOTH KDE and Gnome! Wholy cow!
This is something that developers have needed to do forever. Forget the RPM vs DEB vs Tarball wars and make it easy for the user dammit!
We all gripe about Micro$oft developing software that is just bloated eye candy with crappy (or no) guts. IMHO Linux developers have been too busy neating up the guts to notice that no one uses their program beacuse it takes two friggin days to satisfy all of the needed dependancies just to compile and then annother two to figure out where the damn thing's files should reside.
Oh ya, after the install the product actually works as advertised too.
My solution is the Kyocera smartphone - palm, phone, wireless modem, voice recorder, speaker phone, pager etc etc - in one gadget. Pretty cool to telnet or VNC from your phone - saved me many trips home or to the office...
http://www.kyocera-wireless.com/kysmart/kysmart_se ries.htm
Oh, and of course the Cybertool 34 from our friends at ThinkGeek!
We do all kinds of streams here - video/audio/mixed presentations w video and slides etc. Tried most encoders and servers. Me and a few of the guys have about 10gb of.mp3 files that we share and we wanted to stream a mix. I'm running shoutcast on a 233mmx @ 56k never had a problem other than it doesn't seem to like reducing anything over 128k to 56k. If you are encoding on the fly (I assume you are being that it's live) and not just playing stored files like I do - get a seperate WS to do that job. Find an old P100 or some such and dedicate it to encoding the stream. In that case being a non-proffit you could just stream to live365 and use some free email vendor for you mail. Done! Cheap! (maybe free - I bet somebody would donate a p100) Good Luck!
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Can't believe that no one has added this link yet (maybe I missed it eh) http://www.dashpc.com/ This guy rocks - besides mp3 he has a really nice tcl interface, plays movies on multiple screens - gps and 802.11 (bringing a new meaning to wardriving methinks)
Even has a sourceforge project up for the code! Look and learn.
BFD - Get the Lucent/Orinoco "outdoor router". Been doing that for years.
I helped to found an ISP that offers 802.11 broadband. We have "towers" around the city that are basically repeaters aiming back to the CO. I believe our longest hop from a tower to the CO is 6 miles (not KM). And then our futhest customer is at least that far away from the tower - you do the math.
One problem we have had is that over 10 miles or more than one repeater you start to have latency issues on that link. Nothing like Satellite, but it's there.
Lots of tricks in the interference and power limit areas. This is where our "trade secrets" reside and keep us the #1 provider in our area. My advice - talk to an actual RF engineer or at least a ham that plays with sattelite and microwave modes...
The Zaurus with a built in CDMA/AMPS phone - I use a Kyocera 6035 now and I will never go back to carrying 2 devices! Also - need ~20gb HDD and 802.11. Included - not $500 options.
I helped found an ISP based on 802.11. Been there done that.
As stated above - put your access points on opposite ends of the spectrum. Use WAP. Stops the casual observer (and this isn't a military installation after all). Any financial interaction your tennants have should be done with the protection of SSL or some other scheme anyway - that's their problem.
For access control DHCP/MAC again stops the casual moron with a power book. For net access setup a proxy sever and require login/password authentication to get out. Squid handles this nicely. You can then also do things like porn filters and such based on login. (if you want to go down that road)
As far as interference goes we have run multiple different 2.4gHz networks and wireless phones in the same room - 802.11 works every time. If the signal is already running at 1mb and you have strong "near field" interference (cordless phone right next to the AP) you will drop a significant portion of packets.
Oh, and just bite the bullet and use Lucent/Orinoco cards and access points. We've tried em all. Lucent rules the roost.
freeswan pleeazzz.
Gnome (programming)
KDE (see above)
Oh and leave out the first half of the book that explains 1)what the internet is 2)the history of Unix/DOS/computers. Enough of that rubbish already.
ME TOOs:
Say it with me - Ring Bound Books good - Glue bad.
If it has code - Put in a friggin CD
Ok no more troting out the law of thermodynamics and debating renewables. The fact is that at some point we must give up our beloved hydrocarbons and Hydrogen is the best bet.
Shocking solution => Wind Mills! ooh aah.
Centuries of farmers and most of the residents of Holland will tell you they pump water like nothing else. Hook up a turbine and they also generate shit loads of electricity - already as cheap as coal. (tried to find a reference on cost here - I'm sure pacificorp has the data somewhere on their site but my job is limiting my search time today).
After they are setup and pumping/cracking who the F cares about the energy input. Keep it simple stupid - Lasers in orbit, come on, thats like boiling water with a nuke. Oh I forgot, we do that too. Stupid Humans!
I'd take staying home with my wife and awesome kids over the "meat market" any day. Too bad you don't understand. But then with that attitude I'll wager it won't be long... One thing I will definitely toast tonight is my wife and fam! They rock!
WRONG! I have a Kycera and love it - and YES YOU CAN dial from the contacts - it requires a very tricky and technical tap on the phone number.
I wanna see you get a page, talk to the user, re-start an AIX printer. Then check the start time for the movie you're going to see and have your wife straigten out your schedule with your phone buster.
This device freed me of carying a pager, cell, pda and sometimes laptop. I'll never go back!
Here's my story - Years ago my wife purchased a $300 HP Calculator as a present for my brother in law who was working on his engineering degree at the time.
Our old house had a yard and 6 foot fence encircling the house. Inside that yard was my beloved Alaskan Malamute (Dogzilla).
Normal UPS guy was great - saw Dogzilla would put packages in garage - outside fence - whereever DZ could not reach it.
x-mas help (moron) assigned to deliver said caluculator came-saw-tossed. HP landed in the waiting jaws of DZ. Amazing what a big dog can do to a caclulator.
Wife arrived home @ 12am and promptly woke up the UPS supervisor. We had a new calc on the way the next day. Guess what... Moron does same thing - 2 more times! That caclulator cost UPS more than 1k... Go figure.
It was pretty priceless to see my brother-in-law's face when he opened his present and it was a chewed almost-beyond-recognition calc. He got the final replacement 2 weeks later.
An actual installer! It understands the differences in Distros and even puts links/launchers/icons into the menu systems of BOTH KDE and Gnome! Wholy cow!
This is something that developers have needed to do forever. Forget the RPM vs DEB vs Tarball wars and make it easy for the user dammit!
We all gripe about Micro$oft developing software that is just bloated eye candy with crappy (or no) guts. IMHO Linux developers have been too busy neating up the guts to notice that no one uses their program beacuse it takes two friggin days to satisfy all of the needed dependancies just to compile and then annother two to figure out where the damn thing's files should reside.
Oh ya, after the install the product actually works as advertised too.
These guys get my $20!!! Kudos Codeweavers!
My solution is the Kyocera smartphone - palm, phone, wireless modem, voice recorder, speaker phone, pager etc etc - in one gadget. Pretty cool to telnet or VNC from your phone - saved me many trips home or to the office... http://www.kyocera-wireless.com/kysmart/kysmart_se ries.htm
Oh, and of course the Cybertool 34 from our friends at ThinkGeek!
My experience => get in car - drive to Wal Mart - get box off shelf - pay for box - drive home. Yup, pretty tough.
We do all kinds of streams here - video/audio/mixed presentations w video and slides etc. Tried most encoders and servers. Me and a few of the guys have about 10gb of .mp3 files that we share and we wanted to stream a mix. I'm running shoutcast on a 233mmx @ 56k never had a problem other than it doesn't seem to like reducing anything over 128k to 56k. If you are encoding on the fly (I assume you are being that it's live) and not just playing stored files like I do - get a seperate WS to do that job. Find an old P100 or some such and dedicate it to encoding the stream. In that case being a non-proffit you could just stream to live365 and use some free email vendor for you mail. Done! Cheap! (maybe free - I bet somebody would donate a p100) Good Luck!