Far be it from anyone on slashdot reading the instructions, but when you first log into the Beta a silly flash demo shows you the key features (including this one).
If this is just for one phone, go out and buy an external mobile phone antenna for about $25-50.
This is only going to work if your phone has an external antenna jack on the back (it is usually filled in with a rubber plug that you can pop out).
A member of my family spends a lot of time in a remote area and can only get 0-2 bars if he stands on the highest point of the property with his flip phone. After buying a $30 mag-mount antenna, plugging it into the external antenna port on his Cingular GSM phone and sticking it on the top of his truck/house he gets very good signal all the time. Sprint phones have good results with the antenna as well.
If this doesn't work (his problem was range, not obstacles), consider taking it up with your mobile company or look into passive repeaters. If those don't work, consider either dynamiting the ridge, developing a space ladder, or buying an active cell phone repeater.
I call this technique "early recipient rejection". As soon as the SMTP client sends "RCPT TO:" our postfix systems check a database list of valid recipients and drop the message immediately if it is not valid.
To set up early recipient rejection with postfix, read the docs about "check_recipient_access" and apply that directive to your "smtpd_recipient_restrictions" section in main.cf.
This page mainly demonstrates how to take advantage of Yahoo's APIs with Python. I think that the engineers and managers at Yahoo must be paying attention to the competative edge in productivity that Python can offer. It really is an all purpose programming tool that works well in many niches.
Remember the story about the cruise ship that averted would-be attackers with one of these? Just camp out in front of his house about 200 meters away and every time he pokes his head out blast him with it. You aren't vandelizing anything and he is getting a taste of his own medicine. There is a built in mp3 player; perhaps you could use this device to broadcast a message of peace at 150 dB (about twice as loud as a commercial jet) or maybe just a Mars Volta CD.
Despite the potential fun in blasting someone with this, I think you should first talk to the neighbor and try to understand what drove him to spend $800 on a teen deterrent. Be reasonable and try to imagine the situation if the roles were reversed.
If you summon the police again, show the data sheet on the mosquito device to the officer so that they understand that not everyone can hear it. If the officer can't hear it, surely he/she will get someone younger to come and check it out. The drawback is that the old man might turn the device off in the meantime.
There are plenty of PCI WAN boards with Linux API/drivers on the market. You can get 1-8 port T1, 1-4 port OC3, and 1-2 port ATM and DS-3 boards. Most of them support channelized links, so you can break your T1 into 12 channels for data and 12 digital voice lines.
Also, cmd.exe has a command history menu you can pop up by hitting F10 after you have entered a few commands in the window. I don't know if you have to have turned on command completion with TweakUI for this to work or not.
I never use this feature because Cygwin gives me what I want on Windows.
This is completely silly. The fact that you would propose this idea for 100-200 workstations speaks volumes about your experience with these technologies. I think your employer should contract an IT firm to manage this aspect the office move.
I guess if you do go wireless you can save *some* money on servers because they sure won't have to work as hard if each client maxes out at about 1mb.
If you are outsourcing, the cable infastructure and termination for 200 stations should cost about $15-20K. Add $3,000-8,000 for 20 24 port switches (trendnet or netgear switches will be fine, 20 of them so that you have some spares), and another couple grand for patch panels and racks and a UPS.
Save yourself and your users from headaches and slowness... just put in the CAT5! If your employers want to have computers and networking be a part of their business, they will invest appropriately to prevent future reinvestment and downtime. Then again, maybe you don't have that much to do at your job and you need to justify your existance.
If you are willing to sacrifice on cable management, wall jacks and centralized placement of switches, this network could be rolled out for under $8K in a DIY manner. Forget all the runs back to the main rack and just put 24 port switches out in the bull pen and uplink each workgroup switch with gigE to a main switch.
From the section on Home brewed email archiving: For his part, Scott took two weeks to write a small C program that would FTP the Domino and Sametime mail logs to the Linux server while monitoring the size of the captured log files on a cumulative basis. When that starts amounting to what can be easily fit onto a DVD, the program kicks off a DVD burn job on the Linux box. If the burn is successful, the program removes the local copies of the logs from the Linux box, as well as the working copies on the production Domino and Sametime machines, to conserve much-needed disk space. Finally, it sends an e-mail notification to the systems administrator reporting on the status of the burn, whether the job needs to be redone or it's safe to drop a new blank disc into the drive.
This seems like something that would take about 1-4 hours to automate in most scripting languages. Also, using C would have beared no performance increase as the most time consuming operations (FTP files, burn DVD-R) are out of your control. I would have chosen BASH, Perl, or Python for this task.
And if one is running Mandriva? Suse?...... then you learn about how to install the dependent software and build packages for your distro. If you are into Participating in your Culture, you will redistribute the package, or maybe even join the project and make a new package for each stable release. Sorry they don't have silver platters for everyone, I think it is pretty smooth that they have been able to develop this 'platform' for Linux, Windows and Mac at the same time.
I also think that they are being realistic by focusing on Windows and Mac computers because they are more commonly used by content producers and consumers.
This article is only on slashdot because OSTG needed some more hits to round out this month's advertisment billing run (which is probably starting next week). I think this is proved by the inclusion of the word "sysadmin" in the title despite the obvious desktop nature of the content. Do you think for one second that this article would have been front page on slashdot if not for OSTG affiliation?
I play Frozen Bubble with my GF. She beats me horribly on one game type and I win on the other. After about 30 mins we get tired of it and do something else.
We have probably 25 users with 2GB+ folders and one with 13GB (she has worked here for 13 or so years). If you ask me, you can't limit online mail folder storage unless you implement a damn good document management system. Outlook/Exchange serves many purposes: document archival, covering your ass ("look! I DID send them that contract update" OR "see I told you so 5 months ago"), and also knowledge base ("he told us how to do that sometime in June '04"). Also, if email is mission critical for your biz, server side mail folders (no matter how big) are MUCH easier to backup than archive files on PCs.
The attitude around here seems to be that the infastructure must flex to the needs of the users. Over empowered IT managers and cheapskate bosses tend to be the reason for limiting email down to 250 or 100mb. Take a hint from gmail: you should never delete anything (esp. related to business).
We have 5 Exchange servers and Outlook 2003, max message size is 20mb, and you cannot send.jpg files (for some reason). Password protected zip files reign for data falling under the HIPAA laws.
We bought a Mackie SDR instead of the Alesis HD24. The SDR was a bit cheaper and did what we wanted but it sure was annoying when it came time to dump 20GB of data from the unit... the only computer-friendly format (aside from lightpipe) was USB 1.0.
It is my understanding that almost every cell tower has a GPS receiver. You can see the little hat-like antenna on the top of the equipment building at the bottom of the towers. They use the GPS to provide accurate time to the phones in the cells.
Linux Media Labs designs, makes, and markets multi channel unencoded and single channel hardware MPEG4 encoding boards. They offer a "clustered" video recording system with thousands of channels and advertise consulting services.
I have never dealt with them, but I think they this company is a husband and wife who make their own boards (which are only supported with Linux).
Also, check out their customer list! I'd like to know out what kind of work they did for companies like boeing, sun, nasa, google, lanl and mit.
1. alert the world that "ubiquitous thing X" is infringing on your IP 2. start sending out bills 3. use the court system to refrain from telling the public exactly how they are infringing.
Tell them straight up that the public wants to buy a key for the xbox, and they are willing to pay $100,000. Also tell them that they will probably sell that many more units.
The sad truth is that microsoft doesn't make any money selling units of xboxes, so even selling 100,000 more units as a result of giving linux a key wouldn't make them much money. After they clear their profit margins on production they are probably just breaking even. Price out the components on an xbox (accouting for their huge volume of purchasing). Still makes it hard to come up to $200 for a similar pc doesn't it? They know that their money is in games, licensing, and possibly derivitive technology.
Also, (maybe I am ignorant) what is to keep someone else from using the public opensource linux key to make a program that allows piracy of xbox games?
Maybe I'm a moron but they use a mySQL database and generally items stored as passwords go through some kind of encryption ( something like password("blahblah"); ). Also, it says that their database was compromised, which doesn't sound like someone could have replaced the/bin/login or anything like you are saying.
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Good point, but I would be very surprised if the trooper isn't "exempt from overtime" otherwise known as salaried.
Far be it from anyone on slashdot reading the instructions, but when you first log into the Beta a silly flash demo shows you the key features (including this one).
If this is just for one phone, go out and buy an external mobile phone antenna for about $25-50.
This is only going to work if your phone has an external antenna jack on the back (it is usually filled in with a rubber plug that you can pop out).
A member of my family spends a lot of time in a remote area and can only get 0-2 bars if he stands on the highest point of the property with his flip phone. After buying a $30 mag-mount antenna, plugging it into the external antenna port on his Cingular GSM phone and sticking it on the top of his truck/house he gets very good signal all the time. Sprint phones have good results with the antenna as well.
If this doesn't work (his problem was range, not obstacles), consider taking it up with your mobile company or look into passive repeaters. If those don't work, consider either dynamiting the ridge, developing a space ladder, or buying an active cell phone repeater.
Agree with parent.
I call this technique "early recipient rejection". As soon as the SMTP client sends "RCPT TO:" our postfix systems check a database list of valid recipients and drop the message immediately if it is not valid.
To set up early recipient rejection with postfix, read the docs about "check_recipient_access" and apply that directive to your "smtpd_recipient_restrictions" section in main.cf.
Check out the RUR-PLE Python Learning Environment - http://rur-ple.sourceforge.net/
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also, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Computer#Notab
Those who don't study history are doomed to repeat it.
This page mainly demonstrates how to take advantage of Yahoo's APIs with Python. I think that the engineers and managers at Yahoo must be paying attention to the competative edge in productivity that Python can offer. It really is an all purpose programming tool that works well in many niches.
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Remember the story about the cruise ship that averted would-be attackers with one of these? Just camp out in front of his house about 200 meters away and every time he pokes his head out blast him with it. You aren't vandelizing anything and he is getting a taste of his own medicine. There is a built in mp3 player; perhaps you could use this device to broadcast a message of peace at 150 dB (about twice as loud as a commercial jet) or maybe just a Mars Volta CD.
Despite the potential fun in blasting someone with this, I think you should first talk to the neighbor and try to understand what drove him to spend $800 on a teen deterrent. Be reasonable and try to imagine the situation if the roles were reversed.
If you summon the police again, show the data sheet on the mosquito device to the officer so that they understand that not everyone can hear it. If the officer can't hear it, surely he/she will get someone younger to come and check it out. The drawback is that the old man might turn the device off in the meantime.
There are plenty of PCI WAN boards with Linux API/drivers on the market. You can get 1-8 port T1, 1-4 port OC3, and 1-2 port ATM and DS-3 boards. Most of them support channelized links, so you can break your T1 into 12 channels for data and 12 digital voice lines.
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Here is a list of companies you can get them from:
http://www.sbei.com/ (distributor/products page http://www.ace-electronics.com/Hardware/T1E1J1/t1
http://www.imagestream.com/Industrial_Cards.html - they even have a 4 port OC3 PCI card
http://www.sangoma.com/main/products/wanpipe - solid Linux support and drivers
http://www.digium.com/ - has 1, 2 and 4 port T1 boards that work GREAT with linux
Of course installation and configuration of this kind of solution will not be as simple as a Cisco WIC in your 2600.
Also, cmd.exe has a command history menu you can pop up by hitting F10 after you have entered a few commands in the window. I don't know if you have to have turned on command completion with TweakUI for this to work or not.
I never use this feature because Cygwin gives me what I want on Windows.
This is completely silly. The fact that you would propose this idea for 100-200 workstations speaks volumes about your experience with these technologies. I think your employer should contract an IT firm to manage this aspect the office move.
I guess if you do go wireless you can save *some* money on servers because they sure won't have to work as hard if each client maxes out at about 1mb.
If you are outsourcing, the cable infastructure and termination for 200 stations should cost about $15-20K. Add $3,000-8,000 for 20 24 port switches (trendnet or netgear switches will be fine, 20 of them so that you have some spares), and another couple grand for patch panels and racks and a UPS.
Save yourself and your users from headaches and slowness... just put in the CAT5! If your employers want to have computers and networking be a part of their business, they will invest appropriately to prevent future reinvestment and downtime. Then again, maybe you don't have that much to do at your job and you need to justify your existance.
If you are willing to sacrifice on cable management, wall jacks and centralized placement of switches, this network could be rolled out for under $8K in a DIY manner. Forget all the runs back to the main rack and just put 24 port switches out in the bull pen and uplink each workgroup switch with gigE to a main switch.
From the section on Home brewed email archiving:
For his part, Scott took two weeks to write a small C program that would FTP the Domino and Sametime mail logs to the Linux server while monitoring the size of the captured log files on a cumulative basis. When that starts amounting to what can be easily fit onto a DVD, the program kicks off a DVD burn job on the Linux box. If the burn is successful, the program removes the local copies of the logs from the Linux box, as well as the working copies on the production Domino and Sametime machines, to conserve much-needed disk space. Finally, it sends an e-mail notification to the systems administrator reporting on the status of the burn, whether the job needs to be redone or it's safe to drop a new blank disc into the drive.
This seems like something that would take about 1-4 hours to automate in most scripting languages. Also, using C would have beared no performance increase as the most time consuming operations (FTP files, burn DVD-R) are out of your control. I would have chosen BASH, Perl, or Python for this task.
And if one is running Mandriva? Suse? .... .. then you learn about how to install the dependent software and build packages for your distro. If you are into Participating in your Culture, you will redistribute the package, or maybe even join the project and make a new package for each stable release. Sorry they don't have silver platters for everyone, I think it is pretty smooth that they have been able to develop this 'platform' for Linux, Windows and Mac at the same time.
I also think that they are being realistic by focusing on Windows and Mac computers because they are more commonly used by content producers and consumers.
Do or do not, there is no try.
This article is only on slashdot because OSTG needed some more hits to round out this month's advertisment billing run (which is probably starting next week). I think this is proved by the inclusion of the word "sysadmin" in the title despite the obvious desktop nature of the content. Do you think for one second that this article would have been front page on slashdot if not for OSTG affiliation?
I play Frozen Bubble with my GF. She beats me horribly on one game type and I win on the other. After about 30 mins we get tired of it and do something else.
We have probably 25 users with 2GB+ folders and one with 13GB (she has worked here for 13 or so years). If you ask me, you can't limit online mail folder storage unless you implement a damn good document management system. Outlook/Exchange serves many purposes: document archival, covering your ass ("look! I DID send them that contract update" OR "see I told you so 5 months ago"), and also knowledge base ("he told us how to do that sometime in June '04"). Also, if email is mission critical for your biz, server side mail folders (no matter how big) are MUCH easier to backup than archive files on PCs.
.jpg files (for some reason). Password protected zip files reign for data falling under the HIPAA laws.
The attitude around here seems to be that the infastructure must flex to the needs of the users. Over empowered IT managers and cheapskate bosses tend to be the reason for limiting email down to 250 or 100mb. Take a hint from gmail: you should never delete anything (esp. related to business).
We have 5 Exchange servers and Outlook 2003, max message size is 20mb, and you cannot send
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Whoaaah its their first product!!
We bought a Mackie SDR instead of the Alesis HD24. The SDR was a bit cheaper and did what we wanted but it sure was annoying when it came time to dump 20GB of data from the unit... the only computer-friendly format (aside from lightpipe) was USB 1.0.
It is my understanding that almost every cell tower has a GPS receiver. You can see the little hat-like antenna on the top of the equipment building at the bottom of the towers. They use the GPS to provide accurate time to the phones in the cells.
Linux Media Labs designs, makes, and markets multi channel unencoded and single channel hardware MPEG4 encoding boards. They offer a "clustered" video recording system with thousands of channels and advertise consulting services.
I have never dealt with them, but I think they this company is a husband and wife who make their own boards (which are only supported with Linux).
Also, check out their customer list! I'd like to know out what kind of work they did for companies like boeing, sun, nasa, google, lanl and mit.
This sounds like a SCO/Darl McBride strategy:
1. alert the world that "ubiquitous thing X" is infringing on your IP
2. start sending out bills
3. use the court system to refrain from telling the public exactly how they are infringing.
/me laughing and crying at the same time.
Tell them straight up that the public wants to buy a key for the xbox, and they are willing to pay $100,000. Also tell them that they will probably sell that many more units.
The sad truth is that microsoft doesn't make any money selling units of xboxes, so even selling 100,000 more units as a result of giving linux a key wouldn't make them much money. After they clear their profit margins on production they are probably just breaking even. Price out the components on an xbox (accouting for their huge volume of purchasing). Still makes it hard to come up to $200 for a similar pc doesn't it? They know that their money is in games, licensing, and possibly derivitive technology.
Also, (maybe I am ignorant) what is to keep someone else from using the public opensource linux key to make a program that allows piracy of xbox games?
hahahah and he even quotes vonnegut!! THE PERFECT BOSS!!
Maybe I'm a moron but they use a mySQL database and generally items stored as passwords go through some kind of encryption ( something like password("blahblah"); ). Also, it says that their database was compromised, which doesn't sound like someone could have replaced the /bin/login or anything like you are saying.