This IS spam in my opinion. My favorite one is some friends that e-mail me the same thing over and over. Basically it goes like this...they see it, they send it, they forget about it then they send it again and repeat. Honestly...how many times do I have ot see sea life form the seal of the United States?
What makes you think that it really does not matter WHAT frequency is picked....our military could jam it? I know it sounds bad, but at least our government is working to find a joint solution rather then just doing what they could do in the first place....jam it without asking anyway. Jamming a RF signal isn't a particularly hard thing to do either if they really want to do it they can. Trust me.
I don't care if Firefly was innovative. It was boring. I watched two weeks in a row and was so bored, I fell asleep. Why? The story sucked. Tell me a story. Keep me engaged. I will watch it. Drone on and on and do silly things like have cowboys in space WITH OUT REASON and I will turn away.
I agree that ADD is misdiagnosed alot. My son was diagnosed and I have always disagreed. My wife had him put on drugs and it became WORSE! Took him off and he was better. Not cured, but better then he was on the drugs. My wife finally agreed with me. All we had to do to get him to pay attention was remove the thing he was obessing on.....close the blinds, lock the door with a lock high off the ground so he could not reach it....all of a sudden when we told him he needed to stay inside, he did.
On the other hand, with the cube thing, not everyone can work in a cube. Also, management and HR needs to learn how to handle the nuts who can't stand smelling a little gas cuz you ate a burrito for lunch. My dad taught me to suck up and work even if I did not like the person I was working for/with. You are there to work. Not to talk or smell your neighbor. I don't mean you can't have a little fun while working, but when things bother you when you are working, you need to let it slide and do the work.
Amen! I thought I would just burst when I got my cube. I shared a desk in the Computer Room (used to be in Operations) for 8 and a half years and while I did set things up a bit (I had 1 Drawer), I could not really hang a pic of my son on my desk or anything else. When I got my cube it was festooned with pics of my son on day one. I also took a picture that was hanging in our old computer room and put it in my cube as kind of a reminder of where I came from. That cube is MINE. It may be a cube...it may only have 2-3 walls, but it's mine. The only thing I want more is to work from home.
There may not be anything WRONG with the microwave. This is BS. First off, actually at power leakage is probable not occuring. It's REALLY hard to keep RF from getting out. First, you HAVE to have a door to put food in and take it out. You also have to have a window (because you need to see if your food is about to turn into flames). Most leakage could come from those two areas. If I can get a signal out of a public bus at 2m, I bet that even a nicely shielded microwave could have SOME leakage that could interfere with WiFi. Both of my microwaves are less then 3 years old. Only the one that is closest to the AP (about 10ft away) causes any issues with connectivity. Also, keep iin mind, most microwaves are pushing around a kilowatt or higher PEP output (if that's how they measure it). Most WiFi AP's are 1 watt or less. Two things I may try to increase my AP's profile:
Add a Linksys Stackable Amp (called a Signal Booster, but it's just an Amp) for 99 bucks.
Get rid of the rubber ducky antennas and either build my own halfwave antenna, or by a Diamond. Not known to many WiFi guys (except the serious ones), rubber ducks that ship with pretty much any radio equipment are usually compromise antennas. The typical SWR is closer to 2 then it is to 1 and it may be higher. The lower the SWR, the more power you are radiating. Rubber ducks are included because they do work, but they are probably not the best antenna you can get. Go spend some money and buy a Diamond antenna or find a homebrew design you can make that satisfies your requirements. After designing it, make sure to use a length of low loss coax and mount it near the ceiling.
Those two things would raise the profile or your AP and maybe not eliminate, bur probably reduce the amount of interference you get since your AP is now radiating more RF. I don't reccomend building your own amp. Stick to off the shelf as you'll be sure to be within the FCC power regs. If these regs state ERP, then be careful of your antenna also. To much gain may push you over that reg and while the FCC probably won't come to your house, it's being a good spectrum user to follow those guidelines.
Don't add a directional antenna unless your trying to establish a link say from building to building, or if you have an AP with Omnis and are setting up another AP to increase your footprint in a certain direction. Omni's would work better for most situations unless your trying to establish that link or establish a lobe in a certain direction. If the general idea is to provide better overall coverage, directional antennas like a yagi are not what you want. Go with a good omni.
Microwaves DO interfere with WiFi. Case in point, when my wife is cooking here egg rolls in the microwave, my WiFi signal drops to zero. The microwave finishes and poof...11mb connections. If I can connect, I either get really really really SLOW connections, or I have to be ontop of the AP....literally! 2.4 GHz is what many call the garbage band...you got cordless phones, cellphones are close to it, microwaves, WiFi (both a and g), video units, intercoms, and just about anything you can think of all fighting for spectrum. 5GHz is going to be no better. I am waiting to see if the either start cleaning up 2.4 GHz which would be REALLY hard, or ramp up or down the frequency. I thing the 1.2 GHz ham band would be a good candidate for refarming. From Ham use, it's not even close to being useful for public service and even if there are radios, there's usually noone there even during rush hour. The range would be a bit better then 2.4Ghz and they could totally reserve it for WLANS of all types. As a ham, I am not usually in favor of killing a band (more in favor of addding ham bands), but almost no friends of mine work 1.2GHz and I am sure all of them would like a better WLAN connection!;)
More like be prepared to be booted as the microwave will cut off 802.11b. I did not have a problem with this until I bought my current microwave (it's a bit closer to the AP then the old one was). When ever the microwave is on, the signal drops to zilch and I disconnect. Makes me wonder how safe these things are!:)
Firefly sucked compared to what it replaced. Dark Angel was better. WAY better then Firefly. My wife even watched it and she's not the scifi freak I am. Oh how I miss seeing max kick some booty and look hot at the same time (Jessica Alba).
The thing we all forget is that spammers are human. If a single address is being blocked, then they change the addresss. If they are spoofing, there's a chance you can incorrectly block a whole domain because of one idiot who setup an open relay. Case in point, at work, all e-mail on the.biz top-level domain is blocked because of the amount of spam taht is recieved from it. What if someone we'd like to do bisness with is on that domain? Alot of the typical comapnies you do musiness with have the.com tied up but if your starting a new business, sometimes the only one available might be the.biz. I personally have given up and try to filter as much as I can knowing that even that won't help.
Bluetooth IS NOT A WIRELESS TCP/IP Alternative! It's a CABLE replacement technology. That is all. Besides other issues with Bluetooth, I am convinced that companies aren't using it because tehy still want to charge you 50 bucks for about 10 bucks worth of cable. They also still want to use non-standard connectors to you have to buy from them and noone else. BT is just starting to take off now. How many times did someone try to kill USB with Firwire? BT complements WiFi. When WiFi is available, you use it. When there isn't WiFi, you use your BT enabled phone.
Fox News the only one with an agenda?? Well at least we know where they stand. What I DO see Fox news doing is perpetuating what is already popular among the people (Ailes memo thing an exception). The war in Iraq, like it or not, was supoported by a majority of US citizens. During the war push, if you actually watch more then 5 minutes of it, Fox News did not JUST put up RAH RAH info. Granted, lots of it was rah rah, but there were also reports of problems along the way. Basically, I as a American tuned to both, but I did watch a lot of Fox's coverage. CNN's coverage, in my opinion, had a negative slant alot of the time. If I got too depressed, I tuned over to Fox news and got a little good news, then when it seems too boastful, back to CNN or MSNBC. Personally, at least Fox News doesn't sugar coat things too much (beyond the fair and balanced thing) in where they stand. With some CNN reports, I question whether they actually love their country. A unbiased media will never exist because there's no way to cover the biases up. At least Fox is honest in this regard!
Also, I am sick of the Laci Petersen and other non news as well. Everytime I see something about the Laci Petersen thing or other non news I think so what? What makes the case important enough to put on a nation news outlet?
Yep. The government tried to phase out AM some time ago, but it's still in use in almost every city. Also, this may surprise some people, but Black and White TV's are STILL being made. You can typically get one of those for like 10-30 bucks depedning on where ya go. The FCC is right in this decision...if they let the broadcasters and the manufacturers make the decision, costs will be ridiculous and we'd NEVER get to HDTV. Anyone remember when they first talked about it? My grandpa was excited about this in 1985! 20 years ago was when all of this crap started! I'd say, bout frickin time!
Um...if you pay attention during install, it ALLOWS you to select whether Real One does this or not.
I DO disagree with EVERY frickin app wanting to park itself in the tray. Although on every XP machine I am on I do seem to need enough of these tray programs running that I use the hide feature. Tray Icons for things like mail checkers, IM programs and weather programs are awefully useful, but why does Quicktime and RealOne need this?? It seems they say it makes it faster....by what? 2 Milliseconds??? I can't detect it...those get turned off right away.
This coolweb hack resets your homepage everytime you restart thanks to a trojan that is loaded via a browser hole. It did not happen to a personal machine but to a shared machine that I login to occasionally. It is a PAIN to remove.
Correct me if I am wrong but the data is still there right? Also, wasn't the purpose of robots.txt(that honor it) to stop crawlers from incessantly crawlign the page sapping your bandwidth? I just don't feel that this is a big issue. If they made it not searchable from the main whitehouse page, thats when I would have issues. They are just trying to save themselves bandwidth. Pages like these Iraq pages are peobably updated often. They'd be getting crawled constantly.
FTP does not always work...especially when the vendor e-mailing you the executable is mailing you something that is nto for the general public....it's only for folks having the issue. There are GOOD reasons for keeping things like this out of the hands of the clueless user reading the web page and good reasons for mailing executables. The virus proliferation by clueless users is why mailing executables got a bad name.
No not naive. Never said that I or someone else may not have security issues. My comment was not that AIX is any more secure then any other OS, just that it does not tend to have the security issues that crop up like with Windows. Only recently with in the last month or so did IBM release a Security patch. It had been quite a while since the last one. The last round of Security patches were also only local exploits. Also, that would only cover items that were shipped with the BOS(Base Operating System). If you added say a custom build of BIND or SSH (included on the bonus pack, but also attainable from BULL), it's YOUR responsibility and not IBM's to make sure your custom stuff is patched. Never said AIX was totally secure....as we know, any OS can have security issues and it's near impossible to make something totally secure.....it's just I have a bit more faith in IBM and AIX then I would Microsoft and Windows. Guess I should have expounded on that part, but I thought you'd get it. Guess not.
Depends on the patch....security patches get applied, ASAP. If it's a patch fixing something that is not used much or that we don't have an issue with, it gets applied when the next Maintenence Level (IBM speak for Service Pack) comes out. Luckily, AIX does not have very many security issues. That covers the OS. Our application we are way behind in patches and we only can pacth after hours. Since we're in the middle of conversions, there are processes constantly running on the server and we also cannot patch when we have reps from the vendor in working on the conversion because the expect thigns to be the same while they are there and patches can really mess them up. So, needless to say, we are WAY behind on app patches but we are reasonably caught up with OS level patches.
Besides the holes they have had (which are patched), my one beef about Outlook is that you cannot, so to speak, unpatch the patch. I had someone wanting to send me a EXE file and bloody Outlook has NO WAY that I can find to temporarily disable the blocking of EXE attachments. Probably the easiest way around it is to have the sender resend to a Hotmail account, or send you the exe in a zipped format. I realize why they block exe's (mostly to protect stupid users from themselves), but why can't I disable it for like 10 minutes or so and have it re-enable itself or something. This is a royal pain in the butt when your trying to get something done.
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This IS spam in my opinion. My favorite one is some friends that e-mail me the same thing over and over. Basically it goes like this...they see it, they send it, they forget about it then they send it again and repeat. Honestly...how many times do I have ot see sea life form the seal of the United States?
What makes you think that it really does not matter WHAT frequency is picked....our military could jam it? I know it sounds bad, but at least our government is working to find a joint solution rather then just doing what they could do in the first place....jam it without asking anyway. Jamming a RF signal isn't a particularly hard thing to do either if they really want to do it they can. Trust me.
I don't care if Firefly was innovative. It was boring. I watched two weeks in a row and was so bored, I fell asleep. Why? The story sucked. Tell me a story. Keep me engaged. I will watch it. Drone on and on and do silly things like have cowboys in space WITH OUT REASON and I will turn away.
Oh as if we really have met an alien yet....sheesh! Reality in scifi. A new concept!
I agree that ADD is misdiagnosed alot. My son was diagnosed and I have always disagreed. My wife had him put on drugs and it became WORSE! Took him off and he was better. Not cured, but better then he was on the drugs. My wife finally agreed with me. All we had to do to get him to pay attention was remove the thing he was obessing on.....close the blinds, lock the door with a lock high off the ground so he could not reach it....all of a sudden when we told him he needed to stay inside, he did.
On the other hand, with the cube thing, not everyone can work in a cube. Also, management and HR needs to learn how to handle the nuts who can't stand smelling a little gas cuz you ate a burrito for lunch. My dad taught me to suck up and work even if I did not like the person I was working for/with. You are there to work. Not to talk or smell your neighbor. I don't mean you can't have a little fun while working, but when things bother you when you are working, you need to let it slide and do the work.
Amen! I thought I would just burst when I got my cube. I shared a desk in the Computer Room (used to be in Operations) for 8 and a half years and while I did set things up a bit (I had 1 Drawer), I could not really hang a pic of my son on my desk or anything else. When I got my cube it was festooned with pics of my son on day one. I also took a picture that was hanging in our old computer room and put it in my cube as kind of a reminder of where I came from. That cube is MINE. It may be a cube...it may only have 2-3 walls, but it's mine. The only thing I want more is to work from home.
Define some. Much above 100 mW amd WiFi is toast.
There may not be anything WRONG with the microwave. This is BS. First off, actually at power leakage is probable not occuring. It's REALLY hard to keep RF from getting out. First, you HAVE to have a door to put food in and take it out. You also have to have a window (because you need to see if your food is about to turn into flames). Most leakage could come from those two areas. If I can get a signal out of a public bus at 2m, I bet that even a nicely shielded microwave could have SOME leakage that could interfere with WiFi. Both of my microwaves are less then 3 years old. Only the one that is closest to the AP (about 10ft away) causes any issues with connectivity. Also, keep iin mind, most microwaves are pushing around a kilowatt or higher PEP output (if that's how they measure it). Most WiFi AP's are 1 watt or less. Two things I may try to increase my AP's profile:
Add a Linksys Stackable Amp (called a Signal Booster, but it's just an Amp) for 99 bucks.
Get rid of the rubber ducky antennas and either build my own halfwave antenna, or by a Diamond. Not known to many WiFi guys (except the serious ones), rubber ducks that ship with pretty much any radio equipment are usually compromise antennas. The typical SWR is closer to 2 then it is to 1 and it may be higher. The lower the SWR, the more power you are radiating. Rubber ducks are included because they do work, but they are probably not the best antenna you can get. Go spend some money and buy a Diamond antenna or find a homebrew design you can make that satisfies your requirements. After designing it, make sure to use a length of low loss coax and mount it near the ceiling.
Those two things would raise the profile or your AP and maybe not eliminate, bur probably reduce the amount of interference you get since your AP is now radiating more RF. I don't reccomend building your own amp. Stick to off the shelf as you'll be sure to be within the FCC power regs. If these regs state ERP, then be careful of your antenna also. To much gain may push you over that reg and while the FCC probably won't come to your house, it's being a good spectrum user to follow those guidelines.
Don't add a directional antenna unless your trying to establish a link say from building to building, or if you have an AP with Omnis and are setting up another AP to increase your footprint in a certain direction. Omni's would work better for most situations unless your trying to establish that link or establish a lobe in a certain direction. If the general idea is to provide better overall coverage, directional antennas like a yagi are not what you want. Go with a good omni.
Microwaves DO interfere with WiFi. Case in point, when my wife is cooking here egg rolls in the microwave, my WiFi signal drops to zero. The microwave finishes and poof...11mb connections. If I can connect, I either get really really really SLOW connections, or I have to be ontop of the AP....literally! 2.4 GHz is what many call the garbage band...you got cordless phones, cellphones are close to it, microwaves, WiFi (both a and g), video units, intercoms, and just about anything you can think of all fighting for spectrum. 5GHz is going to be no better. I am waiting to see if the either start cleaning up 2.4 GHz which would be REALLY hard, or ramp up or down the frequency. I thing the 1.2 GHz ham band would be a good candidate for refarming. From Ham use, it's not even close to being useful for public service and even if there are radios, there's usually noone there even during rush hour. The range would be a bit better then 2.4Ghz and they could totally reserve it for WLANS of all types. As a ham, I am not usually in favor of killing a band (more in favor of addding ham bands), but almost no friends of mine work 1.2GHz and I am sure all of them would like a better WLAN connection! ;)
More like be prepared to be booted as the microwave will cut off 802.11b. I did not have a problem with this until I bought my current microwave (it's a bit closer to the AP then the old one was). When ever the microwave is on, the signal drops to zilch and I disconnect. Makes me wonder how safe these things are! :)
Firefly sucked compared to what it replaced. Dark Angel was better. WAY better then Firefly. My wife even watched it and she's not the scifi freak I am. Oh how I miss seeing max kick some booty and look hot at the same time (Jessica Alba).
Click on the link you moron. The link is a DIFFERENT review...same website.
The thing we all forget is that spammers are human. If a single address is being blocked, then they change the addresss. If they are spoofing, there's a chance you can incorrectly block a whole domain because of one idiot who setup an open relay. Case in point, at work, all e-mail on the .biz top-level domain is blocked because of the amount of spam taht is recieved from it. What if someone we'd like to do bisness with is on that domain? Alot of the typical comapnies you do musiness with have the .com tied up but if your starting a new business, sometimes the only one available might be the .biz. I personally have given up and try to filter as much as I can knowing that even that won't help.
Bluetooth IS NOT A WIRELESS TCP/IP Alternative! It's a CABLE replacement technology. That is all. Besides other issues with Bluetooth, I am convinced that companies aren't using it because tehy still want to charge you 50 bucks for about 10 bucks worth of cable. They also still want to use non-standard connectors to you have to buy from them and noone else. BT is just starting to take off now. How many times did someone try to kill USB with Firwire? BT complements WiFi. When WiFi is available, you use it. When there isn't WiFi, you use your BT enabled phone.
Fox News the only one with an agenda?? Well at least we know where they stand. What I DO see Fox news doing is perpetuating what is already popular among the people (Ailes memo thing an exception). The war in Iraq, like it or not, was supoported by a majority of US citizens. During the war push, if you actually watch more then 5 minutes of it, Fox News did not JUST put up RAH RAH info. Granted, lots of it was rah rah, but there were also reports of problems along the way. Basically, I as a American tuned to both, but I did watch a lot of Fox's coverage. CNN's coverage, in my opinion, had a negative slant alot of the time. If I got too depressed, I tuned over to Fox news and got a little good news, then when it seems too boastful, back to CNN or MSNBC. Personally, at least Fox News doesn't sugar coat things too much (beyond the fair and balanced thing) in where they stand. With some CNN reports, I question whether they actually love their country. A unbiased media will never exist because there's no way to cover the biases up. At least Fox is honest in this regard!
Also, I am sick of the Laci Petersen and other non news as well. Everytime I see something about the Laci Petersen thing or other non news I think so what? What makes the case important enough to put on a nation news outlet?
Got this in the mail this morning. The CME has hit. HF radio communications are in da gutta!
CME HAS HIT. Kp index threshold was
reached on 2003 Oct 29 0839 UTC.
Yep. The government tried to phase out AM some time ago, but it's still in use in almost every city. Also, this may surprise some people, but Black and White TV's are STILL being made. You can typically get one of those for like 10-30 bucks depedning on where ya go. The FCC is right in this decision...if they let the broadcasters and the manufacturers make the decision, costs will be ridiculous and we'd NEVER get to HDTV. Anyone remember when they first talked about it? My grandpa was excited about this in 1985! 20 years ago was when all of this crap started! I'd say, bout frickin time!
Um...if you pay attention during install, it ALLOWS you to select whether Real One does this or not.
I DO disagree with EVERY frickin app wanting to park itself in the tray. Although on every XP machine I am on I do seem to need enough of these tray programs running that I use the hide feature. Tray Icons for things like mail checkers, IM programs and weather programs are awefully useful, but why does Quicktime and RealOne need this?? It seems they say it makes it faster....by what? 2 Milliseconds??? I can't detect it...those get turned off right away.
NEVER had Real One replace my home page....ever.
This coolweb hack resets your homepage everytime you restart thanks to a trojan that is loaded via a browser hole. It did not happen to a personal machine but to a shared machine that I login to occasionally. It is a PAIN to remove.
Correct me if I am wrong but the data is still there right? Also, wasn't the purpose of robots.txt(that honor it) to stop crawlers from incessantly crawlign the page sapping your bandwidth? I just don't feel that this is a big issue. If they made it not searchable from the main whitehouse page, thats when I would have issues. They are just trying to save themselves bandwidth. Pages like these Iraq pages are peobably updated often. They'd be getting crawled constantly.
FTP does not always work...especially when the vendor e-mailing you the executable is mailing you something that is nto for the general public....it's only for folks having the issue. There are GOOD reasons for keeping things like this out of the hands of the clueless user reading the web page and good reasons for mailing executables. The virus proliferation by clueless users is why mailing executables got a bad name.
No not naive. Never said that I or someone else may not have security issues. My comment was not that AIX is any more secure then any other OS, just that it does not tend to have the security issues that crop up like with Windows. Only recently with in the last month or so did IBM release a Security patch. It had been quite a while since the last one. The last round of Security patches were also only local exploits. Also, that would only cover items that were shipped with the BOS(Base Operating System). If you added say a custom build of BIND or SSH (included on the bonus pack, but also attainable from BULL), it's YOUR responsibility and not IBM's to make sure your custom stuff is patched. Never said AIX was totally secure....as we know, any OS can have security issues and it's near impossible to make something totally secure.....it's just I have a bit more faith in IBM and AIX then I would Microsoft and Windows. Guess I should have expounded on that part, but I thought you'd get it. Guess not.
Depends on the patch....security patches get applied, ASAP. If it's a patch fixing something that is not used much or that we don't have an issue with, it gets applied when the next Maintenence Level (IBM speak for Service Pack) comes out. Luckily, AIX does not have very many security issues. That covers the OS. Our application we are way behind in patches and we only can pacth after hours. Since we're in the middle of conversions, there are processes constantly running on the server and we also cannot patch when we have reps from the vendor in working on the conversion because the expect thigns to be the same while they are there and patches can really mess them up. So, needless to say, we are WAY behind on app patches but we are reasonably caught up with OS level patches.
Besides the holes they have had (which are patched), my one beef about Outlook is that you cannot, so to speak, unpatch the patch. I had someone wanting to send me a EXE file and bloody Outlook has NO WAY that I can find to temporarily disable the blocking of EXE attachments. Probably the easiest way around it is to have the sender resend to a Hotmail account, or send you the exe in a zipped format. I realize why they block exe's (mostly to protect stupid users from themselves), but why can't I disable it for like 10 minutes or so and have it re-enable itself or something. This is a royal pain in the butt when your trying to get something done.