I just put a FreeNAS together with the Artigo A2000 barebones PC. It ended up being a little more than $400 using 2X 1.5TB drives (mirrored), but fairly simple to get going, small and quiet. With a GigE switch and old WRT54gs in use as an access point, it pulls 35W at idle and about 50W or so under load. It runs the Via C7-D at 1.5GHz, and has an internal CF slot that you can load an OS on easily. File transfers are nothing to write home about, but acceptable (and much better than the Linksys NAS200 I should have checked reviews on before buying!). The only problem I've had is that the power connector looses contact easily if you move the box around.
If you already have drives, I think it would be a good way to go.
Know your history. The Apple ][ had a huge amount of software available when the IBM PC was introduced. Anyone remember how many titles were available for the 5150 when it launched?
We run 40Gbps rings in a metro area network. That's one wavelength. There's also a 10Gbps wavelength and several 1Gbps rings as well. We still have 62 wavelengths (theoretically, although maybe not supported by our equipment) available.
AM fiber is capable of sending all RF spectrum from 50MHz to 870MHz over one fiber. Next generation transmitters and receivers will run up to 1GHz or more.
Let me ask: what are the milestones that will matter 10, 30 years from now?
Everyone switching to IPv6 and elimination of IPv4.
Adoption of a true IP infrastructure across the board... no more IP over (insert your favorite old tech, like ATM or GSM), and all the extra overhead it causes.
Useful video search
True global mobile coverage, either by satellite or well placed towers.
Basic research has gone the way of the Dodo, just like the dividend and investors happy with stable growth.
Allow people to easily bypass mutual funds in their 401(k) plans and we'll see a return to stable companies with long term growth prospects. It may help get a CEO who thinks down the road more than 5 years too.
I would make the arguement that homeplug intereference is a bad thing, not becuse of EMCOM, but because people should be able to enjoy a hobby without intereference from their neighbor.
Sinistar and Robotron were 2 of my favorite games. Everyone else was standing in line waiting to play Pac Man or whatever, I wanted to play games and they were open.
Playing Robotron was an extensional experience. Sinistar tended to induce a seizure.
"The researchers also discussed possible threats to human jobs, like self-driving cars, software-based personal assistants and service robots in the home."
Because only rich folks should have servants. The rest of us should continue to clean our own toilets and deal with rush hour traffic like good little surfs.
I picked up enough to figure out that the joystick ports were bi-directional, and built a robotic light sensing/tracker (using cadmium sulfide cells connected to the paddle inputs, which were A/D converters). I still remember walking around the family room with a candle and watching my path traced out on the TV.
I remember the Sega Channel. I got to test it out on our cable system prior to launch....I spent way too much time playing Earthworm Jim, but at least I was on the clock!
Great idea, but they screwed up by not making a version for the SEGA Saturn (or whatever the next generation was), which was already in the pipeline and may have even been released that year. That's fairly typical of the time though, since everything was completely proprietary.
I used to be a supervisor for the cable company in the town where corporate HQ of a cable equipment manufacturer was located, which was also a college town with a strong engineering department. When we added cable modem service, I often got calls escalated to me from engineers and IT professors who took the liberty of troubleshooting their technical problems for me and demanded that I did whatever they recommended the fix was before I sent a tech out to their house. They would schedule a service call just to prove that there couldn't possibly be a problem on their end, and I'd usually go with the tech as a courtesy, and just in case there really wasn't something strange going on. After about the 10th time of watching my techs fix their computer, or replace the Radio Shack junk they installed, I decided I didn't need an engineering degree after all.
Today I gave up the supervisor career path and I'm just a tech. Making more money than most college grads I know, with no student loans to pay off. And when the day is done, it is done, unless I'm on call (which I get paid for as well). Salary is for suckers!
Many Russian/Soviet era military radios were tube type with regenerative receivers. They were supposedly designed so they would continue to work after an EMP. The reality was that they didn't have access to transistor patents, and tube factories provided jobs. The radios worked very well until the tubes went bad. As long as you looked at tubes as a disposable item, like a battery, you could say that they were made much better than the US equivalent. However, in reality, the silicon based radios were far superior in both function and reliability, and EMP hardened systems were developed, nullifying the tube's main advantage. My dad, a radio collector, has a Zenith Royal 500-D that has never had anything done other than replace batteries that still works as it did in 1955. There are almost no tube radios of that era that have maintained the stability of even those early transistor sets.
That's why you don't put edge QAMs out in the hub all alone. You run a SONET style backbone from the headend and put your CMTS in the primary hub, use MUX'd AM fiber to the secondary and demux to the nodes.
200 meters won't even get across the primary hub in some of the places I work.
How many people actually read Doonesbury when the Newton was introduced? I don't think I've ever bothered to read an entire strip, and it's not like people stand around the "water cooler" talking about it (like, say Dilbert or Peanuts in their heyday). Yet every story I've ever read about the demise of the Newton references the Doonesbury strip series. If they're going to point out a cartoon, maybe they should reference the Simpsons "eat up Martha" reference. At least people other than tech writers would know what they are talking about.
Comcast will have DOCSIS 3 nationwide by the end of the summer. Qwest is running fiber to the home in select areas. AT&T is still rolling out uVerse service. Verizon FiOS is still moving along. Clearwire, while not in the same league as the wired services, is building out. I agree the pricing is harsh, but faster Internet will be here soon.
The way the NYT article read, we'll never see any improvement over what we have now, and 6 months is an eternity. Meanwhile I click the "preview" button and wait 5-6 seconds for the page to build. What's up with that?
The "mastermind" sells the cards to the "soldiers" with explicit instructions on when to use them. Given the large amounts taken, the mastermind might have been able to charge several thousand dollars each.
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Why is it every time I see a cop they're on the cell phone?
The best thing I did to improve my driving cellphone-wise was set my Blackberry to no alert on email when holstered.
They call the black box sitting on their floor/desktop the "CPU," for goodness sakes.
I usually hear it referred to as the "hard drive."
Sounds like it could be the next big recreational drug.
One man's toxin is another man's lost weekend.
I just put a FreeNAS together with the Artigo A2000 barebones PC. It ended up being a little more than $400 using 2X 1.5TB drives (mirrored), but fairly simple to get going, small and quiet. With a GigE switch and old WRT54gs in use as an access point, it pulls 35W at idle and about 50W or so under load. It runs the Via C7-D at 1.5GHz, and has an internal CF slot that you can load an OS on easily. File transfers are nothing to write home about, but acceptable (and much better than the Linksys NAS200 I should have checked reviews on before buying!). The only problem I've had is that the power connector looses contact easily if you move the box around.
If you already have drives, I think it would be a good way to go.
Know your history. The Apple ][ had a huge amount of software available when the IBM PC was introduced. Anyone remember how many titles were available for the 5150 when it launched?
We run 40Gbps rings in a metro area network. That's one wavelength. There's also a 10Gbps wavelength and several 1Gbps rings as well. We still have 62 wavelengths (theoretically, although maybe not supported by our equipment) available.
http://www.fujitsu.com/us/news/pr/fnc_20090608.html
AM fiber is capable of sending all RF spectrum from 50MHz to 870MHz over one fiber. Next generation transmitters and receivers will run up to 1GHz or more.
From TFA: "Wiretapping was the perfect tool for investigating crimes such as these that lack victims who complain and give evidence to the police"
Yet another reason to rethink our war on drugs policy.
(and no, I don't want pot to be legal so I can use it, I just want them to stop wasting so much money on a faulty premise, as seen in prohibition)
Let me ask: what are the milestones that will matter 10, 30 years from now?
Basic research has gone the way of the Dodo, just like the dividend and investors happy with stable growth.
Allow people to easily bypass mutual funds in their 401(k) plans and we'll see a return to stable companies with long term growth prospects. It may help get a CEO who thinks down the road more than 5 years too.
I would make the arguement that homeplug intereference is a bad thing, not becuse of EMCOM, but because people should be able to enjoy a hobby without intereference from their neighbor.
Sinistar and Robotron were 2 of my favorite games. Everyone else was standing in line waiting to play Pac Man or whatever, I wanted to play games and they were open.
Playing Robotron was an extensional experience. Sinistar tended to induce a seizure.
"The researchers also discussed possible threats to human jobs, like self-driving cars, software-based personal assistants and service robots in the home."
Because only rich folks should have servants. The rest of us should continue to clean our own toilets and deal with rush hour traffic like good little surfs.
I picked up enough to figure out that the joystick ports were bi-directional, and built a robotic light sensing/tracker (using cadmium sulfide cells connected to the paddle inputs, which were A/D converters). I still remember walking around the family room with a candle and watching my path traced out on the TV.
I remember the Sega Channel. I got to test it out on our cable system prior to launch. ...I spent way too much time playing Earthworm Jim, but at least I was on the clock!
Great idea, but they screwed up by not making a version for the SEGA Saturn (or whatever the next generation was), which was already in the pipeline and may have even been released that year. That's fairly typical of the time though, since everything was completely proprietary.
While it may thought of like a breach of contract, I don't think your use of "illegal" is correct in this case.
I used to be a supervisor for the cable company in the town where corporate HQ of a cable equipment manufacturer was located, which was also a college town with a strong engineering department. When we added cable modem service, I often got calls escalated to me from engineers and IT professors who took the liberty of troubleshooting their technical problems for me and demanded that I did whatever they recommended the fix was before I sent a tech out to their house. They would schedule a service call just to prove that there couldn't possibly be a problem on their end, and I'd usually go with the tech as a courtesy, and just in case there really wasn't something strange going on. After about the 10th time of watching my techs fix their computer, or replace the Radio Shack junk they installed, I decided I didn't need an engineering degree after all.
Today I gave up the supervisor career path and I'm just a tech. Making more money than most college grads I know, with no student loans to pay off. And when the day is done, it is done, unless I'm on call (which I get paid for as well). Salary is for suckers!
Many Russian/Soviet era military radios were tube type with regenerative receivers. They were supposedly designed so they would continue to work after an EMP. The reality was that they didn't have access to transistor patents, and tube factories provided jobs. The radios worked very well until the tubes went bad. As long as you looked at tubes as a disposable item, like a battery, you could say that they were made much better than the US equivalent. However, in reality, the silicon based radios were far superior in both function and reliability, and EMP hardened systems were developed, nullifying the tube's main advantage. My dad, a radio collector, has a Zenith Royal 500-D that has never had anything done other than replace batteries that still works as it did in 1955. There are almost no tube radios of that era that have maintained the stability of even those early transistor sets.
Ops! Take the /CD off the end.
There was also the alohanet in Hawaii, which introduced the concept of a shared channel and CSMA/CD:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ALOHAnet
The article deals with one aspect of packet switching, and it seems more like they were thinking about SONET-like systems.
That's why you don't put edge QAMs out in the hub all alone. You run a SONET style backbone from the headend and put your CMTS in the primary hub, use MUX'd AM fiber to the secondary and demux to the nodes.
200 meters won't even get across the primary hub in some of the places I work.
How many people actually read Doonesbury when the Newton was introduced? I don't think I've ever bothered to read an entire strip, and it's not like people stand around the "water cooler" talking about it (like, say Dilbert or Peanuts in their heyday). Yet every story I've ever read about the demise of the Newton references the Doonesbury strip series. If they're going to point out a cartoon, maybe they should reference the Simpsons "eat up Martha" reference. At least people other than tech writers would know what they are talking about.
Comcast will have DOCSIS 3 nationwide by the end of the summer. Qwest is running fiber to the home in select areas. AT&T is still rolling out uVerse service. Verizon FiOS is still moving along. Clearwire, while not in the same league as the wired services, is building out. I agree the pricing is harsh, but faster Internet will be here soon.
The way the NYT article read, we'll never see any improvement over what we have now, and 6 months is an eternity. Meanwhile I click the "preview" button and wait 5-6 seconds for the page to build. What's up with that?
But because it used an ARM chip, lots of us use its descendants every day to make phone calls.
Let's hope he knows how to program the Pokey chip for 16 bit sound, otherwise it will play out of tune:
http://www.atarimagazines.com/compute/issue34/112_1_16-BIT_ATARI_MUSIC.php
The "mastermind" sells the cards to the "soldiers" with explicit instructions on when to use them. Given the large amounts taken, the mastermind might have been able to charge several thousand dollars each.