WOAH, I think the bigger indication here of a clueless user/admin population is that you are saying that you: a) were using a 486 in production a couple years ago b) still use one How much RAM does that monster have, 32MB? Maybe a high speed VESA Local Bus "Accelerated" video card?
Of course if your network is going down weekly that is another indication of problems that should not occur with a modern network/provider. Splurge on a $30/mo DSL backup if you are a remote site.
Citrix is an excellent way to provide access to windows applications BUT you have to size the servers appropriately. This IS windows we are talking about.
Don't forget the Radeon MAXX. This dude just mangled an already bad press release. And what's up with the 256Mbit memory bandwidth that's lie 4Mhz with a 64 bit bus. I think he meant "256 bit memory interface" which i bet is a marketing way of saying we got 2 GPU's wit h128 bit interfaces just like the 256MB if RAM is really 256 per GPU...
I hate maketing types, and wish Tom's was still as cool as it was in 1998...
when you buy a new 1000baseT ethernet card it can potentialy hit 1,000,000,000 bits per second. The storage and networking worlds use the true meanings of Kilo = thousand, Mega = million, Giga = billion, Tera = trillion, Peta = Quadrillion...
You don't see peaple bitching that they paid to travel a Kilometer in a taxi but they only went 1000 meters...
The problem is actually that WAY back in conputing history the term kilo was misappropriated because there was no verbal shorthand for 1024. Since then we have come up with the alternative terms of KiBi(KiloBinary) = 1024(2^10); MeBi = 1,048,576(2^20); GeBi = 1,073,741,824(2^30); TeBi = 1,099,511,627,776(2^40)...
I had to hotswap BIOS chips once. I actually had the power fail while I was reprograming the bios on one of my machines and I don't have a standalone programmer to fix it. CRAP! I did however have a different machine with an identical motherboard. So all I had to do was put in the working bios chip, boot to DOS, start the flash program, swap bios chips (without shorting any pins, and it was one of those little square mothers) tell it to program, and reboot. Sounds easy now but it took me like 4 hours to perform the swap without crashing the system.
From the announcement Forum, an exchange between Sveasoft and the FSF:
> Okay, so here is the Sveasoft business model, as I understand it: > > 1. Sveasoft produces GPL'ed code which runs on a GNU/Linux based > router. > > 2. Sveasoft distributes pre-releases of their software on a > subscription > basis and provides priority support to the subscribers. > > 3. The pre-releases are offered under the GPL and subscribers are > entitled > to distribute them publicly if desired. > > 4. If a subscriber *does* redistribute the pre-release code > publicly, > before it becomes a production release, they are considered to > have > "forked" the code and do not receive future pre-releases under > the > subscription program. > > 5. Once a pre-release works its way through the testing program > and > becomes a production release, it is made available under the > GPL for > public download, both "free-as-in-speech" and "free-as-in- > beer". > > James, please step in here if I've missed anything, or if I haven't > accurately characterized some piece of the above. > > I look forward to getting the FSF compliance lab's feedback on > Sveasoft's > business model. Thanks for your help!
> Hi Rob, > > I would just underscore that whenever we distribute binaries they are > *always* accompanied by the source code. > > Subscribers are free to do whatever they like with the pre-releases > with the proviso that if they distribute it publicly we are not > responsible for support and they need to develop the code further > themselves from that point forward.
I see no problems with this model. If the software is licensed under the GPL, and you distribute the source code with the binaries (as opposed to making an offer for source code), you are under no obligation to supply future releases to anyone.
Please be clear that the subscription is for the support and distribution and not for a license.
If you as a parent like the veggietales, 123 penguins, etc check out www.bigideafun.com. I just spent an entire weekend playing their flash games with a seven year old who loves them.
How about the Wright brothers. Wheels were not common until after WWI. The word joystick is most likely much newer however. I suspect it was a marjeting gimick by a video game console company(ATARI?)
Right now the AthlonXP has a FSB of 133DDR or an effective 266. Increasing this to 166DDR or 333 gives an additional 25% bandwidth. This means that the IS a point to putting DDR333 ram in an athlon MB and seeing a real performance advantage. I personaly would like to see them skip 333 altogether and go to 400. This would bring them up to one generation behind the P4 in terms of FSB bandwidth and would even out alot of the test scores that ppl are complaining about right now.
In case you have been asleep for the last year the FSB is the AthlonXP's largest bottleneck!
As for overclocking: Remember when the 266 FSB came out and ppl were complaining about the low overclock potential on the new boards? well that will happen again, but the second generation of boards will ROCK for overclocking. I have my money on boards that will handle a 400 FSB within 6 months of volume market penetration for the 333FSB.
Those are called Ex Post Facto laws. Every law written has an effective date, somtimes as soon as it's signed other times at the beginning or end of a month. Any lawyer who gets a case claiming his client volated a law before it's passed would LOVE it. Not only would winning be a matter of walking in and filing a single brief but the DA that brought the case would look like a major idiot. There might also be other thing like false arrest suits possible in the right circumstances.
But seriously who is the last person you knew who cut their own diamond (besides prefessional dimond cutters). Here we are talking about something that takes a fair amount of skill, motivation, resourcefulness, and sheer cruftitude; but is something that could be duplicated by any geek who felt he wanted to make this investment.
This looks like a cool product but would work IF and ONLY IF you only need a console. no mouse, no GUI, no XMMS:`( From the post I am guessing that he needs a mouse and a GUI (XMMS or Winamp optional).
One comprimise might be to use the small slender rodent adapter to capture your post and then use a VNC server for daily operation but that sound almost as kludgey as what he is using now.
Hopefully someone will come up with a smaller/cheaper process for IP KVM's and/or economies of scale will kick in and the price on these units will come down.
One final thought that could be very dangerous, what is the possibility of hacking the BIOS on the motherboard to dump the post out the serial or ethernet ports, heck if there is enough free code space you might even be able to configure through the serial. (note IANAEE and IANACS)
When I was reading recently through the GB over copper spec on cisco's website they said that there were 2 major things that allow 1000baseT to work.
One was the fact that they had a way to run full dupled over a SINGLE pair of wires (as was tested with the 100baseT2 which never made it to market)
The other was that they were using the 10B/8B signaling that FDDI uses to better handle error detection and othr features.
This means that in order to get 1Gb/sec you have to have 250Mb/sec throughput on each of the 4 pairs. Tn turn this means that due to the 10B/8B signaling you have to have a signaling rate of at least 312.5 Mhz.
I was under the impression that Cat5 handled 350 on 2 pairs (orange and green) and Cat5e handled 350 on all 4 pairs. If this is so how does having 250Mhz on all 4 pairs help GB over copper? unfortunately I don't have $226 to buy this stupid overpriced standard, can anyone else see what the distinct advantages of 6 over 5e acctually are?
Just thought of something, no action would be required to cause the windows boxes to explode except the simple action of installing WindowsME and booting them up..... so we can just sit back an watch them blow themselves up!
Naw, Y'all just have ta BBQ and drink beer during the Linux discussion. Then we can blow up some Windows boxes after for FARWERKS!:)
I can think of several picnic events too...
Archery into the MS EULA (It's thick enough) Play frisbe with old copies of windows98 Sing THE STAR SPANGLED BANNER on front of old red, white and BLUESCREEN's of death...
Get yourself a Handspring Visor Handheld($100), and and omniremote springboard ($59). You will have to make your own screens for some of your stuff but it is pretty universal.
I must agree. I went to sears last week and picked up a DishPro 301 complete system for $199. Dish network is currently having a promo for $9 a month which means that over 1 year i will save $263.88. in my vbook that's better than free. also the dishpro301 system I got came with double dual LNB's which means that I can later add another reciever (like the 6000 for my HDTV) at only the cost of the reciever. If I need more than that I can get a $99 multiswitch that will let me use 4 or a $199 multi that will lt me use 8. If you do get a dish all you need to supscribe for is the america's top 100 for $9 and the superstations for $4.95. I set the whole thing up in an afternoon, and that includes my first attempt which didn't have a LOS to the SAT's so I had to move the dish.
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WOAH, I think the bigger indication here of a clueless user/admin population is that you are saying that you:
a) were using a 486 in production a couple years ago
b) still use one
How much RAM does that monster have, 32MB? Maybe a high speed VESA Local Bus "Accelerated" video card?
Of course if your network is going down weekly that is another indication of problems that should not occur with a modern network/provider. Splurge on a $30/mo DSL backup if you are a remote site.
Citrix is an excellent way to provide access to windows applications BUT you have to size the servers appropriately. This IS windows we are talking about.
What happens if I don't want to waste 14 hours of computer time per DVD to re-encode them for easier portability while traveling?
Don't forget the Radeon MAXX. This dude just mangled an already bad press release. And what's up with the 256Mbit memory bandwidth that's lie 4Mhz with a 64 bit bus. I think he meant "256 bit memory interface" which i bet is a marketing way of saying we got 2 GPU's wit h128 bit interfaces just like the 256MB if RAM is really 256 per GPU...
I hate maketing types, and wish Tom's was still as cool as it was in 1998...
when you buy a new 1000baseT ethernet card it can potentialy hit 1,000,000,000 bits per second. The storage and networking worlds use the true meanings of Kilo = thousand, Mega = million, Giga = billion, Tera = trillion, Peta = Quadrillion ...
You don't see peaple bitching that they paid to travel a Kilometer in a taxi but they only went 1000 meters...
The problem is actually that WAY back in conputing history the term kilo was misappropriated because there was no verbal shorthand for 1024. Since then we have come up with the alternative terms of KiBi(KiloBinary) = 1024(2^10); MeBi = 1,048,576(2^20); GeBi = 1,073,741,824(2^30); TeBi = 1,099,511,627,776(2^40)...
Check out http://mathworld.wolfram.com/Byte.html
http://www.bipm.org/en/si/prefixes.html
http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/binary.html
for more info.
I must admit that they sound a bit funny though...
I had to hotswap BIOS chips once. I actually had the power fail while I was reprograming the bios on one of my machines and I don't have a standalone programmer to fix it. CRAP! I did however have a different machine with an identical motherboard. So all I had to do was put in the working bios chip, boot to DOS, start the flash program, swap bios chips (without shorting any pins, and it was one of those little square mothers) tell it to program, and reboot. Sounds easy now but it took me like 4 hours to perform the swap without crashing the system.
From the announcement Forum, an exchange between Sveasoft and the FSF:
> Okay, so here is the Sveasoft business model, as I understand it:
>
> 1. Sveasoft produces GPL'ed code which runs on a GNU/Linux based
> router.
>
> 2. Sveasoft distributes pre-releases of their software on a
> subscription
> basis and provides priority support to the subscribers.
>
> 3. The pre-releases are offered under the GPL and subscribers are
> entitled
> to distribute them publicly if desired.
>
> 4. If a subscriber *does* redistribute the pre-release code
> publicly,
> before it becomes a production release, they are considered to
> have
> "forked" the code and do not receive future pre-releases under
> the
> subscription program.
>
> 5. Once a pre-release works its way through the testing program
> and
> becomes a production release, it is made available under the
> GPL for
> public download, both "free-as-in-speech" and "free-as-in-
> beer".
>
> James, please step in here if I've missed anything, or if I haven't
> accurately characterized some piece of the above.
>
> I look forward to getting the FSF compliance lab's feedback on
> Sveasoft's
> business model. Thanks for your help!
> Hi Rob,
>
> I would just underscore that whenever we distribute binaries they are
> *always* accompanied by the source code.
>
> Subscribers are free to do whatever they like with the pre-releases
> with the proviso that if they distribute it publicly we are not
> responsible for support and they need to develop the code further
> themselves from that point forward.
I see no problems with this model. If the software is licensed under the
GPL, and you distribute the source code with the binaries (as opposed to
making an offer for source code), you are under no obligation to supply
future releases to anyone.
Please be clear that the subscription is for the support and
distribution and not for a license.
Peter Brown
GPL Compliance Manager
If you as a parent like the veggietales, 123 penguins, etc check out www.bigideafun.com. I just spent an entire weekend playing their flash games with a seven year old who loves them.
Because Texas is BIG. duh.
How about the Wright brothers. Wheels were not common until after WWI. The word joystick is most likely much newer however. I suspect it was a marjeting gimick by a video game console company(ATARI?)
Right now the AthlonXP has a FSB of 133DDR or an effective 266. Increasing this to 166DDR or 333 gives an additional 25% bandwidth. This means that the IS a point to putting DDR333 ram in an athlon MB and seeing a real performance advantage. I personaly would like to see them skip 333 altogether and go to 400. This would bring them up to one generation behind the P4 in terms of FSB bandwidth and would even out alot of the test scores that ppl are complaining about right now.
In case you have been asleep for the last year the FSB is the AthlonXP's largest bottleneck!
As for overclocking: Remember when the 266 FSB came out and ppl were complaining about the low overclock potential on the new boards? well that will happen again, but the second generation of boards will ROCK for overclocking. I have my money on boards that will handle a 400 FSB within 6 months of volume market penetration for the 333FSB.
Those are called Ex Post Facto laws. Every law written has an effective date, somtimes as soon as it's signed other times at the beginning or end of a month. Any lawyer who gets a case claiming his client volated a law before it's passed would LOVE it. Not only would winning be a matter of walking in and filing a single brief but the DA that brought the case would look like a major idiot. There might also be other thing like false arrest suits possible in the right circumstances.
But those are Hassidic Jew Sk1llz not geek skills
But seriously who is the last person you knew who cut their own diamond (besides prefessional dimond cutters). Here we are talking about something that takes a fair amount of skill, motivation, resourcefulness, and sheer cruftitude; but is something that could be duplicated by any geek who felt he wanted to make this investment.
This looks like a cool product but would work IF and ONLY IF you only need a console. no mouse, no GUI, no XMMS :`( From the post I am guessing that he needs a mouse and a GUI (XMMS or Winamp optional).
One comprimise might be to use the small slender rodent adapter to capture your post and then use a VNC server for daily operation but that sound almost as kludgey as what he is using now.
Hopefully someone will come up with a smaller/cheaper process for IP KVM's and/or economies of scale will kick in and the price on these units will come down.
One final thought that could be very dangerous, what is the possibility of hacking the BIOS on the motherboard to dump the post out the serial or ethernet ports, heck if there is enough free code space you might even be able to configure through the serial. (note IANAEE and IANACS)
Good luck!
No by definition the aplication layer protocol provides the application with access to the network stack through an API.
:)
Back to network design school with you!
just a quick example:
HTTP is a protocol, a web browser is a program that uses HTTP to transfer files.
When I was reading recently through the GB over copper spec on cisco's website they said that there were 2 major things that allow 1000baseT to work.
One was the fact that they had a way to run full dupled over a SINGLE pair of wires (as was tested with the 100baseT2 which never made it to market)
The other was that they were using the 10B/8B signaling that FDDI uses to better handle error detection and othr features.
This means that in order to get 1Gb/sec you have to have 250Mb/sec throughput on each of the 4 pairs. Tn turn this means that due to the 10B/8B signaling you have to have a signaling rate of at least 312.5 Mhz.
I was under the impression that Cat5 handled 350 on 2 pairs (orange and green) and Cat5e handled 350 on all 4 pairs. If this is so how does having 250Mhz on all 4 pairs help GB over copper? unfortunately I don't have $226 to buy this stupid overpriced standard, can anyone else see what the distinct advantages of 6 over 5e acctually are?
Quit WINEing and uhhhh WINE! :)
Just thought of something, no action would be required to cause the windows boxes to explode except the simple action of installing WindowsME and booting them up..... so we can just sit back an watch them blow themselves up!
Naw, Y'all just have ta BBQ and drink beer during the Linux discussion. Then we can blow up some Windows boxes after for FARWERKS! :)
I can think of several picnic events too...
Archery into the MS EULA (It's thick enough)
Play frisbe with old copies of windows98
Sing THE STAR SPANGLED BANNER on front of old red, white and BLUESCREEN's of death...
Way to go! I'm getting married tomorrow so I know what it's like!
Get yourself a Handspring Visor Handheld($100), and and omniremote springboard ($59). You will have to make your own screens for some of your stuff but it is pretty universal.
An afterthought. If you can't get installed by tonight StarTrek://Enterprise/BrokenBow is on friday as well.
I must agree. I went to sears last week and picked up a DishPro 301 complete system for $199. Dish network is currently having a promo for $9 a month which means that over 1 year i will save $263.88. in my vbook that's better than free. also the dishpro301 system I got came with double dual LNB's which means that I can later add another reciever (like the 6000 for my HDTV) at only the cost of the reciever. If I need more than that I can get a $99 multiswitch that will let me use 4 or a $199 multi that will lt me use 8. If you do get a dish all you need to supscribe for is the america's top 100 for $9 and the superstations for $4.95. I set the whole thing up in an afternoon, and that includes my first attempt which didn't have a LOS to the SAT's so I had to move the dish.
are Marshmallows, Grahm Crackers, and Chocolate. Be sure to invite all the slashcrew to share your s'mores!
Is it true that in the early betas of their handwriting system you had to use krylon in order to get the letters to be recognized?
You're right there might be a joke in hair.