Second, the FCC controls just how powerful UWB networks can be, and for now the agency is being cautious. In February, when it approved the sale of UWB devices, it limited their power to the same level as stray radiation emitted by devices like computers and electronics games--even lower in some parts of the spectrum.
So they have approved it for limited use. This article was talking about using UWB radios for emergency workers post Sept. 11. Apparently what usually happens is they have a "leaky line" or a coaxial cable that has a cut through the shielding that runs through the building acting as an antenna. This facilitates radio comms over floors. On Sept. 11 apparently these lines were cut/melted/something so many firefighters were out of radio comms.
Your friend was right, but SGI is in this market and have been pushing it for a long time. Origin's are a good solution for huge databases and data warehousing, and are used as such. They are all about I/O and processing performance -- only one application is to put graphics head(s) on them and create visualisations. Oracle and Sybase are available for IRIX and work fine, and are used.
SGI can be criticised for much, but not for a lack of database/warehousing solutions.
SGI equipment is not and never was in the same ballpark as a $AU1200 PC. A Beowulf cluster of 1024 PC's is not the same as an Origin 3000 of 1024 processors. Read about ccNUMA.
In terms of desktop processing, the I/O bandwidth of an O2/Ocatane can not be compared to a PC. In essence, that's where they differ from a PC with a GeForce. That's not to mention the video/audio hardware that comes built in that is well integrated into IRIX and for the most part well documented.
In general, with SGI you get what you pay for.
SGI is a great company (I've worked there) that's built on a culture of doing cool things with technology. They just seem to have made a lot of bad decisions. They seem to be returning to their core business now, i hope it works -- how many quaters have then been going to turn a profit next quater now?
If he is 22 years old, then according to his resume he was a 14 year old project leader at the Tajikistan Diagnostics Center and had a B.S. in Applied Mathematics at 16. Possible, but not plausable. I assume you took your info from this line
"In short, Alex Pilosov, no, no, never, yes, no, no, 1978, Russia. If you don't understand what that means, you are not from former Soviet Union."
I think i can assume you're not from the former sovient union. still, mad props for the bounty
I think this is a real shame, and is probably originated by some badly informed member of Thawte-management
If the managment of Thawte don't understand the implications of public key infrastructure then who does? It's no wonder we end up in such a mess when there are people who just don't get it in charge.
True I'd say. Companies like SGI sell monitors in two formats - northern hemisphere and southern hemisphere, since the earths magnetic field is directed differently depending which hemishpere you are in.
This is true. Malaria virus lives in the red blood cells, and those that have the sickle shape are inhibit the virus from living in them. By having just enough sickle cells an underdeveloped immune system (e.g. a child) is provided with extra resitance to the virus.
i'd guess because it is non trivial to catch ctrl-alt-delete in windows so it makes it less vunerable to processes that might run away. if you ever use the IBM 4690 OS that uses the sys-rq key to bring up it's "task manager"
was i the only one that used to steal thin, long strips of magnesium from school, slide them into a cigarette and then cheerily offer them around to that person who would *always* pay you back tomorrow?
don't worry ; i've written a small vbs file that will send everyone in your address book a message informing them they may unwittingly be part of a DDoS attack...
Guidelines for users from the Technical Support department.
Don't write anything down. We can play back the error messages from here.
When a tech says he's coming right over, go for coffee. It's nothing to us to remember 4000 screen saver passwords.
When you call us to have your computer moved, be sure to leave it buried under half a ton of postcards, baby pictures, stuffed animals, dried flowers, bowling trophies and Popsicle art. We don't have a life, and we find it deeply moving to catch a fleeting glimpse of yours.
When you call the help desk, state what you want, not what's keeping you from getting it. We don't need to know that you can't get into your mail because your computer won't power on at all.
Don't put your phone extension in your emails to the help desk. We need to keep an eye on the address book performance.
When tech support sends you an email with high importance, delete it at once. We're just testing the public groups.
When a tech is eating lunch in his cube, walk right in and spill your guts right out. We exist only to serve.
When a tech is having a smoke outside, ask him a computer question. The only reason why we smoke at all is to ferret out those clients who don't have email or a telephone line.
Send urgent email all in uppercase. The mail server picks it up and flags it as a rush delivery.
When you call a tech's direct line, press 5 to skip the bilingual greeting that says he's out of town for a week, record your message and wait exactly 24 hours before you send an email straight to the director because no one ever returned your call. You're entitled to common courtesy.
When the photocopier doesn't work, call computer support. There's electronics in it.
When you're getting a NO DIAL TONE message at home, call computer support. We can fix your line from here.
When you have a dozen CGA monitors to get rid of, call computer support. We're collectors.
When something's wrong with your home PC, dump it on a tech's chair with no name, no phone number and no description of the problem. We love a puzzle.
If you hate your mouse, get some other pointing device and discard the manual. We know all the keyboard accelerators.
When a tech tells you that computer monitors don't have cartridges in them, argue. We love a good argument.
When you get a message about insufficient disk space, delete everything in the Windows directory. It's nothing but trouble anyway.
When you get a message about a hard disk controller failure, and then you reboot and it looks okay, don't call tech support. We'd much rather troubleshoot it when it's dead as doornail.
When you have a tech on the phone walking you through changing a setting, read the paper. We don't actually mean for you to do anything; we just love to hear ourselves talk.
When a tech tells you that he'll be there shortly, reply in a scathing tone of voice: "And just how many weeks do you mean by shortly?" That'll get us going.
If you have a 14-inch monitor that says VGA on it, set the display to true color, 1024 x 768. You'll never again have to worry about people reading confidential files over your shoulder.
When we offer training on the upcoming OS upgrade, don't bother. We'll be there to hold your hand after it's done.
When the printer won't print, re-send the job at least 20 times. Print jobs frequently get sucked into black holes.
When the printer still won't print after 20 tries, send the job to all 68 printers in the branch. One of them is bound to work.
Don't learn the proper name for anything technical. We know exactly what you mean by "my thingy's outta whack".
Don't use online help. Online help is for wimps.
If you're taking night classes in computer science, feel free to go around and update the network drivers for your all your co-workers. We're grateful for the overtime money.
When a tech makes popcorn, help yourself while he's checking out your access rights. And we keep chocolate in the top drawer, too.
When you have a tech fixing your computer at a quarter past noon, eat your lunch in his face. We function better when slightly dizzy.
Don't ever thank us. We're getting paid for this.
If you're a student, feel free to bring in all your friends from uni and have your Daddy complain to our boss when we won't let them use the scanner. We had no friends when we were at uni; that's why we're such a bunch of tight-assed little twerps.
When a tech asks you whether you've installed any new software on this computer, lie. It's nobody's business what you've got on your computer.
When a tech finds the porno pictures in your Recycle Bin, tell her you've never seen those before. We couldn't tell bullshit if it kicked us in the face.
If you have NT, feel free to change the local administrator's password to "blowjob" and promptly forget it. We like installing NT.
If the mouse cable keeps knocking down the framed picture of your dog, lift the computer and stuff the cable under it. Mouse cables were designed to have 45 lbs. of computer sitting on top of them.
If the space bar on your keyboard doesn't work, blame it on the mail upgrade. Keyboards are actually very happy with half a pound of muffin crumbs and nail clippings in them.
When you receive the new Yanni CD for your birthday, shove it into any slot on the front of your computer. We like getting physical with 5.25 floppy drives.
When you get a message saying "Are you sure?", click on that Yes button as fast as you can. Hell, if you weren't sure, you wouldn't be doing it, would you?
When you find a tech on the phone with his bank, sit uninvited on the corner of his desk and stare at him until he hangs up. We don't have any money to speak of anyway.
Feel perfectly free to say things like "I don't know nothing about that computer crap". We don't mind at all hearing our area of professional expertise referred to as crap.
When you need to change the toner cartridge, call tech support. Changing a toner cartridge is an extremely complex task, and Hewlett-Packard recommends that it be performed only by a Professional engineer with a master's degree in nuclear physics.
When you can't find someone in the government directory, call tech support. Due to budget restrictions, we double as 013.
When you have a lock to pick on an old file cabinet, call tech support. We love to hack.
When something's the matter with your computer, ask your secretary to call the help desk. We enjoy the challenge of having to deal with a third party who doesn't know jack shit about the problem.
When you receive a 30-meg movie file, send it to everyone as a mail attachment. We got lots of disk space on that mail server.
Don't even think of breaking large print jobs down into smaller chunks. Somebody else might get a chance to squeeze a memo into the queue.
When your eyes fall on the family pictures on a tech's desk, exclaim in a flabbergasted tone of voice: "YOU have a child?!?" We need to be reminded of how lucky we were to ever have gotten laid.
When a tech gets on the elevator pushing $15,000 worth of computer equipment on a cart, ask in a very loud voice: "Good grief, you take the elevator to go DOWN one floor?!?" That's another one that cracks us up no end.
When the Finance folks are printing a 100-page spreadsheet on the LaserJet, send your black and white print job to the color printer. We get the black toner for free.
When you lose your car keys in Canberra, send an email to the entire department. People in Perth like to keep abreast of what's going on.
When you bump into a tech at the grocery store on a Saturday, ask a computer question. We don't do weekends.
When you see a tech having a beer with a member of the opposite sex on a Friday night, walk right up to them and ask a computer question. We don't do dating; the reason why we have that horny look on our faces is because we're discussing the new Intel processor.
Don't bother to tell us when you move computers around on your own. Computer names are just a cosmetic feature in NT 4.0; they won't be doing anything useful until the next major release.
When you can't access some shared directory on your boss's machine, just tell us that you've lost your X: drive. We know all that shit by heart.
If your son is a student in computer science, have him come in on the weekends and do his projects on your office computer. We'll be there for you when his illegal copy of Visual Basic version 6.0 makes your Access 95 database flip out.
When you bring your own personal home PC for repair at the office, leave the documentation at home. We'll find the jumper settings on the Internet.
We're aware of that problem with computers just sitting there and not doing anything. We're confident that with the next service pack they'll be able to dance the jig.
The correct location to store important files is the Recycle Bin. It's just like a real office, where you keep your tax receipts in the blue can under your desk.
If you miss Windows 3.1, find the line that goes shell=explorer.exe in your SYSTEM.INI file and replace it with shell=progman.exe. It makes troubleshooting infinitely easier when we ask you whether you have a Start button at the bottom of your screen and you truthfully answer us that you don't.
If you curse every morning when you start to type your password and the Virus Shield splash screen pops up in your face, disable the Virus Shield. Again, this is just like real life: if you don't like condoms, just don't use them, that's all.
If you hate PCs, get on the Internet and download one of those desktop enhancements that make your computer look just like a Mac, down to the sad faces replacing verbose error messages. We find it refreshing to troubleshoot the nuances in that sad little face instead of some cold forbidding hexadecimal integer.
When you detect a French accent in a tech's voice, switch to French. We don't mind that your level of fluency is that of a Mildly retarded 4-year-old; you don't make a whole lot of sense in your own mother tongue either.
We don't really believe that you're a bunch of ungrateful twits. It hurts our feelings that you could even think such a thing. We wish to express our deepest gratitude to the hundreds of clueless losers portrayed herein, without whom none of this would have been remotely possible.
they are very funky things. they are basically a 486 on a card, iirc has the modem as you mentioned, network access and a web server for stats. that & the battery backups on the scsi card cache amazed me for ages when i first saw them. heres a link about them [the insight boards]
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So they have approved it for limited use. This article was talking about using UWB radios for emergency workers post Sept. 11. Apparently what usually happens is they have a "leaky line" or a coaxial cable that has a cut through the shielding that runs through the building acting as an antenna. This facilitates radio comms over floors. On Sept. 11 apparently these lines were cut/melted/something so many firefighters were out of radio comms.
I prefer the unit of the "Moby Dick" (MD) -- as in "this new optic fibre link could transfer 5000 copies of Moby Dick every second".
Maybe it can go under a new linux distribution called "Student"
bug report is here for those interested
Your friend was right, but SGI is in this market and have been pushing it for a long time. Origin's are a good solution for huge databases and data warehousing, and are used as such. They are all about I/O and processing performance -- only one application is to put graphics head(s) on them and create visualisations. Oracle and Sybase are available for IRIX and work fine, and are used.
SGI can be criticised for much, but not for a lack of database/warehousing solutions.
SGI equipment is not and never was in the same ballpark as a $AU1200 PC. A Beowulf cluster of 1024 PC's is not the same as an Origin 3000 of 1024 processors. Read about ccNUMA.
In terms of desktop processing, the I/O bandwidth of an O2/Ocatane can not be compared to a PC. In essence, that's where they differ from a PC with a GeForce. That's not to mention the video/audio hardware that comes built in that is well integrated into IRIX and for the most part well documented.
In general, with SGI you get what you pay for.
SGI is a great company (I've worked there) that's built on a culture of doing cool things with technology. They just seem to have made a lot of bad decisions. They seem to be returning to their core business now, i hope it works -- how many quaters have then been going to turn a profit next quater now?
If he is 22 years old, then according to his resume he was a 14 year old project leader at the Tajikistan Diagnostics Center and had a B.S. in Applied Mathematics at 16. Possible, but not plausable. I assume you took your info from this line
"In short, Alex Pilosov, no, no, never, yes, no, no, 1978, Russia. If you don't understand what that means, you are not from former Soviet Union."
I think i can assume you're not from the former sovient union. still, mad props for the bounty
I think this is a real shame, and is probably originated by some badly informed member of Thawte-management
If the managment of Thawte don't understand the implications of public key infrastructure then who does? It's no wonder we end up in such a mess when there are people who just don't get it in charge.
True I'd say. Companies like SGI sell monitors in two formats - northern hemisphere and southern hemisphere, since the earths magnetic field is directed differently depending which hemishpere you are in.
This is true. Malaria virus lives in the red blood cells, and those that have the sickle shape are inhibit the virus from living in them. By having just enough sickle cells an underdeveloped immune system (e.g. a child) is provided with extra resitance to the virus.
you can find lots of info on google
i'd guess because it is non trivial to catch ctrl-alt-delete in windows so it makes it less vunerable to processes that might run away. if you ever use the IBM 4690 OS that uses the sys-rq key to bring up it's "task manager"
no, a match is not but these are. and they come in handy for more than lighting cigarettes too
was i the only one that used to steal thin, long strips of magnesium from school, slide them into a cigarette and then cheerily offer them around to that person who would *always* pay you back tomorrow?
bought a whole new meaning to getting blind
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/28/16903.html
this is a test post
i think you'll find a palm v runs at 16MHz and a vx runs at 20MHz ; see here
I think it would also have to be called Lord_Of_The@nospam.dontemailme.Rings
[remove the nospam.dontemailme to read the title]
don't worry ; i've written a small vbs file that will send everyone in your address book a message informing them they may unwittingly be part of a DDoS attack ...
anyone got photos of the hardware? that would be something cool to see ...
now this story is almost dead i would like to have my userid placed here to record my protest to microsofts action for all time.
Just incase anyone hasn't see it (very unlikely)
Guidelines for Working With Tech Support
Author Unknown
Guidelines for users from the Technical Support department.
Don't write anything down. We can play back the error messages from here.
When a tech says he's coming right over, go for coffee. It's nothing to us to remember 4000 screen saver passwords.
When you call us to have your computer moved, be sure to leave it buried under half a ton of postcards, baby pictures, stuffed animals, dried flowers, bowling trophies and Popsicle art. We don't have a life, and we find it deeply moving to catch a fleeting glimpse of yours.
When you call the help desk, state what you want, not what's keeping you from getting it. We don't need to know that you can't get into your mail because your computer won't power on at all.
Don't put your phone extension in your emails to the help desk. We need to keep an eye on the address book performance.
When tech support sends you an email with high importance, delete it at once. We're just testing the public groups.
When a tech is eating lunch in his cube, walk right in and spill your guts right out. We exist only to serve.
When a tech is having a smoke outside, ask him a computer question. The only reason why we smoke at all is to ferret out those clients who don't have email or a telephone line.
Send urgent email all in uppercase. The mail server picks it up and flags it as a rush delivery.
When you call a tech's direct line, press 5 to skip the bilingual greeting that says he's out of town for a week, record your message and wait exactly 24 hours before you send an email straight to the director because no one ever returned your call. You're entitled to common courtesy.
When the photocopier doesn't work, call computer support. There's electronics in it.
When you're getting a NO DIAL TONE message at home, call computer support. We can fix your line from here.
When you have a dozen CGA monitors to get rid of, call computer support. We're collectors.
When something's wrong with your home PC, dump it on a tech's chair with no name, no phone number and no description of the problem. We love a puzzle.
If you hate your mouse, get some other pointing device and discard the manual. We know all the keyboard accelerators.
When a tech tells you that computer monitors don't have cartridges in them, argue. We love a good argument.
When you get a message about insufficient disk space, delete everything in the Windows directory. It's nothing but trouble anyway.
When you get a message about a hard disk controller failure, and then you reboot and it looks okay, don't call tech support. We'd much rather troubleshoot it when it's dead as doornail.
When you have a tech on the phone walking you through changing a setting, read the paper. We don't actually mean for you to do anything; we just love to hear ourselves talk.
When a tech tells you that he'll be there shortly, reply in a scathing tone of voice: "And just how many weeks do you mean by shortly?" That'll get us going.
If you have a 14-inch monitor that says VGA on it, set the display to true color, 1024 x 768. You'll never again have to worry about people reading confidential files over your shoulder.
When we offer training on the upcoming OS upgrade, don't bother. We'll be there to hold your hand after it's done.
When the printer won't print, re-send the job at least 20 times. Print jobs frequently get sucked into black holes.
When the printer still won't print after 20 tries, send the job to all 68 printers in the branch. One of them is bound to work.
Don't learn the proper name for anything technical. We know exactly what you mean by "my thingy's outta whack".
Don't use online help. Online help is for wimps.
If you're taking night classes in computer science, feel free to go around and update the network drivers for your all your co-workers. We're grateful for the overtime money.
When a tech makes popcorn, help yourself while he's checking out your access rights. And we keep chocolate in the top drawer, too.
When you have a tech fixing your computer at a quarter past noon, eat your lunch in his face. We function better when slightly dizzy.
Don't ever thank us. We're getting paid for this.
If you're a student, feel free to bring in all your friends from uni and have your Daddy complain to our boss when we won't let them use the scanner. We had no friends when we were at uni; that's why we're such a bunch of tight-assed little twerps.
When a tech asks you whether you've installed any new software on this computer, lie. It's nobody's business what you've got on your computer.
When a tech finds the porno pictures in your Recycle Bin, tell her you've never seen those before. We couldn't tell bullshit if it kicked us in the face.
If you have NT, feel free to change the local administrator's password to "blowjob" and promptly forget it. We like installing NT.
If the mouse cable keeps knocking down the framed picture of your dog, lift the computer and stuff the cable under it. Mouse cables were designed to have 45 lbs. of computer sitting on top of them.
If the space bar on your keyboard doesn't work, blame it on the mail upgrade. Keyboards are actually very happy with half a pound of muffin crumbs and nail clippings in them.
When you receive the new Yanni CD for your birthday, shove it into any slot on the front of your computer. We like getting physical with 5.25 floppy drives.
When you get a message saying "Are you sure?", click on that Yes button as fast as you can. Hell, if you weren't sure, you wouldn't be doing it, would you?
When you find a tech on the phone with his bank, sit uninvited on the corner of his desk and stare at him until he hangs up. We don't have any money to speak of anyway.
Feel perfectly free to say things like "I don't know nothing about that computer crap". We don't mind at all hearing our area of professional expertise referred to as crap.
When you need to change the toner cartridge, call tech support. Changing a toner cartridge is an extremely complex task, and Hewlett-Packard recommends that it be performed only by a Professional engineer with a master's degree in nuclear physics.
When you can't find someone in the government directory, call tech support. Due to budget restrictions, we double as 013.
When you have a lock to pick on an old file cabinet, call tech support. We love to hack.
When something's the matter with your computer, ask your secretary to call the help desk. We enjoy the challenge of having to deal with a third party who doesn't know jack shit about the problem.
When you receive a 30-meg movie file, send it to everyone as a mail attachment. We got lots of disk space on that mail server.
Don't even think of breaking large print jobs down into smaller chunks. Somebody else might get a chance to squeeze a memo into the queue.
When your eyes fall on the family pictures on a tech's desk, exclaim in a flabbergasted tone of voice: "YOU have a child?!?" We need to be reminded of how lucky we were to ever have gotten laid.
When a tech gets on the elevator pushing $15,000 worth of computer equipment on a cart, ask in a very loud voice: "Good grief, you take the elevator to go DOWN one floor?!?" That's another one that cracks us up no end.
When the Finance folks are printing a 100-page spreadsheet on the LaserJet, send your black and white print job to the color printer. We get the black toner for free.
When you lose your car keys in Canberra, send an email to the entire department. People in Perth like to keep abreast of what's going on.
When you bump into a tech at the grocery store on a Saturday, ask a computer question. We don't do weekends.
When you see a tech having a beer with a member of the opposite sex on a Friday night, walk right up to them and ask a computer question. We don't do dating; the reason why we have that horny look on our faces is because we're discussing the new Intel processor.
Don't bother to tell us when you move computers around on your own. Computer names are just a cosmetic feature in NT 4.0; they won't be doing anything useful until the next major release.
When you can't access some shared directory on your boss's machine, just tell us that you've lost your X: drive. We know all that shit by heart.
If your son is a student in computer science, have him come in on the weekends and do his projects on your office computer. We'll be there for you when his illegal copy of Visual Basic version 6.0 makes your Access 95 database flip out.
When you bring your own personal home PC for repair at the office, leave the documentation at home. We'll find the jumper settings on the Internet.
We're aware of that problem with computers just sitting there and not doing anything. We're confident that with the next service pack they'll be able to dance the jig.
The correct location to store important files is the Recycle Bin. It's just like a real office, where you keep your tax receipts in the blue can under your desk.
If you miss Windows 3.1, find the line that goes shell=explorer.exe in your SYSTEM.INI file and replace it with shell=progman.exe. It makes troubleshooting infinitely easier when we ask you whether you have a Start button at the bottom of your screen and you truthfully answer us that you don't.
If you curse every morning when you start to type your password and the Virus Shield splash screen pops up in your face, disable the Virus Shield. Again, this is just like real life: if you don't like condoms, just don't use them, that's all.
If you hate PCs, get on the Internet and download one of those desktop enhancements that make your computer look just like a Mac, down to the sad faces replacing verbose error messages. We find it refreshing to troubleshoot the nuances in that sad little face instead of some cold forbidding hexadecimal integer.
When you detect a French accent in a tech's voice, switch to French. We don't mind that your level of fluency is that of a Mildly retarded 4-year-old; you don't make a whole lot of sense in your own mother tongue either.
We don't really believe that you're a bunch of ungrateful twits. It hurts our feelings that you could even think such a thing. We wish to express our deepest gratitude to the hundreds of clueless losers portrayed herein, without whom none of this would have been remotely possible.
clearly that is not true. 35% of all statistics are just made up anyway
did you know that on a microwave you can input the time as 90 seconds rather than 1:30, hence saving you a keystroke.
i wouldn't screw with these mattel guys, just take a look down ken's pants one day and you'll see he found out the hard way (no pun intended)
they are very funky things. they are basically a 486 on a card, iirc has the modem as you mentioned, network access and a web server for stats. that & the battery backups on the scsi card cache amazed me for ages when i first saw them.
heres a link about them [the insight boards]