I have a fiber running directly into my apartment.
The company that owns my building put in a fiber network to cover all their buildings and then let several ISP connect to their uplink and provide services to the apartments.
I got 10/10 Mbit/s for about $45 a month, no cap and I may run noncomercial servers for personal use.
I agree as I am the the guy that will only be there for 30 - 90 days.
The problem is that sometimes (most of the time) the Customer thinks that I know more than the sysadmins about their local enviroment and that I will somehow know how to fix all their problems using the magic of NEW software...
What they (hopefully) have not realiased is that new software means "more money on software". But then my customer have a lot of money to spend if the get they want...
I do think our emotions may be a mixed up but I still think that we can do better by using our skills as "geeks under the hood" rather than being good engineers at all times.
The only way to get ahead is to take risks that nobody else will.../Thomas
I'am sorry to seem so negative but most of the time the server room seems to be on a different planet. We butterfingered consultance never seem been trusted enough do do real work^w^w^wdammage....
Well I thoght about replying to the parent about the general discussion but then I realised that He (She?) makes an exelent point for us slashdotterers that are currently drunk.
You are drunk?, right?
I do not claim to understand IT. but it seems to me to be a simple case of "press the any key". So all we need is somebody to go there and press the "any" key....
I create specialized software within the telecominucations industry and my biggest problems comes from dealing with non-free software that my customers use.
The way to make money from free software is to find a niche that companies are willing to pay big bucks to fill because it is too narrow for the general "public" of programmers but still worth a lot of money if you do it right.
In Sweden they are currently testing the no speeding and no drunk driving DRM. There is talk about making these "features" manditory for all new cars sold in Sweden.
I wonder how hard it would be to hack the speed limit controls for a given road?
I have a Nokia 6310i and a Palm Tungsten. The Nokia and the palm are connected using Bluetooth so they behave as if they are one and the same.
I need to charge the phone about once a week unless it is a very busy week. The Palm needs charging about once per week also but since I sync it more often than that it is hard to tell the exact battery life.
I talk at least 1 hour/day on my phone and I am a light Palm user.
I think that charging your Phone/PDA once or twice a week is OK and I would never go back to the bad old days when you had to charge your phone every night.
I have a 106000 line Delphi project that compiles in about 5 seconds.
This is quite a complicated project that uses a
lot of different components and libraries.
>Billing is likely to be based on your source IP >address, so if you can spoof someone's address (and >probably circumvent a whole load of encryption and >authentication) you can probably end up with free >phone calls.
Billing is NOT done on source IP adress in a 3G network.
Billing is done on your subsciption identity that is stored on a SIM (Subscriber Identity Module, a smart card in the phone).
How the cellular network does this is to have a central computer (the cellular switch, or BSC in a GSM network) monitoring the RF connection to each subscriber's mobile. If tht S/N, BER, or overall recieve level reaches a threshold, the switch starts querying surrounding base stations to get a signal measurement on the mobile. If another base station has a better signal, then a handoff (handover in GSM) is begun.
This is the method used by the old analog systems (NMT,AMPS,TACS) not by GSM. In GSM it is the mobile that does all the measurements and sends the result to the BSC. GSM allways tries to make sure you are on the best cell rather than above a certain signal/noise level. If the BSC determines that a better candidate is available it will initiate a handover.
The goverment tried to do that but it was rejected as it was against the Swedish constitution.
I think it is sad that they even tried to comply to the US goverment in this case.
/Thomas (Swedish).
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Here in Sweden where we have GSM there is something called cash cards that work in a similar way. A cash card is basicly a pre paid SIM card that you can use in any GSM phone until the money in it runns out. The SIM card IS the subscription so you can do both incomming and outgoing calls. If the card runns out of money just buy a new card or refill the old card if you want to keep the old number. Many people give this to their kids so that they can reach them in case of emergencies.
These cards are anonymous.
So how does the law like them? Not at all! They can bug them or tie calls made on them to a person. There was a debate over makeing them illegal or not but the police lost the debate.
These cash cards are now about 20 - 30% of the subscriptions in the networks and make BIG BUCKS.
Question: If you gamble online where is the act of gambling occuring? Where the client is located or where the server is located? In this case it was an offshore casino so why do they not argue that the gamling occured offshore where using a VISA card is leagal? Do anybody have an answer?/Thomas
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I have a fiber running directly into my apartment.
The company that owns my building put in a fiber network to cover all their buildings and then
let several ISP connect to their uplink and provide services to the apartments.
I got 10/10 Mbit/s for about $45 a month, no cap and I may run noncomercial servers for personal use.
Life is good. / Thomas
I agree as I am the the guy that will only be there for 30 - 90 days.
The problem is that sometimes (most of the time) the Customer thinks that I know more than the sysadmins about their local enviroment and that I will somehow know how to fix all their problems using the magic of NEW software...
What they (hopefully) have not realiased is that new software means "more money on software". But then my customer have a lot of money to spend if the get they want...
Sorry about the poor metaphore. (sp?)
/Thomas
I do think our emotions may be a mixed up but I still think that we can do better by using our skills as "geeks under the hood" rather than being good engineers at all times.
The only way to get ahead is to take risks that nobody else will...
I'am sorry to seem so negative but most of the time the server room seems to be on a different planet. We butterfingered consultance never seem been trusted enough do do real work^w^w^wdammage....
Nation of Whatever / Tm.
Well I thoght about replying to the parent about the general discussion but then I realised that He (She?) makes an exelent point for us slashdotterers that are currently drunk.
You are drunk?, right?
I do not claim to understand IT. but it seems to me to be a simple case of "press the any key".So all we need is somebody to go there and press the "any" key....
I create specialized software within the telecominucations industry and my biggest problems comes from dealing with non-free software that my customers use.
The way to make money from free software is to find a niche that companies are willing to pay big bucks to fill because it is too narrow for the general "public" of programmers but still worth a lot of money if you do it right.
Programming as a service is the future.
Yes, there is an XFSdump and XFSrestore.
The cost of the radio equipment on a site is about half the cost of a site.
So while reducing the cost to half would indeed save a lot of money it will still be quite expensive to build.
Don't forget the running cost such as electricity, rent, transmission, etc.
These will not change by much using a software radio.
In Sweden they are currently testing the no speeding and no drunk driving DRM. There is talk about making these "features" manditory for all new cars sold in Sweden.
I wonder how hard it would be to hack the speed limit controls for a given road?
If they are losing as much as 7.5% it probably means that they have configured their network wrong.
/Thomas
On a good summer day in Stockholm Sweden we get
700 - 900 Watts per square meter.
I don't remember the value for a rainy day but
it is much lower, say 10 - 50 W/m2.
I have a Nokia 6310i and a Palm Tungsten. The Nokia and the palm are connected using Bluetooth so they behave as if they are one and the same.
I need to charge the phone about once a week unless it is a very busy week. The Palm needs charging about once per week also but since I sync it more often than that it is hard to tell the exact battery life.
I talk at least 1 hour/day on my phone and I am a light Palm user.
I think that charging your Phone/PDA once or twice a week is OK and I would never go back to the bad old days when you had to charge your phone every night.
We! We talk about the Slashdot effect, how many of us are there? 100,000 or 200,000?
Remember, if we tell
4 of our friends and they listen then that is four times the slahsdot effect! That is equal to the sales of a small country.
That would make them notice!
The compiler makes a big difference.
>Billing is likely to be based on your source IP
>address, so if you can spoof someone's address (and
>probably circumvent a whole load of encryption and
>authentication) you can probably end up with free
>phone calls.
Billing is NOT done on source IP adress in a 3G network.
Billing is done on your subsciption identity that is stored on a SIM (Subscriber Identity Module, a smart card in the phone).
/Thomas
This is the method used by the old analog systems (NMT,AMPS,TACS) not by GSM. In GSM it is the mobile that does all the measurements and sends the result to the BSC. GSM allways tries to make sure you are on the best cell rather than above a certain signal/noise level. If the BSC determines that a better candidate is available it will initiate a handover.
This is how things work in Sweden. The powerlines and phonelines are public and then you just chose which provider you want to use.
It works fine with the power lines but the phone lines still needs some more time to get the competition going.
The goverment tried to do that but it was rejected as it was against the Swedish constitution.
I think it is sad that they even tried to comply to the US goverment in this case.
/Thomas (Swedish).
Here in Sweden where we have GSM there is something called cash cards that work in a similar way.
A cash card is basicly a pre paid SIM card that you can use in any GSM phone until the money in it runns out. The SIM card IS the subscription so you can do both incomming and outgoing calls. If the card runns out of money just buy a new card or refill the old card if you want to keep the old number.
Many people give this to their kids so that they
can reach them in case of emergencies.
These cards are anonymous.
So how does the law like them?
Not at all!
They can bug them or tie calls made on them to a person. There was a debate over makeing them illegal or not but the police lost the debate.
These cash cards are now about 20 - 30% of the subscriptions in the networks and make BIG BUCKS.
So this is a patent on an old idea from Europe.
/Thomas
Question: If you gamble online where is the act of gambling occuring? Where the client is located or where the server is located? In this case it was an offshore casino so why do they not argue that the gamling occured offshore where using a VISA card is leagal? Do anybody have an answer? /Thomas