But, its Atlanta, GA... and all the suspects are black, and rich, which automatically means they are drug-dealing murdering thug rapists. This right here is what is wrong with America; not the *aas and drm, but cold-hearted racism via inaccurate police profiling telling us who the 'criminals' are. Lets say for example, me a married white male happened to be burning/selling cds at my house. Do you think they would send a swat team with guns drawn or Briscoe and Greene types who will make wisecracks and maybe pursuade the da to indict me sometime in the next five months? This whole thing just makes me think I want to get off this fucking ship while it's still above water.
Whooo all this canidate is about: touchy-feely hippie leftist double-talk about reducing dependance on foreign oil. None of the alternative energy sources truely warrant federal subsidy or real consideration, either hydrogen fuel cells or ethanol. I like net neutrality. I hate gun control. I really don't care for most of his far right posturing and far left voting history. The good seems to cancel out the bad with this canidate. I for one, am voting Clinton or Nader.
Remember in the late 90s how all those companies started out providing free internet based on ad viewership? Remember how they all went under, except for NetZero who despite their name, started to charge? Even if there is a way to validate that the ads are being consumed by all applicable targeted marketing metrics, it still is a question of how much is it really worth? Everyone has this huge fear of Microsoft due to them being a behemoth that cannot be stopped. Look at the xbox platform, and how much money it lost for the company. They gained mindshare, but lost dollars on the bottom line p&l. Microsoft is not really as big as the stock price indicates; just because they have all the money now does not mean they will always continue to control the industry. This whole concept of a value behind mindshare and current installed user base will mean nothing when the next clever innovator simply comes up with a better/more economical product. This could be Apple, or a Linux vendor, or anybody really. I am going to bet right now that as soon as this competition is actually stepped-up, Microsoft will topple, and the computing industry will simply hit another watershed.
When it comes down to the real enterprise Unices, ISVs, support, and scalability all need to be balanced. As a large corporation, deploying Linux, FreeBSD, or Solaris should really be a no-brainer. There has to be something to fall back upon whenever something cannot be figured out by your own staff. I don't particturally love Sun or Solaris, but know that if I get hit by a bus, the business will find people who can work with it in a couple phone calls. It also keeps things like certifications and knowing all the core competencies simple, by having one primary computing vendor for training, hardware, and software. Finally, guaranteed support for software AND hardware you need to run, especially stuff that scales vertically (like Sun's CoolThreads line) is awful convenient.
If there were more pictures, simulations, descriptions of applications already working on it. The amount of possible applications once the kinks are worked out is amazing, but the technology still seems far off.
No, it is NOT common for anything not incredibly critical to be on a gige line. Some people can afford tier 1 colo centers, most cannot. Even if you can afford the gige pipe, you most likely cannot afford the overage on your commit with all that traffic you have not expected and engineered coming at you. I have been dossed before, and it causes outages and huge bills.
Predicting the locations of bakeries is one thing, but what about call centers, NOCs, corn fields, and cnc shops? These are all pretty disparate examples where many variables preclude their location. For example, a call center needs access to telephone exchanges and a populace to draw against employee turnover. A NOC needs to be located where there are a lot of big pipes, preferably a tall building. A corn field needs to be in a place where there is enough fertile land that will support a large crop. A cnc shop needs to be in an industrial area with a lot of space and big doors. Not even to mention economic trends that affect this business, suggesting that even the smartest engineers and mathemeticians can correctly using physics explain all of these (mostly) subjective variables is purely absurd. A bakery or jewelery store, maybe even a grocery store or gas station.... sure, I'll buy that. But the application of this seems so limited that especially considering the articles vagaries and the person who wrote it, I call shenanegans!
Geforce 7900 GTX
Codename: G71, 90nm technology
24 Pixel Shaders, Eight Vertex Shaders, 24 Texture Units, 16 Raster Processors
256 bit memory bus
650Mhz core, 800 Mhz DDR (1600 Mhz Effective) Memory
The Geforce 7900 GTX is Nvidia's answer to the X1900 XTX. Both of these heavyweights have their strengths and show superiority in different games and benchmarks, but neither will disappoint. The 7900 GTX will have the advantage in texturing speed, and the X1900 XTX will have the advantage in shader speed.
This one takes the cake for me at the price point of ~$340. That's just about to the point where it is way freaking too much to spend on a gaming rig. I'm gonna get one.:)
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Breaded pussy? You might be on to something here. That's a million dollar product, as long as it's still warm when it gets delivered to the table.
You're correct. However, there is a lot of 'ground plane radiation' that eminates from the base of highly directional antennas, which is why there are big fences around cell phone towers. Provided that the antennas are directional enough, standing at the base of a macrocell even (normally 60m up) will give you killer gain (normally around 20-35 db, 5 bars) provided that the Fresnel zone (the area between the two antennas) is unobstructed by anything like vegetation, trees, cars, etc. and a clear line-of-sight is maintained.
I wasn't trying to be all elitist, you guys know more about *nix/databases/any number of obscure IT things than me... I know more about antennas and radio waves. Thats the fun of a forum!!!:)
This is the chance for the FSF to actually show its mettle in the courtroom. More is at stake here than the damages. Basically, the real point that is going to be made here is: Do gnu/bsd style licensed software works create enough revenue to hire big lawyers to take on the suit? If the answer is no, is there any reason to continue with this style of licensing? I'm pretty sure Berkeley will always back up their stuff with a torrent of papers (undergrad law students get put up to everything!) but the eff is full of a bunch of volunteers that actually get paid for stuff. They won't take on a team of lawyers for free, or only principle. I guess it's time to donate to the eff/.ers!:)
Your perspective is kind of dumb when you pay a provider every month for service that does not do what you want. I have no idea how wireless providers tricked users into thinking signal problems are ALWAYS their fault. Just a tip to the wise, cell phone towers are normally broadcasting at less than 50% of capacity due to the fact they are terrified of the FCC, even though they have the licenses. I have cingular, and my wife has cingular. Both of my bosses, and everybody in my office has cingular. I called 611 on each of the phones, and filed a complaint with tech support about the 'poor service' in the area from five or six accounts. I also had one rep pull up a map and tell me the tower I was closest to. Then I found out that I was getting poor signal standing right next to it. I am a wireless engineer, so I made a couple guesses as to what could be causing the trouble (water in the fittings, disconnected pigtail, local source of interference from another carrier) and used the county locator service to find the ph# of the primary point of contact for the tower. I called the local cingular office, advised them of my situation, my trouble ticket numbers, the location of the tower, and my findings. The next day, they pointed a sector right at me and dialed up the gain. Now, I have 3-4 bars inside when I used to have to 1-2 outside. This might sound like I went to a lot of effort or something, but it took 2-3 hours tops - and now my calls don't drop!
The basic point as I see it boiled down is its more the people running kazaa/bear-share p2p are the people getting busted. Don't fault the lawyer for telling the truth - you are the one who elected the (hard-ass music-industry dick-sucking) representatives that got us here in the first place. Now the call to action is no longer nerds on/. who never leave their mother's basement screaming "DISRESPECT COPYRIGHT!!!" It isn't the 14 year old kid downloading pop on Limewire or whatever. Just don't buy *AA cds, period. Don't watch MTV/VH1/CMT or whatever. If you have a hankering for a specific type of music, start a band AND a record label - release your own stuff under a creative commons license. Then when you see the new tagline in the papers about some kid getting their parents sued for all they are worth for a couple MB of mp3s, express your outrage in the form of letters to the editor, calling your state representatives, and letting everybody know what they are up to.
Well, it would be nice if all the stickers in the world could solve this problem, but the truth is they can't. Wireless security is HARD, which is why experts get paid a lot of money. Some of you might be saying, "Have the routers auto-configure wep keys, problem solved!" and wep is not really secure at all. WPA2 is getting there, but (good)support is lacking in many oses and many chipset firmwares. Not to mention it seems the manufacturers/ratifiers want to make this as hard as possible. WEP vs WPA. PSK, AES, TKIP, WPA Personal, WPA Enterprise, WPA2 Personal/Enterprise. Allowing RADIUS as an authentication method. Then, locking down by MAC address, and ensuring each machine on the network is secure or all of the transport layer encryption in the world is for naught. It's not an easy process for even the most grizzled unix-beards among us, let alone 'The Average Consumer' who hardly can operate a hair dryer if you believe product warnings. The bill could be federal and there could be twenty stickers and pages of EULA until the consumer actually uses the device, and it still will be worthless unless the wireless industry makes the whole process easier. You shouldn't need a freaking phd in cryptology to use a wireless router.
If I hibernate my G4 Alumabook with a pcmcia card inserted, close it, remove the card, and then un-suspend it, it crashes every time. That is about as interesting of a thing for a user to do as install two wireless cards and a netcat listener. Should I show that at Defcon or would I be laughed at? Hint to everyone: OSes do weird things when the user does things outside of the realm of any programmer's expectations. No platform is 100% secure (OpenBSD) just like some products never had security even in mind (Win32). This entire thing has been blown way out of proportion by everybody involved; if an exploit really was discovered, one that does not require 3rd party software, I'm sure Apple will fix it asap.
They don't have to pay to dig up ditches and put cables to your door, and http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/09/ 01/2014237 yesterday's article confirms there will be many competitors with a lot of interesting technology by 2010. When you can serve out an 80km cell Line Of Sight with one half-wavelength tower that can hit 80MB/sec in a few years, well... wires will no longer be required. It will be the beginning of real telco/cable competition, because anybody who knows how to work the stuff and pay for the fiber backhaul can be essentially a CLEC.
"This could be just the thing for me to forget how unbearably stagnant and boring I ultimately find Oblivion to be: the ability to transmogrify into huge ogres, gigantic walking sticks and carnivorous cephalopods."
Oblivion isn't boring! You get to walk a lot.... and stuff happens... and you walk a lot
"This is the first movie" *walks*
"This is the second movie" *walks, stumbles, keeps going*
"Are you ready for the third movie?" *walkes, takes off ring, drops it, shrugs, turns around*
The buildout will cost millions, all be obsolete by 2010, (http://www.wimaxforum.org/home/) and even with just 1.5mb/256k pipes, wireless does not scale well to more than a couple hundred users at best per cell site. The non-profit will be able to get cheaper pipes, and wholesale the bandwidth... but at that point, you may as well get a larger interest in there because then at least the build-out is paid for. A non-profit will not account for the budget of competent wifi engineers and technicians, which is a lot different than normal traditional network engineers and technicians. The skillset is more small-scale embedded systems configuration and administration than rip/ospf on big beefy routers. Because the field has only been around for a few years, most of the smart people have already been snapped up by these 'interests' TFA references. There are several reasons non-profits are not fit for the task:
Wifi is more labor-intensive than traditional ISPs in the sense of field personnel, for installations and service calls. Much of the equipment is prone to failure, and normally is hanging 60' or so in the air.
Weather like Boston has is absolutely murder on the equipment. Stuff freezes, water gets in the fittings, the antennas corrode... Maintenance most likely is not as large a provision in a small donation-only budget.
The total amount of bandwidth utilized is not the greatest problem, so much as the harmonization of the spectrum caused by everybody using the access points. Also, the small embedded boards can only pass so many packets through so many interfaces before they choke up.
Because of this scalability problem with wireless, it's just hard to make profitable. The delicate balance of bandwidth vs cpu/ram vs spectrum is very hard to maintain. If they are intending on it being free or low-cost, this only exacerbates the problem... because now the non-profit would be taking a hit where the independant provider would be in the black.
They should do it like Sacramento wireless, actually making it like a city utility like water or trash, but outsourcing all of it. There is more profit for the independant operator AND the municipality that way. Bottom line, the consumers best interests would assuredly be best served by a larger corporation with a few muni networks under it's belt fulfilling the contract vs a non-profit.
Make sure that everything rlogs to an append-only hardened blackbox with a high securelevel. Preferably obsd. Also, make sure you have banners that will hold up in court. A honeypot is not something to be viewed as 'extra work' for a network administrator, but ESSENTIAL when combined with a few IDS sensors. It is the way to keep on top of your overall network security, and gives you a few extra IP blocks to add to your overall firewall ruleset. If you are really lucky, you will bring down some asshat that tries to compromise the network you have spent all those hours configuring and hardening.
You're kind of a dick man. I'm going to break six figures this year, and always fly first class. I wear band/nerd tshirts, jeans, and sneaks. I have tattoos, piercings, and wear funky glasses. I could by your judgement look like a young punk, and probably rake in more than you. Agriculture is really big where I'm from, and some real shit-kickers that didn't graduate high school are kabillionaires with their crops in liquid assets, 100% income of 100mil a year+! You cannot judge somebody's economic 'class' by the clothing they wear or the impression they leave on you.
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But, its Atlanta, GA... and all the suspects are black, and rich, which automatically means they are drug-dealing murdering thug rapists. This right here is what is wrong with America; not the *aas and drm, but cold-hearted racism via inaccurate police profiling telling us who the 'criminals' are. Lets say for example, me a married white male happened to be burning/selling cds at my house. Do you think they would send a swat team with guns drawn or Briscoe and Greene types who will make wisecracks and maybe pursuade the da to indict me sometime in the next five months? This whole thing just makes me think I want to get off this fucking ship while it's still above water.
Whooo all this canidate is about: touchy-feely hippie leftist double-talk about reducing dependance on foreign oil. None of the alternative energy sources truely warrant federal subsidy or real consideration, either hydrogen fuel cells or ethanol. I like net neutrality. I hate gun control. I really don't care for most of his far right posturing and far left voting history. The good seems to cancel out the bad with this canidate. I for one, am voting Clinton or Nader.
Remember in the late 90s how all those companies started out providing free internet based on ad viewership? Remember how they all went under, except for NetZero who despite their name, started to charge? Even if there is a way to validate that the ads are being consumed by all applicable targeted marketing metrics, it still is a question of how much is it really worth? Everyone has this huge fear of Microsoft due to them being a behemoth that cannot be stopped. Look at the xbox platform, and how much money it lost for the company. They gained mindshare, but lost dollars on the bottom line p&l. Microsoft is not really as big as the stock price indicates; just because they have all the money now does not mean they will always continue to control the industry. This whole concept of a value behind mindshare and current installed user base will mean nothing when the next clever innovator simply comes up with a better/more economical product. This could be Apple, or a Linux vendor, or anybody really. I am going to bet right now that as soon as this competition is actually stepped-up, Microsoft will topple, and the computing industry will simply hit another watershed.
When it comes down to the real enterprise Unices, ISVs, support, and scalability all need to be balanced. As a large corporation, deploying Linux, FreeBSD, or Solaris should really be a no-brainer. There has to be something to fall back upon whenever something cannot be figured out by your own staff. I don't particturally love Sun or Solaris, but know that if I get hit by a bus, the business will find people who can work with it in a couple phone calls. It also keeps things like certifications and knowing all the core competencies simple, by having one primary computing vendor for training, hardware, and software. Finally, guaranteed support for software AND hardware you need to run, especially stuff that scales vertically (like Sun's CoolThreads line) is awful convenient.
If there were more pictures, simulations, descriptions of applications already working on it. The amount of possible applications once the kinks are worked out is amazing, but the technology still seems far off.
I can totally imagine The Shat saying that with his inflections. I would mod you up if I could; good show!
No, it is NOT common for anything not incredibly critical to be on a gige line. Some people can afford tier 1 colo centers, most cannot. Even if you can afford the gige pipe, you most likely cannot afford the overage on your commit with all that traffic you have not expected and engineered coming at you. I have been dossed before, and it causes outages and huge bills.
She was fucking the guys behind ZFS.
That's actually pretty cool, I don't know if you could multiplex any more with different wavelengths down it at that point, but that smokes my oc3s.
Predicting the locations of bakeries is one thing, but what about call centers, NOCs, corn fields, and cnc shops? These are all pretty disparate examples where many variables preclude their location. For example, a call center needs access to telephone exchanges and a populace to draw against employee turnover. A NOC needs to be located where there are a lot of big pipes, preferably a tall building. A corn field needs to be in a place where there is enough fertile land that will support a large crop. A cnc shop needs to be in an industrial area with a lot of space and big doors. Not even to mention economic trends that affect this business, suggesting that even the smartest engineers and mathemeticians can correctly using physics explain all of these (mostly) subjective variables is purely absurd. A bakery or jewelery store, maybe even a grocery store or gas station.... sure, I'll buy that. But the application of this seems so limited that especially considering the articles vagaries and the person who wrote it, I call shenanegans!
Breaded pussy? You might be on to something here. That's a million dollar product, as long as it's still warm when it gets delivered to the table.
Couldn't have summed it up better myself. Thread has been beaten!
You're correct. However, there is a lot of 'ground plane radiation' that eminates from the base of highly directional antennas, which is why there are big fences around cell phone towers. Provided that the antennas are directional enough, standing at the base of a macrocell even (normally 60m up) will give you killer gain (normally around 20-35 db, 5 bars) provided that the Fresnel zone (the area between the two antennas) is unobstructed by anything like vegetation, trees, cars, etc. and a clear line-of-sight is maintained.
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I wasn't trying to be all elitist, you guys know more about *nix/databases/any number of obscure IT things than me... I know more about antennas and radio waves. Thats the fun of a forum!!!
This is the chance for the FSF to actually show its mettle in the courtroom. More is at stake here than the damages. Basically, the real point that is going to be made here is: Do gnu/bsd style licensed software works create enough revenue to hire big lawyers to take on the suit? If the answer is no, is there any reason to continue with this style of licensing? I'm pretty sure Berkeley will always back up their stuff with a torrent of papers (undergrad law students get put up to everything!) but the eff is full of a bunch of volunteers that actually get paid for stuff. They won't take on a team of lawyers for free, or only principle. I guess it's time to donate to the eff /.ers! :)
Your perspective is kind of dumb when you pay a provider every month for service that does not do what you want. I have no idea how wireless providers tricked users into thinking signal problems are ALWAYS their fault. Just a tip to the wise, cell phone towers are normally broadcasting at less than 50% of capacity due to the fact they are terrified of the FCC, even though they have the licenses. I have cingular, and my wife has cingular. Both of my bosses, and everybody in my office has cingular. I called 611 on each of the phones, and filed a complaint with tech support about the 'poor service' in the area from five or six accounts. I also had one rep pull up a map and tell me the tower I was closest to. Then I found out that I was getting poor signal standing right next to it. I am a wireless engineer, so I made a couple guesses as to what could be causing the trouble (water in the fittings, disconnected pigtail, local source of interference from another carrier) and used the county locator service to find the ph# of the primary point of contact for the tower. I called the local cingular office, advised them of my situation, my trouble ticket numbers, the location of the tower, and my findings. The next day, they pointed a sector right at me and dialed up the gain. Now, I have 3-4 bars inside when I used to have to 1-2 outside. This might sound like I went to a lot of effort or something, but it took 2-3 hours tops - and now my calls don't drop!
The basic point as I see it boiled down is its more the people running kazaa/bear-share p2p are the people getting busted. Don't fault the lawyer for telling the truth - you are the one who elected the (hard-ass music-industry dick-sucking) representatives that got us here in the first place. Now the call to action is no longer nerds on /. who never leave their mother's basement screaming "DISRESPECT COPYRIGHT!!!" It isn't the 14 year old kid downloading pop on Limewire or whatever. Just don't buy *AA cds, period. Don't watch MTV/VH1/CMT or whatever. If you have a hankering for a specific type of music, start a band AND a record label - release your own stuff under a creative commons license. Then when you see the new tagline in the papers about some kid getting their parents sued for all they are worth for a couple MB of mp3s, express your outrage in the form of letters to the editor, calling your state representatives, and letting everybody know what they are up to.
Well, it would be nice if all the stickers in the world could solve this problem, but the truth is they can't. Wireless security is HARD, which is why experts get paid a lot of money. Some of you might be saying, "Have the routers auto-configure wep keys, problem solved!" and wep is not really secure at all. WPA2 is getting there, but (good)support is lacking in many oses and many chipset firmwares. Not to mention it seems the manufacturers/ratifiers want to make this as hard as possible. WEP vs WPA. PSK, AES, TKIP, WPA Personal, WPA Enterprise, WPA2 Personal/Enterprise. Allowing RADIUS as an authentication method. Then, locking down by MAC address, and ensuring each machine on the network is secure or all of the transport layer encryption in the world is for naught. It's not an easy process for even the most grizzled unix-beards among us, let alone 'The Average Consumer' who hardly can operate a hair dryer if you believe product warnings. The bill could be federal and there could be twenty stickers and pages of EULA until the consumer actually uses the device, and it still will be worthless unless the wireless industry makes the whole process easier. You shouldn't need a freaking phd in cryptology to use a wireless router.
If I hibernate my G4 Alumabook with a pcmcia card inserted, close it, remove the card, and then un-suspend it, it crashes every time. That is about as interesting of a thing for a user to do as install two wireless cards and a netcat listener. Should I show that at Defcon or would I be laughed at? Hint to everyone: OSes do weird things when the user does things outside of the realm of any programmer's expectations. No platform is 100% secure (OpenBSD) just like some products never had security even in mind (Win32). This entire thing has been blown way out of proportion by everybody involved; if an exploit really was discovered, one that does not require 3rd party software, I'm sure Apple will fix it asap.
They don't have to pay to dig up ditches and put cables to your door, and http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/09/ 01/2014237 yesterday's article confirms there will be many competitors with a lot of interesting technology by 2010. When you can serve out an 80km cell Line Of Sight with one half-wavelength tower that can hit 80MB/sec in a few years, well... wires will no longer be required. It will be the beginning of real telco/cable competition, because anybody who knows how to work the stuff and pay for the fiber backhaul can be essentially a CLEC.
Someone gave Pee-Wee Herman an internet connection!!!
The buildout will cost millions, all be obsolete by 2010, (http://www.wimaxforum.org/home/) and even with just 1.5mb/256k pipes, wireless does not scale well to more than a couple hundred users at best per cell site. The non-profit will be able to get cheaper pipes, and wholesale the bandwidth... but at that point, you may as well get a larger interest in there because then at least the build-out is paid for. A non-profit will not account for the budget of competent wifi engineers and technicians, which is a lot different than normal traditional network engineers and technicians. The skillset is more small-scale embedded systems configuration and administration than rip/ospf on big beefy routers. Because the field has only been around for a few years, most of the smart people have already been snapped up by these 'interests' TFA references. There are several reasons non-profits are not fit for the task: Wifi is more labor-intensive than traditional ISPs in the sense of field personnel, for installations and service calls. Much of the equipment is prone to failure, and normally is hanging 60' or so in the air. Weather like Boston has is absolutely murder on the equipment. Stuff freezes, water gets in the fittings, the antennas corrode... Maintenance most likely is not as large a provision in a small donation-only budget. The total amount of bandwidth utilized is not the greatest problem, so much as the harmonization of the spectrum caused by everybody using the access points. Also, the small embedded boards can only pass so many packets through so many interfaces before they choke up. Because of this scalability problem with wireless, it's just hard to make profitable. The delicate balance of bandwidth vs cpu/ram vs spectrum is very hard to maintain. If they are intending on it being free or low-cost, this only exacerbates the problem... because now the non-profit would be taking a hit where the independant provider would be in the black. They should do it like Sacramento wireless, actually making it like a city utility like water or trash, but outsourcing all of it. There is more profit for the independant operator AND the municipality that way. Bottom line, the consumers best interests would assuredly be best served by a larger corporation with a few muni networks under it's belt fulfilling the contract vs a non-profit.
Make sure that everything rlogs to an append-only hardened blackbox with a high securelevel. Preferably obsd. Also, make sure you have banners that will hold up in court. A honeypot is not something to be viewed as 'extra work' for a network administrator, but ESSENTIAL when combined with a few IDS sensors. It is the way to keep on top of your overall network security, and gives you a few extra IP blocks to add to your overall firewall ruleset. If you are really lucky, you will bring down some asshat that tries to compromise the network you have spent all those hours configuring and hardening.
You're kind of a dick man. I'm going to break six figures this year, and always fly first class. I wear band/nerd tshirts, jeans, and sneaks. I have tattoos, piercings, and wear funky glasses. I could by your judgement look like a young punk, and probably rake in more than you. Agriculture is really big where I'm from, and some real shit-kickers that didn't graduate high school are kabillionaires with their crops in liquid assets, 100% income of 100mil a year+! You cannot judge somebody's economic 'class' by the clothing they wear or the impression they leave on you.