[edit : sorry, that's the repost under my account. My bad.]
On the first point I would recommend you stick with a simple ecosystem of same vendor / same model, or better then, with a spare one of another model of another vendor, just in case;) (as far as monoculture is a concern, that would solve it). But the point is that routers of the same kind tend to have more reasons to interoperate better.
Another interesting choice : Make a map of the estimated coverage interlap of the routers in the field. Then colorize it with a color for each choosen channel, so that never two neighbors (closest overlapping person in that direction) share the same color. With channel 1, 6 and 11, you would get 3 colors, but nstead of using 3 colors, use 4 colors by letting frequencies overlap better if 3 don't suffice. That would make channels 1, 5, 8, 11 (I prefer to give the extra space to the lowest frequency, on the logic that it spreads a bit better, so would be the least at ease).
Then, of course, if you could use some power control. Listen to neighbors, estimate their activity relatively to yours, and scale your power according to that difference. The less you're active, the less you merit to dispensate your imprint on the local spectrum.
My 2 cents, of course. But I admit I did a Ph.D in a related field.
Give the SC101T a second look. It's fanless, has a double hard drive and now (101 model T) a correct bandwith. Still these f*ckin' zetera drivers, but besides this, it's really nice. Redundancy, noiseless, low energy consumption, small, cheap. Just fcking zetera, but if you're running windows that should be ok.
But I guess that correctly spelling more than three successive letters in a foreign language is too damn hard for a nation that still has creationists;).
I used to take the TGV every week-end back and forth from Paris to Avignon. You travel through the entire country in 2:45, _routinely_. Then the most beautiful thing in that fact is that in the meantime you pass through so many different landscapes. You switch wonderful landscapes like postcards, but they're real. Sometimes you get the simple impression of being like a kid kneeled over a big train model, simply moving on the side, your head close to the floor. It's wonderful.
The blowing fact is that TGV makes this a reality for everyone since almost 24 years (commercial operation since 27 September 1981). While other trains are more of prototypes, this and the reliability (the TGV train is that with the lowest statistics of wreckage among all transportations system, by far !!) of system make it a _real_ wonder.
I remember a japanese train reaching about 600kph in a test drive, and then taking fire;).
Three more points:
First, if you judge 517kph is nothing to brag about (and sure a velocity or number -- except statistics for Rocco Siffredi;) -- is never something to brag about in itself), you can't just compare train and planes. A train rolls on rails, and the main problem is the speed at which the pantograph slides along the catenary. The friction exerted here becomes a real limiting factor. And the vibrations generated can simply make the catenary jump out of the pantograph. So yes, that speed is as much to brag about as the speed at which the challenger shuttle reenters atmosphere.
Second is the total time. TGV goes from town center to town center. When taking the plane, you have to go to the airport, which usually far away from the city, and you're subject to weather conditions and plane being late. Comparably the TGV's average time reliability is far better (although, sometimes happens it's like plane, or cabs in traffic jams... Perfection is hard to attain). For travels under 1000kms, the total time TGV brings from city center to city center is shorter. Not to mention that you plan less time ahead for unexpected delays.
Ecologically comparing, third, the electric train is by far the best. While TGV costs more energy to operate than a standard train, for the other transportation means it competes with (cars for 100 mile range, plane for 600 mile range), it's clearly the cleanest.
About Steven Evans's article, which I won't describe first as an idiotic (if not anything more premeditated and targeted) flaming about linux users. No fact, and no relationship has at the moment ever been found between any opensource "zealot", and this virus. Don't forget that, as this article contribute to do, this kind of irresponsible behavior would hurt more the opensource community than anything else. To the point where the exact opposite deduction can be made as well about this virus, leading to suspect any open source opponent (such as Microsoft, for an example, but who knows ?) who could leak this wrecking piece of bad-code on purpose to draw suspicion upon the open source defenders. Let me recall two (or, go, three) points to the man who pretends to be a columnist here:
- to the date, not any one of the claims of sco remains proven, and even sco's CEO was quoted as saying SCO forged these complaints in a last temptative to escape bankruptcy. So any deontologic respecting professionnal could not give in any of the two thesis without mentioning this fact
- your journalist says open source people want the code for free. He forgets to say that they want the code THEY made to be free for OTHERS. In no part of the GNU/open source manifest is written that all software must be free. They don't ask microsoft to stope selling windows. They give for free an alternative system that they made. Period. (And multiplicity has always been proved to gain evolution, to date. But the point here is not in advocating pros and cons of open source software, it's correcting what has been misinterpretated.)
- thirdly, when nothing is proven, it's in the basics of journalistic deontology to mention it first. In this 3+ kbyte article of pure free flamins, the only mention comes in the last half in the form of six words, "There's no proof, of course", as quickly discarder as they were told, and before the point arrives. This was however the only sure fact of this article, safe the fact there's a virus called "MyDoom", targeting SCO's website... And you call this guy journalist. Might as well give me the seat, I'd make a better use of it, I think.
There ARE actually wars, mostly everywhere but in our calm occidental realms. Wake up guyz.
But do populations there have even the possibility to reach slashdot.
Think of it.
It's funny, for once I find some moderate propos, I'm ok with you. But I don't really care what SOME stupid, as we all have in every population, could say. And yes, I'm french:).
Vincent again
>would you want to work with somebody from France that does not know English?
Actually I think than most of the french ppl speak english, not always fluent but at least enough for most of daylife uses.
And if you really like to speak fluent english and be understood, ok, there will only be one fifth of the population to talk to about ginsberg;)
And, btw, it doesn't seem to me than american speak good french, when they come to get some advice. That's no problem, but you come to a foreign country, where more than 2 third of the people make the effort to understand you and talk to you in your mother language, you don't know theirs, and you says "Oh my god, it's horrible being with these savages from france, who do not know english".
Don't say it too loud, french around you perfectly understand what you just said;).
One thing : ppl from Paris are not always welcoming, and sometimes f*cking morons, but Paris is not France, and just go elsewhere, you'll find better people. And who will welcome you.
Vincent
and next time you express yourself, don't post anonymously, guy.
So, as you're talking english, you know, we're mostly civilised here;). I bet we all know your language, at least a bit. So for france, no problems. For italia, english is a bit less fluent (as myself too I don't speak italian, I had to use english at the beginning when going wildly to Italy. With some old people I had little problems being understood, for young ppl, it's mostly good.. enough)
But butbutbut...
The opposition is : do you like nervous ppl under a gray sky, in a wonderful city, or cool ppl under a blue sky in a not-less wonderful city ?
Paris is colder than Rome... But, eh, you know, France is not only Paris, as Italy is not only Rome !
people from Marseille are really cool guys (I'm from there;) ),
but if you want a job, well, of course Paris or Rome. You can also find a job in Aix-en-provence. It's one of the most beauthiful cities in france (personnaly I find people here smell too much fashion and pride, but, eh, I'm a Rognes town (2Kppl) guy).
And if you're really looking for a french work, try www.emploi.com. Good stuff.
Vincent (vince_b@hotmail.com)
I think that event if they try to 'indocrtinate' children, they will, growing, go see other things with adolescence. So, I think it's the good point. One of the best friends I have, really cool and good linux coder and interested since a long time (remember 1.2 kernels), has first begun programming on Windows.
When he discovered Linux:)....
This patent covers the act of making a new mother cell which genetic information comes from two different complete genetic material of the same specie (referred here as 'parents'). The resulting cell has a DNA shared in two pairs, each having one and only one instance of every locuses in the specie, and one and only one instance of every void sequence known in the specie, the first and the second pair having for every locus allele one of the two alleles contained in the locus of respectively the first and the second parent. Every processes performing this act is subject to this patent.
this patens should cover any method of sexuated reproduction.
Try to convince a Rose she's making a copyright iunfrighment.
Vincent, Paris
We were nine when our teacher, in a little school in the south of France, made with us our first project in MS BASIC (french Thomson MO5 compputers), that was a Power 4 (Puissance 4 in French, game where you put coins in the seven columns of a 7*6 matrix, in order to align 4 coins before the other (gravity only allows you to put coins over top coins of the row)). We used a 40*24 8*8pixel character and redefined a part of the characters bitmaps (encoded in decimal in DATA fields, conversions made as an exercise, imagine the bet for a 9years old kids class), while the program was checking every move, having forced inputs (no buffer overflows here;p), and finding who was winning [it just lacked AI, but I think it would have a little bit too hard for us kids, and thus disgusted even the most passionated of us (me for instance;oP)]. Then I had a computer, made my own programs in basic (and mostly lost a lot of time doing nothing at all of productive, but eh...). One day I saw a review of a game (Xenon 2 on Atari ST, by the Bitmap Bros), the game magazine explaining that the game was 800Kbytes of pure assembly code. I subscribed for Assembly courses, bought me an assembler, and started at 12 my first asm program (stupid ClearScreen). Then did almost nothing for 4 Years but algorithms in Basic again (sound compression, fractal imaging and a printer dithering driver for printing 24bit images on my DeskJet550C printer). Then back to assembly for a bit more of word (principally demo effects and sound thingies on 68030, then using DSP56001 (on Atari Falcon 030 - greaat machine I still have) and finishing by using and programming PCs (a bit of demo too on 486 and early pentiums). Then I'm now a dumb ass in computer science wasting my time on stupid web sites doing nothing but Windows administration to pay my lunch, room and Flysurf;-). They'll loveit yeah, Basic (I also read lots of programming articles, and before basic, I had as french kids did, learnt LOGO around 7 and 8 years old. Great educational stuff !). Vincent
The net seems to move toward a giant TVfication, I mean ads and stupid pointless big sites diffusing intox into the steady looking led-as-blind audience pool (panurgian sheeps, beeeh)... Maybe I would like a revolution and the becoming of a new democracy life structure. But well, I don't know.
Yes all this seems wonderful. But you don't have to forget to eat at lunch, child;-).
Nope, just a joke, but the main impression often seen in reading this is that we go full speed, of course... but what do we aim ? I mean, what this all technology is lying all on top of ? Mostly must we take the time to shut down the computer, go at the window and enjoy the simple everyday revolution, and such great and fresh feelings getting with, of a sunrise ! Yes this is simply simple, but maybe that's why we often forget it, eheh;)
Slashdot Mirror
[edit : sorry, that's the repost under my account. My bad.]
On the first point I would recommend you stick with a simple ecosystem of same vendor / same model, or better then, with a spare one of another model of another vendor, just in case ;) (as far as monoculture is a concern, that would solve it). But the point is that routers of the same kind tend to have more reasons to interoperate better.
Another interesting choice : Make a map of the estimated coverage interlap of the routers in the field. Then colorize it with a color for each choosen channel, so that never two neighbors (closest overlapping person in that direction) share the same color.
With channel 1, 6 and 11, you would get 3 colors, but nstead of using 3 colors, use 4 colors by letting frequencies overlap better if 3 don't suffice. That would make channels 1, 5, 8, 11 (I prefer to give the extra space to the lowest frequency, on the logic that it spreads a bit better, so would be the least at ease).
Then, of course, if you could use some power control. Listen to neighbors, estimate their activity relatively to yours, and scale your power according to that difference. The less you're active, the less you merit to dispensate your imprint on the local spectrum.
My 2 cents, of course. But I admit I did a Ph.D in a related field.
Yeah, it's doing 3.4+ sustained petaflops and growing, but heck it's not general purpose, so it won't get into the top500 anytime soon.
Besides, the perf/watt ratio is not so good given all these windows machines contributing 6% of the power with 60% of the cpus ;).
Ares V is 71 ton to TLI. To LEO it's 130 ton. Beats Energia. Later and if it finally gets built, but beats it.
Give the SC101T a second look. It's fanless, has a double hard drive and now (101 model T) a correct bandwith. Still these f*ckin' zetera drivers, but besides this, it's really nice. Redundancy, noiseless, low energy consumption, small, cheap. Just fcking zetera, but if you're running windows that should be ok.
Then you woke up and the smell prompted you to rinse that dry beer off your beard. Man, never again, such an overhang...
You're so stylish, man !
Besides, it's Nicolas, not Nicholas.
;).
Like it's Vive, not Viva.
But I guess that correctly spelling more than three successive letters in a foreign language is too damn hard for a nation that still has creationists
Sincères salutations.
Tsutomu Shimomura ? You mean, the guy who got Kevin Mitnick arrested ?
;).
Such a coincidence. And such a short memory for slashdot editors
Did you zoom at the most level : The moon, in fact, is made of _cheese_ (is it cheddar, Gromit ?)
And you also forgot we already know how to make an H-Bomb. That would be no use.
Want another piece of H-cake ?
I used to take the TGV every week-end back and forth from Paris to Avignon.
;).
:
;) -- is never something to brag about in itself), you can't just compare train and planes. A train rolls on rails, and the main problem is the speed at which the pantograph slides along the catenary. The friction exerted here becomes a real limiting factor. And the vibrations generated can simply make the catenary jump out of the pantograph. So yes, that speed is as much to brag about as the speed at which the challenger shuttle reenters atmosphere.
;).
You travel through the entire country in 2:45, _routinely_.
Then the most beautiful thing in that fact is that in the meantime you pass through so many different landscapes.
You switch wonderful landscapes like postcards, but they're real.
Sometimes you get the simple impression of being like a kid kneeled over a big train model, simply moving on the side, your head close to the floor.
It's wonderful.
The blowing fact is that TGV makes this a reality for everyone since almost 24 years (commercial operation since 27 September 1981). While other trains are more of prototypes, this and the reliability (the TGV train is that with the lowest statistics of wreckage among all transportations system, by far !!) of system make it a _real_ wonder.
I remember a japanese train reaching about 600kph in a test drive, and then taking fire
Three more points
First, if you judge 517kph is nothing to brag about (and sure a velocity or number -- except statistics for Rocco Siffredi
Second is the total time. TGV goes from town center to town center. When taking the plane, you have to go to the airport, which usually far away from the city, and you're subject to weather conditions and plane being late. Comparably the TGV's average time reliability is far better (although, sometimes happens it's like plane, or cabs in traffic jams... Perfection is hard to attain). For travels under 1000kms, the total time TGV brings from city center to city center is shorter. Not to mention that you plan less time ahead for unexpected delays.
Ecologically comparing, third, the electric train is by far the best. While TGV costs more energy to operate than a standard train, for the other transportation means it competes with (cars for 100 mile range, plane for 600 mile range), it's clearly the cleanest.
And, it's so comfortable !
OK, gotta work now
About Steven Evans's article, :
which I won't describe first as an idiotic (if not anything more premeditated and targeted) flaming about linux users.
No fact, and no relationship has at the moment ever been found between any opensource "zealot", and this virus. Don't forget that, as this article contribute to do, this kind of irresponsible behavior would hurt more the opensource community than anything else. To the point where the exact opposite deduction can be made as well about this virus, leading to suspect any open source opponent (such as Microsoft, for an example, but who knows ?) who could leak this wrecking piece of bad-code on purpose to draw suspicion upon the open source defenders.
Let me recall two (or, go, three) points to the man who pretends to be a columnist here
- to the date, not any one of the claims of sco remains proven, and even sco's CEO was quoted as saying SCO forged these complaints in a last temptative to escape bankruptcy. So any deontologic respecting professionnal could not give in any of the two thesis without mentioning this fact
- your journalist says open source people want the code for free. He forgets to say that they want the code THEY made to be free for OTHERS. In no part of the GNU/open source manifest is written that all software must be free. They don't ask microsoft to stope selling windows. They give for free an alternative system that they made. Period. (And multiplicity has always been proved to gain evolution, to date. But the point here is not in advocating pros and cons of open source software, it's correcting what has been misinterpretated.)
- thirdly, when nothing is proven, it's in the basics of journalistic deontology to mention it first. In this 3+ kbyte article of pure free flamins, the only mention comes in the last half in the form of six words, "There's no proof, of course", as quickly discarder as they were told, and before the point arrives. This was however the only sure fact of this article, safe the fact there's a virus called "MyDoom", targeting SCO's website...
And you call this guy journalist.
Might as well give me the seat, I'd make a better use of it, I think.
Sincerely, Vincent.
There ARE actually wars, mostly everywhere but in our calm occidental realms. Wake up guyz. But do populations there have even the possibility to reach slashdot. Think of it.
just look at HAL :)
and other things.
My dog is fully self-reprogrammable, more than twice a day (sleep/eat).
Except that I have no dog.
vincent
It's funny, for once I find some moderate propos, I'm ok with you. But I don't really care what SOME stupid, as we all have in every population, could say. And yes, I'm french :).
Vincent again
>would you want to work with somebody from France that does not know English? ;)
And, btw, it doesn't seem to me than american speak good french, when they come to get some advice. That's no problem, but you come to a foreign country, where more than 2 third of the people make the effort to understand you and talk to you in your mother language, you don't know theirs, and you says "Oh my god, it's horrible being with these savages from france, who do not know english".
;).
Actually I think than most of the french ppl speak english, not always fluent but at least enough for most of daylife uses. And if you really like to speak fluent english and be understood, ok, there will only be one fifth of the population to talk to about ginsberg
Don't say it too loud, french around you perfectly understand what you just said
One thing : ppl from Paris are not always welcoming, and sometimes f*cking morons, but Paris is not France, and just go elsewhere, you'll find better people. And who will welcome you.
Vincent
and next time you express yourself, don't post anonymously, guy.
So, as you're talking english, you know, we're mostly civilised here ;). I bet we all know your language, at least a bit. So for france, no problems. For italia, english is a bit less fluent (as myself too I don't speak italian, I had to use english at the beginning when going wildly to Italy. With some old people I had little problems being understood, for young ppl, it's mostly good.. enough)
But butbutbut...
The opposition is : do you like nervous ppl under a gray sky, in a wonderful city, or cool ppl under a blue sky in a not-less wonderful city ?
Paris is colder than Rome... But, eh, you know, France is not only Paris, as Italy is not only Rome !
people from Marseille are really cool guys (I'm from there ;) ),
but if you want a job, well, of course Paris or Rome. You can also find a job in Aix-en-provence. It's one of the most beauthiful cities in france (personnaly I find people here smell too much fashion and pride, but, eh, I'm a Rognes town (2Kppl) guy).
And if you're really looking for a french work, try www.emploi.com. Good stuff.
Vincent (vince_b@hotmail.com)
I think that event if they try to 'indocrtinate' children, they will, growing, go see other things with adolescence. So, I think it's the good point. One of the best friends I have, really cool and good linux coder and interested since a long time (remember 1.2 kernels), has first begun programming on Windows. When he discovered Linux :)....
This patent covers the act of making a new mother cell which genetic information comes from two different complete genetic material of the same specie (referred here as 'parents'). The resulting cell has a DNA shared in two pairs, each having one and only one instance of every locuses in the specie, and one and only one instance of every void sequence known in the specie, the first and the second pair having for every locus allele one of the two alleles contained in the locus of respectively the first and the second parent. Every processes performing this act is subject to this patent. this patens should cover any method of sexuated reproduction. Try to convince a Rose she's making a copyright iunfrighment. Vincent, Paris
We were nine when our teacher, in a little school in the south of France, made with us our first project in MS BASIC (french Thomson MO5 compputers), that was a Power 4 (Puissance 4 in French, game where you put coins in the seven columns of a 7*6 matrix, in order to align 4 coins before the other (gravity only allows you to put coins over top coins of the row)). We used a 40*24 8*8pixel character and redefined a part of the characters bitmaps (encoded in decimal in DATA fields, conversions made as an exercise, imagine the bet for a 9years old kids class), while the program was checking every move, having forced inputs (no buffer overflows here ;p), and finding who was winning [it just lacked AI, but I think it would have a little bit too hard for us kids, and thus disgusted even the most passionated of us (me for instance ;oP)]. Then I had a computer, made my own programs in basic (and mostly lost a lot of time doing nothing at all of productive, but eh...). One day I saw a review of a game (Xenon 2 on Atari ST, by the Bitmap Bros), the game magazine explaining that the game was 800Kbytes of pure assembly code. I subscribed for Assembly courses, bought me an assembler, and started at 12 my first asm program (stupid ClearScreen). Then did almost nothing for 4 Years but algorithms in Basic again (sound compression, fractal imaging and a printer dithering driver for printing 24bit images on my DeskJet550C printer). Then back to assembly for a bit more of word (principally demo effects and sound thingies on 68030, then using DSP56001 (on Atari Falcon 030 - greaat machine I still have) and finishing by using and programming PCs (a bit of demo too on 486 and early pentiums). Then I'm now a dumb ass in computer science wasting my time on stupid web sites doing nothing but Windows administration to pay my lunch, room and Flysurf ;-). They'll loveit yeah, Basic (I also read lots of programming articles, and before basic, I had as french kids did, learnt LOGO around 7 and 8 years old. Great educational stuff !). Vincent
The net seems to move toward a giant TVfication, I mean ads and stupid pointless big sites diffusing intox into the steady looking led-as-blind audience pool (panurgian sheeps, beeeh)... Maybe I would like a revolution and the becoming of a new democracy life structure. But well, I don't know.
Yes all this seems wonderful. But you don't have to forget to eat at lunch, child ;-).
Nope, just a joke, but the main impression often seen in reading this is that we go full speed, of course... but what do we aim ? I mean, what this all technology is lying all on top of ? Mostly must we take the time to shut down the computer, go at the window and enjoy the simple everyday revolution, and such great and fresh feelings getting with, of a sunrise ! Yes this is simply simple, but maybe that's why we often forget it, eheh ;)