Comment Re:Ethernet (Score 1) 5
I also would like to ensure the bandwidth is distributed as equitably as possible.
Comment Re:Ethernet (Score 1) 5
Thank you for your input. Any ideas on access points or routers? The current boxes are located in various bottom floor rooms underneath the desk in two story buildings. I was looking at Cisco Aironet series for the access points but am not yet sold on either these or a router. It would also be nice to have some central management for the APs.
Also, how would I determine if the wiring is adequate. Are there any wireless solutions that can provide adequate and reliable coverage in this situation?
Submission + - Best WiFi solution for motel 5
dynamo52 writes: I have been tasked with replacing a managed WiFi system for a mid-sized hotel. They have already selected Comcast to provide a 100mbps connection which unfortunately must come in at one corner of the property which I would estimate covers approximately 4-5 acres. The hotel plans to provide this service for free so there is not the need for any type of billing management systems or the like though it should be secured enough that the parking lot does not become a free WiFi hotspot. Additionally, there is no ethernet infrastructure in place. The existing APs (hidden away in proprietary encasements) seem to be connected via telephone lines and the owners have strongly indicated they would prefer that no new wiring be installed.
Have any Slashdotters implemented similar systems? Specifically, what hardware did you use and what special considerations should I take in designing this system?
Have any Slashdotters implemented similar systems? Specifically, what hardware did you use and what special considerations should I take in designing this system?
Comment Re:Are they -trying- to kill Firefox? (Score 5, Insightful) 683
Exactly. Add-ons are the only reason I use Firefox. If they simply start breaking at random I might as well just use Chrome.
Comment Re:Common Sense, anyone? (Score 1) 788
The overwhelming majority of Yanks are great people, you begin to ask yourself "where did GWB actually come from" after meeting some actual Texans and finding out that they can not only be polite, but eloquent and intelligent.
Name recognition and the people running against him had the personality of a stick.
That and the fact that he didn't actually win either election. They never counted the votes in Florida and there are still no reasonable explanations for the discrepancies in Ohio.
Comment Re:Don't use made up words (Score 1) 187
If I had points I wouldn't know whether to mod this funny or informative.
Comment Re:Fungal infections are rare in humans (Score 4, Informative) 125
Toxoplasmosis is not a fungus, but a protozoan (single cell creature) parasite, fungus is in the plant kingdom.
No, fungi are their own kingdom.
Comment Re:gmail spam filters (Score 1) 183
I do something similar. I run my own mail server and use my name as the domain name. I use a catchall account for most email. Any website or business that requests an email address gets something on the order of sitename@myname.com. If any address starts getting spammed I simply set the server to reject it. I do the same thing with friends and family where I tell them to use yourname@myname.com. This way I can route those emails to a "preferred" account which I then forward to my cell carriers mms server. This allows me to read them as a text but without the character limit.
Comment Re:Missing the point (Score 1) 507
A bookie is basically an individual betting against the crowd. The bookie nearly always wins. If the crowd had the upper hand, there wouldn't be many bookies left
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You obviously have no idea how a book making works. Any bookie actually putting his own money on the line wouldn't last very long.
Comment Re:Just what they need (Score 0, Flamebait) 124
That is probably why it is modded as Funny. Everybody knows that Fox News commentators don't express relevant opinions. They only spread fear and misinformation to people who don't want any annoying facts disrupting their world view.
Comment Re:Give them an inch (Score 1) 1224
Wonder if we'll ever see Colbert gagged because some right-wing terrorist realized they were being made fun of
Not very likely, 'cause that would require a right-wing terrorist to, you know, actually realize they were being made of! I'm sure subtle satire is beyond the ken of most of them.
Unfortunately for this country, you are absolutely correct.
Submission + - Microsoft More Secure Than Apple, Adobe? (tomshardware.com)
dynamo52 writes: "Now when you look at Microsoft today they do more to secure their software than anyone. They're the model for how to do it. They're not perfect; there's room for improvement. But they are definitely doing more than anybody else in the industry, I would say. From an internal process in how they go about auditing their code and securing software from a technical perspective, they do have one of the best models. The area they still have room for improvement is around time lines of how long it takes for them to fix things."
Marc Maiffret is now pointing to Adobe and Apple as being companies who are lacking in the security department. "They are starting to get black eyes with people saying Adobe is a bigger worry than Microsoft is at the moment, which I agree with. As those things are happening, Adobe and Apple and other companies are starting to pay attention and care more. But a year ago, it was still very much a marketing thing. People from both companies treated it as a marketing problem. They didn't have good technical structures behind the scenes."
Marc Maiffret is now pointing to Adobe and Apple as being companies who are lacking in the security department. "They are starting to get black eyes with people saying Adobe is a bigger worry than Microsoft is at the moment, which I agree with. As those things are happening, Adobe and Apple and other companies are starting to pay attention and care more. But a year ago, it was still very much a marketing thing. People from both companies treated it as a marketing problem. They didn't have good technical structures behind the scenes."
Submission + - Skinput makes the entire body a touch interface (goodgearguide.com.au) 1
angry tapir writes: "Microsoft Research and Carnegie Mellon University have unveiled work at the Computer Human Interaction conference in Atlanta that makes an entire body a touch interface. Called Skinput, the system listens to the sounds made by tapping on parts of a body and pairs those sounds with actions that drive tasks on a computer or cell phone."
Submission + - First Look: Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 (infoworld.com)
snydeq writes: "InfoWorld's Martin Heller provides an in-depth review of Visual Studio 2010 and finds Microsoft taking several large steps away from its legacy IDE code. 'Visual Studio 2010 is a major upgrade in functionality and capability from its predecessor. Developers, architects, and testers will all find areas where the new version makes their jobs easier. Despite the higher pricing for this version, most serious Microsoft-oriented shops will upgrade to Visual Studio 2010 and never look back,' Heller writes. Chief among the improvements are Microsoft's revamping the core editing and designer views to use WPF, its overhaul of IntelliSense and support for test-driven development, and its intelligent support for multiple versions of the .Net Framework."
Submission + - Every Black Hole Contains Another Universe? (nationalgeographic.com)
dynamo52 writes:
Like part of a cosmic Russian doll, our universe may be nested inside a black hole that is itself part of a larger universe.
In turn, all the black holes found so far in our universe--from the microscopic to the supermassive--may be doorways into alternate realities.
I had a similar thought one time based on a mathematical model I saw while reading a book on string theory. I also considered that each successive black hole could cause a dimension to "collapse". (i.e. our universe would be derived from a black hole in a universe with 4 spatial dimensions) Of course, I am not a physicist but it is interesting to see that they have similar ideas.
