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Comment: Re:No offense, but... (Score 4, Insightful) 216

Where's the +6 modifier when you need it?

If you go with one provider to support Internet for the whole building, you're locked in.

Getting each apartment wired and then just letting the ISPs fight it out in the basement closet where the patch cables terminate is much safer.

You do NOT want to run your own severs in the basement.

You MAY want to mandate that individual apartments not have dish antennas sticking out their windows.

Comment: Too many secured networks. :( (Score 1) 276

by MMC Monster (#40146057) Attached to: Among APs I detect, the secured:unsecured ratio is:

At home, I have a secured wifi network and an unsecured internet-only network. Been this way since we moved in a year ago.

Wasn't a big deal, and just described it to my tech-naive wife. She was quite upset, worried that people would (1) hack into our local network or (2)steal our internet.

It took me a little convincing (and her agreeing to trust me in the matter) that it's a good thing to have an open wifi access point so we never have to tell visitors our password. Also, due to the several layers of security, anyone able to break into our LAN would not be stopped by any security I could reasonably put up. (Our closest neighbor is a couple acres away, there are no MS Windows clients on my LAN, all software is quite up to date, and the only ports open on the computers are for ssh and apache2.)

Layer security. And don't worry about the black hats unless you are either a company or make serious enemies.

Comment: Re:Super tired of these two banks. (Score 1) 267

by MMC Monster (#40089107) Attached to: SEC Calls For Review of Facebook IPO

In short, don't fret. This is the 1% fucking with the 1%. I approve of this.

Actually, it's much worse than that:

This is the 0.1% fucking the rest of the 1%. And that I do have problems with. Was with a friend on Friday morning who makes enough to be in the top 1% (I think that refers to >$370K or so). He didn't quite have enough in investments in order to get in on the FB IPO. So we watched it in real time, from the delayed opening to a couple hour into trading.

The following morning he was so glad he didn't have the amount necessary to be in the IPO.

(His investment bank's website said he needed to have half a million in investments with them to get in on the action. He was under the line by ~$50K).

Comment: Re:Troubling signal, why? (Score 2) 471

by MMC Monster (#40065887) Attached to: Facebook Shares Retreat Below IPO Price

I know what everyone is saying about how the $38 share price was perfectly picked as the correct valuation of the company, but (and I am not a financial expert) what does this mean to the people who bought in on Friday? With no major share price movement they are left with a bunch of stock certificates and all their money in the hands of FB. How does this become a worthwhile investment for them? They can't expect to get money back through increased share price, so they are going to have to rely on a dividend for returns. Is there any expectation that there will be a decent dividend?

My guess is that long term investors would look towards companies that have been on the stock market more than a single day.

Short term speculators can buy and sell the same shares 50 times a minute if they want. Who cares what it does in a day. That's like eons for those people.

FB stock IPO wasn't for the masses.

Comment: Re:Linux has won in my household. (Score 1) 1264

by MMC Monster (#39866013) Attached to: Why Desktop Linux Hasn't Taken Off

Err... Not in this case.

I see him at work everyday. Last week he mentioned how he had watched a movie on it that I had put on my system just a week earlier. (I set his system up to rsync my video collection every night. That way he gets more free videos and I get an off-sight backup for free. :)

Comment: Re:Thought this stuff died (Score 1) 196

by MMC Monster (#39848697) Attached to: Microsoft Forges Ahead With New Home-Automation OS

Just built a "smart home".

It has thermostats which can be programmed, whole-house audio that can be adjusted on a per-room basis, control of by ADT security system, and control of a couple lights.

I don't see anything else that really matters. And I agree about the lights. More of a novelty than anything else. I set them up to turn on and off when I'm on vacation, but I could have done the same thing with a couple $5 outlet timers.

Not cheap, by the way. I used Control4, if it makes a difference.

Comment: Re:Linux has won in my household. (Score 2) 1264

by MMC Monster (#39848363) Attached to: Why Desktop Linux Hasn't Taken Off

Let me count in mine:
2 iPhones
1 iPad
2 HTPCs running OpenElec (Linux)
1 MacBook
1 Desktop (Ubuntu 10.04)

So:
3 iOS
1 Mac OS X
3 Linux

More telling: My neighbor wanted me to set up a HTPC after he saw mine in action. It's running OpenElec (Linux). I installed it 5 months ago and he hasn't called for tech support since.

When the ax entered the forest, the trees said, "The handle is one of us!" -- Turkish proverb

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