The Small Rants Thread, Continued...

[linklord231]

aren't ridiculously long cables are really cheap though?

Yeah, but not everyone wants a stupidly long cable running through their house.  It's a tripping hazard and an eyesore.  And if it's a rental, it's not like you can permanently alter the house in order to hide the cable or run it through walls or something. 

[Kuroimaken]

setup a repeater.

How would a machinegun help? 

Also, part of my beef with this whole thing is that the farthest from the primary connection, the more the connection speed drops. Or so I'm told anyways. There's something like 60-something meters from my room to the office.

[littha]

The cable that brings my computer internet connection from the office all the way to my room is starting to act weird. I called the phone company about installing a modem in my room and I learned that in order to do that I'd need a secondary phone line.

Therefore, the best connection spot IN THE WHOLE GODDAMN HOUSE remains at the office - even though there's no need for the most bandwidth to be there. My apartment was built in the 60's, so the walls are thick as hell - which means a Wi-Fi connection loses 60-70% of its signal strength before it gets to my room.

This sucks MAJOR balls.

I had a similar problem (I ended up using a wireless router) except that my house was built in the 1490s and has nearly metre thick stone walls in some places.

[Kuroimaken]

The cable that brings my computer internet connection from the office all the way to my room is starting to act weird. I called the phone company about installing a modem in my room and I learned that in order to do that I'd need a secondary phone line.

Therefore, the best connection spot IN THE WHOLE GODDAMN HOUSE remains at the office - even though there's no need for the most bandwidth to be there. My apartment was built in the 60's, so the walls are thick as hell - which means a Wi-Fi connection loses 60-70% of its signal strength before it gets to my room.

This sucks MAJOR balls.

I had a similar problem (I ended up using a wireless router) except that my house was built in the 1490s and has nearly metre thick stone walls in some places.

How the fuck did you solve that?

[littha]

Really powerful wireless router and several relays.

[ariasderros]

It's 3 in the morning, I have to wake up at 8, and I can't sleep.  Why can't I sleep?  Because for some reason I have a constant running dialog in my head.

First, let me explain.  I have conversations with myself internally, I've always been like this.  Sometimes I'm consciously in control of both sides, sometimes I (for lack of a better term) talk to my subconscious and it just throws unexpected responses at me and I don't really have control over the direction of the conversation.

This is an internal dialog of the second variety, and I'm currently being interviewed as if I was a political candidate talking about the separate topics of political corrections and religion.  This has been going on for at least twenty minutes, and I'm hoping that by writing this post my brain will be sufficiently distracted and shut up.

I have no explanation for how weird I am sometimes.  Now I just have to hope I don't come off as some kind of crazy person.   

I will have up to 12-way conversations at a time, some of which "I" am not even actually participating in. Just listening in my head and usually going WTF.

Of course, I'm diagnosed mild schizoid. Mostly b/c of other issues though.

[altpersona]

[wifi]

first question :

do you have access to a good half way point between you and the source wifi?

second interjection:

for residential purposes 60 meters is a long way for wifi.

thrid observation:

repeaters add lag but speeds can stay high.

a cable would be the best solution, if physical obstructions were not a problem.

fourth how:

a repeater is a wifi router that blindly repeats signals to and fro.

when i had one setup, i used a router that was dd-wrt compatible.

i googled something like "repeater dd-wrt"

it provided a step by step instruction that i didnt memorize.

something like this http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/Repeater_Bridge is what i found before.

fifth afterwards:

to rig wifi at work we attempted a long distance connection, about 1/2 to 1/2 mile line of sight.

we bought 5w routers.

most routers are closer to 120mw.

competitive wifi groups use 1w and can get a connection over 237ish miles, point to point. but this is without obstruction using satellite antennas pointed at each other.

http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/19/venezuelans-set-new-wifi-distance-record-237-miles/

sixth the hybrid.

how from from the source can a cable be ran? or how far from you can a cable be ran?

if you can cut the distance from one side w/ a hard cable then wifi the rest, you should get better results.

[JohnnyMayHymn]

The next time a co-worker calls a directory(folder) a database just because it has a lot of files in it, I'm going ape shit.

The worst part is that it keeps coming up and several people wrongly agree.

Emp1 "Where is this file in the database?"
Emp2 "Go to the H drive and then doc templates"
Emp1 "Oh got it thanks"
Me.   Bites tongue in nerd rage

[darqueseid]

da·ta·base 
noun
1. a comprehensive collection of related data organized for convenient access, generally in a computer.

Technically, a folder(especially the one you describe) meets the definition.  I know what your saying, but before you nerd-rage, they aren't TOTALLY off-base.

[X-Codes]

Directories are not organized. Not like an actual database.

[Halinn]

Directories are not organized. Not like an actual database.

I can totally sort my databases in alphabetical order

[altpersona]

or by date or sub location or several other descriptors.

especially once you move past FAT partitions, files systems are increasingly databasey.

once you get to journalling, im not sure of a better way to describe it than as a database.

not that i disagree w/ you.

[X-Codes]

Directories are not organized. Not like an actual database.

I can totally sort my databases in alphabetical order

You're not sorting them, you're re-organizing how they look on your gui. The files themselves are in the exact same place as before.

or by date or sub location or several other descriptors.

especially once you move past FAT partitions, files systems are increasingly databasey.

once you get to journalling, im not sure of a better way to describe it than as a database.

not that i disagree w/ you.

Looking at it this way, a directory still isn't a database.  A query would be a more apt way to look at it, imo.
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[altpersona]

granted, a directory its self is not a whole database.

didnt exactly mean to say the single directory was.

[Tshern]

The best day ever? You first hear your friend got dumped and to follow the real manners of my country, we went drinking. The funny thing was that when I got back home I had a message telling that now I am indeed officially single.

[linklord231]

The best day ever? You first hear your friend got dumped and to follow the real manners of my country, we went drinking. The funny thing was that when I got back home I had a message telling that now I am indeed officially single.

It just means you were pregaming, and so now you can go drink more!

[SorO_Lost]

The best day ever? You first hear your friend got dumped and to follow the real manners of my country, we went drinking. The funny thing was that when I got back home I had a message telling that now I am indeed officially single.

Nope, you lost your threesome.

Get another one.

[Tshern]

So day two of solving relationship troubles the Finnish way. We shall see how my head feels tomorrow.

[Mooncrow]

Facebook is starting to make me rage every time I look at it.  People who are ignorant about politics shouldn't be allowed to speak about them.  I don't expect a degree in PoliSci or anything, but at least understand the basics.  For fucks sake, it's the information age, there's no excuse not to have a clue anymore.  Most people lack the political knowledge equivalent of 1 +1, but that doesn't stop them from thinking they're a goddamn university professor on the subject. 

Gah, I hate people. 

[Sinfire Titan]

Facebook is starting to make me rage every time I look at it.  People who are ignorant about politics shouldn't be allowed to speak about them.  I don't expect a degree in PoliSci or anything, but at least understand the basics.  For fucks sake, it's the information age, there's no excuse not to have a clue anymore.  Most people lack the political knowledge equivalent of 1 +1, but that doesn't stop them from thinking they're a goddamn university professor on the subject. 

Gah, I hate people.

To be honest, my understanding of politics isn't that good, but I do at least know not only the basics of how our [the US] government is supposed to work, I also know how to use Google to back up my words (step 1: Wiki, step 2: check the References and Sources links at the bottom of the page, step 3: Read).