Dave

Just a sidenote: if you're running ZoneAlarm, you need to set your zone to "Trusted" in the zone configuration doodah. That's a technical term

I think we can safely assume that the block is stationary in this case.

To me that seems like a reasonable compromise. There's (usually) a couple of days warning before a hurricane strikes a particular area so there shouldn't be a problem about getting there in time. Just seems like a sensible plan, really.

Political fallout after this kind of thing is usually next to nothing. People are happy because nobody's died. The entire issue of why it happened gets put onto some inquiry somewhere, consequently gets forgotten about and doesn't even make the news. Probably the Russians will owe us one which we can cash in later on (presumably when we're in a tight spot ourselves).

There seems to be quite a nice tutorial here. Haven't really checked it out, but perhaps some other board members would like to input.

I think a little clarification is required on my part. Basically, all a router does is link two different networks - in this case, your LAN and the internet. In fact, what most people claim to be is a router is actually a router, modem and switch all combined into one nice little package. The ethernet ports on the back of your "router" allow you to connect multiple computers to the network. You can buy yourself a cheap switch (like the one I linked to), and connect that to one of your existing ports with a crossover cable. This allows you to connect as many computers as you like, within reason. I did have a link to a nice little tutorial about it, but I've lost the link so I can't post it right now. Will post later if I have a chance.

Are you running any firewall software? I had multiple problems getting File Sharing to work between my computer and fileserver because of ZoneAlarm. Also, the default windows firewall might not be configured to allow filesharing, so it's probably worth checking that also.

Since there hasn't been much in the way of postings, you might want to try something like Debian for installing the system if you've not had much experience with Linux before. I'm reticent to suggest Gentoo because (a) it requires a certain amount of experience and (b) it takes a long time to compile everything.

Personally I don't think the cost is much of an issue anymore. The network switches are exceptionally cheap these days. For instance, on eBuyer, there's a 8 port network switch for £8.99 inc VAT. (There's also a cheaper, 5 port one available). And, as Pangloss says, doing this with Windows can be a right pain in the backside. At the end of the day, it's your choice but to me, this is really the best way of doing it.

As long as you're not running something like X or whatever, Linux doesn't really care which graphics card you plan on running. It's all basically text-based on the console anyway.

The easiest solution is just to buy another switch. They're a little more expensive but it's a lot easier to set up and allows for additional expandability in the future. Simply buy an 8 port switch (or similar), and connect it to your existing switch with a crossover cable. Voila, another 7 ports

You certainly can. I have a machine downstairs with a similar specification. I have it running a webserver, FTP server, ntp server and various other things as well as being a router for my internet connection. I seriously suggest that you consider installing some version of Linux to do this, since for this kind of application it's ideal and far superior to Windows.

I was going to post exactly what mmalluck has said, but unfortunately he got there first. Stop the arguments, guys. It's getting real old, real fast.

Well, the obvious question is: why would you want to? I can't see any practical application of representing everything in binary. I guess we just need to know why semag68 wanted to know in the first place.

Not a problem

The one book I would suggest is Guide to Analysis, M. Hart. It's rather good and has lots of examples to get you started.

I'll have a look at implementing the polynom package, since that seems to do this sort of thing.

I don't know what the n'th term test is, but I suspect it's got something to do with the ratio lemma. To show a series is convergent, you need to show that the series of partial sums [math]s_n = \sum_{k=1}^n a_k[/math] is convergent. There are a series of results that can help you with this, though (i.e. comparison test, ratio lemma, etc).

PC, any day of the week. Just because there are more mobile users than PC users doesn't mean that all of them are going to be playing games on them

Check fdisk to see if you partitioned the appropriate drive? Not much else I can suggest really - need more detail

Not a problem.

What is this thread even about anymore? Closed - the damned 4th one today.

First was quite a good film; I'd like to see the other two burn in hell, to be quite honest.

Not on this site you don't. Try reading the rules at some point, eh? I see no evidence to support your accusations of fallacy. In fact, you seem to be the only person on this thread using any of those that you listed. Yeah, well done there. I'd just like to point out that this isn't going to help you at all. To other members: posts like this will earn you a nice warning. Let's get this thread back on topic. I don't want to have to close my third thread today because of hijacking.