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  1. Re:Better headline needed by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Blackberry Network is Down

    Goodbye Blackberry Way

  2. Re:just a note... by kvigor · · Score: 1 · on Sports Technology?
    And Jacques Anquetil took off three years to fight, then came back to win more Tours. It's widely regarded that had not the World War so rudely interrupted, Anquetil would have been the all-time leader by far with eight Tour wins.


    Really? The same Jaques Anquetil who didn't start racing until 1953?
  3. Shades of Donaldson by Hank+Reardon · · Score: 2 · on Diamond Chips as Alternative to Silicon
    Anybody else read The Gap Cycle of books from Stephen R. Donaldson?

    If I remember correctly, all of the "datacores" used to log events in the ships were made of SOD (Silicon on Diamond) chips. The datacores could not change state, but add it.

    Really interesting read if you like Sci-Fi.

  4. Sinclair Spectrum Music by pastie · · Score: 2 · on Video Game Music Mixes

    There is a player for the original music from Sinclair Spectrum and Amstrad CPC games, called ``aylet'', here. There is an XMMS plugin being developed for this too, here.

    Mmmmmm, Bubble Bobble.... doo doo doo doo dooooo, doo doo doo doooo...

    ;)

  5. Wireless can go many miles with line of sight by ehintz · · Score: 1 · on Make Your Own DSL

    The dis org crew have mapped out all kinds of open 802.11b networks in San Francisco, and as part of the demonstrations of how bad this practice can be, actully logged into these networks from a point accross the bay in the Berkeley hills. That's a distance of 10-12 miles, and as I recall they were using only about $100 worth of special antennas and adapters into a standard wavelan card on a FreeBSD laptop. So, if you have line of sight, you can obviously go more than your 2.5 miles with some inexpensive antennas. There's also a bunch of folks doing that down in Australia with old DBS type dishes from a sat tv outfit that went out of business-clearly 802.11 will meet your distance needs assuming line of sight. Here's a site I found with some FAQs about antennas and such. Good luck.