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100 Years Since The First Transatlantic Broadcast
Diarmaid O'Loughlin writes "It's the 100th year since the first comunications over the pond
The Marconi Radio Club and The Falmouth Amateur Radio Association Amateur Radio operators are making plans to celebrate a Marconi world historical event. December 12, 2001 will mark the 100th anniversary of the first Trans-Atlantic radio transmission." The BBC is also carrying the story as well. Embedded Geek adds a link to
coverage on stardate.com, pointing out that "there will be events in the ham community to commemorate it, including a reenactment broadcast (look here under 'Marconi's Celebrations' for others)." This would be a nice day to swing by the Cape Cod station, too.
FP ;)
First Transatlantic Post!
SP :D
Lets have a transatlantic flamewar to celebrate!
you lose bizatch ;)
And to celebrate they've just started selling DAB (Digital) Radio's for under £100, you can get one for your PC for £49, great for recording stuff in native MP2 (MPEG audio was originally created for this).
The stuff is still too expensive for mainstream though.
Netcraft has confirmed: The First Transatlantic Broadcast is dying Yet another crippling bombshell hit the beleaguered The First Transatlantic Broadcast community when recently IDC confirmed that The First Transatlantic Broadcast accounts for less than a fraction of 1 percent of all servers. Coming on the heels of the latest Netcraft survey which plainly states that The First Transatlantic Broadcast has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. The First Transatlantic Broadcast is collapsing in complete disarray, as further exemplified by failing dead last [samag.com] in the recent Sys Admin comprehensive networking test.
You don't need to be a Kreskin [amdest.com] to predict The First Transatlantic Broadcast's future. The hand writing is on the wall: The First Transatlantic Broadcast faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for The First Transatlantic Broadcast because The First Transatlantic Broadcast is dying. Things are looking very bad for The First Transatlantic Broadcast. As many of us are already aware, The First Transatlantic Broadcast continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood. FreeBSD is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of its core developers.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
OpenBSD leader Theo states that there are 7000 users of OpenBSD. How many users of NetBSD are there? Let's see. The number of OpenBSD versus NetBSD posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 NetBSD users. BSD/OS posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of NetBSD posts. Therefore there are about 700 users of BSD/OS. A recent article put FreeBSD at about 80 percent of the The First Transatlantic Broadcast market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 FreeBSD users. This is consistent with the number of FreeBSD Usenet posts.
Due to the troubles of Walnut Creek, abysmal sales and so on, FreeBSD went out of business and was taken over by BSDI who sell another troubled OS. Now BSDI is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.
All major surveys show that The First Transatlantic Broadcast has steadily declined in market share. The First Transatlantic Broadcast is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If The First Transatlantic Broadcast is to survive at all it will be among OS hobbyist dabblers. The First Transatlantic Broadcast continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, The First Transatlantic Broadcast is dead.
Fact: The First Transatlantic Broadcast is dead
They are stupid, but they have big guns. To go with their big fat arses (which they can't even spell).
In fact they are so stupid that they have never made the connection between the fact that they have lots of guns and the fact that they have lots of shootings. They have 5 times the population of the UK, but they have 3,000 times as many fatal shootings. Not being able to work out the connection - that is dumb.
Beware of fat, stupid people with guns.
Isn't morse code considered digital?
The author of the Aubrey-Maturin novels, born this date in 1912. If you ain't read them, you don't know what you're missing.
"Love is a familiar; Love is a devil: there is no evil angel but Love." --William Shakespeare ('Love's Labors Lost')
awwww......feel the burn.
Yes, but as with all other Canadian connections to science, the US lays claim.
Do you pine for the nice days of minix-1.1, when men were men and wrote :-)
/pub/OS/Linux. The directory also
:-). Full kernel
their own device drivers? Are you without a nice project and just dying
to cut your teeth on a OS you can try to modify for your needs? Are you
finding it frustrating when everything works on minix? No more all-
nighters to get a nifty program working? Then this post might be just
for you
As I mentioned a month(?) ago, I'm working on a free version of a
minix-lookalike for AT-386 computers. It has finally reached the stage
where it's even usable (though may not be depending on what you want),
and I am willing to put out the sources for wider distribution. It is
just version 0.02 (+1 (very small) patch already), but I've successfully
run bash/gcc/gnu-make/gnu-sed/compress etc under it.
Sources for this pet project of mine can be found at nic.funet.fi
(128.214.6.100) in the directory
contains some README-file and a couple of binaries to work under linux
(bash, update and gcc, what more can you ask for
source is provided, as no minix code has been used. Library sources are
only partially free, so that cannot be distributed currently. The
system is able to compile "as-is" and has been known to work. Heh.
Sources to the binaries (bash and gcc) can be found at the same place in
/pub/gnu.
ALERT! WARNING! NOTE! These sources still need minix-386 to be compiled
(and gcc-1.40, possibly 1.37.1, haven't tested), and you need minix to
set it up if you want to run it, so it is not yet a standalone system
for those of you without minix. I'm working on it. You also need to be
something of a hacker to set it up (?), so for those hoping for an
alternative to minix-386, please ignore me. It is currently meant for
hackers interested in operating systems and 386's with access to minix.
The system needs an AT-compatible harddisk (IDE is fine) and EGA/VGA. If
you are still interested, please ftp the README/RELNOTES, and/or mail me
for additional info.
I can (well, almost) hear you asking yourselves "why?". Hurd will be
out in a year (or two, or next month, who knows), and I've already got
minix. This is a program for hackers by a hacker. I've enjouyed doing
it, and somebody might enjoy looking at it and even modifying it for
their own needs. It is still small enough to understand, use and
modify, and I'm looking forward to any comments you might have.
I'm also interested in hearing from anybody who has written any of the
utilities/library functions for minix. If your efforts are freely
distributable (under copyright or even public domain), I'd like to hear
from you, so I can add them to the system. I'm using Earl Chews estdio
right now (thanks for a nice and working system Earl), and similar works
will be very wellcome. Your (C)'s will of course be left intact. Drop me
a line if you are willing to let me use your code.
uh oh, the tesla fanatics are coming out of the woodwork...
This post will bring you luck! But it is your choice whether the luck will be good or bad! Get 2 of your friends to visit Love@AOL and you will become weathly, fall in love and live a long satisfying life.
If you moderate this post down, terrible things will befall you and those you care about. Your closest friend will fall ill, your pet will die and you will be condemed to a life of pain and suffering. The choices you make today can come back to haunt you in the future. Choose wisely.
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oh, you said Marconi? Damn, you got me all hungry now.....
If you lot hadn't financially supported the Nazis all the way through the 30s, then they would never have been able to amass so much weaponry and the war would never have happened. Check out Hugh Jampton's book on the subject if you don't believe me.
I'm sorry, wow, this is too easy. I'm getting first posts left and up!
These geeks think they 0wn the world ;-)
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