I always felt that with all other stuff that was crammed on the bird, it would have been nice if they stuck an 802.11 access point on board. Of course, we'll never know if it would have survived the "event" that occurred shortly after launch.
Well, there certainly are modems and computers on board. The RUDAK experiment is slowly being cranked up as the control operators (carefully) prepare to try to put AO-40 in 3-axis stabilzied mode. Digital networking though AO-40 is still part of the plan, as far as I know. I don't think 802.11 would be a very good idea in this environemnt, though; there are other protocols better suited.
The "event", for those who don't know, was a small explosion on board the spacecraft as a result of problems with the liquid-fueled rocket engine. AO-40 has only a fraction of the capabilites it was intended to have as a result. Nonetheless, AO-40 is used every day in a variety of modes, and digital comms though AO-40 are still very much on the agenda. see http://www.amsat.org for more information.
"Our 24-hour, seven-day-a-week program designed to assist any customer with a technical problem involving Pelco equipment, day or night...just dial (800) 289-9100 and ask for technical assistance!"
Of course...they probably don't support stolen equipment.:-)
In the US, the 2.390-2.450 allocation belongs to radio amateurs, who are using at least some of it to receive to weak signals from the AO-40 amateur radio satellite. Owners of unlicenced (Part 15) devices are requred to cease operation immediately if they are causing interference to licenced users, even if their equipment is unmodified, within power limits and type-accepted.
Signals at this frequency are highly directional, and if you interefere with an amatuer satellite operator, you can expect to hear from them. They know who to talk to at FCC about enforcement, too.
Here I sit with a five mod points....
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· Score: -1, Offtopic
...and I just wish I could mod the entire thread down as offtopic.
You are seriously asking the impossible...Nothing besides Word can do that...The other solution is to have a deep think about why you are abandoning Microsoft Word in the first place.
Mod parent up as funny, dude. Best MCSE parody I've seen in weeks.
That's a pretty cool policy they have there; I stand corrected. Nice to see them not shooting themselves in the foot.
However, you could probably do a better job complying with "Finally, the LEGO trademark should always appear with a ® symbol each time it is used." I don't see that happening at all, and it's not all that hard. You also don't display the disclaimer they specify.
It might be worthwhile to attend to those points in the interest of keeping a good relationship with TLG.
Astroturfing
Or whatever properly calls the kind of FUD factory that TSS has turned out to be.
It's not so much "astroturf", which looks like nice grassgoots from a distance but turns out to be bogus when you get a close look.
It's more like fake plastic dog shit...looks unpleasant from a distance, but turns out to be phony.
When I first encountered the site, I dropped them a note asking why all their streaming video was Windows Media when there were perfectly good Java streaming video applications.It seemed awfully curious at the time for folks claiming to be part of the Java community,,and their response was extremely...well...
From: Rickard <rickard@middleware-company.com> To: Margaret Leber <maggie@voicenet.com>
Margaret Leber wrote:
> Doesn't it seem a little ironic that your Hard Core Tech Talks are only > available streamed in Windows Media Player format?
Cynical, yes, ironic, no.
> Are there plans to > present this material in some more platform-independant format?
Nope.
However, we're investigating other ways of doing these kinds of interviews in the future, and your feedback is of course valuable.
regards, Rickard
-- Rickard Öberg Author of "Mastering RMI" Chief Architect, TheServerSide.com The Middleware Company - We Build Experts!
So...apparently the debunker of the "benchmark" used to be Chief Archetect at TSS.
I have the feeling there's an interesting story behind all this...Rikard's blog should be interesting over then next few days.
I could tell you, but I'd have to kill you.:-) There actually are words that aren't acronyms, you know...
But if the AC actually needs a serious reply, the GPL is clearly not an end-user licence. The GPL itself says: Activities other than copying, distribution and modification are not covered by this License; they are outside its scope. The act of running the Program is not restricted... An end-user *runs* a program. Copying, distribution and modification aren't end uses.
Of course, one would actually have to *read* the GPL to understand that. Perhaps the Anonymous Slashdot Surfer Handicapped by Obvious Literacy Exhaustion didn't do that.
...(or Latin-1 using) programmers for not developing fully i18nized code, perhaps developers who are users of these languages should be contributing to the development of projects that don't handle them well (or at all) to help solve the problem.
Some of us will remeber when Sun was working on ECMA standardization for Java. They withdrew it when MSFT started maneuvering to create portability problems by manipulating the standard though their ECMA participation, and Sun saw they couldn't prevent it.
Of course, MSFT isn't worried about C# being unportable...
jEdit does indeed rock hard. And for minimalists such as myself, BlueJ (http://www.bluej.org) is a damn fine IDE. I tend to use both...depending on what I'm up to at a particular time. BlueJ uses the JVM debugging interface, very nice tool.
Funny, but the only situations where I've seen this kind of mismanagement and staff abuse are those where the staff is on salary. Set an ignorant deadline, then tell the coders it's *their* responsibility to meet it, "whatever it takes"...the additional time and work effort being "for free".
What's truly astounding is that the same managers, who were at pains to hire the brightest people they could find, think that those same people won't figure out what a fraud that is.
...because this is a project that a lot of amateur radio folk undertake in building emergency communications or stormchaser vans. Most amateur radio equipment runs on 12v DC, and these vehicles also usually pack a number of computers for digital text communications modes, processing weather info and satellite tracking.
i used toolbook for a while myself.it was fairly intuitive, but not overly so.and it was not anywhere near as powerful as Director.
Well, not to tread on anybody's Macromedia advocacy, but if I'm not mistaken, Director wasn't even a gleam in the milkman's eye on Intel platforms at the time I was using Toolbook to develop applications. The Toolbook runtime was bundled with Windows 3.0 in 1990. There wasn't even a Director implementation for Windows until 1994, although there was a player for Director movies (which had to be built on a Mac) before then.
Originally Director and Toolbook were targeted at rather different application domains. When VB blew Toolbook out of the ad-hoc applications language box on Windows, "multimedia" was one niche Toolbook fled to. So was "courseware".
But this just shows you how tenuous life as a "business partner" to MSFT can be. Even if you're Asymmetrix (which was founded on the proceeds of a MSFT stock sale by Paul Allen, as I recall)
The simplicity of the metaphor was inded the source of its power.
I myself never used HyperCard. But I *did* use a clone called "ToolBook", from Asymmetrix, which was launched pretty much in parallel with Windows V3.1. The differences between the two were: HyperCard's metaphor was a stack of cards, while Toolbook was a book of pages. Toolbook also dealt with graphics in a different way, using color and beeing slightly deeper in terms of GUI object structure.
Toolbook was wounded mortally by the introduction of Visual Basic...but before that happened I wrote some kick-ass medical writing assistant code in Toolbook that parsed a National Library of Medicine MedLine search into a set of cards...I mean...pages, let you tag, sort and search them in various ways, and pull the data on a page into a properly formatted bibliographic reference in a Word document, with the option of pasting the abstract in.
So it wasn't just the Macinfolks that were having fun with this kind of stuff Way Back When.
Toolbook tried to recast itself as a "multimedia tool"...I'm sure there's still folks using it somewhere too. But Gawdalmighty I'd rather be writing ToolScript on a web page than JavaScript.:-)
"In our essay,the "Ten Immutable Laws of Security", these are Law #1-- 'If a bad guy can persuade you to run his program on your computer, it's not your computer anymore'".
Of course, MSFT isn't a "bad guy"...oh, wait... they were convicted, weren't they?
I guess if you apply XP SP1 it's not your computer anymore...
I first started reading Weber's first Honor Harrington book "On Basilisk Station" in softcopy form, and then proceded to buy it and all of the Honor Harrington books. I'll certainly buy this new one, and having the books in softcopy will make it much easier for me to evangelize them.
Now if only they will do the same with Lois McMaster Bujold's "Miles Vorkosigan" series (also publish by Baen), I'll be a VERY happy girl. Honor rocks, and the Vorkosigan stories are priceless. Is "Bujold" a huge-enough name for you?:-)
I'd love to see Mary Gentle's "A Secret History" done this way too.
...but the possibiliity of front-end overload sounds plausible.My portable SW receiver has a Local/DX switch that throws an attenuator in. The radio in my ham station has all kinds of provisions for adjusting the gain in the first stage.
Are you receiving other HF stations? See if you can hear the Canadian time station CHU on 7.335 and 3.330 MHz. This will let you know your radio is OK. Then try various kinds of shielding or collapsing your antenna to check out the front-end overload theory.
You might be in a "skip zone" on one frequency, but I doubt it would apply to all of them. Our radio club here in Philly has Sunday morning networks on VHF, 10m (28MHz) and 75m (3MHz). This gives us an opportunity to observe ground-wave propigation (without an ionosphere bounce) at the two HF frequencies..the results always vary.
The VHF net meets on a repeater...that's pretty consistant.:-)
Worst case, just call(303) 499-7111, and listen to WWV via phone.
73 de Maggie K3XS, who first was fascinated by shortwave as a kid by WWV.
"Radio station WWV, Ft.Collins Colorado. Give us twenty minutes and we'll give you....twenty minutes!"
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I always felt that with all other stuff that was crammed on the bird, it would have been nice if they stuck an 802.11 access point on board. Of course, we'll never know if it would have survived the "event" that occurred shortly after launch.
Well, there certainly are modems and computers on board. The RUDAK experiment is slowly being cranked up as the control operators (carefully) prepare to try to put AO-40 in 3-axis stabilzied mode. Digital networking though AO-40 is still part of the plan, as far as I know. I don't think 802.11 would be a very good idea in this environemnt, though; there are other protocols better suited.
The "event", for those who don't know, was a small explosion on board the spacecraft as a result of problems with the liquid-fueled rocket engine. AO-40 has only a fraction of the capabilites it was intended to have as a result. Nonetheless, AO-40 is used every day in a variety of modes, and digital comms though AO-40 are still very much on the agenda. see http://www.amsat.org for more information.
--Maggie K3XS--
"Our 24-hour, seven-day-a-week program designed to assist any customer with a technical problem involving Pelco equipment, day or night...just dial (800) 289-9100 and ask for technical assistance!"
:-)
Of course...they probably don't support stolen equipment.
In the US, the 2.390-2.450 allocation belongs to radio amateurs, who are using at least some of it to receive to weak signals from the AO-40 amateur radio satellite. Owners of unlicenced (Part 15) devices are requred to cease operation immediately if they are causing interference to licenced users, even if their equipment is unmodified, within power limits and type-accepted.
Signals at this frequency are highly directional, and if you interefere with an amatuer satellite operator, you can expect to hear from them. They know who to talk to at FCC about enforcement, too.
...and I just wish I could mod the entire thread down as offtopic.
You are seriously asking the impossible...Nothing besides Word can do that...The other solution is to have a deep think about why you are abandoning Microsoft Word in the first place.
Mod parent up as funny, dude. Best MCSE parody I've seen in weeks.
Seriously, dude.
Quite true. Radio amateurs experiment with sending messages by this method; it's called "meteor scatter". See:
http://www.qsl.net/dk3xt/hsms.htm
and
http://www.nitehawk.com/rasmit/ws1_15.html
73 de Maggie K3XS
That's a pretty cool policy they have there; I stand corrected. Nice to see them not shooting themselves in the foot.
However, you could probably do a better job complying with "Finally, the LEGO trademark should always appear with a ® symbol each time it is used." I don't see that happening at all, and it's not all that hard. You also don't display the disclaimer they specify.
It might be worthwhile to attend to those points in the interest of keeping a good relationship with TLG.
...Lego tells them they have to change the name of the newsletter to take the trademarks out? I'm guessing less than a week.
Or whatever properly calls the kind of FUD factory that TSS has turned out to be.
It's not so much "astroturf", which looks like nice grassgoots from a distance but turns out to be bogus when you get a close look.
It's more like fake plastic dog shit...looks unpleasant from a distance, but turns out to be phony.
When I first encountered the site, I dropped them a note asking why all their streaming video was Windows Media when there were perfectly good Java streaming video applications.It seemed awfully curious at the time for folks claiming to be part of the Java community, ,and their response was extremely...well...
So...apparently the debunker of the "benchmark" used to be Chief Archetect at TSS. I have the feeling there's an interesting story behind all this...Rikard's blog should be interesting over then next few days.I could tell you, but I'd have to kill you. :-) There actually are words that aren't acronyms, you know...
But if the AC actually needs a serious reply, the GPL is clearly not an end-user licence. The GPL itself says: Activities other than copying, distribution and modification are not covered by this License; they are outside its scope. The act of running the Program is not restricted...
An end-user *runs* a program. Copying, distribution and modification aren't end uses.
Of course, one would actually have to *read* the GPL to understand that. Perhaps the Anonymous Slashdot Surfer Handicapped by Obvious Literacy Exhaustion didn't do that.
Gee...maybe it *is* an acronym.
Isn't the GPL a EULA? I mean they both have that L in them.
Well, yes. But then so does "asshole".
Just like all the Java viruses that exist on all the other platforms, right? :-)
...(or Latin-1 using) programmers for not developing fully i18nized code, perhaps developers who are users of these languages should be contributing to the development of projects that don't handle them well (or at all) to help solve the problem.
Some of us will remeber when Sun was working on ECMA standardization for Java. They withdrew it when MSFT started maneuvering to create portability problems by manipulating the standard though their ECMA participation, and Sun saw they couldn't prevent it.
Of course, MSFT isn't worried about C# being unportable...
jEdit does indeed rock hard. And for minimalists such as myself, BlueJ (http://www.bluej.org) is a damn fine IDE. I tend to use both...depending on what I'm up to at a particular time. BlueJ uses the JVM debugging interface, very nice tool.
Funny, but the only situations where I've seen this kind of mismanagement and staff abuse are those where the staff is on salary. Set an ignorant deadline, then tell the coders it's *their* responsibility to meet it, "whatever it takes"...the additional time and work effort being "for free".
What's truly astounding is that the same managers, who were at pains to hire the brightest people they could find, think that those same people won't figure out what a fraud that is.
the important point is to make sure you are paid punitive overtime rates
Um...do you live on a planet where programmers are paid overtime?
Toolbox was a server admin tool packaged as an NLM. Had nothing whatsoever to do with Asymmetrix Toolbook.
...because this is a project that a lot of amateur radio folk undertake in building emergency communications or stormchaser vans. Most amateur radio equipment runs on 12v DC, and these vehicles also usually pack a number of computers for digital text communications modes, processing weather info and satellite tracking.
Suggested keywords: "communications van", "emergency communications", "stormchaser", "RACES", "ARES"
Well, not to tread on anybody's Macromedia advocacy, but if I'm not mistaken, Director wasn't even a gleam in the milkman's eye on Intel platforms at the time I was using Toolbook to develop applications. The Toolbook runtime was bundled with Windows 3.0 in 1990. There wasn't even a Director implementation for Windows until 1994, although there was a player for Director movies (which had to be built on a Mac) before then.
Originally Director and Toolbook were targeted at rather different application domains. When VB blew Toolbook out of the ad-hoc applications language box on Windows, "multimedia" was one niche Toolbook fled to. So was "courseware".
But this just shows you how tenuous life as a "business partner" to MSFT can be. Even if you're Asymmetrix (which was founded on the proceeds of a MSFT stock sale by Paul Allen, as I recall)
The simplicity of the metaphor was inded the source of its power.
:-)
I myself never used HyperCard. But I *did* use a clone called "ToolBook", from Asymmetrix, which was launched pretty much in parallel with Windows V3.1. The differences between the two were: HyperCard's metaphor was a stack of cards, while Toolbook was a book of pages. Toolbook also dealt with graphics in a different way, using color and beeing slightly deeper in terms of GUI object structure.
Toolbook was wounded mortally by the introduction of Visual Basic...but before that happened I wrote some kick-ass medical writing assistant code in Toolbook that parsed a National Library of Medicine MedLine search into a set of cards...I mean...pages, let you tag, sort and search them in various ways, and pull the data on a page into a properly formatted bibliographic reference in a Word document, with the option of pasting the abstract in.
So it wasn't just the Macinfolks that were having fun with this kind of stuff Way Back When.
Toolbook tried to recast itself as a "multimedia tool"...I'm sure there's still folks using it somewhere too. But Gawdalmighty I'd rather be writing ToolScript on a web page than JavaScript.
I'm here a lot, but unlike many Slashdotters (and Slashsons) only speak up when I actually have something to say.
Also, note my ID number...I've been here rather a long while.
And note the observation in the reply from MSFT:
"In our essay,the "Ten Immutable Laws of Security", these are Law #1-- 'If a bad guy can persuade you to run his program on your computer, it's not your computer anymore'".
Of course, MSFT isn't a "bad guy"...oh, wait... they were convicted, weren't they?
I guess if you apply XP SP1 it's not your computer anymore...
I first started reading Weber's first Honor Harrington book "On Basilisk Station" in softcopy form, and then proceded to buy it and all of the Honor Harrington books. I'll certainly buy this new one, and having the books in softcopy will make it much easier for me to evangelize them.
:-)
Now if only they will do the same with Lois McMaster Bujold's "Miles Vorkosigan" series (also publish by Baen), I'll be a VERY happy girl. Honor rocks, and the Vorkosigan stories are priceless. Is "Bujold" a huge-enough name for you?
I'd love to see Mary Gentle's "A Secret History" done this way too.
...but the possibiliity of front-end overload sounds plausible.My portable SW receiver has a Local/DX switch that throws an attenuator in. The radio in my ham station has all kinds of provisions for adjusting the gain in the first stage.
:-)
Are you receiving other HF stations? See if you can hear the Canadian time station CHU on 7.335 and 3.330 MHz. This will let you know your radio is OK. Then try various kinds of shielding or collapsing your antenna to check out the front-end overload theory.
You might be in a "skip zone" on one frequency, but I doubt it would apply to all of them. Our radio club here in Philly has Sunday morning networks on VHF, 10m (28MHz) and 75m (3MHz). This gives us an opportunity to observe ground-wave propigation (without an ionosphere bounce) at the two HF frequencies..the results always vary.
The VHF net meets on a repeater...that's pretty consistant.
Worst case, just call(303) 499-7111, and listen to WWV via phone.
73 de Maggie K3XS, who first was fascinated by shortwave as a kid by WWV.
"Radio station WWV, Ft.Collins Colorado. Give us twenty minutes and we'll give you....twenty minutes!"