OpenNIC fits that description perfectly. The European servers listed as partaking in the coallition seem to be performing well to me. http://www.opennicproject.org/
Now, and I really mean this on a completely unrelated note, I am probably one of the few people who see this move as an sudden outbreak of common sense, at least in theory. Although everyone sees OMG ICANN will make lots of moneys.
The fact that TLDs are all ASCII has hampered the adoption (and subsequently implementation in browsers) of non-ASCII domains because you need to switch input methods. This is one area where most old-time hackers are completely off in what they think is a good idea. To work well the internet needs domains in the native languages of various peoples, I think it's cultural imperialism masked as common-hacker-sense to insist otherwise.
I don't see what's funny about your comment, midpSSH _is_ really good. My old phone was non-Symbian and it was my favourite J2ME app, along with Opera Mini. Now I have a s60 phone and putty for Symbian, and I still like mipdSSH's features a little more. Also, that's for that link to Minerva, that's really interesting!
Also, so that this comment will not be completely useless, the WAP & TAP combo is also a good idea, that way you don't even need J2ME.
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Thanks a lot for the info! This is really great news. The last time I read the mailing list I reacall people not being optimistic, I guess development has really sped up.
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The chipset is the same as for the original EEE, yours might use a different chipset. (As I noted, Atheros, probably intentionally, leaked a binary patch for madwifi they probably developed for the EEE. It is used in eeeXubuntu).
Ath5k doesn't support my chipset, the last time I tried. They certainly don't claim to. They plan to eventually but I was under the impression they have no idea when they'll get around to it. It might be one year, three years, who knows. I'll try again this weekiend, I tend to do it every month or three.
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By the way, the same time last year ar5007 was not yet supported even by the development version and it was leaked the first eeepc would use the ar5xbx63, and I thought it's strange, were they going to use ndsiwrapper too? Before the eeepc was released an anonymous Atheros emplyee released a binary blob patch for madwifi which supported it.
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ath9k has nothing to do with AR5007. AR5007 is only supported by the development version of madwifi, so I've been using ndiswrapper. My laptop has a ar5bxb63 which is a kind of ar5007. When I bought it a year ago new HAL for madwifi was expected. The HAL was released last month, but before it could be integrated in the 0.9.5 version which was to support ar5007, Atheros open sourced a slightly different version of the HAL; it seems that active development of madwifi will be abandoned now and they will use the open HAL as a reference for ath5k which will one day support ar5007; that's _very_ far off, though; now there are many unintegrated improvements in the development version of madwifi , including ar5007 support, and it looks like an intermediate 9.4.1 will be released which I guess will finally support ar5007.
Pixels are placed next to each other so that the maximum possible fill factor of 78% is achieved. [...]
The maximum transmission of a single pixel in the on state can be derived from the fact that the secondary mirror has a diameter equal to half that of the primary mirror and blocks 25% of the backlight. Thus, 75% of the backlight will reach the primary mirror. Simulations indicate that 95% of the light from the primary mirror can reach the pixel's output. In the experiment it was measured to be 61%, which can be further optimized.
The total amount of backlight that can be transmitted by a telescopic pixel display based on the experiment is pi/4 times 0.75 times 61% approximately 36%, and simulations show that up to 56% is possible. The current experimental value is 3.5-7 times greater than that of LCDs, and therefore for the same backlight intensity, the telescopic pixel is 3.5-7 times brighter.
That pi/4 (78.5%) filling density comes from the fact that the circle-shaped pixels are aranged in a square grid, if they arrange them in a hexagonal grid, they would achieve efficiency of pi/(2*sqrt(3)) - 90.7%.
So instead of the industry deciding what all radios should play, every radio station will have pick the music to play themselves. And you'll have real choice. Those stations that aren't prepared to do that, too bad, others will be. Isn't this what radio stations are all about, anyway?
Also, I have to say that I hate this role of correcting elementary errors of linguistic analysis, or questioning unthinking prescriptions that are logically incoherent, factually wrong and promptly disobeyed by the prescriber. Historians aren't constantly confronted with people who carry on self-confidently about the rule against adultery in the sixth amendment to the Declamation of Independence, as written by Benjamin Hamilton. Computer scientists aren't always having to correct people who make bold assertions about the value of Objectivist Programming, as examplified in the HCNL entities stored in Relaxational Databases. The trouble is, most people are much more ignorant about language than they are about history or computer science, but they reckon that because they can talk and read and write, their opinions about talking and reading and writing are as well informed as anybody's. And since I have DNA, I'm entitled to carry on at length about genetics without bothering to learn anything about it. Not.
They have not yet paid another fine that was imposed on them for not paying this fine, as the BBC article mentions, although in no great depth:
Last year, Microsoft was told to pay daily fines adding up to 280.5 million euros over a six-month period, after it failed to adhere to the 2004 decision.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/4552214.stm - another BBC piece specifically about the daily fines. Does anyone know if they've paid them or not by now?
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OpenNIC fits that description perfectly. The European servers listed as partaking in the coallition seem to be performing well to me. http://www.opennicproject.org/ Now, and I really mean this on a completely unrelated note, I am probably one of the few people who see this move as an sudden outbreak of common sense, at least in theory. Although everyone sees OMG ICANN will make lots of moneys. The fact that TLDs are all ASCII has hampered the adoption (and subsequently implementation in browsers) of non-ASCII domains because you need to switch input methods. This is one area where most old-time hackers are completely off in what they think is a good idea. To work well the internet needs domains in the native languages of various peoples, I think it's cultural imperialism masked as common-hacker-sense to insist otherwise.
I don't see what's funny about your comment, midpSSH _is_ really good. My old phone was non-Symbian and it was my favourite J2ME app, along with Opera Mini. Now I have a s60 phone and putty for Symbian, and I still like mipdSSH's features a little more. Also, that's for that link to Minerva, that's really interesting! Also, so that this comment will not be completely useless, the WAP & TAP combo is also a good idea, that way you don't even need J2ME.
Thanks a lot for the info! This is really great news. The last time I read the mailing list I reacall people not being optimistic, I guess development has really sped up.
The chipset is the same as for the original EEE, yours might use a different chipset. (As I noted, Atheros, probably intentionally, leaked a binary patch for madwifi they probably developed for the EEE. It is used in eeeXubuntu). Ath5k doesn't support my chipset, the last time I tried. They certainly don't claim to. They plan to eventually but I was under the impression they have no idea when they'll get around to it. It might be one year, three years, who knows. I'll try again this weekiend, I tend to do it every month or three.
By the way, the same time last year ar5007 was not yet supported even by the development version and it was leaked the first eeepc would use the ar5xbx63, and I thought it's strange, were they going to use ndsiwrapper too? Before the eeepc was released an anonymous Atheros emplyee released a binary blob patch for madwifi which supported it.
ath9k has nothing to do with AR5007. AR5007 is only supported by the development version of madwifi, so I've been using ndiswrapper. My laptop has a ar5bxb63 which is a kind of ar5007. When I bought it a year ago new HAL for madwifi was expected. The HAL was released last month, but before it could be integrated in the 0.9.5 version which was to support ar5007, Atheros open sourced a slightly different version of the HAL; it seems that active development of madwifi will be abandoned now and they will use the open HAL as a reference for ath5k which will one day support ar5007; that's _very_ far off, though; now there are many unintegrated improvements in the development version of madwifi , including ar5007 support, and it looks like an intermediate 9.4.1 will be released which I guess will finally support ar5007.
I didn't mean to imply it doesn't deserve a good score, just that I didn't intend to mod it up at that exact moment.
I accidentally modded the parent post up, trouble with noscript. Does moderation work only with javascript?
Pixels are placed next to each other so that the maximum possible fill factor of 78% is achieved. [...]
The maximum transmission of a single pixel in the on state can be derived from the fact that the secondary mirror has a diameter equal to half that of the primary mirror and blocks 25% of the backlight. Thus, 75% of the backlight will reach the primary mirror. Simulations indicate that 95% of the light from the primary mirror can reach the pixel's output. In the experiment it was measured to be 61%, which can be further optimized.
The total amount of backlight that can be transmitted by a telescopic pixel display based on the experiment is pi/4 times 0.75 times 61% approximately 36%, and simulations show that up to 56% is possible. The current experimental value is 3.5-7 times greater than that of LCDs, and therefore for the same backlight intensity, the telescopic pixel is 3.5-7 times brighter.
That pi/4 (78.5%) filling density comes from the fact that the circle-shaped pixels are aranged in a square grid, if they arrange them in a hexagonal grid, they would achieve efficiency of pi/(2*sqrt(3)) - 90.7%.
So instead of the industry deciding what all radios should play, every radio station will have pick the music to play themselves. And you'll have real choice. Those stations that aren't prepared to do that, too bad, others will be. Isn't this what radio stations are all about, anyway?
I have the same Atheros in my Toshiba laptop. It works fine with (the last few versions on) ndiswrapper and the net5211 driver for XP.
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/000709.html
They have not yet paid another fine that was imposed on them for not paying this fine, as the BBC article mentions, although in no great depth:
Last year, Microsoft was told to pay daily fines adding up to 280.5 million euros over a six-month period, after it failed to adhere to the 2004 decision. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/4552214.stm - another BBC piece specifically about the daily fines. Does anyone know if they've paid them or not by now?http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stenographers#Writing _device
These have been used for decades by stenographers. At least in Bulgaria.