Glad you mentioned it the Canadian electromechanical invention, four decades old now, that is nicknamed the "Bear Trap" and has been working just fine all that time:
With major beer producers now adulterating their products with such odd additives as guarana and caffeine, they would have to be worried that
if a couple of herbal pills meant that Joe Nineteenyrold would only need a beer or two before he's blitzed, their profits
would be hurt. How long before the big brewers and distillers lobby for a ban?
MOG: "To the last, I will grapple with thee. From hell's heart, I stab at thee. For hate's sake, I spit my last breath at thee." That's about right for her career now, I'd say.
For a better idea of who the Heartland Institute are one need only consult Sourcewatch, the web site formerly known as the Disinfopedia. The opinions of the Heartland Institute cannot be trusted, ever. I rank them down at the bottom with the Alexis de Toqueville Institute's FUD about FOSS.
Thom Hartmann, host of a nationally
syndicated progressive daily radio talk show, claims that evidence is
mounting that the 2004 U.S. election results were hacked. 'When I spoke with
Jeff Fisher this morning (Saturday, November 06, 2004), the Democratic
candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives from Florida's 16th District
said he was waiting for the FBI to show up. Fisher
has evidence, he says, not only that the Florida election was hacked, but
of who hacked it and how.' Hartmann offers more details in this article,
saying '...I agree with Fox's Dick Morris on this one, at least in large
part. Wrapping up his story for The Hill, Morris wrote
in his final paragraph, "This was no mere mistake. Exit polls cannot be as
wrong across the board as they were on election night. I suspect foul play.'
But my point was about seeing Red Hat Linux on workstations there. It was just an observation likely of interest to many/.ers and not worthy of your over-reaction, but thanks anyways.
Take a look at the Real or Quicktime videos at double size starting at about the 56 second mark and you'll see that key control computers run Red Hat Linux.
Irwin Allen's "Time Tunnel" would have been a more appropriate shtick for big old tape drives than Kubrick's "2001: A Space Odyssey" but thanks for the chuckle. The Time Tunnel's giant, multi-storeyed cavern of spinning tapes and blinking lights with scores of techs running around with clipboards in their white lab coats was enough to get me past the lame scripts (none of which I remember). Back to the real discussions.
Its a miracle! Someone actually mentioned the great, but unknown, Canadian who showed what *really* could be done in practical terms with radio. Thank you for that. Here's another Fessenden site. Canadians are not known for blowing our own horns, which means that we have an awful tendency to allow our brightest and best innovators to be ignored into obscurity over the years, as in the case of the 1940s-50s designers of the Avro Arrow, an aircraft decades ahead of its time. I've been listening to see if Fessenden will be acknowledged during the CBC's Marconi-related broadcasts, but still nothing.
Mentor (torMentor to some!) has ported several of their IC and PCB tools to Red Hat Linux 6.0 over the last two years, so perhaps they might be a place to start: http://www.mentorgraphics.com.
Canadians should check out Calgary's
Computer Surplus store. If you buy from there you save $$$ because Alberta doesn't have a Provincial Sales Tax. Hopefully your shipping costs don't blow away that savings.
The predicament of cell phone coverage loss is pretty common in the IT world, with so many server/storage farms being in shielded rooms.
A business could fork over between $3-5K (US) for a local repeater, but that amount would only scratch the surface. Then you have to factor in construction costs, arrangements with the building owner, local ordinances, licenses, etc. etc. until you start to realize that perhaps a small bubble of dead space in the building is actually too expensive to fix.
As far as external antennae for handhelds, the type of cell phone (gsm, cdma, wcdma, tdma) and its frequency range often make them useless. Don't be fooled.
Last point: look for external antennae to disappear under product liability pressure once the FCC reviews their SAR values. Every external antenna link causes EM leakage, and the feds are not happy about it.
How can we have any faith in Canadian political parties when their web sites use such crappy OS solutions? High speed networking is useless without OS stability.
Slashdot Mirror
Doesn't have the same pizzazz as electric...
According to Netcraft the RadarSync site runs on Apache/2.0.40 Red Hat Linux:
/ /www.radarsync.com
http://toolbar.netcraft.com/site_report?url=http:
"Mein Fuhrer, I can VOK!" Let's hope its wheelchair-accessible just in case.
MCSE == Must Consult Somebody Else
When will we have pigoons, woolvogs, and rakunks too?
Glad you mentioned it the Canadian electromechanical invention, four decades old now, that is nicknamed the "Bear Trap" and has been working just fine all that time:
r ap/
http://www.readyayeready.com/timeline/1960s/beart
So the question becomes: Why reinvent what works great already?
What is old is new...
With major beer producers now adulterating their products with such odd additives as guarana and caffeine, they would have to be worried that if a couple of herbal pills meant that Joe Nineteenyrold would only need a beer or two before he's blitzed, their profits would be hurt. How long before the big brewers and distillers lobby for a ban?
MOG: "To the last, I will grapple with thee. From hell's heart, I stab at thee. For hate's sake, I spit my last breath at thee." That's about right for her career now, I'd say.
George Bernard Shaw to Winston Churchill in a telegram about the premier performance of Pygmalion, Shaw's new play:
"Am reserving two tickets for you for my premiere. Come and bring a friend -- if you have one."
To which Churchill replied:
"Impossible to be present for the first performance. Will attend the second -- if there is one."
And for bonus karma points a delightful tete-a-tete between Shaw and Gilbert Chesterton:
"Looking at you, Shaw, people would think there was a famine in England."
Responded Shaw to the portly Chesterton:
"Looking at you, Chesterton, one would think you were the cause of it."
The Internet is able to perceive things? Explain.
For a better idea of who the Heartland Institute are one need only consult Sourcewatch, the web site formerly known as the Disinfopedia. The opinions of the Heartland Institute cannot be trusted, ever. I rank them down at the bottom with the Alexis de Toqueville Institute's FUD about FOSS.
Having previously read the /. items about EA workers' experiences I get a very sour feeling reading this boosteristic Vancouver Sun item titled:
On Top Of The Export Game
that touts EA's contribution to the economy of the Province of British Columbia, Canada, where its corporate headquarters are located.
As you can see at http://www.votergate.tv the movie has somehow gone missing, but someone made a torrent:
V ot erGate_The_Movie.torrent
http://personal.sdf.bellsouth.net/b/o/bondibox/
Thom Hartmann, host of a nationally syndicated progressive daily radio talk show, claims that evidence is mounting that the 2004 U.S. election results were hacked. 'When I spoke with Jeff Fisher this morning (Saturday, November 06, 2004), the Democratic candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives from Florida's 16th District said he was waiting for the FBI to show up. Fisher has evidence, he says, not only that the Florida election was hacked, but of who hacked it and how.' Hartmann offers more details in this article, saying '...I agree with Fox's Dick Morris on this one, at least in large part. Wrapping up his story for The Hill, Morris wrote in his final paragraph, "This was no mere mistake. Exit polls cannot be as wrong across the board as they were on election night. I suspect foul play.'
But my point was about seeing Red Hat Linux on workstations there. It was just an observation likely of interest to many /.ers and not worthy of your over-reaction, but thanks anyways.
Take a look at the Real or Quicktime videos at double size starting at about the 56 second mark and you'll see that key control computers run Red Hat Linux.
"Opporknockity only tunes once."
Never mind...
"...and Caldera claims they don't even own that"
Check out this SCO web page that claims ownership of the whole thing. What a mess.
All this money and effort when we can just license the plans for Thunderbird 2 from International Rescue.
Irwin Allen's "Time Tunnel" would have been a more appropriate shtick for big old tape drives than Kubrick's "2001: A Space Odyssey" but thanks for the chuckle. The Time Tunnel's giant, multi-storeyed cavern of spinning tapes and blinking lights with scores of techs running around with clipboards in their white lab coats was enough to get me past the lame scripts (none of which I remember). Back to the real discussions.
Its a miracle! Someone actually mentioned the great, but unknown, Canadian who showed what *really* could be done in practical terms with radio. Thank you for that. Here's another Fessenden site. Canadians are not known for blowing our own horns, which means that we have an awful tendency to allow our brightest and best innovators to be ignored into obscurity over the years, as in the case of the 1940s-50s designers of the Avro Arrow, an aircraft decades ahead of its time. I've been listening to see if Fessenden will be acknowledged during the CBC's Marconi-related broadcasts, but still nothing.
Mentor (torMentor to some!) has ported several of their IC and PCB tools to Red Hat Linux 6.0 over the last two years, so perhaps they might be a place to start: http://www.mentorgraphics.com.
Canadians should check out Calgary's Computer Surplus store. If you buy from there you save $$$ because Alberta doesn't have a Provincial Sales Tax. Hopefully your shipping costs don't blow away that savings.
The predicament of cell phone coverage loss is pretty common in the IT world, with so many server/storage farms being in shielded rooms. A business could fork over between $3-5K (US) for a local repeater, but that amount would only scratch the surface. Then you have to factor in construction costs, arrangements with the building owner, local ordinances, licenses, etc. etc. until you start to realize that perhaps a small bubble of dead space in the building is actually too expensive to fix. As far as external antennae for handhelds, the type of cell phone (gsm, cdma, wcdma, tdma) and its frequency range often make them useless. Don't be fooled. Last point: look for external antennae to disappear under product liability pressure once the FCC reviews their SAR values. Every external antenna link causes EM leakage, and the feds are not happy about it.
How can we have any faith in Canadian political parties when their web sites use such crappy OS solutions? High speed networking is useless without OS stability.