And you think a G3 fits in the processor "socket" in a Performa 6100?
There will always be companies like Evergreen who make socket-adapted upgrade products, and there's almost always an "Overdrive" processor. They suck compared to the real thing, and they cost more than replacing the motherboard, but the price points are about the same as G3 cards for lesser powermacs. So are the performance specs, for that matter.
Apple is just trying to make sure there's no such thing as a "G4" card you can slide into a 6100 you picked up for $100. If you want a G4, you buy the whole tamale.
Please send me, FedEx overnight, at least one ounce of whatever you're smoking.
The products that made 3d graphics take off on the PC are most definately based on closed, proprietary API's like Glide and Direct3D - OpenGL, for that matter, isn't exactly open either. See the disclaimer in the Mesa docs where it explains that they can not legally make the statement that it is "OpenGL Compatible" as that would require having run the OpenGL compatibility tests, which you can only do after having signed a pricey license agreement with SGI.
Even so, while Quake uses OpenGL, the vast majority of games use D3D, or, when taking for instance Descent 3, they support both, but the D3D support is far superior.
Why? Because Microsoft goes out of their way to make sure people can and do use D3D effectively, and SGI has neither the money nor the pull to do the same with OpenGL. At least not on the Windows platform.
The 3D graphics industry has taken off due to intense competition and price wars. Openness had little to nothing to do with it.
The flat plates you're refering to are phased arrays. I've used them in the 2.4ghz range.
As for the directional quality of dishes, I can personally attest to dishes picking up signals strongly enough to report the mac address of a wireless network bridge when they're pointed an entire 30 degrees the wrong direction. This was with high quality Conifer dishes.
I guess you could alternate that with how to hack root, but that would be a matter of discovering a heretofore unknown rootshell exploit, which would require more resources than just crashing it.
I hear rumors about a startup company in Utah that'll drop ethernet into your home for about $20, lets you run servers on your system for about $40. 10 megs both ways is pretty hard to beat.
I think this is a silly way to figure out how to hack a known configuration.
I've often told people, if someone hacks your system and leaves you an obscene calling card, that was basicly a scriptkiddy who got lucky. A genuine, serious security cracker prefers to leave as little evidence as possible.
Flailing away at this thing from remote isn't just a waste of time, it's embarrasing.
If I had any interest in all in cracking this box, here's what I'd do.
If i didn't already have access to a powermac, I'd borrow or rent one, as similar as possible to the one being used.
I'd install linuxppc on it, staying as close to their known configuration as possible. if this is truly the default installation, that makes it much easier.
I'd hook it up on a private segment with some other systems, and hammer away on it where noone can see, where noone else is generating traffic, examining the system for different sorts of problems depending on what i did to it.
I'm sure eventually I'd find some way to at least cause the thing to die. It might take weeks, or days. Hard to say.
As soon as i was 100% certian I'd found a way to kill it, then and only then would i begin to attack the machine in question.
All this portscanning and flooding is just noise. Even if they do bring it down, they won't be able to reproduce it. In that respect, this is a pretty good PR stunt, given that linux is reasonably secure and stable.
Don't worry, a cool million is probably what it will cost for our buddy Arisian there to protect his house from forclosure.
Mikey McLagan has been running various floundering software companies out of his home for as long as anyone can remember. Back when he saw fit to be the ultimate killjoy and bring "law and order" to one of the best irc channels on efnet for technical folk (#os/2), he'd recently had both of his cars reposessed and was threatening to sue one of his paying betatesters for getting fed up and blabbing his most embarrasing bugs to anyone who felt like hearing it. That's right, this kid *Paid* Mikey for the right to test a cheezy irc client, and Mikey wasn't fixing some obvious bugs, after months and months.
Mike McLagan is a wet blanket. Where he goes, mediocrity follows. The money he makes from the sale of his least deserved domain will probably only get him out of debt. So, being grateful that someone better will have controll of it, and really, anyone would be better, I don't think we have to worry that he's turning a profit.
If there's one thing Mike knows how to do, it's how to *Not* turn a profit.
If you poke around the Vadem site, or actually read the body text instead of just looking at the eyecandy on the front page, you'll notice that the Clio runs in both 'tablet' and 'notebook' modes - the screen can be flipped up to reveal a keyboard.
On the other hand, the Clio is larger than many intel sub-notebooks (And i don't mean Librettos - I mean there are Sony Vaio's and Mitsubishi Amity's that are smaller), so it hardly fulfills the "with a keyboard" need uniquely.
But the important thing is that the VR4111 code is stable, which will mean that we can start working on other Mips based wince systems soon.
What i would really love is to get one of the smaller-than-a-vhs-tape keyboarded wince devices for a few years for a couple hundred bucks and run linux on that.
Although, so far the Palm IIIx is as much computer as I've ever wanted in the pocket of my jeans, and may continue to be.
I once had a chat with some Caldera Systems coders that I was doing some work with on a project, some months back, on the subject of RedHat's open-sourcedness.
One of the things they pointed out is that they've never, ever seen the source code for Disk Druid, no matter where they looked.
Of course, I suggested that it's possible the author was so embarrased by the lackluster quality of that heaving pile of digital manure that he compiled it as staticly linked object code and wiped the source to hide his shame before offing himself out of personal disgust, but that's just my opinion.
personally i like the way the SuSE partitioner works, if only it would let you add nfs mounts.
The telco will slap you with a lawsuit so fast it'll make your head spin if you duplicat a phone book, or use it to build your own list for business purposes.
Companies such as telesurveying organizations sometimes end up using photocopied telephone book pages, but only with a waiver from the client stating that the client is liable and not the surveying org.
I got lectured to about this while in my indenture at Western Wats, years ago when i was just out of highschool, flat broke, and $5.50/hr sounded pretty good.
The companies that make these CDs with huge telephone directories go to great lengths to compile phone lists from other sources, and document those sources.
Case in point: My mother has never, ever had a telephone number in her own name, but is listed in nearly every one of those cd-rom databases, on some of them not only in Utah but also in New York and Hawaii at the numbers the family once occupied in those states.
True, the telco does sell advertising space on the cover and in the back of the phone book, but they don't make you sit through a promotional message with every 411 call, do they?
How many times a month does this need to end up on/. - this is the ucsimm, we all know the ucsimm, we've seen it before. At least two times before this.
And incedentally, it's not just the same size as a simm, it's designed to be clicked into the same single-inline-module socket as a 30 pin simm.
I've had disappointing results with Fraunhoffer. The authors admit that they wrote it with low bitrate voice recordings in mind.
In general i suppose it isn't bad, but it's joint stereo I dislike. It's an imperfect way of doing things.
Some of the bands i listen to sometimes use weird qsound-alike spatial effects when they mix the album. fraunhoffer slaughters those and makes this swooping noise. it's irritating. Tracks of note are LPD's "10th Shade" and Japan's "Gentlemen Take Polaroids"
I wouldn't say bladeenc is perfect. But, well, nothing is. I use bladeenc and it isn't half bad.
From all reports, Xing's encoder uses a really cheezy approximation of the codec. That would be in keeping with Xing's history in the market - their mpeg video encoder creates mpeg videos that are comprised entirely of index frames.
Also considering the well-known-in-some-circles source of this information, I wouldn't be surprised if the entire story was based on one person standing in rough proximity to an Alpha saying "Dude, NT is soo dead!"
If you really wanna know how reliable Jay Perlow is, scan dejanews regarding "pre-release" copies of OS/2 3.0.
Car companies make cars that look like distinct ripoffs of other peoples cars all the time. It's no big deal.
The eOne definately doesn't look exactly like an imac. It looks like the iMac's inbred, retarded country cousin. A hackneyed immitation. Nobody is going to mistake this one.
It looks about as much like an iMac as a Mazda Miata looks like a Fiat Spider 2000. And Mazda has made no secret of their inspiration. People *Don't* get sued over this sort of thing in the "real world".
You would think Apple would have understood by now, they'v never won a look-and-feel case before, and aren't likely to win one in the future.
Oh man, when the clue train came rolling by you weren't the one standing right in the middle of the track, were you?
FM stands for Frequency Modulation. It means you modulate the frequency of your waves. This is opposed to Amplitude Modulation, wherein you modulate the amplitude of your waves.
There are some other modes of transmission that fall under the category of "Miscelanious" - Phase Modulation comes to mind. Phase modulation is, or was the last time i checked, considered experimental by the FCC. You need special permission to experiment with it.
The fact that you point out the range used by commercial radio stations only illustrates that you've never even sat next to someone who has the least bit of rf experience, not even a CB bubba. Modes of transmission have close to nothing to do with the ranges of frequency that the FCC has set aside for them.
Personally, I don't pretend to have the foggiest idea whether they say they use AM or FM. I'm 100% certian they don't use Phase or Pulse modulation.
I'd be surprised if they use amplitude modulation, since it has a greater tendency to cause interference, and a greater tendency to be affected by interference from other devices.
For your gee whiz collection, police band is generally between 130 and 150 mhz, and is FM. "two meter" radio as used by technician-class HAMs is definately FM. The "trunked" business radios a lot of public utilities and companies with mobile technicians use are 800Mhz (roughly) FM. Cellular phones are definately FM.
Frankly, I'd be shocked if they were using 2.6Ghz AM. I don't think you'd want to stand next to a 2.6Ghz AM transmitter, even if you could run it on household mains.
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Honestly, I don't know if it's just Gnome, or just Enlightenment, but whoever's fault it is, the configuration of E+Gnome in RedHat is positively the worst window managment system I'v ever encountered.
Think about it. Windows start without focus. You can't click in the window to give it focus, you have to click on the title bar. if you leave the pointer over the title bar, you get a big yellow box explaining how to move the window.
Clicking on it's button on the task bar doesn't give it focus. if it's behind another window, you have to move or minimize one or the other in order to change focus.
Now, these are very simple complaints. I currently use IceWM because it (a) basicly does what i need a window management system to do, and (b) mimics the z-ordering rules OS/2 uses.
I know a lot of people who have worked there, amongst them my eldest sister's husband. I think i might know who wrote that.
They're a pretty slick operation, with a fairly decent sense of humor. Aside from that, they give you the best millikelvin for your buck. They don't make the cheapest temperature sensor, but their stuff is generally more accurate and more reliable than devices costing thousands more.
A bunch of people left Hart to work for the company I'm currently with, an ambitious startup that will remain anonymous since slashdotters have already gone to town regarding the web page someone spent an hour throwing together in frontpage rather than spending weeks in vi to make something that looks decent. Pity it's a crime to concentrate on what you do best and spend as little as possible on things you're not going to do well anyhow.
That's entirely true, but if someone in your neighborhood is doing something to antagonize you, that's a domestic disturbance. So, like i said, the police can come over and say "Knock it off" -- same as if you let your dog out at night to bark at the sky. But they can't do anything about the radio itself.
Of course, you would have to show that you'd exausted your other options and that the person in question didn't care that he was causing you problems.
(I hit a wrong key or something, this submitted once already before i was finished)
That all depends on what kind of a radio it is and what kind of licenses he does or doesn't have.
He is being pretty rude, and ought to buy a low-pass filter. Maybe you should buy one for him?
If he's using a stock CB radio - that is, 4 watts deadkey / 7 watts peak, the police can call it a domestic disturbance and tell him to knock it off. But they can't take away his radio.
If he is using an outlawed CB or 10 meter ham equipment mofidied to use the 11 meter range (the CB range), he is breaking the law. Unfortunately, the FCC is brutally underfunded, and in 1997 couldn't even get funding to write letters to manufacturers expressing concern over the illegal uses of things like 10 meter linear amplifiers that work just as well on 11 meter. Again, the police can treat this as a domestic disturbance. Unfortunately, only a federal marshall can legally take away his radio. (Tho the cops may do it anyway)
If he is a licensed ham using ham radio equipment that is broadcasting on bands his license doesn't allow, or is transmitting with greater power than his license allows, the FCC won't be happy about it. Your local FCC rep might come out and order him to turn over or destroy his transmitter.
If he is a licensed ham using ham radio equipment that is within the allowable ranges of his license, the police can treat it as a domestic disturbance, but other than annoying you he is breaking no laws.
Most people don't take the time to read the definition of a class B device. A "Class B" electronic device is required to accept any interference caused by other devices. To put that another way, if your neighbor is using legally licensed amateur bands and your TV is picking up his signal, it's *your* fault. He's being a bad neighbor, but it's your fault that your tv is picking up his perfectly legal transmission.
So, you've got a few options.
(1) Offer to buy him a "low pass filter" - anyone who works at a radio equipment store will know exactly what you mean if you ask them for one. it may cost as much as $20, more if he's running a heck of a lot of power out the back of his radio. he puts this in-line on his coax before it reaches the antenna. I would not recommend going to RadioShack for this. Try looking through the yellow pages for a business that sells or leases business radio or ham equipment. A low-pass filter tries to clean out the ranges of transmission that will interfere with A/V equipment. It shouldn't interfere with his fun.
(2) Call the police and have them treat it as a domestic disturbance. They'll come over and give him a talking to, maybe scare him a little. If he's got illegal radio equipment, the most they can legally do is tell the FCC. Some cops will take it away anyway on the chance that the person in question knows it's illegal and won't complain to the feds.
(3) Buy some high-pass filters to put on your tv and stereo to filter out his transmissions. This might not work, if, like you say, anything with a speaker repeats his voice.
(4) Stick a pin through his coax. This will make his radio's finals explode the next time he tries to transmit. This is, of course, destruction of personal property, 100% illegal, and I don't condone it. But some people can be real pricks, and the other three might not work.
Overall, don't assume that he's doing it maliciously. He might not know that he's causing you a problem. He may have some high-pass filters for you to install on your TV and stereo. Maybe he has a low-pass filter that's simply stopped working and he doesn't realize it.
Ham's are generally gregarious people who like to share their hobby with anyone who's interested, much like any other class of geek.
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M$ not only owns a chunk of SCO, SCO used to be Microsoft Xenix!
And you think a G3 fits in the processor "socket" in a Performa 6100?
There will always be companies like Evergreen who make socket-adapted upgrade products, and there's almost always an "Overdrive" processor. They suck compared to the real thing, and they cost more than replacing the motherboard, but the price points are about the same as G3 cards for lesser powermacs. So are the performance specs, for that matter.
Apple is just trying to make sure there's no such thing as a "G4" card you can slide into a 6100 you picked up for $100. If you want a G4, you buy the whole tamale.
Please send me, FedEx overnight, at least one ounce of whatever you're smoking.
The products that made 3d graphics take off on the PC are most definately based on closed, proprietary API's like Glide and Direct3D - OpenGL, for that matter, isn't exactly open either. See the disclaimer in the Mesa docs where it explains that they can not legally make the statement that it is "OpenGL Compatible" as that would require having run the OpenGL compatibility tests, which you can only do after having signed a pricey license agreement with SGI.
Even so, while Quake uses OpenGL, the vast majority of games use D3D, or, when taking for instance Descent 3, they support both, but the D3D support is far superior.
Why? Because Microsoft goes out of their way to make sure people can and do use D3D effectively, and SGI has neither the money nor the pull to do the same with OpenGL. At least not on the Windows platform.
The 3D graphics industry has taken off due to intense competition and price wars. Openness had little to nothing to do with it.
The flat plates you're refering to are phased arrays. I've used them in the 2.4ghz range.
As for the directional quality of dishes, I can personally attest to dishes picking up signals strongly enough to report the mac address of a wireless network bridge when they're pointed an entire 30 degrees the wrong direction. This was with high quality Conifer dishes.
I mean how to bring down the server.
I guess you could alternate that with how to hack root, but that would be a matter of discovering a heretofore unknown rootshell exploit, which would require more resources than just crashing it.
I hear rumors about a startup company in Utah that'll drop ethernet into your home for about $20, lets you run servers on your system for about $40. 10 megs both ways is pretty hard to beat.
I think this is a silly way to figure out how to hack a known configuration.
I've often told people, if someone hacks your system and leaves you an obscene calling card, that was basicly a scriptkiddy who got lucky. A genuine, serious security cracker prefers to leave as little evidence as possible.
Flailing away at this thing from remote isn't just a waste of time, it's embarrasing.
If I had any interest in all in cracking this box, here's what I'd do.
If i didn't already have access to a powermac, I'd borrow or rent one, as similar as possible to the one being used.
I'd install linuxppc on it, staying as close to their known configuration as possible. if this is truly the default installation, that makes it much easier.
I'd hook it up on a private segment with some other systems, and hammer away on it where noone can see, where noone else is generating traffic, examining the system for different sorts of problems depending on what i did to it.
I'm sure eventually I'd find some way to at least cause the thing to die. It might take weeks, or days. Hard to say.
As soon as i was 100% certian I'd found a way to kill it, then and only then would i begin to attack the machine in question.
All this portscanning and flooding is just noise. Even if they do bring it down, they won't be able to reproduce it. In that respect, this is a pretty good PR stunt, given that linux is reasonably secure and stable.
Don't worry, a cool million is probably what it will cost for our buddy Arisian there to protect his house from forclosure.
Mikey McLagan has been running various floundering software companies out of his home for as long as anyone can remember. Back when he saw fit to be the ultimate killjoy and bring "law and order" to one of the best irc channels on efnet for technical folk (#os/2), he'd recently had both of his cars reposessed and was threatening to sue one of his paying betatesters for getting fed up and blabbing his most embarrasing bugs to anyone who felt like hearing it. That's right, this kid *Paid* Mikey for the right to test a cheezy irc client, and Mikey wasn't fixing some obvious bugs, after months and months.
Mike McLagan is a wet blanket. Where he goes, mediocrity follows. The money he makes from the sale of his least deserved domain will probably only get him out of debt. So, being grateful that someone better will have controll of it, and really, anyone would be better, I don't think we have to worry that he's turning a profit.
If there's one thing Mike knows how to do, it's how to *Not* turn a profit.
How would you accomplish that by writing things?
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Sorry, I think you mean Steganography
Nothing to write home about? the ratio of mips to milliwatts is pretty damn impressive if you ask me, far lower power consumption than any intel cpu.
Nothing to write home about? the ratio of mips to milliwats is pretty damn impressive if you ask me, far lower power consumption than any intel cpu.
If you poke around the Vadem site, or actually read the body text instead of just looking at the eyecandy on the front page, you'll notice that the Clio runs in both 'tablet' and 'notebook' modes - the screen can be flipped up to reveal a keyboard.
On the other hand, the Clio is larger than many intel sub-notebooks (And i don't mean Librettos - I mean there are Sony Vaio's and Mitsubishi Amity's that are smaller), so it hardly fulfills the "with a keyboard" need uniquely.
But the important thing is that the VR4111 code is stable, which will mean that we can start working on other Mips based wince systems soon.
What i would really love is to get one of the smaller-than-a-vhs-tape keyboarded wince devices for a few years for a couple hundred bucks and run linux on that.
Although, so far the Palm IIIx is as much computer as I've ever wanted in the pocket of my jeans, and may continue to be.
I once had a chat with some Caldera Systems coders that I was doing some work with on a project, some months back, on the subject of RedHat's open-sourcedness.
One of the things they pointed out is that they've never, ever seen the source code for Disk Druid, no matter where they looked.
Of course, I suggested that it's possible the author was so embarrased by the lackluster quality of that heaving pile of digital manure that he compiled it as staticly linked object code and wiped the source to hide his shame before offing himself out of personal disgust, but that's just my opinion.
personally i like the way the SuSE partitioner works, if only it would let you add nfs mounts.
The problem here is that you're dead wrong.
The telco will slap you with a lawsuit so fast it'll make your head spin if you duplicat a phone book, or use it to build your own list for business purposes.
Companies such as telesurveying organizations sometimes end up using photocopied telephone book pages, but only with a waiver from the client stating that the client is liable and not the surveying org.
I got lectured to about this while in my indenture at Western Wats, years ago when i was just out of highschool, flat broke, and $5.50/hr sounded pretty good.
The companies that make these CDs with huge telephone directories go to great lengths to compile phone lists from other sources, and document those sources.
Case in point: My mother has never, ever had a telephone number in her own name, but is listed in nearly every one of those cd-rom databases, on some of them not only in Utah but also in New York and Hawaii at the numbers the family once occupied in those states.
True, the telco does sell advertising space on the cover and in the back of the phone book, but they don't make you sit through a promotional message with every 411 call, do they?
How many times a month does this need to end up on /. - this is the ucsimm, we all know the ucsimm, we've seen it before. At least two times before this.
And incedentally, it's not just the same size as a simm, it's designed to be clicked into the same single-inline-module socket as a 30 pin simm.
I've had disappointing results with Fraunhoffer. The authors admit that they wrote it with low bitrate voice recordings in mind.
In general i suppose it isn't bad, but it's joint stereo I dislike. It's an imperfect way of doing things.
Some of the bands i listen to sometimes use weird qsound-alike spatial effects when they mix the album. fraunhoffer slaughters those and makes this swooping noise. it's irritating. Tracks of note are LPD's "10th Shade" and Japan's "Gentlemen Take Polaroids"
I wouldn't say bladeenc is perfect. But, well, nothing is. I use bladeenc and it isn't half bad.
From all reports, Xing's encoder uses a really cheezy approximation of the codec. That would be in keeping with Xing's history in the market - their mpeg video encoder creates mpeg videos that are comprised entirely of index frames.
Also considering the well-known-in-some-circles source of this information, I wouldn't be surprised if the entire story was based on one person standing in rough proximity to an Alpha saying "Dude, NT is soo dead!"
If you really wanna know how reliable Jay Perlow is, scan dejanews regarding "pre-release" copies of OS/2 3.0.
Car companies make cars that look like distinct ripoffs of other peoples cars all the time. It's no big deal.
The eOne definately doesn't look exactly like an imac. It looks like the iMac's inbred, retarded country cousin. A hackneyed immitation. Nobody is going to mistake this one.
It looks about as much like an iMac as a Mazda Miata looks like a Fiat Spider 2000. And Mazda has made no secret of their inspiration. People *Don't* get sued over this sort of thing in the "real world".
You would think Apple would have understood by now, they'v never won a look-and-feel case before, and aren't likely to win one in the future.
Oh man, when the clue train came rolling by you weren't the one standing right in the middle of the track, were you?
FM stands for Frequency Modulation. It means you modulate the frequency of your waves. This is opposed to Amplitude Modulation, wherein you modulate the amplitude of your waves.
There are some other modes of transmission that fall under the category of "Miscelanious" - Phase Modulation comes to mind. Phase modulation is, or was the last time i checked, considered experimental by the FCC. You need special permission to experiment with it.
The fact that you point out the range used by commercial radio stations only illustrates that you've never even sat next to someone who has the least bit of rf experience, not even a CB bubba. Modes of transmission have close to nothing to do with the ranges of frequency that the FCC has set aside for them.
Personally, I don't pretend to have the foggiest idea whether they say they use AM or FM. I'm 100% certian they don't use Phase or Pulse modulation.
I'd be surprised if they use amplitude modulation, since it has a greater tendency to cause interference, and a greater tendency to be affected by interference from other devices.
For your gee whiz collection, police band is generally between 130 and 150 mhz, and is FM. "two meter" radio as used by technician-class HAMs is definately FM. The "trunked" business radios a lot of public utilities and companies with mobile technicians use are 800Mhz (roughly) FM. Cellular phones are definately FM.
Frankly, I'd be shocked if they were using 2.6Ghz AM. I don't think you'd want to stand next to a 2.6Ghz AM transmitter, even if you could run it on household mains.
Honestly, I don't know if it's just Gnome, or just Enlightenment, but whoever's fault it is, the configuration of E+Gnome in RedHat is positively the worst window managment system I'v ever encountered.
Think about it. Windows start without focus. You can't click in the window to give it focus, you have to click on the title bar. if you leave the pointer over the title bar, you get a big yellow box explaining how to move the window.
Clicking on it's button on the task bar doesn't give it focus. if it's behind another window, you have to move or minimize one or the other in order to change focus.
Now, these are very simple complaints. I currently use IceWM because it (a) basicly does what i need a window management system to do, and (b) mimics the z-ordering rules OS/2 uses.
You forgot "3rd quarter 1900"
They're the kinda managment that posts things like This cartoon :-)
I know a lot of people who have worked there, amongst them my eldest sister's husband. I think i might know who wrote that.
They're a pretty slick operation, with a fairly decent sense of humor. Aside from that, they give you the best millikelvin for your buck. They don't make the cheapest temperature sensor, but their stuff is generally more accurate and more reliable than devices costing thousands more.
A bunch of people left Hart to work for the company I'm currently with, an ambitious startup that will remain anonymous since slashdotters have already gone to town regarding the web page someone spent an hour throwing together in frontpage rather than spending weeks in vi to make something that looks decent. Pity it's a crime to concentrate on what you do best and spend as little as possible on things you're not going to do well anyhow.
That's entirely true, but if someone in your neighborhood is doing something to antagonize you, that's a domestic disturbance. So, like i said, the police can come over and say "Knock it off" -- same as if you let your dog out at night to bark at the sky. But they can't do anything about the radio itself.
Of course, you would have to show that you'd exausted your other options and that the person in question didn't care that he was causing you problems.
(I hit a wrong key or something, this submitted once already before i was finished)
That all depends on what kind of a radio it is and what kind of licenses he does or doesn't have.
He is being pretty rude, and ought to buy a low-pass filter. Maybe you should buy one for him?
If he's using a stock CB radio - that is, 4 watts deadkey / 7 watts peak, the police can call it a domestic disturbance and tell him to knock it off. But they can't take away his radio.
If he is using an outlawed CB or 10 meter ham equipment mofidied to use the 11 meter range (the CB range), he is breaking the law. Unfortunately, the FCC is brutally underfunded, and in 1997 couldn't even get funding to write letters to manufacturers expressing concern over the illegal uses of things like 10 meter linear amplifiers that work just as well on 11 meter. Again, the police can treat this as a domestic disturbance. Unfortunately, only a federal marshall can legally take away his radio. (Tho the cops may do it anyway)
If he is a licensed ham using ham radio equipment that is broadcasting on bands his license doesn't allow, or is transmitting with greater power than his license allows, the FCC won't be happy about it. Your local FCC rep might come out and order him to turn over or destroy his transmitter.
If he is a licensed ham using ham radio equipment that is within the allowable ranges of his license, the police can treat it as a domestic disturbance, but other than annoying you he is breaking no laws.
Most people don't take the time to read the definition of a class B device. A "Class B" electronic device is required to accept any interference caused by other devices. To put that another way, if your neighbor is using legally licensed amateur bands and your TV is picking up his signal, it's *your* fault. He's being a bad neighbor, but it's your fault that your tv is picking up his perfectly legal transmission.
So, you've got a few options.
(1) Offer to buy him a "low pass filter" - anyone who works at a radio equipment store will know exactly what you mean if you ask them for one. it may cost as much as $20, more if he's running a heck of a lot of power out the back of his radio. he puts this in-line on his coax before it reaches the antenna. I would not recommend going to RadioShack for this. Try looking through the yellow pages for a business that sells or leases business radio or ham equipment. A low-pass filter tries to clean out the ranges of transmission that will interfere with A/V equipment. It shouldn't interfere with his fun.
(2) Call the police and have them treat it as a domestic disturbance. They'll come over and give him a talking to, maybe scare him a little. If he's got illegal radio equipment, the most they can legally do is tell the FCC. Some cops will take it away anyway on the chance that the person in question knows it's illegal and won't complain to the feds.
(3) Buy some high-pass filters to put on your tv and stereo to filter out his transmissions. This might not work, if, like you say, anything with a speaker repeats his voice.
(4) Stick a pin through his coax. This will make his radio's finals explode the next time he tries to transmit. This is, of course, destruction of personal property, 100% illegal, and I don't condone it. But some people can be real pricks, and the other three might not work.
Overall, don't assume that he's doing it maliciously. He might not know that he's causing you a problem. He may have some high-pass filters for you to install on your TV and stereo. Maybe he has a low-pass filter that's simply stopped working and he doesn't realize it.
Ham's are generally gregarious people who like to share their hobby with anyone who's interested, much like any other class of geek.