Well, to be honest, no. Not in all occasions. For this to succeed, you must have a meteor shower with meteors that have trails that remain visible for some time. Otherwise the radio waves won't be reflected.
If you pick the right shower, you might be able to enjoy the waiting inside, and move outside as soon as the peak shows up.
Perseids are cool (around august 11, if I'm not mistaken) but once you've seen the leonids (november) the last few years, other showers won't give you that "ooh ahh" so quick again.
During leonids, we saw about 200 meteors in an entire night, but I think you may be happy if you see about 20 during this shower. Still nice, but less "ooh ahh"...:(
To answer your question, perseids and quandrandids (pfff:) have about the same HR, so given good weather, you'll have a good night
Well, the HR (Hourly rate) of 200 means that you'll probably see about 20 meteors an hour, maximum. The HR is based on ideal situation (no moon, clear sky, etc.) and you'll never reach it.
Usually, a meteor shower takes about 12 hrs, with one (or more) maximums during the time. For instance, the leonids (november) last year were visible from 00:00 to 7:00, but only at the peak at 3:50 we saw a lot. Time before and after weren't wasted, but we saw half of all the meteors that night during the 10 minute interval.
Good luck observing, but remember to bring lots and lots of blankets & coffee;-)
While watching meteors still rocks, there is a nice mechanism that detects meteors using radiowaves. In short, you tune your radio to a radiostation that you wouldn't normally receive (because it's below the horizon). Then you wait for a meteor. When one shows up, it leaves a ionized trail, which will reflect the radio waves: you hear the meteor coming by!
I know, I shouldn't mention the word 'linux' here, but I do have a question concerning 6to4 that's related to linux.
The tutorial says '
To set up 6to4, you start with a machine that has both IPv4 and IPv6. I will use FreeBSD 4.x as an example, mostly because it's the one I know best.
FreeBSD has a special pseudo-device that can be used to set up 6to4 called stf. Make sure you put pseudo-device stf in your kernel
configuration.....'
Very nice, a complete tutorial how to set up 6to4 on a FreeBSD box, but this is not portable in any way to linux. I tried a search on '6to4' on the net, and I only got matches for the Microsoft ipv6 stack, none for other OS-ses.
Can anyone point me to a generic 6to4 tutorial, with an explaination about the things to set up, WITHOUT a OS-specific example?
Well, you proably know what those words mean, but for the Dutch-illeterate here:
herfstvrucht: autumn-fruit
angstschreeuw: scream of terror
koeieuier: Well, the thing hanging below a cow, where you get the milk from (dunno the trans;-)
I read an article about RijnDael in a Dutch magazine a few weeks ago. They interviewed the authors (they're from Belgium and speak Dutch too) about the algorithm. The things I remember from the interview:
They didn't patent it. This means that they ofcourse get the credit (everlasting fame) but don't earn any money with it (compare that to the people that 'invented' RSA...)
They were searching for the most simple algorithm. Not something that would require massive processors or mathematical libraries, but an algorithm based on simple instructions, something that could fit on (for example) a small chip (smart-) card.
I agree that the bills were funny, but the first ones contained just plain rubbish that would run on _any_ shell. I didn't check the picture above, but it's probably also some meta-unix
I wonder by the way why someone can say that it's in California when the URL is definately located in the TLD of the Netherlands (.nl).
The problem is the post from user 'parent'. If you move your mouse over the nickname, it redirects you (onMouseover="windows.location='...') to http://12ls.cjb.net/ That page redirects you to the login page with username=childll and a password.
Being a slashnet admin I can safely say that we suffer of it too. Quoting from a mail that came over our operlist:
Okay, I just finished a meeting on Afternet, in regards to these things. Please bear with me, while I finish gathering some information about them. What it appears that they do, is a bunch of bots (between 5 and 15 per host) are loaded and they cycle channels, that are public, and gather information about said public channel, and it's then posted on some webpage somewhere. Like channel name, description, topic, current users, ops, etc. Evidently, it doesn't post channel conversation, that's remaining to be seen. However, it does use up resources, etc, that can be better spent on real users.
In response of that came the following mail of one of our admins (drdink) who did some research:
After some research with deimos and acb, we've discovered some dark secrets of this ChatScan thing. At first, it seems like a nice site which has an ActiveX interface to many IRC channels on many IRC networks. Unfortunately, we've figured out how they get updated information, such as topics and usesr, for each channel. When a user innocently uses the ActiveX applet, they connect to the destination they believed they were going to (i.e. #slashdot) BUT at the same time, the software connects to OTHER IRC NETWORKS WITHOUT THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE USER and does data gathering there and sends it back to the master site. This is clearly unethical. Using your usesr' bandwidth without asking or telling them first. I would suggest, since its going to be impossible to ban every single ISP, that we modify our MOTDs and AUPs (and enforce them) and then send these E-Now characters e-mails.
Only thing I can add to this is that I agree completely with the things said here. I think it's a bad thing that such a 'service' is being advertised on slashdot. But then again, the one that posted the message probably didn't know all this.
This has absolutely no impact. Every child below 13 will create a new account stating he's at least 25. There is no way to validate that, so although AOL seems to have taken a step to please the DOJ, it will not stop young childs from using ICQ.
This is a Good Thing(tm). If you look at the open source projects around, you see that a whole lot of projects all overlap. You've got gnome, kde, and a bunch of other desktopmanagers. Ofcourse, it's a good thing that there is a lot of choice, but wouldn't it be smarter to put all those devellopers on 1 large project? I think that this idea of creating a common model that both the projects can use is a very good idea. Look at Micros~1 COM (Component Object Model) for instance. You may not like this MS specific object model, but it works very well. You write a library once, and lots and lots of applications can use it instantly. I think that cooperation of Open Source projects will be the most important thing in projectmanagement the next couple of years. Instead of living on a island, devellopers cooperate and create software that is completely interexchangable.
Because the site is/.-ed (and I knew this link 2 days ago) I created a mirror. I don't know if my provider likes the website/.-ed, but we'll see about that later:)
The UNIX builders created mouse with 3 buttons, and saw that is was good. Then, Microsoft came up with the bright idea to create mice with 2 buttons, and people liked it. Apple, the company that always does things the other way around, thought that one button was enough for all your computer needs, and so it was done. Thinks looked good, because you could see at ones mouse-buttons what OS he was using. That simple times are over, because Apple introduced the 0-buttoned mouse. Confusion all around the techie world, because now there is a new group of people: the zero-buttoners. But don't forget that there is a bright side: things will now never change again (unless someone can create a mouse with a negative number of buttons)
I can tell you that: nothing! I'm a Dutch computer science student and I live in a students house that has a connection to the campus. That means, we could have a high speed connection, but the university only has 34 Mb/sec, and we have a 2Mb/sec uplink to the university (I have to share that bandwith with 400 fellow students).
So, students are in a kind of luxurious position, because all educational institutes get their connection from Surfnet, an organization that does all network related things for educational institutes. They are planning to upgrade the link to our university to 1Gb/sec, and probably that means that our studenthouse will get 100Mb/sec. So, I'me lucky, but now back to the rest of the people in the Netherlands. There are 3 ways to get connected here:
Modem. I guess that over 50% of the internetting population here uses modems. They're slow (so those people will NEVER benefit from a 40Gb uplink) and very, very expensive (the company KPN owns all the telephone lines, and a local call at night kosts $1 per hour, during daytime it's $2). So KPN does invest in broadband connections, but the average person only pays KPN far too much for far to little bandwith
Cable. Most cable companies here are starting to sell cable-internet, but unfortunately most of them offer only a very low bandwith. Some providers use cablemodems that are attached to the serial port (so you'll NEVER get more than 115200 bits/sec), some of them use ethernet. Since those companies don't have a large backbone, they limit the bandwith to about 50 kb/sec per person.
ADSL. Finally, FINALLY!!! a company called Cistron is starting to do some tests with ADSL (and because KPN wants to play a role at the telecom market, they followed after about 2 months). The speed is incredible (2Mb/sec downstream, 64kb/sec upstream) but only for a lucky few who live in areas where is being tested. The rest of the Netherlands has to wait at least 2 years before this technology is available.
Where does this bring us? KPN invests lots and lots of money in projects with rediculous bandwidths, but over 80% of all internetting people in the Netherlands will not benefit from this the next 2 years. KPN charges huge amounts for normal telephony, but cableinternet is far more expensive and not all areas are covered yet. Personally, I'm glad that I'm studying and that I can use the universities bandwith. For the rest of the Netherlands: they'll have to wait a couple of more years....:-(
Sorry, but this post just wasn't a flaimbait. Maybe somebody didn't like what I said, but it's sad that that person tries to moderate stuff down if he doens't agree with the points
Oh, before I forget, I always thought that a flamebait was a flaimbait if there was a flaimwar involved. Please read the comments, you'll see that it's a perfectly normal discussion.
I didn't really want to bash a specific person, but I took Hawking because he is one of the people that have spended lots of time on blackhole research. I won't argue with you about his intelligence, I have also read his book 'The Universe' and I agree with you that is is a brilliant man.
Maybe you could learn a thing or two from them about pursuit of truth... It has nothing to do with what you believe to be true, it has to do with what you can determine to be true. Belief can still exist, it isn't a problem, but if you believe something that contradicts what is in front of your face, then maybe what you believe needs minor adjustment.
I agree, but this counts for scientists as well as for religious people (and for religious scientists:-) I have not yet encountered a theory that posed real problems for my belief. (Please read my other posts about evolution, I wont put that here again). If I encounter one, I will spend lots of efforts to falsificate it, just as every scientist that thinks that the theory is wrong.
I'me sorry, I should've used the word 'Theory' instead of 'Theorem' (English isn't my native language, an error on my side). I study computer science and I had to prove a lot of theorems, so you are right when you say that a theorem is based on logical deduction. What I meant was a theory that is based on (subjective) data and that never can be proven the way a mathematical theory can.
It's interesting that you claim:
Evolution has been around for 150 years and itself has been a continuously evolving theory, changing as more information is uncovered. Somehow, however, the basic idea (that species arise from differential change within other species) has stood the test of time.
It looks like your main argument here is: "It has been around for over 150 years (don't forget that a lot of theories are based on correctness of the evolution theory!) so it's propably correct". I can understand that, but you propably didn't really 'dive into' the matter. I did, and I found a book (written in Dutch by a guy named Peter Scheele) that poses a lot of question by the evolution theorem. Some of the questions were really good founded. They implicated that the entire idea behind macro-evolution (that mutations can eventually cause grow of genetic information) is false. During the discussion I had with atheists about this topic, I was amazed that they reacted with some kind of religional arguments. They just couldn't stand the idea that the evolution theorem could be false in a way that meant that there is a Creator.
My only point here is that far to many people take basic ideas like the evolution theorem for granted (but in fact they ARE NOT proven and still based on (maybe false) deductions over (subjective) data).
Could you learn how to fucking spell, you ignorant bible thumper?
I am not an ignorant bible thumper (I don't even know what that means:). The fact that someone is a Christian doesn't mean that he can't have solid arguments agains theorems like the evolution theorem.
English is not my native language (I'me Dutch) and I could have written an entire essay in Dutch, but unfortunately > 99% of the slashdot audience doesn't speak Dutch. I've tried to filter out most of the spelling errors (it took me ages to write the piece:). If you can write 50 lines of correct Dutch for me then you have point:-)
This article might seem very provocative, but it isn't really. Some people say "this undermines 60 years of relativity studies, so it almost can't be true" as an argument for Einsteins GR theorem. This is the WORST attitude that any scientist can have
I'me a christian, and everytime I have a discussion about things like the Evolution theorem there are people that say "You can never be as open-minded as we are, because the truth is already certain for you, and you will never accept anything that doesn't support that". I partly agree with them, but the forget that as atheists, they do exactly the same. There is always one thing they can rely on, and that's the fact that God doesn't exist, so there has to be a theorem that explains our existence. This shows that nobody is completely objective.
My point: Some people (like Stephen Hawkins) thank their careers from theorems about black holes or other theoretical astronomical theormens. The outside world looks at them as real (objective) scientists, but when an alternate theorem appears, they are the ones that will fight it the most. Not because the theorem might be wrong, but because they loose all their status in the scientific world.
I think that a lot of things that are considered to be certain (like the evolution theorem, relativity, quantum effects, etc.) are not as certain as most scientists want us to believe. I hope and pray that there will be more sceptical scientists that put questionmarks by those theorems.
If you go to europe and stay in the neighbourhood of (relatively;-) large cities, you don't need a translator. These days almost everyone speaks english (especially in the more touristic areas). If you go to (for example) the Netherlands, you will notice that the people are very helpfull if you speak english
Slashdot Mirror
Well, to be honest, no. Not in all occasions. For this to succeed, you must have a meteor shower with meteors that have trails that remain visible for some time. Otherwise the radio waves won't be reflected.
If you pick the right shower, you might be able to enjoy the waiting inside, and move outside as soon as the peak shows up.
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Perseids are cool (around august 11, if I'm not mistaken) but once you've seen the leonids (november) the last few years, other showers won't give you that "ooh ahh" so quick again. ... :( :) have about the same HR, so given good weather, you'll have a good night
During leonids, we saw about 200 meteors in an entire night, but I think you may be happy if you see about 20 during this shower. Still nice, but less "ooh ahh"
To answer your question, perseids and quandrandids (pfff
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Well, the HR (Hourly rate) of 200 means that you'll probably see about 20 meteors an hour, maximum. The HR is based on ideal situation (no moon, clear sky, etc.) and you'll never reach it. ;-)
Usually, a meteor shower takes about 12 hrs, with one (or more) maximums during the time. For instance, the leonids (november) last year were visible from 00:00 to 7:00, but only at the peak at 3:50 we saw a lot. Time before and after weren't wasted, but we saw half of all the meteors that night during the 10 minute interval.
Good luck observing, but remember to bring lots and lots of blankets & coffee
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While watching meteors still rocks, there is a nice mechanism that detects meteors using radiowaves. In short, you tune your radio to a radiostation that you wouldn't normally receive (because it's below the horizon). Then you wait for a meteor. When one shows up, it leaves a ionized trail, which will reflect the radio waves: you hear the meteor coming by!
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More information: http://www.imo.net/radio/
I am member of a small observatory in the Netherlands. We are quite active during meteor showers, for a report of the last Leonids shower, visit http://www.lansbergen.demon.nl/uk/meteors/leonid2
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I know, I shouldn't mention the word 'linux' here, but I do have a question concerning 6to4 that's related to linux.
The tutorial says ' To set up 6to4, you start with a machine that has both IPv4 and IPv6. I will use FreeBSD 4.x as an example, mostly because it's the one I know best. FreeBSD has a special pseudo-device that can be used to set up 6to4 called stf. Make sure you put pseudo-device stf in your kernel configuration.....'
Very nice, a complete tutorial how to set up 6to4 on a FreeBSD box, but this is not portable in any way to linux. I tried a search on '6to4' on the net, and I only got matches for the Microsoft ipv6 stack, none for other OS-ses.
Can anyone point me to a generic 6to4 tutorial, with an explaination about the things to set up, WITHOUT a OS-specific example?
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Well, you proably know what those words mean, but for the Dutch-illeterate here: ;-)
herfstvrucht: autumn-fruit
angstschreeuw: scream of terror
koeieuier: Well, the thing hanging below a cow, where you get the milk from (dunno the trans
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Okay, that says enough, doesn't it?
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... can be found here: http://www.greatbridge.com/news/p_081420001.html
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I agree that the bills were funny, but the first ones contained just plain rubbish that would run on _any_ shell. I didn't check the picture above, but it's probably also some meta-unix
I wonder by the way why someone can say that it's in California when the URL is definately located in the TLD of the Netherlands (.nl).
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The problem is the post from user 'parent'. If you move your mouse over the nickname, it redirects you (onMouseover="windows.location='...') to http://12ls.cjb.net/
:)
That page redirects you to the login page with username=childll and a password.
nifty
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This has absolutely no impact. Every child below 13 will create a new account stating he's at least 25. There is no way to validate that, so although AOL seems to have taken a step to please the DOJ, it will not stop young childs from using ICQ.
This is a Good Thing(tm). If you look at the open source projects around, you see that a whole lot of projects all overlap. You've got gnome, kde, and a bunch of other desktopmanagers. Ofcourse, it's a good thing that there is a lot of choice, but wouldn't it be smarter to put all those devellopers on 1 large project?
I think that this idea of creating a common model that both the projects can use is a very good idea. Look at Micros~1 COM (Component Object Model) for instance. You may not like this MS specific object model, but it works very well. You write a library once, and lots and lots of applications can use it instantly.
I think that cooperation of Open Source projects will be the most important thing in projectmanagement the next couple of years. Instead of living on a island, devellopers cooperate and create software that is completely interexchangable.
Good move guys!
Because the site is /.-ed (and I knew this link 2 days ago) I created a mirror. I don't know if my provider likes the website /.-ed, but we'll see about that later :)
The link is: http://www.warande.uu.nl/~jverelst/xmps/
Have fun!!
The UNIX builders created mouse with 3 buttons, and saw that is was good. Then, Microsoft came up with the bright idea to create mice with 2 buttons, and people liked it.
Apple, the company that always does things the other way around, thought that one button was enough for all your computer needs, and so it was done.
Thinks looked good, because you could see at ones mouse-buttons what OS he was using. That simple times are over, because Apple introduced the 0-buttoned mouse. Confusion all around the techie world, because now there is a new group of people: the zero-buttoners.
But don't forget that there is a bright side: things will now never change again (unless someone can create a mouse with a negative number of buttons)
I'm a Dutch computer science student and I live in a students house that has a connection to the campus. That means, we could have a high speed connection, but the university only has 34 Mb/sec, and we have a 2Mb/sec uplink to the university (I have to share that bandwith with 400 fellow students).
So, students are in a kind of luxurious position, because all educational institutes get their connection from Surfnet, an organization that does all network related things for educational institutes. They are planning to upgrade the link to our university to 1Gb/sec, and probably that means that our studenthouse will get 100Mb/sec.
So, I'me lucky, but now back to the rest of the people in the Netherlands.
There are 3 ways to get connected here:
- Modem. I guess that over 50% of the internetting population here uses modems. They're slow (so those people will NEVER benefit from a 40Gb uplink) and very, very expensive (the company KPN owns all the telephone lines, and a local call at night kosts $1 per hour, during daytime it's $2). So KPN does invest in broadband connections, but the average person only pays KPN far too much for far to little bandwith
- Cable. Most cable companies here are starting to sell cable-internet, but unfortunately most of them offer only a very low bandwith. Some providers use cablemodems that are attached to the serial port (so you'll NEVER get more than 115200 bits/sec), some of them use ethernet. Since those companies don't have a large backbone, they limit the bandwith to about 50 kb/sec per person.
- ADSL. Finally, FINALLY!!! a company called Cistron is starting to do some tests with ADSL (and because KPN wants to play a role at the telecom market, they followed after about 2 months). The speed is incredible (2Mb/sec downstream, 64kb/sec upstream) but only for a lucky few who live in areas where is being tested. The rest of the Netherlands has to wait at least 2 years before this technology is available.
Where does this bring us? KPN invests lots and lots of money in projects with rediculous bandwidths, but over 80% of all internetting people in the Netherlands will not benefit from this the next 2 years. KPN charges huge amounts for normal telephony, but cableinternet is far more expensive and not all areas are covered yet.Personally, I'm glad that I'm studying and that I can use the universities bandwith. For the rest of the Netherlands: they'll have to wait a couple of more years
Sorry, but this post just wasn't a flaimbait. Maybe somebody didn't like what I said, but it's sad that that person tries to moderate stuff down if he doens't agree with the points
Oh, before I forget, I always thought that a flamebait was a flaimbait if there was a flaimwar involved. Please read the comments, you'll see that it's a perfectly normal discussion.
I agree, but this counts for scientists as well as for religious people (and for religious scientists
It's interesting that you claim:
It looks like your main argument here is: "It has been around for over 150 years (don't forget that a lot of theories are based on correctness of the evolution theory!) so it's propably correct". I can understand that, but you propably didn't really 'dive into' the matter. I did, and I found a book (written in Dutch by a guy named Peter Scheele) that poses a lot of question by the evolution theorem. Some of the questions were really good founded. They implicated that the entire idea behind macro-evolution (that mutations can eventually cause grow of genetic information) is false.
During the discussion I had with atheists about this topic, I was amazed that they reacted with some kind of religional arguments. They just couldn't stand the idea that the evolution theorem could be false in a way that meant that there is a Creator.
My only point here is that far to many people take basic ideas like the evolution theorem for granted (but in fact they ARE NOT proven and still based on (maybe false) deductions over (subjective) data).
If you can write 50 lines of correct Dutch for me then you have point
This article might seem very provocative, but it isn't really. Some people say "this undermines 60 years of relativity studies, so it almost can't be true" as an argument for Einsteins GR theorem. This is the WORST attitude that any scientist can have
I'me a christian, and everytime I have a discussion about things like the Evolution theorem there are people that say "You can never be as open-minded as we are, because the truth is already certain for you, and you will never accept anything that doesn't support that". I partly agree with them, but the forget that as atheists, they do exactly the same. There is always one thing they can rely on, and that's the fact that God doesn't exist, so there has to be a theorem that explains our existence. This shows that nobody is completely objective.
My point: Some people (like Stephen Hawkins) thank their careers from theorems about black holes or other theoretical astronomical theormens. The outside world looks at them as real (objective) scientists, but when an alternate theorem appears, they are the ones that will fight it the most. Not because the theorem might be wrong, but because they loose all their status in the scientific world.
I think that a lot of things that are considered to be certain (like the evolution theorem, relativity, quantum effects, etc.) are not as certain as most scientists want us to believe. I hope and pray that there will be more sceptical scientists that put questionmarks by those theorems.
If you go to europe and stay in the neighbourhood of (relatively ;-) large cities, you don't need a translator. These days almost everyone speaks english (especially in the more touristic areas). If you go to (for example) the Netherlands, you will notice that the people are very helpfull if you speak english
Do you mean PHP3 or PHP4?? (I admit that I don't know much about the differences, but from what I've heard, PHP4 is lots and lots faster)