All the geeks I know solder. The *real* geeks solder surface mount ICs with hot air guns and toaster ovens, and design their own multilayer PCBs using ExpressPCB's excellent services. They get their SMD parts from Digikey, which has done very well catering to those Radio Shack can't be bothered with any more.
Disclaimer - I'm not financially interested in the above companies, except in a negative sense...they seem to take a lot of my money!
...and it's getting riper. Sounds more like someone's trying to sell anti-hacker insurance. Personally, I'd be a lot more concerned about botnets than some alleged "security expert" warning about an "army of hackers" in some place he knows I can't check.
I'm partial to ExpressPCB (www.expresspcb.com) for quick-turn cheap 2-sided PCBs. They provide a rudimentary design tool for free (only works with them, though) and you can lay out a PCB one day and have 3 copies in your hands two days later for around $100.
The frequency analog phones run on is exactly the same as some digital phones use (not all...but many, for example TDMA and CDMA...some GSM run on higher freq bands)
It's the multi-base station problem. Cell phone sees many, many base stations, base stations expect to deal with a cell phone on the ground that can see three (at most) adjacent base stations, but not a phone that can see tens or hundreds of non-adjacent base stations.
SW1 beeps because you can't go back to before photo 1 (you said you hadn't taken any photos yet) and SW4 dowesn't do anything because you're already at the last (first) photo.
Add two buttons and sell it as a cheap reusable camera with a USB interface.
Actually, this seems to have stopped early this year, and rather dramatically. Two accounts that were previously unusable, are now clear of spam.
And yes, I noticed that the spam started coming in as soon as I created the accounts, and before I had sent anything from them. And yes, I *did* check the box that said "don't list me in the directory".
It was rumored that Hotmail had a well-known (to spammers) hole in their incoming mail system that allowed the acquisition of valid usernames.
I second this. Get a firmware firewall. I bought one *before* I got broadband, and it's positively scary to look at the number of attempted intrusions in the log.
Spend the money for a Linksys and you won't be sorry. A side benefit is that you can hook up more than one computer to the internet. Keeps the kids off yours.
Broadband without a firewall is irresponsible. Practice safe computing!
When I signed up with my ISP, they came over and wanted to load a CD of software on my PC. I didn't let them, but I know what it was. Browser with their homepage as default, a bunch of great free offer icons, and some network config stuff.
Here's an idea! Instead of spending their time redirecting your browser to their homepage and installing a bunch of crap pointing to free offers, how about installing a *properly configured* firewall (basic Zone Alarm) and an auto-updating anti-virus program?
Pardon my language, but at fifty-fscking-dollars a month, they should be able to afford that.
Even one of the two would cut the spam. And with NO effort required on grandma's part.
Now, after reading both interviews, I know who *I'd* like to have living next door......and who I'd be just as happy to see living in Tierra del Fuego!...except Linus doesn't like the cold, and it's 17 degrees here in MA as I type this...
>They are suing because of... Hotmail. Both recieve huge amounts of spam to user accounts...
Not since a week ago. Incoming spam, which used to average 10's of messages a *day*, is now down to a trickle. Hotmail has started using new filters, along with their new look.
In my town, we have electronic OCR ballot *counting* machines. The ballots themselves are pieces of paper with ovals on them (just like in school). The counting machines are, in fact, Diebold "AccuVote" products [I love the name...sounds like something out of "The Simpsons"]. The point is that all the machines do is count the votes. The ballots are paper and remain the final (anonymous) documents recording each vote. They can always be recounted by hand if the machine totals are in doubt, or the machine malfunctions before the end of voting.
You will never convince me that touch screen machines provide the same combination of security, accuracy and speed. I have nothing against Diebold, but sometimes, we all need to step back and remember the KISS principle and not to make a solution more complex than it needs to be...
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You must be a software weenie :-)
All the geeks I know solder. The *real* geeks solder surface mount ICs with hot air guns and toaster ovens, and design their own multilayer PCBs using ExpressPCB's excellent services. They get their SMD parts from Digikey, which has done very well catering to those Radio Shack can't be bothered with any more.
Disclaimer - I'm not financially interested in the above companies, except in a negative sense...they seem to take a lot of my money!
...and it's getting riper. Sounds more like someone's trying to sell anti-hacker insurance. Personally, I'd be a lot more concerned about botnets than some alleged "security expert" warning about an "army of hackers" in some place he knows I can't check.
There. Thanks for letting me get that out.
I'm partial to ExpressPCB (www.expresspcb.com) for quick-turn cheap 2-sided PCBs. They provide a rudimentary design tool for free (only works with them, though) and you can lay out a PCB one day and have 3 copies in your hands two days later for around $100.
Except it was a Corvette they were trying to clean.
It went cheap...and smelly, even after they sought professional help to get the dead pig smell out.
Fun to watch though. Especially when they unsealed the car after leaving it taped up for a month with two dead pigs in the driver's seat.
The picture tube *is* the capacitor on the HV supply.
If they don't hold a charge (quite well, I might add), I guess that inch long spark I drew off the anode connector was a figment of my imagination.
*Always* assume a CRT is charged, and use a grounded screwdriver to discharge it before trying to remove the anode connection.
Or you'll be very sorry.
So, if you don't have the range to see cells, how come you can use your phone in the air?
Cell phones work fine at altitude. So do radios.
The frequency analog phones run on is exactly the same as some digital phones use (not all...but many, for example TDMA and CDMA...some GSM run on higher freq bands)
It's the multi-base station problem. Cell phone sees many, many base stations, base stations expect to deal with a cell phone on the ground that can see three (at most) adjacent base stations, but not a phone that can see tens or hundreds of non-adjacent base stations.
Best guess for SW1 and SW4 is ""
SW1 beeps because you can't go back to before photo 1 (you said you hadn't taken any photos yet) and SW4 dowesn't do anything because you're already at the last (first) photo.
Add two buttons and sell it as a cheap reusable camera with a USB interface.
Repeat after me:
Connect the Cable/DSL modem output to the WAN input of a NAT box. You'll save yourself hours of frustration.
My Linksys BEFSR-11 is the best $100
I spent. And, looking at the incoming traffic log will reinforce that conclusion for those with any doubts.
The numerals were green high-voltage electroluminescent displays arranged in an array of seven segments per numeral to display numbers.
[from the free-defintion.com article on the Apollo Guidance Computer]
You heard wrong.
No, not a LED. Something else. Plasma or incandescent, but definitely not a LED.
Not invented yet.
Yes, you certainly have to be careful with "signal feedback". It can be very dangerous.
It's also complete bull.
I built one of these things out of foamcore and tinfoil, and it works very well. 50% improvement in received signal indication when it's in place.
Actually, this seems to have stopped early this year, and rather dramatically. Two accounts that were previously unusable, are now clear of spam.
And yes, I noticed that the spam started coming in as soon as I created the accounts, and before I had sent anything from them. And yes, I *did* check the box that said "don't list me in the directory".
It was rumored that Hotmail had a well-known (to spammers) hole in their incoming mail system that allowed the acquisition of valid usernames.
...is a good landing!
I second this. Get a firmware firewall.
I bought one *before* I got broadband, and it's positively scary to look at the number of attempted intrusions in the log.
Spend the money for a Linksys and you won't be sorry. A side benefit is that you can hook up more than one computer to the internet. Keeps the kids off yours.
Broadband without a firewall is irresponsible. Practice safe computing!
wtf is an isp to do?
How about this, for a really good start:
When I signed up with my ISP, they came over and wanted to load a CD of software on my PC. I didn't let them, but I know what it was. Browser with their homepage as default, a bunch of great free offer icons, and some network config stuff.
Here's an idea! Instead of spending their time redirecting your browser to their homepage and installing a bunch of crap pointing to free offers, how about installing a *properly configured* firewall (basic Zone Alarm) and an auto-updating anti-virus program?
Pardon my language, but at fifty-fscking-dollars a month, they should be able to afford that.
Even one of the two would cut the spam. And with NO effort required on grandma's part.
Seems so simple...
...but the didn't check with me first.
Oh well. At least *someone* is thinking of the children (who don't pay taxes).
"An ounce of image is worth a pound of performance."
(and just in time for the elections)
Damn cell service. There's a coverage hole *right* over my house! They must have changed something, it worked fine last week.
I kid you not...on a tank of 95% 02/5% CO2, the following statement:
Antidote:
"In case of inhalation, remove to well ventilated area and administer oxygen."
Now, after reading both interviews, I know who *I'd* like to have living next door... ...and who I'd be just as happy to see living in Tierra del Fuego! ...except Linus doesn't like the cold, and it's 17 degrees here in MA as I type this...
"Click here to get the plugin"
Don't have Flash, don't need it.
Thank you, Mozilla.org!
>They are suing because of ... Hotmail. Both recieve huge amounts of spam to user accounts...
Not since a week ago. Incoming spam, which used to average 10's of messages a *day*, is now down to a trickle. Hotmail has started using new filters, along with their new look.
I might even use it now.
Getting away with leaving the scene of a motor vehicle accident resulting in a fatality.
In my town, we have electronic OCR ballot *counting* machines. The ballots themselves are pieces of paper with ovals on them (just like in school). The counting machines are, in fact, Diebold "AccuVote" products [I love the name...sounds like something out of "The Simpsons"]. The point is that all the machines do is count the votes. The ballots are paper and remain the final (anonymous) documents recording each vote. They can always be recounted by hand if the machine totals are in doubt, or the machine malfunctions before the end of voting.
You will never convince me that touch screen machines provide the same combination of security, accuracy and speed. I have nothing against Diebold, but sometimes, we all need to step back and remember the KISS principle and not to make a solution more complex than it needs to be...