WiNRADiO Advanced Digital Suite's
Squelch Controlled Recorder:
http://www.winradio.com/home/ads-recorder.htm
"The recording is conditional on the signal level
and the receiver squelch setting. The playback
function also includes the following additional
enhancements:
Pitch shifting, which provides audio spectrum
shifting by the specified frequency shift size.
Variable playback speed, capable of changing the
speech rate while preserving the pitch.
Speech inversion, useful for descrambling of
speech spectrum inverted signals.
Note: Speech spectrum inversion is not available
in Advanced Digital Suite sold in the United
States due to legislative restrictions (1986
Electronic Communications Privacy Act).
Exceptions may apply to authorized purchasers."
---
It may require prior installation of "WiNRADiO Advanced Digital Suite"
I find it odd that you guys have to "intercept" police radio calls to get your taskings...
It's standard procedure - in most places - for emergency services to ring (a.k.a. "respond") EMS or ambulance(s) as required.
They wouldn't, as a rule, expect the EMS or ambo's to spend all their time monitoring other services' radio frequencies.
For one thing, it can increase your levels of fatigue (although - admit - it can feel exciting to follow incident progress along by radio... a bit like armchair quarterbacking, eh?;-)
If your service is well & truly needed & respected you should be able to get call-outs, just like police & firefighters.
I understand that the rules of the Java game are no longer in Sun's hands to control...
There's some sort of community-input standards committee or working group to which you (or any/all of us here, even) can put the Suggestion that Java become case-insensitive.
In fact, why don't we organise a -mass- sugges- tion campaign here to do just that.
A bit like those spontaneous "Let's all meet at Macca's on 5th & Spring St (or wherever)" that turn out crowds of people, who've never even met before... on somebody's whim...;-)
If your goals are to learn, then choice of tool should not come into it.
At worst, quality of [material and] presentation would be evaluated.
BTW, LOTS of talented folks never completed school and/or univeristy... if you are one of them (but only if you are...) then why not aim straight for places that do interesting & challenging work - if you have a hard copy (letter, printed eMail, etc.) proof that "It's Powerpoint of nothing" keep that to show more intelligent judges of your work that you chose to walk away from narrow- mined, commercially biased standards... & towards a learning-centric / knowledge based ethic.
we can convince them to pay us some of the UK Pounds that would otherwise be spent on surveillence / data gathering - ie if -we- fill-out all the forms ourselves, eh?;-)
Rather than getting cel.tel. calls while I'm communting back to my home, I'd rather people there have the ability to "track" me - either my cel.phone (except, we're in Oz, where this isn't [yet] possible) or (available today) by APRS.
A quick look at a computer screen will answer the questions like "Where are you?" & "How soon will you be home?" better than I can, at least while I'm driving...;-)
As a bonus, we can (either while I'm on the road or after I am home) check the weather at the place(s) we'd planned to go to after hours, using the APRS system's cool weather station-ploting / data-reporting features.
'can't wait until this technology migrates to a WiFi network near me...;-/
'haven't really looked too deeply into BlueTooth (since learning of its S-L-O-W transfer speeds), but I wonder how easy it is for others - within range - to capture a photo going from camera to computer (or where ever)?
Use DD afterall & do Comp Forensic guys know t
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So, SQL Server lets one "hide" a relational DB in an unformatted partition... there may even be a performance advantage in doing so...
[Do computer forensic folks know the above?]
Anyway, I'd hate to wipe an old hard disk before finding that its copy (eg, made with dump & gzip) didn't get the DB copied onto it...
Is therething that does such a job (correctly) -better- (ie more time-effectively) than DD?
Folks the only way we're gonna be able to check all these claims of lengthy up-times is, IMHO, to design & install a secure gizmo that:
- runs from it own rechargable, battery pack
- has a unique identifier
- has its own IP address & LAN port
- keeps track of re-boots, power downs,
lockups & BSOD's (etc.)
- is secure from remote counter modifications
- can be remotely queried by
independent testing labs
What'cha think?;-)
Perhaps these will become standard equipment on all/.-ers Geek Boxes of the future...:-)
This is in the same generation (I think) as Garmin 12XL, but has a triangular form, viewed from the end, so - in a vehicle - it sits nicely on a dashboard (preferably on top of a layer of 'blue-tack' as a shock- absorbing stabilizer)
Screen ROTATES 90 deg's at the push of a button, so you can view it when standing on an end or when setting on the dash.
But... hey! Why aren't we just sending people off to the USENET newsgroup:
sci.geo.satellite.navigation...where this question is more than adequately answered, even as models change...?
Solitar started its life as a card game, &
now [AFAIK still] comes with every Windows
op sys under the sun (or doe Asian versions
come with Mah Jong or the like? They should,
but I digress...)
Why not save dread trees, et al. &
skip the paper stage... go directly
to digital.
In South Australia, we once got
a local library to buy one of the
low-priced, multi-CD-ROM BERKS sets.
('can't find a URL for the UK-based
guy who published those CD-ROM's)
First, there was the question of
whether the disk-set could even
be housed in a library, where
others might use, borrow them.
They apparently have a central
purchasing department to decide
that, based on the license of the
items under consideration.
It took quite a while to decide
to buy a set or two (for several
library branches); it likely cost
more to make the decision than to
buy & ship the sets they eventually
ordered.
Upon receipt, the CD-ROM were placed into
the (no-loan) Reference section.
It took getting them to eMail the
publishers to get the CD-ROM's
shifted into the Loanables section,
but they were not at all quick or
interested in doing that, or even
accepting the publisher's reply eMail
as a definitive answer to their question:
ie would it be consistent with the IP
owner's license to loan these disks.
At least, now that the smoke has cleared,
we can look back & think that
this library has had a chance to
discover & learn a bit about
Open Source materials.
Similar products to SmoothWall (eg, IP Cop,
e-Smith, Clark Connect, et al.) get mentioned
from time to time, and - as a user of only
one of them, I sometimes wonder if it's the
best for our situation.
It would really help to have some point-by-
point comparitive review of all of them, so
people could try to fit their situation(s)
to each of the sets of parameters & pick a
likely-best-fit from the review.
Eg, minimum & recommended system requirements,
ISO size, security tests that each has survived,
logging features, services provided (eg, file-
server, mail server, web mail, MySQL/PostgreSQL)
above & beyond firewalling, etc.
Someone care to add to the parameter list, eg
so some of us could each fill-in the blanks
for our current choice of system & publish the
set of resulting reports in a repository, eg
a bit like benchmark tests for various config-
urations get stored together, even though they
come from lots of invidual home test-labs.
If we start with a fairly complete list of
parameters we'd likely come up with reviews
that make sense to compare, especially if
folks give the numbe of workstation they
serve, on the network.
I didn't notice any posts on APRS, the Amateur Radio based position reporting system, which has been used for years to connect & exchange data between mobile, fixed & Internet based sites, including weather data.
The advantage of APRS, even for unlicensed receive-only users, is reception range that by far exceeds that of Wireless Networks (other than, say, 1-way satellite-based Internet connections).
APRS data flows both over VHF/UHF repeaters and from one (RF-based & licensed, ie transmit-capable) APRS station to another.
An APRS shareware (from the UK) that handles weather data - as well as messages & position data - is here:
http://www.UI-View.com
There is an excellent introductory site & White Paper on APRS here:
http://vk6.aprs.net.au
You can grab the white paper from here:
http://vk6.aprs.net.au/ukaprswp.pdf
The APRS creator's intro, et al. is here:
http://web.usna.navy.mil/~bruninga/aprs.html
Now that an Amateur Radio license is easier than ever to get, we should all have one (& some RF-based voice comms going as we surf, ie the way that doesn't eat into our 'net bandwidth, ie via Ham Radio...
with an APRS-connected weather station on the side, and - when we're mobile (on land, in the air or on sea - a GPS connected, so we can be tracked/contacted & even found in the unlikely even that we get lost.;-)
Oh, and the speech-enabled Linux-based GPS-driven, "moving-map" program from Austria - GpsDrive - will help preclude our getting lost in the first place. (AFAIK, it's not APRS- enabled... yet, but it lets [WiFi-connected] near neighbors see each other's positions, I understand).
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WiNRADiO Advanced Digital Suite's
Squelch Controlled Recorder:
http://www.winradio.com/home/ads-recorder.htm
"The recording is conditional on the signal level
and the receiver squelch setting. The playback
function also includes the following additional
enhancements:
Pitch shifting, which provides audio spectrum
shifting by the specified frequency shift size.
Variable playback speed, capable of changing the
speech rate while preserving the pitch.
Speech inversion, useful for descrambling of
speech spectrum inverted signals.
Note: Speech spectrum inversion is not available
in Advanced Digital Suite sold in the United
States due to legislative restrictions (1986
Electronic Communications Privacy Act).
Exceptions may apply to authorized purchasers."
---
It may require prior installation of
"WiNRADiO Advanced Digital Suite"
(It might -also- need a WiNRADIO installed...
I find it odd that you guys have to "intercept"
;-)
;-)
police radio calls to get your taskings...
It's standard procedure - in most places - for
emergency services to ring (a.k.a. "respond")
EMS or ambulance(s) as required.
They wouldn't, as a rule, expect the EMS or ambo's
to spend all their time monitoring other services'
radio frequencies.
For one thing, it can increase your levels of
fatigue (although - admit - it can feel exciting
to follow incident progress along by radio...
a bit like armchair quarterbacking, eh?
If your service is well & truly needed & respected
you should be able to get call-outs, just like
police & firefighters.
If not, well... raise your game.
I understand that the rules of the Java game
;-)
are no longer in Sun's hands to control...
There's some sort of community-input standards
committee or working group to which you (or
any/all of us here, even) can put the Suggestion
that Java become case-insensitive.
In fact, why don't we organise a -mass- sugges-
tion campaign here to do just that.
A bit like those spontaneous "Let's all meet
at Macca's on 5th & Spring St (or wherever)"
that turn out crowds of people, who've never
even met before... on somebody's whim...
Just like our demand for diversity in software vendors, we should expect similar diversity in
those who are interested in producing software
... and keep computers on the other side of wall.
;-)
For that kind of money, I could keep ALL of my gear
in the next room & fit a noise-isolarion port
between the two rooms, no?
If your goals are to learn, then choice of tool
should not come into it.
At worst, quality of [material and] presentation
would be evaluated.
BTW, LOTS of talented folks never completed school and/or univeristy... if you are one of them (but
only if you are...) then why not aim straight
for places that do interesting & challenging work
- if you have a hard copy (letter, printed eMail,
etc.) proof that "It's Powerpoint of nothing"
keep that to show more intelligent judges of your
work that you chose to walk away from narrow-
mined, commercially biased standards... & towards
a learning-centric / knowledge based ethic.
(B'da, b'da, bda, b'that's all folks...)
we can convince them to pay us some of the ;-)
UK Pounds that would otherwise be spent on
surveillence / data gathering - ie if -we-
fill-out all the forms ourselves, eh?
Rather than getting cel.tel. calls while I'm communting back to my home, I'd rather people
;-)
;-/
there have the ability to "track" me - either
my cel.phone (except, we're in Oz, where this
isn't [yet] possible) or (available today) by
APRS.
A quick look at a computer screen will answer
the questions like "Where are you?" & "How
soon will you be home?" better than I can,
at least while I'm driving...
As a bonus, we can (either while I'm on the road
or after I am home) check the weather at the
place(s) we'd planned to go to after hours,
using the APRS system's cool weather station-ploting / data-reporting features.
'can't wait until this technology migrates to a
WiFi network near me...
'haven't really looked too deeply into BlueTooth (since learning of its S-L-O-W transfer speeds), but I wonder how easy it is for others - within range - to capture a photo going from camera to computer (or where ever)?
So, SQL Server lets one "hide" a relational DB in an unformatted partition... there may even be a performance advantage in doing so...
[Do computer forensic folks know the above?]
Anyway, I'd hate to wipe an old hard disk before finding that its copy (eg, made with dump & gzip)
didn't get the DB copied onto it...
Is therething that does such a job (correctly) -better- (ie more time-effectively) than DD?
Folks the only way we're gonna be able to check
;-)
/.-ers Geek Boxes of the future... :-)
all these claims of lengthy up-times is, IMHO,
to design & install a secure gizmo that:
- runs from it own rechargable, battery pack
- has a unique identifier
- has its own IP address & LAN port
- keeps track of re-boots, power downs,
lockups & BSOD's (etc.)
- is secure from remote counter modifications
- can be remotely queried by
independent testing labs
What'cha think?
Perhaps these will become standard equipment
on all
I don't like the looks of war, racism, sexism,
& the like.
But - Hey! - ignoring them won't make them
go away.
Standing up & calling for change, when
I see them can & has... in some cases.
This is in the same generation (I think)
...where this question is more than
as Garmin 12XL, but has a triangular form,
viewed from the end, so - in a vehicle -
it sits nicely on a dashboard (preferably
on top of a layer of 'blue-tack' as a shock-
absorbing stabilizer)
Screen ROTATES 90 deg's at the push of a
button, so you can view it when standing
on an end or when setting on the dash.
But... hey! Why aren't we just
sending people off to the USENET newsgroup:
sci.geo.satellite.navigation
adequately answered, even as models
change...?
Solitar started its life as a card game, &
now [AFAIK still] comes with every Windows
op sys under the sun (or doe Asian versions
come with Mah Jong or the like? They should,
but I digress...)
Why not save dread trees, et al. &
skip the paper stage... go directly
to digital.
Teleconference...
- all of the formal presentation / sessions -and-
- as many informal BoF's as people may wish
to conduct, in groups or person to person
I'd suggest:
If / when scientists (and / or managers)
begin to utilise such systems...
We'll all be much closer to being able
to use them, ourselves.
In South Australia, we once got
a local library to buy one of the
low-priced, multi-CD-ROM BERKS sets.
('can't find a URL for the UK-based
guy who published those CD-ROM's)
First, there was the question of
whether the disk-set could even
be housed in a library, where
others might use, borrow them.
They apparently have a central
purchasing department to decide
that, based on the license of the
items under consideration.
It took quite a while to decide
to buy a set or two (for several
library branches); it likely cost
more to make the decision than to
buy & ship the sets they eventually
ordered.
Upon receipt, the CD-ROM were placed into
the (no-loan) Reference section.
It took getting them to eMail the
publishers to get the CD-ROM's
shifted into the Loanables section,
but they were not at all quick or
interested in doing that, or even
accepting the publisher's reply eMail
as a definitive answer to their question:
ie would it be consistent with the IP
owner's license to loan these disks.
At least, now that the smoke has cleared,
we can look back & think that
this library has had a chance to
discover & learn a bit about
Open Source materials.
1. Watch Ad's for x min's
2. Shutdown, Switch-Off & Switch Hard Disks
3. Boot OS of Choice
4. Enjoy Usage Freedom
Eg:
Internet OpenBSD lotsa firewalls LAN
'any obvious vulnerabilities here?
Could connection order affect
the effective security level?
Similar products to SmoothWall (eg, IP Cop,
e-Smith, Clark Connect, et al.) get mentioned
from time to time, and - as a user of only
one of them, I sometimes wonder if it's the
best for our situation.
It would really help to have some point-by-
point comparitive review of all of them, so
people could try to fit their situation(s)
to each of the sets of parameters & pick a
likely-best-fit from the review.
Eg, minimum & recommended system requirements,
ISO size, security tests that each has survived,
logging features, services provided (eg, file-
server, mail server, web mail, MySQL/PostgreSQL)
above & beyond firewalling, etc.
Someone care to add to the parameter list, eg
so some of us could each fill-in the blanks
for our current choice of system & publish the
set of resulting reports in a repository, eg
a bit like benchmark tests for various config-
urations get stored together, even though they
come from lots of invidual home test-labs.
If we start with a fairly complete list of
parameters we'd likely come up with reviews
that make sense to compare, especially if
folks give the numbe of workstation they
serve, on the network.
What'cha think?
I didn't notice any posts on APRS, the Amateur Radio based position reporting system, which has been used for years to connect & exchange data between mobile, fixed & Internet based sites, including weather data.
;-)
The advantage of APRS, even for unlicensed receive-only users, is reception range that by far exceeds that of Wireless Networks (other than, say, 1-way satellite-based Internet connections).
APRS data flows both over VHF/UHF repeaters and from one (RF-based & licensed, ie transmit-capable) APRS station to another.
An APRS shareware (from the UK) that
handles weather data - as well as messages
& position data - is here:
http://www.UI-View.com
There is an excellent introductory site & White Paper on APRS here:
http://vk6.aprs.net.au
You can grab the white paper from here:
http://vk6.aprs.net.au/ukaprswp.pdf
The APRS creator's intro, et al. is here:
http://web.usna.navy.mil/~bruninga/aprs.html
Now that an Amateur Radio license is easier
than ever to get, we should all have one (&
some RF-based voice comms going as we surf,
ie the way that doesn't eat into our 'net
bandwidth, ie via Ham Radio...
with an APRS-connected weather station on
the side, and - when we're mobile (on land,
in the air or on sea - a GPS connected,
so we can be tracked/contacted & even found
in the unlikely even that we get lost.
Oh, and the speech-enabled Linux-based
GPS-driven, "moving-map" program from Austria - GpsDrive - will help preclude our getting lost
in the first place. (AFAIK, it's not APRS-
enabled... yet, but it lets [WiFi-connected]
near neighbors see each other's positions,
I understand).
Eg, in the style of the sorely missed
TechNetCast?
A simple Name-Function list would be good,
for a start...
Wasn't there a movie about arresting would-be
murderers, eg for just planning their crimes?
I seem to recall that eBay restricts Buy It Now
selling to those who've sold heaps with positive
feedbacks (mostly).
Have these guys been selling heaps of extremely
small items to earn their place on eBay's lift
of Buy It Now vendors, or what?