I got the impression (eg, from the dumping and/or destruction of Apple's Lisa & (more recently) GM's EV1, after release to market) that destruction was / is a new tradition in some countries
(Even "Green" makers like Honda & Toyota are said to have crushed their early electric vehicles, ie after California stopped requir- ing Zero Emission Vehicles, or allowed them to be hybrids)
---
Background: 'just saw PBS NOW's "Who Killed the Electric Car?" show
Wasn't there a 2-video-disk electronic, multimedia doomsday book... a bit like the Foxfire Series of books (in that people went out into their communities to gather the content - photos, songs - on paper or tape - etc.?
I started out with an FS-1010 (before -two- price-drops) & have since bought an FS-1950 (on eBay)
The quality & features are fine, but the reason we (I can't speak for the Dept of Educ) chose 'em is their claim of Au $ 0.02 per sheet printing costs ('dunno if that includes the paper).
Our only mistake was NOT choosing the Duplex (ie, two-sided) printer, ie, to help us save paper. In the FS-1020D (model no from memory - e. & o. e.) is reportedly quite reliable, if not the very fastest duplex laser printer on the market.
It would certainly suit us; we hardly ever need to produce paper anymore... Nor should you!;-
(While we -have- had some success flipping printed sheets over & printing on the back, it's a bit risky; best if you wait until they cool off (costing time) & "it's all over" if there's a paper-jam while printing Side 2's)
Oh, the FS-1950 came with a dated [& German-made?] TCP/IP-based LAN card, only 10 Mb/Sec. We haven't yet worked out how to set its IP address.
Anybody know how to do that or where we might be able to find some documentation on it?
A well-connected friend managed to find work close to home in the Subj job. Being near home (& contacts) made it seem OK, even if the job involved a good bit of "DP" work.
It can still be who yhou know as much as what, I guess...
So, maybe "network, network, network" is the best advice.
(This guy used to be involved in local cultural exhibits, after doing informal, on-the-spot investigative research; maybe his generalist nature also helped him land this job)
Or maybe the logic was: Hey, if you can understand Phil, you can surely work your way through the "Greek" of com- puter manuals for us.
Or maybe small, private, liberal universities liked hiring Renaisance Men (ie, in the 20th Century - this is a dated story).
We can't install "download accelerator" software here, but
we do have the FTP tool FileZilla.
After succesfully d'loading the some of the Media Kit files
(including a 1.1 GB Student DVD ISO)...
we confidently went on to fetch the 2.9 GB SLED ISO file -
using after giving our Username & Password (in Novell's HTTP-
based download web page; no FTP servers listed there).
As the SLED ISO rolled in, its download speed seemed to drop
a bit during each hour of the download process.
(A previous d'load attempt for the Student DVD ISO went the
same, and had to be aborted after restart attempts - within
Opera - lead to a restart from the beginning!)
Eventually, the SLED ISO's d'load session stopped, as well!
Attempts to restart it seemed only to cause a restart, as
they did for the Student DVD ISO.
Looking at the destination folder, we find a 2.5 GB partial
SLED ISO file - ie, "SLED-10-x86-DVD1.iso"
To preclude re-downloading all those 2.5 GB -again- we need
access to an FTP server that supports restarts (via FileZilla)
& that's got that incomplete file.
Of course, it would be great to find the SLES DVD ISO on a
re-startable FTP server, somewhere, also...
Anybody? anywhere?
TIA
---
To Novell: Why can't I restart interrupted d'loads from your
password-protected HTTP download server?!?
If not now, when? TIA
THINK: Customer Service includes Customer Convenience
Rather than looking for something that simply holds the body in a better position, why not get something that encourages the body to DO SOMETHING positive, even while working, eg, at a computer terminal...
A chair that lets one place the feet on some bicycle pedals (or the like), coupled to an auto alternator... enabling the user to generate electricity while the mind & hands are doing other work.
Such chairs may exist [eg, one costing over Au $10,000, last time we checked] has the peddles... apparently combining office chair with adjustable friction resistance... standard on lots of "Exercise Bikes"... but WASTES the ENERGY!
We say, it'd be great to store the electrical energy from such a chair, while the rotary motion of the feet on peddles helps improve the user's leg [and other?] circulation & general health.
What'cha think?
PS If anyone knows of existing chairs, please post some URL links to them.
Blogging is one thing... hhow about expressing racist thoughts/feelings in the classroom...
On a recent (this week or last) podcast (in English), Radio Sweden reporters told the story of a Swedish school that failed students who made racist statements in tnhe classroom.
Apparently, the only course grade affected was in Sociology (or similar), or perhaps the Swedish school course that focusses on other cultures.
I consider this a practical measure to curb racism (consistent with Anti-Race Hatred laws in other countries), even though others may consider this somehow an indirect infringement of one's freedom of speech.
You know, some of the folks doing Ham Radio are a bit like folks who sail.
They're doing something that has roots way back in time.
Eg, using Morse Code (radiotelegraphy = CW mode) on radio is akin to sailing without an engine... both "modes" depend on technologies developed years ago.
Now, who ever asks folks who sail whether Sailing is "still" interesting? (It must be; otherwise, sailboat, etc. would never sell...)
Why should this article's question be asked ONLY of Radio Hams' hobby?
Perhaps telecoms or other [would-be] big spectrum users would like to push Hams from their allocated frequencies.
I don't remember them all, but one of Cliff Stoll's MP3's (on that site)
goes into a bit of detail on his using Ham Radio skills to build a hand-
held radar-based speed-gun (after speeding cars run down a little girl's
cat or puppy, earlier in the story...)
I think Kevin Mitnick had a license (but may have lost it - when it was
needing to be renewed - as part of the consequences he got for releasing
his Internet worm, some years ago.
So, who ELSE is/was a ham, who also does/did more general geeky things?
---
Radio Hams & Open Sourcerers have a lot in common - helpful natures,
sharing ideas (src), exploring technologies of interest to themselves
& building up extentions to some of it, that does what they want done
---
My neighbor was a Ham as a kid; I could only see a 15m Dipole antenna
on his house, but it was a home-built one. He did the usual things...
converted ex-WW2 radios for Amateur bands (this is an old story...)
He went on to become a Doctor, who was able to build medical gear that
hadn't been invented when he needed it.
---
Most of the kids I knew as fellow-hams have done pretty well in techie
fields, so - even if it desn't top today's list of geeky hobbies, may-
be it should, at least for those who are aiming for jobs in engineer'g
and/or electronics.
In Australia, the [Chinese, as it happened] researcher,
who felt compelled to blow-the-whistle on her research-
head (for apparently not performing several experiments
reportes as if they'd been performed, etc) the whistle-
blower suffered, but the "bad guy" still has his job at
University of NWS & may still be involved in scientific
reseach there...
"Scientific & Financial Misconduct [re: Professon Bruce Hall at UNSW in Australia]
The Science Show - Broadcast Saturday 13/4/2002
Summary:
This week on The Science Show, Norman Swan presents a major investigation into
scientific and financial misconduct at the University of New South Wales.
Transcript:
Norman Swan: Hello, Norman Norman Swan here sitting in the chair on The Science
Show this week instead of Robyn Williams, because today I have a special and
disturbing feature for you.
Hong Ha: I want my story to be heard by the public because what I have been through
I don't want my children or any one else's children to go through. I want them to
admit the faults that they have done: they exploited me for free labour. This
problem has been going for too long. I want it to be stopped.
Norman Swan: This is a story about powerful scientists with international
reputations who've committed scientific misconduct so severe, it could be
considered fraud; as well as mismanaging public funds where the institution,
the university in which they work, has been slow to protect staff who've raised
their concerns. In fact, at times the university seems to have actively favoured
the strong over the weak. It's fifteen years since the exposure of Dr. William
McBride's scientific fraud, what you're about to hear suggests that safeguards
against scientific misconduct are still inadequate.
[Reading from UNSW Homepage:]
Why study at the University of New South Wales? The University of New South Wales
is one of Australia's major research institutions, attracting top national
competitive research grants and has extensive international research links.
Norman Swan: The University of New South Wales is one of the largest universities
in the country with a highly respected medical faculty. A few years ago, following
Sydney's sprawl to the south west, the university set up a clinical school in that
area centred on Liverpool Hospital.
They even attracted Bruce Hall, a well-known Australian immunologist, back from
Stanford University in California. Bruce Hall is a kidney specialist who researches
how the immune system deals with transplanted organs. The university made him
Foundation Professor of Medicine at Liverpool where he set up his own lab.
With him came his wife, Dr Suzanne Hodgkinson, a neurologist who studies rats with
brain inflammation similar to Multiple Sclerosis. Bruce Hall hired Dr Clara He,
a medical graduate from Shanghai with an Australian PhD and post-doctoral
experience in immunology.
Clara He: Professor Hall was asking me if I was interested in his new senior
position in Liverpool Hospital. I feel that could be new opportunity for me, so
I can design my program. I respect him; I believe we can collaborate and
make good program.
Norman Swan: Dr He has her own research group at Liverpool and is also the
laboratory manager. She's introduced molecular biology into the lab and
her small team has cloned and produc
I thought there were plenty of surgeons doing "bloodless" operations,
from years ago, in response to the need of groups like Jehovah's Wit-
nesses NOT to allow blood transfusions into members of their faith.
This doesn't seem like a "news" article to us...:-/
It would be one of the examples of religious tradition necessitating
innovation in [here, medical] technology.
Slashdot Mirror
I got the impression (eg, from the dumping and/or destruction of
Apple's Lisa & (more recently) GM's EV1, after release to market)
that destruction was / is a new tradition in some countries
(Even "Green" makers like Honda & Toyota are said to have crushed
their early electric vehicles, ie after California stopped requir-
ing Zero Emission Vehicles, or allowed them to be hybrids)
---
Background: 'just saw PBS NOW's "Who Killed the Electric Car?" show
gMail is about the only (non-ISP) web mail service that also
;-)
provides access via eMail clients, eg, Eudora, OE, etc.
So, using a "real" eMail client, no cookies aer required.
QED
Wasn't there a 2-video-disk electronic, multimedia doomsday book...
:-/
a bit like the Foxfire Series of books (in that people went out
into their communities to gather the content - photos, songs -
on paper or tape - etc.?
Is the new version on-line?
If not now, when?
We like Kyocera (as does our state Dept of Educ)
;-
I started out with an FS-1010 (before -two- price-drops) & have since bought an FS-1950 (on eBay)
The quality & features are fine, but the reason we (I can't speak for the Dept of Educ) chose 'em
is their claim of Au $ 0.02 per sheet printing costs ('dunno if that includes the paper).
Our only mistake was NOT choosing the Duplex (ie, two-sided) printer, ie, to help us save paper.
In the FS-1020D (model no from memory - e. & o. e.) is reportedly quite reliable, if not the
very fastest duplex laser printer on the market.
It would certainly suit us; we hardly ever need to produce paper anymore... Nor should you!
(While we -have- had some success flipping printed sheets over & printing on the back, it's a
bit risky; best if you wait until they cool off (costing time) & "it's all over" if there's a
paper-jam while printing Side 2's)
Oh, the FS-1950 came with a dated [& German-made?] TCP/IP-based LAN card, only 10 Mb/Sec.
We haven't yet worked out how to set its IP address.
Anybody know how to do that or where we might be able to find some documentation on it?
TIA for any leads.
A well-connected friend managed to find work close to home
in the Subj job. Being near home (& contacts) made it seem
OK, even if the job involved a good bit of "DP" work.
It can still be who yhou know as much as what, I guess...
So, maybe "network, network, network" is the best advice.
(This guy used to be involved in local cultural exhibits,
after doing informal, on-the-spot investigative research;
maybe his generalist nature also helped him land this job)
Or maybe the logic was: Hey, if you can understand Phil,
you can surely work your way through the "Greek" of com-
puter manuals for us.
Or maybe small, private, liberal universities liked hiring
Renaisance Men (ie, in the 20th Century - this is a dated
story).
Go figure...
Another Skype-connected pair of podcasters is Leo (from Tech.tv?) & Steve Gibson.
[Isn't there already a podcast at ItConversations.com that addresses this topic?]
We can't install "download accelerator" software here, but
we do have the FTP tool FileZilla.
After succesfully d'loading the some of the Media Kit files
(including a 1.1 GB Student DVD ISO)...
we confidently went on to fetch the 2.9 GB SLED ISO file -
using after giving our Username & Password (in Novell's HTTP-
based download web page; no FTP servers listed there).
As the SLED ISO rolled in, its download speed seemed to drop
a bit during each hour of the download process.
(A previous d'load attempt for the Student DVD ISO went the
same, and had to be aborted after restart attempts - within
Opera - lead to a restart from the beginning!)
Eventually, the SLED ISO's d'load session stopped, as well!
Attempts to restart it seemed only to cause a restart, as
they did for the Student DVD ISO.
Looking at the destination folder, we find a 2.5 GB partial
SLED ISO file - ie, "SLED-10-x86-DVD1.iso"
To preclude re-downloading all those 2.5 GB -again- we need
access to an FTP server that supports restarts (via FileZilla)
& that's got that incomplete file.
Of course, it would be great to find the SLES DVD ISO on a
re-startable FTP server, somewhere, also...
Anybody? anywhere?
TIA
---
To Novell: Why can't I restart interrupted d'loads from your
password-protected HTTP download server?!?
If not now, when? TIA
THINK: Customer Service includes Customer Convenience
It seems like decades ago when the first needle-free injecting systems
were announced. Didn't they work out?
What're the great new advantages here, not for gold producers but for
patients and/or medical establishments who fund the injections?
Rather than looking for something that simply holds the body in a better position,
why not get something that encourages the body to DO SOMETHING positive, even while
working, eg, at a computer terminal...
A chair that lets one place the feet on some bicycle pedals (or the like),
coupled to an auto alternator... enabling the user to generate electricity
while the mind & hands are doing other work.
Such chairs may exist [eg, one costing over Au $10,000, last time we checked]
has the peddles... apparently combining office chair with adjustable friction
resistance... standard on lots of "Exercise Bikes"... but WASTES the ENERGY!
We say, it'd be great to store the electrical energy from such a chair,
while the rotary motion of the feet on peddles helps improve the user's
leg [and other?] circulation & general health.
What'cha think?
PS If anyone knows of existing chairs, please post some URL links to them.
TIA
Check out Steve's SecurityNow! podcast 41
to hear why & more about it:
http://media.grc.com/sn/SN-041.mp3
For slow modem users, here's the transcript:
http://www.grc.com/sn/SN-041.pdf
A list of his other podcasts:
http://securitynow.info/
I don't think ticket-sales would be any less, &
we could all partake, OK, as 1-way participants
Bandwidth cost an issue? So, BitTorrentCast 'em
Simple
a cell.phone with a 2-way radio function,
that links to another one, when out of all
coverage areas... not a web-server... FWIW.
FYI.
:-/
TrueCrypt was recently covered & promoted by Steve Gibson,
author of SpinRite, in his Security-Now! podcast (no. 41).
'looks good & fast; is it?
TIA
Blogging is one thing... hhow about expressing racist thoughts/feelings in the classroom...
On a recent (this week or last) podcast (in English), Radio Sweden reporters told the story
of a Swedish school that failed students who made racist statements in tnhe classroom.
Apparently, the only course grade affected was in Sociology (or similar), or perhaps the
Swedish school course that focusses on other cultures.
I consider this a practical measure to curb racism (consistent with Anti-Race Hatred laws
in other countries), even though others may consider this somehow an indirect infringement
of one's freedom of speech.
You know, some of the folks doing Ham Radio
are a bit like folks who sail.
They're doing something that has roots way back in time.
Eg, using Morse Code (radiotelegraphy = CW mode) on radio
is akin to sailing without an engine...
both "modes" depend on technologies developed years ago.
Now, who ever asks folks who sail
whether Sailing is "still" interesting?
(It must be; otherwise, sailboat, etc. would never sell...)
Why should this article's question be asked ONLY of Radio Hams' hobby?
Perhaps telecoms or other [would-be] big spectrum users
would like to push Hams from their allocated frequencies.
Oops!
Cliff Stoll's talks didn't come from ItConversations.com...
rather from (now defunct) TechNatCast.com, which preceded it.
"How soon we forget..."
I know I've heard a few famous geeks mention their early Amateur Radio
interests and/or activities, eg, on some of the talks that are archived
at:
http://itconversations.com/
I don't remember them all, but one of Cliff Stoll's MP3's (on that site)
goes into a bit of detail on his using Ham Radio skills to build a hand-
held radar-based speed-gun (after speeding cars run down a little girl's
cat or puppy, earlier in the story...)
I think Kevin Mitnick had a license (but may have lost it - when it was
needing to be renewed - as part of the consequences he got for releasing
his Internet worm, some years ago.
So, who ELSE is/was a ham, who also does/did more general geeky things?
---
Radio Hams & Open Sourcerers have a lot in common - helpful natures,
sharing ideas (src), exploring technologies of interest to themselves
& building up extentions to some of it, that does what they want done
---
My neighbor was a Ham as a kid; I could only see a 15m Dipole antenna
on his house, but it was a home-built one. He did the usual things...
converted ex-WW2 radios for Amateur bands (this is an old story...)
He went on to become a Doctor, who was able to build medical gear that
hadn't been invented when he needed it.
---
Most of the kids I knew as fellow-hams have done pretty well in techie
fields, so - even if it desn't top today's list of geeky hobbies, may-
be it should, at least for those who are aiming for jobs in engineer'g
and/or electronics.
Only up to 8.1.3 were listed here as we composed this:
:-/
http://www.postgresql.org/download/btlist
Oh, and it would be gerat to have just ONE torrent to d'load, eg, per platform.
Alternatively, create an All-In-One ISO (preferably CD-ROM set -and- a DVD ISO)
(Help us to save you bandwidth...)
"Remember: It isn't released until its torrents are released"
Free, easy to use & WYSIWYG... Does one really need more?
The paid version also does heaps for web makers (in HTML, etc)
and programmers (using other languages).
FTP doesn't need any more than my client & the source's server... ie, no intermediary...
So, why should VoIP be any different... ie, after a directory lookup leads to a connection
between caller and callee?
(We're talking about the simple case of a 2-party conversation...)
In Australia, the [Chinese, as it happened] researcher,
who felt compelled to blow-the-whistle on her research-
head (for apparently not performing several experiments
reportes as if they'd been performed, etc) the whistle-
blower suffered, but the "bad guy" still has his job at
University of NWS & may still be involved in scientific
reseach there...
BACKGROUND:
2002: http://www.abc.net.au/rn/science/ss/stories/s53140 6.htm
"Scientific & Financial Misconduct [re: Professon Bruce Hall at UNSW in Australia]
The Science Show - Broadcast Saturday 13/4/2002
Summary:
This week on The Science Show, Norman Swan presents a major investigation into
scientific and financial misconduct at the University of New South Wales.
Transcript:
Norman Swan: Hello, Norman Norman Swan here sitting in the chair on The Science
Show this week instead of Robyn Williams, because today I have a special and
disturbing feature for you.
Hong Ha: I want my story to be heard by the public because what I have been through
I don't want my children or any one else's children to go through. I want them to
admit the faults that they have done: they exploited me for free labour. This
problem has been going for too long. I want it to be stopped.
Norman Swan: This is a story about powerful scientists with international
reputations who've committed scientific misconduct so severe, it could be
considered fraud; as well as mismanaging public funds where the institution,
the university in which they work, has been slow to protect staff who've raised
their concerns. In fact, at times the university seems to have actively favoured
the strong over the weak. It's fifteen years since the exposure of Dr. William
McBride's scientific fraud, what you're about to hear suggests that safeguards
against scientific misconduct are still inadequate.
[Reading from UNSW Homepage:]
Why study at the University of New South Wales? The University of New South Wales
is one of Australia's major research institutions, attracting top national
competitive research grants and has extensive international research links.
Norman Swan: The University of New South Wales is one of the largest universities
in the country with a highly respected medical faculty. A few years ago, following
Sydney's sprawl to the south west, the university set up a clinical school in that
area centred on Liverpool Hospital.
They even attracted Bruce Hall, a well-known Australian immunologist, back from
Stanford University in California. Bruce Hall is a kidney specialist who researches
how the immune system deals with transplanted organs. The university made him
Foundation Professor of Medicine at Liverpool where he set up his own lab.
With him came his wife, Dr Suzanne Hodgkinson, a neurologist who studies rats with
brain inflammation similar to Multiple Sclerosis. Bruce Hall hired Dr Clara He,
a medical graduate from Shanghai with an Australian PhD and post-doctoral
experience in immunology.
Clara He: Professor Hall was asking me if I was interested in his new senior
position in Liverpool Hospital. I feel that could be new opportunity for me, so
I can design my program. I respect him; I believe we can collaborate and
make good program.
Norman Swan: Dr He has her own research group at Liverpool and is also the
laboratory manager. She's introduced molecular biology into the lab and
her small team has cloned and produc
I thought there were plenty of surgeons doing "bloodless" operations,
from years ago, in response to the need of groups like Jehovah's Wit-
nesses NOT to allow blood transfusions into members of their faith.
This doesn't seem like a "news" article to us...
It would be one of the examples of religious tradition necessitating
innovation in [here, medical] technology.
Not unlike Star Trak era Lithium Crystals, I suspect that
crim's will go after such vehicles for their energy banks.
More value also pushes up the cost of insurance for them.
How do fuel-cell technologies work in this app'n domain?
What do Toyota Priams run on, Lithium Cells or Fuel Cells?
Who wants an Internet phone toy that only manages to connect you
to TWO other countries (with no choice of which ones), anyway?!?
Skype is -my- friend, here!
Not perfect, but it does all that I want done in the VoIP dep't.
What about you? Do you think MS will ever catch-up in VoIP?
They're cheap & most have auto document feeders built-in.
What's more, they scan quickly... direct to memory (for a while).
Scanner quality varies, of course, & it may be only FAX quality.
Oh, wheren't there some high-end film- & slide-scanners around?
I've got a heap of slides to scan, ie, if one at the right price
turns up at a supplier near me...
Suggestions? (I also have snapshots - color & B&W - to scan.)