For those still confused, this only applies to GSM phones. The major GSM network providers in the U.S. are T-Mobile, Cingular and AT&T Wireless. TDMA and CDMA phones used with companies like Sprint and Verizon are generally locked to the frequencies of their network and have little or no hope of being unlocked for use on another network and do not have a removable SIM card equivalent for use on other networks.
>However, the scumbags at T-Mobile *locked* the >fucking thing,
You know, if you actually ask T-Mobile to remove the SIM lock they will, if you have had the service for over 90days. Just send them your:
1) IMEI number (dial *#06# to show on phone
display) 2) Mobile number
If you haven't had your service for more than 90 days or are stuck with AT&T Wireless or Cingular (who refuse to unlock your phone even if you change to/from their network), do a quick google search for Nokia unlockers on Google. Most of them are based on the same code and most work under Wine if you have the VB libraries. I used one on a brand new Nokia 6610 and proceeded to Australia where I used an Optus prepaid SIM, all without problems.
If you're lucky, you'll even get to live in a neighborhood with a sanitary sewer system and treated tap water!
Re:What about water conservation??
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I stayed at a place like this in Australia. It was a vacation house in the Kangaroo Valley, about 2-3 kilometers from the nearest paved road and 2.5 hours south east of Sydney. It's apparently fairly common in remote areas, not just in Australia. The toilets were low flow, though not much lower flow than the rest of Australia. However, the water was not recycled for drinking water in this case.
There were two tanks - one caught the majority of the rain water for fresh water, and filtered and chlornated it. The second caught the sewage, again chlornating it and filtering it. The second tank was used for water plants and landscaping and cleaning.
In the island nation of Burmuda (and other low-lying ilsands which lack freshwater) all homes collect their freshwater from their roof as well. For fire fighting, the tanks must have an unlocked access door for fire tucks to pump water out of the tank.
Learning things like this make you really appreciate the availablility of fresh water. And staying in the Kangaroo Valley in January makes you really miss HVAC. =)
"The game had to be built with an OS image on the CD."
That would be easy, I used to have a 7.5.5 boot CD and if I remember right, that stripped down System Folder took up all of about 30 MB with full network functionality.
Similar to what the Sega DreamCast did with Windows CE.
Actually the filings are quarterly and Apple has scheduled their next filing for April 14. However, that is for SEC 10-Q statements. Major debt stucture changes could warrant a non-scheduled 8-K filing.
Actually, T-Mobile still uses the 900MHz GSM spectrum in North America. The major reasons AT&T and Cingular use 850MHz are to avoid overcrowding of the 900MHz range (related in small part to the 900MHz home phones) and also because AT&T and Cingular needed towers quickly so they piggyback T-Mobile towers in many areas, especially crowded metro areas. The 850MHz spectrum was cheaper at that point (the FCC auctions off licenses), not to mention quicker time to market.
Sprint does have better coverage in some areas than T-Mobile (look at coverage maps, but also know that Sprint's are sometimes exaggerated unless you have a booster antenna). However, I've never seen a a problem with T-Mobile coverage in the southeast (except Knoxville, TN, which is not yet covered by T-Mobile, but I never go there anyway). If you travel internationally much, T-Mobile is the way to go because you can use a 900/1800/1900 on T-Mobile's network and partners in over 110 countries. Sprint only works in the US and Canada (maybe parts of Mexico).
Also worth noting is that Cingular and AT&T use T-Mobile's towers for their 850MHz GSM network in many areas.
You can, but that won't come with a landing strip, and like won't come with enough room for the landing strip. This is all moot though, because the seller cannot export the item (nor can the bidder).
The idea is to force advancement for the few people who will do this. ATI knows, however, that most people will not take the upgrade video card only route if they are serious about performance. Instead, most people (most people != slashdot readers) just uprade their entire computer to get the maximum performance. The gamers will see PCI-X cards as a reason to jump to a PCI-X motherboard, advancing technology rather than catering to backwards compatability and getting behind later.
Wouldn't it be great to share that pride with the world by using open source software. NASA provides the system design, but open source software powers it. Everyone gets interested in the software and hopefully NASA releases source for key parts of the systems control software running on top. The entire world can learn parts of the science and engineering involved at varying levels of depth.
The important thing with some meeting callers is not to ask, "Do I need to come?" but rather, "I may have a conflict, so how much does this pertain to me?" The conflict here is that you don't want to sit bored in a meeting when you could be getting ahead (or catching up) on a more important project.
Reminds me of the Simpsons episode where theives come in the house and grab the VCR. You then see their shadows outside as they walk by, and a voice proclaims, "Awe crap, it's a Beta." You then hear a crunching sound.
A quickly booted foot thru it, and a bucket of water tossed in with a small pan was the right move. Followed by snipping the meter seal and tightening up the frying connections in the meter socket. Thats a felony, but I just called Ron and told him to come by in the morning and put another seal on it.
Water is never the way to put out an electrical fire unless service is first disconnected. Otherwise you may well kill yourself if you make a stream of water between yourself and the exposed live wires. Use a fire extinguisher specifically labelled for electrical fires (most modern extinguishers).
This is possible, but ATMs are very homogenous networks (at least with my bank, who does indeed use Diebold ATMs) consiting of machines from the early 90's as well as more recent machines. I'm guessing that the new ones use the same transports and the same protocols as the old machines. We can at least rule out XML on those computers. =)
Also, they likely use nothing resembling TCP - I know recently I read an article where an engineer described the ATM system. The computers use a modem locked to, I believe, 1200bps - he said this was the fastest total connect speed since the handshake was very fast. Most machines had new(er) modems, but they were limited to this speed by init string. The encryption used was unique to ATMs. It is possible the newer ATMs use different connection methods, but the ones I've seen function identically, down to interace (other than added color) and network response time.
That's why so many creaters of lightweight embedded systems make virtual machines/emulators that run wonderfully on the devloper's machine. In fact, this approach is ideal compared to Windows XP Embedded programms being tested on Windows XP Professional. There are just too many things that can change on Windows XP Professional that can create incompatabilities and introduce or hide bugs. Most of the lightweight (aka stripped down) embedded systems have familiar APIs, just not as familiar to a Win32 programmer.
Embedded Linux is less a stripped down consumer OS and more a highly scalable (in both directions) operating system. QNX and Paradigm are great embedded OSs. Both have a wide array of tools for development and testing on the desktop. Something running RPC DCOM out of the box when it is unnecessary is just stupid, especially in a secure environment like a device with access to bank accounts and the ability to dispense cash.
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The developers must have ADD. I clicked on a picture of Harry Potter and got a story titled "Risque role for Diaz" with a picture of Cameron Diaz and no mention of the boy wizard. I wonder what diverted their attention?
ICQ made it slightly easier than other Instant Messaging clients. All you had to do was send a message to UIN's, starting at perhaps 1000 and working up to 10000000 and beyond. Spread it out over several IPs and several days and it's harder to notice. With AIM, Yahoo and MSN, you have to try alphanumerical combinations, increasing the number of possible combinations. I first noticed ICQ spam when installing an early version of LICQ (late 1997 or early 1998 I believe) and telling it to reject messages from users not on my contact list, then checking the logs for rejected messages. The log file grew several kilobytes per week. Windows versions at the time did not log rejected messages.
Of course they were almost 100% adult sites, mostly people saying "Hi I'm Lolita from Moscow U."
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For those still confused, this only applies to GSM phones. The major GSM network providers in the U.S. are T-Mobile, Cingular and AT&T Wireless. TDMA and CDMA phones used with companies like Sprint and Verizon are generally locked to the frequencies of their network and have little or no hope of being unlocked for use on another network and do not have a removable SIM card equivalent for use on other networks.
>However, the scumbags at T-Mobile *locked* the >fucking thing,
You know, if you actually ask T-Mobile to remove the SIM lock they will, if you have had the service for over 90days. Just send them your:
1) IMEI number (dial *#06# to show on phone
display)
2) Mobile number
If you haven't had your service for more than 90 days or are stuck with AT&T Wireless or Cingular (who refuse to unlock your phone even if you change to/from their network), do a quick google search for Nokia unlockers on Google. Most of them are based on the same code and most work under Wine if you have the VB libraries. I used one on a brand new Nokia 6610 and proceeded to Australia where I used an Optus prepaid SIM, all without problems.
If you're lucky, you'll even get to live in a neighborhood with a sanitary sewer system and treated tap water!
I stayed at a place like this in Australia. It was a vacation house in the Kangaroo Valley, about 2-3 kilometers from the nearest paved road and 2.5 hours south east of Sydney. It's apparently fairly common in remote areas, not just in Australia. The toilets were low flow, though not much lower flow than the rest of Australia. However, the water was not recycled for drinking water in this case.
There were two tanks - one caught the majority of the rain water for fresh water, and filtered and chlornated it. The second caught the sewage, again chlornating it and filtering it. The second tank was used for water plants and landscaping and cleaning.
In the island nation of Burmuda (and other low-lying ilsands which lack freshwater) all homes collect their freshwater from their roof as well. For fire fighting, the tanks must have an unlocked access door for fire tucks to pump water out of the tank.
Learning things like this make you really appreciate the availablility of fresh water. And staying in the Kangaroo Valley in January makes you really miss HVAC. =)
I had to fact-check myself, but found it here:
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http://www.microsoft.com/msj/0799/directx/direc
I knew at least the DreamcastOS could load from the GD-ROM, but had to doublecheck on WinCE.
"The game had to be built with an OS image on the CD."
That would be easy, I used to have a 7.5.5 boot CD and if I remember right, that stripped down System Folder took up all of about 30 MB with full network functionality.
Similar to what the Sega DreamCast did with Windows CE.
Actually the filings are quarterly and Apple has scheduled their next filing for April 14. However, that is for SEC 10-Q statements. Major debt stucture changes could warrant a non-scheduled 8-K filing.
Doh! My mistake. You are correct. They use 900MHz only outside of North America.
Actually, T-Mobile still uses the 900MHz GSM spectrum in North America. The major reasons AT&T and Cingular use 850MHz are to avoid overcrowding of the 900MHz range (related in small part to the 900MHz home phones) and also because AT&T and Cingular needed towers quickly so they piggyback T-Mobile towers in many areas, especially crowded metro areas. The 850MHz spectrum was cheaper at that point (the FCC auctions off licenses), not to mention quicker time to market.
Indeed, the rish is a huge factor. Also analysts were estimating the buyout would dilute earnings per share for at least four years.
Cingular is a partnership between Bellsouth and SBC. In the southeastern United States Cingular gobbled up BellSouth Mobility.
Sprint does have better coverage in some areas than T-Mobile (look at coverage maps, but also know that Sprint's are sometimes exaggerated unless you have a booster antenna). However, I've never seen a a problem with T-Mobile coverage in the southeast (except Knoxville, TN, which is not yet covered by T-Mobile, but I never go there anyway). If you travel internationally much, T-Mobile is the way to go because you can use a 900/1800/1900 on T-Mobile's network and partners in over 110 countries. Sprint only works in the US and Canada (maybe parts of Mexico).
Also worth noting is that Cingular and AT&T use T-Mobile's towers for their 850MHz GSM network in many areas.
Hahaha
Ever seen the Far Side comic with the pilots announcing they are approaching some turbulence, then "creating" it themselves?
Actually 3700 flight hours is fairly small for a plane of this age. Most commercial planes have a 20,000 operating hour overhaul schedule.
You can, but that won't come with a landing strip, and like won't come with enough room for the landing strip. This is all moot though, because the seller cannot export the item (nor can the bidder).
The idea is to force advancement for the few people who will do this. ATI knows, however, that most people will not take the upgrade video card only route if they are serious about performance. Instead, most people (most people != slashdot readers) just uprade their entire computer to get the maximum performance. The gamers will see PCI-X cards as a reason to jump to a PCI-X motherboard, advancing technology rather than catering to backwards compatability and getting behind later.
Wouldn't it be great to share that pride with the world by using open source software. NASA provides the system design, but open source software powers it. Everyone gets interested in the software and hopefully NASA releases source for key parts of the systems control software running on top. The entire world can learn parts of the science and engineering involved at varying levels of depth.
The important thing with some meeting callers is not to ask, "Do I need to come?" but rather, "I may have a conflict, so how much does this pertain to me?" The conflict here is that you don't want to sit bored in a meeting when you could be getting ahead (or catching up) on a more important project.
Reminds me of the Simpsons episode where theives come in the house and grab the VCR. You then see their shadows outside as they walk by, and a voice proclaims, "Awe crap, it's a Beta." You then hear a crunching sound.
A quickly booted foot thru it, and a bucket of water tossed in with a small pan was the right move. Followed by snipping the meter seal and tightening up the frying connections in the meter socket. Thats a felony, but I just called Ron and told him to come by in the morning and put another seal on it.
Water is never the way to put out an electrical fire unless service is first disconnected. Otherwise you may well kill yourself if you make a stream of water between yourself and the exposed live wires. Use a fire extinguisher specifically labelled for electrical fires (most modern extinguishers).
I should add that the ones that were infected with worms obviously ran TCP/IP, but I lean towards tunnelling or maintence only use.
This is possible, but ATMs are very homogenous networks (at least with my bank, who does indeed use Diebold ATMs) consiting of machines from the early 90's as well as more recent machines. I'm guessing that the new ones use the same transports and the same protocols as the old machines. We can at least rule out XML on those computers. =)
Also, they likely use nothing resembling TCP - I know recently I read an article where an engineer described the ATM system. The computers use a modem locked to, I believe, 1200bps - he said this was the fastest total connect speed since the handshake was very fast. Most machines had new(er) modems, but they were limited to this speed by init string. The encryption used was unique to ATMs. It is possible the newer ATMs use different connection methods, but the ones I've seen function identically, down to interace (other than added color) and network response time.
That's why so many creaters of lightweight embedded systems make virtual machines/emulators that run wonderfully on the devloper's machine. In fact, this approach is ideal compared to Windows XP Embedded programms being tested on Windows XP Professional. There are just too many things that can change on Windows XP Professional that can create incompatabilities and introduce or hide bugs. Most of the lightweight (aka stripped down) embedded systems have familiar APIs, just not as familiar to a Win32 programmer.
Embedded Linux is less a stripped down consumer OS and more a highly scalable (in both directions) operating system. QNX and Paradigm are great embedded OSs. Both have a wide array of tools for development and testing on the desktop. Something running RPC DCOM out of the box when it is unnecessary is just stupid, especially in a secure environment like a device with access to bank accounts and the ability to dispense cash.
The developers must have ADD. I clicked on a picture of Harry Potter and got a story titled "Risque role for Diaz" with a picture of Cameron Diaz and no mention of the boy wizard. I wonder what diverted their attention?
ICQ made it slightly easier than other Instant Messaging clients. All you had to do was send a message to UIN's, starting at perhaps 1000 and working up to 10000000 and beyond. Spread it out over several IPs and several days and it's harder to notice. With AIM, Yahoo and MSN, you have to try alphanumerical combinations, increasing the number of possible combinations. I first noticed ICQ spam when installing an early version of LICQ (late 1997 or early 1998 I believe) and telling it to reject messages from users not on my contact list, then checking the logs for rejected messages. The log file grew several kilobytes per week. Windows versions at the time did not log rejected messages.
Of course they were almost 100% adult sites, mostly people saying "Hi I'm Lolita from Moscow U."