1. install adobe flash player 2. browse the web with any browser, especially visit sites with flash content. For extra daring attempts, open multiple tabs with flash content at the same time. 3. the crashes!!!
That being said youtube doesn't normally cause crashes for me, so it is probably shitty flash applications from shitty websites.
i hope to god something has replaced flash in 10 years.
i found google desktop useful once, I had gigabytes of PDFs of IEEE standards and journals and google desktop was a simple way to search for the relevant file/chapter
i remember seeing the CEO of vodafone on the news saying "I wish the rest of the world was like new zealand, we make 4x more profit here"
Don't kid yourself, you guys are getting raped on your telecommunications. it's even 30+ cents a minute to call a NZ mobile from skype, let alone the bullshit you have to put up with calling mobile to mobile within the country.
I could call north america from new zeland unlimited for $10 a month or something stupid whereas $10 would get me 30 minutes local calling. awesome
i was at fox glacier and needed a copy of the ubuntu alternate CD and the best solution for me was to have someone in nelson burn it and courier it down. I could not download it from fox. sickening.
i think we agree here, but CDMA is a total brain fuck that I barely understood 6 years ago and haven't thought about since.
I couldn't read the wiki page, it made my head hurt.
we agree that the transmitters share the same channel. the channel is made up of frequencies the exact frequencies in the channel that are used are determined by the code the senders have different codes therefore when the senders transmit, they don't use the *exact same frequency* at the exact same time, although they are sharing the same channel.
The idiot names are great keywords for google when searching for an issue for a particular version. Makes sure you don't end up with issues from 10 year old releases in your search results.
I've got hardy on my thinkpad at the moment. I'm considering upgrading just because the new gtk in karmic enables a transparent system tray so AWN will finally look right.
I never liked having two horizontal bars or panels on my screen, especially on a 14" widescreen. too much wasted real estate. especially when applications have a title bar. then add fire fox book mark bar, menus and address bar and that doesn't leave a lot of real estate!
Code Division multiple access divides a frequency band up using the code.
imagine you had 64 individual frequencies making up a frequency band and a 64-bit code. the exact frequencies uses by each transmitter is determined by their code, which changes constantly.
So long as each transmitter has a code that is orthogonal to the other codes, they will never be transmitting on the same frequency at the same time.
That is essentially what it says in the wiki as well, but a lot more eloquently.
You can share a channel or frequency band or chunk of spectrum, but you are always dividing it up in some way so that there is only ever one transmitter on one individual frequency at any time.
it is wireless, a shared medium. only one client on any given frequency at any given time. it will always be possible to jam radio signals. no amount of engineering can change this
if it is a wireless router, a single misbehaving client can render it useless.
not surprising that it is possible to jam cell a cell tower with a cell phone if the phone was somehow set to constantly transmit random data at full power. If the tower can't hear the other phones because yours is shouting at it constantly there is nothing you can do to stop that.
an alternative to itunes would be great, but it would have to sync non jailbroken iphones ipod touch / whatever comes next and apple clearly doesn't want any program other than itunes doing that. see palm.
i didn't read the ruling, and apparently neither did you, but from a post above it says you can block DDOS attacks and take measures in the event of outages or other 'network security'/malware etc events
both parties are garbage. You have to take the garbage out now and then or it really starts to stink. The liberals got too smelly.
It shouldn't matter what party is in power when the CRTC makes decisions? I suppose the CBC should also be neutral instead of having a liberal slant as well.
I haven't read the ruling but it sounds like it is all you can expect. Some traffic *is* more important than other traffic and some people pay a premium for faster/lower latency connections.
At least the telcos aren't allowed to deliberately slow down VOIP
most speakers are passive. they get the analog audio signal from an amplifier, run it through a coil attached to the driver in the presence of a static magnetic field and the driver moves creating sound waves.
there is no AC power source, no microchips, no hardware because these are passive speakers and why add more shit to raise the price? I was going to say cheap but you can spend a boatload on passive speakers.
if you overdrive something you damage it. try flooring your car in neutral and see how long it lasts.
Active speakers require power source and have an amplifier or something, hardware as you say, in them. never had any so maybe somebody else can expand on that.
No, Quebec's power grid is a separate interconnect. THAT is why it is (and must be) connected via DC. The same is true of *ALL* connections between the major interconnects.
Don't some interties use phase shifting transformers?
The quebec system is not in phase/sync with the rest of eastern north america. But why? Is it because of political, geographic or technical reasons?
I was under the impression that other systems were scared of the potential instability and thus the quebec system isn't very strongly tied to the easter north america one.
I thought those 735 kV lines were a rarity but google tells me American Electric Power has 2,100 miles of 765kV line.
I was under the impression that it was the length of the 735kV lines that caused them to be affected by solar storms, not the voltage.
The tres amigos transmission lines are going to be rather short, so I am not arguing that they should not use AC transmission to avoid the influence of solar storms.
Another poster pointed out that since the three systems are out of sync, DC is a good choice. Perhaps it is cheaper to build 2 miles of 1 superconducting DC conductor than 5-7 non superconducting conductors?
A is importing power into the triangle, B is neither exporting nor importing, and C is exporting power. I can see that if there is only 1 wire per leg of the triangle then current will flow from A to C directly and return from C to A via B.
If B is also exporting power, some current would flow past C and out of the triangle at B, and then all current from B and C would return to A on the BA leg.
Is this what you mean?
the current into the triangle has to equal the current out of the triangle. I suppose they have to syncronise the duty cycles of the IGBTs/valves/? so that the power being fed in = the power extracted from the triangle
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here's reproducability for you
1. install adobe flash player
2. browse the web with any browser, especially visit sites with flash content. For extra daring attempts, open multiple tabs with flash content at the same time.
3. the crashes!!!
That being said youtube doesn't normally cause crashes for me, so it is probably shitty flash applications from shitty websites.
i hope to god something has replaced flash in 10 years.
i found google desktop useful once, I had gigabytes of PDFs of IEEE standards and journals and google desktop was a simple way to search for the relevant file/chapter
i remember seeing the CEO of vodafone on the news saying "I wish the rest of the world was like new zealand, we make 4x more profit here"
Don't kid yourself, you guys are getting raped on your telecommunications. it's even 30+ cents a minute to call a NZ mobile from skype, let alone the bullshit you have to put up with calling mobile to mobile within the country.
I could call north america from new zeland unlimited for $10 a month or something stupid whereas $10 would get me 30 minutes local calling. awesome
i was at fox glacier and needed a copy of the ubuntu alternate CD and the best solution for me was to have someone in nelson burn it and courier it down. I could not download it from fox. sickening.
you might be interested in an open source front end to 1-wire devices called mango: http://mango.serotoninsoftware.com/
i'm looking at smart meters that use zigbee modules from digi:
http://www.digi.com/products/wireless/zigbee-mesh/xbee-zb-module.jsp
I won't be dealing with the hardware, just talking to the devices on the zigbee network so hopefully the whole thing is invisible to me.
I'm going to have range issues though
i think we agree here, but CDMA is a total brain fuck that I barely understood 6 years ago and haven't thought about since.
I couldn't read the wiki page, it made my head hurt.
we agree that the transmitters share the same channel.
the channel is made up of frequencies
the exact frequencies in the channel that are used are determined by the code
the senders have different codes
therefore when the senders transmit, they don't use the *exact same frequency* at the exact same time, although they are sharing the same channel.
then call it Ubuntu 9.10.
The idiot names are great keywords for google when searching for an issue for a particular version. Makes sure you don't end up with issues from 10 year old releases in your search results.
sounds like your problems are mostly related to VM?
good thing i stuck with the LTS version. I thought about upgrading to intrepid but read about the intel graphics problems and didn't.
new and shiny isn't always better!
I've got hardy on my thinkpad at the moment. I'm considering upgrading just because the new gtk in karmic enables a transparent system tray so AWN will finally look right.
I never liked having two horizontal bars or panels on my screen, especially on a 14" widescreen. too much wasted real estate. especially when applications have a title bar. then add fire fox book mark bar, menus and address bar and that doesn't leave a lot of real estate!
AWN with google chrome makes the most of it.
Code Division multiple access divides a frequency band up using the code.
imagine you had 64 individual frequencies making up a frequency band and a 64-bit code. the exact frequencies uses by each transmitter is determined by their code, which changes constantly.
So long as each transmitter has a code that is orthogonal to the other codes, they will never be transmitting on the same frequency at the same time.
That is essentially what it says in the wiki as well, but a lot more eloquently.
You can share a channel or frequency band or chunk of spectrum, but you are always dividing it up in some way so that there is only ever one transmitter on one individual frequency at any time.
you have divided the channel into slots in order to share it. slots are assigned by time (TDMA) or frequency (CDMA/FHSS) or other means.
still only one transmitter per frequency per moment in time
it is wireless, a shared medium. only one client on any given frequency at any given time. it will always be possible to jam radio signals. no amount of engineering can change this
if it is a wireless router, a single misbehaving client can render it useless.
not surprising that it is possible to jam cell a cell tower with a cell phone if the phone was somehow set to constantly transmit random data at full power. If the tower can't hear the other phones because yours is shouting at it constantly there is nothing you can do to stop that.
what mail client do you use?
right. guess i didn't rtfdebacle well enough.
Although no program that I know of other than itunes can be used to put songs on my itouch and apple is working their hardest to keep it that way.
an alternative to itunes would be great, but it would have to sync non jailbroken iphones ipod touch / whatever comes next and apple clearly doesn't want any program other than itunes doing that. see palm.
ouch
i didn't read the ruling, and apparently neither did you, but from a post above it says you can block DDOS attacks and take measures in the event of outages or other 'network security'/malware etc events
both parties are garbage. You have to take the garbage out now and then or it really starts to stink. The liberals got too smelly.
It shouldn't matter what party is in power when the CRTC makes decisions? I suppose the CBC should also be neutral instead of having a liberal slant as well.
I haven't read the ruling but it sounds like it is all you can expect. Some traffic *is* more important than other traffic and some people pay a premium for faster/lower latency connections.
At least the telcos aren't allowed to deliberately slow down VOIP
Systems with NVIDIA graphics chips also gain initial support for suspend and resume functionality via the default Nouveau driver.
that seems like a big one!
most speakers are passive. they get the analog audio signal from an amplifier, run it through a coil attached to the driver in the presence of a static magnetic field and the driver moves creating sound waves.
there is no AC power source, no microchips, no hardware because these are passive speakers and why add more shit to raise the price? I was going to say cheap but you can spend a boatload on passive speakers.
if you overdrive something you damage it. try flooring your car in neutral and see how long it lasts.
Active speakers require power source and have an amplifier or something, hardware as you say, in them. never had any so maybe somebody else can expand on that.
No, Quebec's power grid is a separate interconnect. THAT is why it is (and must be) connected via DC. The same is true of *ALL* connections between the major interconnects.
Don't some interties use phase shifting transformers?
The quebec system is not in phase/sync with the rest of eastern north america. But why? Is it because of political, geographic or technical reasons?
I was under the impression that other systems were scared of the potential instability and thus the quebec system isn't very strongly tied to the easter north america one.
I thought those 735 kV lines were a rarity but google tells me American Electric Power has 2,100 miles of 765kV line.
I was under the impression that it was the length of the 735kV lines that caused them to be affected by solar storms, not the voltage.
The tres amigos transmission lines are going to be rather short, so I am not arguing that they should not use AC transmission to avoid the influence of solar storms.
Another poster pointed out that since the three systems are out of sync, DC is a good choice. Perhaps it is cheaper to build 2 miles of 1 superconducting DC conductor than 5-7 non superconducting conductors?
if you have three points on the triangle, A,B,C
A is importing power into the triangle, B is neither exporting nor importing, and C is exporting power. I can see that if there is only 1 wire per leg of the triangle then current will flow from A to C directly and return from C to A via B.
If B is also exporting power, some current would flow past C and out of the triangle at B, and then all current from B and C would return to A on the BA leg.
Is this what you mean?
the current into the triangle has to equal the current out of the triangle. I suppose they have to syncronise the duty cycles of the IGBTs/valves/? so that the power being fed in = the power extracted from the triangle