That's actually pretty interesting. Reminds me of something actually. Nimiq had just gone live for ExpressVu customers, and at that time, the company I was working for had one of the customer repoint contracts. I was taking a break in our office, watching starchoice, and suddenly our receiver starts cutting in and out. I thought that I had a receiver problem, and I wandered out into the store to grab another unit, but hey, our ExpressVu was doing it too... isn't that weird... So I make a phone call, turns out that telsat lost control of E2 and she was spinning.
Well boys, break is over, you've got to do as many nimiq repoints as you can today...
First off, you have not come close to touching my point - C-Band is no longer the mainstream for home satellite reception. That is now Ku-Band. Circular Ku for DBS satellites, and Linear Ku for wackos like StarChoice.
As for the difference in satellites? Telesat has been launching dual C/Ku band satellites for a while now. Its latest bird, Anik F1, has 48 Ku and 36 C-Band transponders. Cool eh? 90% of the C-Band equipment installed in North American homes can only pick up 24 of those C-Band transponders.
Anik F1's Ku can be reliably picked up with an 18" dish (I know through experience) and C-Band still needs a 6'er.
As far as rain fade goes, yes. It is an issue with Ku band. the 5 minute breaks I've suffered 3 times in the past year have been horrible. I had to go read slashdot instead.
None of this changes the fact that C-Band is becoming used less and less for home tv reception. Anik F1 is a prime example - All its C-Band transponders are currently in use are for commercial use, or use by the CBC, for cross-country satellite interviews, or for sending live feeds from one part of the country to another.
Not a chance pal. With DTH providers like Dish & DirecTV in the states (destined to be one company?) and Starchoice and Bell ExpressVu in Canada, C-Band is only for hobbyists. Having worked as a C-Band tech for years, I say this from experience, not conjecture. C-Band satellites have 24 transponders, Ku (what they use for DTH) have more, 30, 32 are not uncommon. Ku satellites can also be much more powerful. Anik F1, the Starchoice bird is capable of 120 watts. Most importantly, using MPEG compression on the DTH services lets one satellite carry what C-Band saw on 20 satellites, requiring C-Band customers to have an actuator arm, and usually a polarizer motor in the 'nose' of the dish.
Customers are switching to 'little dish' because it's less of a set-up fee, lower maintaince, lower visibility. C-Band customers that cling to their big ugly dish have to maintain it and buy more expensive gear for it. (Here, a C-Band digital receiver runs 4 times the cost of a little-dish receiver)
Attempt to reverse engineer? No. The first step is get the developer information for the CPU(s) employed by the device and start writing a software core for it that will run on your target platform.
and that too many people believe Linus Torvalds was somehow responsible for the entire system and the FSF is responsible for the entire GNU Hurd? (the GNU kernel) the drivers for the GNU Hurd are all taken from Linux 2.0!
PeTA has one of the most uptight memberships I know of. If your typical linux geek (even most of the uptight ones) see a shirt that says something like "Penguin, It's what's for dinner" They'd laugh. I have a shirt that has a modified version of the PeTA logo with the following words underneath: "People for the Eating of Tasty Animals" Most people laugh - then you get the PeTA members. They see the logo, grin widely and start walking towards me. Then they read the text, and get violent. One actually threatened my life. This was in public. When I wear BSD or Microsoft shirts to Linux User Group meetings I get FAR more reasonable reactions.
But I don't find it difficult to ignore spam. Especially when it's easily filtered. Now, yahoo groups & messenger is very useful to me, and I won't simply throw that away. Please explain why I should delete my account for you.
Shawn Gordon published an essay [ http://www.linuxandmain.com/essay/sgordon.html ] on the difficulties of using a GPL licence on a product - it seems to me that the problems described are caused more by people than by the licence itself. Stephen Figgins seems to think that Mr. Gordon is merely a whiner [ http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/1217 ] and shouldn't be charging for source. What's your take on using the GPL on commercial software?
The Microsoft OEM licence said that you were not allowed to have other operating systems BOOTABLE on a system that had a Microsoft OEM licenced OS on it - if you used a retail licence you were fine. I know this because I used to work in a computer store, and if the customer wanted dualboot, we charged them the difference between OEM and retail. (This had the side-effect of limiting them to 95A and 98 after 95B/C and 98SE came out.)
As for Windows "features" [that] end up making a linux partition unusable - I haven't seen them. If you install a Microsoft os after linux is installed, you'll lose the boot loader, yes, but that's not just linux. That's also the bsds, darwin, BeOS, etc.
Yesterday I was attacked by the followers of an evil heathen website, dotslash. What they did is called a DoS, and DoS stands for Denying Our Savour. The attack is called by the followers of dotslash the 'dotslash effect' The name of the attackers, dotslash is clearly a reference to the beast, and how it attacks. Fear not, I lit candles on top of my monitor, and now that the fire department has put the flames of hell out, and I have finished praying, all will be well.
There was a case in Ontario a year or two ago where a University Professer and his wife (I think) drove side-by side on a 2-lane highway at the posted limit. They were pulled over by the police after there were 2km of angry motorists behind them. They were charged and found guilty of impeeding the flow of traffic. Apparently they were trying to prove that the speed limit needs to be increased.
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If you patch your safedisk game with a crack, you can run without the binary version. Alice (full version) works beautifully this way.
Ironic that the pirates would come to the rescue of legimate game owners.
While it's technically a hard drive, it's not used for typical hard drive applications... so does this go to hitachi with the rest? I sure hope they survive...
Unless the bulk of internet sites move outside of the US - if all the internet servers that people use moved to the U.K. or Europe, then you can bet that the American ISPs would start paying.
That's to allow them to bother people, block undesirables from the set, etc.
If I'm setting a movie in New York, 2020, what possible reason would I have to portray them more or less accurately?
None.
I'd much rather see the source for Epic's ZZT, but they claim to have lost it. Shame.
the closest thing we've got are the binarys;
http://www.textmodegames.com/download/zzt.htm
and remakes;
http://c99.dyndns.org/dc/index.shtml
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'While I agree that this is really a bit of a scam, it is a way for us to pay salaries while not adversely affecting our users.'
That's part of it, it does affect the users - money that they may have WANTED to go to a particular affiliate is now going to these guys. Yay.
The other part is what about the affiliate contract? doesn't this violate it?
That's actually pretty interesting.
Reminds me of something actually.
Nimiq had just gone live for ExpressVu customers, and at that time, the company I was working for had one of the customer repoint contracts. I was taking a break in our office, watching starchoice, and suddenly our receiver starts cutting in and out. I thought that I had a receiver problem, and I wandered out into the store to grab another unit, but hey, our ExpressVu was doing it too... isn't that weird...
So I make a phone call, turns out that telsat lost control of E2 and she was spinning.
Well boys, break is over, you've got to do as many nimiq repoints as you can today...
First off, you have not come close to touching my point - C-Band is no longer the mainstream for home satellite reception. That is now Ku-Band. Circular Ku for DBS satellites, and Linear Ku for wackos like StarChoice.
As for the difference in satellites? Telesat has been launching dual C/Ku band satellites for a while now. Its latest bird, Anik F1, has 48 Ku and 36 C-Band transponders. Cool eh? 90% of the C-Band equipment installed in North American homes can only pick up 24 of those C-Band transponders.
Anik F1's Ku can be reliably picked up with an 18" dish (I know through experience) and C-Band still needs a 6'er.
As far as rain fade goes, yes. It is an issue with Ku band. the 5 minute breaks I've suffered 3 times in the past year have been horrible. I had to go read slashdot instead.
None of this changes the fact that C-Band is becoming used less and less for home tv reception. Anik F1 is a prime example - All its C-Band transponders are currently in use are for commercial use, or use by the CBC, for cross-country satellite interviews, or for sending live feeds from one part of the country to another.
Not a chance pal.
With DTH providers like Dish & DirecTV in the states (destined to be one company?) and Starchoice and Bell ExpressVu in Canada, C-Band is only for hobbyists. Having worked as a C-Band tech for years, I say this from experience, not conjecture.
C-Band satellites have 24 transponders, Ku (what they use for DTH) have more, 30, 32 are not uncommon. Ku satellites can also be much more powerful. Anik F1, the Starchoice bird is capable of 120 watts. Most importantly, using MPEG compression on the DTH services lets one satellite carry what C-Band saw on 20 satellites, requiring C-Band customers to have an actuator arm, and usually a polarizer motor in the 'nose' of the dish.
Customers are switching to 'little dish' because it's less of a set-up fee, lower maintaince, lower visibility. C-Band customers that cling to their big ugly dish have to maintain it and buy more expensive gear for it. (Here, a C-Band digital receiver runs 4 times the cost of a little-dish receiver)
It's for backup use and charging batteries.
You certainly wouldn't use this all the time, that's what the grid is for.
as in Yahoo..? Yahoo Serious?
How's he anonymous if you post his email address?
Attempt to reverse engineer? No. The first step is get the developer information for the CPU(s) employed by the device and start writing a software core for it that will run on your target platform.
and that too many people believe Linus Torvalds was somehow responsible for the entire system
and the FSF is responsible for the entire GNU Hurd? (the GNU kernel)
the drivers for the GNU Hurd are all taken from Linux 2.0!
PeTA has one of the most uptight memberships I know of.
If your typical linux geek (even most of the uptight ones) see a shirt that says something like "Penguin, It's what's for dinner" They'd laugh.
I have a shirt that has a modified version of the PeTA logo with the following words underneath: "People for the Eating of Tasty Animals"
Most people laugh - then you get the PeTA members. They see the logo, grin widely and start walking towards me. Then they read the text, and get violent. One actually threatened my life.
This was in public.
When I wear BSD or Microsoft shirts to Linux User Group meetings I get FAR more reasonable reactions.
But I don't find it difficult to ignore spam.
Especially when it's easily filtered.
Now, yahoo groups & messenger is very useful to me, and I won't simply throw that away.
Please explain why I should delete my account for you.
Shawn Gordon published an essay [ http://www.linuxandmain.com/essay/sgordon.html ] on the difficulties of using a GPL licence on a product - it seems to me that the problems described are caused more by people than by the licence itself.
Stephen Figgins seems to think that Mr. Gordon is merely a whiner [ http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/1217 ] and shouldn't be charging for source.
What's your take on using the GPL on commercial software?
The Microsoft OEM licence said that you were not allowed to have other operating systems BOOTABLE on a system that had a Microsoft OEM licenced OS on it - if you used a retail licence you were fine. I know this because I used to work in a computer store, and if the customer wanted dualboot, we charged them the difference between OEM and retail. (This had the side-effect of limiting them to 95A and 98 after 95B/C and 98SE came out.)
As for Windows "features" [that] end up making a linux partition unusable - I haven't seen them. If you install a Microsoft os after linux is installed, you'll lose the boot loader, yes, but that's not just linux. That's also the bsds, darwin, BeOS, etc.
Yesterday I was attacked by the followers of an evil heathen website, dotslash.
What they did is called a DoS, and DoS stands for Denying Our Savour. The attack is called by the followers of dotslash the 'dotslash effect'
The name of the attackers, dotslash is clearly a reference to the beast, and how it attacks.
Fear not, I lit candles on top of my monitor, and now that the fire department has put the flames of hell out, and I have finished praying, all will be well.
If it's good enough for The Debian project's package maintainers, it's good enough for me. TightVNC is the offical VNC of the Debian project.
There was a case in Ontario a year or two ago where a University Professer and his wife (I think) drove side-by side on a 2-lane highway at the posted limit. They were pulled over by the police after there were 2km of angry motorists behind them. They were charged and found guilty of impeeding the flow of traffic.
Apparently they were trying to prove that the speed limit needs to be increased.
If you patch your safedisk game with a crack, you can run without the binary version.
Alice (full version) works beautifully this way.
Ironic that the pirates would come to the rescue of legimate game owners.
Apropriate for a guy who is going to be Project Leader during the "Woody" release
(a) outlaw filming someone via hidden camera without their permission except in public places
Your home is not a public place. This means you need to get permission from theves to tape them robbing you.
Even less informative than /. for a change, but hey.
http://www.debianplanet.org/article.php?sid=650
While it's technically a hard drive, it's not used for typical hard drive applications...
so does this go to hitachi with the rest? I sure hope they survive...
My roommate had IE crash on any site that used Javascript. Then I removed the spyware from his computer. Wow... what a difference.
Unless the bulk of internet sites move outside of the US - if all the internet servers that people use moved to the U.K. or Europe, then you can bet that the American ISPs would start paying.
That's to allow them to bother people, block undesirables from the set, etc.
If I'm setting a movie in New York, 2020, what possible reason would I have to portray them more or less accurately?
None.
I'd much rather see the source for Epic's ZZT, but they claim to have lost it. Shame. the closest thing we've got are the binarys; http://www.textmodegames.com/download/zzt.htm and remakes; http://c99.dyndns.org/dc/index.shtml