I wrote Dish and encouraged them to chuck Viacom. Anything they replace it with is better, test patterns included. I also suggested Planete, CBC,BBC Canada. Believe it or not, the rest of the world has TV! mike
IF the mailing lists are still active( I haven't participated in a number of years) they allow you to talk to other people trying to solve the same porblems. No point in repeating all the mistakes. It was a moderated forum, quite civil and positive.
Look up the literature of Linda Silverman.
Also realize that sometimes there is nothing you can do. You begin to know why some consider high IQ a curse.
Association with peers is about the only thing that realy does any good. If they can't find them they are in trouble.
The Univ of Oregon runs a summer camp just for this problem. However: he may be to old, mid teens.
I live in a COMCAST area. When Dish got our local channels , goodbye Comcast. I picked Dish over Direct because Direct seemed more oriented to sports. We had both Dish and Comcast before the locals. It turned out we never did watch the locals very much when they were on comcast.
I had one sat system installed by a dealer, did a good job. I put in two myself. Care is the watchword.
Signal loss does occur, but usually briefly at the equinoxes. The sun transits behind the sat and floods the amp. I have had some problems but it has been equipment failure. The gear is 5 years old.
If you think that weather, what ever, will be a problem use a bigger dish.The standard one works fine over most of the US but you can use a bigger one, infact they recommend it here in Western Oregon for getting the foreign programming. The sat is quite far to the east (69 degrees) so you look thru a lot of atmosphere.
The Canadian sat services are also somewhat available, Express Vu has quite a bit of French language programming. Yojimbo with french subtitles is interesting.
What ever else you want to say about Utah, the snow at Alta and some of the other areas is better. It cold as hell and the air is too thin (11,000ft) but the skiing is excellent.
During the 1930s (I don't know the exact year) MB built a swing axle sedan that looked something like a 1939 Ford 4dr. The problem was is flipped. Often. One foto I saw said it was " noted for poor gas milage, the fuel ran out of the tank when it was upside down".
I have always been impressed at the accuracy of European and asian explosive experts. To wit: In the US we get reports like "a ten pound or twenty pound bomb went off". In Europe they really know , it is usually a " 2.2 lb or maybe a 22 lb bomb". Nome of the rounding junk! Maybe the bombers in foreign contries have a message board system to let the police know what size of bomb they used.
I could never figure out what to use something like this for. If I am 30 miles west of Rome Oregon and I don't have a pretty good idea of where I am , I have problems that Onstar is not going to solve. I couldn't call anyone any way.Some of the area doesn't even have landline phones. I have a 2meter rig in the car but out there I am not sure even that would contact anyone.
For me using mozilla none of the buttons would work. You would think if you wanted answers you would cater to the widest possible audience. Evidently most people did not have this problem.
On Newsforge there is an article worth ignoring; towit:"Lawsuit Drops 'Nuclear Bomb' on Software Industry". The article needs a bit a research, to bad the author didn't. A good example of write first, find out later.
I don't know if this will work in the long run but the email we got did not come from yahoo.com. Looking at the headers it came from "dms.netcenter.com" . "dms.netcenter.com" is now on my sendmail access REJECT list. I can still access yahoo.com . Doing a dig on dms.netcenter.com gives an owner of Netscape... How the mighty have fallen.
I must have missed something. Is it really that much easier to use/buy one of these routers than to just use an old 486 box with linux? Two ethernet cards and a minimal set of hardware (33mhz 16 megs) seem to handle anything the DSL line can put out. Makes a nice firewall also.
It is on Dish Network . There are two from the Univ of Washington. Some of the stuff is quite interesting,but depends on who the lecture is intended for. Some of if goes over my head, I am not that savy on statistics. Some like the formation of elements in novaea and dark matter are really gee whiz. A lot of it has do do with medicine, there is a UW med school.
I bot one last month and took it back the next day. The reasons: The unit only will control IR sat receivers, half of ours are UHF(sat recv. is in a dif room). The unit can not be set to record a program with out the subscription. Why I don't know. I basicly wanted a VCR with no tapes. When TIVO goes chap 11 what do I do, stack it on my DIVx player or under my BetaMax?? The menu service is limited to only DISH and Direct sat services, no ExpressVu.
I have installed wiring in two large houses (mine) and I still will not work in a hot panel. It is silly. One wrong move and you're toast.
You may not even have 220 V, some commercial installations run 3 phase and pull off legs of 270V.
Unless you can kill the panel , I would not even remove the cover. NOTE: In many commercial instalations pulling the meter will not kill the panel, also watch out for two way feeds. You can kill one but the other kills you.
After 40 years in amateur radio I have a very healthy respect for things that go ZAP.
Lethal voltages are just that , lethal.
Never could find a good reason to change after 386BSD. THe slack distro is consistent , runs and,makes me happy. Run 8.1 on my main machine and 7.0 on the firewall.
The nicest thing about it is I know where most everything is and what the file name is. Familiarity counts for something.
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I wrote Dish and encouraged them to chuck Viacom.
Anything they replace it with is better, test patterns included. I also suggested Planete, CBC,BBC Canada.
Believe it or not, the rest of the world has TV!
mike
IF the mailing lists are still active( I haven't participated in a number of years) they allow you to
talk to other people trying to solve the same porblems.
No point in repeating all the mistakes.
It was a moderated forum, quite civil and positive.
Look up the literature of Linda Silverman.
Also realize that sometimes there is nothing you can do.
You begin to know why some consider high IQ a curse.
Association with peers is about the only thing that realy does any good. If they can't find them they are in trouble.
The Univ of Oregon runs a summer camp just for this problem. However: he may be to old, mid teens.
I thought mandrake was a root with "medicinal"
properties, kinda like rhino horn.
.
I live in a COMCAST area.
When Dish got our local channels , goodbye Comcast.
I picked Dish over Direct because Direct seemed
more oriented to sports.
We had both Dish and Comcast before the locals.
It turned out we never did watch the locals very much when they were on comcast.
I had one sat system installed by a dealer, did a
good job. I put in two myself. Care is the watchword.
Signal loss does occur, but usually briefly at the equinoxes. The sun transits behind the sat and
floods the amp. I have had some problems but it has been equipment failure. The gear is 5 years old.
If you think that weather, what ever, will be a problem use a bigger dish.The standard one works
fine over most of the US but you can use a bigger
one, infact they recommend it here in Western Oregon for getting the foreign programming. The sat is quite far to the east (69 degrees) so you look thru a lot of atmosphere.
The Canadian sat services are also somewhat available, Express Vu has quite a bit of French
language programming. Yojimbo with french subtitles is interesting.
What ever else you want to say about Utah, the snow
at Alta and some of the other areas is better.
It cold as hell and the air is too thin
(11,000ft) but the skiing is excellent.
I am from Oregon , I appreciate dry snow.
During the 1930s (I don't know the exact year)
MB built a swing axle sedan that looked something
like a 1939 Ford 4dr. The problem was is flipped.
Often. One foto I saw said it was " noted for
poor gas milage, the fuel ran out of the tank when it was upside down".
With Qwest ne US West I think the Operative word
for Linux adoption is CHEAP.
With US West it didn't matter if it worked , if it was cheap.
US West customer.
Flame Retardent: I am actualy a long time Linux fan
since 386BSD fell apart.
(FVWM2 on Slackware)
I think most people already have.
Clark and Dean is the contest for the Caorlinas.
I hope it is not decided before the Carolinas
primary. A lively debate would do some good.
mike
Not everyone uses a browser to do email.
sendmail connections et al don't count as a
browser I would guess.
I have always been impressed at the accuracy of
European and asian explosive experts. To wit:
In the US we get reports like "a ten pound or twenty
pound bomb went off".
In Europe they really know , it is usually a "
2.2 lb or maybe a 22 lb bomb".
Nome of the rounding junk!
Maybe the bombers in foreign contries have a
message board system to let the police know
what size of bomb they used.
Mike
I could never figure out what to use something like
this for. If I am 30 miles west of Rome Oregon and
I don't have a pretty good idea of where I am , I have problems that Onstar is not going to solve.
I couldn't call anyone any way.Some of the area doesn't even have landline phones.
I have a 2meter rig in the car but out there I am
not sure even that would contact anyone.
For me using mozilla none of the buttons would work.
You would think if you wanted answers you would
cater to the widest possible audience.
Evidently most people did not have this problem.
Does this influence anybody else's perception of
SCO?
On Newsforge there is an article worth ignoring;
towit:"Lawsuit Drops 'Nuclear Bomb' on Software Industry".
The article needs a bit a research, to bad the author didn't.
A good example of write first, find out later.
I don't know if this will work in the long run but the
email we got did not come from yahoo.com.
Looking at the headers it came from "dms.netcenter.com" . "dms.netcenter.com"
is now on my sendmail access REJECT list.
I can still access yahoo.com . Doing a dig on
dms.netcenter.com gives an owner of Netscape...
How the mighty have fallen.
Mike
I must have missed something.
Is it really that much easier to use/buy one of these routers than to just use an old 486 box with
linux?
Two ethernet cards and a minimal set of hardware
(33mhz 16 megs) seem to handle anything the DSL
line can put out.
Makes a nice firewall also.
Mike
Radio shack will sell you all the LEDs you need.
It is on Dish Network . There are
two from the Univ of Washington. Some of the stuff
is quite interesting,but depends on who the lecture
is intended for. Some of if goes over my head,
I am not that savy on statistics. Some like the
formation of elements in novaea and dark matter
are really gee whiz. A lot of it has do do with medicine, there is a UW med school.
I bot one last month and took it back the next day.
The reasons:
The unit only will control IR sat receivers, half of
ours are UHF(sat recv. is in a dif room).
The unit can not be set to record a program with out
the subscription. Why I don't know. I basicly wanted
a VCR with no tapes.
When TIVO goes chap 11 what do I do, stack it on my DIVx player or under my BetaMax??
The menu service is limited to only DISH and Direct
sat services, no ExpressVu.
Great idea , bad execution.
does anyone else see a problem here?
I block most Korean sites, to much spam.
second thought: may be this is good, put all blogs
in korea and block it.
Did I mis something or was this problems dealt with
in MARCH 2003?
Any interesting problems from 2002?
mike
I have installed wiring in two large houses (mine)
and I still will not work in a hot panel.
It is silly. One wrong move and you're toast.
You may not even have 220 V, some commercial installations run 3 phase and pull off legs of 270V.
Unless you can kill the panel , I would not even remove the cover.
NOTE: In many commercial instalations pulling the meter will not kill the panel, also watch out for
two way feeds. You can kill one but the other kills you.
After 40 years in amateur radio I have a very healthy respect for things that go ZAP.
Lethal voltages are just that , lethal.
Sure was dangerous in the RIGHT hands.
First It ain't called a beer belly for nothing.
Drink scotch.
Go swinmming regularly. Very few fat swimmers.
Never could find a good reason to change after 386BSD. ,makes me happy.
THe slack distro is consistent , runs and
Run 8.1 on my main machine and 7.0 on the firewall.
The nicest thing about it is I know where most everything is and what the file name is.
Familiarity counts for something.