The preliminary report I saw was a failure in one of the UPSs. I'm going to spend a few hours this weekend compensating for a network card that fried when one of our servers came back up.
Another argument for geographically-dispersed colos. sigh.
I've had one dual-booting for a couple of years now. In WinXp, we demo our products. Under an updated RH8, it's a most excellent wardriving system. I can run 2 802.11 cards (PCMCIA and CF), and maybe a GPS with a USB-serial dongle. Folded down, it's a lot more convenient to carry than an open laptop. And it's quite useable with the pen a virtual keyboard in this configuration.
If my Zaurus 5600 had more I/O capability, it would be almost as good...
I wouldn't want to use one everyday, but it's a terrific admin device.
With 2004 MN4 heading this way, we can just wait for *it* to come to *us*. It's probaby got a *much* greater chance of getting asteroid material on Earth than these guys do...
Type "homeschool" into google. Laws vary greatly by state and country, but your kids will wind up with a real, personalized education. And you don't have to worry about them cutting classes:-)
There's a *huge* inflatable green thing on top of the Space Needle today. It looks like it has multiple eyes, and tentacles (looks like somebody's been reading that dodgy Japanese stuff again...)
I assume it's a promo for the museum, since *that's* a stone's throw from the base of the Needle... (Hmmm...there's an idea...:-)
Bad day for giant baloon creatures - it's a bit windy out. I'm kind of hoping it breaks loose and heads for the suburbs - I can make a Toho-style monster movie cheap!
Best comment on the WiFi fences...
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From The Register (http://www.theregister.com/2004/06/08/wifi_enable d_cattle):
The team has already carried out a test of a static version of the fence system, with 10 'volunteer' cows and a square kilometre field. The moving fences have so far only been tested in a group of students. (We reckon this could be a whole new market).
"Open Campus" indeed...
You were lucky to have a DECtape - I was doing the same thing on an 8/I at the same time (74-75), and have to live with just an ASR-33 paper tape. I think I can do the RIM Loader switch sequence by muscle-memory...:-)
It was much better moving to the PDP-11 with RSTS/e.
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And every e-mail worm and trojan will be sending *your* money to the writer (suitably masked behind dummy accounts). Just what we need - another automated asset-transfer system.
Single board 1Mhz 6502, 256 *bytes* of RAM (well, plus a few more tucked away in the memory-mapped I/O chips), and a 6-digit, 7-segment LED for output. Oh, and a hex keypad scanned by lines from the aforesaid GPIO chips.
But this wan't a crippled system, no sir. It also had a handy 20MA current-loop interface (and I happened to have access to KSR-33 teletypes), and a screaming 300-baud-or-so cassette tape port. Plus a bunch of fun I/O lines just begging to be hooked up to control, well, *something*.
Not bad for $250 (power supply not included).
There's nothing like hand-assembling code to hex (and constantly recalculating branches and jumps) to give you a feeling for what going on in the guts of the machine. Something that was sadly lacking, even with the intimacy of the RSTS/E command line.
I've been to quite a few sales over the years (and have a massive library at home:-). One of the biggest groups of customers is teachers, buying extra books for their classes. At the King County sales, there were *tons* of childrens books, perfect for low-budget pre-school and elementary classrooms. The teachers were able to stock their rooms out of their own pockets. Somehow, I don't think they're going to be buying at $10/book....
Uh, no. The King County Library System (outside Seattle) switched to Amazon, much to the dismay of dedicated book sale patrons (including me). The Seattle Public Library is continuing their physical sale, as much for the sense of community as for the money.
1) I know it's there (not buried in the soles of my shoes, for instance), so I can leave it behind.
2) I can *turn it off*, if I don't want to be constantly tracked.
Put some RFID pickups at the entrances to bus stations and airports, and you'll catch most of the tags passing through. Might not be very useful now, but who knows what creative uses someone could find in the future...
I've been reading articles about how to decode these pictures since the 60's - I've got ARRL books and magazines going back at least that far. Hobbyists have been doing this with PCs since the late 70's. The transmissions are basically faxes, so it's pretty easy to decode with a sound card.
I know there have been some old news stories appearing lately, but really now...
Active closed? Aaarrgh! Where am I going to buy parts now? (Vetco is fine for odd stuff, but you can't count on them having specific components).
Browsing web catalogs just doesn't provide the same level of inspiration as walking down rows of chips and connectors...
On a related note - given the concentration on tech companies in the Seattle area, and the lack of competition, why hasn't Fry's opened a store up here? At least then I'd be able to pick up some opto-isolators or Twinkies at the last minute...
There's a Seattle-area software shop (http://www.sproqit.com/) already doing exactly this, including caching document changes. So this isn't exactly a revolutionary idea...
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The preliminary report I saw was a failure in one of the UPSs. I'm going to spend a few hours this weekend compensating for a network card that fried when one of our servers came back up.
Another argument for geographically-dispersed colos. sigh.
I've had one dual-booting for a couple of years now. In WinXp, we demo our products. Under an updated RH8, it's a most excellent wardriving system. I can run 2 802.11 cards (PCMCIA and CF), and maybe a GPS with a USB-serial dongle. Folded down, it's a lot more convenient to carry than an open laptop. And it's quite useable with the pen a virtual keyboard in this configuration.
If my Zaurus 5600 had more I/O capability, it would be almost as good...
I wouldn't want to use one everyday, but it's a terrific admin device.
With 2004 MN4 heading this way, we can just wait for *it* to come to *us*. It's probaby got a *much* greater chance of getting asteroid material on Earth than these guys do...
Type "homeschool" into google. Laws vary greatly by state and country, but your kids will wind up with a real, personalized education. And you don't have to worry about them cutting classes :-)
Based on the recommendations of an Adminal Popeye (ret).... :-)
Or at the very least told we have to move along and vacate this planet? After all, we're receiving the signal *outside* of their planet...
I'm just waiting for the Galactic police to show up.
the risks of P2P.... especially publicly exposing security holes.
from the previous story. *Then* we're all in trouble...
There's a *huge* inflatable green thing on top of the Space Needle today. It looks like it has multiple eyes, and tentacles (looks like somebody's been reading that dodgy Japanese stuff again...)
I assume it's a promo for the museum, since *that's* a stone's throw from the base of the Needle... (Hmmm...there's an idea...:-)
Bad day for giant baloon creatures - it's a bit windy out. I'm kind of hoping it breaks loose and heads for the suburbs - I can make a Toho-style monster movie cheap!
From The Register (http://www.theregister.com/2004/06/08/wifi_enable d_cattle):
The team has already carried out a test of a static version of the fence system, with 10 'volunteer' cows and a square kilometre field. The moving fences have so far only been tested in a group of students. (We reckon this could be a whole new market).
"Open Campus" indeed...
For Linux users BestCrypt from Jetico does this quite nicely...
I want to moderate this +1 Nostalgic...
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You were lucky to have a DECtape - I was doing the same thing on an 8/I at the same time (74-75), and have to live with just an ASR-33 paper tape. I think I can do the RIM Loader switch sequence by muscle-memory...
It was much better moving to the PDP-11 with RSTS/e.
And every e-mail worm and trojan will be sending *your* money to the writer (suitably masked behind dummy accounts). Just what we need - another automated asset-transfer system.
It's probably better to drill the hole *before* you turn off the light... speaking from experience :-)
Single board 1Mhz 6502, 256 *bytes* of RAM (well, plus a few more tucked away in the memory-mapped I/O chips), and a 6-digit, 7-segment LED for output. Oh, and a hex keypad scanned by lines from the aforesaid GPIO chips.
But this wan't a crippled system, no sir. It also had a handy 20MA current-loop interface (and I happened to have access to KSR-33 teletypes), and a screaming 300-baud-or-so cassette tape port. Plus a bunch of fun I/O lines just begging to be hooked up to control, well, *something*.
Not bad for $250 (power supply not included).
There's nothing like hand-assembling code to hex (and constantly recalculating branches and jumps) to give you a feeling for what going on in the guts of the machine. Something that was sadly lacking, even with the intimacy of the RSTS/E command line.
For those of you trying this at home, remove the between the _v5 and the .0.1/.
pesky things, spaces....
I've been to quite a few sales over the years (and have a massive library at home :-). One of the biggest groups of customers is teachers, buying extra books for their classes. At the King County sales, there were *tons* of childrens books, perfect for low-budget pre-school and elementary classrooms. The teachers were able to stock their rooms out of their own pockets. Somehow, I don't think they're going to be buying at $10/book....
Uh, no. The King County Library System (outside Seattle) switched to Amazon, much to the dismay of dedicated book sale patrons (including me). The Seattle Public Library is continuing their physical sale, as much for the sense of community as for the money.
But...
1) I know it's there (not buried in the soles of my shoes, for instance), so I can leave it behind.
2) I can *turn it off*, if I don't want to be constantly tracked.
Put some RFID pickups at the entrances to bus stations and airports, and you'll catch most of the tags passing through. Might not be very useful now, but who knows what creative uses someone could find in the future...
You'll find that most infants already come with an audible alert mechanism for that. Factory-standard equipment.
I've been reading articles about how to decode these pictures since the 60's - I've got ARRL books and magazines going back at least that far. Hobbyists have been doing this with PCs since the late 70's. The transmissions are basically faxes, so it's pretty easy to decode with a sound card.
I know there have been some old news stories appearing lately, but really now...
Active closed? Aaarrgh! Where am I going to buy parts now? (Vetco is fine for odd stuff, but you can't count on them having specific components).
Browsing web catalogs just doesn't provide the same level of inspiration as walking down rows of chips and connectors...
On a related note - given the concentration on tech companies in the Seattle area, and the lack of competition, why hasn't Fry's opened a store up here? At least then I'd be able to pick up some opto-isolators or Twinkies at the last minute...
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There's a Seattle-area software shop (http://www.sproqit.com/) already doing exactly this, including caching document changes. So this isn't exactly a revolutionary idea...
I saw it last night, but it was just a rerun of last year's Jupiter. Let me know when they get some new planets up there...