Mostly from ARRL and talking with other hams that have played with it. I'd suggest checking out eham.net or qrz.net but they are mostly bitchy old farts that think all the worlds problems were caused by the Clintons. The real expert on this is Ed Hare (w1rfi)at ARRL. He'll be happy to answer any questions that you may have.
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I thought that Nexthell was 800 trunked radio (ok, IDEN.) Maybe the TDMA pulses would would cause very local RFI to BPL but the main problem is working weak signals on HF (QRP and all that.) In remote areas ham radio is rather important. Of course I guess ham radio would really be important when BPL fails:)...problem solved.
Many, if not all, of the BPL designs that have been deployed to date suffer from a number of technological weaknesses. Perhaps the most critical of these is that BPL is seriously degraded by nearby transmissions from low-powered transmitters from sources like Amateur Radio or CB. In several BPL cities, amateurs have done experimentation that shows that as little as 5 watts of power from a nearby radio transmitter can seriously degrade the performance of BPL. In some cases, the interference logged off a BPL user, requiring a reconnection to the network.
This fatal flaw will seriously limit the way that BPL can be deployed and will decrease the reliability of a BPL system in any area where it is possible that nearby radio transmitters could be operating. Under the FCC's rules, BPL is an unlicensed device that must accept any interference caused to it by authorized radio services. In the past, and through decades of experience, such interference is rare to other broadband services, such as DSL, cable or satellite. However, in all of the BPL areas tested for susceptibility so far, the unshielded wiring that is used by BPL apparently picks up nearby radio transmitters and overload or otherwise degraded the performance of the system. Although this has been seen at power levels as low as 5 watts from Amateur Radio transmitters, Amateur Radio transmitters can use as much as 1500 watts of power, greatly extending area over which BPL will be unable to tune out these over-the-air signals.
Get an old Pentium One 133MHz or something. You don't need that much CPU for a headless box that is just moving stuff from the hard drive to the wire. I have a 90MHz Pent box that is my firewall, mailserver, MRTG, and webserver. There is nothing that a 1.5Mb/s DSL pipe can do to swamp it. Save the P4 for games and editing video, or running XP.
That 175 is IF he got the max for each count. Kinda like steet value for drugs. For a violation of 18 USC 1030 (which I'm guessing they are talking about here) on a first charge he'll get about 3-5 years with 54 days a year off for good time. He'll be in a Federal Prison Camp without fences and have to get up at 7:00 and work each day doing landscaping, plumbing or some other job to keep the place running. He won't get buggered in the ass unless he wants someone too. The food is ok and the smokes are cheap (no state tax.)
QangMartoq: "What I cannot understand is why PC manufacturers do not use something like the above instead of "pay for updates" products. It would reduce their support calls dramatically, would it not?"
That's because the suits that put together the co-packaging deal aren't the suits that run tech support. Sales/Marketing vs Operations.
This sort of hyperbole is just infuriating. Yes, America is having a crisis in the technical fields, but blaming it on Bush is idiocy.
Yeah, but it sure is fun!
Never type a password you care about, such as for a bank account, into a non-SSL encrypted page. If your bank makes it possible to do that, complain to them. When they tell you that it is OK, don't believe them; they're wrong.
Try telling that to US Bank. They don't listen. I have to enter a bogus account and pw, let it error and then it will give me a SSL page to login with. Bastards.
The ease of doing massive DDoS attacks is why I stopped running an IRC server...
You too. irc.nethead.com pulled it's plug after a 400Mb/s DDOS. We had 1.5Gb/s of pipe but still it wasn't worth it to keep a bunch of ungrateful punks happy.
Ah, Grant's is from Yakima and kinda started the microbrew thing. I did work for the Mc M. brothers back in '82ish at the T&P in NW. I think they still call their stout Terminator.
LazloToth asks: "I'm sure some of you have had this happen: your company pays the big bucks for a 3rd-party security audit and, when it comes back, you get called on the carpet for all the supposed 'holes' in your network.
Fr. Guido Sarducci replies: Son, you'll just hafta let it go. These bozos just won't get it anyway. Besides, it IS their network, they just pay you to play with it.
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Mostly from ARRL and talking with other hams that have played with it. I'd suggest checking out eham.net or qrz.net but they are mostly bitchy old farts that think all the worlds problems were caused by the Clintons. The real expert on this is Ed Hare (w1rfi)at ARRL. He'll be happy to answer any questions that you may have.
Oh, and here's a good FAQ:
http://www.qrpis.org/~k3ng/bpl.html
and you thought that stereo wars in the dorm rooms were bad... just wait.
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I just found this site and it like h4x0x l337. Gonzo buddy says it's not on his list though and I should be filling out a survey... guess it's time to go.. gotta keep buddy happy!
I thought that Nexthell was 800 trunked radio (ok, IDEN.) Maybe the TDMA pulses would would cause very local RFI to BPL but the main problem is working weak signals on HF (QRP and all that.) In remote areas ham radio is rather important. Of course I guess ham radio would really be important when BPL fails :) ...problem solved.
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Yea Will, but it covers almost the whole HF spectrum. And .au land has their "cb" up in the 450MHz range. But the idea still holds.\
Now get back to http://monorails.org/
This fatal flaw will seriously limit the way that BPL can be deployed and will decrease the reliability of a BPL system in any area where it is possible that nearby radio transmitters could be operating. Under the FCC's rules, BPL is an unlicensed device that must accept any interference caused to it by authorized radio services. In the past, and through decades of experience, such interference is rare to other broadband services, such as DSL, cable or satellite. However, in all of the BPL areas tested for susceptibility so far, the unshielded wiring that is used by BPL apparently picks up nearby radio transmitters and overload or otherwise degraded the performance of the system. Although this has been seen at power levels as low as 5 watts from Amateur Radio transmitters, Amateur Radio transmitters can use as much as 1500 watts of power, greatly extending area over which BPL will be unable to tune out these over-the-air signals.
See the ARRL.org website for more info. http://www.arrl.org/tis/info/HTML/plc/ 73 de W7COM
Don't worry. Jesus will save him, again.
Get an old Pentium One 133MHz or something. You don't need that much CPU for a headless box that is just moving stuff from the hard drive to the wire. I have a 90MHz Pent box that is my firewall, mailserver, MRTG, and webserver. There is nothing that a 1.5Mb/s DSL pipe can do to swamp it. Save the P4 for games and editing video, or running XP.
That 175 is IF he got the max for each count. Kinda like steet value for drugs. For a violation of 18 USC 1030 (which I'm guessing they are talking about here) on a first charge he'll get about 3-5 years with 54 days a year off for good time. He'll be in a Federal Prison Camp without fences and have to get up at 7:00 and work each day doing landscaping, plumbing or some other job to keep the place running. He won't get buggered in the ass unless he wants someone too. The food is ok and the smokes are cheap (no state tax.)
Not if you can make money both selling an insecure OS and an AV system.
QangMartoq: "What I cannot understand is why PC manufacturers do not use something like the above instead of "pay for updates" products. It would reduce their support calls dramatically, would it not?"
That's because the suits that put together the co-packaging deal aren't the suits that run tech support. Sales/Marketing vs Operations.
This sort of hyperbole is just infuriating. Yes, America is having a crisis in the technical fields, but blaming it on Bush is idiocy. Yeah, but it sure is fun!
And 2.4GHz is regulated. It's an amateur band.
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Around user number 1564.
The VIC-20 came with 4k of RAM and 16K of ROM.
Fsckin' kids.
Try telling that to US Bank. They don't listen. I have to enter a bogus account and pw, let it error and then it will give me a SSL page to login with. Bastards.
You too. irc.nethead.com pulled it's plug after a 400Mb/s DDOS. We had 1.5Gb/s of pipe but still it wasn't worth it to keep a bunch of ungrateful punks happy.
Damn Kids! Get off my lawn!
"I don't pay for copycat games."
but do you play them?
Ah, Grant's is from Yakima and kinda started the microbrew thing. I did work for the Mc M. brothers back in '82ish at the T&P in NW. I think they still call their stout Terminator.
So, will Monica get a sub?
Grant's Russian Imperial Stout, I assume?
Fr. Guido Sarducci replies: Son, you'll just hafta let it go. These bozos just won't get it anyway. Besides, it IS their network, they just pay you to play with it.
Don Novello Pipes up: Who are you wankers anyway?
"At the same time I get my Republican Party back from the New Aged GOP
that has started supporting Big Government, Business, and Big
Spending."
Aman Brother!
You might enjoy this editorial by Hubert Locke that was in the Seattle
P-I:
http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0325-26.htm
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A 44 year old Democrat that might have been a Republican by now if it
weren't for the Neo-Con gang.