and yet in the long-distance amateur radio contests we are finding that the use of Morse Code is quite clearly and consistently rising.
It's always been that way though. Nothing can or ever will be able to touch CW for noise tolerance, and hence range. FSK and stuff come close, and push more data, but nothing can beat CW. AM phone isn't even in the same league.
"Religion is the opiate of the masses" sound familiar? Of course if religion is morphine, TV is fentanyl.
I think the main problem with Americans being too complacent towards war is the fact that it's been too damn long since there was a war on US soil. Developed countries with a more recent war seem to give a damn about avoiding another one unless absolutely necessary.
Of course, you need software that uses the instructions as well.
That said, I've got one of the Via chips with hardware RNG on it, and once I loaded the module for it,/dev/random just spews data. It's an insane improvement over normal (software)/dev/random. I believe it has some other sorts of encryption friendly features, but I haven't played with it much, yet.
I was outside last night at 3AM, and... instead of being sort of greenish and dancing slowly, they were, very dim, pale white, and were almost like... strobes, pulsing, instead of a slow dance. Neat stuff:-)
So I kind of remember those, cause you can do the math in your head for them... and if it's somewhere in between I just extrapolate. So.. 25MPG should be between 9 and 13.5L/100km, say 11L/100km. Of course in real life it works out to (62/25)*4.5 = 11.16L/100km, but 11 is close enough for an off the head thing.
This is true, they're a lot more fuel efficient than the used to be. They still cost more to make, repair, and they break more often... so in terms of economic efficiency they still lag.
Considering that it's going to be $10+ for a disk, if they ever hit the shelves... you're still gonna be ahead of the game using mag disks. Optical is dead.
This. I can't stand the new style of music player/manager/things.
Audacious2 works fine on squeeze [64b], and I don't seem to remember having problems on Lenny? It's been a while though. I don't think I've had any problems with squeeze at all, come to think of it. Well - one of my laptops won't hibernate, but I haven't looked into that yet.
When gas prices pushed over $4 a gallon range last summer, hybrids were selling like hotcakes.
Which is stupid, because diesel cars are cheaper to produce and deliver equal if not greater efficiency. I could never understand the idea behind hybrids.
Qt was originally owned by a (Norwegian? IIRC) firm called trolltech, that had it dual licensed - proprietary & LGPL, If I'm not mistaken.
A couple years back, Nokia bought it out, and recently GPL'd it. (but a prop. lic. is still available for outfits that don't want to meet (L)GPL restrictions, and want to pay instead - support is available for prop. licensed versions too, iirc).
I haven't played with Qt too much, but I made a couple simple apps that worked great on win32 and linux, no headache. Didn't have an OSX box handy, but it's supposed to be equally painless.
KDE is entirely Qt, from what I remember, for an example of a big project. Qt is pretty neat, you should give it a shot sometime.
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Since spinning off Agilent and Avago. Always thought that those would be the divisions involved with something like this?
Figured since then all HP did was slap far east junk into cases. Does the server/etc portion still do a lot of RnD?
Nor on embedded stuff, if you want to get into that.
Learn something new every day I guess. I'll have to look into that.
I don't use Ubuntu, but i have ~5 Debian boxen, and 3 or 4 OpenBSD boxes... but I'm only one user. so... Yeah, not entirely sure what I'm getting at.
Yeah, other than assembly is implied ;-)
I do not want to write drivers in asm... ughhh.
Nah, nothing can touch C for use on bare metal, and drivers and other lowish level stuff... especially embedded systems.
And nothing more nightmarish than bad assembly.
watt for watt, CW still has the highest noise immunity, and therefore longest range, so it still has it's use.
I'd rather have someone hear "... --- ..." than not hear me over phone or RTTY.
Although I suppose it's somewhat akin to testing a programmer's assembly skills these days.
sto (i) devjatnadcat? (hundred [and] nineteen)
odin odin devjat? (one one nine)
and yet in the long-distance amateur radio contests we are finding that the use of Morse Code is quite clearly and consistently rising.
It's always been that way though. Nothing can or ever will be able to touch CW for noise tolerance, and hence range. FSK and stuff come close, and push more data, but nothing can beat CW. AM phone isn't even in the same league.
Nothing like a rig full of tubes cookin' away. Not to mention the stuff will still work post apocalypse.
Man I need to get an old mechanical TTY while I'm at it.
"Religion is the opiate of the masses" sound familiar? Of course if religion is morphine, TV is fentanyl.
I think the main problem with Americans being too complacent towards war is the fact that it's been too damn long since there was a war on US soil. Developed countries with a more recent war seem to give a damn about avoiding another one unless absolutely necessary.
Of course, you need software that uses the instructions as well.
That said, I've got one of the Via chips with hardware RNG on it, and once I loaded the module for it, /dev/random just spews data. It's an insane improvement over normal (software) /dev/random. I believe it has some other sorts of encryption friendly features, but I haven't played with it much, yet.
I was outside last night at 3AM, and... instead of being sort of greenish and dancing slowly, they were, very dim, pale white, and were almost like... strobes, pulsing, instead of a slow dance. Neat stuff :-)
(62/MPG)*4.54 = litres per 100km.
(assuming we're using the queen's gallon, yankee gallons use 3.79 instead of 4.5).
I use a simpler system for off the head conversion though.
62 miles is 100km. So the following is true:
62 MPG = 1gal/100km = 4.5L/100km
31 MPG = 2gal = 9L
20 MPG = 3gal = 13.5L
15 MPG = 4gal = 18L
So I kind of remember those, cause you can do the math in your head for them... and if it's somewhere in between I just extrapolate.
So.. 25MPG should be between 9 and 13.5L/100km, say 11L/100km. Of course in real life it works out to (62/25)*4.5 = 11.16L/100km, but 11 is close enough for an off the head thing.
simple right!? :-)
This is true, they're a lot more fuel efficient than the used to be. They still cost more to make, repair, and they break more often... so in terms of economic efficiency they still lag.
Considering that it's going to be $10+ for a disk, if they ever hit the shelves... you're still gonna be ahead of the game using mag disks. Optical is dead.
This. I can't stand the new style of music player/manager/things.
Audacious2 works fine on squeeze [64b], and I don't seem to remember having problems on Lenny? It's been a while though. I don't think I've had any problems with squeeze at all, come to think of it. Well - one of my laptops won't hibernate, but I haven't looked into that yet.
Old caddys also have a brake pedal that is damn near a foot wide, and a similar length space between the pedals.
Yeah, it's a shame really. I had a buddy with an Oldsmobile boat with the 350 diesel in it, boy was it ugly compared to a modern diesel engine.
There's a saying from the old country I like for these situations.
"An ugly girl blames the mirror".
More efficient, more reliable, more control. None of these can be said of typewriters over computers.
Well, typewriters are more power efficient, but not time efficient.
When gas prices pushed over $4 a gallon range last summer, hybrids were selling like hotcakes.
Which is stupid, because diesel cars are cheaper to produce and deliver equal if not greater efficiency. I could never understand the idea behind hybrids.
Ahh bugger. Trolltech had it under commercial & GPL. Nokia added an LGPL option. /need coffee.
Qt was originally owned by a (Norwegian? IIRC) firm called trolltech, that had it dual licensed - proprietary & LGPL, If I'm not mistaken.
A couple years back, Nokia bought it out, and recently GPL'd it. (but a prop. lic. is still available for outfits that don't want to meet (L)GPL restrictions, and want to pay instead - support is available for prop. licensed versions too, iirc).
I haven't played with Qt too much, but I made a couple simple apps that worked great on win32 and linux, no headache. Didn't have an OSX box handy, but it's supposed to be equally painless.
KDE is entirely Qt, from what I remember, for an example of a big project. Qt is pretty neat, you should give it a shot sometime.