Below is the schematic diagram (gps_jammer.ps) in an uuencoded gzipped
PostScript file. This is the native Xcircuit[12] format and is used for
ease of viewing, printing and modification.
How many FBI agents weaned on Windows will it take to get past the first hurdle: uuencoding?
Belden 7710A from Blue Jeans Cable, who will also custom make your desired length.
True, the longer the length, the higher the high frequency loss; luckily, analog component video at 1080i doesn't suffer noticeably (even more than 50 feet, if you can believe some AVS Forum members). Apparently, you can go quite a distance from your equipment closet to your high-def projector, plasma, CRT, or what-have-you.
I use the MyHD card and haven't looked back. Except at the TV, that is.
My MyHD is in a 1.8GHz P4 HTPC in an equipment closet connected with about 25 feet of Y/Pb/Pr cable to a Toshiba 34HF81 HDTV (1080i). One antenna input is from over-the-air broadcasts (Dallas area), the other from analog cable TV.
Record and playback is with an IDE-baed RAID array with a SCSI interface, currently less than 1TB of storage, but more planned.
DVDs that I've legally purchased get DeCSS'd and go onto the RAID array under a subdirectory named FairUse. Then the originals go into a box for safekeeping and I play just the personal, legal backup copies. (Take that, Jack V.).
MyHD plays back the DVDs, cable TV, and over-the-air HDTV (mainly PBS specials and Jennifer Garner in Alias:-) in stunning 1080i.
True, the driver's aren't entirely stable, but it works well enough for HDTV and SDTV timeshifting as well as DVD playback.
And I learned about all this stuff from AVS Forum. Ask there, and learn.
Maybe there should be one of those annoying yet ubiquitous "under construction" animated GIFs on Oqo's website?
Regardless, I'm glad to see that I'm not the only one waiting, perhaps in vain, for the Oqo. Like the author, I was more than ready to whip out any number of credit cards for one when it was first announced. If I were to get one now, it'd probably just be a remote control to my HTPC.
If you happen to be in the fortunate position of ISP, you can play at racketeering and generally get away with it: offer your subscribers' email addresses for a fee, then offer them spam blocking for a fee. Repeat until your customers are all gone.
Don't think that'll work? Your phone company is already doing it with telemarketers.
MS-DOS was just a boot loader. Windows 95 gave us preemptive multitasking. A message-passing microkernel got stable in Windows 2000. And soon we'll have a scripting language.
Let me guess what's next down the pike: a/proc filesystem, a serial console capability, runlevels, and a package manager with dependency feature.
Digital TV broadcasts happen in the same set of spectrum as analog TV broadcasts. Don't believe me? Tune your analog set to a local digital broadcast channel... see that noise? That's digital, baby.
Now tune your DTV set-top box to the same channel. Yes, it's using the exact same range of spectrum for that channel, but, ta-da!, 19+ megabits per second of pure digital entertainment (even if it is an up-convert of an old I Love Lucy).
OK, so I don't have a PVR. I have a VCR. It uses tape. I often fast-forward through commercials. Since I'm cruising along at, say, twice the speed, do I pay only half a cent per commercial skipped?
As you are probably aware, the fruits of the Broadcast Protection Discussion Group were brought before congresspeople. Rep. Tauzin and Sen. Hollings both urged the FCC to move forward on the broadcast flag mandate.
Since a broadcast flag is only effective if devices that receive it can act on it, legislation would be passed to outlaw devices that don't act on the flag or that allow their users to modify their behavior.
This would make GNU Radio illegal.
Since GNU Radio is obviously a good thing, what would you if such legislation came to pass?
In other words, you've got nothing but faith that some kind of test harness will shake out the bugs. Faith sucks. Far better to do code reviews or Cleanroom style development. Takes only a bit longer, and with far fewer bugs.
As Ron Grimes rhetorically asked in 1994, "If you don't believe it's correct before you start testing, what could possibly convince you?"
Beware the Alienware warranty: "If you have a defective or damaged component, we will send a technician to your location to replace it the next business day."
That doesn't mean that if your box dies on Monday that a guy will be out there to fix it Tuesday. It means that after all other options to diagnose the problem by phone have been exhausted, and after authorization's made to send a technician, and after the replacement part is shipped to the technician, and after the tech recieves the part, that then the tech will come the next business day to fix your computer.
Be sure to also check the Alienware Sucks page for more details, quick---before Alienware shuts it down.
At a previous job we ran a mix of Linux and NT4 boxen, with a mix of ATI and nVidia cards. While the Linux boxen never locked up, the NT4 ones would at least a couple times a week.
On the blue screen of death was the module stack. And always, always at the top of the list would be the offending culprit, atirage.dll.
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I can corroborate that. I worked at Microsoft in the early 90's, too, as a tech writer. Sure enough, there was troff for the users' manual for Microsoft C Compiler. Most of the other writers edited on their desktops and then uploaded to a Xenix box for formatting.
The only other use for Xenix was to check your email.
Actually, you are allowed to hoist a roof-top antenna, by law.
It's illegal for your home owners' association, apartment management, or whatever anal retentive body it is where you live to prohibit you from recieving over-the-air TV with a reasonable antenna. Don't believe me? Check out http://www.fcc.gov/csb/facts/otard.html
Yes, having a separate receiver is idiotic all right! I don't need one with my current TV after all.
Or do I?
Well, there is this box that the satellite dish plugs into. And there this other box that the cable company rents to me. These boxes... they're... receivers!
Maybe it's not all that unreasonable.
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A sound, solid server will certainly help with all sorts of stability problems I've experienced with X over the years.
... you meant sound as in audio? Oh, nevermind.
Oh wait
This is revolting.
Sounds about right. Anyone out there without complacency willing to revolt?
(What a straight-line.)
Lego encouraged the extensive reverse-engineering and third-party applications for their Mindstorms series of toy robots. Sony wasn't at all happy to see Linux on a PS2.
I hope iRobot follows Lego's lead when it comes to modding the Roomba.
As the great Homer Simpson would say, "It's funny because it's true."
Belden 7710A from Blue Jeans Cable, who will also custom make your desired length.
True, the longer the length, the higher the high frequency loss; luckily, analog component video at 1080i doesn't suffer noticeably (even more than 50 feet, if you can believe some AVS Forum members). Apparently, you can go quite a distance from your equipment closet to your high-def projector, plasma, CRT, or what-have-you.
I use the MyHD card and haven't looked back. Except at the TV, that is.
:-) in stunning 1080i.
My MyHD is in a 1.8GHz P4 HTPC in an equipment closet connected with about 25 feet of Y/Pb/Pr cable to a Toshiba 34HF81 HDTV (1080i). One antenna input is from over-the-air broadcasts (Dallas area), the other from analog cable TV.
Record and playback is with an IDE-baed RAID array with a SCSI interface, currently less than 1TB of storage, but more planned.
DVDs that I've legally purchased get DeCSS'd and go onto the RAID array under a subdirectory named FairUse. Then the originals go into a box for safekeeping and I play just the personal, legal backup copies. (Take that, Jack V.).
MyHD plays back the DVDs, cable TV, and over-the-air HDTV (mainly PBS specials and Jennifer Garner in Alias
True, the driver's aren't entirely stable, but it works well enough for HDTV and SDTV timeshifting as well as DVD playback.
And I learned about all this stuff from AVS Forum. Ask there, and learn.
Karma cops: I'm not trying to post a job lead; I've got plenty of employment, thank you.
Regardless, I'm glad to see that I'm not the only one waiting, perhaps in vain, for the Oqo. Like the author, I was more than ready to whip out any number of credit cards for one when it was first announced. If I were to get one now, it'd probably just be a remote control to my HTPC.
If you happen to be in the fortunate position of ISP, you can play at racketeering and generally get away with it: offer your subscribers' email addresses for a fee, then offer them spam blocking for a fee. Repeat until your customers are all gone.
Don't think that'll work? Your phone company is already doing it with telemarketers.
Where's the information he stole posted? Purely for scientific research, of course.
Let me guess what's next down the pike: a /proc filesystem, a serial console capability, runlevels, and a package manager with dependency feature.
Hmmmm...
I'm just glad the guy didn't send us over to goatse.
After all, in Soviet Russia, you don't read duplicate articles, articles duplicate you!
Believe it or not, snail mail garners a lot more attention. (What, you actually took the time to spell check and buy a stamp! You must be serious!)
Even better: certified mail!
Wrong.
Digital TV broadcasts happen in the same set of spectrum as analog TV broadcasts. Don't believe me? Tune your analog set to a local digital broadcast channel ... see that noise? That's digital, baby.
Now tune your DTV set-top box to the same channel. Yes, it's using the exact same range of spectrum for that channel, but, ta-da!, 19+ megabits per second of pure digital entertainment (even if it is an up-convert of an old I Love Lucy).
OK, so I don't have a PVR. I have a VCR. It uses tape. I often fast-forward through commercials. Since I'm cruising along at, say, twice the speed, do I pay only half a cent per commercial skipped?
As you are probably aware, the fruits of the Broadcast Protection Discussion Group were brought before congresspeople. Rep. Tauzin and Sen. Hollings both urged the FCC to move forward on the broadcast flag mandate.
Since a broadcast flag is only effective if devices that receive it can act on it, legislation would be passed to outlaw devices that don't act on the flag or that allow their users to modify their behavior.
This would make GNU Radio illegal.
Since GNU Radio is obviously a good thing, what would you if such legislation came to pass?
In other words, you've got nothing but faith that some kind of test harness will shake out the bugs. Faith sucks. Far better to do code reviews or Cleanroom style development. Takes only a bit longer, and with far fewer bugs.
As Ron Grimes rhetorically asked in 1994, "If you don't believe it's correct before you start testing, what could possibly convince you?"
Beware the Alienware warranty: "If you have a defective or damaged component, we will send a technician to your location to replace it the next business day."
That doesn't mean that if your box dies on Monday that a guy will be out there to fix it Tuesday. It means that after all other options to diagnose the problem by phone have been exhausted, and after authorization's made to send a technician, and after the replacement part is shipped to the technician, and after the tech recieves the part, that then the tech will come the next business day to fix your computer.
Be sure to also check the Alienware Sucks page for more details, quick---before Alienware shuts it down.
At a previous job we ran a mix of Linux and NT4 boxen, with a mix of ATI and nVidia cards. While the Linux boxen never locked up, the NT4 ones would at least a couple times a week.
.
On the blue screen of death was the module stack. And always, always at the top of the list would be the offending culprit, atirage.dll
Need I say more?
We have canceled your subscription due to the fact that your home town of Minot, North Dakota, is outside of our legal market area. We suggest you pursue a subscription to one of the following local alternatives:
- Minot Farm Gazetteer
- West Fargo Coupon Book
Thank you for being a subscriber,The New York Times.
I can corroborate that. I worked at Microsoft in the early 90's, too, as a tech writer. Sure enough, there was troff for the users' manual for Microsoft C Compiler. Most of the other writers edited on their desktops and then uploaded to a Xenix box for formatting.
The only other use for Xenix was to check your email.
Actually, you are allowed to hoist a roof-top antenna, by law. It's illegal for your home owners' association, apartment management, or whatever anal retentive body it is where you live to prohibit you from recieving over-the-air TV with a reasonable antenna. Don't believe me? Check out http://www.fcc.gov/csb/facts/otard.html
Yes, having a separate receiver is idiotic all right! I don't need one with my current TV after all. Or do I? Well, there is this box that the satellite dish plugs into. And there this other box that the cable company rents to me. These boxes ... they're ... receivers!
Maybe it's not all that unreasonable.