Anyone seen FC RPMS of Wine 0.9? The binary download page seems to have only the 20050524 release for the RH/Fedora distributions, though SUSE and Mandrake have the 0.9.
XForms is a standard from W3C, and is accepted by the accessibility people. There are some "AJAX" (no offence intended to Mr. Hixie) implementations of XForms, one being Form Faces, a GPL/Commercial dual-licensed library. Rather than investing a lot of effort to learn the ins and outs of Javascript and browser packages for these features, why not try a standard way of doing most of this stuff. Granted, it won't give you the seamless scrolling of terabyte bitmaps like Google Maps does, contributing effort to an AJAX implementation of XForms (and eventually the current Beta Mozilla implementation) will lead us closer to accessibility and declarative web programming, and will give the HTTP+XML benefits people are seeing from these hand-crafted AJAX applications.
Back in the old days, before Rod Brooks started iRobot, I worked part-time at a small MIT AI Lab spinoff making robots for kids called Turtles. The Turtle was an outcome of Logo, and, which itself was an outgrowth of Lisp, and so somehow the company's name got on a list of AI and Robotics vendors. (Sidenote: Lego Mindstorms also came from this same group of people at MIT and industry, though not this particular startup.)
Anyway, we got a letter from a defense contractor asking for "applications of our AI and robotics products to battlefield logistics" and gave a half-dozen or so areas for us to evaluate our products.
As you can imagine, puzzlement gave way to amusement, which quickly gave way to mayhem and by 3:05AM we had started writing our response, starting off with "The Turtle enjoys very low observability, due to a minimal radar cross-section and an almost non-existent infra-red signature."
The letter made the rounds on the photocopy/bulletin-board circuit (there was no electronic copy available outside), and somehow the response got published in an ACM journal. Through the magic of modern imaging, it is available for you to read today in PDF.
Now I can fix that annoying bug that Symbolics introduced when they changed Zwei to say "is not a defined key" instead of "undefined", so when I press Meta-Symbol-B it will say "Meta-Beta Undefined (doo-dah, doo-dah)" again.
According to the ARRL, two schools will get to talk to Greg Olsen (KC2ONX) via ham radio:
Onboard the Soyuz transporter will be Expedition 12 Commander Bill McArthur, KC5ACR, Flight Engineer Valery Tokarev and space tourist Greg Olsen, KC2ONX, of Princeton, New Jersey.... While in space, Olsen plans to conduct Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) school group QSOs with two schools in New Jersey and one in New York. Following joint crew operations, Expedition 11 Commander Sergei Krikalev, Flight Engineer John Phillips, KE5DRY, and Olsen are scheduled to return to Earth October 10 in the Soyuz vehicle now docked at the ISS.
>Has to do with the type of cancer, the way I understand it, though Im certainly not a doctor. I think the parent question for you is in what way you understand it, and it appears that you don't.
You can order stuff from lessemf.com. They have magnetic shielding material too. I bought some from them to shield an inductor that was sensitive to nearby magnetic fields, but it didn't really help. Now I'm on their mailing list, though, and they have a lot of stuff that sounds like it's right in your market.
What bothers me these days is front-loading washing machines. They have AC variable frequency motors and lots of unshielded computer control components in them, and due to a quirk in the FCC regulations that assumed appliances wouldn't have mostly motors and gears, they are exempt from many of the requirements for Part 15 compliance. My Whirlpool Duet plays havoc with MF, MF, and VHF. I'm going to sell it and get a top-loader with big gears and stuff inside.
>Luckily for non-hams, most hams are thoughtful enough to help their neighbors in an emergency and not just themselves. Keep this in mind when you go to your Homeowners Association or Condo meeting and they propose to ban all antennas.
One of my favorite early computer toys was the CARDIAC, the Bell Labs "Cardboard Aid to Computation," and I was hoping that this board game might re-create some of that excitement for today's kids. I liked the concept, but was a little dismayed by the attention to syntax. I'm more of the "Syntactic sugar leads to cancer of the semicolon" school of thought.
I worked on the Logo implementations for the Apple ][ at the MIT Logo lab, and at Terrapin did the Commodore 64 (and other ill-fated Commodore computers), Macintosh. (I also various implementations and translations for Japan, Spain, France, and Germany.)
It's nice to see they have a download for the windows version of ispell to make M-$ work. I wrote the original M-$ code in TECO for the PDP-10 in 1981, and it used ISPELL (ITS SPELL) for ITS, the PDP-10 OS, which itself came from some other TOPS-10 SPELL program. The Lisp EMACS implementation is wholly new, though, and I had nothing to do with writing it. (My M-X command for the buffer was m-x Check Buffer Spelling, which I think is less awkward than M-X spell-buffer).
The provisions look great if you're worried that your cable company is going to block MSN from you, but if you are have a free 802.11 AP in your cafe (or even your apartment?) it looks to me like you are now a BITS provider:
...a packet-switched service that is offered to the public, or to such classes of users as to be effectively available directly to the pub1lic, with or without a fee
Does that mean that the the cafe must
...provide subscribers with access to lawful
content, applications, and services provided over the Internet, and not to block, impair, or interfere with the offering of, access to, or the use of such content, applications, or services;
I guess that means no port filtering or web-only proxying, for one thing...
>new Tabs cannot be used to go back - well, that is annoying sometimes, but the drawback of showing the previous page is that you end up with disorganized behaviour. "Duplicate Tab allows you to clone a tab with its history and place the duplicate tab in a new window or in the current window. And it allows you to merge all tabs from different windows in one window. "
Not VLF, but HF is used for communcations by Trans-Pacific flights. Pretty much every night that I listen to NOPAC I hear flights across the Pacific calling to Alaska or other points, getting info about flight conditions and spacing for other planes. When the HF is out, the planes form a relay network using VHF from plane to plane to relay messages. If that fails, the planes are supposed to make right-angle turns and space themselves out north and south of the route, to keep them from running into each other. It's all spelled out in the above document.
In any case, these solar storms can take out the HF communcations for brief periods when they happen, and then again a few days later.
What's really going to cause problems, though, is BPL which sacrifices the globe-circling capability of the 3-30Mhz HF spectrum for a short term monetary gain for energy companies.
And when the sunspot cycle picks up again in 2007-2008, there's going to be terrific noise from these giant power-line antennas around the world bouncing all over the ionosphere, so expect your airplanes to be making more of those right-angle turns.
This is the live audio stream from the West Gulf ARES Emergency Net which is handling emergency amateur radio traffic for areas hit by Hurricane Katrina. The net is active 24 hours per day.
The US government making extensive use of terrestrial radio (not sat phones, not cell sites) to communicate in this disaster:
The US Government SHARES service reports that radio HF, VHF and UHF radio are the only means of communication available. "SHARES was used in numerous cases [August 29] to facilitate communication coordination for both federal and military agencies, and also rescue efforts for stranded civilian personnel," John Peterson said.
Peterson said SHARES, which is part of the National Communication System, will continue to be a major communication facility for federal government agencies and military units responding to the Katrina emergency, and "SHARES stations should be prepared for extended operations." He encouraged any and all reports from affected areas.
SHARES is continuing operation 24/7 on government communication frequencies of 14.3965 MHz days and 7.632 MHz nights throughout the disaster response.
For more info on amateur radio assistance (as opposed to government work) see ARRL.
I just heard that there are 200-250 students trapped in a dorm in New Orleans and the floodwaters are rising and they were asking by ham radio for help.
I've been listening to the hurricane net on 14.325Mhz and the SATERN net on 14.265 and could hear first-hand reports of wind and other conditions from hams in the affected area.
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Anyone seen FC RPMS of Wine 0.9? The binary download page seems to have only the 20050524 release for the RH/Fedora distributions, though SUSE and Mandrake have the 0.9.
- It takes some of the best from lots of other languages.
Syntactic sugar leads to cancer of the semicolon -- Al Perlis.
Given
Money = evil^(1/2)
Money = (evil^(1/2))^2
substituting Money=evil^(1/2)
Money = Money^2
yields the polynomial
Money^2 - Money = 0
which has two roots
I wrote an XSS filter based on TagSoup and SAX filters.
XForms is a standard from W3C, and is accepted by the accessibility people.
There are some "AJAX" (no offence intended to Mr. Hixie) implementations of XForms, one being Form Faces, a GPL/Commercial dual-licensed library. Rather than investing a lot of effort to learn the ins and outs of Javascript and browser packages for these features, why not try a standard way of doing most of this stuff. Granted, it won't give you the seamless scrolling of terabyte bitmaps like Google Maps does, contributing effort to an AJAX implementation of XForms (and eventually the current Beta Mozilla implementation) will lead us closer to accessibility and declarative web programming, and will give the HTTP+XML benefits people are seeing from these hand-crafted AJAX applications.
Back in the old days, before Rod Brooks started iRobot, I worked part-time at a small MIT AI Lab spinoff making robots for kids called Turtles. The Turtle was an outcome of Logo, and, which itself was an outgrowth of Lisp, and so somehow the company's name got on a list of AI and Robotics vendors. (Sidenote: Lego Mindstorms also came from this same group of people at MIT and industry, though not this particular startup.)
Anyway, we got a letter from a defense contractor asking for "applications of our AI and robotics products to battlefield logistics" and gave a half-dozen or so areas for us to evaluate our products.
As you can imagine, puzzlement gave way to amusement, which quickly gave way to mayhem and by 3:05AM we had started writing our response, starting off with "The Turtle enjoys very low observability, due to a minimal radar cross-section and an almost non-existent infra-red signature."
The letter made the rounds on the photocopy/bulletin-board circuit (there was no electronic copy available outside), and somehow the response got published in an ACM journal. Through the magic of modern imaging, it is available for you to read today in PDF.
Now I can fix that annoying bug that Symbolics introduced when they changed Zwei to say "is not a defined key" instead of "undefined", so when I press Meta-Symbol-B it will say "Meta-Beta Undefined (doo-dah, doo-dah)" again.
>Has to do with the type of cancer, the way I understand it, though Im certainly not a doctor.
I think the parent question for you is in what way you understand it, and it appears that you don't.
You can order stuff from lessemf.com. They have magnetic shielding material too.
I bought some from them to shield an inductor that was sensitive to nearby magnetic fields, but it didn't really help. Now I'm on their mailing list, though, and they have a lot of stuff that sounds like it's right in your market.
What bothers me these days is front-loading washing machines. They have AC variable frequency motors and lots of unshielded computer control components in them, and due to a quirk in the FCC regulations that assumed appliances wouldn't have mostly motors and gears, they are exempt from many of the requirements for Part 15 compliance. My Whirlpool Duet plays havoc with MF, MF, and VHF. I'm going to sell it and get a top-loader with big gears and stuff inside.
The test show that the Fortron has low ripple in addition to being fanless.
Is there anybody with one who can comment on RFI/EMC?
>Luckily for non-hams, most hams are thoughtful enough to help their neighbors in an emergency and not just themselves.
Keep this in mind when you go to your Homeowners Association or Condo meeting and they propose to ban all antennas.
One of my favorite early computer toys was the CARDIAC, the Bell Labs "Cardboard Aid to Computation," and I was hoping that this board game might re-create some of that excitement for today's kids. I liked the concept, but was a little dismayed by the attention to syntax. I'm more of the "Syntactic sugar leads to cancer of the semicolon" school of thought.
I worked on the Logo implementations for the Apple ][ at the MIT Logo lab, and at Terrapin did the Commodore 64 (and other ill-fated Commodore computers), Macintosh. (I also various implementations and translations for Japan, Spain, France, and Germany.)
It's nice to see they have a download for the windows version of ispell to make M-$ work. I wrote the original M-$ code in TECO for the PDP-10 in 1981, and it used ISPELL (ITS SPELL) for ITS, the PDP-10 OS, which itself came from some other TOPS-10 SPELL program. The Lisp EMACS implementation is wholly new, though, and I had nothing to do with writing it. (My M-X command for the buffer was m-x Check Buffer Spelling, which I think is less awkward than M-X spell-buffer).
Does that mean that the the cafe must
I guess that means no port filtering or web-only proxying, for one thing...
>new Tabs cannot be used to go back - well, that is annoying sometimes, but the drawback of showing the previous page is that you end up with disorganized behaviour.
"Duplicate Tab allows you to clone a tab with its history and place the duplicate tab in a new window or in the current window. And it allows you to merge all tabs from different windows in one window. "
Where is BFE, MS? Is it near Hot Coffee? Mars Hill? Bugue Chitto? Bude? Eupora?
Not VLF, but HF is used for communcations by Trans-Pacific flights.
Pretty much every night that I listen to NOPAC I hear flights across the Pacific calling to Alaska or other points, getting info about flight conditions and spacing for other planes. When the HF is out, the planes form a relay network using VHF from plane to plane to relay messages. If that fails, the planes are supposed to make right-angle turns and space themselves out north and south of the route, to keep them from running into each other. It's all spelled out in the above document.
In any case, these solar storms can take out the HF communcations for brief periods when they happen, and then again a few days later.
What's really going to cause problems, though, is BPL which sacrifices the globe-circling capability of the 3-30Mhz HF spectrum for a short term monetary gain for energy companies.
And when the sunspot cycle picks up again in 2007-2008, there's going to be terrific noise from these giant power-line antennas around the world bouncing all over the ionosphere, so expect your airplanes to be making more of those right-angle turns.
This is the live audio stream from the West Gulf ARES Emergency Net which is handling emergency amateur radio traffic for areas hit by Hurricane Katrina. The net is active 24 hours per day.
For more info on amateur radio assistance (as opposed to government work) see ARRL.
> For that matter, is there anything that can read VisiCalc files?
Try this.
{
addTabs();
removeSpyware();
registerSearchBar();
}
I just heard that there are 200-250 students trapped in a dorm in New Orleans and the floodwaters are rising and they were asking by ham radio for help.
I've been listening to the hurricane net on 14.325Mhz and the SATERN net on 14.265 and could hear first-hand reports of wind and other conditions from hams in the affected area.