We have folks showing up almost every weekend to our (rather remote) testing sessions serving the mountain communities of SW San Bernardino County. We're not exactly in what you'd consider a highly populated location, either.
Rather than quit, why not keep up the fight to change these behaviors? If hams continue to quit and abandon the (necessary) role of self-policing, we'll end up with nothing left to fight for as our spectrum gets auctioned off to the highest bidders.
I know that through my efforts I've directed a few "pirates" toward getting licensed and actually having a little bit of appreciation for exactly what the service (and hobby) entails.
Don't give up on ham radio! I listened to a conversation on the local repeater just last week where a motorcycle rider (on a dirt road 5 mi from the nearest highway) was side-swiped by a jeep and left with a broken shoulder. The jeep took off and left him there immobile. No cellular reception in the area. Luckily the rider had his HT and was able to get into the local repeater where another ham coordinated with emergency services to get him out. Not more than a few weeks ago, a group of 4x4s got stuck on a trail w/ heavy snow up near Tahoe and were "rescued" thanks to local hams coordinating a rescue (once again, no cell or CB reception) after being engaged by a family of one of the members of the 4x4 group almost half a state away.
While these are relatively uncommon experiences, they do happen and every time I read or hear of one of these situations it refreshes my dedication to "cleaning up" the bands and guiding some of the non-ideal ops in the right direction.
Thats why I think the PS2 can never catch on as a computer replacement. People think to do computer tasks you have to have the newest, fastest, fanciest computer there is. They will always perceive the PS2 (or any other Web Applicance or productivity appliance) as "limited" and so will go get a "real computer".
From my experience, people who are very computer illiterate and want only to check their email and/or browse porn DON'T want a big complicated computer (read: standard PC), for fear that they may move an icon out of sight, or accidentally delete an important file. These fears could be somewhat alleviated with the PS2. For instance, the UI could load from the CD/DVD and run in a read-only state to prevent accidental deletions of icons, files, etc. All saved emails, web pages, documents, etc. could be stored on the hard drive or a mem card and require special steps to delete (ie: can't delete files without viewing them first).
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Obviously he doesn't get it! I like the reference in the article to "recent security problems with Linux" -- hello, 2 versions of RedHat, not Linux! And that's what, one bug in one distro that made it in the news? How about Melissa, and the LoveBug, and the countless others that affected Windows and actually did damage? So just one virus on Linux means it's "going down"? Give me a break...
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> Even your stats indicate that MORE than half of your viewers use Internet Explorer!
Because we're at work all day waiting for some other MS box to reboot so we can do our work!
I saw a current Infomagic set the other day at Fry's... Looks a lot different - no ELFOS on the cover, different layout, etc. The contents were basically the same type of stuff that was on those older ones - a few distros, archives, etc. I remember that the Infomagic set was the first place I got Linux back in '95.
I didn't manage to install something working with X under 900Meg.
HOLY CRAP! Are you claiming 800 MB for X? Quit smoking crack!! The reason the install was so big was because of all of the applications that were being installed along with Linux and X. Windows doesn't include crap except Solitaire and Calculator. Most distros of linux include almost everything you'll ever need.
Hey.... This thing is almost exactly like the WebSurfer Pro. Same hardware (manufacturer!) and it looks like the only differnce is that it probably has the onboard NIC installed and the DiskOnChip has a linux image instead of QNX. I want that image!!!
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Definitely not dying.
We have folks showing up almost every weekend to our (rather remote) testing sessions serving the mountain communities of SW San Bernardino County. We're not exactly in what you'd consider a highly populated location, either.
LOTS of interest out there.
Rather than quit, why not keep up the fight to change these behaviors? If hams continue to quit and abandon the (necessary) role of self-policing, we'll end up with nothing left to fight for as our spectrum gets auctioned off to the highest bidders.
I know that through my efforts I've directed a few "pirates" toward getting licensed and actually having a little bit of appreciation for exactly what the service (and hobby) entails.
Don't give up on ham radio! I listened to a conversation on the local repeater just last week where a motorcycle rider (on a dirt road 5 mi from the nearest highway) was side-swiped by a jeep and left with a broken shoulder. The jeep took off and left him there immobile. No cellular reception in the area. Luckily the rider had his HT and was able to get into the local repeater where another ham coordinated with emergency services to get him out. Not more than a few weeks ago, a group of 4x4s got stuck on a trail w/ heavy snow up near Tahoe and were "rescued" thanks to local hams coordinating a rescue (once again, no cell or CB reception) after being engaged by a family of one of the members of the 4x4 group almost half a state away.
While these are relatively uncommon experiences, they do happen and every time I read or hear of one of these situations it refreshes my dedication to "cleaning up" the bands and guiding some of the non-ideal ops in the right direction.
Rob
Nope. He means Links.
Thats why I think the PS2 can never catch on as a computer replacement. People think to do computer tasks you have to have the newest, fastest, fanciest computer there is. They will always perceive the PS2 (or any other Web Applicance or productivity appliance) as "limited" and so will go get a "real computer".
From my experience, people who are very computer illiterate and want only to check their email and/or browse porn DON'T want a big complicated computer (read: standard PC), for fear that they may move an icon out of sight, or accidentally delete an important file. These fears could be somewhat alleviated with the PS2. For instance, the UI could load from the CD/DVD and run in a read-only state to prevent accidental deletions of icons, files, etc. All saved emails, web pages, documents, etc. could be stored on the hard drive or a mem card and require special steps to delete (ie: can't delete files without viewing them first).
Obviously he doesn't get it! I like the reference in the article to "recent security problems with Linux" -- hello, 2 versions of RedHat, not Linux! And that's what, one bug in one distro that made it in the news? How about Melissa, and the LoveBug, and the countless others that affected Windows and actually did damage? So just one virus on Linux means it's "going down"? Give me a break...
> Even your stats indicate that MORE than half of your viewers use Internet Explorer! Because we're at work all day waiting for some other MS box to reboot so we can do our work!
I saw a current Infomagic set the other day at Fry's... Looks a lot different - no ELFOS on the cover, different layout, etc. The contents were basically the same type of stuff that was on those older ones - a few distros, archives, etc. I remember that the Infomagic set was the first place I got Linux back in '95.
Can we all please stop suing an countersuing each other for trivial crap? All this litigation is getting RIDICULOUS!!!
I didn't manage to install something working with X under 900Meg.
HOLY CRAP! Are you claiming 800 MB for X? Quit smoking crack!! The reason the install was so big was because of all of the applications that were being installed along with Linux and X. Windows doesn't include crap except Solitaire and Calculator. Most distros of linux include almost everything you'll ever need.
HELLO? What am I missing here? Aren't all these pictures and info on Apple's site right now? Seems like it's been released to me...
Hey.... This thing is almost exactly like the WebSurfer Pro. Same hardware (manufacturer!) and it looks like the only differnce is that it probably has the onboard NIC installed and the DiskOnChip has a linux image instead of QNX. I want that image!!!
Try Suburban Noize. All their bands are pretty bad ass, except some are beginning to be distributed through Capitol. The older stuff isn't though.
What about the AMEX Blue card? Shouldn't the smart card reader solve this problem if the site supports it?