Veddy nice touch to the p2p world.. I never thought of that, so keep that in a pocket somewhere and lets see if you can whip one up..
I use the windoze's HOSTS file and alot of patience when it comes to compiling adsites.. The majority on the list I have to give credit to the group kazaalite.nl for forging the basic foundation of the list, which initially came to me about 12K in size.
So much for moneymaking, just keeping these idiots from bugging me with their ads and making my dialup run smoothly and as quick as possible is my goal... Benefitting everybody else with the HOSTS file, is strictly secondary, for it is up to them if they wish to use it. As for the adservers, some can be hotwired to allow the cookie cycling by allowing them to run and safely ignore the ads that it posts, its the originating adservers that are being so pushy that get a permanent place on my list..
You got that right in a nutshell... These adsites are effectively spamming your system by pushing their ads onto you with no intention of stopping or toning down their methods or ads.
If an am breaking some rule by saying no to the adsites, then i'm guilty for reason of self-defense.
A thought just struck me: Under the current regulations regaring spam, gator and company are borderline infringing upon violating those statutes. Someone backcheck that for me and lets see if i'm right or wrong..
This will fix their wagon quite thoroughly, until they switch their domain addresses, then reopen your hosts file and repeat.. I've got a little hosts file (only 22K) that pretty much takes care of all of the jokers that push ads upon you by replacing their ads with a quaint DNS error.
There is a gadget that would go into the WiPOP called a BCU (Bandwidth Control Unit). The unit is designed so where it can control bandwidth by MAC address, IP address, as well as Global throttling of the bandwidth overall.
The kicker of it is the cost.. 2,500 bucks for the little unit and a little time to set it up, but from the testimony coming in, sounds like a winner to me...
and reeks of shotgun tactics with cease and desist letters.
I'd say ignore their asses, repost the manuals and let them deal with it in a more personal manner. This smells like what happened with that one university that got lettered by the MPAA for hitting on their movie script archive.
Besides, If i ever got my mitts on a rare cabinet of Gorf, or a Atari Hercules pinball i'd like to have a source for a shop manual when the need arises.
Mod upon a Mod.. Use thinwall tubing for his radiator, then he can trim at least 5 or even 6 feet off of the monster.. He used standard thickwalled tubing and that certainly didnt help matters any when it comes to heat transfer.
One of the problems when you work with thinwalled tubing is that it kinks easier than a cheap hooker and you can burn a hole in it faster and smoother than a politican's lie.
Trust me on this one, for i've had to replace a molded in condenser on a little fridge with a handmade one, and i was burning holes in that stuff right and left until I turned down the torch to where it was barely ticking over...
Erf, you had to break my bubble.... Maybe a little work with the edges of the LCD module, feathering perhaps.. Computer smoothing, and a AI that handles the variances from projector to projector by taking visual samples of a test image up on the screen, as well as continiously monitoring and fine-tuning the image as the movie progresses on a per-projector basis, then with a master CCD camera that takes overall samples of the image then compares it with what the image is supposed to look like...
More work for SUN's systems i suppose... it'll take some serious processing power to operate the gear, but it will pay for itself in the quality that it will dish out for the masses that flock to these theaters, expecting the best and experiencing it!
Ugh, that whitepaper that you referenced to gave me a headache, but it does dish out some of the issues that need to be ironed out. I suppose that the full LCD wont be used in generating the image on the screen, but about the last millimeter along the edges, and then start intermeshing with the other images that the adjoining LCD is generating. I feel that it will take a combination of ingenious fabrication of the LCD panels and some impressive AI work to create the desired results.
The projection system that does all the work is costly and as indicated in several postings on here, has their limitations and disadvantages in both pre- and post-processing of the film.
The projector itself can be replaced by several digital LCD projectors operated by a stagemaster system designed to keep the individual units in sync, showing digital quality movies that were either converted from the standard format, letterbox, or IMAX/Omnimax format to a DVD or similiar format that would go thru a electronic lens program designed to "shape" the projection for maximum effect and quality for the curved screen.
The added onus to this is the ability to hold massive teleconferences with several different locations, or showing events from several different areas at once.
The advantages of this setup is next to no upkeep at all by a trained operator, aside from a system admin that is really there just to keep the system in tune or to replace any parts on the projectors that fail, most often it would be the bulbs.
Just my 2 cents worth.. Oh, and if anyone from the IMAX consortium is reading this, contact me.
You gotta consider that the U2/TR1 is a old bird and requires alot of TLC to get it up that high.
As I recall when the U2 was on the boards, they had to practially reinvent the wheel just to keep it from bursting at their mission altitude. Rutan simply capitalized on the work that Lockheed's Skunk Works team did and took it a step higher and further, with fewer nuts to take care of the bird..
Of course, you gotta remember, the U2 IS a government aircraft so there is some beraucracy behind it..
If it was still Lockheed's bird they would have had 10 men, doing each others work and knowing dammed full well what was happening at each moment in the preflight process. Not to mention one or two of their engineers working alongside them.
The U2 is a very specialized aircraft, with alot of components that you would not see on a regular bird these days.
And one of those is when Scaled Composites gets awfully quiet in the public eye, you KNOW that they are up to no good...
When I heard that Dick Rutan took up that modded Long-EZ packin' a rocket engine, I knew that they were gunning after the X-Prize..
I like the Rutans for they think outside the box.
This design is VERY unconventional, but is very Rutan and we know that his designs (The EZ series, the globe-trotting VOYAGER, Their tank-busting gunship with the offset engine, need i go on?) are very solid and well-designed for their purpose..
Right right and right... BUT what i'm referring to is new oil, straight from the store not any old crap that comes out of a blown transformer or is laying around, that would be writing your death warrant, not to mention others..
Thats a scary thought, especially if there is any cold or bad soldering connections... A even worse thought is that the oil seeps into the capacitors *shudders* and screws the whole works...
A thought just struck me, why not spray the board with a laquer sealant, a process used when one sets up a watercooling rig to prevent any problems when either a leak or condensation occurs.
Or a simple silicon sealer will do the trick as well..
They are using the wrong type of oil for their project! For starts the oil is organic and will spoil, making things messy. Veggie oil is, in the family of fluidic heat conductors, a poor performer.
What they can use and is readily available at any store that sells Amateur radio gear or wholesale electrical supplies is transformer oil.. It's actually designed to be used in what the RF techs call dummy loads to conduct the heat away from the resistor banks that absorb the RF energy when they test transmitters. The stuff's most commonly used to wick away heat from electrial transformers, both at substations and the transformers hanging on the poles that supply 240 Volt AC to your home.
One COULD try to build a oil-cooling system on a custom PC, but the heat removal would not be as good as glycol/alchohol/water cooled system.
This finding might inspire NASA to move up their next generation of deep space telescopes and infereometers, like the OWL project that uses adaptive optics in a array that spans 300 square meters. Of course, we do need to get improved reuseable launching systems in place first...
is NOT the way to go, especially the way these telcos are treating each other, PLUS the people that they serve...
What needs to happen is any regulation barring Co-Ops be ripped out out of the state laws, allowing for local communities that are sick and tired of being dragged around by some jerk monopoly (yes you heard me right) that resides in a 40 story glass and steel building that was built by their blood money.
Talk with your state reps and congresscritters and urge them to rescend the laws barring co-ops, like the ones that they have here in Texas.
Lets give them a BIG taste of their own medicine folks... SuckWesternBell ain't the only game in town that can provide the service, just make dammed sure that they dont stifle competition, or the ability to kick their collective butt out of your city limits when you want to go Co-Op or a completely different service.
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That Cold Fusion was a farce.. It would have given up the cheap energy and the keys to greater things.
One good reason why we don't have cheap energy can be put into one culprit:
Enron
Enuf said..
*applauds your efforts* Well done! Go ahead and get that code cleaned up and lets get it loaded into our arsenal of adblocking utilities!
Veddy nice touch to the p2p world.. I never thought of that, so keep that in a pocket somewhere and lets see if you can whip one up..
I use the windoze's HOSTS file and alot of patience when it comes to compiling adsites.. The majority on the list I have to give credit to the group kazaalite.nl for forging the basic foundation of the list, which initially came to me about 12K in size.
So much for moneymaking, just keeping these idiots from bugging me with their ads and making my dialup run smoothly and as quick as possible is my goal... Benefitting everybody else with the HOSTS file, is strictly secondary, for it is up to them if they wish to use it.
As for the adservers, some can be hotwired to allow the cookie cycling by allowing them to run and safely ignore the ads that it posts, its the originating adservers that are being so pushy that get a permanent place on my list..
You got that right in a nutshell... These adsites are effectively spamming your system by pushing their ads onto you with no intention of stopping or toning down their methods or ads.
If an am breaking some rule by saying no to the adsites, then i'm guilty for reason of self-defense.
A thought just struck me: Under the current regulations regaring spam, gator and company are borderline infringing upon violating those statutes. Someone backcheck that for me and lets see if i'm right or wrong..
Lack of ads means lack of business.
To a adsite this means no spamming for their ads.
To the business using that blocked adsite, it means loss of sales from lack of advertising.
When it comes to shove on Push in the popup wars, i'd rather use blocking. Both at the client level as well as ISP level at the routers.
Then they will have to deal with ISPs that block client side DNS servers, plus the angry customers that got gators software that are affected by it.
All of us (I think that Linux users have this too) open their hosts file and add this to it:
127.0.0.1 www.gator.co.uk
127.0.0.1 www.gator.com
127.0.0.1 www.gator.net
127.0.0.1 webdp.gator.com
127.0.0.1 whenu.com
127.0.01 gator.com
This will fix their wagon quite thoroughly, until they switch their domain addresses, then reopen your hosts file and repeat..
I've got a little hosts file (only 22K) that pretty much takes care of all of the jokers that push ads upon you by replacing their ads with a quaint DNS error.
Let me know if you want a copy of the file.
There is a gadget that would go into the WiPOP called a BCU (Bandwidth Control Unit). The unit is designed so where it can control bandwidth by MAC address, IP address, as well as Global throttling of the bandwidth overall.
The kicker of it is the cost.. 2,500 bucks for the little unit and a little time to set it up, but from the testimony coming in, sounds like a winner to me...
http://www.ydi.com/products/bcu.php
and reeks of shotgun tactics with cease and desist letters.
I'd say ignore their asses, repost the manuals and let them deal with it in a more personal manner. This smells like what happened with that one university that got lettered by the MPAA for hitting on their movie script archive.
Besides, If i ever got my mitts on a rare cabinet of Gorf, or a Atari Hercules pinball i'd like to have a source for a shop manual when the need arises.
Mod upon a Mod.. Use thinwall tubing for his radiator, then he can trim at least 5 or even 6 feet off of the monster.. He used standard thickwalled tubing and that certainly didnt help matters any when it comes to heat transfer.
One of the problems when you work with thinwalled tubing is that it kinks easier than a cheap hooker and you can burn a hole in it faster and smoother than a politican's lie.
Trust me on this one, for i've had to replace a molded in condenser on a little fridge with a handmade one, and i was burning holes in that stuff right and left until I turned down the torch to where it was barely ticking over...
Use the FCC antenna Registration system that they have in place.... ANY antenna over a certain height MUST be registered with the FCC.
http://wireless.fcc.gov/antenna/
Well, maybe not a sledgehammer, but perhaps a 16 ounce framing hammer. But, in the end, he got a idiot telemerketer to cough up his due.
That's what counts, don't it?
Let's end this thread and get on with bigger fish, like RIAA and their stunting that they are trying to implement here shortly.
Erf, you had to break my bubble.... Maybe a little work with the edges of the LCD module, feathering perhaps.. Computer smoothing, and a AI that handles the variances from projector to projector by taking visual samples of a test image up on the screen, as well as continiously monitoring and fine-tuning the image as the movie progresses on a per-projector basis, then with a master CCD camera that takes overall samples of the image then compares it with what the image is supposed to look like...
More work for SUN's systems i suppose... it'll take some serious processing power to operate the gear, but it will pay for itself in the quality that it will dish out for the masses that flock to these theaters, expecting the best and experiencing it!
Ugh, that whitepaper that you referenced to gave me a headache, but it does dish out some of the issues that need to be ironed out.
I suppose that the full LCD wont be used in generating the image on the screen, but about the last millimeter along the edges, and then start intermeshing with the other images that the adjoining LCD is generating. I feel that it will take a combination of ingenious fabrication of the LCD panels and some impressive AI work to create the desired results.
but they just don't know it yet.
The projection system that does all the work is costly and as indicated in several postings on here, has their limitations and disadvantages in both pre- and post-processing of the film.
The projector itself can be replaced by several digital LCD projectors operated by a stagemaster system designed to keep the individual units in sync, showing digital quality movies that were either converted from the standard format, letterbox, or IMAX/Omnimax format to a DVD or similiar format that would go thru a electronic lens program designed to "shape" the projection for maximum effect and quality for the curved screen.
The added onus to this is the ability to hold massive teleconferences with several different locations, or showing events from several different areas at once.
The advantages of this setup is next to no upkeep at all by a trained operator, aside from a system admin that is really there just to keep the system in tune or to replace any parts on the projectors that fail, most often it would be the bulbs.
Just my 2 cents worth..
Oh, and if anyone from the IMAX consortium is reading this, contact me.
You gotta consider that the U2/TR1 is a old bird and requires alot of TLC to get it up that high.
As I recall when the U2 was on the boards, they had to practially reinvent the wheel just to keep it from bursting at their mission altitude.
Rutan simply capitalized on the work that Lockheed's Skunk Works team did and took it a step higher and further, with fewer nuts to take care of the bird..
Of course, you gotta remember, the U2 IS a government aircraft so there is some beraucracy behind it..
If it was still Lockheed's bird they would have had 10 men, doing each others work and knowing dammed full well what was happening at each moment in the preflight process. Not to mention one or two of their engineers working alongside them.
The U2 is a very specialized aircraft, with alot of components that you would not see on a regular bird these days.
And one of those is when Scaled Composites gets awfully quiet in the public eye, you KNOW that they are up to no good...
When I heard that Dick Rutan took up that modded
Long-EZ packin' a rocket engine, I knew that they were gunning after the X-Prize..
I like the Rutans for they think outside the box.
This design is VERY unconventional, but is very Rutan and we know that his designs (The EZ series, the globe-trotting VOYAGER, Their tank-busting gunship with the offset engine, need i go on?) are very solid and well-designed for their purpose..
And they get the job done.
FYI, for those that are wondering where to get this wonderfluid at..
i d= MFJ-21
Try here
http://www.mfjenterprises.com/products.php?prod
They sell it by the gallon and its pricey, but its the real mccoy.
Right right and right... BUT what i'm referring to is new oil, straight from the store not any old crap that comes out of a blown transformer or is laying around, that would be writing your death warrant, not to mention others..
Thats a scary thought, especially if there is any cold or bad soldering connections... A even worse thought is that the oil seeps into the capacitors *shudders* and screws the whole works...
A thought just struck me, why not spray the board with a laquer sealant, a process used when one sets up a watercooling rig to prevent any problems when either a leak or condensation
occurs.
Or a simple silicon sealer will do the trick as well..
They are using the wrong type of oil for their project! For starts the oil is organic and will spoil, making things messy. Veggie oil is, in the family of fluidic heat conductors, a poor performer.
What they can use and is readily available at any store that sells Amateur radio gear or wholesale electrical supplies is transformer oil..
It's actually designed to be used in what the RF techs call dummy loads to conduct the heat away from the resistor banks that absorb the RF energy when they test transmitters. The stuff's most commonly used to wick away heat from electrial transformers, both at substations and the transformers hanging on the poles that supply 240 Volt AC to your home.
One COULD try to build a oil-cooling system on a custom PC, but the heat removal would not be as good as glycol/alchohol/water cooled system.
This finding might inspire NASA to move up their next generation of deep space telescopes and infereometers, like the OWL project that uses adaptive optics in a array that spans 300 square meters.
Of course, we do need to get improved reuseable launching systems in place first...
When Microsoft's Terraserver was the talk of the town with its massive map database and accessibility..
In which this would quality this comet for a lander mission to collect core samples and do a geological assay as to how dense it is..
is NOT the way to go, especially the way these telcos are treating each other, PLUS the people that they serve...
What needs to happen is any regulation barring Co-Ops be ripped out out of the state laws, allowing for local communities that are sick and tired of being dragged around by some jerk monopoly (yes you heard me right) that resides in a 40 story glass and steel building that was built by their blood money.
Talk with your state reps and congresscritters and urge them to rescend the laws barring co-ops, like the ones that they have here in Texas.
Lets give them a BIG taste of their own medicine folks... SuckWesternBell ain't the only game in town that can provide the service, just make dammed sure that they dont stifle competition, or the ability to kick their collective butt out of your city limits when you want to go Co-Op or a completely different service.
That some of the know-nothing managers will forward these boilerplate memos onto their charges without any changes??
ALSO, how many managers will take their threats for real?