I presently have a wireless link spanning five and a half miles between two sites. We've got pretty good line-of-site, with only the tops of a few trees, and two highway overpasses sticking up into the fresnel zone, but it works mostly well 99% of the time except when the weather is really bad. At one end, there is a Linksys WET11 connected to a 24 dBi parabolic grid antenna on a 30' pole. The other end has a 12dBi omni antenna on a short pole above a rooftop connected to an old WAP11 access point.
Visit Fleeman Anderson and Bird's website for some good deals on wireless networking antennas, cables, etc. If you put your wireless radio device in a weatherproof box up on the antenna so that you can keep the jumper coax as short as possible, you'll be able to cover long distances with better signal strength and quality. Just run your power up the unused ethernet strands. Only use 4 strands of the ethernet for 10BaseT operation.
Someone please tell me WHY someone can face jail time for pointing up at the sky ?
Can you see why someone should face jail time for standing on an overpass over a busy freeway and dropping buckets of paint onto the windshields of cars passing by underneath?
Thanks in part to the stories being pushed lately in the media, lots of "monkey-see monkey-do" copycats are now deliberately shining lasers into the windshields of airplanes just for kicks.
At night planes have much more than just "little white lights" too. There's a red one on the left wingtip, a green one on the right wingtip, a steady white one on the tail, and also at least one or more flashing stobes that can be either red or white depending on the make, model and vintage of the aircraft. They're practically lit up like Christmas trees and very easy to discern against the stars, especially when you live far enough away from city lights to actually see stars nowadays.
At last count I own 6 pistols, 1 shotgun and 5 rifles.
Dude, if you own that many guns and do a lot of practice shooting, then you really should buy some reloading equipment and load your own ammo. I didn't believe it was all that much cheaper until I bought some RCBS reloading equipment and started doing it myself either, and in just two years' time, I have saved enough money over store-bought ammo to have paid for my reloading gear. Another big benefit is that I can load my ammo as hot or light as I want, and control the weight of the bullet and powder charge very precicely with a digital scale that I get ultra-consistant results just like using expensive match-grade ammo but at a fraction of the cost.
I buy a lot of my stuff from Midway and am very satisfied with their prices and service. Another reloading place with a good reputation is F & M Reloading but I've never shopped with them yet, so YMMV.
My favorite time to reload is whenever we have crummy weather all weekend long and there's nothing else to do except staring at the TV of playing video games. Reloading can be tedious work, but yet it is rewarding knowing that you're saving money and making yourself a fine crafted product by hand that's superior to what your buddies buy off-the-shelf.
They had a device like this in the old television show "Emergency". They talked into this little thing and a doctor's voice came out of it and gave them advice on what to do.
Uhhh, that "little thing" they talked into is called a two-way radio. Duh.
...is the management of software companies who ceased using real computer scientists to design and write their apps because disposable code monkeys work for so much cheaper. And outsourcing is even cheaper... in the short term (which seems to be all that matters in this industry anymore)
Every real geek has owned a dual proc. Intel machine.
Only problem is that my dual processor Intel machine is a dual slot-1 P3 450MHz box... built back when this machine was state of the art. But the processor speeds skyrocketed so rapidly that this machine became utterly worthless, virtually overnight. It still runs fine, and runs Linux pretty well, but still rather slowly by today's standards. The motherboard won't support any better processors without using PowerLeap adapters, and the cost of a pair of PowerLeaps with 1.4GHz Tualatin P3 cpu's just isn't worthwhile. The money would be better spent towards something else.
Have a look at BakBone's NetVault backup software. We're in the process of ditching Veritas for BakBone right now... even before we ever learned about this merger... because ever since version 9.x came out and we installed the upgrade, Veritas's Backup Exec hasn't worked reliably for us and the quality of tech support seems to have gone down the toilet too. We're fed up with both the product and the company and have coughed up the extra money to buy a more "enterprise" class of software. Veritas Backup Exec is a lot cheaper, and used to be a reasonably good product for us back in version 8.6, but that version is not supported on W2K3 servers.
The Fleming diode might have been the first electron tube (valve) but it was Lee De Forest who put in a control grid between the filament cathode and the anode plate and created a device that could amplify voltage, which made the whole world of useful electronics circuitry all possible. The 100th anniversity of De Forest's "Audion" triode is not until 2007.
As a musician myself, I have to agree that tube amps have their own unique "tone" and haven't ever been perfectly reproduced yet by solid state gear.
Tubes are natively voltage amplifiers, bipolar (NPN and PNP) transistors are natively current amplifiers. Sure you can make circuitry to create either a voltage amplifier or a current amplifier as a system around either device, but that still doesn't change the native way in which each device performs internally. When overloaded, a tube naturally produces mostly even-order harmonics. A bipolar transistor will naturally produce both even and odd-order harmonics, but mostly odd-order... which sound very harsh.
Tube amps natively have *very* high slewing rates too, much higher than most transistor amps, except for some very recent, exotic transistor amp designs which use some very special transistors, which are finally beginning to approach the slewing rates that simple tube amps have achieved forever. This is probably the single reason why tube amps sound so much more "crisp and clear" than transistor amps have historically been able to achieve.
Excellent, sturdy-built printer. Probably one of the best medium-size laser printers that HP ever built. I have one that I found outside sitting next to a garbage dumpster full of old 486 and 1st generation pentium pc's. That's right, I got it for free. Took it home and found all the rubber rollers were nasty and the unit was filled with paper dust and assorted debris. It had never been maintained or serviced since new. I disassembled the unit, vacuumed out all the dust and crap, and carefully cleaned every moving part with isopropyl alcohol, bought a refurbished toner cartridge from OfficeMax for $50 and have had about four years of trouble-free printing at a total investment of some labor and less than the cost of two average inkjet cartridges.
When the Itanium came out and was given that goofy name, I always thought it would be the 'Edsel' of processors... and indeed it sure enough is turning out that way.
The 'dead' programs represent a chunk of those coder's lives and a fitting sendoff provides closure for the 'parents' of that code.
I once worked for a lawfirm software company and wrote a billing system interface for Lexis-Nexis search chargebacks. The Lexis-Nexis programmers I worked with on this project were seriously passionate about their product... they "lived the code"... it was like a way of life to them. Much like the people I worked with at my software company (until the CEO brought in a bunch of clueless outsiders as new management who destroyed our company. But that's a different story, I digress).
The old joke comparing writing software to having sex without birth control -- you'll end up supporting it like a child -- is not too far off base due to similar emotions it instills into the "parents". Sometimes the "child" grows up to be good and loved, sometimes it grows up to be wicked and despised. Holding a funeral for its demise is quite fitting indeed.
Vinum on FreeBSD absolutely rocks! You're old 500MHz machine will run FreeBSD beautifully too.
Anybody here remember Walnut Creek's huge ftp archive at "cdrom.com" which back in it's heyday of the late 1990's used to be the biggest, most highest traffic ftp download site on the planet? They used a combination of Vinum software raid and Mylex hardware raid to handle the load. I remember reading a discussion article from them once that until you get a totally ridiculous volume of ftp sessions hammering away at ther arrays, that Vinum was actually a slight bit faster than the hardware array controller.
I built a machine with all brand new parts about a year and a half ago for $150.
Most parts came from NewEgg, mostly closeout sale items: -AOpen micro-ATX case with 200W power supply -Biostar mobo with audio/video/lan integrated -1.1GHz Celeron "Tualatin" cpu -256MB PC133 sdram -cheapest no-name cdrom drive, no floppy -40GB WD hard drive on sale at Best Buy, $39 after rebate. -a genuine Intel heatsink salvaged for free from a junked P3-800, but with the fan removed. It's adequate for passive cooling on the 1.1GHz Celeron since the power supply fan right next to it pulls enough air over the fins.
Running Linux of course... it's my internet firewall/router/mailserver/webserver machine and has run flawlessly since I built it. Nearly dead-silent too with only the power supply fan running in it and the hard drive to make any noise.
I suspect they are directly targeting Oracle's decision to treat each core as a separate processor for licensing costs. MS intends to further grab market share away from Oracle, and that's it. Oracle will soon have to relent on its greedy licensing practices, or they will slowly but surely find themselves about equally as relevant in the database market as Informix has become.
From the article: "We don't have a root cause for this event yet but as they age we'll see more aches and pains," said Jim Erickson, rover project manager at JPL. "We'll just have to deal with the problems as they go."
Maybe it's just getting the robot equivalent of arthritis in its old age?
I predict a new episode of Junkyard Wars, where the show will provide the rubber & N20 burning engine, but the teams will have to scrounge up the rest of the parts from the junkyard. Teams have the customary 8 hours to build a vehicle, and the first one that makes it to suborbital space... and comes back alive... wins a complete set of all 20 TV espisodes, plus the 2-hour movie, of Andy Griffith's "Salvage One" series on DVD.:-)
You're not the only one suspecting that he did intend to perform a one or two turn roll... and that the roll turned out to be vastly more intense than he bargained for... maybe due to the lack of atmospheric friction against the aircraft in the roll. A little control input perhaps goes a loooooong way in this craft, once beyond the point where there is no more atmospheric drag.
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I presently have a wireless link spanning five and a half miles between two sites. We've got pretty good line-of-site, with only the tops of a few trees, and two highway overpasses sticking up into the fresnel zone, but it works mostly well 99% of the time except when the weather is really bad. At one end, there is a Linksys WET11 connected to a 24 dBi parabolic grid antenna on a 30' pole. The other end has a 12dBi omni antenna on a short pole above a rooftop connected to an old WAP11 access point.
Visit Fleeman Anderson and Bird's website for some good deals on wireless networking antennas, cables, etc. If you put your wireless radio device in a weatherproof box up on the antenna so that you can keep the jumper coax as short as possible, you'll be able to cover long distances with better signal strength and quality. Just run your power up the unused ethernet strands. Only use 4 strands of the ethernet for 10BaseT operation.
Someone please tell me WHY someone can face jail time for pointing up at the sky ?
Can you see why someone should face jail time for standing on an overpass over a busy freeway and dropping buckets of paint onto the windshields of cars passing by underneath?
Thanks in part to the stories being pushed lately in the media, lots of "monkey-see monkey-do" copycats are now deliberately shining lasers into the windshields of airplanes just for kicks.
At night planes have much more than just "little white lights" too. There's a red one on the left wingtip, a green one on the right wingtip, a steady white one on the tail, and also at least one or more flashing stobes that can be either red or white depending on the make, model and vintage of the aircraft. They're practically lit up like Christmas trees and very easy to discern against the stars, especially when you live far enough away from city lights to actually see stars nowadays.
At last count I own 6 pistols, 1 shotgun and 5 rifles.
Dude, if you own that many guns and do a lot of practice shooting, then you really should buy some reloading equipment and load your own ammo. I didn't believe it was all that much cheaper until I bought some RCBS reloading equipment and started doing it myself either, and in just two years' time, I have saved enough money over store-bought ammo to have paid for my reloading gear. Another big benefit is that I can load my ammo as hot or light as I want, and control the weight of the bullet and powder charge very precicely with a digital scale that I get ultra-consistant results just like using expensive match-grade ammo but at a fraction of the cost.
I buy a lot of my stuff from Midway and am very satisfied with their prices and service. Another reloading place with a good reputation is F & M Reloading but I've never shopped with them yet, so YMMV.
My favorite time to reload is whenever we have crummy weather all weekend long and there's nothing else to do except staring at the TV of playing video games. Reloading can be tedious work, but yet it is rewarding knowing that you're saving money and making yourself a fine crafted product by hand that's superior to what your buddies buy off-the-shelf.
They had a device like this in the old television show "Emergency". They talked into this little thing and a doctor's voice came out of it and gave them advice on what to do.
Uhhh, that "little thing" they talked into is called a two-way radio. Duh.
...is the management of software companies who ceased using real computer scientists to design and write their apps because disposable code monkeys work for so much cheaper. And outsourcing is even cheaper... in the short term (which seems to be all that matters in this industry anymore)
Every real geek has owned a dual proc. Intel machine.
Only problem is that my dual processor Intel machine is a dual slot-1 P3 450MHz box... built back when this machine was state of the art. But the processor speeds skyrocketed so rapidly that this machine became utterly worthless, virtually overnight. It still runs fine, and runs Linux pretty well, but still rather slowly by today's standards. The motherboard won't support any better processors without using PowerLeap adapters, and the cost of a pair of PowerLeaps with 1.4GHz Tualatin P3 cpu's just isn't worthwhile. The money would be better spent towards something else.
...for free.
Here, you can have one too!
Repeat after me:
...
The Itanium is the "Edsel" of processors...
The Itanium is the "Edsel" of processors...
The Itanium is the "Edsel" of processors...
Nobody ever wanted it except the folks who designed and built it.
Have a look at BakBone's NetVault backup software. We're in the process of ditching Veritas for BakBone right now... even before we ever learned about this merger... because ever since version 9.x came out and we installed the upgrade, Veritas's Backup Exec hasn't worked reliably for us and the quality of tech support seems to have gone down the toilet too. We're fed up with both the product and the company and have coughed up the extra money to buy a more "enterprise" class of software. Veritas Backup Exec is a lot cheaper, and used to be a reasonably good product for us back in version 8.6, but that version is not supported on W2K3 servers.
...small single engine, aluminum-skinned general aviation airplane, like a Cessna 150/152/172, Piper Cherokee, Beech Musketeer, etc.
"There are a lot more airplanes at the bottom of the ocean than there are submarines in the sky"
The Fleming diode might have been the first electron tube (valve) but it was Lee De Forest who put in a control grid between the filament cathode and the anode plate and created a device that could amplify voltage, which made the whole world of useful electronics circuitry all possible. The 100th anniversity of De Forest's "Audion" triode is not until 2007.
As a musician myself, I have to agree that tube amps have their own unique "tone" and haven't ever been perfectly reproduced yet by solid state gear.
Tubes are natively voltage amplifiers, bipolar (NPN and PNP) transistors are natively current amplifiers. Sure you can make circuitry to create either a voltage amplifier or a current amplifier as a system around either device, but that still doesn't change the native way in which each device performs internally. When overloaded, a tube naturally produces mostly even-order harmonics. A bipolar transistor will naturally produce both even and odd-order harmonics, but mostly odd-order... which sound very harsh.
Tube amps natively have *very* high slewing rates too, much higher than most transistor amps, except for some very recent, exotic transistor amp designs which use some very special transistors, which are finally beginning to approach the slewing rates that simple tube amps have achieved forever. This is probably the single reason why tube amps sound so much more "crisp and clear" than transistor amps have historically been able to achieve.
If your EL34s are glowing red hot, you really ought to adjust the control grid bias voltage to keep from burning them up.
Personally, I prefer the big 6550s in my Marshall over the EL34s.
Excellent, sturdy-built printer. Probably one of the best medium-size laser printers that HP ever built. I have one that I found outside sitting next to a garbage dumpster full of old 486 and 1st generation pentium pc's. That's right, I got it for free. Took it home and found all the rubber rollers were nasty and the unit was filled with paper dust and assorted debris. It had never been maintained or serviced since new. I disassembled the unit, vacuumed out all the dust and crap, and carefully cleaned every moving part with isopropyl alcohol, bought a refurbished toner cartridge from OfficeMax for $50 and have had about four years of trouble-free printing at a total investment of some labor and less than the cost of two average inkjet cartridges.
When the Itanium came out and was given that goofy name, I always thought it would be the 'Edsel' of processors... and indeed it sure enough is turning out that way.
Anyone else think they made the worms seem a bit too alive in the paper?
...hold a funeral for all the old worm code once it's dead.
The 'dead' programs represent a chunk of those coder's lives and a fitting sendoff provides closure for the 'parents' of that code.
I once worked for a lawfirm software company and wrote a billing system interface for Lexis-Nexis search chargebacks. The Lexis-Nexis programmers I worked with on this project were seriously passionate about their product... they "lived the code"... it was like a way of life to them. Much like the people I worked with at my software company (until the CEO brought in a bunch of clueless outsiders as new management who destroyed our company. But that's a different story, I digress).
The old joke comparing writing software to having sex without birth control -- you'll end up supporting it like a child -- is not too far off base due to similar emotions it instills into the "parents". Sometimes the "child" grows up to be good and loved, sometimes it grows up to be wicked and despised. Holding a funeral for its demise is quite fitting indeed.
Vinum on FreeBSD absolutely rocks! You're old 500MHz machine will run FreeBSD beautifully too.
Anybody here remember Walnut Creek's huge ftp archive at "cdrom.com" which back in it's heyday of the late 1990's used to be the biggest, most highest traffic ftp download site on the planet? They used a combination of Vinum software raid and Mylex hardware raid to handle the load. I remember reading a discussion article from them once that until you get a totally ridiculous volume of ftp sessions hammering away at ther arrays, that Vinum was actually a slight bit faster than the hardware array controller.
I built a machine with all brand new parts about a year and a half ago for $150.
Most parts came from NewEgg, mostly closeout sale items:
-AOpen micro-ATX case with 200W power supply
-Biostar mobo with audio/video/lan integrated
-1.1GHz Celeron "Tualatin" cpu
-256MB PC133 sdram
-cheapest no-name cdrom drive, no floppy
-40GB WD hard drive on sale at Best Buy, $39 after rebate.
-a genuine Intel heatsink salvaged for free from a junked P3-800, but with the fan removed. It's adequate for passive cooling on the 1.1GHz Celeron since the power supply fan right next to it pulls enough air over the fins.
Running Linux of course... it's my internet firewall/router/mailserver/webserver machine and has run flawlessly since I built it. Nearly dead-silent too with only the power supply fan running in it and the hard drive to make any noise.
I suspect they are directly targeting Oracle's decision to treat each core as a separate processor for licensing costs. MS intends to further grab market share away from Oracle, and that's it. Oracle will soon have to relent on its greedy licensing practices, or they will slowly but surely find themselves about equally as relevant in the database market as Informix has become.
From the article: "We don't have a root cause for this event yet but as they age we'll see more aches and pains," said Jim Erickson, rover project manager at JPL. "We'll just have to deal with the problems as they go."
Maybe it's just getting the robot equivalent of arthritis in its old age?
I predict a new episode of Junkyard Wars, where the show will provide the rubber & N20 burning engine, but the teams will have to scrounge up the rest of the parts from the junkyard. Teams have the customary 8 hours to build a vehicle, and the first one that makes it to suborbital space... and comes back alive... wins a complete set of all 20 TV espisodes, plus the 2-hour movie, of Andy Griffith's "Salvage One" series on DVD. :-)
Trust me, that abrupt "stoppage" usually lasts much, much longer than nine months...
:-)
Unless you happen to be Catholic
You're not the only one suspecting that he did intend to perform a one or two turn roll... and that the roll turned out to be vastly more intense than he bargained for... maybe due to the lack of atmospheric friction against the aircraft in the roll. A little control input perhaps goes a loooooong way in this craft, once beyond the point where there is no more atmospheric drag.