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  1. Neat Stuff on Tiny Pacemaker Can Be Installed Via Catheter · · Score: 1

    Can't wait to start working on this.

  2. Re:'Strategic' reasons being ... on Patent Troll Says Anyone Using Wi-Fi Infringes · · Score: 2

    what, avoiding a lynch mob?

    Guess the mob of people will pay them a visit, after they take care of Wall Street.

  3. 8 & 16mm Films on imdb on Torrent-Only Movie Denied IMDb Listing · · Score: 1

    There are several films thai I know of that had no distribution but are listed on imdb. This must have been a recent change in policy. These are 8 & 16mm films.

  4. Re:Why Linux? on PC-BSD 8.0 Release Focuses On Desktop Use · · Score: 1

    Because it works for me. I put my original Windows hard drive back into my laptop and it was painfully slow. I do have problems with my MP3 player and HD camera. In Windows it shows up as two drives. I'll get it working some day. My laptop PCMCIA Audigy ZS card works. I plugged in my old video camera with Firewire, Sony 350 and it not only saw it, it told me what model of camera it was. It depends on which distribution you use.

    Linux supports USB 3.0 thanks to Intel. Does Windows?

    Check out what is new in the latest kernel.
    http://www.h-online.com/open/features/What-s-new-in-Linux-2-6-33-933312.html

    Here is a link to the history of the changes.
    http://www.h-online.com/open/features/What-s-new-in-Linux-2-6-33-933312.html

  5. Re:60GHz is available because its almost useless on 60GHz Uber-WiFi Proposed By New WiGig Group · · Score: 1

    I remember a fellow worker back in 1984 saying that 60GHz was used for military satellite to satellite communications. Why not use another Amateur Radio band at 76 to 81GHz.

  6. Rescan Your TV or Converter Box on Confusion Reigns As Analog TV Begins Shutdown · · Score: 2, Informative

    Some stations have the option to go back to their old channel as a digital station. That means that these stations will be giving up their second channel that they have been using as their digital channel. Here in the Los Angeles area the following channels will go back to their original channel. 7, 9, 11, 13, 18, 28 & 34. The rest will remain on their second channel while their analog channel goes dark. I should call some of the stations like channel 5 to see if they will be changing their logo, since their second channel that they have been using is 31.

    Make sure that when the big transition day comes, that you perform a channel scan on your TV or converter box. That way you will be able to view the channels that have made the change.

    Channels assigned for Los Angeles:
    7, 9, 11, 13, *28, 31, 34, 36, *41, 42, 43

    Here are some documents to look at from the FCC.

    DTV Assignments
    http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/FCC-07-138A1.pdf

    DTV Assignments Appendix B
    http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/FCC-07-138A2.pdf

  7. Re:Serveral solutions, more on Migrating a Radio Station To Linux? · · Score: 1

    http://www.rivendellaudio.org/
    Here is another:
      Rivendell is a complete radio broadcast automation solution, with facilities for the acquisition, management, scheduling and playout of audio content. It has all of the features one would expect in a modern, fully-fledged radio automation system, including support for both PCM and MPEG audio encoding, full voicetracking and log customization as well as support for a wide variety of third party software and hardware. As a robust, functionally complete digital audio system for broadcast radio applications, Rivendell uses industry standard components like the GNU/Linux Operating System, the AudioScience HPI Driver Architecture and the MySQL Database Engine. Rivendell is available under the GNU Public License.

  8. What Will Happen To LPTV? on Where Are All of the HDTV Tuners? · · Score: 1

    Los Angeles has a new channel 6 near Mount Wilson. It is working as an FM station, announcing 87.7 FM. There are so many new stations that are low power in the Los Angeles area, what will happen to them?

    I think it would be best if channels 2, 3, & 4 are assigned for LPTV. And channels 5 & 6 to be come the extended FM broadcast band, aimed at localism.

  9. Re:Er... on MySpace Users Revolt Against Murdoch · · Score: 2, Informative

    It was used at one time for filesharing. It was more like Live365, but you could capture the streams to a file. You could also create your own streams from other peoples collections of music.

  10. Already Being Taxed Through Cassette, CD-R & D on France to Legalize File Sharing · · Score: 1

    We are already being taxed when are buying blank cassettes, CD's & DVD's.

  11. Possible Hardware To Hack ........ on E-Paper On Cereal Boxes · · Score: 1

    Maybe they can be hacked afterwards. Make a multi display sign on your car. A flashy bookcover.

    If not cereal boxes, they can use them as a cooking guide, cookbook.

  12. Auction TV Channels? No New Stations? on Congress Pays You $3 Billion to Keep Watching TV · · Score: 1

    Who can they auction these channels off to? The analog channels are the same frequencies as the digital channels. If channels are shifted from VHF to UHF in a city, wouldn't the VHF channels be used by another city? It's not like the channel is not going to be used throughout the whole country and it can be auctioned off. Here in Los Angeles there is a brand new low power station on channel 6. I'm surprised that there isn't a problem with the channel 6 from the San Diego area. So if they are auctioned off, does that mean that LPTV will no longer exist? Does it also mean that there will be no new television stations after the switch to digital?

  13. iRegistrations ...... on Recovering Domains from Negligent Registrars? · · Score: 1

    iRegistrations went out of business. They were a reseller of eNom. So I called eNom and transfered all my domains. One of them I had to renew so that was $29.95 a year.

  14. Tom & Darryl's Tech This! on WTND-LP & W0K on Interesting Tech-Related Online Talk Radio? · · Score: 1

    There show is on Friday from 9pm to midnight. Their streaming link is on http://dishnuts.net/rfd2.m3u
    Their archive is at:
    http://dishnuts.net/archive/tndshows/techthis /2004 /default.html
    They talk about computers to TVRO to DMCA to RIAA stuff. It is a call-in show. Tom & darryl are blind and they started their local LPFM station in Macomb Il.

  15. Websense Blocked at Work....... on Internet History In Pictures · · Score: 1

    Can't view anything off that site. Websense is blocking the site.

  16. Re:Who the fuck cares if they're tracking you? on My Pal Mickey -- Interactive Theme Park Doll · · Score: 1

    Maybe if they are able to track you, then this might be a good way to find someone that is lost.
    I read that they might have one that includes a digital camera.

  17. LPTV Stations...... on Putting the TV Broadcast Spectrum to Better Use? · · Score: 1

    Where will all the Low Power Television stations go to. Most LPTV stations will never make it to cable or the transition to HDTV. Will there ever by LPHDTV?
    Like the other posters have said, there will be people that cannot afford cable. Guess that they will have to go without TV because their TV is obsolete too.
    That will insure big media will be the only game in town, until someone realizes a good percentage cannot view their content. Realizing that might take years.
    What's wrong with finding spectrum that the government no longer uses?

  18. More Players of DivX on VCDHELP.com on First Certified DivX/DVD Player Released · · Score: 1

    The is more than the two player of DivX. Here is a link to the search results on VCDHELP....
    http://www.dvdrhelp.com/dvdplayers.ph p?DVDname=&di vx=1&Search=Search&Submit2=Search

  19. Re:Linux in SoCal? on Southern California Linux Expo · · Score: 2, Informative

    That's only in the movies. We do wardriving out in the valley.
    The Linux Expo that the Simi-Conejo groups ran was small but it happened. Some people from Samba were there. Simi Valley is located 35-miles northwest of Los Angeles. This expo will be close to downtown LA.

  20. Re:Pacemaker... on Schmidt Predicts Digital Sky Is Falling · · Score: 1

    As far as I know, it will not effect our products here at STJ.

  21. Re:It's illegal on Telemarketers and Cell Phones? · · Score: 1

    Cell phones Do have their own prefix. In fact here in California, the Sherman Oaks central office I believe has 56 of them just for cell phones.
    It would be GREAT if the cell phones had their own areacode. It would stop most of these splits. The FCC back in 1993 stopped New York from using their new code at the time, 917. They said that it would confuse customers. I tried to find the article but can't seem to find it.

  22. Re:Cringley on NSI Accused of Cybersquatting · · Score: 1

    Over at NameZero on there boards, one post was on not being able to get the name you want after it expires. We'll see what happenswith the domain names I got. Some people that have a use for it and is for hobby like mine shouldn't have a problem getting it after it expires.