You should add to 4: That no coded communications are allowed over Amateur Radio (AR), everything has to be clear text. AX25 would be horrid over HF, there are plenty of modes on HF that go from 30-1200bps, so facebook might take a while...
N810 is perfect for hacking, lots of gps fun to be had. Like getting a gpx file from your favorite geocaching site and track some caches down; maemo mapper using festival tts engine and a reliable data connection (uses google maps); and there's wayfinder for your commertial nav class app. The only reason i use tom tom is that none of these are reliable solutions in rural australia, neither is tom tom, but at least i can correct tom tom errors enroute. Maemo.org - os2008, have a look.
I have one of these original iBooks (the SE, graphite colour), and it was in a fairly serious (for the car) car accident with me, wrote the car off against a tree. The iBook went from the left hand back seat to be jammed between the side of the drivers seat (right hand hear) and the side wall. I was actually bored just after the accident, so I decided to give it a quick boot, she work straight off. Just as a comparasion, there were 6 cans in a cooler bag in the boot, 2 of which split in a circular fashion on the side of the can (the boot was carpeted on that side).
I love my apple, and the darn thing still works like the day I bought it!
I have had my original iBook SE since August 2000, and I still get more than 2.5 hours from the battery under Linux.
Why do [all, not just laptop] batteries die so easily?
Easy answer: because you aren't encouraged to look after your batteries.
How do I look after my laptop battery, I can't find anything in the manual?
NiCad: avoid at all costs giving your laptop a quick charge, a couple of these will dramatically reduce your battery lifetime.
NiMH: as above, but just try to avoid it, NiMH's can take a few more 5 min top-ups.
LiIon: avoid letting your battery go flat, LiIon's like charges when the battery is only partly charged (I could be wrong, I haven't done a lot in LiIon theory).
If you have NiCad or NiMH batteries, let them go as close as possible to flat as you can, then charge them to full, this is not always doable, and NiMH's are designed to take occasional abuse.
A lot of Apple laptops, running OS 9 or less had a program to revive the battery, not sure what it was called, but I have seen old PB 190cs's with the original battery, still working because the owner knew how to use this program, and used it reguarly. What it actually did, was while hooked up to AC, it would flatten the battery completely, then bring it to full charge, several times if necesary, and more often than not, it would bring the battery back up from dead too a significant percentage of it's original capacity (20 - 50%), or, if you had taken care to look after your battery, would keep it up around the 90% of original capacity.
I know this comment is a few days later than the article, so it you think others may benifit, spread the word, and keep your batteries for years!
My sister is with optus and has had this happen a lot, message sent at 8pm, doesn't receive it until well into the next day, but making a call, or receiving a call generally gets things moving again. I've had Telstra & Vodafone GSM, and I have Telstra CDMA now, and except for a few times where the network said 'Message not Sent', my messages pretty much go through straight away.
... still use a simulation written in Fortran, that runs in Linux.
Why?, you might ask... Mainly because it works, and they have a realistic stable software turnover time, and this simulation has been around for over 10 years now, it actually originally ran on VAX's, then Sun's, now PC's (Linux).
These scientists seem to be advocating peace by giving up our individuality. For that alone, they should be locked away.
The US already seems to be on it's way to taking away everyone's freedoms (and individuality), and they have done it well enough for people to think that they actually want it!
It will grow back, but without a large scale effort, it will take more than a few generations. The Mayan's turned the areas around their cities into deserts, but they have grown back now, hundreds of years later.
Most Amateur Radio satellites have beacons on particular frequencies, one guy just happend to be tuning around, and he heard the beacon, listened to it telemetry (sent in morse code), and posted the info to an email list, with his suspicions (he knew it was a satellite of that era, but wasn't sure which one), and that's where it all started.
Do you have a link power budget analysis to support this, or are you talking out of your ass?
Simple mathematics. It is quoted that these devices raise the noise level, lets say it raises the noise level to -80dbm level at a particular distance, and the signal you listening too is about -100dbm but your old noise floor was about -105dbm. -100dbm is not uncommon for mobile phones.
Baloney. No modulation scheme provides any security whatsoever. If you want security, you have to use cryptography.
Cryptography with a dose of Obsfication always helps, eg, Spread Spectrum. Transmission techniques like SSM also allow more than one user to use a frequency at any given time.
You might think you can live with this stuff, but it wrecks it for everyone else. The FCC (and other international Frequency management agencies) has been trying to reduce the ammounts of noise in the EM spectrum for years, that includes your noisy drills, mixers, and other noisy equiptment, and you want to make the noise worse? This stuff could make the difference from hearing your favorite FM station 50kms away from the transmitter, down to 20-30kms away. (That's with 3db signal loss through noise)
I don't know if anyone here might have heard of AM radio, but if you've ever listened to it, and you hear that occasional car going past making clicking noises is really low level. What your talking about now is whenever someone has one of these devices going, it will have the effect of dropping the station your hearing, watching, or even talking to, under the noise. So you'll now drive past someone past thier fancy UWB devices, and all your precious data connections (eg. CDMA) drop without a second thought, fm station will drop out, etc, etc... Image if your neighbour in an appartment block was using his reguarly?
Solution? Yes, simple, there is tonnes of bandwidth available you short range use all over the place, hey, there's even gigs of bandwidth available above 10Ghz, put a carrier on this, and transmit your data! Or, even, use infra red, there's atleast a few meg of bandwidth there (I've heard of tests of distances as much as 50kms).
Oh, and if your interested in this UWB stuff, then don't even think about security, the only way to keep you stuff partially secure would be Spread Spectrum, which needs to be managed on a set of frequencies.
10 years is not long enough anymore, no matter what anyone says (but, in this case, I'd like to be wrong), think about where we have been in the last 10 years, the only difference is that hollywood effects have made it to _most_ desktops.
What I predict is Linux kernel version 4.4, multiple cpu's on the one chip, maybe a quantum co-processor, and a smart program running under the OS that does what you tell it too, in an extreemly simplified way, so that you give it a description, and it will build a program as a solution, aka lcars system on star trek, maybe not as intuitive, but enough to make everything on you computer to work very closely together.
Plans for biodiesel in standard diesel fuels have been around for ages, most, if not all modern diesel engines are guarunteed to work with it, and there has been a transition over to it in europe for a few years now. Just for a bit of history, diesel was originally made out of vegetable oil!
Look, I agree with this guy, and not with many, many other comments, did you people not notice the suggestion in the Toms Hardware Guide test that it was done with a cpu _NOT_ running at it's recommended speed?
I reguarly overclock my CPU's, and I know, that if something stupid like a cpu fan falling off blows up my cpu, IT WAS MY FAULT, not the manufacturer who has already stated the recomended maximum speed of their cpu.
And the suggestion that the motherboard makes a difference, LOOK PEOPLE, if you aren't going to read, don't comment, the thermal diode is ON the core! 2nd search result on google, in the very first sentence of the article!
A friend of mine had a pre palomino Athlon and he run it for 2 weeks without a fan, with NO permanent damage, and this computer is only used for watching DivX's and playing the latest games.
And, as a personal opinion, in the last 12 months, toms has been awful, and, I hate to say it, but completely wrong, when it doesn't suit the people with the big dollars, but we can't blame poor Tom, he get stuff before release, and has to keep the right people happy, or they probably wouldn't give the stuff too him. What a screwed up world...
I work on a large network with an SOE, and our section has an exception, and future moves are tending toward firewalling us from the SOE network, if any change at all. And I know for sure that if I were to get locked into the SOE network, I would not be able to do my job, and the people that enforce those rules also know that.
To give you an idea of why we have an exception is that our current simulation runs on Linux, and that does not appear to be going to change for at least the next few years, although there has been more talk about locking down to an SOE network.
Your last option is to negotiate the programs you require to be installed, make sure the licensing is correct, and I cannot see the problem. Do you need to use unlicensed programs or another operating system?
Your last options are to work in the IT environment where they are doing the change to SOE, and make sure it is done right, or after reading this, you are still stuck, well, start looking for a new job, really, if they don't allow you to work, move on.
To explain the system, they have a dish at Bundoora, pointed to Mt. Macedon, Mt. Macedon has 2 dishes one pointed to Bundoora, and one to Bendigo, and a dish at Bendigo, they use 2 frequencies (I think one tx and one rx), and they are up on the 19Ghz range, and are licensed. Licenses and sites do have an on going cost, but are better in the long run for security, and so that you know that the frequencies are yours, and are very unlikely to get interference.
Yes, they are line of site, there is no way frequencies that high are any different.
As a quick summary, work out on bits of paper and maps what you need, talk to a company that does long haul microwave links, and once it's done properly, and you own it afterwards, a lot of headaches are solved, and you then have a dedicated bandwidth, and someone you can call on the phone if something goes wrong.
(PS. There is a little more too it than that, but when it comes down to basics, that's esentially what it is.)
They get about 2x27Mbit (before error correction) over 100km distance, but they do it via one very prominent mountain. For those who know thier geography of the state of Victoria, Australia, LaTrobe University, Bundoora Campus (Melbourne), tansmitts 2x27mbit data to Mt Macedon, height difference is close to sea level at Bundoora to around a km at Mt. Macedon, here they would obviously pay rent for the space they use on whoever's tower; from there they go to the Bendigo campus, which just happens to be on the side of a hill, and on the top in the right place, on the southern side of Bendigo, thier they are about 2-300m above sea level. The distances involved here are about 50-60km from Bundoora to Mt. Macedon, and about the same from Mt. Macedon to Bendigo (by air, nearly twice that by road).
If you want to see these locations on a map, get out a good map of Australia, Mt. Macedon is also a great tourist location, so it should be on most good maps.
My solution was to listen to this great news station in Australia, ABC NewsRadio, hehe, we even have a newsradioaddicts list on yahoo:) I't great actually, part of the govt. funded radio network over here, and, IMHO, puts BBC in second place of my listening preference. For all of you people out there that are too far away from.au to hear, there is a live net stream on there web site: www.abc.net.au/newsradio.
I admit, I have been addicted to radio news for years, then newspaper, followed by tv, mainly because radio is so much more convenient than all other types of media, other than having it sent to your <insert hand held mobile remote data device here>, but I still like radio more.
I don't know about other countries, and other networks, but I am also an avid shortwave radio listener, and I also listen to BBC, RNW, VOA and a few others, if anyone knows of more, reply to this comment, and I might put a page together of radio news addict resources around the world.
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You should add to 4: That no coded communications are allowed over Amateur Radio (AR), everything has to be clear text. AX25 would be horrid over HF, there are plenty of modes on HF that go from 30-1200bps, so facebook might take a while...
N810 is perfect for hacking, lots of gps fun to be had. Like getting a gpx file from your favorite geocaching site and track some caches down; maemo mapper using festival tts engine and a reliable data connection (uses google maps); and there's wayfinder for your commertial nav class app. The only reason i use tom tom is that none of these are reliable solutions in rural australia, neither is tom tom, but at least i can correct tom tom errors enroute. Maemo.org - os2008, have a look.
The Void (2001) 'nuf said.
I have one of these original iBooks (the SE, graphite colour), and it was in a fairly serious (for the car) car accident with me, wrote the car off against a tree. The iBook went from the left hand back seat to be jammed between the side of the drivers seat (right hand hear) and the side wall. I was actually bored just after the accident, so I decided to give it a quick boot, she work straight off. Just as a comparasion, there were 6 cans in a cooler bag in the boot, 2 of which split in a circular fashion on the side of the can (the boot was carpeted on that side).
I love my apple, and the darn thing still works like the day I bought it!
I have had my original iBook SE since August 2000, and I still get more than 2.5 hours from the battery under Linux.
Why do [all, not just laptop] batteries die so easily?
Easy answer: because you aren't encouraged to look after your batteries.
How do I look after my laptop battery, I can't find anything in the manual?
NiCad: avoid at all costs giving your laptop a quick charge, a couple of these will dramatically reduce your battery lifetime.
NiMH: as above, but just try to avoid it, NiMH's can take a few more 5 min top-ups.
LiIon: avoid letting your battery go flat, LiIon's like charges when the battery is only partly charged (I could be wrong, I haven't done a lot in LiIon theory).
If you have NiCad or NiMH batteries, let them go as close as possible to flat as you can, then charge them to full, this is not always doable, and NiMH's are designed to take occasional abuse.
A lot of Apple laptops, running OS 9 or less had a program to revive the battery, not sure what it was called, but I have seen old PB 190cs's with the original battery, still working because the owner knew how to use this program, and used it reguarly. What it actually did, was while hooked up to AC, it would flatten the battery completely, then bring it to full charge, several times if necesary, and more often than not, it would bring the battery back up from dead too a significant percentage of it's original capacity (20 - 50%), or, if you had taken care to look after your battery, would keep it up around the 90% of original capacity.
I know this comment is a few days later than the article, so it you think others may benifit, spread the word, and keep your batteries for years!
My sister is with optus and has had this happen a lot, message sent at 8pm, doesn't receive it until well into the next day, but making a call, or receiving a call generally gets things moving again. I've had Telstra & Vodafone GSM, and I have Telstra CDMA now, and except for a few times where the network said 'Message not Sent', my messages pretty much go through straight away.
... still use a simulation written in Fortran, that runs in Linux.
Why?, you might ask... Mainly because it works, and they have a realistic stable software turnover time, and this simulation has been around for over 10 years now, it actually originally ran on VAX's, then Sun's, now PC's (Linux).
These scientists seem to be advocating peace by giving up our individuality. For that alone, they should be locked away.
The US already seems to be on it's way to taking away everyone's freedoms (and individuality), and they have done it well enough for people to think that they actually want it!
It will grow back, but without a large scale effort, it will take more than a few generations. The Mayan's turned the areas around their cities into deserts, but they have grown back now, hundreds of years later.
Most Amateur Radio satellites have beacons on particular frequencies, one guy just happend to be tuning around, and he heard the beacon, listened to it telemetry (sent in morse code), and posted the info to an email list, with his suspicions (he knew it was a satellite of that era, but wasn't sure which one), and that's where it all started.
20 years after it was last heard, it is currently 27 years old.
Farmers kulled it into extinction, that is why we want to bring it back, to fix up our mistakes, not just because we can.
Trust me, I know, I live in Victoria, Australia (not in Tasmania, where the tassie tigers were, but close enough).
Nah, what y'd do is make a few jammers and leave them strategicly placed in spots higher than the mobile phone will jam the towers.
And a quick note:
The FCC has approved UWB devices from 3.1-10.6ghz, so STOP YA BITCHIN New Public Safety Applications and Broadband Internet Access Among Uses Envisioned by FCC Authorisation of Ultra-Wideband Technology
Cryptography with a dose of Obsfication always helps, eg, Spread Spectrum. Transmission techniques like SSM also allow more than one user to use a frequency at any given time.
Do you know how bad this stuff is?
You might think you can live with this stuff, but it wrecks it for everyone else. The FCC (and other international Frequency management agencies) has been trying to reduce the ammounts of noise in the EM spectrum for years, that includes your noisy drills, mixers, and other noisy equiptment, and you want to make the noise worse? This stuff could make the difference from hearing your favorite FM station 50kms away from the transmitter, down to 20-30kms away. (That's with 3db signal loss through noise)
I don't know if anyone here might have heard of AM radio, but if you've ever listened to it, and you hear that occasional car going past making clicking noises is really low level. What your talking about now is whenever someone has one of these devices going, it will have the effect of dropping the station your hearing, watching, or even talking to, under the noise. So you'll now drive past someone past thier fancy UWB devices, and all your precious data connections (eg. CDMA) drop without a second thought, fm station will drop out, etc, etc... Image if your neighbour in an appartment block was using his reguarly?
Solution? Yes, simple, there is tonnes of bandwidth available you short range use all over the place, hey, there's even gigs of bandwidth available above 10Ghz, put a carrier on this, and transmit your data! Or, even, use infra red, there's atleast a few meg of bandwidth there (I've heard of tests of distances as much as 50kms).
Oh, and if your interested in this UWB stuff, then don't even think about security, the only way to keep you stuff partially secure would be Spread Spectrum, which needs to be managed on a set of frequencies.
10 years is not long enough anymore, no matter what anyone says (but, in this case, I'd like to be wrong), think about where we have been in the last 10 years, the only difference is that hollywood effects have made it to _most_ desktops.
What I predict is Linux kernel version 4.4, multiple cpu's on the one chip, maybe a quantum co-processor, and a smart program running under the OS that does what you tell it too, in an extreemly simplified way, so that you give it a description, and it will build a program as a solution, aka lcars system on star trek, maybe not as intuitive, but enough to make everything on you computer to work very closely together.
Plans for biodiesel in standard diesel fuels have been around for ages, most, if not all modern diesel engines are guarunteed to work with it, and there has been a transition over to it in europe for a few years now. Just for a bit of history, diesel was originally made out of vegetable oil!
Look, I agree with this guy, and not with many, many other comments, did you people not notice the suggestion in the Toms Hardware Guide test that it was done with a cpu _NOT_ running at it's recommended speed?
I reguarly overclock my CPU's, and I know, that if something stupid like a cpu fan falling off blows up my cpu, IT WAS MY FAULT, not the manufacturer who has already stated the recomended maximum speed of their cpu.
And the suggestion that the motherboard makes a difference, LOOK PEOPLE, if you aren't going to read, don't comment, the thermal diode is ON the core! 2nd search result on google, in the very first sentence of the article!
A friend of mine had a pre palomino Athlon and he run it for 2 weeks without a fan, with NO permanent damage, and this computer is only used for watching DivX's and playing the latest games.
And, as a personal opinion, in the last 12 months, toms has been awful, and, I hate to say it, but completely wrong, when it doesn't suit the people with the big dollars, but we can't blame poor Tom, he get stuff before release, and has to keep the right people happy, or they probably wouldn't give the stuff too him. What a screwed up world...
I work on a large network with an SOE, and our section has an exception, and future moves are tending toward firewalling us from the SOE network, if any change at all. And I know for sure that if I were to get locked into the SOE network, I would not be able to do my job, and the people that enforce those rules also know that.
To give you an idea of why we have an exception is that our current simulation runs on Linux, and that does not appear to be going to change for at least the next few years, although there has been more talk about locking down to an SOE network.
Your last option is to negotiate the programs you require to be installed, make sure the licensing is correct, and I cannot see the problem. Do you need to use unlicensed programs or another operating system?
Your last options are to work in the IT environment where they are doing the change to SOE, and make sure it is done right, or after reading this, you are still stuck, well, start looking for a new job, really, if they don't allow you to work, move on.
...an Amiga CD32.
Think about it...
Because it has a 6 hour battery life, and I have tested it in MacOS & Linux
To explain the system, they have a dish at Bundoora, pointed to Mt. Macedon, Mt. Macedon has 2 dishes one pointed to Bundoora, and one to Bendigo, and a dish at Bendigo, they use 2 frequencies (I think one tx and one rx), and they are up on the 19Ghz range, and are licensed. Licenses and sites do have an on going cost, but are better in the long run for security, and so that you know that the frequencies are yours, and are very unlikely to get interference.
Yes, they are line of site, there is no way frequencies that high are any different.
As a quick summary, work out on bits of paper and maps what you need, talk to a company that does long haul microwave links, and once it's done properly, and you own it afterwards, a lot of headaches are solved, and you then have a dedicated bandwidth, and someone you can call on the phone if something goes wrong.
(PS. There is a little more too it than that, but when it comes down to basics, that's esentially what it is.)
They get about 2x27Mbit (before error correction) over 100km distance, but they do it via one very prominent mountain. For those who know thier geography of the state of Victoria, Australia, LaTrobe University, Bundoora Campus (Melbourne), tansmitts 2x27mbit data to Mt Macedon, height difference is close to sea level at Bundoora to around a km at Mt. Macedon, here they would obviously pay rent for the space they use on whoever's tower; from there they go to the Bendigo campus, which just happens to be on the side of a hill, and on the top in the right place, on the southern side of Bendigo, thier they are about 2-300m above sea level. The distances involved here are about 50-60km from Bundoora to Mt. Macedon, and about the same from Mt. Macedon to Bendigo (by air, nearly twice that by road).
If you want to see these locations on a map, get out a good map of Australia, Mt. Macedon is also a great tourist location, so it should be on most good maps.
My solution was to listen to this great news station in Australia, ABC NewsRadio, hehe, we even have a newsradioaddicts list on yahoo :) I't great actually, part of the govt. funded radio network over here, and, IMHO, puts BBC in second place of my listening preference. For all of you people out there that are too far away from .au to hear, there is a live net stream on there web site: www.abc.net.au/newsradio.
I admit, I have been addicted to radio news for years, then newspaper, followed by tv, mainly because radio is so much more convenient than all other types of media, other than having it sent to your <insert hand held mobile remote data device here>, but I still like radio more.
I don't know about other countries, and other networks, but I am also an avid shortwave radio listener, and I also listen to BBC, RNW, VOA and a few others, if anyone knows of more, reply to this comment, and I might put a page together of radio news addict resources around the world.