It's already been done. The VoIP software "Fobbit Fone" is public domain or shareware, I can't remember which - freely available, anyway... It works with the Creative VoIP blaster and one of the configuration settings is to use TCP only and you pick the port. It uses port 80 (normal HTTP) for initial access, then goes to the same port as it normally would but uses TCP instead of UDP if configured that way. I'm using it sucessfully TCP only because I'm lazy and only wanted to turn on one port in my firewall:) Seriously, it does make it easier to connect through a firewall when using TCP only. In fact that software is the only choice if you are behind a firewall, as the stock Creative Labs driver and UI software doesn't work at all thru the firewall.
I have a few cubes of elemental potassium (stored in anhydrous mineral oil!) It's a greyish-silver chunk of metal in a cube about the size of a bullion cube. It is soft; you can cut the edge off with an X-acto knife. A small chip about the size of a grain of rice when thrown into water (toilet bowl) will fizzle and dance around and burst into a cool purple flame!
I also have some elemental Sodium, which will also fizzle and dance on the water, but will not burst aflame, unless you put it into a wad of spittle (yecch!) then it bursts into a bright yellow-orange flame.
GLTron is a EXCELLENT rendition of Tron's light cycle game, for up to 4 players. It uses OpenGL and renders a beautiful arena completely faithful to the movie complete with a recognizer flying overhead. It works with up to 4 players, as well.
In the middle of FermiLab there is a pond; the water is used for cooling and I've heard it rumuored that it's "hot" (radioactive). Also, the grounds that the main ring of Fermi occupies is also a forest preserve - we used to joke about the "Home where the Glow-in-the-dark Buffalo Roam"!
Enough to actually get to see the antimatter production ring at Fermilab. Once or twice a year, they go into a maintenance shutdown and give small informal tours.
What used to be the main ring years ago is now the antimatter ring. The magnets were all upgraded to superconductors, and they added buncher/debunchers to the ring to squeeze protons together and apart which, every so often produces a stray anti-proton.
Cern is way ahead of Fermi in that they are producing full anti-atoms, whereas Fermi is only making anti-particles.
Definitely forget about efficiency in production, the guy giving the tour said their electric bill is about a million dollars a month, and they make very few anti-protons from all that power! I bet they're ComEd's best customer. They can't run during the summer air-conditioning months, as they would suck too much energy from the grid in Illinois.
The guide also said as long as the magnets stay supercooled, the anti-protons will stay suspended in the ring for up to a month (unless they hit stray matter and blow up sooner).
After the tour, we got to play stump the genius - one of the research physicists there was nice enough to give a Q & A session. A most informative and cool tour, getting to see something that most "civilians" never get to lay eyes on.
Yeah, that's it, element 119. But it's so small you can't see it. Oh, yes, and it only exists for a fraction of a second inside a nuclear explosion. That's the ticket!
That reminds me; I used to have a 286 system with a second disk bay chassis - This was pretty souped up; IIRC it was 20Mhz clock w/287 - woo hoo! I ran 4 hard disks on it by using an AT and an XT hard disk controller - very unusal for the time, a cool piece of software called 4drives let you do that. But I digress... Anyway because I had the second drive chassis sitting next to the main PC, the ribbon cables were only about 20" for the MFM drives, so the covers were off the two chassis's side by side. This brings me to the point; all went well until one day my cat Monty barfed in the chassis with the motherboard. Yack!! Disgusting! Not only was it disgusting, by the time I discovered it (maybe 2 days later) it had etched off the traces on the motherboard under the puke piles. Arrggghhh!!! The motherboard was a basket case after that, and prompted my arrival into the wonderful world of 486's.
Considering how oscillator circuits work nowadays.
The frequency determining component of all transcievers (cellfones, radios, commercial two-way, etc.) is something called a "fractional-N" synthesizer. This takes a reference frequency (usually a TCXO or crystal clock) and chops it up (fractionates it), then feeds it to a "divide-by-N" circuit to make the desired higher frequency output signal. Almost all VCO's work that way.
It then follows that the circuit sought out a stable reference signal to use as a timebase, via another outside source. This is also a common practice, using WWV(B) receivers or GPS receivers as reference timebases when two transmitters need to be synch-locked.
Sounds to me like the programmer was an RF engineer!
VMS was/is the most secure operating system ever written. I know, I tried to hack one that I bought at a hamfest. I tried everything. Every hacker text file from the 80's I consulted said "forget it". The ONLY way to hack a VMS system is to social engineer a password or use a dictionary cracker for weak passwords. There are no maint. backdoors, single user mode boot hacks, etc. and believe me, a simple ^C is not sufficent. I have two Micro-VAXen and I wound up having to reload VMS from scratch, just for want of a supervisor password. Also, the error messages were deliberatly long and informative, very helpful if you actually read and act on them (i.e. troubleshoot a problem).
Yah, they're really cryptic and difficult; about as tricky as MS-DOS. "dir" to see your files, "type" to list a file, "copy" to copy a file, etc. Real obscure syntax since everyone got bit with point-and-click disease!
Huh? I can't figure out youre response at all. To clarify, what I am saying was:
1. That if the corp desires, it can provide QOS equal to that of the private guys. They have the $$ to do so.
2. They can do #1 without buying dual load balanced T1's. That's overkill.
3. The closer you are to the rec'd signal the better quality (throughput) you get. You being inside the store will get better QOS from the store than from an outside provider.
He's cleaned up 75m pretty well. There are still some of the "Good Ole Boys" club there, that like to get drunk and broadcast, but for the most part increased legal actions by the FCC have by and large ended the "blight" on the lowbands.
Just because there are a few idiots who trash 75m doesn't mean that they are willing to participate in a ongoing illegal enterprise. Even they wake up straight every once in a while, and would realize what they are doing, eventually.
Finally, I guess Troll is all we have because there is no "Absolute Nonsense" mod category.
Absolute nonsense. I'm an Amateur Radio Operator, and I can assure you there are no "squatters rights" on ANY frequency by ANY uncoordinated entity (i.e. Part 15).
Further any Ham operator causing willful interference can be ticketed by the FCC. Even if they are interfering with secondary services, if it can be proved they are doing it just to cause harmful interference, they can be fined heavily for this.
And finally if you can find a Ham low enough to try this, you've found the exception, not the rule. Most hams would be outraged (as I am) at the mere suggestion we use MIGHT to make RIGHT.
If you modd'ers want to find a good Troll, check the parent of this message. Bah.
What bonehead possibly thought that this was a troll? This is an honest discussion, voiced from my opinions. There are good opinions, and bad opinions, and just because you don't agree doesn't mean I'm feeding the trolls. The moderations here are really tending to suck lately. Just because some grassfucker wants the free guys to win (Starbucks = bad corporate evil giant) doesn't mean they will, but either way, it's simply OPINION until it happens. Then it becomes FACT. If all who speak their opinions here get modded as trolls, it would tend to cause a lot less intellight opinions being voiced. And God knows, this place doesn't need any further intelligence dilution! Bad Mod: Previous post. If you wanna mod this as a Flame, go ahead, it is. I have Karma to burn.
Most obviously, it's not better. However, a fractional T1, etc more than enouth for the expected bandwith. Dual load balanced T1's, are very nice but a total waste on a single 802.11b channel. Do you think you are even going to approach a single T1's bandwith in actual operation? I seriously doubt it, you'd be really lucky to push more than 1.4 MB/s through on a good day.
Well, that's why I said "potential". At first they may try to save money with cheapo connections. If it gets down to a dirty fight, the corporate types will have the $$ on their side, and they would be able to afford a Frac/T1 or Biz DSL into the shop if they thought it would be profitable to win the war.
They'll have to provide superior service for pay than their customers can get for free already. In areas where there is no existing free service, they can probably get away with the service class you mentioned, because no one there knows better or has an alternative.
Also, somwhere it was mentioned there was no difference in QOS between the free service and the corporate one, so if that's not an issue, then signal strength (read: throughput speed) becomes the only one - which do you get better? Most likely, the closest local signal (i.e. the one originating inside the shop).
I worked for a wireless ISP, and we had to deal with this all the time. The 11 channels of 802.11b are all there is to work with, and we would constantly have to dance around existing systems. At least, the players here know who they are up against.
If they can't resolve the frequency coordination, and it devolves into a shouting match, Starbuck's is gonna win. They will have access points located within their premeses (sp?) and will no doubt have the maxium legal power and antenna structures allowed by the FCC. If the private guys can punch thru that signal, they're doing it using illegal power levels or antennas.
Also, a corporate sponsored setup would have the potential to have a higher speed backbone in and out of the shop, and ultimately be able to provide better service than the free guys.
I think that my "extra" CPU cycles would be much better put toward distributed AIDS or cancer research. SETI seems somewhat of a waste of time, pedantic stuff like this even more.
Doesn't this seem to be something very similar to the Ximian desktop? I am still weeding pieces of that shitball out of my system. I run RedHat and after installing it, I couldn't upgrade from 7.1 to 7.2 for my life. I had to go in and hand delete all the Ximian packages, and even after doing that, it still left little turds all over my system that conflicted with later version releases to this day. I will NEVER install a third-party desktop again!!
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It's already been done. The VoIP software "Fobbit Fone" is public domain or shareware, I can't remember which - freely available, anyway... It works with the Creative VoIP blaster and one of the configuration settings is to use TCP only and you pick the port. It uses port 80 (normal HTTP) for initial access, then goes to the same port as it normally would but uses TCP instead of UDP if configured that way. I'm using it sucessfully TCP only because I'm lazy and only wanted to turn on one port in my firewall :) Seriously, it does make it easier to connect through a firewall when using TCP only. In fact that software is the only choice if you are behind a firewall, as the stock Creative Labs driver and UI software doesn't work at all thru the firewall.
I have a few cubes of elemental potassium (stored in anhydrous mineral oil!) It's a greyish-silver chunk of metal in a cube about the size of a bullion cube. It is soft; you can cut the edge off with an X-acto knife. A small chip about the size of a grain of rice when thrown into water (toilet bowl) will fizzle and dance around and burst into a cool purple flame!
I also have some elemental Sodium, which will also fizzle and dance on the water, but will not burst aflame, unless you put it into a wad of spittle (yecch!) then it bursts into a bright yellow-orange flame.
GLTron is a EXCELLENT rendition of Tron's light cycle game, for up to 4 players. It uses OpenGL and renders a beautiful arena completely faithful to the movie complete with a recognizer flying overhead. It works with up to 4 players, as well.
Also, did anyone mention the GL Quake2 demo?
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In the middle of FermiLab there is a pond; the water is used for cooling and I've heard it rumuored that it's "hot" (radioactive). Also, the grounds that the main ring of Fermi occupies is also a forest preserve - we used to joke about the "Home where the Glow-in-the-dark Buffalo Roam"!
Actually I was thinking Nonexistium and Bullshitium, but yours'll do...
Yeah, but if it were anti-windows98 it would NEVER crash or blow up, and run PERFECTLY FOREVER!!
You forgot - Element 117 and 118 - Just Kidding!
Enough to actually get to see the antimatter production ring at Fermilab. Once or twice a year, they go into a maintenance shutdown and give small informal tours.
What used to be the main ring years ago is now the antimatter ring. The magnets were all upgraded to superconductors, and they added buncher/debunchers to the ring to squeeze protons together and apart which, every so often produces a stray anti-proton.
Cern is way ahead of Fermi in that they are producing full anti-atoms, whereas Fermi is only making anti-particles.
Definitely forget about efficiency in production, the guy giving the tour said their electric bill is about a million dollars a month, and they make very few anti-protons from all that power! I bet they're ComEd's best customer. They can't run during the summer air-conditioning months, as they would suck too much energy from the grid in Illinois.
The guide also said as long as the magnets stay supercooled, the anti-protons will stay suspended in the ring for up to a month (unless they hit stray matter and blow up sooner).
After the tour, we got to play stump the genius - one of the research physicists there was nice enough to give a Q & A session. A most informative and cool tour, getting to see something that most "civilians" never get to lay eyes on.
Yeah, that's it, element 119. But it's so small you can't see it. Oh, yes, and it only exists for a fraction of a second inside a nuclear explosion. That's the ticket!
That reminds me; I used to have a 286 system with a second disk bay chassis - This was pretty souped up; IIRC it was 20Mhz clock w/287 - woo hoo! I ran 4 hard disks on it by using an AT and an XT hard disk controller - very unusal for the time, a cool piece of software called 4drives let you do that. But I digress... Anyway because I had the second drive chassis sitting next to the main PC, the ribbon cables were only about 20" for the MFM drives, so the covers were off the two chassis's side by side. This brings me to the point; all went well until one day my cat Monty barfed in the chassis with the motherboard. Yack!! Disgusting! Not only was it disgusting, by the time I discovered it (maybe 2 days later) it had etched off the traces on the motherboard under the puke piles. Arrggghhh!!! The motherboard was a basket case after that, and prompted my arrival into the wonderful world of 486's.
Is one of the smoking Cisco Router the slashdotting caused!
Considering how oscillator circuits work nowadays.
The frequency determining component of all transcievers (cellfones, radios, commercial two-way, etc.) is something called a "fractional-N" synthesizer. This takes a reference frequency (usually a TCXO or crystal clock) and chops it up (fractionates it), then feeds it to a "divide-by-N" circuit to make the desired higher frequency output signal. Almost all VCO's work that way.
It then follows that the circuit sought out a stable reference signal to use as a timebase, via another outside source. This is also a common practice, using WWV(B) receivers or GPS receivers as reference timebases when two transmitters need to be synch-locked.
Sounds to me like the programmer was an RF engineer!
VMS was/is the most secure operating system ever written. I know, I tried to hack one that I bought at a hamfest. I tried everything. Every hacker text file from the 80's I consulted said "forget it". The ONLY way to hack a VMS system is to social engineer a password or use a dictionary cracker for weak passwords. There are no maint. backdoors, single user mode boot hacks, etc. and believe me, a simple ^C is not sufficent. I have two Micro-VAXen and I wound up having to reload VMS from scratch, just for want of a supervisor password. Also, the error messages were deliberatly long and informative, very helpful if you actually read and act on them (i.e. troubleshoot a problem).
Yah, they're really cryptic and difficult; about as tricky as MS-DOS. "dir" to see your files, "type" to list a file, "copy" to copy a file, etc. Real obscure syntax since everyone got bit with point-and-click disease!
Hacking the government's computers is stupid.
Hacking the govermnent's computers during time of war is monumentally stupid.
It's conceivable that because we are in a state of War, it might even be considered a treasonous (sp?) act.
It's pretty funny tho, the article quotes the gov't as saying if someone finds a vulnerability, they should report it.
Isn't that exactly what happened?
Huh? I can't figure out youre response at all. To clarify, what I am saying was:
1. That if the corp desires, it can provide QOS equal to that of the private guys. They have the $$ to do so.
2. They can do #1 without buying dual load balanced T1's. That's overkill.
3. The closer you are to the rec'd signal the better quality (throughput) you get. You being inside the store will get better QOS from the store than from an outside provider.
That is all.
I have a two-word response: Ray Hollingsworth.
He's cleaned up 75m pretty well. There are still some of the "Good Ole Boys" club there, that like to get drunk and broadcast, but for the most part increased legal actions by the FCC have by and large ended the "blight" on the lowbands.
Just because there are a few idiots who trash 75m doesn't mean that they are willing to participate in a ongoing illegal enterprise. Even they wake up straight every once in a while, and would realize what they are doing, eventually.
Finally, I guess Troll is all we have because there is no "Absolute Nonsense" mod category.
Absolute nonsense. I'm an Amateur Radio Operator, and I can assure you there are no "squatters rights" on ANY frequency by ANY uncoordinated entity (i.e. Part 15).
Further any Ham operator causing willful interference can be ticketed by the FCC. Even if they are interfering with secondary services, if it can be proved they are doing it just to cause harmful interference, they can be fined heavily for this.
And finally if you can find a Ham low enough to try this, you've found the exception, not the rule. Most hams would be outraged (as I am) at the mere suggestion we use MIGHT to make RIGHT.
If you modd'ers want to find a good Troll, check the parent of this message. Bah.
What bonehead possibly thought that this was a troll? This is an honest discussion, voiced from my opinions. There are good opinions, and bad opinions, and just because you don't agree doesn't mean I'm feeding the trolls. The moderations here are really tending to suck lately. Just because some grassfucker wants the free guys to win (Starbucks = bad corporate evil giant) doesn't mean they will, but either way, it's simply OPINION until it happens. Then it becomes FACT. If all who speak their opinions here get modded as trolls, it would tend to cause a lot less intellight opinions being voiced. And God knows, this place doesn't need any further intelligence dilution! Bad Mod: Previous post. If you wanna mod this as a Flame, go ahead, it is. I have Karma to burn.
Most obviously, it's not better. However, a fractional T1, etc more than enouth for the expected bandwith. Dual load balanced T1's, are very nice but a total waste on a single 802.11b channel. Do you think you are even going to approach a single T1's bandwith in actual operation? I seriously doubt it, you'd be really lucky to push more than 1.4 MB/s through on a good day.
Well, that's why I said "potential". At first they may try to save money with cheapo connections. If it gets down to a dirty fight, the corporate types will have the $$ on their side, and they would be able to afford a Frac/T1 or Biz DSL into the shop if they thought it would be profitable to win the war.
They'll have to provide superior service for pay than their customers can get for free already. In areas where there is no existing free service, they can probably get away with the service class you mentioned, because no one there knows better or has an alternative.
Also, somwhere it was mentioned there was no difference in QOS between the free service and the corporate one, so if that's not an issue, then signal strength (read: throughput speed) becomes the only one - which do you get better? Most likely, the closest local signal (i.e. the one originating inside the shop).
I worked for a wireless ISP, and we had to deal with this all the time. The 11 channels of 802.11b are all there is to work with, and we would constantly have to dance around existing systems. At least, the players here know who they are up against.
If they can't resolve the frequency coordination, and it devolves into a shouting match, Starbuck's is gonna win. They will have access points located within their premeses (sp?) and will no doubt have the maxium legal power and antenna structures allowed by the FCC. If the private guys can punch thru that signal, they're doing it using illegal power levels or antennas.
Also, a corporate sponsored setup would have the potential to have a higher speed backbone in and out of the shop, and ultimately be able to provide better service than the free guys.
I think that my "extra" CPU cycles would be much better put toward distributed AIDS or cancer research. SETI seems somewhat of a waste of time, pedantic stuff like this even more.
Doesn't this seem to be something very similar to the Ximian desktop? I am still weeding pieces of that shitball out of my system. I run RedHat and after installing it, I couldn't upgrade from 7.1 to
7.2 for my life. I had to go in and hand delete all the Ximian packages, and even after doing that, it still left little turds all over my system that conflicted with later version releases to this day.
I will NEVER install a third-party desktop again!!