-- We've got cellphones! Everyone knows how great cellphones work in an emergency. Viva la cellphone!
Ham radio is antiquated. I can buy 2 FRS radios at Wal-Mart for 30 dollars and will be able to talk a whopping 1/2 mile. --
And when Isabel destroys many of the cell towers, where will you be then? Unless you have a satphone your Aunt Tilly in Burbank won't know what's become of you. She could get a message relayed via ham radio, with a response to find out that you are ok, although maniacally clutching your cell phone.
Also, FRS radios and Ham Radio are not the same thing, by a long shot.
My wife has been working on her Ph.D. for some years, and I have finally weaned her off of M$. She now uses FreeBSD without a lot of problems. Primarily she uses email [sylpheed], a web browser [opera], a calendar [ical], and a wordprocesser [OO].
To date, none of the Open Source word processors are worth a flip, including OO. AbiWord is crippled at best, and OO works to a better extent, but is a bloat monster. Basically, nothing on the Open Source side can match the capabilities of DeScribe for OS/2, which is almost a 10-year-old product [somebody PLEASE find the source code for this and port it to *nix!]
All she needs is basic, solid wordprocessing [as I convert everything she does to LyX anyway], and the OpenSource stuff falls flat.
-- &:12 Am less than a hundrud coments and the site is slashed. We shoud use a distributed file systum for the web somthinc like freenet but faster. Sinsce at the moment freenet makes it seam as though its 8 years ago and I have a 14.4 --
If you're the official spokesperson, I don't think that it will happen any time soon. . .
-- Oh, I misunderstood. I think you meant Ugly PCB constructions as opposed to milled PCB. --
'Ugly construction' [or 'dead bug' construction] is putting things together over a solid [unetched] piece of PC board. All connections are lead-to-lead, and grounds go staight to the pcb. Works great at RF.
-- How could "ugly" construction perform better on something so sensitive to impedance and trace layout and length as RF? --
Simple--you have a continuous ground plane underneath your components, which means that ground leads can be made as short as possible. Also, since you're not constrained by layout, you can ensure that inter-component leads are as short as possible, and that the input is nowhere near the output, etc. etc.
It's often the case that there are fewer problems, less stray capacitance, etc. with ugly construction over PCB construction.
for general mcb construction, but it really depends upon the application. Most of the stuff I would use it for would be RF, and 'ugly' construction is a heckuva lot faster, and usually performs better.
For computer hacking stuff, or for audio, this might be a handy thing to have.
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Is it too much to ask for an "editor" can spell?
Yes, and writing is beyond all comprehension.
My girlfriend and 11 year old daughter passed their novice/tech tests without effort.
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.you're telling us that you live in Arkansas?
Ewww. .
Soooo. . .
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We've got cellphones! Everyone knows how great cellphones work in an emergency. Viva la cellphone!
Ham radio is antiquated. I can buy 2 FRS radios at Wal-Mart for 30 dollars and will be able to talk a whopping 1/2 mile.
--
And when Isabel destroys many of the cell towers, where will you be then? Unless you have a satphone your Aunt Tilly in Burbank won't know what's become of you. She could get a message relayed via ham radio, with a response to find out that you are ok, although maniacally clutching your cell phone.
Also, FRS radios and Ham Radio are not the same thing, by a long shot.
around the rest of the country, to relay Health & Welfare traffic during the aftermath.
./ effect!
Some other frequencies of interest:
14.265 MHz [USB] Salvation Army SATERN net.
7.232 MHz [LSB] Tarheel net [daytime]
3.923 MHz [LSB] Tarheel net [after 7:30 pm]
3.907 MHz [LSB] Coastal Carolina net.
The nice thing about radio is, as long as you're only listening, it doesn't suffer from the
Braille Screens.
no more individual swapping for me--it's whole truckloads of illegal immigrants from now on!
The Quintet, vol I and II.
it's just Big Brother, 2+2=5 and all that.
I believe I'll have a Victory Gin and Tonic. . .
Not if you use artificial light, with artificial sweeteners. . .
My wife has been working on her Ph.D. for some years, and I have finally weaned her off of M$. She now uses FreeBSD without a lot of problems. Primarily she uses email [sylpheed], a web browser [opera], a calendar [ical], and a wordprocesser [OO].
To date, none of the Open Source word processors are worth a flip, including OO. AbiWord is crippled at best, and OO works to a better extent, but is a bloat monster. Basically, nothing on the Open Source side can match the capabilities of DeScribe for OS/2, which is almost a 10-year-old product [somebody PLEASE find the source code for this and port it to *nix!]
All she needs is basic, solid wordprocessing [as I convert everything she does to LyX anyway], and the OpenSource stuff falls flat.
"You're from India right?
PS:Im from Argentina, doing freelance for the US, Europe, etc, so I can understand what the indians go through. Flame away."
Indiana? Heavens no! Kenosha!
More Ham Radio!
Yipeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!
Done Dirt Cheap.
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&:12 Am less than a hundrud coments and the site is slashed. We shoud use a distributed file systum for the web somthinc like freenet but faster. Sinsce at the moment freenet makes it seam as though its 8 years ago and I have a 14.4
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If you're the official spokesperson, I don't think that it will happen any time soon. . .
is a dead PC.
Then again, if the entire *case* is a heatsink, and everything is shockmounted, it might work.
But, you'd still want to kill it at some point. . .
Did they burn their fingers?
I thought the Internet *was* the world's largest computer party. *Now* you're telling me it's Norway?!
We must have the Bombe.
After all, in its day, it was 'da bombe'.
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Wie Sie Herren sind!
Ihre ganze Unterseite sind gehören uns. Sie sind auf der Weise zur Zerstörung. Sie haben keine Wahrscheinlichkeit zu überleben bilden Ihre Zeit.
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Translation: All your Sudetenland belong to us.
Sorry,
Ach du lieber!
Exschuldigen Sie. . .
however, I'm going to sit back and wait for the 'Naughty Bit'.
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Oh, I misunderstood. I think you meant Ugly PCB constructions as opposed to milled PCB.
--
'Ugly construction' [or 'dead bug' construction] is putting things together over a solid [unetched] piece of PC board. All connections are lead-to-lead, and grounds go staight to the pcb. Works great at RF.
--
How could "ugly" construction perform better on something so sensitive to impedance and trace layout and length as RF?
--
Simple--you have a continuous ground plane underneath your components, which means that ground leads can be made as short as possible. Also, since you're not constrained by layout, you can ensure that inter-component leads are as short as possible, and that the input is nowhere near the output, etc. etc.
It's often the case that there are fewer problems, less stray capacitance, etc. with ugly construction over PCB construction.
As a benefit, it's faster as well.
for general mcb construction, but it really depends upon the application. Most of the stuff I would use it for would be RF, and 'ugly' construction is a heckuva lot faster, and usually performs better.
For computer hacking stuff, or for audio, this might be a handy thing to have.
there goes radio. . .