It's the sorry nature of consumer electronics that makes RFI [radio frequency interference] noticeable. With proper filtering and front-end design, it shouldn't be noticed or be a problem.
More to the point, though, is if consumer electronics were properly built to FCC standards, they would suffer fewer problems.
All it takes is a few ferrite beads, bypass capacitors here and there, and most of the problems go away. Anybody involved in electronics should learn the basics of blocking RFI.
How about my trusty K&E Slide Rule, it's used every day by me. I like the notion that math has some tactile component to it, and that it can be expressed easily as analog physical relationships.
Ham radio geeks have been launching baloons [and rockets] with smart payloads for years. Launching is the easy part. Tracking it down and recovering it is the hard part.
I'd s---can Mozilla, and deploy something lighter and quicker, say Opera or something like that. Mozilla is just too big and bloated--I wouldn't do it in my organization, and it sounds like our shop is smaller than yours.
We've got Opera running fine on WinNT and FreeBSD machines.
-- It depends on the state. In some states, it's driver's license number and the social security number are completely different. In others, the driver's license number is the social security number put through a simple algorithm. In states like New Jersey (at least the last time I checked), your driver's license number is your SSN and that's it. --
You might check it out, if you live in NJ, to see if they offer an alternative. MO does, but they don't publicize it very well.
-- Your driver's license number is generated from algorithm that uses your social security number, so even though you think your safe, you can just run that number in reverse through the algorithm to find your social. It's not even that trick, either, it can be done on some scratch paper in 30 seconds. --
I doubt it--my driver's license number is two fewer digits than a SS, and starts with the letter W.
I have always been for less convenience and more privacy. However, I think it should be a matter of choice. The choices *should* be available, and many times they are not, and that really fries my goat.
For example, Social Security numbers were never meant to be a general ID number. Every chance I get, I opt for a different number [e.g., driver's licenses usually us SS #'s for the DL #. Here in Missouri, you can have that changed so that your DL# is not equal to your SS#, which is nice.]
I encourage everyone to limit any personal information you give out, and check your credit reports often. Ultimately, the choice is yours: restrict the broadcast of your personal information [at the expense of some convenience], or face identity fraud of one kind or another.
-- I found my Palm IIIx much more usefull for note taking before I lost my expensive folding keyboard. Graffiti can be a bit slow when I'm trying to jot down requests from an anxious customer on the phone, but I wonder why I can't just plug a cheap PS/2 or USB keyboard into the thing through the cradle.It can't be that hard to adapt. --
There is a company out there that makes a cradle that mates to a standard PS/2 keyboard, although I don't recall the name of the company. They do make the 'happy hacker' keyboard [the Japanese are so, uh, interesting. ..], so search on that and you should uncover it.
Slashdot Mirror
don't all /. readers run Linux or *BSD anyway?
This is *news*?
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So why do astronomers always compare the size of meteors to Volkswagen bugs?
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A Yugo?
Maybe a City Bus. . .
It's the sorry nature of consumer electronics that makes RFI [radio frequency interference] noticeable. With proper filtering and front-end design, it shouldn't be noticed or be a problem.
More to the point, though, is if consumer electronics were properly built to FCC standards, they would suffer fewer problems.
All it takes is a few ferrite beads, bypass capacitors here and there, and most of the problems go away. Anybody involved in electronics should learn the basics of blocking RFI.
Nailed already.
one end doesn't know what the other end is doing.
The end is near.
How about my trusty K&E Slide Rule, it's used every day by me. I like the notion that math has some tactile component to it, and that it can be expressed easily as analog physical relationships.
Plus:
- never needs batteries
- Y2k compliant [and Y3k, Y4k, etc.]
- has ultra-geek factor all over it
- confuses the shit out of the Marketing people.
A really bloated interface [Solaris].
.
Oh wait, there's KDE. . .
Well, ok, the Sun interface has a movie named after it.
Oh wait, there's the Titanic.
Damn, foiled again. . .
Ham radio geeks have been launching baloons [and rockets] with smart payloads for years. Launching is the easy part. Tracking it down and recovering it is the hard part.
"Refuel it at home with an optional $1000 (natural) gas station".
I wonder if that comes with an optional (taco) bell, instead of a horn.
"You compile it today."
"No way--*you* compile it!"
"No way! Hey--let's get Mikey, he'll compile *anything*!"
That's what we called them as kids, growing up in [where else?] Wisconsin.
Only we used tennis balls, steel beer cans duct-taped together, and lighter fluid.
I'd s---can Mozilla, and deploy something lighter and quicker, say Opera or something like that. Mozilla is just too big and bloated--I wouldn't do it in my organization, and it sounds like our shop is smaller than yours.
We've got Opera running fine on WinNT and FreeBSD machines.
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There's mention in the story of an even more interesting website www.classiccmp.org Unfortunately, most of the website is still under construction.
So...tell me again...why is this site even more interesting?
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Because it's running on a Cluster of Altairs?
Oh yeah, the URL:
http://webpages.mr.net/bobz/ttyquake/
game ever thought up.
Ever.
Text
Mode
Quake.
I shudder to even think about it. . .
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It depends on the state. In some states, it's driver's license number and the social security number are completely different. In others, the driver's license number is the social security number put through a simple algorithm. In states like New Jersey (at least the last time I checked), your driver's license number is your SSN and that's it.
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You might check it out, if you live in NJ, to see if they offer an alternative. MO does, but they don't publicize it very well.
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Your driver's license number is generated from algorithm that uses your social security number, so even though you think your safe, you can just run that number in reverse through the algorithm to find your social. It's not even that trick, either, it can be done on some scratch paper in 30 seconds.
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I doubt it--my driver's license number is two fewer digits than a SS, and starts with the letter W.
Not likely.
I have always been for less convenience and more privacy. However, I think it should be a matter of choice. The choices *should* be available, and many times they are not, and that really fries my goat.
For example, Social Security numbers were never meant to be a general ID number. Every chance I get, I opt for a different number [e.g., driver's licenses usually us SS #'s for the DL #. Here in Missouri, you can have that changed so that your DL# is not equal to your SS#, which is nice.]
I encourage everyone to limit any personal information you give out, and check your credit reports often. Ultimately, the choice is yours: restrict the broadcast of your personal information [at the expense of some convenience], or face identity fraud of one kind or another.
You mean it's *not* because AOL just sucks?
Then it must be the superintelligent user base. . .
. . .like those starch blockers, forget it.
DupeChute.
Now if someone can just tell me how to build my own open-sourced, fault resistant, no-tangle Xmas tree lights, *that* would be news!
-- ... or you just want to be REALLY, REALLY accurate :-)
"Dammit, Jim! I've calculated it out to a trillion decimal places, and I'm POSITIVE the answer is EXACTLY -1!"
"Keep going, Bones! We have to be Absolutely SURE!"
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"I'm a *Doctor*, damnit, NOT a MATHMATICIAN!"
. . .this isn't a Soylent Green Factory?!
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.], so search on that and you should uncover it.
I found my Palm IIIx much more usefull for note taking before I lost my expensive folding keyboard. Graffiti can be a bit slow when I'm trying to jot down requests from an anxious customer on the phone, but I wonder why I can't just plug a cheap PS/2 or USB keyboard into the thing through the cradle.It can't be that hard to adapt.
--
There is a company out there that makes a cradle that mates to a standard PS/2 keyboard, although I don't recall the name of the company. They do make the 'happy hacker' keyboard [the Japanese are so, uh, interesting. .
They call themselves Geeks, and nary a ham radio or slide rule in sight!
Geez. . .