This is the data stream from my GPS receiver, the leap second is the line in bold, (23:59:59 is repeated) For other (accurate) clocks, it would have displayed the seconds as...,58,59,60,00,01,02,...
I've used my Green Laser for Halloween. It would be cool to use a beam expander for a light sabre type effect, but then the beam would be too weak to see unless it was pitch black.
Also, I've walked around with a handheld Tesla coil powered by a 12v 7.2Ah SLA battery and a 75 Watt inverter.
I fried my 800 W inverter with the tesla coil last year, but the 75 W was ok, I guess it was so cheaply made, there wasn't anything that could get damaged too easily. The 300 W had a microprocessor.
When can I print out my own perfect being just like in the Fifth Element? It's interesting how the thermal bandages only covered the "sensitive" areas.
Also, a lot of American sellers on eBay will only ship within the US. I've never checked, but I'm sure very few people from Canada or any other country limit their auctions to thier own country.
I pay $35 Canadian a month for Look
It's a wireless microwave link, no caps, static IP, they don't mind if I run a server, and I received over 2Mbps downloading Linux ISO's.
Unix is a registered trademark of...
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Look at the second last line of this close-up.
It reads, "Unix is a regist".
SCO Lawyers should be very busy trying to read this!
Here is a link to the picture.
This is actually called a flight computer, not a slide rule. This appears to be a simple flight computer at that, it looks like it only converts between KPH, MPH, and Nautical Miles. This is a more complex flight computer with instructions.
Jargon file, Portrait of J. Random Hacker
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I like to read the following from the Jargon File: http://www.ack.ca/jargon/html/Weaknesses-of -the-Ha cker-Personality.html
(some stuff removed) 1994-95's fad behavioral disease was a syndrome called Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD), supposedly characterized by (among other things) a combination of short attention span with an ability to `hyperfocus' imaginatively on interesting tasks. In 1998-1999 another syndrome that is said to overlap with many hacker traits entered popular awareness: Asperger's syndrome (AS). This disorder is also sometimes called `high-function autism', though researchers are divided on whether AS is in fact a mild form of autism or a distinct syndrome with a different etiology. AS patients exhibit mild to severe deficits in interpreting facial and body-language cues and in modeling or empathizing with others' emotions. Though some AS patients exhibit mild retardation, others compensate for their deficits with high intelligence and analytical ability, and frequently seek out technical fields where problem-solving abilities are at a premium and people skills are relatively unimportant. Both syndromes are thought to relate to abnormalities in neurotransmitter chemistry, especially the brain's processing of serotonin.
Many hackers have noticed that mainstream culture has shown a tendency to pathologize and medicalize normal variations in personality, especially those variations that make life more complicated for authority figures and conformists. Thus, hackers aware of the issue tend to be among those questioning whether ADD and AS actually exist; and if so whether they are really `diseases' rather than extremes of a normal genetic variation like having freckles or being able to taste DPT. In either case, they have a sneaking tendency to wonder if these syndromes are over-diagnosed and over-treated. After all, people in authority will always be inconvenienced by schoolchildren or workers or citizens who are prickly, intelligent individualists - thus, any social system that depends on authority relationships will tend to helpfully ostracize and therapize and drug such `abnormal' people until they are properly docile and stupid and `well-socialized'.
So hackers tend to believe they have good reason for skepticism about clinical explanations of the hacker personality. That being said, most would also concede that some hacker traits coincide with indicators for ADD and AS. It is probably true that boosters of both would find a rather higher rate of clinical ADD among hackers than the supposedly mainstream-normal 10% (AS is rarer and there are not yet good estimates of incidence as of 2000).
The Wired Magazine article Mother Earth, Mother board is an article written by a hacker/tourist. I've always liked reading this article, and it lists neat places to visit
Slashdot Mirror
This is the data stream from my GPS receiver, the leap second is the line in bold, (23:59:59 is repeated) ...,58,59,60,00,01,02,...
8 .3,311205,11.1,W*4B1 .1,311205,11.1,W*488 .6,311205,11.1,W*497 .5,311205,11.1,W*4F8 .0,311205,11.1,W*4F9 .4,311205,11.1,W*42. 9,010106,11.1,W*776 .4,010106,11.1,W*477 .1,010106,11.1,W*496 .9,010106,11.1,W*471 .2,010106,11.1,W*4F0 .3,010106,11.1,W*4C
For other (accurate) clocks, it would have displayed the seconds as
$GPRMC,235955,A,XXXX.3905,N,XXXXX.6797,W,0.169,18
$GPRMC,235956,A,XXXX.3905,N,XXXXX.6799,W,0.161,26
$GPRMC,235957,A,XXXX.3906,N,XXXXX.6800,W,0.209,29
$GPRMC,235958,A,XXXX.3906,N,XXXXX.6803,W,0.195,29
$GPRMC,235959,A,XXXX.3906,N,XXXXX.6804,W,0.167,28
$GPRMC,235959,A,XXXX.3907,N,XXXXX.6804,W,0.089,31
$GPRMC,000000,A,XXXX.3908,N,XXXXX.6803,W,0.248,16
$GPRMC,000001,A,XXXX.3908,N,XXXXX.6803,W,0.062,16
$GPRMC,000002,A,XXXX.3907,N,XXXXX.6804,W,0.172,17
$GPRMC,000003,A,XXXX.3907,N,XXXXX.6804,W,0.055,26
$GPRMC,000004,A,XXXX.3907,N,XXXXX.6804,W,0.148,28
$GPRMC,000005,A,XXXX.3907,N,XXXXX.6805,W,0.103,24
I removed my latitude and longitude since I don't want everyone to know where I live of course.
I've used my Green Laser for Halloween.
It would be cool to use a beam expander for a light sabre type effect, but then the beam would be too weak to see unless it was pitch black.
Also, I've walked around with a handheld Tesla coil powered by a 12v 7.2Ah SLA battery and a 75 Watt inverter.
I fried my 800 W inverter with the tesla coil last year, but the 75 W was ok, I guess it was so cheaply made, there wasn't anything that could get damaged too easily. The 300 W had a microprocessor.
Delta made a MIDI Lathe: Delta 46-250 Midi-Lathe
I'm taking a towel to the theatre, how about you?
Crokonole is a fun but simple game up here in Canada.
When can I print out my own perfect being just like in the Fifth Element?
It's interesting how the thermal bandages only covered the "sensitive" areas.
A real-time MD5SUM of the ram or...
0xFEEDFACEDEADBEEF
It's simple, we just /. the cameras, that way nobody can view the cameras. Instant security!
erm... How about "Notebook"?
Does anyone remember the early days of Luggables?
http://www.obsoletecomputermuseum.org/compaq/
Wikipedia is great, but it's not a search engine for the web.
"You can Wikipedia them on the Web, open source-style."
First we're holding funerals for our programs, now we're burning our data onto corn based disks as an "environmentally friendly" to "dispose of data"
What? Isn't rm -rf / enviromentally friendly enough?
The tubes are now on eBay.
Darn Scrollwheel, I accidently modded this as flamebait. I'm just posting to null out my moderation...
Yes, this is offtopic.
Free Energy? Free as in Speech?
Also, a lot of American sellers on eBay will only ship within the US. I've never checked, but I'm sure very few people from Canada or any other country limit their auctions to thier own country.
I pay $35 Canadian a month for Look
It's a wireless microwave link, no caps, static IP, they don't mind if I run a server, and I received over 2Mbps downloading Linux ISO's.
Look at the second last line of this close-up.
It reads, "Unix is a regist". SCO Lawyers should be very busy trying to read this!
The EFF should have a field day with this one.
... and apparently they are.
. php#000585
http://www.eff.org/news/breaking/archives/2003_10
Here is a link to the picture.
This is actually called a flight computer, not a slide rule. This appears to be a simple flight computer at that, it looks like it only converts between KPH, MPH, and Nautical Miles.
This is a more complex flight computer with instructions.
Use S/Key
It's a one-time password system.
3M has recently come out with Transparent Duct Tape. I haven't repaired anything with it yet, but it looks and feels like a big roll of medical tape.
This stuff is better than Transparent Aluminum!
Here's a link to 3M's website: http://www.3m.com/us/office/scotch/transducttape/
I like to read the following from the Jargon File:f -the-Ha cker-Personality.html
http://www.ack.ca/jargon/html/Weaknesses-o
(some stuff removed)
1994-95's fad behavioral disease was a syndrome called Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD), supposedly characterized by (among other things) a combination of short attention span with an ability to `hyperfocus' imaginatively on interesting tasks. In 1998-1999 another syndrome that is said to overlap with many hacker traits entered popular awareness: Asperger's syndrome (AS). This disorder is also sometimes called `high-function autism', though researchers are divided on whether AS is in fact a mild form of autism or a distinct syndrome with a different etiology. AS patients exhibit mild to severe deficits in interpreting facial and body-language cues and in modeling or empathizing with others' emotions. Though some AS patients exhibit mild retardation, others compensate for their deficits with high intelligence and analytical ability, and frequently seek out technical fields where problem-solving abilities are at a premium and people skills are relatively unimportant. Both syndromes are thought to relate to abnormalities in neurotransmitter chemistry, especially the brain's processing of serotonin.
Many hackers have noticed that mainstream culture has shown a tendency to pathologize and medicalize normal variations in personality, especially those variations that make life more complicated for authority figures and conformists. Thus, hackers aware of the issue tend to be among those questioning whether ADD and AS actually exist; and if so whether they are really `diseases' rather than extremes of a normal genetic variation like having freckles or being able to taste DPT. In either case, they have a sneaking tendency to wonder if these syndromes are over-diagnosed and over-treated. After all, people in authority will always be inconvenienced by schoolchildren or workers or citizens who are prickly, intelligent individualists - thus, any social system that depends on authority relationships will tend to helpfully ostracize and therapize and drug such `abnormal' people until they are properly docile and stupid and `well-socialized'.
So hackers tend to believe they have good reason for skepticism about clinical explanations of the hacker personality. That being said, most would also concede that some hacker traits coincide with indicators for ADD and AS. It is probably true that boosters of both would find a rather higher rate of clinical ADD among hackers than the supposedly mainstream-normal 10% (AS is rarer and there are not yet good estimates of incidence as of 2000).
The Wired Magazine article Mother Earth, Mother board is an article written by a hacker/tourist.
I've always liked reading this article, and it lists neat places to visit
I always thought that Gandolf looked a bit like Richard Stallman.
Maybe it was just the beard.
Lord of the Token Ring