About 6 months ago a friend and I were doing some experements with 6 element yagi antennas and a linksys access point. We were easily able to acheive 1 mile ranges on open flat terrain. But the real kicker was when we were able to get pings (0-25% loss) form a distance of 8 miles. But to do that we had to get about 300 feet of elevation, park the car and carefully turn the beam till we found the signal. Overall the signal strength was around -75dBm, the connection was usuable but just barely..
As I have stated in earlyer posts, I'm finished with Intel processors and comodity hardware in general. x86 has served me well through the years but trying to expand on it in it's current form has turned into a kludge. I'm moving on to someting else like Sun and/or Silicon Graphics hardware. Sure it's a lot more expensive but hell, 64 bit RISC processors and I/O bandwidth are the way to go. Besides, I can still run Linux on it:)
I have played with Solaris for some time now. First was when they had the free Solaris 7 x86 promotion back in 98. I payed some 19 dollars for my media kit and installed it on a Compaq Deskpro 4000. Years later I aquired a SPARCserver5, a Ultra 1 and tried it for real. With the Ultra 1 I was impressed how fast Solaris ran in 64 bit mode. Now I am in the process of getting a Ultra 80 and can't wait to try it on some real hardware. Since then, my preference for cheap comsumer grade x86 hardware has deminished greatly.
Be lucky that Sun has decided to bow to it's consumers and released a x86 port of Solaris 9. If all you are going to do is complain then go buy Sun hardware and do it right the first time... Besides, it stimulates the economy and dosen't contribute to the Microsoft tax.
Maybe manufactures could come out with a high power cd burner to just simply over write the existing data. That way I could actually reuse the free disks they keep sending me, since they quit sending me floppys =(
But seriously, I have been a seti member almost from the beginning. But lately I have lost interest in turning out work units, this is mostly due to the length of time to crunch each unit. Using both of my dual 1GHz PIIIs I was only able to do about 6 units in 24hrs (running 1 session per box). If I ran 2 sessions per machine I could get 11-12 units done. But this would make the machines kind of sluggish and made a noticable difference in my power bill.
Never the less, I'd hate to see seti fold and go away, I still think it gives the average joe the feeling that he/she's doing something usefull.
This confirms what I have pretty much have known all along. If it's not spam comming from asia it's infected windows boxes trying to attack my webserver. My servers http and mail logs are filled with failed attempts and are getting rather large...
Because I'm having way too much fun with ultra sparcs.
I have been looking for a replacement for the intel based boxen I'm running now. Lately, I have been playing around with some old ultra sparc boxes. Not super speed demons anymore but still loads of fun to play with.
Maybe while they're at it they can also confirm that the moon is littered with ruins. Rumor has it that the reason why we haven't gone back is because there are ruins there from someone else. If it's true it may very well tie in with the "glass worms" on mars.
How about doing something like this from low earth orbit? But I have a funny feeling that the band would be so crowded you might be lucky to get anything usefull...
I prefer to use older VHS Hi-Fi VCRs to record CDs. These units are heavy and well constructed, I have tapes that I recorded 10 years ago that still sound near CD quality. For DVDs a good quality S-VHS Hi-Fi will do the trick. Hell, I still even have a Sony UMATIC (3/4" cassette tape) stereo VTR that still makes broadcast quality recordings..
I still use floppys because they are a great way to transfer small files like logs and so fourth. It's still far too wastfull to transfer such small files using CDR(W)s and zip disks. Only when I have a large number of files or large tar balls will I use anything else. Who cares if I don't use it that often, I will always have a 3.5" floppy in all of the machines I build and or use..
I remember back in the 80s when this poor excuse of a senator helped raise a big fuss over "porn rock". Artists like Frank Zappa were raked over the coals at hearings for the lyrics in their music and wanted "WARNING" stickers placed on questionable albums.
"The Mothers of Prevention". A wonderful addition to any Zappa fans collection...
Boy, back when I got Diablo I thought it's system requirements were excessive. Before you know it we'll have to buy beowulfed SGI hardware just to play the new games:p
For the past several months all the hack attempts I receive come form nimba compromised windows boxes. I have yet to have one comming from a linux box let alone a unix box. I have no reson to doubt your claim but I'm just stating the facts..
This is exactly the kind of heavy handed bull shit that is turning me away form Micro$oft. Micro$oft has no right to charge licence fees for machines that don't have Windows installed, or demand that donated computers keep the Windows installation. Micro$oft didn't make the computer, it just ran their OS.
It would be like Sun comming in and demanding them to pay licences for Solaris. Just how many more billion$ does Micro$oft need? Using these kind of tactics against schools is just uncalled for. The time has long since come to get schools and government off of Micro$soft software and on to Linux.
I'm a amateur radio operator and I can say that the field emissions from these phones is nothing to get worried about. These concerns reguarding RF exposure from celular phones are from people who are completely cluless. Most celular phones only have a ERP (effective radiated power) of only 300 milliwatts and only transmit when the user speaks thus saving battery power and only producing a duty cycle of 40% or so. The computer monitor you sit in front of radiates far more power, even the leakage around the door of you microwave oven is in the order of a few watts at 2.45GHz..
This has got to be the stupidest thing yet (right up there with Al Gore inventing the internet and Microsoft being the only one who should innovate). So he means to say if I edit all the commercials out of program that I'm recording constitutes theft? Get a life Jamie! If I want to edit all the crap out or a program I'm recording there is nothing that can be done about it.
What's next, you gonna make it illeagle for me to throw away all the junk mail I get in my mail box just to get my bills? Sheesh!!
If the BSA wants to play hard ball then I say we should have an independent audit company audit the BSA. I'm sure they're not squeaky clean and one of their employees is bound to have some "non compliant" software installed. They sent me a letter some time ago and all I did was laugh and throw into the circular file. Let them come and look at my computers, all they're going to see is that "gear where the start button should be" operating system.
This has always been my beef with with hardware manufactures who think the processor should do all the work via software. Dedicated hardware will always kick ass over its software brothers. There is NO excuse for this, I would rather pay more for a video card that has its own smarts and can figure out how to do things without the processor holding its hand.
Crappy "winmodems" and "winnics" are a prime example of this...
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About 6 months ago a friend and I were doing some experements with 6 element yagi antennas and a linksys access point. We were easily able to acheive 1 mile ranges on open flat terrain. But the real kicker was when we were able to get pings (0-25% loss) form a distance of 8 miles. But to do that we had to get about 300 feet of elevation, park the car and carefully turn the beam till we found the signal. Overall the signal strength was around -75dBm, the connection was usuable but just barely..
As I have stated in earlyer posts, I'm finished with Intel processors and comodity hardware in general. x86 has served me well through the years but trying to expand on it in it's current form has turned into a kludge. I'm moving on to someting else like Sun and/or Silicon Graphics hardware. Sure it's a lot more expensive but hell, 64 bit RISC processors and I/O bandwidth are the way to go. Besides, I can still run Linux on it :)
Mere mortals, I laugh at your 32 bit clunkers...
I have played with Solaris for some time now. First was when they had the free Solaris 7 x86 promotion back in 98. I payed some 19 dollars for my media kit and installed it on a Compaq Deskpro 4000. Years later I aquired a SPARCserver5, a Ultra 1 and tried it for real. With the Ultra 1 I was impressed how fast Solaris ran in 64 bit mode. Now I am in the process of getting a Ultra 80 and can't wait to try it on some real hardware. Since then, my preference for cheap comsumer grade x86 hardware has deminished greatly.
Be lucky that Sun has decided to bow to it's consumers and released a x86 port of Solaris 9. If all you are going to do is complain then go buy Sun hardware and do it right the first time... Besides, it stimulates the economy and dosen't contribute to the Microsoft tax.
"Mere mortals, I laugh at your 32 bit clunkers"
That would be cool to have more than one AGP slot. I am sometimes disapointed that I cannot have two dual headed agp cards installed...
Maybe manufactures could come out with a high power cd burner to just simply over write the existing data. That way I could actually reuse the free disks they keep sending me, since they quit sending me floppys =(
But seriously, I have been a seti member almost from the beginning. But lately I have lost interest in turning out work units, this is mostly due to the length of time to crunch each unit. Using both of my dual 1GHz PIIIs I was only able to do about 6 units in 24hrs (running 1 session per box). If I ran 2 sessions per machine I could get 11-12 units done. But this would make the machines kind of sluggish and made a noticable difference in my power bill.
Never the less, I'd hate to see seti fold and go away, I still think it gives the average joe the feeling that he/she's doing something usefull.
This confirms what I have pretty much have known all along. If it's not spam comming from asia it's infected windows boxes trying to attack my webserver. My servers http and mail logs are filled with failed attempts and are getting rather large...
linux..... the thinking mans os
Because I'm having way too much fun with ultra sparcs.
I have been looking for a replacement for the intel based boxen I'm running now. Lately, I have been playing around with some old ultra sparc boxes. Not super speed demons anymore but still loads of fun to play with.
rm -rf windows
Maybe while they're at it they can also confirm that the moon is littered with ruins. Rumor has it that the reason why we haven't gone back is because there are ruins there from someone else. If it's true it may very well tie in with the "glass worms" on mars.
enterprisemission
Go to this site if you want to know more about fuel cells..
www.h2pac.org
I guess if you get pissed off at your local laundry mat you could always DOS the machines ;)
How about doing something like this from low earth orbit? But I have a funny feeling that the band would be so crowded you might be lucky to get anything usefull...
I prefer to use older VHS Hi-Fi VCRs to record CDs. These units are heavy and well constructed, I have tapes that I recorded 10 years ago that still sound near CD quality. For DVDs a good quality S-VHS Hi-Fi will do the trick. Hell, I still even have a Sony UMATIC (3/4" cassette tape) stereo VTR that still makes broadcast quality recordings..
I can just see it now....
:)
Minimum system requirements:
8-32 Tb RAM
300 Exabytes disk space required
Windows DRM 2015
Intel Octium 7 10GHz or better
I still use floppys because they are a great way to transfer small files like logs and so fourth. It's still far too wastfull to transfer such small files using CDR(W)s and zip disks. Only when I have a large number of files or large tar balls will I use anything else. Who cares if I don't use it that often, I will always have a 3.5" floppy in all of the machines I build and or use..
I remember back in the 80s when this poor excuse of a senator helped raise a big fuss over "porn rock". Artists like Frank Zappa were raked over the coals at hearings for the lyrics in their music and wanted "WARNING" stickers placed on questionable albums.
"The Mothers of Prevention". A wonderful addition to any Zappa fans collection...
Boy, back when I got Diablo I thought it's system requirements were excessive. Before you know it we'll have to buy beowulfed SGI hardware just to play the new games :p
For the past several months all the hack attempts I receive come form nimba compromised windows boxes. I have yet to have one comming from a linux box let alone a unix box. I have no reson to doubt your claim but I'm just stating the facts..
this number has anything to do with all the automated nimba attacks comming from all thoes infected windows boxes.
This is exactly the kind of heavy handed bull shit that is turning me away form Micro$oft. Micro$oft has no right to charge licence fees for machines that don't have Windows installed, or demand that donated computers keep the Windows installation. Micro$oft didn't make the computer, it just ran their OS.
It would be like Sun comming in and demanding them to pay licences for Solaris. Just how many more billion$ does Micro$oft need? Using these kind of tactics against schools is just uncalled for. The time has long since come to get schools and government off of Micro$soft software and on to Linux.
I had a Gigabyte GA-486?? with a AMD DX4 120MHz CPU and it had 3 pci slots.
It was the fastest 486 I ever owned..
rm -r windows
I'm a amateur radio operator and I can say that the field emissions from these phones is nothing to get worried about. These concerns reguarding RF exposure from celular phones are from people who are completely cluless. Most celular phones only have a ERP (effective radiated power) of only 300 milliwatts and only transmit when the user speaks thus saving battery power and only producing a duty cycle of 40% or so. The computer monitor you sit in front of radiates far more power, even the leakage around the door of you microwave oven is in the order of a few watts at 2.45GHz..
rm -r windows
This has got to be the stupidest thing yet (right up there with Al Gore inventing the internet and Microsoft being the only one who should innovate). So he means to say if I edit all the commercials out of program that I'm recording constitutes theft? Get a life Jamie! If I want to edit all the crap out or a program I'm recording there is nothing that can be done about it.
What's next, you gonna make it illeagle for me to throw away all the junk mail I get in my mail box just to get my bills? Sheesh!!
rm -r windows
If the BSA wants to play hard ball then I say we should have an independent audit company audit the BSA. I'm sure they're not squeaky clean and one of their employees is bound to have some "non compliant" software installed. They sent me a letter some time ago and all I did was laugh and throw into the circular file. Let them come and look at my computers, all they're going to see is that "gear where the start button should be" operating system.
rm -r bsa
This has always been my beef with with hardware manufactures who think the processor should do all the work via software. Dedicated hardware will always kick ass over its software brothers. There is NO excuse for this, I would rather pay more for a video card that has its own smarts and can figure out how to do things without the processor holding its hand.
Crappy "winmodems" and "winnics" are a prime example of this...
rm -r windows