The Linux HOWTOs only print out like that if you're looking at the multipage HTML version.
They are created with tools which create documents in several formats. If you want to print the entire document, you should use one of the formats which contains the entire document.
Well, if you're qualified to tinker inside a power supply, the existing little fan could be disconnected. Then mount a larger, slower-spinning and quieter fan on the outside, to suck a similar amount of air through the same path.
I'd suggest a squirrel-cage fan, with the central intake area over the old fan exhaust area...as the exhaust will probably be a rectangular vent, you could even send it into a vent/hose/muffler to further control the noise. For that matter, you could simply stick the whole computer inside a larger sound-absorbing box and use a similar quiet fan to vent all the warm air away.
Sounds like a service that many site-scanning search engine companies could provide. Of course, those facilities which scan more often would provide faster service to the subscribing webmasters -- we've all seen out-of-date search results.
Gee, if you need special warnings about chemicals for biological experiments then stay out of my garage. 10% of the writing in there must be warnings, including the labels under the hood of the car. [Say, does anyone have a link to the study about benzene binding to a protein in lab rat livers which is not in human bodies?] Not to mention how quickly a circular saw can alter your body structure...
Whoops. First space tourist just announced today. Unfortunately, he's riding up to Mir rather than a commercially-launched device -- but Mir is becoming a commercial enterprise anyway.
A Beowulf cluster of high school students? You're going to give them swords? Take a look at "Romeo and Juliet"... No, wait, Romeo and his peers were of junior high school age...
Look at the cover of the current issue of Popular Mechanics. Above "MOON VACATIONS" is a lunar hotel with the Mariott logo.
For a more thorough essay on starting to commercially explore space, see "Rockets, Redheads, and Revolution" by James P. Hogan. One of the chatty chapters between stories is about why government has stifled space exploration, merely by being the only entity doing so. (It's probably in the "Science Fiction" section of your library/bookstore)
Excuse me, but a Radio Shack store is a retail business. The clerks only need to know the stock well enough to help people find something. They don't need to build things, they don't need to design electronics.
They either have to memorize enverything in the store and catalog, or they have to learn at least enough about the stock to categorize them well.
Of course, people who know something about electronics are more likely to apply for work at an electronics store so the clerks are a little more likely to know something about the subject. But experts will be elsewhere -- in electronic repair shops, installing business radio systems, punching holes in targets in the university accelerators...
isn't it redundant to say 'two pole DPST?' He needed the model with the long curved handle which in the ON position is at the South Pole, and in the OFF position is at the North Pole.
Wasn't it Heinlein who wrote a short story about spraying a company logo on the Moon? Basically silk-screening from space, so the image spread large enough to be discernible to the naked eye.
Whether you lose the formatting or not will depend upon the OCR software. The OCR software is looking at the scanned image and can be aware of where on the page it is looking, then use that to create a page which looks similar (with whatever formatting commands the OCR program uses...).
The original article didn't mention which nice public OCR programs he found, so we don't know the capabilities of what he already found.
What he needs is an OCR program which can separate text from images and format the text and images in a similar way on a PS or PDF page. At that point PS or PDF to text programs can be used for indexing.
If you can get it to PDF, xpdf's "pdftotext" can get you text for categorization. Indexing to actual pages is a little more complex, but a script can do it because that command can select the page to convert.
Or there's the related PDFTOHTML if you prefer that for your access method.
It probably would help if the various devices used frequency-hopping spread-spectrum techniques. The interference would happen randomly, but not everything would be lost. As the article says, it gets "fuzzy" as the noise level increases.
Notice he was using a video transmitter, which uses a lot of the frequency spectrum. It's probably simply covering most of the band continuously.
The wireless LAN is most likely to use frequency-hopping and retransmission, so it is most likely to be the least affected. But it's also possible that the engineers just have it sit on a single frequency because that's cheaper; we don't have enough information.
The telephone is only a voice device and should be using the least of the radio spectrum. But it's probably a simple device which is more prone to interference than if it were using FH SS digital. Although perhaps it was using FH, as the article mentioned it would "fritz out" rather than that the audio got fuzzy, and it also mentioned that it will "interfere with anything".
Perhaps the phone would interfere less than the video -- but he disconnected the phone and didn't test the combinations, much less do an RF spectrum analysis of what was going on. For all we know, the school two blocks away might have recently installed a video microwave beam running over his house.
As others have mentioned, there are a number of systems with 4-segment passive bus planes. Searches for terms such as "SBC segment passive bus" and "multiple SBC passive case" find them.
Such devices are also popular for computer telephony, so you can also search for sites which refer to that. But first start with Computer Telephony magazine. They have buyer's guides and related info.
If you haven't bought the SBCs yet, also consider VME devices...
If you look at the BetaNews URL, you'll note it is "betanews.efront.com". Apparently they're related, and sort of forgot who was writing the story and credited each other...
That English press release estimated availability in February 2000. Their manufacturing company page was updated in June, but it's not in English (nor even American). Can anyone who knows English, Japanese and HTML send them translations of their pages so the rest of us can know what's going on? [Sorry, I'm busy learning Romance languages...]
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They are created with tools which create documents in several formats. If you want to print the entire document, you should use one of the formats which contains the entire document.
I'd suggest a squirrel-cage fan, with the central intake area over the old fan exhaust area...as the exhaust will probably be a rectangular vent, you could even send it into a vent/hose/muffler to further control the noise. For that matter, you could simply stick the whole computer inside a larger sound-absorbing box and use a similar quiet fan to vent all the warm air away.
Manufacturer advises that this computer case operates most quietly in an environment of less than 0.1 Earth-normal gravity.
Sigh...I submitted this Wired story several days ago. Word as a backup format?
Sounds like a service that many site-scanning search engine companies could provide. Of course, those facilities which scan more often would provide faster service to the subscribing webmasters -- we've all seen out-of-date search results.
Gee, if you need special warnings about chemicals for biological experiments then stay out of my garage. 10% of the writing in there must be warnings, including the labels under the hood of the car. [Say, does anyone have a link to the study about benzene binding to a protein in lab rat livers which is not in human bodies?] Not to mention how quickly a circular saw can alter your body structure...
Whoops. First space tourist just announced today. Unfortunately, he's riding up to Mir rather than a commercially-launched device -- but Mir is becoming a commercial enterprise anyway.
A Beowulf cluster of high school students?
You're going to give them swords?
Take a look at "Romeo and Juliet"... No, wait, Romeo and his peers were of junior high school age...
For a more thorough essay on starting to commercially explore space, see "Rockets, Redheads, and Revolution" by James P. Hogan. One of the chatty chapters between stories is about why government has stifled space exploration, merely by being the only entity doing so. (It's probably in the "Science Fiction" section of your library/bookstore)
They either have to memorize enverything in the store and catalog, or they have to learn at least enough about the stock to categorize them well.
Of course, people who know something about electronics are more likely to apply for work at an electronics store so the clerks are a little more likely to know something about the subject. But experts will be elsewhere -- in electronic repair shops, installing business radio systems, punching holes in targets in the university accelerators...
isn't it redundant to say 'two pole DPST?' He needed the model with the long curved handle which in the ON position is at the South Pole, and in the OFF position is at the North Pole.
Wasn't it Heinlein who wrote a short story about spraying a company logo on the Moon? Basically silk-screening from space, so the image spread large enough to be discernible to the naked eye.
The original article didn't mention which nice public OCR programs he found, so we don't know the capabilities of what he already found.
What he needs is an OCR program which can separate text from images and format the text and images in a similar way on a PS or PDF page. At that point PS or PDF to text programs can be used for indexing.
Or there's the related PDFTOHTML if you prefer that for your access method.
Notice he was using a video transmitter, which uses a lot of the frequency spectrum. It's probably simply covering most of the band continuously.
The wireless LAN is most likely to use frequency-hopping and retransmission, so it is most likely to be the least affected. But it's also possible that the engineers just have it sit on a single frequency because that's cheaper; we don't have enough information.
The telephone is only a voice device and should be using the least of the radio spectrum. But it's probably a simple device which is more prone to interference than if it were using FH SS digital. Although perhaps it was using FH, as the article mentioned it would "fritz out" rather than that the audio got fuzzy, and it also mentioned that it will "interfere with anything".
Perhaps the phone would interfere less than the video -- but he disconnected the phone and didn't test the combinations, much less do an RF spectrum analysis of what was going on. For all we know, the school two blocks away might have recently installed a video microwave beam running over his house.
The generic term for that is Hiroshima-level EMP device. Plan for replacement of the device after a single brief use.
Such devices are also popular for computer telephony, so you can also search for sites which refer to that. But first start with Computer Telephony magazine. They have buyer's guides and related info.
If you haven't bought the SBCs yet, also consider VME devices...
If you look at the BetaNews URL, you'll note it is "betanews.efront.com". Apparently they're related, and sort of forgot who was writing the story and credited each other...
That English press release estimated availability in February 2000. Their manufacturing company page was updated in June, but it's not in English (nor even American). Can anyone who knows English, Japanese and HTML send them translations of their pages so the rest of us can know what's going on? [Sorry, I'm busy learning Romance languages...]
Most of the references to "1984" actually seem to have been written by people who never did read the book.
Should a site which shows a lady's ankle be required to be in ".xxx"?
I guess you'll fight any organization which allows you to join...
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