#50 for economic growth in the country - I can believe it too - especially when a former unix/windows sys admin is applying for a hotel desk job and 20 people show up to apply:(. I'm sure they ended up with the best hotel desk clerk on earth - maybe not.
Unless this kernel patched it - the only way I could get any 2.4.x kernels running on older sun hardware (like in my case sun4m systems) was to enable smp support - even if you only have one cpu. I found that if it wasn't enabled the kernel would hang on startup.
2.4.17 is actually quite stable on my old SS20's - one of which is doing firewall stuff right now on att broadband.
My father used to do this in Coppermine Canada - they had return information inside their weather baloons - which they sent up twice a day. I asked him if they ever had any returned - and he said once - some guy found it and brought it back on his way through town.
Since when? Let me tell you something - I have monitor programs on my xp box that show things like cpu usage and temperature - cpu usage is normally idle. When seti - or any of these distributed applications kicks in the usage gauge rises and so does the temperature - its using more energy in other words.
I'm not kidding though - all these distributed programs are really costing money!
Seriously - I shut off all my machines seti@home search and my electric bill dropped 10$ and I'm not kidding anyone in the slightest.
What is the point anyhow? I mean this is collectively costing them (probably) billions of dollars a month to do this - between everyone's increased power bill. And seriously - what are the chances that their algorithm are going to find something worthwhile?
Yeah - I recomened it because I am an amatuer radio operator where the legal limit is technically 1500 watts - although I think it is much lower on that band (not to mention if you plan on running 1500 watts you'll require a station inspection)
Legal limits are all governed by the bands and licenese (or lack there of) they run on.
Omni-directional antennas are more convienant but they offer less gain. If you were to go around your run of the mill omni-directional antenna with a field strength meter you might notice a nice figure 8 pattern - while with a directional antenna you'll notice a considerable amount of the radiation is reflected down what I like to call parasitic elements (elements of the antenna that direct the signal) - the advantage is just distance - you can get a clearer signal into a system with a directional antenna.
Thing is with more amatuer radio sattelites - they are somewhat hard to use with just omni-directional antennas. Take for instance AO-27 - which is a FM sattelite more info here
With omni directional equipment you'll need a pre-amp - ie something that will amplify the signal coming into your reciever and you'll need at least 25 watts (if not more) going into the uplink. Where with a directional antenna I've actually used this same sattelite with at little as 2.5 watts on the uplink and no pre-amp.
I reemember while visting my aunt in Canada that my sister broke her arm while she was there - well long story short the doctor put her arm in a cast (she is just fine today). The entire trip cost 50$ - mind you we were american's - not canadians. I don't live there mind you - but I was impressed at the time. In the US my sister probably could have got the surgery quicker (and actually we didn't have to wait long) but it would have cost thousands of dollars. A good case in point was a former co-worker of mine who had a bicycle accident in front of the office - broke his leg. With no insurance he went to the hospital quite rapidly, but is faced with over 25,000 us dollars of hospital bills - and I'm not bs'ing you in the slightest.
I think its stupid - now that I lost my job a while back (a month now) I don't have insurance - a trip to get some medicine for a nasty sore throat cost me 75$ for the visit, which after the doctor came around 2~3 hours later lasted maybe 5 minutes and 25$ for the medicine - this is deadly for someone who has no addition income past unemployment (135$ per week)
Oh just remembered - one thing you could do is change the feedhorn out for a more traditional Ku style antenna (same band mostly). I think most dbs dishes (like direct tv and dish network) have these kinds of antennas already. Not sure how they are polarized though.
ah true - I just know this guy from my experience using amatuer sattelites:) - I've never actually worked 2.4 ghz before, but he definately has a nice solution.
I wonder what the matchup would be like with most 802.11 equipment? I mean lets face it - from some of these experiments I've read it doesn't sound like anyone really cares about polarity.
Debian is a very slim version of Linux that seems to scale nicely on almost anything - for instance the firewall I have here (that I'm typing this message through) is running on a Sparcstation 10 with a cacheless microsparc and 48 megs of ram with the built in sunlanc and the sun bigmac (quite literally the oddest half duplex 10/100 ethernet card on earth) and I'm loving it.
for an small small time advertising company (long time ago - call Digital FX) who used an Amiga 3000 with a personal animation recorder (and later a vt flyer) I can tell you right now that I can sit down and show you an animation played at 30 fps and an animation played at 60 (in this case fields per second) and actually switch back and forth between them in real time. Yes there is a noticeable difference and I never had anyone walk away from this demo I'd show people who didn't agree.
Back in the early 90's when mac people were touting the avid media publisher - a system that worked on Mac Quadra systems originally was balked at by most professionals in Telvision since it originally could only do 30 fps - I have an old demo tape somewhere around here from avid - there's this helicopter scene while they pan across some hills overlooking an ocean - you can see it clip along - at 60 fps it would have been perfectly smooth. This of course is not a limitation on current avid systems.
I think one different that should be made is that films (I have no idea about digital movie theatres) are a different projection medium then television - and I think you probably should have at least mentioned that in your discussion on framerate. I don't think lower frame-rate is nearly as noticeable in a theatre as it is on a computer screen or television set personally.
In some ways this reminds me of the old C64 days where people used to try 1001 different copy protection schemes - since 99% of all C64 have the same disk drive you could do this. A lesson to us all - most all those C64 games people download off various websites were copy protected with some wierd ass scheme at one point.
Eventually you had copy programs (list fasthackem) that had parameter files so the program knew exactly what to do to copy it - I suspect soonish if we don't have paremeter files, we'll have instructions on how to get nero or whatever to rip your latest cd.
I know why I install linux on sparc boxes - for starters they are here. But for the most part its because you get amazing multi-user performance in a machine that is in some cases uses like 1/10th the energy as your average desktop pc.
I think the problems are the exams - imagine like A+ certification - page upon page upon page of trick questions. A+ classes even tell you to expect to be fooled. I noticed the same thing with ccna - not so sure about msce though.
Even more troubling, where does that leave me once I graduate with a BS in EE?
Lots of places actually - my brother in law has been flown out to interviews to places like intel (that blew me away - when I worked/interviewed there they always came by as very policy minded cheapskates). Even got an offer in some government lab in New Mexico. Kinda makes me wish I had the math skills to do that:(. I have a social studies degree - seems to be kinda useless actually. As soon as I pay off all my debt I'm definately going back to grad school.
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#50 for economic growth in the country - I can believe it too - especially when a former unix/windows sys admin is applying for a hotel desk job and 20 people show up to apply :(. I'm sure they ended up with the best hotel desk clerk on earth - maybe not.
Hey this would make the lyrics to a good song :).
Unless this kernel patched it - the only way I could get any 2.4.x kernels running on older sun hardware (like in my case sun4m systems) was to enable smp support - even if you only have one cpu. I found that if it wasn't enabled the kernel would hang on startup.
2.4.17 is actually quite stable on my old SS20's - one of which is doing firewall stuff right now on att broadband.
what about that is propaganda?
I like this attitude actually - lets put our money into open music.
Me to music companies - come on - what are you waiting for? bring it on!
Yes - if you had read the article you'd notice they require a credit check now.
You're kidding right? I run windows xp of all things on an Asus A7V266E board and its rock solid.
Then you need to go here and get one of these a fcc amateur radio license
My father used to do this in Coppermine Canada - they had return information inside their weather baloons - which they sent up twice a day. I asked him if they ever had any returned - and he said once - some guy found it and brought it back on his way through town.
Since when? Let me tell you something - I have monitor programs on my xp box that show things like cpu usage and temperature - cpu usage is normally idle. When seti - or any of these distributed applications kicks in the usage gauge rises and so does the temperature - its using more energy in other words.
I'm not kidding though - all these distributed programs are really costing money!
Seriously - I shut off all my machines seti@home search and my electric bill dropped 10$ and I'm not kidding anyone in the slightest.
What is the point anyhow? I mean this is collectively costing them (probably) billions of dollars a month to do this - between everyone's increased power bill. And seriously - what are the chances that their algorithm are going to find something worthwhile?
I'm not saying he shouldn't have to pay for services - just not so much. For a lot of us working there that was half your yearly salary.
Yeah - I recomened it because I am an amatuer radio operator where the legal limit is technically 1500 watts - although I think it is much lower on that band (not to mention if you plan on running 1500 watts you'll require a station inspection)
Legal limits are all governed by the bands and licenese (or lack there of) they run on.
Omni-directional antennas are more convienant but they offer less gain. If you were to go around your run of the mill omni-directional antenna with a field strength meter you might notice a nice figure 8 pattern - while with a directional antenna you'll notice a considerable amount of the radiation is reflected down what I like to call parasitic elements (elements of the antenna that direct the signal) - the advantage is just distance - you can get a clearer signal into a system with a directional antenna.
Thing is with more amatuer radio sattelites - they are somewhat hard to use with just omni-directional antennas. Take for instance AO-27 - which is a FM sattelite more info here
With omni directional equipment you'll need a pre-amp - ie something that will amplify the signal coming into your reciever and you'll need at least 25 watts (if not more) going into the uplink. Where with a directional antenna I've actually used this same sattelite with at little as 2.5 watts on the uplink and no pre-amp.
I reemember while visting my aunt in Canada that my sister broke her arm while she was there - well long story short the doctor put her arm in a cast (she is just fine today). The entire trip cost 50$ - mind you we were american's - not canadians. I don't live there mind you - but I was impressed at the time. In the US my sister probably could have got the surgery quicker (and actually we didn't have to wait long) but it would have cost thousands of dollars. A good case in point was a former co-worker of mine who had a bicycle accident in front of the office - broke his leg. With no insurance he went to the hospital quite rapidly, but is faced with over 25,000 us dollars of hospital bills - and I'm not bs'ing you in the slightest.
I think its stupid - now that I lost my job a while back (a month now) I don't have insurance - a trip to get some medicine for a nasty sore throat cost me 75$ for the visit, which after the doctor came around 2~3 hours later lasted maybe 5 minutes and 25$ for the medicine - this is deadly for someone who has no addition income past unemployment (135$ per week)
Oh just remembered - one thing you could do is change the feedhorn out for a more traditional Ku style antenna (same band mostly). I think most dbs dishes (like direct tv and dish network) have these kinds of antennas already. Not sure how they are polarized though.
ah true - I just know this guy from my experience using amatuer sattelites :) - I've never actually worked 2.4 ghz before, but he definately has a nice solution.
I wonder what the matchup would be like with most 802.11 equipment? I mean lets face it - from some of these experiments I've read it doesn't sound like anyone really cares about polarity.
You might try this guy out - its mainly build for AO-40 work in the 2.4 ghz range - should work really well for you 802.11 distance freaks :).
http://www.n3iyr.com/
Debian is a very slim version of Linux that seems to scale nicely on almost anything - for instance the firewall I have here (that I'm typing this message through) is running on a Sparcstation 10 with a cacheless microsparc and 48 megs of ram with the built in sunlanc and the sun bigmac (quite literally the oddest half duplex 10/100 ethernet card on earth) and I'm loving it.
This is a machine sloaris just barely runs on.
for an small small time advertising company (long time ago - call Digital FX) who used an Amiga 3000 with a personal animation recorder (and later a vt flyer) I can tell you right now that I can sit down and show you an animation played at 30 fps and an animation played at 60 (in this case fields per second) and actually switch back and forth between them in real time. Yes there is a noticeable difference and I never had anyone walk away from this demo I'd show people who didn't agree.
Back in the early 90's when mac people were touting the avid media publisher - a system that worked on Mac Quadra systems originally was balked at by most professionals in Telvision since it originally could only do 30 fps - I have an old demo tape somewhere around here from avid - there's this helicopter scene while they pan across some hills overlooking an ocean - you can see it clip along - at 60 fps it would have been perfectly smooth. This of course is not a limitation on current avid systems.
I think one different that should be made is that films (I have no idea about digital movie theatres) are a different projection medium then television - and I think you probably should have at least mentioned that in your discussion on framerate. I don't think lower frame-rate is nearly as noticeable in a theatre as it is on a computer screen or television set personally.
In some ways this reminds me of the old C64 days where people used to try 1001 different copy protection schemes - since 99% of all C64 have the same disk drive you could do this. A lesson to us all - most all those C64 games people download off various websites were copy protected with some wierd ass scheme at one point.
Eventually you had copy programs (list fasthackem) that had parameter files so the program knew exactly what to do to copy it - I suspect soonish if we don't have paremeter files, we'll have instructions on how to get nero or whatever to rip your latest cd.
I know why I install linux on sparc boxes - for starters they are here. But for the most part its because you get amazing multi-user performance in a machine that is in some cases uses like 1/10th the energy as your average desktop pc.
maybe its the same way with the mac?
Thats true - but it doesn't stop me from reading my general license manual :) and working on my cw speed.
I think the problems are the exams - imagine like A+ certification - page upon page upon page of trick questions. A+ classes even tell you to expect to be fooled. I noticed the same thing with ccna - not so sure about msce though.
Even more troubling, where does that leave me once I graduate with a BS in EE?
:(. I have a social studies degree - seems to be kinda useless actually. As soon as I pay off all my debt I'm definately going back to grad school.
Lots of places actually - my brother in law has been flown out to interviews to places like intel (that blew me away - when I worked/interviewed there they always came by as very policy minded cheapskates). Even got an offer in some government lab in New Mexico. Kinda makes me wish I had the math skills to do that