You know my Toshiba 486 Laptop I bought at a PC thrift store (came with a new battery all for 5$) will last 4 hours with the hard drive constantly reading/writing and last over 8 with the drive spinned down.
Toshiba T4600...
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I'm curious - seriously - do you live under a rock?
Consider (this is in Oregon mind you), I recieved a pamphlet for every guy running for governor/senator etc every single day - included today - for the last 3 weeks steady. I have recieve various "robo calls" for whatever canidate (I usually don't listen to them in any great detail), I got an e-mail at work (I work at a tech support outsourcing company) encouraging me to vote, I got a live phone call for the committee to elect Kevin Mannix yesterday encouraging me to vote, and finally at least one mailing list list I belong to sent an e-mail encouraging us to vote.
Now keep in mind I'm not even talking about all the election coverage on TV, NPR and whatever news channel you might listen to - or even newspaper articles.
You'd think there was an election afoot. (no offense intended) For someone who seems to know a lot about the DMCA, knows very little about actual politics and that every 2 years this will happen.
I agree it would have been cool to have slashdot put out a "go out and vote" message, but I just can't believe there are so many people who didn't know today was slightly special. Maybe a "election holiday" is in order.
Once again, technology is cheaper to replace/upgrade than it is to repair.
Actually this is one of the easier repairs one can do to a motherboard - assuming you know how to use a pencil soldering iron. If you still have it mail it me:)
Actually I ham a amateur radio operator. I didn't say ducting didn't happen on uhf - just I've found personally that when the UHF band opens up then the VHF band is really hot.
That it would not bounce and doppler like analog signal does. Well it turns out it is even more prone to it than analog was due to the higher frequencies and watages involved.
Somewhere a ham radio operator is crying.
I think the term you are looking for is propagation (the way signals travel through the ether):). In general doppler shift isn't that much of an issue unless the transmitter is moving very fast (like a low earth orbit satellite)
I have no idea what frequencies digital tv stations operate on, but in general on uhf tropospheric ducting is pretty rare - at least where I live.
Where analogue tv channel 2 (around 57 mhz) long range propagation is pretty common, but thats not tropospheric ducting - thats sporadic e layer propagation.
Past tv channel 7 tropospheric ducting is relatively common.
Past tv channel 13 tropospheric ducting still happens, but its not nearly as common.
I don't see why the mode would matter - I think digital television is a spread spectrum signal. If done right you should be able to operate other ss devices in the same frequency space. Narrow band radios recieve ss signals as low background noise typically - so that should be an issue. I wonder what the real interference problem is?
I don't get it - I've used paypal since the day it came out and made literally hundreds of transactions using the system. I've never had problem one with it - and I've ever done refunds.
I've never had anyone rip me off (I rarely have any large sum of money in there actually - and neither should most people if they are wise).
Actually no-one ever broke the corperate website which was running on linux/apache.
Just wait until you get an IT job and the sales people say they have to have this sales/mis app - and it only runs on IIS/mssql. Then your boss says they need it. Trust me - you'll be purchasing it.
On the plus side when they did notice it was hacked the company who installed it came and fixed it. I never had to touch it.
I do logout everynite, and leave my computer running on Standby. I clear as much junk as I can out, but can't clear out everything because this is at work. Believe me, I know how to tweak Windows when I can. Even still, I've yet to see a Windows box reliably stay both stable and fast for more than about a week at a time.
Doesn't sound like you do - otherwise it would be stable.
Even at my last job the Dell 5400 NT 4 machine we had which was doing Exchange 5. Now that configuration is arguably unstable - but even then it only had issues once every 6-8 months and it wasn't a bluescreen. Exchange would stop responding and the machine had to be restarted.
We had some sales servers running some mis app on 2000 - had it going for several years until one day we noticed someone hacked its web interface. It was running on a Dell 4550 (I think - this was a while ago). It was running so stable under IIS and MS-SQL that no-one had bothered to check into it in all that time.
Well I'm just saying (and no offense intended) that its irrelavent. The issue is general access to websites for people who don't have computer monitors.
What I'm saying is why worry about video games when 90% of the internet isn't even availble - when it could be easily.
I have a friend who is blind - and he has a computer with a braile screen, keyboard and a screen reader (jaws). Last I talked to him about this he was very frustrated at most web sites because his screen reader would go nuts nuts - reading things like "image, image, image, image" about 20 times. Why people can't put tags into non-readable entities is really beyond me.
He probably gets to see only 5% of most all the useable sites - if that. He mostly uses the internet to chat with friends and read e-mail messages.
You don't like popups I'm sure - they are leathal to blind people, that aside how would you like it every time you visited a web page all that came up was lots of nonsense before actually being able to view the real content.
I would agree to a certian extent. When I first started using debian is was all confusing, but after a while everything made sense. I fell into a kind of geek zen - now I know the system better then I did any redhat machine. There are things that make it easy - for instance all config files are in/etc
Now Redhat is hard to use.
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I get a similar error (same hhgttg gfx) if I load my old sparcstation 10 out to much (like compiling a kernel - 2.4.17). It seems to do firewalling just fine otherwise.
I remember a job I had a long time ago where a co-worker was trying to decipher similar messages on a NEC telephone switch. They (nec) have since gotten a lot better since then, but I got the impression that the program was really only have translated properly. Either that or the original program was written in engrish and that was that.
Wouldn't suprise me - I mean the only way to log into it was using a 300 baud modem/terminal (I kid you not - you could not make it go any faster) - the thing reaked of not being complete.
You might want to review part 97 - I had someone from the arrl specifically tell me that as long as its not illegal (like its copyrighted) you can transfer music over packet (he used the example of a midi score) since its just data - just don't modulate it over the airwaves:).
Also - the max keying rate is thus (last I checked)
160-12 meters 300 bps, 10-6 1200 bps, and 2m up 9600 bps.
That doesn't mean you can't use some fancy modulation to get more speed - for instance you can use spread spectrum at 70cm and up - like jstar which is 128kbps on 1.2 ghz.
LOL - guess my mac showed me. I should run an AD - stuck with wierd post errors on slashdot using IE and Mac OS 9? Try XP:).
Sometimes the mac makes it hard. I was going to say that I support the Mac over the telephone for a large company. Its hard sometimes - some days you want to kill whoever invented the Mac. Others its nice that it worked okay.
Simple fact - and Guy Kawasaki used to agree. When its working your on top of the work, but when its not the Mac can really be a bitch to troubleshoot.
I have seen people leave the mac because of this. I mean lets face it - the System 7 years were not apples proudest.
I have an Amiga 3000 too - its pretty nice. It still boots, but its got hardware problems as well. For instance disks keep mounting/unmounting on it. Filter keeps turning on and off.
I replaced the cia's, but that really didn't fix anything. I bought an upgrade chipset, but they were out of dmac 4's - so I have a buster and a ramsey sitting in a box somewhere just waiting.
I heard that nmos chips - the kind of chips every amiga used minus the A1200 and the A4000 degrade after a certian amount of years. Certianly seems the case. Then again the A3000 was a HOT computer - I melted more then one set of rubber feet off the bottom.
Well the benchmark said 59 fps average. In game its usually above 60. If you don't believe me and you live in the Portland area maybe you should drop by and see it.
No - I don't run with all the settings maxed out - they are at defaults. Still looks pretty good.
Slashdot Mirror
You know my Toshiba 486 Laptop I bought at a PC thrift store (came with a new battery all for 5$) will last 4 hours with the hard drive constantly reading/writing and last over 8 with the drive spinned down.
Toshiba T4600...
Yeah - either that or someone can't take a joke.
I'm curious - seriously - do you live under a rock?
Consider (this is in Oregon mind you), I recieved a pamphlet for every guy running for governor/senator etc every single day - included today - for the last 3 weeks steady. I have recieve various "robo calls" for whatever canidate (I usually don't listen to them in any great detail), I got an e-mail at work (I work at a tech support outsourcing company) encouraging me to vote, I got a live phone call for the committee to elect Kevin Mannix yesterday encouraging me to vote, and finally at least one mailing list list I belong to sent an e-mail encouraging us to vote.
Now keep in mind I'm not even talking about all the election coverage on TV, NPR and whatever news channel you might listen to - or even newspaper articles.
You'd think there was an election afoot. (no offense intended) For someone who seems to know a lot about the DMCA, knows very little about actual politics and that every 2 years this will happen.
I agree it would have been cool to have slashdot put out a "go out and vote" message, but I just can't believe there are so many people who didn't know today was slightly special. Maybe a "election holiday" is in order.
Cadillac actually came out with something like this in the 80's - seriously - I had a friend who had one that did this at highway speeds.
Once again, technology is cheaper to replace/upgrade than it is to repair.
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Actually this is one of the easier repairs one can do to a motherboard - assuming you know how to use a pencil soldering iron. If you still have it mail it me
Actually I ham a amateur radio operator. I didn't say ducting didn't happen on uhf - just I've found personally that when the UHF band opens up then the VHF band is really hot.
That it would not bounce and doppler like analog signal does. Well it turns out it is even more prone to it than analog was due to the higher frequencies and watages involved.
:). In general doppler shift isn't that much of an issue unless the transmitter is moving very fast (like a low earth orbit satellite)
Somewhere a ham radio operator is crying.
I think the term you are looking for is propagation (the way signals travel through the ether)
I have no idea what frequencies digital tv stations operate on, but in general on uhf tropospheric ducting is pretty rare - at least where I live.
Where analogue tv channel 2 (around 57 mhz) long range propagation is pretty common, but thats not tropospheric ducting - thats sporadic e layer propagation.
Past tv channel 7 tropospheric ducting is relatively common.
Past tv channel 13 tropospheric ducting still happens, but its not nearly as common.
I don't see why the mode would matter - I think digital television is a spread spectrum signal. If done right you should be able to operate other ss devices in the same frequency space. Narrow band radios recieve ss signals as low background noise typically - so that should be an issue. I wonder what the real interference problem is?
I was going to post a funny message in morse code on here, but I hit the lamness filter "too many caps".
:(.
Oh well - I guess morse code is lame now
I don't get it - I've used paypal since the day it came out and made literally hundreds of transactions using the system. I've never had problem one with it - and I've ever done refunds.
I've never had anyone rip me off (I rarely have any large sum of money in there actually - and neither should most people if they are wise).
Actually no-one ever broke the corperate website which was running on linux/apache.
Just wait until you get an IT job and the sales people say they have to have this sales/mis app - and it only runs on IIS/mssql. Then your boss says they need it. Trust me - you'll be purchasing it.
On the plus side when they did notice it was hacked the company who installed it came and fixed it. I never had to touch it.
Here's some lovely pictures of the above mentioned room,
Debating Chamber
I do logout everynite, and leave my computer running on Standby. I clear as much junk as I can out, but can't clear out everything because this is at work. Believe me, I know how to tweak Windows when I can. Even still, I've yet to see a Windows box reliably stay both stable and fast for more than about a week at a time.
Doesn't sound like you do - otherwise it would be stable.
Even at my last job the Dell 5400 NT 4 machine we had which was doing Exchange 5. Now that configuration is arguably unstable - but even then it only had issues once every 6-8 months and it wasn't a bluescreen. Exchange would stop responding and the machine had to be restarted.
We had some sales servers running some mis app on 2000 - had it going for several years until one day we noticed someone hacked its web interface. It was running on a Dell 4550 (I think - this was a while ago). It was running so stable under IIS and MS-SQL that no-one had bothered to check into it in all that time.
Well I'm just saying (and no offense intended) that its irrelavent. The issue is general access to websites for people who don't have computer monitors.
What I'm saying is why worry about video games when 90% of the internet isn't even availble - when it could be easily.
I have a friend who is blind - and he has a computer with a braile screen, keyboard and a screen reader (jaws). Last I talked to him about this he was very frustrated at most web sites because his screen reader would go nuts nuts - reading things like "image, image, image, image" about 20 times. Why people can't put tags into non-readable entities is really beyond me.
He probably gets to see only 5% of most all the useable sites - if that. He mostly uses the internet to chat with friends and read e-mail messages.
You don't like popups I'm sure - they are leathal to blind people, that aside how would you like it every time you visited a web page all that came up was lots of nonsense before actually being able to view the real content.
I would agree to a certian extent. When I first started using debian is was all confusing, but after a while everything made sense. I fell into a kind of geek zen - now I know the system better then I did any redhat machine. There are things that make it easy - for instance all config files are in /etc
Now Redhat is hard to use.
I get a similar error (same hhgttg gfx) if I load my old sparcstation 10 out to much (like compiling a kernel - 2.4.17). It seems to do firewalling just fine otherwise.
I remember a job I had a long time ago where a co-worker was trying to decipher similar messages on a NEC telephone switch. They (nec) have since gotten a lot better since then, but I got the impression that the program was really only have translated properly. Either that or the original program was written in engrish and that was that.
Wouldn't suprise me - I mean the only way to log into it was using a 300 baud modem/terminal (I kid you not - you could not make it go any faster) - the thing reaked of not being complete.
no duh. You know what else is patented? Try the way your cursor goes to the next line when you hit return - seriously
Let me know you need help burning your return key.
Imagine my shock when I go to a page full of hairy guys carrying signs says "burn all gifs" are you trying to get me fired? That stuff is nasty.
I clicked on the gif link because I'm not sure what a sid file is. I always thought they were those c64 tunes)
You might want to review part 97 - I had someone from the arrl specifically tell me that as long as its not illegal (like its copyrighted) you can transfer music over packet (he used the example of a midi score) since its just data - just don't modulate it over the airwaves :).
Also - the max keying rate is thus (last I checked)
160-12 meters 300 bps, 10-6 1200 bps, and 2m up 9600 bps.
That doesn't mean you can't use some fancy modulation to get more speed - for instance you can use spread spectrum at 70cm and up - like jstar which is 128kbps on 1.2 ghz.
You know whats funny is I actually saw a kid at the apartment here who had a hack for the gamecube hanging off the end.
Appartently grandpa picked this thing up somewhere (liksang?) and loaded all kinds of software on to it periodically as a present.
LOL - guess my mac showed me. I should run an AD - stuck with wierd post errors on slashdot using IE and Mac OS 9? Try XP :).
Sometimes the mac makes it hard. I was going to say that I support the Mac over the telephone for a large company. Its hard sometimes - some days you want to kill whoever invented the Mac. Others its nice that it worked okay.
Simple fact - and Guy Kawasaki used to agree. When its working your on top of the work, but when its not the Mac can really be a bitch to troubleshoot.
I have seen people leave the mac because of this. I mean lets face it - the System 7 years were not apples proudest.
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I have an Amiga 3000 too - its pretty nice. It still boots, but its got hardware problems as well. For instance disks keep mounting/unmounting on it. Filter keeps turning on and off.
I replaced the cia's, but that really didn't fix anything. I bought an upgrade chipset, but they were out of dmac 4's - so I have a buster and a ramsey sitting in a box somewhere just waiting.
I heard that nmos chips - the kind of chips every amiga used minus the A1200 and the A4000 degrade after a certian amount of years. Certianly seems the case. Then again the A3000 was a HOT computer - I melted more then one set of rubber feet off the bottom.
Well the benchmark said 59 fps average. In game its usually above 60. If you don't believe me and you live in the Portland area maybe you should drop by and see it.
No - I don't run with all the settings maxed out - they are at defaults. Still looks pretty good.