RoadRunner in Kansas City, I asked what they charge for their most basic internet connection: $19.95. Just the internet, no tv. What started out as a constant 2MB/sec up-down has been turning into 3MB/sec bursts both ways. That's two ISO images in just over an hour.
No port filtering, so I get the usual funny viral entries in my httpd logs.
Reliability has been nonstop, except for the ice storm just this last week in which the lovely tree in my back yard knocked down the 14 kilovolt wire for the neighborhoods around me. The cablemodem came right back up when the electric company repaired everyone's downed poles a week later.
Electric cars may have something going for them in terms of safety if we can get rid of those massive land barge lead-acid batteries. Even though some cars are light, consider the following:
Weight is inversely proportional to agility.
Agility multiplied by driver skill plus that extra weight equals safety.
A land barge is only safe when the driver has no skill. Marginally at best. This formula may explain why some people seem to avoid accidents and not get hurt, while others are magnets for disasters.
Oh, as someone who repairs electric vehicles for a living, let me tell you how to make a noisy DC motor. Just replace the brushes without letting them seat properly. You will hear a howling loud noise akin to a jet engine spooling up. The commutator/brush assembly is the noisiest part of a DC motor followed by any audible current pulses from the drive. Changing the frequency of the oscillator circuit can be done by the more adventurous hacker and can really make a motor be heard.
Speaking of modifications, these cars are fun and incredibly easy to hack. No nitrous oxide or bolt-ons needed, just a jumper wire! Weakening the magnetic field increases armature current and motor speed exponentially. You can easily spin a DC motor to the point of destruction just by weakening the current through the field coils.
Getting worse? Ha! Slashdot was started by c.o.l.a regulars, so this shouldn't be surprising. Its much, much tamer these days, but still expect your daily dose of Windows bashing. Unfortunately, slashdot attracts these pushbutton Windows users like flies since the Chips&Dips days.
Granted, typos are annoying. The value of these books goes beyond a compilation of information, but the wealth of information is organized in an easily digestible way. Its like reading a newspaper on a lazy afternoon. Compare to that of taking a casual interest and reading through the howtos and other documentation through the net. This book can be taken around the house or at appointments for casual reading. The Beginning Linux book was an enjoyable read and the Professional Linux book appears to be on scale with those huge electronic engineers books for reference or learning technical knowledge in spare time.
Indeed these are incredible USB portable hard drives with a built in MP3 player/sound system. I bought 3 of these Archos MP3 players (the 20MB version,) one for each of the kids. My worst fear was they were going to drop them and the only noise would be hard drives clicking. All three are still working around the clock and connect with our Linux boxen.
I agree the default quoting of entire messages is great to leave things in context; unfortunately, my visual desktop isn't vast as the 30GB of storage.
Its all about something that is easy to digest and quote. What I see is that compulsory education^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hlearning should be enforced so communication skills could be introduced to everyone. Learning by osmosis doesn't seem to work.
Oh,dear boy, you had it easy, why back in my day we used beads carved from rock with holes chipped inside so they could be fashioned on spun strings. We had slaves to slide the beads according to set rules. In fact, it was a dangerous job due to the overwhelming number of beads required for basic computational analysis. To calculate prime numbers, MMMCX tons of beads were required and a failure of the supporting members meant an avalanche of rolling beads upon the camp. Begin worker's rights and other heretic movements that impeded technology.
But I digress. You young whippersnappers think you have it so good with silicon, you ought to try pushing carts of beads uphill by the bucket uphill both ways with no round wheels.
New York State, which outlawed hand held cell use while driving?
Those laws don't cover it all yet... I often type emails into my cell phone more often than I talk into it. The joys of slashdot on the road. Watch out!
My TW service is comparable in Kansas City. +2/2Mb up/down minimum (sometimes soars to 3Mb/sec,) news server absolutely rocks, httpd, etc...
I asked what their cheapest rate was and that must have been a good question to ask when signing up. I have been paying $19.95 a month. No tcpip downtime yet, but I hear their mailservers are a different story (the Unstoppable Windows NT(tm.)
They don't have the power to transmit? Oh boy, used microwave components from the magnetron in the microwave to surplus TWT tubes are mighty easy to get. Any pre-teen can transmit a few kilowatts throughout the microwave spectrum with a high voltage transformer, a capacitor, and a tube. Bonus points for modulating it with a simple amplifier.
Hard to do? This stuff is laying around, everywhere. It just takes some imagination, wires to hook it up, and an afternoon of fun.
Indeed, Bill Joy is a different breed. Contrast him with the others in sense that ethics became his driving force behind his motivation of advocating technology.
Nice description of PacMan on OpenSource. Conversely in my opinion, the PacMan analogy fits Bill Gates vision more appropriately. Those bits of food used to be his competitors while he proceeds to clear the board. Those trusty power pellet lawyers and the "repressive" USDOJ ghosts just have to make things interesting for his game.
I noticed ONE generator. Need redundancy, even if you do have lots of batteries and UPS supplies. And generators do fail. That generator will supply power for months or weeks, not hours like batteries will.
I used to work with a generator similar to this and hope they have a good service contract with mechanics on site just in case. Ours was an emergency backup generator and used sparingly for electrical surplus curtailment (when the electric company runs out of power for peak demands and tells us to curtail usage unless we want to pay large fines.) Well, after a year, it tossed a valve through the cover. The next year, the shaft from the 2800hp CAT twin turbo to the Marathon 1.6MW 480 volt three phase generator broke. Sheared the shaft in two from cracks due to undamped vibrations. Both times, we were in the dark.
Generators, especially ones over 1MW are very large machines and are subject to catastrophic failure. Redundancy is recommended.
Artillery? Why worry about carnage when the pen is mightier than the sword. Our laws will wipe out any data center with a series of lawsuits, lobbying, and consitutional rights fiascos. Bombs will be welcome when the lawyers get done with the victim's site.
If you want to address memory, you will quickly appreciate multiples of two. Base 10 might work for matrixes and the specific problem at hand, but when it comes to programming most tasks, chunks of memory are fetched in multiples of two. Otherwise, you will have unused address and data lines. Why waste them?
The lack of blinky light innovation of the average person amazes me. Improvise:
Bounce it off the building down the street. Perhaps up the power and bounce it off the clouds like weather radar. Integrate your LED Christmas lights as the emmiters. Hook up the ethernet AUI connection to the flyback circuit on your television for Van Eck transmission. Complete the optical link by using the FBI's monitors in the van down the street as the optical receiver. The possibilities of bending light around the corner are endless!
Slashdot Mirror
Then you would see the Olympics for what it really is.
The investors would not like that.
RoadRunner in Kansas City, I asked what they charge for their most basic internet connection: $19.95. Just the internet, no tv. What started out as a constant 2MB/sec up-down has been turning into 3MB/sec bursts both ways. That's two ISO images in just over an hour.
No port filtering, so I get the usual funny viral entries in my httpd logs.
Reliability has been nonstop, except for the ice storm just this last week in which the lovely tree in my back yard knocked down the 14 kilovolt wire for the neighborhoods around me. The cablemodem came right back up when the electric company repaired everyone's downed poles a week later.
Electric cars may have something going for them in terms of safety if we can get rid of those massive land barge lead-acid batteries. Even though some cars are light, consider the following:
Weight is inversely proportional to agility.
Agility multiplied by driver skill plus that extra weight equals safety.
A land barge is only safe when the driver has no skill. Marginally at best. This formula may explain why some people seem to avoid accidents and not get hurt, while others are magnets for disasters.
Oh, as someone who repairs electric vehicles for a living, let me tell you how to make a noisy DC motor. Just replace the brushes without letting them seat properly. You will hear a howling loud noise akin to a jet engine spooling up. The commutator/brush assembly is the noisiest part of a DC motor followed by any audible current pulses from the drive. Changing the frequency of the oscillator circuit can be done by the more adventurous hacker and can really make a motor be heard.
Speaking of modifications, these cars are fun and incredibly easy to hack. No nitrous oxide or bolt-ons needed, just a jumper wire! Weakening the magnetic field increases armature current and motor speed exponentially. You can easily spin a DC motor to the point of destruction just by weakening the current through the field coils.
Getting worse? Ha! Slashdot was started by c.o.l.a regulars, so this shouldn't be surprising. Its much, much tamer these days, but still expect your daily dose of Windows bashing. Unfortunately, slashdot attracts these pushbutton Windows users like flies since the Chips&Dips days.
Granted, typos are annoying. The value of these books goes beyond a compilation of information, but the wealth of information is organized in an easily digestible way. Its like reading a newspaper on a lazy afternoon. Compare to that of taking a casual interest and reading through the howtos and other documentation through the net. This book can be taken around the house or at appointments for casual reading. The Beginning Linux book was an enjoyable read and the Professional Linux book appears to be on scale with those huge electronic engineers books for reference or learning technical knowledge in spare time.
Its called overtime. Guess how many time-and-a-half hours you have to work a week to get $75,000.
Those robots are amazing. They can run 24 hours a day, 7 days a week!
Indeed these are incredible USB portable hard drives with a built in MP3 player/sound system. I bought 3 of these Archos MP3 players (the 20MB version,) one for each of the kids. My worst fear was they were going to drop them and the only noise would be hard drives clicking. All three are still working around the clock and connect with our Linux boxen.
Too late. Someone patented it.
And said outlaws will become heroes by doing their duty to distribute encryption from the rich few to the poor masses.
I saved the MFM hard drives. Its great to have a spare 5MB when I need it.
uttering the following on IRC would put you in jail:
rm -rf /
or joking about telling someone to jump off a cliff would be illegal...
imagine that... No one could be taught the importance of learning responsibility.
I agree the default quoting of entire messages is great to leave things in context; unfortunately, my visual desktop isn't vast as the 30GB of storage.
Its all about something that is easy to digest and quote. What I see is that compulsory education^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hlearning should be enforced so communication skills could be introduced to everyone. Learning by osmosis doesn't seem to work.
And that's not all! The IRS would love to see a piece of the pie also. Uh oh, no tax receipts? Don't forget, the IRS will be armed too!
$40 in an escrow account or if they make money off the interest sounds like a fair business dealing.
Else, it sounds like they are displaying and excercising monopoly powers.
Oh,dear boy, you had it easy, why back in my day we used beads carved from rock with holes chipped inside so they could be fashioned on spun strings. We had slaves to slide the beads according to set rules. In fact, it was a dangerous job due to the overwhelming number of beads required for basic computational analysis. To calculate prime numbers, MMMCX tons of beads were required and a failure of the supporting members meant an avalanche of rolling beads upon the camp. Begin worker's rights and other heretic movements that impeded technology.
But I digress. You young whippersnappers think you have it so good with silicon, you ought to try pushing carts of beads uphill by the bucket uphill both ways with no round wheels.
New York State, which outlawed hand held cell use while driving?
Those laws don't cover it all yet... I often type emails into my cell phone more often than I talk into it. The joys of slashdot on the road. Watch out!
My TW service is comparable in Kansas City. +2/2Mb up/down minimum (sometimes soars to 3Mb/sec,) news server absolutely rocks, httpd, etc...
I asked what their cheapest rate was and that must have been a good question to ask when signing up. I have been paying $19.95 a month. No tcpip downtime yet, but I hear their mailservers are a different story (the Unstoppable Windows NT(tm.)
They don't have the power to transmit? Oh boy, used microwave components from the magnetron in the microwave to surplus TWT tubes are mighty easy to get. Any pre-teen can transmit a few kilowatts throughout the microwave spectrum with a high voltage transformer, a capacitor, and a tube. Bonus points for modulating it with a simple amplifier.
Hard to do? This stuff is laying around, everywhere. It just takes some imagination, wires to hook it up, and an afternoon of fun.
Indeed, Bill Joy is a different breed. Contrast him with the others in sense that ethics became his driving force behind his motivation of advocating technology.
Nice description of PacMan on OpenSource. Conversely in my opinion, the PacMan analogy fits Bill Gates vision more appropriately. Those bits of food used to be his competitors while he proceeds to clear the board. Those trusty power pellet lawyers and the "repressive" USDOJ ghosts just have to make things interesting for his game.
I noticed ONE generator. Need redundancy, even if you do have lots of batteries and UPS supplies. And generators do fail. That generator will supply power for months or weeks, not hours like batteries will.
I used to work with a generator similar to this and hope they have a good service contract with mechanics on site just in case. Ours was an emergency backup generator and used sparingly for electrical surplus curtailment (when the electric company runs out of power for peak demands and tells us to curtail usage unless we want to pay large fines.) Well, after a year, it tossed a valve through the cover. The next year, the shaft from the 2800hp CAT twin turbo to the Marathon 1.6MW 480 volt three phase generator broke. Sheared the shaft in two from cracks due to undamped vibrations. Both times, we were in the dark.
Generators, especially ones over 1MW are very large machines and are subject to catastrophic failure. Redundancy is recommended.
Artillery? Why worry about carnage when the pen is mightier than the sword. Our laws will wipe out any data center with a series of lawsuits, lobbying, and consitutional rights fiascos. Bombs will be welcome when the lawyers get done with the victim's site.
If you want to address memory, you will quickly appreciate multiples of two. Base 10 might work for matrixes and the specific problem at hand, but when it comes to programming most tasks, chunks of memory are fetched in multiples of two. Otherwise, you will have unused address and data lines. Why waste them?
since when does IR not need direct line of sight?
The lack of blinky light innovation of the average person amazes me. Improvise:
Bounce it off the building down the street. Perhaps up the power and bounce it off the clouds like weather radar. Integrate your LED Christmas lights as the emmiters. Hook up the ethernet AUI connection to the flyback circuit on your television for Van Eck transmission. Complete the optical link by using the FBI's monitors in the van down the street as the optical receiver. The possibilities of bending light around the corner are endless!