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# MPEG 2 PS VOB file -> descrambled output on stdout.
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As an ex-contractor at the USPTO, i can tell you, they are much more technologically on the ball than they are given credit for. 100mb to the desktop, oc-12's between buildings, multiple redundant internet connections, and with the exception of some old sun systems, they run hp-ux exclusively for their major systems. They are also doing extensive work on building a PKI system, to enable inventors to file and conduct all related transactions online. I'm not saying they are the most open-source friendly, but they DO have quite a setup. -stax /. poster #104543567
Finally, linux has the holy grail of industrial strength operating systems! This is the one major reason why i use mandrake now, who wants to wait for a fscking fsck? -stax /. poster #104543567
having just installed it on a mandrake (red hat based) system, i can assure that the install of bastille took no more than 5-10 minutes. I think it should be bundled with every system, and should be run upon roots first logon. (disable network interfaces first, then run, then re-enable)... -stax /. poster #104543567
General Repairs Most problems with your Visor can be easily repaired with the help of online technical support . If you still need help, call Technical Support at (716) 871-6448 between the hours of 8 am to 10 pm Eastern Standard Time M-F and 10 am to 8 pm Sat-Sun. There are occasionally charges associated with Visor repair (particularly for rapid shipment of replacements and LCD repair). Please have your credit card number ready.
Broken LCD Repair
If you received your shipment with a broken LCD screen, we'll replace it free of charge. Simply contact our CustomerCare Center at 1 (888) 565-9393 anytime.
General Repairs
General Repairs Most problems with your Visor can be easily repaired with the help of online technical support . If you still need help, call Technical Support at (716) 871-6448 between the hours of 8 am to 10 pm Eastern Standard Time M-F and 10 am to 8 pm Sat-Sun. There are occasionally charges associated with Visor repair (particularly for rapid shipment of replacements and LCD repair). Please have your credit card number ready.
Broken LCD Repair
If you received your shipment with a broken LCD screen, we'll replace it free of charge. Simply contact our CustomerCare Center at 1 (888) 565-9393 anytime.
free repairs if it was broken when you got it
-stax /. poster #104543567
does anyone know the motivation for the external power supply? will i have to plug in DC from the wall, or just a hard-drive type plug from the existing power supply. what's next, video cards get their own case? -stax /. poster #104543567
"Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn't argue with that; I'm right and I will be proved right. We're more popular than Jesus now; I don't know which will go first - rock 'n' roll or Christianity. Jesus was all right but his disciples were thick and ordinary. It's them twisting it that ruins it for me."
In actuality, he was right that, the Beatles were more popular than the big JC. John's response to the american south's uproar follows:
"If I had said television is more popular than Jesus, I might have got away with it, but I just happened to be talking to a friend and I used the words "Beatles" as a remote thing, not as what I think - as Beatles, as those other Beatles like other people see us. I just said "they" are having more influence on kids and things than anything else, including Jesus. But I said it in that way which is the wrong way."
The only real response to this, by any religious authority was:
Radio Station KLUE in Longview, Texas, one of the stations which organised the public bonfires of Beatles records on August 13, was knocked off the air the next morning when a bolt of lightning struck their transmission tower, causing extensive damage to their radio equipment, and according to the book Beatles In Their Own Words edited by Pearce Marchbank, knocking their news director unconscious.
All this shamelessly ripped from - http://www.liv.ac.uk/ipm/beatles/bmain.html -stax /. poster #104543567
Interesting, i'll have to pull it out and give another try. Has anyone used it in MD? I think i'll have to do a survey of the area and see where i get the best signals...
When I lived in Fairfax City, the Richochet worked great with linux, I had it hooked up in my old apartment as our ONLY internet access. Just used IPMasq and private ip's. It wasn't the fastest thing in the world, but it was pretty darned reliable. It does not work in Springfield (A few miles south) and did not work in Centreville (a few miles west). The coverage can be rated as splotchy at best. I think that inside the beltway it worked just fine.
YEAH! Balt-DC/MD/VA has some of the greatest soul/ska bands around, including the checkered Cabs and the PIETASTERS! Checkit - http://www.baisoftware.com/dcska
-stax /. poster #104543567
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I took it apart, and left each of the boards on a vent for a few hours. Didnt help any.. -stax /. poster #104543567
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I dropped my nokia in the toilet once. Sent it back to nokia and they replaced it for free. didnt tell em about the toilet part though. (no, there was not anything but water in the toilet, thanks for wondering though)
This is great news. Any way that NASA can streamline their current processes and cut the cost per launch will help us all in the future. So many of our greatest technologies have come from NASA. There was also another wired article (http://www.wired.com/news/news/business/story/219 55.html) that spoke of the privatization of NASA, which I believe is the only hope for one of America's greatest gov't agencies.
I also predict that out of this very technology may well come the floating cars and skateboards of back to the future fame.:) -stax /. poster #104543567
While the hubble telescope is a great telescope, do you really think that if NASA had the budget of DOD, it would be the LARGEST scientific telescope we would have in orbit?
I am not an authority, but - IMHO - With a larger telescope and image enhancement software, I'll bet they CAN read the license plates, probably even tell you if your tags are expired at that! This 1m stuff is old tech for DOD. -stax /. poster #104543567
I am, and always have been a big fan of standards.
People rag on me for using sh and vi, but they are everywhere. Not once have I walked up to a unix machine and not been able/comfortable using it because my favorite shell/editor wasn't there (zsh/ksh/emacs/whatever). Same thing goes with desktops. I usually just leave my WM alone, and use what is there. I'm very used to the HP/SUN windowmanager ui's, because I use them every day. (Ok, so I run a combo of E with BlueSteel over a minimal gnome dekstop - but i get by!:))
The same theory applies to keyboard setups. While one may be faster, glitzier or whatever, the other is EVERYWHERE you go.
My point is - If I am using what I know will be everywhere, I will be comfortable there. I don't have any special key-bindings/macro/aliases setup and I like to keep it that way. -stax /. poster #104543567
Kindof like the matrix? -stax /. poster #104543567
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Too true. How many Linux dist's do you have lying around the office?
quick count finds: redhat 5.1 powertools (Sparc/alpha/i386 all in one) redhat 5.2 intel redhat 6.0 intel redhat 6.0 sparc and i know there is a set of slackware disks downstairs in my old office and that my neighbor has deb potatoe lying around somewhere... Perhaps, the dists' should start checking the date on the computer, or even have the user set the date, as a option, right off -- then, if it is increadibly old, (over a year or so?) pop up a warning, and tell the user that they are installing a rather old version of that distribution... -stax /. poster #104543567
personally, i feel that the best quote one can garner from this article, and the one that MOST all of us should pay attention to is this:
"Now in the 1990s, I'm dual platform and can read some HTML -- in other words, I know nothing about the innards of contemporary PCs.
"My advice is if you've just barely mastered Windows, extremely literal and never touched a computer in the DOS/UNIX era, stick with Windows or go with a more user-friendly Linux distributor like Red Hat.
"If you've opened up a box and know all about UNIX, perhaps you'll even find this fun. "
This is a very honest and true gauge of where exactly linux is: A) If you've stayed in your windows all your life, go learn SOME dos and basic Unix commands before you install Linux (OR ANY unix for that matter) B) If, then, you DO decide to install linux, try and use an Up-to-date and user friendly version- IE RH 6.0.
take it or leave it, but that's where linux stands right now. I remember my first time, i had barely ever used unix, and when X didnt detect my video card (some slackware version, don't recall) i junked it and re-installed win95. Now, RH 6.0 is nothing, could do it in my sleep... -stax /. poster #104543567
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# 472-byte qrpff, Keith Winstein and Marc Horowitz
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As an ex-contractor at the USPTO, i can tell you, they are much more technologically on the ball than they are given credit for. 100mb to the desktop, oc-12's between buildings, multiple redundant internet connections, and with the exception of some old sun systems, they run hp-ux exclusively for their major systems. They are also doing extensive work on building a PKI system, to enable inventors to file and conduct all related transactions online. I'm not saying they are the most open-source friendly, but they DO have quite a setup.
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-stax
Yeah, quit sending stuff to my house!
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-stax
Finally, linux has the holy grail of industrial strength operating systems! This is the one major reason why i use mandrake now, who wants to wait for a fscking fsck?
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-stax
Necessity is the mother of invention, as they say...
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-stax
having just installed it on a mandrake (red hat based) system, i can assure that the install of bastille took no more than 5-10 minutes. I think it should be bundled with every system, and should be run upon roots first logon. (disable network interfaces first, then run, then re-enable)...
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-stax
Gotten in trouble for port scanning? What can they do to you for port scanning???
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-stax
General Repairs
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General Repairs Most problems with your Visor can be easily repaired with the help of online technical support . If you still need help, call Technical Support at (716) 871-6448 between the hours of 8 am to 10 pm Eastern Standard Time M-F and 10 am to 8 pm Sat-Sun. There are occasionally charges associated with Visor repair (particularly for rapid shipment of replacements and LCD repair). Please have your credit card number ready.
Broken LCD Repair
If you received your shipment with a broken LCD screen, we'll replace it free of charge. Simply contact our CustomerCare Center at 1 (888) 565-9393 anytime.
free repairs if it was broken when you got it
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General Repairs General Repairs Most problems with your Visor can be easily repaired with the help of online technical support . If you still need help, call Technical Support at (716) 871-6448 between the hours of 8 am to 10 pm Eastern Standard Time M-F and 10 am to 8 pm Sat-Sun. There are occasionally charges associated with Visor repair (particularly for rapid shipment of replacements and LCD repair). Please have your credit card number ready. Broken LCD Repair If you received your shipment with a broken LCD screen, we'll replace it free of charge. Simply contact our CustomerCare Center at 1 (888) 565-9393 anytime. free repairs if it was broken when you got it
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-stax
does anyone know the motivation for the external power supply? will i have to plug in DC from the wall, or just a hard-drive type plug from the existing power supply. what's next, video cards get their own case?
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-stax
-stax
Interesting, i'll have to pull it out and give another try. Has anyone used it in MD? I think i'll have to do a survey of the area and see where i get the best signals...
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-stax
While the lego model is amazing, the attention to detail seems to be a bit extreme... I don't know if it's just me, but this guy went ALL out!
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-stax
When I lived in Fairfax City, the Richochet worked great with linux, I had it hooked up in my old apartment as our ONLY internet access. Just used IPMasq and private ip's. It wasn't the fastest thing in the world, but it was pretty darned reliable. It does not work in Springfield (A few miles south) and did not work in Centreville (a few miles west). The coverage can be rated as splotchy at best. I think that inside the beltway it worked just fine.
/. poster #104543567
-stax
YEAH! Balt-DC/MD/VA has some of the greatest soul/ska bands around, including the checkered Cabs and the PIETASTERS!
/. poster #104543567
Checkit - http://www.baisoftware.com/dcska
-stax
I took it apart, and left each of the boards on a vent for a few hours. Didnt help any..
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-stax
I dropped my nokia in the toilet once. Sent it back to nokia and they replaced it for free. didnt tell em about the toilet part though. (no, there was not anything but water in the toilet, thanks for wondering though)
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-stax
I also predict that out of this very technology may well come the floating cars and skateboards of back to the future fame. :)
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-stax
While the hubble telescope is a great telescope, do you really think that if NASA had the budget of DOD, it would be the LARGEST scientific telescope we would have in orbit?
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I am not an authority, but - IMHO - With a larger telescope and image enhancement software, I'll bet they CAN read the license plates, probably even tell you if your tags are expired at that! This 1m stuff is old tech for DOD.
-stax
perhaps i stick more to the de-facto standards...
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-stax
I am, and always have been a big fan of standards.
:))
/. poster #104543567
People rag on me for using sh and vi, but they are everywhere. Not once have I walked up to a unix machine and not been able/comfortable using it because my favorite shell/editor wasn't there (zsh/ksh/emacs/whatever). Same thing goes with desktops. I usually just leave my WM alone, and use what is there. I'm very used to the HP/SUN windowmanager ui's, because I use them every day. (Ok, so I run a combo of E with BlueSteel over a minimal gnome dekstop - but i get by!
The same theory applies to keyboard setups. While one may be faster, glitzier or whatever, the other is EVERYWHERE you go.
My point is - If I am using what I know will be everywhere, I will be comfortable there. I don't have any special key-bindings/macro/aliases setup and I like to keep it that way.
-stax
Kindof like the matrix?
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-stax
quick count finds: redhat 5.1 powertools (Sparc/alpha/i386 all in one)
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redhat 5.2 intel
redhat 6.0 intel
redhat 6.0 sparc
and i know there is a set of slackware disks downstairs in my old office and that my neighbor has deb potatoe lying around somewhere... Perhaps, the dists' should start checking the date on the computer, or even have the user set the date, as a option, right off -- then, if it is increadibly old, (over a year or so?) pop up a warning, and tell the user that they are installing a rather old version of that distribution...
-stax
"Now in the 1990s, I'm dual platform and can read some HTML -- in other words, I know nothing about the innards of contemporary PCs.
"My advice is if you've just barely mastered Windows, extremely literal and never touched a computer in the DOS/UNIX era, stick with Windows or go with a more user-friendly Linux distributor like Red Hat.
"If you've opened up a box and know all about UNIX, perhaps you'll even find this fun. "
This is a very honest and true gauge of where exactly linux is:
A) If you've stayed in your windows all your life, go learn SOME dos and basic Unix commands before you install Linux (OR ANY unix for that matter)
B) If, then, you DO decide to install linux, try and use an Up-to-date and user friendly version- IE RH 6.0.
take it or leave it, but that's where linux stands right now. I remember my first time, i had barely ever used unix, and when X didnt detect my video card (some slackware version, don't recall) i junked it and re-installed win95. Now, RH 6.0 is nothing, could do it in my sleep...
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-stax
Why limit yourself? You should also cover reflection and reception of said emissions..
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-stax