Unless the rules have changed in the last few years, you can request at the post office not to get the random resident junk mail...
You'll still get anything specifically addressed to you, but the bulk "stick one of these in everyone's mailbox" stuff you won't have to deal with...
Ok, it doesn't have the range of a 50W mobile rig, but in many places it'll get you to a repeater...
Put a high gain directional antenna on it, and you might even be able to use one of the Amateur Radio satellites to increase your range...
The only difficulty I see in making routers filter *.xxx... The routers would have to reverse lookup the IPs that pass through to see if they're in.xxx... Next we'll see rules that require.xxx stuff to have addresses in 65.*:)
Some of the big National Weather Service doppler radars look like giant golf balls. They tend to be on tall towers (like a golf tee) on high spots to maximize how far they can see.
Also, you'll see radomes on cruise ships, to protect their satellite TV/phone dishes from the weather (salt water, and wind). They've got fancy az-el rotators to keep their sat TV dishes pointed at the right place as the ship moves around...
Based on Michigan, using 6%...
Buy your $20k car, pay $1200, then next year sell it for $15k, and the buyer pays $900 when they go to register it, then they sell it for $10k, the buyer pays $600, they sell it for $5k, the buyer pays $300. So the state gets $3k just in sales/use tax for one car? (Then there's all the registration/title/plate fees, and gas tax...)
And if you think you can get around it by putting $2 on the title, some states (I'm not sure about Michigan) will charge based on a alternative price derived from the model year if the selling price is lower...
If this is for phone quality recording, you could use a telephony board, like ones from Dialogic, Natural Microsystems, Pika...
I know that Dialogic makes 16 channel analog, and 48 channel digital (T1) cards, and has Linux/SCO/Unixware/Sun drivers.
I havn't checked lately to see what platforms they've been ported to, but NMS opensourced their drivers a while ago...
See:
http://www.dialogic.com/
http://www.linuxtelephony.org/
http://www.nmss.com/
New phones, TV's and such seem to all have crappy RF shielding. Sure, they've gotten tons cheaper, but when you have to buy and return a bunch because they either emit tons of RF or can't handle being within a few miles of a transmitter...
People can still fix their own cars, it just takes a few more tools and books. (I'm currently replacing a head gasket on one of my cars instead of my mechanic, partly to save money, partly because I want to see what else I think should be fixed while I'm in there...)
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It's easy to figure out where the program's registry contents are... Use regmon.
http://www.sysinternals.com/
It is free, and when used with filemon can
unmask the great unknown that is the registry and/or.ini files.
Thats almost how it works here in this part of Michigan. Except instead of checkboxes, it's an arrow without the middle part:
<-- ---
and you use a marker to make the arrow complete for who you want to vote for:
<--======---
When you're done, you feed it into a computer, that error checks it, and if it's ok, counts it and drops it into a locked ballot box.
It's also larger than 8.5x11, but that's because there are alot of things on it...
For 1 or 2 lines, I'd use vgetty. For >2, I'd use a Dialogic card... Yes, they have linux drivers now... You can pick up a used board cheap on ebay.
At work I build systems that do up to 192 lines per computer, using Dialogic cards...
I think that the secret isn't knowing the answer to everything... It's knowing how to use resources to find answers to anything.
That's what Google, man pages, and books are for.
The Detroit airport occasionally has an Amiga Workbench screen showing up at the security checkpoint, instead of the "Cameras ok, laptops ok" type graphics. Sometimes it'll even be showing the AREXX scripting that makes it work.
My suggestion is use either extension cables, or a KVM, and move the computer outside the area where quiet is required.
One other important consideration, is RFI/EMI (Radio Frequency/ElectroMagnetic Interference) . I ran into a big problem with a monitor in a sound booth causing a nasty hum from the vertical refresh rate. An old laptop running VNC/pcAnywhere remote controlling the sound PC might be a consideration, or spend the $$$ and get an LCD monitor.
Actually, when behaving on the highway, my wifes 88 Porsche 944 Turbo gets 30mpg. That's over 600 miles per tank (21 gallon tank). It's also alot more fun than any other car I've driven.:) (Granted, when having lots of fun, I've had it down to 18Mpg.)
They're actually cheaper than you might think.. I've seen 87 944 turbos for under 10 grand.
Granted, noone will read this, as it's buried way down...
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Funny this should be asked today. I had an NT4 machine BSOD several times today, because it was using a page file on a hard drive that was failing. Then I reboot it, and it tells me I'm out of virtual memory before it finishes booting. It worked well for causing BSOD's, but took a few hours to work up to doing it.
So, if I live in a state with a 4% sales/use tax, and buy something in a state and pay their 8% sales tax, do I get a refund of my 4% when I figure my use taxes for my state?
I also hate the fact that if I buy a used car, I get to pay sales tax for it... AGAIN... If I'm the 4th person to buy a particular car, I'm the 4th person to pay the state sales tax on it... Isn't this silly? Sounds like a Pyramid scheme to me...
Major changes take time in the automotive industry for lots of reasons. They've got to do alot of testing under lots of conditions to make sure that the new idea works all the time. If something turns up broken, it costs them X dollars per car to fix, unlike the software industry that costs them X dollars to make a service pack. Last I remember, the average new car has less than 1 defect of any kind when built... Compare this to software - If it's got only 1 defect, it probably prints "Hello World" and exits.
Then there's costs of changing assembly lines, tooling, test equipment, training...
I agree, it'd be nice if they could get some of these innovations to market quicker, but I also can see why they don't.
The best I've seen was a chassis that supported 4 systems in a 6U. They also did 4U cases with a 20 ISA backplane. I don't know what it'd take to get a backplane that only had the power pins connected to the slots, and not the bus signals. I see one other problem, and that is all of the SBC's I've seen have parts that stick out (memory, or the processor in the case of Slot1's), and cause them to take up at least 2 slots. One system, I lost 4 slots to the SBC. It had a slot1 processor on one side, a big heatsink on the BX chipset on the other side, and the cards I needed to put next to it were full length with daughercards.
I'd check with http://www.amer.com/ and http://www.lannerinc.com/ and see if they can point you to something that'd help. Amer.com used to have a picture in their catalog of their 6U multisystem chassis with SBC's in every slot, but I don't think it'd work that way.
Worst case, get the 20 slot backplane, and cut some traces yourself.
Lastly, watch the cooling issues, and make sure your power supply is sized well.
>A. The student could do that by getting an analog >version of Schindler's List, because that's not >encrypted.
My next question would have been: And in 10 years, when you can't get an analog version of anything anymore, how does the student exercise his fair use rights?
In high school, I found a '73 Williams pinball machine at a garage sale. They wanted too much money for it, and it wasn't working. After the garage sale ended, they still had it, so they offered it to me for free. After a bunch of contact cleaner, and a bit of tinkering, I got it working. (the NC part of the coin accepter switch was bent, so it wasn't NC anymore.) We had lots of fun with that machine. Alas, my mom gave it away after I moved out...
I played lots of Cyclone at college... Once I get space to put it, I hope I can find a Cyclone machine. Although, I imagine it's really different inside compared to the '73. Probably doesn't have all those relays and mechanical rotary counters and such.
"Ride the Comet!" "Ride the ferris wheel!" "Hey you, step right up!" are phrases I'll remember forever. (Although, "Oooo don't touch me there" on the Addams family when you tilted... That ranks up there too.)
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Burn win2010 onto CD? Nope, can't do that. It won't fit. By then it'll be up to 2Tb for the OS, and 3Tb for Office. (Full motion ultrahigh resolution movies of paperclips.)
I tried to go back to the distribution I started with to go back to my roots... But I can't find an updated copy of SLS anyplace... (Actually, I can't even find an original copy of SLS anymore...) I want to see if I can make 0.99.5 run on a newer machine. Anyone have a mirror? My floppies are long since deceased.
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Unless the rules have changed in the last few years, you can request at the post office not to get the random resident junk mail...
You'll still get anything specifically addressed to you, but the bulk "stick one of these in everyone's mailbox" stuff you won't have to deal with...
>One question... can a ham radio fit in your pocket and weigh only 4 ounces?
Sure, try 3 ounces:
http://www.alinco.com/Products/DJC5T.shtml
Ok, it doesn't have the range of a 50W mobile rig, but in many places it'll get you to a repeater...
Put a high gain directional antenna on it, and you might even be able to use one of the Amateur Radio satellites to increase your range...
The only difficulty I see in making routers filter *.xxx... The routers would have to reverse lookup the IPs that pass through to see if they're in .xxx... Next we'll see rules that require .xxx stuff to have addresses in 65.* :)
Kinda like this underwater hotel:
http://www.jul.com/
>How can you protect your home from ... Power
>outages? Sure you can UPS the central unit, but
>what about the lowly light switch on the wall?
If the power is out, I don't think it'd matter if the light switch has a UPS, unless the light has one too.
Some of the big National Weather Service doppler radars look like giant golf balls. They tend to be on tall towers (like a golf tee) on high spots to maximize how far they can see.
Also, you'll see radomes on cruise ships, to protect their satellite TV/phone dishes from the weather (salt water, and wind). They've got fancy az-el rotators to keep their sat TV dishes pointed at the right place as the ship moves around...
Based on Michigan, using 6%...
Buy your $20k car, pay $1200, then next year sell it for $15k, and the buyer pays $900 when they go to register it, then they sell it for $10k, the buyer pays $600, they sell it for $5k, the buyer pays $300. So the state gets $3k just in sales/use tax for one car? (Then there's all the registration/title/plate fees, and gas tax...)
And if you think you can get around it by putting $2 on the title, some states (I'm not sure about Michigan) will charge based on a alternative price derived from the model year if the selling price is lower...
If this is for phone quality recording, you could use a telephony board, like ones from Dialogic, Natural Microsystems, Pika...
I know that Dialogic makes 16 channel analog, and 48 channel digital (T1) cards, and has Linux/SCO/Unixware/Sun drivers.
I havn't checked lately to see what platforms they've been ported to, but NMS opensourced their drivers a while ago...
See:
http://www.dialogic.com/
http://www.linuxtelephony.org/
http://www.nmss.com/
Chris
New phones, TV's and such seem to all have crappy RF shielding. Sure, they've gotten tons cheaper, but when you have to buy and return a bunch because they either emit tons of RF or can't handle being within a few miles of a transmitter...
People can still fix their own cars, it just takes a few more tools and books. (I'm currently replacing a head gasket on one of my cars instead of my mechanic, partly to save money, partly because I want to see what else I think should be fixed while I'm in there...)
It's easy to figure out where the program's registry contents are... Use regmon. .ini files.
http://www.sysinternals.com/
It is free, and when used with filemon can
unmask the great unknown that is the registry and/or
Thats almost how it works here in this part of Michigan. Except instead of checkboxes, it's an arrow without the middle part:
<-- ---
and you use a marker to make the arrow complete for who you want to vote for:
<--======---
When you're done, you feed it into a computer, that error checks it, and if it's ok, counts it and drops it into a locked ballot box.
It's also larger than 8.5x11, but that's because there are alot of things on it...
For 1 or 2 lines, I'd use vgetty. For >2, I'd use a Dialogic card... Yes, they have linux drivers now... You can pick up a used board cheap on ebay.
At work I build systems that do up to 192 lines per computer, using Dialogic cards...
How about using Apache's proxy support.
http://www.apache.org/
Runs under NT, and many *nix's.
It's not just for webserving anymore.
I think that the secret isn't knowing the answer to everything... It's knowing how to use resources to find answers to anything.
That's what Google, man pages, and books are for.
The Detroit airport occasionally has an Amiga Workbench screen showing up at the security checkpoint, instead of the "Cameras ok, laptops ok" type graphics. Sometimes it'll even be showing the AREXX scripting that makes it work.
Or maybe it's a linux box running UAE. Nah...
My suggestion is use either extension cables, or a KVM, and move the computer outside the area where quiet is required.
One other important consideration, is RFI/EMI (Radio Frequency/ElectroMagnetic Interference) . I ran into a big problem with a monitor in a sound booth causing a nasty hum from the vertical refresh rate. An old laptop running VNC/pcAnywhere remote controlling the sound PC might be a consideration, or spend the $$$ and get an LCD monitor.
Actually, when behaving on the highway, my wifes 88 Porsche 944 Turbo gets 30mpg. That's over 600 miles per tank (21 gallon tank). It's also alot more fun than any other car I've driven. :)
(Granted, when having lots of fun, I've had it down to 18Mpg.)
They're actually cheaper than you might think.. I've seen 87 944 turbos for under 10 grand.
Granted, noone will read this, as it's buried way down...
Funny this should be asked today. I had an NT4 machine BSOD several times today, because it was using a page file on a hard drive that was failing. Then I reboot it, and it tells me I'm out of virtual memory before it finishes booting.
It worked well for causing BSOD's, but took a few hours to work up to doing it.
So, if I live in a state with a 4% sales/use tax, and buy something in a state and pay their 8% sales tax, do I get a refund of my 4% when I figure my use taxes for my state?
I also hate the fact that if I buy a used car, I get to pay sales tax for it... AGAIN... If I'm the 4th person to buy a particular car, I'm the 4th person to pay the state sales tax on it... Isn't this silly? Sounds like a Pyramid scheme to me...
Major changes take time in the automotive industry for lots of reasons. They've got to do alot of testing under lots of conditions to make sure that the new idea works all the time. If something turns up broken, it costs them X dollars per car to fix, unlike the software industry that costs them X dollars to make a service pack. Last I remember, the average new car has less than 1 defect of any kind when built... Compare this to software - If it's got only 1 defect, it probably prints "Hello World" and exits.
Then there's costs of changing assembly lines, tooling, test equipment, training...
I agree, it'd be nice if they could get some of these innovations to market quicker, but I also can see why they don't.
The best I've seen was a chassis that supported 4 systems in a 6U. They also did 4U cases with a 20 ISA backplane. I don't know what it'd take to get a backplane that only had the power pins connected to the slots, and not the bus signals.
I see one other problem, and that is all of the SBC's I've seen have parts that stick out (memory, or the processor in the case of Slot1's), and cause them to take up at least 2 slots. One system, I lost 4 slots to the SBC. It had a slot1 processor on one side, a big heatsink on the BX chipset on the other side, and the cards I needed to put next to it were full length with daughercards.
I'd check with http://www.amer.com/ and http://www.lannerinc.com/ and see if they can point you to something that'd help. Amer.com used to have a picture in their catalog of their 6U multisystem chassis with SBC's in every slot, but I don't think it'd work that way.
Worst case, get the 20 slot backplane, and cut some traces yourself.
Lastly, watch the cooling issues, and make sure your power supply is sized well.
Hopefully this helps some.
>A. The student could do that by getting an analog
>version of Schindler's List, because that's not
>encrypted.
My next question would have been: And in 10 years, when you can't get an analog version of anything anymore, how does the student exercise his fair use rights?
In high school, I found a '73 Williams pinball machine at a garage sale. They wanted too much money for it, and it wasn't working. After the garage sale ended, they still had it, so they offered it to me for free. After a bunch of contact cleaner, and a bit of tinkering, I got it working. (the NC part of the coin accepter switch was bent, so it wasn't NC anymore.) We had lots of fun with that machine. Alas, my mom gave it away after I moved out...
I played lots of Cyclone at college... Once I get space to put it, I hope I can find a Cyclone machine. Although, I imagine it's really different inside compared to the '73. Probably doesn't have all those relays and mechanical rotary counters and such.
"Ride the Comet!" "Ride the ferris wheel!"
"Hey you, step right up!" are phrases I'll remember forever. (Although, "Oooo don't touch me there" on the Addams family when you tilted... That ranks up there too.)
Burn win2010 onto CD? Nope, can't do that. It won't fit. By then it'll be up to 2Tb for the OS, and 3Tb for Office. (Full motion ultrahigh resolution movies of paperclips.)
I tried to go back to the distribution I started with to go back to my roots... But I can't find an updated copy of SLS anyplace... (Actually, I can't even find an original copy of SLS anymore...) I want to see if I can make 0.99.5 run on a newer machine. Anyone have a mirror? My floppies are long since deceased.