I'm a Ham operator (KC8DDC), and I think your claim that morse code (BTW, we call it CW) is destined to become a lost art, and that the only reason its still in use is because of the licencing requirement, is way offbase.
Even if the CW requirement were to completely dissapper, CW itself will not disapper anytime in the forseeable future. There are situtations where, right now, CW is the only viable communactions mode (one example is adverse conditions such as severe interferance, and weak signals). Also, many hams use it for contesting and DXing, and there are hams who use it as thier primary communcations mode because they enjoy using it.
Rest assured, despite what the pro-code lobby says, CW is not going away anytime soon.:)
I recently had laser eye surguy to correct a sevier myopia (nearsightedness) in both eyes, and I'm happy to say that the surgey was secussful.
You results will very, but my vision was inproved greatly from 20/2000 before the surgry, to initaly 20/120 afterwards. After my eyes had a chance to adjust, my vision latter inproved to 20/60 in the left eye, and near 20/20 in the right eye. However, there are risks, and the surgry is not for everyone.
I have some advice that may save you some surprises and posiable problems down the road:
I recommend that you get the surgery done at the Vision Surgery & Laser Center in La Hoya, California if you can make the trip, since, IMO, they have the most experience. Wherever you chose to get it done, make sure you find out how many eyes they've done to date. The places that have most experanced doctors are the places that have done the most eyes. There is a big diffrence between the experance level of a doctor who has done a dozen eyes, and a doctor who has done a couple thousand, and you'll want the doctor who has the most experance.
If you are going out-of-state to have the surgry, then, if you can, plan to arrive at least 2 days before the surgery is scheduled to be done. This will give you enough time to get settled in and adjust to any time zone changes before having to deal with the surgery. Also, plan to stay at least 2 or 3 days after the surgery to recover before going home. Trust me, you're not going to be able to see well enough to do any traveling initailly after the surgry. You'll need to stay overnight after the surgery, anyways, because they'll need to check your eyes the next day.
After the surgery, you will experience poor vision, and that may last for a few days. It would be a good idea to have someone give you a ride back afterward. Also, you might not want to do any reading or computer work for a few days afterward.
Your eyes will be sensitive to light for at least a couple of days after the surgery. If your going to be staying at a hotel afterwards, your better off IMO staying in one that caters to business travelers (ex. has room darkening curtains, has a shuttle service, ect.).
Finally, they'll give you a kit that includes, among other things, a couple of eyeshelds and some moisturizing and medicating drops. Be sure to follow the doctor's instructions for the medications they'll give you. Also, be sure to allow enough time between each set of drops to give the eye drops enough time to work befor you put the other set of drops in. You'll need to stop by a pharmacy after they give you your kit, they'll give you some prescriptions that you'll need to fill, and the small bottle of moisturizing drops they give you is only intended to last for 2-3 days (you'll need them for months). Also, you'll need to wear the eyeshilds for a week, when you go to sleep, to protect your eyes. Don't be in a hurry when you take them off, the tape they give you loves skin, you'll have to literally peel the tape off your face.
Hope this bit of advice helps, and good luck on yopur eye surgry.
Sorry to hear about your problems, AC, but I don't understand, why, if you're new at linux, you decieded to download it off of the net.
Please, if you're new at linux, don't download it off the net. You will run into no end of problems and aggravation, even if the download completes successfuly. It's far better to pay anywhere from $50-$100USD for an official boxed set of your favirate distrubition than to have to put up with a lot of headaces and not to have the manual and support there to help you.
I recomend Red Hat, but that's the distrobution that I did the most research on. Really, there are no major diffrences between distros, just pick one that you're comfortable with, or just pick one. The diffrences that are there are minor, and the boxed distros have the OS, manual, some form of support, and a truckload of applications and other useful software, so they're really the best choice for newbies.
I've been reading some of the comments here, and I wanted to share some things I know about flourescent lights.
Flourescent lights are not supposed to buzz, hum or flicker. If you have a noisy or flickering light, the bulbs may be starting to wear out, and will need to be replaced. Other common causes are a bad starter (for a starter-type light), loose wiring, a bad connection between the bulb and lamp holder, or the balast is going bad. Also, a bad ground can cause any number of problems.
As another poster mentioned, older flourlescent lamps used a magnetic balast ( esscently a transformor) while newer ones use an electronic balast (usially a switching power supply with some extra circuitry). If the fixtures in your office are more than a few years old, it may be a good idea to replace them.
One problem you will have is the fact that water conducts electicty. Your going to have to find some way to seal the componets that dosen't interfere with providing cooling, or your going to find yourself dealing with fried system at best, or a possibily leathal electrocution hazard at worst.
Another problem is water dissapation. There needs to be a certain amount of water in the tank for the toilet to flush properly, or you going to end up with a toilet that clogs frequently, and gives you all sorts of other problems. Older toilets may have enought room, but, unless your system is really small (think embedded system), the newer low-flow toilets do not.
If you're going to do this, please be careful. If you're going to power it from the AC (not recomended unless you really know what you're doing), make sure that the line is isolatted, and is protected by a GFCI. Don't count on the power supply to provide isolattion, a liner PS might if it uses a transformor (no ganunaties), but a switching PS won't, and most computer PS'es are switching PS'es. A better idea may be to power the system from batteries, instead.
I go futher and track my document. I put a 1-bit GIF file embedded in my document that links back to my server. This tracks people who simply mirror the document through the Referer field.
Then, I put interesting spelling and wording in the document. This allows me to track the document via AltaVista and other search engines.
Another thing you can do is use an encyptricpted PGP or S/MIME signigure to digitally sign your documents and other works. I don't have any info on how to do this, offhand, but infomation on this shouldn't be too hard to find.
I think what you're discribing is an AC line filter. If that's the case, you have to be the one to use it, since it's your equiptment that's being interfered with.
It looks like the interferance is comming in through the AC line, although I'm not ruleing out poor or badly shielded A/V, speaker, and antenna conections, or a bad ground somewhere in your house wiring.
Does the FCC notice on your electronics look like this: This device complies with part 15 of the FCC rules. Operation is subject tw the fowwing two conditions: (1) This device may not cause harmful interferance, and (2) this device must accept any interferance recieved, including interferance that may cause undesired operation?
That lable's on every electronic device, form your stereo, to your computer. What it basicly says is if your device starts putting out interferance, and the interferance proves harmful, you are leagelly obligated to stop using it until you get it fixed. But, if something is interfering with your device, even if it is causing problems with that device, you have no leagel protection from the interferance, you're on your own.
(1) Offer to buy him a "low pass filter" - anyone who works at a radio equipment store will know exactly what you mean if you ask them for one. it may cost as much as $20, more if he's running a heck of a lot of power out the back of his radio. he puts this in-line on his coax before it reaches the antenna. I would not recommend going to RadioShack for this. Try looking through the yellow pages for a business that sells or leases business radio or ham equipment. A low-pass filter tries to clean out the ranges of transmission that will interfere with A/V equipment. It shouldn't interfere with his fun.
(3) Buy some high-pass filters to put on your tv and stereo to filter out his transmissions. This might not work, if, like you say, anything with a speaker repeats his voice.
Here are a few other ideas:
* Buy a package, or two, of 0.01 uF bypass capactors, and connect them across the speaker treminals. The bypass capactors act as a short circuit to RF, but won't do anything to power and audio.
* Try putting an AC line filter between the device being affected, and the AC line. It is possabile that the interferance could be comming in through the AC wiring.
* Switch to shielded cable, if you have that option(some manufactures mold the cable pernamently to thier speakers). This will make a big differance(it will cut down on alot of crosstalk, and other interferance), and you really should use shielded cable on your audio/vidio, speaker, data, and antenana(RF) conections anyways.
BTW, one inportaint FYI: ham radio operators can legealy operate radio equment that they've built or modified without having that equiptment type-accepted, as long as it's for personal use. For expample, If a ham builds his own radio, or modifies his radio, and he's useing it for his own use, his doesn't have to get it type-accepted. If he's building or modifing radio equiptment comericially, however, he still needs to get that equiptment type-accepted for it to be legal.
Sounds good, but if you really want to make your voice heard, I recomend you call, fax, or write your congressanal rep instead.
I don't recomend email because, many times, the reps refuse to corrispond by email, or the email is ignored, or "lost" in the system. Considering the US government's current ignorance and position on the internet, this is not likly to change soon.
If you don't know who your Rep is, one way you can find out is to go to the Center For Democracy & Technology's site, and enter your zip code. The site will display a page with your rep's name and office phone number.
A friend and I are trying to start up a Linux club at our local college, and we could use that surplus computer equitpment for the club. This could really help us out alot since we don't have deep pockets, and this is a volentear effort (that meens we arn't recieving any finacial support or compencation for this).
Also, my formor electronics instructor could also use that surplus equiptment. He teaches at a local rehabiulation center, and thanks to buget cuts and other polictal nonsense, he very often has trouble getting equiptment. In fact, most of the equiptment he uses in his class is surplus, donated, or salvaged.
Please email me the info, I will especialy need to know how much and what kind of equpitment we're talking about, what condition it's in, and a appoximate quote on shipping (I'm in WV, if that helps).
What we need is laws that require, say, a pornographic site to respond with a HTTP header such as "Content-Restrictions: XXX". That way, filter software can work, yet information will not be censored.
Or better yet, give the adult sites thier own top level domain(for example,.xxx or.sex). Thay way, all someone who wants to block access to adult sites has to do is install a simple proxy, and instruct it to block access to sites in that TLD.
I don't agree with the idea of using.adu as a TLD for adult sites, because, it's too easy for someone looking for an.edu site to mistype one letter, and end up at a porno site. And you know how easily the masses understand that there is a such thing as an honest mistake, and how readily they admit thier own mistakes.;)
If the two censorware disscussions on/. are any indication, getting adult site operators to move thier sites to thier own TLD wouldn't be a problem because most would welcome thier own TLD. (Sorry, I can't find the exact comment, but the two disscussions are here and here.) People who want to find these sites can find them more easly(they'll find these sites eventialy), and the site ops don't have to deal with as many angry complaints from arragent jerks who found the site by accident, and haven't heard of just clicking thier browser's back button.
Granted, this is not the "look good" "feel good" soulution that the polititions and the "legistate moarliaty" and "protect the children" interests would likly want, and it's not a perfect soulition, but it's far more workable, and, IMO, a far better idea than any legestation could ever hope to be.
I just recently bought an IN WIN IW-Q500A, and it's a nice looking full tower case that has a 300W power supply and plenty of expanion space. It can easily be a server case, and I got mine for $100 ($75 for the case, $25 for the shipping) at Multiwave (I found this deal through KillerApp).
You're probitly not going to find a good designer case unless you're willing to spend a lot of money, but one thing you can do is to get a regular case, and paint or contect paper it. Just be careful not to block the ventialation slots or any other openings.
By the time I saw your message, I had allready posted a reply to your previous message. You may want to read it anyways as it makes an importiant point.
I'm sorry for any hurt feelings, but that's just the way I see it.
Apollagy accepted, damon, now lets get on with our lives.
If you were from a foreign domain that was obviously from a non-English-speaking country, I'd buy this excuse. I don't think that 'wvsc.edu' falls under that particular area, however.
You're forgetting that there are people in the US who use english as a second language. There are also people who have only been in the US a short time, and do not yet have a good grasp of the english language.
You obviously haven't fully read my post, or you would have picked up on the fact that there are poeple who have phyical and mental disabilties, and where I mention (I souldn't have to spell it out) that I will allways be a poor speller because of a learning disabilty. FYI, a learning disabilty is not the same as mental retardation, those are two very diffrent things.
Ethics is a major class in most colleges that I know of. I just find it quite amazing that someone who is (obviously) going to college wouldn't know that.
I do, but I don't see what, if anything, this has to do with your spelling flame, or my responce to it.
I'm not a "newbee" (newbie), but thanks for playing anyway.
AWW, now who would've known.;)
I read through some of your earlier posts, and you don't seem to be the type of guy who flames poeple just for kicks, so I don't know why you suddenly decieded to start now. At least as a newbie you would have had an excuse, but as someone who has passed the newbie stage, you really should've known better. Most people who have passed the newbie stage allready know that spelling/grammer flames are considered to be very rude, and as unnecessary and unwelcome, to say the least. They also know that there are more importaint things to flame about than spelling/grammer errors.
I'm not that anally retentive. Or maybe I am. I've never bothered to check.:p
Could of fooled me.:P
At first I thought you were an arrogent newbie, now I know you're just arrogent, with a large ego to boot. In fact, I take it back about your head being up your ass, I now know that it would never fit.;)
And I'm glad you love me so much as to reply to me. If I'm just a "newbee flamer" who isn't worth your time... I'm just so glad you care so much!;)
I don't. As far as I'm concerned, you can go play with yourself. I only bothered because I wanted to make a point: you keep flaming people for the wrong reasons, espcialy for something as trivial as a spelling error, sooner or later someone's goinng to flame back. Now, I would have been nicer about it had you not came off as such an arriogant, self-rightious, nit-picking jackass with an oversize ego, but if you thought my responce was harsh, just wait untill you tick off someone who really knows how to flame. In fact, there are newsgroups and websites avaible that are devoted to teaching people how to flame properly, a skill you could use if you want to contunue playing your flame "game".
You prolibtly will read this, and choose not to listen to what I said. Too bad. Reply to this, or not, I couldn't care less. If you don't want to listen to me, fine with you. But, if that's the case, I'm not going to be interested in hearing what you have to say.:P
I'm going to go on with my own life now, thank you. I suggest that you do the same. You may think this is a game, fine with you. But, I'm not going to play your lame game anymore.
You need to remeber that there are people on the net who use english as a second language, and that there are also people who have phyical and mental disablities.
I will never be able to spell well enough to win a spelling constest, or to be a professional profreader. Sure, there are spell checkers, but those things are far from perfect, or even close to perfect. For example, when I put "efics" into a spell checker, it came out with a few correctly spelled words, that had diffrent meanings from what I whated to say. If the word "ethics" was spelled, for example, "effects" in my previous post, that part of the post would not have made any sense.
FYI, spelling flames are considered to be a major violation of netiquite. Also, if you have a real disagreement with someone, take it up with the person through privite email. A public fourm is not a good place to carry on a disagreement with someone. Another thing, the (sp?) means "I know that this is the wrong spelling, but I don't know of a better spelling at the moment, so this will have to do".
I don't usially bother with dumbass flamers, but, demon, I'm going to assume that you are a newbee who doesn't know, or fully understand, the ropes. If your not, then you really need to get your head out of your ass.
Demon, if you are a college graduate, then I feel sorry for other college graduates who will now have to put up with the reputation, that you just single-handedly give them, as analy-retentive blow-hards who have nothing better to do than post spelling/grammer flames. If you're so analy-retentive that you think that a mispelled word is the end of the world as we know it, then I strongly suggest that you learn to relax, grow up, and get a life. Your own.:P
Any PHBs who take the arguement to any business effics(sp?) site or newsgroup that they can spy on thier employies, on a whilm, because it's the company's system and they can do anything they want with it, will loose that argument quickly. It may be legal, but many business poeple consider that practice to be uneffical(sp?).
Marc, find out if your company has a policy on servalance(most do), and what it is. I'm not an expert, and IANAL, but usialy it says the your company can use servalance in areas where security/safty are a concern, and if wrongdoing is suspected.
the trucks would slow down, dumbass... no one is going to drive over a kid
No one wants to drive over a kid, but a truck is not going to be able to stop, or slow down, in time, even if the driver is literialy standing on the brake with both feet, and has engaged the air brakes. A truck needs more distance and time to stop than a car going at the same speed.
Over here in W.Va., there are many two-lane roads that are considered as major highways. Most, and I mean most drivers are careful, but there are a few dumbasses around that think that they don't have to be careful because the road they're on is a major highway, even though there are houses on either side of the road, it's only two lanes wide, and both lanes have traffic going in oppisite dirictions of each other.
How reliable is Firecracker? Does it make sure that the device did recieve the command? Or does it just send out a commmand and hope that the device got it?
It looks like firecracker only transmits. It does not do any status monitoring, or anything else that requires it to recieve. I opened the Firecracker module's case and looked inside (hey, for $6US I just got it as something to play around with) and it looks like all it is is a simple transmiter that conects to the serial port.
If you need somthing that can can do status monitoring, or for anything else where it would have to be able to transmit and recieve, you may want to look at their Active Home kit or IBM's Home Directer kit, or something simular.
Can you extend the Firecracker device from the serial port, say 25' or so, to maybe get better transmission quality by mounting high on the wall or more centered in covering space?
You can try it and see if it works, just be sure that you don't make the cable too long or the serial signals will degrade.
How about temperaturing monitor with X10?
I haven't seen anything like that for X10 that will do what you want to use it for. You may just want to look at system monitoring kits that interface with the computer and allow remote monitoring.
Is there OEM or aftermarket X10 hardware?
Yes, check out www.smarthome.com. I've seen some good deals on X10 and other home automation hardware over there.
In some places, A/C is a necessity, especially in areas of the world that experience hi summertime temps.
In a matter of fact, thanks to en nino and la nina, the tropics aren't the only areas that have to worry about heat waves. The temperature outside my apartment right now is about 110F degrees, which is above normal where I live(normal hi temps are in the mid-upper 80's, sometimes lower 90's, in the summer). Even with two fans, and the A/C, It's hovering around 82-84 degrees inside. Uncomfortable, but it's better than what's outside.
FYI, the only way that the refrigerant used will get anywhere near the ozone layer is if it leaks out of the unit. If your A/C is leaking, you better have a technician fix it. The refrigerants that are used have a nasty habit of being toxic in large enough quianties...
BTW, some time ago, I heard something about experiments in developing a cooling system that uses high frequency sound waves as the coolant, instead of the chemical coolants used today(I don't rember where I heard of it,sorry). I don't know what came of that, but it would be nice if ultrasonic A/C's and refrigerators started appearing on the store shelves...
Re:G2 player? - Try this responce.
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This will only work if enough people participate, but it's worth a try.
Reply back to them and mention that you're willing to contribute $29.95 to the development in extange for a Linix/Unix version of Real Player G2 Plus. Don't forget to also mention that there are other Unix/Unix clone users who may be interested in a Unix/Linix version of Real Player G2 Plus.
You're running into a bureaucratic problem rather than a technical problem. They don't know if there is enough of a demand for a Unix/Linix version, so they're not interested in devolping one.
Maybe when they see that there is a demand for a Unix/Linux version, they'll develop one.
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I'm a Ham operator (KC8DDC), and I think your claim that morse code (BTW, we call it CW) is destined to become a lost art, and that the only reason its still in use is because of the licencing requirement, is way offbase.
:)
Even if the CW requirement were to completely dissapper, CW itself will not disapper anytime in the forseeable future. There are situtations where, right now, CW is the only viable communactions mode (one example is adverse conditions such as severe interferance, and weak signals). Also, many hams use it for contesting and DXing, and there are hams who use it as thier primary communcations mode because they enjoy using it.
Rest assured, despite what the pro-code lobby says, CW is not going away anytime soon.
How about the DVD DeCCS articals that appeared on slashdot, and the slashdot articals on the movie industry's responce?
Linux DVD One Step Closer
DVD for Linux: an Interview With the Developers
LinuxDVD CSS Decrypt - Source Available
Watching DVDs in Linux HOWTO
Why DVD Encryption Crack was a Cinch
Post-Hacked DVD: Where to Go?
Legal Actions Against Linux-DVD authors
Activist Defends DVD Hack
DVD Hack Delays DVD Audio
Pioneer Releases DVD Audio Sans New Encryption
DVD CCA Applies for Restraining Order
And, for good measure, this one:
DVD Hearing Today - Are You Ready to Rumble?
You results will very, but my vision was inproved greatly from 20/2000 before the surgry, to initaly 20/120 afterwards. After my eyes had a chance to adjust, my vision latter inproved to 20/60 in the left eye, and near 20/20 in the right eye. However, there are risks, and the surgry is not for everyone.
I have some advice that may save you some surprises and posiable problems down the road:
I recommend that you get the surgery done at the Vision Surgery & Laser Center in La Hoya, California if you can make the trip, since, IMO, they have the most experience. Wherever you chose to get it done, make sure you find out how many eyes they've done to date. The places that have most experanced doctors are the places that have done the most eyes. There is a big diffrence between the experance level of a doctor who has done a dozen eyes, and a doctor who has done a couple thousand, and you'll want the doctor who has the most experance.
If you are going out-of-state to have the surgry, then, if you can, plan to arrive at least 2 days before the surgery is scheduled to be done. This will give you enough time to get settled in and adjust to any time zone changes before having to deal with the surgery. Also, plan to stay at least 2 or 3 days after the surgery to recover before going home. Trust me, you're not going to be able to see well enough to do any traveling initailly after the surgry. You'll need to stay overnight after the surgery, anyways, because they'll need to check your eyes the next day.
After the surgery, you will experience poor vision, and that may last for a few days. It would be a good idea to have someone give you a ride back afterward. Also, you might not want to do any reading or computer work for a few days afterward.
Your eyes will be sensitive to light for at least a couple of days after the surgery. If your going to be staying at a hotel afterwards, your better off IMO staying in one that caters to business travelers (ex. has room darkening curtains, has a shuttle service, ect.).
Finally, they'll give you a kit that includes, among other things, a couple of eyeshelds and some moisturizing and medicating drops. Be sure to follow the doctor's instructions for the medications they'll give you. Also, be sure to allow enough time between each set of drops to give the eye drops enough time to work befor you put the other set of drops in. You'll need to stop by a pharmacy after they give you your kit, they'll give you some prescriptions that you'll need to fill, and the small bottle of moisturizing drops they give you is only intended to last for 2-3 days (you'll need them for months). Also, you'll need to wear the eyeshilds for a week, when you go to sleep, to protect your eyes. Don't be in a hurry when you take them off, the tape they give you loves skin, you'll have to literally peel the tape off your face.
Hope this bit of advice helps, and good luck on yopur eye surgry.
Here's the link to the MacCrate:
http://www.swapspace.net/crate
I found it in the page source, it didn't go though because someone forgot to put the A in the A href= tag.
Sorry to hear about your problems, AC, but I don't understand, why, if you're new at linux, you decieded to download it off of the net.
Please, if you're new at linux, don't download it off the net. You will run into no end of problems and aggravation, even if the download completes successfuly. It's far better to pay anywhere from $50-$100USD for an official boxed set of your favirate distrubition than to have to put up with a lot of headaces and not to have the manual and support there to help you.
I recomend Red Hat, but that's the distrobution that I did the most research on. Really, there are no major diffrences between distros, just pick one that you're comfortable with, or just pick one. The diffrences that are there are minor, and the boxed distros have the OS, manual, some form of support, and a truckload of applications and other useful software, so they're really the best choice for newbies.
I've been reading some of the comments here, and I wanted to share some things I know about flourescent lights.
Flourescent lights are not supposed to buzz, hum or flicker. If you have a noisy or flickering light, the bulbs may be starting to wear out, and will need to be replaced. Other common causes are a bad starter (for a starter-type light), loose wiring, a bad connection between the bulb and lamp holder, or the balast is going bad. Also, a bad ground can cause any number of problems.
As another poster mentioned, older flourlescent lamps used a magnetic balast ( esscently a transformor) while newer ones use an electronic balast (usially a switching power supply with some extra circuitry). If the fixtures in your office are more than a few years old, it may be a good idea to replace them.
One problem you will have is the fact that water conducts electicty. Your going to have to find some way to seal the componets that dosen't interfere with providing cooling, or your going to find yourself dealing with fried system at best, or a possibily leathal electrocution hazard at worst.
Another problem is water dissapation. There needs to be a certain amount of water in the tank for the toilet to flush properly, or you going to end up with a toilet that clogs frequently, and gives you all sorts of other problems. Older toilets may have enought room, but, unless your system is really small (think embedded system), the newer low-flow toilets do not.
If you're going to do this, please be careful. If you're going to power it from the AC (not recomended unless you really know what you're doing), make sure that the line is isolatted, and is protected by a GFCI. Don't count on the power supply to provide isolattion, a liner PS might if it uses a transformor (no ganunaties), but a switching PS won't, and most computer PS'es are switching PS'es. A better idea may be to power the system from batteries, instead.
I go futher and track my document. I put a 1-bit GIF file embedded in my document that links back to my server. This tracks people who simply mirror the document through the Referer field.
Then, I put interesting spelling and wording in the document. This allows me to track the document via AltaVista and other search engines.
Another thing you can do is use an encyptricpted PGP or S/MIME signigure to digitally sign your documents and other works. I don't have any info on how to do this, offhand, but infomation on this shouldn't be too hard to find.
I think what you're discribing is an AC line filter. If that's the case, you have to be the one to use it, since it's your equiptment that's being interfered with.
It looks like the interferance is comming in through the AC line, although I'm not ruleing out poor or badly shielded A/V, speaker, and antenna conections, or a bad ground somewhere in your house wiring.
Does the FCC notice on your electronics look like this: This device complies with part 15 of the FCC rules. Operation is subject tw the fowwing two conditions: (1) This device may not cause harmful interferance, and (2) this device must accept any interferance recieved, including interferance that may cause undesired operation?
That lable's on every electronic device, form your stereo, to your computer. What it basicly says is if your device starts putting out interferance, and the interferance proves harmful, you are leagelly obligated to stop using it until you get it fixed. But, if something is interfering with your device, even if it is causing problems with that device, you have no leagel protection from the interferance, you're on your own.
(1) Offer to buy him a "low pass filter" - anyone who works at a radio equipment store will know exactly what you mean if you ask them for one. it may cost as much as $20, more if he's running a heck of a lot of power out the back of his radio. he puts this in-line on his coax before it reaches the antenna. I would not recommend going to RadioShack for this. Try looking through the yellow pages for a business that sells or leases business radio or ham equipment. A low-pass filter tries to clean out the ranges of transmission that will interfere with A/V equipment. It shouldn't interfere with his fun.
(3) Buy some high-pass filters to put on your tv and stereo to filter out his transmissions. This might not work, if, like you say, anything with a speaker repeats his voice.
Here are a few other ideas:
* Buy a package, or two, of 0.01 uF bypass capactors, and connect them across the speaker treminals. The bypass capactors act as a short circuit to RF, but won't do anything to power and audio.
* Try putting an AC line filter between the device being affected, and the AC line. It is possabile that the interferance could be comming in through the AC wiring.
* Switch to shielded cable, if you have that option(some manufactures mold the cable pernamently to thier speakers). This will make a big differance(it will cut down on alot of crosstalk, and other interferance), and you really should use shielded cable on your audio/vidio, speaker, data, and antenana(RF) conections anyways.
BTW, one inportaint FYI: ham radio operators can legealy operate radio equment that they've built or modified without having that equiptment type-accepted, as long as it's for personal use. For expample, If a ham builds his own radio, or modifies his radio, and he's useing it for his own use, his doesn't have to get it type-accepted. If he's building or modifing radio equiptment comericially, however, he still needs to get that equiptment type-accepted for it to be legal.
Sounds good, but if you really want to make your voice heard, I recomend you call, fax, or write your congressanal rep instead.
I don't recomend email because, many times, the reps refuse to corrispond by email, or the email is ignored, or "lost" in the system. Considering the US government's current ignorance and position on the internet, this is not likly to change soon.
If you don't know who your Rep is, one way you can find out is to go to the Center For Democracy & Technology's site, and enter your zip code. The site will display a page with your rep's name and office phone number.
A friend and I are trying to start up a Linux club at our local college, and we could use that surplus computer equitpment for the club. This could really help us out alot since we don't have deep pockets, and this is a volentear effort (that meens we arn't recieving any finacial support or compencation for this).
Also, my formor electronics instructor could also use that surplus equiptment. He teaches at a local rehabiulation center, and thanks to buget cuts and other polictal nonsense, he very often has trouble getting equiptment. In fact, most of the equiptment he uses in his class is surplus, donated, or salvaged.
Please email me the info, I will especialy need to know how much and what kind of equpitment we're talking about, what condition it's in, and a appoximate quote on shipping (I'm in WV, if that helps).
Thanks.
What we need is laws that require, say, a pornographic site to respond with a HTTP header such as "Content-Restrictions: XXX". That way, filter software can work, yet information will not be censored.
Or better yet, give the adult sites thier own top level domain(for example,
I don't agree with the idea of using
If the two censorware disscussions on
Granted, this is not the "look good" "feel good" soulution that the polititions and the "legistate moarliaty" and "protect the children" interests would likly want, and it's not a perfect soulition, but it's far more workable, and, IMO, a far better idea than any legestation could ever hope to be.
My $0.02.
That's sick! (retch)
I just recently bought an IN WIN IW-Q500A, and it's a nice looking full tower case that has a 300W power supply and plenty of expanion space. It can easily be a server case, and I got mine for $100 ($75 for the case, $25 for the shipping) at Multiwave (I found this deal through KillerApp).
You're probitly not going to find a good designer case unless you're willing to spend a lot of money, but one thing you can do is to get a regular case, and paint or contect paper it. Just be careful not to block the ventialation slots or any other openings.
By the time I saw your message, I had allready posted a reply to your previous message. You may want to read it anyways as it makes an importiant point.
I'm sorry for any hurt feelings, but that's just the way I see it.
Apollagy accepted, damon, now lets get on with our lives.
If you were from a foreign domain that was obviously from a non-English-speaking country, I'd buy this excuse. I don't think that 'wvsc.edu' falls under that particular area, however.
You're forgetting that there are people in the US who use english as a second language. There are also people who have only been in the US a short time, and do not yet have a good grasp of the english language.
You obviously haven't fully read my post, or you would have picked up on the fact that there are poeple who have phyical and mental disabilties, and where I mention (I souldn't have to spell it out) that I will allways be a poor speller because of a learning disabilty. FYI, a learning disabilty is not the same as mental retardation, those are two very diffrent things.
Ethics is a major class in most colleges that I know of. I just find it quite amazing that someone who is (obviously) going to college wouldn't know that.
I do, but I don't see what, if anything, this has to do with your spelling flame, or my responce to it.
I'm not a "newbee" (newbie), but thanks for playing anyway.
AWW, now who would've known.
I read through some of your earlier posts, and you don't seem to be the type of guy who flames poeple just for kicks, so I don't know why you suddenly decieded to start now. At least as a newbie you would have had an excuse, but as someone who has passed the newbie stage, you really should've known better. Most people who have passed the newbie stage allready know that spelling/grammer flames are considered to be very rude, and as unnecessary and unwelcome, to say the least. They also know that there are more importaint things to flame about than spelling/grammer errors.
I'm not that anally retentive. Or maybe I am. I've never bothered to check.
Could of fooled me.
At first I thought you were an arrogent newbie, now I know you're just arrogent, with a large ego to boot. In fact, I take it back about your head being up your ass, I now know that it would never fit.
And I'm glad you love me so much as to reply to me. If I'm just a "newbee flamer" who isn't worth your time... I'm just so glad you care so much!
I don't. As far as I'm concerned, you can go play with yourself. I only bothered because I wanted to make a point: you keep flaming people for the wrong reasons, espcialy for something as trivial as a spelling error, sooner or later someone's goinng to flame back. Now, I would have been nicer about it had you not came off as such an arriogant, self-rightious, nit-picking jackass with an oversize ego, but if you thought my responce was harsh, just wait untill you tick off someone who really knows how to flame. In fact, there are newsgroups and websites avaible that are devoted to teaching people how to flame properly, a skill you could use if you want to contunue playing your flame "game".
You prolibtly will read this, and choose not to listen to what I said. Too bad. Reply to this, or not, I couldn't care less. If you don't want to listen to me, fine with you. But, if that's the case, I'm not going to be interested in hearing what you have to say.
I'm going to go on with my own life now, thank you. I suggest that you do the same. You may think this is a game, fine with you. But, I'm not going to play your lame game anymore.
Have a nice life pal, whenever you get one.
You need to remeber that there are people on the net who use english as a second language, and that there are also people who have phyical and mental disablities.
I will never be able to spell well enough to win a spelling constest, or to be a professional profreader. Sure, there are spell checkers, but those things are far from perfect, or even close to perfect. For example, when I put "efics" into a spell checker, it came out with a few correctly spelled words, that had diffrent meanings from what I whated to say. If the word "ethics" was spelled, for example, "effects" in my previous post, that part of the post would not have made any sense.
FYI, spelling flames are considered to be a major violation of netiquite. Also, if you have a real disagreement with someone, take it up with the person through privite email. A public fourm is not a good place to carry on a disagreement with someone. Another thing, the (sp?) means "I know that this is the wrong spelling, but I don't know of a better spelling at the moment, so this will have to do".
I don't usially bother with dumbass flamers, but, demon, I'm going to assume that you are a newbee who doesn't know, or fully understand, the ropes. If your not, then you really need to get your head out of your ass.
Demon, if you are a college graduate, then I feel sorry for other college graduates who will now have to put up with the reputation, that you just single-handedly give them, as analy-retentive blow-hards who have nothing better to do than post spelling/grammer flames. If you're so analy-retentive that you think that a mispelled word is the end of the world as we know it, then I strongly suggest that you learn to relax, grow up, and get a life. Your own.
Any PHBs who take the arguement to any business effics(sp?) site or newsgroup that they can spy on thier employies, on a whilm, because it's the company's system and they can do anything they want with it, will loose that argument quickly. It may be legal, but many business poeple consider that practice to be uneffical(sp?).
Marc, find out if your company has a policy on servalance(most do), and what it is. I'm not an expert, and IANAL, but usialy it says the your company can use servalance in areas where security/safty are a concern, and if wrongdoing is suspected.
the trucks would slow down, dumbass... no one is going to drive over a kid
No one wants to drive over a kid, but a truck is not going to be able to stop, or slow down, in time, even if the driver is literialy standing on the brake with both feet, and has engaged the air brakes. A truck needs more distance and time to stop than a car going at the same speed.
Over here in W.Va., there are many two-lane roads that are considered as major highways. Most, and I mean most drivers are careful, but there are a few dumbasses around that think that they don't have to be careful because the road they're on is a major highway, even though there are houses on either side of the road, it's only two lanes wide, and both lanes have traffic going in oppisite dirictions of each other.
How reliable is Firecracker? Does it make sure that the device did recieve the command? Or does it just send out a commmand and hope that the device got it?
It looks like firecracker only transmits. It does not do any status monitoring, or anything else that requires it to recieve. I opened the Firecracker module's case and looked inside (hey, for $6US I just got it as something to play around with) and it looks like all it is is a simple transmiter that conects to the serial port.
If you need somthing that can can do status monitoring, or for anything else where it would have to be able to transmit and recieve, you may want to look at their Active Home kit or IBM's Home Directer kit, or something simular.
Can you extend the Firecracker device from the serial port, say 25' or so, to maybe get better transmission quality by mounting high on the wall or more centered in covering space?
You can try it and see if it works, just be sure that you don't make the cable too long or the serial signals will degrade.
How about temperaturing monitor with X10?
I haven't seen anything like that for X10 that will do what you want to use it for. You may just want to look at system monitoring kits that interface with the computer and allow remote monitoring.
Is there OEM or aftermarket X10 hardware?
Yes, check out www.smarthome.com. I've seen some good deals on X10 and other home automation hardware over there.
Sorry I can't remember the name of the magazine. Anyone else know?
The magazine is Electronics Now
Look at the jargon file.
Look up cracker, and then look up hacker.
Enough said.
In some places, A/C is a necessity, especially in areas of the world that experience hi summertime temps.
In a matter of fact, thanks to en nino and la nina, the tropics aren't the only areas that have to worry about heat waves. The temperature outside my apartment right now is about 110F degrees, which is above normal where I live(normal hi temps are in the mid-upper 80's, sometimes lower 90's, in the summer). Even with two fans, and the A/C, It's hovering around 82-84 degrees inside. Uncomfortable, but it's better than what's outside.
FYI, the only way that the refrigerant used will get anywhere near the ozone layer is if it leaks out of the unit. If your A/C is leaking, you better have a technician fix it. The refrigerants that are used have a nasty habit of being toxic in large enough quianties...
BTW, some time ago, I heard something about experiments in developing a cooling system that uses high frequency sound waves as the coolant, instead of the chemical coolants used today(I don't rember where I heard of it
This will only work if enough people participate, but it's worth a try.
Reply back to them and mention that you're willing to contribute $29.95 to the development in extange for a Linix/Unix version of Real Player G2 Plus. Don't forget to also mention that there are other Unix/Unix clone users who may be interested in a Unix/Linix version of Real Player G2 Plus.
You're running into a bureaucratic problem rather than a technical problem. They don't know if there is enough of a demand for a Unix/Linix version, so they're not interested in devolping one.
Maybe when they see that there is a demand for a Unix/Linux version, they'll develop one.