The ACA has some interesting ideas about the 5.2/5.8Ghz spectrum that don't quite agree with the FCC. For example 5.2 can't be used outdoors and the 5.8 can't be used in the long haul point to point modes and the max power leves seem to be 1/2 of what the FCC allows. The worst part about this is that the only references I can find are proposals about what they intend to do with the frequencies.
The reason for this madness is that some satellite is using 5.2 for an uplink. Considering how well regulated the frequency is in most of the countries between here and Japan, I would think it would be a very bad idea to keep a sat on a frequency that lots of people will be using.
I've been doing some speed tests. The box is a 1Ghz Celeron and builtin SIS ethernet card going off to a cable modem and a second realtek card which my home network is on.
With about 25000 rules (that all get checked), the ping times go from 7.479ms (12 rules) to 61ms. 14k rules is about 37ms.
What I'm looking at is a bandwidth controller for a wireless isp like application. I'm figuring on NAT directly dealing with 3 seperate/24 and passing through one/28 of real internet space. I expect to have at least 5 rules per ip address. I haven't looked into using the skipto rules yet. I want to make sure some stuff has priority and has priority over the junk but I don't want to have to get draconian if I can help it.
What I want to do is count all port 25 traffic so I can find virused pc's with ease. I would also like to count all the web traffic per IP address. I also want to be able to track down those funky spikes when they show up but I think other tools will be better for that.
I like IPFW's ability to change rules by rule number and get a count per rule number. This allows me to have a script so I can "lart 192.1.100.23". I want to pull useage stats off to mrtg.
One problem I haven't solved is how do I count web traffic? For example: 00015 74 20143 count tcp from 10.219.144.247 to any 3128 keep-state 00015 39 6917 count tcp from 10.219.144.247 to any 3128 it appears that keep-state keeps track of both sides I'm not sure if thats counting both inbound or outbound or both.
The IPFW system seems very powerful and I'm just getting into some of its cool features (like divert). About the only thing I can't find out how to do is specifc a inverted port range. They syntax allows you to say anything that isn't 1.2.3.4 port 45 but you can't say "anything that is 1.2.3.4 but not port 45"
It would be cool if there as a way to rewrite addresses on the divert. Right now you can divert to an interface but it would be cool to be able to say divert any port 80 stuff to the squid proxy. I'm getting what I think is strange behavior. If I divert to a port that apache is looking at, it can't id the port but for some reason inetd can tell.
I bought a good TV and Dish Network so I could watch babylon 5. That the only thing I could see that was worth paying that much for the TV. Now that there is nothing worth watching on TV, if someone thinks I should have a HDTV, they can pay for it. Otherwise I'm keeping what I've got since it works fine. Once the major broadcasters switch to digital only, I will have three choices, watch cable (or sat), watch the hundredes of vidoes that I've got, or tune out. I guess I could buy a new TV so I can watch the local broadcast is an option but I haven't tuned those morons in for very long time.
Not having new TV signals will not be a bad thing for me. One thing that will be a problem is how will congress or the president deliver their load of media crap to me if I don't have a new TV? I guess thats not my problem after all. If my congresscritter wants my to watch their nonsense, they can pay for a new TV or digital tuner or whatever since I'm not going to.
For example.... a student (hhh@mit.edu) of theirs came up with a lameass protocol for VoIP (sort of since its over real ethernet packets, not IP packets). That was sold off to a company call NBX corp and their ip rights included lots of cool things like gnu zip and gnu tar from what I've heard of the license agreement. These were later were bought by 3com and all included in a product you can buy today for way too much money.
Now that 3com is selling me gnuzip, how do I get source or is it some special deal with MIT so they don't have to provide that even though strings shows "You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License" and other worthless nonsense.
Did I mention that 3com was one of the few IT companies that supported the DMCA?
Will the 64 bit hammer boot in 8086 real mode so it has to be tricked into upgraded to 32 bit mode and then tricked again to go to 64 bit mode? I have to hand it to Intel for such a clean design when they hacked the 286 up to 32 bit mode. With the Intel stuff you can take assembly code for the 4040 and run it on the latest machines and it migth even work the same way. Not so with the motorola stuff. Their 6800 had a good instruction set but it was much different than the 68k which is much different than the PPC.
There are so few operations that use >32 bits and 256 that for general purpose processors that 64bits won't speed up most operations. Most of the stuff running on 64bit mips and sparcs are running in 32 bit modes. About the only thing that does is a few parts with file access. Other things like graphics and crypto can use far more than 256 bits at once and a 8kbit word side would be very useful in thouse cases.
Their current system will read the entire address and do some sanity checks on the zip code vs the street address. It will then barcode it using a delivery point barcode. The system is quite impressive considering it can read handwriting that I can't.
I think that the US post office has 9 digit post codes for cities in outher countries and I am looking for someone in the US to verify this by sending me a properly bar coded letter. If your game, email me.
These are from a guy who used to claim he designed the best selling IC of all time (the single chip AM/FM radio). He has at least 15 patents including a few he's not proud of. One of which is a one wire control system that uses morse code but thats not clear from the patent.
1st: The patent isn't worth the paper its printed on most of the time.
2nd: Write down every idea you have in a serial numbed book. Places that sell accounting books will have a books with red numbers printed on every page. Start each entry with a date and put a line below the entry. These can be helpful in court but only if there is no question that you alwasy use the same procedure and keep it neat.
3rd: A patent is worthless unless you have someone to assign it to. People get patents but can't do anything with them. The compaines they assign them to can.
4th: Getting your 1st patent is a great feeling. After that delusion sets in.
The MS page says 23b, the gates foundation says 4b.
Top on the list of their current projects is UCSF. $28mil over 4 years. How much does MS make per year from UCSF?
Number 2 on the list is a bit over a million a year for Columbia University. Whats their annual software budget? I'll give you a hit. Its over a million.
Its one thing to give a donation that comes out of your pocket, its another when it comes out of the tax mans pocket. Remember where Gates got his inital big business contacts? His Mommy was big at United Way -- you know the people who come around every large US company and extort "donations" for their pet projects? I've known people that were let go because the company didn't get 100% of their empolyees to donate.
With enough of his money going around, I'm sure some of it will do some good but considering most of the problems hes tring to solve (Education, feeding the very poor, immunization of children, aids education) are a result of political problems and nothing else, maybe his money would be better spent getting some of his United way buddies to get their act together-- they are responsible for many of the problems.
So when was the last time you were in a third world country or do you just watch on TV?
A foundation that will give money to people who end up buying his products for a long time. Thats not a gift, its a loss leader. The parent posts mentioned he's only given about 400 mil to charities where there is no long term financial advanage and even some of that could be questioned (like giving money for vaccines made by compaines he owns)
another stupid patent? This isn't new, its been done with spam on usenet for years. Maybe someone should digout the cancelmoose's freiends as prior art?
I just got a new ASUS TUSI board that has one jumper. Its got two lables, "jumpered and jumperless". The manual says if you want it in the jumper mode you have to remove that jumper. I'm still not sure what it does.
Why is it that after 20 years of PC clones, they still haven't got the power/reset/speaker jumper standard?
But you missed the point. The point is 99% of the coders out there don't think about code that way and it results in lots of extra buggyness.
Of course those same 99% of the coders can come up with thousands of ways to diss the one true brace style and couldn't code more than a few simple functions in assembly but the modern market place calles them coders so they must be.
However, the size of the pyramid was almost always determined in advance so as to allow the completion of the ancillary temples and service buildings which hunker up to the side of the pyramid.
How do you know this? If you look an arial photo of Giza you will find that the two largest pyramids could be made much larger if you addmaterial to two of their sides. It just happens to be the two sides that don't line up with the others.
This also seems to be the case at Dahshur with the red and bent pyramids. One of those has places where you can see several layers of internal stone and it appears to me that they stones were layered over an existing pyramid and not horizontally as shown in most books on the subject.
The pyramids at Saqqara are the oldest and are in the transition stages from being a large mastaba. Their construction has as much in common with the latter pyramids as your house does with a stadium.
They are going to find the outside of the pyramid.
I suspect that these shafts were so they could measure how far from the center the "queens" chamber was. They also may have had been useful for venting the CO from the lights they used.
I suspect that the larger pyramids were built in such a way that there would always by a pyramid when the king kicked the bucket. This would me adding layers over the existing one. If you start with a small one, the lowerest chamber would have be under part of the oldest structure in the early days. Latter the "queens" chamber was would have been the mid point and later the "kings" chamber would have been center point as more layers were put on the outside. If you go with that theory and figure in the likely times of death of a king vs relative power of the king and his ability to build large projects there is a strong correlation.
One theory that keeps showing up is the match to Orions belt of the tops of the pyramids. Why look for a hard solution when the SW corners all line up quite nicely. It would take some very careful analysis to determine if the they were used as exhaust vents and the current experiments may ruin any chances for that work.
Many people make lots of assumptions about the pyramids from the three big ones at Giza. There are at least 90 others and many of them have many things in common but conflict with many of the new age concepts.
There was no privacy in most small towns all over the world. Until people started moving around, there was a local neighbor who knew what was going on. Ever try to hide something in a small school? The local gossip made sure you didn't. Most of our privacy today is an illusion based on non-existent anonymity.
The local coster used to live at Coney Island till it was torn down, shiped half way around the world and set up again to scrare Aussies. That was sometime before 1920.
Worlds of fun in Kansas City used to have one of the 1st loop costers. Once they opened the new four looper, you could sit on the old one for a good half hour before they made you go back through the line. I didn't the like new new one so much, it had a much rougher ride. I think it may have dumped a few people as well or maybe that was its replacemet.
Why is all the best coders I know started with assembly but no univerisy would ever consider that as CS101?
Take a look at Engineering requirements. You have to take classes that won't have anything to do with your field but are part of the generic requirements. These classes will be used to weed out freshmen if they have too many and they get real easy if they need more students. For example good old "statics and strengths" for EE. I took that one at two different schools. One was tring to weed out EEs and that class was very hard while the other school needed EE's and the class was trivial. Its an odd feeling to wonder if your going to even pass a class that uses the same textbook as a different school where you got an A the semester before.
So of EE/CS departments are so willing to weed out students, why not make CS 101 in Assembly? That way you know the poeple who get through the 1st semester have some understanding of what the hardware is doing.
You may be right. There several phallic symbols all over Egypt. Sometimes they are a more more explicit though.
An ancient Egyptean story of the worlds creation involves a God amusing himself and the world (or other Gods or towns depending on the story) were the result.
At the temple of Karnak there is a great big stone carving of a god in the act and it has caused lots of problems over the years. There were other renderings of this type but most have been destroyed in the name of decency
Egypt has a "Stella" plant. They sell "Stella Export" which is what the tourist drink at 10x the cost of the non-export beer. This was founded by the same people that started Stella-Artois but I expect is a completely seperate group now.
So if your at one of these bars that calim to have too many beers from around the world, ask for "Egyptian Stella"
The tunnles underneath the Sphinx are water wells.
You see the Sphinx is (was) a rock outcrop and something like 6000+ years ago, someone figured out that water seeps up throgh the limestone layers where the outcrops are and if you dig down, you can get to the water. The Sphinx is also about a 1/2 day outside the Khan el-Khalili which is the traditional market in what is no Ciaro. A market has been there for at least 5,000 years or even much longer. If your going to ride a cammel from anywhere in North Africa to the Ciaro market, the area near the Sphinx would be a very good place to set up your last camp before hitting the big city.
If you look at how nomads navigate, you will find that they would often describe hills and rivers in ways that would allow them to be used as unambigous waypoints. I supect over the years, the Sphinx was fixed up a bit by the travelers until some king decided to make it a grand monument. I expect its current form is the 3 or 4th major facelift.
Water is very importaint in that region. Egypt has plenty of water but its all underground. Denying someon water in that region used to be a crime punishable by death. All religions that came out of that area currenly have things to say about offering drinks to strangers. That would lead me to think that marking points to find water might have been the ancient equivlent of a large donation to a charity.
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The ACA has some interesting ideas about the 5.2/5.8Ghz spectrum that don't quite agree with the FCC. For example 5.2 can't be used outdoors and the 5.8 can't be used in the long haul point to point modes and the max power leves seem to be 1/2 of what the FCC allows. The worst part about this is that the only references I can find are proposals about what they intend to do with the frequencies.
The reason for this madness is that some satellite is using 5.2 for an uplink. Considering how well regulated the frequency is in most of the countries between here and Japan, I would think it would be a very bad idea to keep a sat on a frequency that lots of people will be using.
I've been doing some speed tests. The box is a 1Ghz Celeron and builtin SIS ethernet card going off to a cable modem and a second realtek card which my home network is on.
/24 and passing through one /28 of real internet space. I expect to have at least 5 rules per ip address. I haven't looked into using the skipto rules yet. I want to make sure some stuff has priority and has priority over the junk but I don't want to have to get draconian if I can help it.
With about 25000 rules (that all get checked), the ping times go from 7.479ms (12 rules) to 61ms. 14k rules is about 37ms.
What I'm looking at is a bandwidth controller for a wireless isp like application. I'm figuring on NAT directly dealing with 3 seperate
What I want to do is count all port 25 traffic so I can find virused pc's with ease. I would also like to count all the web traffic per IP address. I also want to be able to track down those funky spikes when they show up but I think other tools will be better for that.
I like IPFW's ability to change rules by rule number and get a count per rule number. This allows me to have a script so I can "lart 192.1.100.23". I want to pull useage stats off to mrtg.
One problem I haven't solved is how do I count web traffic? For example:
00015 74 20143 count tcp from 10.219.144.247 to any 3128 keep-state
00015 39 6917 count tcp from 10.219.144.247 to any 3128
it appears that keep-state keeps track of both sides
I'm not sure if thats counting both inbound or outbound or both.
The IPFW system seems very powerful and I'm just getting into some of its cool features (like divert). About the only thing I can't find out how to do is specifc a inverted port range. They syntax allows you to say anything that isn't 1.2.3.4 port 45 but you can't say "anything that is 1.2.3.4 but not port 45"
It would be cool if there as a way to rewrite addresses on the divert. Right now you can divert to an interface but it would be cool to be able to say divert any port 80 stuff to the squid proxy. I'm getting what I think is strange behavior. If I divert to a port that apache is looking at, it can't id the port but for some reason inetd can tell.
They already do this in Singapore.
You can't get on the plane till you pay your parking tickets and other fines.
I'll buy a HDTV as soon as Hollywood pays for it.
I bought a good TV and Dish Network so I could watch babylon 5. That the only thing I could see that was worth paying that much for the TV. Now that there is nothing worth watching on TV, if someone thinks I should have a HDTV, they can pay for it. Otherwise I'm keeping what I've got since it works fine. Once the major broadcasters switch to digital only, I will have three choices, watch cable (or sat), watch the hundredes of vidoes that I've got, or tune out. I guess I could buy a new TV so I can watch the local broadcast is an option but I haven't tuned those morons in for very long time.
Not having new TV signals will not be a bad thing for me. One thing that will be a problem is how will congress or the president deliver their load of media crap to me if I don't have a new TV? I guess thats not my problem after all. If my congresscritter wants my to watch their nonsense, they can pay for a new TV or digital tuner or whatever since I'm not going to.
So they give out a few courses...
Do they give away things they consider real IP?
For example.... a student (hhh@mit.edu) of theirs came up with a lameass protocol for VoIP (sort of since its over real ethernet packets, not IP packets). That was sold off to a company call NBX corp and their ip rights included lots of cool things like gnu zip and gnu tar from what I've heard of the license agreement. These were later were bought by 3com and all included in a product you can buy today for way too much money.
Now that 3com is selling me gnuzip, how do I get source or is it some special deal with MIT so they don't have to provide that even though strings shows "You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License" and other worthless nonsense.
Did I mention that 3com was one of the few IT companies that supported the DMCA?
There shouldn't even be a .gov TLD.
I guess you haven't heard of the new world order?
Will the 64 bit hammer boot in 8086 real mode so it has to be tricked into upgraded to 32 bit mode and then tricked again to go to 64 bit mode? I have to hand it to Intel for such a clean design when they hacked the 286 up to 32 bit mode. With the Intel stuff you can take assembly code for the 4040 and run it on the latest machines and it migth even work the same way. Not so with the motorola stuff. Their 6800 had a good instruction set but it was much different than the 68k which is much different than the PPC.
There are so few operations that use >32 bits and 256 that for general purpose processors that 64bits won't speed up most operations. Most of the stuff running on 64bit mips and sparcs are running in 32 bit modes. About the only thing that does is a few parts with file access. Other things like graphics and crypto can use far more than 256 bits at once and a 8kbit word side would be very useful in thouse cases.
Their current system will read the entire address and do some sanity checks on the zip code vs the street address. It will then barcode it using a delivery point barcode. The system is quite impressive considering it can read handwriting that I can't.
I think that the US post office has 9 digit post codes for cities in outher countries and I am looking for someone in the US to verify this by sending me a properly bar coded letter. If your game, email me.
Once ISPs start doing that, they aren't selling internet connectivity which is by defintion bi-directional.
These are from a guy who used to claim he designed the best selling IC of all time (the single chip AM/FM radio). He has at least 15 patents including a few he's not proud of. One of which is a one wire control system that uses morse code but thats not clear from the patent.
1st: The patent isn't worth the paper its printed on most of the time.
2nd: Write down every idea you have in a serial numbed book. Places that sell accounting books will have a books with red numbers printed on every page. Start each entry with a date and put a line below the entry. These can be helpful in court but only if there is no question that you alwasy use the same procedure and keep it neat.
3rd: A patent is worthless unless you have someone to assign it to. People get patents but can't do anything with them. The compaines they assign them to can.
4th: Getting your 1st patent is a great feeling. After that delusion sets in.
The MS page says 23b, the gates foundation says 4b.
Top on the list of their current projects is UCSF. $28mil over 4 years. How much does MS make per year from UCSF?
Number 2 on the list is a bit over a million a year for Columbia University. Whats their annual software budget? I'll give you a hit. Its over a million.
Its one thing to give a donation that comes out of your pocket, its another when it comes out of the tax mans pocket. Remember where Gates got his inital big business contacts? His Mommy was big at United Way -- you know the people who come around every large US company and extort "donations" for their pet projects? I've known people that were let go because the company didn't get 100% of their empolyees to donate.
With enough of his money going around, I'm sure some of it will do some good but considering most of the problems hes tring to solve (Education, feeding the very poor, immunization of children, aids education) are a result of political problems and nothing else, maybe his money would be better spent getting some of his United way buddies to get their act together-- they are responsible for many of the problems.
So when was the last time you were in a third world country or do you just watch on TV?
A foundation that will give money to people who end up buying his products for a long time. Thats not a gift, its a loss leader. The parent posts mentioned he's only given about 400 mil to charities where there is no long term financial advanage and even some of that could be questioned (like giving money for vaccines made by compaines he owns)
I've given more than 1% of whats in my checking account. How about Billy?
another stupid patent? This isn't new, its been done with spam on usenet for years. Maybe someone should digout the cancelmoose's freiends as prior art?
I just got a new ASUS TUSI board that has one jumper. Its got two lables, "jumpered and jumperless". The manual says if you want it in the jumper mode you have to remove that jumper. I'm still not sure what it does.
Why is it that after 20 years of PC clones, they still haven't got the power/reset/speaker jumper standard?
But you missed the point. The point is 99% of the coders out there don't think about code that way and it results in lots of extra buggyness.
Of course those same 99% of the coders can come up with thousands of ways to diss the one true brace style and couldn't code more than a few simple functions in assembly but the modern market place calles them coders so they must be.
However, the size of the pyramid was almost always determined in advance so as to allow the completion of the ancillary temples and service buildings which hunker up to the side of the pyramid.
How do you know this? If you look an arial photo of Giza you will find that the two largest pyramids could be made much larger if you addmaterial to two of their sides. It just happens to be the two sides that don't line up with the others.
This also seems to be the case at Dahshur with the red and bent pyramids. One of those has places where you can see several layers of internal stone and it appears to me that they stones were layered over an existing pyramid and not horizontally as shown in most books on the subject.
The pyramids at Saqqara are the oldest and are in the transition stages from being a large mastaba. Their construction has as much in common with the latter pyramids as your house does with a stadium.
They are going to find the outside of the pyramid.
I suspect that these shafts were so they could measure how far from the center the "queens" chamber was. They also may have had been useful for venting the CO from the lights they used.
I suspect that the larger pyramids were built in such a way that there would always by a pyramid when the king kicked the bucket. This would me adding layers over the existing one. If you start with a small one, the lowerest chamber would have be under part of the oldest structure in the early days. Latter the "queens" chamber was would have been the mid point and later the "kings" chamber would have been center point as more layers were put on the outside. If you go with that theory and figure in the likely times of death of a king vs relative power of the king and his ability to build large projects there is a strong correlation.
One theory that keeps showing up is the match to Orions belt of the tops of the pyramids. Why look for a hard solution when the SW corners all line up quite nicely. It would take some very careful analysis to determine if the they were used as
exhaust vents and the current experiments may ruin any chances for that work.
Many people make lots of assumptions about the pyramids from the three big ones at Giza. There are at least 90 others and many of them have many things in common but conflict with many of the new age concepts.
There was no privacy in most small towns all over the world. Until people started moving around, there was a local neighbor who knew what was going on. Ever try to hide something in a small school? The local gossip made sure you didn't. Most of our privacy today is an illusion based on non-existent anonymity.
The local coster used to live at Coney Island till it was torn down, shiped half way around the world and set up again to scrare Aussies. That was sometime before 1920.
Worlds of fun in Kansas City used to have one of the 1st loop costers. Once they opened the new four looper, you could sit on the old one for a good half hour before they made you go back through the line. I didn't the like new new one so much, it had a much rougher ride. I think it may have dumped a few people as well or maybe that was its replacemet.
Why is all the best coders I know started with assembly but no univerisy would ever consider that as CS101?
Take a look at Engineering requirements. You have to take classes that won't have anything to do with your field but are part of the generic requirements. These classes will be used to weed out freshmen if they have too many and they get real easy if they need more students. For example good old "statics and strengths" for EE. I took that one at two different schools. One was tring to weed out EEs and that class was very hard while the other school needed EE's and the class was trivial. Its an odd feeling to wonder if your going to even pass a class that uses the same textbook as a different school where you got an A the semester before.
So of EE/CS departments are so willing to weed out students, why not make CS 101 in Assembly? That way you know the poeple who get through the 1st semester have some understanding of what the hardware is doing.
You may be right. There several phallic symbols all over Egypt. Sometimes they are a more more explicit though.
An ancient Egyptean story of the worlds creation involves a God amusing himself and the world (or other Gods or towns depending on the story) were the result.
At the temple of Karnak there is a great big stone carving of a god in the act and it has caused lots of problems over the years. There were other renderings of this type but most have been destroyed in the name of decency
How OT can we go?
Egypt has a "Stella" plant. They sell "Stella Export" which is what the tourist drink at 10x the cost of the non-export beer. This was founded by the same people that started Stella-Artois but I expect is a completely seperate group now.
So if your at one of these bars that calim to have too many beers from around the world, ask for "Egyptian Stella"
The tunnles underneath the Sphinx are water wells.
You see the Sphinx is (was) a rock outcrop and something like 6000+ years ago, someone figured out that water seeps up throgh the limestone layers where the outcrops are and if you dig down, you can get to the water. The Sphinx is also about a 1/2 day outside the Khan el-Khalili which is the traditional market in what is no Ciaro. A market has been there for at least 5,000 years or even much longer. If your going to ride a cammel from anywhere in North Africa to the Ciaro market, the area near the Sphinx would be a very good place to set up your last camp before hitting the big city.
If you look at how nomads navigate, you will find that they would often describe hills and rivers in ways that would allow them to be used as unambigous waypoints. I supect over the years, the Sphinx was fixed up a bit by the travelers until some king decided to make it a grand monument. I expect its current form is the 3 or 4th major facelift.
Water is very importaint in that region. Egypt has plenty of water but its all underground. Denying someon water in that region used to be a crime punishable by death. All religions that came out of that area currenly have things to say about offering drinks to strangers. That would lead me to think that marking points to find water might have been the ancient equivlent of a large donation to a charity.