Years ago I set up a unix box (at&t 3b2) to auto dail its own number very few days.
The box was stolen. When I spoke to the police, I mentioned that it would dial if it was hooked up. The phone company helped out and the police found the person who had the machine.
It turns out the only ones that knew it was stolen were the police and the insurance company.
Its ia seven-X but thats not right for Roman numbers. Lets see here
VIIx... VII is 7 and X is 10 so is it a palm 17?
No thats not right...how does that rule go, if the bigger number is right of a smaller set you subtract so VII-x = 7-10
Oh so its called a plam -3.
Australia picks up GSM because its a "world" stanard used in Europe and some dense parts of Aisa but GSM only works if your cell cites are very, very small. (like 5sq miles is the max or about 1.1 miles from the tower).
Excuse me but isn't Australia one of the least densely populated places in the world? Sure Melbourne and Sydney are as dense as most US cities but the metro area of Melbourne is the size of Ireland.
Analog worked great for about 90% of the places people lived outside of the high density areas. GSM simply does not work at all in thouse areas.
The new stuff is CDMA wich at least you can up the power and get 100 mile coverage but not with a standard phone or tower.
As far as Telstra being on top of things. They import all the phone switches now (they used to make their own), they are loosing money renting phones that are lower quality than the $3 ones I got in the US and they charge $3/mo. ADSL is being rolled out but it looks like you might be able to get 400mb to another adsl link. They run custom software on their Ciscos which isn't quite "right" and on top of that they charge $.19/mb for all data in one direction. Of course they meter calls and make multi billion dollar profits every year.
The bigest thing holding back Australia in the tech race is its instance on its own standards. Other world wide standards aren't accepted. Last week I was speaking with someone who claims that its at least 3 months to get a phone approved even if it meets all the FCC and CE specs. Aussie TV is a unique standard almost but not quite exactly european PAL. The power here is the highest voltages in the world (its typicaly 280v true RMS, not that 220 true RMS like Europe but they call it 240V). That results in imported motors having very short life spans or require a rewinding job and means morotrs exported from here to europe get a bad reputation for not working properly. Its amazing how much one bad standard can cost over the long run. One of the aluminium smeltering plants has a deal with one of the generating plants and they get 60 cycle power.
How about simply renaming Samba just in Germany. I prepose the name "Standard Anmeldung Meldewesen Banken uses sucky crypto and we dont care". Sure its not a name that rolls of the tounge too well but these people speak German.
Your right about it not much seperating it from the Egyptians.
Some of my favorites:
For example the Holy Trinity. The Egyptians had 4 gods as one (one of them would be the devil side of thigns).
About "Eating the body of Christ". 5000 yrs ago the rulers of Egypt were doing that. They had the Catholic alter down at least 2000 years before Christ.
Virgin Birth? Other than the fact that there are hundreds of documented cases of "virgin birth", it too has a place in acient Egypt. (for thouse who are going to flame this, yes teenagers have been known to play around without sex and make babies). The story of creation in Egypt is a bit more interesting. It could happen again if the gods ever get a good stash of pr0n. The romans went to great lenghts to hide the stone carvings of this event.
Just to make it even more interesting (becuase we all know the Jews were harrased by The Man in Egypt). It turns out that the name Egypt was given to the country on the NE side of Africa buy the French about the time of Nepolian. A word like "Aegypt" means accross the water in Hewbrew so this had to be the land right? Of course all the records being dug up show that that people we refer to as Jews are from an area north of Baghdad where the Tigress and Euphratis rivers and may have been even farther north. That little habbit of only allowing priest from one tribe has provided lots of insight into tracking an acient nomadic group of people. One other tidbit about Jews that has been very helpful is, if your mother was a Jew, your a Jew. It gets rid of that question of "who was the father?" Very few societys in the world have used that system and when mixing cultures, it tended to be the fathers cuture and lableing that stuck to kids no matter who the real father was.
The evidence for a quick flooding of the Black Sea 7500 years ago seems to have made many flooding storys and most of thouse end up being corrupted with the story of Noah.
When I think of infalibility, I keep having to think of the popes.
Most of the American Indian versions were translated from English. Most of the very rare lanage editions where also translated from English or a closly related langauge.
The last bozo I meet that did translations didn't have much of a clue about Greek or Hewbrew and he was working for one of the largest bible pushers in Lynchburg VA.
If you want to know just how great x.400 is and how it will solve all the worlds problems, please reply to /c=US/admd=X400stillsucks/prmd=x400_experts/o=Wizz ardsoftheseventhcircle/s=last_name_goes_ here/g=no_given_name/i=X/@x400gw.x400stillsucks.ab normal.com.
I don't like these silly "internet" address since they are just a fad and will be replaced by the very well thought out x400/x500/x666 standards.
A few years ago I bet on the fact that the US goverment was so depenent on Cray Computer (Not Cray Research), that they wouldn't let it fold.
At one point if I had bought anymore stock, I would have had to file papers with the SEC. I invested some serious cash in this little gamble but commisions were most of it and it used up my lunch money for weeks.
In the end the company just went away. Hey thats the risk with penny stocks.
Win some, lose some. and I was a major stock holder in Cray:-)
If Iridium wasn't so tied into Motorola someone could do that today.
Its just brain dead. The body lives on. But its not too early for an autopsy!
As far as I can tell, netscape (as it was known and loved) was written on the side at ncsa. It wasn't released until after the company was formed. I'm not sure anything good has happened since. Netscape as a company never made any real money selling anything but stock (and like IBM, their biggest product was their stock). Now what do we have? Netscape pissed of Billy so much that he spent billions making IE (how many compaines web browsers did they buy out?).
We keep hearing about how NS needs to be "standards based".... sorry to tell you this but there are No Standards for web browsers. Sure there are a number of power hungry little groups tring to maintain control but they are being ignored by the world. The only standard that most lusers care about is "will the output of frontpage look ok on my browser?"
How about the NS bloatware? At least MS (pretened to) put most of the new bloat into the OS where someone else might get to use it (if they ever documented the interfaces...). Mozilla would have a chance if the Dr. in charge decided it is time to amputate. Hack off the arms, the legs, the ftp, mail, news and head. Leave its heart if it can be found and failing that just leave its soul.
How about the AOLuser connection? I would still like to see just one thing that is connected to AOLusers that isn't targetted towards the lowest common denomator. AOL has a knack for destorying what they consume, just like a typical fungs, they kill the hosts that feed them while they keep getting bigger. Project managment inside AOL has got to be the biggest joke since some of the Wall St. messes in the early 80's but if you got money to burn its always easy to find someone to tend the fire.
The scary part about this is that when Mozilla goes down, its going to be 100 times harder to get Linux into the workplace because every PHB will know Mozilla was "open source" just like "Linux".
If naspter had been shutdown for even a few hours, it would have turned millions against RIAA as opposed to the current situation where there just isn't a critical mass agasint them yet.
Once naspster is shut down, then people (like the bands on my web site) have a real case against RIAA for using their monoploy power to prevent their music from being heard which results in poor sales.
And the next time the RIAA is talking about "how will the artists get paid" ask them about how much the artists get paid for cutouts and "clearance" cds.
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Any program from 1998 will work fine with the newer units. The NEMA protocol is quite old and the documented parts of the Garmin protocol is the same as it several years ago.
If you ever get a chance to hear SK talk, go listen to him. He does share your ideas about large book stores. He complains that his wife gets her books published not because they are good but because they are written by his wife. He also clams that most of the good writers in the past couldn't get a book published today.
So SETI is a waste because its not helping the starving people in Somalia and the like. Other than the other details pointed out in this flame war, lets take a look at other "useless" programs such as the entire space program.
Right now New Orleans is setting its self up for one heck of a flood. How do we know this? Mostly from stuff in space. Sure the people living there know they are living below sea level (which isn't that uncommon) but thanks to the huge amount of data from "the space race" we now know much more about land formation as well as how deltas change over time. Then there is all that info on how to protect from storms since we now have some clue how to predict them. All of these things are a combination of lots of pure science that could be a "waste of time" based purly on its inital results but the real pay off comes from the spin-offs.
Has SETI tought us about ET? No. It has given much insight about contaiminating the radio spectrum as well as pushed the general knowlege about high end radio scanning. Its thouse concepts (that came from the radio telescope geeks) that allow your digital cell phone to work as well as it does.
The greatest thing SETI has done so far: Proves that people can get lots of cheap computer power when its needed.
It seems to me that the biggest change in Unix in the past decade is that people are tring hard to get away from the core philosophy. One of thouse cores is "Write programs that do one thing and do it well."
As McIlroy quoted "Write programs that do one thing and do it well. Write programs to work together. Write programs that handle text streams, because that is a universal interface.'"
About the only place I see this going on in modern program design is the mp3 players and that is a result of the people who do good UI work generaly don't have the skill set to do the MP3 decoding so they link to something like mpg123.
Another quote: "Cognitive engineering" is what Condon called it, "...that the black box should be simple enough such that when you form the model of what's going on in the black box, that's in fact what is going on in the black box."
Based on one of the major ideas in Unix, why does every program grow till it can read mail? I don't think I've ever seen a program that uses/bin/mail as an interface after the first version of mailx./bin/mail knows how to do everything it needs involving getting a message and sending mail and the "difficult problem" of properly locking mailboxes.
I also like the bit about fixing the code so they didn't have to document the uglyness. Now that might be the best reason I've ever heard to properly document a program.
The concept of data having a security level that flows with it has been around for a long time. It was requried for the orange book "B" level security and we all should know how long ago the orange book has been obsolite.
You haven't been to the pawn shops in Footscray have you? Its easier for me to buy a gun from a shop here than in the USA. My house has only been robbed twice in a year and the current stats of robbry in Oz say that your house is likly to have a forced break in every 10 months. One in 40 people get robbed while they are at home last year in Oz. I don't think the massive increase in crime is a result off the total ban on guns though.
Back on the topic... One guy was charged and is in jail (damn rare here) for robbing my house and I can't even find out what his name is from the police let alone details like when he will be out of jail (and when I know he will be back). If I find out who this bastard is, he mug shot and personal details will be up on a web site real damn fast.
The market demographic for singles is 14 yr old girls by something like 35% of all singles. Adding in 13 to 15 yr olds (both boys and girls) you end up with over 55% of the singles market. The oddest figure is the "accidental purchase" group where people think they were geting the full album or are buying for gift and get the wrong thing. Thats about 10%.
Singles are an essential part of the record biz after all thats how they tell who to put in the "top 40". Without single sales, the most effective marketing angle goes away. Singles will remain for decades after there is no profit in them.
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Years ago I set up a unix box (at&t 3b2) to auto dail its own number very few days.
The box was stolen. When I spoke to the police, I mentioned that it would dial if it was hooked up. The phone company helped out and the police found the person who had the machine.
It turns out the only ones that knew it was stolen were the police and the insurance company.
Its ia seven-X but thats not right for Roman numbers. Lets see here
VIIx... VII is 7 and X is 10 so is it a palm 17?
No thats not right...how does that rule go, if the bigger number is right of a smaller set you subtract so VII-x = 7-10
Oh so its called a plam -3.
Australia picks up GSM because its a "world" stanard used in Europe and some dense parts of Aisa but GSM only works if your cell cites are very, very small. (like 5sq miles is the max or about 1.1 miles from the tower).
Excuse me but isn't Australia one of the least densely populated places in the world? Sure Melbourne and Sydney are as dense as most US cities but the metro area of Melbourne is the size of Ireland.
Analog worked great for about 90% of the places people lived outside of the high density areas. GSM simply does not work at all in thouse areas.
The new stuff is CDMA wich at least you can up the power and get 100 mile coverage but not with a standard phone or tower.
As far as Telstra being on top of things. They import all the phone switches now (they used to make their own), they are loosing money renting phones that are lower quality than the $3 ones I got in the US and they charge $3/mo. ADSL is being rolled out but it looks like you might be able to get 400mb to another adsl link. They run custom software on their Ciscos which isn't quite "right" and on top of that they charge $.19/mb for all data in one direction. Of course they meter calls and make multi billion dollar profits every year.
The bigest thing holding back Australia in the tech race is its instance on its own standards. Other world wide standards aren't accepted. Last week I was speaking with someone who claims that its at least 3 months to get a phone approved even if it meets all the FCC and CE specs. Aussie TV is a unique standard almost but not quite exactly european PAL. The power here is the highest voltages in the world (its typicaly 280v true RMS, not that 220 true RMS like Europe but they call it 240V). That results in imported motors having very short life spans or require a rewinding job and means morotrs exported from here to europe get a bad reputation for not working properly. Its amazing how much one bad standard can cost over the long run. One of the aluminium smeltering plants has a deal with one of the generating plants and they get 60 cycle power.
How about simply renaming Samba just in Germany. I prepose the name "Standard Anmeldung Meldewesen Banken uses sucky crypto and we dont care". Sure its not a name that rolls of the tounge too well but these people speak German.
So M$ is going to start charging for the service and not the code.
Where did I hear about someone else doing this...was it a company called Red Hat?
Your right about it not much seperating it from the Egyptians.
Some of my favorites:
For example the Holy Trinity. The Egyptians had 4 gods as one (one of them would be the devil side of thigns).
About "Eating the body of Christ". 5000 yrs ago the rulers of Egypt were doing that. They had the Catholic alter down at least 2000 years before Christ.
Virgin Birth? Other than the fact that there are hundreds of documented cases of "virgin birth", it too has a place in acient Egypt. (for thouse who are going to flame this, yes teenagers have been known to play around without sex and make babies). The story of creation in Egypt is a bit more interesting. It could happen again if the gods ever get a good stash of pr0n. The romans went to great lenghts to hide the stone carvings of this event.
Just to make it even more interesting (becuase we all know the Jews were harrased by The Man in Egypt). It turns out that the name Egypt was given to the country on the NE side of Africa buy the French about the time of Nepolian. A word like "Aegypt" means accross the water in Hewbrew so this had to be the land right? Of course all the records being dug up show that that people we refer to as Jews are from an area north of Baghdad where the Tigress and Euphratis rivers and may have been even farther north. That little habbit of only allowing priest from one tribe has provided lots of insight into tracking an acient nomadic group of people. One other tidbit about Jews that has been very helpful is, if your mother was a Jew, your a Jew. It gets rid of that question of "who was the father?" Very few societys in the world have used that system and when mixing cultures, it tended to be the fathers cuture and lableing that stuck to kids no matter who the real father was.
The evidence for a quick flooding of the Black Sea 7500 years ago seems to have made many flooding storys and most of thouse end up being corrupted with the story of Noah.
When I think of infalibility, I keep having to think of the popes.
Most of the American Indian versions were translated from English. Most of the very rare lanage editions where also translated from English or a closly related langauge.
The last bozo I meet that did translations didn't have much of a clue about Greek or Hewbrew and he was working for one of the largest bible pushers in Lynchburg VA.
The 78+% figure includes people who "promise" to pay.
We don't know how many already paid nor how many people will go back to the site to pay for what they have already downloaded.
Take a long vacation! Its a great way to get things together. Two weeks very far away from work gives you lots of insight.
I recomend Queensland
No it means the Lumber Cartel has lost its hold on the USPS.
You fool, don't you know X.400 address are for?
/c=US/admd=X400stillsucks/prmd=x400_experts/o=Wizz ardsoftheseventhcircle/s=last_name_goes_ here/g=no_given_name/i=X/@x400gw.x400stillsucks.ab normal.com.
If you want to know just how great x.400 is and how it will solve all the worlds problems, please reply to
I don't like these silly "internet" address since they are just a fad and will be replaced by the very well thought out x400/x500/x666 standards.
A few years ago I bet on the fact that the US goverment was so depenent on Cray Computer (Not Cray Research), that they wouldn't let it fold.
:-)
At one point if I had bought anymore stock, I would have had to file papers with the SEC. I invested some serious cash in this little gamble but commisions were most of it and it used up my lunch money for weeks.
In the end the company just went away. Hey thats the risk with penny stocks.
Win some, lose some. and I was a major stock holder in Cray
If Iridium wasn't so tied into Motorola someone could do that today.
Its just brain dead. The body lives on. But its not too early for an autopsy!
As far as I can tell, netscape (as it was known and loved) was written on the side at ncsa. It wasn't released until after the company was formed. I'm not sure anything good has happened since. Netscape as a company never made any real money selling anything but stock (and like IBM, their biggest product was their stock). Now what do we have? Netscape pissed of Billy so much that he spent billions making IE (how many compaines web browsers did they buy out?).
We keep hearing about how NS needs to be "standards based".... sorry to tell you this but there are No Standards for web browsers. Sure there are a number of power hungry little groups tring to maintain control but they are being ignored by the world. The only standard that most lusers care about is "will the output of frontpage look ok on my browser?"
How about the NS bloatware? At least MS (pretened to) put most of the new bloat into the OS where someone else might get to use it (if they ever documented the interfaces...). Mozilla would have a chance if the Dr. in charge decided it is time to amputate. Hack off the arms, the legs, the ftp, mail, news and head. Leave its heart if it can be found and failing that just leave its soul.
How about the AOLuser connection? I would still like to see just one thing that is connected to AOLusers that isn't targetted towards the lowest common denomator. AOL has a knack for destorying what they consume, just like a typical fungs, they kill the hosts that feed them while they keep getting bigger. Project managment inside AOL has got to be the biggest joke since some of the Wall St. messes in the early 80's but if you got money to burn its always easy to find someone to tend the fire.
The scary part about this is that when Mozilla goes down, its going to be 100 times harder to get Linux into the workplace because every PHB will know Mozilla was "open source" just like "Linux".
If naspter had been shutdown for even a few hours, it would have turned millions against RIAA as opposed to the current situation where there just isn't a critical mass agasint them yet.
Once naspster is shut down, then people (like the bands on my web site) have a real case against RIAA for using their monoploy power to prevent their music from being heard which results in poor sales.
And the next time the RIAA is talking about "how will the artists get paid" ask them about how much the artists get paid for cutouts and "clearance" cds.
Go to Peter's GPS Archive's Garmin Protocol Page
Any program from 1998 will work fine with the newer units. The NEMA protocol is quite old and the documented parts of the Garmin protocol is the same as it several years ago.
There is some old (1995) sample source on my webpage at
http://web.abnormal.com/~thogard/gps/
Its sounds much more like thouse plasma balls that you can buy at specers and other palces that sell disco lights.
If you ever get a chance to hear SK talk, go listen to him. He does share your ideas about large book stores. He complains that his wife gets her books published not because they are good but because they are written by his wife. He also clams that most of the good writers in the past couldn't get a book published today.
Don't forget the root name servers. Most are in the US.
Sometimes traceroutes from sydney to melbourne go through the US. Like I need a few extra hundred ms delays for my packets.
So SETI is a waste because its not helping the starving people in Somalia and the like.
Other than the other details pointed out in this flame war, lets take a look at other "useless" programs such as the entire space program.
Right now New Orleans is setting its self up for one heck of a flood. How do we know this? Mostly from stuff in space. Sure the people living there know they are living below sea level (which isn't that uncommon) but thanks to the huge amount of data from "the space race" we now know much more about land formation as well as how deltas change over time. Then there is all that info on how to protect from storms since we now have some clue how to predict them. All of these things are a combination of lots of pure science that could be a "waste of time" based purly on its inital results but the real pay off comes from the spin-offs.
Has SETI tought us about ET? No. It has given much insight about contaiminating the radio spectrum as well as pushed the general knowlege about high end radio scanning. Its thouse concepts (that came from the radio telescope geeks) that allow your digital cell phone to work as well as it does.
The greatest thing SETI has done so far: Proves that people can get lots of cheap computer power when its needed.
It seems to me that the biggest change in Unix in the past decade is that people are tring hard to get away from the core philosophy. One of thouse cores is "Write programs that do one thing and do it well."
/bin/mail as an interface after the first version of mailx. /bin/mail knows how to do everything it needs involving getting a message and sending mail and the "difficult problem" of properly locking mailboxes.
As McIlroy quoted "Write programs that do one thing and do it well. Write programs to work together. Write programs that handle text streams, because that is a universal interface.'"
About the only place I see this going on in modern program design is the mp3 players and that is a result of the people who do good UI work generaly don't have the skill set to do the MP3 decoding so they link to something like mpg123.
Another quote: "Cognitive engineering" is what Condon called it, "...that the black box should be simple enough such that when you form the model of what's going on in the black box, that's in fact what is going on in the black box."
Based on one of the major ideas in Unix, why does every program grow till it can read mail? I don't think I've ever seen a program that uses
I also like the bit about fixing the code so they didn't have to document the uglyness. Now that might be the best reason I've ever heard to properly document a program.
The concept of data having a security level that flows with it has been around for a long time. It was requried for the orange book "B" level security and we all should know how long ago the orange book has been obsolite.
You haven't been to the pawn shops in Footscray have you? Its easier for me to buy a gun from a shop here than in the USA. My house has only been robbed twice in a year and the current stats of robbry in Oz say that your house is likly to have a forced break in every 10 months. One in 40 people get robbed while they are at home last year in Oz. I don't think the massive increase in crime is a result off the total ban on guns though.
Back on the topic...
One guy was charged and is in jail (damn rare here) for robbing my house and I can't even find out what his name is from the police let alone details like when he will be out of jail (and when I know he will be back). If I find out who this bastard is, he mug shot and personal details will be up on a web site real damn fast.
Great replying to my own post...
The market demographic for singles is 14 yr old girls by something like 35% of all singles. Adding in 13 to 15 yr olds (both boys and girls) you end up with over 55% of the singles market. The oddest figure is the "accidental purchase" group where people think they were geting the full album or are buying for gift and get the wrong thing. Thats about 10%.
Singles are an essential part of the record biz after all thats how they tell who to put in the "top 40". Without single sales, the most effective marketing angle goes away. Singles will remain for decades after there is no profit in them.
I bought my CD player in 1987. I never paid more than $10 for a CD (unless it was an import) till the mid 1990s.
Fuuny thing is the amount artist get per CD hasn't gone up since that time and production costs have gone way down.