I remember going over to Atari in 1979 or 1980 so we could see how they made membrane switch panels. At that time they were made pf 3 pieces of mylar sandwiched together. The center had holes and the two outer layers had silver plated pads for the switch contacts.
OPB (Oregon Public Broadcasting) had video for the test on their TV station but no audio. Here's what they said on their Facebook page:
"As the hub of the emergency broadcast system for the region, OPB is responsible for sending signals out to all other regional broadcasters. We received the test signal as planned, but a software problem prevented the signal from being sent out to the statewide network of broadcasters."
Is the only one on the list that tried to screw me. After a year of them trying to get me to pay for the same airline tickets twice I finally had to get a lawyer after them.
Oregon does not have sales tax. They do have an inventory tax. The inventory tax is not only on your product, but on your furnishings and equipment.
That's not an inventory tax (there isn't one, see ORS 307.400) but business personal property tax. I think that all of the 4 states I've done business in have that tax.
I saw a presentation given by the president of ARIN recently on the Research Channel. He predicted that IPV6 and IPV4 will run in parallel for about a decade, so I don't see corporations giving up their IPV4 address space anytime soon.
We just have a PBS translator and a begging for jebus channel. Oregon Public Broadcasting has only converted a small number of their 40 translators throughout the state. In the case of my area they also have to move their intermediate links from 800 to 2000 Mhz, so it could be years.
I use a cradlepoint Wifi router with my Verizon Wireless USB modem. Since VW is about 3-4 times faster than the CenturyLink DSL here, I use a SSID of "CLinkSucks".
Somewhere around 1975 or 1976 I worked at the micro-electronics lab at Point Mugu Naval Air Station. We did a number of projects using a 4004 and those awful 1702 EPROMs. I remember using one to run a X/Y Table and sensor probe to test thick film (might have been thin film) resistor wafers. If a chip wasn't in tolerance a drop of magnetic ink would be dropped on it.
We used a timeshare service via a Model 33 teletype with acoustic modem to access a 4004 assembler. It would spit out a paper tape that we would use for the EPROM burner system. I think I like Eclipse better.
I went to the Verizon small business site and tried to sign up for a corporate account for the wireless broadband service. Their online form wanted a person's name (no space for corporate name) and drivers license and SSN. Since C Corporations don't have either they lost a sale.
For my little piece of rural America absolutely nothing changed. Still get three craptacular analog translators (Oregon PBS and TWO copies of the same begging for jesus channel).
Wrong. The last time I checked (around June I think) they had received FCC permits to do a Digital Flash Cut on 4 of their translators, including the one here. None of those 4 interfered with any full power stations since Flash Cuts simply mean changing from analog to digital on the same channel they have been using for years. Those permits are good for 3 years from the date of issuance (in this case April), so I suppose that's the timeframe they are working on.
Richard showed up a couple years ago at the Wairarapa Railway Modellers annual BBQ with a 7 1/2" scale locomotive that was built at Weta Workshops for a film. In the photo located at http://www.certsoft.com/NZ2/richard_taylor.jpg Richard is the one in the middle.
Oregon Public Television received a few million dollars last year from the Oregon taxpayers to convert translators to digital. So far they haven't converted a single one. Since there is no FCC mandate to convert them at this point I wonder how long they are going to stall. They certainly won't be getting any more subscription money from me until they get their act together.
I noticed a posting in the discussion group questioning the use of little-endian "on the wire" rather big-endian (network byte order). The response was that most of googles computers were little-endian, which seems pretty short-sighted.
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Unfortunately some GPS vendors don't get it right. I was testing conformance of a IT530 from FastRaxGPS which uses the Mediatek MT3339 receiver.
It put out the sequence 23:59:59, 23:59:59, 00:00:00 repeating second 59 instead of using second 60.
I remember going over to Atari in 1979 or 1980 so we could see how they made membrane switch panels. At that time they were made pf 3 pieces of mylar sandwiched together. The center had holes and the two outer layers had silver plated pads for the switch contacts.
A Hoovering woman might be more useful.
OPB (Oregon Public Broadcasting) had video for the test on their TV station but no audio. Here's what they said on their Facebook page: "As the hub of the emergency broadcast system for the region, OPB is responsible for sending signals out to all other regional broadcasters. We received the test signal as planned, but a software problem prevented the signal from being sent out to the statewide network of broadcasters."
Is the only one on the list that tried to screw me. After a year of them trying to get me to pay for the same airline tickets twice I finally had to get a lawyer after them.
Oregon does not have sales tax. They do have an inventory tax. The inventory tax is not only on your product, but on your furnishings and equipment.
That's not an inventory tax (there isn't one, see ORS 307.400) but business personal property tax. I think that all of the 4 states I've done business in have that tax.
Good thing I'm still on version 1.02, my one-time alarm yesterday morning worked fine.
I saw a presentation given by the president of ARIN recently on the Research Channel. He predicted that IPV6 and IPV4 will run in parallel for about a decade, so I don't see corporations giving up their IPV4 address space anytime soon.
We just have a PBS translator and a begging for jebus channel. Oregon Public Broadcasting has only converted a small number of their 40 translators throughout the state. In the case of my area they also have to move their intermediate links from 800 to 2000 Mhz, so it could be years.
I use a cradlepoint Wifi router with my Verizon Wireless USB modem. Since VW is about 3-4 times faster than the CenturyLink DSL here, I use a SSID of "CLinkSucks".
Nook e-reader has been hacked and rooted
I'm sure Slashdotters in New Zealand will get a kick out of that.
Somewhere around 1975 or 1976 I worked at the micro-electronics lab at Point Mugu Naval Air Station. We did a number of projects using a 4004 and those awful 1702 EPROMs. I remember using one to run a X/Y Table and sensor probe to test thick film (might have been thin film) resistor wafers. If a chip wasn't in tolerance a drop of magnetic ink would be dropped on it.
We used a timeshare service via a Model 33 teletype with acoustic modem to access a 4004 assembler. It would spit out a paper tape that we would use for the EPROM burner system. I think I like Eclipse better.
I guess changing my name to "John Doe 5" wasn't such a good move after all.
I went to the Verizon small business site and tried to sign up for a corporate account for the wireless broadband service. Their online form wanted a person's name (no space for corporate name) and drivers license and SSN. Since C Corporations don't have either they lost a sale.
For my little piece of rural America absolutely nothing changed. Still get three craptacular analog translators (Oregon PBS and TWO copies of the same begging for jesus channel).
Yes, I'm afraid so...
Nasa TV is also available unscrambled on Echostar 7 (119.0 West) if you have a FTA (Free to Air) receiver and a circular LNB.
Typing was the most useful class I took in High School. It's painful to watch programmers type with two fingers.
Sparky, is that you?
Wrong. The last time I checked (around June I think) they had received FCC permits to do a Digital Flash Cut on 4 of their translators, including the one here. None of those 4 interfered with any full power stations since Flash Cuts simply mean changing from analog to digital on the same channel they have been using for years. Those permits are good for 3 years from the date of issuance (in this case April), so I suppose that's the timeframe they are working on.
Richard showed up a couple years ago at the Wairarapa Railway Modellers annual BBQ with a 7 1/2" scale locomotive that was built at Weta Workshops for a film. In the photo located at http://www.certsoft.com/NZ2/richard_taylor.jpg Richard is the one in the middle.
Oregon Public Television received a few million dollars last year from the Oregon taxpayers to convert translators to digital. So far they haven't converted a single one. Since there is no FCC mandate to convert them at this point I wonder how long they are going to stall. They certainly won't be getting any more subscription money from me until they get their act together.
Woody Allen had a problem with a vibrator in "Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex* (*But Were Afraid to Ask)", related?
I noticed a posting in the discussion group questioning the use of little-endian "on the wire" rather big-endian (network byte order). The response was that most of googles computers were little-endian, which seems pretty short-sighted.
The other state is Florida. See a pattern?