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  1. Re:test kernels on Mandrake 9.2b1 Released, 2.6 Test Kernel in Cooker · · Score: 1

    Mandrake started life as an offshoot of RH that included kde. It should be no surprise that kde is the default. There are also a whole pile of alternative window managers with it. Just install the one you want.....

  2. Re:available bandwidth? on Hamvention · · Score: 1

    Yup.

  3. Re:Thats not 'Real Phreaking'! on Phreaking Not Dead Yet · · Score: 2, Informative

    LOL. I've got two of those. The outside is thick plastic, inside everything is waterproofed. These were designed to last forever.

    I've also got a really old one with the outside encased in rubber, and little prongs on the tiny rotary mech, so you could dial even with gloves on, at the top of a pole in any weather.

    Dad was a lineman for MTS (Manitoba Telephone System). When he died I got all of this stuff, and a bunch of other cool stuff like climbing spikes and safety belts.

    Note to all: don't install a resistor across the line to allow free incoming long distance calls when Dad's a lineman. Also, don't build a bluebox using parts you stole from dad's work. The phone company can get quite upset.

    Dad was even madder.

  4. Re:Antic and STart magazine on Build Your Own Satellite Ground Station · · Score: 1

    I built that. Very simple, just a 741 op-amp and a few discrete components. It worked surpisingly well. See my post further down for software to do this under linux.

    73 de VE6LSH

  5. HamFax on Build Your Own Satellite Ground Station · · Score: 2, Informative

    You can use HamFax to do this under linux. Predict will tell you when the bird will be visible.

    http://hamfax.sourceforge.net/
    http://www.qsl.n et/kd2bd/predict.html

    73 de VE6LSH

  6. Been doing this for years on Build Your Own Satellite Ground Station · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The first setup used a geared motor driving a drum (made from a rolling ping) that had tinfoil wrppaed around, with electrostatic fax paper on top of that. It would print the image via a motor driven needle that put a high voltage current to the paper when it recieved a black portion of the image. Omni-directional antenna and a modified scanner completed the rig.

    I wish I still had my copy of "The Weather Satellite Handbook".

    73 de VE6LSH

  7. Re:How to clean boot Windows? on Windows Rootkits · · Score: 1

    Install a clean copy of windows to a different directory. Boot from the clean version.

  8. It's called on Boston TV Signals Disrupting Police Radio in NJ · · Score: 5, Informative

    tropospheric ducting.

  9. Re:Heh, laugh on Warchalking Visual Cues To Urban WLANs · · Score: 1

    As an ex-tanker and an ex-recce I must take issue with the 'keep the poor non-recce types' statement. I've seen than a few recce types get a little geographically embarassed whilst doing sector and area recce's.

  10. Re:Conflict With My Goal For the Weekend on Field Day 2002 · · Score: 1

    Actually I've been to lots of ham-fests. I was referring to the hotties at the beach. Where you got female hams I don't know :-)

  11. Re:Hams are changing America, and the world! on Field Day 2002 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    There is a little more to it than that. check out AMSAT for some info on one other aspect of the hobby.

    '73 de
    VE6LSH

  12. Re:Conflict With My Goal For the Weekend on Field Day 2002 · · Score: 1

    Somehow I don't think the 'No-Hottie' zone will be generated by the ham gear

    '73
    VE6LSH

  13. Re:ech on New Mobile Phones Showcased · · Score: 1
    People are legally prohibited to speak over mobiles (without hnds-free) while driving.

    Not where I live (Alberta) they aren't. Our idiot MLA's voted that it was ok to when a bill was tabled to make it illegal.

  14. Re:DVD support in distros? on Slashback: Porntrusion, Greenness, Rollercoaster · · Score: 1

    Probably not gonna happen. The author(s) of mplayer are very clear about the fact that mplayer contains no decss code. You can --optionally link to this code at compile-time. This of course means that you have the required libs/headers on your system. This also means that in certain countries you have broken the law (DMCA anybody?).

  15. Re:Customs Official or UPS? on Serial Cables Illegal Due to DMCA? · · Score: 1
    As much as I hate them, that's exactly what Lawyers are for.

    It's because of lawyers that we have shit like this happening, not the other way around.

  16. Re:Must fit in cargo container. on Junkyard Wars: The Next Generation · · Score: 1

    Yeah, the M113A3 is a huge improvement over the A1's and 2's. Those had the same engine as the lynx and were dogs. The hydrostatic steering also makes a big diff. Biggest diffs are that the lynx only has a crew of 3 (driver, commander, and observer/rad op), .50 cal in a cupola (can be fired electrically from inside when buttoned up), 7.62 mg on a pintle mount for the observer (useless), engine in the rear (meaning that the observer , who faced backwards, basically turned black in an hour or so), mounting brackets for the AN/PPS 15 ground surveillance radar. The lynx was a very close cousin to the M-114, and they both filled the same role: light recon. Light recce is now done in Canada with the coyote, a LAV based vehicle with a 25mm chain gun, radar thats actually usable, thermal imaging on all crew stations. Beautiful piece of kit.
    http://www.ironsides.8m.com/afv/recce/eyes.html

  17. Re:Including... on Junkyard Wars: The Next Generation · · Score: 1
    So do I. You weren't in the Strathcona's or VIII CH were you?

    It was cool to see the tank recovery vehicle pull it to shore, though. Now those things are huge.

    ARV driver is one of the best jobs in a tank squadron. You hang out with the mech's instead of the muscleheads, staying back until needed. The downside is that you spend alot of time playing fetch and carry for the mechs and staying up all night to help get a POS leo running again only to have it break down again the next week.

  18. Re:Must fit in cargo container. on Junkyard Wars: The Next Generation · · Score: 1
    GM 6v53 six cylinder diesel.
    Max grade is 60%
    Swims instead of fording
    Top speed was supposed to be about 40mph, but most would go closer to 50mph. More info here:http://afvdb.50megs.com/usa/acrc.html#Lynx

    Hey it would fit in the container, but unless you took those damned rubber track skirts off it would be really tight

  19. Re:Must fit in cargo container. on Junkyard Wars: The Next Generation · · Score: 1

    Na. Use a Lynx, the C&R variant that the Canadian Forces used to use. Much faster, more manouverable. There's a sketch at:http://www.activevr.com/afv/camouflage/lynx.htm l. I crewed one for years and it's got way more oumph than a 113. And it might fit in the shipping container (I don't remember the dimensions).

  20. Re:The first Slashdot troll post investigation on Oracle Breakable After All · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    It's not your fucking website, therefore you can winge all you want. But at the end of the day, it doesn't really matter. If you don't like it then fuck off and go elsewhere. BTW, I've never had mod points, and have been moderated up and down. I may not agree with all of the moderation, but I live with it. Grow up.

  21. Gene Ray on California's "Wireless-Free" Zone · · Score: 1

    and this guy could be brothers.Gene Ray's harmonic Timecube

  22. Re:Situation in Canada... on Wired interview with Steinhardt · · Score: 1

    While I despise Anne's bill as much as anyone, you are a stupid cunt. Nobody has been arrested, and the bill passed on 24 Dec Details here. If your friends have been arrested it was under existing legislation, weeks before c36 (By your own timeline), and I would suggest you rethink who your friends are.

  23. Re:We've been saying what to do.. on Wired interview with Steinhardt · · Score: 1

    barley
    And you can't spell either. Welcome to the USA.

  24. Re:Considering the focus on national security.... on FBI, Pentagon Talk to MS about XP Hole · · Score: 1

    No he's talking about the US pulling the plug on Somalia's one and only ISP.

    http://www.africaonline.com/site/Articles/1,3,42 84 8.jsp

  25. Re:This would be a nasty one as well... on WinXP Security Flaw · · Score: 1
    Believe me I'm no MS fan, I don't run that crap and wouldn't under any circumstances.

    This (I would hope) should affect only clueless home users and incompetent admins (yes,there are many, many of these in the MCSE world. I know this and see it every day.). A competent admin will have the fixes on either a cd or an intranet and patch from there. This is one of the uses of a non-routeable protocol such as netbeui.

    OTOH I have seen an otherwise good admin (yes he's an MCSE but he usually has a clue) try and patch a brand-spanking-new IIS server install and get nimda'd in the process (this was two months ago, and it didn't really come as a surprise to me).

    We all know that MCSE doesn't mean competent, but unfortunately many PHB's don't.

    Using windowsupdate does NOT guarantee that you have the most recent patches. You have to dig deeper for recent patches (technet, corporate update etc). MS's site is a fucking nightmare, and I believe that this is deliberate obfuscation. Asking user's to search multiple sites is unreasonable, so it falls to the admin.