Remember oven is a privialged device of group kitchen! All roomates should not be a member of this group and all roomates should be run in a room jail. This can help to provide added process security to the oven device.
Any word on the rumor I heard about 6 months ago about Sprint having to change out a majority of their Lucent RFUs for Nortel ones? I heard that Lucent had sold the wrong equipment to them for a majority of use and that they were having to swap out wholesale for Nortel in some markets. The problem had to do with the Mod Cells or something along those lines.
Most of the wireless equipment comes from two vendors, Ericsson and Lucent. Lucent manufactures most of the switches and cell equipment used in the CDMA world. What's amazing to think is that Lucent came so close to going under... yet when you think about it they never would have, their telco market for equipment is too big and it would have been spun off for cash. As for Nortel equipment most of the stuff I have heard of is like the DMS series being used only for LEC (Local Exchange Carrier) switches.
Wireless is more than cellphones... true most of the industry is about phones... it's also about microwave backhaul.. not very sexy these days... point to multipiont networking like Cellweb running on 5gig in the San Fran area...
It's truely amazing what you find when you go up on a roof which already has 5+ carriers on it.
Grrr... second try on this post... my comp decided to go offline the instant I pressed preview.... grrrrrrrr..... fscking winblows
Anywho... AT&T is currently in the process of a MAJOR 3G buildout/expansion. I am not sure what technology they are using for the 3G expansion, maybe someone else has more information on that. If memory serves me right they use IS-195 with is TDMA based on the voice side. It will also be interesting to see how they integrate that with the analog voice channels they have in the A and B cell bands.
Also I think Verizon is about to pop. They have been building a few new switches and I've heard rumors of a major buildout from the Midwest all the way to the West coast. It would not supprise me if they were also going to do an upgrade to 3G while they are at it, or that they might put 3G into their PCS bands they got through the merger. I would love to hear more.
I've also heard that Nextel and Cingular are about to also buildout. I've heard that Nextel is going to implement Wide CDMA with like 15khz of bandwidth... if this is true then it sounds kinda broken...
Wireless... home of some truely interesting shtuff
Ya that's probably what i'm thinking of... I seem to remember it also being tied into the nuclear tests the British carried out in the outback.
I remember when I lived in Perth there was a report about it on like ABC or ch9 about the rocket range... The reporter mused about how the australians had a highly advanced rocket facility at the time and could very easily have become a leader in the space race, but chose to not do anything with it.
It used to be back in the 50's n such Australia was one of the major competitors in the space arena. I can't remember where it is now, but they had a complete launch complex, and one day completely gave it up. I always wondered why they gave it up, but it's good to see another country getting into it... and I'm sure the US gov is somewhat happy that it's a country which is an ally.
Also what of Christmas Island being a Russian Terrotory?? I thought it has always been an Australian Territory.
I forget where the menu option is, i think under tools in the code editor for Access... but you can turn on the DAO and use it like you would for Access 97. However as you know Mickeysoft wants you to use the ADO and all of it's carp! Just when the DAO was becoming understandable now I have to understand the ADO... grrr.... hmm DAO.. ADO... wonder if someone at Mickeysoft was dyslexic...
As for programming I did things the opposite way... I first learned how to program in Pascal then C then C++... then I grudgingly learned access basic... I still yern for Turbo Pascal 5.5 and Turbo C 1.0.. now those were the days! I still love that editor!
Besides... Maybe some other people have the same question and the same precicament, just not the time deadline and the lusers to deal with. Hell I for one am trying to bring all of our IT services into one conglomerated system rather than the (n) vendors we have out there doing this and that for us. I would like to set up one account on the Active Dir server, cascade it to the linux boxen and then hopefuly manage linux based pop3 email smb services winblows print services and so forth with one directory tree.
It's a hope that's out there, but I feel I'm not the only one... just as the original ask slashdotter isn't the only one with this problem..:-)
I know the telcos would not like it... along with phone owners... but it would be interesting to dial all the numbers to see how many actualy answer and are still a bbs...:-) I know my friend's board in NYC will still anser... it's been there for like 8 or more years, last i remember it was a citadel board running on an OS2 system...:-) good stuff....
[originally, someone who makes furniture with an axe] 1. A person who enjoys exploring the details of programmable systems and how to stretch their capabilities, as opposed to most users, who prefer to learn only the minimum necessary. 2. One who programs enthusiastically (even obsessively) or who enjoys programming rather than just theorizing about programming. 3. A person capable of appreciating hack value. 4. A person who is good at programming quickly. 5. An expert at a particular program, or one who frequently does work using it or on it; as in `a Unix hacker'. (Definitions 1 through 5 are correlated, and people who fit them congregate.) 6. An expert or enthusiast of any kind. One might be an astronomy hacker, for example. 7. One who enjoys the intellectual challenge of creatively overcoming or circumventing limitations. 8. [deprecated] A malicious meddler who tries to discover sensitive information by poking around. Hence `password hacker', `network hacker'. The correct term for this sense is cracker.
Now I know we all know what the term means... but let's consider this... What is hacking at one of it's most basic terms. EDUCATION! When you hack something u're learning about it. So by default when trying to stifle hackers u're also stifiling professors, students, engineers, ah hell... just about anyone interested in maning something better!
Ya I agree... they are going to claim big huge losses... OH MY! My problem is PROVE IT!
When mp3s were first available for download, what did I do... I downloaded... and then I purchased more CD's! my CD collection exploded when I first started to download stuff... why, I wanted to hear the rest of what they have. In other words, they made money from my downloading MP3s! What made me stop buying CD's... lack of money and Shoutcast... It had exactly the music I wanted, which normaly is only found on vynl.
Ya they guarantee 99.999% uptime reliability!
Oh wait... you must be running a windows 2000 cluster... it must be managed by Microsnot... you must sacrafice a lamb... you must name your firstborn Bill... You must tithe 15% of your anual income to Bill Gates himself...
However what about the loss due to cable length. I work with microwave equipment and if you have a cable with say.5dbm of loss per 10ft of cable and you have an antenna with +2.5dbm gain and u're running a 30' cable, then you have no need to tune down your transmitter. Now these numbers are not real, however it gives an idea.
I agree... A friend of mine's father owns a small oil company in Texas. He says that he currently has to ship oil to California under a federal law and cannot stop shipment even if he is not paid. Let's consider for a moment that there are other companies shipping to California during the energy crisis and not getting paid... they go bankrupt... supply of fuel goes down.. price goes up.. California is in a worse spot. Now outside of California, people who worked for that oil company or whatever are now out of a job. They have much less discressionary income thus causing more of an economic slowdown throughout the nation. Yes it's a long shot, but I believe it's more possible than one might think. There are other indicators of problems on the horizon too, CCI (consumer confidence index) and many others are not looking very good.
Also about this whole Northpoint thing... all I have to say is this makes my life more dificult. UUNet is our internet provider and they use Northpoint as their DSL provider in our area. Oh joy!
I can see why their network would have problems. They used to be a niche market that allowed mobile IP services. Now the cell companies have steped into the fray with CDPD (Cellular Digital Packet Data) which was an adaptation of the pre-existing AMPS (American Mobile Phone System aka Analag) networks. Now most or the wireless mobile IP devices use CDPD because analog phone networks are almost everywhere in the nation. However I believe that Ricochet had faster speeds available, whereas CDPD is 33Kbit. Things are only going to get tougher for Ricochet when AT&T introduces their wireless boadband to the home and stuff.
It's a good network, good design, but might be outmarketed... However there are some market segments they could get into if they wanted to like automated meter readers which PG&E is doing with CellNet who uses a system similar to Ricochet's. If ya think computing is krazy, try cellular... it's even stranger...
True you absorb more surface energy by the sun than that of a cell, however what of the small and minute damage that is done over time internaly. Remember your eyes are made up of a lot of water, and the brain is very sensitive to RF damage. I know I work in the Cell industry and around microwave radio sites. Also what of the cell sites? AMPS (Analog) sites regularly put out 40-60 wats out of the transmitter and have about 30-40 watts at the the antenna. PCS CDMA systems put out like 15-20 watts at the antenna. Now with Cell sites being stealthed a lot to where it's almost impossible to know where they are, it get's scarry. I know Sprint PCS has taken houses, gutted them and built a cell site in them, in the middle of a residential neighborhood! They have also made sites out of a corner appartment, then they take the remainder and turn it into living spaces. I used to work 8 feet below a three sector site, and I always felt sick and tired, everyone in that room is sick all the time, since I left that room I feel better. Coincidence, probably not.
Take a look at the plant in Morrow Bay, I think that is owned by Duke energy but has not been turned on in years, although it's good and ready to go. I think they can't turn it on due to "environmental reasons." The most interesting thing to note is that while the Electric Utilities are having cash problems, the companies that own the plants are making money hand over fist!
Also PG&E owns Diablo Canyon if memory serves me correct. My friend's dad is a Nuclear Welder, doesn't talk much about Diablo canyon except to say that when you see a pink stop sign, you know you're in the nuke areas....
I spoke with a friend's father who works for PG&E in the SFO area and he was telling me that Duke Energy, the British company that has been purchacing power plants in California has been shutting them down for "repairs" even though in most situations the repairs are not crittical and can be staggered with regards to the other plants. Thus recently many plants have been shut down, creating an artificial lack of supply. Ahhh the joys of accountants running companies, and the need for creating shareholder value... whoo hoo!
I haven't kept up on what spectrum is going to be used, but I very much hope they avoid 2.4gig as it is the resonant frequency of water... ya I really want a microwave oven next to my head that is unsheielded....;-)
Then at the same time I really hope they use something like CDMA as the air interface when they have spectrum...
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Remember oven is a privialged device of group kitchen! All roomates should not be a member of this group and all roomates should be run in a room jail. This can help to provide added process security to the oven device.
:-)
Any word on the rumor I heard about 6 months ago about Sprint having to change out a majority of their Lucent RFUs for Nortel ones? I heard that Lucent had sold the wrong equipment to them for a majority of use and that they were having to swap out wholesale for Nortel in some markets. The problem had to do with the Mod Cells or something along those lines.
Most of the wireless equipment comes from two vendors, Ericsson and Lucent. Lucent manufactures most of the switches and cell equipment used in the CDMA world. What's amazing to think is that Lucent came so close to going under... yet when you think about it they never would have, their telco market for equipment is too big and it would have been spun off for cash. As for Nortel equipment most of the stuff I have heard of is like the DMS series being used only for LEC (Local Exchange Carrier) switches.
Wireless is more than cellphones... true most of the industry is about phones... it's also about microwave backhaul.. not very sexy these days... point to multipiont networking like Cellweb running on 5gig in the San Fran area...
It's truely amazing what you find when you go up on a roof which already has 5+ carriers on it.
Grrr... second try on this post... my comp decided to go offline the instant I pressed preview.... grrrrrrrr..... fscking winblows
Anywho... AT&T is currently in the process of a MAJOR 3G buildout/expansion. I am not sure what technology they are using for the 3G expansion, maybe someone else has more information on that. If memory serves me right they use IS-195 with is TDMA based on the voice side. It will also be interesting to see how they integrate that with the analog voice channels they have in the A and B cell bands.
Also I think Verizon is about to pop. They have been building a few new switches and I've heard rumors of a major buildout from the Midwest all the way to the West coast. It would not supprise me if they were also going to do an upgrade to 3G while they are at it, or that they might put 3G into their PCS bands they got through the merger. I would love to hear more.
I've also heard that Nextel and Cingular are about to also buildout. I've heard that Nextel is going to implement Wide CDMA with like 15khz of bandwidth... if this is true then it sounds kinda broken...
Wireless... home of some truely interesting shtuff
Many moons ago I went to Clarkson, an Engineering school in upstate New York... The expression we has was:
;-) Or at least most did not require a bag....
Clarkson, where the men are men... The women look like men... and the sheep run like hell...
Thank god for SUNY Potsdam across town with all the hotties...
Ya that's probably what i'm thinking of... I seem to remember it also being tied into the nuclear tests the British carried out in the outback.
I remember when I lived in Perth there was a report about it on like ABC or ch9 about the rocket range... The reporter mused about how the australians had a highly advanced rocket facility at the time and could very easily have become a leader in the space race, but chose to not do anything with it.
It used to be back in the 50's n such Australia was one of the major competitors in the space arena. I can't remember where it is now, but they had a complete launch complex, and one day completely gave it up. I always wondered why they gave it up, but it's good to see another country getting into it... and I'm sure the US gov is somewhat happy that it's a country which is an ally.
Also what of Christmas Island being a Russian Terrotory?? I thought it has always been an Australian Territory.
Can I get an AMEN?!
I forget where the menu option is, i think under tools in the code editor for Access... but you can turn on the DAO and use it like you would for Access 97. However as you know Mickeysoft wants you to use the ADO and all of it's carp! Just when the DAO was becoming understandable now I have to understand the ADO... grrr.... hmm DAO.. ADO... wonder if someone at Mickeysoft was dyslexic...
As for programming I did things the opposite way... I first learned how to program in Pascal then C then C++... then I grudgingly learned access basic... I still yern for Turbo Pascal 5.5 and Turbo C 1.0.. now those were the days! I still love that editor!
Besides... Maybe some other people have the same question and the same precicament, just not the time deadline and the lusers to deal with. Hell I for one am trying to bring all of our IT services into one conglomerated system rather than the (n) vendors we have out there doing this and that for us. I would like to set up one account on the Active Dir server, cascade it to the linux boxen and then hopefuly manage linux based pop3 email smb services winblows print services and so forth with one directory tree.
:-)
It's a hope that's out there, but I feel I'm not the only one... just as the original ask slashdotter isn't the only one with this problem..
I know the telcos would not like it... along with phone owners... but it would be interesting to dial all the numbers to see how many actualy answer and are still a bbs... :-) I know my friend's board in NYC will still anser... it's been there for like 8 or more years, last i remember it was a citadel board running on an OS2 system... :-) good stuff....
It's 1:29am PT and already it's gettin slashed... :-) too bad some of my old faves aren't listed... :-(
ahh the memories...
From vegetables?? huh?? ok I'm lost.. or am i just dense... :-)
Wait hold on... let me look up hacker...
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hacker
[originally, someone who makes furniture with an axe] 1. A person who enjoys exploring the details of programmable systems and how to stretch their capabilities, as opposed to most users, who prefer to learn only the minimum necessary. 2. One who programs enthusiastically (even obsessively) or who enjoys programming rather than just theorizing about programming. 3. A person capable of appreciating hack value. 4. A person who is good at programming quickly. 5. An expert at a particular program, or one who frequently does work using it or on it; as in `a Unix hacker'. (Definitions 1 through 5 are correlated, and people who fit them congregate.) 6. An expert or enthusiast of any kind. One might be an astronomy hacker, for example. 7. One who enjoys the intellectual challenge of creatively overcoming or circumventing limitations. 8. [deprecated] A malicious meddler who tries to discover sensitive information by poking around. Hence `password hacker', `network hacker'. The correct term for this sense is cracker.
Now I know we all know what the term means... but let's consider this... What is hacking at one of it's most basic terms. EDUCATION! When you hack something u're learning about it. So by default when trying to stifle hackers u're also stifiling professors, students, engineers, ah hell... just about anyone interested in maning something better!
Ya I agree... they are going to claim big huge losses... OH MY! My problem is PROVE IT!
When mp3s were first available for download, what did I do... I downloaded... and then I purchased more CD's! my CD collection exploded when I first started to download stuff... why, I wanted to hear the rest of what they have. In other words, they made money from my downloading MP3s! What made me stop buying CD's... lack of money and Shoutcast... It had exactly the music I wanted, which normaly is only found on vynl.
Let's see... I have a Diamond Rio... 64MB.. Palm 5 4MB(?)... Laptop... 10GB and potential 802.11.....
Hmmm shouldn't it be the Exabyte sneaker net? or would it be a Petabyte??
is it Peta or Pita as in the bread...
Ok I go crawl back under my rock now....
Ya they guarantee 99.999% uptime reliability!
Oh wait... you must be running a windows 2000 cluster... it must be managed by Microsnot... you must sacrafice a lamb... you must name your firstborn Bill... You must tithe 15% of your anual income to Bill Gates himself...
Oh hell it's not worth it!!
However what about the loss due to cable length. I work with microwave equipment and if you have a cable with say .5dbm of loss per 10ft of cable and you have an antenna with +2.5dbm gain and u're running a 30' cable, then you have no need to tune down your transmitter. Now these numbers are not real, however it gives an idea.
All I want to know is does it run the counter-strike server...
I agree... A friend of mine's father owns a small oil company in Texas. He says that he currently has to ship oil to California under a federal law and cannot stop shipment even if he is not paid. Let's consider for a moment that there are other companies shipping to California during the energy crisis and not getting paid... they go bankrupt... supply of fuel goes down.. price goes up.. California is in a worse spot. Now outside of California, people who worked for that oil company or whatever are now out of a job. They have much less discressionary income thus causing more of an economic slowdown throughout the nation. Yes it's a long shot, but I believe it's more possible than one might think. There are other indicators of problems on the horizon too, CCI (consumer confidence index) and many others are not looking very good.
Also about this whole Northpoint thing... all I have to say is this makes my life more dificult. UUNet is our internet provider and they use Northpoint as their DSL provider in our area. Oh joy!
I can see why their network would have problems. They used to be a niche market that allowed mobile IP services. Now the cell companies have steped into the fray with CDPD (Cellular Digital Packet Data) which was an adaptation of the pre-existing AMPS (American Mobile Phone System aka Analag) networks. Now most or the wireless mobile IP devices use CDPD because analog phone networks are almost everywhere in the nation. However I believe that Ricochet had faster speeds available, whereas CDPD is 33Kbit. Things are only going to get tougher for Ricochet when AT&T introduces their wireless boadband to the home and stuff.
It's a good network, good design, but might be outmarketed... However there are some market segments they could get into if they wanted to like automated meter readers which PG&E is doing with CellNet who uses a system similar to Ricochet's. If ya think computing is krazy, try cellular... it's even stranger...
True you absorb more surface energy by the sun than that of a cell, however what of the small and minute damage that is done over time internaly. Remember your eyes are made up of a lot of water, and the brain is very sensitive to RF damage. I know I work in the Cell industry and around microwave radio sites. Also what of the cell sites? AMPS (Analog) sites regularly put out 40-60 wats out of the transmitter and have about 30-40 watts at the the antenna. PCS CDMA systems put out like 15-20 watts at the antenna. Now with Cell sites being stealthed a lot to where it's almost impossible to know where they are, it get's scarry. I know Sprint PCS has taken houses, gutted them and built a cell site in them, in the middle of a residential neighborhood! They have also made sites out of a corner appartment, then they take the remainder and turn it into living spaces. I used to work 8 feet below a three sector site, and I always felt sick and tired, everyone in that room is sick all the time, since I left that room I feel better. Coincidence, probably not.
Take a look at the plant in Morrow Bay, I think that is owned by Duke energy but has not been turned on in years, although it's good and ready to go. I think they can't turn it on due to "environmental reasons." The most interesting thing to note is that while the Electric Utilities are having cash problems, the companies that own the plants are making money hand over fist!
Also PG&E owns Diablo Canyon if memory serves me correct. My friend's dad is a Nuclear Welder, doesn't talk much about Diablo canyon except to say that when you see a pink stop sign, you know you're in the nuke areas....
I spoke with a friend's father who works for PG&E in the SFO area and he was telling me that Duke Energy, the British company that has been purchacing power plants in California has been shutting them down for "repairs" even though in most situations the repairs are not crittical and can be staggered with regards to the other plants. Thus recently many plants have been shut down, creating an artificial lack of supply. Ahhh the joys of accountants running companies, and the need for creating shareholder value... whoo hoo!
I haven't kept up on what spectrum is going to be used, but I very much hope they avoid 2.4gig as it is the resonant frequency of water... ya I really want a microwave oven next to my head that is unsheielded.... ;-)
Then at the same time I really hope they use something like CDMA as the air interface when they have spectrum...