1. Jam the interlock in a microwave. 2. Program 5 mins on high power. 3. Insert head into microwave. 4. Have stoner friend hit the button. 5. Have said friend stand back as steam pours out of your head.
What do you think microwave ovens use to cook food? Radio Waves!
First off, they author mentioned getting the manufacture to re-program them after showing your license to them. The freqs mentioned are in the 2.4Ghz ham bands so this is legal.
Second, when you start getting above 30-50Mhz, getting serious power out is NOT easy. If you get into the S band (2.4Ghz), anything over about 1 to 3 watts is a B*TCH to get, expensive to get and expensive to operate.
Sure when I was in the Navy (ET), we had transmitters that would and did fry a sea gull that flew too close to us, but most people don't have that kind of money.
That is ONE thing I would not be worried about..:) Unless you manage to get a satallite for this stuff, it is strictly line of sight.. about 15-25 miles depending on how high your antenna is. Plus you better be spending some serious money on hardline to get an antenna up very high.
First off you must be ham radio operator. Since these all operate above 50Mhz, this means you can get by with a Tech license which is no code, just study and pass the written test. Sites to check for ham radio licensing info include E-Ham and the ARRL.
Second, any system with more that 1 watt output must be under automatic control so that only enough power as required to compleate the communication is used. You just can't pump out 100 watts to go next door. Not that 100 watts at 2.4Ghz is easy to come by...
The nice thing is that is looks like you don't even have to touch some of the boards to do this. Talk to the manufacture, show them your license and they'll set you up with boards in the ham bands right off the bat! Nice!
I went through the prelims back in '94 with a company doing a secure BSD. The hoops you have to jump through PLUS the fact that if any one thing changes, it ALL gets thrown out.
Just make sure whatever is getting certified is ready for prime time, because the first major patch causes a de-cert real quick... Not nice.
Robert Heinlein also talked about it in "Star Beast". Lumux (the star beast) liked it when the cans would heat up in its mouth when John Walker tossed it a couple as desert after a meal of trees, a bear and a hogshead of water.
It is amazing how many things Heinlein either invented (water bed, waldos, slide walk) or had forsight into (here, self heating cans).
Since the FreeBSD project does not maintain the CVS trees of the ports (if they are even in CVS), this would be a little hard.
What the project does do is maintain the FreeBSD specific diffs so you can just use the original source instead of a custom FreeBSD one.
For selected programs (ie the ones in the contrib tree) the project does keep the tree so you can just get the diffs.
BWP
So, are the PHP mailing lists spam now???
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Ya, I've got a problem with spam. I had subscribed to the PHP mailing lists about 6 months ago, no big deal. Here about 2 weeks ago I no longer had a reason to need them and went to unsubscribe from them. I was told that the server would not take my email because my IP provider was in spews now.
Now mind you, my server (on its own IP address) has NEVER sent out spam (I'm the only one who can send email from it and I've no reason to spam). It seems that some fscking idiot on one of the IPs in CA (my server is in MN) spammed and spews will BH all class C's of the owner no matter where.
So now I get email I don't want and can't get rid of... Should I report the PHP mailing lists to spews as spammers? I'm on a list and I can't contact them to remove me, how is this different from the spammers? Easy to get on, impossiable to get off of...:)
This article was not too bad, but to me he almost bites his one tail a couple of times.
In the discussion on software decay he talks about the way he is always tweaking things. If the code was good to begin with, why play with it?
The one thing I do like is how the article brings up the point that you HAVE got to have a good medium between sales and techies or else you either get bogged down by feature creap from the sales department or else you can't sale jack because the customer was bored out of their skull with the too detailed presentation! Been there and done that... The sales department would drag me out (on the phone or otherwise) when they needed to know if we could produce it, but other than that I stayed in my cave.
Where on that page do you see the ability to check stuff into the tree?
Only a select group of people can check stuff into the tree, but anyone can see the history of the tree. With Caldera releasing the source code to the ancient unix releases, we can even once again see what 1.X looked like!
I'm a former developer(for about 6 or 7 years) and I can tell that getting commit privs are not that easy, it takes some work.
They are a part 15 device along with baby monitors and other industerial, medical or scientific gear.
They are still called unlicensed becuase the company does not have a license for a specific spectrum. Now if only ONE company was aloted room there, then they would be licensed.
No, what your talking about is certification for electronics equipment (which states that its output in the RF area is within standards) and/or type acceptence (For RF transmitters means that it follows the FCC rules). This is totaly different from the licesening of a radio frequency!
What is ment by licensed and unlicensed is if a company or a group (in the case of ham radio and CB) has the use of a group of frequencies. The cell companies have a license, radio stations have licenses and even ham radio operators have licenses. Do any of the 802.11x companies have a license to use the freq? NO, they don't. They just have to follow certain rules that relate to that band. They have a maximum radiation output and antenna restrictions. The problem with them is that they are allowed a certain amount of overage (out of band signals) and this is what is getting them into trouble. Sirius is asking that the out of band emessions be reduced by 30% and the the wireless people are saying they can't do that.
And BTW, not all radio equipment has to be type accepted (what your also calling licensed). As an amateur radio operator I can build eqiupment for myself all day long (for the ham bands) and never talk to the FCC.
Someone download MySQL X.XX, that is not employed by NuSphere (could be someones brother for that matter). They go though the code and rewrite portions, add stuff, and rename is to XxSQL and distribute to NuSphere.
I would say that it is legal as long as it is all GPL the entire way. There is NOTHING in the GPL to keep me from renaming a project (AKA CODE FORK).
Sure it would not be MySQL anymore, but there is no reason why they can't track the protocol and ABI. It is GPL remember?
You might try just the domain name. Which comes out to:
Registrant:
Net Crater
NetCrater
502 Summit ST
Walnut Cove, North Carolina 27052
United States
Registrar: Go Daddy Software (http://registrar.godaddy.com)
Domain Name: MASENKO-MEDIA.NET
Created on: 06-Feb-02
Expires on: 06-Feb-03
Last Updated on: 06-Feb-02
Administrative Contact:
Crater, Net domains@netcrater.com
NetCrater
502 Summit ST
Walnut Cove, North Carolina 27052
United States
3365917696
Technical Contact:
Crater, Net domains@netcrater.com
NetCrater
502 Summit ST
Walnut Cove, North Carolina 27052
United States
3365917696
Domain servers in listed order:
NS1.NETCRATER.COM
NS2.NETCRATER.COM
My father's company got some venture capitol back in the late eighties. This was not for a cash infusion, but to start the company.
When they started they had over 20 customers in such diverse areas of POS maintenance, GPOS maintenance and HVAC. After 6 months they had net profit of over $60,000 a month.
Within two years the VC had let the HVAC guys run off with all of their equipment and customers for nothing. The gasoline guys left because they could not tolerate the VC.
Three years later my Dad and his friend bought the POS part of the business for pennies on the dollar from the bankruptcy(sp) sale.
For the new company they never even THOUGHT of getting any type of VC...
Five years later my Dad sold his share for a cool $250,000.
Could be that this is just a way to honor him and he will never see the cash.
The article said they did not have a enough money for all of the grants and Damian Conway had to have the cash to take the break from the university down under. They are shy of about $160,000 which may take a little while to dig up..:)
The *BSDs are all based on 4.4BSD-Lite2 which is based on 4.4BSD. 4.4BSD has a history going back to 32V for the VAX (which you can now download as ancient UNIX from Caldera who released it under a BSD style license, see the slashdot article).
Even if you take Minix (I've still got the book) as an ancestor to Linux, I think the *BSDs are just a little bit older.
To tell you had bad it was, FreeBSD had to start all over again back in 1994 because a little bit of AT&T code (which had to exist prior to 1979) had crept into 4.4BSD-Lite1 which is why FreeBSD 2.0 was an almost total re-write from 1.0 (I was there).
Here is a question for you, what is the oldest copyright in the Linux tree? Can it beat the 1979 Copyright by The Regents of the University of California in FreeBSD? 1979 is about the time that they added such things a Virtual Memory and Job Control to Unix. Which were BSD firsts BTW.
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This is ONLY for the troll to try.
1. Jam the interlock in a microwave.
2. Program 5 mins on high power.
3. Insert head into microwave.
4. Have stoner friend hit the button.
5. Have said friend stand back as steam pours out of your head.
What do you think microwave ovens use to cook food? Radio Waves!
BWP
First off, they author mentioned getting the manufacture to re-program them after showing your license to them. The freqs mentioned are in the 2.4Ghz ham bands so this is legal.
Second, when you start getting above 30-50Mhz, getting serious power out is NOT easy. If you get into the S band (2.4Ghz), anything over about 1 to 3 watts is a B*TCH to get, expensive to get and expensive to operate.
Sure when I was in the Navy (ET), we had transmitters that would and did fry a sea gull that flew too close to us, but most people don't have that kind of money.
BWP - AKA N5VMF
That is ONE thing I would not be worried about..:) Unless you manage to get a satallite for this stuff, it is strictly line of sight.. about 15-25 miles depending on how high your antenna is. Plus you better be spending some serious money on hardline to get an antenna up very high.
BWP - AKA N5VMF
First off you must be ham radio operator. Since these all operate above 50Mhz, this means you can get by with a Tech license which is no code, just study and pass the written test. Sites to check for ham radio licensing info include E-Ham and the ARRL.
Second, any system with more that 1 watt output must be under automatic control so that only enough power as required to compleate the communication is used. You just can't pump out 100 watts to go next door. Not that 100 watts at 2.4Ghz is easy to come by...
The nice thing is that is looks like you don't even have to touch some of the boards to do this. Talk to the manufacture, show them your license and they'll set you up with boards in the ham bands right off the bat! Nice!
BWP
I went through the prelims back in '94 with a company doing a secure BSD. The hoops you have to jump through PLUS the fact that if any one thing changes, it ALL gets thrown out.
Just make sure whatever is getting certified is ready for prime time, because the first major patch causes a de-cert real quick... Not nice.
BWP
I think the one your looking for is called BiModem.
BWP
Robert Heinlein also talked about it in "Star Beast". Lumux (the star beast) liked it when the cans would heat up in its mouth when John Walker tossed it a couple as desert after a meal of trees, a bear and a hogshead of water.
It is amazing how many things Heinlein either invented (water bed, waldos, slide walk) or had forsight into (here, self heating cans).
BWP
Since the FreeBSD project does not maintain the CVS trees of the ports (if they are even in CVS), this would be a little hard.
What the project does do is maintain the FreeBSD specific diffs so you can just use the original source instead of a custom FreeBSD one.
For selected programs (ie the ones in the contrib tree) the project does keep the tree so you can just get the diffs.
BWP
Ya, I've got a problem with spam. I had subscribed to the PHP mailing lists about 6 months ago, no big deal. Here about 2 weeks ago I no longer had a reason to need them and went to unsubscribe from them. I was told that the server would not take my email because my IP provider was in spews now.
Now mind you, my server (on its own IP address) has NEVER sent out spam (I'm the only one who can send email from it and I've no reason to spam). It seems that some fscking idiot on one of the IPs in CA (my server is in MN) spammed and spews will BH all class C's of the owner no matter where.
So now I get email I don't want and can't get rid of... Should I report the PHP mailing lists to spews as spammers? I'm on a list and I can't contact them to remove me, how is this different from the spammers? Easy to get on, impossiable to get off of...:)
BWP
This article was not too bad, but to me he almost bites his one tail a couple of times.
In the discussion on software decay he talks about the way he is always tweaking things. If the code was good to begin with, why play with it?
The one thing I do like is how the article brings up the point that you HAVE got to have a good medium between sales and techies or else you either get bogged down by feature creap from the sales department or else you can't sale jack because the customer was bored out of their skull with the too detailed presentation! Been there and done that... The sales department would drag me out (on the phone or otherwise) when they needed to know if we could produce it, but other than that I stayed in my cave.
BWP
Where on that page do you see the ability to check stuff into the tree?
Only a select group of people can check stuff into the tree, but anyone can see the history of the tree. With Caldera releasing the source code to the ancient unix releases, we can even once again see what 1.X looked like!
I'm a former developer(for about 6 or 7 years) and I can tell that getting commit privs are not that easy, it takes some work.
BWP
They are a part 15 device along with baby monitors and other industerial, medical or scientific gear.
They are still called unlicensed becuase the company does not have a license for a specific spectrum. Now if only ONE company was aloted room there, then they would be licensed.
BWP
No, what your talking about is certification for electronics equipment (which states that its output in the RF area is within standards) and/or type acceptence (For RF transmitters means that it follows the FCC rules). This is totaly different from the licesening of a radio frequency!
What is ment by licensed and unlicensed is if a company or a group (in the case of ham radio and CB) has the use of a group of frequencies. The cell companies have a license, radio stations have licenses and even ham radio operators have licenses.
Do any of the 802.11x companies have a license to use the freq? NO, they don't. They just have to follow certain rules that relate to that band. They have a maximum radiation output and antenna restrictions. The problem with them is that they are allowed a certain amount of overage (out of band signals) and this is what is getting them into trouble. Sirius is asking that the out of band emessions be reduced by 30% and the the wireless people are saying they can't do that.
And BTW, not all radio equipment has to be type accepted (what your also calling licensed). As an amateur radio operator I can build eqiupment for myself all day long (for the ham bands) and never talk to the FCC.
BWP
Well what they can do is something like this.
Someone download MySQL X.XX, that is not employed by NuSphere (could be someones brother for that matter). They go though the code and rewrite portions, add stuff, and rename is to XxSQL and distribute to NuSphere.
I would say that it is legal as long as it is all GPL the entire way. There is NOTHING in the GPL to keep me from renaming a project (AKA CODE FORK).
Sure it would not be MySQL anymore, but there is no reason why they can't track the protocol and ABI. It is GPL remember?
How does that one sound?
BWP
It does not look like it...:(
VERY VERY Linux centric. The binaries run, but the config is all messed. Will need alot of hacking it looks like.
Tried both a general install and an install as root.
BWP
Well the dyndns.org and nmsu.edu stuff is gone, but sourceforge was still there.
Might be an interesting read awhile you can.
Well you could always play one of the developer friendly games OR you could being doing what your supposed to be doing, WORK...:)
Atleast thats what my wife tells me all of the time.
BWP
As a matter of fact, that last extension DID remove stuff from the public domain and put it back under copyright. Remember it was retroactive!
BWP
You might try just the domain name. Which comes out to:
Registrant:
Net Crater
NetCrater
502 Summit ST
Walnut Cove, North Carolina 27052
United States
Registrar: Go Daddy Software (http://registrar.godaddy.com)
Domain Name: MASENKO-MEDIA.NET
Created on: 06-Feb-02
Expires on: 06-Feb-03
Last Updated on: 06-Feb-02
Administrative Contact:
Crater, Net domains@netcrater.com
NetCrater
502 Summit ST
Walnut Cove, North Carolina 27052
United States
3365917696
Technical Contact:
Crater, Net domains@netcrater.com
NetCrater
502 Summit ST
Walnut Cove, North Carolina 27052
United States
3365917696
Domain servers in listed order:
NS1.NETCRATER.COM
NS2.NETCRATER.COM
Looks fine to me..:)
BWP
My father's company got some venture capitol back in the late eighties. This was not for a cash infusion, but to start the company.
When they started they had over 20 customers in such diverse areas of POS maintenance, GPOS maintenance and HVAC. After 6 months they had net profit of over $60,000 a month.
Within two years the VC had let the HVAC guys run off with all of their equipment and customers for nothing. The gasoline guys left because they could not tolerate the VC.
Three years later my Dad and his friend bought the POS part of the business for pennies on the dollar from the bankruptcy(sp) sale.
For the new company they never even THOUGHT of getting any type of VC...
Five years later my Dad sold his share for a cool $250,000.
BWP
I'll agree that I've been hit by the infamous "Opps we are out of business and you are F**KED" thing.
If nothing else, maybe someone can create a game that is compatiable with it that is true open source.
From what I've seen in game development, the server is alot harder than the client in most cases.
And it is still more open source than alot of things are...:)
BWP
Ok, one question. Can you do online backups yet with InnoDB or do you still have to shutdown the system?
This one was a show stopper along with no sub-selects...
BWP
Could be that this is just a way to honor him and he will never see the cash.
The article said they did not have a enough money for all of the grants and Damian Conway had to have the cash to take the break from the university down under. They are shy of about $160,000 which may take a little while to dig up..:)
Sound good to me.
BWP
Ok, lets see here...
Linux got its start somewhere around 1991.
The *BSDs are all based on 4.4BSD-Lite2 which is based on 4.4BSD. 4.4BSD has a history going back to 32V for the VAX (which you can now download as ancient UNIX from Caldera who released it under a BSD style license, see the slashdot article).
Even if you take Minix (I've still got the book) as an ancestor to Linux, I think the *BSDs are just a little bit older.
To tell you had bad it was, FreeBSD had to start all over again back in 1994 because a little bit of AT&T code (which had to exist prior to 1979) had crept into 4.4BSD-Lite1 which is why FreeBSD 2.0 was an almost total re-write from 1.0 (I was there).
Here is a question for you, what is the oldest copyright in the Linux tree? Can it beat the 1979 Copyright by The Regents of the University of California in FreeBSD? 1979 is about the time that they added such things a Virtual Memory and Job Control to Unix. Which were BSD firsts BTW.
One of the articles menttions all of this.
I belive the article mentioned 3 to 4 times walking speed, which does not mean 40mph unless you "walk" alot faster than the rest of us.
There is a big difference there... It was also mentioned that being hit by one of these was like being hit by someone walking.
NOTE: It was also reviewed by the Consumer Product Safety Commission which gave it a good rating.
Danger? Yes, but not like you make it out to be.
Stealing? The article also mentioned the security this thing has built into to prohibit just this thing.
As for bugs? Just less food I have to buy at the store...:)
BWP