At every airport gate, ship dock, bus platform and train station....a guy that kinda looks like the guy in the Sprint PCS commercials, but with a mustache and wearing a black leather coat walks up to everyone and says: "your pay-pers pleese!"
..and put them on EVERY spam list, every porn list, every mailing list that's out there...He and they need to get THOUSANDS AND THOUSANDS of spam letters every day...so many that HE has to change his name...hopefully to one of ours so we can sue HIM!
I once had a program called 'Divine Intervention' that did this for you....I wonder what floppy it's on....
For Immediate Release:
NSA to use Navajo "Code Talkers" for 802.11b encryption.
11/12/2002 The National Security Agency ("NSA") of the United States announced that effective immeidately they would be using 'code talking' technology based on the language of the Navajo Nation to encrypt all their 802.11b links.
"We feel that this is an approriate encryption for these type of links" says Hugh G. Peter
Head of NSA Encryption. "Besides, it will put many unemployed Native Americans back to work".
The move was immediately commended by Microsoft Corp., who pledged to use this radical new encryption system in all it's new wireless products.
1. Buy a Promise PCI HD controller. The ATA 100 one is available everywhere for 49 bucks. Maxtor sells these branded as their own too.
2. On the way home, stop at Radio Shack and buy two 120 ohm resistors.
3. Do a Google search to get the instructions on how to convert it to a RAID controller. If you are able to solder 4 connections, you can do this mod. in 30 minutes. It's beyond easy.
4. Get yourself a HD the same size or bigger then the one you want to mirror. Brand doesn't matter. I bought a Maxtor 60 gig for 99 bucks that had a coupon inside it for a $50.00 rebate to get their controller card free.
5. You're done. Okay it was only four steps.
The ATA 66 Promise card can also be modded and doing so is even simpler then the ATA 100 one. I've done many of both and never had a single one go bad. The ATA66 card can be found as
cheap as 20 bucks.
It's an 8 gig...it can not be used as a boot drive but works just fine as the second drive in my computer.
With them taking over IBM drives..... Ohhh BOY!~shudder~
DTV signals go too far already! DTV stations go MUCH further then predicted. They interfere with each other much more then predicted too. They also interfere much more with analog TV then predicted and they interfere with Land Mobile (police, fire etc.) much more too (see last weeks stiry about WCVB-DT here)! Why? because they're AM! Obviously you're a broadcast engineer and understand about the 'capture effect' of FM transmission. For the uninitiated, with FM modulation (The F in COFDM)
a signal that's 20 db stronger then another one completely overrides the weaker signal. It's called 'capturing' the receiver and it works quite well in the suppression of interference.
It's also why aircraft radios are all AM (we want the weaker distress calls to be heard).
ATSC is AM modulation just like that on your AM radio. It's affected by static, lightning, car ignitions, vacuum cleaners with bad brushes and (yes) clocks in computers just like AM radio is. Maybe you don't directly hear it, but it does degrade the data transmission.
And, just like AM, the transmissions go further, a bad thing. Why? because TV stations are grouped by market areas. Each area is clearly defined by county. So when a DTV station in Manchester, NH can be clearly received in Albany, NY over 120 miles away (and completely out of its market area) that's a disadvantage, not an advantage.
Several years ago, 8-VSB and COFDM were both being demonstrated over the air at the NAB convention in Las Vegas. For 8-VSB to work in the convention hall, they had to use a rooftop antenna, a preamp and a bunch of double shielded 1/2 inch cable. The receiving antenna for the COFDM demonstration was a Radio Shack set top dual bow tie antenna. The antenna was IN THE BOOTH and you could move it around to see the affect on the picture. I was able to move it almost 90 degrees before the the picture was affected. Remember, this was INSIDE the Vegas Convention Center where there were literally THOUSANDS of other TV's, Radios, computers, transmitters and god knows what else (remember, this was the National Association of Broadcasters convention).
What this demonstration tells me is that 8-VSB can't work in a moving vehicle but COFDM will.
Once again the United States becomes the only one in the world whose pants are on correctly (look dad, Johnny's the only boy in the parade who has his uniform on properly!).
By the way, two weeks ago the FCC approved digital radio broadcasting for FM using a system that uses the adjacent channel sidebands. Though it works fine where stations are fully spaced, on the east coast (where many FM stations are grandfathered short spaced) it's likely to not work at all. Even worse, it's likely to cause interference to the analog broadcasts of these short spaced stations. The rest of the world rejected this approach for DAB and instead put it on it's own band. It seems that we never learn from our mistakes in this country, so we repeat them over and over and over!
I used to grow my pot in compost!
on
My Compost Bin And I
·
· Score: 3, Interesting
It grew well..nice sticky buds...
and somehow it just seemed to make sense...mother earth's weed grown in mother earth's compost.
Oh, those were the days!
Yes, there's a DoS possibility in the Linksys routers. It's fixed in the 1.43 firmware release.
Anyone who reads the Linksys forum at DSL Reports
has known about this for weeks!
ALO gives away AIM. People download it by the tens of millions of copies. Millions of these copies are on work computers (indeed AIM is designed to work through corporate firewalls).
Every day, millions use AIM at work, causing huge uses of corporate bandwith and wasting many hours of employee's time.
NOW..AOL is going to help companies FIX (reason for caps soon) this by selling (these affected) companies software to control AIM usage by said companies.
Pretty clever AOL, but hardly new..
See, AOL is doing exactly what heroin dealers do every day. They give heroin away to get the people hooked.. then said people have to buy their FIX (see?)from them.
I knew that AOL was going down the tubes..but this is a new low....even for them....
It works much like the active radar antennas that do not move. Here in Santa Monica we have a large phased array of hundreds of fixed antennas aimed at the horizon that are sequentially pulsed on and off to get the familiar 'rotating' pattern of a single rotating radar dish. This design is much more robust then a rotating array as there are no mechanical rotating parts at all...everything is switched by PIN diodes. Military jets also use a variation of this for secure communications. In the jets' wings are switched inductor antennas that are used in a fast frequency hopping scheme over a 50 mhz range. The transmissions can be anywhere within a 50 mhz frequency segment at any given fraction of a second. If the frequency synthesizer at all locations are moving to the same frequency at exactly the same time, the transmisison will sound completely continuous. They use PIN diodes to change the taps on an inductor to resonate the antenna over the (wide) frequency range. This way, they can use smaller, lighter, narrower bandwith antennas and rapidly tune them to the exact frequency in use at any given moment.
All in all, a very slick technology and another example of a civilian use of military technology.
Mr. Runner, 55, of 4561 Westbourne Ct., Sylvania, resigned as Waterville solicitor in March, 2001, after a covert police surveillance operation videotaped him stealing coffee, creamer, and paper from village supplies.
Hmmm...first they bust him for stealing coffee, creamer amp paper..now it's cable bandwith theft...
He'd better be careful.. remember three strikes and you're in jail for life!
Seriously, though..it seems to me that the cops in Toledo simply don't have enough to do!
For years the FCC has allowed police departments to share UHF-TV frequencies in many metropolitan areas. Scanners call this the UHF "T" band, T as in Television.
For example, in the Boston area TV channels 16, 17 and 18 are used by the Boston Police Dept. and many others. Most of the sharing occurs on UHF TV channels below channel 25.
This wasn't a problem with analog TV signals as they are AM modulated. The radiated power distribution in the NTSC (analog TV) sidebands falls off quickly once you are off carrier. With digital TV, the radiated power envelope extends across the entire 6 Mhz TV channel. This is why Boston digital 20 interferes with New Jersey but the analog TV station operating on channel 20 in Waterbury, CT (MUCH closer to NJ) doesn't.
The FCC has really booted it with Digital TV in this 30 year + Broadcast Engineer's opinion.
I've had Vonage VOIP service as my second line for almost a year and have never received a single telemarketing call on it.
In fact, I hardly ever use the main phone line now...If I didn't need it for E-911 and ADSL, I'd probably take it out all together.
www.vonage.com
This also makes the combined messaging client absolutely unstoppable HUGE! I only wonder if they're planning to merge features (for example, ICQ allows you to send a message to someone even if they're not on; AOL doesn't).
Now if they'd only interoperate with everyone else, instant messaging could become big enough to replace email.
Slashdot Mirror
Hmmm?
They plant these things in the scalps of newborns? Talk about big brother!
What college did you say you graduated from? FUCK U!?!
At every airport gate, ship dock, bus platform and train station....a guy that kinda looks like the guy in the Sprint PCS commercials, but with a mustache and wearing a black leather coat walks up to everyone and says: "your pay-pers pleese!"
You must have a bunch of lawyers then!
..and put them on EVERY spam list, every porn list, every mailing list that's out there...He and they need to get THOUSANDS AND THOUSANDS of spam letters every day...so many that HE has to change his name...hopefully to one of ours so we can sue HIM! I once had a program called 'Divine Intervention' that did this for you....I wonder what floppy it's on....
For Immediate Release: NSA to use Navajo "Code Talkers" for 802.11b encryption. 11/12/2002 The National Security Agency ("NSA") of the United States announced that effective immeidately they would be using 'code talking' technology based on the language of the Navajo Nation to encrypt all their 802.11b links. "We feel that this is an approriate encryption for these type of links" says Hugh G. Peter Head of NSA Encryption. "Besides, it will put many unemployed Native Americans back to work". The move was immediately commended by Microsoft Corp., who pledged to use this radical new encryption system in all it's new wireless products.
...and that's good enough for ME!
http://www.tweakhardware.com/guide/raid100/
1. Buy a Promise PCI HD controller. The ATA 100 one is available everywhere for 49 bucks. Maxtor sells these branded as their own too. 2. On the way home, stop at Radio Shack and buy two 120 ohm resistors. 3. Do a Google search to get the instructions on how to convert it to a RAID controller. If you are able to solder 4 connections, you can do this mod. in 30 minutes. It's beyond easy. 4. Get yourself a HD the same size or bigger then the one you want to mirror. Brand doesn't matter. I bought a Maxtor 60 gig for 99 bucks that had a coupon inside it for a $50.00 rebate to get their controller card free. 5. You're done. Okay it was only four steps. The ATA 66 Promise card can also be modded and doing so is even simpler then the ATA 100 one. I've done many of both and never had a single one go bad. The ATA66 card can be found as cheap as 20 bucks.
It's an 8 gig...it can not be used as a boot drive but works just fine as the second drive in my computer. With them taking over IBM drives..... Ohhh BOY!~shudder~
I have a lot of movies to convert to DIVX...
DTV signals go too far already! DTV stations go MUCH further then predicted. They interfere with each other much more then predicted too. They also interfere much more with analog TV then predicted and they interfere with Land Mobile (police, fire etc.) much more too (see last weeks stiry about WCVB-DT here)! Why? because they're AM! Obviously you're a broadcast engineer and understand about the 'capture effect' of FM transmission. For the uninitiated, with FM modulation (The F in COFDM) a signal that's 20 db stronger then another one completely overrides the weaker signal. It's called 'capturing' the receiver and it works quite well in the suppression of interference. It's also why aircraft radios are all AM (we want the weaker distress calls to be heard). ATSC is AM modulation just like that on your AM radio. It's affected by static, lightning, car ignitions, vacuum cleaners with bad brushes and (yes) clocks in computers just like AM radio is. Maybe you don't directly hear it, but it does degrade the data transmission. And, just like AM, the transmissions go further, a bad thing. Why? because TV stations are grouped by market areas. Each area is clearly defined by county. So when a DTV station in Manchester, NH can be clearly received in Albany, NY over 120 miles away (and completely out of its market area) that's a disadvantage, not an advantage.
Yes. Both transmitters were in the mpuntaintop antenna farm used by all the Las Vegas TV stations. Similar powers were used.
Several years ago, 8-VSB and COFDM were both being demonstrated over the air at the NAB convention in Las Vegas. For 8-VSB to work in the convention hall, they had to use a rooftop antenna, a preamp and a bunch of double shielded 1/2 inch cable. The receiving antenna for the COFDM demonstration was a Radio Shack set top dual bow tie antenna. The antenna was IN THE BOOTH and you could move it around to see the affect on the picture. I was able to move it almost 90 degrees before the the picture was affected. Remember, this was INSIDE the Vegas Convention Center where there were literally THOUSANDS of other TV's, Radios, computers, transmitters and god knows what else (remember, this was the National Association of Broadcasters convention). What this demonstration tells me is that 8-VSB can't work in a moving vehicle but COFDM will. Once again the United States becomes the only one in the world whose pants are on correctly (look dad, Johnny's the only boy in the parade who has his uniform on properly!). By the way, two weeks ago the FCC approved digital radio broadcasting for FM using a system that uses the adjacent channel sidebands. Though it works fine where stations are fully spaced, on the east coast (where many FM stations are grandfathered short spaced) it's likely to not work at all. Even worse, it's likely to cause interference to the analog broadcasts of these short spaced stations. The rest of the world rejected this approach for DAB and instead put it on it's own band. It seems that we never learn from our mistakes in this country, so we repeat them over and over and over!
...A camel is a horse designed by committee.
It grew well..nice sticky buds... and somehow it just seemed to make sense...mother earth's weed grown in mother earth's compost. Oh, those were the days!
Yes, there's a DoS possibility in the Linksys routers. It's fixed in the 1.43 firmware release. Anyone who reads the Linksys forum at DSL Reports has known about this for weeks!
ALO gives away AIM. People download it by the tens of millions of copies. Millions of these copies are on work computers (indeed AIM is designed to work through corporate firewalls). Every day, millions use AIM at work, causing huge uses of corporate bandwith and wasting many hours of employee's time. NOW..AOL is going to help companies FIX (reason for caps soon) this by selling (these affected) companies software to control AIM usage by said companies. Pretty clever AOL, but hardly new.. See, AOL is doing exactly what heroin dealers do every day. They give heroin away to get the people hooked.. then said people have to buy their FIX (see?)from them. I knew that AOL was going down the tubes..but this is a new low....even for them....
It works much like the active radar antennas that do not move. Here in Santa Monica we have a large phased array of hundreds of fixed antennas aimed at the horizon that are sequentially pulsed on and off to get the familiar 'rotating' pattern of a single rotating radar dish. This design is much more robust then a rotating array as there are no mechanical rotating parts at all...everything is switched by PIN diodes. Military jets also use a variation of this for secure communications. In the jets' wings are switched inductor antennas that are used in a fast frequency hopping scheme over a 50 mhz range. The transmissions can be anywhere within a 50 mhz frequency segment at any given fraction of a second. If the frequency synthesizer at all locations are moving to the same frequency at exactly the same time, the transmisison will sound completely continuous.
They use PIN diodes to change the taps on an inductor to resonate the antenna over the (wide) frequency range. This way, they can use smaller, lighter, narrower bandwith antennas and rapidly tune them to the exact frequency in use at any given moment.
All in all, a very slick technology and another example of a civilian use of military technology.
I'm sure that the leader of Panama is either:
1. Paid off by the phone company to do this.
2. Owns the phone company either overtly or covertly.
2. Is being paid off by some U.S. company.
Poltics always gets in the way of progress.
Mr. Runner, 55, of 4561 Westbourne Ct., Sylvania, resigned as Waterville solicitor in March, 2001, after a covert police surveillance operation videotaped him stealing coffee, creamer, and paper from village supplies. Hmmm...first they bust him for stealing coffee, creamer amp paper..now it's cable bandwith theft... He'd better be careful.. remember three strikes and you're in jail for life! Seriously, though..it seems to me that the cops in Toledo simply don't have enough to do!
For years the FCC has allowed police departments to share UHF-TV frequencies in many metropolitan areas. Scanners call this the UHF "T" band, T as in Television. For example, in the Boston area TV channels 16, 17 and 18 are used by the Boston Police Dept. and many others. Most of the sharing occurs on UHF TV channels below channel 25. This wasn't a problem with analog TV signals as they are AM modulated. The radiated power distribution in the NTSC (analog TV) sidebands falls off quickly once you are off carrier. With digital TV, the radiated power envelope extends across the entire 6 Mhz TV channel. This is why Boston digital 20 interferes with New Jersey but the analog TV station operating on channel 20 in Waterbury, CT (MUCH closer to NJ) doesn't. The FCC has really booted it with Digital TV in this 30 year + Broadcast Engineer's opinion.
I've had Vonage VOIP service as my second line for almost a year and have never received a single telemarketing call on it. In fact, I hardly ever use the main phone line now...If I didn't need it for E-911 and ADSL, I'd probably take it out all together. www.vonage.com
This also makes the combined messaging client absolutely unstoppable HUGE! I only wonder if they're planning to merge features (for example, ICQ allows you to send a message to someone even if they're not on; AOL doesn't). Now if they'd only interoperate with everyone else, instant messaging could become big enough to replace email.