Ignorant as I am, I'd say all they need to do is to just up the frequency until outside TV spectrum. As an added bonus, all you'd have to do to cook your food would be to place it near your wireless router.
Yes, that is ignorant.
If you up the frequency until out of the first block of TV channels (2-4), you interfere with wireless hearing aids.
If you up it out of the second block (5-6), you interfere with FM radio.
If you up it out of the third block (7-13), you interfere with the military.
If you up it out of the last block (14-69), you interfere with cell phones.
Of course they are dropping channels 60-69 from the dial. This is the "700 MHz" band we have heard so much about lately.
The trouble is that while you could probably use the 700MHz band for this, it performs poorly in hilly, rural areas. VHF frequencies (like those around channels 7-13, and especially around 2-6) perform really well in such areas.
Personally I feel like those episodes were frequently poorly done, and the sfx never really carried the silly plotlines adequately.
A little coaching on the locations would have helped, too.
There was one episode that took place somewhere near Lack Sacangaga in upstate New York. I know this area. I live 30 miles from it. I went to a summer camp on its shores as a kid.
It would have been nice if someone, especially one of the "locals", pronounced it "sa can DA ga", as it should be, rather than "sa CAN da ga".
I can forgive Mulder his mispronunciation.... after all he (the character, that is) lives in a different area. The locals should have given him the right pronunciation. Even better and more realistic, he should have fumbled over it like most people from out of the area do with the names of a lot of places around here.
I'm sorry, but there's something a little OFF here. No wireless hardware requests a MAC address. It may use MAC to authenticate to a table, but it goes for a DHCP lease.
I would suggest that perhaps you didn't RTFA, but that is a given, since this is Slashdot.
It is, indeed, asking for a MAC address.... it's called ARP and it is how an Ethernet device determines what MAC address to use to reach a destination IP address.
Most, if not all, the candidates don't have a clue about what their website is running on, much less care about it. I really doubt that Hillary discussed Windows versus Linux versus BSD. Get real. It seems to me that most in Congress are technophobes, and have people do stuff for them.
I believe that this is basically correct, but I would like to point out where it goes from there.
If you are basically conservative, you probably won't go to work for the Dems, and if you are basically liberal, you probably won't go to work for the Reps. If you are going to go to work for a political campaign, chances are you are going to work for a campaign you can believe in, since (a) it is a short-term job, (b) it is grueling work and (c) you have to feel good about what you do at the end of the day.
That said, the choice of OS would be a good reflection on what the foot soldiers of the campaign believe, and these foot soldiers likely wouldn't have signed up if they didn't have some sort of agreement with their respective leaders.
Ah yes, the very important bulkhead between driver and 4MW of blue blazes and steam. Steam turbine powered craft do better on an ocean of cooling material or fixed next to a very large body of water. Launching one at 200 MPH on land is, well, crazy.
And inefficient. With 4MW in and 300 bhp out, I make that out to be about 5.6% efficient. Considering that steam-powered gensets can hit 30-35% efficiency easily, and that fuel is getting increasingly rare, this reeks of bad idea.
With other more cost-effective media like the internet, why would non-profits CARE about radio?
Your comments would suggest that perhaps you are out of touch with reality just a little. Let me fill in some of the blanks for you.
Your world revolves around technology, as does mine. We are Slashdotters; it is how our world works.
Our world is not the same as the world for everyone.
Let me point out the simple fact that you can sometimes pick up an FM radio at a dollar store, and it works. Maybe it doesn't work well, in fact, it's probably shit, but it works. For ten to twenty bucks, you can get a somewhat better one at a big box. For a hundred, you can get one that is good enough for most users. Once you own the radio, the radio just works; there are no fees to pay to keep it working. FM radio disenfranchises no-one.
By contrast, computers cost several hundred dollars for entry-level. Once you have that, you must pay for internet access. If you are in a rural area, your best bet for internet access at a reasonable price is dial-up, because there is no cable, there is no DSL, there sure the fuck is no FIOS, and you have little-to-nothing for cellular coverage, meaning EVDO is out. Podcasts and streams are inaccessible to the poor, the rural, and especially the rural poor.
FM radio is already installed in most vehicles. It's already there, already working.
You cannot listen to streams in a vehicle without paying for mobile data, and podcasts will require you to find a way to dock your MP3 player. It is doable, but a hassle that you have to be willing to undertake. Non-technophiles (without even reaching into technophobes) aren't interested.
These are the reasons why LPFM is relevant as a community broadcasting medium.
It should be feasible to modify some fax software to accomplish this feat with much less effort. Get an open-source fax package like efax and let it rip. For bonus points, you can set the fail-retry timers to 0 so that it will retry again immediately when someone at the other end hits the cancel button, causing the system to hang up.
If all you need is monitor the position of a valve, you can homebrew the position sensor yourself using a plastic disc, a magic marker, and an LED. The sensor sends pulses as the valve turns, these get picked up by a small microcontroller board.
You could also dismantle a mechanical mouse for this task, or use the sensor from an optical mouse to read the movement of a disc like the one you described in your solution. Another option is to mechanically tie a pot to the valve movement, and read the wiper position with an ADC, which would have the advantage of not needing to keep state (i.e. it could dead-reckon the valve position).
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I have an alternative suggestion to getting an SVHS deck.... many of the newer VHS models, especially those that are DVD/VHS combo units, have a feature called SQPB, "SVHS Quasi Play Back". It's capable of playing SVHS tapes, not as well as an SVHS deck, but pretty well, and also benefits from the improvements to regular VHS playback that you would get from using an actual SVHS deck, at a fraction of the cost.
The time base corrector is a good idea if it is in your budget. If not, don't sweat it.
If it is in your budget to do so, get a Firewire Bridge. This device will take in analogue video and turn it into a DV stream for capture via your IEEE-1394 port. Expect to pay about $250 for one.
For software, on Linux, you can just use dvgrab, then use the mjpegtools suite to convert the captured DV streams to progressive-scanned denoised deinterlaced MPEG streams for you to put onto DVDs. If you want a GUI, Kino can front-end all of these processes for you.
I have a wildcarded domain name (which we will call example.com, because I don't wish to get slashdotted). Anything prefixing that, e.g. glurph.example.com, will get resolved to stimpy.exmample.com's address.
In turn, my border box has a DNS server on it, which serves all internal addresses. All machines are configured to search example.com as the default domain.
The practical upshot is that if you enter a non-existent domain, e.g. www.thisdomainofficallydoesnotexist.com, after the DNS lookup fails, it gets tried as www.thisdomainofficallydoesnotexist.com.example.co m, and you get my home page rather than getting shunted off to some sort of error page. Sometimes this is a bad thing, but it is usually not.
There are two bugs here that I know of, one which is a problem all the time, and one that can be used to solve that problem.
The one that is a problem is that if you are listening to a track when you power it off, then remove that track, it will lock up the next time you power up, because it can't find the track you were listening to before.
The other one is that if the key-lock switch is on when you push power to turn it on, it will start to boot up, and get most of the way there before checking the state of the key-lock switch.
However, you can use the second bug as a workaround for the first, because, when it discovers that the key lock switch is set, it will turn around and save its state to the flash. The only thing is, it hadn't loaded its state from the flash yet, so it ends up saving back a clean state.
Every time someone advocates a move to nuclear fission, I have said the same thing: we are setting ourselves up for a peak-uranium crisis just like the peak-oil crisis we now face.
In liberal America, the government (for the people, by the people) controls YOU !
Excuse me?!? Did you completely fail to notice that it was a conservative administration that did this shit? I'm a liberal, and I want my fucking rights back, motherfucker!
...of course, I knew exactly what I wanted before I went in, and had already selected brand, make, model, and had found what competitors were carrying it (ammunition and "plan B" in case of problems). I went in, I asked for it, I took it to the checkout, I refused the extended warranty, I checked out, and I left. No problems.
I have done this three times to great success. Two of the purchases were large (a sound system and a digital camera).
You sound young and inexperienced... welcome to the real world. Don't sign it unless you are completely desperado for money.
Alternative: Negotiate the price of your signature. Advise them that you will sign it if, and only if, they agree, in writing, as part of the non-compete agreement, that upon your departure from the company for any reason (to include dismissal and layoff), that you will be paid your salary at the time of your departure plus 5%/year for inflation for the duration of the non-compete period, and that their failure to pay you for any reason in a manner that is not timely will constitute a breech of the agreement and render it null and void.
This doesn't have to be a one-sided game. If they want to prevent you from working, they'll have to compensate you for that.
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Yes, that is ignorant.
If you up the frequency until out of the first block of TV channels (2-4), you interfere with wireless hearing aids.
If you up it out of the second block (5-6), you interfere with FM radio.
If you up it out of the third block (7-13), you interfere with the military.
If you up it out of the last block (14-69), you interfere with cell phones.
Of course they are dropping channels 60-69 from the dial. This is the "700 MHz" band we have heard so much about lately.
The trouble is that while you could probably use the 700MHz band for this, it performs poorly in hilly, rural areas. VHF frequencies (like those around channels 7-13, and especially around 2-6) perform really well in such areas.
Madonna Ciccone, I'm pretty sure.
A little coaching on the locations would have helped, too.
There was one episode that took place somewhere near Lack Sacangaga in upstate New York. I know this area. I live 30 miles from it. I went to a summer camp on its shores as a kid.
It would have been nice if someone, especially one of the "locals", pronounced it "sa can DA ga", as it should be, rather than "sa CAN da ga".
I can forgive Mulder his mispronunciation.... after all he (the character, that is) lives in a different area. The locals should have given him the right pronunciation. Even better and more realistic, he should have fumbled over it like most people from out of the area do with the names of a lot of places around here.
I would suggest that perhaps you didn't RTFA, but that is a given, since this is Slashdot.
It is, indeed, asking for a MAC address.... it's called ARP and it is how an Ethernet device determines what MAC address to use to reach a destination IP address.
I believe that this is basically correct, but I would like to point out where it goes from there.
If you are basically conservative, you probably won't go to work for the Dems, and if you are basically liberal, you probably won't go to work for the Reps. If you are going to go to work for a political campaign, chances are you are going to work for a campaign you can believe in, since (a) it is a short-term job, (b) it is grueling work and (c) you have to feel good about what you do at the end of the day.
That said, the choice of OS would be a good reflection on what the foot soldiers of the campaign believe, and these foot soldiers likely wouldn't have signed up if they didn't have some sort of agreement with their respective leaders.
And inefficient. With 4MW in and 300 bhp out, I make that out to be about 5.6% efficient. Considering that steam-powered gensets can hit 30-35% efficiency easily, and that fuel is getting increasingly rare, this reeks of bad idea.
Your comments would suggest that perhaps you are out of touch with reality just a little. Let me fill in some of the blanks for you.
Your world revolves around technology, as does mine. We are Slashdotters; it is how our world works.
Our world is not the same as the world for everyone.
Let me point out the simple fact that you can sometimes pick up an FM radio at a dollar store, and it works. Maybe it doesn't work well, in fact, it's probably shit, but it works. For ten to twenty bucks, you can get a somewhat better one at a big box. For a hundred, you can get one that is good enough for most users. Once you own the radio, the radio just works; there are no fees to pay to keep it working. FM radio disenfranchises no-one.
By contrast, computers cost several hundred dollars for entry-level. Once you have that, you must pay for internet access. If you are in a rural area, your best bet for internet access at a reasonable price is dial-up, because there is no cable, there is no DSL, there sure the fuck is no FIOS, and you have little-to-nothing for cellular coverage, meaning EVDO is out. Podcasts and streams are inaccessible to the poor, the rural, and especially the rural poor.
FM radio is already installed in most vehicles. It's already there, already working.
You cannot listen to streams in a vehicle without paying for mobile data, and podcasts will require you to find a way to dock your MP3 player. It is doable, but a hassle that you have to be willing to undertake. Non-technophiles (without even reaching into technophobes) aren't interested.
These are the reasons why LPFM is relevant as a community broadcasting medium.
Why use HID when you can get more output per watt out of LEDs? They do make LED grow lights.
He was confused because most modern radios don't use tubes....
It should be feasible to modify some fax software to accomplish this feat with much less effort. Get an open-source fax package like efax and let it rip. For bonus points, you can set the fail-retry timers to 0 so that it will retry again immediately when someone at the other end hits the cancel button, causing the system to hang up.
Here is a related idea....
When you get such a call, (assuming you have call ID to confirm it is your repeat offender), forward them to your fax machine.
If you start getting spam faxed, then replace the fax machine with a 1970's relic that runs at 300 baud.
Well, this is the UK we're talking about, so that would be a 25fps camera, hence only 100 photographs....
You could also dismantle a mechanical mouse for this task, or use the sensor from an optical mouse to read the movement of a disc like the one you described in your solution. Another option is to mechanically tie a pot to the valve movement, and read the wiper position with an ADC, which would have the advantage of not needing to keep state (i.e. it could dead-reckon the valve position).
Of these entries, RISKS, Cryptome, Slashdot, Ask Slashdot, Worse Than Failure, and the Sidebar WTF section of Worse than Failure are all also subscribed in my RSS feed reader, along with BBC News, the Public Daily Brief and some select search terms in Google News.
Nobody's found out how long it takes on linux, they're still working at it! ;P
Whereas with Windows, it doesn't take long at all... before you realise that it is impossible. :-)
I have an alternative suggestion to getting an SVHS deck.... many of the newer VHS models, especially those that are DVD/VHS combo units, have a feature called SQPB, "SVHS Quasi Play Back". It's capable of playing SVHS tapes, not as well as an SVHS deck, but pretty well, and also benefits from the improvements to regular VHS playback that you would get from using an actual SVHS deck, at a fraction of the cost.
The time base corrector is a good idea if it is in your budget. If not, don't sweat it.
If it is in your budget to do so, get a Firewire Bridge. This device will take in analogue video and turn it into a DV stream for capture via your IEEE-1394 port. Expect to pay about $250 for one.
For software, on Linux, you can just use dvgrab, then use the mjpegtools suite to convert the captured DV streams to progressive-scanned denoised deinterlaced MPEG streams for you to put onto DVDs. If you want a GUI, Kino can front-end all of these processes for you.
I have a wildcarded domain name (which we will call example.com, because I don't wish to get slashdotted). Anything prefixing that, e.g. glurph.example.com, will get resolved to stimpy.exmample.com's address.
In turn, my border box has a DNS server on it, which serves all internal addresses. All machines are configured to search example.com as the default domain.
The practical upshot is that if you enter a non-existent domain, e.g. www.thisdomainofficallydoesnotexist.com, after the DNS lookup fails, it gets tried as www.thisdomainofficallydoesnotexist.com.example.co m, and you get my home page rather than getting shunted off to some sort of error page. Sometimes this is a bad thing, but it is usually not.
There are two bugs here that I know of, one which is a problem all the time, and one that can be used to solve that problem.
The one that is a problem is that if you are listening to a track when you power it off, then remove that track, it will lock up the next time you power up, because it can't find the track you were listening to before.
The other one is that if the key-lock switch is on when you push power to turn it on, it will start to boot up, and get most of the way there before checking the state of the key-lock switch.
However, you can use the second bug as a workaround for the first, because, when it discovers that the key lock switch is set, it will turn around and save its state to the flash. The only thing is, it hadn't loaded its state from the flash yet, so it ends up saving back a clean state.
Every time someone advocates a move to nuclear fission, I have said the same thing: we are setting ourselves up for a peak-uranium crisis just like the peak-oil crisis we now face.
Fair enough. Sorry about going off the deep end, then. Looks like yet another case of two nations separated by a common language :-)
Excuse me?!? Did you completely fail to notice that it was a conservative administration that did this shit? I'm a liberal, and I want my fucking rights back, motherfucker!
...of course, I knew exactly what I wanted before I went in, and had already selected brand, make, model, and had found what competitors were carrying it (ammunition and "plan B" in case of problems). I went in, I asked for it, I took it to the checkout, I refused the extended warranty, I checked out, and I left. No problems.
I have done this three times to great success. Two of the purchases were large (a sound system and a digital camera).
Of course it's not fair.
It seems like you have taken every reasonable step, especially in spending a year on it. Now take the next step.
Name them.
Alternative: Negotiate the price of your signature. Advise them that you will sign it if, and only if, they agree, in writing, as part of the non-compete agreement, that upon your departure from the company for any reason (to include dismissal and layoff), that you will be paid your salary at the time of your departure plus 5%/year for inflation for the duration of the non-compete period, and that their failure to pay you for any reason in a manner that is not timely will constitute a breech of the agreement and render it null and void.
This doesn't have to be a one-sided game. If they want to prevent you from working, they'll have to compensate you for that.
Of course, the usual caveat: I am not a lawyer.
It gives new meaning to the term "memory leak", no?