Or you can search froogle for them "2.4 ghz parabolic antenna"
Lowest price is around 33$ for a 15dbi gain. 50$ is about right for a 24dbi gain. Though a parabolic is only going to be truly handy for sight to sight. They do have low cost omni directional antennas. This is difficult to advise without knowing the layout.
ie, possibly sight to sight parabolic for the backbone link and then omni's distributed throughout.
If you are really worried about distance, just dig up a router that can be tweaked for a bit more output power.
Now, if completely unsure of what your needs are, here is a handy calculator to help you figure your distance needs out.
http://www.signull.com/fsc.php
For the uninformed, cable loss is going to be calculated by the amount of signal loss expected when using some portion of cable from the transciever to the antenna. It should be expressed quite clearly on type of cable you are going to be using.
There are also some common models output numbers listed there as well.
That really sums up everything. It should be quite cost effective to implement a few antennas and a cheap 802.11b setup.
There is nothing in my blog that relates to work... unless someone told a particularly funny joke. The extent of even mentioning work is usually something along the lines of, "sorry for no updates... I've been busy with work."
Now slashdot is another story...
People need to use common sense and not put something in writing that will jeopardize their employment. It really doesn't matter the medium used.
I had a friend worried about performing a RAM upgrade so he decided to call Dell and ask. Turns out, his warranty is only void if he upgrades the motherboard or processor. (I'm asumming the case would have to stay the same too).
When it comes to PC's... most companies understand the case will get cracked. In fact, I usually recommend dusting every six months... do that with the case sealed.
The only interest in moving to the ATSC standard for DTV was to free up spectrum to sell off.
If they were truely interested in promoting HDTV.... standard definition would not have been an option. The industry was regulated into this movement for no other reason then profit.
The simple fact is the government has something to gain at no cost to themselves. It's virtually a win win situation.
Also couple this with near last minute adjustments and a draconian adoption stance and it leaves some of us with a really bad after taste.
They were working on the problem either Saturday or Sunday morning. I believe it was sunday as someone from melborne was posting to the previous story in regard to the problem. I don't know if they were working on it any earlier though.
I'm quite certain someone got through... I just don't believe we are getting all of the details.
Indeed you are correct on your first two points and I can offer no comment on the third.
I suspect my friend who could answer the migration questions is sleeping. There are legacy support plans in place, but the migration is ever looming.
It's already been decided, but things change so who knows.
On point 4, YES! Though sometimes just the sheer features of oracle make things appear easier on their side of the fence. I was investing management software from a company and I was asking about their non-windows support. They said, anything oracle runs on... our software runs on... simply because everything was contained within oracle and presumeably apache which ships with it.
(Though I can't remember if they had a seperate windows client or not... I believe yes)
There are some interesting changes that have taken place this year alone and should effect next year's o so bloated number
Flat panel monitors are now affordable. Just last week I noticed a 17 inch had fallen into the 200$ mark. This was pretty much the selling point for me and I suspect many others.
The FCC has released a huge list of mandates for DTV conversion. So unless nothing changes we should see more full power DTV stations by July and then the last mile is July 2006. With that there is a slew of tuners to purchase, infrastructure upgrades and some even more expensive equipment to purchase by the broadcasters themselves. (Alone I've had various quotes for around 20k just for DTV guide data insertion).
So the television industry itself should provide a significant over all increase on the consumer and provider level.
I would be interested to know what other industries have seen some fairly signficant change and what cost expenditures are expected.
I'm actually surprised he responded on slashdot and even responded further.
Other then PR, they are under no obligation to informally provide information and I'm sure a formal explanation will be available at a later date.
So it happened on Saturday and someone is awake to deal with it on sunday.
Someone knew what they were doing when they planned a short term hijack. It's probably just address harvesting and over all I suspect it's been a bit of a success.
I did some consulting for a company building something quite like this. At least, this is essentially what I drew up in development. Everything was just application hosting via PDA.
It is or at least was the next big suite thing. They don't want to carry around a laptop anymore... or maybe is was just technological jewelry.
In any event, I don't know their implementation, but it shouldn't be uncommon at this point.
Mainly now, it's been NewEgg and AICMicro for me. I looked into building my own 1u and 2u servers, but it seems more hassle then anything.
The time considersation is quite important, but I'm afraid our shop isn't large enough to warrant a huge service contract and equipment from a large services oriented vendor.
I am a representative of the NLA and I would like to speak a few words concerning the tragedy at hand. While it is true a deviant individual used a laser to attempt to blind pilots, its important to note that the laser was not the culprit... but the man beast.
You can grab a canopus DV Storm II for 600$ without any special software beyond Edius (video track/effect editor) and a few apps. (Well DivX Pro is included).
Anyhow, they have a rather nice utility for converting files and it does indeed use the hardware mpeg encoder.
I haven't checked the speed to see how fast it really is beyond real time, but its not bad for essentially a freebie.
The main advantage to using the DV Storm II is real time effects, transitions and previews while using an NLE (ie, premiere). Though it is also rather handy for capturing/encoding as well.
Most people won't have a need for one of these cards, but they are quite nice.
The quake world base was expanded quite well I think.
If you look at some of the clients that are still around today. FuhQuake, QuakeForge and of course ezQuake. (though they all appear to be dying/dead now).
Now, eQuake has done an excellent job repacking Fuhquake and providing some excellent work building that out with addons. The biggest improvement was dynamically retextured objects at run time.
So with the quake retexture project the grahpics aren't half bad.
Though all those simply build out on an existing platform and enhance the QW client/server line.
Tenebrae, which I believe is now defunct, had some excellent work in this area. Tenebrae2 looks visually appealing and was based on their work with the Tenebrae engine (quake 1 source). Bump mapping was introduced as well.
I hit the library on occassion, but sometimes my local library just doesn't have anything current that isn't on the A list of books. Sometimes its also shared between several libraries and it can take a while to get the book in (I've had over a month of book queue time).
Are there any online book exchange programs?
Ideally it would have a ratings system for participants and ideally a way to automate multiple exchanges.
Person A has Book X and wants Book Z Person B has book Y and wants Book X Person C has Book Z and wants Book Y
So, Person.C sends Book.Z to Person.A, Person.B sends Book.X to Person.A and of sends his book to Person.C
Lets refine my statement to include products which have a similar range of features.
I did initially start out on Hauppages WinTV2000 + Decision Marks guide listings. Oddly, I can't think of the name off hand... just the company.
As soon as I get my pvr250 loading correctly in linux I can give that a thorough evaluation. Feature/presentation wise it is really falls in line with a worthy competitor. (as far as I understand anyway)
Today we are observing the mating habbits of cubicle dwellers.
Ah yes, if you look closely you will notice he has his fingers placed over his mouth and making a licking motion. This signals to the available cubicle females that he is looking for a mate.
Maybe they get to play with their own money and it's a winner take all? I would actually watch that show. As it stands now, when I watch Jeopardy I just think to myself, "Jesus/I'm/ getting old... look at his grey hair."
Yeah its a little hefty code wise, but on the windows side of life there isn't that much in the way of competition.
In any event, they have opened up some of the code for people to work on.
They did drop divx support though (unless you previously had divx support) and then they have you a plugin. Me, I wrote a script to convert to divx in the over night.
I know this guy.... really bright PHD kinda guy. It's too bad he has fallen behind in technology in his later years.
He has explained some cracks he has written (though apparently they didn't call it cracking). Something like your software probably would have peaked his interest. He wouldn't have shared it, but removed what he would have thought of as annoyances.
On a purely technical level, this guy can go way above my head and he has even explained some of the tricky things people do and how he went about getting around them.
I really shouldn't have said most companies... bad generlization on my part... but its not something I see in my circle.
Now, I can understand the smaller apps getting away undetected, but hell I have a friend who admins a much larger company then mine and he goes ape shit over winzip licenses.
Slashdot Mirror
Or you can search froogle for them
"2.4 ghz parabolic antenna"
Lowest price is around 33$ for a 15dbi gain. 50$ is about right for a 24dbi gain. Though a parabolic is only going to be truly handy for sight to sight. They do have low cost omni directional antennas. This is difficult to advise without knowing the layout.
ie, possibly sight to sight parabolic for the backbone link and then omni's distributed throughout.
If you are really worried about distance, just dig up a router that can be tweaked for a bit more output power.
Now, if completely unsure of what your needs are, here is a handy calculator to help you figure your distance needs out.
http://www.signull.com/fsc.php
For the uninformed, cable loss is going to be calculated by the amount of signal loss expected when using some portion of cable from the transciever to the antenna. It should be expressed quite clearly on type of cable you are going to be using.
There are also some common models output numbers listed there as well.
That really sums up everything. It should be quite cost effective to implement a few antennas and a cheap 802.11b setup.
Exactly my policy as well.
There is nothing in my blog that relates to work... unless someone told a particularly funny joke. The extent of even mentioning work is usually something along the lines of, "sorry for no updates... I've been busy with work."
Now slashdot is another story...
People need to use common sense and not put something in writing that will jeopardize their employment. It really doesn't matter the medium used.
Start, search, find files or folders.
I smell lawsuit!
If you have enough machines...
I'll write one for you... for the same fee of course.
Not true...
Let's take Dell for example.
I had a friend worried about performing a RAM upgrade so he decided to call Dell and ask. Turns out, his warranty is only void if he upgrades the motherboard or processor. (I'm asumming the case would have to stay the same too).
When it comes to PC's... most companies understand the case will get cracked. In fact, I usually recommend dusting every six months... do that with the case sealed.
Oh right...
The only interest in moving to the ATSC standard for DTV was to free up spectrum to sell off.
If they were truely interested in promoting HDTV.... standard definition would not have been an option. The industry was regulated into this movement for no other reason then profit.
The simple fact is the government has something to gain at no cost to themselves. It's virtually a win win situation.
Also couple this with near last minute adjustments and a draconian adoption stance and it leaves some of us with a really bad after taste.
2.2G ghz AMD 64 3500+ (socket 939) ;)
KT800 Pro
512mb RAM
DVD+-RW/CD-RW
250GB SATA drive
Pretty Case
17 inch matching flat panel monitor
Wireless Keyboard And Mouse
Some neat looking speakers
1000$ (shipping and handling not included, plus you build it yourself).
Then you can roll the savings into a nice tuner/tv out card.
They were working on the problem either Saturday or Sunday morning. I believe it was sunday as someone from melborne was posting to the previous story in regard to the problem. I don't know if they were working on it any earlier though.
I'm quite certain someone got through... I just don't believe we are getting all of the details.
Indeed you are correct on your first two points and I can offer no comment on the third.
I suspect my friend who could answer the migration questions is sleeping. There are legacy support plans in place, but the migration is ever looming.
It's already been decided, but things change so who knows.
On point 4, YES! Though sometimes just the sheer features of oracle make things appear easier on their side of the fence. I was investing management software from a company and I was asking about their non-windows support. They said, anything oracle runs on... our software runs on... simply because everything was contained within oracle and presumeably apache which ships with it.
(Though I can't remember if they had a seperate windows client or not... I believe yes)
There are some interesting changes that have taken place this year alone and should effect next year's o so bloated number
Flat panel monitors are now affordable. Just last week I noticed a 17 inch had fallen into the 200$ mark. This was pretty much the selling point for me and I suspect many others.
The FCC has released a huge list of mandates for DTV conversion. So unless nothing changes we should see more full power DTV stations by July and then the last mile is July 2006. With that there is a slew of tuners to purchase, infrastructure upgrades and some even more expensive equipment to purchase by the broadcasters themselves. (Alone I've had various quotes for around 20k just for DTV guide data insertion).
So the television industry itself should provide a significant over all increase on the consumer and provider level.
I would be interested to know what other industries have seen some fairly signficant change and what cost expenditures are expected.
I'm actually surprised he responded on slashdot and even responded further.
Other then PR, they are under no obligation to informally provide information and I'm sure a formal explanation will be available at a later date.
So it happened on Saturday and someone is awake to deal with it on sunday.
Someone knew what they were doing when they planned a short term hijack. It's probably just address harvesting and over all I suspect it's been a bit of a success.
Step 1. Buy Competing Technology
Step 2. Destroy Said Technology
Step 3. Slowly Move Those Customers To Core Product
Step 4. Profit!
Incidently,
I did some consulting for a company building something quite like this. At least, this is essentially what I drew up in development. Everything was just application hosting via PDA.
It is or at least was the next big suite thing. They don't want to carry around a laptop anymore... or maybe is was just technological jewelry.
In any event, I don't know their implementation, but it shouldn't be uncommon at this point.
I shop from quite a few of those two.
Mainly now, it's been NewEgg and AICMicro for me. I looked into building my own 1u and 2u servers, but it seems more hassle then anything.
The time considersation is quite important, but I'm afraid our shop isn't large enough to warrant a huge service contract and equipment from a large services oriented vendor.
I am a representative of the NLA and I would like to speak a few words concerning the tragedy at hand. While it is true a deviant individual used a laser to attempt to blind pilots, its important to note that the laser was not the culprit... but the man beast.
Also, please visit our sister organization... SWFL
(Sharks With Freakin Lasers)
You can grab a canopus DV Storm II for 600$ without any special software beyond Edius (video track/effect editor) and a few apps. (Well DivX Pro is included).
Anyhow, they have a rather nice utility for converting files and it does indeed use the hardware mpeg encoder.
I haven't checked the speed to see how fast it really is beyond real time, but its not bad for essentially a freebie.
The main advantage to using the DV Storm II is real time effects, transitions and previews while using an NLE (ie, premiere). Though it is also rather handy for capturing/encoding as well.
Most people won't have a need for one of these cards, but they are quite nice.
Not so!
The quake world base was expanded quite well I think.
If you look at some of the clients that are still around today. FuhQuake, QuakeForge and of course ezQuake. (though they all appear to be dying/dead now).
Now, eQuake has done an excellent job repacking Fuhquake and providing some excellent work building that out with addons. The biggest improvement was dynamically retextured objects at run time.
So with the quake retexture project the grahpics aren't half bad.
Though all those simply build out on an existing platform and enhance the QW client/server line.
Tenebrae, which I believe is now defunct, had some excellent work in this area. Tenebrae2 looks visually appealing and was based on their work with the Tenebrae engine (quake 1 source). Bump mapping was introduced as well.
Of course look for yourselves...
Though unreleased, Tenebrae2 looks really good, but I really don't believe developement has gone very far lately. (www.tenebrae2.com)
I think T2 has been one of the better evolutions I've seen from the original Quake source.
Now go grab eQuake and then pick up XQF
Which leads me to think...
I hit the library on occassion, but sometimes my local library just doesn't have anything current that isn't on the A list of books. Sometimes its also shared between several libraries and it can take a while to get the book in (I've had over a month of book queue time).
Are there any online book exchange programs?
Ideally it would have a ratings system for participants and ideally a way to automate multiple exchanges.
Person A has Book X and wants Book Z
Person B has book Y and wants Book X
Person C has Book Z and wants Book Y
So, Person.C sends Book.Z to Person.A, Person.B sends Book.X to Person.A and of sends his book to Person.C
I hope that wasn't too convoluted...
Just a good barter system really.
Yeah...
Lets refine my statement to include products which have a similar range of features.
I did initially start out on Hauppages WinTV2000 + Decision Marks guide listings. Oddly, I can't think of the name off hand... just the company.
As soon as I get my pvr250 loading correctly in linux I can give that a thorough evaluation. Feature/presentation wise it is really falls in line with a worthy competitor. (as far as I understand anyway)
I am Jaque...
Today we are observing the mating habbits of cubicle dwellers.
Ah yes, if you look closely you will notice he has his fingers placed over his mouth and making a licking motion. This signals to the available cubicle females that he is looking for a mate.
Hell I just liked watching Ben Stein.
/I'm/ getting old... look at his grey hair."
Is he really that bright?
You do have to ask yourself that question...
I want to see Ken and Ben battle it out...
Maybe they get to play with their own money and it's a winner take all? I would actually watch that show. As it stands now, when I watch Jeopardy I just think to myself, "Jesus
At this point, you think he might be a seasoned veteran at the game.
That in itself probably snow balled his jeopardy career.
After a while I wonder if he even worried about making any more money. I really would like to know if he ever felt the pressure was just gone.
It's pretty much at the basics now.
Record, compress, view and channel guide.
Yeah its a little hefty code wise, but on the windows side of life there isn't that much in the way of competition.
In any event, they have opened up some of the code for people to work on.
They did drop divx support though (unless you previously had divx support) and then they have you a plugin. Me, I wrote a script to convert to divx in the over night.
Precisely what I was thinking and about to post on.
The kids made a reference to Gleaming The Cube and a billion other reference.
I've seen 11 year olds... they are not that bright.
They make reference that are just too damned mature.
Too bad I'm at work and I don't have time to pick through every statement that just doesn't fit.
I know this guy.... really bright PHD kinda guy. It's too bad he has fallen behind in technology in his later years.
;)
He has explained some cracks he has written (though apparently they didn't call it cracking). Something like your software probably would have peaked his interest. He wouldn't have shared it, but removed what he would have thought of as annoyances.
On a purely technical level, this guy can go way above my head and he has even explained some of the tricky things people do and how he went about getting around them.
I really shouldn't have said most companies... bad generlization on my part... but its not something I see in my circle.
Now, I can understand the smaller apps getting away undetected, but hell I have a friend who admins a much larger company then mine and he goes ape shit over winzip licenses.
Are worries are a little simpler here