can an array of these be used to emulate a synthetic apreture radar, meaning that a flat panel gives you a 120 to 180 degree field of view from that panel?
Can the processing power of the chips be used to provide an improved image of what is reflecting in the spectrum the radar is working in? With a two dimensional array of 5 by 5 chips, distributed over a 1 foot by 1 foot surface, you could have a 3 dimensional "image" with a resolution similar to a human's 2 eyes. If the chips themselves can be programmed to do the interpolation, you could use a seprate computer to provide a opengl real time image of the world.
Hey, I'm writing a report for School, and I need some confirmation that what I am thinking is true, is true. Would anyone like to write my report for me, under the guise of providing me with data about my subject.
I did some time back. Now the only copies of "Windows" I have, are securly stored on the CD rom's and images I got them on. Linux, Mac OS X, and BeOS, all running securly behind a firewall.
I don't know how many times I have heard people claiming that none of these are "truely secure" either, yet none are showing the level of security problems that Windows has demonstrated.
Sorry, SCO licences are only available to comercial entities. ATO is anything but comercial. It may be a parasite of comercial entities, as well as individuals, but it is not comercial in nature.
Just thinking that with all the stray garbage in orbit today, perhaps the military will consider using some form of garbage collection as a way to deal with orbital threats. Set up a couple of space elevators, add a net casting feature that can go to any elevation along the way to geosync orbit, then start collecting "junk" that appears nearby.
Of course 'Junk' could be any orbital debries that the US didn't put into orbit. Which could be a problem for the US if say China were to do the same thing...
It is illegal to distribute copyright bound code without approval of the copyright holder. In this case the fact that someone leaked the code that Microsoft holds the copyright to does not change who holds the copyright to that code.
Microsoft is very likely working under the impression that if you are participating in a P2P network, and you download their code, you are likely to also share that code, becoming a distributor of that code.
They may not be able to do anything about your reading their source code, except affect your ability to ever work on open source software in the future, but they can hold you liable for redistributing their code.
IN fact: SCO has spent too much time shooting blanks.
And like the committing any other crime, eventually someone in charge is going to realize you're only shooting blanks and will send in the SWAT Team/Shock Troops/Storm Troopers and blow you into surprisingly insignificant pieces with extreme prejudice.
Nah, if the cops realize you are shooting blanks, they stop flinching and running for cover. They holster their guns, they aproach you, push the gun away, tackle you, put cuffs on you, and arrest you. Then they introduce you to the staff psychologist of the local hospital. (if you're lucky they do the above. If you really ticked them off, you get to suffer some other rather painful events as well.)
At this point, I would suggest checking to see if OpenZaurus provided that support.
None of the SL-Cxxx line is currently officially available even in the US. Much less an official ROM from Sharp. Asking about languages beyond that is probably asking a bit much for direct support.
On the other hand OpenZaurus should install to this system, and by it's nature very well may have support for more languages than the official roms. That's not to say that it has any 'specific' language support, but I suspect it's much more likely.
Side note, I know that the sl-5500 input mode does support Unicode input as one of the four pre-installe soft keyboards in addition to the slide covered hard keyboard. The codesets included are Basic Latin, Latin-1 Supplement and Currency Symbols.
By the same logic that SCO has gone after IBM and Sequent code held by IBM, let's take a look at the history of Windows...
Windows (at least non-NT) was designed to be a gui on top of DOS. i.e. it is derivative of dos.
Dos as purchased was a 16 bit clone of 8-bit CPM, which means that it is derivative of CPM.
CPM was desined to be a single user, single tasking implementation of UNIX.
Therefore Windows (through 98) was a derivative work of UNIX.
Additionally, it is obvious that Windows NT was a derivative of OS/2. They even use the same command interpreter, cmd.exe (different versions perhaps.) Micorsoft obviously leveraged what they had learned from working with Unix in the creation of OS/2 versions 1.0-1.3. So Windows NT, and subsequent versions are all derivative works of Unix as well. This might go a long way towards explaining why the BSD IP stack was such a clean fit into Windows.
It should be safe to block. I did a 'grep 312/etc/services' and came back with only one hit, 3128 for Squid proxy. That should be blocked at your firewall as well, as having it available to external users can open your mail server to become a spam server if you have them both on the same network. So you could probably block the range 3120-9 with out any negative impact.
This is a parasite that takes advantage of the infection created by the earlier virus. It looks for systems that are vulnerable as a result of the earlier infection, and copies itself to them.
Additionally it provides instructions to the part of the system that was infected that causes it to go out and perform the DOS on (at the moment) Microsoft's web site.
Functionally it appears to be a macro virus that takes advantage of the installed application that already exists. It only runs on those systems, but affects other systems as a designed side effect of the macro.
While I agree that SCO is aproaching this in the wrong way, they do have a potential point.
As an example, if company DEF wrote a file search function that was assigned to the Unix System V R4 copyright holders, then Company GHI takes that code and compiles it into Linux, then there is a copyright violation. SCO, is the holder of tha copyright, and they are right to request that the code be removed, as it should never have been published to the GPL, as company GHI did not have the authority to make that publication happen.
I honestly do not think that there is anyone at FSF or even within the Linux Development community that would argue that such an action is right.
The next question is whether SCO has the authority from company DEF to let people know what that code is. If they do not, then all they can do is let people under NDA's know what code they believe is a problem. However that does not solve the problem.
About the only way that they are going to get this addressed is to ask the original authors for the authority to disclose what lines of code have been missapriated, so that those lines can be removed.
Now from my understanding of the situation, Novell is still the legal holder of the copyrights in question, so it's possible that they could bypass the entire problem, and eliminate the issues that SCO is complaining about.
...my AudioVox CDM-8500vm that I use with my Virgin account.
Note, I do not use my cell phone extensively. A $20 top up generally lasts me three months, with a little bit to spare, and the money rolls over as I top up again. I currently have 27.40 available, good through April 7th.
Receiving Text messages so far has been free, and I have messaged my daughter fairly heavily one day with no cost, though she has a Virgin Mobile cell phone as well. (I gifted her with her own account on an earlier phone for her birthday.)
If you use your phone extensively, I wouldn't recomend it however.
As far as "featues" No games, no camera, basic callendar, basic address/phone book, Calculator and stopwatch. I get about a week of standby time, couple of hours of talk time (depending upon how long it's been since I charged up).
I hesitate to say it has a web browser, as it is locked into the Virgin eXtras site, and so far I have not seen any way to get out of there. Ring tones available from Virgin, which are OK.
For me it has been a good purchase. I don't claim the same for others, though I do know a couple other people with one or another of the phones.
I agree, I know that my e-mail address is not on that many people's distribution lists, because I am getting more warnings of the virus, than a I am being the recipient of the virus itself. (two, three copies at most)
The few systems that include full headers are pointing at three different IP network ranges 135.254.247, 10.150.81, and 216.207.228. The range 10.150.81 is not legitimate on the Internet, which means that there is a system infected within the company or domain that detected the infection, yet the notice was still forwarded to me.
Evidently some company has not configured some of their virus filters properly. I suspect that we will see this again.
The water cooled engine failed because of something other than the fact that it wasn't waterproofed.
The motors that raise and lower the lights are electric, and are nto water cooled, nor should they need to be. They generally only need to run at most twice per engine operation, once to raise the headlights, once to drop the headlights.
Never lost a headlight. However the headlight motors would fail after the car was driven during particularly heavy rains. That suggests to me that it was a problem with waterproofing those motors.
I also bought an 84 Fiero used. I drove it for about 3 years before it lost all compression in cylindar 2. Contemplated replacing the engine for a couple of years, but it needed enough other work that I finally junked it.
I also decided to leave the headlights up. I found that what was causing the motors to fail was they were not waterproofed.
All in all I enjoyed the car, paid $2100 for it used, and feel I got at least that much enjoyment out of it. No problem with spinning out, but I know it had had several of the recalls done by the time I got it. I did drive it summer and winter, and in MN that means it got a full dose of winter driving experience.
One thing that I would like to point out. I have looked for Fiero's, MR2's, RX7's, and even DelSol's since I bought my Fiero. I see more Fiero's than any of the others, even though they were only produced for four years, and the others have been produced for many more years. Granted the plastic body probably has something to do with it, (they won't rust out)
Actually, with a reliable fast boot procedure, that boots into the application that can initiate and end recordings, I don't see any real reason to have even a TiVo clone on all the time.
If you are wondering how that would work out, all you need is to set the bios alarm to a couple minutes before the program you are going to record next, and power down. The bios alarm clock will turn the computer on at the appointed time, your program gets recorded, and after the recording is done, the computer resets the bios alarm for the next program to record, and shuts the computer down again.
This can also be done to handle other scheduled events, such as schedule update retreival, software updates, etc.
I suspect that the primary reason that no one wants to do this today is that bios clocks are notorious for their drifting off of the current time. It would get anoying to keep missing the first few minutes of your show, because the clock drifted. Even worse if the program scheduler was coded to ignore record events which the begining time has already passed.
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... and no I haven't read the article yet.
can an array of these be used to emulate a synthetic apreture radar, meaning that a flat panel gives you a 120 to 180 degree field of view from that panel?
Can the processing power of the chips be used to provide an improved image of what is reflecting in the spectrum the radar is working in? With a two dimensional array of 5 by 5 chips, distributed over a 1 foot by 1 foot surface, you could have a 3 dimensional "image" with a resolution similar to a human's 2 eyes. If the chips themselves can be programmed to do the interpolation, you could use a seprate computer to provide a opengl real time image of the world.
Perhaps I should read the article...
-Rusty
The stories I have heard are that the lock does not engage until the clock is wound up, and the act of it winding down is what unlocks the clock.
Most time locks can only be set a maximum of three of four days.
However I am no expert on timelocks, and accept that I very well may be wrong.
-Rusty
Here I though the idea was to make it possible to force 1000 monkeys to type more continuously.
We have got to see if Shakespear was better than 1000 monkeys don't we?
Here I was thinking....
Hey, I'm writing a report for School, and I need some confirmation that what I am thinking is true, is true. Would anyone like to write my report for me, under the guise of providing me with data about my subject.
I did some time back. Now the only copies of "Windows" I have, are securly stored on the CD rom's and images I got them on. Linux, Mac OS X, and BeOS, all running securly behind a firewall.
I don't know how many times I have heard people claiming that none of these are "truely secure" either, yet none are showing the level of security problems that Windows has demonstrated.
-Rusty
Sorry, SCO licences are only available to comercial entities. ATO is anything but comercial. It may be a parasite of comercial entities, as well as individuals, but it is not comercial in nature.
Just thinking that with all the stray garbage in orbit today, perhaps the military will consider using some form of garbage collection as a way to deal with orbital threats. Set up a couple of space elevators, add a net casting feature that can go to any elevation along the way to geosync orbit, then start collecting "junk" that appears nearby.
Of course 'Junk' could be any orbital debries that the US didn't put into orbit. Which could be a problem for the US if say China were to do the same thing...
-Rusty
It is illegal to distribute copyright bound code without approval of the copyright holder. In this case the fact that someone leaked the code that Microsoft holds the copyright to does not change who holds the copyright to that code.
Microsoft is very likely working under the impression that if you are participating in a P2P network, and you download their code, you are likely to also share that code, becoming a distributor of that code.
They may not be able to do anything about your reading their source code, except affect your ability to ever work on open source software in the future, but they can hold you liable for redistributing their code.
IANAL
-Rusty
And how long before "mamperandrake" becomes 'pampersdrake'?
It's just a little interesting when included in the URL....
Obviously Manix.
Or to we have to worry about old dead acting tv shows as well as animated works???
IN fact: SCO has spent too much time shooting blanks.
And like the committing any other crime, eventually someone in charge is going to realize you're only shooting blanks and will send in the SWAT Team/Shock Troops/Storm Troopers and blow you into surprisingly insignificant pieces with extreme prejudice.
Nah, if the cops realize you are shooting blanks, they stop flinching and running for cover. They holster their guns, they aproach you, push the gun away, tackle you, put cuffs on you, and arrest you. Then they introduce you to the staff psychologist of the local hospital. (if you're lucky they do the above. If you really ticked them off, you get to suffer some other rather painful events as well.)
At this point, I would suggest checking to see if OpenZaurus provided that support.
None of the SL-Cxxx line is currently officially available even in the US. Much less an official ROM from Sharp. Asking about languages beyond that is probably asking a bit much for direct support.
On the other hand OpenZaurus should install to this system, and by it's nature very well may have support for more languages than the official roms. That's not to say that it has any 'specific' language support, but I suspect it's much more likely.
Side note, I know that the sl-5500 input mode does support Unicode input as one of the four pre-installe soft keyboards in addition to the slide covered hard keyboard. The codesets included are Basic Latin, Latin-1 Supplement and Currency Symbols.
I hope that's helpful.
-Rusty
Well, if that's too much, and all you are interested in is a PDA running Linux, take a look at this auction. $194.95 buy it now for an sl-5500.
Note that's for a new in box, $19.95 ship/hand, +$4 if you want insurance. (I presume that's in the US) 8.65% tax to NY residents.
Note I have not bought either of my zauri from this vendor, so I can't vouch for his or her credibility. Looks like a good deal though.
I guess we wern't reading about this last week either.
By the same logic that SCO has gone after IBM and Sequent code held by IBM, let's take a look at the history of Windows...
Windows (at least non-NT) was designed to be a gui on top of DOS. i.e. it is derivative of dos.
Dos as purchased was a 16 bit clone of 8-bit CPM, which means that it is derivative of CPM.
CPM was desined to be a single user, single tasking implementation of UNIX.
Therefore Windows (through 98) was a derivative work of UNIX.
Additionally, it is obvious that Windows NT was a derivative of OS/2. They even use the same command interpreter, cmd.exe (different versions perhaps.) Micorsoft obviously leveraged what they had learned from working with Unix in the creation of OS/2 versions 1.0-1.3. So Windows NT, and subsequent versions are all derivative works of Unix as well. This might go a long way towards explaining why the BSD IP stack was such a clean fit into Windows.
Then again, perhaps this is just flamebait...
It should be safe to block. I did a 'grep 312 /etc/services' and came back with only one hit, 3128 for Squid proxy. That should be blocked at your firewall as well, as having it available to external users can open your mail server to become a spam server if you have them both on the same network. So you could probably block the range 3120-9 with out any negative impact.
-Rusty
ReRead article.
This is a parasite that takes advantage of the infection created by the earlier virus. It looks for systems that are vulnerable as a result of the earlier infection, and copies itself to them.
Additionally it provides instructions to the part of the system that was infected that causes it to go out and perform the DOS on (at the moment) Microsoft's web site.
Functionally it appears to be a macro virus that takes advantage of the installed application that already exists. It only runs on those systems, but affects other systems as a designed side effect of the macro.
-Rusty
While I agree that SCO is aproaching this in the wrong way, they do have a potential point.
As an example, if company DEF wrote a file search function that was assigned to the Unix System V R4 copyright holders, then Company GHI takes that code and compiles it into Linux, then there is a copyright violation. SCO, is the holder of tha copyright, and they are right to request that the code be removed, as it should never have been published to the GPL, as company GHI did not have the authority to make that publication happen.
I honestly do not think that there is anyone at FSF or even within the Linux Development community that would argue that such an action is right.
The next question is whether SCO has the authority from company DEF to let people know what that code is. If they do not, then all they can do is let people under NDA's know what code they believe is a problem. However that does not solve the problem.
About the only way that they are going to get this addressed is to ask the original authors for the authority to disclose what lines of code have been missapriated, so that those lines can be removed.
Now from my understanding of the situation, Novell is still the legal holder of the copyrights in question, so it's possible that they could bypass the entire problem, and eliminate the issues that SCO is complaining about.
Then again, I've been called wrong before...
...my AudioVox CDM-8500vm that I use with my Virgin account.
Note, I do not use my cell phone extensively. A $20 top up generally lasts me three months, with a little bit to spare, and the money rolls over as I top up again. I currently have 27.40 available, good through April 7th.
Receiving Text messages so far has been free, and I have messaged my daughter fairly heavily one day with no cost, though she has a Virgin Mobile cell phone as well. (I gifted her with her own account on an earlier phone for her birthday.)
If you use your phone extensively, I wouldn't recomend it however.
As far as "featues" No games, no camera, basic callendar, basic address/phone book, Calculator and stopwatch. I get about a week of standby time, couple of hours of talk time (depending upon how long it's been since I charged up).
I hesitate to say it has a web browser, as it is locked into the Virgin eXtras site, and so far I have not seen any way to get out of there. Ring tones available from Virgin, which are OK.
For me it has been a good purchase. I don't claim the same for others, though I do know a couple other people with one or another of the phones.
-Rusty
Depends upon the mac.
You can buy a Mac iBook laptop at a price that is competitive out the door with new laptops in the x86 archetecture.
You might get a rebate on the x86 laptop that puts it back down below an iBook, but I won't count on it myself.
Then again, that's my experience and may not be yours.
I agree, I know that my e-mail address is not on that many people's distribution lists, because I am getting more warnings of the virus, than a I am being the recipient of the virus itself. (two, three copies at most)
The few systems that include full headers are pointing at three different IP network ranges 135.254.247, 10.150.81, and 216.207.228. The range 10.150.81 is not legitimate on the Internet, which means that there is a system infected within the company or domain that detected the infection, yet the notice was still forwarded to me.
Evidently some company has not configured some of their virus filters properly. I suspect that we will see this again.
?
The water cooled engine failed because of something other than the fact that it wasn't waterproofed.
The motors that raise and lower the lights are electric, and are nto water cooled, nor should they need to be. They generally only need to run at most twice per engine operation, once to raise the headlights, once to drop the headlights.
Never lost a headlight. However the headlight motors would fail after the car was driven during particularly heavy rains. That suggests to me that it was a problem with waterproofing those motors.
Good luck.
I also bought an 84 Fiero used. I drove it for about 3 years before it lost all compression in cylindar 2. Contemplated replacing the engine for a couple of years, but it needed enough other work that I finally junked it.
I also decided to leave the headlights up. I found that what was causing the motors to fail was they were not waterproofed.
All in all I enjoyed the car, paid $2100 for it used, and feel I got at least that much enjoyment out of it. No problem with spinning out, but I know it had had several of the recalls done by the time I got it. I did drive it summer and winter, and in MN that means it got a full dose of winter driving experience.
One thing that I would like to point out. I have looked for Fiero's, MR2's, RX7's, and even DelSol's since I bought my Fiero. I see more Fiero's than any of the others, even though they were only produced for four years, and the others have been produced for many more years. Granted the plastic body probably has something to do with it, (they won't rust out)
Actually, with a reliable fast boot procedure, that boots into the application that can initiate and end recordings, I don't see any real reason to have even a TiVo clone on all the time.
If you are wondering how that would work out, all you need is to set the bios alarm to a couple minutes before the program you are going to record next, and power down. The bios alarm clock will turn the computer on at the appointed time, your program gets recorded, and after the recording is done, the computer resets the bios alarm for the next program to record, and shuts the computer down again.
This can also be done to handle other scheduled events, such as schedule update retreival, software updates, etc.
I suspect that the primary reason that no one wants to do this today is that bios clocks are notorious for their drifting off of the current time. It would get anoying to keep missing the first few minutes of your show, because the clock drifted. Even worse if the program scheduler was coded to ignore record events which the begining time has already passed.
-Rusty