They may not be the "code" that most of you know but it's an interesting story...
I've seen code on PLC's and embedded microcontrolers used in industrial safety applications that could have been lethal or at the very least, a finger eater. For about four years, I worked for a company that manufactured light curtains, hardguards and other devices that keep machinery operators from losing limbs.
The most dangerous "code" I've seen was on a large metal stamping machine. The maintenance department was using a PLC to take the anti-tie-down inputs and start the stamping process. The operators had tied one of the palm buttons down with black tape so they could hold the metal with one hand and start the process with the other. The PLC was also counting the inputs and cycling the machine to satisfy the counts whether the operators wanted it or not. Anyway, to make a long story short, our company was called in to install a light curtain and pitch all the other "safety" junk. The techs that mounted the curtain found a part of a hand behind the old physical guard.
Back in the 80's, an old high school friend of mine was war dialing the local numbers. He stumbled upon a GTE dial-up line which required no password. I guess he played around a little too much and his house was raided the following night. About 30 local cops, GTE officials, state and FBI came in "guns drawn." A female local officer said, "Touch and key and you're dead." They seized random parts from random computers. They took a monitor here and a printer there. They even took an Atari ST. My friend had a lot of pirated software. I'd say thousands of Amiga disks. They took all of that and literally threw it into the back of a van.
He didn't actually get into much trouble but the local papers made him out like he was trying to rip off people. It took him 5 years to get his computers back and for a year it sat in boxes at the local jail. They also gave back all of his pirated software. Almost everything had bat shit on it and was marked for destruction.
If you can install data jacks you can install this. I can broadcast music and video to almost any room in my house from my computer using CAT5 cable. If I want to broadcast music from my stereo then I just move the input patch cables from the computer jack to the stereo jack. With this setup I could play a Divx file on my computer and literally watch it in every room.
My boss would agree with you. At least once a week he wants to throw all the computers in the dumpster and go back to pencil and paper. Usually it's because he doesn't have the required codec to play the latest joke video.
"Uh, no. I've seen the horror of Red Hat 8.0, and there's no fucking way I'm putting Gnome2 on any more of my machines for at least another six months, maybe a year."
What a jackass.
This isn't a review of video on Linux. It's a mindless rant written by someone that does not want to compile anything or upgrade.
Universal does not mean that it can open any garage at will. Universal means that it has the ability to be securely trained by different systems. Unless you have access to the garage door opener (the motor and circuit board in the ceiling in the garage) then you cannot program any kind of remote.
Garage door openers use code hopping and many other kinds of security. The days of CB and dip switch hacking to open garage doors are over. So, yes, this lawsuit is pure bull. It is not about making remotes that bypass the security. It is about making cheap universal remotes that compete with the $67.00 Gene(tm) replacement remote that you lost somewhere in the landscaping.
MSNBC says:
"But the National Security Agency refused to budge from a requirement that any foreigners working on a planned project at MIT's Artificial Intelligence Laboratory be screened by the government in advance, forcing the school to turn down the money in September, Powell said."
You say:
"MSNBC is running an article that details how the MIT AI Lab, the birth place of the free software movement, walked away from a $404K study because the government wanted to restrict participation by foreign students."
Sounds like they are just checking for ties to terrorists. Where does it say that foreign students are restricted from participating?
I think that I'd rather keep giving RedHat money through their network subscription service. From my limited experience with Mandrake, it just wasn't as good.
IMO, a couple strong companies would be much better for the entire community and the advancement of Linux.
I'd probably flip out if someone asked me for my social in a record store. The ONE time I went to Kroger's in Carbondale, I had a fit and left my groceries in the cart when cashier asked me for my SSN. It seems that the record industry is trying to shut down used dealers if those ID requirements are accurate. I'm just not one to give out that kind of information for a CD. *puts on aluminum foil hat*
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I'm just telling what I have seen. An 8000W fish finder, maybe 200khz, will totally screw a radar gun. My ex-brother-in-law was a cop and we've tested it right out of the boat.
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Jamming is a delicate science.
You can tell, by the tone, if a car is reflecting or emitting a signal. There are a few officers like to listen to the doppler shift and it's easy for them to tell if you're jamming. I should know, I was stopped in West Virginia for having one on my motorcycle. Small, low power but since I had access to a radar gun I knew that it kinda worked. I was lucky he couldn't find it wedged way down behind the faring.
The reflected signal off a car is extremely weak so it doesn't take much power to screw with radar. If you really want to have fun put a fish finder in your car and mount the transmitter/receiver on the grill. Something high powered like that will make a radar gun totally useless.
Taco Bell in Vincennes, Indiana uses Microsoft Windows 98 for an outside order displayer. For at least 3 years now, it has constantly went through a reboot cycle thanks to Windows crashing almost immediately after the logo is displayed. I find this hilarious.
I'm guessing that a man that wants to "live off the grid" and probably dress like Frodo would tell a building inspector to stick it in his hobbit hole.
Yeah, if it was just a concrete tube the R value would be 0 and moisture would form. If it is built like rammed earth construction then it would at least have an R40 rating and be very cheap to heat and cool. I've seen these built (uncle) and the yearly heating and cooling bill with a Geothermal/Waterfurnace/Ect is about $140. No moisture but it does smell a little musty.
My uncle built a rammed earth barn that's half underground and located in a part of the country where the theme music to Deliverance is still on the top 40. He's "off the grid" and lives with his horses like a wild man torn between the Gratefull Dead and his LOTR books.
If his generator powered Mac Classic could see pictures of that hobbit hole he would be on his backhoe tonight, digging pits all over perfectly good hills.
I would like to see Slashdot record the browser/OS info from the "first posters/IN SOVIET RUSSIA/imagine a beowulf cluster/1.create 2.? 3.profit/i like to beat harp seals for fun and proft" and then publish the results. We could draw all kinds of oversimplified and prejudiced conclusions based off of that data.
Considering that all the *nix users would change their machines to report IE/Windows and all the Windows people would report Mozilla it would probably balance out in the end. --- oversimplified conclusion.
"When the helicopter is descending in this manner, it is said to be in a state of autorotation. In effect the pilot gives up altitude at a controlled rate in return for energy to turn the rotor at an RPM which provides aircraft control."
A couple friends in collage were really into model helicopters and they described "autorotate" as killing the engine at about 20' from the ground and gliding in to a very cool looking landing. Anything higher than 15' - 20' and they would have a smashed helicopter. In addition, it was extremely difficult to control.
Almost all of the drawings we receive for bid are in AutoCad format. Most of them must be edited, printed, evaluated and probably edited again. Nothing that I know of can do this in Linux, especially when it comes to talking with the plotters.
I like Linux. More specifically, I like Red Hat Linux.
The biggest reason why we won't switch to Linux is because of the accounting software. There are a few accounting packages for Linux but nothing custom tailored for an electrical contractor/manufacturing company. It would have to blow the Windows solution out of the water considering all of the money it's going to cost to re-enter all that data.
I agree, SI gfx are "teh suck", however, the prices for anything better are way out of line. A Maximum Impact card set with a a little TRAM for the old Indigo 2 is still around $900. If you want SE gfx add another $400 dollars to the Octane. For the price of Octane MXE card set I could buy a 4-wheeler and a Geforce 4.
My Octane is used as a personal web server, just for kicks. I wanted to add a video cam but the personal video option is still $1000.
IMO any of those cards shouldn't be worth more than $100. SGI pricing blows my mind. Hell, I can remember when they wanted $1200 for IRIX.
So yeah, I kinda got ripped off, but not because of SI gfx. It's because the SGI market is so unfriendly to casual users. I have 4 SGI workstations; Personal Onyx 4400s (trashed), Octane 10K, Indigo 2 10K and an Indigo. I enjoy the geek factor but I wouldn't recommend them to anybody for anything.
Let me play on a $60K Fuel with some kind of usefull and UPDATED software and maybe I'll change my mind.
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They may not be the "code" that most of you know but it's an interesting story...
I've seen code on PLC's and embedded microcontrolers used in industrial safety applications that could have been lethal or at the very least, a finger eater. For about four years, I worked for a company that manufactured light curtains, hardguards and other devices that keep machinery operators from losing limbs.
The most dangerous "code" I've seen was on a large metal stamping machine. The maintenance department was using a PLC to take the anti-tie-down inputs and start the stamping process. The operators had tied one of the palm buttons down with black tape so they could hold the metal with one hand and start the process with the other. The PLC was also counting the inputs and cycling the machine to satisfy the counts whether the operators wanted it or not. Anyway, to make a long story short, our company was called in to install a light curtain and pitch all the other "safety" junk. The techs that mounted the curtain found a part of a hand behind the old physical guard.
Back in the 80's, an old high school friend of mine was war dialing the local numbers. He stumbled upon a GTE dial-up line which required no password. I guess he played around a little too much and his house was raided the following night. About 30 local cops, GTE officials, state and FBI came in "guns drawn." A female local officer said, "Touch and key and you're dead." They seized random parts from random computers. They took a monitor here and a printer there. They even took an Atari ST. My friend had a lot of pirated software. I'd say thousands of Amiga disks. They took all of that and literally threw it into the back of a van.
He didn't actually get into much trouble but the local papers made him out like he was trying to rip off people. It took him 5 years to get his computers back and for a year it sat in boxes at the local jail. They also gave back all of his pirated software. Almost everything had bat shit on it and was marked for destruction.
http://www.leviton.com/sections/prodinfo/newprod/n pleadin.htm
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http://www.leviton.com/pdfs/lin/LINsections_200
If you can install data jacks you can install this. I can broadcast music and video to almost any room in my house from my computer using CAT5 cable. If I want to broadcast music from my stereo then I just move the input patch cables from the computer jack to the stereo jack. With this setup I could play a Divx file on my computer and literally watch it in every room.
My boss would agree with you. At least once a week he wants to throw all the computers in the dumpster and go back to pencil and paper. Usually it's because he doesn't have the required codec to play the latest joke video.
"Uh, no. I've seen the horror of Red Hat 8.0, and there's no fucking way I'm putting Gnome2 on any more of my machines for at least another six months, maybe a year."
What a jackass.
This isn't a review of video on Linux. It's a mindless rant written by someone that does not want to compile anything or upgrade.
Universal does not mean that it can open any garage at will. Universal means that it has the ability to be securely trained by different systems. Unless you have access to the garage door opener (the motor and circuit board in the ceiling in the garage) then you cannot program any kind of remote.
Garage door openers use code hopping and many other kinds of security. The days of CB and dip switch hacking to open garage doors are over. So, yes, this lawsuit is pure bull. It is not about making remotes that bypass the security. It is about making cheap universal remotes that compete with the $67.00 Gene(tm) replacement remote that you lost somewhere in the landscaping.
MSNBC says: "But the National Security Agency refused to budge from a requirement that any foreigners working on a planned project at MIT's Artificial Intelligence Laboratory be screened by the government in advance, forcing the school to turn down the money in September, Powell said." You say: "MSNBC is running an article that details how the MIT AI Lab, the birth place of the free software movement, walked away from a $404K study because the government wanted to restrict participation by foreign students." Sounds like they are just checking for ties to terrorists. Where does it say that foreign students are restricted from participating?
I think that I'd rather keep giving RedHat money through their network subscription service. From my limited experience with Mandrake, it just wasn't as good. IMO, a couple strong companies would be much better for the entire community and the advancement of Linux.
HotMomma92394848 is also a 400 pound 40 year old bald man.
I'd probably flip out if someone asked me for my social in a record store. The ONE time I went to Kroger's in Carbondale, I had a fit and left my groceries in the cart when cashier asked me for my SSN. It seems that the record industry is trying to shut down used dealers if those ID requirements are accurate. I'm just not one to give out that kind of information for a CD. *puts on aluminum foil hat*
I'm just telling what I have seen. An 8000W fish finder, maybe 200khz, will totally screw a radar gun. My ex-brother-in-law was a cop and we've tested it right out of the boat.
Jamming is a delicate science.
You can tell, by the tone, if a car is reflecting or emitting a signal. There are a few officers like to listen to the doppler shift and it's easy for them to tell if you're jamming. I should know, I was stopped in West Virginia for having one on my motorcycle. Small, low power but since I had access to a radar gun I knew that it kinda worked. I was lucky he couldn't find it wedged way down behind the faring.
The reflected signal off a car is extremely weak so it doesn't take much power to screw with radar. If you really want to have fun put a fish finder in your car and mount the transmitter/receiver on the grill. Something high powered like that will make a radar gun totally useless.
Taco Bell in Vincennes, Indiana uses Microsoft Windows 98 for an outside order displayer. For at least 3 years now, it has constantly went through a reboot cycle thanks to Windows crashing almost immediately after the logo is displayed. I find this hilarious.
I'm guessing that a man that wants to "live off the grid" and probably dress like Frodo would tell a building inspector to stick it in his hobbit hole.
Yeah, if it was just a concrete tube the R value would be 0 and moisture would form. If it is built like rammed earth construction then it would at least have an R40 rating and be very cheap to heat and cool. I've seen these built (uncle) and the yearly heating and cooling bill with a Geothermal/Waterfurnace/Ect is about $140. No moisture but it does smell a little musty.
My uncle built a rammed earth barn that's half underground and located in a part of the country where the theme music to Deliverance is still on the top 40. He's "off the grid" and lives with his horses like a wild man torn between the Gratefull Dead and his LOTR books.
If his generator powered Mac Classic could see pictures of that hobbit hole he would be on his backhoe tonight, digging pits all over perfectly good hills.
Fear the pot smoking LOTR fanatics.
I would like to see Slashdot record the browser/OS info from the "first posters/IN SOVIET RUSSIA/imagine a beowulf cluster/1.create 2.? 3.profit/i like to beat harp seals for fun and proft" and then publish the results. We could draw all kinds of oversimplified and prejudiced conclusions based off of that data.
Considering that all the *nix users would change their machines to report IE/Windows and all the Windows people would report Mozilla it would probably balance out in the end. --- oversimplified conclusion.
Die, AC.
"When the helicopter is descending in this manner, it is said to be in a state of autorotation. In effect the pilot gives up altitude at a controlled rate in return for energy to turn the rotor at an RPM which provides aircraft control."
A couple friends in collage were really into model helicopters and they described "autorotate" as killing the engine at about 20' from the ground and gliding in to a very cool looking landing. Anything higher than 15' - 20' and they would have a smashed helicopter. In addition, it was extremely difficult to control.
Almost all of the drawings we receive for bid are in AutoCad format. Most of them must be edited, printed, evaluated and probably edited again. Nothing that I know of can do this in Linux, especially when it comes to talking with the plotters.
On a scale from 1 to 10, I give this troll a 3.
I like Linux. More specifically, I like Red Hat Linux.
The biggest reason why we won't switch to Linux is because of the accounting software. There are a few accounting packages for Linux but nothing custom tailored for an electrical contractor/manufacturing company. It would have to blow the Windows solution out of the water considering all of the money it's going to cost to re-enter all that data.
Sorry, Deskside Onyx not personal. Black with a purple stripe.
Thanks for the corrections.
It's cool to play with.
I agree, SI gfx are "teh suck", however, the prices for anything better are way out of line. A Maximum Impact card set with a a little TRAM for the old Indigo 2 is still around $900. If you want SE gfx add another $400 dollars to the Octane. For the price of Octane MXE card set I could buy a 4-wheeler and a Geforce 4.
My Octane is used as a personal web server, just for kicks. I wanted to add a video cam but the personal video option is still $1000.
IMO any of those cards shouldn't be worth more than $100. SGI pricing blows my mind. Hell, I can remember when they wanted $1200 for IRIX.
So yeah, I kinda got ripped off, but not because of SI gfx. It's because the SGI market is so unfriendly to casual users. I have 4 SGI workstations; Personal Onyx 4400s (trashed), Octane 10K, Indigo 2 10K and an Indigo. I enjoy the geek factor but I wouldn't recommend them to anybody for anything.
Let me play on a $60K Fuel with some kind of usefull and UPDATED software and maybe I'll change my mind.
Ebay.
I purchased an Octane R10K, 18GB HD, 256MB RAM, granite keyboard, granite mouse, GDM-4011P with SI GFX for $400 from eUnicomp.
It's nothing fancy but fun to play with if you have IRIX.
"The US list price for a 128-processor supercomputer with 64GB of memory is $2,937,696." I think that I'll stick with my $400 Octane.