After popping a bunch of benadryl and being satisfied that my condition wasn't worsening, I elected to make a regular appointment with my GP instead of going to Emergency.
I decided to take a few photos of the skin rash before it went away, which allowed the doctor (three days later, when I was totally fine again) to quickly identify that it was indeed an allergic reaction, and based on where it appeared, the subsequent interview helped diagnose the cause. Worked great!
Whenever I try to convert part-15 geeks into part-97 geeks, they're interested in high power, they're interested in DIY equipment, they're interested in satellites, they're interested in propagation, and as soon as I mention that you can't swear or encrypt, they walk away.
"If I can't send useful traffic over it, why would I bother?"
Ham radio is losing a generation of geeks who've grown up on a more-free network and aren't interested in a restricted one. Should we just let them go?
While much of Manhattan's traditional communications infrastructure was literally a smoking crater after 9/11, the Ricochet mesh network was alive and well, built to barely notice the loss of individual nodes.
The company had recently gone bankrupt, but all the hardware was still in place, so some ex-employees drove from Denver to NYC with a bunch of modems and laptops, to bring mobile connectivity to the recovery effort.
Mesh works in this case because MCDN uses geographic routing -- the packet header literally contains a packed lat/long for the destination, and nodes make their routing decisions by angle and distance. There's a layer of name-to-geo resolution which makes that all work, and in the Ricochet days it was centralized, but I believe it could be made to operate with DHT like torrent networks do now.
Look at the list of hackerspaces, visit as many as you can find in the local area, and talk to as many people as you can. Most spaces don't have a spokesperson or overarching organization except what's necessary to keep the lights on, so making contact with individuals is important.
It sucked because you didn't submit your awesome project thing which is surely cooler than any of the junk those losers came up with. And better-documented. Right?
A decade ago, there was a small series of digital cameras that ran a somewhat-open OS: Slashdot covered DigitaOS before. Yes, some people ran games on their cameras; I was one. But more importantly, new applications could be developed. Long before EXIF and geotagging, there was a guy with a GPS hooked to the serial port (yes, back when cameras used RS232) of a camera, and a Digita program to save the coordinates where each shot was taken.
There are countless new ideas waiting to happen, when an open OS is paired with serious optics. I can't wait.
I remember discovering the animated treats within Dead Winter, on the 100's. Link goes to 199, so you can read a bit of the story before clicking Next to hit 200. (Story is violent and text in strip 200 is definitely NSFW.)
How did a product placement make it to/.'s front page? Le sigh.
It's a valuable resource to a community, but so are parks and swimming pools. The library doesn't have those things attached to it, either, for obvious reasons of indoor air quality and such.
For years, I've described i3 Detroit specifically, and hackerspaces/makerspaces in general, as being "something like a library, but for beings with opposable thumbs in addition to eyes". Learning and making and tinkering is in our nature, and I think it enhances us as humans to exercise these abilities. The word "literacy" needs an analog for "skilled with tools and understanding of mechanical things", so we can talk about it.
I think everyone should have access to such a space, just like access to a library. But should they be under the same roof? No, I don't think so. My personal feeling is that libraries as dead-tree collections are obsolete, and that we should not be talking about expansion, but complete conversion. Librarians are cool and library science is interesting, but paper artifacts don't need to live in every community. Let's take the spirit of learning and access and freedom, which libraries embody, and give it new life with the valuable things that every-day people don't have in their homes, like books once were.
PCI has a controller sitting between the CPU and the expansion slots -- it's not truly local. The definition of a "local bus" was stretched (mostly by Intel) to include PCI despite this, but in its original meaning, it referred to an architecture where the expansion slots are directly connected to the CPU, possibly permitting level shifters or buffers but certainly no logic. PCI doesn't even run at the CPU's FSB anymore! How local is that?
VESA Local Bus truly was, although its reliance on 5-volt levels condemned it to obsolescence as soon as chips went to 3.3 and lower voltages for their I/O. These days nothing except the northbridge is local.
XP Embedded SP2 has this funky Hibernate Once, Resume Many thing now. I don't know if it's possible to properly license the Embedded toolkit for personal use, but the technology is out there and it's interesting.
The archive of the talk is here: [mp3], [avi]. Essentially, most of the webservers in these things are vulnerable to all sorts of mischief. If you can own the underlying OS, the sky's the limit.
Amen to that, TFA's list starts way too modern. Martin Galway and Matt Gray remain my C64 music heroes. Gray's Driller theme still gives me chills. Elegant in its simplicity, the 9-minute piece winds its way from menacing, to lonely, hopeful, determined, and around to just plain hollow. It's a perfect complement to the devious puzzles, menacing environment, and desperate time limit that the player is up against. Driller is my favorite game music of all time, and it's almost old enough to drink...
On the PC, the modfiles in Star Control 2 (rereleased as The Ur-Quan Masters set a new standard. From a variety of composers, the mood of each piece helps the player get to know the helpful alien races from the devious ones, and while some are downright zany (with samples including scooby-doo), others are powerful rock, worthy of consideration on their own. The game spilled onto four floppies to accomodate the volume of music, and I groused about the space requirements for installation, until I played the game for a few minutes and the bulk justified itself.
If we're allowing recorded compositions, The Fat Man's work on The 7th Guest again elevated the art. As one of the first PC games to come on CD-ROM, the redbook audio on Disc 2 was a chance to play with the medium and include real recorded music, and the in-game music not only set the mood but brought a new emotional level to the characters' interactions.
This could be quite a long list, but if I had to pick the most notable omissions, these are my choices.
There's a place in Warren, MI called Silicon Alley Recyclers that wipes, refurbs, and resells what they can. The rest gets responsibly recycled, I'm told.
Their thrift store is fun to browse, with piles of not-very-old machines, just off their corporate deployments. There are lots of laptops, a fair number of printers (including a beeeeautiful Phaser I've been drooling over), and monitors of every persuasion.
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After popping a bunch of benadryl and being satisfied that my condition wasn't worsening, I elected to make a regular appointment with my GP instead of going to Emergency.
I decided to take a few photos of the skin rash before it went away, which allowed the doctor (three days later, when I was totally fine again) to quickly identify that it was indeed an allergic reaction, and based on where it appeared, the subsequent interview helped diagnose the cause. Worked great!
It'd be a lot less ominous without the news that music services are able to predict your political party based on the music you listen to.
What's the max temperature ramp rate before the frog jumps out of the water, anyway?
...and allow us to acquire the solution in a dramatically more efficient manner!
Now, I should emphasize that such an approach is purely theoretical. So far, no one has been able to accomplish such constructions, yet..
Whenever I try to convert part-15 geeks into part-97 geeks, they're interested in high power, they're interested in DIY equipment, they're interested in satellites, they're interested in propagation, and as soon as I mention that you can't swear or encrypt, they walk away.
"If I can't send useful traffic over it, why would I bother?"
Ham radio is losing a generation of geeks who've grown up on a more-free network and aren't interested in a restricted one. Should we just let them go?
While much of Manhattan's traditional communications infrastructure was literally a smoking crater after 9/11, the Ricochet mesh network was alive and well, built to barely notice the loss of individual nodes.
The company had recently gone bankrupt, but all the hardware was still in place, so some ex-employees drove from Denver to NYC with a bunch of modems and laptops, to bring mobile connectivity to the recovery effort.
Mesh works in this case because MCDN uses geographic routing -- the packet header literally contains a packed lat/long for the destination, and nodes make their routing decisions by angle and distance. There's a layer of name-to-geo resolution which makes that all work, and in the Ricochet days it was centralized, but I believe it could be made to operate with DHT like torrent networks do now.
Look at the list of hackerspaces, visit as many as you can find in the local area, and talk to as many people as you can. Most spaces don't have a spokesperson or overarching organization except what's necessary to keep the lights on, so making contact with individuals is important.
Start at the bottom, work your way up. Any local hackerspace should be able to help.
It sucked because you didn't submit your awesome project thing which is surely cooler than any of the junk those losers came up with. And better-documented. Right?
A decade ago, there was a small series of digital cameras that ran a somewhat-open OS: Slashdot covered DigitaOS before. Yes, some people ran games on their cameras; I was one. But more importantly, new applications could be developed. Long before EXIF and geotagging, there was a guy with a GPS hooked to the serial port (yes, back when cameras used RS232) of a camera, and a Digita program to save the coordinates where each shot was taken. There are countless new ideas waiting to happen, when an open OS is paired with serious optics. I can't wait.
Yeah, I know Rotomotion has been doing this for years. Their YouTube channel is pretty badass.
I remember discovering the animated treats within Dead Winter, on the 100's. Link goes to 199, so you can read a bit of the story before clicking Next to hit 200. (Story is violent and text in strip 200 is definitely NSFW.)
How did a product placement make it to /.'s front page? Le sigh.
Okay, I've got a five-digit...
You already replied to Myself two posts up...
Here's the index of the July-August 1978 issue where the whole series of articles appears. Better format than the search above.
Several issues of the Bell System Technical Journal tell the story of UNIX, in their own words. This one in particular is interesting.
It's a valuable resource to a community, but so are parks and swimming pools. The library doesn't have those things attached to it, either, for obvious reasons of indoor air quality and such.
For years, I've described i3 Detroit specifically, and hackerspaces/makerspaces in general, as being "something like a library, but for beings with opposable thumbs in addition to eyes". Learning and making and tinkering is in our nature, and I think it enhances us as humans to exercise these abilities. The word "literacy" needs an analog for "skilled with tools and understanding of mechanical things", so we can talk about it.
I think everyone should have access to such a space, just like access to a library. But should they be under the same roof? No, I don't think so. My personal feeling is that libraries as dead-tree collections are obsolete, and that we should not be talking about expansion, but complete conversion. Librarians are cool and library science is interesting, but paper artifacts don't need to live in every community. Let's take the spirit of learning and access and freedom, which libraries embody, and give it new life with the valuable things that every-day people don't have in their homes, like books once were.
And working implementations have been around since 2002. Bitcoin is nothing new.
PCI has a controller sitting between the CPU and the expansion slots -- it's not truly local. The definition of a "local bus" was stretched (mostly by Intel) to include PCI despite this, but in its original meaning, it referred to an architecture where the expansion slots are directly connected to the CPU, possibly permitting level shifters or buffers but certainly no logic. PCI doesn't even run at the CPU's FSB anymore! How local is that?
VESA Local Bus truly was, although its reliance on 5-volt levels condemned it to obsolescence as soon as chips went to 3.3 and lower voltages for their I/O. These days nothing except the northbridge is local.
XP Embedded SP2 has this funky Hibernate Once, Resume Many thing now. I don't know if it's possible to properly license the Embedded toolkit for personal use, but the technology is out there and it's interesting.
All archived Notacon talks are available for free. Fetch 'em via HTTP or .torrent.
Talks given by Blockparty speakers are included. Enjoy!
Does april 2006 count as before?
The archive of the talk is here: [mp3], [avi]. Essentially, most of the webservers in these things are vulnerable to all sorts of mischief. If you can own the underlying OS, the sky's the limit.
Anyone remember this gem of a game? I played it for the C64 but the PC screenshots bear a pretty close resemblance.
Amen to that, TFA's list starts way too modern. Martin Galway and Matt Gray remain my C64 music heroes. Gray's Driller theme still gives me chills. Elegant in its simplicity, the 9-minute piece winds its way from menacing, to lonely, hopeful, determined, and around to just plain hollow. It's a perfect complement to the devious puzzles, menacing environment, and desperate time limit that the player is up against. Driller is my favorite game music of all time, and it's almost old enough to drink...
On the PC, the modfiles in Star Control 2 (rereleased as The Ur-Quan Masters set a new standard. From a variety of composers, the mood of each piece helps the player get to know the helpful alien races from the devious ones, and while some are downright zany (with samples including scooby-doo), others are powerful rock, worthy of consideration on their own. The game spilled onto four floppies to accomodate the volume of music, and I groused about the space requirements for installation, until I played the game for a few minutes and the bulk justified itself.
If we're allowing recorded compositions, The Fat Man's work on The 7th Guest again elevated the art. As one of the first PC games to come on CD-ROM, the redbook audio on Disc 2 was a chance to play with the medium and include real recorded music, and the in-game music not only set the mood but brought a new emotional level to the characters' interactions.
This could be quite a long list, but if I had to pick the most notable omissions, these are my choices.
You did see the Morse code vent slots on the WD "My Book" external hard drives, right?
There's a place in Warren, MI called Silicon Alley Recyclers that wipes, refurbs, and resells what they can. The rest gets responsibly recycled, I'm told.
Their thrift store is fun to browse, with piles of not-very-old machines, just off their corporate deployments. There are lots of laptops, a fair number of printers (including a beeeeautiful Phaser I've been drooling over), and monitors of every persuasion.