Why is this called a femto cell? The area covered is much more than 10^-15 of that of a standard cell tower. If this device covers a radius of 50 ft, and a tower works to a radius of about mile, then the fractional area covered is 10^-4, or somewhere between a microcell and a millicell.
We'll, we were a customer from well before the start of total access and were getting two rental coupons a month. We didn't get grandfathered in. They said if we didn't pick a new plan, they would drop us. We let Blockbuster drop us.
I am downloading New Voyages episodes using the torrents. Episode 2 is availble as an iso, but the DVd image for Episode 1 is in an RAR file. Is there any open source utility unrar utility? Any why does anyone use RAR when there are other more open compression formats that are presumably as good or better?
>Third, this isn't even the discovery of table-top laboratory scale fusion. As an undergraduate, I worked on a muon catalyzed fusion experiment at TRIUMF in Vancouver.
Just to be nit-picky: While the cell in which the muon catalyzed fusion takes place may fit on a normal table-top, it would take an awfully large table to hold the proton accelerator, the production target, and the system of vacuum pipes and magnets that decay the pions and select and degrade the muons.
The protocols for phonebook, calendar, and todo reading and writing are known for a number of Samsung phones. Samsung uses ASCII AT commands for these. The BitPim project is currently adding phonebook, calendar, wallpaper and ringer support for several Samsung phones. The A500 likely has a similar protocol to other Samsung phones. You can see some notes on Samsung AT commands in the file
samsungnotes.txt in the BitPim CVS.
I have been running FC3 betas on a desktop for a while and liked it, so I tried upgrading my FC1 Dell laptop to FC3. I ended up with the fonts being off just enough to be annoying, the mouse pad acting funny, and suspend to RAM not working. I got the fonts looking almost OK and learned how to set Synaptics parameters in X, but the suspend was a killer. So I wiped the disk and went back to FC1. Apparantly suspend in ACPI is far from complete. Furthermore, booting with ACPI disabled and APM enabled, allows suspend to work, but resume fails. I guess I am stuck with a 2.4 kernel based OS for a while.
The test version of BitPim currently the LG VX4400 and VX6000 (phonebook, calendar, wallpaper and ringtones), and the Sanyo SCP-4900, 5300, and 8100 (phonebook and calendar only). It probably actually works on a few more Sanyo models, and more Sanyo phones and perhaps a Samsung may be added in the coming months. I believe the goal is to support most phones with Qualcomm 3G CDMA chipsets.
BitPim makes a nice stand alone application and has some import capability. Another goal is to have full import, export and sync capability for hte phonebook and calendar. Developers contributing in these areas would be most welcome by the project.
It used to be when you type an address into one of these online maps, the latitude and longitude of where the X was placed on the map was either displayed right on the result page, burried somewhere in the html, or in the URL. One by, one, the free map services have been dropping this information (perhaps encrypting it in the URL).
I used to have a little PHP web page I could call up from my cell phone that would let me type in an address, and then send an email to my phone with the latitude and longitude which I could then put into my GPS.
Does anyone know if there is any place left on the web that will convert an address to coordinates?
While waiting at the gate for a flight out of Narita airport, I tried plugging in my wireless card just on a lark. I was surprised to find that the card saw an access point plus dhcp gave me an address and a full connection to the net. I was able to spend the rest of my wait doing email, IM, and sshing back home. Investigating later, it seems that something called the IPv6 Promotion Council, along with assorted agencies, is sponsoring a free wireless LAN trial at the airport and on some trains and train stations until July 31, 2002. (See http://www.nex.v6pc.jp/)
I wonder if we can every expect such experiments in the US?
Aw come on, Space Precinct was great. It sure beat all the other cop and lawyer shows out there and it didn't take itself too seriously. I wish some cable network had it in syndication!
Acording to a brochure on the web, the RG-1000 has a jack that can be used to connect to an existing ethernet.
Support for the Orinoco DS-11 cards (also sold as the Cabletron/Eterasys RoamAbout 802 is included as the wvlan_cs driver in the standard Linux PCMCIA package. Information about this driver is contained in the Linux Wireless LAN Howto. The wvlan_cs driver is opensource. There is also a driver based on a binary library provided by Lucent/Enterasys.
I have used both the open source driver and the binary driver. The binary driver is supposed to be more stable and full featured, although my laptop has crashed while using the binary driver and I have had no problems with the open source driver.
If you use the open source driver, make sure you use at least version 3.1.18 of the PCMCIA package to be compatible with the latest firmware in the cards.
I don't know what software put the DSS stuff on my machine. I don't have the software refered to in the article, but I do have other broderbund games. I find the following files that have DSS in them.
There is also a temp file in/WINDOWS/BBSTORE/DSS that is XML. I am not sure how to include that file here without it getting mangled, but it looks like a file that gets sent to www.brodcast.net. It has in it "DSS V1.0", interval of 86400 seconds (1 day) and a SIG line that looks fairly encrypted. ("iQA/AwUBOJn/KCElolv46rs/EQKCWACfYmhHchvKNf/izSGI mO3yEECbJBcAoMV7hR2SELS5eF2IKuRJPNCTVUE4 ")
Another note. I just installed ipchains masquerading on my linux box. Behind this "firewall" are a couple of Windows machines for the kids. I have run "ipchains -M -L" periodically and always noticed an open connection from one of these machines to www.brodcast.net. I just thought it was one of the zillion things the kids have downloaded. Now I know to block that site with ipchains.
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Why is this called a femto cell? The area covered is much more than 10^-15 of that of a standard cell tower. If this device covers a radius of 50 ft, and a tower works to a radius of about mile, then the fractional area covered is 10^-4, or somewhere between a microcell and a millicell.
We'll, we were a customer from well before the start of total access and were getting two rental coupons a month. We didn't get grandfathered in. They said if we didn't pick a new plan, they would drop us. We let Blockbuster drop us.
I am downloading New Voyages episodes using the torrents. Episode 2 is availble as an iso, but the DVd image for Episode 1 is in an RAR file. Is there any open source utility unrar utility? Any why does anyone use RAR when there are other more open compression formats that are presumably as good or better?
>Third, this isn't even the discovery of table-top laboratory scale fusion. As an undergraduate, I worked on a muon catalyzed fusion experiment at TRIUMF in Vancouver.
Just to be nit-picky: While the cell in which the muon catalyzed fusion takes place may fit on a normal table-top, it would take an awfully large table to hold the proton accelerator, the production target, and the system of vacuum pipes and magnets that decay the pions and select and degrade the muons.
The protocols for phonebook, calendar, and todo reading and writing are known for a number of Samsung phones. Samsung uses ASCII AT commands for these. The BitPim project is currently adding phonebook, calendar, wallpaper and ringer support for several Samsung phones. The A500 likely has a similar protocol to other Samsung phones. You can see some notes on Samsung AT commands in the file samsungnotes.txt in the BitPim CVS.
I have been running FC3 betas on a desktop for a while and liked it, so I tried upgrading my FC1 Dell laptop to FC3. I ended up with the fonts being off just enough to be annoying, the mouse pad acting funny, and suspend to RAM not working. I got the fonts looking almost OK and learned how to set Synaptics parameters in X, but the suspend was a killer. So I wiped the disk and went back to FC1. Apparantly suspend in ACPI is far from complete. Furthermore, booting with ACPI disabled and APM enabled, allows suspend to work, but resume fails. I guess I am stuck with a 2.4 kernel based OS for a while.
A little more about BitPim.
The test version of BitPim currently the LG VX4400 and VX6000 (phonebook, calendar, wallpaper and ringtones), and the Sanyo SCP-4900, 5300, and 8100 (phonebook and calendar only). It probably actually works on a few more Sanyo models, and more Sanyo phones and perhaps a Samsung may be added in the coming months. I believe the goal is to support most phones with Qualcomm 3G CDMA chipsets.
BitPim makes a nice stand alone application and has some import capability. Another goal is to have full import, export and sync capability for hte phonebook and calendar. Developers contributing in these areas would be most welcome by the project.
It used to be when you type an address into one of these online maps, the latitude and longitude of where the X was placed on the map was either displayed right on the result page, burried somewhere in the html, or in the URL. One by, one, the free map services have been dropping this information (perhaps encrypting it in the URL).
I used to have a little PHP web page I could call up from my cell phone that would let me type in an address, and then send an email to my phone with the latitude and longitude which I could then put into my GPS.
Does anyone know if there is any place left on the web that will convert an address to coordinates?
While waiting at the gate for a flight out of
Narita airport, I tried plugging in my wireless
card just on a lark. I was surprised to find that
the card saw an access point plus dhcp gave me
an address and a full connection to the net. I was
able to spend the rest of my wait doing email,
IM, and sshing back home. Investigating later, it
seems that something called the IPv6 Promotion
Council, along with assorted agencies,
is sponsoring a free wireless LAN trial at
the airport and on some trains and train stations
until July 31, 2002. (See http://www.nex.v6pc.jp/)
I wonder if we can every expect such experiments
in the US?
Aw come on, Space Precinct was great. It sure beat
all the other cop and lawyer shows out there and
it didn't take itself too seriously. I wish some
cable network had it in syndication!
Support for the Orinoco DS-11 cards (also sold as the Cabletron/Eterasys RoamAbout 802 is included as the wvlan_cs driver in the standard Linux PCMCIA package. Information about this driver is contained in the Linux Wireless LAN Howto. The wvlan_cs driver is opensource. There is also a driver based on a binary library provided by Lucent/Enterasys.
I have used both the open source driver and the binary driver. The binary driver is supposed to be more stable and full featured, although my laptop has crashed while using the binary driver and I have had no problems with the open source driver.
If you use the open source driver, make sure you use at least version 3.1.18 of the PCMCIA package to be compatible with the latest firmware in the cards.
Using "strings" on DSSAGENT.EXE shows that it has a a PGP key. Running "pgp" on the key gives:
DSS 4096/1024 0xF8EABB3F 1997/12/05 NRobins
sig? 0xF8EABB3F (Unknown signator, can't be checked)
There is also a temp file in /WINDOWS/BBSTORE/DSS that is XML. I am not sure how to include that file here without it getting mangled, but it looks like a file that gets sent to www.brodcast.net. It has in it "DSS V1.0", interval of 86400 seconds (1 day) and a SIG line that looks fairly encrypted. ("iQA/AwUBOJn/KCElolv46rs/EQKCWACfYmhHchvKNf/izSGI mO3yEECbJBcAoMV7hR2SELS5eF2IKuRJPNCTVUE4 ")
Another note. I just installed ipchains masquerading on my linux box. Behind this "firewall" are a couple of Windows machines for the kids. I have run "ipchains -M -L" periodically and always noticed an open connection from one of these machines to www.brodcast.net. I just thought it was one of the zillion things the kids have downloaded. Now I know to block that site with ipchains.