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  1. Re:gyroscopic effect on Dutch Invention Uses Electric Engines For Wheels · · Score: 1

    not really, all you need to do is short the motor, or better yet, hook the motor up to the batteries through a diode, which will also recharge the batteries WHILE slowing the bus down.... Very common with solar race cars, and electric cars

  2. Re:Nice one on Archos Recorder + Rockbox Plays Video · · Score: 1

    HAH, I had to bookmark that! :)

  3. Re:Nice one on Archos Recorder + Rockbox Plays Video · · Score: 2, Informative

    I have a Archos Multimedia jukebox... it can play divx files that have been resized to fit on the screen (comes with the program to do it, too), along with the audio being mp3... took me an hour to yank the AC3 audio out and encode it back into an mp3 format... ah, what I will do to keep my home video backups accessable... ;)

    I really do like it though, nice bright screen.

  4. hmm. on A Mars Mission's Greatest Challenge: Radiation · · Score: 1

    whats wrong with making our own magnetosphere? I am SURE its rather simple, just make a HUGE electromagnet, and a huge amount of power... of course the spacecraft will need to made of plastic or something...

  5. Re:It has already started on FCC Forum Divided on Future VoIP Regulation · · Score: 1

    On the cisco 7960/7940/etc phones they have SIP firmware images... works great with asterisk.

  6. Re:Why Bother: on Apple's iTunes DRM Cracked? · · Score: 1

    You could maybe burn a mp3 cd... then you can just yank the mp3s off the cd, and you also have a backup of your music!

  7. hmm on NASA Debates How And When To Kill Hubble Telescope · · Score: 1

    Why not just leave it up there? I would be neat to leave it up there for someone to revive 100 years from now....

  8. In other news... on Batteries Continue To Suck · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    In other news: The sun continues to rise in the morning, puzzling scientists worldwide.

  9. Re:When will I be able to use my own phone with Vo on Will A Price War Run VoIP Out of Business? · · Score: 1

    This is what they call ATA devices, and grandstream makes one for 70ish dollars, and cisco makes one with 2 lines for 200ish dollars.
    Grandstream also makes a 70 dollar ip phone (aka barbiephone)

  10. Other VOIP providers on Will A Price War Run VoIP Out of Business? · · Score: 1
    There are other VOIP providers that use Asterisk.

    Nufone

    StealthTele

  11. Re:For the love of god! on Expensive Geek Toys Roundup · · Score: 1

    African or European?

  12. WASTE SERVER on Slashback: Card, Fortran, Legibility · · Score: 1

    server ip is 216.135.68.133
    http://216.135.68.133/waste.php to paste your public keys in.
    my public ip is on that webpage
    Please dont slam me too hard, I will shut this down in 1 hour.

  13. wyse on Would You Move to Windows Thin Clients? · · Score: 1

    My work has a client that has about 20-25 employees, and about 6 actual PC's total, the rest are all $288 dollar wyse terminals and a large dual processor Dell server. So far there is very little load on the server, and we can problebly expand to over 50 users if we had to.

  14. Re:People dont share much anymore on P2P Filesharing vs. The Web · · Score: 1

    Oh rats, so much for my moving to Australia idea...

  15. Re:Ooh more vaporware. on MRAM in 2004? · · Score: 1

    yea, done it lots of times with hibernating XP and booting back up into knoppix... works great!

  16. Re:Steps: on Step-by-Step Computer Destruction · · Score: 1

    I thought it was a blond joke...

  17. Re:Find something with Jet Direct/network on Multi-function Printer Recomendations? · · Score: 5, Informative

    Answer to that problem is this a print server, a small device (now they have ones that plug right on the parallel port) that turns a LPT printer into a networked printer. We use them alot for clients and for outselves, so far we havn't had a bit of trouble.

  18. Re:In my experience... on Who Owns Source Code When a Company Folds? · · Score: 1

    I am THE pro at lunatic fringe, I still have it on one of these old syquests around here...

  19. dept on Isn't It Ironic? · · Score: 1

    from the don't-you-think dept.

    No, I dont think.

  20. Re:Advantages of IPV6 on U.S. DoD Commits To IPv6 · · Score: 1

    Crucially, in the header for the new protocol version there are 128 bits for senders and recipients. That equates to several quadrillion IP addresses for every individual alive.

    Damn, thats it...I was hoping for at least a quintillion :( oh well, w/ that many available ip addresses, i'll hopefully be able to get a static IP thru my service provider...(if several quadrillion time the worlds population is enough to allow for that)

  21. Re:It doesn't make it sound like a legend... on Your Brain May Have Amazing Powers · · Score: 1

    I can hear that now...
    *smash into tree* "gosh, sorry, this darn lag is messin me up"

  22. Re:ham radio on (Short-, Medium-, Long)wave Radio Meets Digital Stereo · · Score: 1

    Yea, I use packet on 2 meters, but it kinda hard to get voice into them ity bity packets. Lookup digtrx, its a photo/data digital transmit/recieve software, that is really nice. its sorta like sstv, but instead it sends the images out as jpegs.

  23. Text of website... on (Short-, Medium-, Long)wave Radio Meets Digital Stereo · · Score: 4, Informative

    The British Broadcasting Corp., Voice of America and other international broadcasters launched digital short-wave radio service Monday, promising to provide near-FM quality in the place of static-filled signals.

    Digital broadcasts don't increase a station's range, but they eliminate static and let broadcasters transmit text, such as news updates and song information, with the audio signal. For now, digital radio receivers are considerably more expensive than analog radios.

    The Digital Radio Mondiale consortium launched its digital service at a global radio meeting in Geneva.

    "DRM's introduction will forever alter the course of radio broadcasting," said Peter F. Senger, chairman of the consortium, which has more than 80 members.

    The initial signals were transmitted from a nearby mountain in France shortly after 8 p.m., when Senger gave the word during a ceremony in conjunction with the World Radiocommunication Conference in Geneva. The conference is held every few years to decide airwave issues such as the sharing of radio and satellite frequencies.

    Simultaneously, other short-wave broadcasters started using digital transmitters in different parts of the world. The transmissions received at the reception featured voices in Chinese, French, English, German, Russian and Spanish, followed by static-free music.

    For the foreseeable future, broadcasters will use both traditional analog systems alongside the digital transmissions so people with traditional radios will still be able to tune in. At first, broadcasts will be aimed at Europe, North America, the Middle East, Australia and New Zealand.

    Digital radio signals are duplicated enough so that even if some are lost from interference, the receiver is able to put the transmission back together so it can be heard correctly. And Senger said the system uses much less electricity than analog, which will save broadcasters considerably on their biggest cost item.

    Although the Federal Communications Commission has approved a different digital standard for U.S. domestic broadcasters, Senger said the new system is meant to be universal and could eventually be used in the United States.

    Other broadcasters in Europe, Asia and Canada have been using digital transmissions for several years. That system, known as Eureka 147 or DAB, uses a different set of frequencies than traditional AM, FM or short-wave bands.

  24. Re:but then ... on (Short-, Medium-, Long)wave Radio Meets Digital Stereo · · Score: 5, Insightful

    RANGE man, range! worldwide FM quality shortwave is gonna be cool.

  25. ham radio on (Short-, Medium-, Long)wave Radio Meets Digital Stereo · · Score: 2, Interesting

    amatuer radio might be able to use this, since they dont need a boat load of bandwidth, only a tiny bit. They allready have VHF and UHF digital radios, too, so I dont see why it wouldnt work on HF.