Since none of the replies have yet mentioned the other companies... I use X10 stuff, only the stuff I got from the company before they started their annoying pop-up ads, back when they were basically giving it away (the $50 starter kit w/firecracker, remote and a couple mods cost $8), charging only for shipping. I did get one of their camera packs, as I couldnt find any other company selling similar things cheaply, and honestly, they work well for most stuff, tho their battery powered motion detectors suck (tend to act randomly, and change their pre-set codes when the batterys start to run low). That being said, RCA and leviton make alot of X10 compat. devices. Check out Smarthome.com, they have ALOT of home automation stuff, alot of it is X10 compat, and with the firecracker and ActiveHome(CM11a) serial controllers or similar serial based adapters, anything X10 can be controlled easily in linux. Check out the HeyU package for doin stuff with CM11A, works great in perl/cgi scripts.
Try CollectiveGood, they take old cellphones and recycle them for stuff like what was mentioned. The money they make off this recycling is also sent directly to other charity type non-profits, so the donation is tax-deductable.
The primer cap(thing the hammer strikes to start the main charge) is a percussion sensitive compound, similar to picric acid or more commonly the stuff in "Snap-N-Pops". This compound has oxygen in it, or some other similar molecules that react and release alot of heat. This in turn de-stabalizes the powder of the main charge. Older guns and cannons used black powder, a crude mix of charcoal (carbon) and saltpetre (sodium/potassium nitrate) and a little sulphur. When heated, the nitrate (NaNO3) releases oxygen (O2) to cumbust the Carbon (C), resulting in CO2, various sulphur by-products, alot of heat and rapidly expanding gas.
See: This page for the quote: Oxygen from the atmosphere need not be present for smokeless powder to burn, as the compounds that comprise it carry enough oxygen within them to support the burning. In fact, it burns inefficiently when in the open producing a considerable amount of smoke as well as residue. However, when burned in a shell casing under pressure, it produces little smoke or residue and is very efficient.
In a vaccume, there would be less back pressure on the outside of the bullet, meaning it would actually accelerate faster, and without friction from air and gravity to slow/re-direct it, it could go much further and much more accurately at a much higher top-speed (no Mach numbers to worry about, vaccume has NO speed of sound).
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p.s. if the first post was a troll or just sarcasm, it was a poor attempt and had no bite to it.
And it doesn't cost anything for the 'privlege' of spending your own damn money when you use cash...
Doesnt cost ME anything for using my credit card either, so long as I pay the balance by the due date. Granted the buisness that accepts my card pays a small % to the card company (and/or maybe a flat fee as well), I still pay nothing. I actually GET money for using the card too. There is a big misconception of people who never use a card and always hear about the horrors of credit card debt. You wont accumulate the debt unless you spend more than you can afford to pay off once the billing cycle ends. You also do not get charged anything if you dont carry a balance and your card has no anual fee, and dont use it to get cash advance via ATM, and dont go over your limit (if you do, you need to re-evaluate your finances). Just pay off the balance in full, not just minimum payment, and you pay only what you spent. If you shop around for a good card, you even get "rewards" for using the card instead of cash, like a % back, or points/miles towards purchases/plane tix. In the 8 years or so of using ccards for payment the only time I had to pay more than what I spent was for a laptop I let half the cost ride the card for an extra month as I couldnt pay in full on the due date.
911 service depends on the carrier. The company I work for has the required 911 trunks, so all our customers DO have 911 access. Its not an issue of reliability (after all, how reliable IS your cell phone??), rather an issue of the service provider having the physical resources to setup the access trunks properly. For VoIP providers that use your internet connection, this is difficult because unless you tell them, they dont really need to know where you are geographically, and therefore your 911 call could get routed to the 911center on the other side of the city/state/country.
You need to get the phone line so you can get the DSL service so you can get the VoIP so you can use your modem to dial AOL and use your RogerWilco headset to talk to people across the room doing the same thing....
There was even an issue with 56K compression due to the way the voice packets are generated. The main use is for secure systems like banks that required modems to access, or more generally credit card machines and security systems. Some people still dont have much of a clue and we get trouble tickets every now and then with problems using modems, esp. w/AOL (even though the way our service works, the bandwidth of the T1 not in use by voice can be used via the etherenet port on the router for inet access).I know this cause its part of my job, setting up the VoIP service for our customers.
Still use it to talk with my HP48gx, since it only supports that and xmodem.
I remember back in the BBS days, always hated having to use x/ymodem since it required supplying the filename, where zModem defaulted to automagically grabbing it, not to mention how much faster it was/is. Kermit shared that feature, but by the time I was using BBSs alot zModem was already the norm. zModem is Dead! long live zModem!
Was evidently the lawyer that represented SCO last friday.
David Boies and his fellow Boies, Schiller & Flexner LLP lawyer Mark Heise are SCO's attorneys in this case, but the software company was represented in a court skirmish last week in Utah between SCO and IBM Corp. byDarl McBride's brother Kevin. Kevin McBride, according to West Legal Directory, has a private practice in nearby Park City, Utah, where he specializes in litigation and appeals, not corporate-contract or intellectual-property law.
Makes things even more fishy. Looks like the McBride family is going to make out nicely either way, SCO wins Darl gets a big payout, Kevin gets a cut of attorney fees, SCO looses and Kevin still gets a cut from the contingency plan.
Also to reference Linux as being a derivitave of the "older operating system" Unix is wrong on a couple points. First has already been pointed out, Linux is designed to work like Unix but was not in any way derived directly from its source, which is actually what SCO is trying to claim in the first place. Also, the article fails to mention that the "older operating system" Unix is what SCO's primary buisness was based on originally.
No, 98SE is the most stable of all the win98 releases. I still use it on my laptop (dualbooted with linux of course) as it is the only supported OS for some of my PC cards.
Windows Millenium
This should have never been released. It was a bad attempt to make win98 more like NT/2000. The WORST OS ever released (about as painfull as working with VAX/VMS, but nowhere near stable).
all Internet Explorer except the latest
Regretably, there are ALOT of pages that only work correctly under IE now. Ahh, if only MS hadn't crushed netscape we might actually have a standard that is actually followed (rather than re-written as MS sees fit).
as Graphic tablet rather than tablet PC. Made me remember days of clicking away at autocad on an old Summasketch II 12x12 tablet (on a blazing fast 386 w/8Mb...,not even mentioning the ancient one we had on an even older TI).. still use a CalComp Drawingboard III 12x12 sometimes, 16 buttons that can be mapped to anything I want is nice sometimes (no need for jestures, just click a different button).
When your looking at downhill/free ride style bikes, thats almost a normal weight. Add that to the benifit of a transmission that is always engaged (rather than a chain jumping around different gears, its different gears engaging) and you have something alot of downhill/freeride bikers will want.
t's mainly the fact that Apache has gone up from 13.52 million to 14.37 million active sites ( a gain 846294) that makes the graph show a swing from Apache to Linux. It's not really a change from Apache TO IIS....
You are correct that the graph is misleading. It only shows total percentages, not specific numbers, and not who is changing to what. The article claims that part of the big gain was from large registrars and hosting sites switching back to Apache from IIS ( for over one million domains ). One Million is a rather large part of the 9.4million IIS servers online (not 4mill as you state), a -10.6% change . IIS's numbers did change a good bit, going from 10.2 to 9.4 million (-8.5%), 1Million+ from servers switching to Apache according to the article. From those numbers, and assuming no one else switched, you can infer that 2.1% new servers were brought online, or 0.19million. As these NEW servers were brought online, yet still could not make up for the ones that switched, it shows that IIS is losing ground (-1% gain). The graph shows total %, meaning who has the larger market share when it comes to web servers. Total numbers are always going to be going up or staying the same for the foreseeable future. Looking at total numbers means nothing if you cant reference it to something. If you are losing %, you are falling out of the game as the other options are taking over your positions. Its quite obvious on the graph, IIS has been declining in % for a while. This graph shows data for SEVERAL YEARS (since back around when stuff first started up on the web), IIS has been declining % for over a year now. A few more months of data is not needed to see this trend. Its true that it is because Apache is being used for more new servers, but isnt that the whole point in the first place???
A piezo-electric material produce electricity when a force is applied to it (when it is bent, essentially). This is how the lighter works on a gas grill. You press a button which raps a piezo electric material, that produces electricity which produces a spark which lights the gas.
The piezo material is normally quartz. The click you hear when pushing the button is a small hammer striking a quartz crystal. The causes the quartz to emit electricity, generating the spark.
Well, some piezo materials also bend when electricity is applied. So perhaps this material is one of those?
Piezo materials do both, they emit electricity when vibrated/impacted/bent/physically messed with, and when electricity is applied, they vibrate/bend/etc. Quartz clocks use this principal to drive the hands of the clock. A current is applied to the crystal, which vibrates at a known frequency. The mechanics inside the clock mechanism use these vibrations to move the arms.
Honestly, these transducers are nothing new, if you attach a regular speaker to a window it will vibrate the window. And it likely has the same problem the previous systems have, which is that with no absolute reference to push against it cannot produce low-frequency sounds.
Actually, these are a bit different from your average transducer. Traditional ones, like the ones I have mounted in the Sofas in front of my TV, are basically the same design as a speaker. The difference is the coil is stationary and the heavy magnet is driven rather than a cone. The changes in momentum of the magnet generate forces that are transmitted to whatever it is attached to. These new ones can actually generate vibrations on the surface of the device, and thus whatever it is attached to, as the metal itself is changing shape rapidly, rather than just moving a mass and relying on forces generated from momentum. Where traditional transduces need bigger coils and heavier magnets to output more power, these new devices need more surface area and more of the special metal. Actuall playback quality is still very dependant on what it is attached to (putting these on a wall of acustic foam is obviously going to produce verly little, if any, sound; whereas putting them on drywall, glass, or any other flat, rigid surface would probably be ideal).
RTFA?? They did already. Some guy paid $1.5Mill to cancel vibrations on his Yacht:
One wealthy businessman handed Etrema $1.5 million to stop the slight vibrations on his yacht when he hit top speeds. Terfenol did the trick, allowing him to dine at sea without having his meal shimmy off the plate.
This is probably the least of this metal's capability. I foresee many things being made that utilize this stuff. The article mentions other things such as fuel injectors, tooth phone, church pew for deaf people, and electric razors. Anything dealing with audible-range frequency sound/vibrations will probably benifit from this.
Most of his suppliers IIRC had a stipulation that stated they would not attempt to concentrate the peroxide. He does have one guy distilling some 90%, but it is taking alot of time to get any significant quantity. They have also been having a good bit of success using just the 50% and have been experimenting alot with that. 50% would be a better alternative if they can get it to perform well, its easier to get, less dangerous than 90% and probably less expensive. The only drawback is that it isnt quite as powerfull, and is taking alot of R&D time to get it working well.
I should probably clarify that a bit. The query matched across several tables, linked by non-indexed keys, and ran against the same table twice. The error in the query caused every row in the first instance of one table to match every row in the second instance of the same table, generating 20K*20K=400M+ matches on that table alone. The mysqld restart was actually just a "show process-list" then "kill [PID]" of the errent process... My mind was a bit off when I posted this.
Exactly my point. Most true VOIP solutions will still probably run over the existing physical infrastructure, which will most likely use prvate/unrouteable subnets ala 192.168./10./172.16.128. as does the VOIP company I happen to be employed by. Not only does this make it alot more difficult to breach from the outside net (besides being firewalled specifically among other things), it allows building custom neworks to handle the low-latency required for VOIP. I do see the end of interstate long-distance being different from in-state coming soon, followed closely with the complete abolishment of long-distance, as there is no difference in cost to the providers (since most already have backhauls across the nation), and is only in existance because of FCC regulations (the only reason intra-state is more expensive is because FCC regulations allow it). The article as posted will most definately be referring to the method of switching between cell towers and the ILEC-POTS network which Im supprised wasnt designed as VOIP in the first place (or already converted).
I would have to second this. I use MySql at work as the main database for the NOC and service activations and circuit delivery groups. The database (running off an old Sun Netra box) handles the load of all the scripts (mostly perl) used by all those groups. This includes scripts that monitor circuit status (ala Netcool), test new circuits, keep track of customer installations, change requests, troubles, router configs, etc... The MySql server has never caused dataloss, and the only instances where it "crashed" were errent querys in alpha CGI script releases that caused basically an infinite loop around a search on the 20K+circuit entries on a non-Indexed field, that a simple restart of the mysqld fixed. Even when the Beta version was released running on a linux P4 box we never had issues, as opposed to the Oracle backended system used for the main corp. database that regularly causes much frustration among co-workers (not to mention the internal conflict between 2 development teams (corp vs us) trying to control the access and data of the corp database vs the ease of development of new utilities to make Customer installation and support easier.
VOIP is just another protocol. Most people seem to not realize that by the time their phoneline reaches the edge of their neighborhood, it has become a digital signal. The transition to VOIP is just natural progression. It allows more flexability, but will still require routers and switchtes to operate. Through these switches and routers is how the phone companies will keep track of calls. VOIP does NOT mean an end to phone numbers, providers, etc... Remember that most of the internet is carried by the ILEC networks on the same loops used to carry voice, just reonfigured slightly to allow pure data traffic. VOIP providers merely use these loops in the data configuration with routers that convert the analog voice signals to packets closer to the customer end than normal voice lines. VOIP merely abstracts the traffic type from the physical layer more than current SS7 and other protocols. VOIP is not simply PC-PC calls placed by IP address. VOIP is only a different protocol, central switches are still used to route calls and keep track of things, they just run more efficently (ie: 1 VOIP switch about the size of a 10k cisco can handle the entire call volume for a decent sized city (or 2) where currently several switches are required by the ILECs). Per-minute rates and such will still be acounted for. Phone providers will switch to VOIP mainly due to the relative simplicity and flexability of its stucture. VOIP is NOT what alot of people percieve, it is simply a new method of routing voice traffic that does not eliminate the need for routers/switches/etc...
To figure out the maximum number of times the songs could be shared, just use the bandwidth of the connection the supposed violator had. IE: most cable modems have a capped upload at 256kbps or so, so estimate a saturated upload stream for however long they estimate the files were available for sharing. You could even come up with a rate in $$/Sec for sharing files, estimating most mp3's are around 4MB. So, 256kbps/8=32KB/s=~.032MB/s, or 125Sec per 4MB song. Using the estimate of $1.80/song, you get $1.80/125 or 1.455 cents/sec., which can be expanded to $51.84/hr.,$1244.16/day, $454,118.40/year. Granted this doesnt account for protocol overhead, assumes you have a perfect connection and assumes you are sharing 24/7 and do nothing else, and manage to keep the link saturated, but thats still a very large number.
Until they again decide that tuition "is below the average level of other universities of equil merit" and raise it by another 20% or so... Not like they are short of change or anything, since their last $300M funding campaign (which I think actually started alot less than that) only brought in over $700M. Always supprises me how dumb the leadership of such a well known school (known mainly for the intelligence required to attend and graduate) can be.
Vapor/fog is just small water particles suspended in air. Same as what clouds are. It forms when the temperature hits the Dewpoint, or other conditions are changed such that the dewpoint becomes the current temp (dewpoint=temp when clouds form). Coulds most certainly are not 100deg F, and neither is Fog (ground-level cloud cover). When the temp hits 100(at sea-level, less at higher altitude), water turns to steam, which is actually transparent, and is itself a GAS (ie: not particles suspended in air). If you actually RTFA you might have played either video, in which the guys are actually walking through (and doing other strange stuff in) the screen.
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See: This page for the quote: Oxygen from the atmosphere need not be present for smokeless powder to burn, as the compounds that comprise it carry enough oxygen within them to support the burning. In fact, it burns inefficiently when in the open producing a considerable amount of smoke as well as residue. However, when burned in a shell casing under pressure, it produces little smoke or residue and is very efficient.
In a vaccume, there would be less back pressure on the outside of the bullet, meaning it would actually accelerate faster, and without friction from air and gravity to slow/re-direct it, it could go much further and much more accurately at a much higher top-speed (no Mach numbers to worry about, vaccume has NO speed of sound).
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p.s. if the first post was a troll or just sarcasm, it was a poor attempt and had no bite to it.
Doesnt cost ME anything for using my credit card either, so long as I pay the balance by the due date. Granted the buisness that accepts my card pays a small % to the card company (and/or maybe a flat fee as well), I still pay nothing. I actually GET money for using the card too. There is a big misconception of people who never use a card and always hear about the horrors of credit card debt. You wont accumulate the debt unless you spend more than you can afford to pay off once the billing cycle ends. You also do not get charged anything if you dont carry a balance and your card has no anual fee, and dont use it to get cash advance via ATM, and dont go over your limit (if you do, you need to re-evaluate your finances). Just pay off the balance in full, not just minimum payment, and you pay only what you spent. If you shop around for a good card, you even get "rewards" for using the card instead of cash, like a % back, or points/miles towards purchases/plane tix. In the 8 years or so of using ccards for payment the only time I had to pay more than what I spent was for a laptop I let half the cost ride the card for an extra month as I couldnt pay in full on the due date.
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You need to get the phone line so you can get the DSL service so you can get the VoIP so you can use your modem to dial AOL and use your RogerWilco headset to talk to people across the room doing the same thing....
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There was even an issue with 56K compression due to the way the voice packets are generated. The main use is for secure systems like banks that required modems to access, or more generally credit card machines and security systems. Some people still dont have much of a clue and we get trouble tickets every now and then with problems using modems, esp. w/AOL (even though the way our service works, the bandwidth of the T1 not in use by voice can be used via the etherenet port on the router for inet access).I know this cause its part of my job, setting up the VoIP service for our customers.
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I remember back in the BBS days, always hated having to use x/ymodem since it required supplying the filename, where zModem defaulted to automagically grabbing it, not to mention how much faster it was/is. Kermit shared that feature, but by the time I was using BBSs alot zModem was already the norm. zModem is Dead! long live zModem!
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David Boies and his fellow Boies, Schiller & Flexner LLP lawyer Mark Heise are SCO's attorneys in this case, but the software company was represented in a court skirmish last week in Utah between SCO and IBM Corp. byDarl McBride's brother Kevin. Kevin McBride, according to West Legal Directory, has a private practice in nearby Park City, Utah, where he specializes in litigation and appeals, not corporate-contract or intellectual-property law.
Makes things even more fishy. Looks like the McBride family is going to make out nicely either way, SCO wins Darl gets a big payout, Kevin gets a cut of attorney fees, SCO looses and Kevin still gets a cut from the contingency plan.
Also to reference Linux as being a derivitave of the "older operating system" Unix is wrong on a couple points. First has already been pointed out, Linux is designed to work like Unix but was not in any way derived directly from its source, which is actually what SCO is trying to claim in the first place. Also, the article fails to mention that the "older operating system" Unix is what SCO's primary buisness was based on originally.
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No, 98SE is the most stable of all the win98 releases. I still use it on my laptop (dualbooted with linux of course) as it is the only supported OS for some of my PC cards.
Windows Millenium
This should have never been released. It was a bad attempt to make win98 more like NT/2000. The WORST OS ever released (about as painfull as working with VAX/VMS, but nowhere near stable).
all Internet Explorer except the latest
Regretably, there are ALOT of pages that only work correctly under IE now. Ahh, if only MS hadn't crushed netscape we might actually have a standard that is actually followed (rather than re-written as MS sees fit).
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You are correct that the graph is misleading. It only shows total percentages, not specific numbers, and not who is changing to what. The article claims that part of the big gain was from large registrars and hosting sites switching back to Apache from IIS ( for over one million domains ). One Million is a rather large part of the 9.4million IIS servers online (not 4mill as you state), a -10.6% change . IIS's numbers did change a good bit, going from 10.2 to 9.4 million (-8.5%), 1Million+ from servers switching to Apache according to the article. From those numbers, and assuming no one else switched, you can infer that 2.1% new servers were brought online, or 0.19million. As these NEW servers were brought online, yet still could not make up for the ones that switched, it shows that IIS is losing ground (-1% gain). The graph shows total %, meaning who has the larger market share when it comes to web servers. Total numbers are always going to be going up or staying the same for the foreseeable future. Looking at total numbers means nothing if you cant reference it to something. If you are losing %, you are falling out of the game as the other options are taking over your positions. Its quite obvious on the graph, IIS has been declining in % for a while. This graph shows data for SEVERAL YEARS (since back around when stuff first started up on the web), IIS has been declining % for over a year now. A few more months of data is not needed to see this trend. Its true that it is because Apache is being used for more new servers, but isnt that the whole point in the first place???
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The piezo material is normally quartz. The click you hear when pushing the button is a small hammer striking a quartz crystal. The causes the quartz to emit electricity, generating the spark.
Well, some piezo materials also bend when electricity is applied. So perhaps this material is one of those?
Piezo materials do both, they emit electricity when vibrated/impacted/bent/physically messed with, and when electricity is applied, they vibrate/bend/etc. Quartz clocks use this principal to drive the hands of the clock. A current is applied to the crystal, which vibrates at a known frequency. The mechanics inside the clock mechanism use these vibrations to move the arms.
Honestly, these transducers are nothing new, if you attach a regular speaker to a window it will vibrate the window. And it likely has the same problem the previous systems have, which is that with no absolute reference to push against it cannot produce low-frequency sounds.
Actually, these are a bit different from your average transducer. Traditional ones, like the ones I have mounted in the Sofas in front of my TV, are basically the same design as a speaker. The difference is the coil is stationary and the heavy magnet is driven rather than a cone. The changes in momentum of the magnet generate forces that are transmitted to whatever it is attached to. These new ones can actually generate vibrations on the surface of the device, and thus whatever it is attached to, as the metal itself is changing shape rapidly, rather than just moving a mass and relying on forces generated from momentum. Where traditional transduces need bigger coils and heavier magnets to output more power, these new devices need more surface area and more of the special metal. Actuall playback quality is still very dependant on what it is attached to (putting these on a wall of acustic foam is obviously going to produce verly little, if any, sound; whereas putting them on drywall, glass, or any other flat, rigid surface would probably be ideal).
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One wealthy businessman handed Etrema $1.5 million to stop the slight vibrations on his yacht when he hit top speeds. Terfenol did the trick, allowing him to dine at sea without having his meal shimmy off the plate.
This is probably the least of this metal's capability. I foresee many things being made that utilize this stuff. The article mentions other things such as fuel injectors, tooth phone, church pew for deaf people, and electric razors. Anything dealing with audible-range frequency sound/vibrations will probably benifit from this.
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P.S.Cant wait for our Sun V280r shows up!
VOIP is just another protocol. Most people seem to not realize that by the time their phoneline reaches the edge of their neighborhood, it has become a digital signal. The transition to VOIP is just natural progression. It allows more flexability, but will still require routers and switchtes to operate. Through these switches and routers is how the phone companies will keep track of calls. VOIP does NOT mean an end to phone numbers, providers, etc... Remember that most of the internet is carried by the ILEC networks on the same loops used to carry voice, just reonfigured slightly to allow pure data traffic. VOIP providers merely use these loops in the data configuration with routers that convert the analog voice signals to packets closer to the customer end than normal voice lines. VOIP merely abstracts the traffic type from the physical layer more than current SS7 and other protocols. VOIP is not simply PC-PC calls placed by IP address. VOIP is only a different protocol, central switches are still used to route calls and keep track of things, they just run more efficently (ie: 1 VOIP switch about the size of a 10k cisco can handle the entire call volume for a decent sized city (or 2) where currently several switches are required by the ILECs). Per-minute rates and such will still be acounted for. Phone providers will switch to VOIP mainly due to the relative simplicity and flexability of its stucture. VOIP is NOT what alot of people percieve, it is simply a new method of routing voice traffic that does not eliminate the need for routers/switches/etc...
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