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"Outskirts"? What about the other 4500 farmers out there that aren't within a mile of WW city limits? Communities like Touchet, Lowden, Prescott, Wallula and the isolated ranches in between? Those towns are still without the luxury of cable tv, let alone broadband internet,forget about it if you're out in Clyde or Starbuck. I can see most ranchers seeing this as a great relief to standard dialup out there. I'm sure that there are quite a few people out in the sticks that still use partylines which are entirely non-condusive to dialup, to boot. I know party lines were still in use when I was growing up in rural WW county up until the 90's.
Actually, that's not so far fetched. Today's large-scale farmer usually has GPS and such in their cabs of their tractors, wheat trucks and combines now. TCP/IP would be a natural extension of that with realtime position tracking of vehicles and assets from either the ranch base or the co-op that owns the vehicles..
Using a regular nylon delta kite and some hard drive packing foam I managed to get the coolpix up for some aerial photography at Long Beach, WA.
The camera has a remote cord that can take pictures at a minimum 2 minute interval, so I activated it, packed it into the housing and sent it aloft. I didn't have any fancy RC PTZ controls like another fellow at the beach, but it seemed to work fairly well and with the luck of the wind, managed to get a few decent shots off. The maximum height I got was around 150ft.
I was pretty excited to invest in a larger, loftier kite with more payload, but the urge went away and I'm happy with the early results.
In his latest positioning statement on Microsoft Corp.'s Windows NT operating system, company chairman and CEO Bill Gates said NT is not a competitor of Unix, but in fact uses the same kernel. "I think [NT] will very quickly be the most popular form of Unix out there, because we do not allow licensees to change it around to try and get proprietary advantages on top of what was on there," Gates said at last week's PC Expo in New York. "NT is a form of Unix. It will not replace Unix, but I expect it to be the most popular form of Unix."
-- Communication Week (no 461, p.8, July 1993)
I use Registax for this. It does stacking, aligning and wavelet processing. The best out there at the moment. A few years back AstroStack was king. There are a bunch of others as well...
I took >A HREF="http://wastelands-observatory.factspot.com/p rocessed/08262003/">some pictures of Mars last night with my 8" SCT (Schmidt-Cassegrain) and a $30 Vesta Pro web camera and the results aren't too bad. Each image is comprised of 200 stacked images. The seeing wasn't very good as the air was dry and the temperature differential was high between night and day...
But it is impressive what details a $30 camera and a 25 year old telescope can glean from Mars.
I experimented with this just this weekend at Long Beach, WA with a regular delta kite and a coolpix 885 suspended from its line. I used the corded Nikon timer that allows interval pictures every 2 minutes. It was a fun experiment that I'll hope to take further with a picavet harness and a larger, loftier kite.
However, some version of snmpd (cmu) do not make accurate byte counts from/proc/net/ip_acct, it uses a kludge to average all packet sizes to 308 bytes. So what you see with snmp may not be accurate. We sent a modified snmp_vars.c that correctly reported byte counts with snmp to cmu and I think they rolled it into versions > 3.5.
Version 3.3 didn't even bother reading/proc/net/ip_acct, too.
So beware with what you think is valid data reported with cmu's snmpd. Its probably wrong.
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"Outskirts"? What about the other 4500 farmers out there that aren't within a mile of WW city limits? Communities like Touchet, Lowden, Prescott, Wallula and the isolated ranches in between? Those towns are still without the luxury of cable tv, let alone broadband internet
Actually, that's not so far fetched. Today's large-scale farmer usually has GPS and such in their cabs of their tractors, wheat trucks and combines now. TCP/IP would be a natural extension of that with realtime position tracking of vehicles and assets from either the ranch base or the co-op that owns the vehicles..
Spirit Error.
http://www.bahneman.com/liem/photos/other/SandSati ons/Aerial/
Using a regular nylon delta kite and some hard drive
packing foam I managed to get the coolpix up for some aerial photography at Long Beach, WA.
The camera has a remote cord that can take pictures at a minimum 2 minute interval, so I activated it,
packed it into the housing and sent it aloft. I didn't have any fancy RC PTZ controls like another fellow at the beach, but it seemed to work fairly well and with the luck of the wind, managed to get a few decent shots off. The maximum height I got was around 150ft.
I was pretty excited to invest in a larger, loftier kite with more payload, but the urge went away and I'm happy with the early results.
- liem
In his latest positioning statement on Microsoft Corp.'s Windows NT operating system, company chairman and CEO Bill Gates said NT is not a competitor of Unix, but in fact uses the same kernel. "I think [NT] will very quickly be the most popular form of Unix out there, because we do not allow licensees to change it around to try and get proprietary advantages on top of what was on there," Gates said at last week's PC Expo in New York. "NT is a form of Unix. It will not replace Unix, but I expect it to be the most popular form of Unix."
-- Communication Week (no 461, p.8, July 1993)
Lets try that url again.
I took >A HREF="http://wastelands-observatory.factspot.com/p rocessed/08262003/">some pictures of Mars last night with my 8" SCT (Schmidt-Cassegrain) and a $30 Vesta Pro web camera and the results aren't too bad. Each image is comprised of 200 stacked images. The seeing wasn't very good as the air was dry and the temperature differential was high between night and day...
But it is impressive what details a $30 camera and a 25 year old telescope can glean from Mars.
I experimented with this just this weekend at Long Beach, WA with a regular delta kite and a coolpix 885 suspended from its line. I used the corded Nikon timer that allows interval pictures every 2 minutes. It was a fun experiment that I'll hope to take further with a picavet harness and a larger, loftier kite.
my kite pics
How the world has changed.
The USAF paid for a good third of the Atlas 5 design project, so its inevitable that it will be used to launch DoD birds up.
ANH was 35mm, the 60mm version was a blowup from the 35mm film
However, some version of snmpd (cmu) do not
make accurate byte counts from
it uses a kludge to average all packet sizes to
308 bytes. So what you see with snmp may not be
accurate. We sent a modified snmp_vars.c that
correctly reported byte counts with snmp to cmu and I think they rolled it into versions > 3.5.
Version 3.3 didn't even bother reading
So beware with what you think is valid data reported with cmu's snmpd. Its probably wrong.
Just an FYI.