Asus WL500G Premiun Wifi router (none of your Linksys tat) - £67 each dd-wrt + crank up the power output to 100mW - FOC 9dbi gain antenna - about £6 each 12V DC battery pack - £20 each 10 mins for 'consultant' to flash the routers - £500
I used a similar setup (with mains adaptors and set to 40mW) to provide a stable link over about 700m from office to office across a public car park. Unfortunately, as an employee I couldn't charge the 'flashing fee'!
"...a method for expressing anger by the repositioning of domestic or business-oriented furniture through the use of body strength to raise and project said furniture in order that it is relocated to different spatial coordinates."
1) AOL CDs, if angled correctly, can be used to reflect sunlight so as to allow communication via Morse Code over short distances (provided you get sunlight in your basement). Longer transmission paths can be achieved by bouncing the light signal off strategically mounted intermediate CDs.
2) Banging two AOL CDs together will effect a similar system using sound over shorter distances (eg: 'Mom, is lunch ready yet?')
3) Laying down a trail of two parallel lines of AOL CDs and linking them together tightly with paperclips so that the metallic reflective surfaces are electrically joined will create a circuit pathway allowing differentially-driven signalling (dig out those RS422 transceivers guys).
4) Write your message on a spare AOL CD using permanent marker and mail the CD to your recipient (slow, but will improve profitability of your local postal service).
Sorry, but a full toner set for a Samsung CLP-510 colour laser is not much less than the cost of a new printer.
Our first (and last) one has just demanded a new transfer belt and drum after only 3 toner kits and to buy those is about £5 less than a brand new printer.
I'll kiss the CEO of Kodak (and maybe even have his baby)* if he sorts out the colour laser market.
So you have heard of NickelOS - with the core components 'Nicked' from a prominent repackager of a package produced by a prominent North American... oh you get the idea.
Stick it onto a transformer and make the sun blink.
There ya go!
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Yeah, sorry about that - I was doing an update to my CentOS server at home over a flaky broadband link and every time it reconnected I got a different dynamic IP address. BTW how's the other user getting on with their system?
"Hey, you...What you doing climbing the camera pole..yes you in the football shirt (half of Middlesbrough turns around thinking it's them)..put down those bolt cutters...this is police property and...hey..what's that sound? Are you cutting my brackets...I'm warning you, there's a car on its way...stop that right now...don't you know these cameras are very hard to resell...we have the serial number&*£(...."
Rumours also abound over the amount of cocaine in 'coke'. There may be no mountains or dew in Mountain Dew and no pepper in Dr Pepper. The manufacturers of the French beverage Pschitt were unavailable for comment.
Meh - You want to migrate your database to a twin floppy PC running PCFILE III!...those were the days....ahh CGA PRoN
Sorry - been a long day!
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Funny, but do you remember the mess with the 32-bit 'video' VESA bus - it was not long before we had VESA IDE cards, SCSI HBAs and NICs and it was sometimes a pain to get the whole lot to work.
Now, there's 'being a jerk' or submitting some daft comments under the protection of the AC account and there's just being unnecessarily offensive. Everyone is entitled to be a jerk sometimes, but most retain a degree of respect and maturity when they do it. Shame on you.
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Hmm..
Asus WL500G Premiun Wifi router (none of your Linksys tat) - £67 each
dd-wrt + crank up the power output to 100mW - FOC
9dbi gain antenna - about £6 each
12V DC battery pack - £20 each
10 mins for 'consultant' to flash the routers - £500
I used a similar setup (with mains adaptors and set to 40mW) to provide a stable link over about 700m from office to office across a public car park. Unfortunately, as an employee I couldn't charge the 'flashing fee'!
It's a Burberry Check - the prototype is designed to appeal to Chavs and be used as an animated baseball cap badge - realtime bling!
"I'm working from memory here"
About 640Ks worth? That should be sufficient!
"...a method for expressing anger by the repositioning of domestic or business-oriented furniture through the use of body strength to raise and project said furniture in order that it is relocated to different spatial coordinates."
1) AOL CDs, if angled correctly, can be used to reflect sunlight so as to allow communication via Morse Code over short distances (provided you get sunlight in your basement). Longer transmission paths can be achieved by bouncing the light signal off strategically mounted intermediate CDs.
2) Banging two AOL CDs together will effect a similar system using sound over shorter distances (eg: 'Mom, is lunch ready yet?')
3) Laying down a trail of two parallel lines of AOL CDs and linking them together tightly with paperclips so that the metallic reflective surfaces are electrically joined will create a circuit pathway allowing differentially-driven signalling (dig out those RS422 transceivers guys).
4) Write your message on a spare AOL CD using permanent marker and mail the CD to your recipient (slow, but will improve profitability of your local postal service).
5) AOL CD = FrisbeeNet?
If every OS and app was perfect and foolproof then gazillions of us techs would not be needed.
See where I'm heading...!?
Upon reading the article on this, Steve Jobs was reported to have said "Fuck everything, we're doing five views."
"Harry Potter and the Ashes of Doohan"
First think that came into my mind when I read the headline.
Sorry, but a full toner set for a Samsung CLP-510 colour laser is not much less than the cost of a new printer.
Our first (and last) one has just demanded a new transfer belt and drum after only 3 toner kits and to buy those is about £5 less than a brand new printer.
I'll kiss the CEO of Kodak (and maybe even have his baby)* if he sorts out the colour laser market.
*Not really.
I can't see a large opening for sites with names like this.
So you have heard of NickelOS - with the core components 'Nicked' from a prominent repackager of a package produced by a prominent North American... oh you get the idea.
PS: Keep up the great work.
Raise the voltage?
Stick it onto a transformer and make the sun blink.
There ya go!
Yeah, sorry about that - I was doing an update to my CentOS server at home over a flaky broadband link and every time it reconnected I got a different dynamic IP address. BTW how's the other user getting on with their system?
Maybe it was a case of 'find an apt domain name first and then name the project'.
We're lucky the software wasn't renamed ClownPenis.
Went there once on a 6 month contract...
Likely message from the cameras...
"Hey, you...What you doing climbing the camera pole..yes you in the football shirt (half of Middlesbrough turns around thinking it's them)..put down those bolt cutters...this is police property and...hey..what's that sound? Are you cutting my brackets...I'm warning you, there's a car on its way...stop that right now...don't you know these cameras are very hard to resell...we have the serial number&*£(...."
...or GWBASIC.
Cue new headline "Digg sues Slashdot over patented posting method. Low submitter IQ 'cornerstone of Diggs's success'"
Rumours also abound over the amount of cocaine in 'coke'. There may be no mountains or dew in Mountain Dew and no pepper in Dr Pepper. The manufacturers of the French beverage Pschitt were unavailable for comment.
PS: Visit the Pschitt site - the intro's a riot!
Hows about triple faulting the 80286 processor to drop out of protected mode?
Meh - You want to migrate your database to a twin floppy PC running PCFILE III! ...those were the days. ...ahh CGA PRoN
Sorry - been a long day!
Funny, but do you remember the mess with the 32-bit 'video' VESA bus - it was not long before we had VESA IDE cards, SCSI HBAs and NICs and it was sometimes a pain to get the whole lot to work.
I don't think it'll run Apache as the first server OS will clearly be "Netware Lite" - has Apache been ported to that yet?
Vista without a GUI you say...hmmm...that one sounds like a real Netware Lite killer to me!
Yeah, but that cancer's history - that'll learn it!
Now, there's 'being a jerk' or submitting some daft comments under the protection of the AC account and there's just being unnecessarily offensive. Everyone is entitled to be a jerk sometimes, but most retain a degree of respect and maturity when they do it. Shame on you.