Clockmaker here, fix things like this for a living.
There is a simple analog battery movement with a secondary clock inside that resets the clock for DST and back again. They work well, are reasonably accurate and inexpensive. Pretty much a "replace single AA battery one a year and ignore it" movement. I have replaced several of the old "Atomic" movements with these.
If you want digital, we call them cell phones these days.:)
The smaller Low power stations will likely lose their license or be forced to move to another frequency with no financial compensation. As far as the Low Power stations are concerned this auction is a very bad idea.
Its the LP stations that provide minority content.
The LP I engineer for provides Spanish and Haitian content to our communities, many LP stations around the country provide similar content.
As for cell phone users this is not that much spectrum and will make little difference.
This is just a big land grab by the big cell phone carriers, welcome to the 19th century.
To stop the SPDIF looping problem go into prefrences, go to the audio section and change the output type to "Win32 WaveOut Extention Output". It is the only output type that works correctly.
A couple of years ago I was asked to look at a heavily infected machine. One unusual spyware program that was on this PC would intercept Google search requests and respond with several pages of ad based related hits that looked just like valid Google pages. I never did figure out what the underlying piece of spyware was causing it but was eventually successful removing it with Hijack This.
They already do! If you use background music in an area with something like 50 or more people listening to it then you have to pay an ASCAP fee!
Many a restaurant and bar have been nailed for not paying. Talk about legal extortion.
This reminds me of the bad capacaters that showed up on a bunch of motherboards a couple of years ago. I wonder if these exploding batteries are the result of industrial esponage gone wrong line in the caps case?
It too 10 years or so for Billy Boy's company to cath up with the Amiga, a PC that could do some really neet stuff with a 14 mhz processor and 512k of RAM.
For the last 8 years we have gotten faster, more storage, a slicker interface, buggier software, higher resolution monitors, and THE INTERNET.
Whats next? smaller thinner screens, even faster CPU's and more storage.
What I don't see are any potential killer apps on the horizon.
I feel that some informed comments are required for this topic. I am a clockmaker, yes I work on 200 year old clocks all the time; and I have to say that this is a really neat merging of modern and antique technology.
The clocks that are being regulated are tower clocks, they are observed by hundreds if not thousands of people a day. It would be nice to know that they are on time. It would also be a crime to rip out the old pendulum movement and replace them with an electric movement. Another feature is that the old antique system can run for several days in the event of a power failure, it just won't be quite as accurate.
The movements in these clocks are heavy cast iron units with large gears and very heavy pendulums. Using a magnet system to attempt to influence the timing rate would probably prove ineffective. However using some sort of system to raise or lower the pendulum by just a couple of millimeters will affect the timing rate by several seconds a day.
These clocks used to be wound once a week by hand and the time would have been reset at that time. These days most of these clocks have been converted to an automatic winding system, thus they see much less hands on maintenance, automatic systems for regulating the clock become much more attractive.
As a side note, the tower clock in London, commonly known as "Big Ben" ("Big Ben" is really the name of the bell that is used to count the hours) is regulated by adding or removing one or two old English Pennies, the one that were about the size of an old American Silver Dollar. The clock is regulated to be as on time as possible on the Queens Birthday and on New Years Eve.
Going even further afield some of you might get a kick out of the elaborate astronomical clocks that were designed in the 1800's. These were astonishing pieces of engineering that have been known to take an astronomer to figure out all of the settings required to set the clock.
I guess my passion for my vocation is showing, I hope that I was able to add something of interest.
Go for the 4 tank Canon printers. There is usually a reasonably priced entry level printer and with a refill kit you can refill the tanks indefinately. As for ease of refill they are considered the easiest ones to refill as well. I have a Canon BJC-3000, picked it up for $50.00 2 years ago, still prints well, I refill the tanks about 2-3 times a year. Can't beat it with a stick. There is a new generation of Canon's out now that have a ceramic head. Can't remember the model number but they go for about $150.00. Very fast and very good photo printing using the same 4 tank system in my older printer. Saving up for one now. You just can't beat these for great cost per page printing.
During the mid 80's a friend and I created the "Deadlock BBS Construction Kit" for the C-64. Seeing this thread brought back a lot of memories. We never made a fortune on the program but we did have fun.
I did a quick Google search and found the BBS software mentioned several times with good comments. Its nice to be remembered kindly.
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Clockmaker here, fix things like this for a living.
There is a simple analog battery movement with a secondary clock inside that resets the clock for DST and back again. They work well, are reasonably accurate and inexpensive. Pretty much a "replace single AA battery one a year and ignore it" movement. I have replaced several of the old "Atomic" movements with these.
If you want digital, we call them cell phones these days. :)
The smaller Low power stations will likely lose their license or be forced to move to another frequency with no financial compensation. As far as the Low Power stations are concerned this auction is a very bad idea.
Its the LP stations that provide minority content.
The LP I engineer for provides Spanish and Haitian content to our communities, many LP stations around the country provide similar content.
As for cell phone users this is not that much spectrum and will make little difference.
This is just a big land grab by the big cell phone carriers, welcome to the 19th century.
To stop the SPDIF looping problem go into prefrences, go to the audio section and change the output type to "Win32 WaveOut Extention Output". It is the only output type that works correctly.
A couple of years ago I was asked to look at a heavily infected machine. One unusual spyware program that was on this PC would intercept Google search requests and respond with several pages of ad based related hits that looked just like valid Google pages. I never did figure out what the underlying piece of spyware was causing it but was eventually successful removing it with Hijack This.
They already do! If you use background music in an area with something like 50 or more people listening to it then you have to pay an ASCAP fee! Many a restaurant and bar have been nailed for not paying. Talk about legal extortion.
This reminds me of the bad capacaters that showed up on a bunch of motherboards a couple of years ago. I wonder if these exploding batteries are the result of industrial esponage gone wrong line in the caps case?
It too 10 years or so for Billy Boy's company to cath up with the Amiga, a PC that could do some really neet stuff with a 14 mhz processor and 512k of RAM.
For the last 8 years we have gotten faster, more storage, a slicker interface, buggier software, higher resolution monitors, and THE INTERNET.
Whats next? smaller thinner screens, even faster CPU's and more storage.
What I don't see are any potential killer apps on the horizon.
Chronos56
I feel that some informed comments are required for this topic. I am a clockmaker, yes I work on 200 year old clocks all the time; and I have to say that this is a really neat merging of modern and antique technology.
The clocks that are being regulated are tower clocks, they are observed by hundreds if not thousands of people a day. It would be nice to know that they are on time. It would also be a crime to rip out the old pendulum movement and replace them with an electric movement. Another feature is that the old antique system can run for several days in the event of a power failure, it just won't be quite as accurate.
The movements in these clocks are heavy cast iron units with large gears and very heavy pendulums. Using a magnet system to attempt to influence the timing rate would probably prove ineffective. However using some sort of system to raise or lower the pendulum by just a couple of millimeters will affect the timing rate by several seconds a day.
These clocks used to be wound once a week by hand and the time would have been reset at that time. These days most of these clocks have been converted to an automatic winding system, thus they see much less hands on maintenance, automatic systems for regulating the clock become much more attractive.
As a side note, the tower clock in London, commonly known as "Big Ben" ("Big Ben" is really the name of the bell that is used to count the hours) is regulated by adding or removing one or two old English Pennies, the one that were about the size of an old American Silver Dollar. The clock is regulated to be as on time as possible on the Queens Birthday and on New Years Eve.
Going even further afield some of you might get a kick out of the elaborate astronomical clocks that were designed in the 1800's. These were astonishing pieces of engineering that have been known to take an astronomer to figure out all of the settings required to set the clock.
I guess my passion for my vocation is showing, I hope that I was able to add something of interest.
Chronos
I have a BJC-3000 as well, when I trid it under Linux it did print but very slowly. If I were full tile Linux I would considder something else.
Go for the 4 tank Canon printers. There is usually a reasonably priced entry level printer and with a refill kit you can refill the tanks indefinately. As for ease of refill they are considered the easiest ones to refill as well. I have a Canon BJC-3000, picked it up for $50.00 2 years ago, still prints well, I refill the tanks about 2-3 times a year. Can't beat it with a stick. There is a new generation of Canon's out now that have a ceramic head. Can't remember the model number but they go for about $150.00. Very fast and very good photo printing using the same 4 tank system in my older printer. Saving up for one now. You just can't beat these for great cost per page printing.
During the mid 80's a friend and I created the "Deadlock BBS Construction Kit" for the C-64. Seeing this thread brought back a lot of memories. We never made a fortune on the program but we did have fun.
I did a quick Google search and found the BBS software mentioned several times with good comments. Its nice to be remembered kindly.
Jim Johnson