Germans are notorious tailgaters even at 140mph. If you're in the left lane in an unlimited zone and you aren't doing more than the guy behind you, expect to get the headlight flash (oh hi Mr. Porsche @ 190mph!). Motorcyclists split lanes even when traffic is flowing at 60mph. The police here just don't have the kind of manpower required to regulate drivers like you imply. Lots of speed cameras (fixed and temporary) though!
The resounding success of most parents when they choose to home-school their kids makes me think they can make very good judgments about the quality of their kids' education.
Maybe I missed the effective date for this policy change, but they just sent out two new mailers today (24 March) and I still have the two in-store exchange movies as well.
Well maybe the parent was actually referring to the 5th harmonic of a high 12Hz alpha wave! But then a more little research would have shown that alpha waves are diminished with open eyes. Sorry Mr. Parent, I tried.
In 1991 BMW started using variable intake valves. Now both intake and exhaust valves are variably controlled via the DME (brain). You don't even have a throttle in the normal sense, just different valve timing controlled by the computer.
http://www.bmwworld.com/technology/vanos.htm
Aside from the ethanol bit, BMW already uses direct injection and turbocharging to get 300hp, 300ft-lb and 30 MPG (highway) out of a 3 liter I6.
N54 engine from the 2007 335: http://www.bimmerfest.com/forums/showthread.php?t= 144546
Not for everything: The new backbone systems (JNN, BBN, or whatever they're being called this week) are being fielded to the Reserves as well. The priority right now is to those units going back to Iraq. And they're supposedly based on what SOC uses.
Not so sure about individual radios. Regardless of which units are getting them first, I'd buy some stock in Harris (HRF) if I were you.
The only real news here is that someone has finally forced a single standard. You'd be suprised how many different communication systems DoD uses and all the work that has to go into making them all talk to each other. Now everyone's going to be TCP/IP (with a mandated change to V6 looming) and VOIP. Hopefully much easier to talk to everyone.
As far as the other things like giving the grunts more toys to break and throwing metric buttloads of money into commercial sattelite time, these things have all been in the works, now we have a nice easy to pronouce TLA to call all of it.
Luckilly the powers that be have cut out a large portion of the red tape. Some of these systems were slated to be on a 25 year timeline. Now they're all supposed to be done in five. This was the problem with most of the systems: you'd get a 1980's system fully fielded in 2000. That's only about 13 Moore's Law doublings or 8192 times crappeir than what you could just go out and purchase commercially. Even now they plan to make improvements to systems _as they field them_. So the first units look nothing like the last ones. Of course, they'll have to go back and upgrade the older ones, but it's a nice feedback loop.
Locals would be hard to re-establish service with when you went to Iraq later.
Aiming the Direcway system was quite easy. The guy who came over was able to get it to about 75/75 without even a compass or inclinometer. The menu system isn't too complex and you can ask the place you buy it from for a setup guide (and a F-F null-modem cable;). He was able to get it to 90/90 just by us yelling at him from across the roof. The hard part is keeping it >90/90 as you tighten the bolts down. Sometimes you have to go a little bit off and use the tightening to bring you back in line. Put as much rubble/sandbags as you can on top of your base to keep it from moving. Ours was able to sway a little during the sandstorms and still keep the connection which was pretty amazing. But you won't get much when it falls off the roof;)
So yes a fairly intelligent person can set it up no problem. You've probably compiled a kernel and setup your X-server, each of which are about three times as hard as finding the signal strength menu. A compass and _magnetic_ inclinometer (level with degrees on it) would make the chore much easier.
The program we used is called Satmaster Quickaim which isn't free, but that's what came with our system. I don't know if there are any free programs out there. If you have to, e-mail me your lat/long and the bird you want to hit and I'll send you your aiming info. For that matter, if you're dropping >$2k on the system, e-mail your supplier and have them send you the aiming info:)
Your IT guys should have versions of Norton Antivirus and Firewall. Get yourself a copy and make them mandatory. Linux/Unix/MacOS people should be smart enough to be running a firewall already. I'm not kidding when I say viruses will take down your network. We struggled for a month with the Army networks before they figured out viruses were the problem (they don't get tought advanced traffic analysis, we're lucky if exchange & IIS are working in the morning;).
Decide now if you want to allow things like P2P and servers before it becomes a problem.
Dirty little secret #1: The morale computers setup in Iraq have absolutley no monitoring or restrictions on them. The Army was more concerned about giving Soldiers a resource, so they spent the big money on an unusually good service. The official DoD network is just too taxed to support everyone, so a commercial ISP is the only way to go for the masses. You should be happy: most connections over the DoD network are genunie molasses speed.
Dirty little secret #2: They haven't yet begun cracking down on people who purchase their own connections or Sat phones. Yet. You are _supposed_ to be a professional and capable of understanding what you should and should not transmit. Recent events have shown some lack human decency let alone professionalism, but that's a different discussion.
VIASAT I have no idea on the expense, but that's what's powering your morale computers. It's the best solution you're going to find out there bar none. The ISP they're using is called Segovia, but there are other ISPs who will sell you access to VIASAT. The dishes are huge (6ft+), you need a SAT phone to engineer your link (three way call between your ISP and a VIASAT tech), and I think the cost will be prohibitive. But I don't know how crazy you want to get;)
While we were stationed in Iraq, we bought a Direcway system from one of the locals. It was about $3k for the equipment and another $300-400/mo for the service. But you're an officer so you can afford it;) We got the Army to pay for it. If you're in Bagram or Kabul, you should be able to find a "local contractor" who will be willing to deal with you. Unfortunatly, most of them only deal in cash. You may be able to pay Segovia with a credit card...
As far as your reqt #2: The dish is about 1.5 meters and the TX/RX assembly is about 2.5ft long. Hopefully you'll get a decent free standing base, but the better they are, the bigger they are unfortunately. The modem we had was three parts (TX/RX/net) each about the size of a normal cable/dsl modem. It was all 110/220 exept for the mini-hub they gave us which had a 220 only wall wart.
3: You can use any of the numerous aiming programs out there. To see the signal strengths on the modem itself you need a F-F null modem serial cable, so either buy two of them and splice or get the appropriate adaptors. The menu system, once you connect is pretty self expanitory. Get your TX and RX to at least 90 and tighten your bolts carefully.
4: You'll have to handle throttling yourself. Our system came with about 10 IPs, but we used a single IP as firewwall/NAT just to be safe.
Service was OK. Your connection will likely hit the ground in Germany, so most slowdowns happen according to their timezone. You will have to be death on infections. A single computer (sans throttling) will completely dominate the connection. Good luck!
By now, anyone who has spent a couple hours looking at the lawsuit knows it doesn't have any merit.
But most everyone here is missing the lager point he was trying to make: IBM can weather this thing either way. Could the guys at Apache? WINE? Samba? What would happen to RedHat or SuSe or Mandrake if they had to defend something like this?
As pointless or hopeless as you may think it is to keep track of IP in your source, we need to be able to deter opportunists from shutting down the "little guy" before it happens, because these days, just the legal accusation can take you out.
The military is using VSAT through an ISP called Segovia for all of our Morale, Welfare and Recreation (MWR) internet cafes. Depending on the setup we're getting between 1 and 2 Mbs down and 128-256 kbs up.
Service is fair. You'll see probably two to four outages per month that last anywhere from an hour to 12 hours. Ensure your site has some means of calling back to the states to troubleshoot the link. Expect to be on hold for a while if you call during EST business hours. You'll find out quickly which of the 10-12 "NOC Techicians" aren't just reading from a script. Normally, they just have to re-route your traffic to a different place in Europe. They're probably having major growing pains: We've got over 200 of these sites across Iraq and Kuwait.
I think it's rather obvious what their strategy is: They are trying to scare as many big companies into coughing up the $$ BEFORE they really know what the REAL problems are. SCO knows very well that less than 24 hours after they disclose exactly which portions of code are "theirs," a new version of the kernel will be out and the money they can extort from corps will drop off to zero.
The SD reader is pretty pointless if they haven't figured out how to get beyond the 127 file limit. It's a problem with the 64Mb cards and it'll be even worse with a larger SD card.
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Actually some of the worst are Mercedes drivers. They say the car comes with built in right of way!
Germans are notorious tailgaters even at 140mph. If you're in the left lane in an unlimited zone and you aren't doing more than the guy behind you, expect to get the headlight flash (oh hi Mr. Porsche @ 190mph!). Motorcyclists split lanes even when traffic is flowing at 60mph. The police here just don't have the kind of manpower required to regulate drivers like you imply. Lots of speed cameras (fixed and temporary) though!
Our per capita spending is very much at the high end of the spectrum: http://mercatus.org/sites/default/files/publication/k-12-education-spending-pdf_0.pdf And this spending has doubled since 1970: http://www.heritage.org/static/reportimages/8944CCA9757394F0CCE1821F36C34E6E.gif I don't think throwing more money at the problem is a solution.
It was done in July of last year: http://www.vanityfair.com/online/politics/2008/07/bush-as-joker.html
The resounding success of most parents when they choose to home-school their kids makes me think they can make very good judgments about the quality of their kids' education.
http://wanem.sourceforge.net/
Maybe I missed the effective date for this policy change, but they just sent out two new mailers today (24 March) and I still have the two in-store exchange movies as well.
I am a subscriber and they notified me. Perhaps the OP's notice got tossed by the spam filter.
Well maybe the parent was actually referring to the 5th harmonic of a high 12Hz alpha wave! But then a more little research would have shown that alpha waves are diminished with open eyes. Sorry Mr. Parent, I tried.
In 1991 BMW started using variable intake valves. Now both intake and exhaust valves are variably controlled via the DME (brain). You don't even have a throttle in the normal sense, just different valve timing controlled by the computer. http://www.bmwworld.com/technology/vanos.htm
Aside from the ethanol bit, BMW already uses direct injection and turbocharging to get 300hp, 300ft-lb and 30 MPG (highway) out of a 3 liter I6. N54 engine from the 2007 335: http://www.bimmerfest.com/forums/showthread.php?t= 144546
QFT. I cried when I had to move to the west coast knowing I would be without my Zaxby's fix.
Not for everything: The new backbone systems (JNN, BBN, or whatever they're being called this week) are being fielded to the Reserves as well. The priority right now is to those units going back to Iraq. And they're supposedly based on what SOC uses.
Not so sure about individual radios. Regardless of which units are getting them first, I'd buy some stock in Harris (HRF) if I were you.
The only real news here is that someone has finally forced a single standard. You'd be suprised how many different communication systems DoD uses and all the work that has to go into making them all talk to each other. Now everyone's going to be TCP/IP (with a mandated change to V6 looming) and VOIP. Hopefully much easier to talk to everyone.
As far as the other things like giving the grunts more toys to break and throwing metric buttloads of money into commercial sattelite time, these things have all been in the works, now we have a nice easy to pronouce TLA to call all of it.
Luckilly the powers that be have cut out a large portion of the red tape. Some of these systems were slated to be on a 25 year timeline. Now they're all supposed to be done in five. This was the problem with most of the systems: you'd get a 1980's system fully fielded in 2000. That's only about 13 Moore's Law doublings or 8192 times crappeir than what you could just go out and purchase commercially. Even now they plan to make improvements to systems _as they field them_. So the first units look nothing like the last ones. Of course, they'll have to go back and upgrade the older ones, but it's a nice feedback loop.
No more Fritz Hollings(D-DIS)!
A quick googling produces this link. Good site to check before moving.
Locals would be hard to re-establish service with when you went to Iraq later.
;). He was able to get it to 90/90 just by us yelling at him from across the roof. The hard part is keeping it >90/90 as you tighten the bolts down. Sometimes you have to go a little bit off and use the tightening to bring you back in line. Put as much rubble/sandbags as you can on top of your base to keep it from moving. Ours was able to sway a little during the sandstorms and still keep the connection which was pretty amazing. But you won't get much when it falls off the roof ;)
:)
;).
Aiming the Direcway system was quite easy. The guy who came over was able to get it to about 75/75 without even a compass or inclinometer. The menu system isn't too complex and you can ask the place you buy it from for a setup guide (and a F-F null-modem cable
So yes a fairly intelligent person can set it up no problem. You've probably compiled a kernel and setup your X-server, each of which are about three times as hard as finding the signal strength menu. A compass and _magnetic_ inclinometer (level with degrees on it) would make the chore much easier.
The program we used is called Satmaster Quickaim which isn't free, but that's what came with our system. I don't know if there are any free programs out there. If you have to, e-mail me your lat/long and the bird you want to hit and I'll send you your aiming info. For that matter, if you're dropping >$2k on the system, e-mail your supplier and have them send you the aiming info
Your IT guys should have versions of Norton Antivirus and Firewall. Get yourself a copy and make them mandatory. Linux/Unix/MacOS people should be smart enough to be running a firewall already. I'm not kidding when I say viruses will take down your network. We struggled for a month with the Army networks before they figured out viruses were the problem (they don't get tought advanced traffic analysis, we're lucky if exchange & IIS are working in the morning
Decide now if you want to allow things like P2P and servers before it becomes a problem.
When you're talking about dropping _thousands_ on a system, you'd kind of like it to be able to work where you're going to work...
Dirty little secret #1: The morale computers setup in Iraq have absolutley no monitoring or restrictions on them. The Army was more concerned about giving Soldiers a resource, so they spent the big money on an unusually good service. The official DoD network is just too taxed to support everyone, so a commercial ISP is the only way to go for the masses. You should be happy: most connections over the DoD network are genunie molasses speed.
Dirty little secret #2: They haven't yet begun cracking down on people who purchase their own connections or Sat phones. Yet. You are _supposed_ to be a professional and capable of understanding what you should and should not transmit. Recent events have shown some lack human decency let alone professionalism, but that's a different discussion.
You have two options: Direcway or VIASAT.
;)
;) We got the Army to pay for it. If you're in Bagram or Kabul, you should be able to find a "local contractor" who will be willing to deal with you. Unfortunatly, most of them only deal in cash. You may be able to pay Segovia with a credit card...
VIASAT I have no idea on the expense, but that's what's powering your morale computers. It's the best solution you're going to find out there bar none. The ISP they're using is called Segovia, but there are other ISPs who will sell you access to VIASAT. The dishes are huge (6ft+), you need a SAT phone to engineer your link (three way call between your ISP and a VIASAT tech), and I think the cost will be prohibitive. But I don't know how crazy you want to get
While we were stationed in Iraq, we bought a Direcway system from one of the locals. It was about $3k for the equipment and another $300-400/mo for the service. But you're an officer so you can afford it
As far as your reqt #2: The dish is about 1.5 meters and the TX/RX assembly is about 2.5ft long. Hopefully you'll get a decent free standing base, but the better they are, the bigger they are unfortunately. The modem we had was three parts (TX/RX/net) each about the size of a normal cable/dsl modem. It was all 110/220 exept for the mini-hub they gave us which had a 220 only wall wart.
3: You can use any of the numerous aiming programs out there. To see the signal strengths on the modem itself you need a F-F null modem serial cable, so either buy two of them and splice or get the appropriate adaptors. The menu system, once you connect is pretty self expanitory. Get your TX and RX to at least 90 and tighten your bolts carefully.
4: You'll have to handle throttling yourself. Our system came with about 10 IPs, but we used a single IP as firewwall/NAT just to be safe.
Service was OK. Your connection will likely hit the ground in Germany, so most slowdowns happen according to their timezone. You will have to be death on infections. A single computer (sans throttling) will completely dominate the connection. Good luck!
By now, anyone who has spent a couple hours looking at the lawsuit knows it doesn't have any merit.
But most everyone here is missing the lager point he was trying to make: IBM can weather this thing either way. Could the guys at Apache? WINE? Samba? What would happen to RedHat or SuSe or Mandrake if they had to defend something like this?
As pointless or hopeless as you may think it is to keep track of IP in your source, we need to be able to deter opportunists from shutting down the "little guy" before it happens, because these days, just the legal accusation can take you out.
The military is using VSAT through an ISP called Segovia for all of our Morale, Welfare and Recreation (MWR) internet cafes. Depending on the setup we're getting between 1 and 2 Mbs down and 128-256 kbs up.
Service is fair. You'll see probably two to four outages per month that last anywhere from an hour to 12 hours. Ensure your site has some means of calling back to the states to troubleshoot the link. Expect to be on hold for a while if you call during EST business hours. You'll find out quickly which of the 10-12 "NOC Techicians" aren't just reading from a script. Normally, they just have to re-route your traffic to a different place in Europe. They're probably having major growing pains: We've got over 200 of these sites across Iraq and Kuwait.
I think it's rather obvious what their strategy is: They are trying to scare as many big companies into coughing up the $$ BEFORE they really know what the REAL problems are. SCO knows very well that less than 24 hours after they disclose exactly which portions of code are "theirs," a new version of the kernel will be out and the money they can extort from corps will drop off to zero.
In Computer Gaming World's 20 some-odd year history, they've never given a zero star rating... until Postal 2. 'Nuff said.
The SD reader is pretty pointless if they haven't figured out how to get beyond the 127 file limit. It's a problem with the 64Mb cards and it'll be even worse with a larger SD card.