Go to all 27 satellite stations. Uphill. In the snow. Both ways. In a rented CRX.
1) pull cap off rf sample port 2) attach coax to port 3) attach other end of coax to dc block 4) attach dc block to spectrum analyzer 5) get a gps reading 6) calculate azimuth and elevation 7) account for magnetic deviation 8) get out the hand tools 9) loosen bolts 10) manually swing dish to approximate position and snug bolt 11) take some compass and degree readings 12) repeat 10 and 11 a few times 13) tighten bolts 14) look at spectrum for signal 15) probably go back to 10 a couple of times 16) tune fine adjustments for highest signal 17) polarize receiver 18) possibly go back to 10 again a couple of times 19) replace cap 20) call noc 21) start over twice 22) clean up
Not hard at al! Of course I probably forgot a few steps but it's been years.
I don't know how many time I have read this but it is still as stupid of a read as the first time. Fuck off, troll-bot. Come back when you have an original opinion.
You're absolutely right and it isn't just J6P that suffers from a lack of Driver's Ed on the information superhighway.
Just yesterday a coworker turned, pointed to her screen and asked me: "what does this error mean?"
It was a certificate alert in her browser caused by some misconfigured proxy chaining that rendered the trusted host invalid.
What really surpised me is that she's not a luser. The question came right in the middle of some VoIP lab testing.
Wireshark and GeoProbe on one screen... SSL error on the other.
I explained the situation but was really taken aback that someone who understands protocol headers well enough to read dissected packets and understand what they actually mean had no idea what might cause a certificate error.
If the "pavement construction team" doesn't have a clue how could a "driver" ever have a chance?
<rant>Psst: Nortel, your session server and element manager web proxy strategy is FUCKED. Wrong. Wrong. Wrong.</rant>
They say a lot of things but that's the stupidest thing I've heard all week. Connectivity of the "most common denominator" is lost with your collective desires, "We." IDE, PS/2 and VGA connectors are not legacy ports. They are standards that should be maintained because SATA, USB, and DVI do not duplicate and/or replace the functionality of the ports you wish to remove.
Yesterday I used a null modem and minicom to connect two systems via ttyS0. One of the boxes faces the internet and I don't want it to have IP-based login capabilities so that there is no risk of toll fraud. On many of my other servers I use PS/2 and VGA connectors with IP KVM's all the time for cheap OOB management.
I would not purchase a mobo w/o those connectors. They're a standard and NOT cruft. I'm looking at this from a server perspective though.
About 4x4 driving soccer moms, those could as well just give their kids asbestos for breakfast. "-Here ya go kid, enjoy the cancer i gave you!"
You guys need to stop slagging your mom's 4x4's in the mall parking lot for the moment and vent your anger and frustrations at car manufacturers. What other option is there in a multi-kid family than buying an SUV now that car manufacturers are dropping minivans?
How about work? I couldn't replace the truck I use with an electric or hybrid model at this time. I'm holding off on replacing my V8 until a viable option exists.
What about a dually for welding rigs? Construction? Pipeline SCADA satellite dish maintenance?
How about torque? What about something capable of towing a boat through the woods? Uphill in snow? Both ways?
Have you ever been off-road in a vehicle at all?
How about you consider off-road safety for even a fraction of a second? Switching to all electric 4x4's just aren't an option for real offroad yet. And, until hybrid 4x4's have a true granny low and don't kick into 2-wheel drive when the DC needs to be recharged they're fucking useless offroad.
The only safe option (i.e. not dying, not high-centred, not stuck in the bush with no power option) for the moment is a CRD-based diesel. My wife's diesel laps my V8 3:1 at the pump and is a fantastic small off-road vehicle hidden in a small combined/urban platform. It's also the only diesel option in it's class and is designed with biodiesel in mind. (This is another complaint to steer towards the manufacturer. Why are there no small and efficient diesel engines in combined/urban platforms?)
When car manufacturers actually provide a valid hybrid/electric 4x4 migration model then you can complain. Until then, venting your frustrations at the soccer moms is pointless. The choices that exist today are merely toys.
Unless, of course, your mom is an idiot and she drives all over town with no one else in the SUV. By all means, pull out the rocket launcher.
Whaaaa? TONS. Oops. I was completely wrong about your post. Thanks for an enlightening comment and please let me apologize for almost chucking you in the virtual loonie bin.
This is more like Communications Decency, Act III, (sic) as COPA was in fact part deux.
any comment, request, suggestion, proposal, image, or other communication that, in context, depicts or describes, in terms patently offensive as measured by contemporary community standards, sexual or excretory activities or organs, regardless of whether the user of such service placed the call or initiated the communication.
The content was originally introduced as the Internet Freedom and Family Empowerment Act but the CDA ended up being Title V of Telecommunications Act of 1996.
The sneaky bastards on the hill ALWAYS hide parts of censorship legislation in other acts and bills.
The CDA violated first amendment rights and was so poorly written that it made Michaelangelo's David fit the definitions of porn.... CDA was gutted.
COPA violated the first and fifth amendment... COPA was gutted.
Every few years the politicians pass an act into law that reads very similarly to the COPA or the CDA and the civil liberties chainsaws have to be started up again.
The laws are always blanketed in a "think of the kittens" approach but it's just about control of what you can see, read and think as far as I am concerned.
This act is no different.
Oddly enough the Internet Freedom and Family Empowerment Act that enhances civil liberties by limiting provider liability for content is still enforced.
So, what this all boils down to is that as a provider it's ok for me NOT to censor the internet as long as I DO censor the internet. Fantastic.
I tried using iAlertU at work but it seemed to attract attention to my MBP rather than protect. My coworkers set the alarm off on purpose. They'd ask me to enable and disable the alarm for new people who had not seen the software in action. I finally got fed up and just bought a kick-ass laptop lock. Now I just physically lock up the laptop and lock the screensaver. Seems to work better and draw less attention to my pod in the farm.
I can't remember ever being told any of our drills were fake events until after we were seated in the classrooms again. Granted, I was never told the first strike was imminent but the mood was fairly serious most drills.
While I read this article and think "Well, that was fucking stupid." I have to wonder if there needs to be a school-sanctioned version of this concept in place.
I grew up in US/USSR Cold War times and spent a few schoolday hours a year huddled in the fallout shelter basement during drills. We also had tornado, flood and fire drills. What fun.
Seems to me that as shootings get more prevalent it might be a good idea to have drills to limit deaths from mass panic.
I love the two finger button trackpad. It's way more intuitive than lifting up fingers to right click and allows easy access to the mouse actuating button from anywhere on the trackpad. . I wish I could make my dell understand two fingers is right click.
I can totally understand Nortel's take on this issue and support their choice. I agree with the Application Delivery Network, too.
I went to "All About Nortel" and searched for the following keywords: Succession, DMS, SS-T, NGSS, CS 2000, CS2K, SIP, SIP-T, VRDN, DPT, GWC, Optera and RTP.
Clearly, Evans doesn't have his finger on the Nortel pulse. He barely mentions disruptive technologies. Perhaps Nortel never sent him the VoIP press releases?
Has no one told Evans about RSS? He doesn't need to manually feed us this information. We can just get it all from feed://www.nortel.com/rss/news.xml if we want.
I don't see any evidence of reporting going on at all... He's just a human feed generator. This doesn't deserve a media pass.
I logged into Google Video today and the feature you describe doesn't seem to exist anymore. Unlike Flixster, Google has a deal with News Corp to provide search features and targeted ads for Myspace. Google's logos are plastered all over Myspace to the point where it almost looks like the site IS Google from time to time. So, the concept that you could crosspost seems almost sane.
Hell, Blogger (which is google) has a "feature" that will let the service p0wn your FTP server by posting directly to the server. This sort of behaviour isn't new and I'm surprised Flixster gets tagged as horrible and evil for doing something everyone is already doing.
I hate to admit it but I fell for the FTP one and used the service for a good six months until it dawned on me what I had done. I immediately cancelled my shell account and moved my blog to blogspot. Sometimes even people who understand the security implications can get tripped up. This doesn't excuse the now absent behaviour of posting videos within your account but at least the idea seems somewhat understandable. Plus, Google has a history of doing these sort of things in the interest of "interoperability."
Yeah, right... interoperability. I'll keep telling myself that. Maybe it will make it true.
I'd readily settle for "just good enough." I want a Haupage-ish PVR that hooks up to a Mac Mini that I can stream all my inbound cable to the rest of the PC's and TV's in my house. I don't particularly want to see Kiprusoff's sweat dripping off his face no matter how much of a ninja robot goalie he might be.
I'm not so big on the "MCP Game Grid" in the basement. I've got a computer at home that is sitting idle right now because my wife went to bed. What I'd like to have is an xGrid-style setup over "toslink" consumer-grade fiber (i.e., easily installable optical fiber with customized lengths and no splicing involved) where all the computers in my house can share unused flops in the dissemenation of media throughout my home infrastructure.
I'm not even really concerned with overall video quality as I regularly watch the iSquint and my main TV is a tube-based device. I also spend a lot of time watching movies on my laptop anyway. What I'm really after is the theatre experience itself and most of the movies I see in the theatre have less than stellar delivery mechanisms. (I'd have to install a jabbering, talking on the cell-phone, robot chair-kicking machine if I wanted to get the true theater experience.)
I want ethernet ports. I want an open standard that lets me stream from device to device. I don't want proprietary interconnections. I'd actually like to be able to call up a sip server and stream channels as video on demand. (Hello, ILEC and cableco... FTTC NOW!)
Ironically, I'm writing this out of the Calgary Sheraton Au Claire, where I'm currently staying. Right now, I'd just about kill for a composite RCA connection for my iPod Video because the desk chair sucks and I'm sick of watching the last Torchwood season sitting in bed. Luckily, it's -20 right now so I'm not burning up my nut sack with the MacBook Pro 2000RPM fan blast furnace.
if I want to watch anything in fullscreen in Quicktime I need to buy a £20 pro update, or import them into iTunes (not iMovie) and watch them in front row.
Not true... Open up AppleScript Editor, type...
tell application "QuickTime Player" present front movie scale screen end tell
...and save as application. Drag into user scripts folder.
The next time you want fullscreen just use the script.
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One of the nicest things about xnu is how much control you have over Aqua and how it functions.
The menus for Finder (and many other applications) are "open source" for fucks sake.
Open Terminal.app (substitute your native language as appropriate) Find and remove xml for iDisk. Remove array definitions. Save.
Restart Finder. If you make Finder FUBAR boot from the DVD and replace the file in Terminal.
Don't like what you see in Quicktime? Change the channel.
Use VLC or enable full-screen with an AppleScript.
Go to all 27 satellite stations. Uphill. In the snow. Both ways. In a rented CRX.
1) pull cap off rf sample port
2) attach coax to port
3) attach other end of coax to dc block
4) attach dc block to spectrum analyzer
5) get a gps reading
6) calculate azimuth and elevation
7) account for magnetic deviation
8) get out the hand tools
9) loosen bolts
10) manually swing dish to approximate position and snug bolt
11) take some compass and degree readings
12) repeat 10 and 11 a few times
13) tighten bolts
14) look at spectrum for signal
15) probably go back to 10 a couple of times
16) tune fine adjustments for highest signal
17) polarize receiver
18) possibly go back to 10 again a couple of times
19) replace cap
20) call noc
21) start over twice
22) clean up
Not hard at al! Of course I probably forgot a few steps but it's been years.
PEBCAC
Learn how to set up categories and context filters to make your e-mail work for you instead of against you.
Have "robots" triage the messages.
Once the robots filter out all the static it is easy to concentrate on the fifteen or so messages that actually make sense.
This was news?
I don't know how many time I have read this but it is still as stupid of a read as the first time. Fuck off, troll-bot. Come back when you have an original opinion.
I use this at work on my d620 with XP and it is barely usable and is a far cry from virtual desktops. Pain. Agony. Despair.
If you are in an environment that does not frown on FOSS http://virtuawin.sourceforge.net/ is a much better choice than the powetoys.
My brain heard your chant as something like "HOW... HOW! HOW! HOW!... HOW!" as in "Who Let the Dogs Out?"
I think you actually meant: "HUA! HUA! HUA!"
You're absolutely right and it isn't just J6P that suffers from a lack of Driver's Ed on the information superhighway.
Just yesterday a coworker turned, pointed to her screen and asked me: "what does this error mean?"
It was a certificate alert in her browser caused by some misconfigured proxy chaining that rendered the trusted host invalid.
What really surpised me is that she's not a luser. The question came right in the middle of some VoIP lab testing.
Wireshark and GeoProbe on one screen... SSL error on the other.
I explained the situation but was really taken aback that someone who understands protocol headers well enough
to read dissected packets and understand what they actually mean had no idea what might cause a certificate error.
If the "pavement construction team" doesn't have a clue how could a "driver" ever have a chance?
<rant>Psst: Nortel, your session server and element manager web proxy strategy is FUCKED. Wrong. Wrong. Wrong.</rant>
Public? Forum? Did you get that, Joe?
No we wouldn't. Encryption would needlessly create overhead for menial tasks such as reading e-mail and posting on forums.
Media-level encryption on posts going to a public forum is pointless. Security should only be invoked when absolutely needed.
No serial ports?
They say a lot of things but that's the stupidest thing I've heard all week. Connectivity of the "most common denominator" is lost with your collective desires, "We." IDE, PS/2 and VGA connectors are not legacy ports. They are standards that should be maintained because SATA, USB, and DVI do not duplicate and/or replace the functionality of the ports you wish to remove.
Yesterday I used a null modem and minicom to connect two systems via ttyS0. One of the boxes faces the internet and I don't want it to have IP-based login capabilities so that there is no risk of toll fraud. On many of my other servers I use PS/2 and VGA connectors with IP KVM's all the time for cheap OOB management.
I would not purchase a mobo w/o those connectors. They're a standard and NOT cruft. I'm looking at this from a server perspective though.
About 4x4 driving soccer moms, those could as well just give their kids asbestos for breakfast. "-Here ya go kid, enjoy the cancer i gave you!"
You guys need to stop slagging your mom's 4x4's in the mall parking lot for the moment and vent your anger and frustrations at car manufacturers. What other option is there in a multi-kid family than buying an SUV now that car manufacturers are dropping minivans?
How about work? I couldn't replace the truck I use with an electric or hybrid model at this time. I'm holding off on replacing my V8 until a viable option exists.
What about a dually for welding rigs? Construction? Pipeline SCADA satellite dish maintenance?
How about torque? What about something capable of towing a boat through the woods? Uphill in snow? Both ways?
Have you ever been off-road in a vehicle at all?
How about you consider off-road safety for even a fraction of a second? Switching to all electric 4x4's just aren't an option for real offroad yet. And, until hybrid 4x4's have a true granny low and don't kick into 2-wheel drive when the DC needs to be recharged they're fucking useless offroad.
The only safe option (i.e. not dying, not high-centred, not stuck in the bush with no power option) for the moment is a CRD-based diesel. My wife's diesel laps my V8 3:1 at the pump and is a fantastic small off-road vehicle hidden in a small combined/urban platform. It's also the only diesel option in it's class and is designed with biodiesel in mind. (This is another complaint to steer towards the manufacturer. Why are there no small and efficient diesel engines in combined/urban platforms?)
When car manufacturers actually provide a valid hybrid/electric 4x4 migration model then you can complain. Until then, venting your frustrations at the soccer moms is pointless. The choices that exist today are merely toys.
Unless, of course, your mom is an idiot and she drives all over town with no one else in the SUV. By all means, pull out the rocket launcher.
You know what? When I first read your post I thought you must be a freaking whacko nutjob who needed to be protected from the terrible secret of space.
Then, I did some Googling just to see if there actually was any information on SPS.
Whaaaa? TONS. Oops. I was completely wrong about your post. Thanks for an enlightening comment and please let me apologize for almost chucking you in the virtual loonie bin.
This is more like Communications Decency, Act III, (sic) as COPA was in fact part deux.
any comment, request, suggestion, proposal, image, or other communication that, in context, depicts or describes, in terms patently offensive as measured by contemporary community standards, sexual or excretory activities or organs, regardless of whether the user of such service placed the call or initiated the communication.
The content was originally introduced as the Internet Freedom and Family Empowerment Act but the CDA ended up being Title V of Telecommunications Act of 1996.
The sneaky bastards on the hill ALWAYS hide parts of censorship legislation in other acts and bills.
The CDA violated first amendment rights and was so poorly written that it made Michaelangelo's David fit the definitions of porn.... CDA was gutted.
COPA violated the first and fifth amendment... COPA was gutted.
Every few years the politicians pass an act into law that reads very similarly to the COPA or the CDA and the civil liberties chainsaws have to be started up again.
The laws are always blanketed in a "think of the kittens" approach but it's just about control of what you can see, read and think as far as I am concerned.
This act is no different.
Oddly enough the Internet Freedom and Family Empowerment Act that enhances civil liberties by limiting provider liability for content is still enforced.
So, what this all boils down to is that as a provider it's ok for me NOT to censor the internet as long as I DO censor the internet. Fantastic.
Gentlemen, start your chainsaws.
Great, now I have to change my OS.
I tried using iAlertU at work but it seemed to attract attention to my MBP rather than protect. My coworkers set the alarm off on purpose. They'd ask me to enable and disable the alarm for new people who had not seen the software in action. I finally got fed up and just bought a kick-ass laptop lock. Now I just physically lock up the laptop and lock the screensaver. Seems to work better and draw less attention to my pod in the farm.
I know you're being facetious but it's ten. Open up Terminal in OS X and type...
... and the built-in OS X Speech Synthesis manager speaks 'OS X' as 'oh ess ten.'
say os x
Fuck off you cut and paste asshole. Come back when you have an original thought.
I can't remember ever being told any of our drills were fake events until after we were seated in the classrooms again. Granted, I was never told the first strike was imminent but the mood was fairly serious most drills.
While I read this article and think "Well, that was fucking stupid." I have to wonder if there needs to be a school-sanctioned version of this concept in place.
I grew up in US/USSR Cold War times and spent a few schoolday hours a year huddled in the fallout shelter basement during drills. We also had tornado, flood and fire drills. What fun.
Seems to me that as shootings get more prevalent it might be a good idea to have drills to limit deaths from mass panic.
I love the two finger button trackpad. It's way more intuitive than lifting up fingers to right click and allows easy access to the mouse actuating button from anywhere on the trackpad. . I wish I could make my dell understand two fingers is right click.
I can totally understand Nortel's take on this issue and support their choice. I agree with the Application Delivery Network, too.
I went to "All About Nortel" and searched for the following keywords: Succession, DMS, SS-T, NGSS, CS 2000, CS2K, SIP, SIP-T, VRDN, DPT, GWC, Optera and RTP.
Clearly, Evans doesn't have his finger on the Nortel pulse. He barely mentions disruptive technologies. Perhaps Nortel never sent him the VoIP press releases?
Has no one told Evans about RSS? He doesn't need to manually feed us this information. We can just get it all from feed://www.nortel.com/rss/news.xml if we want.
I don't see any evidence of reporting going on at all... He's just a human feed generator. This doesn't deserve a media pass.
Yes, you're right. I must have linked out of Google Video to somewhere else like YouTube by accident this morning.
Still, like I said... No new behaviour there. Same old "trust us" crap.
I logged into Google Video today and the feature you describe doesn't seem to exist anymore. Unlike Flixster, Google has a deal with News Corp to provide search features and targeted ads for Myspace. Google's logos are plastered all over Myspace to the point where it almost looks like the site IS Google from time to time. So, the concept that you could crosspost seems almost sane.
Hell, Blogger (which is google) has a "feature" that will let the service p0wn your FTP server by posting directly to the server. This sort of behaviour isn't new and I'm surprised Flixster gets tagged as horrible and evil for doing something everyone is already doing.
I hate to admit it but I fell for the FTP one and used the service for a good six months until it dawned on me what I had done. I immediately cancelled my shell account and moved my blog to blogspot. Sometimes even people who understand the security implications can get tripped up. This doesn't excuse the now absent behaviour of posting videos within your account but at least the idea seems somewhat understandable. Plus, Google has a history of doing these sort of things in the interest of "interoperability."
Yeah, right... interoperability. I'll keep telling myself that. Maybe it will make it true.
I'd readily settle for "just good enough." I want a Haupage-ish PVR that hooks up to a Mac Mini that I can stream all my inbound cable to the rest of the PC's and TV's in my house. I don't particularly want to see Kiprusoff's sweat dripping off his face no matter how much of a ninja robot goalie he might be.
I'm not so big on the "MCP Game Grid" in the basement. I've got a computer at home that is sitting idle right now because my wife went to bed. What I'd like to have is an xGrid-style setup over "toslink" consumer-grade fiber (i.e., easily installable optical fiber with customized lengths and no splicing involved) where all the computers in my house can share unused flops in the dissemenation of media throughout my home infrastructure.
I'm not even really concerned with overall video quality as I regularly watch the iSquint and my main TV is a tube-based device. I also spend a lot of time watching movies on my laptop anyway. What I'm really after is the theatre experience itself and most of the movies I see in the theatre have less than stellar delivery mechanisms. (I'd have to install a jabbering, talking on the cell-phone, robot chair-kicking machine if I wanted to get the true theater experience.)
I want ethernet ports. I want an open standard that lets me stream from device to device. I don't want proprietary interconnections. I'd actually like to be able to call up a sip server and stream channels as video on demand. (Hello, ILEC and cableco... FTTC NOW!)
Ironically, I'm writing this out of the Calgary Sheraton Au Claire, where I'm currently staying. Right now, I'd just about kill for a composite RCA connection for my iPod Video because the desk chair sucks and I'm sick of watching the last Torchwood season sitting in bed. Luckily, it's -20 right now so I'm not burning up my nut sack with the MacBook Pro 2000RPM fan blast furnace.
You can remap any key combo you wish in OS X using System Preferences => Keyboard and Mouse => Keyboard Shortcuts.
If that isn't flexible enough you could always create and edit ~/Library/KeyBindings/DefaultKeyBinding.dict by hand.
if I want to watch anything in fullscreen in Quicktime I need to buy a £20 pro update, or import them into iTunes (not iMovie) and watch them in front row.
Not true... Open up AppleScript Editor, type...
...and save as application. Drag into user scripts folder.
The next time you want fullscreen just use the script.