I remember several years ago seeing some laser based free-air links, several miles, ~155Mb/sec transfer rates, not sure if they used IR lasers or visible but BlackBox had them in their catalog for some large price ($19,000/pair IIRC). I do agree with you though on the IR not working around corners, and doors. There is a BOFH where to improve wireless network response in an office with IR networking, all the doors mysteryously disappeared....
The ISO is just data, no audio. Offer wave files and let them assemble in their burning software or maybe a cue/bin, nero image, disc juggler image, ect file for people to download (compressed of course) so they just point the burning software at that, because those are ready to burn files. (I like the cue/bin because cdrdao can burn it to cd on my linux box, and nero and some others can burn them on windows systems, and I know there is something for other OSes.).
"Diet Jolt - Double the Caffine and Double the aspartame" Quote from either Macs or HTML for dummies, I can't remember which.
But I do agree with you on the diabetic bit, although I have never noticed it, maybe I just don't hang around people who think that way. I would love to be able to get something larger than 20oz containers of Diet mountain dew, but there just isn't the demand.
Oh and my geek room right now is my dorm room, 10Mbit/sec ethernet connection (best out to internet ~4Mbit/sec), TV/VCR, DVD player, Dreamcast, playstation 1, and my computer which I hope to upgrade around christmas, all in about a 10x11 foot room.
Or satallite internet as one farmer I know does. (Ok, in rural Washington State but he is still 8 miles out of town and is too far for most high speed internet. They did have ISDN but had lots of trouble with it not always working.)
The article also says southern Idaho, so if you live in the north part of the state, it doesn't really do anything for you yet.
I think the only time the music industry (at least I think in the US, not sure about elsewhere) is when you buy one of the CD-R(W)s marked as Audio or Music, ever notice how they are several times more expensive than the non music/audio labeled ones? 1 word: royalties...(maybe not that word, but its the only one I can think of) If I remember right though, doesn't Canada charge some amount on CD-Rs no mater how they are labeled? (I seem to remember that from somewhere, probably on/.).
And I also burn almost no CD-R(W)s with audio on them anymore, not since I got my mp3 player and mp3d my CD collection. (I look in my CD holder, I have 45 cds, 5 of which are burned compilations, 1 thats a copy of a CD-R of a performance I participated in (only 300 discs made, so they went CD-R route), another CD-R thats a copy of a scratched up disc (let the computer correct it and burn onto new disc), the other 38 discs are pressed. And I have had a CD-R(W) drive for over 2 years now..)
One of my main uses for the CD-R(W) drive now is (super) video CDs, play great in my DVD player (Apex), that and the homebrew Dreamcast games.
I wonder if this technology could be modified to watermark the source of the signal? But if they are saying that it is random pops and cracks how will converting it into MP3s affect it? I guess also, how would extra noise because one has a lousy stereo do to the signal?
I'm not sure about Dish but I know that with DirecTV you pay $5/month per aditional receiver, but they have to all be on the same phone line. All the boxes get the same set of programs, but if you buy a PPV on one, you can only watch it on that one unless you buy it again for each receiver.
I haven't seen anything on this, perhaps I just haven't looked in the right spots, but do the machines allow write in votes like the current ballots do? (Hey if I don't see anybody I like I will write in the name of someone I do like, or just leave it blank).
Oh and the people suggesting scan-trons, my school used those for ASB and class officers, the even had a spot for you to write in someone, although when 70% of the Junior class wrote in the same person for class president (the class president was running w/o an opponent, and this other person jokingly said to vote for him) the ASB person really got annoyed because the machine tells them when there was a write in and they had to check it.
The pringles can is there, just that it is a virtual one instead of a physcial one. Phased-arrays use a bunch of antennas to simulate a beam-type antenna (pringles can), this site http://home.earthlink.net/~jimlux/radio/antenna/ph ased/phased1.htm was the first one I found with useful information, explains the basics and also has some links to some other sites explaining it.
But if the keyboard cable goes into that and then the computer, I can still follow the cable and remove the offending device. With the wireless they might still be reading what I type after I remove the keycatcher from the cable. Now if you got one of the keycatchers that was built into the keyboard or motherboard...
Part 15 says they have to take flak from other licensed services and that if 2 part 15 devices are interfering with one another, tough luck they have to take it. Now if a part 15 is interfering with a licensed non part15 device then you have a problem that must be fixed...
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http://www.udpcast.linux.lu/ Using UDP over an ethernet for multicasting to a bunch of machines. They kinda mention doing machine cloning on their webpage as well. What you could do would be to use the g4u to make the inital image and then use this to flush it out to the machines.
they are using dd as well, just running it through gzip -9 before uploading it to the server (distrib/i386/floppies/ramdisk-g4u/uploaddisk in the source)
Why do they even need to charge a reconnect fee in some of these cases? I think that chopping off internet access is a few seconds on/off, and cable I think (but not sure) in some cases they have remotely controlled switches to control cable on/off to your house. If they don't send a person out why do they need a reconnect fee?
Getting back OnT, they let her use it for 14 months and presented a bill while she was complaining and fighting with their billing system. Why didn't they suspend the account 14 months ago if there was billing problems?
What if they could somehow get 16 laptops and have the laptops be the computers, solve the problem of interfacing the screen, but now you have the problem of finding the 16 laptops, and the fact that inexpensive laptops have small screens.
But the offical stuff used by the emergency people (Fire, Ambulance, Police) has a license on the radio (methinks) so it likely falls under some other set of rules besides part 15. Plus I doubt they would be using Part 15 equipment. In any case offical emergency communications I think are more important than my digitial TV signal.
There are alternatives for digital satallite tv that aren't DirectTV/Dish. Example is the 4DTV, uses the C-Band equipment and a big dish. Its digital, its tv, its over satellite. Quote from article:
James said the deal would create a monopoly in tens of millions of rural homes where cable television doesn't reach, and reduce choices in other areas. Twenty-three states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico joined in the lawsuit.
They need to realize that the small 18" dish no-moving, mono-satallite (yes I do realize some are larger and do receive from 2 or 3 at once) dishes would be all under one company, but an option does exust for the people who have the big dishes, which likely would include "rural" customers that don't get cable.
<RANT> I also know that cable in some areas is to the point where they are ripping you off. My family swapped to DirecTV (choice because of what they offered channel wise that I got from their website, and the fact we could go to RadioShack and get all the stuff), because the local cable, after taxes, was going up to $40/month for the expanded service (no HBO, showtime, cinemax, encore, ect in that. News, General Family Entertainment, local channels, things like that). The satallite ended up being $32/month. We got one of the amplified antennas on the dish and we got the local channels. We don't get Northwest Cable News which we wish we did, but that wasn't even in the cable basic package at $25 a month. In fact the basic package included 24 channels, 2 were shopping, the ABC/NBC/CBS/PBS affilites (WB was in the expaned, as was UPN), community channels, CSPAN[1-3]. </RANT>
Ok, now that my rant about my local cable system is gouging me is over, let me just say that there are options besides DirecTV and Dish for getting digital satallite TV, but if one focuses on urban areas they may be the only choices.
PCI: Peripheral Component Interconnect It is found on a bunch of different architectures, x86, Alpha, Suns, Macs, ect.
Shouldn't this just be a write a driver and it will work because isn't PCI on one machine the same as on another, or are there many diffent types of PCI (I know only of 33/66Mhz and 32/64-bit varients)?
I have come across a few sites that use the refer info to let you access files and images, so other sites can't just link directly to the file.
That is one use I have seen and know of.
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It is interesting to note that while the group that made the disc and holds copyright can sell it on CD-R (per Ebay policy that doesn't seem to always work), I can't sell it on ebay if I decide I don't like it. From that Ebay page:
* A local band decides to release its latest album on CD-R. The band may list the album on eBay so long as it is clear from the listing that the band is the copyright owner. * A buyer purchases an album on eBay that was released by a local band on CD-R. The buyer may not list the album on eBay, even though the band released the album on CD-R, because it violates eBay's Recordable Media policy.
Oh and for note I bought some VCDs from a seller, I thought they would be pressed, ended up getting CD-Rs(wrapped in plastic wrap and a paper towel no less), first disc at the end even has a blue screen that says STOP in the corner. About a week after I bought them the seller was selling the same thing...
If you really wanted to be a PITA ebay's "Anti-circumvention Policy"
Do not list any hardware and software that would enable users to "rip" or otherwise make unauthorized copies of copy-protected video games, software programs, CD-ROMs, DVDs, or CDs.
You could go after anybody that was selling a CD-R(W), DVD-ROM, DVD-/+R(W), CD-ROM, DVD-RAM, because those allow you to "rip" DVD movies (the DVD*), or "rip" CDs.
Wouldn't something like that be an OSHA violation(assuming you are in the USA) , it sounds like an accident waiting to happen.(and it sounds that one has.)
(No I don't know OSHA regs, but I do know that this sounds very bad)
Yeah can I also get some more info on this. At a hospital my grandma was staying at after a car accident there were some computers accross the hall from her room, I could watch what the screen of the attendants' (yes 2 computers) computers were doing from the door of my grandma's room and although they were running windows2000 they never locked them, you could just walk over and use use them. Although they had passworded access to the patients data you could still browse the internet with them. We were told that if we were caught using them again (yeah of course we were using them for the internet use only, like the cost of the car that was destroyed) that person would be escorted out of the building.
To be honest though, how much work actaully has to be done on some systems now for NTSC->PAL conversions of the games? Or does that truely make a difference sometimes? The XBox is just a pc-in-a-box, so while the RGB->NTSC/PAL chip would change, how much does the game actually have to change to play in the different region?
I realize that the older game consoles this was a major deal, but for the modern ones why should it even really matter? I mean I can take a region 2 DVD drop it in an all region DVD player set for NTSC out and it should work because it is a digital signal and it is how the equipment interpets this signal.
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I remember several years ago seeing some laser based free-air links, several miles, ~155Mb/sec transfer rates, not sure if they used IR lasers or visible but BlackBox had them in their catalog for some large price ($19,000/pair IIRC).
I do agree with you though on the IR not working around corners, and doors. There is a BOFH where to improve wireless network response in an office with IR networking, all the doors mysteryously disappeared....
The ISO is just data, no audio.
Offer wave files and let them assemble in their burning software or maybe a cue/bin, nero image, disc juggler image, ect file for people to download (compressed of course) so they just point the burning software at that, because those are ready to burn files. (I like the cue/bin because cdrdao can burn it to cd on my linux box, and nero and some others can burn them on windows systems, and I know there is something for other OSes.).
"Diet Jolt - Double the Caffine and Double the aspartame" Quote from either Macs or HTML for dummies, I can't remember which.
But I do agree with you on the diabetic bit, although I have never noticed it, maybe I just don't hang around people who think that way. I would love to be able to get something larger than 20oz containers of Diet mountain dew, but there just isn't the demand.
Oh and my geek room right now is my dorm room, 10Mbit/sec ethernet connection (best out to internet ~4Mbit/sec), TV/VCR, DVD player, Dreamcast, playstation 1, and my computer which I hope to upgrade around christmas, all in about a 10x11 foot room.
Or satallite internet as one farmer I know does. (Ok, in rural Washington State but he is still 8 miles out of town and is too far for most high speed internet. They did have ISDN but had lots of trouble with it not always working.)
The article also says southern Idaho, so if you live in the north part of the state, it doesn't really do anything for you yet.
I think the only time the music industry (at least I think in the US, not sure about elsewhere) is when you buy one of the CD-R(W)s marked as Audio or Music, ever notice how they are several times more expensive than the non music/audio labeled ones? 1 word: royalties...(maybe not that word, but its the only one I can think of) /.).
If I remember right though, doesn't Canada charge some amount on CD-Rs no mater how they are labeled? (I seem to remember that from somewhere, probably on
And I also burn almost no CD-R(W)s with audio on them anymore, not since I got my mp3 player and mp3d my CD collection. (I look in my CD holder, I have 45 cds, 5 of which are burned compilations, 1 thats a copy of a CD-R of a performance I participated in (only 300 discs made, so they went CD-R route), another CD-R thats a copy of a scratched up disc (let the computer correct it and burn onto new disc), the other 38 discs are pressed. And I have had a CD-R(W) drive for over 2 years now..)
One of my main uses for the CD-R(W) drive now is (super) video CDs, play great in my DVD player (Apex), that and the homebrew Dreamcast games.
I wonder if this technology could be modified to watermark the source of the signal?
But if they are saying that it is random pops and cracks how will converting it into MP3s affect it?
I guess also, how would extra noise because one has a lousy stereo do to the signal?
I'm not sure about Dish but I know that with DirecTV you pay $5/month per aditional receiver, but they have to all be on the same phone line. All the boxes get the same set of programs, but if you buy a PPV on one, you can only watch it on that one unless you buy it again for each receiver.
I haven't seen anything on this, perhaps I just haven't looked in the right spots, but do the machines allow write in votes like the current ballots do? (Hey if I don't see anybody I like I will write in the name of someone I do like, or just leave it blank).
Oh and the people suggesting scan-trons, my school used those for ASB and class officers, the even had a spot for you to write in someone, although when 70% of the Junior class wrote in the same person for class president (the class president was running w/o an opponent, and this other person jokingly said to vote for him) the ASB person really got annoyed because the machine tells them when there was a write in and they had to check it.
The pringles can is there, just that it is a virtual one instead of a physcial one. Phased-arrays use a bunch of antennas to simulate a beam-type antenna (pringles can), this site http://home.earthlink.net/~jimlux/radio/antenna/ph ased/phased1.htm was the first one I found with useful information, explains the basics and also has some links to some other sites explaining it.
But if the keyboard cable goes into that and then the computer, I can still follow the cable and remove the offending device. With the wireless they might still be reading what I type after I remove the keycatcher from the cable. Now if you got one of the keycatchers that was built into the keyboard or motherboard...
Part 15 says they have to take flak from other licensed services and that if 2 part 15 devices are interfering with one another, tough luck they have to take it. Now if a part 15 is interfering with a licensed non part15 device then you have a problem that must be fixed...
http://www.udpcast.linux.lu/
Using UDP over an ethernet for multicasting to a bunch of machines. They kinda mention doing machine cloning on their webpage as well. What you could do would be to use the g4u to make the inital image and then use this to flush it out to the machines.
they are using dd as well, just running it through gzip -9 before uploading it to the server (distrib/i386/floppies/ramdisk-g4u/uploaddisk in the source)
Slightly OffT but:
Why do they even need to charge a reconnect fee in some of these cases? I think that chopping off internet access is a few seconds on/off, and cable I think (but not sure) in some cases they have remotely controlled switches to control cable on/off to your house. If they don't send a person out why do they need a reconnect fee?
Getting back OnT, they let her use it for 14 months and presented a bill while she was complaining and fighting with their billing system. Why didn't they suspend the account 14 months ago if there was billing problems?
What if they could somehow get 16 laptops and have the laptops be the computers, solve the problem of interfacing the screen, but now you have the problem of finding the 16 laptops, and the fact that inexpensive laptops have small screens.
But the offical stuff used by the emergency people (Fire, Ambulance, Police) has a license on the radio (methinks) so it likely falls under some other set of rules besides part 15. Plus I doubt they would be using Part 15 equipment.
In any case offical emergency communications I think are more important than my digitial TV signal.
Quote from article:
They need to realize that the small 18" dish no-moving, mono-satallite (yes I do realize some are larger and do receive from 2 or 3 at once) dishes would be all under one company, but an option does exust for the people who have the big dishes, which likely would include "rural" customers that don't get cable.
<RANT>
I also know that cable in some areas is to the point where they are ripping you off. My family swapped to DirecTV (choice because of what they offered channel wise that I got from their website, and the fact we could go to RadioShack and get all the stuff), because the local cable, after taxes, was going up to $40/month for the expanded service (no HBO, showtime, cinemax, encore, ect in that. News, General Family Entertainment, local channels, things like that). The satallite ended up being $32/month. We got one of the amplified antennas on the dish and we got the local channels. We don't get Northwest Cable News which we wish we did, but that wasn't even in the cable basic package at $25 a month. In fact the basic package included 24 channels, 2 were shopping, the ABC/NBC/CBS/PBS affilites (WB was in the expaned, as was UPN), community channels, CSPAN[1-3].
</RANT>
Ok, now that my rant about my local cable system is gouging me is over, let me just say that there are options besides DirecTV and Dish for getting digital satallite TV, but if one focuses on urban areas they may be the only choices.
PCI: Peripheral Component Interconnect
It is found on a bunch of different architectures, x86, Alpha, Suns, Macs, ect.
Shouldn't this just be a write a driver and it will work because isn't PCI on one machine the same as on another, or are there many diffent types of PCI (I know only of 33/66Mhz and 32/64-bit varients)?
I have come across a few sites that use the refer info to let you access files and images, so other sites can't just link directly to the file.
That is one use I have seen and know of.
From that Ebay page:
Oh and for note I bought some VCDs from a seller, I thought they would be pressed, ended up getting CD-Rs(wrapped in plastic wrap and a paper towel no less), first disc at the end even has a blue screen that says STOP in the corner. About a week after I bought them the seller was selling the same thing...
If you really wanted to be a PITA ebay's "Anti-circumvention Policy"
You could go after anybody that was selling a CD-R(W), DVD-ROM, DVD-/+R(W), CD-ROM, DVD-RAM, because those allow you to "rip" DVD movies (the DVD*), or "rip" CDs.
Wouldn't something like that be an OSHA violation(assuming you are in the USA) , it sounds like an accident waiting to happen.(and it sounds that one has.)
(No I don't know OSHA regs, but I do know that this sounds very bad)
Yeah can I also get some more info on this. At a hospital my grandma was staying at after a car accident there were some computers accross the hall from her room, I could watch what the screen of the attendants' (yes 2 computers) computers were doing from the door of my grandma's room and although they were running windows2000 they never locked them, you could just walk over and use use them. Although they had passworded access to the patients data you could still browse the internet with them. We were told that if we were caught using them again (yeah of course we were using them for the internet use only, like the cost of the car that was destroyed) that person would be escorted out of the building.
I know the grocery store that sold it had a cooler/freezer of some sort. I think the company name on it was "Penguin Ice" but I can't remember.
To be honest though, how much work actaully has to be done on some systems now for NTSC->PAL conversions of the games? Or does that truely make a difference sometimes? The XBox is just a pc-in-a-box, so while the RGB->NTSC/PAL chip would change, how much does the game actually have to change to play in the different region?
I realize that the older game consoles this was a major deal, but for the modern ones why should it even really matter? I mean I can take a region 2 DVD drop it in an all region DVD player set for NTSC out and it should work because it is a digital signal and it is how the equipment interpets this signal.
Nah, you just need to kick its ass and chew some bubblegum.