I never said Saddam had never had any weapons, nor did I even say I believed that he had none now. Thanks for jumping to conclusions about what I believe, and that I 'hate America'.
Ok, so you belive that we should not blowup anyplace that they will not allow the UN to inspect. What will it take to change your mind? A mushroom cloud over Tel Aviv?
Comparing a server OS (in 1981) and workstation OS to something written for puny, and comparatively inexpensive desktop
machines for consumer use is soentirely bogus that it's a shame that I have to point this out.
Ok, well MS-DOS sucked ass compared to OS-9 Level 3 for the Tandy Color Computer 3. It was a Multi-User, Multi-Tasking Realtime OS.
Heck even compared to OS-9 Level 1 on a CoCo 1 it still could not hold a candle. The CoCo 1 was released in 1981 also (I think).
Did you miss the part where Hussein Kamel Hassan fled that country and told us that Iraq had a crash nuclear weapons program in
1990? Iraq later confirmed it.
Or what about Khidhir Abdul Abas Hamza, who defected to the US in '94 and gave us lots of juicy facts about Iraq's biological
weapons programs, programs which Iraq at first vehemently denied ever existed, and then admitted to in the face of overwhelming
evidence. The stockpiles found by weapons inspectors included over 100,000 gallons of botulinum toxin, anthrax, gas gangrene,
aflatoxin, and ricin, and a side order of almost four metric tons of VX gas.
It's just easier for the "Hate America" crowd to set aside the reality of Iraq and simply take Iraq's word on what they have.
The GPS sends location data to the radio, which broadcasts digital packets to a "digipeater," which is wired to the internet...
Close but not quite. Most digipeaters are NOT connected to the net. They simply digipeat the packet to a much wider area than the original. The device that sends the data to the internet network is called an "IGate". My friend Sean has created a floppy based linux distro that has IGate software on it. Here it is, if you would like to check it out.
Utter bullshit. OSS support for lots of commercial software doesn't exist. (And reading and patching source code doesn't count)
Ask RedHat about updating Redhat 4.2. Get the X-Windows developers to provide drivers for more than 3 video cards in the
version of X that shipped with Yggdrasil.
Try applying the lastest security and fix patches in one fell swoop like you can with Windows Update for free. Oh wait, the
RedHat network is non-free.
I can see that you have never ran Windows Update on Windows 95. It is no longer supported, just like RedHat 4.2 However, you can download,compile and update your RedHat 4.2 box to up-to-date software, if you feel like it. You can't do the same on Windows 95.
Isn't having one person in charge of the official tree against the whole idea of open-source?
Shouldn't everyone have input of equal value?
Then again, a certain popular linux site also has 'super-users' who control everything. I guesse the open-source world is full of contradictions.
Open-source is about giving users access to the source code of software. It's about empowering USERS. It's not about some leftist social movement, as MicroSoft would like people to think.
It means you won't be facing a monopoly in the sky just like the one you've currently got on the ground. I think the companies involved will muddle on through to providing the services you desire without merging into a mega-corp.
It means that you will only get a few local markets off the bird(s). Quite frankley, that sucks. Without this merger, you only have one choice if you are not in one of the few local markets served by DTV or DN, your local cable company.With this merger, there will be enough bandwidth to serve many more local markets.Cable and DBS are after the same customer base.
It's not an entirely unreasonable sentiment. However, I do see a _major_ difference between private victimless lawbreaking in
the home by private individuals and systematic lawbreaking by large companies that has active and serious consequences for
the public environment, done for profit.
How many people have been killed because the person driving the car/train/plane was high? How many people are dead because of illegal seawalls? Please put things into perspective.
I have no sympathy at all for your position. As far as I can tell, you're arguing in favor for landowners to be able to do whatever
they want, even in open violation of state and federal environmental laws, on their own property.
Wonder how many people who agree with this logic smoke dope?
Be sure you fully understand that comment before you mod me as flamebait.
Get this - I got pulled over 2 weeks ago for running a red light in London (it was frikkin orange, but never mind). I was on my way from work to the hospital, where my 2.5 month-old son lay with a 40.3oC temperature, so I was in a bit of a hurry. I really was, and I was all panicky. Anyway, the cop was sympathetic and let me go on my way without issuing a ticket, and putting god-knows how many points on my license.
Yesterday, I got a letter with a 600 GBP fine and an issue to go in front of a Police tribunal for failing to stop after being flagged down by a policeman for running a red light. WT friggin F??? The b'stard took my license number and issued a failing-to-stop-for-police notice. I'm frikkin fuming - So hah, Metropolitan police. Pay your frikkin huge court bill, because now I have to get a bloody solicitor to defend me in a my-word-against-your-word case, because I didn't ask for the policemans number after he was so 'kind' to let me go.
But don't you feel safe with those cameras all over the place;) Cameras never lie.
The range of frequencies over which the electromagnetic spectrum is used in radio transmission is between about 3 kHz and 300 GHz.
What the article doesn't talk much about is how these waves are actually transmitted. And as science buffs, we're all probably intelligent and curious enough to read a bit about the details of such a feat as this. It may seem complex at first, but it's nothing but physics, which is nothing more than a few algebra rules that most of you learned back in 9th grade.
The simplest approach to describing radio wave propagation is to solve for the index of refraction h = (m e)1/2, where m is the magnetic permeability (1.25664 x 10-6 H m-1) and e is the dielectric constant.
The index of refraction, in turn, describes the relationship between the angles of incidence and refraction through Snell's Law.
To put it simply, all that that mumbo-jumbo really shows is that there's a finite maximum usable frequency (MUF) that will reflect off the ionosphere and allow still higher frequencies to pass through relatively unchanged.
Nice Karma Whoring. Did you not see that it said, Email Over High-Frequency Radio in West Africa.
HF radio is from about 300KHz to about 30MHz. The MUF is almost _ALWAYS_ within this range, but sometimes gets into low-band VHF (About 50MHz). This can happen during the peak of the 11 year sunspot cycle. (We had dual peeks during the current one)
Bottom Line is, you don't need to be a Physics Scholar to understand HF radio propagation.
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Care to enlighten the younger (i.e. Gen Y) among us as to what the double speed poke is?
I have, in fact, (to answer several questions in this thread) given my Mom a copy of XP. The install went flawlessly. Her monitor
came up in 1024x768 out of the box (her preference), and her network connection was perfect. I know about the monitor because
I just called her to confirm.
Just because she has supported hardware, does not mean that every PC will do the same, and you damn well know it. I could send any modern distro to my Dnd and he could install it flawlessly as well, but only because I know all of his hardware is supported. If you REALLY think XP supports all PC hardware out of the box, your wrong. Dead wrong.
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I can give my Mom a copy of XP, and she can install it and run it.
That's BullShit (TM) and you know it. Yea, she might get it to boot, but she can forget about having a network connection and more than 256 colors.
If you've ever listened to any ham bands you'd see that he doesn't need to make it unuseable. It pretty much already is. And if he
did try, he'd be drowned out by a few loud idiots. There's a reason I let my license lapse many years ago - the hobby got
"embraced" by a large number of CB types and it all went down hill.
Don't lump all of us in with the guys down on 75 Meters. If you had tuned around, you would find alot of really nice folks on the air, but if you look for a bunch of jerks, that's all you will find.
Since shortwave is more or less a party line with pure analog transmission,
There is plenty of digital traffic on HF.
what stops an unscrupulous person from spamming it
and making it unusable to everyone else?
The ITU. Even though I do remeber Castro took 1510 WLAC here in Nashville, along with other stations on the East Coast, off the air around 1989 because of "TV Marti". (Sorry for no links. I'm lazy.)
What can this actually do for me? I read the article (read: advertisement) and I'm still lost on what this does.
With a DSP directly in the IF section, any damn thing you want it to.:) Instead of having circuitry to "detect" the information modulated on the radio signal, you use mathematical algorithms to "detect" that information. It's AM/FM/AFSK/FSK/PSK/Spread Spectrum/SSB and any other mode that can be devised capable. You simply write software to detect the information you want.
I know it's not the answer you were looking for, but I hope someone else was.
RMS tolerates the use of glibc in weapons -- that is to say, he doesn't try to
stop it. That doesn't mean he approves of it, or wouldn't be offended by the thought of a missile guided by glibc-linked code
blowing up a village in Iraq. (Hell, I'm offended by it, and I didn't even write glibc.)
This got me to thinking. (Yes, that is the burning odor you smell) How about using some other compiler with a bug in it that kills someone other than the enemy? That would be worse. Use gcc to kill those bastards.
Time to go back to measuring uptime in hours instead of days...
Nope. I have patched one of my Linux servers several times, it's uptime? 529 days. It rolled over to 0 days uptime at 497 days. Rebooting is for Kernel and hardware upgrades.:)
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I never said Saddam had never had any weapons, nor did I even say I believed that he had none now. Thanks for jumping to conclusions about what I believe, and that I 'hate America'.
Ok, so you belive that we should not blowup anyplace that they will not allow the UN to inspect. What will it take to change your mind? A mushroom cloud over Tel Aviv?
Comparing a server OS (in 1981) and workstation OS to something written for puny, and comparatively inexpensive desktop machines for consumer use is soentirely bogus that it's a shame that I have to point this out.
Ok, well MS-DOS sucked ass compared to OS-9 Level 3 for the Tandy Color Computer 3. It was a Multi-User, Multi-Tasking Realtime OS.
Heck even compared to OS-9 Level 1 on a CoCo 1 it still could not hold a candle. The CoCo 1 was released in 1981 also (I think).
A couple of points....
Thanks for posting the IF freq. I did not realize that most broadcast FM receivers used good ole 10.7 MHZ IF.
Also, should you not also be able to pick up the LO on the low side of the desired operating frequency as well? 103.3 + 10.7 = 114 103.3 - 10.7 = 92.6
Did you miss the part where Hussein Kamel Hassan fled that country and told us that Iraq had a crash nuclear weapons program in 1990? Iraq later confirmed it.
Or what about Khidhir Abdul Abas Hamza, who defected to the US in '94 and gave us lots of juicy facts about Iraq's biological weapons programs, programs which Iraq at first vehemently denied ever existed, and then admitted to in the face of overwhelming evidence. The stockpiles found by weapons inspectors included over 100,000 gallons of botulinum toxin, anthrax, gas gangrene, aflatoxin, and ricin, and a side order of almost four metric tons of VX gas.
It's just easier for the "Hate America" crowd to set aside the reality of Iraq and simply take Iraq's word on what they have.
The GPS sends location data to the radio, which broadcasts digital packets to a "digipeater," which is wired to the internet...
Close but not quite. Most digipeaters are NOT connected to the net. They simply digipeat the packet to a much wider area than the original. The device that sends the data to the internet network is called an "IGate". My friend Sean has created a floppy based linux distro that has IGate software on it. Here it is, if you would like to check it out.
I have been doing APRS since 1996 or 1997.
But I guess it's nice to know that there is a commercial version avaliable.
Utter bullshit. OSS support for lots of commercial software doesn't exist. (And reading and patching source code doesn't count)
Ask RedHat about updating Redhat 4.2. Get the X-Windows developers to provide drivers for more than 3 video cards in the version of X that shipped with Yggdrasil.
Try applying the lastest security and fix patches in one fell swoop like you can with Windows Update for free. Oh wait, the RedHat network is non-free.
I can see that you have never ran Windows Update on Windows 95. It is no longer supported, just like RedHat 4.2 However, you can download,compile and update your RedHat 4.2 box to up-to-date software, if you feel like it. You can't do the same on Windows 95.
Isn't having one person in charge of the official tree against the whole idea of open-source?
Shouldn't everyone have input of equal value?
Then again, a certain popular linux site also has 'super-users' who control everything. I guesse the open-source world is full of contradictions.
Open-source is about giving users access to the source code of software. It's about empowering USERS. It's not about some leftist social movement, as MicroSoft would like people to think.
It means you won't be facing a monopoly in the sky just like the one you've currently got on the ground. I think the companies involved will muddle on through to providing the services you desire without merging into a mega-corp.
It means that you will only get a few local markets off the bird(s). Quite frankley, that sucks. Without this merger, you only have one choice if you are not in one of the few local markets served by DTV or DN, your local cable company.With this merger, there will be enough bandwidth to serve many more local markets.Cable and DBS are after the same customer base.
It's not an entirely unreasonable sentiment. However, I do see a _major_ difference between private victimless lawbreaking in the home by private individuals and systematic lawbreaking by large companies that has active and serious consequences for the public environment, done for profit.
How many people have been killed because the person driving the car/train/plane was high? How many people are dead because of illegal seawalls? Please put things into perspective.
I have no sympathy at all for your position. As far as I can tell, you're arguing in favor for landowners to be able to do whatever they want, even in open violation of state and federal environmental laws, on their own property.
Wonder how many people who agree with this logic smoke dope?
Be sure you fully understand that comment before you mod me as flamebait.
or the 0 wait state disk controller (OS9 goodness....)
A friend of mine had the Frank Hog Labs 0 wait state disk controller. I only had a DISTO Super Controller II 4-n-1 and it sucked!
Multi User, Multi Tasking with less than 512k of ram. OS9 rocked. I still have the c compiler around here somewhere for it.
You can transmit your position to other units so they can hear you and see where you are.
:)
I have been doing it since 1997.
Get this - I got pulled over 2 weeks ago for running a red light in London (it was frikkin orange, but never mind). I was on my way from work to the hospital, where my 2.5 month-old son lay with a 40.3oC temperature, so I was in a bit of a hurry. I really was, and I was all panicky. Anyway, the cop was sympathetic and let me go on my way without issuing a ticket, and putting god-knows how many points on my license. Yesterday, I got a letter with a 600 GBP fine and an issue to go in front of a Police tribunal for failing to stop after being flagged down by a policeman for running a red light. WT friggin F??? The b'stard took my license number and issued a failing-to-stop-for-police notice. I'm frikkin fuming - So hah, Metropolitan police. Pay your frikkin huge court bill, because now I have to get a bloody solicitor to defend me in a my-word-against-your-word case, because I didn't ask for the policemans number after he was so 'kind' to let me go.
;) Cameras never lie.
But don't you feel safe with those cameras all over the place
The range of frequencies over which the electromagnetic spectrum is used in radio transmission is between about 3 kHz and 300 GHz.
What the article doesn't talk much about is how these waves are actually transmitted. And as science buffs, we're all probably intelligent and curious enough to read a bit about the details of such a feat as this. It may seem complex at first, but it's nothing but physics, which is nothing more than a few algebra rules that most of you learned back in 9th grade.
The simplest approach to describing radio wave propagation is to solve for the index of refraction h = (m e)1/2, where m is the magnetic permeability (1.25664 x 10-6 H m-1) and e is the dielectric constant.
The index of refraction, in turn, describes the relationship between the angles of incidence and refraction through Snell's Law.
To put it simply, all that that mumbo-jumbo really shows is that there's a finite maximum usable frequency (MUF) that will reflect off the ionosphere and allow still higher frequencies to pass through relatively unchanged.
Nice Karma Whoring. Did you not see that it said, Email Over High-Frequency Radio in West Africa.
HF radio is from about 300KHz to about 30MHz. The MUF is almost _ALWAYS_ within this range, but sometimes gets into low-band VHF (About 50MHz). This can happen during the peak of the 11 year sunspot cycle. (We had dual peeks during the current one)
Bottom Line is, you don't need to be a Physics Scholar to understand HF radio propagation.
Care to enlighten the younger (i.e. Gen Y) among us as to what the double speed poke is?
<voice type=geezer>
The problem with kids these days is they don't know how to use Google.
Why in our day, we had to use YaHoo!, and we liked it!
</voice>
POKE 65495,0 If you know what this does, you are as old and pathetic as I am.
Ah, the double speed poke. Old and pathetic I am.
And right now, he can't get his foot in the door because in Seattle
To quote Sam Kinison, "Move to where the food is."
I have, in fact, (to answer several questions in this thread) given my Mom a copy of XP. The install went flawlessly. Her monitor came up in 1024x768 out of the box (her preference), and her network connection was perfect. I know about the monitor because I just called her to confirm.
Just because she has supported hardware, does not mean that every PC will do the same, and you damn well know it. I could send any modern distro to my Dnd and he could install it flawlessly as well, but only because I know all of his hardware is supported. If you REALLY think XP supports all PC hardware out of the box, your wrong. Dead wrong.
I can give my Mom a copy of XP, and she can install it and run it.
That's BullShit (TM) and you know it. Yea, she might get it to boot, but she can forget about having a network connection and more than 256 colors.
If you've ever listened to any ham bands you'd see that he doesn't need to make it unuseable. It pretty much already is. And if he did try, he'd be drowned out by a few loud idiots. There's a reason I let my license lapse many years ago - the hobby got "embraced" by a large number of CB types and it all went down hill.
Don't lump all of us in with the guys down on 75 Meters. If you had tuned around, you would find alot of really nice folks on the air, but if you look for a bunch of jerks, that's all you will find.
Since shortwave is more or less a party line with pure analog transmission,
There is plenty of digital traffic on HF.
what stops an unscrupulous person from spamming it and making it unusable to everyone else?
The ITU. Even though I do remeber Castro took 1510 WLAC here in Nashville, along with other stations on the East Coast, off the air around 1989 because of "TV Marti". (Sorry for no links. I'm lazy.)
What can this actually do for me? I read the article (read: advertisement) and I'm still lost on what this does.
:) Instead of having circuitry to "detect" the information modulated on the radio signal, you use mathematical algorithms to "detect" that information. It's AM/FM/AFSK/FSK/PSK/Spread Spectrum/SSB and any other mode that can be devised capable. You simply write software to detect the information you want.
With a DSP directly in the IF section, any damn thing you want it to.
I know it's not the answer you were looking for, but I hope someone else was.
RMS tolerates the use of glibc in weapons -- that is to say, he doesn't try to stop it. That doesn't mean he approves of it, or wouldn't be offended by the thought of a missile guided by glibc-linked code blowing up a village in Iraq. (Hell, I'm offended by it, and I didn't even write glibc.)
This got me to thinking. (Yes, that is the burning odor you smell) How about using some other compiler with a bug in it that kills someone other than the enemy? That would be worse. Use gcc to kill those bastards.
Same mantra -- Patch and reboot?
:)
Time to go back to measuring uptime in hours instead of days...
Nope. I have patched one of my Linux servers several times, it's uptime? 529 days. It rolled over to 0 days uptime at 497 days. Rebooting is for Kernel and hardware upgrades.