Just do a CTRL-mousewheel (or whatever you have your font size change bound to).
That will force a re-render and clean things up.
The bugzilla number is 217527 (the Mozilla team do not want direct links from Slashdot to Bugzilla - if you cannot figure out how to get from here to there without a link you probably shouldn't be going there anyway.)
I don't know about Reno, as I am a Sedgwick County resident, but I fork over the bucks every year to be a member, so I get into the Hall of Space for no additional fee anyway.
I told CleverNickName about the KSC - he was looking for things to do on his next trip into Tulsa for a SF con (posted in his Journal), and I told him a detour north would be a good idea. Now, the question is, will Wil do it?
Sad to say, but I just went through JSC a couple of weeks ago, and I really wasn't impressed.
This is Johnson freakingSpace CENTER for crying out loud - yet the items they had on display at the visitor's center weren't much better than the items in the Hall Of Space at the Cosmosphere - in many ways KSC has them beat (KSC's Redstone rocket is in better shape, KSC has an SR-71 in addition to the T-38, KSC has the original Apollo "White Room").
Look, JSC *is* NASA - KSC is a private sector organization in the middle of Kansas (more or less).
It just doesn't seem right for me to be walking around JSC's visitor center saying "Yawn. Ho-hum. Got anything better?"
As far as I can see, 90% of the problems with the way Web pages are designed comes from the code generated by the common tools.
The <a href="#" javascript="bla...."> stupidity, the "<table width=600" and suchlike fixed width items, all seem to be commonplace in code from things like Dreamweaver and such. Perhaps those programs can generate proper code, but it would seem the default settings don't (IANAWebDesigner).
If the companies that made the tools would just design the tools to generate proper HTML, that works on different resolutions and font sizes, that degrades gracefully when Javascript is turned off, and MAKE THAT THE DEFAULT SETTING, then a great deal of the problems would go away.
You should see my userContent.css file - it is full of overrides to prevent stupid web sites from using 400 pixel wide tables on my 1600 wide web browser.
I've worked with many UI designers - most of whom have the idea that they want to control everything to the pixel level. Then I take the mouse and attempt to resize their window. Either the window won't resize (they've blocked the message) or the window looks like crap. Designing ANY UI that will resize is HARD - you the designer have to convey to the program, somehow, that *this* item should grow, but *that* item should not. That is extra information that many lazy UI designers don't pass along - be they designing UIs for programs or for web sites.
Actually, the receiver in question is 2 meters ONLY.
Also, I've looked at the signals with a spectrum analyzer (remember, I *design* spec-ans!).
And setting up a tracking front end is far easier said than done in a small package - you have to have some variable capacitance and inductance to make the filter.
Maybe someday somebody will make a MEMS tracking filter, but I've not seen any shipping yet.
Surrounding an EMF generating component with a grounded metal case generally does very little.
Excuse me, but BULLSHIT.
I design radio test equipment for a living, and you DAMN SURE do keep the RF from a device from radiating by putting a shield around it - you just TRY to get a reciever working if don't have the local oscillators in cans!
The problem with most computer cases nowadays is they are CHEEP (spelling deliberate) and poorly made. Most panel to panel connections are simply 2 pieces of aluminum resting against each other (in other words, two pieces of aluminum seperated by a sapphire insulator, as aluminum quickly develops an oxide coating) - no beryllium-copper fingerstock, no compression gaskets, no star washers, nothing. When you have a chunk of metal not bonded to the chassis, you have a passive radiator, not a shield.
If you wish to evaluate a case for RF shielding, put a light inside it, turn out the room lights, and look for leaks. Any gap longer than about 20 centimeters will act as a slot antenna for 1.5GHz(ish). Most modern cases leak like sieves.
If you ever have the chance, look at an old Atari 800 (NOT 800XL) - those things were TANKS and didn't leak any RF to speak of - potmetal case around all active components, proper gaskets - truely a joy to behold. Of course that adds cost to the system, and in this day that won't fly.
I constantly have birdies on my 2 meter rig from my computer - I have to unload the Firewire drivers any time I am not using them or I get a signal that is half-full scale 100 meters from my house. I'm seriously thinking of making a full Faraday cage for all my computer gear (save user interface elements) just to avoid the problems.
This is one of my pet peeves with news.google.com.
I go to look at what is happening in the world. I see a story that catches my eye, so I pop it into a new tab. Repeat a few times.
Now, start looking over the tabs. Register. Register. Register.
Sod you. Sod you. Sod you. (The Brits have a really great term here, esp. if you understand the derivation - I was amused that they let Spike say "Sod this" several times on Angel and Buffy....)
I'd like to be able to tell news.google.com "Look, if I have to register to see it, don't even bother me with it."
Sorry folks - while as a content provider you have every right to require me to register to see your content, it is DAMN CRASS of you to lead me on by getting linked from a search engine. It would be like the folks in the stores with the trays of samples offering you a sample then saying "Oh, by the way, you have to have a FooMart Plus Loyalty Card to get a sample."
And whilst I am ranting - has anybody else noticed the number of sites that use Javascript and "hide" the story from plain old HTML (by using <div type=hidden> tags)? Once again, they get a big "Sod you with an arc welder" from me.
Mozilla/Firefox will not have "won" the war until the majority of programmers under MS Windows, upon needing to add an HTML render widget, or HTTP downloader, or FTP downloader to their app, do so by invoking the appropriate DLL from Mozilla rather than the IE/Windows DLL.
Until that day - until the day when one CAN remove IE and all of its component DLLs from Windows and replace them with Mozilla, MS will be the winners of the war.
"Baryonic matter" is used to refer to normal matter because it is mostly correct - by mass the amount of normal matter that is leptons rather than baryons is much less than a percent.
Back in the days when games booted directly, my friends and I had a joke - "Psygnosis - Latin for Won't Boot"
Psygnosis copyprotected their games with every trick in the book, to prevent the game from loading if it was pirated.
It worked.
It also prevented the games from booting if they WEREN'T pirated, but your drive was a little off. Or you had an accelerator card. Or it was a day with a vowel in it. Or if there were baryons in your computer.
Simple solution - don't buy copy protected software. Don't copy it. Don't use it. If you buy it and find it is copy protected, take it back, say it won't work, and demand your money back.
Yes, the E field across the ground is bad - I knew a caver who was deep inside a cave, and was shocked by the cave wall when a strike hit the ground above.
That's also why you should NOT lie down on the ground to avoid a strike - instead, you should "become a basketball with feet" - curl up into a ball and balance on the balls of your feet, with your feet as close together as possible (if your balance isn't good enough, then put your feet flat). That way, if a strike hits close to your, the potential across the parts of you in contact with the ground will be at a minimum.
That's also why equipment connected to radio towers should, ideally, be in a Faraday cage (a closed conductive container) - an E field will not penetrate a (perfect) Faraday cage, and will remain on the outside. (Of course, that "perfect" bit is the hard bit, so some field will leak inside, but nowhere near as much as without.)
And as a previous poster pointed out, it is the fact that most cars are pretty good Faraday cages that protects you from lightning in a car, not the rubber tires - the lightning jumped an air gap of several hundred metere, what makes you think a few centimeters of rubber are going to stop it?
Of course, if you are in a modern plastic car....
Even worse, imagine taking a strike in a Prius or other electric/hybrid electric car with a significant amount of battery....
Again, I'd like to see the plots. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof, and three simple plots - VSWR/freq, radiation pattern in XY, radiation pattern in YZ - would go a long way to answering my questions.
I wish the linked article had shown some VSWR plots of the antenna vs. conventional designs - I'm betting this antenna has a very narrow bandwidth.
There are several parameters for an antenna system (receive parameters in parens):
VSWR bandwidth - this is the range of frequencies over which the antenna will correctly accept the signals, rather than reflecting them to the transmitter (in receive, the range of frequencies the antenna will properly couple to the receiver.). For a fixed-frequency system (like a radio station) this is less of a concern, for a frequency agile system like a cell phone this becomes more of a concern - if some of the cell channels are out of the bandwidth of the system operation will suffer.
"Gain" of the antenna - technically no antenna can radiate more power than it receives from the transmitter (deliver more power than is available in the environment). However, if you are talking to a system "over there", any signals not going over there are wasted - thus an antenna that focuses the signal in the desired direction provides gain. The article implies a gain consistent with a dipole, but there are other antenna designs that provide even more gain than that.
Radiation angle - this is the set of directions from which the RF will radiate from the antenna (be accepted by the antenna), and is linked to the gain of the antenna. For example, a phone should have a radiation angle as close to 0 degrees (toward the horizon) as possible - signals radiated at, say, 45 degrees are unlikely to hit a tower and are just being radiated into space.
Most compact designs trade bandwidth for performance - the work well at f=NNN.N MHz, but not well at f=NNN.N +.yy MHz.
This gets to be REALLY important for wide band systems like CDMA and UWB.
OK, so, where is the information about alternate routes?
Also, what happens as I leave TX and enter OK - now I have to search for another sie maintained by another entity for the information I need.
That's the issue I have with the current crop of road information online - there's lots of data, but little information (data in a usable form), and precious little knowledge (data in a usable form + how it relates to other information).
There's not a "I-35 is under construction from just south of Purcell, OK to Gainsville, TX. For traffic from OKC to San Antonio, suggest I-44 through Wichita Falls" - just a list of short segments of I-35, with county references that don't help as much if you aren't local.
And if you ARE local, then you already KNOW the condition of the roads.
Slashdot Mirror
Let's see if I can just copy and past it without the lame filter (excuse me, lameNESS filter) barfing on it.
Nope. OK, so I'll express it differently:
foreach width {790 486 750 760 640 618 748
742 547 600 646 770 620 594 595 594 285 770 } \
{
puts "TABLE[WIDTH=\"$width\"] { width: auto !important}"
}
foreach width {770 285 600 279 297 480 336 418
480 478 450 470 160 585 375 388 464} \
{
puts "TD[WIDTH=\"$width\"] { width: auto !important}"
}
TD.leftcolumnmain { width: "160" !important }
TD.article { width: auto !important }
No, I am not talking about Kennedy Space Center.
If you had looked at the subject line, you might have noticed the word "Kansas" there.
If you had read the posts, you might have noticed this link.
In short, if you had paid attention, you might have not needed to post your message.
Just do a CTRL-mousewheel (or whatever you have your font size change bound to).
That will force a re-render and clean things up.
The bugzilla number is 217527 (the Mozilla team do not want direct links from Slashdot to Bugzilla - if you cannot figure out how to get from here to there without a link you probably shouldn't be going there anyway.)
You just took the wrong routes.
Don't take I-70 - it IS drive-a-fork-through-your-skull boring.
Take US 160 through the Gypsum hills.
Take I35 through the Flint Hills.
Even the bit of Route 66 that is in Kansas is pretty.
I don't know about Reno, as I am a Sedgwick County resident, but I fork over the bucks every year to be a member, so I get into the Hall of Space for no additional fee anyway.
I told CleverNickName about the KSC - he was looking for things to do on his next trip into Tulsa for a SF con (posted in his Journal), and I told him a detour north would be a good idea. Now, the question is, will Wil do it?
Sad to say, but I just went through JSC a couple of weeks ago, and I really wasn't impressed.
This is Johnson freaking Space CENTER for crying out loud - yet the items they had on display at the visitor's center weren't much better than the items in the Hall Of Space at the Cosmosphere - in many ways KSC has them beat (KSC's Redstone rocket is in better shape, KSC has an SR-71 in addition to the T-38, KSC has the original Apollo "White Room").
Look, JSC *is* NASA - KSC is a private sector organization in the middle of Kansas (more or less).
It just doesn't seem right for me to be walking around JSC's visitor center saying "Yawn. Ho-hum. Got anything better?"
As far as I can see, 90% of the problems with the way Web pages are designed comes from the code generated by the common tools.
The <a href="#" javascript="bla...."> stupidity, the "<table width=600" and suchlike fixed width items, all seem to be commonplace in code from things like Dreamweaver and such. Perhaps those programs can generate proper code, but it would seem the default settings don't (IANAWebDesigner).
If the companies that made the tools would just design the tools to generate proper HTML, that works on different resolutions and font sizes, that degrades gracefully when Javascript is turned off, and MAKE THAT THE DEFAULT SETTING, then a great deal of the problems would go away.
You should see my userContent.css file - it is full of overrides to prevent stupid web sites from using 400 pixel wide tables on my 1600 wide web browser.
I've worked with many UI designers - most of whom have the idea that they want to control everything to the pixel level. Then I take the mouse and attempt to resize their window. Either the window won't resize (they've blocked the message) or the window looks like crap. Designing ANY UI that will resize is HARD - you the designer have to convey to the program, somehow, that *this* item should grow, but *that* item should not. That is extra information that many lazy UI designers don't pass along - be they designing UIs for programs or for web sites.
Hmmm. Been seeing that in plain old Mozilla, as well (CVS pull of 5/26).
I've found you can work around it by doing a resize larger/resize smaller (e.g. CTRL-mousewheel).
I'd've submitted a bug, but since I am running a CVS pull I figured I wait and see if anybody else has seen this - it would seem so.
You don't use the fridge to cool the CPU.
You use the CPU to drive an ammonia cycle fridge - thus keeping the fridge cool.
Actually, the receiver in question is 2 meters ONLY.
Also, I've looked at the signals with a spectrum analyzer (remember, I *design* spec-ans!).
And setting up a tracking front end is far easier said than done in a small package - you have to have some variable capacitance and inductance to make the filter.
Maybe someday somebody will make a MEMS tracking filter, but I've not seen any shipping yet.
Excuse me, but BULLSHIT
I design radio test equipment for a living, and you DAMN SURE do keep the RF from a device from radiating by putting a shield around it - you just TRY to get a reciever working if don't have the local oscillators in cans!
The problem with most computer cases nowadays is they are CHEEP (spelling deliberate) and poorly made. Most panel to panel connections are simply 2 pieces of aluminum resting against each other (in other words, two pieces of aluminum seperated by a sapphire insulator, as aluminum quickly develops an oxide coating) - no beryllium-copper fingerstock, no compression gaskets, no star washers, nothing. When you have a chunk of metal not bonded to the chassis, you have a passive radiator, not a shield.
If you wish to evaluate a case for RF shielding, put a light inside it, turn out the room lights, and look for leaks. Any gap longer than about 20 centimeters will act as a slot antenna for 1.5GHz(ish). Most modern cases leak like sieves.
If you ever have the chance, look at an old Atari 800 (NOT 800XL) - those things were TANKS and didn't leak any RF to speak of - potmetal case around all active components, proper gaskets - truely a joy to behold. Of course that adds cost to the system, and in this day that won't fly.
I constantly have birdies on my 2 meter rig from my computer - I have to unload the Firewire drivers any time I am not using them or I get a signal that is half-full scale 100 meters from my house. I'm seriously thinking of making a full Faraday cage for all my computer gear (save user interface elements) just to avoid the problems.
This is one of my pet peeves with news.google.com.
I go to look at what is happening in the world. I see a story that catches my eye, so I pop it into a new tab. Repeat a few times.
Now, start looking over the tabs. Register. Register. Register.
Sod you. Sod you. Sod you. (The Brits have a really great term here, esp. if you understand the derivation - I was amused that they let Spike say "Sod this" several times on Angel and Buffy....)
I'd like to be able to tell news.google.com "Look, if I have to register to see it, don't even bother me with it."
Sorry folks - while as a content provider you have every right to require me to register to see your content, it is DAMN CRASS of you to lead me on by getting linked from a search engine. It would be like the folks in the stores with the trays of samples offering you a sample then saying "Oh, by the way, you have to have a FooMart Plus Loyalty Card to get a sample."
And whilst I am ranting - has anybody else noticed the number of sites that use Javascript and "hide" the story from plain old HTML (by using <div type=hidden> tags)? Once again, they get a big "Sod you with an arc welder" from me.
I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but:
Mozilla/Firefox will not have "won" the war until the majority of programmers under MS Windows, upon needing to add an HTML render widget, or HTTP downloader, or FTP downloader to their app, do so by invoking the appropriate DLL from Mozilla rather than the IE/Windows DLL.
Until that day - until the day when one CAN remove IE and all of its component DLLs from Windows and replace them with Mozilla, MS will be the winners of the war.
I followed a geek radio show, but then they stopped making any more.
Yes, but do you have No Tea?
Otherwise, you can never get the last bit of fluff....
Technically, electrons are leptons, not baryons.
"Baryonic matter" is used to refer to normal matter because it is mostly correct - by mass the amount of normal matter that is leptons rather than baryons is much less than a percent.
Back in the days when games booted directly, my friends and I had a joke - "Psygnosis - Latin for Won't Boot"
Psygnosis copyprotected their games with every trick in the book, to prevent the game from loading if it was pirated.
It worked.
It also prevented the games from booting if they WEREN'T pirated, but your drive was a little off. Or you had an accelerator card. Or it was a day with a vowel in it. Or if there were baryons in your computer.
Simple solution - don't buy copy protected software. Don't copy it. Don't use it. If you buy it and find it is copy protected, take it back, say it won't work, and demand your money back.
Yes, the E field across the ground is bad - I knew a caver who was deep inside a cave, and was shocked by the cave wall when a strike hit the ground above.
That's also why you should NOT lie down on the ground to avoid a strike - instead, you should "become a basketball with feet" - curl up into a ball and balance on the balls of your feet, with your feet as close together as possible (if your balance isn't good enough, then put your feet flat). That way, if a strike hits close to your, the potential across the parts of you in contact with the ground will be at a minimum.
That's also why equipment connected to radio towers should, ideally, be in a Faraday cage (a closed conductive container) - an E field will not penetrate a (perfect) Faraday cage, and will remain on the outside. (Of course, that "perfect" bit is the hard bit, so some field will leak inside, but nowhere near as much as without.)
And as a previous poster pointed out, it is the fact that most cars are pretty good Faraday cages that protects you from lightning in a car, not the rubber tires - the lightning jumped an air gap of several hundred metere, what makes you think a few centimeters of rubber are going to stop it?
Of course, if you are in a modern plastic car....
Even worse, imagine taking a strike in a Prius or other electric/hybrid electric car with a significant amount of battery....
There is a simple check to help balance this:
Put cameras IN the monitoring room, watching the controllers.
Put the video feeds from both the cameras they are watching and from the cameras watching them online.
Now, when Officer OverSexed is zooming in on a helpless, attractive citizen, he knows he has a chance of being caught in the act!
Who watches the watchers?
What kind of towers are you checking - cell, LMR, broadcast, Ham?
Perhaps you'd used gear I've designed?
Again, I'd like to see the plots. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof, and three simple plots - VSWR/freq, radiation pattern in XY, radiation pattern in YZ - would go a long way to answering my questions.
There are several parameters for an antenna system (receive parameters in parens):
Most compact designs trade bandwidth for performance - the work well at f=NNN.N MHz, but not well at f=NNN.N +
This gets to be REALLY important for wide band systems like CDMA and UWB.
Ducks and other aquatic fowl which can still fly have webbed feet for aquatic propulsion.
Tux notwithstanding, real penguins have clawed feet (the better to walk on ice and rocks), as they swim with their wings.
I'd just like to see *somebody*, anybody, release a decent trip planning package for Linux.
/. apathy.
I used to hold out hope for Delorme, but since they discontinued support for Mac and went pure Windows I've given that up. There was a glimmer of a chance for change, but that was dashed upon the rocks of
OK, so, where is the information about alternate routes?
Also, what happens as I leave TX and enter OK - now I have to search for another sie maintained by another entity for the information I need.
That's the issue I have with the current crop of road information online - there's lots of data, but little information (data in a usable form), and precious little knowledge (data in a usable form + how it relates to other information).
There's not a "I-35 is under construction from just south of Purcell, OK to Gainsville, TX. For traffic from OKC to San Antonio, suggest I-44 through Wichita Falls" - just a list of short segments of I-35, with county references that don't help as much if you aren't local.
And if you ARE local, then you already KNOW the condition of the roads.