I asked my friend who's a general practice lawyer. He does defense work, family law etc. They tend to know all of the people running personally and are most interested in a fair and impartial judge regardless of party. Other than that I couldn't find any information online or in newspapers. The media doesn't seem to care about district/municipal judges which is incorrigible since they influence the general public more directly than any other elected official.
First Saturday in Dallas http://www.sidewalksale.com/
Lots of weird things to be found, and plenty of used computer equipment. I'm not affiliated, but it is fun to walk it.
Does anyone know if MythDora supports a DirectFB install? I can't seem to find any conclusive information on whether Myth 0.2 even supports this anymore.
I'm in a similar situation as he is. The problem isn't so simple. I've been trying to get a real h/w job since I was hired on (going on 5 years now... let's just say what was promised in the interview didn't occur). Don't get me wrong, I'm grateful to have a paycheck, especially since I hired on shortly after 9/11 when most couldn't get ANY job. If he's anything like me, his company outsources all of the real engineering (the true fun design work), and you're basically a project manager.
NOBODY wants you. Even with creative resume writing, it's nigh impossible to get a real engineering job (or it has been for me). I've had some interviews, but they always hire the guy with x years experience in the field. The more time that passes, the worse it gets. If you can find a company that'll hire an engineer with no real world design experience and still pay him better than entry level (gotta support the family), I'd like to know about it.
I'm very actively trying to get the hell out of here, into another systems engineering type job at a place with better schools around. The only solution I've found is to go back to school and get my MSEE. Perhaps then, companies might be willing to give my resume a closer look.
If I can't get out of here then I suppose I'll just have to resign myself to never doing anything of any consequence, and take the mercenery route.
You are right though, IMHO a Masters is kind of a waste. BSEE/EIT should be good enough for most design work, but it hasn't born out that way in practice.
Sorry, where have I been? I thought this was about the AT&T/NSA Phone records. That'll teach me to RTFA. Seriously though, two civil rights compromises with the NSA and AT&T now, wth?
Can some party PLEASE front a good civil libertarian candiate in 2008 that has a snowballs chance at winning?
The better way would be to run XBMC (XBox Media Center), and xbmcmythtv. It's not perfect yet, but it's definately getting there. It requires a modded xbox (which you have), and doesn't require installing/booting linux, so it's quicker. It's a bit tricky to get ahold of the programs, since the source is distributable, but the binaries are not (MS won't sign them [hence mod required], and the xbox SDK forbids the distribution of non-signed binaries). They can be found with some digging.
That seems interesting, but I couldn't find anything to verify. All of those are acronyms. Indeed in government writing, there's an acronym list at the end of every document. Such a list would include WTF (were it used), and AFLA is almost always included as a joke (another four letter acronym).
from dictionary.com:
acronym
n : a word formed from the initial letters of a multi-word name
Since (from my understanding) Wal Mart's internet service is basically rebranded AOL, will this be affecting their users as well? I haven't found anything on google, and if this is the case, I'd like to let my wmconnect friends know.
From tfa: the sale of the spectrum would generate approximately $10b in revenue. The net gain ($10b - $1.5b) would still be a revenue influx of $8.5b. This sounds like a (surprisingly) fair and mutually beneficial deal.
Regardless of your feeleings on television, it is important that everyone have free (or near free) access to news, state of the union addresses, etc.
Do you have any more information about your setup (maybe a howto of sorts). I'm very interested in alternative energy for our off the grid cabin in the middle of nowhere.
Thanks,
Soapee01
I know where I work; we used to use davis equipment. Just don't go wireless (at least there older products), it tended to be a bit flakey.
We ended up using one of these http://www.rainwise.com/mk3/mk3wt.htm. Interfaces via RS-232, and somewhere they published there protocol online (couldn't find it with a quick search). It was trivial to integrate into LabVIEW, and a quick program in any language would be easy. Ours has been up and running for over a year without any problems.
btw, whatup Joey/Chris? Mandy says hi. I forgot you're back from the tech sabbatical.
Although I agree somewhat with what you're suggesting, Amendment 8 doesn't apply here.
The key point is this would likely end up being a civil suit (to which they can sue you for $150,000 per infringement by copyright law). The federal government has nothing to do with this (other than providing a judge and making sure 12 of your "peers" are there).
Their development kit had an interface to RS-232. You just plugged the radio into the board and plugged it into your computer. Hyperterminal runs very well with it, so I assume you could run whatever you want over through radio so long as you pay close attention to it's max buffer size, and speed (but getting ssh to interface with the com0 might take some work - unless it does this already).
Alternatively, you could easily make your own board to interface between your PC/MAC's com port and the radio. It's not much more than a MAX232? (made by Maxim, converts uart to rs232 signal levels), and a header to plug in the board. The maxstream development kit itself was pretty expensive for what it did.
I'm faimiliar with MaxStream, good company, good products. They even gave us a little student discount. Used their 9xStream in my senior design project. Great for low bandwidth/low power embedded applications and extremely easy to integrate (simple UART IIRC). Just pick your own protocol and let the radio do its magic (ie nothing but basic RF knowledge required). This makes me think about picking up that project again and seeing what the extra distance might do.
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I asked my friend who's a general practice lawyer. He does defense work, family law etc. They tend to know all of the people running personally and are most interested in a fair and impartial judge regardless of party. Other than that I couldn't find any information online or in newspapers. The media doesn't seem to care about district/municipal judges which is incorrigible since they influence the general public more directly than any other elected official.
First Saturday in Dallas http://www.sidewalksale.com/ Lots of weird things to be found, and plenty of used computer equipment. I'm not affiliated, but it is fun to walk it.
ok. fab@home video
Does anyone know if MythDora supports a DirectFB install? I can't seem to find any conclusive information on whether Myth 0.2 even supports this anymore.
MTIA
soap
I'm in a similar situation as he is. The problem isn't so simple. I've been trying to get a real h/w job since I was hired on (going on 5 years now... let's just say what was promised in the interview didn't occur). Don't get me wrong, I'm grateful to have a paycheck, especially since I hired on shortly after 9/11 when most couldn't get ANY job. If he's anything like me, his company outsources all of the real engineering (the true fun design work), and you're basically a project manager.
NOBODY wants you. Even with creative resume writing, it's nigh impossible to get a real engineering job (or it has been for me). I've had some interviews, but they always hire the guy with x years experience in the field. The more time that passes, the worse it gets. If you can find a company that'll hire an engineer with no real world design experience and still pay him better than entry level (gotta support the family), I'd like to know about it.
I'm very actively trying to get the hell out of here, into another systems engineering type job at a place with better schools around. The only solution I've found is to go back to school and get my MSEE. Perhaps then, companies might be willing to give my resume a closer look.
If I can't get out of here then I suppose I'll just have to resign myself to never doing anything of any consequence, and take the mercenery route.
You are right though, IMHO a Masters is kind of a waste. BSEE/EIT should be good enough for most design work, but it hasn't born out that way in practice.
That's cool, but my carrier grade linux is running a counter measures kernel
Sorry, where have I been? I thought this was about the AT&T/NSA Phone records. That'll teach me to RTFA. Seriously though, two civil rights compromises with the NSA and AT&T now, wth?
Can some party PLEASE front a good civil libertarian candiate in 2008 that has a snowballs chance at winning?
Does anyone know if cell phone records are lumped in? I was considering a switch to Cingular. I may just wait and see how this plays out.
The better way would be to run XBMC (XBox Media Center), and xbmcmythtv. It's not perfect yet, but it's definately getting there. It requires a modded xbox (which you have), and doesn't require installing/booting linux, so it's quicker. It's a bit tricky to get ahold of the programs, since the source is distributable, but the binaries are not (MS won't sign them [hence mod required], and the xbox SDK forbids the distribution of non-signed binaries). They can be found with some digging.
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Here's some links that might help you out:
http://waltercedric.com/Mambo/index.php?option=co
http://forums.designtechnica.com/archive/index.ph
http://www.xboxmediaplayer.de/cgi-bin/forums/ikon
http://hardware.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=05/0
http://www.dealdatabase.com/forum/archive/index.p
http://www.xbins.org/
That seems interesting, but I couldn't find anything to verify. All of those are acronyms. Indeed in government writing, there's an acronym list at the end of every document. Such a list would include WTF (were it used), and AFLA is almost always included as a joke (another four letter acronym).
from dictionary.com:
acronym n : a word formed from the initial letters of a multi-word name
see also google define: acronym
Does anyone really drink coffee because supposed health benefits?
...
I thought it was just the magic breakfast juice that helps me move, think,
I wish I had mod points today.
Since (from my understanding) Wal Mart's internet service is basically rebranded AOL, will this be affecting their users as well? I haven't found anything on google, and if this is the case, I'd like to let my wmconnect friends know.
Thanks,
soapee01
From tfa: the sale of the spectrum would generate approximately $10b in revenue. The net gain ($10b - $1.5b) would still be a revenue influx of $8.5b. This sounds like a (surprisingly) fair and mutually beneficial deal.
Regardless of your feeleings on television, it is important that everyone have free (or near free) access to news, state of the union addresses, etc.
Do you have any more information about your setup (maybe a howto of sorts). I'm very interested in alternative energy for our off the grid cabin in the middle of nowhere. Thanks, Soapee01
I know where I work; we used to use davis equipment. Just don't go wireless (at least there older products), it tended to be a bit flakey. We ended up using one of these http://www.rainwise.com/mk3/mk3wt.htm. Interfaces via RS-232, and somewhere they published there protocol online (couldn't find it with a quick search). It was trivial to integrate into LabVIEW, and a quick program in any language would be easy. Ours has been up and running for over a year without any problems. btw, whatup Joey/Chris? Mandy says hi. I forgot you're back from the tech sabbatical.
Although I agree somewhat with what you're suggesting, Amendment 8 doesn't apply here. The key point is this would likely end up being a civil suit (to which they can sue you for $150,000 per infringement by copyright law). The federal government has nothing to do with this (other than providing a judge and making sure 12 of your "peers" are there).
Not sure if these are still around, but I loved playing with it as a kid. Motors and sharp metal parts ...mmmmmmm
Their development kit had an interface to RS-232. You just plugged the radio into the board and plugged it into your computer. Hyperterminal runs very well with it, so I assume you could run whatever you want over through radio so long as you pay close attention to it's max buffer size, and speed (but getting ssh to interface with the com0 might take some work - unless it does this already).
Alternatively, you could easily make your own board to interface between your PC/MAC's com port and the radio. It's not much more than a MAX232? (made by Maxim, converts uart to rs232 signal levels), and a header to plug in the board. The maxstream development kit itself was pretty expensive for what it did.
I'm faimiliar with MaxStream, good company, good products. They even gave us a little student discount. Used their 9xStream in my senior design project. Great for low bandwidth/low power embedded applications and extremely easy to integrate (simple UART IIRC). Just pick your own protocol and let the radio do its magic (ie nothing but basic RF knowledge required). This makes me think about picking up that project again and seeing what the extra distance might do.