Unfortunately that model seems discontinued and reviews of its successor on Newegg are far less positive than they were about the 2010 - which is why I have a Brother HL-2070N.
I didn't need to touch my HL-2070N at all with Windows to get it to work. 100% web-based UI.
I only have had jamming problems when attempting double-sided printing, and I attribute that to bad paper quality - the paper had a bad tendency to curl after printing, and putting it back in upside down gave bad results. If I let the paper cool and flatten for a few minutes, it would do fine. Similarly, higher quality paper doesn't jam in this situation. Cheap paper works fine for single-sided printing.
Some of the newer Samsung ML-series printers got pretty bad build quality/power consumption reviews, which is why I didn't purchase one when I was shopping for a networked laser printer.
I have a Brother HL-2070N, which seems to lose no functionality when operating in PCL emulation mode instead of native mode. It works perfectly with CUPS despite it *still* being unlisted as a supported printer. The HL-2060 driver and any PCL driver work fine.
Hmm, that's a little odd, the military is usually pretty good about not reusing project names, especially not for/with major programs, such as the Light Airborne Multi-Purpose System (LAMPS), for which the original variant (SH-2 Sea Sprite) was deployed in 1959.
It's strange. It really is starting to look like every major mobile phone platform based on Linux (OpenMoko is small-fry and still doesn't really have anything but developer toys, and Nokia's Maemo-based devices are almost entirely non-phone.) is at the closed end of the spectrum for modders/developers due to rampant Tivoization. It's a pretty big contrast compared to the Windows Mobile community, where to my knowledge, Microsoft and HTC have never C&Ded xda-developers, and I've heard rumors that there is some unofficial support from inside those companies at this point.
It's really sad when the most open and flexible platform in a particular market segment (mobile phones) is a Microsoft product.
You heat anything too much and it will get damaged.
Microwaves CAN cause tissue damage - by heating.
The key is: 1) At low powers it's about as dangerous as touching a warm object, i.e. not at all 2) Unlike ionizing radiation, damage is not cumulative. Damage only occurs when you heat something beyond the temperature at which damage occurs.
Not really specified whether the tower uses an omni or directional antennas or not. Likely the limit of the tower's directionality is a sector antenna pointed at town. Guessing it doesn't do electronically steered phased array.
To achieve any significant field strength at this guy's field would require far higher transmitter power than is typical for such a comm system (typical is a maximum of 30-50 watts) and a huge directional antenna pointed right at his plants.
The heating from such an RF field would still be far less than from sunlight, not counting sunlight's UV component too.
It's not possible. Only ionizing radiation can alter DNA.
Microwaves are not ionizing radiation. Not even remotely close, they're on the complete opposite side of the visible portion of the spectrum in fact.
From visible, you go to IR and then to RF (including microwaves) To get to the wavelengths capable of altering DNA, you need to go the other way, through violet to UV (DNA damage), X-rays (more DNA damage!) and gamma (lots of DNA damage).
There's only one way I can describe this guy - fucking ignorant dumbass. The most likely thing to do DNA damage to his crops is the very sunlight his crops depend on to grow.
"A lot of people are losing their houses (or leaving them voluntarily ahead of someone making the decision for them, which is an unusually mature choice these days) and moving into an RV right now."
Irrelevant - if they are moving into an RV simply to avoid being homeless, then they'd better not be taking vacations to remote areas with no cell coverage.
To be a little more specific - 2400 baud nominal at approx. $1-1.50/minute for Iridium.
2G/3G is the OP's best bet without massively deep pockets. One can get some coverage improvement by finding a 3G device that allows for external antennas.
The Cradlepoint unit the OP mentioned provides no advantage over any other 2G/3G solution.
Yeah. With a few exceptions, about the only variation between most netbooks out there in terms of required drivers are the following: 1) WiFi chipset 2) Card reader chipset (newer ones all seem to be USB mass storage, older ones tended to be a bit less standardized) 3) Bluetooth chipset (Bluetooth chipsets are basically standardized - While I know nonstandard ones exist, Bluetooth adapters that aren't a USB device compliant with a particular USB class are extremely rare.)
This is because the Intel Atom platform is EXTREMELY standardized. With a few rare exceptions, if you use an N-series Atom processor, it'll be paired with one of two variants of the Intel 945G chipset with GMA950 graphics.
Atom Z-series are a different story - they are all paired with a particular chipset with "GMA500" graphics, which unlike most Intel chipsets has basically nonexistent Linux support. So never buy an Atom Z-series based machine if you want to run Linux, they are nearly always paired with unsupported graphics.
Pretty sure that was how it was in high school for me.
We DID get a grade, but the grading criteria were something like "miss X classes and be docked a half letter grade" or "forget your gym clothes Y times and be docked half a letter grade". (We were required to have separate gym clothes from our school clothes.)
Just make sure you don't go for inspection shortly after clearing the codes. As I understand it, part of the standard includes a "codes recently cleared" flag that eventually goes away.
So you'll potentially fail inspection if you cleared codes recently.
The idea is to permit clearing transient codes, but prevent people from passing inspection by clearing immediately before they get inspected.
Simply put, vehicle manufacturers are going to want to (and already do) minimize state-to-state variations between vehicles. Many features get outright left out of a vehicle until it can be 50-state legal. For example, Subaru didn't start selling tinted windows from the factory with Outback wagons until they legally reclassified the Outback as an SUV. Why? Even if the car is the exact same design, if a car is registered as an SUV in New York it may have rear window tint, but if it is registered as a station wagon it may not.
In this case, it is next to impossible to control information on a state-by-state basis. If the code meanings and protocol specs are published in Mass, it'll take days at most before it can be found nationwide.
Designing, testing, and installing a new ECU with different code meanings for just one state is prohibitively expensive.
They haven't launched yet (and are at least two years from launch according to their plans), so there's no way to guarantee their claims.
If you look at their news page there is a 2004 announcement that they'd be launching a satellite in 2006, but there is no news of an actual launch.
In fact I don't even see news of a flight test of any sort, let alone a full orbital launch.
TBH the website also looks like a pretty fly-by-night operation. You would think that a company with enough money to launch a manned space mission would be able to hire a web designer.
There's a "muted reaction" to these for the same reason Android device adoption has been disappointing.
Tying yourself to one of the smallest two of the "big four" wireless carriers in the United States (don't know if T-Mo or Sprint is smaller) is NOT a smart way to gain widespread adoption.
I would love to give an Android phone a chance for my next phone, but right now it's looking like my next phone (which will replace my current AT&T Tilt) will be AT&T's next WinMo-based HTC device. T-Mobile is NOT an option in my area, they have zero coverage from my workplace/apartment to about 10-15 miles down the highway. (For whatever reason, 75% of the time their roaming agreement with AT&T is nonfunctional in my area.)
Also, its solubility can determine how much damage it'll actually do to a human that is exposed to it.
e.g. if it's a soluble substance in the water supply, it'll get absorbed into the bloodstream and potentially stay there for a while doing damage. IIRC radioactive isotopes of iodine are considered "really bad" because of the tendency of the body to concentrate and retain it in the thyroid.
If it's insoluble, the chance of it actually being in the water consumed by a human is far lower, and even if it is consumed, it'll likely just pass through, doing very little damage.
Except that they won't - Enabling SA globally again (as opposed to on a specific regional basis) would have too much of a negative effect on the economy of US allies and the US itself, so it's not going to happen.
Chances are high that regional SA won't even be used - Apparently in the first Gulf War, they actually turned SA *off* briefly because there weren't enough military GPS receivers and servicemen were ordering civilian units from overseas. To some degree this is still a problem - military handheld GPS units are larger, more bulky, and provide far less features than many civilian units. (There's a guy who specializes in providing free maps of Afghanistan for U.S. military personnel using Garmin receivers in the field.)
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Huh? The HL-2070N supports PCL.
It works perfectly when configuring it as a PCL printer in CUPS, or if you configure it as an HL-2060 in CUPS.
I never installed the binary blob they provide and have not seen any reduction in functionality as a result.
Unfortunately that model seems discontinued and reviews of its successor on Newegg are far less positive than they were about the 2010 - which is why I have a Brother HL-2070N.
I didn't need to touch my HL-2070N at all with Windows to get it to work. 100% web-based UI.
I only have had jamming problems when attempting double-sided printing, and I attribute that to bad paper quality - the paper had a bad tendency to curl after printing, and putting it back in upside down gave bad results. If I let the paper cool and flatten for a few minutes, it would do fine. Similarly, higher quality paper doesn't jam in this situation. Cheap paper works fine for single-sided printing.
Some of the newer Samsung ML-series printers got pretty bad build quality/power consumption reviews, which is why I didn't purchase one when I was shopping for a networked laser printer.
I have a Brother HL-2070N, which seems to lose no functionality when operating in PCL emulation mode instead of native mode. It works perfectly with CUPS despite it *still* being unlisted as a supported printer. The HL-2060 driver and any PCL driver work fine.
Hmm, that's a little odd, the military is usually pretty good about not reusing project names, especially not for/with major programs, such as the Light Airborne Multi-Purpose System (LAMPS), for which the original variant (SH-2 Sea Sprite) was deployed in 1959.
So no flashing is necessary to induce headaches.
It definately held true with Windows 9x.
Win2k and XP seem to be far better off with respect to Windows Rot. Still far more susceptible to it than they should be though.
OK, a bit more clarification:
http://duttythroy.net/component/content/article/35-romnews/172-microsoft-and-htc-say-ok-to-xda-developers.html
No support, but an statement of no plans to C&D the developers.
(translation: What the developers are doing is good for business and the manufacturers are being smart about it.)
It's strange. It really is starting to look like every major mobile phone platform based on Linux (OpenMoko is small-fry and still doesn't really have anything but developer toys, and Nokia's Maemo-based devices are almost entirely non-phone.) is at the closed end of the spectrum for modders/developers due to rampant Tivoization. It's a pretty big contrast compared to the Windows Mobile community, where to my knowledge, Microsoft and HTC have never C&Ded xda-developers, and I've heard rumors that there is some unofficial support from inside those companies at this point.
It's really sad when the most open and flexible platform in a particular market segment (mobile phones) is a Microsoft product.
You heat anything too much and it will get damaged.
Microwaves CAN cause tissue damage - by heating.
The key is:
1) At low powers it's about as dangerous as touching a warm object, i.e. not at all
2) Unlike ionizing radiation, damage is not cumulative. Damage only occurs when you heat something beyond the temperature at which damage occurs.
Not really specified whether the tower uses an omni or directional antennas or not. Likely the limit of the tower's directionality is a sector antenna pointed at town. Guessing it doesn't do electronically steered phased array.
To achieve any significant field strength at this guy's field would require far higher transmitter power than is typical for such a comm system (typical is a maximum of 30-50 watts) and a huge directional antenna pointed right at his plants.
The heating from such an RF field would still be far less than from sunlight, not counting sunlight's UV component too.
It's not possible. Only ionizing radiation can alter DNA.
Microwaves are not ionizing radiation. Not even remotely close, they're on the complete opposite side of the visible portion of the spectrum in fact.
From visible, you go to IR and then to RF (including microwaves)
To get to the wavelengths capable of altering DNA, you need to go the other way, through violet to UV (DNA damage), X-rays (more DNA damage!) and gamma (lots of DNA damage).
There's only one way I can describe this guy - fucking ignorant dumbass. The most likely thing to do DNA damage to his crops is the very sunlight his crops depend on to grow.
"A lot of people are losing their houses (or leaving them voluntarily ahead of someone making the decision for them, which is an unusually mature choice these days) and moving into an RV right now."
Irrelevant - if they are moving into an RV simply to avoid being homeless, then they'd better not be taking vacations to remote areas with no cell coverage.
To be a little more specific - 2400 baud nominal at approx. $1-1.50/minute for Iridium.
2G/3G is the OP's best bet without massively deep pockets. One can get some coverage improvement by finding a 3G device that allows for external antennas.
The Cradlepoint unit the OP mentioned provides no advantage over any other 2G/3G solution.
Yeah. With a few exceptions, about the only variation between most netbooks out there in terms of required drivers are the following:
1) WiFi chipset
2) Card reader chipset (newer ones all seem to be USB mass storage, older ones tended to be a bit less standardized)
3) Bluetooth chipset (Bluetooth chipsets are basically standardized - While I know nonstandard ones exist, Bluetooth adapters that aren't a USB device compliant with a particular USB class are extremely rare.)
This is because the Intel Atom platform is EXTREMELY standardized. With a few rare exceptions, if you use an N-series Atom processor, it'll be paired with one of two variants of the Intel 945G chipset with GMA950 graphics.
Atom Z-series are a different story - they are all paired with a particular chipset with "GMA500" graphics, which unlike most Intel chipsets has basically nonexistent Linux support. So never buy an Atom Z-series based machine if you want to run Linux, they are nearly always paired with unsupported graphics.
EPA doesn't apply. The EPA is a United States government agency with no jurisdiction whatsoever in Italy.
EPA's Italian counterpart, however, does have jurisdiction and probably someone in that organization received some nice bribes.
Pretty sure that was how it was in high school for me.
We DID get a grade, but the grading criteria were something like "miss X classes and be docked a half letter grade" or "forget your gym clothes Y times and be docked half a letter grade". (We were required to have separate gym clothes from our school clothes.)
Just make sure you don't go for inspection shortly after clearing the codes. As I understand it, part of the standard includes a "codes recently cleared" flag that eventually goes away.
So you'll potentially fail inspection if you cleared codes recently.
The idea is to permit clearing transient codes, but prevent people from passing inspection by clearing immediately before they get inspected.
Yeah, it was a "gentleman's agreement" between manufacturers to avoid a horsepower arms race.
Simply put, vehicle manufacturers are going to want to (and already do) minimize state-to-state variations between vehicles. Many features get outright left out of a vehicle until it can be 50-state legal. For example, Subaru didn't start selling tinted windows from the factory with Outback wagons until they legally reclassified the Outback as an SUV. Why? Even if the car is the exact same design, if a car is registered as an SUV in New York it may have rear window tint, but if it is registered as a station wagon it may not.
In this case, it is next to impossible to control information on a state-by-state basis. If the code meanings and protocol specs are published in Mass, it'll take days at most before it can be found nationwide.
Designing, testing, and installing a new ECU with different code meanings for just one state is prohibitively expensive.
They haven't launched yet (and are at least two years from launch according to their plans), so there's no way to guarantee their claims.
If you look at their news page there is a 2004 announcement that they'd be launching a satellite in 2006, but there is no news of an actual launch.
In fact I don't even see news of a flight test of any sort, let alone a full orbital launch.
TBH the website also looks like a pretty fly-by-night operation. You would think that a company with enough money to launch a manned space mission would be able to hire a web designer.
There's a "muted reaction" to these for the same reason Android device adoption has been disappointing.
Tying yourself to one of the smallest two of the "big four" wireless carriers in the United States (don't know if T-Mo or Sprint is smaller) is NOT a smart way to gain widespread adoption.
I would love to give an Android phone a chance for my next phone, but right now it's looking like my next phone (which will replace my current AT&T Tilt) will be AT&T's next WinMo-based HTC device. T-Mobile is NOT an option in my area, they have zero coverage from my workplace/apartment to about 10-15 miles down the highway. (For whatever reason, 75% of the time their roaming agreement with AT&T is nonfunctional in my area.)
Also, its solubility can determine how much damage it'll actually do to a human that is exposed to it.
e.g. if it's a soluble substance in the water supply, it'll get absorbed into the bloodstream and potentially stay there for a while doing damage. IIRC radioactive isotopes of iodine are considered "really bad" because of the tendency of the body to concentrate and retain it in the thyroid.
If it's insoluble, the chance of it actually being in the water consumed by a human is far lower, and even if it is consumed, it'll likely just pass through, doing very little damage.
Except that they won't - Enabling SA globally again (as opposed to on a specific regional basis) would have too much of a negative effect on the economy of US allies and the US itself, so it's not going to happen.
Chances are high that regional SA won't even be used - Apparently in the first Gulf War, they actually turned SA *off* briefly because there weren't enough military GPS receivers and servicemen were ordering civilian units from overseas. To some degree this is still a problem - military handheld GPS units are larger, more bulky, and provide far less features than many civilian units. (There's a guy who specializes in providing free maps of Afghanistan for U.S. military personnel using Garmin receivers in the field.)
Localized signal degradation is, effectively, SA. Just a more precisely controlled version of it.