I agree with what you are saying and adding that the "financial contributions" to the congress persons from companies and associations such as the RIAA, MPAA. and etc. have great sway with the decision makers and cause them to lose sight that they are our sworn representatives. It is as if the whole goal is to stay in office by saying anything necessary whether it is really intended to be pursued or not.
My personal opinion is that an Association/Company should not be permitted to donate money which is merely a form of buying the vote and the sway.
I imagine that if we were to ask Ben Franklin what he might think of our government today as compared to 1776 that he would be alarmed at the volume of attorneys presently holding office at all levels of our government. I somehow feel that this possibility was never envisioned by our founding fathers.
Still here too. I imagine there are lots of old timers who read and lurk here rather than posting all that much. Seems that what i have to say any more is less important even to me, so instead I enjoy the insight and the varied positions of the various posters on Slashdot.
Back in 1962 while in electrical engineering course the Post Versalog slide rule was mandatory at Ohio Northern University.
It had 23 scales and was accurate to three places.
The slide rule originally came in a heavy duty leather carrying case that was lined with a felt like material to protect the device.
Also there was a belt loop on the case for carrying it to the job site when required. I personally got many miles out of it and it is still workable and in the original carrying case stored in my sock drawer.
I ran the program lads.exe against my hard drives to see what was there. Just the family tree data files (compressed to an exe/zip/ged showed the ads stream.
The Family Tree site Ancestry.com attached an ADS stream to each downloaded ".GED" or ".exe" and Zip file that is called Zone.Identifier which appears to be a 26 byte field. What it is used for is not known.
I may have to look at the sector data for one of these files to see what is hidden beyond the end-of-file. Perhaps it is a date/time stamp or perhaps my user ID. Most likely it is file header to stop malicious renaming activity... as an equivalent example renaming a "George Jones" MP3 to a Madonna MP3 but the system would still know it was a George Jones tune regardless of what it is named.
My brother just bought a new Dell Laptop with Vista pre-installed against my recommendations. I told him to stick with XP and now he is aghast about the fickleness of Vista and all of his old programs that are no longer running because of lack of compatibility.
It is interesting though why the network slows even when it is not being used during local playing of MP3 or other audio/video formats. Some machines seem to slow and others do not. Maybe it has to do with the particular antivirus program being utilized..
My first experience was with the CDC 3200 series back in 1970. It programmed in Compass (assembler level). Cobol and Fortran as compiled languages. It was an Octal machine with the primary input being the card reader.
Each gate was on a separate printed circuit board and there were probably in excess of 5,000 PCB's in the mainframe and the various controllers. Quite a monster to troubleshoot unless the circuit was fully understood. We had a Tektronix's 545 scope with delayed sweep to trace out the circuits.
The main timing chain for the core memory was initiated by sending a "0" down a ringing coil that has various taps on it for the whole read/write cycle.
We kid about having to key in the boot code manually, but the 3200 required about a 20 step boot program. I still remember parts of the code even now.
I lived in Emeraldo ND where Grand Forks air force base is located. We would get to Devil's Lakes every once in a while. The missile sites pretty much stopped just east of Devil's Lake as I recall.
That all now seems to be an ancient memory. My job was to program the on-board computers with launch information such as whether it was a ground burst or an air burst and also the target selection and the various war plans. Also the coordinates of that particular missile site was programed in as well.
Back then we also had to optically align a light beam that would reflect off a mirror located on the on-board guidance system. We used a theodolite for this purpose. The collimated light would then reflect back onto photocells thus telling the guidance system where true north was.
With knowing true north and the missile site's coordinates then the computer could calculate its own path to whatever target was selected depending upon what war plan was chosen.
Now the guidance package can track the stars most likely during the flight for accurate delivery of the payload.
I spent a couple of years at the missile sites in North Dakota back in the early 60's. When I got out of the service I started driving south until people started asking me what the electrical plug hanging out my car grill was for... then I knew I was far enough south and the weather would be OK
I agree that isolating the solar panel and ISS physically from each other and looking for voltage differences or measuring the current flowing between the connectors would be appropriate. The problem actually could be with the original solar panels and until a new set was added the original problem did not reveal itself.
Back in the early 70's I worked on a rather large computer system (system's analyst) in a tall building in downtown Chicago that ended up having two separate ground points each with different ground potentials so remote terminals would have a current running through the shielding of the connectors which introduced electrical noise thus creating errors. The problem would go away when the water table was high around the building but would reappear as the water table would drop.
The final solution was to disconnect each of the main grounds within the building and reconnect them to a single ground point.
I have seen ground faults cause these types of problems. maybe the new solar panels has a leakage path back to the mechanical structure creating a voltage distribution problem after being interfaced with the ISS mechanically and electrically.
These problems are not easy to diagnose when you have hands on capability leave alone 200 miles above Earth.
I do hope that it is sorted out swiftly and the ISS and its occupants remain safe.
When I was a kid we were on a party line with eight other families. If you wanted to use the telephone you would pick up the receiver and listen for someone talking or listen for the dial tone and then dial the number.
One had to be very careful what was said as often other neighbors would listen in on a conversation. Most conversations were brief and old people still have brief conversations from habit even though they might have a dedicated line today.
Our telephone number was 226.
If an emergency was occurring and other people were talking on the party line then you told them that it was an emergency and they would hang up so you could dial.
One needed to practice good citizenship but it seemed that each family had their own opinion of what that constituted.
I used to work a lot with Tempest hardware. Things with motors (such as a typewriter) would have a huge flywheel added to it so there was no slowdown during the typing of different letters and numbers. I saw a demonstration of how the Selectric typewriter could easily be read just by monitoring the power line. Adding a flywheel would defeat this ability to accurately monitor what was being typed.
You are right about the grounding too. All grounding straps on panels had to be connected tightly and any other shielding had to be in place. There were simply no shortcuts taken in securing the equipment once a model was Tempest certified. All screws in place... all of them tight.
Alabama:
Barefoot Driving: Operation of a motor vehicle by a driver with bare feet is permitted. Exception: motorcycle rider.
Ohio:
Barefoot Driving: Operation of a motor vehicle by a driver with bare feet is permitted but not recommended.
California:
Barefoot Driving: Operation of a motor vehicle by a driver with bare feet is not prohibited.
Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware,Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin, and Wyoming:
Barefoot Driving: Operation of a motor vehicle by a driver with bare feet is permitted."
Since I was a kid I have always loved to fix things and found that I was skilled at fixing mainframes and their peripherals. But CDC was on the decline so I moved from Minnesota to a smaller company in St. Louis. I flew from city to city fixing equipment that was hopeless and on the edge of a lawsuit. As equipment got smaller and smaller and more disposable I saw the writing on the wall and moved into software.
My point is that I would have paid to get to play with the stuff that I fixed but instead got paid well for it.
I would even visit local offices while on vacation and fix some tough dog problems just for the fun of it. I realize now i was an idiot... but I enjoyed doing it at the time.
Today it would be like paying someone to play with an Xbox or Ipod. Ir was like " You mean you are going to pay me for what I really would like to do anyway? Sure! I'll do it"
Over the years though, as several other individuals here have pointed out the company would take a new direction, often with the management from other failed companies and sooner or later it was my turn to be escorted out on a friday afternoon due to across the board cutbacks.
Now I am self employed...This suits me now.
I can understand though how the workers might feel at Google... I had that feeling from the 60's through the 90's and life was effortless.
A few years ago I attended a party that someone had brought a brain wave scanner. The device attached to the head via some suction cups as I recall. The box measured the frequencies of the mind for both the left side and the right side and indicated the relative strength on a scale of 0-10 (using Leds) for each frequency band (about 20 bands).
We had a lot of fun playing with it. For instance, when meditating... decreases in the Beta ranges and increases the Alpha ranges would occur and that kind of thing. Each person had their own uniques readings where some were mainly right brained and others were left and usually just in the beta ranges causing those corresponding Leds to illuminate.
When they asked me to try it, All 10 Leds for every frequencies band for both the left side and the right side illuminated. It was like the whole board lit up. Every single Led was lit which was approximately 400 or so.
Everyone looked at me a little weirdly and actually took a step backwards.
It would be interesting to see if other slashdotters also use all of their brain all of the time.
Slashdot Mirror
Its like watching banana cream pie go bad.
I agree with what you are saying and adding that the "financial contributions" to the congress persons from companies and associations such as the RIAA, MPAA. and etc. have great sway with the decision makers and cause them to lose sight that they are our sworn representatives. It is as if the whole goal is to stay in office by saying anything necessary whether it is really intended to be pursued or not.
My personal opinion is that an Association/Company should not be permitted to donate money which is merely a form of buying the vote and the sway.
I imagine that if we were to ask Ben Franklin what he might think of our government today as compared to 1776 that he would be alarmed at the volume of attorneys presently holding office at all levels of our government. I somehow feel that this possibility was never envisioned by our founding fathers.
Billy G has mod points this week
Still here too. I imagine there are lots of old timers who read and lurk here rather than posting all that much. Seems that what i have to say any more is less important even to me, so instead I enjoy the insight and the varied positions of the various posters on Slashdot.
Back in 1962 while in electrical engineering course the Post Versalog slide rule was mandatory at Ohio Northern University.
It had 23 scales and was accurate to three places. The slide rule originally came in a heavy duty leather carrying case that was lined with a felt like material to protect the device.
Also there was a belt loop on the case for carrying it to the job site when required. I personally got many miles out of it and it is still workable and in the original carrying case stored in my sock drawer.
Here is a picture of it!
http://www.paulburgess.org/srule2.html
The parent post is really an "interesting" bit of information but is modded as "Offtopic".
Which is exactly what the parent post topic was about... that of down modding posts critical of the RIAA
Are there RIAA lackeys who have moderation points?
It would be interesting to correlate the down modded posts about RIAA with actual UID's to see if such an effort is underway and by whom.
I ran the program lads.exe against my hard drives to see what was there. Just the family tree data files (compressed to an exe/zip/ged showed the ads stream.
/s to check all subdirectories.
I used Freeware program lads.exe by Frank Heyne (http://www.heysoft.de/)
Be sure to use a
It would interesting to see who all uses the ADS for additional information and/or tracking.
Sanat
The Family Tree site Ancestry.com attached an ADS stream to each downloaded ".GED" or ".exe" and Zip file that is called Zone.Identifier which appears to be a 26 byte field. What it is used for is not known.
I may have to look at the sector data for one of these files to see what is hidden beyond the end-of-file. Perhaps it is a date/time stamp or perhaps my user ID. Most likely it is file header to stop malicious renaming activity... as an equivalent example renaming a "George Jones" MP3 to a Madonna MP3 but the system would still know it was a George Jones tune regardless of what it is named.
Copying the file leaves the ADS data intact.
Sanat
My brother just bought a new Dell Laptop with Vista pre-installed against my recommendations. I told him to stick with XP and now he is aghast about the fickleness of Vista and all of his old programs that are no longer running because of lack of compatibility.
It is interesting though why the network slows even when it is not being used during local playing of MP3 or other audio/video formats. Some machines seem to slow and others do not. Maybe it has to do with the particular antivirus program being utilized..
My first experience was with the CDC 3200 series back in 1970. It programmed in Compass (assembler level). Cobol and Fortran as compiled languages. It was an Octal machine with the primary input being the card reader.
Each gate was on a separate printed circuit board and there were probably in excess of 5,000 PCB's in the mainframe and the various controllers. Quite a monster to troubleshoot unless the circuit was fully understood. We had a Tektronix's 545 scope with delayed sweep to trace out the circuits.
The main timing chain for the core memory was initiated by sending a "0" down a ringing coil that has various taps on it for the whole read/write cycle.
We kid about having to key in the boot code manually, but the 3200 required about a 20 step boot program. I still remember parts of the code even now.
I lived in Emeraldo ND where Grand Forks air force base is located. We would get to Devil's Lakes every once in a while. The missile sites pretty much stopped just east of Devil's Lake as I recall.
That all now seems to be an ancient memory. My job was to program the on-board computers with launch information such as whether it was a ground burst or an air burst and also the target selection and the various war plans. Also the coordinates of that particular missile site was programed in as well.
Back then we also had to optically align a light beam that would reflect off a mirror located on the on-board guidance system. We used a theodolite for this purpose. The collimated light would then reflect back onto photocells thus telling the guidance system where true north was.
With knowing true north and the missile site's coordinates then the computer could calculate its own path to whatever target was selected depending upon what war plan was chosen.
Now the guidance package can track the stars most likely during the flight for accurate delivery of the payload.
I spent a couple of years at the missile sites in North Dakota back in the early 60's. When I got out of the service I started driving south until people started asking me what the electrical plug hanging out my car grill was for... then I knew I was far enough south and the weather would be OK
I agree that isolating the solar panel and ISS physically from each other and looking for voltage differences or measuring the current flowing between the connectors would be appropriate. The problem actually could be with the original solar panels and until a new set was added the original problem did not reveal itself.
Back in the early 70's I worked on a rather large computer system (system's analyst) in a tall building in downtown Chicago that ended up having two separate ground points each with different ground potentials so remote terminals would have a current running through the shielding of the connectors which introduced electrical noise thus creating errors. The problem would go away when the water table was high around the building but would reappear as the water table would drop.
The final solution was to disconnect each of the main grounds within the building and reconnect them to a single ground point.
Thanks for your insights on the problem
I have seen ground faults cause these types of problems. maybe the new solar panels has a leakage path back to the mechanical structure creating a voltage distribution problem after being interfaced with the ISS mechanically and electrically.
These problems are not easy to diagnose when you have hands on capability leave alone 200 miles above Earth.
I do hope that it is sorted out swiftly and the ISS and its occupants remain safe.
I was going to moderate your post down but unfortunately I ran out of moderation points.
When I was a kid we were on a party line with eight other families. If you wanted to use the telephone you would pick up the receiver and listen for someone talking or listen for the dial tone and then dial the number.
One had to be very careful what was said as often other neighbors would listen in on a conversation. Most conversations were brief and old people still have brief conversations from habit even though they might have a dedicated line today.
Our telephone number was 226.
If an emergency was occurring and other people were talking on the party line then you told them that it was an emergency and they would hang up so you could dial.
One needed to practice good citizenship but it seemed that each family had their own opinion of what that constituted.
Washington
I used to work a lot with Tempest hardware. Things with motors (such as a typewriter) would have a huge flywheel added to it so there was no slowdown during the typing of different letters and numbers. I saw a demonstration of how the Selectric typewriter could easily be read just by monitoring the power line. Adding a flywheel would defeat this ability to accurately monitor what was being typed.
You are right about the grounding too. All grounding straps on panels had to be connected tightly and any other shielding had to be in place. There were simply no shortcuts taken in securing the equipment once a model was Tempest certified. All screws in place... all of them tight.
it is illegal to drive barefoot.
Alabama:
Barefoot Driving: Operation of a motor vehicle by a driver with bare feet is permitted. Exception: motorcycle rider.
Ohio:
Barefoot Driving: Operation of a motor vehicle by a driver with bare feet is permitted but not recommended.
California:
Barefoot Driving: Operation of a motor vehicle by a driver with bare feet is not prohibited.
Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware,Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin, and Wyoming:
Barefoot Driving: Operation of a motor vehicle by a driver with bare feet is permitted."
http://tafkac.org/
This dated 1994, but the laws probably haven't changed since then.
Please mod up this concise statement of parent. Thanks
Since I was a kid I have always loved to fix things and found that I was skilled at fixing mainframes and their peripherals. But CDC was on the decline so I moved from Minnesota to a smaller company in St. Louis. I flew from city to city fixing equipment that was hopeless and on the edge of a lawsuit. As equipment got smaller and smaller and more disposable I saw the writing on the wall and moved into software.
My point is that I would have paid to get to play with the stuff that I fixed but instead got paid well for it.
I would even visit local offices while on vacation and fix some tough dog problems just for the fun of it. I realize now i was an idiot... but I enjoyed doing it at the time.
Today it would be like paying someone to play with an Xbox or Ipod. Ir was like " You mean you are going to pay me for what I really would like to do anyway? Sure! I'll do it"
Over the years though, as several other individuals here have pointed out the company would take a new direction, often with the management from other failed companies and sooner or later it was my turn to be escorted out on a friday afternoon due to across the board cutbacks.
Now I am self employed...This suits me now.
I can understand though how the workers might feel at Google... I had that feeling from the 60's through the 90's and life was effortless.
Sanat
It wasn't a toy, it was the real thing... a Bottle of Tequila and with or without the coffee...
It didn't make the clothes jump to the right 5 feet, but did make the clothes jump right off.
Sigh, that was a good party.
It hell getting older.
A few years ago I attended a party that someone had brought a brain wave scanner. The device attached to the head via some suction cups as I recall. The box measured the frequencies of the mind for both the left side and the right side and indicated the relative strength on a scale of 0-10 (using Leds) for each frequency band (about 20 bands).
We had a lot of fun playing with it. For instance, when meditating... decreases in the Beta ranges and increases the Alpha ranges would occur and that kind of thing. Each person had their own uniques readings where some were mainly right brained and others were left and usually just in the beta ranges causing those corresponding Leds to illuminate.
When they asked me to try it, All 10 Leds for every frequencies band for both the left side and the right side illuminated. It was like the whole board lit up. Every single Led was lit which was approximately 400 or so.
Everyone looked at me a little weirdly and actually took a step backwards.
It would be interesting to see if other slashdotters also use all of their brain all of the time.
Nice Link... thanks
I probably won't sleep too well tonight
Yellowstone super volcano info located approximately 42 minutes into the video.