Your average satellite receiver is setup to deliberately receive and amplify a particular signal, to make it usable by a decoder.
The satellite LNB (the device at the focal point of a satellite dish) is tuned when installed, and is specifically set to give the decoder a signal of a particular strength. This is usually measured in the order of a particular number of decibells (dB).
Most receivers will actually shut down if you overload them with signal however. It's possible for you to encounter problems when you tune an LNB, and someone goes and jacks up the output level on the satellite for some reason (like, say, they need to use it to broadcast military signals:) ), unless you take precautions. tune it too low, however, and you encounter signal loss in bad weather.
This means, that on the satellite that's receiving the uplink, you'll find that if you overload it, it'll just shut down the receiver instead of overriding the signal.
Don't let anyone fool you into thinking you can drive everyone nuts by replacing their favorite shows with reruns of the original odd couple:). You'd have to actually take control of the satellite (probably not as hard as it sounds, even with modern satellites, really) to get your own signal, and then you'd do it by making it receive a different frequency and you start broadcasting.
Well, since they've only released rpms for specific kernels that are shipped with redhat 7.3, I don't know that you can say they're supporting linux, so much as supporting a very small subset of linux.
Too bad if you need to step outside the box, but then, if you're using high-end workstation graphics software, that's probably something you don't want to do, since the software's probably targeted at the same place. You tend to lose support from vendors quickly, even tho 99% of the time, the differences mean jack, unless the vendor's got crappy software to begin with. (you hearing me oracle?! your installer is a PITA)
Still, redhat 7.3 is miles out of date, and that you're SOL if you need to say... use your own kernel for some reason, or hell, NOT use redhat at all.
I really hate companies that do that. Redhat's always been far more annoying to configure and use than I'm even remotely interested in dealing with, and they keep making it more useless every time they make a release. Hell. I'd happily tell people to use windows than deal with the annoyances that come with trying to use redhat to get stuff done. [end generic rant]
If course, since I just ragged on the HOLY REDHAT, I'm probably going to be on the receiving end of a massive moderation smackdown. oh well.
mixed feelings? What is it that so frightens people about educated-sounding words to top them saying things like 'Ambivalence' or 'Philosopher'?:)
ambivalence:
n : mixed feelings or emotions [syn: {ambivalency}]
"Philosopher's" was taken out of the title of the first harry potter movie, iirc, and replaced with "Sorceror's". Just like "License to kill" which was originally going to be "License Revoked."
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check out www.kernelnewbies.org
that has a bunch of that kind of stuff.
ashridah
This isn't likely to happen, specifically.
:) ), unless you take precautions. tune it too low, however, and you encounter signal loss in bad weather.
:). You'd have to actually take control of the satellite (probably not as hard as it sounds, even with modern satellites, really) to get your own signal, and then you'd do it by making it receive a different frequency and you start broadcasting.
Your average satellite receiver is setup to deliberately receive and amplify a particular signal, to make it usable by a decoder.
The satellite LNB (the device at the focal point of a satellite dish) is tuned when installed, and is specifically set to give the decoder a signal of a particular strength. This is usually measured in the order of a particular number of decibells (dB).
Most receivers will actually shut down if you overload them with signal however. It's possible for you to encounter problems when you tune an LNB, and someone goes and jacks up the output level on the satellite for some reason (like, say, they need to use it to broadcast military signals
This means, that on the satellite that's receiving the uplink, you'll find that if you overload it, it'll just shut down the receiver instead of overriding the signal.
Don't let anyone fool you into thinking you can drive everyone nuts by replacing their favorite shows with reruns of the original odd couple
ashridah
Well, since they've only released rpms for specific kernels that are shipped with redhat 7.3, I don't know that you can say they're supporting linux, so much as supporting a very small subset of linux.
Too bad if you need to step outside the box, but then, if you're using high-end workstation graphics software, that's probably something you don't want to do, since the software's probably targeted at the same place. You tend to lose support from vendors quickly, even tho 99% of the time, the differences mean jack, unless the vendor's got crappy software to begin with. (you hearing me oracle?! your installer is a PITA)
Still, redhat 7.3 is miles out of date, and that you're SOL if you need to say... use your own kernel for some reason, or hell, NOT use redhat at all.
I really hate companies that do that. Redhat's always been far more annoying to configure and use than I'm even remotely interested in dealing with, and they keep making it more useless every time they make a release. Hell. I'd happily tell people to use windows than deal with the annoyances that come with trying to use redhat to get stuff done.
[end generic rant]
If course, since I just ragged on the HOLY REDHAT, I'm probably going to be on the receiving end of a massive moderation smackdown. oh well.
ashridah
mixed feelings? :)
:)
What is it that so frightens people about educated-sounding words to top them saying things like 'Ambivalence' or 'Philosopher'?
ambivalence:
n : mixed feelings or emotions [syn: {ambivalency}]
"Philosopher's" was taken out of the title of the first harry potter movie, iirc, and replaced with "Sorceror's". Just like "License to kill" which was originally going to be "License Revoked."
strange
microsoft don't have back doors. heh. hehehehe
very funny microsoft. ever heard of buffer overrun security issues.