A lot of equipment in a network uses 9 consecutive 0's as an alarm signal. Hence the telcom standard of using 6 0's then 6 1's as the "pad" (oh and yes you do have to check for 9 legit 0's in a row and make "adjustments") I can see it now every time my nic sends a short packet alarms are going off all over the telco route.. *grin*... the other point is. Just because it does it... doesn't mean it's signifigant. In other words is enough real data leaked and is it leaked in a consecutive manor. Can I reconstruct useful info from this data or is this an over reaction of coulda woulda shoulda maybe might. In other words if I send 10000 packets of data with 1% short that means 10 short packets. Now if this is taken from random data streams on the box in a real time manor then it won't be
A. Consecutive data
B. Enough to construct meaningful information.
I don't really think you have to worry about your credit card numbers being transmitted in the clear here. Now if you have a system that is constantly transmitting (a number of systems do, do this ) then you do have a serious leak. In two seconds of continuous transmission a lot of data can get out if it's 100% padding. Maybe we can finally get the source code to M$ this way by monitoring what comes out of Redmond:)
Ummmmmm sounds like a mood ring to me... or maybe..... a teenager? perhaps, YES a christmas tree with a light wheel. Neon signs.......
Does this mean anything... no. Since prior art does exist. Granting of the patent will inhibit not only future product development, but put a number of companies with existing products under the gun... there can be only one conclusion... Give the B*%$%*s thier patent.... Otherwise the Shrub in DC's friends won't make enough money!
OK it's now (at the time it happened) Dec 10 2002 Mandrake 9.0 has been out for over 2 months. But what happened? Well even though SuSe and Red Hat both came out a month later it seems that the stores here in the Silly-Con Valley are still empty of Mandrake 9.0 oh yes there are still a couple of copies of 8.2, and people who are wondering why Mandrakes 8.2 is so far behind RedHats 8.0 (as far as kde etc go.) So what happens people download the product. Then once it's downloaded they don't need/want the boxed set... heck if you are a club member you get to download the "extra's" anyway so.. ah heck I'll just wait for 9.1 and see if that boxed set comes out... it's only a couple of months away right?
What does this show... simple economics rule #1. before you can sell something you have to have something to sell. It's now Dec 20th.. I went to Fry's today to get 9.0 boxed, the guy in the store said the 2 or 3 boxes they got sold right away and he doesn't expect any more till next year... And people wonder why MDK is in trouble....
You want to boycott... ok... You want it to be affective...ok.... boycott the legistalors. Vote against, campaign against do everthing you can to get those overly entrenched (100 year old bigots for example) slime balls out of Washington. They are the cause of the power the RIAA/MPP has. They write the laws that would make Adolf cringe. This boycott needs to be an active one. Not just in the US either. In Europe/Asia/the rest of North America/Australia/Africa and South America, you can move to empower your leaders to say NO when a BS US law is stuffed down their throats. (I watched South Korea tell Gates to stuff it when he tried to kill thier software industry, and he backed off hard.) Go see a European or Indian Movie, rather than a Hollywood shoot em up. The only way to effectivly change things like this is proactively and from within the system. They can't deny their own rules. If they do, they harm themselves more than they do you. In short Boycott the Demopublicans (or is that Republicrats). But do it by ACTIVELY voting for someone else, not by staying home. A vote not cast is a vote for the status quo.
Ok.... but the secret is.... don't get in the middle. The biggest falicy is the belief that once you put up an antenna all the signal stops at that antenna. So since it doesn't you put a larger antenna some distance behind the recieving antenna. Down side is that in a full duplex transmission link you only get 1/2 the signal. But the up side is that you are totally undetectable in that you never cut signal quality one iota.
Second technique is to put an antenna up either sufficiantly higher or lower than the center of the beam and at this point although you get a lower signal you do still get a signal. Then it's just a matter of filters.
Think analog not digital..... via radio even digital signal travels in waves. (3 phase partial response.)
OK in a sense they don't have to. First, 72 miles isn't that great a curve to deal with and second once you get into this frequecy range there are a number of Technics available for "bouncing" signal off of the Troposphere for really long shots. (100's even 1000's of miles) However for this one this technic isn't required.
Try this.. Draw a circle on a piece of paper. Then Draw two lines out from the center of the circle at right angles extend those two lines through the circle and beyond. You will notice that sooner or later it will be possible to draw a line from the top of those two original lines that will no longer intersect the circle itself. This is the same reason you see two things One very tall MicroWave (2.4 gig is in the MicroWave band) with dishes that look like the are pointed down. (The picture you drew will show you the angles. ) Of course there are limits, like how high you can get the antenna (Mountains help) and note that the longer the shot the larger the antenna should be (concentration of more signal) but you should be able to recieve cleanly down to -90dbm0 no problem (or even lower).
Factors that will affect the signal are. Atmospheric conditions (two antennna's swaying in the wind is the simplest example) Sun Spots buildings or trees in the line of site, and frequency. 2.4ghz can shoot further than say 7ghz can just as low frequency radio goes through the earth rather than around it. In general the rule of thumb is any time the thickness of a material exceeds the length of a single cycle the radio wave is blocked. (yes this is true of all wave transmissions and yes some materials can be made that are transparent, but I did say "in general").
Doing a 72 mile shot over water isn't really that remarkable. At 7ghz I've seen 50+ shots over water. (Despite the statement at the end of the article shots over water are IMPROVED not inhibited by the water in the microwave range. ) If anything the neat part or even unique part is that they did it at such a low cost.
Oh... you mean like Diane Fienstien Democrat Senator from California.... Just goes to show just because your constituants make thier living off of High Tech, is absolutely, no reason, to take care of them when Disney offers so much more... (under the table.) It ain't the Replicrats or the Demopublicans... (something like that, they are too much alike) it's those who are foolish enough to believe that voting for one party or the other is the answer. No if you want change vote for whomever isn't in office, (party and person).... Remember in the great Tradition of the Florida Electoral system.. Vote Early and Vote often.
I have to cast a vote for Epson. Not because thier printers are the best on the market... In fact they aren't any better or any worse than any I've tested. But the service is #1.
November 2001... My wife declares we need a scanner for all of here pics of my son. I say ok can I get a printer to.. She agrees. I go out finding an Office Max that was closing it's doors and buy both a scanner and an Epson 777 on sale. Dummy me forgot to check to see if Linux had the drivers. (ooops)
No drivers for the 777 in my then current Linux install. Send Epson an E-mail... Next day I get a response. They tell me that the next version of Cups will have the drivers (One the the employee's was a Linux user... so he wrote me personally) but for now the 710 drivers would work. Poof I'm up and running and sure enough the next version of cups drivers update had the 777.
May 2002 I changed the ink because it was out.. and now my printer won't recognize the new cartridges.... Call customer support... I'm under warranty. The tech has me perform a few checks to try and get it to reset... (all the tests were actually relavant too, none of this... is your printer faceing your computer or the wall BS.) No luck. The tech then tells me that my printer is dead but they have a problem.... since the no longer make my model, he can send me a new one, but it will have to be the next model up... at no charge. Well shoot me and call be a target. I'm not going to complain.. 3 days later my printer arrives via UPS with everything enclosed to send the old one back to Epson at no charge. I get a new printer. AND they even replaced the cartidges I bought since they weren't compatible with the new printer. All at no charge. Am I happy with Epson... you better believe it... Oh and guess who got the contract for my companies new printers...!
A HA you happen to be one of those cold fusion people I see. PHP can do everything java does EXCEPT require 6 or 7 different JVM's (Linux currently has about 8 or 9 or iX86 and they aren't always compatible. PHP is web only so no main.) Then if you embed Javascript... you can do more. (OK if you run from WinIIs you can embed VBasic.wet or C-- )
Support is actually done in divisions the largest being the Unix Division. They do support Linux as well as Solaris. HPux and AIX are pretty well gone and they also have picture celebrating the demise of the last vacs. *grin*
If I did I'd tell you to contact another Gov funded project called SLAC (Stanford Linear Accelerator Center) They have without a doubt the best linux setup for lab work you will ever see. The tools etc of course are available to you, free of charge, and the people who work there are more than just helpful. the URL is http://www.slac.stanford.edu/ to start checking them out. They run 2000 server clusters and are fast approaching 1 petabyte of data. So they do know there stuff. AND it's a Linux house to boot. Sometimes Gov funded orgs do it right and these are some people who prove this is true.
PHP runs better. Faster response. Less overhead as far as CPU/memory usage. Greater availablity of code snippets on the web to shortcut deployment. PHP isn't just nuke. It's supported by a large company, and really works well. If you want to fully implement the features of Tomcat go with Zope. Even if you purchase Zope services from Zend Corp. you'll find that your return on your dollar is much, much higher. Especially since the load is lower on the server and as a result you can serve a greater number of users with the same box.
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First M$ is really invading... I pull up a page covering LW and get an add for.net. Ok on with what I saw.
1. One this is missing... Distros. Red hat and SuSe are there with full (but smaller) booths and that's pretty much it. Debian has a table in.org land. Caldera has a corner of one of the majors displays. I couldn't find Mandrake although they are supposed to be in a corner somewhere as well. Although Ximain isn't a distro it's worth noting that they too are lacking in presence.
2. The most sought out booth is the Zaurus Booth with Sharp. They are selling like mad. Expecially since the price is heavily discounted from retail. Neat new toys as well, Like a roll up keyboard being demo'd in Beta form.
3. The jugglers and magicians of old are gone. This year it's about business. The number of visibly Geek individuals has dropped. Although ties aren't being worn except by the security team,the dresscode is definitly turning yuppy in it's look and feel. Whereas in 99 in San Jose it was somewhat of a party atmosphere this year it's much more business like. As a result the feel is that Linux is operating from strength not from the hip. Over all, the feeling is much richer and Linux feels solid and real. Gone is M$ bashing to get attention. (Although M$ is heavy into Linux bashing.) Linux is playing from strength not from attitude. In fact the fact that M$ is in the rookery really does add to the impression that they are a minor player and Linux is the dominate life form.
5. They had in the past rest areas where you could plug in your laptop and geek out. This year the rest area is designed for getting together with companies and talking business. The floor is crowded with people unlike the graveyard feel it had last year.
6. The show is smaller than last year. Less hype. One major player is now combined with another. (HP and Compaq) Companies are less intrested in being the biggest and more intrested in delivering hard numbers, and proven technology. If you are looking to get your geek on by checking out cool new hardware and software of the never to come future. This is not the show for you. IF however you are intrested in how to deploy Linux to best serve the needs of your company or organization. Come and bring lot's of room to take notes.
7. Swag --- We don't need no stinkin' Swag In the past my kid loved it when Daddy came back from LW because he got all kinds of neat things to play with. This year, the swag is limited as heck . Mostly product brochures and data sheets. A geek coming to LW with one T-Shirt will most likely leave with just one, unless he buys it. No dancing penguins, no daemon girls, no booth fluff. The people in the booths actually know the product and are willing to discuss it. This definitly isn't a Comdex clone.
8. OSDN is to be commended on one thing. They have brought the speeches and discussions out of the back halls and into the main halls. An exciting and informative list of people from all over the Linux map are deliverying seminars on the Main floor. Every one of them is well attended and very informative. Kudos to OSDN on this move.
9. No Dust Puppy *sniff*
10. All in all I must say this IBM + Linux has created a culture in Linux that is less Silicon Valley hype than normal and Less stuffed shirt than the IBM of old, Picked up and carried forward by HP Sun and others to the point that DESPITE Washington DC and the Bush league players a solid well organized movement has really just begun.
But how many electronic documents do you think are still surviving from 10 years ago?
A lot actually. As for College books.... No longer have a one of em.. ok I've got one yearbook. Books don't change. That's true but the world does. None and I do mean NONE of my college books would be useful. Why. The math books yep pi is still 3.14159 but since it doesn't corralate to any class being taught today. It's useless. Shakespeare.. ok good stuff grade school (6th and 7th grade) not from college. Oh and of course the history of computing... yep talking all about those modern pdp-11's and how in the future mini computers will allow a mini computer in every office to serve dozens of thin clients running over a Token Ring Network. Oh and how about my Dad's college books now there is some really useful information. I mean studies on engine design covers the possiblity of overhead valves is absolutely priceless. Want to know what books do? They mold, they rot (paper is acidic as heck) They stink like heck when you are cleaning out a dead relatives attic. (anyone want a mechanics manual for the IBM 16 digit easy-pull adding machine?) Books as a physical media have a definite shelf life. The information in Text books has a definite life as well. And it's much shorter. Heck I had books from my freshman year that in my senior year I couldn't sell back to the bookstore. Why, they were too far out of date. (and yes I was on the 4 year plan.)
Now electronic documents. Hmmm just helped a friend move tapes of all the USENET traffic from the early 80's from tape to CD (It was pretty well at the end of it's life. Shouldn't have stored it in his basement and let mold set in.) Oh the books next to the tapes are toast. That's 10 to 20 years there.(1980 - 1990) I've got access to a 9 track tape in storage with the original 386 BSD on it. (Nope can't give it out.) Prior to that I've got stacks and stacks of punch cards.. (I'm getting them read off to disk...that's singlular by the way.) In Hollywood the Museum of Film history has movies that go back to the turn of the century. If you can preserve this volital media you can easily preserve mag tape, CD's and floppy's are lot easier. Oh and the wheight of all of those 9 tracks About 1200 lbs (guestimate) the weight of the CD's about 10lbs... now which one is easier to copy. All the the printed material and all of those dead trees or 10lbs of CD's that need to get re-burned every 50 years.
And No not for Sneaker Net either. PXE + floppy = unattended install/reinstall for 1 U servers and desktops. Boot from the floppy and go. Also what about Tomsrbt or for M$ users you have your DOS boot disk (and yes they are very useful). A way to boot for NFS installs rather than CD installs. NO don't get rid of my floppy. It's old, yes. But still very very useful. Heck where LRP be without it? Quieter than CD (in many cases, ever heard a 52X in the same price range as a floppy drive wind up?) It's like car insurance, most the time you don't need it. But for those times you do.you really need it!
Oh it will make coffe.... One kind, it will be somewhat weak, the bottom of the cup will on occasion without warning fall off, and in order to replace the bottom of the cup you will have to close all the windows in your computer room exit.... re-enter the room and then it will go back on. Coffee used in this machine must carry with it a signed certificate from Wan Valdez that the coffe is genuine Columbian Coffee. Star Bucks is attaching a EULA that requires you periodically pay them for all cups of coffe previously consumed. Upgrades in the form of new cups of coffee will be required at undisclosed intervals and if you fail to upgrade your bladder may cease to function properly. Your toilet will now require you to enter your Passport ID in order to lift the lid, and any attempt to urinate in a non-M$ approved facility, (Ally, neighbors john etc.) will be considered a breach of this EULA and invoke an immediate visit from the BSA SS troopers to apply the appropriate catheter and confiscate any and all non-M$ approved beans you may have in your house/office.
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1. 1988 somewhere in a Gov installation on the East Coast of the US: I enter the Switch room (Telephone) and find that all 3000 of the relay's in the switch are opening and closing in sync with the clock relay. Phone calls are going through.... but it's still not right. 48 hours later we find the problem. A large wood roach had crawled across a -48Vdc connection point grounded himself out and... yep bug in the system.
2. Microwave tower: Operators noticed that the secondary antenna began degrading rapidly over a two day period. All testing lead to the belief that something must be wrong with the antenna horn. So an antenna team was dispatched to check out the horn. Fortunately when they got up there and before removing the cover someone first noticed a loud buzzing sound, and then a small hole near the top had a lot of.... yep BEES comming out of it and going into it. A peak under the cover reveiled that bees had decided that setting up housekeeping inside the cover was a good idea. The hole they were going through was known but since it was less than 1/8th inch in size originaly it fell under the size needed to "demand" a replacement. The bees did manage to both enlarge the hole slightly and use it to set up a huge nest. Next day.... beekeepers where found to begin learning how to climb up a Tower to get rid of the bees... (Note the Honey is a bigger problem than the bees, without bees to keep it cool you have a HUGE runny mess.)
No it's breaking the law when the judge says it is. Until then...... you haven't committed a crime. Under an innocent until proven guilty system of law. Actually though, if he brings in his experience and through that experience you write your own code. (he guides but doesn't write.) you may very well be OK. There are court cases to that affect. Now IF he signed an NDA or other document that directly prohibits him from using that experience... you are blocked. If not. Then as long as it isn't a cut and paste you are again in the clear.
Ok here's my theory. A secret Gov organization in league with the triad is creating and perpetuating conspiracy theories to knock us off track on there real plans for world domination.
In the 1960's the Bill of Rights was taken to Washington DC and as Senators and Congressmen entered they were asked if they would sign such legislation. Most didn't even recognize what it was, some claimed it was a communist plot, and only one, Senator Goldwater, recognized what it was..... *sigh*
It's probably time for a new revolution.... this time on Nov 2nd.
When the 19th amendment was created the nation was plunged into several of the darkest years of it's history. Men like Al Capone and others of his ilk ran the US. People flocked to speak easy's in droves and NY actually had more "bars" than ever before. We are seeing the same reaction here. If you want legislation then here is what is needed.
1. Reasonable copyright laws. 2. Makeing Illegal EULA's that go against copyright and other civil laws. 3. Putting an end to the price fixing of Audio and Video CD's so that the market can set the price. 4. Making Illegal the sale of CD's designed to break individuals computers.
Now for the bad news you can't create a DVD or a CD that I can't record..... And I won't write a single line of code or reverse engineer anything. In order to prevent the pirating of these mediums the only method is to prohibit the sale of them. Sorry but Thats just the way it goes. If I'm supposed to listen to or view something... I can copy it. Good old fashioned analog methods are 100% effective. These arguments are as old as the hills. They said the same things about cassettes and the VCR (VTR for non American readers) What happened there? The industry embraced rather than fought the technology and in the end found a whole new line of business THAT ACTUALLY INCREASED THEIR REVINUES. Sorry for the shout but the point is important. What would have happened to the industry if the record companies had said to napster "Hey this tech is pretty good, can we buy you and the tech out?" Then re-introduced napster selling studio grade MP3's for say 50 cents US a song using the same network. What would have happened is that they would have sent song sales through the roof! People have shown time and again that they will:
1. Pay a resonable and fair price. For quality goods. 2. If given a choice between pirated and legit versions they usually chose legit. 3. Obey reasonable laws.
They have also shown that when push comes to shove, they will:
1. Steal from people they consider to be thieves. 2. Work to destroy people and organizations that call them thieves or liars without pravocation. 3. Vote with their wallets.
To the recording industry the vote is in. Your sales are down because your product sucks and the people don't want it. No business or industry has ever had the right to remain in business. What would have happened if the Pony express had sought to outlaw trains because it infringed upon there business model? Yes the analogy is accurate. A new model of recording and distribution of first music and maybe later movies is fast aproaching. These business need to stop trying to use Washington to legislate their lack of business ability and get back to doing what a business must do. Either change or fail. Ask anyone who worked at Wang Computers or Commodore. Bad business practices lead to bad business. Lee Iacoca set two business precidents.
1. The government can bail out a business. 2. The business must pay back it's creditors.
Too many of these businesses remember the first and forget the second. Disney et al think they have the right to be in business. Fact is they don't. They only have the right to try. Success comes from work not from the purchase of Senators. Oh and remind your congressman about Nov 2nd. That day will show a lot.
How about this idea. File those patents. "Codeing Methodology for the discovering of Directory Structures for data stored in an Electronic form" (ls dir etc) Then.... give the patent to the FSF. Yep give it to them. This puts the patent in the public domain,sort of. Then it will do two things. One ensure ridiculous patents don't get filled (since you filled first and can sue the pants off of them.) and two, it give the FSF a source of revenue. Just a thought.
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A lot of equipment in a network uses 9 consecutive 0's as an alarm signal. Hence the telcom standard of using 6 0's then 6 1's as the "pad" (oh and yes you do have to check for 9 legit 0's in a row and make "adjustments") I can see it now every time my nic sends a short packet alarms are going off all over the telco route.. *grin*... the other point is. Just because it does it... doesn't mean it's signifigant. In other words is enough real data leaked and is it leaked in a consecutive manor. Can I reconstruct useful info from this data or is this an over reaction of coulda woulda shoulda maybe might. In other words if I send 10000 packets of data with 1% short that means 10 short packets. Now if this is taken from random data streams on the box in a real time manor then it won't be
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A. Consecutive data
B. Enough to construct meaningful information.
I don't really think you have to worry about your credit card numbers being transmitted in the clear here. Now if you have a system that is constantly transmitting (a number of systems do, do this ) then you do have a serious leak. In two seconds of continuous transmission a lot of data can get out if it's 100% padding. Maybe we can finally get the source code to M$ this way by monitoring what comes out of Redmond
Ummmmmm sounds like a mood ring to me...
... no. Since prior art does exist. Granting of the patent will inhibit not only future product development, but put a number of companies with existing products under the gun... there can be only one conclusion... Give the B*%$%*s thier patent.... Otherwise the Shrub in DC's friends won't make enough money!
or maybe..... a teenager?
perhaps, YES a christmas tree with a light wheel.
Neon signs.......
Does this mean anything
OK it's now (at the time it happened) Dec 10 2002 Mandrake 9.0 has been out for over 2 months. But what happened? Well even though SuSe and Red Hat both came out a month later it seems that the stores here in the Silly-Con Valley are still empty of Mandrake 9.0 oh yes there are still a couple of copies of 8.2, and people who are wondering why Mandrakes 8.2 is so far behind RedHats 8.0 (as far as kde etc go.) So what happens people download the product. Then once it's downloaded they don't need/want the boxed set... heck if you are a club member you get to download the "extra's" anyway so.. ah heck I'll just wait for 9.1 and see if that boxed set comes out... it's only a couple of months away right?
What does this show... simple economics rule #1. before you can sell something you have to have something to sell. It's now Dec 20th.. I went to Fry's today to get 9.0 boxed, the guy in the store said the 2 or 3 boxes they got sold right away and he doesn't expect any more till next year... And people wonder why MDK is in trouble....
You want to boycott... ok... You want it to be affective...ok.... boycott the legistalors. Vote against, campaign against do everthing you can to get those overly entrenched (100 year old bigots for example) slime balls out of Washington. They are the cause of the power the RIAA/MPP has.
They write the laws that would make Adolf cringe. This boycott needs to be an active one. Not just in the US either. In Europe/Asia/the rest of North America/Australia/Africa and South America, you can move to empower your leaders to say NO when a BS US law is stuffed down their throats. (I watched South Korea tell Gates to stuff it when he tried to kill thier software industry, and he backed off hard.) Go see a European or Indian Movie, rather than a Hollywood shoot em up. The only way to effectivly change things like this is proactively and from within the system. They can't deny their own rules. If they do, they harm themselves more than they do you. In short Boycott the Demopublicans (or is that Republicrats). But do it by ACTIVELY voting for someone else, not by staying home. A vote not cast is a vote for the status quo.
Ok.... but the secret is .... don't get in the middle. The biggest falicy is the belief that once you put up an antenna all the signal stops at that antenna. So since it doesn't you put a larger antenna some distance behind the recieving antenna. Down side is that in a full duplex transmission link you only get 1/2 the signal. But the up side is that you are totally undetectable in that you never cut signal quality one iota.
Second technique is to put an antenna up either sufficiantly higher or lower than the center of the beam and at this point although you get a lower signal you do still get a signal. Then it's just a matter of filters.
Think analog not digital..... via radio even digital signal travels in waves. (3 phase partial response.)
OK in a sense they don't have to. First, 72 miles isn't that great a curve to deal with and second once you get into this frequecy range there are a number of Technics available for "bouncing" signal off of the Troposphere for really long shots. (100's even 1000's of miles) However for this one this technic isn't required.
Try this.. Draw a circle on a piece of paper. Then Draw two lines out from the center of the circle at right angles extend those two lines through the circle and beyond. You will notice that sooner or later it will be possible to draw a line from the top of those two original lines that will no longer intersect the circle itself. This is the same reason you see two things One very tall MicroWave (2.4 gig is in the MicroWave band) with dishes that look like the are pointed down. (The picture you drew will show you the angles. ) Of course there are limits, like how high you can get the antenna (Mountains help) and note that the longer the shot the larger the antenna should be (concentration of more signal) but you should be able to recieve cleanly down to -90dbm0 no problem (or even lower).
Factors that will affect the signal are. Atmospheric conditions (two antennna's swaying in the wind is the simplest example) Sun Spots buildings or trees in the line of site, and frequency. 2.4ghz can shoot further than say 7ghz can just as low frequency radio goes through the earth rather than around it. In general the rule of thumb is any time the thickness of a material exceeds the length of a single cycle the radio wave is blocked. (yes this is true of all wave transmissions and yes some materials can be made that are transparent, but I did say "in general").
Doing a 72 mile shot over water isn't really that remarkable. At 7ghz I've seen 50+ shots over water. (Despite the statement at the end of the article shots over water are IMPROVED not inhibited by the water in the microwave range. )
If anything the neat part or even unique part is that they did it at such a low cost.
Oh... you mean like Diane Fienstien Democrat Senator from California.... Just goes to show just because your constituants make thier living off of High Tech, is absolutely, no reason, to take care of them when Disney offers so much more... (under the table.) It ain't the Replicrats or the Demopublicans... (something like that, they are too much alike) it's those who are foolish enough to believe that voting for one party or the other is the answer. No if you want change vote for whomever isn't in office, (party and person).... Remember in the great Tradition of the Florida Electoral system.. Vote Early and Vote often.
Free Ware Home is a website full of software and components dedicated to just this concept. And here by free he means:
1. No crippleware
2. No demoware
3. No restrictions.
Great site and a lot of really good stuff.
I have to cast a vote for Epson. Not because thier printers are the best on the market... In fact they aren't any better or any worse than any I've tested. But the service is #1.
... My wife declares we need a scanner for all of here pics of my son. I say ok can I get a printer to.. She agrees. I go out finding an Office Max that was closing it's doors and buy both a scanner and an Epson 777 on sale. Dummy me forgot to check to see if Linux had the drivers. (ooops)
... so he wrote me personally) but for now the 710 drivers would work. Poof I'm up and running and sure enough the next version of cups drivers update had the 777.
November 2001
No drivers for the 777 in my then current Linux install. Send Epson an E-mail... Next day I get a response. They tell me that the next version of Cups will have the drivers (One the the employee's was a Linux user
May 2002 I changed the ink because it was out.. and now my printer won't recognize the new cartridges.... Call customer support... I'm under warranty. The tech has me perform a few checks to try and get it to reset... (all the tests were actually relavant too, none of this... is your printer faceing your computer or the wall BS.) No luck. The tech then tells me that my printer is dead but they have a problem.... since the no longer make my model, he can send me a new one, but it will have to be the next model up... at no charge. Well shoot me and call be a target. I'm not going to complain.. 3 days later my printer arrives via UPS with everything enclosed to send the old one back to Epson at no charge. I get a new printer. AND they even replaced the cartidges I bought since they weren't compatible with the new printer. All at no charge. Am I happy with Epson... you better believe it... Oh and guess who got the contract for my companies new printers...!
A HA you happen to be one of those cold fusion people I see. PHP can do everything java does EXCEPT require 6 or 7 different JVM's (Linux currently has about 8 or 9 or iX86 and they aren't always compatible. PHP is web only so no main.) Then if you embed Javascript ... you can do more. (OK if you run from WinIIs you can embed VBasic.wet or C-- )
Support is actually done in divisions the largest being the Unix Division. They do support Linux as well as Solaris. HPux and AIX are pretty well gone and they also have picture celebrating the demise of the last vacs. *grin*
If I did I'd tell you to contact another Gov funded project called SLAC (Stanford Linear Accelerator Center) They have without a doubt the best linux setup for lab work you will ever see. The tools etc of course are available to you, free of charge, and the people who work there are more than just helpful. the URL is http://www.slac.stanford.edu/ to start checking them out. They run 2000 server clusters and are fast approaching 1 petabyte of data. So they do know there stuff. AND it's a Linux house to boot. Sometimes Gov funded orgs do it right and these are some people who prove this is true.
PHP runs better. Faster response. Less overhead as far as CPU/memory usage. Greater availablity of code snippets on the web to shortcut deployment. PHP isn't just nuke. It's supported by a large company, and really works well. If you want to fully implement the features of Tomcat go with Zope. Even if you purchase Zope services from Zend Corp. you'll find that your return on your dollar is much, much higher. Especially since the load is lower on the server and as a result you can serve a greater number of users with the same box.
Somebody get a mop we have TuXP all over the floor here. ..... sorry couldn't resist
First M$ is really invading... I pull up a page covering LW and get an add for .net. Ok on with what I saw.
.org land. Caldera has a corner of one of the majors displays. I couldn't find Mandrake although they are supposed to be in a corner somewhere as well. Although Ximain isn't a distro it's worth noting that they too are lacking in presence.
1. One this is missing... Distros. Red hat and SuSe are there with full (but smaller) booths and that's pretty much it. Debian has a table in
2. The most sought out booth is the Zaurus Booth with Sharp. They are selling like mad. Expecially since the price is heavily discounted from retail. Neat new toys as well, Like a roll up keyboard being demo'd in Beta form.
3. The jugglers and magicians of old are gone. This year it's about business. The number of visibly Geek individuals has dropped. Although ties aren't being worn except by the security team,the dresscode is definitly turning yuppy in it's look and feel. Whereas in 99 in San Jose it was somewhat of a party atmosphere this year it's much more business like. As a result the feel is that Linux is operating from strength not from the hip. Over all, the feeling is much richer and Linux feels solid and real. Gone is M$ bashing to get attention. (Although M$ is heavy into Linux bashing.) Linux is playing from strength not from attitude. In fact the fact that M$ is in the rookery really does add to the impression that they are a minor player and Linux is the dominate life form.
5. They had in the past rest areas where you could plug in your laptop and geek out. This year the rest area is designed for getting together with companies and talking business. The floor is crowded with people unlike the graveyard feel it had last year.
6. The show is smaller than last year. Less hype. One major player is now combined with another. (HP and Compaq) Companies are less intrested in being the biggest and more intrested in delivering hard numbers, and proven technology. If you are looking to get your geek on by checking out cool new hardware and software of the never to come future. This is not the show for you. IF however you are intrested in how to deploy Linux to best serve the needs of your company or organization. Come and bring lot's of room to take notes.
7. Swag --- We don't need no stinkin' Swag In the past my kid loved it when Daddy came back from LW because he got all kinds of neat things to play with. This year, the swag is limited as heck . Mostly product brochures and data sheets. A geek coming to LW with one T-Shirt will most likely leave with just one, unless he buys it. No dancing penguins, no daemon girls, no booth fluff. The people in the booths actually know the product and are willing to discuss it. This definitly isn't a Comdex clone.
8. OSDN is to be commended on one thing. They have brought the speeches and discussions out of the back halls and into the main halls. An exciting and informative list of people from all over the Linux map are deliverying seminars on the Main floor. Every one of them is well attended and very informative. Kudos to OSDN on this move.
9. No Dust Puppy *sniff*
10. All in all I must say this IBM + Linux has created a culture in Linux that is less Silicon Valley hype than normal and Less stuffed shirt than the IBM of old, Picked up and carried forward by HP Sun and others to the point that DESPITE Washington DC and the Bush league players a solid well organized movement has really just begun.
But how many electronic documents do you think are still surviving from 10 years ago?
A lot actually. As for College books.... No longer have a one of em.. ok I've got one yearbook. Books don't change. That's true but the world does. None and I do mean NONE of my college books would be useful. Why. The math books yep pi is still 3.14159 but since it doesn't corralate to any class being taught today. It's useless. Shakespeare.. ok good stuff grade school (6th and 7th grade) not from college. Oh and of course the history of computing... yep talking all about those modern pdp-11's and how in the future mini computers will allow a mini computer in every office to serve dozens of thin clients running over a Token Ring Network. Oh and how about my Dad's college books now there is some really useful information. I mean studies on engine design covers the possiblity of overhead valves is absolutely priceless. Want to know what books do? They mold, they rot (paper is acidic as heck) They stink like heck when you are cleaning out a dead relatives attic. (anyone want a mechanics manual for the IBM 16 digit easy-pull adding machine?) Books as a physical media have a definite shelf life. The information in Text books has a definite life as well. And it's much shorter. Heck I had books from my freshman year that in my senior year I couldn't sell back to the bookstore. Why, they were too far out of date. (and yes I was on the 4 year plan.)
Now electronic documents. Hmmm just helped a friend move tapes of all the USENET traffic from the early 80's from tape to CD (It was pretty well at the end of it's life. Shouldn't have stored it in his basement and let mold set in.) Oh the books next to the tapes are toast. That's 10 to 20 years there.(1980 - 1990) I've got access to a 9 track tape in storage with the original 386 BSD on it. (Nope can't give it out.) Prior to that I've got stacks and stacks of punch cards.. (I'm getting them read off to disk...that's singlular by the way.) In Hollywood the Museum of Film history has movies that go back to the turn of the century. If you can preserve this volital media you can easily preserve mag tape, CD's and floppy's are lot easier. Oh and the wheight of all of those 9 tracks About 1200 lbs (guestimate) the weight of the CD's about 10lbs... now which one is easier to copy. All the the printed material and all of those dead trees or 10lbs of CD's that need to get re-burned every 50 years.
And No not for Sneaker Net either. PXE + floppy = unattended install/reinstall for 1 U servers and desktops. Boot from the floppy and go. Also what about Tomsrbt or for M$ users you have your DOS boot disk (and yes they are very useful). A way to boot for NFS installs rather than CD installs. NO don't get rid of my floppy. It's old, yes. But still very very useful. Heck where LRP be without it? Quieter than CD (in many cases, ever heard a 52X in the same price range as a floppy drive wind up?) It's like car insurance, most the time you don't need it. But for those times you do.you really need it!
Oh it will make coffe.... One kind, it will be somewhat weak, the bottom of the cup will on occasion without warning fall off, and in order to replace the bottom of the cup you will have to close all the windows in your computer room exit.... re-enter the room and then it will go back on. Coffee used in this machine must carry with it a signed certificate from Wan Valdez that the coffe is genuine Columbian Coffee. Star Bucks is attaching a EULA that requires you periodically pay them for all cups of coffe previously consumed. Upgrades in the form of new cups of coffee will be required at undisclosed intervals and if you fail to upgrade your bladder may cease to function properly. Your toilet will now require you to enter your Passport ID in order to lift the lid, and any attempt to urinate in a non-M$ approved facility, (Ally, neighbors john etc.) will be considered a breach of this EULA and invoke an immediate visit from the BSA SS troopers to apply the appropriate catheter and confiscate any and all non-M$ approved beans you may have in your house/office.
two for you.
... yep bug in the system.
1. 1988 somewhere in a Gov installation on the East Coast of the US: I enter the Switch room (Telephone) and find that all 3000 of the relay's in the switch are opening and closing in sync with the clock relay. Phone calls are going through.... but it's still not right. 48 hours later we find the problem. A large wood roach had crawled across a -48Vdc connection point grounded himself out and
2. Microwave tower: Operators noticed that the secondary antenna began degrading rapidly over a two day period. All testing lead to the belief that something must be wrong with the antenna horn. So an antenna team was dispatched to check out the horn. Fortunately when they got up there and before removing the cover someone first noticed a loud buzzing sound, and then a small hole near the top had a lot of.... yep BEES comming out of it and going into it. A peak under the cover reveiled that bees had decided that setting up housekeeping inside the cover was a good idea. The hole they were going through was known but since it was less than 1/8th inch in size originaly it fell under the size needed to "demand" a replacement. The bees did manage to both enlarge the hole slightly and use it to set up a huge nest. Next day.... beekeepers where found to begin learning how to climb up a Tower to get rid of the bees... (Note the Honey is a bigger problem than the bees, without bees to keep it cool you have a HUGE runny mess.)
You are either:
1. Not in managemnet.
2. Unsuccesfully in management.
Why? Because you are dealing with people. Not robots and part of what you hire an employee for is to tell you when it can't be done and why.
No it's breaking the law when the judge says it is. Until then...... you haven't committed a crime. Under an innocent until proven guilty system of law. Actually though, if he brings in his experience and through that experience you write your own code. (he guides but doesn't write.) you may very well be OK. There are court cases to that affect. Now IF he signed an NDA or other document that directly prohibits him from using that experience... you are blocked. If not. Then as long as it isn't a cut and paste you are again in the clear.
Ok here's my theory. A secret Gov organization in league with the triad is creating and perpetuating conspiracy theories to knock us off track on there real plans for world domination.
In the 1960's the Bill of Rights was taken to Washington DC and as Senators and Congressmen entered they were asked if they would sign such legislation. Most didn't even recognize what it was, some claimed it was a communist plot, and only one, Senator Goldwater, recognized what it was..... *sigh*
It's probably time for a new revolution.... this time on Nov 2nd.
When the 19th amendment was created the nation was plunged into several of the darkest years of it's history. Men like Al Capone and others of his ilk ran the US. People flocked to speak easy's in droves and NY actually had more "bars" than ever before. We are seeing the same reaction here. If you want legislation then here is what is needed.
1. Reasonable copyright laws.
2. Makeing Illegal EULA's that go against copyright and other civil laws.
3. Putting an end to the price fixing of Audio and Video CD's so that the market can set the price.
4. Making Illegal the sale of CD's designed to break individuals computers.
Now for the bad news you can't create a DVD or a CD that I can't record..... And I won't write a single line of code or reverse engineer anything. In order to prevent the pirating of these mediums the only method is to prohibit the sale of them. Sorry but Thats just the way it goes. If I'm supposed to listen to or view something... I can copy it. Good old fashioned analog methods are 100% effective. These arguments are as old as the hills. They said the same things about cassettes and the VCR (VTR for non American readers) What happened there? The industry embraced rather than fought the technology and in the end found a whole new line of business THAT ACTUALLY INCREASED THEIR REVINUES. Sorry for the shout but the point is important. What would have happened to the industry if the record companies had said to napster "Hey this tech is pretty good, can we buy you and the tech out?" Then re-introduced napster selling studio grade MP3's for say 50 cents US a song using the same network. What would have happened is that they would have sent song sales through the roof! People have shown time and again that they will:
1. Pay a resonable and fair price. For quality goods.
2. If given a choice between pirated and legit versions they usually chose legit.
3. Obey reasonable laws.
They have also shown that when push comes to shove, they will:
1. Steal from people they consider to be thieves.
2. Work to destroy people and organizations that call them thieves or liars without pravocation.
3. Vote with their wallets.
To the recording industry the vote is in. Your sales are down because your product sucks and the people don't want it. No business or industry has ever had the right to remain in business. What would have happened if the Pony express had sought to outlaw trains because it infringed upon there business model? Yes the analogy is accurate. A new model of recording and distribution of first music and maybe later movies is fast aproaching. These business need to stop trying to use Washington to legislate their lack of business ability and get back to doing what a business must do. Either change or fail. Ask anyone who worked at Wang Computers or Commodore. Bad business practices lead to bad business. Lee Iacoca set two business precidents.
1. The government can bail out a business.
2. The business must pay back it's creditors.
Too many of these businesses remember the first and forget the second. Disney et al think they have the right to be in business. Fact is they don't. They only have the right to try. Success comes from work not from the purchase of Senators. Oh and remind your congressman about Nov 2nd. That day will show a lot.
How about this idea. File those patents. "Codeing Methodology for the discovering of Directory Structures for data stored in an Electronic form" (ls dir etc) Then.... give the patent to the FSF. Yep give it to them. This puts the patent in the public domain,sort of. Then it will do two things. One ensure ridiculous patents don't get filled (since you filled first and can sue the pants off of them.) and two, it give the FSF a source of revenue. Just a thought.