Does anyone actually try multiple distros around here? I cut my teeth on Mandrake two and a half years ago. It was nice to some extent and it was exciting to begin my independance from Microsoft. I had Win98 at the time. Shudder... Two and a half years ago, RPM's took care of their own dependencies using urpmi. The only reason I left Mandrake was that I perceived it to be too unstable. I did get DVD's to play on it well, though.
Then, I tried Slackware. I think my first try was 9.0. I don't know why, but when I installed the necessary programs for playing DVD, it was too slow and choppy. Come to think of it. It doesn't like the nvidia driver very much either. I let that sit there while also trying Red Hat for about 2 seconds and then SuSE for a minute. Meanwhile, I was keeping up to date with Mandrake and using that as my main system. Slackware 9.1 came out and I decided to try it again. I was a little bit smarter this time and got DVD's to play as well if not better than on Mandrake. I managed somehow to massage the nvidia driver on to it and I used-still use Swaret for updates and package management. I learned a lot more about configuration files using Slackware, too. There are two RPM's that I had no trouble installing on it. One was the driver for the Lexmark Printer. The other was the RPM for Scorched3d. This is how easy it is: rpm2tgz Scorched3d-39.1.rpm installpkg Scorched3d-39.1.tgz
'rpm2tgz' is your friend. Just like 'alien' in Debian, it allows you to use RPM's. So, could we please quit saying this distro is harder to use package management than this one because I've sampled most of them and they all work just fine.
As another person posted, the radios they use to talk to the tower, these VHF radios, transmit AM (amplitude modulation). Somehow, the handsets were demodulating and amplifying the signal sent to the VHF antenna which is in the belly about 5 ft away from where the Satcom was mounted. The problem is, the wires running to the handsets, which included an audio line, are routed right past the VHF antenna to get to the main bundle. We had to change our design to seperate those wires from the standard bundle and also seperate the audio from the power/ground wires. It's the only piece of equipment we've ever had to do that for. There were some tempers flaring when our test engineers told their engineers that they needed to fix their box. (Well, they needed to fix whatever was picking up noise because that's not the only thing it was picking up.) Sorry, but business jets have a few more things in them than phones and those things aren't going away. My second plane with that system went through without me hearing about any problems, so I assume our extreme wire seperation fixed the problem with the VHF2. It also uncovered a noise problem with a new Airshow box. Airshow is what displays that map that shows you were you are and also comes with briefings. Can you believe it runs on Windows XP? It takes it way too long to boot when the plane is turned on. I get nervous when I see Windows going on Airplanes, but I guess I'm just nervous because of my Win98 days. My work computer works just fine with Win XP. It also has a virtual Xwindows client that I use to connect to the drafting computers and work on my drawings.
Well, I'm sure that's more than anyone wanted to know.
The reply of the previous poster is correct. The only real problem with using a cell phone on a plane is that it will interfere with a lot of cell towers. If there are many passengers on the plane with cell phones, that could tie up a lot of towers. A tower can only host so many phones at a time depending on which type of tower it is.
As for interfering with the Avionics(Navigation Systems) on a plane, not happening. If that were the case, the towers all over the country side would interfere. They use basically the same frequencies and transmit with a lot more power.
As a side note, at my company we are forced to install inexpensive Satcom phones, from a vendor to remain nameless, that make very good VHF(voice-to-ground radio) receiver. In one of our planes, the pilot could be heard clearly on the phone handset when the No. 2 VHF was transmitted on. I was asked to listen to the phone while someone transmitted on the VHF. I could hear the VHF clear as a bell. At first I thought I was supposed to be hearing it, then I remembered that this phone was not an intercom. So, the moral of the story is, you won't affect the avionics on the plane, but the avionics on the plane may affect you. The maker of this Satcom also makes cell phones that are approved for aircraft use. They are designed to not interfere with many cell towers while they are in the air.
On that airplane, we had to connect the No.2 VHF to the No.3 VHF antenna to avoid the interference on the phone. Then, of course, the No.3 VHF became the problem, but the 3rd VHF isn't used nearly as much. The No.2 is used for talking to airtraffic control. The No.3 is used for non-essential options. In fact, the No.3 VHF is optional.
Scorched3d is a game that works on Linux, Windows, FreeBSD and any other operating system you want to try. So far, I've run it on XP, Slackware(rpm2tgz) and Debian(alien). The source is freely available, but it's easier to just use the Windows installer or the rpm for Linux.
It's a 3d artillary game and it's very addictive. There are plenty of online servers to play against other people. Some of my coworkers play it at lunch. Even on my locked down XP box at work, it can be easily installed into a personal folder.
That is almost large enough to put a Linux or BSD distro on. I guess a person could buy 2 and split folders on different partitions. Better yet, get 3 because at least 1 out of 3 is going to be a rip off.
$20--stack of 100 cd-roms on sale
$40/per month--Broadband connection for downloading
$0--setting it up myself
$100--Linux friendly peripherals off of ebay
Technically, the broadband I would have anyway, so I'm not sure how much of that should count. Additionally, I was able to download distros at work before I sprung for my own broadband. I suppose that both Linux and Windows need the broadband connection to download updates, so that would be a wash anyway. I did not buy a preloaded PC, so if I add up the extra leaving out what Windows also needs:
$120 for parts and CD's.
Compare that to, what, $300+ for Windows XP Pro? I refuse to compare it to a less secure Windows version because the Linux install gives me built in security that only XP Pro can compare to, if you know how to set it up that way. I don't know how to set up XP as well as Linux, so I would need to pay for a class. The internals of Linux are so much easier to understand.
Since XFree86 is driving everyone off, MS might be able to buy them up cheap. Weren't they already moving away from GPL? Stranger things have happened.
Nothing legal is free. If someone IS giving you something for free, think of "free internet", they usually want you to use 'their browser' so they can make money off of advertising. So...
You would be downloading a.torrent file. The bittorrent program does the rest. So, what you say is quite correct. The person with half a brain does not download the.exe, the bittorrent program does it for the person with a full brain.
I should have the right to choose my wine from any state I desire it. I can't get Missouri wine as far away as Arkansas. I cross a state line and I can't get it. I can get Arkansas wine all-day-long, but wine one state up is off limits. "Why don't you go to a liquoer store?", you might ask. I did. The distributors don't offer ANY wines from Missouri in Arkansas. It's a freedom of choice issue which is just one more example to show that only lobbyists can get laws changed. Even this change is not for the consumer; it's for the fairness of the businesses.
Do you really believe that anyone is worried about teens using this to buy wine? I have a teen and trust me, she finds alcohal if she wants it. The law states that she has to go to school. Guess how effective that was at getting or keeping her there.
If Nerds don't drink wine, then I agree with you, the article doesn't belong here. I do drink wine and am glad it was here or I would have missed it.
I'm running an i820 board with a slot 1, adapter populated by a P3 1 gig processor. Rambus is a serial memory that only needs to be in pairs on boards with dual Rambus memory busses. The P4 boards generally have 2 or 4 busses to help compete with the DDR boards. My board only has one serial bus which makes my 800 MHz board only slightly faster than a PC100 board. I used to have a pair of 64 Meg sticks in the board for 128 Meg, then I finally shopped ebay for a 256 Meg stick to replace one of the 64's with. So, now I have a 256 and a 64 on the board for 320 Meg total. It's a rare thing to find a P3 board that accepts Rambus and now that I have one, I can see why. The memory is too expensive and unless you shop for used stuff, you have to buy them in pairs. On the other hand, single sticks on ebay are much cheaper than pairs!:-D
So, other than ebay, where do I find these phantom $125 sticks of 512 Meg?
I never really believed the theory of relativity. Either that or I didn't believe how it was taught to me in college by a professor who took it as fact because some experiment appoximated it. I tend to think outside the proverbial box. If you are relying on "sight" when measuring something that involves the speed of light, you may interpret the data wrong. Who knows if these theories have been observed in a way that is neutral to all the variables.
Being an electrical engineer, the difference between the circular and parabolic nebulae would seem a difference between positive and negative. It could be different stages of the decline. It would seem to me that if the remains of the star continue to get more dense (supposedly light can't escape), more electrons could be gathered. The hyperbolic ones would be in the process of the nebulae being sucked slowly back to the dense mass. The parts that lost electrons would be drawn closer while pushing away the more negative outer ones that haven't lost electrons yet. The ones that aren't dense enough to pull more electons in gravitational wise would remain of a global nature.
Now, when are they going to figure out gravity. In fact, it would be nice if they could figure out how that attract/push-away magnetic thing works. It's strange that the two phenomenons seem to be unrelated. While we're at it, why do light and electricity have approximately the same velocity?
My class and lab were a while ago, so bear with me. Radar sends out a pulse that bounces off of objects and radiates in all directions. That radiation returns to the radar antenna at a greatly reduced level. That level is usually going to be lower than the level of static. With one radar pulse, you would see nothing. If the results from 10 pulses are added together the object in the distance will become very obvious. That's because static will average to 0 theoretically. The return pulse will add up faster than the static. I did a lab on this for which I still have the o-scope images downloaded in a report on a floppy. As well as this method works, it can only help so much. If a return pulse is too low it will not grow faster than the static as it is added up. The lower the return level the more pulses you need to see it.
If MS ever made a Linux distro, then hardware manufacturers would start taking the time to write drivers for Linux. That is one of the main things MS has going for it to prevent Linux from getting too popular. That would be their first step into the grave. They never want to lose that control. Anyone know where I can get a Linux driver to get my USB Lexmark scanner working?
Even neophytes know how to do a Google search.
Of course, a lot of people who keep Windows around, do it because of gaming. We wouldn't want 100% compatibility with new games either, would we?
No, I think MS will continue to embrace Linux like a cat embracing a bath.
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The Original BT client already does this. Well, that's assuming you're using some type of 'nix.
I'm surprised Slackware still has 'G'ames.
Patient: "Why do I have cancer?"
Evolution Doctor: "Your Brain Evolved."
Patient: "OK. I'll go die now, since I have no one to pray to."
Yeah, ID promotes fatalism. Maybe you should get cancer before you talk about it. I have a brain tumor, but I don't recall being fatalistic about it.
By the way, I have a Bachelor of SCIENCE degree in Engineering. Design is anti-scientific.
Then, I tried Slackware. I think my first try was 9.0. I don't know why, but when I installed the necessary programs for playing DVD, it was too slow and choppy. Come to think of it. It doesn't like the nvidia driver very much either. I let that sit there while also trying Red Hat for about 2 seconds and then SuSE for a minute. Meanwhile, I was keeping up to date with Mandrake and using that as my main system. Slackware 9.1 came out and I decided to try it again. I was a little bit smarter this time and got DVD's to play as well if not better than on Mandrake. I managed somehow to massage the nvidia driver on to it and I used-still use Swaret for updates and package management. I learned a lot more about configuration files using Slackware, too. There are two RPM's that I had no trouble installing on it. One was the driver for the Lexmark Printer. The other was the RPM for Scorched3d. This is how easy it is:
rpm2tgz Scorched3d-39.1.rpm
installpkg Scorched3d-39.1.tgz
'rpm2tgz' is your friend. Just like 'alien' in Debian, it allows you to use RPM's. So, could we please quit saying this distro is harder to use package management than this one because I've sampled most of them and they all work just fine.
Well, I'm sure that's more than anyone wanted to know.
As for interfering with the Avionics(Navigation Systems) on a plane, not happening. If that were the case, the towers all over the country side would interfere. They use basically the same frequencies and transmit with a lot more power.
As a side note, at my company we are forced to install inexpensive Satcom phones, from a vendor to remain nameless, that make very good VHF(voice-to-ground radio) receiver. In one of our planes, the pilot could be heard clearly on the phone handset when the No. 2 VHF was transmitted on. I was asked to listen to the phone while someone transmitted on the VHF. I could hear the VHF clear as a bell. At first I thought I was supposed to be hearing it, then I remembered that this phone was not an intercom. So, the moral of the story is, you won't affect the avionics on the plane, but the avionics on the plane may affect you. The maker of this Satcom also makes cell phones that are approved for aircraft use. They are designed to not interfere with many cell towers while they are in the air.
On that airplane, we had to connect the No.2 VHF to the No.3 VHF antenna to avoid the interference on the phone. Then, of course, the No.3 VHF became the problem, but the 3rd VHF isn't used nearly as much. The No.2 is used for talking to airtraffic control. The No.3 is used for non-essential options. In fact, the No.3 VHF is optional.
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I'm thinking your idea could easily be defeated by someone who knows how to get the keylogger installed on a remote computer.
That's just my opinion.
I can see it now. There will be a hot spot at every baseball and football game.
It's a 3d artillary game and it's very addictive. There are plenty of online servers to play against other people. Some of my coworkers play it at lunch. Even on my locked down XP box at work, it can be easily installed into a personal folder.
That is almost large enough to put a Linux or BSD distro on. I guess a person could buy 2 and split folders on different partitions. Better yet, get 3 because at least 1 out of 3 is going to be a rip off.
$40/per month--Broadband connection for downloading
$0--setting it up myself
$100--Linux friendly peripherals off of ebay
Technically, the broadband I would have anyway, so I'm not sure how much of that should count. Additionally, I was able to download distros at work before I sprung for my own broadband. I suppose that both Linux and Windows need the broadband connection to download updates, so that would be a wash anyway. I did not buy a preloaded PC, so if I add up the extra leaving out what Windows also needs:
$120 for parts and CD's.
Compare that to, what, $300+ for Windows XP Pro? I refuse to compare it to a less secure Windows version because the Linux install gives me built in security that only XP Pro can compare to, if you know how to set it up that way. I don't know how to set up XP as well as Linux, so I would need to pay for a class. The internals of Linux are so much easier to understand.
Since XFree86 is driving everyone off, MS might be able to buy them up cheap. Weren't they already moving away from GPL? Stranger things have happened.
I know this is way late, but is anyone else using Epiphany to post to this thread? It's kind of eirie seeing the toes of that foot moving around.
By the way, you could throw the crooks off by using a toe.
Feel free to give me 40 lashes with a we noodle.
If I need 'their program' to see something...
(ALARM)...(ALARM)...(ALARM)
You would be downloading a .torrent file. The bittorrent program does the rest. So, what you say is quite correct. The person with half a brain does not download the .exe, the bittorrent program does it for the person with a full brain.
I should have the right to choose my wine from any state I desire it. I can't get Missouri wine as far away as Arkansas. I cross a state line and I can't get it. I can get Arkansas wine all-day-long, but wine one state up is off limits. "Why don't you go to a liquoer store?", you might ask. I did. The distributors don't offer ANY wines from Missouri in Arkansas. It's a freedom of choice issue which is just one more example to show that only lobbyists can get laws changed. Even this change is not for the consumer; it's for the fairness of the businesses.
Do you really believe that anyone is worried about teens using this to buy wine? I have a teen and trust me, she finds alcohal if she wants it. The law states that she has to go to school. Guess how effective that was at getting or keeping her there.
If Nerds don't drink wine, then I agree with you, the article doesn't belong here. I do drink wine and am glad it was here or I would have missed it.
So, other than ebay, where do I find these phantom $125 sticks of 512 Meg?
Being an electrical engineer, the difference between the circular and parabolic nebulae would seem a difference between positive and negative. It could be different stages of the decline. It would seem to me that if the remains of the star continue to get more dense (supposedly light can't escape), more electrons could be gathered. The hyperbolic ones would be in the process of the nebulae being sucked slowly back to the dense mass. The parts that lost electrons would be drawn closer while pushing away the more negative outer ones that haven't lost electrons yet. The ones that aren't dense enough to pull more electons in gravitational wise would remain of a global nature.
Now, when are they going to figure out gravity. In fact, it would be nice if they could figure out how that attract/push-away magnetic thing works. It's strange that the two phenomenons seem to be unrelated. While we're at it, why do light and electricity have approximately the same velocity?
That would be a leap second every 333,333 days.
1 rotation ~= 24 hours + 3 microseconds
My apologies for not being able to find a proper aproximation sign. I'm also having trouble copy and pasting symbols I have stored elsewhere.
Does this mean we'll be having a leap second in 333,333 years? That will throw my schedule all off.
My class and lab were a while ago, so bear with me. Radar sends out a pulse that bounces off of objects and radiates in all directions. That radiation returns to the radar antenna at a greatly reduced level. That level is usually going to be lower than the level of static. With one radar pulse, you would see nothing. If the results from 10 pulses are added together the object in the distance will become very obvious. That's because static will average to 0 theoretically. The return pulse will add up faster than the static. I did a lab on this for which I still have the o-scope images downloaded in a report on a floppy. As well as this method works, it can only help so much. If a return pulse is too low it will not grow faster than the static as it is added up. The lower the return level the more pulses you need to see it.
By the way, I've never voted for a presidential candidate that didn't win. I'm ashamed to admit that I voted for Clinton once.
FOUR MORE YEARS
Even neophytes know how to do a Google search.
Of course, a lot of people who keep Windows around, do it because of gaming. We wouldn't want 100% compatibility with new games either, would we?
No, I think MS will continue to embrace Linux like a cat embracing a bath.