It's not just the certification process as others have mentioned. In the military there's a persistent need to keep people busy. Therefore, parts and supplies must be provided to spec on an immediate basis. You're replacing brake shoes at 3000 miles, belts at 5000, batteries at 10000 miles. It's just the way they work.
Granted this article is talking about the Dept. of the Interior but procurement is procurement. At least don't get $500 hammers and $300 toilet seats so often anymore.
Naturally his plane is using 2.4 GHz, but the rules should still be followed and most of these bands are not intended to use high-mount antennae, let alone airplanes. (I'm only talking about the video downlink)
Many of these craft use illegally modified TV transmitters in the unlicensed 900 MHz bands to achieve these broad distances and this is NOT a good thing.
While I've enjoyed watching these videos for years and have been amazed how the technology has improved so much, it's not a good thing when you're using ground- and air-based wireless links at illegal levels. These high-powered levels not only cause interference to other devices due to the extra power and antenna configurations, but it's even more serious because the transmitters are so high off the ground. Your high-powered transmitter blasts interference over a large area to important unlicensed systems and cause serious problems with other users of these bands.
Keep following the rules. Don't modify your transceivers.
Yea, installing the software isn't very hard. Configuring it and getting the client etc to play nice is where it gets not so fun.
Even so - you can blame RedHat (or whoever maintains that package) for making your package so nice and easy. Not everyone has that indirect expert assistance handy.
I always need custom configuration. This software is really difficult.
Like X0563511 said, installation is not the problem. Using it is the problem.
Nothing of value is lost here.
On the bright side, I use Logmein.com and jump using realvnc to the unix host, but then again, I haven't had much need for graphical unix hosts lately, so I just use ZOC or PuTTY.
Honestly, why didn't they integrate it with Y! Bookmarks? I really liked Yahoo Bookmarks until they redesigned it in the mid-2000s. Before the redesign, Y! Bookmarks was really useful and it really made the Yahoo Toolbar useful. Then they messed it up and it wasn't useful anymore. And then they acquired Del.icio.us for no apparent reason and did some kind of half-assed, not-really-caring, so-called "integration" with Y! Bookmarks that amounted to nothing.
I'm a big fan of centralized bookmarks sites, like the defunct Blink! service, but Yahoo really aborted this great product with no apparent market focus. Sigh.
Maybe they should stop wasting all the time and resources hosting their own systems and move to Amazon EC2. I'm sure Amazon can promote this as a strong gesture of philanthropy, too.
It's simple. Mobile phones were not intended for household use. The 1900 MHz frequency does not penetrate walls very well. Those services (AT&T and VZW) that do have 850 MHz spectrum have moved as much of their voice service and control channels down to 850 MHz as possible because it penetrates walls so much better.
Sprint and T-Mobile are stuck in the 1900 MHz range in most markets. These are the majority of booster customers. The problem is that the boosters mess up an already weak service.
In Sprint's case, it's exponentially worse, since CDMA only works because the handset and the base station carefully agree on power levels, and the booster removes that control, thus causing havoc all over the Sprint CDMA bands.
I think it's important to mention that the so-called "Flash codec" that so many people are complaining about is nearly always On2's VP6, an ancestor of WebM.
Okay, why do this when we already have Ocaml? Are they doing this because we already have Ocaml? This doesn't mean we get Visual Studio, either, so I'm ripe for enlightenment on this issue.
I live very, very far away from the central office, but we suddenly were offered DSL several years ago due to a new technology known as "g.Lite" and the deployment of miniature DSLAMs on local, neighborhood telephone poles and cabinets.
It's a neat idea. Think of it the phone company's version of what the cable companies did with HFC cable about fifteen years ago.
My real complaint with all the virtualization products is that they still can't seem to get the Linux time clicker working right. It keeps getting better but I can't believe we are still dealing with time skewing.
More on VMware history: the old "free" version of VMWare was based on VMWare Workstation and you could hack the configuration file to enable the VGA accelerator in 2D. It worked pretty well as a desktop solution.
Then, around the time VMWare Player came out, they discontinued the free VMWare Workstation product and replaced it with a free version of VMWare Server which, using RDP, has no direct connection to the VGA card at all.
I might not recommend VMWare Server only because it does not really have true, accelerated graphics. It uses an RDP-like viewport and doesn't have the 2D, let alone 3D, performance that you'd want. Sure, you can edit the vmx file and turn on the VGA device settings, but they do not have any effect on VMWare Server.
VirtualBox has both 2D and sorta 3D acceleration, so for the free solution I'd recommend VirtualBox.
VirtualBox comes with a 2D and 3D graphics accelerator virtual device in the free version. It is pretty close to the metal when it comes to graphics performance in 2D, but not so much in 3D. Since the poster is doing 2D you will be fine.
VMWare, on the other hand, also has a graphics accelerator but it is not in the free version because that particular version is based on VMWare Server and uses an RDP-like viewport.
I see this access point name on Amtrak trains all the time between NYC and Washington. I thought there was some sort of coordinated honeypot password-grabbing hacker attempt going on. Turns out it's just Windows users' laptops trying to find a connection which does not exist on Northeast Regional trains (yet).
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It's not just the certification process as others have mentioned. In the military there's a persistent need to keep people busy. Therefore, parts and supplies must be provided to spec on an immediate basis. You're replacing brake shoes at 3000 miles, belts at 5000, batteries at 10000 miles. It's just the way they work.
Granted this article is talking about the Dept. of the Interior but procurement is procurement. At least don't get $500 hammers and $300 toilet seats so often anymore.
And so did Yahoo!
Microsoft and Google aren't the only people playing this music.
http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2009/06/30/yahoos-fresh-air-computing-coop/
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9186618/Yahoo_opens_chicken_coop_green_data_center?source=rss_news
Don't forget the New Year's Eve Ball's largest component: a decades-vacant One Times Square building.
Weren't they uncredited in the movie Jaws because the robot hardly worked when they wanted it to?
Naturally his plane is using 2.4 GHz, but the rules should still be followed and most of these bands are not intended to use high-mount antennae, let alone airplanes.
(I'm only talking about the video downlink)
Many of these craft use illegally modified TV transmitters in the unlicensed 900 MHz bands to achieve these broad distances and this is NOT a good thing.
While I've enjoyed watching these videos for years and have been amazed how the technology has improved so much, it's not a good thing when you're using ground- and air-based wireless links at illegal levels. These high-powered levels not only cause interference to other devices due to the extra power and antenna configurations, but it's even more serious because the transmitters are so high off the ground. Your high-powered transmitter blasts interference over a large area to important unlicensed systems and cause serious problems with other users of these bands.
Keep following the rules. Don't modify your transceivers.
Yea, installing the software isn't very hard. Configuring it and getting the client etc to play nice is where it gets not so fun.
Even so - you can blame RedHat (or whoever maintains that package) for making your package so nice and easy. Not everyone has that indirect expert assistance handy.
I always need custom configuration. This software is really difficult.
Like X0563511 said, installation is not the problem. Using it is the problem.
Nothing of value is lost here.
On the bright side, I use Logmein.com and jump using realvnc to the unix host, but then again, I haven't had much need for graphical unix hosts lately, so I just use ZOC or PuTTY.
Wow, even the stillborn AOLTV had some integration between TV listings and internet content.
Why do I want a Google TV when I have a TiVo, anyway?
Try as I might, I simply could not get this "whatever-it-is" software to work, and I know something about getting "whatever-it-is" software to work.
Nothing of value is lost here.
Honestly, why didn't they integrate it with Y! Bookmarks?
I really liked Yahoo Bookmarks until they redesigned it in the mid-2000s. Before the redesign, Y! Bookmarks was really useful and it really made the Yahoo Toolbar useful. Then they messed it up and it wasn't useful anymore. And then they acquired Del.icio.us for no apparent reason and did some kind of half-assed, not-really-caring, so-called "integration" with Y! Bookmarks that amounted to nothing.
I'm a big fan of centralized bookmarks sites, like the defunct Blink! service, but Yahoo really aborted this great product with no apparent market focus. Sigh.
Double-sigh!!
Are you sure you were following the "No original research" policy?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:No_original_research
Maybe they should stop wasting all the time and resources hosting their own systems and move to Amazon EC2. I'm sure Amazon can promote this as a strong gesture of philanthropy, too.
It's simple. Mobile phones were not intended for household use. The 1900 MHz frequency does not penetrate walls very well. Those services (AT&T and VZW) that do have 850 MHz spectrum have moved as much of their voice service and control channels down to 850 MHz as possible because it penetrates walls so much better.
Sprint and T-Mobile are stuck in the 1900 MHz range in most markets. These are the majority of booster customers. The problem is that the boosters mess up an already weak service.
In Sprint's case, it's exponentially worse, since CDMA only works because the handset and the base station carefully agree on power levels, and the booster removes that control, thus causing havoc all over the Sprint CDMA bands.
I think it's important to mention that the so-called "Flash codec" that so many people are complaining about is nearly always On2's VP6, an ancestor of WebM.
Okay, why do this when we already have Ocaml? Are they doing this because we already have Ocaml? This doesn't mean we get Visual Studio, either, so I'm ripe for enlightenment on this issue.
I am compelled to demand that you read, or at least enjoy, this comic about animation shops in North Korea:
http://www.amazon.com/Pyongyang-Journey-North-Guy-Delisle/dp/1896597890
First, who takes a video of a computer monitor?
Second, she obviously has a toothache, which were more common than cell phones without any signals.
I live very, very far away from the central office, but we suddenly were offered DSL several years ago due to a new technology known as "g.Lite" and the deployment of miniature DSLAMs on local, neighborhood telephone poles and cabinets.
It's a neat idea. Think of it the phone company's version of what the cable companies did with HFC cable about fifteen years ago.
My real complaint with all the virtualization products is that they still can't seem to get the Linux time clicker working right. It keeps getting better but I can't believe we are still dealing with time skewing.
More on VMware history: the old "free" version of VMWare was based on VMWare Workstation and you could hack the configuration file to enable the VGA accelerator in 2D. It worked pretty well as a desktop solution.
Then, around the time VMWare Player came out, they discontinued the free VMWare Workstation product and replaced it with a free version of VMWare Server which, using RDP, has no direct connection to the VGA card at all.
Still, the Linux time skew drives me mad.
I might not recommend VMWare Server only because it does not really have true, accelerated graphics. It uses an RDP-like viewport and doesn't have the 2D, let alone 3D, performance that you'd want. Sure, you can edit the vmx file and turn on the VGA device settings, but they do not have any effect on VMWare Server.
VirtualBox has both 2D and sorta 3D acceleration, so for the free solution I'd recommend VirtualBox.
VirtualBox comes with a 2D and 3D graphics accelerator virtual device in the free version. It is pretty close to the metal when it comes to graphics performance in 2D, but not so much in 3D. Since the poster is doing 2D you will be fine.
VMWare, on the other hand, also has a graphics accelerator but it is not in the free version because that particular version is based on VMWare Server and uses an RDP-like viewport.
Wait, industry reports from radio to railroad have been been saying that copper theft is down because copper is also down.
Whom am I supposed to believe?
I see this access point name on Amtrak trains all the time between NYC and Washington. I thought there was some sort of coordinated honeypot password-grabbing hacker attempt going on. Turns out it's just Windows users' laptops trying to find a connection which does not exist on Northeast Regional trains (yet).
Very fascinating expose!!
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