I've never had any formal coding instruction. I needed a way to perform method "X" for a personal project and grabbed the reference manuals and started programming in Assembly Language for the Z80 back in the day (1986/1987). That code involved controlling 120VAC circuits from a TRS-80 Model IV to make money DJ'ing as well as building laser interfaces that allowed PC to PC messaging via laser interfaces instead of wires. That progressed to learning BASIC on a TRS-80 Model IV, as well as making calls to assembly from BASIC because I was able to perform graphics routines much faster in assembly language.. which progressed to full BASIC... and for S&G taking first place in state programming competitions. Then Visual Basic, Perl, Python... then web languages such as a PHP. I still haven't gotten a good grasp on C variants or Java, which seems a bit silly. Most of what I do now is based on Python in SecureCRT sessions hitting up network gear and pulling data or performing configuration updates. My most recent set of code was in Python to perform code upgrades and QC checks against 190 pairs of firewalls, and all but 2 went great... and they weren't because of the process, they were because a predecessor didn't know how to configure a network switch interface.
What a bunch of cry babies. Our city, county and state governments have been on Motorola's StarCom21 system for a few years now. Each department has their own groups of channels, some of which are just digital and some of which are encrypted. It's nothing that a Uniden BCD-396T can't handle. I've run scanners since the days of having to use crystals to configure a channel through current generation Digital APCO-25. I have no complaints if they want to encrypt their traffic. The news outlets are just pissed because they might actually have to get off their butts instead of being lazy and sitting next to a radio all day.
OK, I have my flame retardant clothing on...
I'm not a big fan of the iPod for a few reasons - the cost, the minimalist look, and the expense of the plethora of addons.
I looked for a long time, and was actually considering the purchase of an iRiver H140, but by the time I got the money saved up for one, they discontinued it and replaced it with the inferior H340.
Rather than purchase the iPod, I was going to give up on getting a decent player, but I happened to stumble across the iAudio M3 20Gb. It had a listed play time of 35 hours on a single charge... Hmmm...
OK, so I broke down and bought the 40Gb model, and I am glad that I did - saved $70 over an iPod, and coupled with a pair of Sony EX71SL buds, the sound quality is beyond what I would have ever expected. I still have 7 Gb free to use as external storage (no proprietary software needed with this guy, just copy the files to the USB "Mass Storage Device")
Anyway, after watching iRiver dump a decent product and replace it with an inferior one, I don't know that I would trust them with a product right now. I've also heard nothing but complaints about their lack of support and extreme slowness in creating firmware updates to address pretty stupid problems.
OK, so we've heard the studies for and against EM causing cancer and other ill effects. How old are these towers... What about the effects of lead paint on the tower and runoff as it ages and gets washed away into the local water supplies?
There are so many things to be considered in these situations - It could be something to do with the EM radiation - I have no doubt in my mind that living next to a high power transmitter would cause some unnatural biochemical events in the body, but under normal conditions? Probably not for the MW band.
Slashdot Mirror
It's not first time they've blamed an error on this... Cisco ACE modules had the same issue years ago, CSCsv52331.
I've never had any formal coding instruction. I needed a way to perform method "X" for a personal project and grabbed the reference manuals and started programming in Assembly Language for the Z80 back in the day (1986/1987). That code involved controlling 120VAC circuits from a TRS-80 Model IV to make money DJ'ing as well as building laser interfaces that allowed PC to PC messaging via laser interfaces instead of wires. That progressed to learning BASIC on a TRS-80 Model IV, as well as making calls to assembly from BASIC because I was able to perform graphics routines much faster in assembly language.. which progressed to full BASIC... and for S&G taking first place in state programming competitions. Then Visual Basic, Perl, Python... then web languages such as a PHP. I still haven't gotten a good grasp on C variants or Java, which seems a bit silly. Most of what I do now is based on Python in SecureCRT sessions hitting up network gear and pulling data or performing configuration updates. My most recent set of code was in Python to perform code upgrades and QC checks against 190 pairs of firewalls, and all but 2 went great... and they weren't because of the process, they were because a predecessor didn't know how to configure a network switch interface.
What a bunch of cry babies. Our city, county and state governments have been on Motorola's StarCom21 system for a few years now. Each department has their own groups of channels, some of which are just digital and some of which are encrypted. It's nothing that a Uniden BCD-396T can't handle. I've run scanners since the days of having to use crystals to configure a channel through current generation Digital APCO-25. I have no complaints if they want to encrypt their traffic. The news outlets are just pissed because they might actually have to get off their butts instead of being lazy and sitting next to a radio all day.
OK, I have my flame retardant clothing on... I'm not a big fan of the iPod for a few reasons - the cost, the minimalist look, and the expense of the plethora of addons. I looked for a long time, and was actually considering the purchase of an iRiver H140, but by the time I got the money saved up for one, they discontinued it and replaced it with the inferior H340. Rather than purchase the iPod, I was going to give up on getting a decent player, but I happened to stumble across the iAudio M3 20Gb. It had a listed play time of 35 hours on a single charge... Hmmm... OK, so I broke down and bought the 40Gb model, and I am glad that I did - saved $70 over an iPod, and coupled with a pair of Sony EX71SL buds, the sound quality is beyond what I would have ever expected. I still have 7 Gb free to use as external storage (no proprietary software needed with this guy, just copy the files to the USB "Mass Storage Device") Anyway, after watching iRiver dump a decent product and replace it with an inferior one, I don't know that I would trust them with a product right now. I've also heard nothing but complaints about their lack of support and extreme slowness in creating firmware updates to address pretty stupid problems.
OK, so we've heard the studies for and against EM causing cancer and other ill effects. How old are these towers... What about the effects of lead paint on the tower and runoff as it ages and gets washed away into the local water supplies? There are so many things to be considered in these situations - It could be something to do with the EM radiation - I have no doubt in my mind that living next to a high power transmitter would cause some unnatural biochemical events in the body, but under normal conditions? Probably not for the MW band.