Even a hundred or do feet up there's almost a constant stream of air blowing around. I say this as one who is a radio amateur (ham) and have been up in high places several times. In each time, regardless of the season, there's always a breeze once you get up about 70 feet.
But I do like the idea of getting 40mW of power out of flying platforms. Put it this way, about ten of these would supply the city I live in.
NASA has been on this kick of doing quick, reduced cost and inexpensive projects for some time now. They really have no choice since congress will only give them funding for unmanned and low cost missions.
So occasionally you get the stunning successes, E.G. the Mars rovers Spirit and Opportunity. Considering they were only supposed to last 90 sols and they're somewhere out to 1075 or more sols it means that the Steve Squyers is currently the start of NASA.
But more likely you get the devastating failures.
It's really sad that we blow a few billion a month on our little Iraq and Afghanistan ventures yet sciences take a back seat.
I just got my iPod a week ago. Got an 8GB black Nano. Love it! I wanted a solid state player that could store at least 1,000 tracks and have enough room for podcasts. The Nano fit the bill for me.
The key difference between criminal and civil litigation is that in the criminal a reasonable doubt is all that is required for acquittal. In civil cases a preponderance of evidence is necessary for judgement to be rendered against plaintiff and the RIAA seems to be able to manufacture tons of preponderable evidence.
I'm happy to see judges standing up to the RIAA strong-arm tactics.
Being that HP now has very strong support for Debian on their server lines. We bought an HP Proliant 150 G3 with 2TB of storage for a very cheap price. We asked for no OS and told the we planned to install Debian Sarge.
Not only did they help us out, they picked our brains about setting it up as an rsnapshot server.
The price was the best part. $1600 for that server. HP seems to be willing to play ball, something Dell doesn't like to do.
Is that it doesn't play nicely with AD domains. I know, we tried it and it failed miserably.
Microsoft really dropped the ball on this one. I mean, even 2000 and XP could connect to both standard NT domains and AD domains. But Vista has issues, even going so far as completely screwing up the network settings.
And friends in the market for a laptop are begging me to downgrade their machines to XP because critical applications they use will NOT run on Vista.
Oh that looks like it'd be a very fun place to visit. I've been to a number of military surplus auctions and always came away with some cool electronics gear, including a RADAR unit that was functional and a microwave comms system that was also functional.
But that place takes the cake. I have to say I'm thrilled by all the private attempts to launch stuff. I hope they get into orbit sooner than later.
It is my view that the alleged patents are bullshit. This is Verizon trying to kill off VoIP because it's meant so much lost business to them.
I for one would love to see Verizon shattered into a million little fucking pieces. That's how much I hate that company.
I'm also a Vonage subscriber and a VoIP evangelist. I mean come on, Call Waiting? Please, that was a Bell Labs thing back in the day and if Vonage is guilty of violating patent, so too are all the CLEC's.
After YouTube's handling of Nick Gisburne (An atheist who posted a slide show with quotes from the Koran that justify the harming of non-believers.) this is their comeuppance.
I migrated all my vids off there when the Gisburne affair happened. And I removed my blog from blogger to wordpress.
MS was supposed to have fixed Standby issues as of Windows XP. Nice to see where their priorities are, nothing like the Aero interface I suppose. In all honesty, I'm much more likely to move toward Ubuntu Beryl than Vista.
Oh yeah, and did I mention that if you have copper loop from the ILEC it doesn't necessarily mean you've got a solid pair back to to the central office.
Many SLC's don't have backup power, and pair gain devices fail when power goes out too.
As to ILEC's being 5 9's or 3 9's that's almost bullshit. What was it that accounting professor used to see, numbers don't lie but figures do.
It smells because there are easy solutions to the problems. First of all, you can supply backup power to your ATA and not have to worry.
Secondly you should wire your setup as RJ31X so the alarm system can cut in and take control.
Thirdly - you can set your bandwidth so that fax and modem signals will work. Better yet, how come no alarm company has an IP based monitoring setup? Be pretty simple to do with VPN's, etc.
Finally the E-911 issue was resolved a long time ago. I have full E-911 service through Vonage.
All this leads me to believe that ILEC's are behind these stories. They're losing business left and right to less expensive VoIP carriers. And Verizon for one is in a particularly bad spot, their little fiber build out isn't generating the returns they expected.
So a 12" Powerbook G4 was freed up from work, so I took it home to play.
Ok, not a bad machine per se. But here's what really frosts my cookies, I cannot for the life of me get it to connect to my Linksys WAP54G. Some googling indicates that this is a known problem for Apple, and the fix is Panther. Except I don't have Panther - this is a 10.2.8 machine.
Bad Apple, very bad Apple. I was considering a Macbook but if this is what I can expect you just lost a potential new customer. Too bad.
Thermal depolymerization that is. In essence from the other end you get the constituent parts and oil. Not a bad deal for a little bit of heat.
The thing is, to break our dependence on petroleum exports we're going to need to use every available technology, from TDP to fuel cells, hydrogen, etc. There is no one magic bullet.
No but you DID stop the packages for other distros on your web site. Luckily others have been putting the packages together for products like Debian, etc.
I'm very concerned with the direction that MySQL is taking.
The customers they speak of are those who bought support packages.
And yes, I think they're in for a rude awakening. They dropped install packages for things like Debian, etc. to go with Novell's SUSE which IMO was a very bad move.
And I'm a MySQL user who shrugs his shoulders as to why anybody would use Postgres.
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Even a hundred or do feet up there's almost a constant stream of air blowing around. I say this as one who is a radio amateur (ham) and have been up in high places several times. In each time, regardless of the season, there's always a breeze once you get up about 70 feet.
But I do like the idea of getting 40mW of power out of flying platforms. Put it this way, about ten of these would supply the city I live in.
NASA has been on this kick of doing quick, reduced cost and inexpensive projects for some time now. They really have no choice since congress will only give them funding for unmanned and low cost missions.
So occasionally you get the stunning successes, E.G. the Mars rovers Spirit and Opportunity. Considering they were only supposed to last 90 sols and they're somewhere out to 1075 or more sols it means that the Steve Squyers is currently the start of NASA.
But more likely you get the devastating failures.
It's really sad that we blow a few billion a month on our little Iraq and Afghanistan ventures yet sciences take a back seat.
This means the E layers of the atmosphere will be charged nicely. That said, HF signals will bounce off that quite handily.
Got to get out the HF QRP gear and see what I can work.
I just got my iPod a week ago. Got an 8GB black Nano. Love it! I wanted a solid state player that could store at least 1,000 tracks and have enough room for podcasts. The Nano fit the bill for me.
WRT sending voice as data, the incumbent carriers have been doing it that way for the past thirty years.
This one has a certain malodorous streak to it. Somehow I can see Verizon as one of the chief investors in North Central Equity which owns Acceris.
The attacks on VoIP are getting more and more vicious by the day and I'm glad the EFF is stepping into the fray.
The key difference between criminal and civil litigation is that in the criminal a reasonable doubt is all that is required for acquittal. In civil cases a preponderance of evidence is necessary for judgement to be rendered against plaintiff and the RIAA seems to be able to manufacture tons of preponderable evidence.
I'm happy to see judges standing up to the RIAA strong-arm tactics.
Being that HP now has very strong support for Debian on their server lines. We bought an HP Proliant 150 G3 with 2TB of storage for a very cheap price. We asked for no OS and told the we planned to install Debian Sarge.
Not only did they help us out, they picked our brains about setting it up as an rsnapshot server.
The price was the best part. $1600 for that server. HP seems to be willing to play ball, something Dell doesn't like to do.
Is that it doesn't play nicely with AD domains. I know, we tried it and it failed miserably. Microsoft really dropped the ball on this one. I mean, even 2000 and XP could connect to both standard NT domains and AD domains. But Vista has issues, even going so far as completely screwing up the network settings. And friends in the market for a laptop are begging me to downgrade their machines to XP because critical applications they use will NOT run on Vista.
Oh that looks like it'd be a very fun place to visit. I've been to a number of military surplus auctions and always came away with some cool electronics gear, including a RADAR unit that was functional and a microwave comms system that was also functional.
But that place takes the cake. I have to say I'm thrilled by all the private attempts to launch stuff. I hope they get into orbit sooner than later.
It is my view that the alleged patents are bullshit. This is Verizon trying to kill off VoIP because it's meant so much lost business to them. I for one would love to see Verizon shattered into a million little fucking pieces. That's how much I hate that company. I'm also a Vonage subscriber and a VoIP evangelist. I mean come on, Call Waiting? Please, that was a Bell Labs thing back in the day and if Vonage is guilty of violating patent, so too are all the CLEC's.
This means the E layer will get a lot more charged particles. Skip land here I come. The HF bands will be hoppin'. Time to get my WAC.
After YouTube's handling of Nick Gisburne (An atheist who posted a slide show with quotes from the Koran that justify the harming of non-believers.) this is their comeuppance.
I migrated all my vids off there when the Gisburne affair happened. And I removed my blog from blogger to wordpress.
I've been trying to get onto yahoo mail all day and it craps every time. Something says they didn't apply the DST fix to their old windows boxen!
MS was supposed to have fixed Standby issues as of Windows XP. Nice to see where their priorities are, nothing like the Aero interface I suppose. In all honesty, I'm much more likely to move toward Ubuntu Beryl than Vista.
Oh yeah, and did I mention that if you have copper loop from the ILEC it doesn't necessarily mean you've got a solid pair back to to the central office.
Many SLC's don't have backup power, and pair gain devices fail when power goes out too.
As to ILEC's being 5 9's or 3 9's that's almost bullshit. What was it that accounting professor used to see, numbers don't lie but figures do.
I forgot about the Z80 being one of the more popular CPU's for alarm systems. But even then, you could make an IP stack for a Z80.
It smells because there are easy solutions to the problems. First of all, you can supply backup power to your ATA and not have to worry.
Secondly you should wire your setup as RJ31X so the alarm system can cut in and take control.
Thirdly - you can set your bandwidth so that fax and modem signals will work. Better yet, how come no alarm company has an IP based monitoring setup? Be pretty simple to do with VPN's, etc.
Finally the E-911 issue was resolved a long time ago. I have full E-911 service through Vonage.
All this leads me to believe that ILEC's are behind these stories. They're losing business left and right to less expensive VoIP carriers. And Verizon for one is in a particularly bad spot, their little fiber build out isn't generating the returns they expected.
Actually I'll cast the blame at Linksys too. Their B routers work fine. The G routers have been an all around embarassment.
But explain to me why an XP machine can deal with them. That's why I drubbed Apple on this one.
So a 12" Powerbook G4 was freed up from work, so I took it home to play.
Ok, not a bad machine per se. But here's what really frosts my cookies, I cannot for the life of me get it to connect to my Linksys WAP54G. Some googling indicates that this is a known problem for Apple, and the fix is Panther. Except I don't have Panther - this is a 10.2.8 machine.
Bad Apple, very bad Apple. I was considering a Macbook but if this is what I can expect you just lost a potential new customer. Too bad.
Thermal depolymerization that is. In essence from the other end you get the constituent parts and oil. Not a bad deal for a little bit of heat.
The thing is, to break our dependence on petroleum exports we're going to need to use every available technology, from TDP to fuel cells, hydrogen, etc. There is no one magic bullet.
It's the U.S. too. For example, I'm going back to school and getting an engineering degree. Why? Because my InfoSci degree is pretty much useless.
If I'm right, Texas is like any other state in that it's an employment at will state.
What this means is that either you or your employer can terminate employment at any time without any notice whatsoever should you desire.
No but you DID stop the packages for other distros on your web site. Luckily others have been putting the packages together for products like Debian, etc. I'm very concerned with the direction that MySQL is taking.
The customers they speak of are those who bought support packages. And yes, I think they're in for a rude awakening. They dropped install packages for things like Debian, etc. to go with Novell's SUSE which IMO was a very bad move. And I'm a MySQL user who shrugs his shoulders as to why anybody would use Postgres.