[...] now that you've been registered here at Slashdot for a whole month, has your user name and sig brought a lot of new members to your "third position" political party, or have most slashdotters already realized that "third position" are really just nazis without the cool uniforms?
I checked it out, your Holiness. Seems that you're right--just the typical racist/nativist bullshit that the far right has been spouting for years. It's nothing but thinly veiled fascism, not a "real" choice at all.
pfft, kids these days. you can make them quite simply yourself with very cheap components (one of which could even some cat-5 wire pulled apart), hams have been doing it for decades.
Being a ham myself (KJ6BSO), I'm well aware of this and mentioned the possibility in a previous post. But the guy is not going to find VHF toroid cores down at the local Home Depot and the actual winding takes a lot of time to do it right, plus he'd need to build one for each end of every cable he used. He was looking for a quick and easy solution, remember?
tons of info on the web, try "balun"
That's not quite correct. A balun and a matching transformer aren't necessarily the same thing. Balun is a abbreviation for balanced-unbalanced much the same that modem comes from modulate-demodulate. A balun matches a balanced load, such as a wire dipole antenna, to an unbalanced one, such a a coaxial cable. What he needs is--and this is a real term--is an unun--unbalanced to unbalanced, the only transformation being impedance.
there are impedance matching transformers for such a situation
That's true, but 75 ohm to 50 ohm matching transformers are not commonly available at Radio Shack or Best Buy and not exactly cheap when you can find them, either. The request was for an easy and inexpensive solution and the OP suggested that he just use the existing CATV coax for 10Base-2. I was pointing out why it wouldn't work using the cable as-is.
Of course, he could roll his own matching transformers with a handful of powdered iron toroid cores and some magnet wire but I suspect that's more work than he's interested in doing
You do realize ethernet originally ran over coax, right? Google '10BASE2'
Only problem with that is 10Base-2 ran over 50 ohm impedance coax while CATV coax is 75 ohm impedance. The mismatch would reduce the power delivered to the receiving end and set up a standing wave that would deform the wave shape, possibly causing errors.
The truth is that the mac and Apple is often is one of the first to get truly revolutionary enabling applications. Think Visicalc. [...]
You're right about Photoshop and Excel but VisiCalc was originally written for the Apple II. Afterwards, versions were developed for the Atari, Commodore PET, TRS-80 and IBM PC but there never was a version for the Mac.
Apart from MS Office, it has to be the most pirated bit of software in the world.
No doubt you're right but not only do I own a copy (not the latest version, but it's legal), I also have a floppy disk with Macintosh version 1.0 on it around here somewhere. Hard to believe, I know, but at one time Photoshop fit on a single 1.44 MB floppy.
Oh, yeah, I'm with you completely on that. If it's really speed you want, then maintaining traction as much as possible is the way to get it. But burnouts are not really a display of speed, they're a show unto themselves.
this is interpreted that clergy may not talk about a political candidate from the puplit. To me, this is a law abdridging freedom of speech.
No regulation says that you can't talk about a political candidate from the pulpit. What they do say is that you can't talk about a politician from the pulpit and expect to retain your IRS tax-exempt status as a church. Accepting tax-exempt status from the U.S. government is a classic Faustian deal, my friend. If you feel strongly enough that your freedom of speech is being threatened, then you should be willing to pay the same taxes as all the rest of us to maintain it.
If you don't even have the strength of conviction to post with your name on it, I think that you should be denied issuance of your proposed Internet license.
And by the the way, "Internet" should be capitalized.
Interesting, but it doesn't quite tell the whole story. IBM may be making as much money as Microsoft but MS has much more impact in the computing industry. Still, it backs up my general contention which is that while IBM is doing fine, it's no longer the 600-pound personal computer gorilla that it used to be--it ceded that role to Microsoft. I think that's how Microsoft itself will end up eventually. It won't go away but it will no longer be as important as it is now.
Well, that was sort of the point I was making. They're still around and doing fine but they're no longer the mighty computer powerhouse they once were. I think that's where Microsoft will end up eventually, which is good-- not so much because MS is particularly evil (there have been much worse companies in U.S. history) but because it's best that there is no one controlling powerhouse entity at all. The more distributed things get, the better off we all are.
I have computers that run Windows XP, OS X and Fedora. Each one is particularly good at one set of tasks while not so good at others so I switch around as needed. From my experience of installing different operating systems over the past fifteen years, the only one that goes without a hitch every time is OS X, mainly because there's a limited amount of hardware it's expected to support. I've run into install problems with Linux (various distros), Free BSD and Windows and it's always been related to drivers for some obscure piece of hardware. Free BSD, in particular, is very fussy about Ethernet cards.
While I'm not a huge fan of Windows, given the huge variety of hardware out there it's probably not reasonable to expect any OS that's intended to be installed on a generic PC to install flawlessly every time.
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This is exactly why I always dial all 10-digits of the phone number of people I know.
All three of them.
[...] now that you've been registered here at Slashdot for a whole month, has your user name and sig brought a lot of new members to your "third position" political party, or have most slashdotters already realized that "third position" are really just nazis without the cool uniforms?
I checked it out, your Holiness. Seems that you're right--just the typical racist/nativist bullshit that the far right has been spouting for years. It's nothing but thinly veiled fascism, not a "real" choice at all.
...I suppose I'm the only person who wants someone to recreate Claris CAD.
Speaking as someone who was once forced to use Claris CAD daily in his job as a technical illustrator, I'd say "yes."
Move to California.
Yeah, but maybe you should wait until June. El Niño his doing his thing here this winter.
That's pretty much the whole point of the military.
No, the whole point of the military is exactly the opposite.
pfft, kids these days. you can make them quite simply yourself with very cheap components (one of which could even some cat-5 wire pulled apart), hams have been doing it for decades.
Being a ham myself (KJ6BSO), I'm well aware of this and mentioned the possibility in a previous post. But the guy is not going to find VHF toroid cores down at the local Home Depot and the actual winding takes a lot of time to do it right, plus he'd need to build one for each end of every cable he used. He was looking for a quick and easy solution, remember?
tons of info on the web, try "balun"
That's not quite correct. A balun and a matching transformer aren't necessarily the same thing. Balun is a abbreviation for balanced-unbalanced much the same that modem comes from modulate-demodulate. A balun matches a balanced load, such as a wire dipole antenna, to an unbalanced one, such a a coaxial cable. What he needs is--and this is a real term--is an unun--unbalanced to unbalanced, the only transformation being impedance.
there are impedance matching transformers for such a situation
That's true, but 75 ohm to 50 ohm matching transformers are not commonly available at Radio Shack or Best Buy and not exactly cheap when you can find them, either. The request was for an easy and inexpensive solution and the OP suggested that he just use the existing CATV coax for 10Base-2. I was pointing out why it wouldn't work using the cable as-is.
Of course, he could roll his own matching transformers with a handful of powdered iron toroid cores and some magnet wire but I suspect that's more work than he's interested in doing
You do realize ethernet originally ran over coax, right? Google '10BASE2'
Only problem with that is 10Base-2 ran over 50 ohm impedance coax while CATV coax is 75 ohm impedance. The mismatch would reduce the power delivered to the receiving end and set up a standing wave that would deform the wave shape, possibly causing errors.
Yeah, good point. I guess I need to learn to read before commenting.
The truth is that the mac and Apple is often is one of the first to get truly revolutionary enabling applications. Think Visicalc. [...]
You're right about Photoshop and Excel but VisiCalc was originally written for the Apple II. Afterwards, versions were developed for the Atari, Commodore PET, TRS-80 and IBM PC but there never was a version for the Mac.
Thought not.
Apart from MS Office, it has to be the most pirated bit of software in the world.
No doubt you're right but not only do I own a copy (not the latest version, but it's legal), I also have a floppy disk with Macintosh version 1.0 on it around here somewhere. Hard to believe, I know, but at one time Photoshop fit on a single 1.44 MB floppy.
How about geosynchronous communications satellites, then? That innovation has been credited to Arthur C. Clarke.
I hope that he has to serve the full sentence, and doesn't get out on parole
Since he's up on federal charges, he'll have to serve a minimum of 85% of his sentence time--about eleven years.
Unless it runs without electricity it consumes that as well.
It's steam-powered, using waste heat generated from the CPU in your computer. The rivet work on the boiler is awesome.
Oh, yeah, I'm with you completely on that. If it's really speed you want, then maintaining traction as much as possible is the way to get it. But burnouts are not really a display of speed, they're a show unto themselves.
No mention of the awesome green-light burn-outs soon to be offered to the affluent consumer?
this is interpreted that clergy may not talk about a political candidate from the puplit. To me, this is a law abdridging freedom of speech.
No regulation says that you can't talk about a political candidate from the pulpit. What they do say is that you can't talk about a politician from the pulpit and expect to retain your IRS tax-exempt status as a church. Accepting tax-exempt status from the U.S. government is a classic Faustian deal, my friend. If you feel strongly enough that your freedom of speech is being threatened, then you should be willing to pay the same taxes as all the rest of us to maintain it.
If you don't even have the strength of conviction to post with your name on it, I think that you should be denied issuance of your proposed Internet license.
And by the the way, "Internet" should be capitalized.
Pretty evenly matched, actually.
Interesting, but it doesn't quite tell the whole story. IBM may be making as much money as Microsoft but MS has much more impact in the computing industry. Still, it backs up my general contention which is that while IBM is doing fine, it's no longer the 600-pound personal computer gorilla that it used to be--it ceded that role to Microsoft. I think that's how Microsoft itself will end up eventually. It won't go away but it will no longer be as important as it is now.
Well, that was sort of the point I was making. They're still around and doing fine but they're no longer the mighty computer powerhouse they once were. I think that's where Microsoft will end up eventually, which is good-- not so much because MS is particularly evil (there have been much worse companies in U.S. history) but because it's best that there is no one controlling powerhouse entity at all. The more distributed things get, the better off we all are.
Sarah Palin Will Not Have Sex With You.
Man, is that ever a relief...
In the early '90s, we were waiting for the Great Satan that is IBM to fall.
And they eventually did, just not all the way down.
Neighbours' bedroom windows. A much better view.
Obviously, you've never seen my neighbors.
Sounds like you had no clue what you were doing.
I have computers that run Windows XP, OS X and Fedora. Each one is particularly good at one set of tasks while not so good at others so I switch around as needed. From my experience of installing different operating systems over the past fifteen years, the only one that goes without a hitch every time is OS X, mainly because there's a limited amount of hardware it's expected to support. I've run into install problems with Linux (various distros), Free BSD and Windows and it's always been related to drivers for some obscure piece of hardware. Free BSD, in particular, is very fussy about Ethernet cards.
While I'm not a huge fan of Windows, given the huge variety of hardware out there it's probably not reasonable to expect any OS that's intended to be installed on a generic PC to install flawlessly every time.
Cellulosic butanol is way more exciting than cellulosic ethanol.
Fuckin' A! Whenever anyone even mentions cellulosic butanol I can barely contain my enthusiasm! ;-)