Emissions testing? What's that? I live in Oregon and have never had my vehicle emissions tested.
I do know they do it up in the Portland metro area. That'd be sorta unfair to the folks up there if they were going to pay for however many miles they had put on their odometer since last test, and the rest of us in the state didn't have to pay a dime.
Why should being an Oregonian determine if we are taken seriously or not. I'd like to point out that we have many good things that come out of Oregon.
Have you ever had Tillamook Cheese? or Oregon Nog?
In terms of intelligence, we have excellent engineering schools (Oregon State University) and liberal arts universities (University of Oregon). Personally, I graduated from Chemeketa Community College (in Salem) with an AS degree in Computer Electronics. The electronics department at Chemeketa is one of the best I've seen from visiting various community colleges.
of course, the job market here sucks right now, so I'm stuck working for the state. =)
Another thing about Oregon is the livability. There's the big city living in Portland, if that floats your boat, but then there's the ROOM to live out on a couple of acres if a rural setting suites you more. I spent part of my years growing up on about an acre and a half with lotsa trees. My work in downtown salem was a 15-20 min drive, even at the height of rush hour.
What else is there to cover? We have the big beautiful outdoors! Little known waterfalls, hiking trails, and wilderness areas abound. Personally, I enjoy Abiqua Falls outside of Silverton, as well as the Opal Creek Wilderness area, up at the end of the Little North Fork road. =)
Oh, and Seaside! The beach there is one of the widest on the west coast! They've had beach volleyball championships there. Lincoln City hosts kite flying festivals a little further south. The dunes near Florence and south are a blast to go running around in (on foot or on your favorite atv veh).
And that's just in the northwest area of Oregon -- there's sooooo much to explore here!
As a side note on the studded tires: The damage caused to the highway from usage of studded tires is extensive and costly to repair each year. Hence the reason that we have laws that limit the time frame you can use studded tires, and we encourage folks to instead carry chains. In fact, at the moment, all the passes in the Cascade Mountain range and east are on Condition A - Carry chains or traction tires (although most people find carrying traction tires around the trunk can prove inefficient).
I have heard a similiar hypothesis as well regarding the loss of memories from our younger years.
I can attest from personal experience that traumatic events from when a person is younger are "blanked out" or "locked out" until little reminders come along. Or big reminders. In anycase, memories _can_ return if the proper trigger is given.
I have a friend that actually has purchased a silo, and is currently renovating it into a living space.
He's taken quite a few pictures of not only the outside (landing strip and all) but also the inside (looks like it'd be a cool indoor bungie jump arena, if the sides of the silo were padded). Of course the missle silo is not the only underground facility. There's control room / environmental facilities / etc..
America's Army is one of the best FPS games I've played (Doom, DoomII, Quake, QII, QIII, Unreal, Unreal Tournament, etc). The movement and other aspects of the game (heavier gun, you move slower), make it more realistic, and more fun to play.
First off, a little background: I built (played?) with legos well into my teen years. When I moved on to computers I passed all my Legos on to my little brother, who added them to his already large collection. He continues to build today (at age 22), but they are much more complex models involving the Mindstorms robot system. He's really delved into the programming on those, and has 2 mindstorm "brains" that he uses. This last fall, he got an award at the Oregon State Fair for his "Dinner Plate Transporter".
Anyway, the reason that I built was because I wanted to create my own toys. My brother and I would setup environments consisting of Legos, pillows, blankets, chairs, tables, etc etc, then build vehicles and buildings to populate those environments. Then we would play.:) The beauty of it was the flexibility of the Lego blocks. If something wasn't working out or didn't look right, we could tear it down and rebuild it.
For about 4 years I worked for a state emergency management agency, and during that time, I developed an incident database, with which their comm center still uses to this day. During my time with them I made many friends, and the database system I developed was refered to by the employees there as my "datababy".
I have been contacted several times with questions and I still go down there to troubleshoot problems or help them out. I don't get paid (in fact I got a parking ticket once while helping them out) for any of the work, but I consider it good P.R. for my reputation. There have been several fringe benefits (they provide the food/drink, I do the work).:)
What do you think drives the bandwidth market?? Piracy of movies of course.;) The bigger the media, the more bandwidth will be required to transfer them, hence I predict that there will be a boom in fibre hookups for the residential market when the standard media for movies gets bigger.
If this post makes no sense, it is because I just got off a long graveyard shift, and feel fairly rummy.:)
I just 'bout spit my toothpaste all over my monitor. Thank you to the person that warned me about this thread and prevented me from doing so.
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For those interested in the communications protocol (APRS) this sat is going to use, check this web site out. I've been using APRS for about 1.5 years, and it's a blast to play with.:)
I'm currently looking to get a cordless extension for our office, which has a Norstar Meridian PBX system.. I haven't got a quote on the price, but I'm sure it is less than 50,000. What the cordless extension does it provide all the functions of a normal extension (link, hold, multi-line pickup, etc) in a wireless handset. There are fairly-inexpensive passive repeaters that you can put in place if the unit will be used over a wide area.
Now if you don't need a cordless extension for a PBX, look at using cordless 900 mhz POTS phones. They seem to do a pretty good job and are fairly inexpensive.
The frequency spectrum starts at the low end, with audible sound and stretches all the way up to visible light. The higher in frequency you go, the more "directional" the signals have to be. This is why you have microwave dishes and not just microwave vertical antennae.
As to the number of frequencies available, it would all depend on the resolution. For instance, in the 2 meter ham band and VHF public safety band, narrow FM is generally used for communications. From 144.000 Mhz to 144.500 Mhz you could probably squeeze in 50 signals (using CTCSS or some other form of encoding).
DigitalBlasphemy is an awesome site, and well worth the money that he asks. I purchased a membership several months ago and have not been disappointed.:)
I'm not sure about ethernet, but I know when I used Cat5 for a 50 ft serial run, one side of each pair (4 pairs total) needed to be grounded. If it wasn't grounded, you would get crosstalk resulting in a signal on all the other pairs that was almost an exact replica (minus a db or so).
Took me a day or two to figure out why my custom serial cable wasn't working... I finally setup a function generator and scope to see what was really going on.:)
I agree whole-heartedly with jabber above. I'm only a part-time admin for a community college, and the server I run might see as many as 10 users in one day. I log everything.
I also have setup some scripts so that the second there are anomolies on the server, ie, excessive traffic, connects from unknown hosts, etc, I get a message on my alphapager with things like current connection and ip address of the machine connecting. It is well worth the 1 or 2 "false alarms" a week to have this realtime info.
The organization I work for had a minor problem with some packets that were bouncing off of the inside of our firewall. They appeared to be originating from inside our subnet, but there was no NIC hardware address to reverse map it too. Short of going around and physically disconnecting computers from the network one by one, we could not confirm the packet was NOT originating from the inside.
Of course, if we had switches instead of hubs, it would have made it simple.:)
Try posing your question to the group on the HTAPRS mailing list. It is a discussion list created for the Kenwood TH-D7A, and the question you have would fit right in.:) Subscription information can be found at www.tapr.org.
Good luck! If I had a palm, I would definately be attempting to do what you are doing using my D7A (coolest little durn radio I've found).
Right now I use my D7A with a Tripmate GPS unit as a standalone tracker in my vehicle (and backpack once in a while).
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The true BOFH will come through on top in this incident
"Essjay was a member of the Wikia staff from January to March 2007."
quote from the Wikia page linked in the submission.
This is why posting from behind a proxy server that you have no attachment to is helpful. =)
Emissions testing? What's that? I live in Oregon and have never had my vehicle emissions tested.
I do know they do it up in the Portland metro area. That'd be sorta unfair to the folks up there if they were going to pay for however many miles they had put on their odometer since last test, and the rest of us in the state didn't have to pay a dime.
Why should being an Oregonian determine if we are taken seriously or not. I'd like to point out that we have many good things that come out of Oregon.
Have you ever had Tillamook Cheese? or Oregon Nog?
In terms of intelligence, we have excellent engineering schools (Oregon State University) and liberal arts universities (University of Oregon). Personally, I graduated from Chemeketa Community College (in Salem) with an AS degree in Computer Electronics. The electronics department at Chemeketa is one of the best I've seen from visiting various community colleges.
of course, the job market here sucks right now, so I'm stuck working for the state. =)
Another thing about Oregon is the livability. There's the big city living in Portland, if that floats your boat, but then there's the ROOM to live out on a couple of acres if a rural setting suites you more. I spent part of my years growing up on about an acre and a half with lotsa trees. My work in downtown salem was a 15-20 min drive, even at the height of rush hour.
What else is there to cover? We have the big beautiful outdoors! Little known waterfalls, hiking trails, and wilderness areas abound. Personally, I enjoy Abiqua Falls outside of Silverton, as well as the Opal Creek Wilderness area, up at the end of the Little North Fork road. =)
Oh, and Seaside! The beach there is one of the widest on the west coast! They've had beach volleyball championships there. Lincoln City hosts kite flying festivals a little further south. The dunes near Florence and south are a blast to go running around in (on foot or on your favorite atv veh).
And that's just in the northwest area of Oregon -- there's sooooo much to explore here!
As a side note on the studded tires: The damage caused to the highway from usage of studded tires is extensive and costly to repair each year. Hence the reason that we have laws that limit the time frame you can use studded tires, and we encourage folks to instead carry chains. In fact, at the moment, all the passes in the Cascade Mountain range and east are on Condition A - Carry chains or traction tires (although most people find carrying traction tires around the trunk can prove inefficient).
Joseph
Salem, OR
ODOT Employee
I have heard a similiar hypothesis as well regarding the loss of memories from our younger years.
I can attest from personal experience that traumatic events from when a person is younger are "blanked out" or "locked out" until little reminders come along. Or big reminders. In anycase, memories _can_ return if the proper trigger is given.
My 2 cents.
Funny you should wonder how many avid LEGO builders/collectors become code hackers/programmers.
:)
hacking code is what I do in my spare time (LEGOs used to be my hobby, now hacking code is my hobby).
I have a friend that actually has purchased a silo, and is currently renovating it into a living space.
He's taken quite a few pictures of not only the outside (landing strip and all) but also the inside (looks like it'd be a cool indoor bungie jump arena, if the sides of the silo were padded). Of course the missle silo is not the only underground facility. There's control room / environmental facilities / etc..
America's Army is one of the best FPS games I've played (Doom, DoomII, Quake, QII, QIII, Unreal, Unreal Tournament, etc). The movement and other aspects of the game (heavier gun, you move slower), make it more realistic, and more fun to play.
Why do it?
First off, a little background: I built (played?) with legos well into my teen years. When I moved on to computers I passed all my Legos on to my little brother, who added them to his already large collection. He continues to build today (at age 22), but they are much more complex models involving the Mindstorms robot system. He's really delved into the programming on those, and has 2 mindstorm "brains" that he uses. This last fall, he got an award at the Oregon State Fair for his "Dinner Plate Transporter".
Anyway, the reason that I built was because I wanted to create my own toys. My brother and I would setup environments consisting of Legos, pillows, blankets, chairs, tables, etc etc, then build vehicles and buildings to populate those environments. Then we would play. :) The beauty of it was the flexibility of the Lego blocks. If something wasn't working out or didn't look right, we could tear it down and rebuild it.
Those were the days. :)
For about 4 years I worked for a state emergency management agency, and during that time, I developed an incident database, with which their comm center still uses to this day. During my time with them I made many friends, and the database system I developed was refered to by the employees there as my "datababy".
:)
I have been contacted several times with questions and I still go down there to troubleshoot problems or help them out. I don't get paid (in fact I got a parking ticket once while helping them out) for any of the work, but I consider it good P.R. for my reputation. There have been several fringe benefits (they provide the food/drink, I do the work).
I don't think so.
;) The bigger the media, the more bandwidth will be required to transfer them, hence I predict that there will be a boom in fibre hookups for the residential market when the standard media for movies gets bigger.
:)
What do you think drives the bandwidth market?? Piracy of movies of course.
If this post makes no sense, it is because I just got off a long graveyard shift, and feel fairly rummy.
sig? what sig?
I just 'bout spit my toothpaste all over my monitor. Thank you to the person that warned me about this thread and prevented me from doing so.
For those interested in the communications protocol (APRS) this sat is going to use, check this web site out. I've been using APRS for about 1.5 years, and it's a blast to play with. :)
Hello!
Just a quickie to let everyone know that NWCN has insterted a news clip of this into their story rotation today.
NWCN = NorthWest Cable News and can be found on Channel 55 on the State of Oregon cable system (you get this at state govt facilities).
73 de Joseph
Howdy Vantage,
I'm currently looking to get a cordless extension for our office, which has a Norstar Meridian PBX system.. I haven't got a quote on the price, but I'm sure it is less than 50,000. What the cordless extension does it provide all the functions of a normal extension (link, hold, multi-line pickup, etc) in a wireless handset. There are fairly-inexpensive passive repeaters that you can put in place if the unit will be used over a wide area.
Now if you don't need a cordless extension for a PBX, look at using cordless 900 mhz POTS phones. They seem to do a pretty good job and are fairly inexpensive.
Hope this helps,
Joseph
The frequency spectrum starts at the low end, with audible sound and stretches all the way up to visible light. The higher in frequency you go, the more "directional" the signals have to be. This is why you have microwave dishes and not just microwave vertical antennae.
As to the number of frequencies available, it would all depend on the resolution. For instance, in the 2 meter ham band and VHF public safety band, narrow FM is generally used for communications. From 144.000 Mhz to 144.500 Mhz you could probably squeeze in 50 signals (using CTCSS or some other form of encoding).
Just my 2 cents..
Joseph KB7PPL
THANK you so much! I was disappointed when I first saw how large those images were on the original mirrors.
:(
Some of us are still stuck back in the stone age with 28.8 modems.
Inferno
DigitalBlasphemy is an awesome site, and well worth the money that he asks. I purchased a membership several months ago and have not been disappointed. :)
I'm not sure about ethernet, but I know when I used Cat5 for a 50 ft serial run, one side of each pair (4 pairs total) needed to be grounded. If it wasn't grounded, you would get crosstalk resulting in a signal on all the other pairs that was almost an exact replica (minus a db or so).
:)
Took me a day or two to figure out why my custom serial cable wasn't working... I finally setup a function generator and scope to see what was really going on.
Have fun!
I agree whole-heartedly with jabber above. I'm only a part-time admin for a community college, and the server I run might see as many as 10 users in one day. I log everything.
I also have setup some scripts so that the second there are anomolies on the server, ie, excessive traffic, connects from unknown hosts, etc, I get a message on my alphapager with things like current connection and ip address of the machine connecting. It is well worth the 1 or 2 "false alarms" a week to have this realtime info.
The organization I work for had a minor problem with some packets that were bouncing off of the inside of our firewall. They appeared to be originating from inside our subnet, but there was no NIC hardware address to reverse map it too. Short of going around and physically disconnecting computers from the network one by one, we could not confirm the packet was NOT originating from the inside.
:)
Of course, if we had switches instead of hubs, it would have made it simple.
Try posing your question to the group on the HTAPRS mailing list. It is a discussion list created for the Kenwood TH-D7A, and the question you have would fit right in. :) Subscription information can be found at www.tapr.org.
Good luck! If I had a palm, I would definately be attempting to do what you are doing using my D7A (coolest little durn radio I've found).
Right now I use my D7A with a Tripmate GPS unit as a standalone tracker in my vehicle (and backpack once in a while).
73 and good luck!
--Joseph
You're probably right. It's been a while since Physics 201/202. :) Thanks for the clarification!
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