Everyone posting here should realize that if they talk about frequencies with regard to this broadcast technique, they are probably wrong.
The signal has *no* frequency. It's just a pulsed radio wave, and will interfere with any other radio signal.
The reason why this is so cool is because it is easier to understand. The closest analogy is Morse code. If you have an incredibly noisy channel that has so much static where you could never understand a voice, you might still be able to understand Morse code because it takes much more interference to obliterate that signal.
The major benefit of using this technique is that everyone will be able to broadcast on whatever frequency they choose. Currently, devices like cordless phones need to run at 27 MHz or 900 MHz. Broadcasting at any other frequency at any other power would interfere with radio, and is illegal. That's because your cordless phone transmits at a relatively high power itself.
Make the signal a pulsed signal, and instead of 100 milliwats of power, you only need maybe 1 milliwatt of power (just speculating). That power level will never interfere with a conventional radio signal, so you can just broadcast without worry. Everyone can run a home network, and it's secure, fast, and reliable.
A MAJOR benefit of this technology is the low power levels. Charge your cell phone, and don't worry about charging it again for the next 6 months. And that's with 8 hours usage a day. Just like frickin' LCD watches and calculators.
It's no wonder that software won't work on MS-DOG operating systems out of the box. Their operating system has fragmented into MS-DOS, DR-DOS, IBM-DOS, Windows 3.0, Windows 3.1, Windows 3.11, Windows 95r1, Windows 95 r2, Windows 95 w/IE4.0, Windows 98, Windows NT 3.5, Windows NT 4.0, Windows NT service pack 3, and Windows 2000 (to be coming).
Hell, just last night I was completely unable to get my wife's fax modem working with some crappy piece of software. It kept giving me undefined error messages, and the help system was written for retards. When I'd print 9 pages to the FAX printer, the FAX software would always say it was sending 2 pages.
My wife got really pissed at me because I kept repeating over and over "Linux has only ONE fax program that I know of, and it just works."
I hope that Microsoft stays clueless. It might not happen. Remember when Bill Gates suddenly "got" the internet and MS turned on a dime and consumed the competition in a few months? Right now MS is acting cluelessly. That might not be true next month. Is MS even capable of ever understanding free software? I'll bet that MS is not, and that they never truly understand what's eating them up.
Since it's open source, I've made the following improvements to the code, and I'm redistributing them under the GPL:
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What kind of icky font did they use on their article? My monitor is high quality, and I've got my fonts set for nice big letters, overriding whatever the document specifies even.
Their article came out in little tiny blocky half-letters which I could only read by cutting and pasting them into Word Perfect and actually changing the font.
Once I actually read the article I liked it. Too bad they don't provide the details for free on their web site. I'm really interested in how quickly Linux will break down the "big site" barrier. Linux (and Apache) are widely used for small sites, but if you check out the large sites like Sears, KMart, etc. you will see that Linux hasn't arrived yet. I think that the curve of growth in that narrower market will look different than the curve of growth in the entire market, and I would like to compare the two.
I shouted out loud when I read that the arrogance comment was posted by Lewis Mettler.
He's an open source basher, well known as an idiot on the www.infoworld.com forums.
The security issue that he's talking about have to do with embedding bogus code into open source projects. After all, if anyone can contribute, then why can't someone stick malicious code into the mix?
He got all pissy when someone asked him how to activate the flight simulator that some dork "slipped" into Microsoft Excel.
Folks, this is a non-issue. If the idiots are all pissed off at us, calling us names, then we must be doing something right.
So, does anyone know the full story on the PNP Soundblaster 16? Mine only works for 8-bit sounds, but won't make a noise at all with a 16-bit sound.
I've read all the FAQs and everything else, but it seems that there is no solution to the problem. I upgraded to the Linux 2.2.3 kernel because I heard a rumor that it knew about my strange sound card, but that was false. 2.2.4 doesn't look like it has anything new for my soundcard.
Will I ever be able to use my card, or should I just go out and get a new one?
All hail the Commander Taco, and the advancement in forum technology.
Not knowing much about the new Usenet which will replace the old one, is there something that can be applied from the Slashdot forums? Could we actually build a spam proof version of the Usenet? I miss the days when the Usenet was a useful place, and if we can build a new, better one, that would be worthwhile.
Maybe the tattoos are those washable ink fake tattoos. Maybe there's a photograph of the same people with MS Windows tattoos.
Perhaps Bill Gates has secretly purchased all the tattoo ink companies in the world and put these people up with their Penguin tattoos in the hopes that all Linux fans would say "Hey that's cool" and run out and get a Tux tattoo. Meanwhile Bill Gates altered the ink formula in the worlds tattoo ink supply to include mind control drugs. Voila! No more Linux problem.
This guy wrote a decent article. But what I want to know is what did he do with the REAL Mr. Katz?
Seriously, I agree that the invention computer is an important event, but I think it has been hyped too much. The computer doesn't add anything that wasn't around 100 years ago, it just lets us do things faster.
On the other hand I don't think the significance of the open source philosophy has been hyped enough. Love him or hate him, RMS has enriched all our lives as much as any other great person in history. The same can be said of Linus, and probably several hundred others.
But, the BEST thing about this revolution is that we can all be generals. It's not a cult of personality phenomenon, but an egalitarian evolution. If you want to jump into the center of the storm, that jump is yours to take. The center of the open source storm is large enough for everyone to contribute to. Andy Warhal said that in the future everyone would be famous for 15 minutes. Well, the open source revolution has turned that into a parallel process. Everyone in the future will be famous for 15 minutes *all at the same time*. (The future is now).
Holy shit I'm old. I'm only 30, but I started college in '86.
And to answer your question, NO it wasn't this much fun the first time around. I was stuck with Atari ST's and IBM PC XT's. They were slow, and they crashed all the time. The memory model was segmented, and a lot of us poor fools were running ram disks out of an extra 64K bank of memory in our video cards.
Have you noticed that America's military are all volunteers?
Have you noticed that America has escaped the curse of a politicized military?
Have you noticed that all military personnel are ultimatelly responsible to the commander in chief, and he is responsible to only the constitution of the United States?
Do not make the mistake of assuming that the military is separate from the people, or from the constitution. It would be extremely extremely difficult for the military to ever turn on the people because of this.
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Everyone posting here should realize that if they talk about frequencies with regard to this broadcast technique, they are probably wrong.
The signal has *no* frequency. It's just a pulsed radio wave, and will interfere with any other radio signal.
The reason why this is so cool is because it is easier to understand. The closest analogy is Morse code. If you have an incredibly noisy channel that has so much static where you could never understand a voice, you might still be able to understand Morse code because it takes much more interference to obliterate that signal.
The major benefit of using this technique is that everyone will be able to broadcast on whatever frequency they choose. Currently, devices like cordless phones need to run at 27 MHz or 900 MHz. Broadcasting at any other frequency at any other power would interfere with radio, and is illegal. That's because your cordless phone transmits at a relatively high power itself.
Make the signal a pulsed signal, and instead of 100 milliwats of power, you only need maybe 1 milliwatt of power (just speculating). That power level will never interfere with a conventional radio signal, so you can just broadcast without worry. Everyone can run a home network, and it's secure, fast, and reliable.
A MAJOR benefit of this technology is the low power levels. Charge your cell phone, and don't worry about charging it again for the next 6 months. And that's with 8 hours usage a day. Just like frickin' LCD watches and calculators.
It's no wonder that software won't work on MS-DOG operating systems out of the box. Their operating system has fragmented into MS-DOS, DR-DOS, IBM-DOS, Windows 3.0, Windows 3.1, Windows 3.11, Windows 95r1, Windows 95 r2, Windows 95 w/IE4.0, Windows 98, Windows NT 3.5, Windows NT 4.0, Windows NT service pack 3, and Windows 2000 (to be coming).
Hell, just last night I was completely unable to get my wife's fax modem working with some crappy piece of software. It kept giving me undefined error messages, and the help system was written for retards. When I'd print 9 pages to the FAX printer, the FAX software would always say it was sending 2 pages.
My wife got really pissed at me because I kept repeating over and over "Linux has only ONE fax program that I know of, and it just works."
I hope that Microsoft stays clueless. It might not happen. Remember when Bill Gates suddenly "got" the internet and MS turned on a dime and consumed the competition in a few months? Right now MS is acting cluelessly. That might not be true next month. Is MS even capable of ever understanding free software? I'll bet that MS is not, and that they never truly understand what's eating them up.
Actually, downloading the entire internet has already been accomplished. In parallel.
Since it's open source, I've made the following improvements to the code, and I'm redistributing them under the GPL:
----------------------------------
A special message for Open Source Software enthusiasts:
We are very interested in wooing high tech voters
like those Linux geeks with strange appeals to
their love of Open Source software such as Linux.
For starters, we are conducting a Gore 2000 Linux
Screen Saver design competition among volunteers
to see who can build the best Gore 2000 Linux
screen savers. Just be sure that you use Visual
C++ to write your program, because I'm still
trying to recover from "DLL Hell."
send an e-mail to:
opensource@algore2000.com
This document is to be as WIDELY DISSEMINATED under the OPEN SOURCE philosophy as POSSIBLE!
Apologies if this has been sent to the wrong e-mail address. If you want to get off our list, tough fu**** luck.
I knew there was a reason that I owned their stock! I've got the same love/hate relationship with Microsoft. Hate their products, love their stock.
Is that so wrong?
I did a search for "C++" and not "Visual C++" and I typed the word "Austin" into the location field.
It gave me three jobs located in Little Rock, AK.
wget -t0 works for me
What kind of icky font did they use on their article? My monitor is high quality, and I've got my fonts set for nice big letters, overriding whatever the document specifies even.
Their article came out in little tiny blocky half-letters which I could only read by cutting and pasting them into Word Perfect and actually changing the font.
Once I actually read the article I liked it. Too bad they don't provide the details for free on their web site. I'm really interested in how quickly Linux will break down the "big site" barrier. Linux (and Apache) are widely used for small sites, but if you check out the large sites like Sears, KMart, etc. you will see that Linux hasn't arrived yet. I think that the curve of growth in that narrower market will look different than the curve of growth in the entire market, and I would like to compare the two.
Free Trek is a space battle simulator game project. We need people to code and send me patches.
freetrek.linuxgames.com
I shouted out loud when I read that the arrogance comment was posted by Lewis Mettler.
He's an open source basher, well known as an idiot on the www.infoworld.com forums.
The security issue that he's talking about have to do with embedding bogus code into open source projects. After all, if anyone can contribute, then why can't someone stick malicious code into the mix?
He got all pissy when someone asked him how to activate the flight simulator that some dork "slipped" into Microsoft Excel.
Folks, this is a non-issue. If the idiots are all pissed off at us, calling us names, then we must be doing something right.
I will read Linus again and again.
English is not even our favorite Finn's first language, but his article was a joy to read, and just the right length too.
Other comments in response to the Gates book were about how BORING Gates is. Linus isn't boring at all.
So, does anyone know the full story on the PNP Soundblaster 16? Mine only works for 8-bit sounds, but won't make a noise at all with a 16-bit sound.
I've read all the FAQs and everything else, but it seems that there is no solution to the problem. I upgraded to the Linux 2.2.3 kernel because I heard a rumor that it knew about my strange sound card, but that was false. 2.2.4 doesn't look like it has anything new for my soundcard.
Will I ever be able to use my card, or should I just go out and get a new one?
All hail the Commander Taco, and the advancement in forum technology.
Not knowing much about the new Usenet which will replace the old one, is there something that can be applied from the Slashdot forums? Could we actually build a spam proof version of the Usenet? I miss the days when the Usenet was a useful place, and if we can build a new, better one, that would be worthwhile.
Maybe the tattoos are those washable ink fake tattoos. Maybe there's a photograph of the same people with MS Windows tattoos.
Perhaps Bill Gates has secretly purchased all the tattoo ink companies in the world and put these people up with their Penguin tattoos in the hopes that all Linux fans would say "Hey that's cool" and run out and get a Tux tattoo. Meanwhile Bill Gates altered the ink formula in the worlds tattoo ink supply to include mind control drugs. Voila! No more Linux problem.
This guy wrote a decent article. But what I want to know is what did he do with the REAL Mr. Katz?
Seriously, I agree that the invention computer is an important event, but I think it has been hyped too much. The computer doesn't add anything that wasn't around 100 years ago, it just lets us do things faster.
On the other hand I don't think the significance of the open source philosophy has been hyped enough. Love him or hate him, RMS has enriched all our lives as much as any other great person in history. The same can be said of Linus, and probably several hundred others.
But, the BEST thing about this revolution is that we can all be generals. It's not a cult of personality phenomenon, but an egalitarian evolution. If you want to jump into the center of the storm, that jump is yours to take. The center of the open source storm is large enough for everyone to contribute to. Andy Warhal said that in the future everyone would be famous for 15 minutes. Well, the open source revolution has turned that into a parallel process. Everyone in the future will be famous for 15 minutes *all at the same time*. (The future is now).
Damn it's a good time to be a computer guy.
I will read ESR again and again.
1G a month? Damn. Even Bill Gates couldn't live there for a couple months. He only has 50GBucks.
If your spouse dies, the marriage is over! You can do whatever you want after that.
The treaty was signed with the U.S.S.R. That country no longer exists, so the U.S. can build whatever it wants.
This is a cool way to learn about Linux.
I'd just get a kernel onto a blank filesystem, lilo the kernel so it boots, and then get sash and make it the init program.
That's about as small as I can think of. You can build your system from there. Have fun.
Does too exist.
Try your local bookstore. Publisher is O'Reilly
Will a PGP keyserver also serve keys for GPG? Or is that a stupid question? I don't know enough about PKCS to discern.
Holy shit I'm old. I'm only 30, but I started college in '86.
And to answer your question, NO it wasn't this much fun the first time around. I was stuck with Atari ST's and IBM PC XT's. They were slow, and they crashed all the time. The memory model was segmented, and a lot of us poor fools were running ram disks out of an extra 64K bank of memory in our video cards.
This time is MUCH better. You are truly lucky.
I'm amazed that we take religion so seriously.
What other *irrational* idea do we spend more than 5 minutes on.
What a waste of time and energy.
One nation under God ->>>> Iran
I'm afraid of paranoid nuts like you.
That's why I'm an athiest and a liberal and not a gun owner. It's also why I use Linux. All of these things take a brain.
Have you noticed that America's military are all volunteers?
Have you noticed that America has escaped the curse of a politicized military?
Have you noticed that all military personnel are ultimatelly responsible to the commander in chief, and he is responsible to only the constitution of the United States?
Do not make the mistake of assuming that the military is separate from the people, or from the constitution. It would be extremely extremely difficult for the military to ever turn on the people because of this.