Dave’s Ramblings

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You’ll hear from all of them that you really need to have a trigger on the doors or a primary window since the would be intruders will generally gain access through a weak window and have to get back out somehow and will likely use a door, then the system will notify the authorities while they are making their getaway. Granted there is some truth in that claim, UNLESS you’d rather have the alarm go off and the authorities notified immediately as access is being attempted, what if your familiy is in the house, an intruder could be milling around undected for a long time before any alarm is tripped. Personally I want to know immediately if someone is trying to gain entry to my house, not after they’ve broken in to do God knows what and are on their way back out. I know I sleep a lot better with our system, and have no fears when we leave the house with the system active.

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Well at least they are using the feathers for something usefull anyhows. Though they could take the whole dang bird if it were up do me (yuck). But some rocket scientist type is reusing the feathers (after separating them from the the quill) to make PC boards. That’s ‘printed circuit’ boards, yes they are in your Personal Computer (PC) too. This would replace the petrolium based products in use today to fabricate them, namely fiberglass and resin. Chicken fethers are saturated with a soy based resin and harden and are then able to be copper clad to print the circuits on. Results, no petrolium products being comsumed, less weight, and what else are you gonna do with the dang feathers after KFC buys up the parts you guys eat?

They also site other uses such as non-structural auto parts such as the dashboard and door panels and such.

Seems like a solid idea to me… hope he can make it fly.

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Deployed the Linux server today for my new client. Burned 4 hours setting it up and in training. Still a few odds and ends left to be configured…. easy stuff that’ll be managed from remote.

Will this be the end of those bins filled with 100’s of diferent cables, connectors, adapters, and other home brewed creations that were needed in the past to get devices to communicate to one another?

Now here is an interesting idea…. it’s about time someone figured out something useful to do with your body and electricity besides the fun of shocking them…. ah remember grabbing your buddy’s arm and then the ‘lectric fence…… Well now the technology is coming around to actually let you get some other types of shocking cool effects, transmitting data through your body at speeds up to 10Mbit. Imagine being able to upload songs to your MP3 player or other devices just by holding it and touching this other gadget.

Cool idea…

TechnoGeeks can click here for the tech sheet.

What’s this map for? The states colored dark grey actually have legal barriers in place to prevent anyone (besides the Telco’s) from establishing any sort of ‘community’ internet access, be it wireless or broadband or whatever. Check you particular states laws to figure out why. The states in blue actually have legistlation in the pipe to block such activities.

This is rediculous, up in Wisconsin I’d say that anything faster than dialup is available to about 3% of the state TOTAL! Our own resisidence is way out in the sticks, as we prefer not to see people, the remainder of the state outside of the larger 40K+ populated cities get nothing. Options, pay the bloodsucking telco’s for a lousy copper run for a frame relay and WIFI it out to anyone that can reach your access point to share the load on the monthly bills. Guess what, you can’t ‘legally’ do it!

Satellite, well it works, but who wants to shell out 1000 clams for the equipment and the monkey to set it up, and then pay $60/month for such high latency service. Not knocking the satellite providers, they are providing the best that they can, it’s the shear distances they are dealing with, come on even at the speed of light, 11 miles up and 11 more back down, mathmatically your still looking at around 290ms before your first packet ever reaches the ‘net. I’d take it, but last I saw they required the hardware to connect to a Windoze box, sorry I’m not that gutsy to put Windoze up front. But they happily take my money every month to pipe in my TV show that I don’t watch in very nicely.

That got off on a tangent, back to the topic at hand, the crappy Telco’s have the states legislation so deep in their pockets and their heads so far up their asses it’s doubtful they’ll ever see daylight again. With the recent telco mergers and such we are slowly going back to the Ma Bell system, well Baby Bell just bought out Ma Bell, but the overall picture is the same, we are all getting hosed. Almost $30 a month for a plain jane no frills analog phone line that does nothing but connect my firewall to my ISP’s dial up access server 24×7, bet they love that one. Toss in another 20 spot for internet access and a static address so my sendmail server doesn’t get it’s MX record lost in some dynamic pool somewhere. All this for a lousy 56K, oops forgot the FCC ruling 53K down 33.6K up connection to the internet to be shared amongst everyone in the house.

Why are they allowed to get away with such tactics? All I can say is you voted for them, not me (i was out of state). But state elections will be coming back around….

Source Free Press Community Internet