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by farva 9y ago
For an example of more malicious interference, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain_Midnight_broadcast_sig...
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by farva 9y ago
Block up-converter (BUC) at uplink site (in this case, likely part of a VSAT terminal or Satellite Internet "antenna") takes L-Band (950-1525mhz) input via cable, converts it to C-band uplink (5850-6425mhz) frequency, and transmit
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by farva 9y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15371607
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by farva 9y ago
TLDR: Unterminated input port at satellite uplink site acted as antenna, picking up nearby cell tower by accident. Fix: put a terminator on the port.
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by farva 10y ago
I agree that we shouldn't be too quick to label every potentially unfair situation as discrimination. But part of the original intent (Ajit Pai notwithstanding) of the USF was to bring quality service to rural and low income areas, so
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by farva 10y ago
That would be all well and good if they didn't collude with the local authorities against competition and collect "universal service" funds from the government in exchange for, at most, the barest minimum effort. Either be a
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by farva 10y ago
Ford pardoned Nixon without him being convicted. Amnesty is a pardon given to a group of people, rather than an individual.
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by farva 10y ago
All this effort put into making low latency networks and what are they used for? Uselessly siphoning money and destabilizing markets.
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by farva 10y ago
I've repaired dozens of laptops and the one thing the broken power connectors had in common was being soldered directly to the motherboard instead of using a separate assembly.
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by farva 10y ago
The standard barrel connector protects against short-circuiting with a simple plastic ring. The magsafe connector requires a fucking microcontroller.
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by farva 10y ago
Pulseaudio did not work on DragonflyBSD. At all. Hence the removal. A feature that doesn't work isn't really a feature, is it?
12.
by farva 10y ago
Wouldn't that be a CNC lathe?
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by farva 10y ago
Surely *BSD accounts for more than 0.0001% of UNIX-like servers.
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by farva 11y ago
Fast food is more of a luxury...if you want the best value on food then go to the grocery store.
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by farva 11y ago
The OpenFirmware system used on old Macintosh and Sun machines used an extended FORTH for the bootstrapping and hardware management. FreeBSD's bootloader has a similar system as well.
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by farva 11y ago
Rob Landley (former Busybox developer) begs to differ. See http://landley.net/notes-2011.html#13-11-2011 http://landley.net/notes-2011.html#15-08-2011 http://landley.net/notes-2009.html#15-1
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by farva 11y ago
Haven't they suffered enough?
18.
by farva 11y ago
AT&T and Sun did a good job of rendering Unix irrelevant during the "Unix Wars". Microsoft hedged their bets with Xenix until it became clear that wasn't the way forward.
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by farva 11y ago
It's possible (at least with the HN7000 ku-band system) to put a Hughesnet dish on a tripod and point it yourself (with the proper tools and knowledge). You'd need to get it from a dealer that allows self-installs (Hughesnet won&#
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by farva 11y ago
This document, especially section 1.6: Incorrect Uses seems to inadvertently make a good case against the inflexible (and short-lived) "worm" logo. Or maybe that's just me.
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by farva 11y ago
If you're relying on DNS for security, you're doing it wrong.
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by farva 11y ago
No doubt the usual Cisco strategy will be followed: embrace, neglect, extinguish.
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by farva 11y ago
Have a look at abduco as well. It's a (IMHO) more user-friendly (and supposedly cleaner) dtach replacement, from the author of dvtm.
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by farva 11y ago
It's available on the Internet Archive: https://web.archive.org/web/20120913081458/http://www.africa... Looks like it was moved to the National Parks Service website: http://www.nps.gov&#
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by farva 12y ago
You would think they'd have engineered at least some basic wear leveling in. I guess it didn't occur to them at design time that it might survive as long as it has.
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by farva 12y ago
I used to use tmux, now I use dvtm and dtach with the following alias: alias vtmux="dtach -A /tmp/dvtm -z -e ^s -r winch dvtm -m ^a"
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by farva 12y ago
Peruvians will suffer, but the elephants will be alright and that's all that matters.
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by farva 12y ago
There's been a lot of discussion about the minimal set of primitives to build an interpreter in the Forth community (for instance https://groups.google.com/d/msg/comp.lang.forth/KHw28PKZXUk/... . ) P
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by farva 12y ago
Surprised SICP isn't mentioned.
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by farva 12y ago
Shaka, when the walls fell.

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