Posts by roger stillick

Best hope for energy consumption, Pt.2

The Goths are actually right on this one= ''there is no actual reason that night-time light levels need to be anywhere like daytime levels'... or for that matter 'why we even need electric lights'...

caveiat= during our numerous local power failures our 1800 sq/ft living area is lit by 4ea. Deitz no.7 kerosine lamps and 3ea. 9th century single 18hr. votive candle lamps... except for the 3-led emergency radio, that's it... the overall ambiance is quite pleasant a/la ca.1830 lighting and we usually spend the down time talking n playing games (something we do not seem to have time for when the power's on)...RS.

Flies want beer yeast, how do they get it ??

Yeasts at my local brewer's store come in sealed glass containers and are in a locked refrigeraor until sold...

Q= how are flies going to get to those yeast beasties ??

IMHO= i have always been told that there are airborne yeasts everywhere, even on tne frozen highland plains of central Antarcttica, thats why the brewing kettles are always closed except for adding ingredients and stirring...REF= Wiki, Wort.

caveiat= not a brewmeister, only an occasional helper, but i do make small batches of fruit wine, with purchased yeasts...RS.

DQ reverts to imprinting cards, creating script $$$

Local DQ restaurants on the NW Oregon Coast are using paper script made by running an imprinter for each card purchase...something done 20 years ago everywhere...the script is harmless and no one was ever dumb enough to try to counterfit it...

Q= if the imprinted info on the paper form is good enough to be converted back into restaurant account funds and credit / debit billing to an individual...WHY IS ALL THAT EXTRA DATA NEEDED FOR A SWIPTED CARD TRANSACTION ?? (please forgive my yelling, this has been driving me nuts ever since I found what was on the striping of my Costco Card= my entire financial history with them= WHY ?? ).

IMHO= simple greed by everyone needs to go away... Here in the good old USA we are going to chipped cards next year to fix this, you and i both know that will not 'fix' this...RS.

Bootnotes Pt.2, Ammo n Guns...

i shoot Finnish Nosler 7.62x39 hunting ammo in an ancient SKS carbine complete w/bayonet in the 9 round box mag config...completely legal in the USA...YUM.

IMHO= costs too much to play w/ a machine gun...RS.

Graphic Art of Underground, high E-book price...??

Not really= if you are going to rip all those pix for home use... the paper book is worthless (my scanner never works like it should)...RS.

Sprint starting mass layoffs, pt.2

Insuring they will never have coverage in the areas i live and work in...

IMHO= smart move...RS.

FLAC, Sonus, Beats Audio and Apple...

IMHO= what we are really looking at here is the development of a proprietary encription system that is end-to-end digital with no Analog point of presence and thus uncopyable by any means other than hooking up to the voice coil of a sealed Sonus speaker, I-Pad, I-Phone, Beats headset, or a HD video monitor - the only way to copy encripted material in this new developing form is 1x speed (not a very easy way to steal large quanities of program material that would normally be taken at 14x to 30x speed of a cd / dvd disk).

Recording Artists that talk of new mastering systems are very much aware of what Apple could do with a end-to-end encription system (somthing the RIAA could never do)= prohibit copying of artists work by design of the mastering equipment...

caveiat= i buy my music and videos at Amazon and don't get involved w/ trying to get 'free stuff'...RS.

NHK World ran this last night, called it 'Public Data'

Joke Alert= the city maps were online... the boxes are areas to have a police presense, suggests limited coverage in the non-boxed areas...the police are convinced they are 'supressing crime'...per the TV show, NOT EVERYONE is convinced this is a good idea.

IMHO= this is really a map of where the Police Aren't... pricess to criminals w/ computer access...RS.

Want 3 of Them, for Disc Rotation..

By the time my 16 Gb SD cards in 3 disk rotation start wearing out (3 years from now) the price for 3 will be just about what i paid for my 16 Gb SD cards (w/35 Mb/sec transfer rate)... these new puppies exceed the 73 Mb/sec rate of my Samsung EVO SSD...YUM.

IMHO= 3 years from now Staples will have 3 for under USD. $200.00...RS.

Void Expansion Event Horizon...? ?

A Flash of pure energy...Oh Wait, that's the Big Bang...and we were told BB void expansion had no 'C' speed restriction, or, why would the idea of a void expansion be limited to 'C' speed ??

Joke Alert= remember that 497 DBM / 0.5 GW limit of emmitted power in the atmosphere ?? seems reverse stsnding waves would destroy any emitter...CPA or Chirp Compression Amplification got around that nicely, and, now we have Peta Watt Lasers...

Please Note= this Higgs Boson / Collider hypothesis stuff is simply sub-particle MHD plasa flow and, it follows the same paths and effects that high energy EM or Particle light does ( go high enough in power and REV- SWR kills the emitter - only).

The second deduction, if you buy any of this, is CPA or Chirp Compression Amplification techniques will allow Peta Watt Colliders without any problems other than scaring the rest of the universe at a non / higher than 'C' transmission velocity...

caveiat= MHD sometimes trumps Sci-Fi in audacious hypotheses (that Plasma Physics and Light have the same constraints, or, i have yet to move a light beam w/ a magnet)...please accept my attempt at an on-topic joke...RS.

Re: not really usefull, cameras pt.2

REF= Darktable Manual= a Laptop running Linux Darktable teathering function on a DSLR camera uses a usb cable between the camera and laptop... no wifi option yet...

Teathering allows full control of DSLR picture taking controls...and the laptop screen is the viewfinder...YUM... most DSLR's will give camera raw output to laptop as each pix is taken...Darktable is able to laptop store image info for any actual processing later in the laptop (making the actual pix / video).

IMHO= the idea of wifi pix output is only a small part of what a complete photo /video system needs to be and WD's existing 1.0 Tb pocket hard drives are completely suitable for the Darktable Teathering to a Laptop controller, USA Costco price= USD. $79.00 for the simple WD HD-only pocket storage device.

Final Thought= an extra device w/ batteries isn't what any type of camera user needs to store pix with if a simple SD card is possible to use to do a very simillar thing...RS

2D holographic radar, 2D Dassault Color imaging and THIS = YUM !!

Declassified 2D monocrome SLAR imaging from the 1950's era to today's NASA SLAR mapping Radar has been updated...

WIKI= Yves Gentet...developer of the French 'Dassault Rafale' fighter plane's holographic targeting system, finalized as the 'Thales OSF' in 2010... and 'Ultimate' his full color 2D holographic image system using RBG triple color illuminating lasers to view the image on a silver nano - particle emulsion storage media...

IMHO= these Cambrige students are trying to describe a working 3D Color holographic video monitor, and possible DVD type storage device... Wonderful !!... as describing a device or proess is the first step in actually building it...the World needs both of these items, the Cambridge folks here might just do that...RS.

Whats Under the Hood Pt.2...?

Got a SYS-76 17in Workstation laptop with an I7-4700MQ 2.4 Ghz Octo Cpu Haswell chip... this spring 2014... case stays cool on the hottest summer days of continuous running.

My Little Chinese Wonder does multiple threads, WP, Graphics, Dvd Production, Internet...all at once...Yum...screen looks at various threads, the rest stay running, at least on Ubuntu 13.10 - Classic Gnome Fall - Back option / no spl effects...add a text to speach converter and the 8 cpu's gets thread output slowed down...SSD fill is 148 Gb of my IP...(so i don't use open source Dragon)...even with the SSD, the controlling speed is the 73 Mb /sec data transfer speed...nothing is 'real - time' on this Hyperthreading box - just pleasingly fast work.

IMHO= these faster Haswell chips are gonna be just fine at 17W per chip... the Xeon Phi uses way more energy...Forget NSA, we will never be clear of spying... i loaded CIA maps as the first new program to get over with the whole spying thing (the pgm has several hot links to the CIA)...

caveiat= i am a Buddhist techno historian, Crime, Pron, and War is stupid...RS.

my 3270 monitor ran on a HP-1000 mini in 1972,

IMHO= really thought we were through with dumb terminal applications... even at the most pitiful work locations we swapped those IBM toasters for a worn out HP desktop unit running a terminal program, storing the keystrokes if something went wrong...old HP's on the error channels allowed a look backwards into failures for analysis...these small plastic things might work, but i'm pretty sure they are not cost effective...RS.

i Wussed out on Offsite Storage,

Costco USA $74 WD 1Tb laptop storage devices, 2ea. used for offsite storage at 2 secure locations...my IP is only 170Gb, would be looking at these things if i had more stuff ( the only music or videos stored are my own )...

IMHO= Yet Again, no matter what, In less 5 Years, i will be needing to replace these new worn out rust storage devices...

caveiat= No One touches my IP but me...the www / ww3 Cloud does not offer me a liveable solution, i simply have to use this type of storage device...RS.

All versions of the US Tomahawk Cruise Missile do 550 mph,

Russia, China, India, France, and United Kingdom all have deployed 3000 mph or above Cruise Missiles, the US features other types of smart weapons, and, found in Gulf War 1 when multiple targets get destroyed, the Tomahawk simple guidence system gets confused...terrain matching doesn't work if the terrain is missing...

Supersonic Cruise was developed by DARPA with help from NASA resulting in the present crop of military jet war fighters...all with up to date command and control communications, all countries now build Supersonic Cruise if they want to...

2 years ago DARPA wanted NASA to do a mulligan on flight from velocities from mach 2 to Earth escape velocity... seems the X-plane program was an engineering WAG in most cases, with flight sucess being blind luck as the math and computers available could not actually model the flight, so they just flew it and hoped for the best...Hypersonic cruise involves an external combustion propulsion engine and a vehicle flying in a plasma cloud to allow electro static force flight control surfaces...

IMHO= we are going to break a lot of things, and have many documented failures, and when we get it finally right, Boeing will be buillding space ships that can cheaply fly up to what ever is up there...RS.

Blackhawk Copter cuz they are guarding the Tomahawks we actually use on bad folks= at 550 mph...

Diaspora* can be a Honeypot...

WIKI= Diaspora*... seems it is a fully founded FOSS internetworking project that can be run in a private, stand-alone version using a minimum of 3 servers, 2 for content, and 1 for domain names...either open or encrypted messaging...hardware= 3 cheap Linux Desktop dual or quad cpu boxes somewhere on the www or ww3 net.

IMHO= this is a complete lash-up for a Black Net that anyone with a little spare time can prototype and provide a production version to users... WIKI provides very ample documentation for either developers or users...

Any type of illegal avtivity can be accomodated over secure black networks...Unfortunately for users, a NSA type operation can use Honeypot Pods / Honeypot content servers to spoof users into giving up personal data... the private domain server makes non-users w/o proper coding unable to access any of this mess...'man in the middle' might be possible on a case by case intercept job.

caveiat= i am a Buddhist techno historian, Chrime. Pron, and War is Stupid...RS.

Carbon Tet ?? banned since the 1950's... I thought...

WIKI=dry cleaning | Wiki= carbon Tet, then look at Safety of carbon Tet...

Seems that since 2008 the home laundry industry had sucessfully weaned the home laundry users off high phosperous detergents that promote algy growth in streams, lakes,and rivers...yea, Green Solution...the replacement is low e soaps, which don't clean too well and seem to need a bleach added to kill germs, clean clothes and not leave a bad smell in the washing machine...

Unfortunately, home laundry Low-e soaps used with chlorine bleach CAUSE HI-LEVELS of poisonous Carbon Tet to be generated (thats why the clothes get cleaned, used to be called 'dry cleaning')...

IMHO= my water saving, Low-e soap using, enviromentally safe, sweet smelling, front loading washing machine was known since 2008 to be an enviromental hazard of toxic, ozone layer killing proportions when used w/ chlorine bleach... which, by the way, got a "lemon smell' added to mask the Carbon tet odor ( I actually thought that smell was 'Oxygen Bleach' smell= it wasn't bad / just banned since 1970 for any home use)...

The hippies are right= don't wash your clothes !! just hang them out in the rain n air dry... or boil them w/lye soap n air dry...bathe monthly, Use no.4711 Cologne...at least you get no algee filled waterways or depleted ozone layers...RS.

Patent Trolls vs. Statutes of limitations...

US tax laws go back 3 years, US felony laws go back 7 years, US civil laws go back 7 years, US debt collections go back 30 months, Murder is forever....

IMHO= apparently Patent laws equal Murders, similary to how Corporations are people when it comes to money is free speech (boy am i off topic ,but patent laws are political fodder )...RS.

CDMA is a Comm standard...

GSM is another, CDMA= Qualcomm rules...GSM= someone else... China's developers pay CDMA user fees to Qualcom, or, they do not get to make things w/o paying (to keep the standard a standard)...

IMHO= dont get caught w/someone else's Walking Around Money...RS.

Snowden =SCI-FI...??

Going into his second year in 'Mother Russia' w/o a NSA contractor hacking job, the latest revelations seem more SCI-FI than mind numbing secrets...the posts here seem to reflect that...

IMHO= Snowden is redundant...RS.

Encription ? PGP=OS... OK, still don't use it...

USPS aka Snailmail has a USD. $7.00 courier service w/next day service anywhere in the USA...

IMHO= when anything of value goes by 'Blue Box' why does anyone need a crypto program other than to have something cool to play with...

Reality Check= the Internet has been hacked by everyone since day one and we still use it cuz it works if we ignore the bad guys...remember= no one has ever cracked a book code w/o the book...RS.

'Man in the Middle' today's 600lb I-Net Gorilla

Basic I-Net protocol calls for peering with at least 2 others to make the net mesh immune to just about any path failure...Hauling others traffic, and, passing it on is just basic good practice.

Today's Node owners are complaining they don't have enough horsepower to look at or modify the peered traffic like the US-NSA does...Incredible...but true.

IMHO= Just use this wonderous thing and dont expect anything...the bad guys are to be ignored, yet they will never go away, they never have in all of our recorded history - why expect now to be any different ?? RS.

IPCC cool, Q= how about NASA ??

Just for giggles, go to the NASA site and download= OCO-2_MissionBrochure_508.pdf... good read...

NASA's view of CO2 and cluster of flying instruments do not look anything like what has ever been presented here on REG or anywhere else I'e looked these past 2 years...I'm not qualified to have an opinion other than IPCC seems to be a religion W/O a diety...

caveiat= i am a Buddhist techno historian...RS.

Re: The best desktop by far...

ratpoison reminds me of my 1972 HP-1000 mini running Unix System IV...

Made my Plant Engr's face flush when I asked him if there was any way to manipulate the serial numbered Manual DWG that accompanied the text file designs that we stored a whole bunch of...and published as a Customer Spl Ckt...seems ATT didn't have a mouse or touch pad yet and couldn't do pix images - no GIMP...20 years later our SUN Workstations could run Open Windows and Adobe graphic stuff (mouse those pix and DWG's)...

IMHO= just love to use a home made coding book for the Ui... ratpoison as an X-Windows tiling manager allows Gimp w/mouse to run in one of the X-windows hyper-threads...putting us back to 1972 in simplicity, and X-windows of 1992 graphics...YUM

caveiat= running Ubunto 13.1 w/classic Gnome, no features option...so I already got my dead stupid Ui and don't need ratpoison... so if ever upgrade to 14.1 or higher might look at ratpoison type Ui...RS.

Beats Audio p/o new laptops...

New Chinese laptops are offering Beats as a factory option...not wanting a subwoofer on the motherboard is a valid option...to reduce data errors over time...

IMHO= it looks to me like the audio processing in new laptops are either public domain, or, proprietary - they can't be both in the same box...Sonus sound bars and Tobishiba / Sennheiser / Sony noise cancelling headphones are all derivations of Bose products and probably cross-licensed...Beats has exploded onto the world market and needs to play nice w/ the others, and Apple knows it...

Note= Harmon-Kardon got into this market years ago, no one sued them, as, they knew how to play w /others in a world market...RS.

CNWMRC's IP is in PDF form...

My Club's real, historical IP has been converted to E-Book / PDF form that will last forever, and be easily convertable to any storage medium currently available... initially time consuming, just needs to be done once using established rules everyone agrees on (that's what business meetings and secretaries are for).

IMHO= going from .doc to .odf is moot once the non-changable .pdf is generated and stored / printed...FOREVER...RS.

Path Ionization Creates standing waves...

That Destroy the emitter... Done n Dead.... The Military / Darpa gave up on this years ago n went to Chiped Pulse Compression that multiplies the power to Peta-Watt levels and avoids non - linear standing waves...note: the optical amplifiers are EDFA / Erbium Doped Fiber Amps using Quantum pump / freq power injection...

Ref= Wiki - Chirped Pulse Amplification...

IMHO= it would take several thousand of these things to equal todays communication density in just about any area...RS.

6TB Red Drive ? Cool, it lasts 3 yrs...

So you get to move all your data 3 yrs from now into yet again, something new....Yum !

20 days ago= in a Reg article: New Research - Flash is Dead, it was made apparent that no matter what you use, your data degrades in 3 to 5 years... What to do ? their white paper suggested a Sci-Fi solution that might happen someday...

IMHO= Until then embrace this new thing, realizing you get to move stuff continuously until no longer needed...

caveiat= the old IBM 386 SX-20 desktop boxes running MS DOS-5 had no way to actually backup data... needed larger hard drives to continue daily work...many fixed B/U problem.. just keep buying new machines as old ones filled up n let Corporate IT worry about data retention...( my solution was to build a greybox workstation using a gaming motherboard n 3 CD Rom storage drives )RS.

CRAY This ??

This apparently is for real until 2017...and then the last remaining START-2 weapon goes into to the fuel exhaustion cycle...( tritium decay )...

Q= start of the end of NUKES ??

Ref= nuclearweaponarchive.org/Usa/weapons/w76.html

IMHO= apparently this is where the CRAY gets involved...same for the rest of the lot...

caveiat= the entire nuclearweapopnarchive.org might be SCI-FI, but it sure is a good read...RS.

Thousand Foot Walls?? Sure, Why Not...

Hills in Tornado Country seem never to get hit...no matter which way they run...similar problems in the High Country desert of Colorado= winter storm damage is minimised by building houses under the south sides of high desert canyons...can't plant trees as no excess water...

Q= Where is the building material coming from??

Possible Solution= Think Ocean Waves on the great planes constructed On - Site by simply digging 2 ditches on each side of the proposed 1Kf wall... if the contoured ditches were 300 ft deep, the removed material would easily construct a 700 ft mound that added to the adjoining ditches= 1Kf wall...done. We build earthen dams everywhere n they seem to be durable... nothing says they need to be either continuous or arrow straight... think excellent new park n Recreation areas...topped w/wind generators, they could be financed like those hydro dams in the NW...bury the power transmission lines...done...

Note= the Black Hills in the Dakotas already look like this n they never get Tornados...RS.

MS, IPv4, n Azure... not the problem = Internet providers w/ DNS servers are the bad guys...

Current paradigsm of everything having a static IP address assumes IPv6 addresses...

MS, Azure, n ElCheepo Internet providers use IPv4 w/ DNS servers (in-house or NOT)...

IMHO = Eventually, the only folks not using IPv6 will be MS folks n Bot-net wranglers... a little maturity by the MS folks could go a long way (use IPv6 service providers - only).

SW users could make this a non-issue (or just use different provider / SW)... that questionable IPv4 DNS server would not be in the loop at all, anywhere...RS.

Flash is dead = Data Storage is dead after 5 years...

The only thing left of my IP from the 1984 CBM-64 years is a plastic binder with a couple hundred sheets of printer output...can't read the 5 n 3 in floppies and anything the 2 Gridcase laptops did is gone... likewise with that IBM PC w/386 processor that couldn't be backed up (nothing readily available)...found out the little black external hard drives get excessive errors after 3 years...then die...found out DVD R/W media (the good stuff) starts showing errors after 4 years...

Q = What is to be done ?? at this point in time, i really don't know...

IMHO = perhaps IP data is time limited to a couple of years like US IRS info = 3 years n gone...

caveiat = i downloaded the white paper... great SCI-FI read...RS.