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I know this WEBSITE is not really for this type of stuff, but I would appreciate it if anybody could point me in the right direction.

I am a teenager, and want to have a job in network security. However, I do not know anything about hacking. I do have a good foundation, however, and am a very fast learner. I know MULTIPLE programming languages, including Python, Java, Javascript, BASIC, and a little C, and I am learning more as I go along. I also know about encryption and how that all works, as well. I do go to hackthissite.org and have completed all the basic and javascript missions and two realistic missions. I am not very experienced with Linux, but do know my way around the shell. In other words, I know the theory of how it works, but I just don't know how to apply it.
What linux distro should I get? I know kali is good but I heard that it is very unstable. What software should I get? i did write a short list down here: http://pastebin.com/Z2pqH98Q
Where should I learn? I am a teenager and do not have any source of money, so I cant buy any books or pay for classes. I have gone to my library and read all the books that they had on the subject, however. Are there any good websites, forums, or IRC channels to go to?
What then, how do I apply my knowledge without breaking the law? I can hack into my router, and my families devices, is it legal for me to hack my own email?
I live in a rural area, and my high school doesnt offer any COMPUTER classes and nobody else knows anything about computers.

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I am a teenager and do not have any source of money, so I cant buy any books or pay for classes

I am not sure. That is why I put it as a question.
He is a LINK for Tom's Guide:
http://www.tomsguide.com/us/best-phone-plans,review-2953-3.html
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That said, the average smartphone user doesn’t need unlimited data — or the higher monthly bill that comes with it. A tiered plan with the right amount of data can keep your monthly costs in check. We think Verizon’s $65-a-month 3GB plan is the best option on the strength of Verizon’s network, though T-Mobile provides an attractive alternative with a 6GB plan that costs the same amount.

Note that just about everyone throttles data once you hit a certain threshold and there are very few truly “unlimited” plans out there

Each time you go over your data allotment by even 1 byte, VZ charges an overage fee of $10.

.... I know I'd rather have a warning maybe at 10% left and then it shut off before going over myself if that were the case.

This not new. Just new to me. And you too?
HP has called non-HP ink cartridges Counterfeit. Oh my, I did not know HP was part of the US mint. The cartridges are refilled and meet technical specs and work fine. The do not damage the printer. In fact, the error message may have little to do with ink quality or the level.

One use said the HP carts report out of ink after a number of print jobs. So ink level is not used to determine the need of a fresh cart.

It seems a number agree. And this was found on the HP forum. Well, thanks to HP for letting people voice grips on the forum. But is it true what he said?
Here is the link:
http://h30434.www3.hp.com/t5/Inkjet-Printing/Counterfeit-Cartridge-Scam/td-p/2641127



Start of this introduces an Espon Stylus C60 printer with a problem... then 11:55 more info on printer. Then.. 24:56 for more info then 42:39 to Russian Hacker. Then...

Skip to 51:30 to see the Epson Stylus C60 printer that this guy is able to reset a hidden counter chip designed to brick the printer when a certain amount of prints were performed with a Russian hardware hackers reset tool. I got blanked by Epson on this same printer and same problem!

I was shown this video by a canadian friend when we were TALKING about planned obsolescence and when I saw the Epson C60 printer with the same failure that my printer had years ago. I felt like Epson stuck it to me for a better choice of clean words!

I tossed my printer away because all of a sudden in the middle of printing college papers in which I printed many many papers and manuals ever at times in couple hundred page PDF's etc, it had a fault and would no longer print any more. No paper jam or any other indication of a mechanical problem it just simply stopped right in the middle of a 30 page paper that was due. I tried everything including installing latest driver, trying printer on a different computer and the printer was bricked. I was forced to buy a new printer. Later to see this same printer with the Doomsday printer counter in it. I feel like Epson should send me $80 for by design killing my printer intentionally at a certain print count + wasted ink cost that all had to be thrown away since god forbid they just stick with one ink cartridge that will work on 50 different models... No lets make all these different ink cartridges and make them just about model specific maybe 2 to 5 models will use the same. This way you cant migrate ink to a newer printer etc. You need a like /compatible model or throw the ink away.

I actually went backwards in printing technology then. I still had my dot matrix Epson LQ1050+ and bought a ribbon for $9 and printed far more documents far cheaper than the ink jet. Just noisier which was only a problem to wife when I was printing my college work at 2am when working full time job days and college nights get about 4 hours of sleep and repeat the next day.

I have since ... (holding back how I really feel)..... done away with printing when I dont need to. And instead save lots of PDF's for free. Anything I need printed, I have a $30 laser printer i bought and use that as for the ink doesnt dry up like ink jets and it does the job for a no name printer on newegg black friday special.

The printer industry is a bunch of thieves! Their business model is a cheap printer and make up the large margin profitability in rip off ink prices!!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1j0XDGIsUgMost if not all printer makers restrict what csrtridges you can use. Some even 'region code' them - they have realised that to make money in a low-wage economy like (say) Indonesia they will need to sell the cartridges at a much lower price than in a first world economy like Australia (nearby). Since they don't want Ozzies flying over to Jakarta and buying cheap cartridges, ruining their business model, they regionalise the printer firmware to only allow cartridges with the right region code or codes in their chip to run.

The OP in the linked post is a crazy weirdo. These are the sorts of insane posts you can easily find on any company's support website if they have a forum. I remember seeing one post on the Logitech forum where a similarly insane poster claimed that their F710 wireless controller was a "Microsoft scam".

A few posters recommend avoiding "HP's bullcrap" by using an Epson. Thankfully, there are crazies on the other side of that fence saying Don't buy inkjet printers from Epson.

Just to condense down how insane the OP of the HP thread is into one concise quote:

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I have re-staticed electrified my magnetic stripe

I've thinking about dropping my landline phone. I've had a cell phone for many years but used a BASIC cell phone (voice and text) until Sep 2014, when I finally bought a smartphone and subscribed to a mobile account which included data (for internet access). I imagine many FOLKS go through the same transition of using their landline less and less over time. And then, you start wondering whether you really need the landline.

My interest service comes from my landline phone provider, which is CenturyLink, but they offer Internet-only plans now. Dropping the landline phone part of my CenturyLink service would save me some money.

On a side note: higher speeds are now available from them. My current internet connection speed is 10Mbps, which was the highest available for some time. But now, I can get 15, 20, or 25Mbps from Century Link. Oddly, the increase in price over my current 10Mbps speed, is the same for all 3 of the those faster speeds, so 25Mbps seems the obvious choice if I decide to increase the speed.

One of the issues, perhaps the main issue, regarding this decision is the loss of speedy 911 functionality that is inherent in landline phone service. This relates to police and fire protection, and medical emergency. I do not have a home security system but I'm not too concerned about that part of this potential change. I have neighbors on all sides of me and the police department is only about 700 feet from my place. Regarding medical emergencies, medical alert devices seem to be an option; this is not something I need now but something we all eventually may need.

Many people are disappointed with traditional landline telephone service. Here in the United States people often pay a base price of $25 a month for the landline telephone service. That price does not include MAINTENANCE on the internal wiring of the house or place of business. It is up to the householder to purchase suitable telephones and to provide wiring inside the house or premises.
I gave up on my landline system because the service was not reliable. And whenever something went wrong and I would try to tell him that there's something wrong with their lines, they wanted to have a technician come out and make sure it was not my home wiring. That annoyed me to no end, the problem with their lines in the area was well known and they never did anything about it except just switch lines over. What they needed was to do a complete install of new cable in this neighborhood. But instead of doing that they were trying to get the customers to buy new service products which did not really improve the matter. I can imagine that many other people have had similar experiences and adjust become fed up with paying the local phone company for service that was not as good as it used to be.
Now about the alternatives. Cell phone service varies widely. In fact, some cell phone service is so terrible they should pay you to use it rather than charge you for service. Really. Some phone services work so poorly you would think that they were still inventing the telephone. So be very careful when you choose a cell phone provider.
To date, I have not found any cell phone service that I would highly recommend. I do hope you don't have as much trouble as I did trying to find one that is reasonably priced and reasonably reliable.

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The 911 cell phone problem.
This is a really bad issue.
http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/11/when-911-operators-cant-find-their-callers/416730/
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Five years ago, Jamie Barnett took his boss on a tour of a 911 call center in Fairfax, Virginia, a 20-mile drive from his office at the Federal Communications Commission in Washington, D.C. At the time, Barnett was the chief of the FCC’s Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau, the division that oversees, among other things, the operation of the national emergency number. The purpose of the trip was to give the FCC’s then-chairman, Julius Genachowski, a firsthand look at a persistent problem with 911: The system couldn’t accurately trace the locations of emergency calls made from cellphones.

Other than not having an exact location i'm not convinced the 911 Cell call nightmares really exist anymore...

Anderson, 31, was delivering newspapers near Atlanta around 4 a.m. that day in late December, so she knew the cross streets, even the ZIP code. She repeated her location over and over, but it didn't help. Because Anderson's call was routed through the nearest cellphone tower to a neighboring county's 911 system, the dispatcher couldn't find the streets on her maps. Worse yet, the system couldn't get a fix on the cellphone's location before the call ended.

It took 20 minutes for rescuers to get to Anderson and pull the 31-year old suburban Atlanta woman from her car, barely alive. She died a week and a half later in the hospital. Her 911 call is one of millions that fail to give police, fire and ambulance dispatchers a quick fix on location, a technology shortfall that can leave callers like Anderson in grave danger.

The night of her husband's death, Alison Vroome did everything she thought she was supposed to. She grabbed her phone, called 911 and told the operator her address.
Then she told it to her again and again.
Almost everything seemed to go wrong.

10Investigates set up a test to see how well it works. We went to Sarasota near the spot where Lee was when she made the call.
When White made a call to 911 on a regular cell phone he asked the operator, “Can you tell me the address that popped up on your screen?”
The 911 operator replied, “It is coming up as T-Mobile wireless at 5049 Trout Circle SW in North Port.”
That is the address of the cell tower 3 and a half miles awa

I gave up on my landline about 5-6 years ago. Something happened with the wiring in my house and the phone company wanted a minimum of $75 to troubleshoot it. My cell carrier, Verizon, offered a device they call "Home phone connect". It's a cellular based device that allows you to plug in regular home phones to it and use it just like it was a landline. ...

Please share your thoughts. Some younger ones don't know the story.
Even recently it is still a subject of interest to computer students.
Like this:
Whatever happened to Netscape?
I used the 4.7 versions for many years and was happy with it. But now it does not do so well with some web sites. There are up to date versions of Netscape.
http://filehippo.com/download_netscape/
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AOL stopped development of the Netscape browser in February 2008 so is no longer officially supported.
Netscape Browser provides more security options, streamlines more standard browsing tasks and arms internet users with more timesaving solutions to their browsing needs.

The beginning of the end is when it was bought by AOL...

Here is a good general reference:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RF_resonant_cavity_thruster
The article does not say the idea really works. Rather it documents the breif history of the concept.
So Why did I put this here? Well... it is one of f those topics will make you look like a fool. We all know that all rocket motors require a propellant that must be sent out the rear end to push the motor forward. Basic universal thinking of every physicist in his right mind.

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The original design for the EmDrive was by Roger Shawyer; a different RF resonant cavity thruster, called the Cannae Drive, was later designed by Guido Fetta.[

This might really sound dull. . After all this time, how could there be anything of to SEE in the the US mobile market. Have not are the spoils been divided up?
Weill... maybe not.
Some Q2 items:
• 12 years ago, US mobile data revenues were less than 5% of the overall revenues. In Q2 2016, mobile data revenues crossed the 75% THRESHOLD becoming the second COUNTRY after Japan to do so.
• Device revenues declined SHARPLY as consumers are upgrading at a slower pace than before and new device launches haven’t really motivated consumers to upgrade.
• Verizon and T-Mobile have captured the bulk of the postpaid growth in the last three years.
• Android ecosystem revenues and profits improved slightly primarily on the back of Samsung’s quarterly results. As expected, iPhone units and revenues dipped again.
Source for above: http://www.chetansharma.com/blog/category/fourth-wave/

Bear in mind that in many areas of the USA, the 4G network is often used for computer data and Internet service. So the growth of the mobile market does matter to PC users that do not have a cable or OPTICAL connection to the public network.

Wait.... there is more. Oops, not yet... Coming later. Sorry.

After Google, Bing, and Yahoo all cut off their relationship with PharmacyChecker and LegitScript was retained to monitor online pharmacy advertisements, PharmacyChecker went into revenge mode (perhaps to try and get that business BACK), publishing false and personal attacks against LegitScript and its President, John Horton, even implying that John was the subject of a Congressional investigation (completely false).
To date, I can not validate any of this. Do you have any more information?

PharmacyChecker.com has provided verification for online drug sellers engaged in actions directly in violation of its own PURPORTED requirements.
PharmacyChecker.com-verified sites are linked to additional, related unlawful activities, including selling narcotics without a prescription.

""But no Adntivirus program or Malware removal tool can tell you which websites are telling lies about products they have for sale.""
This is not what those apps are designed to do...

While doing some RESEARCH I came upon an witter who states "you can not damage a battery by overcharging it." He meant the batteries used in Laptop Computers.
Nevertheless, the lithium ion battery is the same FUNDAMENTAL design that was used in the Dream liner aircraft the FAA grounded.
Here is a recent version of the story:
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-lithium-ion-batteries-grounded-the-dreamliner/
Right. Scientific American. They thought the topic was worthy of more study.
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At 10:21 a.m. on Jan. 7, 2013, about a minute after all 183 passengers and 11 crew members from Japan Airlines Flight 008 disembarked at Boston's Logan International Airport, a member of the cleaning crew spotted smoke in the aft cabin of the Boeing 787-8.
A mechanic then opened the aft electronic equipment bay of the plane, parked at the airport gate, and saw billowing smoke and flames coming from the batteries for the 787's auxiliary power unit (APU). He tried to use a fire extinguisher, but the blaze didn't go out.

The culprit was a lithium-ion battery manufactured by GS Yuasa, which was found to be under a condition known as a thermal runaway, in which the heat from a failing cell causes itself and surrounding cells to fail, thereby generating more heat.

Though the aircraft are now flying again with safety retrofits, the episode highlights some of the emerging concerns around cutting-edge clean technologies, particularly those that store LARGE amounts of energy...
Quality-control problems suspected. Last year, a spate of fires in the all-electric Tesla Model S car prompted concern among auto safety experts

I first heard this expression long before the PC came to be. It is said to be part of the IBM legacy. Here is one reference:
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Halt and Catch Fire, KNOWN by the assembly mnemonic HCF, is an idiom referring to a computer machine code instruction that causes the computer's central processing unit (CPU) to cease meaningful operation, typically requiring a restart of the computer. It originally referred to a fictitious instruction in IBM System/360 computers, but later computer developers who saw the joke created real versions of this instruction for some machines. In the case of real instructions the implication of this expression is that, whereas in most cases in which a CPU executes an unintended instruction (a bug in the code) the computer may still be able to recover, but in the case of an HCF instruction there is, by definition, no way for the system to recover without a restart.

Ghosts in the machine“Halt and Catch Fire” makes the world of 1980s computing compulsive viewing...
Much like “Steve Jobs” and “The Social Network”, the series contains plenty of flawed innovators for audiences to consider...
“Halt and Catch Fire” paints a realistic picture of flawed characters and shows us, too, that the innovators are not always rewarded with fame and Hollywood biopics. In the fast-paced tech landscape, the creation can BECOME quickly defunct and its creator left in the shadows.

Did that headline get your attention?
That analogy was made by a researcher earlier this year after a break through was made in super capacitor technology.
Without going into the deep, deep technical explanation, super capacitors now are the best deal available for start storing large amounts of electrical energy.
Some reports this year indicate that researchers may accomplish their goals and be able to DELIVER super capacitors at a reasonable cost to replace almost any other kind of electrical storage system, including batteries that are commonly used in cars and trucks. It is said super capacitors have much more power PER pound than anything else. That means they could be used to power small aircraft and devices like drones where power and weight are a large consideration.

Looking into the future we might live in cities where electrical power is the only kind of power used in the city. Combustion would never be used to power anything. All types of mobile devices would have super capacitors that could run vehicles for hours at a time before needing a recharge at an electrical station.
There are a number of different links available to support this kind of reasoning. Rather than try to post them here, you can try looking them up yourself. Just do a search on the expression "super capacitors" and see what you find. You should find some articles, including at least one from the IEEE, about the new advance in super capacitor technology.

So far, there's been lots of speculation. But large super capacitors at economical prices are not yet a reality. But if you want, smaller super capacitors are available for experimental use or some practical applications. Be aware that even when you have a low voltage super capacitor, it is CAPABLE of creating an arc that can l do a lot of damage to your face if you don't have protective glasses. Apparently that is why some experimenters put a small device in series with the super capacitor they used for experiments. The small device is some kinds of resister with a very low value that limits the discharge current and reduces the amount of spark you get if you accidentally short leads together.

EDIT: You do not need to BUY anything or join any group. Here is a free line to the IEEE paper about Super Capacitors:
http://spectrum.ieee.org/green-tech/fuel-cells/nitrogen-supercharges-supercapacitors
(Skip the ads.)So far, supercapacitors are quoted as storing between 0.01 and 0.04 MJ/Kg (million Joules per kilogramme). The paper you linked to says their devices "could" store 41 watt-hours per kilogram. That's 0.17 MJ/Kg. The same as lead-acid batteries. So maybe engine starting and ignition duty in automobiles if they can make them cheap and durable enough.

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It is said super capacitors have much more power per pound than anything else.

In physics, power is the rate of doing work. It is the amount of energy consumed per unit time. Having no direction, it is a scalar quantity. In the SI system, the unit of power is the joule per second (J/s), known as the watt in honour of James Watt, the eighteenth-century developer of the steam engine.

By the way, you are right on about compressed air. It has a big promise.

From USANEWS.COM

5 Scholarships for Studying Computer Science, Engineering Overseas
This report claims some overseas schools are as GOOD or better than in the USA.

Clearly, aesthetics are important but aren't the ultimate GOAL of design. And often poor readability doesn't get noticed during the design process, as we are not like our users. We don't read the texts as a visitor does.

You can force any website to use a white background with black text, for example.

Tools->Options, Content, Colors button

While looking for information, I found this item:
http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-2533218/transmitting-cable-ethernet.html
Transmitting cable TV over Ethernet
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Slingbox seems to stream cable TV over the network to devices with a proprietary app installed. I would like to connect the cable to my whole coax network across the street as if I were to hard wire it.

The TRADITIONAL Slingbox embeds a video encoding chip to do real-time encoding of a video and audio stream into the SMPTE 421M / VC-1 format[5] that can be transmitted over the Internet via the ASF STREAMING format. Later Slingboxes also support Apple's HTTP Live Streaming,[6] which requires support for H.264.

The Slingboxes up until the Fourth Generation (or Next Generation Slingbox) used a Texas Instruments chipset.[7] Current generation Slingboxes and OEM products are built around a ViXS chipset.[8][9][10]
Control of the hosting video device, USUALLY a set top box, is done through an IR blaster, which, on older Slingboxes, required the use of an IR blaster dongle. Current generation Slingboxes have built in IR blasters on the box itself, though customers can opt to continue to use the IR blaster dongle.
All Slingboxes include an Ethernet port that connects to a local network and out to the Internet. The Slingbox 500 was the first to include built-in Wi-Fi.

Yes, BPL is dead and has been for some time. Until I did the research, I thought it still existed somewhere.
An explanation.
At one time it was held that BPL could bring Internet to MANY who lived away from urban CENTERS. The ELECTRICAL power lines would send Internet into rural areas. This is NOT the same as using the power line to transfer data inside your home.
Here is a site that DOES NOT understand.
http://www.explainthatstuff.com/broadbandoverpowerlines.html

Here is the story of how and why the FCC cut off its head.
How the FCC Killed Broadband Competition
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To close out Powell’s near-complete dismantling of competitive services in the U.S., the FCC took up the issue of ISPs resale of DSL using the incumbent’s equipment, also known as wholesale “bitstream” access. If Cable is an information service under Brand X, why shouldn’t Telco have the same “regulatory relief”? The result: the FCC granted forbearance (in other WORDS, declined to enforce its rules) from the common carriage requirements for telco DSL services.

Yes, I want to Find Rectify Season 3 and WATCH Free
I just do not want to pay $1.99 from iTunes.
I want it FREE and I want it NOW!
Please, Please, I hare to know what comes next.
I can't sleep.

You should know by now we don't give help for piracy. However as with most popular TV series, you can find an episode by episode summary on Wikipedia.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Rectify_episodes#Season_3_.282015.29
Thank you. No, I did not want to pirate it. Netflix had the show for the FIRST two seasons, but yet I have not found ANYBODY who offers the third season, except iTunes, which wants and outrageous price. Most TV shows are available free or for a modest subscription.

TV shows are available to the viewer for various prices ranging from zero upwards depending on the business model adopted by the program maker. Some shows are PAID for by the viewer paying a subscription to a cable or streaming PROVIDER, some are broadcast to your antenna and are paid for by advertising or government subsidy. They have to be paid for somehow. Just because some are provided to the viewer at no extra charge does not mean that all TV shows ought, by right, to be free. Don't get me wrong, I don't have any great objection to individuals findng ways to get paid-for shows for free. It's just that you'lll have to find out for yourself how to do it, because nobody can tell you on this forum. Having said that, it's only $14.99 for the whole season.

Topic Closed.

You should know better Geek.

Does anyone know where can I LOOK for drop-out rates for PRIVATE SCHOOLS in USA? I FOUND only for public schools on NCES.

Solar works...it's not cost effective,,,there's a reason for that.

Think about it...

The effect of solar ponds also occurs in natural salt lakes, from which the technology derives. A natural solar pond, where the effect is really noticeable is at the shore of the Red Sea in Egypt, at Solar Lake. Due to the effect of solar heat the lake can get as hot as 140°F.

Only the 2nd time i've SEEN this...Time to create an ALIAS account and FIX that.

Full Title is:
This New Technology Could Keep Avocados From Turning BrownQuote

Beyond saving humanity from enduring BROWNED avocado toast ever again, the innovation could serve as a viable solution to the planet's enormous food waste problem. A whole 50% of produce grown in the U.S. is wasted every year, much of it simply for being cosmetically unappealing. While slightly browned avocados are safe to eat, they're often considered ugly by American BEAUTY standards (really!) and are thrown AWAY.

Hello,

When I go to gmail.com it automatically DIRECTS me to my gmail account, which is great. But recently a friend of mine wanted to use my computer to log into his gmail account, but neither of us could figure out how to log out of gmail. I know that I am overlooking something, but how do you log out of gmail so that someone ELSE can log in?

ThanksAssuming your account looks the same as mine - In the top right there should be a circle which will either have a letter or your profile photo in it, click this, there should be a "Sign Out" button in there.

What browser are you using? Most modern browsers have a "Private Browsing" mode which is great for this, you open this mode and let the person using your PC use that, they won't be logged into any of your accounts and once they close it it will automatically log them out of anything they logged into. This is also handy if you need to log into something on someone else's PC as it removes the risk of forgetting to log out of something!The logout button is at the top of the page...UNLESS they moved it again...Quote from: camerongray on July 28, 2016, 08:22:18 AM

In the top right there should be a circle which will either have a letter or your profile photo in it, click this, there should be a "Sign Out" button in there.

Decided to share a project I am working on when away from the IT and Electronics Field. Wife wanted a utility trailer for new riding lawn mower and I wanted to save some money and use metal scrap and otherwise junk parts already available to save a couple hundred dollars; as well as metal work and making stuff like this is relaxing non stressful fun.

I made the axle from a metal pipe. I cut the pipe stock to make I.D reducers by cutting 1/2" pieces of pipe and measuring and cutting out from O.D of pipe and then tapping it on a anvil to close the open RING to make it fit snug into each end of the pipe. Welded these I.D reducer inserts in. Then welded 2 qty 13/16" spark plug sockets that I didnt need 4 of in my box of loose sockets. Welded 13/16" nuts into the sockets and mounted the 1998 Honda Civic wheel hubs to the axle. Then mounted 2 qty ( 21 year old pop up camper tires on rims to hubs). Then welded ANGLE iron to the pipe axle to further strengthen it as well as give me a nice flat surface to weld the boxed frame to.

The Frame is made from a 1998 Honda Civic steel bumper that was taken from my Honda before it went to the junk yard. I cut the bumper in half and it became the left and right section of frame. Welded angle iron to both ends to box the frame in and make it strong and non flexible. Then cut 4 angle iron pieces make a very strong frame to axle MOUNTS to hold the frame to the axle. *They act like book shelf ends but secure the axles angle iron strongly to the boxed frame. I didnt want to only weld linear frame to angle iron as for flexing would eventually fatigue the weld, so having these angle iron frame to axle mounts I have a X and Y axis weld which makes it way stronger and welds will not flex and fatigue and crack.

Then took a old bicycle rack that was broken and used the strong square steel bar to make the tow bar and attach that to the trailer frame. Notched out the angle iron and heated the tab with acetylene torch and bent the tab at 90 degrees to attach the hitch bar to the frame in 2 locations for a very strong build. Hitch pin is the same pin the bicycle rack used with the quick release clip. * Its best to heat and bend steel vs bending it at room temperature so the steel atoms bend and form to the new angle vs stress cracks when bent at 90 degrees cold, as well as it bends so easily when the steel is cherry red.

Now I just need to paintthe frame to prevent rust, get some carriage bolts and use a bunch of 2 x 6's that i have to make the wooden boxed in bed for it, then stain it with extra water repellent deck stain I have on hand from a deck project and then it will be all done.

While this isnt computer RELATED, its off subject and just figured I'd share my other hobby which is mechanics and fabrication as well as yankee ingenuity of recycling/repurposing what might otherwise be junk into useful stuff when I am away from the IT world.

I used a MIG Welder with flux core wire to do all the welding on this and Acetylene Torch to heat and bend the tab and melt and round the sharp ends on the angle iron frame corners.

Below is a picture collage of the project so far. =P

Other projects I have done are home made generator by use of a horizontal drive gas motor and a car alternator and a 12VDC to 120VAC inverter as well as a bunch of other small projects... too many to list =P

Here is a 120VAC up to 9 AMP Generator ( 90 amp 12VDC alternator works out to about 9 amps maximum at 120VAC ) I made from a free motor and Mazda 626 alternator and other pieces and parts including a dishwasher door spring to maintain belt tension on a pivoting alternator mounted to wood. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IN7l55A4VVo

This generator was handy last winter when we lost electric for 4 hours. I was able to run it outside and long extension cord in to livingroom for TV, Internet, and Computer to run, Plus a 4 qty 9 watt LED Lamps throughout home.





[attachment deleted by admin to conserve space]Quite impressive. There's a new gadget on the market that's install just before your electric meter which allows you to plug in your generator without any additional installation of a bypass switch to eliminate backfeed. It's not allow in our province but may be in your location.Nice work D.L. I am a mechanic who (plays ?) with computers - Your ability to Repurpose is quite impressive (I must admit the last time I "fixed" our dishwasher while looking at the door spring the thought never crossed my mind Hey - this could work as a belt tensioner on a home-made generator). You got any pics of the "Magna Broom 3000 Quote

You got any pics of the "Magna Broom 3000

The wink is because this topic is on the edge.
I hope you understand what I intend. It is not unlawful, legal, but a workaround to some tricks being imposed by the big guys Like AT&T, Verizon and the others.

As you know, many top cell phone LTE services offer unlimited data . The data will slow down when thou go over a limit. So they sell for 30, 50 or 80 dollars a month. Depends on how much bandwidths you want.

Well,many cleaver users now tether an Android smartphone to the home network instead of getting a wired connection. In some places it still cost a lot of money to get a copper wire connection to your home. In some lo-class ghettos the local telecom people do not want to repair the old copper wires. So you have to go LTE.

Now here is the question. Can you still get good Android Tethering apps that will work. (Tethering here means either a USB, Wi-Fi or Bluetooth link from a smartphone to a PC or tablet.The phone GETS the 4G or 3G signal from a cell tower and makes it available to other devices in your house.) Some services have prevented the teething apps to work.

Read this:
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If you have an Android smartphone, odds are that you pay your wireless carrier a hefty sum each month for data. While it seems fairly straight forward that if you pay for a certain number of bytes, you should be able to just use them, the carriers don’t usually SEE it that way. As such, last year the big US carriers started blocking users from downloading a number of popular tethering apps in the Android Market (now the Play Store).

The answer is the same as the last time you brought up tethering. Dedicated apps are no longer needed on any semi-recent release of Android as the OS itself has included tethering capability for some time.

So to be clear, if I have one of Verizon's older tiered plans, will I have to pay $30 for tethering?
You can avoid the tethering fee by downloading a third party app from an application store. If you tether using Verizon's service, you will still be charged the $20 a month to access Mobile Broadband Connect. So you need to be proactive and find an app that you can use.

What if I have an old Verizon unlimited data plan? Can I download an app and avoid the $20 tethering fee too?
Unfortunately, the answer to this question is no. Verizon says that customers under the unlimited plan are REQUIRED by the company's terms of service to pay an additional fee to tether their device.

T-Mobile is my current carrier (please no suggestions on switching, I am content with what I have. I am on an unlimited data plan with 7GB of hotspot, which frustrates me.

As the article I linked says, the LTE cellular companies are preventing users from making use of the Android features

The Washington Examiner reported that Kerry was in Vienna to amend the 1987 Montreal Protocol that would phase out hydrofluorocarbons, or HFCs, from basic HOUSEHOLD and commercial appliances like air conditioners, refrigerators, and inhalers

The home mechanic, looking at a can or two of R12 or R134a, may think that government concern over refrigerant is overblown. However, CFCs like R12 have been FOUND high in the atmosphere, where they destroy ozone (since CFCs have been regulated, the ever-widening holes in the ozone layer have been healing themselves). In addition, R134a is 1,400 times as effective at trapping heat as carbon dioxide; a few leaks from a few cars would probably not have any serious impact, but there are an estimated (by the auto industry) 400 million mobile air conditioners out there.

... but there are an estimated (by the auto industry) 400 million mobile air conditioners out there.

Do you believe that?

No.

Today, Tuesday, is the best time to see the full moon this summer.
http://www.cnbc.com/2016/07/19/why-tonights-full-moon-is-called-a-buck-moon.html

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Names of moons often date back to Native American tribes, and early European settlers. They helped keep track of seasons, and important events at those times. August's full moon, for EXAMPLE, is called the Sturgeon Moon, named for the species of fish that is best caught in the Great Lakes at around that time, according to the Farmer's Almanac.

Solar eclipses are very frequent, just not often in the same place.

Maybe some of use get so deep into our hobby and.or profession that we have isolated our thoughts from what might going on in other places.
Maybe this is more so in the USA and Canada, because we feel the oceans protect us from any hardships in the Old World.

Time to wake up. One of the most wealthy contraries in South America is in deep trouble. It is Venezuela. Yes, Venezuela. Awhile back they stopped international cellphone calling due to economic issues. They can not pay their bills to other couriers.

Let me put that in terms you can visualize.

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The government has admitted that less than 2 percent of the country has access to a connection faster than four megabits per second (Mbps). While in neighboring Colombia internet service providers offer transmission speeds of up to 150 Mbps, most Venezuelans are using 2 Mbps connections.

Venezuela’s oil production has declined by 170,000 barrels per day since the start of 2016, dipping to 2.18 million barrels per day (mb/d) in June, according to the IEA’s latest Oil Market Report. PART of that was due to electricity blackouts that cut 120,000 barrels per day from the country’s output between April and June, but even with some of those issues resolved – rain has RESTORED some output at HYDROELECTRIC dams – the IEA says that “further losses are expected in 2H16.” A year-on-year decline in oil production of 200,000 barrels per day “looks unavoidable as foreign oil service companies reduce their activity and international oil companies face repayment issues and daily operational challenges.” But 200,000 barrels per day could be just the start.

Nobody goes to a grocery store with $150 and spends it on a dozen eggs. Instead, they would probably give it to a relative, who would sell it on the black market, and then buy 40-50 dozen eggs. The $150 price is an artifact, a bizarre side effect of a multi-rate currency exchange system and the government's gross mismanagement of the economy.

And that's the real story: how a nation that was approaching "middle class" status, with arguably the largest oil reserves in the world, that has been reduced to an economic basket case. All without a war, invasion, ethnic or religious strife, earthquake, hurricane, extreme weather, or any of the other catastrophes that can afflict normal countries.

It also obscures the other effects of failed leadership, including shortages of food, basic medicine (insulin, anesthetic, antibiotics), auto parts, industrial raw materials. Those are leading to once- preventable deaths and hunger.

That's on top of government expropriation, jailing of opposition leaders, judges, shutdown of broadcast and print media, wiretapping, and other forms of repression.

Many people in my position are glad that it's finally getting international attention. But this headline trivializes and obscures the unfolding man-made disaster.

Yet as Brazil is consumed by the worst political and economic crisis in decades, the country has turned inward. This has contributed to a regional power vacuum and a sense of paralysis when it comes to devising regional approaches to South America's most pressing challenges. For example, Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro's increasingly blatant disregard for even basic democratic standards has seen a less meaningful regional reaction because of Brazil's problems. Given Brazil’s dominant role in South America – representing roughly half its GDP, population and territory – its travails are inevitably bad news for the continent.

.....
Matrix is my all time favorite of VR. Old enough to be called an old movie, but pretty recent too. The ending of the Matrix movie I thought was disappointing and weak. I really wanted to see one that he conquer and bring everyone out of it etc vs what it was.

Slauterghouse Five.

The film follows the novel in presenting a first-person narrative from the point of view of Billy Pilgrim (Sacks), who becomes "unstuck in time" and experiences the events of his life in a seemingly random order, including a period spent on the alien planet

Hello people,

My name is Stef and i'm from the Netherlands, so before commenting on my languages, i do appologise for my bad grammar at this moment and i'm not used to write in a other language. I understand, speak en etc, just my spelling is terrible at this moment.

I'm here do to the recomandation in the chat and hope to find some help and interesting people all over the world. As it come's to my skills, i'm some kind of noob and not specialised in SOMTHING or whatever. At this moment i hafe two days of stuggle's with python and juist try everything i can imagine. Yes, it is horrible how to start and realy fun to see how things works. My focus is on making a WEATHER station with a RPi so there is a lot to learn like soldering and etrc. Lukkely i got me some help from QUANTOS in the chat for my firt experiance in soldering and this was realy helpfull.

Now i am figgering out how to write to .txt with Python, there are soooooo many ways and nothing works like i want it to do. I'll THINK that this is de BEST moment for me to ask help on the forum. Why here? There are not procrammers in the Netherlands who are activ on forum's or in chats. So it can take more than a week for (or non) a reaction what is verry disapointing sometimes.

Well, thank you for reading,
Greetingssss Stef



Hello Stef, if you return...

Is this what you are looking for?
Code: [Select]jordan-pc:[jordanmw]:/tmp$ python
Python 3.9.7 (default, Oct 10 2021, 16:50:02)
[GCC 11.1.0] on linux
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> fd = open("test.txt", "w")
>>> print("hello python", file=fd)
>>> fd.close()
>>> exit()
jordan-pc:[jordanmw]:/tmp$ cat test.txt
hello python

Tonight I am upset about the 5G propaganda.
This is my rant.

Please don't misunderstand, I KNOW that the 5G technology is coming and will be very useful. My rant is about the senseless stupid propaganda some people are putting out about why it's needed and what it will do for us. I am TALKING about tech writers who don't know anything about technology. You would think people that write about technology could have some understanding about communications theory and the real world. In the real world we do not need high-speed data RATES for weather stations, heartbeat monitors, traffic lights and other kinds of ordinary telemetry systems.

For example, tele-printers many years ago operated at either 45 or 50 baud.
That is actually pretty slow, yet it served for the military, the newspapers and anybody else that wanted to transmit information from one place to another in WRITTEN form. For some reason that I do not understand, there is a tech writer who is writing about why he doesn't have any concept of what data transmission speed means. You do not have to have a speed of 1 Gb per second in order to transmit information about a person's blood pressure, heart rate and blood chemistry. High-speed data is not a requirement to monitor functions of the human body.
So I am ranting about the tech writer that is promising that 5G will make it better for people who need intensive medical care. What is he talking about? Doctors already have available to them systems at work over low speed telephone lines to transmit information about a person heartbeat. The information is transmitted at a 300 Bd modem and sent to a computer somewhere that analyzes the person heartbeat and then sends back a report to the position on to a teleprinter.
No way does that ever require high-speed data.
As I said above, I understand that the new 5G technology will be very helpful for some things that we would like to do. But so far there is no proof that this should do anything to improve medical care. What hospitals really need right now are more trained doctors nurses and other medical technicians. Better bandwidth is not going to make much difference. Yeah, I know, you can have video over Internet stuff. But that does not require a gigabit service. The existing Internet structure is plenty fast enough for a doctor to do a video conference was somebody.
But the new 5G technology will do is lower the cost of data transmission for some types of services. For the average Internet user it will probably offer little benefits.
Does anybody here understand what I'm talking about? The propaganda for the by the technology is a lot of hype and has little substance.
Existing technology already provides Internet data speeds of over 10 million bits per second. That is a lot of data, enough for video conferencing and a lot more.

Sorry if I'm boring you. Just ignore me.



I'm at a loss for words...At Cable-Tec Expo in late 2018, the head of the NCTA, America's internet and television providers association, Michael Powell – also a former head of the FCC – said that "5G is 25 per cent technology, 75 per cent marketing."I can assure you that's not true ST. 5G will be a major game changer for both business ahd consumers. Watch closely over the next two years.I am sure it will be, but certain telcos, and not just in the US (we have it too) are promising more than they can actually deliver right now. Millimeter-wave 5G, the FOUNDATION of AT&T and Verizon’s early 5G deployment, can deliver download and upload speeds competitive with fiber-optic links. But that high-band spectrum can’t deliver them more than a block or two. 5G networks built on slower but longer-range mid- and low-band spectrum cover far less ground than 4G. Consensus seems to be that a 5G build-out probably won’t need decades, but it’s not something measured in months either.I agree with everything you said. The current plan here in the States is for Vz & ATT to have comprehensive 5G coverage within the next 5 years. And yes, their high frequencies require "towers" to be in close proximity to one another (in some areas as many as one a block!). T-Mobile/Sprint, on the other hand, grabbed up as much of the 600 mhz spectrum as they could in the FCC auctions (plus a bunch acquired in acquisitions) and while the speed is a bit less than the higher bands, the penetration is much greater and most of those towers are already in place. They're looking at 99% coverage in less than 3 years!

And yes, I work closely with these folks Speaking of branding something that doesn't really exist, I see the hype people have invented another number-followed-by-a-big-G thing, '10G', not to be confused with 10GE (10 gigabit ethernet) (which is a thing). They were calling Docsis 3.1 '10G' because it is theoretically capable of delivery 10 Gbps to the home, and now it's coming out again for DOCSIS 4.0. As people point out, until telcos upgrade their edge and backhaul networks to multiple 100/400 Gb/s links and more, delivering 10Gb networks to end users looks pretty useless.Amen brother. I do not understand why everyone is "all-a twitter" about 5G. I can see no great benefit from utilizing it instead of 2.4G. The range of 5G really isn't that far, and what little extra speed you might get is not worth it (thanks to your ISP). I have a home network, and our cell phones will sometimes connect to 5G, but none of our computers will connect to 5G because if you have an older PC, you know, like maybe 3-years old, ::, your wireless adapter (or card) probably only has one antenna. In order to get dual-bandwidth, you must have a wifi adapter installed on your computer with 2-antennas. DUH--After almost a year of searching, a very nice guy finally provided me with the answer. I think he wrote maybe 3-lines of text. I felt like a real winner that day. I think that all this 5g propaganda had only one benefit regarding the stock price.The main reason for most businesses is profit. You buy a loaf of bread, you have made several people richer. The society we have built up around us is so reliant on technology now, there is no going back, and industry cannot remain stagnant or it doesn't increase profit. There will be parts of 5G that will be of real benefit, such as its low latency for real time control of medical robots, but it is going to take years to get to the point where it is mainstream.
The only companies who are going to benefit from the start of 5G are the mobile networks, who will probably just promote faster download speeds under the guise of 5G, and that is why the 600 mhz spectrum was all grabbed, even though on average it will only be about 20% faster than 4G.
So yes, 5G is here, sort of, and by the time the dust has settled and we start getting used to the new advantages it brings, they will be talking about 6G - the inevitable march of progress goes on.No need to Quote your own Posts...carry on.

Hi,

Newbie in this FORUM and I, need suggestions which Linux distribution is best for beginners as recently I have enrolled in Cloud computing course and in STARTS they teach us Linux basic SHELL scripting then move to docker and then Kubernetes. Can anyone explain which Linux distro is best for newcomers especially from a UI perspective?Linux Mint Mate is considered one of the easiest to use for someone COMING from a Windows background.In my opinion, Xubuntu and Linux Mint are designed with windows familiarity and adaptability in mind. I have found xubuntu quite easier to adapt

Hello, it's me again.
This is not very important, so I put it in this area of the forum.
Now that we have to stay home more often we see a lot of TV and it is so annoying the way the VOLUME goes up when the commercials come on.
I am not SURE exactly how that is done because the broadcast stations usually have some kind of limiting amplifier that the prevents the levels from going over certain amount. But somehow the levels go up when you have a commercial come on. Anyway, I don't wanna discuss the why and how if they do that. But instead what is the way to CORRECT that so that I won't go crazy listening to the screeching noise he absurd sounds that come out of my TV set whenever they have a commercial announcement to make.
In other WORDS, it's Eric some kind of the expansion or compression device that will automatically counteract excessively loud volume coming from my TV set? Is there way to PROGRAM my TV set to do that? Do I need to get an external speaker system that has some kind of a smart D SP system that will reduce the annoyance of screaming commercial announcements?
Yes, I could just watch the public broadcasting system. But you understand how boring public broadcasting here is in the USA?
Anyway, any suggestions would be welcome.

This is the end of my dictation.

Dear Reader
I was gaming on my PC then at this moment my screen started to show me random colors that moves Really FAST that appear everyware on the screen then i GOT shocked,then i tried to turn off my pc and turn it on again but its still going on , then i thought it was overheated then i give it a rest for 2 hours and half , then i tried agine to start it up, but now the screen is white and there is horizontal colors still there,then i tried to plugoff the VGA cable and turn the monitor off and on again but it still there. It couldnt be BROKEN because it happened front of my EYES with no physical damage

Thank for reading

Hi Everyone,

I am running an ecommerce SITES which are built on WordPress + WooCommerce. EVERYTHING is working fine, but as my store is scaling and as I am adding more products to my store - my website SEEMS lagging.
Now, I am considering to switch my store shared to managed services. I have got several suggestions, but as a newbie I am not sure which one should I go for? I have three hosting providers as suggested by my colleagues.

https://www.a2hosting.com/ecommerce-hosting
https://www.siteground.com/ecommerce-hosting.htm
https://www.cloudways.com/en/ecommerce-hosting.php

So, What thing should I CONSIDER before moving to any of these providers can any one suggest?
If tou want the site to RUN fine don't use cheap hosting sites...just sayin.

The governor of California asks older people to stay HOME.
Other states in USA have also said things to that effect.
Here is one newspaper with the California story today:
https://www.sacbee.com/news/coronavirus/article241212146.html
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Faced with mounting coronavirus infections, California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Sunday issued sweeping new restrictions in California, calling for home ISOLATION of everyone in the state over age 65 and people with chronic disease, both high-risk populations.

He also asked for closure of bars, wineries, night clubs and brew pubs, and called for restaurants to reduce their occupancy by half. He called that “deep SOCIAL distancing” and a “pragmatic response to the moment.”

The dramatic announcement, designed to keep people away from each other, stopped short of closing restaurants. Instead, the governor said they can also operate at reduced capacity and with curbside food service and at-home food deliveries.

Which one is good for mobile security VPN or antivirus?i'm using Comodo Mobile Antivirus. but it will slow down the phone as other AV seem to do.shouldn't we use Mobile VPN as it provides more securityVPN is a tool that can increase your privacy.

When you use a VPN, your Internet is routed through an encrypted tunnel between you and the VPN. The Internet Service Provider of the network you're connected to, such as your HOME network or public wi-fi, cannot see what websites you visit. The ISP can see that encrypted traffic is going between you and the VPN provider, and the volume of traffic, but cannot view the encrypted data. Depending on how your VPN is configured, your DNS requests may be visible to your ISP.

The websites you visit do not see your IP address in their access logs. Instead, they see the IP address of the VPN provider. This provides an additional level of privacy, because the IP address is shared by other VPN users, and is not associated with you in particular. Your VPN provider will usually log the websites you visit, however depending on the policy of the VPN service provider, these logs might be destroyed after a short period of time. Some VPN providers guarantee that logs are scrubbed after 24 hours, for example.

In some cases, you can use the VPN to bypass geographical restrictions, because the website thinks you are located at the geographical location of your VPN provider's IP address, rather than your own

Note that the VPN can provide privacy, but you should not rely upon it for guaranteed anonymity. The VPN service may divulge your activity if requested by a legal authority. Check the VPN terms of service for information about the provider's privacy policy.

I HOPE this information helps.

What's the Contra virus ? ?

But doesn't the ContraVirus appear to just be a spyware that pretends to be a legit anti-spyware?

Here is a LINK to a PC Mag thing just released
https://www.pcmag.com/news/how-amazon-makes-its-money
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Amazon is unique among giant US TECH corporations. It's not just an e-commerce and shopping giant, a cloud provider, a device-maker, or a software-and-services platform—it's ALSO a money-making leviathan with tentacles stretching into new INDUSTRIES and markets, which makes it tough to define.

This is from dictation.
WOW! Look what I have!
I got an atomic clock. No, not a nuclear reactor, it is a wrist watch that is tied by radio to the atomic clock in the state of Colorado.
I had never known there was such a thing available. How is it possible for an ordinary wristwatch to have a radio and it that can pick up a signal some 2000 miles away?
Well, I googled it and found out that it is something that has been available for a while and I just didn't know about it.
So here is my question. How can I find out more information about how this thing works? There is a lot of technology involved in this thing and it's hard to understand how it's even possible with this thing to work. Use a goal we had wristwatches that had a quartz element in them and Very accurate time. This one also, apparently, uses a quartz element for high precision. What is more about this wristwatch is its ability to synchronize a time signal at least once a day with the the national standard timebase.
Of course I know that there are standard broadcasts on 5, 10 and 15 MHz. However, these broadcasts are very in coverage according to the time of day.
What little information I found that this device uses the very low frequency, specifically 60 KHZ, to receive digital data that will update the clock at least once a day.
So I was wondering, does anybody here have a good technical knowledge of how this thing works? It's hard to believe the thing actually works. Furthermore, this and also has a small speaker and it and it talks to me and tells me what time it is when I press a button. So I am very proud of this gift someone gave to me.

I really enjoy having it and wondering how is it possible for something so small have so much built into it.

End. How technical do you want it? The atomic clock controls equipment in Colorado that provides a time code, this is used to modulate the 60 kHz carrier. Your watch has a quartz controlled oscillator in a clock chip. It also has an antenna, and the chip periodically decodes the broadcast time code and corrects the running clock in the watch. The low frequency of 60 kHz (long wavelength of 5000 metres) means that the ground wave of the transmitter can cover most of the continental United States.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_clock
It should be said that you don't really have 'an atomic clock on your wrist', despite what advertisements may say. What you have is an ordinary quartz clock which is corrected for drift periodically (sometimes only once a day) by an atomic clock broadcasting time signals 2000 miles away, with all that this implies - radio signals travel at the speed of light, so by the time the time code reaches your watch it is already (2000/186000) seconds old. That's nearly 11 milliseconds. So the accuracy will be less than that. But this is still better than a drifting quartz clock you have to correct manually.

if you want better precision, you can get clocks that get their time from GPS satellites - accuracies in the 100-nanosecond range are possible with undegraded GPS signals and correct receiver position. 1 millisecond is 1 million nanoseconds.
For me, 11 milliseconds is good. At my age it becomes less important.

It does not always update. It might be where I place it on the dresser.

Shouyld it be facing to the east?

On You Tube, but mine has white face.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOtjMrG0JnA
I found another link.
On Time 101006 Talking Atomic Watch Instructions Manual
https://www.manualslib.com/manual/1138184/On-Time-101006-Talking-Atomic-Watch.html
And more video s You Tube.
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=talking+watches
These are great for elderly and near blind people. Quote

It does not always update. It might be where I place it on the dresser.

The mission of the Engineering Laboratory of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is to promote U.S. innovation and industrial competitiveness through measurement science and standards for technology-intensive manufacturing, construction, and cyberphysical systems in ways that enhance economic prosperity and improve the quality of life. To SUPPORT this mission, the Engineering Laboratory has developed thrusts in smart manufacturing, construction, and cyberphysical systems; in sustainable and energy-efficient manufacturing materials and infrastructure; and in disaster-resilient buildings, infrastructure, and communities. The technical work of the Engineering Laboratory is performed in five divisions: Intelligent Systems; Materials and Structural Systems; Energy and Environment; Systems Integration; and Fire Research; and two offices: Applied Economics Office and Smart Grid Program Office. An Assessment of the National Institute of Standards and Technology Engineering Laboratory Fiscal Year 2014 assesses the scientific and technical work performed by the NIST Engineering Laboratory. This report evaluates the organization's technical programs, portfolio of scientific expertise within the organization, adequacy of the organization's facilities, equipment, and human resources, and the effectiveness by which the organization disseminates its program outp

Hi, looking for some suggestions. Can SOMEONE tell me the best colleges in the Toronto region? I came across a private college in Toronto. It's NEAR my home. Do they have good scholarship programs? Also, suggest some good CHOICES. THANKS in ADVANCE.

A friend of mine has received one of these keyboards and WOULD LIKE to sell it, does ANYONE have any suggestions for SELLING such an unusual item?

Hello,
Yse ago I used to like to listen to tAM radio. And that one time I was even a staff announcer on a local AM radio station radio station. But let's not talk about that now. I'm sure it would bore you.

While I'm working in front of my computer I like to listen to an AM radio station on a small PORTABLE radio I have on my desk. But the cheap little thing doesn't work too good when it's near my computer. It just takes up a lot of noise and trash from the computer unless I listen only to the strongest local station. I would like to listen some other radio stations in other cities. Years ago you would do that on AM radio.

But nowadays it seems like you can't do that unless you have a very good radio or your inside your car and listen on the car radio. For some reason car radios work better than desktop radios. Now let me get to the point.

I started listening to AM radio over the Internet.
For some reason it's HARD to make Google understand I want to hear a live radio broadcast with the voice of the person, not a summary of the stories they have carried US news items. In other words, I like to hear somebody's voice. It seems like there are some applications for android and Apple that let you pick for ANY radio station. But so far I haven't done very good at that.

Some thing like maybe:
TuneIn...
NPR One. ...
iHeartRadio. ...
SiriusXM.

So, here is my question. What is your favorite and greater Apple app that can be used if the Radio stations somewhere in your state or from anywhere that you like to listen to?
So far I have not been too happy with what I've tried. It seems like one of you try anything it always tries to distract you with something other than what you really want. I understand the need to have advertising to pay for the thing, but this should be some point where I can bypass I get around the advertising and just hear what I want to hear without the necessity of flicking and closing a bunch of pop-ups that come up on my device.

Any ideas?
What is your favorite mobile application for listening to radio?
My Android phone, Motorola Moto G3, has an FM radio chip, which uses the headphone wire as an antenna. I don't know how I'd use it on speaker, but I have an ordinary AM/FM radio at home, and in the UK most of the (remaining) AM stations are duplicated on FM anyhow.I don't listen to AM radio at all but when I sit at my computer, I listen to music from SiriusXM via Alexa (Echo Dot). I also listen to regular radio stations from radio.com via Alexa. Radio.com will let you listen via your browser as well, it has a bunch of News/Talk stations available. Radio.com also has apps for Android and iOS.A few weeks ago I discovered WebSDR, A WebSDR is a Software-Defined Radio receiver connected to the internet, allowing many listeners to listen and tune it simultaneously. SDR technology makes it possible that all listeners tune independently, and thus listen to different signals; this is in contrast to the many classical receivers that are already available via the internet.

More importantly, there is no interferenc from your computer

In the Netherlands

Code: [Select]http://websdr.ewi.utwente.nl:8901
Washington DC

Code: [Select]http://na5b.com:8901
Pennsylvania - Northeastern USA

Code: [Select]http://k3fef.com:8901
They don't have LW in the USA as we do in Europe. Yet on the na5b SDR I've heard Radio Algeria which broadcasts on 252 kHz Longwave, all be it very weakly. On the Twente SDR in the Netherlands I've heard WBBR 1130 am which is located in New York City.

Because of the time difference you won't be able to hear Algeria until the eastern seaboard is in darkness, which at the moment is around late evening UK time. The best time to listen for it is from around 01:00. The same goes for WBBR.

The frequency range is from 1kHZ to 28985 kHz.

Twente SDR











Here are even more Internet SDR Servers
https://skywavelinux.com/best-sdrservers.html

Many in North America, but they are all over the globe.

Thanks to all. Now I have more choices. Quote from: Geek-9pm on January 12, 2020, 07:30:01 PM

Here are even more Internet SDR Servers
https://skywavelinux.com/best-sdrservers.html

Many in North America, but they are all over the globe.

Thanks to all. Now I have more choices.

Because OCT 31 = DEC 25
Thank you. Now I KNOW.

Example:
You might want to write the date in a short form as:
1/5/20
instead of:
1/5/2020
..which can give rise to a forger expert the chance to post date the thing to another yer.
So 1/5/20 he might change to 1/5/2017 and really mess you up.
Think about it.
The warning came from a local TV station, KCRA in Sacramento.
Only ISSUE I have had thus far with 2020 is buying my dinner before work tonight at SUBWAY and their Credit Card Terminal tells everyone that their cards are expired although it processed the transaction correctly because the card is not expired. So somehow 2020 messed with the expiration date check of the credit card and oddly it still allows the transaction to process. The people there said the problem started on new years day on 1/1/2020DaveLembke,
You think they will fix it before the next instance?
That is coming i 3030. Quote from: Geek-9pm on January 03, 2020, 01:21:00 PM

1/5/20
instead of:
1/5/2020

This just happened on December 19, 2019

First FDA-approved vaccine for the prevention of Ebola virus

This is very important news for anybody who travels to CENTRAL Africa.
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The U.S. Food and Drug ADMINISTRATION announced today the approval of Ervebo, the first FDA-approved vaccine for the prevention of Ebola virus disease (EVD), caused by Zaire ebolavirus in individuals 18 years of age and older. Cases of EVD are very rare in the U.S., and those that have OCCURRED have been the result of infections acquired by individuals in other countries who then traveled to the U.S., or health care workers who became ILL after treating PATIENTS with EVD.

Let's say your child has a toothache or headache and you wonder if there any stores open today or any other holiday in your area.

Today is December 25. My granddaughter has a bad tooth ace

I asked Seri on my iPad.
What stores open major holidays?

Actually, you can try Seri on your APPLE device or even try Google voice using chrome on Windows.
I was surprised when I asked that because my granddaughter has a real bad toothache and she doesn't like the kind of home remedies we have. So I ask Sheri and found out that a local Rite Aid store is open.

And then I found that time magazine has a website where they posted a list of major stores all over the country that will be open on this holiday.

https://time.com/5754388/stores-open-on-christmas-2020/

Stop dictation.
We have a Price Chopper in our area that is open 24 hours and even holidays and I have had to run there before 10 miles away to get stuff because all local stores nearer to me are closed.


2 things that I added to my First Aid kit at home are :
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Anbesol Maximum Strength Oral Anesthetic Liquid

Butler G-U-M Orthodontic Wax, Mint

To help CUT down on paper waste you MAY use you 2021 Calendar over gin SEVERAL times. It is a fact. It does come again.
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Your 2021 calendar is reusable in:
2027, 2038, 2049, 2055, 2066, 2077, 2083, 2094, 2100, 2106, and 2117.

Okay, this is another rant.
Aand I am putting it here because it perhaps represents just my own thinking. However, my guess is that many of you are going to come to the same conclusion when you look over some of the stuff is coming out of the 2020 C ES in Las Vegas.

Here is one of the wackiest things someone has come up with. They claimed they have a wireless POWER system. In other words, you don't have to use any wire to recharge your cell phone or your tablet. The electricity will travel through the air using some kind of wireless technology and find its way to your smart phone or tablet and charge up the built-in battery. Here is what I have to say about this thank you. It is a crock of baloney.

No, I'm not talking about short range induction devices that hook energy from one PLACE to another by using magnetic transfer. That's only good for a few inches or centimeters. They claim they can transmit useful power over a DISTANCE of 2 m or more. That is very hard to believe.

Oh yes, they can do it. But the issue is of cost effectiveness and efficiency just to transmit save 5 W of power over a distance of a couple of meters would require usually 25 W of power just to do that and even then it would require a special antenna to focus the energy in a beam.

Am I the only one that thinks this way?

Unless they have discovered some kind of new technology. You just cannot transmit wireless energy any distance without losing a lot of efficiency.

Okay. That's my rant for today. The plane that one company has that they can transmit power wirelessly is full of holes.
End of dictation.I imagine it may be possible via the use of high-energy, non-ionizing RF could allow for induction over a LONGER range with less loss. and integrating some sort of communication tech such as Bluetooth could provide a way for a focussed beam to be distributed to devices. that can charge using it.

This one seemed promising until the CEO babbled about Nikola Tesla. Oh Well, add that company to bin along with countless others created by Tesla "Free Energy" whackjobs.

I forgot Links.
The hype:
https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200102005145/en/CES-2020-Powercast-Showcases-Over-the-Air-Wireless-Power
The facts:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless_power_transfer
The power yu can transfer over wireless link is very limited.

We've all been through it.....
This lady however took a different approach.

http://www.break.com/index/chick-refuses-to-be-towed.htmlOMG HAAAAAAAAAAHAAAAAAAA thats soooooooo funny omg omg HHHAHAHAHAAAGood one....LOLFan-freakin-tastic.

Wish we knew the final outcome tho!

What the heck? LolFrom now on I'm also posting videos on 'other' section LOLHmmmm.....Patio, -500 points.

I'll move it.....unless there is a reason it's in the Other section and not in Off Topic? Now I can rest in peace......I was just jokin....GOSH now uncle Scrooge will spank lui, dui, yuey lol....anyone who understands this is uncle scrooge for me.What is HAPPENING with patio?
Recently, he:
1. Locked innocent thread.
2. Received "F" from sub-machine GUNS knowledge.
3. Now, this....
Quote from: Broni on December 11, 2008, 08:14:20 PM

2. Received "F" from sub-machine guns knowledge.

What is happening with patio?

OMG HAAAAAAAAAAHAAAAAAAA thats soooooooo funny omg omg HHHAHAHAHAAA

Quote from: Broni on December 11, 2008, 08:14:20 PM

What is happening with patio?

And he actually talked about Lui,Duey,Yuey from duck tales cartoon recently in one thread!!! OMG!!! Now who is gonna play the serious person on CH!!!!!!