tomfanning

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by tomfanning 6y ago
Or, ironically, too close to the exchange. https://www.choose.co.uk/guide/exchange-only-line-fibre-broa...
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by tomfanning 6y ago
Not dissimilar to how face masks are being made compulsory in shops by the British government. In 11 days' time.
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by tomfanning 6y ago
"Crew Dragon" has been added to the Star Walk 2 app on iOS. Just had a pass over the UK (not visible). This gives an AR view of the sky. It's on the same trajectory as ISS, some number of minutes behind it.
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by tomfanning 6y ago
Uh - I've been using Raspbian + .NET Core for ages. Works fine. pi@pi:~ $ uname -m armv7l
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by tomfanning 7y ago
These sites are all highly likely to be using something known as TLEs (two line element files) or "keps", which come from NORAD, based on radar observations, for their positional data. https://www.celestrak.com/NOR
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by tomfanning 8y ago
Allow me to point you to SDRplay who have a line of USB receivers that are far more capable (more sensitive, less overwhelmed by strong signals, wider capture bandwidth, wider frequency range) than any of the RTL dongles, which only cover s
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by tomfanning 8y ago
You are aware it's an animal?
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by tomfanning 8y ago
For a good experience may I suggest one of these adapters [1], a genuine NES controller [2], a good NES emulator for your platform, the original Tetris NES ROM, a PC that plugs into a TV, and a TV that has "game mode" to minimise
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by tomfanning 8y ago
Airglow! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airglow
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by tomfanning 8y ago
A good example of this: http://www.home-automation-community.com/arduino-low-power-h...
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by tomfanning 8y ago
£60k is a relatively decent IT salary in the UK. It's probably a couple of junior security researchers. But your point is still valid.
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by tomfanning 8y ago
I'm an amateur radio guy in the UK. I like RF-quiet locations. Not far from me is an ancient thoroughfare up in the hills - Ridgeway. In parts it's relatively remote. I drove up there recently to try and get away from the urban no
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by tomfanning 8y ago
Backblaze's backup product doesn't support backing up a NAS. It is for backing up a single Windows or Mac computer, and priced as such. They state this policy is to avoid abuse. Fair enough. Backblaze's object storage product
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by tomfanning 8y ago
Would love to know what licensing regime / category they are using for this. It definitely isn't ham, because that's non-commercial only. The fact that log period antennas are in use is interesting too - low gain but directio
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by tomfanning 8y ago
As in potentially disruptive to critical-to-life public safety systems, e.g. air traffic control, emergency services communications, I suppose. Square waves = theoretically infinite harmonics at positive multiples of the fundamental frequen
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by tomfanning 9y ago
Honestly, the best route in is to find a local club. For the US: http://www.arrl.org/find-a-club For the UK: http://rsgb.org/main/get-started-in-amateur-radio/first-step... Most nations have a na
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by tomfanning 9y ago
A wireless access point is a completely transparent bridge between wired and wireless networks. If you want a DHCP server in your Wi-Fi "box", you likely want it to do NAT and DNS as well, and that is a "wireless router"
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by tomfanning 9y ago
There's no way these adaptors aren't vulnerable, given the nature of them. In my opinion. Extracting the signal from the mains and feeding it into GNU Radio for demodulation, then subsequent attack, would be an interesting exercis
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by tomfanning 9y ago
There's an altitude slider bottom right.
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by tomfanning 9y ago
Kanban is the name of a well-known process management method. The word is Japanese - 看板 - literally meaning "signpost" or "billboard" (thanks Wikipedia).
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by tomfanning 9y ago
Apart from them taking 7+ years to not implement the tiniest of UI features https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/JT-4526
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by tomfanning 9y ago
Ham radio. 300 baud packet over HF (thousands of miles) is still a thing, as are newer data modes such as PSK31 and the JT family. I'm actively working on 1200 baud projects over VHF FM now. Back in the day BBS was very much in. These
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by tomfanning 10y ago
I find I agree. - lossy vs lossless codecs (PSTN isn't analogue end-to-end any more, but is lossless as far as I'm aware. VoIP seems to have been about squeezing as much traffic down the pipe as possible, at the expense of quali
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by tomfanning 10y ago
Probably depends on how much bandwidth you are interested in seeing at any given time. If < ~2MHz and budget is everything, this sort of thing will get you started http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/272267647631 These guys
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by tomfanning 11y ago
> I don't think Windows users appreciate the importance of a good command line accessible over SSH for managing headless systems. You should check out this link - production quality OpenSSH for Windows planned for H1 2016. https:&#
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by tomfanning 12y ago
And the iPhone, Samsung Galaxy and others, at least assisted GPS + GLONASS http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GLONASS#Receivers
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by tomfanning 12y ago
I don't believe that it is valid per RFC 1034 to set the root domain record to be a CNAME. I found this out when I asked this question a while back: http://serverfault.com/questions/55528/set-root-domain-recor