gcubebuddy wrote to hyjinx <=-
The episode is called 'The Underground' and it focusses on the
beginnings of the Hacking, Phreaking, Anarchy, Virii, Cracking/Warez and Carding scenes. So, if you want to know where the darkweb came from, how
also who could forget the classic book "Hacker Crackdown - Law and disorder in the Electronic Fronteer" and Captian Crunch lol
I think I still have a copy of that Steve Jackson's Games book that
caused the Secret Service all those problems (i.e. having the Judge
spend 40 minutes berating the chief investigator about not knowing the law).
gcubebuddy wrote to Dr. What <=-
I think I still have a copy of that Steve Jackson's Games book that
caused the Secret Service all those problems (i.e. having the Judge
spend 40 minutes berating the chief investigator about not knowing the law).
wow interesting. i actaully have not read that one yet. i will have to look that up.
poindexter FORTRAN wrote to Adept <=-
I dunno. I was thinking, "I wonder how good he was with Graffiti".
Back then, my handwriting started looking like Graffiti.
These are also the days of computers with buttons labeled 'turbo' ... woot :)
haha i wish that some manufacture would remake those old tower cases for modern computers. they always looked so cool.
there's a trend these days to fit new gear into old cases it seems too.. I'm not sure how I feel about that.
there's a trend these days to fit new gear into old cases it seems too.. I'm not sure how I feel about that.
gcubebuddy wrote to Avon <=-
Ya i have kind of been leaning more towards building new systems off
RPi, and getting old software to run on them. eventually alot of the
old Commodore 64s, Tandy TRS-80s and the old systems we had, are eventually going to break down. i figure if we retrofit a "platform"
like the RPi for those old systems, then we can even expand the capabilities of what the old softwares can do.
On 15 Sep 2021, Avon said the following...
there's a trend these days to fit new gear into old cases it seems too.. I'm not sure how I feel about that.
Pretty ingenius if I do say so... and you're not going to find a cleaner power supply for a ham radio than one from a PC.
Spectre wrote to N1uro <=-
Boggle, switchmode supplies are notoriously noisy.. even with filtering you'll often get some level of ripple going on. What they have going
for them is far better efficiency than any linear supply.
I could be completely wrong, but one imagines that HAM would have
similar requirements to audio supplies.. you don't want to induce
ripple or hum into the equipment via the power supply... there's a good reason audio equipment still uses toroidal and similar power supplies.
For the purpose of amateur radio, linear supplies tend to be a better source of power.
You can limit the ripple through heavier filtering. HAM radio is by far anything but audiophile type quality. You're more dealing with transmitting power and consistency first, audio quality second.
Spectre wrote to N1uro <=-
Ahh I see my first problem. HAM + Amateur, have always meant the same thing in my mind.. sounds like its more different than I expected...
More power Mr Spotty, if I give her any more, you'll blow the filters cap'n... I don't care we need the extra kilometer coverage ;)
there's a trend these days to fit new gear into old cases it seems to I'm not sure how I feel about that.
That reminds me of a few years back when everyone seemed to be stuffing
a Raspberry Pi into an altoids containers. It was neat, but I didn't really get the appeal.
I've seen some cool packet stations users have built with a radio and a
Pi built into an older PC case using the PC's power supply for juice. Pretty ingenius if I do say so... and you're not going to find a cleaner power supply for a ham radio than one from a PC.
Avon wrote to N1uro <=-
Very true. I like the idea of what they are doing as you describe.
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