Good bye Dail-up! HELLO HIGH SPEED, but...
Okay, just ordered the at&t/yahoo! dls pro pakage; only problem is I'm clueless on how to connect two computers...
A pc in one room and my Mac in another... the package includes a wireless gateway, and I'm not sure what other equipment or devices I need or how to get the connection/signal to the Mac. i.e. What's compatible? Not interested in sharing files or printers... only the connection.
Naturally the best and cheapest would be nice, but at this point all the info has been bewildering. Is it complicated to self install, because that's what I signed up for?
thanks for any help!
It appears the airport extreme is the only way to go, but is it just me or does the first and second sentence contradict itself? How can I install the card unless there's an airport card slot?
Also. according to the next requirement - does that mean I need the airport extreme base station as well? I think the wireless gateway should work ( enables any computer with an 802.11g or 802.11b wireless adapter to access ) but just trying to be sure.
System Requirements:
• The AirPort Extreme Card can be installed only in computers that are AirPort Extreme ready. AirPort Extreme Cards cannot be used in AirPort-ready computers with an AirPort Card slot.
• Requires Mac OS X 10.2.7 or later and AirPort Admin Utility software version 3.1.1 or later to administer an AirPort Extreme Base Station.
• Wireless printing over USB requires Mac OS X v10.2.7 or later.
This AirPort Extreme Card is not compatible with Power Mac G5 Dual and Power Mac G5 Quad computers introduced in October 2005. To add an AirPort Extreme card to one of these systems, please contact an Apple Retail Store or other Authorized Apple Service Provider.
The scary thing is I'm gonna do a self-install.
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Hello community,
Having Captivate 2, I'm wondering why this happens... It
worked in Captivate 1 perfectly.
I record and modify the audio recordings externally from
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I'm working on).
In Captivate 1, to have a low file size of the SWF file, I
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Now, once I publish the project in an audio quality of 96
kbps the blurry effect is gone. But the file size increased
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StefanDitto...
But my issue is that they sound great in preview but slow way
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Hello,
I have been trying for the past week to get High Speed Internet with Verizon. Two times I received an email saying… Although your line qualified for High Speed Internet service during the initial phases of the order process, unfortunately, we are unable to provide you with Internet access on your line ending in 0602 .
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http://www.dslreports.com/faq/1214
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I am writing control software for a process that is usually dull and
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channels at 1000 Hz. My approach so far is to configure my
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in the 'high-speed DAQ' mode, the program logs every point to
disk. In the 'low-speed' mode, I am picking off every nth (in
this case, 10th) point to log to disk. At all times, I update my
GUI indicators on the front panel at a maximum of 4 times per second (I
find that anything faster results in an uncomfortable display), so I
fill up a FIFO with data in my acquisition / logging loop, and read the
FIFO in the display loop. The data in my GUI display can be up to
250 milliseconds off, but I find this acceptable . As a side note, I
need buffered Daq with hardware timing, as software timing results in
lost data at 1000 Hz.
This all works fine and dandy, but I am convinced that it is not the
most elegant solution in the world. Has anyone developed a
buffered DAQ loop where the scan rate can be adjusted during
operation? I would like to change the rate of the E-Series card
rather than relying on down-sampling as I am now doing.
The reason I have concern is that at the moment I am simulating my AI
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always miss it. Granted, while it is unlikely that my measured
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CLD, CPLIAdding to Alan's answer:
One of the problems that comes with these tricks for variable-rate acquisition is being able to match up sample data with the time that it was sampled.
If you weren't using either of E-series board's counters, there is a nifty solution to this! You'll be using 1 of the counters to generate the variable-rate sampling clock. You can then use the 2nd counter to perform a buffered period measurement on the output of the 1st counter. This gives you a hw-timed measurement of every sampling interval. You would need to keep track of a cumulative sum of these periods to generate a hw-accurate timestamp value for each sample.
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I ran the Java download for Google anyway and it only took about an hour. The speedtester results are as follows:
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I recently upgraded the hard drive on my 2007 Mac Mini to a 320Gb Western Digital Scorpio Black. Since then, the computer's fan has been very annoying. The fan is not running at 100% all the time, but it ramps up very quickly when the computer is under the lightest of loads. Simply scrolling a webpage will send the fan speed up to around 4500 - 5000 rpm.
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How do I setup high speed internet on Sun Solaris 10?
Hello,
I have comcast high speed internet. It doesn't work automatically. How can I setup my high speed internet connection to work with Sun Solaris 10?
MateuszPickup a broadband router, made by dlink, linksys, netgear, SMC or Cisco. If possible get a wireless with 4 port switch built in. This will give you added flexibility if you happen to get another system or a wireless laptop. You want a gateway router that does NAT, SPI firewall, DHCP.
Plug it into your cable modem then into your sun box, default settings on the router will generally self configure to the broadband you connect to and there will be no problems. However if you are using a DSL or bigpond they require a username and password to get the line active, this requires an initial login to the firewall to pick PPoE on the WAN side.
Different brands default to different 'non routeable' internal IP's, all are 192.168.x.x, smc defaults to 192.168.1.x or 192.168.2.x depending on release date, Linksys defaults to 192.168.2.x as does linksys, Netgear defaults to 192.168.1.x, the owners manual will usually tell you this.
They are generally made to default to a windows box so configuring a unix box has to be done either manually or with the dhcp option. www.dslreports.com has alot of good vendor specific information on configuring these things.
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nameserver xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
nameserver xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
copy nsswitch.dns nsswitch.conf
pick an address in the 192.168.2 range like .25 and add it in the /etc/hosts file, create a hostname.hme0 file with the host name thats in the hosts file and reboot.
Then try to ping the router, if no ping then the chang the 3td octet 1 instead of 2 and try again.
I've never tried doing the .dhcp thing but I've never used dhcp for a sun box before because all I do is servers.
I think I'd try the DHCP thing first then get to the router to get all it's information and write it down. Usually the ISP will populate the router with dns servers and any dns requests are answered by the router in the dhcp configuration. I think thats about it... -
I need to count intermittent high speed pulses from an outside source with cFP-CTR-502 and Labview 8.2 . I've found example code for generating pulses and creating intricate count setups but no straightforward examples of a simple counter. Any suggestions?
Hello tinfish,
I could not find a simple example that implements simple counting either, but it should be straightforward enough for us to try. Do you have the CTR module configured properly in MAX? If so, can you monitor the channels on your CTR 502 for input? Try connecting a square wave or some other digital pulse to the terminal to test the functionality of the counter module first (before programming). If you monitor the input channels with somethign connected you should see the count increment each time it sees a rising edge (assuming default configuration).
Once you've verified that everything works in MAX, you can set up your CTR module in a LV 8.2 project. If you need help with this, refer to the help document (look in the "Configuring FieldPoint in LabVIEW" section):
C:\Program Files\National Instruments\FieldPoint\documentation\Online Help\fplv.chm
You should be able to just read a channel tag from your CTR 502 using an FP Read VI. (Simply drag the channel from your project onto the block diagram). Since counting is the default behavior of the 502, there is no special programming involved to make it work.
I hope this helps -- if it's too high-level we can talk details about specific questions you have. Have a good one!
Charlie S.
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