• 30Sep

  October is upon us…Got your Ear’s on

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  The crisp coolness of a fall evening, the turning of the leaves(well back east since all we have is winter and summer but that?s another blog), and the squelch tail of a radio it must be October. And with the coming of October come some of the greatest things the mankind has devised, Halloween, Oktoberfest (Sept 21st to October 6th click for more information**), and last but not least it?s National 10-code month.

  Ah 10-codes the right of passage for every Trucker, Jammer, Ham, CB operator, Cop, Fire Fighter, and anyone else that uses a radio. Now most people have no clue on what the 10-codes mean so this is what I?m going to do for you. Every day this month I?m going to put a code up that represents the day (October 1st is 10-1 day). You get a definition and some examples of use.

  Now you might be asking ?why the fuck are you doing this?? Well the answer is simple I can and if someone can get national headlines for talk like a pirate day(Sept 19th) I?m going to try for National 10-code month. Plus it?s not like it takes a lot of time.

  So buckle up Sparky turn on your radio and listen in for the Rat Bastard, Because I?m wall to wall and tree top tall out here on the super slab, keeping the shinny side up and the rubber side down and I?m gone.
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• 28Sep

  When it Rains, It Pours?

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  As most of you have read, I have had a fairly challenging week. Now work stress is one thing and personal stress is something completely different. I don?t know who or what I pissed of but why is it when you start to get your head above water and catch up on your bills or start to have money to buy things you need to get on, something comes out of left field and hits you upside the head.

  This morning after I changed $160 dollars worth of oxygen sensors on my Tahoe, I discovered that there was a nice 6-inch piece of tread missing from the right rear tire. Oh great, I bet you can guess how happy I was to discover that one. So now I have to purchase two new tires for the rear of my truck ($250), since you should not run different tires on the same axle. You can run different tires front and back though. What pisses me of though is that I was planning on buying tires in November, so I wasn?t expecting this expense. In fact I just submitted all my bills for October payments this morning while I was waiting for parts, so this paycheck is going to be way f?n tight. I might even have to go to the check-cashing place. I hope I don?t because that a vicious cycle that?s tough to get out of.

  Now I know that some of you are groaning and saying to yourselves hey you don?t pay rent. Now that?s true but I still have my bills, like my car payment, PG&E, Insurance, PacBell, Cell phone, DirecTV and credit card payments. So back off. Sorry I need to justify myself.

  Oh well I will live I always get through this shit, but still when your not expecting it unforeseen expenses still hurt even when you have a bit of disposable income.

  This is more of a bitch rant rather than something makes sense I know, but I feel better now after typing it up.

• 27Sep

  103 Filters….

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  103 Spam filters I have created on my server to block the loads of shit that comes my way.

  I have worked long and hard to keep the amount of Spam and other crap down in my inbox. I think I’m doing a pretty good job at it. I’ve had my main email address since 1995 and at this time I’m only getting about 10 to 15 messages a day and only about 2 or 3 of them are Spam.

  It didn’t used to be this quite in my inbox. There was a time that I was getting well over 70 Spam?s a day and it was driving me nuts. Granted a lot stopped since the fall of the dotcom’s. Hell at least one good thing came out of it the some of spammer became unemployed. Now days every morning I check my email and if there is a little piece of Spam waiting there for me, BAM it gets added to the filtered list.

• 26Sep

  Worst Day Ever.

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  Where do I start, Today has been a total nightmare. It didn?t start off so bad except that I had to drive to BFE(Stockton) to remove some old DCS equipment(Digital Cross Connect System) from a Cell Site. Other that having to drive a little over a hour to get to the site things didn?t seem that bad; yet.
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• 25Sep

  Now I want this kind of Bandwidth…

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  Someone had way too much time on their hands to figure this one out.

  The human genome is about 3,120,000,000 base pairs long, so half of that is in each spermatozoa — 1,560,000,000 base pairs.
  Each side of these base pairs can either be an adenine-thymine or a guanine-cytosine bond, and they can be aligned either direction, so there are four choices. Four possibilities for a value means it can be fully represented with two bits; 00 = guanine, 01 = cytosine, and so forth.

  The figures that I’ve read state the number of sperm in a human ejaculation to be anywhere from 50 to 500 million. I’m going to go with the number 200,000,000 sperm cells, but if anyone knows differently, please tell me.

  Putting these together, the average amount of information per ejaculation is 1.560*109 * 2 bits * 2.00*108, which comes out to be 6.24*1017 bits. That’s about 78,000 terabytes of data! As a basis of comparison, were the entire text content of the Library of Congress to be scanned and stored, it would only take up about 20 terabytes. If you figure that a male orgasm lasts five seconds, you get a transmission rate of 15,600 tb/s. In comparison, an OC-96 line (like the ones that make up much of the backbone of the internet) can move .005 tb/s. Cable modems generally transmit somewhere around 1/5000th of that.

  If you consider signal to noise, though, the figures come out much differently. If only the single sperm cell that fertilizes the egg counts as signal, you get (1.560*109 * 2 bits) / 5 s = 6.24*108 bits/s, or somewhere in the neighborhood of 78 Mb/s. Still a great deal more bandwidth than your average cable modem, but not nearly the 5,000,000 Mb/s of the OC-96.

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