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Submission + - Unidentified transmission on 14.250 MHz

Submitted by Smiffa2001 on Friday January 09, 2009 @08:22PM

Smiffa2001 writes: The MAKE: blog is running a story with a YouTube video showing a strange repeating tone over the 20-metre 14.250 MHz band, as recorded by a ham radio enthusiast. One Make: commenter points out a forum thread here but there's not much else there or anywhere else to point to either the source or nature of the transmission, which by all accounts is still active. Given the vast store of knowledge and experience reading these hallowed pages, is there anything that the /. community could add to solving the mystery?

Comment Re:Linux (Score 1) 221

by Smiffa2001 on Saturday September 17, 2005 @08:34AM (#13583911) Attached to: Reducing The Negative Impact of Laptops

I think that if the user can't figure out how to use ctrl+alt+del, it's not a problem with the software.

Why not? If you couldn't work out how to start your car, would it be your fault? It seems to be what you're implying...
There's too much reliance on the "User is always wrong" approach in producing software and interfaces for it and that if they have a problem, they should just "deal with it". Consumer devices that take this approach just generally fail to catch on. If something says "Press Ctrl+Alt+Del to begin", they _might_ get pressed together or they might be pressed sequentially. Stuff like this gets missed out time and time again.

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