Text 7395, 62 rader
Skriven 2006-09-07 19:58:28 av Kenneth Parrish (8:8/2)
   Kommentar till text 7384 av Maurice Kinal (1:261/38.9)
Ärende: Re: gps navi.  was:Re: ttylinux
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-=> Maurice Kinal wrote to Kenneth Parrish <=-

 MK> Hey Kenneth!
hi man

 KP> A:      The Royal Canadian Mounted Police.
 KP> Q:      What was the greatest achievement in taxidermy?
 KP> %%
 KP> \/

 MK> :-)

 MK> There was a story circulating about when the RCMP was going to
 MK> sell the mechandising rights to Disney (don't know if it actually
 MK> happened) that the RCMP would now officially be a Mickey Mouse
 MK> operation.
maybe 'insider humour', but the big mickey mouse shoes would not fit in the
stirrups.

 KP> i might look at this on google earth (tm) some day. keep the
 KP> point purty (tm)

 MK> For sure.  It does show up on Google Earth, even Coffin Point,
 MK> but my place is blocked by tall trees.  My nearest neighbour's
 MK> place shows though but only the parts not covered by tree tops.
 MK> I am too special for Google Earth. :-)
some local news has shown pictures from ge :)

[ dsl usage up ]
 MK> You're lucky then.  It's too late for us but you never know.
 MK> Telus might decide we require further gouging.
a wireless isp came here this year or late last, methinks

 KP> are the [ gps ] data 32 bit ?

 MK> Last time I checked the output was all 8 bit, actually 7 bit but
 MK> it still took up 8 bits per character, and the data sentences
 MK> were 256 bytes, if I recall correctly, with four sentences per
 MK> record.  Beats me if they still do it that way.  It has been
afaik you need two or three records.

 MK> awhile since I last looked, around 10 years ago with an expensive
 MK> commercial marine GPS reciever/antenna I had as a loaner from a
 MK> geophysicist working out of Houston Texas.  I Linuxed it up on a
 MK> laptop for him and he sent a buddy up here to collect it later
 MK> along with a laser printer I also Linuxed up for him while I was
 MK> at it.  It all worked great.  No GUI needed as all good things
 MK> should be.  Stinkin' GUI's.
it'd be interesting to do with a contemporary portable device with gps and usb.

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