The Noisy Cabin: Picocells in Planes

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Top Tip: My PC is too noisy!

Top Tip: My PC is too noisy! 04/13/2004 08:34 AM
I've got a self-built PC with a AMD XP 2200+ processor, installed with the retail fan. Case is a 3 year old Antec case with 300W power supply. The setup is fine except that its rather noisy. Seems to always have a "humming" noise. I'll like to eliminate or at lease reduce the noise level.

A device that blanks out noisy TV ads!

A device that blanks out noisy TV ads! 06/13/2004 02:44 AM
NewKerala.com Jun 13 2004 5:42AM GMT

Swedish Woman Complains About Noisy Sex
(AP)

Swedish Woman Complains About Noisy Sex
(AP) 06/03/2004 04:59 PM
AP - A Swedish woman, tired of the noise made by her amorous neighbors in the apartment above, took her quest for some peace and quiet to an official environmental health committee.

FAQ | Ways of quieting your noisy fans

FAQ | Ways of quieting your noisy fans 04/25/2004 04:13 AM
Philadelphia Inquirer Apr 25 2004 7:35AM GMT

Invisible Yet Accessible, Your Noisy
Family Printer

Invisible Yet Accessible, Your Noisy
Family Printer 01/22/2004 02:12 AM
When two or more computer users are sharing a networked peripheral like a printer, there can be a turf war of sorts, since peripherals that connect using U.S.B. cables must be situated no more than about five yards from at least one of the computers on the network.

A little time and money can hush noisy
PC fans

A little time and money can hush noisy
PC fans 12/31/2004 10:24 AM
IHT Dec 31 2004 1:39PM GMT

Burning down the Log Cabin

Burning down the Log Cabin 06/03/2004 09:18 AM
Assailing the "cabal of geniuses" who cooked up the gay marriage ban, one of the GOP's only openly gay leaders breaks with his party.

311, the Next Generation: Moving Beyond
Noisy Neighbors and Pothole Complaints

311, the Next Generation: Moving Beyond
Noisy Neighbors and Pothole Complaints 07/19/2004 11:36 AM
The Bloomberg administration is planning an expansion of the city's information hot line, just in time for the Republican National Convention.

Noisy Sex Session Awakens Entire Street
(Reuters)

Noisy Sex Session Awakens Entire Street
(Reuters) 08/31/2004 10:13 AM
Reuters - A pair of young lovers so annoyed their neighbors with a noisy sex session that police had to go and ask them to lower the volume, police said on Tuesday.

ev's bl0g cabin

ev's bl0g cabin 07/27/2004 12:49 AM
this is very close to where a spaceship from krypton landed with a baby ev inside

Secret cabin to be destroyed

Secret cabin to be destroyed 07/26/2004 03:50 AM
Secret Cabin to Be Destroyed .. Paradise Lost .. E.L.M.O.T.M

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Noisy Channels Models Provide Short
Answers to FAQs

Noisy Channels Models Provide Short
Answers to FAQs 09/17/2004 08:43 AM
Noisy Channels Models Provide Short Answers to FAQs
http://www.economist.com/printedition/displayStory.cfm?Story_ ID=3127462

Eric Brill is guiding his Microsoft research team to build a system capable of providing 50-word answers to questions such as "What are the rules for qualifying for the Academy Awards?" by using an approach called a "noisy channel model." Noisy channel models, which are already used in spell-checking and speech-recognition systems, work by modeling the transformation between what a user means (such as the word he or she intended to type) and what he does (the garbled word as it was actually typed). By analyzing many pairs of correct and misspelled words using statistical techniques, it's possible to predict how such transformations work in general cases, and to design a system to work the process backwards, so that, given a misspelled word, the system can guess what that word is most likely to be a misspelling of. Brill's question-answering system works in the same general way. Many question-and-answer pairs exist on the Web in the form of FAQs ("frequently asked questions"), and Dr. Brill trained his system using a million such pairs to create a model that, given a question, can work out various structures that the answer could take, and then to use those structures to generate search queries. The matching documents found on the Web are then scanned for possible answers to the question.

Germans wake entire street with noisy
sex session (Reuters)

Germans wake entire street with noisy
sex session (Reuters) 08/31/2004 04:33 AM
Reuters - A pair of young lovers so annoyed their neighbours with a noisy sex session that police had to go and ask them to lower the volume.

Baby steps from the Log Cabin
Republicans

Baby steps from the Log Cabin
Republicans 08/30/2004 01:35 PM
The Log Cabin Republicans stepped outside the GOP's big tent Monday morning -- but just a little bit. Amid rumors that the pro-gay Republican group will decide not to endorse George W. Bush, the Log Cabiners scheduled a press conference Monday morning to make a "major announcement." The anticlimactic news: The group is launching a television ad today warning that the right wing is hijacking the GOP.

Air cabin security policy eased

Air cabin security policy eased 04/03/2005 06:00 PM
Ministers relax rules on British airline passengers carrying sharp objects on flights.

A row, a racket, a rumpus in the old
white cabin...

A row, a racket, a rumpus in the old
white cabin... 04/15/2004 03:57 AM
Pumpkin Soup (the best you ever tasted). Tatty Ratty. Bear Under the Stairs. Helen Cooper writes and illustrates some beautiful children's books. This is a fascinating site about her books and her writing process. Take a look inside Pumpkin Soup and make sure to find it next time you're at the bookstore. Even if you don't have children... Then there was trouble. A horrible squabble. A row, a racket, a rumpus in the old white cabin.

Avalanche Kills Couple in Idaho Cabin

Avalanche Kills Couple in Idaho Cabin 01/02/2004 07:22 PM
Reuters via Wired News Jan 2 2004 6:44PM ET

Xeni Flies Zero G #9: You are now free
to float about the cabin.

Xeni Flies Zero G #9: You are now free
to float about the cabin. 09/15/2004 12:12 AM
Xeni Jardin: In about 12 hours, I'll be heading into freefall. Before I go, some sage advice for first-time weightless flyers from BoingBoing pal David Rich, a researcher at the UC Berkeley Microgravity Combustion Labs. WTF are Microgravity Combusion Labs? Glad you asked. David says,

"The focus of our work is flammability behavior of materials that could be used for the construction of space craft or facilities on the moon or Mars. We generally look at composite materials like carbon fiber or fiberglass since these have seen increased usage in spacecraft design owing to their high strength and light weight. Unfortunately these materials burn more readily than metals. They also have different burning behavior in zero gravity than on the ground. For these reasons, an understanding of their behavior under conditions found in space craft is important. [Research missions aboard the NASA KC-135 "vomit comet'] allow us to simulate those conditions for short periods and gain some understanding of material flammability behavior. I've been on two previous campaigns and I'm scheduled for an aditional set of flights in October. We are scheduled to send this project up on the ISS in 2007."

And for those about to float, David says:

"Sit with your back against one wall of the aircraft with your head completely motionless for the first few parabolas. Each time you enter the low gravity period you will float up the side of the aircraft so have something to grab and stabilize yourself. Many people find the 2g pullup period to be the nausiating part so continue staring at the opposite side of the aircraft well into the pullup period.

After a few of those you can start moving around but no sudden head movements especially during the pullup. Try not to get your head into an orientation of looking at your feet or above your head, and no rapid head movements.

NASA provides participants with Scopolomine (an anti-nausea medication) and Pseudoephedrine (a stimulant to combat drowsiness resulting from the Scopolomine). I took more than the flight MD's recomended on the first day to play it safe. I strongly suggest you take these medications.

Some frequent fliers eat ginger snaps on the morning of the flight. I ate a light breakfast of yogurt and granola with green tea and that seemed to keep my stomach calm.

If you get sick, don't get discouraged, just sit against the wall for a few more parabolas until you feel better. If you really have a problem, they will get you back to a seat and things should improve. Above all, don't get too stressed about the prospect of getting sick, being relaxed is very helpful."

While the combo of Scopalamine and Dexedrine are a popular measure against "protein loss" (we're talking spacespeak for heave, hurl, keck, lose it, puke, regurgitate, retch, ruminate, spew, spit up, throw up, upchuck), I'm not taking any scopedex speedballs tomorrow morning. In part, because Zero-G Corp.'s "adventure travel" flights seem to focus more on creature comfort -- they're designed for maximum fun, in contrast with the NASA flights, which function more as research missions. It's my understanding that the parabolas will be shorter in duration, and fewer in number (15-20, instead of 30-40) than on the KC-135 flights. These and other factors may reduce the likelihood of lost lunch. Then again, maybe not.

But instead of amphetamines and belladona derivatives (not that there's anything wrong with 'em) I'll be packing ginger chewing gum at the recommendation of NPR "Day to Day" host Noah Adams, and a fist full of Jolly Ranchers I received from the elderly Italian lady who lives next door. She said they always calm her stomach mid-flight. I think she's been holding out on me. All along, I had her pegged as a mild-mannered, arugula-growing, opera-loving, pistachio-cake-baking WWII refugee from Palermo. Secretly, lo these many years, she's been logging those frequent zero-G flyer miles behind my back. That's the thing about experienced space-travelers (Swift Float Veterans for Truth?) -- you just never know. Until they hit you with the secret handshake.

Finally, a moment of sigfile zen. Snipped from the contrails of David Rich's emails:

Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU
Walden, 1854.

Image: 1957 ad for "Rid-Jid" ironing tables -- Link to more background on the ad.

Previous "Xeni Flies Zero-G" posts: 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1.

How-to clinics provide treatment for
cabin fever

How-to clinics provide treatment for
cabin fever 02/07/2003 10:41 AM
Too depressed even for that? Have access to a computer connected to the World Wide Web? Use the search mode (Google is particularly helpful). ...

Cabin Door Pops Open During Flight (AP)

Cabin Door Pops Open During Flight (AP) 08/27/2004 01:59 PM
AP - Passengers had a terrifying moment when a cabin door blew open at 500 feet during a Boston-to-Nantucket flight, but the airline said no one was in danger because the cabin wasn't pressurized.

3G Test Flight to Evaluate In-Cabin
Mobile Phone Use

3G Test Flight to Evaluate In-Cabin
Mobile Phone Use 07/20/2004 06:32 AM
3G Jul 20 2004 9:40AM GMT

For the soldiers: Log Cabin creates
online support forum

For the soldiers: Log Cabin creates
online support forum 12/25/2004 04:49 PM
Thecabin.net - Sat Dec 25, 09:05 am GMT

Log Cabin Republicans Vote to Withhold
Endorsement from President Bush

Log Cabin Republicans Vote to Withhold
Endorsement from President Bush 09/08/2004 02:23 PM
Log Cabin Republicans .. will not endorse .. news release .. decided

logcabin.org/logcabin/press_090804.html
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"Log Cabin Republicans Vote to Withhold
Endorsement from President Bush"

"Log Cabin Republicans Vote to Withhold
Endorsement from President Bush" 09/08/2004 08:03 PM

ARINC, Telenor Unveil New AeroMobile
Brand for In-Cabin Mobile Cellular
Service

ARINC, Telenor Unveil New AeroMobile
Brand for In-Cabin Mobile Cellular
Service 04/06/2005 04:38 AM
ZDNet India Apr 6 2005 8:55AM GMT

RGB Planes

RGB Planes 05/20/2004 02:41 AM
Herewith three sets of 256 planes, each 256-by-256, representing slices of the 24-bit RGB color space along the red, blue, and green axes. There is a reason for doing this...

Phones On Planes

Phones On Planes 07/16/2004 01:59 PM
Well, now that we've got WiFi in the sky, we're getting closer to yakking in the sky as well. A few months back we mentioned the idea of stickin g a cell tower on the plane itself as a way of avoiding that whole messy phone-connecting-to-hundreds-of-cell-towers-on-the-ground thing. Now, American Airlines and Qualcomm have successfully tested just such a solution. Passengers were able to make calls, send text messages and surf the internet from their phones. Of course, if this works out, and 3G wireless networks become more popular, airlines may not even need to worry about setting up internet access on a plane -- people will do it by themselves using their phones. Of course, the test only ran for CDMA phones (it is Qualcomm running the test, after all), but that does raise a question about whether every plane will need to carry such micro-cells from all the major carriers to make this really work. Some may also wonder whether or not airlines will need to create special "quiet zones" (like those found on many train lines) for those who are annoyed at the possibility of sitting next to someone screaming (and with all that background noise, they will be screaming) on their mobile phone for the whole flight.

Fantasy Planes

Fantasy Planes 02/14/2004 10:27 PM
Some Strange Aircraft Designs .. Future planes of the past .. Fantasy Airplanes .. never got built .. [LINK]

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More On Silent Supersonic Planes

More On Silent Supersonic Planes 08/01/2004 02:51 PM

Aid planes due to leave for Sudan

Aid planes due to leave for Sudan 07/23/2004 04:37 AM
Britain defends its efforts over the Sudan crisis, as UK aid planes prepare to leave for the country.

Towards Silent Supersonic Planes

Towards Silent Supersonic Planes 04/24/2004 06:24 PM

Pilatus PC-7 Planes Recommissioned

Pilatus PC-7 Planes Recommissioned 07/04/2004 04:03 AM
Bernama Jul 4 2004 8:41AM GMT

FCC: Allow Wireless Internet on Planes

FCC: Allow Wireless Internet on Planes 12/17/2004 06:30 PM
The FCC board overwhelmingly voted in favor of allowing high-speed Internet on airline flights Wednesday. The vote opens the door for wireless access on commercial flights by 2006. Part of the ruling also opened for public comment a proposal to lift the in-flight cell phone use ban.

A Robot that Builds Planes

A Robot that Builds Planes 04/14/2005 07:16 PM
According to a Eurkalert news release, a company called Fatronik Technological Centre has built a robot capable of climbing on aircraft fuselages and wings while carrying out precision drilling and riveting operations. Using a series of suction cups, the robot can climb on any material that will support its weight. The robot also includes a vision system for self-orienting itself in the work zone. The company plans on adapting the robot to automated ship building and other construction projects.

WiFi + planes = warflying

WiFi + planes = warflying 04/28/2004 06:52 PM
BoingBoing pal, wireless ubergeek, and SoCalWug co-founder Mike Outmesguine says:

I went warflying yesterday with folks from DailyWireless.com, TomsHardware.com, HighspeedLA.com, and CNN. We took off on parallel runways and flew in formation throughout the flight. While the planes were next to each other, we set up an in-flight wireless network and did a videoconferencing session from plane-to-plane. WiFi in the sky! Additionally, we performed a wireless network survey during the flight and found about 4000 access points.

link

Survey Says: No Yakking On Planes

Survey Says: No Yakking On Planes 04/09/2005 02:55 PM
TechWeb Apr 9 2005 6:35PM GMT

U.S. Planes Hit Targets Near Baghdad
Airport

U.S. Planes Hit Targets Near Baghdad
Airport 11/14/2003 11:29 AM
Reuters via Wired News Nov 14 2003 10:29AM ET

Two Small Planes Collide in New Jersey
(AP)

Two Small Planes Collide in New Jersey
(AP) 08/07/2004 10:19 AM
AP - Two small planes collided Saturday morning in New Jersey, killing at least one person and sending one aircraft plunging into the back yard of a home.

Small Planes Collide in N.J., Killing 5
(AP)

Small Planes Collide in N.J., Killing 5
(AP) 08/07/2004 03:39 PM
AP - Two small planes collided Saturday morning in New Jersey, killing all people five aboard and sending one aircraft plunging into the back yard of a home.
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