[Sussex] Leased line / Kilostream

[Mark Harrison]

In fact, Inuit has about between one and two dozen lexemes to mean particular types of "snow", but so does English:

avalanche
blizzard
dusting
flurry
frost
hail
hardpack
icelens
igloo
pingopowder
sleet
slushsnow
snowflake
snowstorm

The point about the original article that spawned this was that there was no "blanket" term in Inuit to mean "all types of snow". There were, however, two blanket terms, one which means "any type of falling snow", one which means "any type of settled snow"... but heh, that's the same situation as classical greek!

For more detail, visit any of the Internet's language lists, or for that matter, any First Year Uni course in linguistics...

M.
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: john 
  To: sussex at mailman.lug.org.uk 
  Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2003 5:59 PM
  Subject: Re: [Sussex] Leased line / Kilostream


  Outstanding - Satcom's! actually something on the list that I have knowledge of(that's if operating a quadruple cdma - twin channel, on a moving platform - a ship, counts)

  This is where you have to find a spoken language a bit like "Inuit", except instead of having 43 different words for snow, you need the same for rain/airbourne moisture, because of the reflective properties of rain/water - the rain in "big lumps" isn't a problem, but you should try it in dense fog/mist, and even better, snow - now that really tests software error correction abilities!

  Those of you who are "sky'd up" will have observed the phenomena when the picture "pixelates"!

  Still, I say you had it easy. You should try maintaining a good signal when the stable platform mounting of the downlink antenna has gone "breasts vertical" and you have to track the satellite by hand for 8 hours in a mission critical environment (a warzone i.e. Yugoslavia!)

  Sorry, as soon as I read Andrew's post I got the "flashback"!

  regards

  John D.
    ----- Original Message ----- 
    From: Andrew Guard 
    To: SussexLinux (E-mail) 
    Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2003 3:48 PM
    Subject: [Sussex] Leased line / Kilostream


    That's it with the starlight system is an total waste of time.  

    There no BB here so my only option is an Leased line/Kilostream Internet connection.   

    Have any of you got any experiences on this subject?


    (My views of Internet via satellite , F------ C---.  Doesn't work in the rain, when not raining some F------ hub in Germany is having a problem, it waste of time! DO NOT USE IT, DO NOT TOUCH IT, UNLESS YOU REALLY HATE YOUR PAYMASTER)

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