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There was some talk a while back of the FCC selling the use on the even numbered points on the FM band. I wonder what happened with that? I have noticed some nicer systems actually being able to list , say 91.2, but have not heard any further information.
If they do go through with it, it means the FM stations using the odd-numbered bands would have to police their signals more, letting the things like the iTrip get in edgewise.
I seem to recall, at one point, a comment that it was unworkable until Analog TV channels disappear, so it may be a long time coming.
Well, on the FM band since the audio is created by modulating the frequency, a big part of the reason we only use the odd numbered bands is because the modulation used is large enough to bleed into the even numbered bands. As it is, stations that are adjacent on the odd numbered bands can wreak havoc and are rarely liscensed in the same geographic area.
Too bad AM stereo never caught on.
(Although I really have no idea if it was technically better than FM stereo.)
Anyone recommend a good news/rss reader for firefox?
I use the web-based bloglines.com, tommyrot, and I love it.
I use bloglines.com myself too. It's good. Although I need to break myself of the habit of refreshing the screen before I've finished reading the panel -- it's a bitch to get back to stuff you haven't read yet. I could also do with a search function, for when I can't remember
which
feed in my tech folder mentioned iPods (okay, that's probably all of them--people are obsessed). It may be there --- haven't found it yet.
.htaccess question:
I have a working file which presents a specific image to all sites trying to hotlink other than a select few.
I'd like to make the logic more complex--I don't want to send myspace.com an image at all, because those people don't learn, and even the teensy "bite me" image is eating my bandwidth dollars. How do I set that flow up?
Thirding the rec for Bloglines.
it's a bitch to get back to stuff you haven't read yet
It took me ages to try the back button for this, but it seems to work.
It took me ages to try the back button for this, but it seems to work.
But if I hit refresh (I know, stop hitting refresh) there's nothing to go back to.
