The Cat Status Thread
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@PleegWat said in The Cat Status Thread:
Decorating my Christmas tree will require some consideration.
I see you also have an a tree cat. Here's mine from last year:
@Bulb said in The Cat Status Thread:
Well, this year he tried again …
except now he's no longer a little kitten, but a muscular adolescent that weighs almost 5½ kg (12 lb) and the branches won't hold him, so he only got to the lowest layer with the hind paws still on the table.
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@Bulb said in The Cat Status Thread:
That doesn't look like a good cake for a cat. Cake for a cat is made of meat, and most cats prefer it raw.
Sam with his Christmas Eve dinner:
there wasn't much light, so it's a bit blurry. Anyway, on the menu was: two white mice and a one-day chicken.
And here are—with better light, because that was around noon—Kitty and Sam with their New Year cake:
It's made of chicken breast, chicken hearts and a few pieces of turkey neck in gelatine made with broth. The meat is raw, the breast was fresh and the rest was frozen before, but I put it in a freezer for a few hours anyway to prevent cooking it even a bit when pouring the warm (and it isn't boiling anyway, it shouldn't be boiled) gelatine over it. And a few dried meat treats on top as ornaments—there were also two catnip cookies, but they already ate those by the time I took the photo.
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@Bulb said in The Cat Status Thread:
except now he's no longer a little kitten, but a muscular adolescent that weighs almost 5½ kg (12 lb) and the branches won't hold him, so he only got to the lowest layer with the hind paws still on the table.
Artificial tree in my case so little chance of sagging branches and more of nudging out the branches in the next layer up.
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@Zerosquare If I tried that, he'd start playing with my nose.
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@PleegWat said in The Cat Status Thread:
@Zerosquare If I tried that, he'd start playing with my nose.
If you're lucky he'll bring it back when he's done.
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We recently adopted a kitty from the local shelter.
The Bible tells us that in the beginning, people could hold conversations with animas and no one found it particularly strange. I'm gaining a whole new appreciation for this state of affairs, and would love to see a return to it, if for no other reason than to be able to tell her, "please don't do that; you are going to get hurt if you do that" and actually be understood!
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@Mason_Wheeler said in The Cat Status Thread:
if for no other reason than to be able to tell her, "please don't do that; you are going to get hurt if you do that" and actually be understood!
It's a cat so understood but probably ignored.
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I think this cat should be promoted to management.
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@Bulb said in The Cat Status Thread:
@Watson said in The Cat Status Thread:
@boomzilla said in The Cat Status Thread:
faster than the best radio transmissions.
So what are they using instead?
(I know, I know: laser, which means higher frequency which means more modulation per second, but )
The article () says 267 Mbps. Ok, that isn't doable even with UHF (30–300 MHz IIRC), but would be with microwaves.
Just depends on modulation. Phone modems used to push 56kbps over a channel no more than ~7kHz and usually more like 3kHz wide.
But the other point of using laser is that it's much better focused, so they can get better signal-to-noise ratio with the same power.
That's probably it, and also why you wouldn't want to use anything other than microwave despite their higher path loss.
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@LaoC said in The Cat Status Thread:
Phone modems used to push 56kbps over a channel no more than ~7kHz and usually more like 3kHz wide.
: 4 kHz wide (sampled at 8 kHz), and 56 kbps was on paper. In practice, they rarely really reached such speeds (unless you lived next door to the telephone exchange, maybe).
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@Bulb said in The Cat Status Thread:
UHF (30–300 MHz IIRC)
That's VHF. UHF is 300–3000MHz (wavelengths of 1m–0.1m).
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@Zerosquare said in The Cat Status Thread:
@LaoC said in The Cat Status Thread:
Phone modems used to push 56kbps over a channel no more than ~7kHz and usually more like 3kHz wide.
: 4 kHz wide (sampled at 8 kHz), and 56 kbps was on paper. In practice, they rarely really reached such speeds (unless you lived next door to the telephone exchange, maybe).
If it was sampled and they didn't cut off a bit at the bottom which they usually did everywhere, sampled or not, to silence power line buzz. My first modem connections went over a fully mechanical exchange so the sampling would only be done for regional connections.
But the point is, even if it was on the order of 33kbps (which usually worked fine) that's ~10 bit/sHz.
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@Zerosquare said in The Cat Status Thread:
: 4 kHz wide (sampled at 8 kHz), and 56 kbps was on paper. In practice, they rarely really reached such speeds (unless you lived next door to the telephone exchange, maybe).
I usually got about 48kbps with my 56k modem, sometimes a bit more, sometimes less. The really big difference was after that, when I got an always-on cable modem with over 1Mbps; much more bandwidth and not having to work in batch mode...
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@LaoC said in The Cat Status Thread:
Just depends on modulation. Phone modems used to push 56kbps over a channel no more than ~7kHz and usually more like 3kHz wide.
That why you used ISDN. It could always use the entire channel for a nice stable 64kbps every time!
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@Zerosquare said in The Cat Status Thread:
@LaoC said in The Cat Status Thread:
Phone modems used to push 56kbps over a channel no more than ~7kHz and usually more like 3kHz wide.
: 4 kHz wide (sampled at 8 kHz), and 56 kbps was on paper. In practice, they rarely really reached such speeds (unless you lived next door to the telephone exchange, maybe).
I never got more than 26K with my 56K modem.
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@dcon said in The Cat Status Thread:
@Zerosquare said in The Cat Status Thread:
@LaoC said in The Cat Status Thread:
Phone modems used to push 56kbps over a channel no more than ~7kHz and usually more like 3kHz wide.
: 4 kHz wide (sampled at 8 kHz), and 56 kbps was on paper. In practice, they rarely really reached such speeds (unless you lived next door to the telephone exchange, maybe).
I never got more than 26K with my 56K modem.
Freedom wires!
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@dcon said in The Cat Status Thread:
@Zerosquare said in The Cat Status Thread:
@LaoC said in The Cat Status Thread:
Phone modems used to push 56kbps over a channel no more than ~7kHz and usually more like 3kHz wide.
: 4 kHz wide (sampled at 8 kHz), and 56 kbps was on paper. In practice, they rarely really reached such speeds (unless you lived next door to the telephone exchange, maybe).
I never got more than 26K with my 56K modem.
It was very line- and distance-dependent. My first PC with contemporary hardware came with a crudmodem, so I bought a hardware 28.8 internal card as a replacement. It came with a postcard to mail in to get a ROM that upgraded it to 33.6. That worked pretty well in my tiny apartment in a smaller city.
Later, after moving to the big city suburbs, I upgraded to a 56k modem. There I typically got 48. Once in a while it'd connect at 52, more often a slower speed, but I hit 48 very reliably.
Afterwards I moved to a townhome in an older subdivision. Modems worked fine at that house, but I really wanted to get always-on Internet. Sadly, nether cable nor DSL were offered there due to the age of the infrastructure, so I got to wait a couple years after my friends had started getting fast Internet before Comcast got around to fixing whatever was needed to offer it to us.
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@Atazhaia said in The Cat Status Thread:
That why you used ISDN.
...if you were rich enough to afford it. At least here, it was a pretty expensive option.
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@Zerosquare I remember when having a T1 line was the unimaginable heights of luxury and speed, all 1.544 Mbps of it.
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@Benjamin-Hall thread is . BTW, I worked on chips for T1 equipment back in the day.
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@HardwareGeek I was just waiting for the conversation to naturally evolve to discussing Cat-5.
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@Zecc said in The Cat Status Thread:
@HardwareGeek I was just waiting for the conversation to naturally evolve to discussing Cat-5.
This is not the right forum for pussy footing around derailing threads.
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@Zecc said in The Cat Status Thread:
@HardwareGeek I was just waiting for the conversation to naturally evolve to discussing Cat-5.
What about Cat 980G?
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@Benjamin-Hall Think you wanted something like this:
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@Applied-Mediocrity cats don't understanding the meaning of ownership and "mine." Because otherwise they would have to admit that there is at least a theoretical possibility that something is not theirs.
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: Just for the record, don't be surprised if I kill you while you sleep.
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@Zerosquare I was expecting it to wreak utter havoc in the house as it jumped around.
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But on the plus side, it's always warm.
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@Zerosquare
it also comes with a build in vibrating mode, but turning isn't always reliable.
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