Show - l P I C8 — The Herald JoumalLogan Utah Wednesday March 6 2002 (DoDtisidiGir mipgiradloDUg yowior c®mnipiuifteGrys ByMikeBennan Scripps Howard News Service Are you thinking of using that old Pentium computer as a doorstop or plant stand? Well don't be too hasty There may be some life in that old box Evergreen Technologies has just released its new Performa processor upgrade ($22999) that win breathe new life into that old relic machine increasing a minimum 3 into a I gigahertz Celeron II powerhouse or Celcron-base- II d Evergreen has been in the business of processor upgrades for a long time beginning with offering increases in speed and efficiency for older Intel 286 and 386 machines In fact I can remember drooling over the fact that I' could take may old 386 and give it the power of a “new” Pentium 100 So when the compa-ny asked me to test the new product I jumped at the chance I tried the new Performa in several machines and it worked the first time every time with varying degrees of efficiency By this I mean each spatial dimension and the fourth for time But for good global coverage the 24 satellites provide a user with five Continued from Cl to eight satellites visible from any point on the earth Scientists realized that The satellites contain atomradio transmitters ic clocks that keep time to ' in satellites above the Earth within 3 nanoseconds or 3 could provide accurate global billionths of a second With coverage and the concept of a that precision the receiver can measure exactly how long a global positioning system was born signal takes to travel from The Global Positioning Syseach GPS satellite within tem is controlled and funded range then figure its position The control segment is by the US Department of Defense although there are made up of a system of earth-boun- d thousands of civilian users tracking stations locatworldwide world The ed around-thThe system took its first central control facility is at Schriever Air Force Base in baby steps when the US Air Force launched the original Colorado The tracking staGPS developmental satellite tions pick up signals from the into orbit in 1978 From 1989 satellites and run the informato 1993 23 production sateltion through computer prolites went into space and with grams that correct minute the launch of the 24th in differences between earth and March 1994 the full array of satellite clocks as well as GPS satellites was orbiting the orbital data The central conearth trol facility sends that inforThe system has three basic mation back to the satellites Then the satellites transmit to parts: the space segment the ' user segment and the control individual GPS receivers via radio signals segment The space segment is 24 satellites that orbit the The GPS user segment earth in 12 hours Theoreticalcomprises the GPS receivers and their users The receivers ly a GPS could operate with only four satellites — one for GPS high-frequen- cy tions to family and communi- ty? Modem technology contributes to both pathways but ' provides no true direction Continued from Cl On the return trip the s tal television receiver mal- Are we nearing a point in functioned and we were left with only the default screen It society where we are all captives of perpetual news stared back at each of us in advice and entertainment? Do seeming ridicule “Up to 24 we think critically or do we free channels Sure beats invite the news analysts to watching your tray table” Reduced to oblivious cargo perform the task? I must ask with nothing better to do than myself: Shall I merely maxiT mize my daily information watch the furniture we trav- intake and to what end? Or eled home in silence So I shall I engage myself and conconsidered the height the dissider my place and contribu tance and the perspective Syme that wasn’t on the map and you wanted to go back to it I’ve done that’’ he said “If there's someplace you haven’t been before you can mark a landmark or mark your car” said Datwyler “And it is very good in thick timber ” But the longtime hiker added “If you’re lost you’d better have other skills too: a map a compass and common sense For me it’s mainly a convert signals from the satellites into estimates of position time and velocity Invented by the military GPS users are still largely military GPS equipment is part of helicopters fighters ships tanks and even equipment for individual soldiers The half million or so civilian users are as diverse as surveyors plate tectonics researchers delivery van drivers and hikers Locally GPS applications are involved with natural resources management automobile sales agri- culture recreation and more Scott Datwyler owner of Trailhead Sports in Logan said he has us£d GPS receivers “since they first ' came out six seven years ago” He noted that as is usual with electronic equipment the price has gone down year after year “Now they’re only $120 or $130” he said Datwy ler believes GPS can be a good tool for recreational users like hunters and hikers “For hunters they could mark a place where they saw sign Or if a fisherman saw a ledge at Bear Lake he could mark it If you found a spring ’ toy” - United States Forest Service technician Darcy Stock uses a GPS receiver to perform trail inventory in the Cache National Forest She explained that first she records the position of trail features such as blazed trees and rock cairns and natural features like a cliff band or stream Then Stock uses software to turn the raw GPS data into a map “After finishing the trail I close the raw data file and process the data by differentially correcting it Then it goes into mapping software” She sends die map to a government “Geomatronics” lab in Salt Lake City where it is incorporated into the Geographical Information Sys To the editor The students and faculty of South Campus would like to express our appreciation and gratitude to the Cache Valley Reading Council for the books donated to our school Their generous donation afforded us the opportunity to study the emotion experiences and drama of some great works of literature We experienced Santiago’s epic battle with the great marlin in Ernest Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea and thought about our greatest struggles and how we worked to overcome them We saw the tems database Hie lab is one of a few nationwide that produces topographical and other types of maps for public use Stock says of her GPS work “I’m just a small part of what it can do” Jerry Hughes of GEOGraphics also does mapping of a kind Using a special two-pa-rt GPS system he can survey land with great accuracy But at a price He said the units he routinely rents cost “$60- - or $70000 — they do centimeter accuracy” He explained “TTiey require a base unit You calibrate that to its base location” The second part of the surveyor’s set up is a hand-hel- d data logger connected to the base d “You’re to the base station” he said What gives die surveyor his pinpoint accuracy is the double fix from satellite to base station and from base to handheld receiver “You’re triangulating twice” said Hughes Jerry Brunner USFS fire management officer on the Cache forest explained how GPS helps him work with two kinds of fires wildland and prescribed For wildland fires the unplanned kind that occur with a lightning strike or a careless match Brunner said they can fly die perimeter of the fire in a helicopter map- ping as they go with a GPS receiver e “That gives us a map From that we can generate an action plan for die fire ! -- real-tim- crews” When he plans a prescribed fire Brunner said they “GPS the area by foot” to collect data points Then they can project the possibilities that certain outcomes will occur with certain fire plans “We can lay out various scenarios If we light it in this sequence” he said “this is what will probably happen” The applications of GPS are likely to grow year by year And there is not even a limit to the number of users because the user does not communicate with die satellites Orbiting more than 12000 miles above Earth they send signals to the receivers and the pound stations but receive information only from die ground stations radio-linke- Does Your Heart Good American Heart AMoeiattonO Matthew Syme is an Internet Prelect Manager at a local technology company and he actually enjoyed hia flight on JetBlue (wwwjettiiuecom) He can be reached at cachetechno Oyahoocom A 2450 North Main We Were Soldiers h SIS 75215072' UTAH HOiWCHILDREN t ftOULTS i h AT M fiM nfft H ra Count Of Marie Goto THE LORD is ftl3SMa2Ubs 43070545 Srt&n20 AT 440Z15MD Srt4&n205 Dragonfly rei 435 mOOOMO 700305445210 A Beautiful Mind 435 710 iAHmjiunsjis!iine-Miiu- i sacrifice joy and pain that accompanies friendship in John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men and discussed what it means to call someone a friend The drama that played out above 26000 feet for Jon Krakauer in Into Thin Air offered insight into the nature of goals and ambition and the ultimate price we must sometimes pay to achieve them Experiencing literature is a ' vehicle to enrich our lives and with the Cache Valley Reading Council’s magnanimous donation our lives have been made richer and for this we thank you Reading council enriched lives II liiH afforded by such a lofty position I commented to my neighbor how beautiful was the night sky And I was ' happy OF THERMOS PGM 3) Thanks to you pmcesseir Also I noticed that the processor may not fit securely into the slot designed for Intel’s Pentium Us but that’s easily remedied The plastic case holding the processor and its card is easily removed allowing for a firmer fit This mob-lem occurs unfortunately because not all motherboards turn created in the same image and the width and depth of the P-- slot may differ from board to board But if your machine fits the profile outlined by Evergreen you really can’t go wrong feeding it one of these upgrades that you really have to make sure that the motherboard you're using fits the specifications outlined by the company For example I was delighted with the difference in processing speed and overall performance when using it with a Pentium II motherboard that had a 100 megahertz front side bus (FSB) But try it with a Pentium III board that has a 133 megahertz FSB and you’ll notice a severe degradation in performance especially if you’re using an 800 megahertz Pentium III CPU like I was 4 'BisiPWflS re-- i 455445200 - y if r i' rent 430 705 MO Sal A Sun Z10 - 7:10 Sat 4 - - - il Super fooperan usns Big Fat Liar iki It Sun I 200 iCACHEVALLEY3 'thrift 1300 North Main Behind w f£r J3oh)023 blWMO Rslum to Newuignd n 'lift!1 $ AWdkfel ii 5 !f ii£ ' u20S In Dave Isom! 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