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When solar cells are used, they are feed directly into your houses power supply and any excess electricy produced goes back into the power grid. Not stored in batteries.

This seems rather odd, but when electricity goes back into the power grid, it spins your meter backwards. Anytime your meter goes backwards, you get cash back from your power company.

Soo... You are still depedant on your local power grid for nightime power, but perhaps that might change for people who want to not have anything to do with their power company.

Still... Because of tax benefits, the money you receive from your power company is usually more than you pay them per watt.

More info can be found at the Home Depot Solar Power installation site. I looked into it mostly out of curiousity and my plans on being a new home owner, but I think the costs might be still too great to be worth the installation.

Sledge Hammer? Comon man, this is Home Despot, with a great deal of more destructive tools for rent/sale! For example, what about the Milwaukee "Big Daddy" breaker hammer? It's 44 Ft./lb. of blow energy, 1400 bpm, 15 amp, 120 Volt AC/DC. So thats like 23 powered blows per second! OH YEA WILL TURN A X-BOX to TINY PIECES IN LESS THAT A SECOND WITHOUT BREAKING A SWEAT! :) http://www.homedepot.com/prel80/HDUS/EN_US/diy_mai n/pg_diy.jsp?CNTTYPE=PROD_META&CNTKEY=misc/searchR esults.jsp&N=2984+3966&cm_ven=hd_goog&cm_cat=Searc h&cm_pla=D-25X&cm_ite=bid10101109-Power_Tools

a 'real' iPod killer

Here's one for only $7.

Isn't this a space pen versus pencil thing:

So, where's my quarter mil for saving cost and using some common sense

Given the number of peoples that can build a home or village and in some cases a city from dirt and water I vote we make the astronauts do some manual work for their Tang

Isn't this a space pen versus pencil thing:

So, where's my quarter mil for saving cost and using some common sense

Given the number of peoples that can build a home or village and in some cases a city from dirt and water I vote we make the astronauts do some manual work for their Tang

No kidding. Seems like a lot of effort and trouble to go through when for $55 more he could have something that is probably 100 times more efficient.

Maytag® Cameo White 5,200 BTU Air Conditioner - $78.97

My question in all of this is - why not go buy a cheap water pump for a fish tank and just recycle the water? After all, if the water were pumped back in to the large garbage can with ice in it - it would cool back down again. (Although - granted - not as much as it was maybe.)

Further, if plastic tubing were used instead of switching to copper the cooling would be less overall, but the plastic tubing could be threaded in and out of the wire mesh on the fan (so you don't need the tie-wraps). Because less cooling was being done it would mean the water would retain its coolness longer and thus this should offset the rate at which the ice in the garbage can melts.

Last, but not least - if you look at the picture on the site - the garbage can has bottles with ice in them. Which means that the bottles were frozen. Something you don't usually buy at a store. So they must have come from the guy's freezer.

Still, let's look at a different scenario: The kitchen area has a door maybe which can be closed or blocked off and maybe there is a window in that room where the heat generated by the freezer can be dissipated. So all the guy really needs to do is to cool down a part of the apartment rather than the entire apartment. This would allow for the ice maker to make ice in the kitchen while the other part of the house is cooled by the ice that was made.

Last, but not least, A/Cs are not all that expensive anymore. For instance Home Depot has an a/c on sale for $80.00 which is only a little more than three times the cost for this guy's system (and doesn't have all of the mess). Lowes has one for around $79.00. The lowest price (I'm sorry, but I forget where I saw it - maybe Walgreens) for an air conditioner was around $60.00 for a 3,000BTU unit which would cool a regular sized room quite well.

This is a nice experiment - but if you could get a few friends to chip in - then everyone could have a cool summer. :-)

http://www.homedepot.com/prel80/HDUS/EN_US/diy_mai n/pg_diy.jsp?CNTTYPE=PROD_META&CNTKEY=Products_2%2 FGarden+Center%2FStorage+Buildings%2FWood&BV_Sessi onID=@@@@0145143431.1118424516@@@@&BV_EngineID=ccd laddelgmgedkcgelceffdfgidgnj.0&MID=9876

A terrific way to experience the outdoors, the Mackinaw has so many uses: waterside cabana, deluxe playhouse, weekend retreat & more! Crafted from select knotty red pine, the Mackinaw is completely panelized for easy assembly. Handy Home Products' do-it-yourself building kits are completely pre-cut - there's nothing to saw! No special carpentry skills are needed to build a Handy Home building - we've designed each one with you, the do-it-yourselfer, in mind. All that's needed are a few common household tools and a little spare time.

What you need is the the right tool for your virus cleanings. Once you delete the virus properly, I don't suspect their computer be causing your network any more problems.

Probably very similar to those springy doorstops when force is applied laterally.

Example

The cats LOVE those things.

Perhaps you don't, but others do. Home depot titanium hammer. Changes the hammer pounding experience. And I'm not even mentioning the hammers with tuning forks built into them to reduce vibrations from pounding.

It's true titanium is lightweight and strong. But nothing compares to the striking power of properly tempered S-7 tool steel
The impact strength of the S-7 eliminates the mushrooming associated with standard serrated titanium face hammers
And although the steel tip adds little to the overall weight of the hammer, it does concentrate more mass at the face where it's an advantage

just put the cabels in some conduit like this ? -bradly

Here's a link that works.

You know WiFe technology has really been commoditized and has hit the mainstream when Home Depot is selling the stuff. I wouldn't be surprised now to see them stock these WiFi detectors, a great tool for the homeowner who wants to optimize his/her home network. They sell meters for just about every other wired products (RJ11, RJ45, etc.)

This has probably been said before a lot before, but... THIS is a real iPod Killer. Under $20, too.

Cheap stealth security:

Install motion detectors under your eves outside, and run a lamp, light fixture inside your house off a sensor switch to alert you when activity is going on. Motion is detected, light inside goes off. Silent alarm. Then call 911 and "embelish" about the eminent threat. Be convincing, sound scared. Police can use deadly force. Better to let them beat/shoot suspect than risk your life or health, or risk being sued.

Very Cheap. Goto http://www.homedepot.com

type : home automation

into their search field.

Look for these items in search result (cannot link directly to catalog, otherwise I would post a link):
(can also goto:http://www.desatech.com/heath/remotehome.html

Heath Zenith
Wireless Command Remote Motion Sensor
Home Depot Model SL6030WH5
Internet/Catalog # 161731
$24.99 EA
mfg link: http://12.153.20.72/cgi-bin/remotehome.cgi?product =3

Heath Zenith
Wireless Command Plug In Lamp Converter w/ alert
Home Depot Model SL6012WH5
Internet/Catalog # 161730
$19.99 EA
mfg link: http://12.153.20.72/cgi-bin/remotehome.cgi?product =6

Heath Zenith
Wireless Command Screw In Socket Converter
Home Depot Model SL6010WH5
Internet/Catalog # 161729
$17.99 EA
mfg link: http://12.153.20.72/cgi-bin/remotehome.cgi?product =5

mfg also offers kits:

Product: Motion Activated Indoor Alert
Model: 6019
http://12.153.20.72/cgi-bin/remotehome.cgi?product =15
Features:
# Alerts you inside to activity outside.
# Includes remote motion sensor and indoor plug-in converter with alert.
# No wiring required.
# Plug-in controls up to 300 Watts of incandescent lighting.
# Plug-in includes audible alert with volume control.
# Sensor turns lights ON and OFF and activates alert up to 100' away.
# Sensor detects motion up to 70' away and 180 arc.

Product: Motion Activated Lamp Socket Control
Model: 6024
http://12.153.20.72/cgi-bin/remotehome.cgi?product =16
Features:
# Adds motion security to non-motion lights.
# Includes remote motion sensor and lamp socket converter.
# No wiring required.
# Socket controls up to 150 Watts of incandescent lighting.
# Sensor turns ON and OFF up to 100' away.
# Sensor detects motion up to 70' away and 180 arc.

First, you have to obtain a copy of some PORNO. You can also apparently obtain some porno using BitTorrent.

Second, you need to succeed in posting to slashdot.org, a popular "news for HOMOs" website.

Third, you need to spank it to the porn you just found.

First, you have to obtain a copy of some PORNO. You can also apparently obtain some porno using BitTorrent.

Second, you need to succeed in posting to slashdot.org, a popular "news for HOMOs" website.

Third, you need to spank it to the porn you just found.

We have replaced several Java apps at my job with Perl. It runs faster, uses less resources, and is simple to modify (no compilation needed).

Actually, all three points are probably misinformed.

First, java is faster than perl according to nearly every benchmark I've ever seen. For example:
http://www.caucho.com/articles/benchmark.xtp
http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/craps.php

Second, you obviously aren't using Ant to automate your java buid and deploy process. If you were, the version control, compile, test, document, and deploy steps are a single click. Instead, you make it sound like you are making ad hoc changes to your production code. Bad. Oh, and finding bugs at build time instead of "in the field" is a good thing, not a bad thing.

You've got to be kidding when you say java isn't good for web applications. What exactly is wrong with JSP and servlets? There are several dozen very high quality application server components written in java over at the Apache Jakarta project. I suppose that all the people out there using Oracle and IBM tools to run their intranet enterprise apps on web based java platforms don't know what they are doing?

You seem to be thinking of java development as applet development. That is 7 years out of date. Go check out the following pages to see java in action on the web:
http://www.homedepot.com/prel80/HDUS/EN_US/pg_inde x.jsp
http://www.delta.com/home/index.jsp

MS will use this in ads, and MS sales folks will mention this. "Telstra looked into Linux, and they saw MS is a better deal."

There will also be some kind of press release, with quotes in it like:

Mr. I. T. Director of Telstra says, "Microsoft's TCO was compelling, yada yada yada."

Probably MS will write the quotes for Telstra.

None of this is shocking or new. This isn't even the first time I have read a story like this on Slashdot, let alone the first time it has ever happened. (Remember when Home Depot announced they would go to Linux for their POS terminals? Remember when they announced they would go to MS?)

steveha

Last time I had an item cut there, I snooped over the shoulder of the guy doing the cutting as he keyed the code. I though to myself, "I bet it's either 0000 or 1234." Indeed, it was.

In the interests of safety and security, knowing the mischieviousness of SlashDot readers, I shall not here reveal which of the two likely codes it was. I imagine they would have a hard time defending the personal injury lawsuits if word got out.

I haven't snooped on their burglar alarms.

It is indeed a shame that more interest in this technology doesn't exist. The lack of responses to this article is pretty disappointing, especially since I would think /.ers would be one of the main supporters. Doubling the output of cells is a definite improvement.

I remember reading somewhere (IIRC one of the Real Goods Source Books) that had the phrase similar to "Solar Panels will never become widely accepted until they are available from your local Home Depot." This definitely rings true. Aside from the solar powered walkway lights (total garbage), they have very little to offer there. Solar Cells need to be cheaper and more powerful if people are going to use them.

It's good to see that progress is being made, though, as this article describes. Perhaps one day it will indeed become practical to use solar panels. Until then, we're stuck with calculators.

Put a rug over it :)

Seriously, though, your local home supply store, which sells hardwood flooring, will have wood putty and similar products to fill such scratches.

If you don't want the easiest way, you can always sand down the entire floor and re-finish it with polyurethane. Ugh.

I can't wait until the day when linux powering something is not news. When it's common place for linux/BSD or whatver other freeNIX to run on something, and have it not be a big deal. I mean, something running windows isn't news, because it's pretty common. Although, I was pretty shocked to find out that the self checkout terminals in most both Fred Meyer and Home Depot are Windows based.

Back on topic though. Won't it truelly be a milestone when running an alternative OS isn't news?

I realize this is not the "cool, connects to the internet, cost $30 but takes 4 months to build" solution favored by the /. crowd but the simple solution to your problem is to buy a bunch of Thermwell 12 Ft. Water Pipe Heat Cables then forget that this was ever a problem.

Oops, let me put that in a proper URL.

I work at a small home improvement chain, and that's what we use to clock in. it seems to work pretty well from an employee standpoint, it's certainly tons better than other, non-digital timeclocks I've seen.

The zylene is sold as Goof Off, and available in the paint department at Home Depot. It has a nasty smell to it.

I find that for many purposes, WD-40 (warning: audio on site) does the same trick, is cheaper, not smelly, and (perhaps?) not as carcinogenic.

and so I cannot comment on how much we sell. It would be a trade secret, and company policy prohibits me from telling you.

I can point out though that Home Depot has approximately 1500 stores, and did about 60 billion dollars in sales in 2002.

60 billion divided by 1500 stores is $40,000,000 per store per year. That's better than $100,000 per day per store, or $3.3 million dollars per month. Of course, that's sales -- not profit.

and so I cannot comment on how much we sell. It would be a trade secret, and company policy prohibits me from telling you.

I can point out though that Home Depot has approximately 1500 stores, and did about 60 billion dollars in sales in 2002.

60 billion divided by 1500 stores is $40,000,000 per store per year. That's better than $100,000 per day per store, or $3.3 million dollars per month. Of course, that's sales -- not profit.

...thanks to this fabulous new invention!

I clicked the link to the site and I thought I was at home depot.

No B&Qs in the US.
However The Home Depot use exactly the same store layouts/staff uniforms/color schemes/carts/baskets/logos, etc.
In fact, they're so identical that there's clearly plaigarism involved by one side somewhere...

Note the identical color schemes at Home Depot's website and B&Q's website

All the parts you need are available at homedepotbongs, try the button for "plumbing."

Or assemble their "Indoor Marijuana Farm" kit, with a bank of 70 watt high pressure sodium lights.

We still have ropes? I thought we were using electronic measuring devices, such as This.. Sure as hell, you can't own a rope any more, that's a terrorist device! :)

Couldn't a garage door be opened using a counter circuit driving a transmitter?
Seems like it could.

Perhaps the IDIOTS running the United States should outlaw the Books Malvino, Grob, and every tech manual from Radio Shack, TI, Motorola, Analog Devices, Transmeta, etc.
All in the name of the DMCA!

Couldn't someone just go buy electronic parts and solder them together?
Seems like they can.
Are the chips available to anyone who wants to buy them?
Can someone copy a circuit of say a TV set, and make their own?
So when is electronics going to be outlawed?

Anyone know what a freq counter is?

I suggest that folks make their OWN garage door locking system, for example, the idea of using time is cool, but I would take it one step further, would control the electricity to the door itself.
e.g. sure you can find the frequency to actually open the door, but do you ALSO have the frequency to apply power to the actual door?

My garage door opener would be two garage door openers taped together.
and it might just have some FAKE frequencies thrown in to screw with freq counters. You start pushing buttons and you have so many frequencies going nobody is gonna know what's happening. I would have bogus freq's rolling from hell, I would tune this bastard so that it spews spurious harmonics as far as the eye can see, a cracker even with a spectrum analyzer is going to have a hard time.

How come in ham radio, spread spectrum, they don't allow too many freq's or too many patterns.
There is the reason. The FCC is moronic! And Corrupt.
The only thing that should matter (to the Moronic FCC) is if you understand and can visualize Frequency and power. If so you should have license to do anything. The DMCA is a waste of everything this country stands for. We are NO longer the land of the free! We are SLAVES to our corrupted MASTERS! We are stupid, and stupidity is DANGEROUS to lives, and we are LAZY ass Hamburger Eating pieces of Protoplasm! I sure hope we do not loose the right to have weapons that are not registered in the MASTERS database or we are nothing more than DEAD CORPSES.

We need to teach electronics to our children in this country, we need to quit with all the crap in our education system that serves no use in the real world. We need to buy our children ham radio KITS they build themselves, and don't kick CB out either. How about a spread spectrum CB radio. Now that would rock, and slap that puppy on funnys - woo-hoo!

As far as this DMCA crap goes, I hope it doesn't mean that when I go to Home Depot (btw - notice since they got rid of linux you need to have IE for their website?) for my Martin that it's going to cost twice as much now because of these mother-fscking lawyers and greedy bastards! I hope when I go to Lowes, that my Amarr isn't going to cost twice as much. The DMCA, Lawyers, and Greedy Bastards are our enemy. Never forget that!!

NEVER!

I agree that having the so-called "1 degree of separation" that Microsoft's been advertising for the past several months is a good thing. However, it's very, very hard to do. I think Home Depot has in-store inventories, along with CompUSA. The catch with this is being able to link all of your store's POS (Point of Sale, not Piece of...) systems into a national network safely, securely, and inexpensively. To do this properly you need a properly designed infrastructure, and people there to support it. That's where companies like the various Microsoft vendors come in. If you pay them enough, they'll build and support the whole thing. If you pay them enough.

In all this talk about p2p and b2b, IT firms like MS seem to be forgetting b2c: "Business to Consumer."

Here is the solution to your problem.

This is an interesting case, but it wouldn't be difficult to recreate it. Start off with an industrial strength work table. Add some high quality casters so you can move it around. Glass table tops can be obtained from a craft store like Michael's or a place that sells custom cut glass. Plexiglass would also work, and has the advantage of being lighter. The keyboard tray is also easy; Home Depot/Lowe's/your hometown hardware sells the mechanisms for that. PC Mod sites can get you the fans, motherboard offsets, and suchlike (or simply buy a cheap case and raid it for parts). This goes for drive bays and such as well; many cases these days come with a cage for several drives. Et voila! Fit, assemble, and you've got it. You get the joy of construction, and save money too.

• 250 GPH Submersible water pump $34 - I think you can get away with a smaller unit, but this runs fairly quiet, especially when put in a cabinet.
• Maze2 Waterblock $42 - This, in my opinion, is the best waterblock out there, and the price ain't bad.
• Transmission oil cooler $44 - dangerden also sells these, since in my exp. carparts.com may take months to deliver.
• Assorted hardware and tubing <$20 - Some 3/8" ID tubing, some hose clamps, and an adapter convert the 1/2" pump to 3/8".
• Some time $priceless - Anyone got some of this for sale? I can use some!

Slap it all together and you're in business. I've removed two of the fans from the case, and put one of them on the radiator but I never turn it on. The one in the power supply runs at low speed until the PSU gets really hot (which it never does now since all the heat is piped out of the case). The hard drives (2x 40GB 7,200RPM IBM 60GXPs) still make some noise, but I put the case on, and put the box in the cabinet in my desk, and I can't even tell if it is running. The ThinkNIC named littlelarry with the fan removed from its heatsink now makes more noise.

...so I can't even guess at their quality, but "Fedders" seems to be an air conditioner company name that turns up at Home Depot stores quite a lot. They have what they term "portable" air conditioner models.

The company's main page doesn't seem to list any of their specific products, but the link to their refurbished items store (via Yahoo) seems to have an idea that might work for you.

What are you looking to get? Unless your friends/family are all geeks, they will probably wnat to get you something practical, so the trick is to get cool practical stuff. I recommend either Crate & Barrel or Williams and Sonoma. Both has tons of good stuff, and you'll need a lot of kitchen stuff after the marriage. (Actually, I confess, W&S is on the list because I'm a cooking geek, if there is such a thing).

For those that want to get you something different, register at Home Depot for power tools (MORE POWER! I need MORE POWER!) and other hardware. Finally, although they don't have a registry, Firebox is a great site for geek stuff.

Congratulations on getting married!
--
He had come like a thief in the night,

While I don't typically like mandatory drug testing, I can understand why a hardware store like Home Depot might want to do so. There are employees driving forklifts, cutting wood and any number of other things. The last thing I want is someone drunk, rolling, dosed, stoned, etc. running into me with the a pallet jack or forklift.

However, I don't care if someone at taco hell hands me my food while drugged up, as long as they wash their hands after using the bathroom!

They're going to support Linux, and they do quite a bit for the community

Well, hitting the URL http://www.homedepot.com/ redirects you to the page index1.html. This page uses Javascript (uggh) to determine whether the user (ironically) has Javascript enabled in their browser:

//Proceed only if the browser supports JavaScript.
..

if ( browserSupp )
window.location = "/" + siteName + "/HDUS/EN_US/pg_start.jsp";
else
window.location = "noscript.html";

In pg_start.jsp, I can only speculate that a new session is created (the next URL has a session ID field) and various startup routines are executed.

When you arrive at the homepage, the URL contains something similar to this:

pg_diy.jsp?BV_SessionID=@@@@1850957283.0963009276@ @@@&BV_EngineID=cal ieli dldjbemfcfkmcficgkj.0">

Given this information, I can make the following statements:

• They are using Broadvision. Anyone who's used this horrible piece of proprietery crap knows how uncomfortable and cumbersome it is to work with.
• They are heavy on the Javascript. IIRC, Broadvision sends various Javascript functions to accomplish mostly what can be done without Javascript. An expert web designer can build a complex site without a heavy and almost necessary reliance on Javascript.
• HTTP and HTML should both be extinct. Perhaps this is why Home Depot opted for the expensive Broadvision. I bet they also paid through the nose for a BV tech to be on site. Yipee!!

In all seriousness, this sort of thing can be avoided with a proper design. And the sheer difficulty of the whole process is nil.