User: cpinetree

Re:Check out mikeholt.com

On: Ask Slashdot: Best Option For Heavy-Duty, Full-Home Surge Protection?

Mod this up!

Mike Holt has a whole sub forum dedicated to power quality and surge protection (Power quality + Surge forum)

Mike has also written the books on grounding and bonding - Grounding vs Bonding text book

hack a dedicated unit

On: Recycling an Android Phone As a Handheld GPS?

Install Miopocket on a dedicated unit. http://www.google.com/search?q=miopocket

You then get mp3, ereader, games, multiple possible gps programs (garmin, miomap,tomtom, etc)

Re:Law Suit!!!!

On: Malfunction Costs Couple $11 Million Slot Machine Jackpot

Can you then play one machine, call for an inspection, walk to the next, play, call for inspection, rinse lather repeat? If so, that surely would hurt the casino where it hurts if you and a bunch of friends did this for a week at the casino in question. It would certainly cost them more than just paying the jackpot.

Re:squeezebox family

On: Simple, Cost-Effective, Multiroom Audio?

I'll fourth this. I have an older SB2 hooked to ceiling speakers inside and outside the house, the bathroom has a single stereo speaker. Slimserver runs on a Debian server hooked to a nas.
I used the sirius plugin until sirius went to a pay extra for internet radio model.

The slimserver also handles most all codecs.

Re:Patent if it's practical, publish if it's risky

On: Should I Publish Or Patent?

I had not heard of this before, but it seems to be good answer to alot of patent or not questions.

Someone needs to mod this up.

Re:Excuse me,

On: USNS Hoyt S. Vandenberg To Be Sunk For a Reef

Another geek diver here,

I mix my own nitrox (Vance Harlow's OXYGEN HACKER'S COMPANION)

I have also built electronic circuits for downloading info from my dive computer, and written small programs to manipulate the data.

I've also built a nitrox analyzer to verify the amount of oxygen in a scuba tank.

also the technical aspect of ship wreck diving is cool.

so yea diving is for geeks

Re:Yeah..

On: Universal Remote's Days Are Numbered

this works very well with linux - Concordance / Congruity -

check the link:

http://www.phildev.net/harmony/

air is 20.9% oxygen not 40%

On: Man Invents Alternative To Cooking Gas

unless I am reading this wrong the air in gaza would be great for a nitrox dive to 99 feet for 50 minutes.