I am the person who asked the questions and I wish to thank you all very much for your kind replies and help.
This is a hobby for me. I am a retired engineer from Intel in Portland, Oregon and have moved to Bellingham, Washington.
I don't care how long this will take to learn and execute and I don't care if the first 100 tubes/amplifiers will fail. This is to be a journey for learning for me.
I have been known to make stuff that takes a long time to make and do not have corporate/commercial marketability.
As I have no boyfriend; no girlfriend; no husband; no wife; no kids and no pets; and TV sucks and Hollywood sucks and sports to me is riding a bicycle of kayaking and not watching a bunch of millionaires bashing into each other on a green plastic carpet under bright tv lights; I have the time and my entertainment is myself doing these things.
To tell you the truth; once my journey is over and I have a working amplifier; I will most likely give it away or put it onto the shoulder of the road for free and then move onto the next project. It's the process and not the final item that lures me.
Yeah, first of all, you should have mentioned Vitamix Professional series blenders. They are faster and louder.
But what I want to say is to have good audio that is truly yours and something to be proud of, you need to make your own vacuum tube amplifier and then use it to power real electrostatic headphones over a wire.
Folks: Can you please knock off the childish behavior? Dorothy Gove, the director of my childhood montessori school (and whos mentor is Mrs. Montessori herself) is spinning so fast in her grave that the neighbours of the cemetery are filing noise complaints with the Winchester, Massachusetts police:(
Well, I was at the Goodwill Bins (very famous Goodwill store here in Portland, Oregon) and I saw a pile of routers for cheep. Knowing how much the airline complain about money when they lower the pilots' salaries and now want to do away with the copilot; this might be a good source.:)
This is not about trying to make something exiotic that has to last forever in hostile space environments without ability for hands-on repair.
This is ground based telecommunications equipment!
I don't understand what can make this go so far over budget and over-time. Ground based telecommunications equipment, including satellite base stations are commodity items that are off-the-shelf.
Ham radio operators have been building satellite ground stations as well as terrestrial communications equipment for years on-the-cheep.
Gawd! If you want to do this, use your own bicycle and leave the company car back in the company garage!!! This comment is going to give me nightmares!!! If you use your own bicycle and it's an old junker, you can just leave it when you hear the sirens and scoot out of there and into a nearby bar. At least you wont get fired.
Please be very careful if you discover something like this. Too many of us have been treated incorrectly by the company or the prosecuters.
Here is what I would probably do:
1. Remove all of my own assets from the company/institution.
2. Verbally (phone or preferably in person) tell my family what I have done and suggest they do the same. As I can trust my family, I can say to them that I have been made aware of a possible security situation with the company.
3. Verbally (in person if possible, phone as a last resore, not email) tell any friends THAT I TRUST about what I am doing and why and suggest to them they consider removing their assets. Do not go into any details of how I found out.
4. Once out, stay out. Listen. Don't say anything to anyone else. If I feel that I must do something, I would stop; find an attorney whom I can trust (friend of a friend or family; not just out of the yellow pages). Pay them for an hour or so (which puts into place attorney client privilege) and tell them what is up. Fot God's sake, think twice, no three times before going this far.
Oh, and I forgot. They also have a Voodoo Doughnuts mobile unit. This big van makes its rounds throughout the Portland, Oregon area, including all of the Sundays Parkways events.
If they won't let me unplug my employees private hotspots on my network, I will be mad.My network needs to be protected from the bad guys hacking in through my employees unsecured wifi hotspots.
Naughty FCC
I will need to haul them FCC commisioners over my knees and spank them in front of my hacked servers that are now spewing illegal spam advertising illegal knockoffs of my trademarked lighted clear plastic raincoats:((((((((((((((((
I thought that we had reached consensus during the discussion about weakening US cinema ticket sales that we are sick and tired of the content that 'The Industry' is giving us each year.
And now we are griping about not being able to see that content?
I have solved that problem years ago. I spend my spare time doing art work and making things; ie; I make my own entertainment.
Whomever suggests that we 'get a life' just may be right. Isn't that what we got a consensus on durin yesterdays' discussion on movie attendance?
I spent two weeks in my woodworking shop making a heirloom quality solid maple and cherry chest style toy box. It was sturdy enough that it could also function as a bench style seat.
I made this gift for my sister who had two young boys.
When I previewed this gift to my mother, she told me that I was not finished and the at need to rush out to the store and get some theme toys to put into the toy box.
At 5 PM on Chrstmas Eve.
Yeah, right. After spending 2 weeks lovingly working on this project, only to be expected to rush out on Christmas eve to buy movie theme toys to stuff in it.
Sorry, I told mom that I would rather make nice sugary brownies for Christmas Eve dinner.
Hold on! I beg to differ with you! What is wrong with going to the movies alone? I have been doing it for 61 years and there is nothing wrong with it!
If I go alone to a dollar house; bring my own trail mix and buy only whatever semi healthy food they have; I can return home from an evening out still holding change from a $10.00 bill.
I have never been challenged bringing my own food into a theater. I have only been challenged once and that was at PGE Park or whatever they call it now where the soccar team plays.
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I am the person who asked the questions and I wish to thank you all very much for your kind replies and help.
This is a hobby for me. I am a retired engineer from Intel in Portland, Oregon and have moved to Bellingham, Washington.
I don't care how long this will take to learn and execute and I don't care if the first 100 tubes/amplifiers will fail. This is to be a journey for learning for me.
I have been known to make stuff that takes a long time to make and do not have corporate/commercial marketability.
As I have no boyfriend; no girlfriend; no husband; no wife; no kids and no pets; and TV sucks and Hollywood sucks and sports to me is riding a bicycle of kayaking and not watching a bunch of millionaires bashing into each other on a green plastic carpet under bright tv lights; I have the time and my entertainment is myself doing these things.
To tell you the truth; once my journey is over and I have a working amplifier; I will most likely give it away or put it onto the shoulder of the road for free and then move onto the next project. It's the process and not the final item that lures me.
Humbly and respectfully yours,
Mark Allyn Bellingham, Washington
Please leave out the homophobic references. I take offense to this type of words that refer to my communities in a derogatory fashion. Thank you.
+2! Well said!!
But what I want to say is to have good audio that is truly yours and something to be proud of, you need to make your own vacuum tube amplifier and then use it to power real electrostatic headphones over a wire.
And the source? Vinyl.
Folks: Can you please knock off the childish behavior? Dorothy Gove, the director of my childhood montessori school (and whos mentor is Mrs. Montessori herself) is spinning so fast in her grave that the neighbours of the cemetery are filing noise complaints with the Winchester, Massachusetts police :(
Folks: You have no choice. In the Linux kernel, you have to use tabs and the tabs have to be set to eight spaces.
+2 Approved
You're saying that because the neighbour plugging in a modem caused an amplifier in your basement to catch fire?
That's like the neighbour plugging in a toaster and causing my bedside radio to catch on fire??
I know the dark force is awakening, but this is going a bit far :(
The qwerty typing that we are still using is perhaps outdated?
I heard that qwerty was deliberately made hard to use because if you typed too fast it would cause the mechanical typewriters of years ago to jam
If the qwerty system is replaced, would this reduce typos?
Well, I was at the Goodwill Bins (very famous Goodwill store here in Portland, Oregon) and I saw a pile of routers for cheep. Knowing how much the airline complain about money when they lower the pilots' salaries and now want to do away with the copilot; this might be a good source. :)
This is not about trying to make something exiotic that has to last forever in hostile space environments without ability for hands-on repair.
This is ground based telecommunications equipment!
I don't understand what can make this go so far over budget and over-time. Ground based telecommunications equipment, including satellite base stations are commodity items that are off-the-shelf.
Ham radio operators have been building satellite ground stations as well as terrestrial communications equipment for years on-the-cheep.
Luv & Peace
Gawd! If you want to do this, use your own bicycle and leave the company car back in the company garage!!! This comment is going to give me nightmares!!! If you use your own bicycle and it's an old junker, you can just leave it when you hear the sirens and scoot out of there and into a nearby bar. At least you wont get fired.
I am April in Paris . . . .
I am just an ordinary man with a strange name
My mother's maiden name is Judy Garland and my high school is The Emerald City High School.
Please be very careful if you discover something like this. Too many of us have been treated incorrectly by the company or the prosecuters.
Here is what I would probably do:
1. Remove all of my own assets from the company/institution.
2. Verbally (phone or preferably in person) tell my family what I have done and suggest they do the same. As I can trust my family, I can say to them that I have been made aware of a possible security situation with the company.
3. Verbally (in person if possible, phone as a last resore, not email) tell any friends THAT I TRUST about what I am doing and why and suggest to them they consider removing their assets. Do not go into any details of how I found out.
4. Once out, stay out. Listen. Don't say anything to anyone else. If I feel that I must do something, I would stop; find an attorney whom I can trust (friend of a friend or family; not just out of the yellow pages). Pay them for an hour or so (which puts into place attorney client privilege) and tell them what is up. Fot God's sake, think twice, no three times before going this far.
5. Shut up and go about your business.
Thank you Leonard for all you have done for us!
Will the woman come running back in her famous clear raincoat?
Oh, and I forgot. They also have a Voodoo Doughnuts mobile unit. This big van makes its rounds throughout the Portland, Oregon area, including all of the Sundays Parkways events.
Yes! Another Portlander!!!!!! I agree!!!! And they are less than a mile from me!!!
Naughty FCC
I will need to haul them FCC commisioners over my knees and spank them in front of my hacked servers that are now spewing illegal spam advertising illegal knockoffs of my trademarked lighted clear plastic raincoats :((((((((((((((((
Luv you all
Mark
I thought that we had reached consensus during the discussion about weakening US cinema ticket sales that we are sick and tired of the content that 'The Industry' is giving us each year.
And now we are griping about not being able to see that content?
I have solved that problem years ago. I spend my spare time doing art work and making things; ie; I make my own entertainment.
Whomever suggests that we 'get a life' just may be right. Isn't that what we got a consensus on durin yesterdays' discussion on movie attendance?
Could it be this one? http://www.99w.com/
Once upon a time at Christmas, 1999.
I spent two weeks in my woodworking shop making a heirloom quality solid maple and cherry chest style toy box. It was sturdy enough that it could also function as a bench style seat.
Here is an archive.org cache of the toy box from my old web site: https://web.archive.org/web/20...
I made this gift for my sister who had two young boys.
When I previewed this gift to my mother, she told me that I was not finished and the at need to rush out to the store and get some theme toys to put into the toy box.
At 5 PM on Chrstmas Eve.
Yeah, right. After spending 2 weeks lovingly working on this project, only to be expected to rush out on Christmas eve to buy movie theme toys to stuff in it.
Sorry, I told mom that I would rather make nice sugary brownies for Christmas Eve dinner.
If I go alone to a dollar house; bring my own trail mix and buy only whatever semi healthy food they have; I can return home from an evening out still holding change from a $10.00 bill.
I have never been challenged bringing my own food into a theater. I have only been challenged once and that was at PGE Park or whatever they call it now where the soccar team plays.
Will they open one in Portland, Oregon?