Thanks for the fine tip. I use the kill switch on the PSU; if it hasn't one, I unplug and ground to the, um, ground. I hope I'm not doing it wrongly; any rate, been lucky so far.
Just to clarify - left off a few things, only on third cuppa - most people I know receiving 'the minimum' are getting ~$1200/mo. I get less by virtue of being forced to retire a year early due to getting SSI for almost two years, and having to pay back some overpayment, to the tune of $150/mo.
Also, for those who might not know, Social Security is really Old Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance - OASDI.
Nope, that's it. There are certainly others in my situation, however they arrived there; as to size of our cohort in relation to all retirees, I've no info. As an aside, did I have any way to augment my income, I purely would.
I recently saw mention of the term "maximum lifetime benefit." I really have to find out about it, cuz it scares me to think of living long enough to get a letter saying, "Hey, that's it, mate, the well's dry. Good luck."
A few years back, prompted by a remark found in a forum somewhere about manufacturers running mobos through a dishwasher at one stage, I looked into the possibility of washing a mobo at home. Seems that it can be done, if a few things are scrupulously observed. The real tricky part is ensuring that the sucker is truly dry before putting things back together and powering up.
For testing if dry, if one could shade the mobo and a thermometer, then enclose it in, say, a plastic cover as from the dry cleaners, observe if any condensation forms when placed in direct sunlight. I'd want to look this up, but offhand I'd not let the temp get above about 120-130 degrees Fahrenheit. There is the presumption that by the time temp got that high, whatever moisture remained on the mobo would indeed vaporize. (Seems I've forgotten all my skience classes. Thanks, Kelly Bundy.)
That's no more tricky than Congress floating a bond against SS revenue, essentially breaking the law and breaking faith with every worker and present and future retiree back in Nixon's second (?) term. Last I saw, they've never even paid the interest on that float. They did it to avoid the real work of trimming expenditures, closing loopholes and raising taxes - just as they're doing now.
Why pick just one? Have a consortium or such. For long-run interests, seems to me there oughta be several companies and organizations with reasons to keep an open and free Web.
Good point. For a bit of perspective, I'm 65 and getting paid social security. With the recent raise, I get $500/month. Rent is $110/wk. in winter, $105 in summer, plus $10/wk. if you've an air conditioner in a window. To bring me up to, as I understand it, legal minimums, I also get $190 in SSI and $83 and change from the state. Internet is $38 some-odd per month. Tack on phone minutes, household and personal consumables. Were it not for what's still called Food Stamps I don't think that I could make it. That's worth $200/mo.
My apartment is ~216 sq./ft. including the bathroom, in a house built in the 1880s; it's charming, with two 20-amp shared circuits, and I'm lacking a UPS. Place has a gas stove, half-height reefer, and a microwave. In this city, this is a good deal.
Figuring out what to do with the remainder of my riches is an interesting exercise. Yet I've got it better than a substantial percentage of our fellow humans. There is no local war and I've got Medicare, without which I'd probably be dead. I even got to keep the leg.
"Life's a bitch, then you die. If you're lucky, you get in her pants first."
Cheers.
Oh, yeah: in principle I can see where sales tax on internet purchases could be fair. How to collect it without the collection measures costing more than collections, not so much.
Easiest thing I've found to use on tobacco smoke residue is the 91% isopropyl alcohol and some cotton swabs and lint-free thin cloth over wooden coffee stirs or flat tootpicks for getting in the grooves and in PCI connectors. Probably not the best substance but it's cheap and readily gotten. For the rest? Nada, really; the machine is gonna stink like old smoke. (I should know, I smoke.)
For a PC, turn the power off, leave the cord in place - it's grounded. Ground yourself to the case - an anti-static wrist snap works well. In the interest of maybe over-done prudence I don't let the vacuum cleaner nozzle touch the innards. Seems to work well. Do not let the fans spin freely. After the vacuuming, one might then use an air compressor - filtered - to blow out the rest of the dust, especially handy for PSUs.
For CRT monitors, compressed air is good IFF it's dry air - you don't want water or oil getting on stuff. I reckon that removing dust from caps and transformers, all the other stuff lessens trapped heat, prolonging the life of the parts. But it's largely by guess and by gosh, backed up with a bit of published research found by tedious searching, and common sense.
Given the percentage of people who watch television and the number of some of the advertisements I've seen, I'd venture that most people consider Trojans to be a brand of raincoat to be worn by Mr. Willie "Pud" Johnson for, among other things, preventing the spread of viruses and such.
When I see comments on the inclusion of Digital Restriction Management in Web standards couched in approving tones, I know that I must be getting old. To me the only valid use of DRM in the long term is as an answer to a trivia question on screwy 'net practices of the late 20th and early 21st centuries.
If in the interim DRM is deemed necessary for some things by some people then incorporate it in a desktop or browser widget as is currently done, say, for Netflix.
And no, I haven't any wonderful answers to all kinds 'good' questions on this, or any deep thoughts on this and the related larger issues; it's just my old fart reaction.
When I bought a book, it was mine. When I used a camera it wasn't locked in to one film manufacturer. Anything with an engine would happily use any brand of gasoline of the correct octane range. When I found that a DVD player/burner I had bought was region-locked, I half flipped. Ditto, when terms of 'sale' for a program I bought on CD forbade making an archive copy.
But then, when I went to see a movie at the theater the thought to bring a movie camera never crossed my mind.
Oh, yeah, just for grins: take Netflix for an example - it uses some kind of DRM, right? (Yeah, I know it does, 'cuz I had to fire up an vm of XP to install Silverlight - until an enterprising duo came up with a wonderful change to Wine that lets me use Netflix from my Ubuntu desktop.) So then, just how many of the protected movies on Netflix don't have torrent or magnet links somewhere? If the answer is few to none, then WTF is the use of having the DRM?
You elucidate a definition so fundamental that few anymore seem to grasp it; rather, many seem to start from a body of unexamined assumptions that make up what they think they know.
I signed up for and used NetVibes many years ago, then started using iGoogle; the latter gave me everything on one page that I really wanted to see to start every day, and since I already had gmail, I wasn't in the position of having to give another party (NetVibes) my log in information. Now I use Opera's SpeedDial.
Visiting the NetVibes site yesterday, I can see where some would like it, but believe I'll pass. Using the original site seemed a lot easier than what they have now. While it might serve my wonts, tracking down all the sites I'd like would be more annoying than I care to deal with compared to simply selecting them from the menus that iGoogle offered.
I had a nice RSS page set up years back using Deepnet Explorer, but after a two-year hiatus with no computer (poverty), never got around to setting one back up.
Goodbye, iGoogle, thanks for the convenience. I'll miss it.
Sometimes in the wee hours when the mind roams I still get a hint of the simple rush from my first experience with an interactive computer, one of the early 8-bit machines: I press a key, and a letter shows up on the screen. Very simple it is; yet all the tech, all the science underlying it, the full range of variously insightful to plodding accomplishments needed to design and build the circuits and instructions still fascinates. I try to appreciate and accord value to well-designed, well-made items that are shepherded through the constraints of materials, cost to build, and market vagaries, amongst others - be it a nail clippers or a CPU.
My knowledge being small, my understanding smaller, my ignorance vast as Universe, there's plenty for amazement.
Am I amazed enough for you, or will you slough me off as simply dotty?
"Reducing the cost of products and services is called "technology" and it's a good thing"
Reducing the cost of products and services is called saving money. Technology is applying scientific knowledge for practical purposes, or the devices that do so. Of course using tech can lead to savings but it's not automatic and there are other ways to reduce costs.
Not if the products are inferior in design, suitability, durability, or industrial detritus; or the services provide less service in amount, kind, or outcome. This is not meant to apply in blanket fashion, but I've seen enough examples such that I'm not a rootin' tootin' Walmart fan. And yes, I have bought carefully selected things there, and I've been satisfied with those.
Um, does Walmart truly employ more people than it sells to? Wow.
If all that guy took in for a week was a modern beer, of course he got messed up. Are you saying he ate nothing?
The comparison is apples to oranges on many grounds. A modern beer is ~5% alcohol on average, the beer in discussion is best guesstimated (and by modern-day attempts at reasonable replication) at around 2%.
Modern generic beers are heavily filtered; the beer in question might have at best been around the consistency of buttermilk or so, with lots of solids including grains and yeasts. So I'd have to figure the old stuff gave a lot more in the way of sustenance. We're also not talking about taking in nothing but beer, but rather having it as part of one's daily diet. A beer at that low a proof has got to be only a very mild diuretic at best and given the water content from one's diet likely not an issue. (The story and the linked articles make interesting reading for almost anyone interested in beer, by the by.)
Generally, the addition of hops as a preservative is a fairly recent practice going back to, oh, late-Middle Ages from what I recall reading. In the history of beer and to this day all manner of 'stuffs' have been added for a variety of reasons: flavor; whatever the reason du jour; and grins.
It may be something wonky in my browser settings but the paper doesn't render well in Opera or Firefox - lines from one column overwrite a portion of the next one over.
Yup, in USA today, money wins, or at least doesn't suffer in losing. Going to an inquisitorial system, I fear one might become a modern Diogenes, seeking an honest judge, one who's fair, impartial yet passionate about right and wrong, smart enough to either know the matter at hand or to seek counsel of those who do.
Thank for the fine information - some I'd known, most, not.
I feel like a real shit, because you typed in an excellent helpful piece in reply to an early-morning toss-off meant to be humorous - JonAbbot said he hadn't seen any "BSD is dying" posts, so I thought I'd accommodate him by trying to imply that it had already died. Sorry, man.
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it's the kind of thing that I could and would definitely use.
Thanks for having excellent memory - I'd clean forgotten this. Long time back, man. Yeah, that was a good trigger.
Thanks for the fine tip. I use the kill switch on the PSU; if it hasn't one, I unplug and ground to the, um, ground. I hope I'm not doing it wrongly; any rate, been lucky so far.
Just to clarify - left off a few things, only on third cuppa - most people I know receiving 'the minimum' are getting ~$1200/mo. I get less by virtue of being forced to retire a year early due to getting SSI for almost two years, and having to pay back some overpayment, to the tune of $150/mo.
Also, for those who might not know, Social Security is really Old Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance - OASDI.
Nope, that's it. There are certainly others in my situation, however they arrived there; as to size of our cohort in relation to all retirees, I've no info. As an aside, did I have any way to augment my income, I purely would.
I recently saw mention of the term "maximum lifetime benefit." I really have to find out about it, cuz it scares me to think of living long enough to get a letter saying, "Hey, that's it, mate, the well's dry. Good luck."
I think you got it.
A few years back, prompted by a remark found in a forum somewhere about manufacturers running mobos through a dishwasher at one stage, I looked into the possibility of washing a mobo at home. Seems that it can be done, if a few things are scrupulously observed. The real tricky part is ensuring that the sucker is truly dry before putting things back together and powering up.
For testing if dry, if one could shade the mobo and a thermometer, then enclose it in, say, a plastic cover as from the dry cleaners, observe if any condensation forms when placed in direct sunlight. I'd want to look this up, but offhand I'd not let the temp get above about 120-130 degrees Fahrenheit. There is the presumption that by the time temp got that high, whatever moisture remained on the mobo would indeed vaporize. (Seems I've forgotten all my skience classes. Thanks, Kelly Bundy.)
That's no more tricky than Congress floating a bond against SS revenue, essentially breaking the law and breaking faith with every worker and present and future retiree back in Nixon's second (?) term. Last I saw, they've never even paid the interest on that float. They did it to avoid the real work of trimming expenditures, closing loopholes and raising taxes - just as they're doing now.
Why pick just one? Have a consortium or such. For long-run interests, seems to me there oughta be several companies and organizations with reasons to keep an open and free Web.
Good point. For a bit of perspective, I'm 65 and getting paid social security. With the recent raise, I get $500/month. Rent is $110/wk. in winter, $105 in summer, plus $10/wk. if you've an air conditioner in a window. To bring me up to, as I understand it, legal minimums, I also get $190 in SSI and $83 and change from the state. Internet is $38 some-odd per month. Tack on phone minutes, household and personal consumables. Were it not for what's still called Food Stamps I don't think that I could make it. That's worth $200/mo.
My apartment is ~216 sq./ft. including the bathroom, in a house built in the 1880s; it's charming, with two 20-amp shared circuits, and I'm lacking a UPS. Place has a gas stove, half-height reefer, and a microwave. In this city, this is a good deal.
Figuring out what to do with the remainder of my riches is an interesting exercise. Yet I've got it better than a substantial percentage of our fellow humans. There is no local war and I've got Medicare, without which I'd probably be dead. I even got to keep the leg.
"Life's a bitch, then you die. If you're lucky, you get in her pants first."
Cheers.
Oh, yeah: in principle I can see where sales tax on internet purchases could be fair. How to collect it without the collection measures costing more than collections, not so much.
Easiest thing I've found to use on tobacco smoke residue is the 91% isopropyl alcohol and some cotton swabs and lint-free thin cloth over wooden coffee stirs or flat tootpicks for getting in the grooves and in PCI connectors. Probably not the best substance but it's cheap and readily gotten. For the rest? Nada, really; the machine is gonna stink like old smoke. (I should know, I smoke.)
For a PC, turn the power off, leave the cord in place - it's grounded. Ground yourself to the case - an anti-static wrist snap works well. In the interest of maybe over-done prudence I don't let the vacuum cleaner nozzle touch the innards. Seems to work well. Do not let the fans spin freely. After the vacuuming, one might then use an air compressor - filtered - to blow out the rest of the dust, especially handy for PSUs.
For CRT monitors, compressed air is good IFF it's dry air - you don't want water or oil getting on stuff. I reckon that removing dust from caps and transformers, all the other stuff lessens trapped heat, prolonging the life of the parts. But it's largely by guess and by gosh, backed up with a bit of published research found by tedious searching, and common sense.
Just when I think that some idiot in Congress can't come up with something even more idiotic....
Given the percentage of people who watch television and the number of some of the advertisements I've seen, I'd venture that most people consider Trojans to be a brand of raincoat to be worn by Mr. Willie "Pud" Johnson for, among other things, preventing the spread of viruses and such.
For those interested it's worthwhile to read more of that thread; it just gets worse
a little bit of searching might answer some of your speculations
for instance, the Mk-45 had an ~11KT warhead, but couldn't be carried by Thresher - it used Mk-48s
Thresher did some SUBROC testing the year before she sank, but there's no mention that she was armed with them.
When I see comments on the inclusion of Digital Restriction Management in Web standards couched in approving tones, I know that I must be getting old. To me the only valid use of DRM in the long term is as an answer to a trivia question on screwy 'net practices of the late 20th and early 21st centuries.
If in the interim DRM is deemed necessary for some things by some people then incorporate it in a desktop or browser widget as is currently done, say, for Netflix.
And no, I haven't any wonderful answers to all kinds 'good' questions on this, or any deep thoughts on this and the related larger issues; it's just my old fart reaction.
When I bought a book, it was mine. When I used a camera it wasn't locked in to one film manufacturer. Anything with an engine would happily use any brand of gasoline of the correct octane range. When I found that a DVD player/burner I had bought was region-locked, I half flipped. Ditto, when terms of 'sale' for a program I bought on CD forbade making an archive copy.
But then, when I went to see a movie at the theater the thought to bring a movie camera never crossed my mind.
Oh, yeah, just for grins: take Netflix for an example - it uses some kind of DRM, right? (Yeah, I know it does, 'cuz I had to fire up an vm of XP to install Silverlight - until an enterprising duo came up with a wonderful change to Wine that lets me use Netflix from my Ubuntu desktop.) So then, just how many of the protected movies on Netflix don't have torrent or magnet links somewhere? If the answer is few to none, then WTF is the use of having the DRM?
You elucidate a definition so fundamental that few anymore seem to grasp it; rather, many seem to start from a body of unexamined assumptions that make up what they think they know.
Thanks.
I signed up for and used NetVibes many years ago, then started using iGoogle; the latter gave me everything on one page that I really wanted to see to start every day, and since I already had gmail, I wasn't in the position of having to give another party (NetVibes) my log in information. Now I use Opera's SpeedDial.
Visiting the NetVibes site yesterday, I can see where some would like it, but believe I'll pass. Using the original site seemed a lot easier than what they have now. While it might serve my wonts, tracking down all the sites I'd like would be more annoying than I care to deal with compared to simply selecting them from the menus that iGoogle offered.
I had a nice RSS page set up years back using Deepnet Explorer, but after a two-year hiatus with no computer (poverty), never got around to setting one back up.
Goodbye, iGoogle, thanks for the convenience. I'll miss it.
I'm childish enough to find many things amazing.
Sometimes in the wee hours when the mind roams I still get a hint of the simple rush from my first experience with an interactive computer, one of the early 8-bit machines: I press a key, and a letter shows up on the screen. Very simple it is; yet all the tech, all the science underlying it, the full range of variously insightful to plodding accomplishments needed to design and build the circuits and instructions still fascinates. I try to appreciate and accord value to well-designed, well-made items that are shepherded through the constraints of materials, cost to build, and market vagaries, amongst others - be it a nail clippers or a CPU.
My knowledge being small, my understanding smaller, my ignorance vast as Universe, there's plenty for amazement.
Am I amazed enough for you, or will you slough me off as simply dotty?
"Reducing the cost of products and services is called "technology" and it's a good thing"
Reducing the cost of products and services is called saving money. Technology is applying scientific knowledge for practical purposes, or the devices that do so. Of course using tech can lead to savings but it's not automatic and there are other ways to reduce costs.
Not if the products are inferior in design, suitability, durability, or industrial detritus; or the services provide less service in amount, kind, or outcome. This is not meant to apply in blanket fashion, but I've seen enough examples such that I'm not a rootin' tootin' Walmart fan. And yes, I have bought carefully selected things there, and I've been satisfied with those.
Um, does Walmart truly employ more people than it sells to? Wow.
If all that guy took in for a week was a modern beer, of course he got messed up. Are you saying he ate nothing?
The comparison is apples to oranges on many grounds. A modern beer is ~5% alcohol on average, the beer in discussion is best guesstimated (and by modern-day attempts at reasonable replication) at around 2%.
Modern generic beers are heavily filtered; the beer in question might have at best been around the consistency of buttermilk or so, with lots of solids including grains and yeasts. So I'd have to figure the old stuff gave a lot more in the way of sustenance. We're also not talking about taking in nothing but beer, but rather having it as part of one's daily diet. A beer at that low a proof has got to be only a very mild diuretic at best and given the water content from one's diet likely not an issue. (The story and the linked articles make interesting reading for almost anyone interested in beer, by the by.)
Generally, the addition of hops as a preservative is a fairly recent practice going back to, oh, late-Middle Ages from what I recall reading. In the history of beer and to this day all manner of 'stuffs' have been added for a variety of reasons: flavor; whatever the reason du jour; and grins.
Yeah, had to watch it twice just for the grin I got from watching it the first time. This is some serious nerdsmanship.
I'd like to know where one might use a stent 20nm. wide.
It may be something wonky in my browser settings but the paper doesn't render well in Opera or Firefox - lines from one column overwrite a portion of the next one over.
Yup, in USA today, money wins, or at least doesn't suffer in losing. Going to an inquisitorial system, I fear one might become a modern Diogenes, seeking an honest judge, one who's fair, impartial yet passionate about right and wrong, smart enough to either know the matter at hand or to seek counsel of those who do.
Thank for the fine information - some I'd known, most, not.
I feel like a real shit, because you typed in an excellent helpful piece in reply to an early-morning toss-off meant to be humorous - JonAbbot said he hadn't seen any "BSD is dying" posts, so I thought I'd accommodate him by trying to imply that it had already died. Sorry, man.
And thanks CBravo for the Windows 'touché.'