Do what the radio stations do. They loop their cable from the antenna right after the spark gap. That's it. Nothing fancy. It has worked since radio began.
High voltage HATES inductance. One large diameter turn of the cable after the spark gap and the high voltage will absolutely refuse to take the extra millisecond required to build up the huge magnetic field around the coil.
In the electronics industry, its called "engineering samples." Have an idea? Call their sales department and ask for samples to prototype your idea. Much like a test drive of a new car, except you get to keep the car and they come over to help you modify the hell out of it.
The sad thing is, you can't make a better ATM and sell it in the market. Patents and regulations force competition out. That is the classic sign of poor quality dominating our market.
Large generators require constant maintenance. There are many points of failure. Batteries may be a bank of nicads, which last 10 years, or a bank of lead acid, good for 3. Diesel fuel is easily contaminated by water over the years and can cause blockage or leaks in the tanks and line. The large shafts from the engine to generator can break. Valves can pop out of the head. They often use turbos to maximize use. And these failures happened to a backup generator. The backup backup generator often had problems as well.
Any facility using heavy equipment needs an in house staff of experienced maintenance workers with that equipment. Hiring outside contractors or warranty service guys are always an interesting experience.
Upgrading to 2.6 was not a forced security upgrade, but simply an option. Patching security with linux is a quick patch and restarting the affected service.
Does this Service Pack allow itemized upgrading? A reboot? Uninstalling broken patches? More than one reboot?
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Do you really need both of those monitors?
My monitors *are* my zoned heating system. A small quartz heater take up what else the distributed computing doesn't make. I can keep my living area around 80 degrees (I like it hot) with a total monthly utility bill less than $100.
The hotter months, I move my hobbies down to the basement in the furnished bomb shelter. Underground, its much cooler. My LCD displays with the backlight on soft only consumes a few watts, so they are good. Summer utility bills are less than $60 and I get to leave florescent lights on.
A lead acid battery should last from 5 to 15 years if it never gets below 20% charge. The deep discharge cycles kill them. Electric forklifts that use lead acid batteries see 20% and a full charge every day for several years of life.
Since a UPS has a high float voltage for the batteries, lead acid batteries must have their water level checked every month. If a lead acid battery goes dry just once, its gone. Three months on a UPS will do it.
People have used this for years to find things like Bill Gates' social security number and all kinds of things we think should be private. Chances are, if its in a record somewhere, that information will leak onto the internet sooner than most people think.
I know a photographer who loves this idea. He wants a filter application to make his photos uncopyable. He's even more thrilled that making duplicates of his proofs will disable the printer!
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Even better: if you do that in images search, you can also set your preferences to the size of images to be displayed under "advanced." Set to wallpaper sized. You are guaranteed to get results from the latest digital cameras.
Put the following line in the images search and sit back:
I had an 86 Fiero and all the problems you described. At the young age of 65,00 miles, the highly touted GM Iron Duke 2.5L engine broke a piston skirt and shelled a piston wall in Eastern Missouri. Amazing that factory a factory air filter would allow the pistons to become so worn that quickly.
All the Big Three cars in the last 20 years I have driven have gone through over 10 engines, many transmissions, drive shafts, axles, etc... Compared that to my foreign made cars, which was a single worn CV joint replacement on a 155,000 mile Honda Accord. One import could have replaced several of my American cars. That could have saved the money over the years to buy a nice house.
Buy American? I don't want to encourage crap like that being exported and giving us a bad name.
You can't recalibrate the laws of physics. No matter what machine you use, you still have a cutting bit. And that cutting bit will cut steel at about two thousanths of an inch at most. A heavier cut gets messy and can break the bit, lighter cuts give higher tolerances. But one thousanth of an inch is a perfect measuring stick for cutting. Not one millimeter, not one micron, but a thousanths of an inch. Other measurements work out well with an inch too. Its just convience of scale, and the inch works well.
The metric system may be great for scientific measurements and entry level CAD operators. There's a reason why machinists like thousanths of an inch and fractional measurement. That just happens to be the cutting rate of steels and other metals.
Everything is cut in increments of a few thousanths. Metric requires a pencil and manipulation of numbers. Fractions are a shortcut method and eliminate a point of failure.
Move to metric and you would be better served by a machine that can do floating point calculations flawlessly.
"Almost" broke in half? Usually, smaller and lighter devices don't hit the ground as hard. It would be unusual to have a featherweight laptop to break due to its light weight. Do you have pictures of the damage?
What about rebroadcasting the entire movie with cell phones? Should they be allowed to transmit the entire movie over the airwaves? I'd like to see the morons in front of me who spend the entire movie talking sent to jail.
I have found mencoder valuable for my own video collection. My digital camera creates quicktime jpeg video, which takes up 100KB per second. Mencoder will shrink a 1.5MB jpeg video down to a 125KB divx movie with minimal loss. That makes downloading home movies easy for family and friends.
Here's an experiment for the adventerous. Do this in an area not close to a building of occupancy... Placing your lithium battery in a fire is impressive. Get the UV sunglasses out! If you take one apart, you will notice a large thick sheet of lithium metal. It will tarnish in seconds when exposed to air. It is soft, like butter. When heated, this metal will start to melt and look like a blob of molten solder. Heat it much more and it will ignite into the brightest light you have ever seen. The whole room will bask in its beautiful limelight. The energy output from a small lithium coin battery is intense.
The only problem with catching someone installing a virus is that it only has to be released onto one host. From there it replicates anonymously to the point of saturation. Tracing it back to the source is like tracing a molecule of air through the atmosphere over the years.
The only way a person can get caught is to shoot of their mouth in IRC forums. As seasons change, people can get very social. From that point, they feel compelled to show some proof of the exploit, and the case unfolds as friends of freinds met the guenuine Jesse James of the internet. At that point its too late to cover the tracks of confession, since too many verifyable tracks of information have been leaked. A search warrant gets executed quickly with guns drawn and the rest is history.
Let me ask if this is the future you want. Car dealers may not charge you $10 to own the cars, but more of an incentive for you to bring them in for "service." Since reverse engineering the internals of the car is now illegal, it would be forbidden to determine what kind of oil or fuel it uses. To publish any information you find about your tinkering could get you into big trouble. It could prevent *all* car manufacturers from making a profit and no incentive to sell cars.
I'm sure we are not confused about a rental agreement and Walgreen's cameras. But I do play the cd's I legally rented illegally on my Linux box with mplayer. Am I a criminal? I heard someone who made it possible for me to enjoy a movie in the privacy of my own home has been made a criminal just for that.
You see where this is going? We are allowing companies to artificially commoditize the market into exclusive goods. Its wasteful, harmful for the environment, stifles innovation, and destroys any sense of freedoms that may occur naturally.
Could a car manufacturer sue me for taking their cheapest car, installing third party leather seats, and pimping it out to the max? I would be circumventing their luxury line and bypassing all their dealer options and business model. Should I be considered... a criminal?
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My mom gets 42mpg on her Prius. I always get *at least* 60mpg when I borrow it.
Many people have lead feet and use the air conditioner (which requires the engine to always run.)
Do what the radio stations do. They loop their cable from the antenna right after the spark gap. That's it. Nothing fancy. It has worked since radio began.
High voltage HATES inductance. One large diameter turn of the cable after the spark gap and the high voltage will absolutely refuse to take the extra millisecond required to build up the huge magnetic field around the coil.
They may use a challenge-response method of authentication, but beware of someone walking by with a pocket sized repeater for the real reader.
Remember those infrared remote controlled door locks on cars?
If this stuff spreads off the golf course, does the maker come after you for a patent violation?
They are copying SCO's business plan: give it away freely and then claim IP rights on it later.
In the electronics industry, its called "engineering samples." Have an idea? Call their sales department and ask for samples to prototype your idea. Much like a test drive of a new car, except you get to keep the car and they come over to help you modify the hell out of it.
You must work in tech spport...
The sad thing is, you can't make a better ATM and sell it in the market. Patents and regulations force competition out. That is the classic sign of poor quality dominating our market.
Large generators require constant maintenance. There are many points of failure. Batteries may be a bank of nicads, which last 10 years, or a bank of lead acid, good for 3. Diesel fuel is easily contaminated by water over the years and can cause blockage or leaks in the tanks and line. The large shafts from the engine to generator can break. Valves can pop out of the head. They often use turbos to maximize use. And these failures happened to a backup generator. The backup backup generator often had problems as well.
Any facility using heavy equipment needs an in house staff of experienced maintenance workers with that equipment. Hiring outside contractors or warranty service guys are always an interesting experience.
Upgrading to 2.6 was not a forced security upgrade, but simply an option. Patching security with linux is a quick patch and restarting the affected service.
Does this Service Pack allow itemized upgrading? A reboot? Uninstalling broken patches? More than one reboot?
Do you really need both of those monitors?
My monitors *are* my zoned heating system. A small quartz heater take up what else the distributed computing doesn't make. I can keep my living area around 80 degrees (I like it hot) with a total monthly utility bill less than $100.
The hotter months, I move my hobbies down to the basement in the furnished bomb shelter. Underground, its much cooler. My LCD displays with the backlight on soft only consumes a few watts, so they are good. Summer utility bills are less than $60 and I get to leave florescent lights on.
A lead acid battery should last from 5 to 15 years if it never gets below 20% charge. The deep discharge cycles kill them. Electric forklifts that use lead acid batteries see 20% and a full charge every day for several years of life.
Since a UPS has a high float voltage for the batteries, lead acid batteries must have their water level checked every month. If a lead acid battery goes dry just once, its gone. Three months on a UPS will do it.
People have used this for years to find things like Bill Gates' social security number and all kinds of things we think should be private. Chances are, if its in a record somewhere, that information will leak onto the internet sooner than most people think.
I know a photographer who loves this idea. He wants a filter application to make his photos uncopyable. He's even more thrilled that making duplicates of his proofs will disable the printer!
Even better: if you do that in images search, you can also set your preferences to the size of images to be displayed under "advanced." Set to wallpaper sized. You are guaranteed to get results from the latest digital cameras.
/" boobies filetype:jpg
Put the following line in the images search and sit back:
"index of
I had an 86 Fiero and all the problems you described. At the young age of 65,00 miles, the highly touted GM Iron Duke 2.5L engine broke a piston skirt and shelled a piston wall in Eastern Missouri. Amazing that factory a factory air filter would allow the pistons to become so worn that quickly.
All the Big Three cars in the last 20 years I have driven have gone through over 10 engines, many transmissions, drive shafts, axles, etc... Compared that to my foreign made cars, which was a single worn CV joint replacement on a 155,000 mile Honda Accord. One import could have replaced several of my American cars. That could have saved the money over the years to buy a nice house.
Buy American? I don't want to encourage crap like that being exported and giving us a bad name.
You can't recalibrate the laws of physics. No matter what machine you use, you still have a cutting bit. And that cutting bit will cut steel at about two thousanths of an inch at most. A heavier cut gets messy and can break the bit, lighter cuts give higher tolerances. But one thousanth of an inch is a perfect measuring stick for cutting. Not one millimeter, not one micron, but a thousanths of an inch. Other measurements work out well with an inch too. Its just convience of scale, and the inch works well.
The metric system may be great for scientific measurements and entry level CAD operators. There's a reason why machinists like thousanths of an inch and fractional measurement. That just happens to be the cutting rate of steels and other metals.
Everything is cut in increments of a few thousanths. Metric requires a pencil and manipulation of numbers. Fractions are a shortcut method and eliminate a point of failure.
Move to metric and you would be better served by a machine that can do floating point calculations flawlessly.
How about if Mike Row offers Microsoft $10 for the microsoft.com domain?
"Almost" broke in half? Usually, smaller and lighter devices don't hit the ground as hard. It would be unusual to have a featherweight laptop to break due to its light weight. Do you have pictures of the damage?
What about rebroadcasting the entire movie with cell phones? Should they be allowed to transmit the entire movie over the airwaves? I'd like to see the morons in front of me who spend the entire movie talking sent to jail.
I have found mencoder valuable for my own video collection. My digital camera creates quicktime jpeg video, which takes up 100KB per second. Mencoder will shrink a 1.5MB jpeg video down to a 125KB divx movie with minimal loss. That makes downloading home movies easy for family and friends.
Here's an experiment for the adventerous. Do this in an area not close to a building of occupancy... Placing your lithium battery in a fire is impressive. Get the UV sunglasses out! If you take one apart, you will notice a large thick sheet of lithium metal. It will tarnish in seconds when exposed to air. It is soft, like butter. When heated, this metal will start to melt and look like a blob of molten solder. Heat it much more and it will ignite into the brightest light you have ever seen. The whole room will bask in its beautiful limelight. The energy output from a small lithium coin battery is intense.
The only problem with catching someone installing a virus is that it only has to be released onto one host. From there it replicates anonymously to the point of saturation. Tracing it back to the source is like tracing a molecule of air through the atmosphere over the years.
The only way a person can get caught is to shoot of their mouth in IRC forums. As seasons change, people can get very social. From that point, they feel compelled to show some proof of the exploit, and the case unfolds as friends of freinds met the guenuine Jesse James of the internet. At that point its too late to cover the tracks of confession, since too many verifyable tracks of information have been leaked. A search warrant gets executed quickly with guns drawn and the rest is history.
Let me ask if this is the future you want. Car dealers may not charge you $10 to own the cars, but more of an incentive for you to bring them in for "service." Since reverse engineering the internals of the car is now illegal, it would be forbidden to determine what kind of oil or fuel it uses. To publish any information you find about your tinkering could get you into big trouble. It could prevent *all* car manufacturers from making a profit and no incentive to sell cars.
I'm sure we are not confused about a rental agreement and Walgreen's cameras. But I do play the cd's I legally rented illegally on my Linux box with mplayer. Am I a criminal? I heard someone who made it possible for me to enjoy a movie in the privacy of my own home has been made a criminal just for that.
You see where this is going? We are allowing companies to artificially commoditize the market into exclusive goods. Its wasteful, harmful for the environment, stifles innovation, and destroys any sense of freedoms that may occur naturally.
Could a car manufacturer sue me for taking their cheapest car, installing third party leather seats, and pimping it out to the max? I would be circumventing their luxury line and bypassing all their dealer options and business model. Should I be considered... a criminal?