It wasn't the water cooling that cracked your tube it was the sudden, uneven temperature change that stressed the glass. Water cooled tubes are quite common and are used in high power TV, radio and radar transmitters. Some amateur radio and audio enthusiasts also water cool their tubes. The trick is to maintain a constant temperature all over the tube and don't let the water and the high voltage get together. Search google for "water cooled transmitter tube" and you'll find quite a few.
I've been waiting for 2+ years for a transmitter tube at a local radio station to fail and be changed out so I can have the old one. It's 2 feet high and a foot diameter and it'll look impressive sitting in the corner. The station engineer promised me the last one but he broke it taking it out so now I have to wait for the next one to fail.:-(
I'd like to see them go to a system where you pay for what you actually use like they do for long distance phone service, water, power, etc. Big users would be forced to pay their fair share, small users would get cheaper rates. If you go on vacation for a month, you aren't using it so you don't pay anything except a small monthly service fee.
In fact, I've been saying for years they should do the same for cable TV. Some (actually most) channels I NEVER watch, yet I currently pay for them anyway. Let market forces decide if we really need 6 home shopping channels, 3 religious channels, 5 spanish channels, etc.
My cable bill would be much, MUCH smaller, since I seldom watch TV anyway.
Of course the downside is, there may not be enough subscribers to support some of my favorite channels and they'd go under.
Some years ago I ran across a product that made refilling cartridges easy. I believe it was called KleanHands. It consisted of a reusable printhead and replaceable cartridges of ink. Much cheaper than HP cartridges. I found that the ink cartridges were easily refillable, too. We bought some where I work for an HP Officejet fax machine.
Unfortunatly that product seems to no longer be available and only worked on a limited number of HP printers. (not mine of course) Too bad someone doesn't make something similar today for color cartridges.
I've been refilling my HP cartridges for a couple of years, with mixed results. Sometimes it works well, sometimes the cartridge clogs up or worse, leaks all over. I'd say it works about 50% of the time. Still cheaper than paying HP's inflated prices.
Lately though, HP's changed the design of their cartridges making it harder to refill them. You either have to drill a hole in the black cartridges or use a vacuum method to refill them. It can be done, it's just a hassle and usually messy. The color ones are easier, just crack the top off and fill the sponges with ink. At least that method still works. (for now)
I know some would say, why bother? Just get a laser printer, right? Well, I already have a laser printer, an HP LJ IIID with envelope feeder and duplex feeder that I got for free from a dumpster. (with a stack of toner carts) Some idiot got a wire hooked into the gears while changing the toner cartridge and shredded up some wiring. I patched them back together and have been using it ever since. It's great for black and white and I use it probably 90% of the time, but I still need color for some printouts so the HP stays attached to my network.
Unfortunatly there's no easy solution. Where I work we went through a series of mergers and takeovers a few years ago and the naming conventions got a little messy.
Originally it was set up as "last name (up to 8 chars), first initial, middle initial"; for an 10 character total length. The only problem we had was with 2 employees with long names that started out similar. I don't remember their names but one ended in "-ski" and the other ended with "-vich." Same initials, too.
After several mergers it was decided to combine the seperate email systems and go to a "first initial, middle initial, last name" (up to 12 chars). And the problems began.
First was the "Smith Problem." We had 4 Dave Smiths, all with middle initial "L" and 3 of them with the middle name of "Lee." Fortunatly one had the nickname of "Sparky" and so was SPARKYSMITH and one agreed to be known as DLSMITHUK, as he was based in the UK. The other 2 were listed as DLSMITH and DLOUISSMITH. We also had several other Smith's whose initials were the same.
This didn't just affect email, it also affected the phone directories, as management chose to have one big directory for the whole company instead of dividing it down into regions and operational areas and listing everyone by just their first and last names.
So we now have many more duplicates: 2 Dennis Millers (with the same middle name), 4 Brenda Petersens, 3 Linda Petersens, 2 Bob Pattersons, 2 Cathy Andersons (and one Kathy Anderson, very confusing), 4 Richard Andersons, 3 Mark Johnsons (and 2 of them are Mark Robert Johnson), 3 Steve Thompsons, 3 James Wilsons, 2 Alan Wrights... and those are just the duplicates I deal with on a regular basis. There are many more. It's not uncommon to have someone call the wrong person on the phone or send an email to the wrong person. Some users in frustration just send mail to ALL the users with similar names and let the recipients sort it out.
It was suggested last year we go to using the employee number for email but the execs balked at that idea. Probably because they can't remember theirs.
For now when we add a new employee whose name is similar to an existing employee we just add a number to the end of the user name, "KLJones2".
So far it's working, for email at least. Phone directory is still a mess, though.
To me as well Agilent is the *real* HP. Remember, it all started back in '38 when Bill and Dave designed their first little gadget which was definitely neither a computer nor a printer. It was an RF Oscillator - test and measurement equipment.
Actually it was an audio oscillator, the 200A I believe. Walt Disney was one of their first customers, he needed variable oscillators for Fantasia, but that's neither here nor there.
There's also all the natural gas that's used to boil the ethanol out of the fermented corn mash. It doesn't just evaporate on it's own. I live within 30 miles of 3 ethanol plants and I can tell you, the pipes supplying natural gas to them are BIG and the regulator stations are screaming with the amount of flow going through them.
Funny how none of the economic models for ethanol ever seem to mention that it takes about 3 times as many BTU's of natural gas to produce the methanol than you get from the ethanol itself.
Of course, all this ethanol talk plays well in the farm belt, where the farmers think the price of corn will triple and they'll all get stinking rich.
Probably closer to the truth is that if the price of corn goes up enough, the big ethanol producers (like ADM) will simply buy their own land and grow the corn themselves, bypassing the market.
Or they'll just import cheap corn or ethanol from the third world and shut the domestic farmers out of the market entirely.
Of course they don't have to use corn to make ethanol. Corn is preferred because it's cheap. Ethanol could just as easily be made from sugar cane, sorghum or any sugar-containing fruit crop.
I remember many (10?) years ago a company was promoting a corn-based, plastic grocery bag which they said would deteriorate and disolve in a few months when exposed to sunlight and water.
Iowa City Magazine (now defunct) decided to test it and attached one to a post in back of their offices. Each month they published a photo of the bag and reported on it's condition. After a year they decided that apart from some slight tearing of the bag by the wind where it was attached to the post, there was no sign of any deterioration.
None.
On the other hand, I regularly get shipments of equipment packed in biodegradable corn starch 'peanuts' which dissolve rapidly when exposed to water. Easy to dispose of I guess, but more than once I've had UPS drop off a package on my doorstep in the rain and I come home to a box of soggy, goo-encrusted equipment. YUCK!
I mean, what are you going to do to the whiny, cray-baby loser who just cost your company (and share holders) MILLIONS in advertising alone?! (not to mention of the proxy votes being sent, re sent, and sent yet again).
Well, you could get rid of Carly, who is the one who chose to spend all that company money on advertising, multiple proxies, etc. Walter Hewlett never spent a nickel of the company's money on this fight.
I am an HP shareholder and I feel that if Carly had put in a much effort into managing HP properly as she did on this proxy fight, HP could be a #1 company. Maybe the problem is Carly doesn't really know how to run a company, but she does know how to rig an election.
And yes, I am considering selling my shares, even though I'll be taking a loss on them. Better a small loss now than a bigger loss later.
Gosh, what about all the people who don't watch his network at all? Or those who can't because it isn't carried on their cable system? Or those whose TVs are broken? Or those who blink during the commercials?
They're stealing! Stealing, I tell you!
So when did the nation's business schools merge with the medical schools to give free lobotomies to CEO's and other execs?
Gotta go. The commercials are coming back on...
Jonathan Swift was right!
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"So, naturalists observe, a flea Has smaller fleas that on him prey; And these have smaller still to bite 'em; And so proceed ad infinitum."
Jonathan Swift (1667-1745)
I believe at the time he was rhapsodising on the invention of the microscope.
I really wish they would break down and import the original in Queen's English.
They already did. Years ago. I've got it in Beta. No shit. And yes, it is better than the US version.
Max was great. I think the character of Blank Reg was almost prophetic. I've seen several people around town who remind me of Reg. Aging, punker burnouts who just don't know when to let go.
Looks like I'll be clearing out some space on the ol' hard drive and getting the TV capture card checked out before Friday
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The world doesn't need a fountain of youth.
What we need is a fountain of SMART.
DUDE!
You need to ffix that ff-ing ff key.
According to this page,
Microsoft has key offices in Bettendorf and Des Moines, Iowa.
Griswold says. "What 18- or 20-year-olds will do with these PDAs today is what 35-year-olds will be doing with them tomorrow."
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Drop them, lose them, spill beer on them,
But only for a second.
See, there's no cup holders.
Wouldn't fit with my lifestyle.
Woof-Woof!
er, um, whoops...
Can I attend the same way I usually read Slashdot, in my underwear at 5AM with a cup of coffee in my hand?
On second thought, maybe a virtual conference would be a better idea.
That blind install still looks easier than the last time I installed Slackware.
It wasn't the water cooling that cracked your tube it was the sudden, uneven temperature change that stressed the glass. Water cooled tubes are quite common and are used in high power TV, radio and radar transmitters. Some amateur radio and audio enthusiasts also water cool their tubes. The trick is to maintain a constant temperature all over the tube and don't let the water and the high voltage get together. Search google for "water cooled transmitter tube" and you'll find quite a few.
:-(
I've been waiting for 2+ years for a transmitter tube at a local radio station to fail and be changed out so I can have the old one. It's 2 feet high and a foot diameter and it'll look impressive sitting in the corner. The station engineer promised me the last one but he broke it taking it out so now I have to wait for the next one to fail.
So how do they get stereo out of a single tube? It looks too small to be the two-tubes-in-one variety.
It's a dual triode.
Here's the specs on the tube here. Looks like it's good for 3W per channel.
What do you mean "too small to be the two-tubes-in-one variety?" I've seen dual triode pencil tubes that were a lot smaller.
Where did you get cow fetus?
Looks like that Tasmanian Wolf pup to me.
I'd like to see them go to a system where you pay for what you actually use like they do for long distance phone service, water, power, etc. Big users would be forced to pay their fair share, small users would get cheaper rates. If you go on vacation for a month, you aren't using it so you don't pay anything except a small monthly service fee.
In fact, I've been saying for years they should do the same for cable TV. Some (actually most) channels I NEVER watch, yet I currently pay for them anyway. Let market forces decide if we really need 6 home shopping channels, 3 religious channels, 5 spanish channels, etc.
My cable bill would be much, MUCH smaller, since I seldom watch TV anyway.
Of course the downside is, there may not be enough subscribers to support some of my favorite channels and they'd go under.
They don't have enough ink in them to print both "r"s.
Some years ago I ran across a product that made refilling cartridges easy. I believe it was called KleanHands. It consisted of a reusable printhead and replaceable cartridges of ink. Much cheaper than HP cartridges. I found that the ink cartridges were easily refillable, too. We bought some where I work for an HP Officejet fax machine.
Unfortunatly that product seems to no longer be available and only worked on a limited number of HP printers. (not mine of course) Too bad someone doesn't make something similar today for color cartridges.
I've been refilling my HP cartridges for a couple of years, with mixed results. Sometimes it works well, sometimes the cartridge clogs up or worse, leaks all over. I'd say it works about 50% of the time. Still cheaper than paying HP's inflated prices.
Lately though, HP's changed the design of their cartridges making it harder to refill them. You either have to drill a hole in the black cartridges or use a vacuum method to refill them. It can be done, it's just a hassle and usually messy.
The color ones are easier, just crack the top off and fill the sponges with ink. At least that method still works. (for now)
I know some would say, why bother? Just get a laser printer, right? Well, I already have a laser printer, an HP LJ IIID with envelope feeder and duplex feeder that I got for free from a dumpster. (with a stack of toner carts) Some idiot got a wire hooked into the gears while changing the toner cartridge and shredded up some wiring. I patched them back together and have been using it ever since. It's great for black and white and I use it probably 90% of the time, but I still need color for some printouts so the HP stays attached to my network.
Freedom of the press allows the media to break all sorts of laws.
I believe the folks over at 2600 magazine would differ with you on that opinion.
Unfortunatly there's no easy solution.
Where I work we went through a series of mergers and takeovers a few years ago and the naming conventions got a little messy.
Originally it was set up as "last name (up to 8 chars), first initial, middle initial"; for an 10 character total length. The only problem we had was with 2 employees with long names that started out similar. I don't remember their names but one ended in "-ski" and the other ended with "-vich." Same initials, too.
After several mergers it was decided to combine the seperate email systems and go to a "first initial, middle initial, last name" (up to 12 chars). And the problems began.
First was the "Smith Problem." We had 4 Dave Smiths, all with middle initial "L" and 3 of them with the middle name of "Lee." Fortunatly one had the nickname of "Sparky" and so was SPARKYSMITH and one agreed to be known as DLSMITHUK, as he was based in the UK. The other 2 were listed as DLSMITH and DLOUISSMITH. We also had several other Smith's whose initials were the same.
This didn't just affect email, it also affected the phone directories, as management chose to have one big directory for the whole company instead of dividing it down into regions and operational areas and listing everyone by just their first and last names.
So we now have many more duplicates: 2 Dennis Millers (with the same middle name), 4 Brenda Petersens, 3 Linda Petersens, 2 Bob Pattersons, 2 Cathy Andersons (and one Kathy Anderson, very confusing), 4 Richard Andersons, 3 Mark Johnsons (and 2 of them are Mark Robert Johnson), 3 Steve Thompsons, 3 James Wilsons, 2 Alan Wrights... and those are just the duplicates I deal with on a regular basis. There are many more. It's not uncommon to have someone call the wrong person on the phone or send an email to the wrong person. Some users in frustration just send mail to ALL the users with similar names and let the recipients sort it out.
It was suggested last year we go to using the employee number for email but the execs balked at that idea. Probably because they can't remember theirs.
For now when we add a new employee whose name is similar to an existing employee we just add a number to the end of the user name, "KLJones2".
So far it's working, for email at least. Phone directory is still a mess, though.
Naaah, point the camera at a picture of the goatse guy. It would serve them right.
To me as well Agilent is the *real* HP. Remember, it all started back in '38 when Bill and Dave designed their first little gadget which was definitely neither a computer nor a printer. It was an RF Oscillator - test and measurement equipment.
Actually it was an audio oscillator, the 200A I believe. Walt Disney was one of their first customers, he needed variable oscillators for Fantasia, but that's neither here nor there.
There's also all the natural gas that's used to boil the ethanol out of the fermented corn mash. It doesn't just evaporate on it's own. I live within 30 miles of 3 ethanol plants and I can tell you, the pipes supplying natural gas to them are BIG and the regulator stations are screaming with the amount of flow going through them.
Funny how none of the economic models for ethanol ever seem to mention that it takes about 3 times as many BTU's of natural gas to produce the methanol than you get from the ethanol itself.
Of course, all this ethanol talk plays well in the farm belt, where the farmers think the price of corn will triple and they'll all get stinking rich.
Probably closer to the truth is that if the price of corn goes up enough, the big ethanol producers (like ADM) will simply buy their own land and grow the corn themselves, bypassing the market.
Or they'll just import cheap corn or ethanol from the third world and shut the domestic farmers out of the market entirely.
Of course they don't have to use corn to make ethanol. Corn is preferred because it's cheap. Ethanol could just as easily be made from sugar cane, sorghum or any sugar-containing fruit crop.
I remember many (10?) years ago a company was promoting a corn-based, plastic grocery bag which they said would deteriorate and disolve in a few months when exposed to sunlight and water.
Iowa City Magazine (now defunct) decided to test it and attached one to a post in back of their offices. Each month they published a photo of the bag and reported on it's condition. After a year they decided that apart from some slight tearing of the bag by the wind where it was attached to the post, there was no sign of any deterioration.
None.
On the other hand, I regularly get shipments of equipment packed in biodegradable corn starch 'peanuts' which dissolve rapidly when exposed to water. Easy to dispose of I guess, but more than once I've had UPS drop off a package on my doorstep in the rain and I come home to a box of soggy, goo-encrusted equipment. YUCK!
You mean besides being bitten by a spider and gaining super powers?
I mean, what are you going to do to the whiny, cray-baby loser who just cost your company (and share holders) MILLIONS in advertising alone?! (not to mention of the proxy votes being sent, re sent, and sent yet again).
Well, you could get rid of Carly, who is the one who chose to spend all that company money on advertising, multiple proxies, etc. Walter Hewlett never spent a nickel of the company's money on this fight.
I am an HP shareholder and I feel that if Carly had put in a much effort into managing HP properly as she did on this proxy fight, HP could be a #1 company. Maybe the problem is Carly doesn't really know how to run a company, but she does know how to rig an election.
And yes, I am considering selling my shares, even though I'll be taking a loss on them. Better a small loss now than a bigger loss later.
Gosh, what about all the people who don't watch his network at all? Or those who can't because it isn't carried on their cable system? Or those whose TVs are broken? Or those who blink during the commercials?
They're stealing! Stealing, I tell you!
So when did the nation's business schools merge with the medical schools to give free lobotomies to CEO's and other execs?
Gotta go. The commercials are coming back on...
"So, naturalists observe, a flea
Has smaller fleas that on him prey;
And these have smaller still to bite 'em;
And so proceed ad infinitum."
Jonathan Swift (1667-1745)
I believe at the time he was rhapsodising on the invention of the microscope.
I really wish they would break down and import the original in Queen's English.
They already did. Years ago. I've got it in Beta. No shit.
And yes, it is better than the US version.
Max was great. I think the character of Blank Reg was almost prophetic. I've seen several people around town who remind me of Reg. Aging, punker burnouts who just don't know when to let go.
Looks like I'll be clearing out some space on the ol' hard drive and getting the TV capture card checked out before Friday