You'll need to do some research to see if the vacuum system's tubing is acceptable under your local building codes for running low voltage cable through (*Do Not*, under any circumstances, use it for any sort of power wiring, i.e., 120 V AC). If you don't do a legal install and have a fire of any cause later, you may well have given your insurance company grounds to dismiss your claim.
As with woodshop sawdust collection systems, a central vacuum system should have a bare grounding wire already installed in all the pipes to prevent the rush of air through the plastic from generating enough static electricity to cause a spark that could ignite flammable dust and cause an explosion. Probably best to leave it intact.
Assuming that the local building inspector gives you the go ahead (or if you're planning on some other installation elsewhere using "real" conduit), here are a few tips.
Always install a pull rope of some sort so that you can install more cable later or pull the old stuff for reconfiguring.
You can use a vacuum cleaner to pull the pull rope through the conduit in many cases (attach something a little smaller than the conduit inner diameter for the vacuum to pull on to one end of the pull rope), then attach another pull rope and the cable bundle to the far end.
Sometimes you'll need a small gauge pull rope to pull another larger one through before you can pull the cable bundle through.
Insulated 14 gauge copper is flexible enough to be used as the pull rope left in the conduit, and you can get it with insulation that's rated for installing inside conduit. Consult your local building code and inspectors to find out what color insulation will be allowable for a wire connected to nothing at either end except for something (non-conductive) big enough to keep it from falling down into the conduit where you can't get at it.
14 gauge copper with some sort of smooth ball on the end (a big crimp-on lead fishing weight works well if you smooth off any rough parts) can be used to push through the conduit instead of pulling with a vacuum.
Electrical supply houses carry a kind of synthetic grease that you can use to lubricate the cable bundle to make it slide through the conduit more easily.
ASCAP, BMI, and a mostly overseas organization I last heard of in the '70s called SEASAC do not represent the people who record a song, they represent the people who wrote the song or, more often, the people who bought (or swindled) the publishing rights from the people who wrote the song.
Orginally publishing meant sheet music, back before phonographs. Now it means "publishing" the recording, i.e, pressing the phonograph record or compact disc.
This is one reason that a lot of albums by people that didn't write their own stuff used to consist of one or two hits and a bunch of filler. The other songs were ones to which someone with clout at the record companies owned the publishing rights, songs which received royalties equal to every other song on the album. And if the song on the flip side of the hit single was a dog, well it still got to go along for the ride on the money train. (Although sometimes the flip side turned out to be better, and sometimes became the hit instead of the one that was "supposed" to be the hit.)
(I dont get the Cartoon Network in here in Arlington, can anyone tell me why?)
Assuming that you mean Arlington, Virginia, you're close enough to the Congress to have a never-ending supply of comedy already. In fact, if you hurry out to your garbage can you might be able to get Gary Condit's autograph.
If Volvo hadn't patented it, some other company (with the help of industrial espionage) would have before Volvo actually started production (so that they couldn't prove prior art) and then Volvo would have had to pay some other company royalties in order to use their own idea.
At one time you did have to have a rocket on a launching pad in order to be able to patent it.
Arthur C. Clarke wrote a short story back in the fifties or sixties about how back in the thirties or forties he came up with the idea of geosynchronous orbit communication satellites but since neither the satellites nor the rockets sophisticated and powerful enough to deliver them to orbit existed at the time, his application was denied, and by the time the technology existed he was out of luck because by that time the idea was considered "obvious".
Slightly offtopic, but around the same time he wrote another (supposedly fictional) short story entitled "I Remember Babylon" about a Chinese Communist plan to have their own version of Telstar which would beam regular VHF or UHF television signals down to North America with programming designed to influence us into becoming a weak and degenerate society. A lot of the programming he described then sounds a lot like a lot of what is being shown now. Well worth reading if you run across it somewhere. (I think it's in "The Nine Billion Names of God" anthology.)
"Tools, Internet Options, Advanced, Launch browser windows in a separate process"
Of course we are talking about MS here, so when they say separate process who knows if that means what it would to anybody talking about any other OS. (I mean, what the bleep is a "friendly" URL or error message?)
I've had the problem happen both with windows launched by right-clicking and clicking "Open in new window" and with windows launched by calling iexplore.exe via the Start button menu.
Usually it just murders all the IE windows but not anything else, although if I get trapped in hydra-headed pop-up hell, that'll sometimes lock up the whole machine and require a cold boot.
I do hope that there is a special circle of eternal torment for whoever thought it was a smart idea to give the file manager and the browser the same name.
You never heard any of the car dealer or furniture store spots I used to have to record where the client writes out about 90 seconds worth of copy and the station's salesperson adds about 30 seconds worth more and then expected me to do it as a 60 second spot.
When I took a breath before hitting "record", the production room door bowed in.
If every IE window is a separate process (and I have that option selected), why is it when I'm trying to do something useful like find information on a particular 2 cycle engine carburetor or an older Compaq monitor vertical scan circuit or whatever, and I've got several pages that I want to see open, if one causes IE to choke, it closes everything?
Okay, let's say that the moderation system exists solely to improve the browsing experience of those who do so at +1 or higher. What then is the point of reducing the karma of innocent victims of a site bug? If someone makes what would have been an up-moderated comment if it had landed in the story the commenter submitted the comment to, then suposedly this is a person one would want in the pool of potential moderators. What if this one down-modding is the only one they get, and the only reason they aren't given mod points? Kinda defeats the purpose, doesn't it?
How can anybody get through to one of these sites and spend any money with them if their computer is crashing from the overload of trying to open half a zillion pages at once? Is this guy covertly doing these people a favor by luring those who would spend their money at those sites and frustrating them to the point of giving up?
I made a similar observation about a week or more ago in a post to another story. To me it would be like Lincoln making his speech at Gettysburg about how the deaths there consecrated the ground far beyond the abilities of the living and then saying, "Coming soon to this very spot, Gettysburg Mall, with a 24 screen theater and 3,count 'em, 3 food courts, and a Gap and a Starbucks, and..."
Of course, not being a New Yorker I might not be able to fully understand how they see it.
Sometimes electrolytics go bad just because they go bad, the dielectric gets punctured (electrically) at an unforseen weak spot, shorting the high side to ground, current flows, genereates heat, and the thing goes bang and swells up or blows off part of the can.
Seeing as how we've got at least 3 Abit owners posting this problem so far, and not all are using ATA-100 round cables, I'd suspect that Abit got a bad run of caps from their subcontractor, although some sort of voltage regulator problem that fed those caps too much voltage or let a reverse polarity spike get through to them could also be at fault. Are all of y'all using the same brand power supply?
Actually I've got a great bank, 'cause it's a state employees' credit union, so the depositors are the owners and all the profit goes into better rates and services for the "owners".
If you ever work as a lab monitor for a state owned school, see if you can qualify for a credit union membership. Unlike regular banks, they don't think that they're doing you a favor letting you bank there.
They also have Postal Inspectors who cheerfully represent themselves as someone else in mailed materials in order to entrap them into violating federal laws. How assured do you feel that they (the Postal Inspectors, not the nice people who go out in all kinds of weather to deliver your mail) are strictly adhering to that law?
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Martha and the Vandellas, if memory serves.
Hey, all three are good tunes.
As with woodshop sawdust collection systems, a central vacuum system should have a bare grounding wire already installed in all the pipes to prevent the rush of air through the plastic from generating enough static electricity to cause a spark that could ignite flammable dust and cause an explosion. Probably best to leave it intact.
Assuming that the local building inspector gives you the go ahead (or if you're planning on some other installation elsewhere using "real" conduit), here are a few tips.
Always install a pull rope of some sort so that you can install more cable later or pull the old stuff for reconfiguring.
You can use a vacuum cleaner to pull the pull rope through the conduit in many cases (attach something a little smaller than the conduit inner diameter for the vacuum to pull on to one end of the pull rope), then attach another pull rope and the cable bundle to the far end.
Sometimes you'll need a small gauge pull rope to pull another larger one through before you can pull the cable bundle through.
Insulated 14 gauge copper is flexible enough to be used as the pull rope left in the conduit, and you can get it with insulation that's rated for installing inside conduit. Consult your local building code and inspectors to find out what color insulation will be allowable for a wire connected to nothing at either end except for something (non-conductive) big enough to keep it from falling down into the conduit where you can't get at it.
14 gauge copper with some sort of smooth ball on the end (a big crimp-on lead fishing weight works well if you smooth off any rough parts) can be used to push through the conduit instead of pulling with a vacuum.
Electrical supply houses carry a kind of synthetic grease that you can use to lubricate the cable bundle to make it slide through the conduit more easily.
Orginally publishing meant sheet music, back before phonographs. Now it means "publishing" the recording, i.e, pressing the phonograph record or compact disc.
This is one reason that a lot of albums by people that didn't write their own stuff used to consist of one or two hits and a bunch of filler. The other songs were ones to which someone with clout at the record companies owned the publishing rights, songs which received royalties equal to every other song on the album. And if the song on the flip side of the hit single was a dog, well it still got to go along for the ride on the money train. (Although sometimes the flip side turned out to be better, and sometimes became the hit instead of the one that was "supposed" to be the hit.)
Assuming that you mean Arlington, Virginia, you're close enough to the Congress to have a never-ending supply of comedy already. In fact, if you hurry out to your garbage can you might be able to get Gary Condit's autograph.
But of course everybody knows that Defense Contractors don't have any friends working in Government.
If Volvo hadn't patented it, some other company (with the help of industrial espionage) would have before Volvo actually started production (so that they couldn't prove prior art) and then Volvo would have had to pay some other company royalties in order to use their own idea.
Arthur C. Clarke wrote a short story back in the fifties or sixties about how back in the thirties or forties he came up with the idea of geosynchronous orbit communication satellites but since neither the satellites nor the rockets sophisticated and powerful enough to deliver them to orbit existed at the time, his application was denied, and by the time the technology existed he was out of luck because by that time the idea was considered "obvious".
Slightly offtopic, but around the same time he wrote another (supposedly fictional) short story entitled "I Remember Babylon" about a Chinese Communist plan to have their own version of Telstar which would beam regular VHF or UHF television signals down to North America with programming designed to influence us into becoming a weak and degenerate society. A lot of the programming he described then sounds a lot like a lot of what is being shown now. Well worth reading if you run across it somewhere. (I think it's in "The Nine Billion Names of God" anthology.)
All the management positions have already been filled with the aforementioned slackers.
Wasn't that the way it used to be? Isn't it time to go back to that system?
So *that's* what they do when they aren't moderating on Slashdot.
Great minds caught in the same rut :-)
Of course we are talking about MS here, so when they say separate process who knows if that means what it would to anybody talking about any other OS. (I mean, what the bleep is a "friendly" URL or error message?)
I've had the problem happen both with windows launched by right-clicking and clicking "Open in new window" and with windows launched by calling iexplore.exe via the Start button menu.
Usually it just murders all the IE windows but not anything else, although if I get trapped in hydra-headed pop-up hell, that'll sometimes lock up the whole machine and require a cold boot.
I do hope that there is a special circle of eternal torment for whoever thought it was a smart idea to give the file manager and the browser the same name.
You never heard any of the car dealer or furniture store spots I used to have to record where the client writes out about 90 seconds worth of copy and the station's salesperson adds about 30 seconds worth more and then expected me to do it as a 60 second spot.
When I took a breath before hitting "record", the production room door bowed in.
If every IE window is a separate process (and I have that option selected), why is it when I'm trying to do something useful like find information on a particular 2 cycle engine carburetor or an older Compaq monitor vertical scan circuit or whatever, and I've got several pages that I want to see open, if one causes IE to choke, it closes everything?
Okay, let's say that the moderation system exists solely to improve the browsing experience of those who do so at +1 or higher. What then is the point of reducing the karma of innocent victims of a site bug?
If someone makes what would have been an up-moderated comment if it had landed in the story the commenter submitted the comment to, then suposedly this is a person one would want in the pool of potential moderators.
What if this one down-modding is the only one they get, and the only reason they aren't given mod points? Kinda defeats the purpose, doesn't it?
How can anybody get through to one of these sites and spend any money with them if their computer is crashing from the overload of trying to open half a zillion pages at once? Is this guy covertly doing these people a favor by luring those who would spend their money at those sites and frustrating them to the point of giving up?
Isn't it obvious? He's trying to insert Forest Gump into the Zapruder film.
Baywatch.
Katz, make something shorter?
Nah.
Of course, not being a New Yorker I might not be able to fully understand how they see it.
Seeing as how we've got at least 3 Abit owners posting this problem so far, and not all are using ATA-100 round cables, I'd suspect that Abit got a bad run of caps from their subcontractor, although some sort of voltage regulator problem that fed those caps too much voltage or let a reverse polarity spike get through to them could also be at fault. Are all of y'all using the same brand power supply?
If you ever work as a lab monitor for a state owned school, see if you can qualify for a credit union membership. Unlike regular banks, they don't think that they're doing you a favor letting you bank there.
Forget who I stole this from, but it's supposed to go "Number of the Beast 666, but for you, only 659.95."
They also have Postal Inspectors who cheerfully represent themselves as someone else in mailed materials in order to entrap them into violating federal laws. How assured do you feel that they (the Postal Inspectors, not the nice people who go out in all kinds of weather to deliver your mail) are strictly adhering to that law?
So how can I read the messages without having to join--all that talk on the page about linking my email address to Yahoo is very off-putting.