Or will Wine merge into it somehow? Is this emulation? I mean really, 2K/XP compatibility is pretty much the grail for the Wine project. How are these guys pulling it off? Is this even Linux based?
Welcome to Sam Barros' PowerLabs!
The number one Amateur Science page! PowerLabs represents the efforts of Sam Barros, an amateur scientist (and now currently an engineering student) to document some of his experiments in various realms of science. Here you will find detailed reports including descriptions, pictures, videos, diagrams, schematics and technical details of some of the experiments he has attempted, and devices he has built and worked with over the years, including Tesla coils, various types of high voltage generators, plasma globes, electromagnetic experiments, coil guns, rail guns, electromagnetic propulsion, EMP, HERF, cryogenics, chemistry and much more!
Current Updates:
January 26th:
PowerLabs was featured on a ZZZ Article; traffic triples (now at 4000+ hits/day).
My resume is now online.
November 20th:
What you are looking at now is the prototype for what PowerLabs should look like in the future. Every page can be accessed from its category, for example, to read about Coil Guns, all you have to do is click on the "EM-Weapons" link at the top and from there click on "Coil Guns". I hope this makes the page easier to navigate. Please let me know if there are any problems.
November 21st: I put a new video up on the Microwave Experiments page: Microwaving an MRE!
2 New test fire videos added to the Rail Gun page!
24th: Silver Oxalate Synthesis added to ChemLabs page.
25th: Sodium Experiments By PowerLabs added to ChemLabs page. This one is quite spectacular, so be sure to check it out!
Older Updates (Includes full web usage statistics for the month):
Not available due to a server crash. Coming December 1st.
The Future:
- The Rail Gun upgrade should be completed soon. I than plan on firing it with a plasma armature, incorporate an inductor into the circuit, and research the effect on efficiency of different pulse lengths and armature compositions.
- I hope that my current Rail Gun research will lead me into building a second Rail Gun that will utilize external magnets as a means of field augmentation, and operate at lower currents, for increased rail life and unprecedented efficiencies.
- Once my Rail Gun research is over the culminating point of the project would be to publish the results on a related magazine on the field, and perhaps make a more generic/comprehensive set of plans available for the public through this site.
- My next project will hopefully be an ETC (Electro Thermo Chemical) gun research with the same capacitor bank the Rail Gun employed.
- Starting next semester I will also be working on advanced space propulsion research; Hall and MPD (Magneto Plasma Dynamic) Thrusters, and perhaps also electrostatic propulsion.
What am I working on now?
The Rail Gun project has now been preliminarily tested and is being prepared for more extensive testing at Michigan Technological University's Advanced Space Propulsion Laboratory some time over the next couple of weeks.
I am also working on making this web page more user-friendly, please give me any feedback you might have as to how I can make it better.
Mail:
Don't forget to mail me: I will reply e-mails written In English, Portuguese, French or Spanish. (Note: Please don't mail me asking for plans or asking me to do your research; those e-mails will usually be ignored as any plans I intend on making available are made available through this site.)
Current Project QuickLink:
Click here to jump to PowerLabs' current ongoing project, the Rail Gun.
The article says that alcohol is a no-no. I was always under the assumption that alcohol thins the blood and prevents clotting. Do they refer to alcohol for the fact of it making you somewhat sluggish and lazy? (I'm drinking red wine right now - which I thought was healthy.) This hits home for me because I woke up this morning dizzy and last night had a tingling numbness in my left arm. I do spend a fair number of hours in front of the computer as well.
I am Canadian and thought I'd give you a little information. The Canadian Alliance is am extreme-right wing faction bent on taking over Canada and then the world. They are much like what you would call the 'Republicans'.
Bunch of steroid-taking blowhards who will be crying like the tiny-penised pongos they are. "We've been scooped!" They will say between mouthfuls of pseudo-patriotic, SUV-driving idiocy.
Pleeeease email me. I can't believe there is a girl posting on Slashdot! I make 4 figures, can use vi, and know that BSD isn't dead. Call me for marriage, copulation, or some light-hearted touching.
That was the biggest whitewash I have read in recent memory. He even made it sound like he was actually addressing concerns. He/AMI are not. Don't buy into this tripe. Just because an interview has to have a disclaimer saying 'this isn't whitewash' taints it. AMI is obviously worried that noone will purchase boards with TCPA/Palladium/DRM and I think a small startup WILL make a bios (likely flashable to any tainted board). We will buy that. Plain and simple. If we don't want something, don't buy it. Capitalism is great for this. Someone else will come along to figure out how to take our money and we get what we want. Consumer's are a powerful force and this is why you see an AMI engineer dispatched to quell growing dissent.
Your story, while whimsical, was a blatant attempt at a Dickens-esque cleverness. 'She might not be the richest, she might not be the tallest, but on that cold London night, Sara had a heart that stood taller than any mountain. Please suh, can uh have a cup o soup? She'd say as she played Snort into the wee hours of a twinkling dawn.
Save it, karma whore.
XP is better all around and should be the desktop Linux is trying to be. I can't believe how stable it is ( I shut off uneccessary services), how smooth it runs - it just feels polished, how great hardware support it has, etc etc
If you have that much time on your hands that you need to keep track of 37 partitions made up of 12 megs each...I dunnno. It looks like hell to me and not attractive at all. But to each their own. That smacks of the days when computers weren't overly useful and people had to find things to do with them. Therefore the mass of impressive-looking albeit useless windows. It's like every Linux shot I see that shows a gimp window open and xmms playing. You guys know this is true and not meant as a troll. Linux would probably sell better if the screenshots showed Blender or something (else) cool.
Slashdot. Yesterday's news...today! The ONLY reason I still come here is because the trolls and 'In Soviet Russia'. Gold. Solid gold that Soviet Russia joke is.
I think it is completely possible to grow rich off of foreign conquest, all the while teling the world 'It's my way or the highway.' and taking unilateral action. I guess that is what I meant by 'isolationist'. (granted, flawed by pure definition.)
I think you have your own set of personal problems when you can't even see that you have duplicated entire sentences in different paragraphs within your post to/. Quite funny.
Here's a winner that I always make and doesn't break the budget. Take a couple of bars of softened cream cheese, blend well with a tub of real sour cream. Spread out on large platter. (About 1/2" thick) Spread favourite salsa over top. Mince green onions, sprinkle evenly over salsa. Mince baby shrimp, spread evenly over green onions. Shred marble cheese (or whatever floats your boat) and sprinkle over top. (If you wish, I sometimes sprinkle diced jalapenos over it too.) Serve with tortilla chips. Get funky, blue or black tortillas are cool. Try to eat as much as you can. I can't even imagine how fast it would go at a LAN party. Call it Unreal Dip.:)
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Blogs suck ass and so do you. More of an insight than a question. Thanks.
Or will Wine merge into it somehow? Is this emulation? I mean really, 2K/XP compatibility is pretty much the grail for the Wine project. How are these guys pulling it off? Is this even Linux based?
Welcome to Sam Barros' PowerLabs! The number one Amateur Science page! PowerLabs represents the efforts of Sam Barros, an amateur scientist (and now currently an engineering student) to document some of his experiments in various realms of science. Here you will find detailed reports including descriptions, pictures, videos, diagrams, schematics and technical details of some of the experiments he has attempted, and devices he has built and worked with over the years, including Tesla coils, various types of high voltage generators, plasma globes, electromagnetic experiments, coil guns, rail guns, electromagnetic propulsion, EMP, HERF, cryogenics, chemistry and much more! Current Updates: January 26th: PowerLabs was featured on a ZZZ Article; traffic triples (now at 4000+ hits/day). My resume is now online. November 20th: What you are looking at now is the prototype for what PowerLabs should look like in the future. Every page can be accessed from its category, for example, to read about Coil Guns, all you have to do is click on the "EM-Weapons" link at the top and from there click on "Coil Guns". I hope this makes the page easier to navigate. Please let me know if there are any problems. November 21st: I put a new video up on the Microwave Experiments page: Microwaving an MRE! 2 New test fire videos added to the Rail Gun page! 24th: Silver Oxalate Synthesis added to ChemLabs page. 25th: Sodium Experiments By PowerLabs added to ChemLabs page. This one is quite spectacular, so be sure to check it out! Older Updates (Includes full web usage statistics for the month): Not available due to a server crash. Coming December 1st. The Future: - The Rail Gun upgrade should be completed soon. I than plan on firing it with a plasma armature, incorporate an inductor into the circuit, and research the effect on efficiency of different pulse lengths and armature compositions. - I hope that my current Rail Gun research will lead me into building a second Rail Gun that will utilize external magnets as a means of field augmentation, and operate at lower currents, for increased rail life and unprecedented efficiencies. - Once my Rail Gun research is over the culminating point of the project would be to publish the results on a related magazine on the field, and perhaps make a more generic/comprehensive set of plans available for the public through this site. - My next project will hopefully be an ETC (Electro Thermo Chemical) gun research with the same capacitor bank the Rail Gun employed. - Starting next semester I will also be working on advanced space propulsion research; Hall and MPD (Magneto Plasma Dynamic) Thrusters, and perhaps also electrostatic propulsion. What am I working on now? The Rail Gun project has now been preliminarily tested and is being prepared for more extensive testing at Michigan Technological University's Advanced Space Propulsion Laboratory some time over the next couple of weeks. I am also working on making this web page more user-friendly, please give me any feedback you might have as to how I can make it better. Mail: Don't forget to mail me: I will reply e-mails written In English, Portuguese, French or Spanish. (Note: Please don't mail me asking for plans or asking me to do your research; those e-mails will usually be ignored as any plans I intend on making available are made available through this site.) Current Project QuickLink: Click here to jump to PowerLabs' current ongoing project, the Rail Gun.
The dark side merges YOU!
The article says that alcohol is a no-no. I was always under the assumption that alcohol thins the blood and prevents clotting. Do they refer to alcohol for the fact of it making you somewhat sluggish and lazy? (I'm drinking red wine right now - which I thought was healthy.) This hits home for me because I woke up this morning dizzy and last night had a tingling numbness in my left arm. I do spend a fair number of hours in front of the computer as well.
and spelling like an American to do it.
I am Canadian and thought I'd give you a little information. The Canadian Alliance is am extreme-right wing faction bent on taking over Canada and then the world. They are much like what you would call the 'Republicans'.
Eat my fuckin butt you poop munching, zit-faced fuck.
Bunch of steroid-taking blowhards who will be crying like the tiny-penised pongos they are. "We've been scooped!" They will say between mouthfuls of pseudo-patriotic, SUV-driving idiocy.
All of this is done (better, IMHO) using ingame server finding/selection. Gamespy is for games what AOL is for the 'internet'.
it's called humour. You may have burned a book about it in the 1930's.
Pleeeease email me. I can't believe there is a girl posting on Slashdot! I make 4 figures, can use vi, and know that BSD isn't dead. Call me for marriage, copulation, or some light-hearted touching.
None. Number of people using SVG, 3. Number of people supporting SVG, Adobe. Adobe would love to hurt Macromedia any way they know how.
That was the biggest whitewash I have read in recent memory. He even made it sound like he was actually addressing concerns. He/AMI are not. Don't buy into this tripe. Just because an interview has to have a disclaimer saying 'this isn't whitewash' taints it. AMI is obviously worried that noone will purchase boards with TCPA/Palladium/DRM and I think a small startup WILL make a bios (likely flashable to any tainted board). We will buy that. Plain and simple. If we don't want something, don't buy it. Capitalism is great for this. Someone else will come along to figure out how to take our money and we get what we want. Consumer's are a powerful force and this is why you see an AMI engineer dispatched to quell growing dissent.
Thought I'd try my hand at what they call 'trolling'. and your sig is right on.
Your story, while whimsical, was a blatant attempt at a Dickens-esque cleverness. 'She might not be the richest, she might not be the tallest, but on that cold London night, Sara had a heart that stood taller than any mountain. Please suh, can uh have a cup o soup? She'd say as she played Snort into the wee hours of a twinkling dawn. Save it, karma whore.
XP is better all around and should be the desktop Linux is trying to be. I can't believe how stable it is ( I shut off uneccessary services), how smooth it runs - it just feels polished, how great hardware support it has, etc etc
The day the US 'makes' Canada do anything is the day I enlist in the Canadian Forces.
If you have that much time on your hands that you need to keep track of 37 partitions made up of 12 megs each...I dunnno. It looks like hell to me and not attractive at all. But to each their own. That smacks of the days when computers weren't overly useful and people had to find things to do with them. Therefore the mass of impressive-looking albeit useless windows. It's like every Linux shot I see that shows a gimp window open and xmms playing. You guys know this is true and not meant as a troll. Linux would probably sell better if the screenshots showed Blender or something (else) cool.
I have never had a 'mod point' although wish I had one of these powerful energy cells you speak of to promote that nodes zinger.
Slashdot. Yesterday's news...today! The ONLY reason I still come here is because the trolls and 'In Soviet Russia'. Gold. Solid gold that Soviet Russia joke is.
I think it is completely possible to grow rich off of foreign conquest, all the while teling the world 'It's my way or the highway.' and taking unilateral action. I guess that is what I meant by 'isolationist'. (granted, flawed by pure definition.)
'My 1st Post' by U. Suck
I think you have your own set of personal problems when you can't even see that you have duplicated entire sentences in different paragraphs within your post to /. Quite funny.
Here's a winner that I always make and doesn't break the budget. Take a couple of bars of softened cream cheese, blend well with a tub of real sour cream. Spread out on large platter. (About 1/2" thick) Spread favourite salsa over top. Mince green onions, sprinkle evenly over salsa. Mince baby shrimp, spread evenly over green onions. Shred marble cheese (or whatever floats your boat) and sprinkle over top. (If you wish, I sometimes sprinkle diced jalapenos over it too.) Serve with tortilla chips. Get funky, blue or black tortillas are cool. Try to eat as much as you can. I can't even imagine how fast it would go at a LAN party. Call it Unreal Dip. :)