I seem to recall a debate about 20 years ago where a group of renegade electronics 'engineers' wanted a new title because they felt 'engineer' was too 'mechanical' and, well, electricians had their own title after all.
Following an exciting month or two of correspondence in the trade press, the best they came up with was 'Electroneer'!
OK - hands up all those with 'Electroneer' on their job description or business card!? Hmm, thought not.
L3K
Engineer, Electroneer, Digitician
According to this article on ZDNet, uncle Billy has a patent on this kinda thing. Dunno if a home brew version will fall foul of the patent, but best keep yours in an upstairs spare room, draw the curtains ('drapes' for our US chums) and not show it to friends or neighbours.
Of course, if you wanna really p*ss people off:
Bill: Have the thing scroll through your virtual art library
then...
RIAA: Show some stills from your favourite music video accompanied by the matching MP3
then...
SCO: Show a tasty source code snippet from the routine of your choice
Imagine if you make a house with a cartridge filled with Flubber! You could move neighbourhood whenever you felt like it just by falling down the stairs!
Maybe M$ should be forced to include preinstalled versions of Kazaa, eDonkey and WinMX so we can choose to download and install OUR software of choice.
About a year ago in the UK someone set up a site after a major electrical retailer stiffed her on a repair job. Site visitors could read her story and then state whether they would now choose to not use this particular store chain for something they were about to purchase. The site kept a running total of the intended non-spends and it ran into some astronomical figure. I seem to recall that the woman had her problem sorted pretty quickly after the national press got hold of her story.
Well, it's an idea if anyone has the bandwisth to spare..!?
EV1 says 'gee, you got us, we admit we're in the wrong, you're right, but please don't be too hard on us because we did show willing and buy a licence or two'
SCO seeks punitive, nominal damages ($1?) but has now had their case proven...time to steam in to the big boys with a precedent already set???
One day I could walk in to my kitchen to discover that my kettle has become fed up with boiling water so it has explained the principle to the toaster which, due to limited processing ability has offloaded 'toasting' to the fridge.
Now, in order to cook breakfast, I fill the toaster with water and stick a filled coffee filter on top, put a couple of slices of white bread in the fridge, take some now-precooked sausages from the fridge and place them in the washing machine to keep warm, use my CD player to phone the local 'white goods realignment doctor' to book the kettle etc. in for a little chat, switch on the microwave oven to catch the breakfast news and go have a shave with my PDA while the coffee brews.
This worries the crap out of me - heck, I'm bailing out right now.
Here SCO, take it back, here's the origins of your code:
1 0
Please rearrange as required to confirm I've given back what I stole.
I've re-chipped my computer with tri-state logic and tied the groundplane to -5v so my logic levels are now 'float' and -5v. I'll never touch your copyrighted on/off patterns ever again, I promise - please don't hurt me.
Minor elaboration: Consuming serious amounts of sugar does not trigger diabetes, it's the fact that you'd end up a lard-ass from the excess calories that would go some way to bringing it on. You're just as likely to develop diabetes from eating too many burgers or through hereditary genetic factors.
L3K (not overweight, fit but still managed to develop T2 diabetes even though no-one in the family has it)
"A device for rendering a previously-accessible Web site inaccesible by the mass mobilisation of Web users, in effect by directing said users to visit the stated Web site in response to a brief article posted on a publically-accessible forum-based, user-moderated news service."
All your user IDs are belong to ME!!!
L3K
PS: Are you with me (small licence fee payable) or do I have to sue you all?
Having read the articles regarding the percentage rates of conversion (ie: replies to spam that turn in to orders) it obviously makes regrettable sense that sending out a gazillion junk messages will bring a financial return, yet I can't help wondering WHY the spammers think sending around 50 variants of the same message to the same inbox are likely to enhance their sales prospects? Unless of course there's 50 different spamming companies all trying to sell the same product using the same junk mail list? In my case, spambayes crushes what mailwasher hasn't caught anyway!
Di'e s'p'a'mm--'ers --d-1e.
infinite cabbage droll bearing science foot kingdom allow new rock garden trying gracefully space engine.
Stranded wire would be much easier to route and manipulate in tight conditions (ie: a car dashboard). There is also a potential issue with high-frequency components 'floating around' the amp and power circuitry, and stranded power wiring would help 'dump' these efficiently to ground.
I used to bench test 5V 300A and 5V 600A switch mode PSUs for flight simulators (the real things!) - suffice to say we treated these modules with respect, especially when we had to run them at 110% of max rated load for 30 mins as part of the acceptance test!!! That said, I'd still be on my best behaviour with a 20A UPS!
Anyway, just wanted to jump in about stranded wire vs solid core (we used 2 inch braid when testing the PSUs!) - you get current flow around the outside of the strands at high frequencies (the so called 'skin effect') hence the audiophiles who get excited about Litz-wound braids. At domestic AC frequency or DC, braids or stranded core cables are often used because you get an effectively larger 'outside' area which aids cooling, not really because of any skin effect.
All the common sense stuff you mention is pretty much bang-on though!
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As usual the UK town of Scunthorpe is in deep shiat!
Yeah, what's Linux ever done for us eh?
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I seem to recall a debate about 20 years ago where a group of renegade electronics 'engineers' wanted a new title because they felt 'engineer' was too 'mechanical' and, well, electricians had their own title after all.
Following an exciting month or two of correspondence in the trade press, the best they came up with was 'Electroneer'!
OK - hands up all those with 'Electroneer' on their job description or business card!? Hmm, thought not. L3K
Engineer, Electroneer, Digitician
Take care,
According to this article on ZDNet, uncle Billy has a patent on this kinda thing. Dunno if a home brew version will fall foul of the patent, but best keep yours in an upstairs spare room, draw the curtains ('drapes' for our US chums) and not show it to friends or neighbours.
Of course, if you wanna really p*ss people off:
Bill: Have the thing scroll through your virtual art library
then...
RIAA: Show some stills from your favourite music video accompanied by the matching MP3
then...
SCO: Show a tasty source code snippet from the routine of your choice
Hey, I've also discovered that if I give myself a large electric shock I crap myself - what goes around comes around.
Imagine if you make a house with a cartridge filled with Flubber! You could move neighbourhood whenever you felt like it just by falling down the stairs!
Maybe M$ should be forced to include preinstalled versions of Kazaa, eDonkey and WinMX so we can choose to download and install OUR software of choice.
For a mere $1,650,000.00 all their (replica) bases are belong to you.
Here's a link to an article on The Register about the story
About a year ago in the UK someone set up a site after a major electrical retailer stiffed her on a repair job. Site visitors could read her story and then state whether they would now choose to not use this particular store chain for something they were about to purchase. The site kept a running total of the intended non-spends and it ran into some astronomical figure. I seem to recall that the woman had her problem sorted pretty quickly after the national press got hold of her story.
Well, it's an idea if anyone has the bandwisth to spare..!?
No doubt the design was first roughed out on the back of a notebook PC!
IANAL (etc. you know the score)..
Ok, so SCO sues EV1.
EV1 says 'gee, you got us, we admit we're in the wrong, you're right, but please don't be too hard on us because we did show willing and buy a licence or two'
SCO seeks punitive, nominal damages ($1?) but has now had their case proven...time to steam in to the big boys with a precedent already set???
To clarify...
One day I could walk in to my kitchen to discover that my kettle has become fed up with boiling water so it has explained the principle to the toaster which, due to limited processing ability has offloaded 'toasting' to the fridge.
Now, in order to cook breakfast, I fill the toaster with water and stick a filled coffee filter on top, put a couple of slices of white bread in the fridge, take some now-precooked sausages from the fridge and place them in the washing machine to keep warm, use my CD player to phone the local 'white goods realignment doctor' to book the kettle etc. in for a little chat, switch on the microwave oven to catch the breakfast news and go have a shave with my PDA while the coffee brews.
Is that it?
This worries the crap out of me - heck, I'm bailing out right now.
Here SCO, take it back, here's the origins of your code:
1 0
Please rearrange as required to confirm I've given back what I stole.
I've re-chipped my computer with tri-state logic and tied the groundplane to -5v so my logic levels are now 'float' and -5v. I'll never touch your copyrighted on/off patterns ever again, I promise - please don't hurt me.
Minor elaboration: Consuming serious amounts of sugar does not trigger diabetes, it's the fact that you'd end up a lard-ass from the excess calories that would go some way to bringing it on. You're just as likely to develop diabetes from eating too many burgers or through hereditary genetic factors.
L3K (not overweight, fit but still managed to develop T2 diabetes even though no-one in the family has it)
Thanks - was thinking 'cat' but multitasking at the time.
echo any_sco_rant_de.txt > /dev/null
/dev/null
Hopefully soon to be replaced with
echo any_sco_rant_*.txt >
"A device for rendering a previously-accessible Web site inaccesible by the mass mobilisation of Web users, in effect by directing said users to visit the stated Web site in response to a brief article posted on a publically-accessible forum-based, user-moderated news service."
All your user IDs are belong to ME!!!
L3K
PS: Are you with me (small licence fee payable) or do I have to sue you all?
You can get 2300mAh NiMh rechargeables thesedays!
Probably be up to 3A within a few months!
Having read the articles regarding the percentage rates of conversion (ie: replies to spam that turn in to orders) it obviously makes regrettable sense that sending out a gazillion junk messages will bring a financial return, yet I can't help wondering WHY the spammers think sending around 50 variants of the same message to the same inbox are likely to enhance their sales prospects? Unless of course there's 50 different spamming companies all trying to sell the same product using the same junk mail list? In my case, spambayes crushes what mailwasher hasn't caught anyway!
Di'e s'p'a'mm--'ers --d-1e.
infinite cabbage droll bearing science foot kingdom allow new rock garden trying gracefully space engine.
There is no service pack
Stranded wire would be much easier to route and manipulate in tight conditions (ie: a car dashboard). There is also a potential issue with high-frequency components 'floating around' the amp and power circuitry, and stranded power wiring would help 'dump' these efficiently to ground.
The Art of Electronics by Horowitz and Hill
Ace book - I'll second that recommendation.
I used to bench test 5V 300A and 5V 600A switch mode PSUs for flight simulators (the real things!) - suffice to say we treated these modules with respect, especially when we had to run them at 110% of max rated load for 30 mins as part of the acceptance test!!! That said, I'd still be on my best behaviour with a 20A UPS!
Anyway, just wanted to jump in about stranded wire vs solid core (we used 2 inch braid when testing the PSUs!) - you get current flow around the outside of the strands at high frequencies (the so called 'skin effect') hence the audiophiles who get excited about Litz-wound braids. At domestic AC frequency or DC, braids or stranded core cables are often used because you get an effectively larger 'outside' area which aids cooling, not really because of any skin effect.
All the common sense stuff you mention is pretty much bang-on though!