GM trucks and some passenger cars, the 80s Grand National/ Regal t-type, possibly others, used the Hydro-Boost system. The power steering and brake-booster used a shared reservoir of fluid. Not the brake fluid pressurizing the wheel calipers/cylinders, but the brake booster that assists the master cylinder.
The NJ DMV issued me a plate in the late '80s: CUM-69X
I inquired at the counter, the female employee stated "that' s gross" but couldn't change the tag. This was for a free car, '76 Mazda not even a GLC, with a bad clutch, head gasket, and a fuel gauge that did not work. I pulled a parking brake spin in the rain, hit a curb, then the fuel gauge worked. No help for the clutch or leaky gasket though. Sold the car for $200, wish I still had it, got 30+ MPG.
As an aside: I own over 10,000 LPs, 4000 7", and hundreds of 10" 'records'; (some 45, other 33rpm, 78 and also 16rpm.)Vinyl, acetate, polystyrene, cardboard, flexidisc, shellac, wax cylinder, aluminum- maybe other materials. Some even start on the inside (near the label.)
Many of these recordings will never be re-issued, many I will never listen to, as I just don't have the time. So, basically, I am a custodian of these artifacts. I hope that when I die they don't get put to the curb-side.
Another aside: I find that you can "read" v-groove records by looking at the grooves themselves; esp. on hip-hop tracks, there is a visible pattern (scalloped? may be the term) on the really funky beat stuff.
Finally, I can lift the tone-arm assembly and drop the needle wherever I want at random, much more easily than trying to find a particular part of a track on a digital recording.
DOYLE What's your name, asshole?
BLACK PUSHER Fuck you, Santa Claus!
DOYLE hits him across the face.
RUSSO Your name is Willie Craven.
BLACK PUSHER doesn't look up.
DOYLE Who's your connection, Willie? What's his name? No response.
RUSSO Who killed the old Jew in the laundromat?
BLACK PUSHER's brow furrows, looks up just a little.
BLACK PUSHER I don't...
DOYLE Ever pick your feet in Poughkeepsie?
BLACK PUSHER What?
DOYLE Did you ever pick your feet in Poughkeepsie?
BLACK PUSHER I don't know what you're talkin' about
DOYLE Were you ever in Poughkeepsie?
BLACK PUSHER No... yeah...
DOYLE Did you ever sit on the edge of the
bed,
take off your socks and stick
your
fingers between your toes?
BLACK PUSHER Man, I'm clean.
DOYLE You made three sales to your
roaches back there. We had to
chase you through all this shit and
you
tell me you're clean?
RUSSo Who stuck up the laundromat?
DOYLE How about that time you were
picking your feet in Poughkeepsie?
The BLACK PUSHER'S eyes go to RUSSO in panic, looking for
relief from the pressure of the inquisition.
RUSSO
(in pain)
You
better give me the guy who got
the
old Jew or you better give me
something or you're just a memory
in
this town.
BLACK PUSHER
That's a lot o' shit. I didn't do
nothin'.
The BLACK PUSHER's eyes are on DOYLE, frozen in confusion
and fear.
DOYLE You put a shiv in my
partner. Know
what
that means? All winter I
gotta listen to him gripe about his
bowling scores. Now I'm gonna bust
your
ass for those three bags -
then
I'm gonna nail you for pickin'
your
feet in Poughkeepsie.
It's nice that you can just go and 'buy aburger or something.' In some areas (yes in the US) you hunt to eat. I don't, have never hunted, though I fish (usually catch-and-release, but I will eat some of the fish that I catch) and know how to use a bow or firearm if necessary. I live 20 miles from Manhattan, but even fewer miles from the Highlands of New Jersey. I feel that it is a good idea to be able to surivive in the woods.
A lice-infested slob standing before a microphone with the guitar at his knees barely capable of strumming power chords and nothing else, trying to make it sound like music (and failing badly) is not what most people want to hear.
They glowed and smelled neat and took forever to warm up.
The great thing about taking so long to warm up is impatient folks having garage sales or donating stuff to charity; they often mistake a functioning device (radio, amp., etc.) as faulty because it doesn't make sound immediately. I get the stuff cheap, they get rid of their 'crap'. A good deal for both of us.
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I have done this, it worked for me. In my dirty, dusty, smoke-filled garage. The data was dispensable, actually a dumpster-dive box, IIRC.
On the other hand, I hand-delivered my father's drive to Ontrack in Seacaucus, NJ after calling them and describing and having them hear, over the phone, the grinding of the disk. They replied with a form letter (and an invoice of several hundred $) stating that physically damaged heads or platters are un-repairable, having never even "cracked the case."
I have heard, and seems logical, that platters can be swapped into drive cases of the same geometry, and data recovered.
They don't understand that IE is not the internet.
I think if other companies want their browsers to be used, they should give them a name that has INTERNET in it. That way people will know that you're going on the internet.
Lets not forget that it is not just a web-browser, not just an internet client. Try explaining that to most users.
I find that I tell people that such-and-such file (picture/tune/film/etc.) is on the internet, not on the 'WEB'. Theb I have to explain FTP, SSH, IRC, BitTorrent, etc...
But, for most users, the default browser is the 'be-all-end-all' of their internet usage. Not mentioning plugins.
For the past few months I have been using a "BSR System X - 10 for remote control of lights and appliances" that my father bought in the early 80s or late 70s. BSR is the company that made many of the cheap turntables built into all-in-one "hi-fi" systems. I found a box with the owners manual, "Command Console," and two lamp modules, so I couldn't resist trying it out.It still works fine for dimming and switching lamps. It had available appliance modules, wall switches and an "Ultrasonic Command Console" (remote) for up to sixteen devices over sixteen different "house codes" (channels.)
One day I discovered that the workmen who lived further out and wanted to come in were too lazy to go around through the gate, and so they had cut themselves a hole in the fence. So I went out the gate, went over to the hole and came in, went out again, and so on, until the sergeant at the gate begins to wonder what's happening. How come this guy is always going out and never coming in? And, of course, his natural reaction was to call the lieutenant and try to put me in jail for doing this. I explained that there was a hole.
You see, I was always trying to straighten people out. And so I made a bet with somebody that I could tell about the hole in the fence in a letter, and mail it out. And sure enough, I did. And the way I did it was I said, "You should see the way they administer this place (that's what we were allowed to say). There's a hole in the fence 71 feet away from such and such a place, that's this size and that size, that you can walk through."
Now, what can they do? They can't say to me that there is no such hole? I mean, what are they going to do? It's their own hard luck that there's such a hole. They should fix the hole. So I got that one through.
Not necessarily synonyms, I would say; - It IS made by Ruckus Network, and WAS developed (by a GROUP.)- not sure if you have a gripe with 'group' being the object, rather than 'students'
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Be careful driving if you find yourself driving in the village of Tipperary Hill, Syracuse NY.
Technically, the fluid does not 'compress', it gets displaced.
GM trucks and some passenger cars, the 80s Grand National/ Regal t-type, possibly others, used the Hydro-Boost system. The power steering and brake-booster used a shared reservoir of fluid. Not the brake fluid pressurizing the wheel calipers/cylinders, but the brake booster that assists the master cylinder.
The NJ DMV issued me a plate in the late '80s: CUM-69X I inquired at the counter, the female employee stated "that' s gross" but couldn't change the tag. This was for a free car, '76 Mazda not even a GLC, with a bad clutch, head gasket, and a fuel gauge that did not work. I pulled a parking brake spin in the rain, hit a curb, then the fuel gauge worked. No help for the clutch or leaky gasket though. Sold the car for $200, wish I still had it, got 30+ MPG.
This may be a dupe, forgive me.
http://www.altmann..de/turntable/ describes a DIY Phonograph. (I have not read the whole article, nor have I built it.)
As an aside: I own over 10,000 LPs, 4000 7", and hundreds of 10" 'records'; (some 45, other 33rpm, 78 and also 16rpm.)Vinyl, acetate, polystyrene, cardboard, flexidisc, shellac, wax cylinder, aluminum- maybe other materials. Some even start on the inside (near the label.)
Many of these recordings will never be re-issued, many I will never listen to, as I just don't have the time. So, basically, I am a custodian of these artifacts. I hope that when I die they don't get put to the curb-side.
Another aside: I find that you can "read" v-groove records by looking at the grooves themselves; esp. on hip-hop tracks, there is a visible pattern (scalloped? may be the term) on the really funky beat stuff.
Finally, I can lift the tone-arm assembly and drop the needle wherever I want at random, much more easily than trying to find a particular part of a track on a digital recording.
Still putting needles in my music-
Conor
I got beat at t-t-t by a chicken at a petting zoo (Bushkill Falls, Poconos PA.) Every time. I never played it again.
That must have hurt!
How is this "hacking"? They should blame this on criminals, and/or AT&T.
Not all fire-proof safes are water-proof.
DOYLE What's your name, asshole?
BLACK PUSHER Fuck you, Santa Claus!
DOYLE hits him across the face.
RUSSO Your name is Willie Craven.
BLACK PUSHER doesn't look up.
DOYLE Who's your connection, Willie? What's his name? No response.
RUSSO Who killed the old Jew in the laundromat?
BLACK PUSHER's brow furrows, looks up just a little.
BLACK PUSHER I don't...
DOYLE Ever pick your feet in Poughkeepsie?
BLACK PUSHER What?
DOYLE Did you ever pick your feet in Poughkeepsie?
BLACK PUSHER I don't know what you're talkin' about
DOYLE Were you ever in Poughkeepsie?
BLACK PUSHER No... yeah...
DOYLE Did you ever sit on the edge of the
bed, take off your socks and stick
your fingers between your toes?
BLACK PUSHER Man, I'm clean.
DOYLE You made three sales to your
roaches back there. We had to
chase you through all this shit and
you tell me you're clean?
RUSSo Who stuck up the laundromat?
DOYLE How about that time you were
picking your feet in Poughkeepsie?
The BLACK PUSHER'S eyes go to RUSSO in panic, looking for
relief from the pressure of the inquisition.
RUSSO
(in pain)
You better give me the guy who got
the old Jew or you better give me
something or you're just a memory
in this town.
BLACK PUSHER
That's a lot o' shit. I didn't do
nothin'.
The BLACK PUSHER's eyes are on DOYLE, frozen in confusion
and fear.
DOYLE You put a shiv in my partner. Know
what that means? All winter I
gotta listen to him gripe about his
bowling scores. Now I'm gonna bust
your ass for those three bags -
then I'm gonna nail you for pickin'
your feet in Poughkeepsie.
It's nice that you can just go and 'buy aburger or something.' In some areas (yes in the US) you hunt to eat. I don't, have never hunted, though I fish (usually catch-and-release, but I will eat some of the fish that I catch) and know how to use a bow or firearm if necessary. I live 20 miles from Manhattan, but even fewer miles from the Highlands of New Jersey. I feel that it is a good idea to be able to surivive in the woods.
Thanks for the info, that's less than I thought, but still not cheap (not to me- especially when I got my amps at garage sales- really cheap!)
Who, Hasil Adkins? http://www.fatpossum.com/artists/hasil.html Gimme more, baby, gimme more. Fuck the rest of what you all wanna hear! Hunch on Haze-man!
he can maintain his form of expression in his basement (where he belongs).
I don't think he has a basement in his trailer, though. :)
Please tell me where to find matched sets of (4) 7868 and 12AX7 cheap and abundant.
The great thing about taking so long to warm up is impatient folks having garage sales or donating stuff to charity; they often mistake a functioning device (radio, amp., etc.) as faulty because it doesn't make sound immediately. I get the stuff cheap, they get rid of their 'crap'. A good deal for both of us.
Or Google "Armstrong" and another Ken, "Ken Smith", one of my favorite authors http://www.blastbooks.com/RAWDEAL/INTRO/fr2int.htm
It was actually Major Edwin Howard Armstrong. http://wfmu.org/LCD/GreatDJ/armstrong.html
Try searching for McIntosh.
On the other hand, I hand-delivered my father's drive to Ontrack in Seacaucus, NJ after calling them and describing and having them hear, over the phone, the grinding of the disk. They replied with a form letter (and an invoice of several hundred $) stating that physically damaged heads or platters are un-repairable, having never even "cracked the case."
I have heard, and seems logical, that platters can be swapped into drive cases of the same geometry, and data recovered.
Maybe they should put the condoms in the beer aisle.:)
everytime I walk into their store to buy one little thing, I walk out of there with a cart full of crap I didn't really need
Most grocery stores have the milk at the far end of the store, forcing you to browse by all the other crap.
They don't understand that IE is not the internet.
I think if other companies want their browsers to be used, they should give them a name that has INTERNET in it. That way people will know that you're going on the internet.
Lets not forget that it is not just a web-browser, not just an internet client. Try explaining that to most users.
I find that I tell people that such-and-such file (picture/tune/film/etc.) is on the internet, not on the 'WEB'. Theb I have to explain FTP, SSH, IRC, BitTorrent, etc...
But, for most users, the default browser is the 'be-all-end-all' of their internet usage. Not mentioning plugins.
See: http://www.old-computers.com/museum/doc.asp?c=572 http://www.x10pro.com/daverye.html/
One day I discovered that the workmen who lived further out and wanted to come in were too lazy to go around through the gate, and so they had cut themselves a hole in the fence. So I went out the gate, went over to the hole and came in, went out again, and so on, until the sergeant at the gate begins to wonder what's happening. How come this guy is always going out and never coming in? And, of course, his natural reaction was to call the lieutenant and try to put me in jail for doing this. I explained that there was a hole.
You see, I was always trying to straighten people out. And so I made a bet with somebody that I could tell about the hole in the fence in a letter, and mail it out. And sure enough, I did. And the way I did it was I said, "You should see the way they administer this place (that's what we were allowed to say). There's a hole in the fence 71 feet away from such and such a place, that's this size and that size, that you can walk through."
Now, what can they do? They can't say to me that there is no such hole? I mean, what are they going to do? It's their own hard luck that there's such a hole. They should fix the hole. So I got that one through.
Not necessarily synonyms, I would say; - It IS made by Ruckus Network, and WAS developed (by a GROUP.)- not sure if you have a gripe with 'group' being the object, rather than 'students'
Windows is simple classic conspiracy-free logo. I always thought that flying-window looked like a swastika.