Now write 10 times. FOIA FOIA FOIA FOIA FOIA FOIA FOIA FOIA FOIA FOIA. Now the fingers have it.
I know why you messed up. My dad used to occasionally get wrong numbers in our college town. He would always reply. "I'm sorry you got the wrong number, the number you dialed is 903-886-1234. Thank you.". This would "teach" the person to always call dad. It was the funniest and annoying thing at the same time.
I made a FIOA request back in early 2002. There were two priorities; standard and high priority. I chose standard or fossil. A year later 2003 I received a letter saying my request was in the system and was a normal request. That letter also provided a case number. So 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 nothing?
Who else out there has done an FIOA? What was your result? What was your interaction?
Er, not quite. Algorithms are the base theory of computer languages. Algorithms are more like English sentence structure. More like English grammar. So the Knuth of English grammar might be Quirk et all's "A Grammar Of Contemporary English". All 1132 pages of gerunds, infinitives, the order of adjectives, etc. Your English teacher's idea of heaven is within its covers.
My original post said generally that students certainly do not start with the WHOLE KNUTH (or the others). But K-12 students start with an abstract of basic concepts from these books.
And a limited core abstract of concepts at that, unabridged Knuth and Tanenbaum offer hairy concepts to get one's mind around.
All I want for Christmas 08 & 09 is a Knuth+Stroustrup+Tanenbaum mind, Jim
Darn right it will start, continue, and end badly if done via a programming approach. True CS is not language programming but how to develop algorithms.
So three authors should be key here. Not the whole ball of wax but an abstraction of what these authors present. Donald Knuth and his books, "The Art of Computer Programming" (3 volumes). Andrew S. Tanenbaum; "Computer Organization". John L. Hennesey and David L. Patterson; "Computer Architecture".
If that mosquito with its DNA and that miscreant were here in TX, this person would never get indicted for car theft. Here if they find fingerprints its probably much like the mosquito DNA. Those only mean the person was IN the car. The DA will happily file "possession" of a stolen vehicle. Its rarely "theft" because its difficult to prove someone stole the car.
So "possession" is really what we should be discussing here. That's way down on the proof scale.
The only regular automobile thefts that are indicted here are those bait cars that the police leave parked here and there. They have video and remote turn off.
First I really like nuclear because it can spit out a lot of energy.
The trouble with nuclear is not its pollution etc.
The trouble is that nuclear is 'always on' so as wind or solar ramp up, they theoretically reach this 'always on' amount of power produced and thus aren't encouraged to produce more.
Lets ask ourselves a question. What are the theoretical production levels of wind or solar? Solar, for example is obvious. No sun so no power for your car battery. Solar amounts vary due to diurnal differences; seasonal daylight, seasonal solar elevation, weather variation, and debris variation.
So before we run amuck on any solution, we need to figure out BOTH from the usage perspective but more important, from the production perspective.
I would like to hike that area. Flying around with Google Earth yes its surprising to see the ground drop away. I agree, its quite beautiful country.
Re omnivores reminds me of driving back from Colorado through the Texas Panhandle some years ago. My buddy and I stopped east of Dalhart in either Hutchinson or Roberts county. We had stopped to see a moon rise on the high plains where it blobs out of the far distance. Three AM too. Well we attracted the attention of two packs of coyotes. They howled a hundred yards out on both sides of the car. Soon they howled about ten yards away. I am a hunter and all that. But that raised the hairs on my neck. So we merely got in the car and drove away. A different story if one unarmed person had been walking way out there.
From the Mammoth Times. Yawn,I used Google Earth to visit the Minarets and Shadow Lake area. No blue and white trash pile evident to my untrained eye. Then perhaps the Google picture was pre accident 2006. Oh well.
New discovery revives search for Fossett Wednesday, 01 October 2008 Shortly after noon today, Mono County Sheriff Search and Rescue teams will begin a search for the wreckage of lost air-adventurer Steve Fossett's plane, which went down in the California/Nevada area a year ago September. The search is based on discovery of a sweater and three of Fossett's aviation ID cards in the Minarets on Monday by Preston Morrow, a local hiker who works at Kittredge Sports. The search will begin on the John Muir Trail between Dorothy and Shadow Lakes. Prior searches focused on land east of the Glass Mountains.
The California Highway Patrol helicopter from Fresno will fly in the search teams.
Fossett was declared dead in Feburary of this year. Last Updated ( Wednesday, 01 October 2008 )
I heartily agree there Brave New hpycmprok!
Education in the USA has tanked. Too many otherwise good people are not completing high school. See the David Brooks editorial below (NyTimes registration required). A summary; the USA was fine and improving through 1970 then from 1975 to 1990 education graduation did not move. Other countries during that time moved ahead.
The article is based on two books.
Goldin and Katz
http://www.amazon.com/Race-between-Education-Technology/dp/0674028678
"Schools, Skills, and Synapses" by Heckman (downloadable PDF)
http://ftp.iza.org/dp3515.pdf
"The Real Issue", David Brooks
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/29/opinion/29brooks.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
Finally people are not concerned about TFA because they a) shelter their knowledge by keeping within circles of limited curiosity. This means they don't care., b) as you said, could not comprehend its impacts.
Best wishes oh wise one,
Jim Burke
Real science? Not especially. Consider reading the book; "The Radioactive Boy Scout". Or I can send it to you (seriously $5 plus shipping, let me know). David Hahn wanted to "do" nuclear without really understanding the physics. The book's sub title says "whiz kid" but obviates this when it describes the hazardous methods used to extract the material.
Reminds me of my own stupidity when I tried to burn sulfur and candle wax together was when I was eleven or so. Bountiful amounts of hydrogen sulfide and other nasty fumes resulted. This was not real science discovering H2S but certainly a learning experience. After recovering my lungs it was what the heck happened? So I looked into the basic chemistry books at the library and was thus enlightened.
David Han's original work dates from before 1998 BEFORE this wonderful internet thing opened up many doors. Its a shame today that he is still running around trying to hammer Americium-241 out of smoke detectors.
XP SP2 just crashed with me. I was doing something multi tasking like that had a drop down window. Too many things to recount. My entire system turned to mud. My PC chip-set started heating up the PC fan roared as it kicked on high. CTL+ALT+DEL did not work. Finally it did. 100% CPU. Drive light on. Hard boot corrected the problem.
The last time this kind of stuff happened it was just before my HD went on permanent vacation to i-will-never-work-again land. I hope that this is not starting again. Something like 100% cpu perhaps abusing HD seek movements.
Great Al Bundy quote. My life indeed. However in very high percentage of males in Dallas, I made a charming find last Sat. West Village is where they all gather.
Apologies but I think the issue is your nice Ubuntu 8.04 OS. Maybe FF 3.1 was not tested enough on that platform. PS I am green with envy, not because of today's jalapenos, but by your great OS.
My FF 3.1 never crashes on XP SP2. Could you provide specific sites that break? I wonder about your break problems. Is there anything specific that goes wrong? Is your virus scan up to date? What is your OS? Are you Bill Gates perhaps? (sorry for the thought)
I live in Dallas TX. On 07/06/2008 the Dallas Morning News had a great article on "Debate Flares Over Wind Power" by Elizabeth Souder. The text edition. The critical part is wind in Texas is always fickle. The incident referred to by the original poster occurred in February 2008. Lets look at the DMN chart. 3:15AM wind blows strong; lowest demand for the day, price per megawatt 41.96. Then during the hottest time of the day 3:15PM; wind generates the least amount for the day, price per megawatt 109.80.
Below is quoted from the DMN article.
WHERE THE POWER COMES FROM IN TEXAS
1. WIND Wind turbines almost always go [online] first. While operating the turbines can be costly, the wind is free and operators bid low to ensure they can sell as much electricity as possible.
2. NUCLEAR Nuclear plants are the second cheapest source of power and tend to operate constantly throughout the year.
3. COAL Coals plants to third and also tend to operate constantly. Nuclear and coal plants are known as BASE LOAD GENERATORS.
4. HYDRO/OTHER/DC ties. Texas has a tiny amount of hydro-generated power. Some of the state's power comes from other types of plants such as solar panels. And some power comes through so-called DC ties, or power lines that bring electricity from outside the ERCOT territory.
5. NATURAL GAS The remaining supply is filled in by natural gas plants. That can drive up electricity prices because natural gas is costly. The newest, most efficient plants turn on first followed by older plants that are much more costly to operate. Some of these plants, called peaker plants only operate a few hours each year to fill in supply when demand surges.
6. MARKET RATE. THE LAST PLANT TO TURN ON SETS THE PRICE FOR THE ENTIRE MARKET. SO EVEN IF A WIND OPERATOR BIDS LOW, THAT OPERATOR'S PRICE RISES THROUGHOUT THE DAY AS PLANTS WITH HIGHER PRICED BIDS TURN ON.
I am an occasional election judge in Texas. I see our Optical Scan and Touch Screen machines scroll their very old their Microsoft boot up messages we turn them on. Old software versions for sure. This is OK. If it works it works. My county election head is very very very conservative about updates. I cannot imagine a casual update like this CEO did. Now he probably had agreement from those two counties. Those counties should have asked some pretty hard questions if he was not giving any others those updates.
The Diebold issues might be in three different places. I don't know how the machine is constructed. Here is a brief list for mischief; the OS, the screen display application on top of the OS, then perhaps something in any PCMICA cards. As the article author said, he did not have access to a machine and you really need the whole thing to see what it is doing.
As an IT support person, the scope of the Diebold patch update is suspicious. Why just two counties? Why not the whole state? Why a special trip by the CEO? Too many bells are going off here.
When I did IT updates. I would update a few test configurations and select users then let them run for a bit. Then roll out to the masses. About 2,500 PCs if you will.
The justice department needs to begin investigating this immediately.
I downloaded and tried to run this MYSQL version 5.0.51a. MYSQL is a seriously flawed product in my opinion. Because it uses a web interface. Why not a PC based information box? Requiring a web browser adds to the requirements of this product.
I start the thing. OK DOS box. I start the administrative console. Which starts SeaMonkey which is NOT MY defalt web browser. SeaMonkey reports it cannot get to http://localhost:4848/
Does anyone know how MYSQL might have a decent PC based administrative panel like Microsoft products do? Does anyone know about aforementioned errors?
Fun with blowing things up in THIS FRAIDY CAT SOCIETY? Fun you say? Fun??? I think not young man. Homeland Security is on its way, and will be knocking on your door any time now. Or not.
Scary! I looked at my Pyrex measuring cup. Its a hefty thing with lots of mass and lots of glass. I would seriously not want to make that thing mad. I am glad your wife is OK.
Jim
Yes indeed! We should keep of all critical parts, components, and materials about 30% production here (USA or within the EU, etc). These companies should focus on top quality manufacturing - not "good enough". Then these companies should be subsidized a little to make up for cheaper parts offshore.
We already do this in the USA for some items. Take farming for example. Many crops are subsidized for the same reasons we need other vital manufacturing elements supported. Take the petroleum reserve and use this concept for creating stockpiles of vital minerals and like goods.
Great thoughts by everyone here - thanks, Jim Burke
I replace a few things from time to time and I am rank beginner kit type guy (i.e. Nixie Clock kit, with WWV update). Kudos to you for finding and doing this. Most people today, 99.999%, would shrug and replace the whole board.
So how about some details. In addition to your great pictures. 1. A capacitor failure is always plainly visible like this? 2. What are the three most common failures in electronics? How to find and fix them? Perhaps this answer is on a blog somewhere (So where?). 3. Are there subtle capacitor failures? How are such subtle failures found? Lots of Fluke Multimeter poking around or oscilloscope? Do you usually have an identical working board you can get comparative values from? 4. Soldering station? What kind do you use? Something for the field? Silver Solder or something else? Flux? 5. Any problems ever with smoke alarms? 6. How often do you repair like in your post vs "buy a replacement"? 7. General background that prepared you for this. Education, experience, hobbies, etc.
I am asking this so that if someone else wants to attempt a repair of some old part, that they might learn a little here.
As the article suggests in its last paragraph. Windows Update needs to rethink itself. Perhaps a patch CD.
I have many problems installing updates.
LARGE UPDATE DOWNLOADS TINY PATCH APPLICATION ON SHUTDOWN Use my XP SP2 system as an example. It has about 84 updates that download every single day slogging up my first fifteen minutes of work while my PC downloads every patch. Then only one dinky patch MIGHT get applied when I shut down.
DOWNLOADS ALREADY APPLIED PATCHES. Another example is unintelligent update download. I manually downloaded and applied the time zone patch (KB946723). But MS keeps downloading and trying to apply this patch.
EXPRESS INSTALL (NOW) FAILS MISERABLY. I just now tried to install 88 updates with nothing else going on on my PC. Every single update failed.
Is this a way to run updates? This reflects rather poorly on Microsoft.
Jim
Slashdot Mirror
Now write 10 times. FOIA FOIA FOIA FOIA FOIA FOIA FOIA FOIA FOIA FOIA. Now the fingers have it.
I know why you messed up. My dad used to occasionally get wrong numbers in our college town. He would always reply. "I'm sorry you got the wrong number, the number you dialed is 903-886-1234. Thank you.". This would "teach" the person to always call dad. It was the funniest and annoying thing at the same time.
Thanks ryanov!
Jim
I made a FIOA request back in early 2002. There were two priorities; standard and high priority. I chose standard or fossil. A year later 2003 I received a letter saying my request was in the system and was a normal request. That letter also provided a case number. So 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 nothing?
Who else out there has done an FIOA? What was your result? What was your interaction?
Thanks,
Jim
Er, not quite. Algorithms are the base theory of computer languages. Algorithms are more like English sentence structure. More like English grammar. So the Knuth of English grammar might be Quirk et all's "A Grammar Of Contemporary English". All 1132 pages of gerunds, infinitives, the order of adjectives, etc. Your English teacher's idea of heaven is within its covers.
The author's description from long ago. Now in PDF form.
http://eltj.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/issue_pdf/backmatter_pdf/XXVII/1.pdf
Linguistic schools like it.
http://grammar-history.kiev.ua/index.php?option=com_docman&task=cat_view&Itemid=55&gid=16&orderby=dmdate_published
Amazon
http://www.amazon.com/Grammar-Contemporary-English-Randolph-Quirk/dp/058252444X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1230219776&sr=1-1
Cheers,
Jim
My original post said generally that students certainly do not start with the WHOLE KNUTH (or the others).
But K-12 students start with an abstract of basic concepts from these books.
And a limited core abstract of concepts at that, unabridged Knuth and Tanenbaum offer hairy concepts to get one's mind around.
All I want for Christmas 08 & 09 is a Knuth+Stroustrup+Tanenbaum mind,
Jim
Darn right it will start, continue, and end badly if done via a programming approach. True CS is not language programming but how to develop algorithms.
So three authors should be key here. Not the whole ball of wax but an abstraction of what these authors present.
Donald Knuth and his books, "The Art of Computer Programming" (3 volumes).
Andrew S. Tanenbaum; "Computer Organization".
John L. Hennesey and David L. Patterson; "Computer Architecture".
Good luck,
Jim
If that mosquito with its DNA and that miscreant were here in TX, this person would never get indicted for car theft. Here if they find fingerprints its probably much like the mosquito DNA. Those only mean the person was IN the car. The DA will happily file "possession" of a stolen vehicle. Its rarely "theft" because its difficult to prove someone stole the car.
So "possession" is really what we should be discussing here. That's way down on the proof scale.
The only regular automobile thefts that are indicted here are those bait cars that the police leave parked here and there. They have video and remote turn off.
Jim
First I really like nuclear because it can spit out a lot of energy.
The trouble with nuclear is not its pollution etc.
The trouble is that nuclear is 'always on' so as wind or solar ramp up, they theoretically reach this 'always on' amount of power produced and thus aren't encouraged to produce more.
Lets ask ourselves a question. What are the theoretical production levels of wind or solar? Solar, for example is obvious. No sun so no power for your car battery. Solar amounts vary due to diurnal differences; seasonal daylight, seasonal solar elevation, weather variation, and debris variation.
So before we run amuck on any solution, we need to figure out BOTH from the usage perspective but more important, from the production perspective.
Thanks,
Jim
11/02/08 01:56:22pm CDT Forbidden You don't have permission to access /hdsilence.html on this server.
I would like to hike that area. Flying around with Google Earth yes its surprising to see the ground drop away. I agree, its quite beautiful country.
Re omnivores reminds me of driving back from Colorado through the Texas Panhandle some years ago. My buddy and I stopped east of Dalhart in either Hutchinson or Roberts county. We had stopped to see a moon rise on the high plains where it blobs out of the far distance. Three AM too. Well we attracted the attention of two packs of coyotes. They howled a hundred yards out on both sides of the car. Soon they howled about ten yards away. I am a hunter and all that. But that raised the hairs on my neck. So we merely got in the car and drove away. A different story if one unarmed person had been walking way out there.
Thanks,
Jim
From the Mammoth Times.
Yawn,I used Google Earth to visit the Minarets and Shadow Lake area. No blue and white trash pile evident to my untrained eye. Then perhaps the Google picture was pre accident 2006. Oh well.
New discovery revives search for Fossett
Wednesday, 01 October 2008
Shortly after noon today, Mono County Sheriff Search and Rescue teams will begin a search for the wreckage of lost air-adventurer Steve Fossett's plane, which went down in the California/Nevada area a year ago September. The search is based on discovery of a sweater and three of Fossett's aviation ID cards in the Minarets on Monday by Preston Morrow, a local hiker who works at Kittredge Sports. The search will begin on the John Muir Trail between Dorothy and Shadow Lakes. Prior searches focused on land east of the Glass Mountains.
The California Highway Patrol helicopter from Fresno will fly in the search teams.
Fossett was declared dead in Feburary of this year.
Last Updated ( Wednesday, 01 October 2008 )
Source: http://www.mammothtimes.com/content/view/94652/1/
I heartily agree there Brave New hpycmprok! Education in the USA has tanked. Too many otherwise good people are not completing high school. See the David Brooks editorial below (NyTimes registration required). A summary; the USA was fine and improving through 1970 then from 1975 to 1990 education graduation did not move. Other countries during that time moved ahead. The article is based on two books. Goldin and Katz http://www.amazon.com/Race-between-Education-Technology/dp/0674028678 "Schools, Skills, and Synapses" by Heckman (downloadable PDF) http://ftp.iza.org/dp3515.pdf "The Real Issue", David Brooks http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/29/opinion/29brooks.html?_r=1&oref=slogin Finally people are not concerned about TFA because they a) shelter their knowledge by keeping within circles of limited curiosity. This means they don't care., b) as you said, could not comprehend its impacts. Best wishes oh wise one, Jim Burke
Real science? Not especially. Consider reading the book; "The Radioactive Boy Scout". Or I can send it to you (seriously $5 plus shipping, let me know). David Hahn wanted to "do" nuclear without really understanding the physics. The book's sub title says "whiz kid" but obviates this when it describes the hazardous methods used to extract the material.
Reminds me of my own stupidity when I tried to burn sulfur and candle wax together was when I was eleven or so. Bountiful amounts of hydrogen sulfide and other nasty fumes resulted. This was not real science discovering H2S but certainly a learning experience. After recovering my lungs it was what the heck happened? So I looked into the basic chemistry books at the library and was thus enlightened.
David Han's original work dates from before 1998 BEFORE this wonderful internet thing opened up many doors. Its a shame today that he is still running around trying to hammer Americium-241 out of smoke detectors.
Thanks, and let me know re the book,
Jim
OK vux of numbers I am on board with you now.
XP SP2 just crashed with me. I was doing something multi tasking like that had a drop down window. Too many things to recount. My entire system turned to mud. My PC chip-set started heating up the PC fan roared as it kicked on high. CTL+ALT+DEL did not work. Finally it did. 100% CPU. Drive light on. Hard boot corrected the problem.
The last time this kind of stuff happened it was just before my HD went on permanent vacation to i-will-never-work-again land. I hope that this is not starting again. Something like 100% cpu perhaps abusing HD seek movements.
Thanks,
Jim
Correction here. No one, not even me sometimes, can read my mind.
. . . . West Village is where they all gather . . . "they" in this context are women with excellent xx chromosomes.
Thanks,
Jim
In reverse Polish,
Great Al Bundy quote. My life indeed. However in very high percentage of males in Dallas, I made a charming find last Sat. West Village is where they all gather.
Apologies but I think the issue is your nice Ubuntu 8.04 OS. Maybe FF 3.1 was not tested enough on that platform. PS I am green with envy, not because of today's jalapenos, but by your great OS.
Good luck,
Jim
My FF 3.1 never crashes on XP SP2.
Could you provide specific sites that break?
I wonder about your break problems. Is there anything specific that goes wrong?
Is your virus scan up to date?
What is your OS?
Are you Bill Gates perhaps? (sorry for the thought)
Thanks and I hope FF goes better for you,
Jim
I live in Dallas TX. On 07/06/2008 the Dallas Morning News had a great article on "Debate Flares Over Wind Power" by Elizabeth Souder. The text edition. The critical part is wind in Texas is always fickle. The incident referred to by the original poster occurred in February 2008. Lets look at the DMN chart. 3:15AM wind blows strong; lowest demand for the day, price per megawatt 41.96. Then during the hottest time of the day 3:15PM; wind generates the least amount for the day, price per megawatt 109.80.
Below is quoted from the DMN article.
WHERE THE POWER COMES FROM IN TEXAS
1. WIND Wind turbines almost always go [online] first. While operating the turbines can be costly, the wind is free and operators bid low to ensure they can sell as much electricity as possible.
2. NUCLEAR Nuclear plants are the second cheapest source of power and tend to operate constantly throughout the year.
3. COAL Coals plants to third and also tend to operate constantly. Nuclear and coal plants are known as BASE LOAD GENERATORS.
4. HYDRO/OTHER/DC ties. Texas has a tiny amount of hydro-generated power. Some of the state's power comes from other types of plants such as solar panels. And some power comes through so-called DC ties, or power lines that bring electricity from outside the ERCOT territory.
5. NATURAL GAS The remaining supply is filled in by natural gas plants. That can drive up electricity prices because natural gas is costly. The newest, most efficient plants turn on first followed by older plants that are much more costly to operate. Some of these plants, called peaker plants only operate a few hours each year to fill in supply when demand surges.
6. MARKET RATE. THE LAST PLANT TO TURN ON SETS THE PRICE FOR THE ENTIRE MARKET. SO EVEN IF A WIND OPERATOR BIDS LOW, THAT OPERATOR'S PRICE RISES THROUGHOUT THE DAY AS PLANTS WITH HIGHER PRICED BIDS TURN ON.
Registration may be required.
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/bus/industries/energy/stories/DN-wind_06bus.ART0.State.Edition1.4e033eb.html
Thanks,
Jim
Thanks for your reply there tublar.
I am an occasional election judge in Texas. I see our Optical Scan and Touch Screen machines scroll their very old their Microsoft boot up messages we turn them on. Old software versions for sure. This is OK. If it works it works. My county election head is very very very conservative about updates. I cannot imagine a casual update like this CEO did. Now he probably had agreement from those two counties. Those counties should have asked some pretty hard questions if he was not giving any others those updates.
The Diebold issues might be in three different places. I don't know how the machine is constructed. Here is a brief list for mischief; the OS, the screen display application on top of the OS, then perhaps something in any PCMICA cards. As the article author said, he did not have access to a machine and you really need the whole thing to see what it is doing.
Thanks,
Jim
As an IT support person, the scope of the Diebold patch update is suspicious. Why just two counties? Why not the whole state? Why a special trip by the CEO? Too many bells are going off here.
When I did IT updates. I would update a few test configurations and select users then let them run for a bit. Then roll out to the masses. About 2,500 PCs if you will.
The justice department needs to begin investigating this immediately.
This whole situation stinks to high heaven.
Thanks,
Jim
I downloaded and tried to run this MYSQL version 5.0.51a. MYSQL is a seriously flawed product in my opinion. Because it uses a web interface. Why not a PC based information box? Requiring a web browser adds to the requirements of this product.
I start the thing. OK DOS box.
I start the administrative console.
Which starts SeaMonkey which is NOT MY defalt web browser.
SeaMonkey reports it cannot get to http://localhost:4848/
Does anyone know how MYSQL might have a decent PC based administrative panel like Microsoft products do?
Does anyone know about aforementioned errors?
I would appreciate any suggestions!
Jim
Fun with blowing things up in THIS FRAIDY CAT SOCIETY? Fun you say? Fun??? I think not young man. Homeland Security is on its way, and will be knocking on your door any time now. Or not.
Jim
Scary! I looked at my Pyrex measuring cup. Its a hefty thing with lots of mass and lots of glass. I would seriously not want to make that thing mad. I am glad your wife is OK. Jim
Regarding Manufacturing Return.
Yes indeed! We should keep of all critical parts, components, and materials about 30% production here (USA or within the EU, etc). These companies should focus on top quality manufacturing - not "good enough". Then these companies should be subsidized a little to make up for cheaper parts offshore.
We already do this in the USA for some items. Take farming for example. Many crops are subsidized for the same reasons we need other vital manufacturing elements supported. Take the petroleum reserve and use this concept for creating stockpiles of vital minerals and like goods.
Great thoughts by everyone here - thanks,
Jim Burke
Your skill set, intelligence behind this, etc.
I replace a few things from time to time and I am rank beginner kit type guy (i.e. Nixie Clock kit, with WWV update). Kudos to you for finding and doing this. Most people today, 99.999%, would shrug and replace the whole board.
So how about some details. In addition to your great pictures.
1. A capacitor failure is always plainly visible like this?
2. What are the three most common failures in electronics? How to find and fix them? Perhaps this answer is on a blog somewhere (So where?).
3. Are there subtle capacitor failures? How are such subtle failures found? Lots of Fluke Multimeter poking around or oscilloscope? Do you usually have an identical working board you can get comparative values from?
4. Soldering station? What kind do you use? Something for the field? Silver Solder or something else? Flux?
5. Any problems ever with smoke alarms?
6. How often do you repair like in your post vs "buy a replacement"?
7. General background that prepared you for this. Education, experience, hobbies, etc.
I am asking this so that if someone else wants to attempt a repair of some old part, that they might learn a little here.
Thanks,
Jim Burke
As the article suggests in its last paragraph. Windows Update needs to rethink itself. Perhaps a patch CD. I have many problems installing updates. LARGE UPDATE DOWNLOADS TINY PATCH APPLICATION ON SHUTDOWN Use my XP SP2 system as an example. It has about 84 updates that download every single day slogging up my first fifteen minutes of work while my PC downloads every patch. Then only one dinky patch MIGHT get applied when I shut down. DOWNLOADS ALREADY APPLIED PATCHES. Another example is unintelligent update download. I manually downloaded and applied the time zone patch (KB946723). But MS keeps downloading and trying to apply this patch. EXPRESS INSTALL (NOW) FAILS MISERABLY. I just now tried to install 88 updates with nothing else going on on my PC. Every single update failed. Is this a way to run updates? This reflects rather poorly on Microsoft. Jim