You can do this with an mbed and not need to etch your own PCB or solder SMT components. I got one when they first shipped and let me say they are a pleasure to work with. Ethernet, USB, serial (rs232, SPI, i2c), PWM, Analog in and out as well as digital in and out. Small compact foot print that is DIP compatible. The best pat is it is programed with c++ instead of assembly. You don't need a programmer either as you plug it into any PC (Works with Linux, OSX and Win) via usb and shows up as a 2mb flash disk and you drag and drop the binary to the disk and hit the reset button. The only down side is the compiler is online so its sorta cloud based but there are third party compilers for the ARM Cortex that will work with the mbed.
No I am not paid to plug this device, its just been a while since I had this much fun playing with embedded hardware. http://www.mbed.org/
Best way to fix that problem is to put the computers in the living room or other place where the family gathers. this make its difficult to sneak stuff. My friend grew up like that, computer in living room. This was back in the day of gif porn from bbs's and 1.44 floppy's. I had a few floppies full and could view them when no one was around the computer/office room. He couldn't. But that wont stop them from seeing unwanted material at friends homes. You just have to accept that sooner or later your child is going to see it. Hell I first saw porn when I was 9 after my friend discovered her dads stash.
We used to have an old 87 Chevy 3500 van and a 85 Chevy cube truck. Both were powered by the big block 366. Those things were nasty, I could chirp the tires on the cube truck with a light load! The van was a rocket ship, you had to be gentle on the pedal. They were hardy engines and you could pile on miles with little problems. The trucks rear finally blew in the 2000 and we junked it and sold the van. Replaced them with two GM 3500 vans which have the small block but are very ballsy. Can handle a 2700lb load with no problems, even in the PA mountains on the 70/76.
One they are retired we will switch to Sprinters with diesel engines.
RIP big block, you were a monster and legend for your day. We just don't need you anymore.
Another problem I have found with one DVR I setup for a neighbor (forget the model, was linux based though) is the video export function was clumsy and proprietary. At first glance it said on the box you could export video to USB thumb drives or via the built in CD/DVD recorder. Problem is it uses a propriety multi channel video file format that is only works under windows. So when you do export video you get this mess of directories and a windows binary player on your media. Sometimes it didn't play, locked up and had to be killed via task manager. And sometimes it could not read the video file which required it to be exported again.
That made it very difficult for him when he had an incident with a tenant vandalizing his car. He needed to bring the video down to the police precinct and had to call me and spend 30 min on the phone to help him and the investigator view the video.
Why couldn't the damn thing just export an avi or mpg file?
Yea the article got that wrong, but you could look at it from another angle: Depending on the capacitor value and voltage, you can have upward or greater than a 1MW discharge in the tank circuit. The formula: Joules = 1/2 * Vc^2 * C (Vc is the capacitor voltage and C is capacitance in farads) dictates the amount of energy stored in the capacitor. If a capacitor holding 1000 joules of electrical energy is discharged in one millisecond you have a 1MW pulse. Tesla coils are pulsed resonant transformers. Its been a while but the current in the primary is quite high, possibly a few hundred amps for each discharge (depending on the tank circuit size.) The aim for a standard coil is for the capacitor to reach full charge for each peak of a 60Hz cycle (50Hz if that's your utility frequency). At that point you should have 120 clean discharges per second or 120 pulses per second. And the pulse length is short lived (micro seconds) and if caught with an oscilloscope looks like a dampened sine wave which is the resonant frequency of the tank circuit (the current bounces back and fourth between the capacitor and primary coil).
I used to have tons of fun dabbling in high voltage, coiling, can crushing and coin shrinking. I still have my 150 pound (68kg) Maxwell 14.4uF 40kV pulse discharge capacitor (hot dogs can and will dissipate a few MW, just isn't much left to eat though). Back then I rolled my own Tesla capacitors using multiple layers of thick 8mil HDPE drop cloth and copper roof flashing (aluminum was cheaper but needed to be annealed to become easily workable). You roll the layers of HDPE and plates together and form a rolled capacitor which you insert into a 4" PVC pipe with end caps that have brass 1/4" bolts protruding to be used as terminals. You use a vacuum pump to pull a vacuum inside the cap and then let the vacuum suck in mineral oil to ensure you filled all of the air space. They were decent caps but were a pain to assemble and tend to leak if your terminals weren't oil tight. Also the HDPE drop cloth has tons of impurities, even bits of metal which eventually led to the failure of the insulation between the plates. I used open air caps for smaller coils and then moved on to MMC caps when it became the trend.
Then I lost interest for some reason. I think it was the inherent danger that started to turn me off (I often worked alone - bad idea, wish I had more friends interested in engineering/physics/science). Just talking about this stuff brings back fond memories, I had an ex GF that absolutely loved my Tesla coil. I still have all my HV stuff stored away at work, maybe its time to break it out again:-)
Its not the system that is broken but doctors themselves. Greed gets in the way of the Hippocratic Oath and doctors just look at this as a way to get money. No doctor should ever look at the profession as symbol of status or way to make money.
And just because you're born somewhere does not make you a citizen. Ever heard the term "anchor babies"? I find it ridiculous that a Mestizo woman can give birth to a child in this country and it's a citizen.
It may make then citizens but it does not earn his/her parents the right to stay here in the US. My friend is a US Customs officer working at a major international airport. Many pregnant women come to the US from Central and South American countries trying to give birth in the US with the mistaken hopes they will be granted some type of residency to stay with their now American child. And guess what? They send then right back on a return flight all the time because they know that is why they came here. They often have false papers and say they are visiting relatives. But when they can not come up with names, addresses or phone numbers they are sent home on a return flight. One woman flew in with her four year old child who was born here and she thought that entitled her to say. Bzzzzzt Wrong. She was sent back along with her American son. Until he is 18 or has family who are citizens who can watch him, he cannot enter, PERIOD.
So yes the government is actively preventing these people from entering. But once they are here illegally its a whole other problem.
Honestly, these people see 'Transformers', 'Superman', 'Batman', 'Star Trek', 'Dogma', 'Godzilla', and '2012'. Then they choose to believe the world is ending but they won't be saved by Superman or Batman. They won't be killed first by giant robots or a giant lizard. And angels and demons... well ok they probably do believe in Dogma.
So what are they worrying about? Jay and Silent Bob will put a stop to it. Snoogans.
Those laptop PCIe SSD's are not PCIe. The compact PCIe connector also has pins for SATA and USB just like express card. So the SSD's use the SATA pins. I thought I could use one in a PCIe x1 adapter card to boot an ATX motherboard but after some research found out that was not possible.
HDMI is basically a single link DVI signal along with a digital audio stream. Both the audio and video gets their own pins and wires. But display port is a packet based system so audo, video and other signals can be multiplexed across the same set of wires. Display port 1.1 allows for eight 24 bit 192kHz digital audio channels. There can be 1, 2 or 4 digital lanes, similar to how PCI express works, more lanes = more bandwidth. The maximum bandwidth is over 8Gbps (3 meter cable limit)and there is also a 1mbps aux channel. A single display port cable can deliver a 2560x1600 60 Hz 30 bpp video signal. Dual link DVI port can do the same but it cant scale as well as display port will.
The HDMI connector is mechanically flimsy and can be easily damaged by the heavy shielded cables that hang from them of if yanked on. Display port is designed for those heavy cables and resists tugging and pulling that would otherwise damage an HDMI connector. Its also screw-less connector so no more fiddling with thumb screws.
I don't understand what everyone's problem is with Apple locking out non apple hardware from running OSX. If Apple says OSX is for Apple hardware only, why are people pissed that they can't run it on non Apple hardware? What is the problem here? If you don't like the terms then don't buy the damn software. And for those who pirated OSX, too fucking bad. You want some cheese with your whine? Why not buy a netbook with Linux? you would be doing a big favor for a great community and its people.
If Apple doesn't want you running their software on non Apple hardware then do yourself a favor and don't. If you want OSX then buy a Mac Book for a grand. How fucking hard is it to understand that?
-Viusta eats memory like there is no tomorrow. After a fresh boot and idle it eats up about 2GB. And that's after turning off all the memory hogging services.
-Nvidia SLI has been impossible for me to get working. I don't know if its Nvidia or Vista but I had it working on XP.
-Camera picture importing software is a pathetic waste. the version that came with XP allowed you to select which images you wanted download. Cant do that in vista.
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A bash shell and a great collection of Unix command line tools. Its how I backup my Vista box to my Linux server via ssh.
You can do this with an mbed and not need to etch your own PCB or solder SMT components. I got one when they first shipped and let me say they are a pleasure to work with. Ethernet, USB, serial (rs232, SPI, i2c), PWM, Analog in and out as well as digital in and out. Small compact foot print that is DIP compatible. The best pat is it is programed with c++ instead of assembly. You don't need a programmer either as you plug it into any PC (Works with Linux, OSX and Win) via usb and shows up as a 2mb flash disk and you drag and drop the binary to the disk and hit the reset button. The only down side is the compiler is online so its sorta cloud based but there are third party compilers for the ARM Cortex that will work with the mbed.
No I am not paid to plug this device, its just been a while since I had this much fun playing with embedded hardware. http://www.mbed.org/
Best way to fix that problem is to put the computers in the living room or other place where the family gathers. this make its difficult to sneak stuff. My friend grew up like that, computer in living room. This was back in the day of gif porn from bbs's and 1.44 floppy's. I had a few floppies full and could view them when no one was around the computer/office room. He couldn't. But that wont stop them from seeing unwanted material at friends homes. You just have to accept that sooner or later your child is going to see it. Hell I first saw porn when I was 9 after my friend discovered her dads stash.
We used to have an old 87 Chevy 3500 van and a 85 Chevy cube truck. Both were powered by the big block 366. Those things were nasty, I could chirp the tires on the cube truck with a light load! The van was a rocket ship, you had to be gentle on the pedal. They were hardy engines and you could pile on miles with little problems. The trucks rear finally blew in the 2000 and we junked it and sold the van. Replaced them with two GM 3500 vans which have the small block but are very ballsy. Can handle a 2700lb load with no problems, even in the PA mountains on the 70/76.
One they are retired we will switch to Sprinters with diesel engines.
RIP big block, you were a monster and legend for your day. We just don't need you anymore.
Prove it.
My name is Blond, James Blond.
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Good points.
Another problem I have found with one DVR I setup for a neighbor (forget the model, was linux based though) is the video export function was clumsy and proprietary. At first glance it said on the box you could export video to USB thumb drives or via the built in CD/DVD recorder. Problem is it uses a propriety multi channel video file format that is only works under windows. So when you do export video you get this mess of directories and a windows binary player on your media. Sometimes it didn't play, locked up and had to be killed via task manager. And sometimes it could not read the video file which required it to be exported again.
That made it very difficult for him when he had an incident with a tenant vandalizing his car. He needed to bring the video down to the police precinct and had to call me and spend 30 min on the phone to help him and the investigator view the video.
Why couldn't the damn thing just export an avi or mpg file?
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I blame it on Vodka.
I don't have a Power book, will an iPhone with a picture of Rick Astley do?
Yea the article got that wrong, but you could look at it from another angle: Depending on the capacitor value and voltage, you can have upward or greater than a 1MW discharge in the tank circuit. The formula: Joules = 1/2 * Vc^2 * C (Vc is the capacitor voltage and C is capacitance in farads) dictates the amount of energy stored in the capacitor. If a capacitor holding 1000 joules of electrical energy is discharged in one millisecond you have a 1MW pulse. Tesla coils are pulsed resonant transformers. Its been a while but the current in the primary is quite high, possibly a few hundred amps for each discharge (depending on the tank circuit size.) The aim for a standard coil is for the capacitor to reach full charge for each peak of a 60Hz cycle (50Hz if that's your utility frequency). At that point you should have 120 clean discharges per second or 120 pulses per second. And the pulse length is short lived (micro seconds) and if caught with an oscilloscope looks like a dampened sine wave which is the resonant frequency of the tank circuit (the current bounces back and fourth between the capacitor and primary coil).
I used to have tons of fun dabbling in high voltage, coiling, can crushing and coin shrinking. I still have my 150 pound (68kg) Maxwell 14.4uF 40kV pulse discharge capacitor (hot dogs can and will dissipate a few MW, just isn't much left to eat though). Back then I rolled my own Tesla capacitors using multiple layers of thick 8mil HDPE drop cloth and copper roof flashing (aluminum was cheaper but needed to be annealed to become easily workable). You roll the layers of HDPE and plates together and form a rolled capacitor which you insert into a 4" PVC pipe with end caps that have brass 1/4" bolts protruding to be used as terminals. You use a vacuum pump to pull a vacuum inside the cap and then let the vacuum suck in mineral oil to ensure you filled all of the air space. They were decent caps but were a pain to assemble and tend to leak if your terminals weren't oil tight. Also the HDPE drop cloth has tons of impurities, even bits of metal which eventually led to the failure of the insulation between the plates. I used open air caps for smaller coils and then moved on to MMC caps when it became the trend.
Then I lost interest for some reason. I think it was the inherent danger that started to turn me off (I often worked alone - bad idea, wish I had more friends interested in engineering/physics/science). Just talking about this stuff brings back fond memories, I had an ex GF that absolutely loved my Tesla coil. I still have all my HV stuff stored away at work, maybe its time to break it out again :-)
Its not the system that is broken but doctors themselves. Greed gets in the way of the Hippocratic Oath and doctors just look at this as a way to get money. No doctor should ever look at the profession as symbol of status or way to make money.
And just because you're born somewhere does not make you a citizen. Ever heard the term "anchor babies"? I find it ridiculous that a Mestizo woman can give birth to a child in this country and it's a citizen.
It may make then citizens but it does not earn his/her parents the right to stay here in the US. My friend is a US Customs officer working at a major international airport. Many pregnant women come to the US from Central and South American countries trying to give birth in the US with the mistaken hopes they will be granted some type of residency to stay with their now American child. And guess what? They send then right back on a return flight all the time because they know that is why they came here. They often have false papers and say they are visiting relatives. But when they can not come up with names, addresses or phone numbers they are sent home on a return flight. One woman flew in with her four year old child who was born here and she thought that entitled her to say. Bzzzzzt Wrong. She was sent back along with her American son. Until he is 18 or has family who are citizens who can watch him, he cannot enter, PERIOD.
So yes the government is actively preventing these people from entering. But once they are here illegally its a whole other problem.
Yea it all looked good on paper. We just tossed the curly judge rug and called it American law.
Honestly, these people see 'Transformers', 'Superman', 'Batman', 'Star Trek', 'Dogma', 'Godzilla', and '2012'. Then they choose to believe the world is ending but they won't be saved by Superman or Batman. They won't be killed first by giant robots or a giant lizard. And angels and demons... well ok they probably do believe in Dogma.
So what are they worrying about? Jay and Silent Bob will put a stop to it. Snoogans.
Those laptop PCIe SSD's are not PCIe. The compact PCIe connector also has pins for SATA and USB just like express card. So the SSD's use the SATA pins. I thought I could use one in a PCIe x1 adapter card to boot an ATX motherboard but after some research found out that was not possible.
I wonder how soon until they have it to the point where these slices are vacuum packed and you can open it and stuff it into a wound in the field?
Or slather on some mayo and put it on whole wheat for a battle ready meal.
Arrgh! Sarge! Iv been hit!
Here solder, take my sandwich!
(takes bite of sandwich and then mushes it onto wound)
Thanks sir! That was delicious!
Oscar Mayer should look into this.
HDMI is basically a single link DVI signal along with a digital audio stream. Both the audio and video gets their own pins and wires. But display port is a packet based system so audo, video and other signals can be multiplexed across the same set of wires. Display port 1.1 allows for eight 24 bit 192kHz digital audio channels. There can be 1, 2 or 4 digital lanes, similar to how PCI express works, more lanes = more bandwidth. The maximum bandwidth is over 8Gbps (3 meter cable limit)and there is also a 1mbps aux channel. A single display port cable can deliver a 2560x1600 60 Hz 30 bpp video signal. Dual link DVI port can do the same but it cant scale as well as display port will.
The HDMI connector is mechanically flimsy and can be easily damaged by the heavy shielded cables that hang from them of if yanked on. Display port is designed for those heavy cables and resists tugging and pulling that would otherwise damage an HDMI connector. Its also screw-less connector so no more fiddling with thumb screws.
Yea they sometimes get that funny smell when thawed or the explosives get freezer burn, yuk!
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I don't understand what everyone's problem is with Apple locking out non apple hardware from running OSX. If Apple says OSX is for Apple hardware only, why are people pissed that they can't run it on non Apple hardware? What is the problem here? If you don't like the terms then don't buy the damn software. And for those who pirated OSX, too fucking bad. You want some cheese with your whine? Why not buy a netbook with Linux? you would be doing a big favor for a great community and its people.
If Apple doesn't want you running their software on non Apple hardware then do yourself a favor and don't. If you want OSX then buy a Mac Book for a grand. How fucking hard is it to understand that?
Ah yes but the trick is to hide the waste so the site looks clean and you get your money back.
I have only three complaints about windows Vista.
-Viusta eats memory like there is no tomorrow. After a fresh boot and idle it eats up about 2GB. And that's after turning off all the memory hogging services.
-Nvidia SLI has been impossible for me to get working. I don't know if its Nvidia or Vista but I had it working on XP.
-Camera picture importing software is a pathetic waste. the version that came with XP allowed you to select which images you wanted download. Cant do that in vista.