OT: Bush Thugs Rough Up Grieving Mother of KIA

[Joe Bloggs]

"Jim Thompson" <thegreatone@example.com> wrote in message
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On Wed, 22 Sep 2004 20:31:40 -0300, YD <yd.techHAT@techie.com> wrote:

On Wed, 22 Sep 2004 08:41:39 +0100, Paul Burke <paul@scazon.com
wrote:

Anyone any idea on this:

My BT broadband keeps freezing- it's still on line, as I can see because
BT keep probing me and ZoneAlarm blocks them. But all outgoing
connections don't work, even ping. Usually lasts about 3 minutes before
reaching this state.

Virus check says OK. Spybot (not the virus) says OK. No untoward
programs running as far as I can see.

Any thoughts appreciated. Oh, W98.

Paul Burke

Sounds like the outgoing router on BT's side is acting up. You're
still "visible" on the inside network which explains the pings. Don't
worry about ZA's alarms, most spurious connections are the internet
background noise. Get your ass over to http://www.grc.com/default.htm
and let ShieldsUP! do a scan. Expect ZA to get its face all in a
bunch.

- YD.

Here's how an SMC Barricade Router does:

GRC Port Authority Report created on UTC: 2004-09-22 at 23:34:01

Results from scan of ports: 0-1055

0 Ports Open
1 Ports Closed
1055 Ports Stealth
---------------------
1056 Ports Tested

NO PORTS were found to be OPEN.

The port found to be CLOSED was: 113

Other than what is listed above, all ports are STEALTH.

I think Paul should get himself a router as soon as possible.
Running a Windows PC directly on an always on Internet connection is a bad
idea.
Especially if you're scared about not having a software firewall on the PC
because you're still learning about what an Internet connection actually is.
I would advise Paul to worry more about up to date virus scanning and
adware/spyware removal than software firewalls.
External router/firewalls are not exactly expensive these days.
For example:
http://www.expansys-usa.com/product.asp?code=107338
There is a UK version of that site somewhere, about Ł40

Joe

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I love to cook with wine. Sometimes I even put it in the food.

 

[Josep Duran]

"Guy Macon" <http://www.guymacon.com> escribió en el mensaje >

One cannot
have a better eBay feedback record than John Larkin's perfect one.

Take a closer look at his feedback and you'll see he doesn´t seem to care
about
leaving feedback to the others.

I would count this as a negative vote.

Regards

Josep Duran

 

[Tim Mitchell]

In article <esw4d.27$ub5.9@newsfe6-win.ntli.net>, Joe Bloggs
<Email.is@not.accepted> writes

"Jim Thompson" <thegreatone@example.com> wrote in message
news:s134l0prn6s0cm1f504nimtnks6kovouni@4ax.com...
On Wed, 22 Sep 2004 20:31:40 -0300, YD <yd.techHAT@techie.com> wrote:

On Wed, 22 Sep 2004 08:41:39 +0100, Paul Burke <paul@scazon.com
wrote:

Anyone any idea on this:

My BT broadband keeps freezing- it's still on line, as I can see because
BT keep probing me and ZoneAlarm blocks them. But all outgoing
connections don't work, even ping. Usually lasts about 3 minutes before
reaching this state.

Virus check says OK. Spybot (not the virus) says OK. No untoward
programs running as far as I can see.

Any thoughts appreciated. Oh, W98.

Paul Burke

Sounds like the outgoing router on BT's side is acting up. You're
still "visible" on the inside network which explains the pings. Don't
worry about ZA's alarms, most spurious connections are the internet
background noise. Get your ass over to http://www.grc.com/default.htm
and let ShieldsUP! do a scan. Expect ZA to get its face all in a
bunch.

- YD.

Here's how an SMC Barricade Router does:

GRC Port Authority Report created on UTC: 2004-09-22 at 23:34:01

Results from scan of ports: 0-1055

0 Ports Open
1 Ports Closed
1055 Ports Stealth
---------------------
1056 Ports Tested

NO PORTS were found to be OPEN.

The port found to be CLOSED was: 113

Other than what is listed above, all ports are STEALTH.

I think Paul should get himself a router as soon as possible.
Running a Windows PC directly on an always on Internet connection is a bad
idea.
Especially if you're scared about not having a software firewall on the PC
because you're still learning about what an Internet connection actually is.
I would advise Paul to worry more about up to date virus scanning and
adware/spyware removal than software firewalls.
External router/firewalls are not exactly expensive these days.
For example:
http://www.expansys-usa.com/product.asp?code=107338
There is a UK version of that site somewhere, about Ł40

www.solwise.co.uk is a good place to try for routers and general

broadband knowhow
--
Tim Mitchell

 

[xray]

On Thu, 23 Sep 2004 08:33:14 +0100, John Woodgate
<jmw@jmwa.demon.contraspam.yuk> wrote:

I read in sci.electronics.design that Rich Grise <null@example.net
wrote (in <zvt4d.5637$Co1.5334@trnddc02&gt about '[OT]: Ping Kevin
Aylward - re your "scientific paper"', on Thu, 23 Sep 2004:

That's what I wanna do.

I'm tempted to ask, 'You want to be an insurance company?' but, since
you are in the US, you wouldn't understand the allusion.

Apparently. What does it mean? Some kind of pun I assume.

 

[xray]

On Thu, 23 Sep 2004 06:17:18 GMT, Rich Grise <null@example.net> wrote:

Then, motivated by Consciousness - which the photon was
in the first place - the molecules start getting together,
to form living things - plants, that have one degree of
freedom (and radial symmetry), animals, that have two
(and bilateral symmetry), and Humans have three.

Something like that - it's a really inadequate nutshell, but you
can read about the book - and the cult it's inspired - at some of
these links:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=%22The+reflexive+universe%22&btnG=Search

So from the first link...
"
There are several possibilities, but the one that is clearest, because
it is visual, draws on the well-known, though neglected, symmetries of
minerals, plants, and animals. This was first brought to my attention by
Fritz Kunz, who discussed the subject in his article "On the Symmetry
Principle." 3

While D'Arcy Thompson in Growth and Form4 devotes a large part of his
thousand-page work to the subject of symmetry, he does not appear to
notice the eloquently simple fact that the kingdoms may be distinguished
by symmetry.
"


So I guess amoebas started right out on the highest level symmetry-wise
but somehow it didn't catch on.

 

[xray]

On Thu, 23 Sep 2004 06:27:04 +0100, John Woodgate
<jmw@jmwa.demon.contraspam.yuk> wrote:

This is obviously complete nonsense, as can be proved by the presence of
this glaring grammatical error:

The phenomena was also seemingly capable of extending itself not only
into the walls of the room, but both other rooms and on several
occasions to the locations of absent members.

What, specifically, is glaring in that?

 

[Winfield Hill]

Tony Williams wrote...

Paul Burridge <pb@notthisbit.osiris1.co.uk> wrote:

Yes, I'd expected someone to point out that the "negligible
current" point was the likely problem area. I can't honestly say
that I have, because my DVM drops out at 0.01mA! However, in the
context of the wide spread of parameters one encounters with
FETs., I'm pretty confident my 'drop-out' zone for current
measurement is not too far off the mark. But you've answered my
question and as ever I'm grateful to you for that. I actually
found it more difficult measuring Id as Vgs approached zero.
[snip]

Paul, you might try the belt 'n braces method.

--+--+15v
|
|--+
+--->|
| |--+
| |
| +------->To DVM
| |
| \
| /R
| \
| |
0v--+-------+-------

Self-bias the jfet with resistor R, and measure the
voltage across it. This gives you the Vgs and Id.

Use two values of R, say 1k and 5k, and plug the
results into the Id = Idss(etc) equation. Solve the
two equations for Idss and Vgs(off).

You've been wandering around this problem for days now.
It might help if you could get hold of an old Siliconix
Technical Article, TA70-2, first published in Electronics
Design in May 1970, then included in the App Notes at the
rear of most Siliconix FET data books for the next 15 or
20 years thereafter.

TA70-2 shows you how to plot Id/Vgs and gfs/Vgs curves
and use them to determine the best bias point for minimum
Id and gfs variations.

Tony, now found as Vishay's AN102 (Siliconix, 10-Mar-97)?
See http://www.vishay.com/docs/70595/70595.pdf


--
Thanks,
- Win

(email: use hill_at_rowland-dotties-org for now)

 

[Winfield Hill]

Tony Williams wrote...

It might help if you could get hold of an old Siliconix
Technical Article, TA70-2, first published in Electronics
Design in May 1970, then included in the App Notes at the
rear of most Siliconix FET data books for the next 15 or
20 years thereafter.

Tony, if you have access to the May 1970 ED article, do you
know who the author was? Also, was the Siliconix app note
substantially the same?


--
Thanks,
- Win

(email: use hill_at_rowland-dotties-org for now)

 

[Guy Macon]

John Woodgate <jmw@jmwa.demon.contraspam.yuk> says...

Appearing and producing ANYTHING is both necessary and sufficient. (;-)

Do invisible six-foot tall white rabbits count?

 

[Guy Macon]

Kevin Aylward <salesEXTRACT@anasoft.co.uk> says...

there are Replicators an Replicatants

Where do those replicators come from?

 

[Guy Macon]

Kevin Aylward <salesEXTRACT@anasoft.co.uk> says...

Don Pearce wrote:

Too bored now. Seek help.

Plonk

So, you don't have a degree then. That says it all.

Why are you talking to someone who has killfiled you?

 

[Guy Macon]

Kevin Aylward <salesEXTRACT@anasoft.co.uk> says...

PLONK!

Please plonk me as well. You see, Rich Grise and I are such
good buddies that we like to go everywhere together.

If you don't killfile me I will take that as evidence that
you find my posts to be valuable and well worth reading.

BTW, your royal family is ugly and your government is a lapdog
for George W. Bush.

 

[Guy Macon]

Zorpetus <zorpetus@yahoo.com> says...

Could you please explain this "modem in the middle" attack?
What do you exactly mean?

WHAT YOU WANT

YOUR MODEM -------------------------------------------> MY MODEM



WHAT YOU GET:

YOUR MODEM ----------> FBI MODEM - FBI MODEM ---------> MY MODEM
|
V
FBI TAP

 

[John Woodgate]

I read in sci.electronics.design that Rich Grise <null@example.net>
wrote (in <aMu4d.5653$Co1.4168@trnddc02&gt about 'SUPER-DUPER OFF TOPIC -
GOD ANSWERS RICH GRISE'S EMAIL', on Thu, 23 Sep 2004:

I don't know if this is irony, or if there's some other "category" or
"genre" but, if one were to ask that "seriously," I'd be inclined to
say, "Oh, I don't think he plonks anybody." ;-)

Revelation xx 15. Of course, the underlying axioms may not be useful.
(;-)
--
Regards, John Woodgate, OOO - Own Opinions Only.
The good news is that nothing is compulsory.
The bad news is that everything is prohibited.
http://www.jmwa.demon.co.uk Also see http://www.isce.org.uk

 

[John Woodgate]

I read in sci.electronics.design that xray <notreally@hotmail.invalid>
wrote (in <3l75l0tbjujuunqjvjg3rvccshduene283@4ax.com&gt about '[OT]:
Ping Kevin Aylward - re your "scientific paper"', on Thu, 23 Sep 2004:

On Thu, 23 Sep 2004 06:27:04 +0100, John Woodgate
jmw@jmwa.demon.contraspam.yuk> wrote:

This is obviously complete nonsense, as can be proved by the presence of
this glaring grammatical error:

The phenomena was also seemingly capable of extending itself not only
into the walls of the room, but both other rooms and on several
occasions to the locations of absent members.

What, specifically, is glaring in that?

'Phenomena' is plural, and the plural verb is used with it in other

parts of the text. The singular is 'phenomenon'.

But you DO realise that my post was a dig at those who become apoplectic
about such things, don't you?

--
Regards, John Woodgate, OOO - Own Opinions Only.
The good news is that nothing is compulsory.
The bad news is that everything is prohibited.
http://www.jmwa.demon.co.uk Also see http://www.isce.org.uk

 

[John Woodgate]

I read in sci.electronics.design that xray <notreally@hotmail.invalid>
wrote (in <o965l0pds729jmura54fhgsgpgcssso4hb@4ax.com&gt about '[OT]:
Ping Kevin Aylward - re your "scientific paper"', on Thu, 23 Sep 2004:

On Thu, 23 Sep 2004 06:17:18 GMT, Rich Grise <null@example.net> wrote:

Then, motivated by Consciousness - which the photon was
in the first place - the molecules start getting together,
to form living things - plants, that have one degree of
freedom (and radial symmetry), animals, that have two
(and bilateral symmetry), and Humans have three.

Something like that - it's a really inadequate nutshell, but you
can read about the book - and the cult it's inspired - at some of
these links:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=%22The+reflexive+univers
e%22&btnG=Search

So from the first link...
"
There are several possibilities, but the one that is clearest, because
it is visual, draws on the well-known, though neglected, symmetries of
minerals, plants, and animals. This was first brought to my attention by
Fritz Kunz, who discussed the subject in his article "On the Symmetry
Principle." 3

While D'Arcy Thompson in Growth and Form4 devotes a large part of his
thousand-page work to the subject of symmetry, he does not appear to
notice the eloquently simple fact that the kingdoms may be distinguished
by symmetry.
"


So I guess amoebas started right out on the highest level symmetry-wise
but somehow it didn't catch on.

.... and then there are the Echinoderms, many of which have five-fold
symmetry (many starfish, for example).
--
Regards, John Woodgate, OOO - Own Opinions Only.
The good news is that nothing is compulsory.
The bad news is that everything is prohibited.
http://www.jmwa.demon.co.uk Also see http://www.isce.org.uk

 

[Tony]

On Wed, 22 Sep 2004 12:03:40 GMT, "Jeff" <levy_jeff@hotmail.com>
wrote:

"Tony" <tony_roe@tpg.com.au> wrote in message
news:g2n2l01m4q4aj3ma1f1cbghmj2al6f66jc@4ax.com...
On 21 Sep 2004 06:16:28 -0700, Winfield Hill
Winfield_member@newsguy.com> wrote:

Harshana wrote...

Harshana wrote ...

I have a beam light of 160W running on 12V DC power. I want this to be
reduced to around 100W (reduce light). I made a switching cct with a
555, oscilating around 600~700Hz, and choping the supply with a C3055
transistor (just on and off driven by 555 followed by a D400).It
worked for about 5 minutes and went off. I found that 3055 has died
due to too much heat. Another solution is to have a 6V 90W bulb in
series with the beam. Can anyone suggest me a simple cct to do this.
Note that I can't have a huge heat sink.

I'm using a 555 which drvies D400, which drives the C3055. D400 and
C3055 are in darlington arrangement.

With enough transistors in parallel you could likely use a '3055
to PWM dim your light. This is the configuration you should use:

. ,---- +12
. |
. |/ '3055 (4 places)
. 555 ----| ,======+======+===O LAMP O=== +12
. (running |\V | | |
. from 12V) | |/ | |
. +---/\/\---| | |
. | |\V |/ |
. +---/\/\---- | ---| |
. | | |\V |/
. '---/\/\---- | ---- | ---|
. 27 3W | | |\V
. (3 places) | | |
. '======+======+===== 12V return

At full load, as the die temperature goes up, the Vce(sat) voltage
goes up slightly (see AoE page 1062), helping to equalize current
sharing between the three transistors.

Just one caution - the relatively low PWM frequency mentioned anywhere
will minimize switching losses, but watch for filament resonance,
which can see off an expensive lamp quite quickly due to the
considerable oscillatory forces from 12A of current modulation. In the
extreme case you could lower the frequency to as low as 100-120Hz (the
same as it sees when running on AC).

But the PWM is a square wave which is harsher then a sine wave.

Certainly; but no worse than an AC dimmer output. And if you don't
have a big enough supply of lamps to empirically find out the total
wide frequency range of their filament resonances (which I couldn't
detect, and could only guess were a problem when another lamp blew),
the harmonics in a 120Hz square wave are at least at a much lower
level than the full amplitude modulation that you get if the
fundamental hits a resonance mode. Anyway, that was my rationale when
I ran out of lamps, copped out and knocked the frequency down (with
successful results).

Tony (remove the "_" to reply by email)

 

[Kevin Aylward]

Guy Macon wrote:

Kevin Aylward <salesEXTRACT@anasoft.co.uk> says...

PLONK!

Please plonk me as well. You see, Rich Grise and I are such
good buddies that we like to go everywhere together.

If you don't killfile me I will take that as evidence that
you find my posts to be valuable and well worth reading.

Its only pity I feel for you. Seriously. I now understand what your deal
is. You have a chip on your shoulder due to not having a degree, but
work in a technical field. You jumped the gun here. You were unaware of
my background, and didn't know what you were up against. Some of us
egotistically braggarts are like that for a reason. You made on
assumption about my technical abilities based on a few lines of prose,
and being rather sensitive to being called a twat.

So sure, maybe you can "design" a few bits and bobs, but this has no
baring on the background knowledge one needs to have in order to do or
criticize serious original scientific work.

Kevin Aylward
salesEXTRACT@anasoft.co.uk
http://www.anasoft.co.uk
SuperSpice, a very affordable Mixed-Mode
Windows Simulator with Schematic Capture,
Waveform Display, FFT's and Filter Design.

 

[martin griffith]

On Wed, 22 Sep 2004 22:21:50 GMT, in sci.electronics.design you wrote:

Hi John,

I use AutoCAD.



Can we call you 'Mr. Moneybags' in future?


I remember AutoCAD came out with a small low-end program that cost, I
believe, under $100. It won't likely suffice to design a bridge or an
engine but it should be enough to create a meter.

Regards, Joerg

http://www.analogconsultants.com

I didnt get the OP, but a google for Meter Scale Software came up with
http://tonnesoftware.com/

and it seems to work




martin

Serious error.
All shortcuts have disappeared.
Screen. Mind. Both are blank.

 

[John Woodgate]

I read in sci.electronics.design that xray <notreally@hotmail.invalid>
wrote (in <gg45l0plhprckhqq3otebri80tnihm40s3@4ax.com&gt about '[OT]:
Ping Kevin Aylward - re your "scientific paper"', on Thu, 23 Sep 2004:

On Thu, 23 Sep 2004 08:29:29 +0100, John Woodgate
jmw@jmwa.demon.contraspam.yuk> wrote:

I read in sci.electronics.design that xray <notreally@hotmail.invalid
wrote (in <oqo4l01n0f279bf5901lc9dsu6j21ahk89@4ax.com&gt about '[OT]:
Ping Kevin Aylward - re your "scientific paper"', on Thu, 23 Sep 2004:
On Wed, 22 Sep 2004 13:38:17 GMT, "Kevin Aylward"
salesEXTRACT@anasoft.co.uk> wrote:

If god appears and produces a sun before me, I might reconsider my
decision,

If that happens you will either be vaporized out of any further
consciousness, or you will enter a new dimension that you don't seem to
believe in.

Or did you mean son?

San, sen, sin, son or sun; it doesn't matter. Appearing and producing
ANYTHING is both necessary and sufficient. (;-)

But the sun option is akin to, "I'll tell you but then I have to kill
you", isn't it? The sin option sounds ok, but it wouldn't be god
producing that, would it?

Depends which god you have in mind. Most people would think that Moloch,

for example, wasn't exactly a cuddly god.
--
Regards, John Woodgate, OOO - Own Opinions Only.
The good news is that nothing is compulsory.
The bad news is that everything is prohibited.
http://www.jmwa.demon.co.uk Also see http://www.isce.org.uk