OT: Bush Thugs Rough Up Grieving Mother of KIA

[Ken Smith]

In article <92r6LJQp5wUBFw7n@jmwa.demon.co.uk>,
John Woodgate <noone@yuk.yuk> wrote:

I read in sci.electronics.design that Ken Smith
kensmith@green.rahul.net> wrote (in <ciuodi$1h0$5@blue.rahul.net&gt
about '[OT]: The not-so-democratic Democrats', on Thu, 23 Sep 2004:
In article <CUbVDVEqBnUBFwPV@jmwa.demon.co.uk>,
John Woodgate <noone@yuk.yuk> wrote:
[...]
These dreadful spelling mistakes invalidate your whole claim to be a
sentient being. (;-)

Ah-ha! I've got you on the logic!

If I don't have free will, they could not be called mistakes since they
would, in that case, have been predetermined. Thus, you have just proven
that I do have free will.

Of course not. My OCR program makes similar mistakes, and I feel sure
that, at the price I paid for it, it does not have free will. (;-)

You are just showing your bias against non-organic life forms that sell
for low prices. Your OCR is protesting that you never feed it any poetry.

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[Ken Smith]

In article <2rgh66F19sntlU1@uni-berlin.de>,
Dirk Bruere at Neopax <dirk@neopax.com> wrote:

Ken Smith wrote:

In article <2rger4F192huoU1@uni-berlin.de>,
Dirk Bruere at Neopax <dirk@neopax.com> wrote:
[...]

Since she only wants it for word processing I'm going to install
Mandrake Linux
ftp://ftp.esat.net/pub/linux/mandrakelinux/official/iso/10.0/i586/
A freebie...

Plus Star Office and Mozilla


I like the fact that open-office runs both in linux and windows. The real
problem with it is in the drawing of charts in a spread sheet. They need
to burn the existing code and start again. It takes forever to make a
plot and is real trouble to work with once it has made one.

Their spread sheet also seems to be limited to 32K rows or something like
that.

I have never needed to chart anything, ever.

I often want to graph about a 1^6 points so a chart that could do it would
be very helpful. I have my own software for the job.

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[Joerg]

Hi Ken,

I have seen a few programs that only have the "about" option in the help
menu.


Then there are programs where help requires an Internet connection. No

connection - no help.

Regards, Joerg

http://www.analogconsultants.com

 

[Tim Wescott]

Michael Robbins wrote:

Thanks for your help.
snip

Since ballast resistors vary with current, is it possible that the
console is controlling the current which, in turn, is varying the
resistance?

Ah. It's an automotive alternator, with a field winding. See my other
post about alternators with permanent magnets, and think of what you
could if you varied k_t -- then think of the fact that k_t in a
controlled-field machine is proportional to the current in the field coil.

There's also a tach output, so they may be varying the field current
depending on speed, possibly to maintain a constant resistance
independent of speed.

--

Tim Wescott
Wescott Design Services
http://www.wescottdesign.com

 

[Dirk Bruere at Neopax]

John Woodgate wrote:

I read in sci.electronics.design that Dirk Bruere at Neopax
dirk@neopax.com> wrote (in <2rgd2pF19i39tU1@uni-berlin.de&gt about
'[OT]: Ping Kevin Aylward - re your "scientific paper"', on Thu, 23 Sep
2004:

I was actually referring to qualia.


Oh, sorry, I thought you were referring to colour perception. Silly me!
What colour are qualia, then?

Yours or mine?

--
Dirk

The Consensus:-
The political party for the new millenium
http://www.theconsensus.org

 

[Paul Burridge]

On Thu, 23 Sep 2004 12:54:12 +0100, Tony Williams
<tonyw@ledelec.demon.co.uk> wrote:

AN102 is obviously drawn from the original TA70-2 and seems
to be a 1997 update+rewrite in electronic form. The guts of
the information given in TA70-2 is still there, relatively
unchanged.

AN102! Yes, that's the one I've kept as being most informative of all
the web sources I came across. Essential reading for anyone designing
circuits with FETs.

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"What is now proved was once only imagin'd." - William Blake, 1793.

 

[Paul Hovnanian P.E.]

Go to http://www.fcc.gov/ and find the Contacts link. Tell them what
you want and I'm sure they'll be more than happy to send someone out to
help you.

--
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note to spammers: a Washington State resident
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WD-40 to make things go and duct tape to make them stop.

 

[Art]

Maybe just needs to get a good set of noise cancling headphones for his
boombox, then blast it to the max. Ringing in the ears will then cancle all
the reception out.
"Paul Hovnanian P.E." <Paul@Hovnanian.com> wrote in message
news:41534ED3.9E4AF074@Hovnanian.com...

Go to http://www.fcc.gov/ and find the Contacts link. Tell them what
you want and I'm sure they'll be more than happy to send someone out to
help you.

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note to spammers: a Washington State resident
------------------------------------------------------------------
The only tools one needs in life:
WD-40 to make things go and duct tape to make them stop.

 

[Dirk Bruere at Neopax]

Dave VanHorn wrote:

In my case, it's not so much a tone, as narrow white noise, around a
frequency.
It might be changing, but not that I notice.

Blood in veins/capilliaries? Can you hear the heartbeat?
BTW, is it possible to check whether a noise really exists or whether it's
'internal'?

--
Dirk

The Consensus:-
The political party for the new millenium
http://www.theconsensus.org

 

[xray]

On Thu, 23 Sep 2004 12:02:20 +0100, John Woodgate
<jmw@jmwa.demon.contraspam.yuk> wrote:

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'.

I did spot that as I was about to send (really I did) but thought I
would send for your report anyway. I thought the "both other rooms..."
part was a little bit odd too, but not glaring. Does that mean there
were two other rooms or is both refering to rooms and locations? If the
latter, I think, "both to other rooms and...", reads a bit better.

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

Yes.

 

[Clifford Heath]

Dirk Bruere at Neopax wrote:

What I have needed in the past is s/w that can do a really nice 2D plot,
with self scaling axes. Ideally, freeware source so I can drop it into
other apps.

gnuplot is the standard answer, but it is a little primitive.
Give it a whirl, but work through the examples first.

 

[Joerg]

Hi Enzino,

I'm new here

Welcome to the club!

The problem is that I need a reset every 1us, and the reset operation should
bo no longer than 0.2us.


You could send that kind of pulse through a toriod transformer to get

rid of unwanted loops etc.

I've tried with some analog switch, but these were too slow !
I've tried with the 2n3819 fet, but the control signal pass to the rest of
the integrator circuit, vanishing the results.
How can I design this circuit?
Which the correct component to perform the reset operation?


Check out the SD5400 series. Used to be made by Siliconix/Vishay but now

it seems it went to Calmos:

http://www.calmostech.com/SD5400.pdf

The non-SMT version would be the SD5000, but watch out when ordering
since there is a diode with the same name.

These are chips that cost just a few Dollars but contain four nicely
matched FETs. You can make differential switch gates with these and with
a transformer circuit you can achieve a charge injection close to zero.
Charge injection is what causes the control signal to penetrate into
your signal path. It is caused by the gate capacitance of the FET.
Basically what a differential approach does is inject the opposite
charge into the path at the same time the switch acts.

Regards, Joerg

http://www.analogconsultants.com

 

[Dirk Bruere at Neopax]

Clifford Heath wrote:

Dirk Bruere at Neopax wrote:

What I have needed in the past is s/w that can do a really nice 2D
plot, with self scaling axes. Ideally, freeware source so I can drop
it into other apps.


gnuplot is the standard answer, but it is a little primitive.
Give it a whirl, but work through the examples first.

I think I looked at that once.
However, I did develop a brilliant version of what I would like as a Windows app.
Unfortunately it was six months worth of work for a client and they own all the
rights. All self scaling with pan and zoom, neat index marks, labelling etc.
Lovely, even though I say it myself...

--
Dirk

The Consensus:-
The political party for the new millenium
http://www.theconsensus.org

 

[Ken Smith]

In article <nUOcTcU$mzUBFwri@jmwa.demon.co.uk>,
John Woodgate <noone@yuk.yuk> wrote:

I read in sci.electronics.design that Ken Smith
kensmith@green.rahul.net> wrote (in <civ79b$ci0$2@blue.rahul.net&gt
about '[OT]: The not-so-democratic Democrats', on Thu, 23 Sep 2004:

You are just showing your bias against non-organic life forms that sell
for low prices. Your OCR is protesting that you never feed it any
poetry.

Actually, I fed it some about three days ago. Chaucer. It gave it
indigestion.

What do you expect with a heavy meal like that.

Try some Frost.

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[Ken Smith]

In article <aeH4d.1657$nj.581@newssvr13.news.prodigy.com>,
Joerg <notthisjoergsch@removethispacbell.net> wrote:

Hi Ken,

I have seen a few programs that only have the "about" option in the help
menu.


Then there are programs where help requires an Internet connection. No
connection - no help.

I think that includes the ones for setting up internet connections.

It is really sick when clicking on help gets you a 10 minute download from
some slow server.

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[Mark Zenier]

In article <21ede509.0409211125.79fd643b@posting.google.com>,
Jim Meyer <jmeyer@nektonresearch.com> wrote:

Terry Pinnell <terrypinDELETE@THESEdial.pipex.com> wrote in message
news:<l3f0l09ttfeohdoo1tpk0p9hr1luin46mi@4ax.com>...
James Meyer <jmeyer@nowhere.net> wrote:


Someone who believes that a software manufacturer does *anything* to
benefit the *consumer* is in the same league as the female porn star who
believed the movie director when he told her that the babbon couldn't get her
pregnant.

So, you're still using DOS are you, Jim? <g

Yes, *a* DOS, CP/M. MS DOS is the devil's child. CP/M came with
a complete ASM listing. No surprises there and if you didn't like
anything it did, you changed it.

No it didn't, because the command interpeter and file system stuff was
written in PL/M. And nobody got to see that. (A friend of mine tried).

You did get the BIOS in ASM.

Mark Zenier mzenier@eskimo.com Washington State resident

 

[Ken Smith]

In article <1095987661.922719@excalibur.osa.com.au>,
Clifford Heath <no@spam.please.com> wrote:

Dirk Bruere at Neopax wrote:
What I have needed in the past is s/w that can do a really nice 2D plot,
with self scaling axes. Ideally, freeware source so I can drop it into
other apps.

gnuplot is the standard answer, but it is a little primitive.
Give it a whirl, but work through the examples first.

I've downloaded a copy on both the work machine and the home box. Now I
just have to make it do its thing. It has commands for plotting just
about everything known to man.


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[Jim Yanik]

John Woodgate <jmw@jmwa.demon.contraspam.yuk> wrote in
news:MR7GClPrzwUBFw$m@jmwa.demon.co.uk:

I read in sci.electronics.design that Jim Yanik <jyanik@abuse.gov> wrote
(in <Xns956D692EEACBEjyanikkuanet@204.117.192.21&gt about '[OT]: The not-
so-democratic Democrats', on Thu, 23 Sep 2004:

Perhaps that's due to the liberal bias most universities have these
days.

They always have had, since the first ones in the 14th century.

They inculcate their students with it.

Sure; that's what unis are FOR!

I thought they were to educate students in how to find the truth,not
install socialism.



--
Jim Yanik
jyanik-at-kua.net

 

[Rileyesi]

I just don't have time to get into Linux.

I saw a bumper sticker that craked me up. It said, "Geek by nature, Linux by
choice."

 

[Phil Hobbs]

Rene Tschaggelar wrote:

Yannick wrote:

I was thinking of using the OPA695 current feedback amplifier for my
transimpedance amp. This amplifier is capable of delivering much more
gain over a much larger bandwidth... I also see the equi current noise
at the input is much larger then with the FET input opamps like the
OPA657 but if the signal is large enough (lets assume you have an
avalanche photodiode) isn't it better to use such a current feedback
amp in stead of a voltage feedback?

The reason why i am considering this is because i never will be able
to measure 300-500Mhz with the voltage feedback amps. I want higher
frequencies because this will give me far better distance resolution
with phase measurement due shorter wavelength.



A repeatedly discourraged solution in s.e.d. :
In case of sufficient light (few mW average) take a
100 Ohm and dump the photocurrent from the reverse
biased photodiode into it.
Take this signal and go capacitive coupled through a
MAR6 (20dB) and a MAR3 (13dB). Both have 2GHz bandwidth
and are available for 1$ or so.

Rene

(Since I regard myself as one of the chief disparagers of suboptimal
photodiode front ends, here and elsewhere....)

This approach is fine if speed and low cost are the primary concerns, or if
there's lots of light, just as you say. I built something almost exactly
like this a month ago, except that I just dumped the photocurrent right into
a MAR-3 with nothing else on the input side. I used a Thor Labs FC-ferruled
InGaAs photodiode, and build the whole thing dead-bug fashion on a piece of
FR-4 set in to the lid of a die-cast aluminum box.

On the other hand, I'm putting in about 1 mW peak power from a
picosecond laser--the circuit was part of a new triggering setup. It
has a 200 ps rise time, which is pretty good for the price. (Rings like
a SOB, too, but all I care about is the first negative-going edge.)

Cheers,

Phil Hobbs