OT: Bush Thugs Rough Up Grieving Mother of KIA

[Mark Zenier]

In article <JYiXQDBJfaVBFwX8@jmwa.demon.co.uk>,
John Woodgate <noone@yuk.yuk> wrote:

I read in sci.electronics.design that Mark Zenier <mzenier@eskimo.com
wrote (in <cj46ta$906$1@eskinews.eskimo.com&gt about 'triumph and
tragedy, almost', on Fri, 24 Sep 2004:
I've run across more than one site that will send you a different
version of a web page depending on the identification that your browser
sends. And others where the script in the web page does a test, (after
you've downloaded it), as to what version is displayed.

You mean that I've been Czeched out and found unsatisfactory?

Not very Prague-matic of them.

(Seriously: I guess they could use the language preference configuration
the same way).

Mark Zenier mzenier@eskimo.com Washington State resident

 

[John Larkin]

On Sat, 25 Sep 2004 21:10:09 GMT, Rich Grise <null@example.net> wrote:

On Friday 24 September 2004 03:27 pm, John Larkin did deign to grace us with
the following:

On Fri, 24 Sep 2004 20:28:16 GMT, Rich Grise <null@example.net> wrote:


Can anybody in the country finish this sentence:

The Goal of the American Mission in Iraq is to:

Establish a Turkish-like secular democracy.

Has anybody asked the folks in Iraq if that's what they want?

The only way to ask is to have an election.

John

 

[Iwo Mergler]

Leroy Tanner wrote:

Hello newsreaders,

For a while I have been confronted with the following task which I find
quite challenging but unfortuantely didn't manage to solve it, yet.
What I want to do is to use 2-4 FPGAs (Xilinx Virtex 2 Pro) together on one
printed circuit board (PCB). They are used to process a large amount of
incoming serial data (data rates of several GHz's). My idea is to handle
that data parallel by the 2-4 FPGAs. But now there arises the problem how to
adequately split the data and how to synchronize the FPGAs among one
another, in particular?
Is it possible or first of all a realistic idea to synchronize multiple
FPGAs in the GHz range? How can this be done without much protocoll
overhead? I would like to do it without applying an extra transfer protocoll
among the FPGAs just for that purpose! Up to this date I didn't find a
proper solution, yet.
Maybe someone can give me a hint? Any ideas how to solve that problem?

Regards, Leroy Tanner

Hi Leroy,

you'll need to provide a little more information.
Where is the data comming from? In what format?
GHz is a measure of frequency, not data rate.

Current FPGAs run at up to about 500MHz system clock
rates. They tend to have LVDS I/O which reach beyond
10GBit/s per channel in the newest devices.

If you mean LVDS data, you could use one FPGA to split
the stream and then distribute it to the other FPGAs.

Kind regards,

Iwo

 

[Terry Given]

Frithiof Andreas Jensen wrote:

"John Larkin" <jjlarkin@highlandSNIPtechTHISnologyPLEASE.com> wrote in
message news:tt4sk0pcmk0vsbgvvpl7ah1qg3j3njloef@4ax.com...


If they didn't think it was reliable at 1200 volts, they wouldn't rate
it such. Discretes usually have lots of margin.

ROTFLMAO!

lies, damn lies, and things salesmen put in brochures. cf rating Rdson
at 25V Tj.....or TO220 packages with 180W power ratings (and 1C/W Rthetajc)

It is rare for ANY manufacturer to tell the whole awful truth. Normally
they display only favourable characteristics, in whatever light makes
them look best, regardless of how the device will actually be used.

Depends on who "they" are - the brochurepeople; i.e. Sales clearly, would.
As confirmed by the availablity of 1200V devices in TO220 packages!!

However, There is nothing wrong with sticking two 800V devices in series -
and supply the gate of the upper device with a resistive voltage divider
backed up with capacitors to supply the gate current. The drive is via the
lower device. A'la Cascode.

IGBT's have a "buglet" in that it is possible to make them latch-up on a
rapid overcurrent, which can happen easily in an HV supply, making is safer
to series-connect MOSFET's.

why not use a 4kV IGBT? (actually, because the "little" ones tend to be
about 1,000 amps

1700V IGBTs are as common as all hell.

a 1200V IGBT is good in a switching app up to about 900Vdc, depending on
stray inductance and dI/dt. Many IGBT-based products self-destruct when
turning off under fault conditions, as dI/dt is often about 10x larger
than normal - although a gatedrive that uses a much larger Roff under
fault (ie desat) conditions helps a LOT (Semikron do this in their gate
driver modules). In a linear app, dI/dt should be a hell of a lot lower,
so you ought to be able to push it well over 1kV, but dont forget fault
scenarios - shorts followed by opens etc.

My tech once built me a 0-400V linear supply that ran from 900Vdc using
a 1200V 600A IGBT - for doing splat tests on very large chokes (it
allowed us to suck almost all the energy out of the HVDC bus caps whilst
supplying constant voltage across the DUT). It worked quite well, BUT
igbts are designed for switching rapidly, so can be prone to oscillation
when used in a linear mode.


cheers
Terry

 

[Fred Bloggs]

Don Pearce wrote:

On Fri, 24 Sep 2004 12:56:23 GMT, Fred Bloggs <nospam@nospam.com
wrote:



Tom Seim wrote:

CNN survey: Bush widens lead in Electoral College
Kerry holds tenuous leads in six key states

The so-called CNN "survey" is NOT *scientific* and it is important to
understand this- it is not a quantifiable scientific survey of any kind-
it is a "hunch"-and the coincidence of agreement with their political
support makes this a FRAUDULENT excuse for a news report far in excess
of the fabricated CBS scandal. CNN CONCEALS this fact from the
inexperienced reader by quickly glossing over their source data by
citing unspecified polls, interviews with campaign officials- quoting
out of context, and interviews with un-named so-called political
analysts. Quite a lot HAND WAVING here! This is a DISGRACE to American
JOURNALISM.



Quite right - it is simply a summary of the results of several
different scientific surveys conducted recently (unless you consider
companies like Gallup unscientific, of course). How very unlike the
professional, impartial poll of a nationwide random selection of some
Jewish people, that came to a different (and of course far more
reliable!) conclusion.

WHAT "DIFFERENT" CONCLUSION IS THAT, STUPID?!! The AJC survey is a poll
of US Jews, the fraudulent CNN survey is story about the electoral
college vote outcome. If you at least demonstrate some intelligence in
your trolls that would be one thing-BUT NOW YOU COME ACROSS AS THE
IGNORANT TROLL THAT YOU ARE- damned laughable jackass "pimp" for the
sleaze ball UK defense industry.

 

[Joe Bloggs]

"Paul Burke" <paul@scazon.com> wrote in message
news:2rd01kF18kqreU1@uni-berlin.de...

Joe Bloggs wrote:

My BT broadband keeps freezing- it's still on line, as I can see because
BT keep probing me and ZoneAlarm blocks them.


What exactly is ZoneAlarm blocking and how do you know it's BT?


I don't - it says under Source DNS xx.xxx.xxx.in-addr.btopenworld.com.

Just another PC nearby, nothing to worry about, it may be that the owner is
unaware it has malware on it which is probing other computers. Just because
a computer can probe you doesn't mean it can infect your PC with anything.

You'll gather I know less about this than some peopledo about when it's
time to drop a thread.


But all outgoing
connections don't work, even ping. Usually lasts about 3 minutes before
reaching this state.


Have you changed any settings in ZoneAlarm?

only to allow Mozilla etc. to use the web, and to let the LAN work.

What version?

3.1.395

Have you installed all critical updates from
http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com

I did an update some time ago, don't know if it's bang up to date.

I'd check if I were you.

If you have then turn off ZoneAlarm temporarily and check whether the
problem is still present.


I'm scared to do that!!!

In that case it would probably be instructive to scan yourself from outside
with and without ZoneAlarm.
http://www.google.co.uk/search?h&q=%22security+scan%22

Which virus scanner are you using and is it up to date?

Joe

Paul Burke

 

[John Woodgate]

I read in sci.electronics.design that colin
<no.spam.for.me@ntlworld.com> wrote (in <xPX5d.145$Na5.8@newsfe2-gui.ntl
i.net&gt about 'OPA695 current feedback amplifier', on Mon, 27 Sep 2004:

Some of the MMICs are no more than 2 transistors with a few bias
resistors.

Quite right. The difference is that they work, unlike other similar
combinations of two hot transistors and some bias resistors.
--
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

 

I know a few of the widely-feared "religious fundamentalists" - some
Christian, some Jewish, one Mormon family, one Muslim family.

Mormons are Christians

John

 

[Phil Hobbs]

John Woodgate wrote:

You could make such a first-order RC filter in several ways, but what
you have done is quite OK.

I wonder if you are sure that your component values are what you think
they are. The capacitor should not cause such a large error unless it's
damaged; you could try another one, perhaps. What sort of capacitor is
it? What is the tolerance on its value?

Another possibility is that your resistors are colour-coded and you have
mistaken the colours. If you are familiar with 4-band coding (which can
have up to six bands!) while you have five-band coded parts, it's easy
to make a mistake. Can you measure the resistor chain? You are looking
for a 2+:1 difference in value, so it should not be difficult to detect.

Just to paint the lily: If the components check out right, the problem
is somewhere in the sound card or (most likely) the software. In
science, experiments are used to test theories. In engineering, when a
theory is as well established as that of RC lowpass filters, you use the
theory to test the experiment.

Cheers,

Phil Hobbs

 

[Dave VanHorn]

Battery capacity metering is not anywhere near as simple as it appears at
first glance.
TI has some offerings that will help.

You can't simply relate voltage to usable capacity remaining, even when the
load is a simple resistor. When the load is dynamic, it's worse.

--
KC6ETE Dave's Engineering Page, www.dvanhorn.org
Microcontroller Consultant, specializing in Atmel AVR

 

[John Woodgate]

I read in sci.electronics.design that uvcceet@juno.com wrote (in
<41586804$1$woehfu$mr2ice@giganews.aros.net&gt about '[OT]: The not-so-
democratic Democrats', on Mon, 27 Sep 2004:

I know a few of the widely-feared "religious fundamentalists" - some
Christian, some Jewish, one Mormon family, one Muslim family.

Mormons are Christians

Sort of. VERY 'sort of'.

--
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

 

[Walter Harley]

"John Woodgate" <jmw@jmwa.demon.contraspam.yuk> wrote in message
news:7eN7h4B3j8VBFwwR@jmwa.demon.co.uk...

What do you suggest I claim to have invented in, say, 1956?

The internet.

 

[Rolavine]

From: Fred Bloggs nospam@nospam.com

Wouldn't they be more inclined to vote for the co-Presidents Rumsfeld
and Wolfowitz then?

I don't think Runsfeld is Jewish?
I tried to find out but there are a lot of nonreputable sites that say he is.

Rocky

 

[Clarence]

"Colin Dawson" <nospam@cjdawson.com> wrote in message
news:cj9ks2$f2$1@hercules.btinternet.com...

Hi All


I've never come across a thread with so many misleading diversions! The
OP doesn't need to know the capacity. He needs to know when the
*voltage* is too low to work his equipment reliably. He has a suitable
voltmeter, but it gives readings he doesn't understand, almost certainly
because of cable resistance.

Having read all the comments on this thread (and slept on it). I think that
the comment above just about sums it up. I was wanting something that
works like the battery meter on a mobile phone. That idea probably is the
best one that I can come up with, especially since they don't work too well
either. (my phone shows a full battery one minute then shuts off with a
dead battery the next.

I suppose that after all the discussion here, the best solution is to do
nothing. The voltmeter circuit does work perfectly as per it's original
design. All I wanted to do was smooth out the glitches, but it seems that
my expectations are too ambitious. Oh well. I can live with it as it is.

I tried to find something which indicated where the voltmeter was connected.
But I either missed it or it wasn't mentioned.

The Volt meter must be connected directly to the battery terminals to be a
reasonable indication of charge. Better would be to read the specific gravity
of the electrolyte, but I suspect that is too cumbersome.

If load pulsing is creating a problem, how about putting some really large
capacitors across the input to the load (at the load end of the cable) to
provide part of the surge current. That would smooth the current flow to some
degree.

Surplus Mass storage caps are available. I have about 600,000uF on one supply
in my lab. That supply pulls about 50 amperes for 200ms.

Just a suggestion. I don't know what to say about the indication that hasn't
already been said.

 

[Clarence]

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"Mark Fergerson" <nunya@biz.ness> wrote in message
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Clarence wrote:
"Kevin Aylward" <salesEXTRACT@anasoft.co.uk> wrote in message
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Clarence wrote:

"Mark Fergerson" <nunya@biz.ness> wrote in message
news:Zik4d.288182$Lj.82906@fed1read03...

Clarence wrote:

I made an assumption (about Kevin's possible analogization) and
deduced from there. If you choose to take offense at that on others'
behalf, go right ahead; I just don't care.

I should have known, your cut from the same cloth, you think you can
demand that others much jump through your hoop.
I expressed an opinion, and you object to any but your own.

No, you mean that you object to any but your own. Tyhat why you are
unable to rtespond to any of the valid point Mark made.

Well..... in the words
of someone on this NG "I just don't care."

Mark asked you to validate your claims. Obviously, this is beyond you.
It is you who are making the claims, so be prepared to support them or
retract them go away.

So this guy Fergy is YOUR surrogate. Or your brother.

I'm what?

You appear to have somehow assumed from my posts that I accept all of
Kev's stuff uncritically. This is, in fact, not the case.

The actual case is that I object to unscientific criticisms of
attempts to do science. I still have not seen any scientific criticisms
from you.

He said he made an assumption

That's correct.

which I found to be invalid.

You did? How so? Do you have a problem with deductive logic? Odd that
Kev found my assumption to be valid.

You put him up to it.

No, _I_ put me up to it. You're starting to sound like you think the
"get the nigger" meme has been applied to you.

This is not (or rather, ought not to be) a matter of choosing sides.

I made no "claims" I expressed MY opinions, it is not necessary to do more
than
acknowledge those opines are mine. That was implicit in the statement.
It is stated clearly in the original post.

Opinions are not scientific (though they may be analyzed and
expressed in analytic terms); what, if any, non-opinion-based criticisms
do you have?

But like yourself, he has no standing to make demands.

"No standing"? What standing do you claim, then?

Mark L. Fergerson

 

[John Woodgate]

I read in sci.electronics.design that Rolavine <rolavine@aol.com> wrote
(in <20040927160748.03437.00000730@mb-m27.aol.com&gt about 'OT: Kerry Has
45 Pt Lead Among US Jews', on Mon, 27 Sep 2004:

From: Fred Bloggs nospam@nospam.com

Wouldn't they be more inclined to vote for the co-Presidents Rumsfeld
and Wolfowitz then?


I don't think Runsfeld is Jewish?
I tried to find out but there are a lot of nonreputable sites that say he is.

There's Jewish and Jewish. He's not 'really' Jewish unless his mother

was, and her mother and ....
--
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

 

In <WWUwz6LcuGWBFwtu@jmwa.demon.co.uk>, on 09/27/04 at 08:35 PM,
John Woodgate <jmw@jmwa.demon.contraspam.yuk> said:

I read in sci.electronics.design that uvcceet@juno.com wrote (in
41586804$1$woehfu$mr2ice@giganews.aros.net&gt about '[OT]: The not-so-
democratic Democrats', on Mon, 27 Sep 2004:

I know a few of the widely-feared "religious fundamentalists" - some
Christian, some Jewish, one Mormon family, one Muslim family.

Mormons are Christians

Sort of. VERY 'sort of'.

No. They are Christians exactly, not sort of.

 

[Rolavine]

From: Fred Bloggs nospam@nospam.com

Excuse me? The daughters were given a primetime slot during the
Republican National Convention- it backfired, almost every commentator
expressed disgust with their bratty, airhead, rich kid demeanor- and
concluded it was a mistake to put them on. The telling aspect of this is
that George and Laura are so damned dumb they have no clue- so the
character of the children does figure into the equation.

Bush's girls were the comic relief that convention needed and I thought they

were great!

I feel Bush is the worst President this country has ever had. If we can't
persuade our opponents that he is a total failure on all fronts, that his admin
is corrupt, and that he and his party are turning this country into a future
3rd world one, despite the vast weight of facts and evidence that supports
these contentions, then of what use is bringing in his daughters. The facts
support the removal of the failure Bush, lets stick to them.

On Iraq

1. Where are WMD?

2.Where was imminent Threat?

3. Where are the tie ins between 9/11 and Iraq you said existed.

4. Bush says he would do the same war even if he knew about no WMD? This is
Bush admitting that WMD had little to do with the war.

5. Why did you do nothing about Abu Ghraib even though your admin knew about if
for about a year before the story broke? Do you really expect us to believe
that Lindie England the W. Virgina Guardswomen decided that 'be all that you
can be' was a chance to develop her skills as a dominatrix?
Where were the people in charge of this prison? What the hell were you really
up too? These pictures and this story angered our opponents and led to the
deaths of many of our troops, who is responsible?

on corruption

6.You and your party passed a partisan medicare drug reform bill that does not
allow the govt. to dicker over the price of drugs with the makers? This is
costing the tax payers an extra 150 billion! The filp side of this one is
asking Bush supporters if they squeel like pigs when they are bent over!

7. Why are the children of prominant Republicans running Iraqi rebuilding funds
when they have no experience and are screwing up costing the lives of our
troops? Who is responsible for this?

8. Who did Cheney meet with during the energy task force and what was agreed to
there?

9. Who outed that CIA Agent who's husband was saying that Saddam didn't have
any WMD?

On your broken promises

10. Where is the bipartisan govt. you promised us?

11.. Where are the 7 million new jobs you promised us?

12. Where is the big middle class tax cut you promised us?

13. Where is the funding for no child left behind?

on Terror

14. What are we doing in Iraq?

15. Why are we making more terrorists?

16. Why are we making Afganistan the Bastard Child?

And I could go on an on. We don't need the Daughters, or Laura, or even Neil!.

This Pres has been a total failure, the only magic he has is in his supporters,
and I don't claim to understand them. I can only work with facts, and the facts
are BUSH IS A FAILURE!

Rocky

 

[Rolavine]

From: John Larkin

I don't have a side. I do meet real people, as opposed to forming my
opinions from the media.

Larkin your supporting Bush, you do it in every post you make, stop pretending!

Rocky

 

[Rolavine]

From: John Woodgate

It seems to be accepted that most of the terrorists are not Iraquis.

Really, where? The news I got it that this is mostly domestic Iraqi's
unemployed, impoverished, and hopeless for a year and a half and mad as hell.
Iraq is really a perfect fishbowl for making terrorists and the Bush Admin is
directly to blame for that. They talk about elections, hell lets make some
jobs, sheesh!

Rocky