OT: Bush Thugs Rough Up Grieving Mother of KIA

[Frithiof Andreas Jensen]

"Jim Thompson" <thegreatone@example.com> wrote in message
news:kbe0l01mv55lfap9l68o5q5i5878829opu@4ax.com...

I think you incorrectly blame NAV. Probably Pinnell didn't
turn-off/exit NAV before doing the install.

That would Certainly be a valid reason for trouble - I experienced that NAV
routinely corrupts Java too, causing the home bank to fail in wierd ways!

I had two PeeCee's wiped by a virus in spite of wasting good money on this
product - which actually was not all that surprising since I found that many
parts of the package, notably the "Internet Security" firewall simply did
not work as advertised; or at all "Parential Control" could not be turned
off after it was installed f.ex..

Even the virus checker was broken: it would litter the harddrive with
zero-byte files until all disk space was consumed (probably so that there
would be no room for a virus ;-)

Symantec is using a once good name as a brand for a shoddy product.

 

[John Woodgate]

I read in sci.electronics.design that uvcceet@juno.com wrote (in
<4158995c$1$woehfu$mr2ice@giganews.aros.net&gt about '[OT]: The not-so-
democratic Democrats', on Mon, 27 Sep 2004:

He said "Mormons
are not Christians,"

No I did NOT. And that's my last word on the subject.
--
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

 

[Fred Bloggs]

Rolavine wrote:

From: John Woodgate
I read in sci.electronics.design that Rolavine <rolavine@aol.com> wrote


not-so-democratic Democrats', on Mon, 27 Sep 2004:

From: John Woodgate

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

Really, where?

Independent academic Iraq experts in the British media.


Do you have some cite for this? I'm looking now but can't seem to find any
stats. From the news stories I've heard I would suspect most are domestic
Iraqis. The followers of Sadr are, and the fighting in Fallujah seemed to be
all Iraqi. The fighting in the sadr neighborhood in Baghdad seems domestic too.

I think it should be clear by now, to even the dimmest wit, that every
single one of these so-called Iraqi political analysts living in the
west is a manipulative liar. Many of these people are refugees and/or
dissidents and they have conspired in every imaginable to way to induce
an American invasion for revenge and other ulterior motives. These are
the scum who had Rumsfeld and Wolfowitz convinced that the Iraqis would
receive our occupation by "dancing in the streets"- the con job was so
complete that Rumsfeld's initial personal estimate of required US troop
strength was a mere 45,000. This Chalabi is a case in point- and he
finally admitted that getting the US to overthrow Hussein was his main
objective, and if that meant fabricating false surveys of Iraq's
political climate or witnesses to non-existent WMD factories, then that
is what he would do.

 

[John Woodgate]

I read in sci.electronics.design that Fred Bloggs <nospam@nospam.com>
wrote (in <4158F490.1080908@nospam.com&gt about '[OT]: The not-so-
democratic Democrats', on Tue, 28 Sep 2004:

every
single one of these so-called Iraqi political analysts living in the
west is a manipulative liar

I didn't mean Iraquis, I meant Western academics. I agree that the
Iraquis who appear in the Western media have agendas that are often not
disclosed.
--
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

 

[Fred Bloggs]

John Woodgate wrote:

I read in sci.electronics.design that Fred Bloggs <nospam@nospam.com
wrote (in <4158F490.1080908@nospam.com&gt about '[OT]: The not-so-
democratic Democrats', on Tue, 28 Sep 2004:

every
single one of these so-called Iraqi political analysts living in the
west is a manipulative liar


I didn't mean Iraquis, I meant Western academics. I agree that the
Iraquis who appear in the Western media have agendas that are often not
disclosed.

Well- the US military knows what's what here- they have the names of
many of the insurgent leaders. They are hunting for them. They have said
the ratio is approximately 4:1 Iraqi: other.

 

[Clarence]

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

I read in sci.electronics.design that Mike Monett <no@spam.com> wrote
(in <4157159D.3F89@spam.com&gt about 'Patents, Prior Art, Publication and
Usenet.', on Sun, 26 Sep 2004:

Would you trust me if I showed you a sealed envelope with a date and
time stamp and I told you I mailed it to myself a year ago?

Neither would a jury

That's why I specified 'Recorded delivery'. The delivery is recorded
quite independently of the sender, by the Post Office. The envelope
carries a label with a number which can be used to retrieve the record.
I might have said, 'Stick the label over the flaps of the envelope so
that it can't be opened without destroying the label'.
--

Another way to establish the date is to take the written description of the
product to the county recorders office and have it placed in the public record
as documented on this date. There is no one who can argue that you did not
record the work then, and it can be recovered by anyone with the book and page
number from the recorders office with the date clearly shown.
A recording date can not be faked nor can it be altered.

 

[Jonathan Kirwan]

On 23 Sep 2004 22:28:30 -0700, q_q_anonymous@yahoo.co.uk (Anon) wrote:

I want to spend a few months studying computer architecture, starting
with the electronics.

The knowledge that i'm starting with, is that I just know logic gates
(on paper), i've done some karnough maps before, and I have designed a
full adder in VHDL using XiLinx. So my knowledge is small, and I have
no experience whatsoever. The only circuit i've ever made is
electricity not electronics - 2 wires a battery and a light bulb. I'd
like to change that during a couple of months self-study.

I've got 2 basic electronics books, one by Wakerly another by Gajski

Between them they cover latches, Adders, Flip flops, registers,
counters, ram, stacks, cmos, vhdl, and a little bit on processor
design- risc and cisc.

The thing is though
a)it all looks very theoretical, like VHDL. Is there any kit I could
get where I could try these things practically?
b)it's not computer centric at all, so doesn't build up to chipsets,
which is what i'm interested in. I don't really know which computer
architecture book to get, or if i would immediately be ready for
detailed manufacturer's documentation / white papers.

Any advice/methods are appreciated

I've read the other responses and it's still a little hard to gather where you
want to go. A "few months" isn't very long, by the way. Perhaps enough time to
assimilate one good book.

You may consider the following thoughts I have:

(1) There is a two-book series on computer chips and architecture, which was
pretty well written for someone getting started, I think. Don Lancaster is the
author and the two book set is called "Micro Cookbook," vol 1 is Fundamentals
and vol 2 is Machine Language Programming. This book set refers to rather old
chips by today's standards, but the basic ideas remain pretty well over time
(with some modifications.) And I believe it is written well for someone trying
to understand some of the details of the elements found in computers. Vol 2 may
not be nearly as worthwhile as Vol 1, though.

(2) Another book I really like, if you are considering learning almost all of
the various details of how a computer CPU works inside, then the "Bebop BYTES
Back -- An Unconventional Guide to Computers" is excellent. There is some
software to go along with it, but the book stands alone quite well. This is
unlike much more dry books such as Patterson and Hennessy's "Computer
Organization & Design," for example. Bebop BYTES Back speaks to a newbee very,
very well, I think, yet gets the details down adequately for you to sit down and
consider writing VHDL code. Almost, anyway.

(3) If you are into VHDL, a book I like for starters (though it does nothing to
help you understand floorplanning in any detail) is Smith's "HDL Chip Design."
He provides opposing pages documenting both VHDL and Verlog for the same
systems, covers things from the ground up for folks just trying to fathom the
syntax and details of expression, and covers many practical elements, including
the sequential logic Booth multiplier, for example. A book I learned on (I've
still a whole lot to learn, of course.)

(4) If you are interested in just getting started writing in assembler (x86?),
then you might go to Randy Hyde's site at http://webster.cs.ucr.edu/ and get his
"Art of Assembly" books (there is one for DOS, one for Windows, etc.) and tools.
Or go to my site at http://users.easystreet.com/jkirwan/new/x86lrn.html or any
number of other good sites to get the tools, documentation, etc., to just get
going on it.

Best of luck,
Jon

 

[Jonathan Kirwan]

On Tue, 28 Sep 2004 06:09:47 GMT, Jonathan Kirwan <jkirwan@easystreet.com>
wrote:

Verlog

Uh, verilog. Sorry.

Jon

 

[Kevin Aylward]

Guy Macon wrote:

Clarence <no@No.com> says...

I took it to a friend, he passed it to his neighbor who teacher
Physics at the university. His comment was that it was "really a
very funny parody" but I had decided not to pass it on until you
shot off your mouth.

I have nothing more to add. He didn't comment further. He did say
he might post the printout as an example of what not to do for his
graduate students.

Over in sci.physics the word "crackpot" has been used to describe
this paper.

Hearsay, and again, *if* true, like being called a crackpot by the
crackpots the frequent that group, don't exactly cause me much concern.

Can you actually produce, an argument of your own, or are you so empty
headed that you can only regurgitate other equally vacuous ratings.

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.

 

[Winfield Hill]

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.


--
Thanks,
- Win

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

 

[Kevin Aylward]

Guy Macon wrote:

Rich Grise <null@example.net> says...

Mike did deign to grace us with the following:

Further, this incredibly low probability is purported to abruptly
change to a vastly larger probability upon receipt of a degree.

The reason for that is simplicity itself. It's just the good ol' boy
club pulling up the drawbridge.

Only in acadamia. In industry, most CEOs are self-educated and
have no problem hiring qualified physics experts who lack degrees.

Pull the other one. This is an oxymoron. There are no physics experts
without degrees. Your claim is vacuous. Like, maybe a few CEOs might
well hire someone to do elementary physics related tasks, but I doubt if
any have "no problem" with hiring unqualified physicists. maybe
electronic "engineers", but physicists doing real physics, no way.

A degree is a Good Thing, but only if the person who gets the degree
manages to learn something while getting it.

Indeed.

Crackpot theories such
as "Hiesenberg was wrong" aren't something you learn in school.

Hiesenberg was mistaken. I have gaven you peer reviewed and published
evidenced by several PhDs experts in quantum mechanics. Even Einstein
was mistaken on many things.

You
have to develop kookiness on that level on your own.

You still way out of your depth dude. Why you persist is amazing.

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.

 

[Kevin Aylward]

Mike wrote:

On Thu, 23 Sep 2004 13:27:51 GMT, Kevin Aylward wrote:

John Woodgate wrote:
I read in sci.electronics.design that Kevin Aylward
salesEXTRACT@anasoft.co.uk> wrote (in
qaw4d.64767$U04.25646@fe1.news.b lueyonder.co.uk&gt about 'Ping
Kevin Aylward - re GUY MACON', on Thu, 23 Sep 2004:

Although not having a degree by itself, is not a measure of worth,

Right.
I
would suggest than those here with degrees, fully understand that
such a background as this, makes the candidate have no realistic
chance of making any worthwhile contribution or comments on
technical physics matters.

Not necessarily.

Not necessarily, but 0.00000000001% of a chance.

With these odds, even if every person on Earth had failed to obtain a
degree, the odds of one single person satisfying the conditions are
less than 1 in 1000.

I am obviously addressing a point, qualitatively. The actual probability
is of course, unknown.

In physics, as I said, there is essentially zero chance of anyone having
a good handle of the subject without going through a formal course. Its
just way to technical. For other arty subjects, this may well not be the
case.

Further, this incredibly low probability is purported to abruptly
change to a vastly larger probability upon receipt of a degree.

Only by those without degrees

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.

 

[Leon Heller]

"Leon Heller" <leon_heller@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:4153f6f4$0$20249$cc9e4d1f@news-text.dial.pipex.com...

"Paul Burridge" <pb@notthisbit.osiris1.co.uk> wrote in message
news:1bs7l05a772ficlr2qo1tk518h9gvfonfe@4ax.com...
On Fri, 24 Sep 2004 10:31:16 +0100, "Leon Heller"
leon_heller@hotmail.com> wrote:

I don't think the waveform matters all that much. The inductor is charged
up
whilst the input to the driver MOSFET is high, and then discharged into
the
LEDs when the input goes low and the MOSFET turns off. I changed the 1 mH
inductor to 330 uH, adjusted the pulse frequency and it worked, producing
a
quite blinding flash (about 200 mA through the LEDs). This was just in
time
for my client to demonstrate a working prototype to his customer today.


What's the intended application for this, Leon?

LED flashing beacon. There's a microcontroller in it as well, generating
the pulses, and interfacing some switches.

I've just heard that the customer was very impressed with the brightness of
the beacon, the sound levels we are achieving and the power consumption,
which is gratifying. There are some problems with high-frequency noise and
current surges getting back into the supply, which we have to address (they
use the supply for signalling).

Leon

 

[Don Pearce]

On Tue, 21 Sep 2004 16:14:17 +0100, Paul Burridge
<pb@notthisbit.osiris1.co.uk> wrote:

On Tue, 21 Sep 2004 15:14:43 +0100, John Woodgate
jmw@jmwa.demon.contraspam.yuk> wrote:

But whatever it is that result in his missing (or choosing to ignore,
but I think he misses a lot as well) obvious spelling and other errors
in his writing, it IS hindering his efforts to disseminate his
philosophy. I don't really think he wrote all those papers just to
publicise SuperSpice: he does want to spread his ideas. And who shall
say him nay?

He himself with his inability to write properly, of course!
So far as Kevin's motivations are concerned, he has admitted himself
that they are totally selfish and that there's no such thing as
genuine altruism. He freely admits there is a selfish motive behind
everything he posts. Not very pleasant, but full marks for honesty, I
guess. :-|

But he doesn't admit these things freely - he himself tells us that he
has no choice in this or any other matter.

Imagine having to live inside his head - sad, sad, sad.

d
Pearce Consulting
http://www.pearce.uk.com

 

[Stefan Heinzmann]

Anon wrote:

I want to spend a few months studying computer architecture, starting
with the electronics.

The knowledge that i'm starting with, is that I just know logic gates
(on paper), i've done some karnough maps before, and I have designed a
full adder in VHDL using XiLinx. So my knowledge is small, and I have
no experience whatsoever. The only circuit i've ever made is
electricity not electronics - 2 wires a battery and a light bulb. I'd
like to change that during a couple of months self-study.

I've got 2 basic electronics books, one by Wakerly another by Gajski

Between them they cover latches, Adders, Flip flops, registers,
counters, ram, stacks, cmos, vhdl, and a little bit on processor
design- risc and cisc.

The thing is though
a)it all looks very theoretical, like VHDL. Is there any kit I could
get where I could try these things practically?
b)it's not computer centric at all, so doesn't build up to chipsets,
which is what i'm interested in. I don't really know which computer
architecture book to get, or if i would immediately be ready for
detailed manufacturer's documentation / white papers.

It looks as if you're looking for a prototyping board with some Xilinx
FPGA on it. You can then implement the circuits you've designed in
practice. There are a number of such boards in existence. You'll want
one with a large enough FPGA so that you can fit in entire processors.

You may want to look at http://www.opencores.org for both board designs
and for circuit designs that you can peruse. For hardware, have a look
at their OCRP-1 board.

I don't know what you mean when you say you want to build up chipsets.
Do you mean chipsets for PC mainboards? That's unreasonable given that
you want to spend a few months only. PLLs are also a fairly deep matter.

If you want to get more into using the soldering iron, it might be
better to assemble a computer board out of separate chips, using
separate CPU, memory, I/O chips, but that's fairly outdated stuff. It
has its educational value, however. The Z80 family chips and the 65xx
family chips are still widely available, and a lot of books have been
written about them, though many are out of print now.

--
Cheers
Stefan

 

[bruce varley]

Alex2k <alex2k@libero.it> wrote in message
news:3496d013.0409271000.179e66a6@posting.google.com...

Hi,

For the last few days I've been trying to understand why the first
order active low pass filter that I designed does not work.

basically, from butterworth I came up with the following expression
for fc (cutoff frequency at -3db):

fc=1/(2pi*RC)

Since I want the cutoff frequency to be 1000Hz, I calcualted the
following values for R and C: R=7.234Kohm C=22nF.

I used three resistors that added up give a resistance close to
7.234kohm.

Then I built the following scheme on a universal pcb:

(input)----/\/\/-------+|\
| | \
_ | \
_ | \-------------(output)
| / |
| | / |
(gnd)-------------- - -/ |
| | |
| |----------|
|-------------------------(gnd)

sorry for the poor ascii drwaing.

In other words I put the resistor(s) along the input of the filter,
the capacitor between the input and the ground (after the resistors),
then I connected the resistors to the + input of the TL 071. I
connected the - input of the operational ciruit to its output. From
the output I get the output of the filter. I power the whole
operational amp. with a +12,0,-12 current.

I tried testing the filter using my soundcard and a program called:
DWL TMS-1. I obtained a plot that is the one expected for a 1st order
filter. However, the curve goes through the -3db line when the
frequency is ~2110Hz. This is a value that is quite far away from the
expected 1000Hz. The obtianed curve is shifted on the x axis.

******
Since there's been a fair amount of comment from posters that your filter
design and implementation seems to be OK,
are you sure the sound card is delivering the correct frequency? And is it a
sine wave?

If you program it for 440 Hz, then it should deliver A above 'middle C' if
you have a musical instrument of known pitch to check it against.
******

So, I thought that the soundcard was introducing some capatitance or
resistance. I promptly put another operationa amp. in front of the
filter cell (emitter follower configuration....gain: 1). I got the
exact same result: fc=~2110Hz.

I thought that the PCB might have been the cause of my problems (extra
capacities maybe?) so I bulit the whole circuit in air (no PCB). This
time fc was equal to ~2700Hz.

what can be causing the problem? am I possibly using a wrong equation?
Should I add extra components? if yes, how would you improve the
ciruit in a way that would significantly improve the filter?

Thanks!

PS feel free to reply by email.

 

[Rich Grise]

On Thursday 23 September 2004 03:59 pm, Dirk Bruere at Neopax did deign to
grace us with the following:

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'?

I don't know how you'd address that - do you mean, something in the ear,

literally vibrating mechanically? Cilia move, after all. You'd need an
awfully sensitive mic, I'd think.

And if that is the case, it'd be worth looking into, if somebody wants to
spring for the research.

Somebody mentioned the ear actually generating sound earlier, and I thought,
that would bring new meaning to "talking through his hat"! ;-)

Cheers!
Rich

 

[Dirk Bruere at Neopax]

Rich.Andrews wrote:

Ross Herbert <rherber1SPAMEX@bigpond.net.au> wrote in
news:jamhl0544ov703drrbsph23tg4r340b3ma@4ax.com:


On 27 Sep 2004 20:16:37 -0700, comixnewb@yahoo.com (Mike) wrote:

|Hi I was wondering if there was some way to 'blind' a spy cam. I have
|heard of using 'white noise' to disable a bug or wiretap but I am not
|sure if you can do it to a hidden camera. I don't know were it is in
|my house but I know that I am under surveillance.(people at school
|repeat things that I said at home,in my room, to my self) I have heard
|that IRLEDS could blind a camera but you would propably need to know
|were it was.

The fact that "people at school" repeat things which you have said to
yourself in the privacy of your own home doesn't necessarily indicate
the presence of an illegal camera, but it could be a simple FM
wireless microphone some of your supposed "mates" have placed there as
a joke. In this case you could try generating a constant tone and see
if you can pick it up on a FM receiver by scanning over the full
bandwidth. Of course if the bug transmitter signal is outside the
normal FM band then you won't have much joy, but it would be worth a
try.



I would not disable it or let on that you found it. Think of all the fun
you can have. Pretending to win the lotto for over 1/4 of a million could
be interesting. Everyone will be your friend. A pretend phone call from
your mom telling you that she just met (fill in hot starlet's name)'s
mother. You mom calls to tell you that (hot starlet name here) wants to
take you on a date. I am sure you can come up with other more inventive
way to get even. Uncle dies and leaves you an original Dino Ferrari is
good. Don't like Ferrari's? Try an original Shelby Cobra. You have to
make it believable. Script it out and practice. Call insurance agents for
quotes on car insurance. An uncle leaving you 5,000 shares of stock in
microsoft is good. Saying he bought it right after the IPO is better.
This requires a bit of homework what with stock splits, dividend re-
investment, etc. to figure out how many millions you now are worth.

Think of all the fun.

Not to mention all the false gossip you could tell your mother about your
friends eg all the cheating, drugs, sexual diseases (who has it etc) and petty
thefts...

--
Dirk

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

 

[George Macdonald]

On Mon, 27 Sep 2004 23:04:19 -0400, keith <krw@att.bizzzz> wrote:

On Mon, 27 Sep 2004 19:29:58 -0400, George Macdonald wrote:



e.g. DLL (Delay Locked Loop) is a fairly recent
name which Rambus coined and claims to have invented for use in memory
interfacing; I suspect that similar circuits have been in use for a while
by various people but it's one of the principal patents left in their case
against the memory mfrs.

DLLs have been around since the year of the flood. I didn't see where
DamnBus tried to claim them too. Really? Someone should tel Xilinx! ;-)

That's what I figured... that this was a standard circuit when you needed
to (re)align signal transitions. It was certainly one of the original
20(or was it 50 ?) claims they made for use in a memory interface - I may
have mispoken that it is one of the remaining 4 or so claims left but still
not sure on that. Looking it up always leads to stepping in err, something
nasty, so I'll demur on that.

Remember they also wanted to make a claim on using a umm, register to hold
the CAS Latency countdown counter etc. I'm pretty sure that one's been
thrown out.

Rgds, George Macdonald

"Just because they're paranoid doesn't mean you're not psychotic" - Who, me??

 

[Paul Burridge]

On 27 Sep 2004 20:16:37 -0700, comixnewb@yahoo.com (Mike) wrote:

Hi I was wondering if there was some way to 'blind' a spy cam. I have
heard of using 'white noise' to disable a bug or wiretap but I am not
sure if you can do it to a hidden camera. I don't know were it is in
my house but I know that I am under surveillance.(people at school
repeat things that I said at home,in my room, to my self) I have heard
that IRLEDS could blind a camera but you would propably need to know
were it was.

See a doctor. Maybe you're not being bugged...

--

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