OT: Is this question too challenging for a BSEE graduate?

On 10/27/2010 6:28 PM Michael A. Terrell spake thus:

David Nebenzahl wrote:

On 10/27/2010 4:52 PM Michael A. Terrell spake thus:

David Nebenzahl wrote:

On 10/27/2010 2:45 AM John Fields spake thus:

On Tue, 26 Oct 2010 18:50:13 -0700, David Nebenzahl
nobody@but.us.chickens> wrote:

On 10/26/2010 12:05 PM John Fields spake thus:

Did you get the article I posted for you?

No; what article? (I take it this is the real John Fields,
right?)

Yeah. :)

Here's the message ID:

68oac6du5ec8alsq27p63a3hehpdcdvn8q@4ax.com

Thunderbird knows not what to do with that address, just opens
up a new "compose" window.

Like John said, it is a message ID, not a URL.

I understand that. I clicked on it only half-expecting it to do
anything useful.

It will open the related message on most newsreaders, if you have
access to the group it was posted to.

Well, I certainly have access, as I'm reading s.e.r. using
Thunderbird. But I don't know how to search by message ID. Do you,
using Tbird? I assume it has this capability, but the online help
is, as usual, useless.

I still use Netscape 4.78 to access newsgroups so I'm no help with
Thunderbird. I tried it last year and didn't like it.
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Well, I just "subscribed" to the Mozilla Tbird newsgroup,
news://news.mozilla.org:119/mozilla.support.thunderbird (only took about
a goddamn half-hour to download all 107,000 headers); no help there.
Apparently Thunderbird, for all its geeky greatness, doesn't have the
capability of searching my message ID. They say there's an "extension"
you can download that does this; but other people say the extension
can't be installed.

So much for the vaunted superiority of open-source software projects ...


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David Nebenzahl wrote:
On 10/27/2010 6:28 PM Michael A. Terrell spake thus:

David Nebenzahl wrote:

On 10/27/2010 4:52 PM Michael A. Terrell spake thus:

David Nebenzahl wrote:

On 10/27/2010 2:45 AM John Fields spake thus:

On Tue, 26 Oct 2010 18:50:13 -0700, David Nebenzahl
nobody@but.us.chickens> wrote:

On 10/26/2010 12:05 PM John Fields spake thus:

Did you get the article I posted for you?

No; what article? (I take it this is the real John Fields,
right?)

Yeah. :)

Here's the message ID:

68oac6du5ec8alsq27p63a3hehpdcdvn8q@4ax.com

Thunderbird knows not what to do with that address, just opens
up a new "compose" window.

Like John said, it is a message ID, not a URL.

I understand that. I clicked on it only half-expecting it to do
anything useful.

It will open the related message on most newsreaders, if you have
access to the group it was posted to.

Well, I certainly have access, as I'm reading s.e.r. using
Thunderbird. But I don't know how to search by message ID. Do you,
using Tbird? I assume it has this capability, but the online help
is, as usual, useless.

I still use Netscape 4.78 to access newsgroups so I'm no help with
Thunderbird. I tried it last year and didn't like it.

Well, I just "subscribed" to the Mozilla Tbird newsgroup,
news://news.mozilla.org:119/mozilla.support.thunderbird (only took about
a goddamn half-hour to download all 107,000 headers); no help there.
Apparently Thunderbird, for all its geeky greatness, doesn't have the
capability of searching my message ID. They say there's an "extension"
you can download that does this; but other people say the extension
can't be installed.

So much for the vaunted superiority of open-source software projects ...
Click to expand...

That's why I stick with software that does what I want it to.
Netscape, from before AOL bastardized it.

BTW, this group has 722,413 messages on the Giganews servers.


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Michael A. Terrell wrote:
David Nebenzahl wrote:
On 10/27/2010 6:28 PM Michael A. Terrell spake thus:

David Nebenzahl wrote:

On 10/27/2010 4:52 PM Michael A. Terrell spake thus:

David Nebenzahl wrote:

On 10/27/2010 2:45 AM John Fields spake thus:

On Tue, 26 Oct 2010 18:50:13 -0700, David Nebenzahl
nobody@but.us.chickens> wrote:

On 10/26/2010 12:05 PM John Fields spake thus:

Did you get the article I posted for you?
No; what article? (I take it this is the real John Fields,
right?)
Yeah. :)

Here's the message ID:

68oac6du5ec8alsq27p63a3hehpdcdvn8q@4ax.com
Thunderbird knows not what to do with that address, just opens
up a new "compose" window.
Like John said, it is a message ID, not a URL.
I understand that. I clicked on it only half-expecting it to do
anything useful.

It will open the related message on most newsreaders, if you have
access to the group it was posted to.
Well, I certainly have access, as I'm reading s.e.r. using
Thunderbird. But I don't know how to search by message ID. Do you,
using Tbird? I assume it has this capability, but the online help
is, as usual, useless.
I still use Netscape 4.78 to access newsgroups so I'm no help with
Thunderbird. I tried it last year and didn't like it.
Well, I just "subscribed" to the Mozilla Tbird newsgroup,
news://news.mozilla.org:119/mozilla.support.thunderbird (only took about
a goddamn half-hour to download all 107,000 headers); no help there.
Apparently Thunderbird, for all its geeky greatness, doesn't have the
capability of searching my message ID. They say there's an "extension"
you can download that does this; but other people say the extension
can't be installed.

So much for the vaunted superiority of open-source software projects ...


That's why I stick with software that does what I want it to.
Netscape, from before AOL bastardized it.

BTW, this group has 722,413 messages on the Giganews servers.


Giganews is a bit low in message support.
Click to expand...
News.planet.nl has 806470 messages here.
 
On Wed, 27 Oct 2010 17:59:38 -0700 David Nebenzahl
<nobody@but.us.chickens> wrote in Message id:
<4cc8cab6$0$2456$822641b3@news.adtechcomputers.com>:

[...]

Well, I certainly have access, as I'm reading s.e.r. using Thunderbird.
But I don't know how to search by message ID. Do you, using Tbird? I
assume it has this capability, but the online help is, as usual, useless.
Click to expand...
This probably won't work, but try:

<68oac6du5ec8alsq27p63a3hehpdcdvn8q@4ax.com>

or

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/595/
 
On Wed, 27 Oct 2010 14:42:00 -0700, David Nebenzahl
<nobody@but.us.chickens> wrote:

On 10/27/2010 2:45 AM John Fields spake thus:

On Tue, 26 Oct 2010 18:50:13 -0700, David Nebenzahl
nobody@but.us.chickens> wrote:

On 10/26/2010 12:05 PM John Fields spake thus:

Did you get the article I posted for you?

No; what article? (I take it this is the real John Fields, right?)

Yeah. :)

Here's the message ID:

68oac6du5ec8alsq27p63a3hehpdcdvn8q@4ax.com

Thunderbird knows not what to do with that address, just opens up a new
"compose" window.

If you can't get it let me know and I'll email you a copy.

Thanks, but as you can see, my email address is (intentionally) munged.
Post it to web-space and give us a link?
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---
I avoid the web when I can.

Instead, go to alt.binaries.schematics.electronic and read: "Opamps
for newbies"
---


Anyhow, thanks for the effort.
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Sure.

---
JF
 
Sjouke Burry wrote:
Michael A. Terrell wrote:
David Nebenzahl wrote:
On 10/27/2010 6:28 PM Michael A. Terrell spake thus:

David Nebenzahl wrote:

On 10/27/2010 4:52 PM Michael A. Terrell spake thus:

David Nebenzahl wrote:

On 10/27/2010 2:45 AM John Fields spake thus:

On Tue, 26 Oct 2010 18:50:13 -0700, David Nebenzahl
nobody@but.us.chickens> wrote:

On 10/26/2010 12:05 PM John Fields spake thus:

Did you get the article I posted for you?
No; what article? (I take it this is the real John Fields,
right?)
Yeah. :)

Here's the message ID:

68oac6du5ec8alsq27p63a3hehpdcdvn8q@4ax.com
Thunderbird knows not what to do with that address, just opens
up a new "compose" window.
Like John said, it is a message ID, not a URL.
I understand that. I clicked on it only half-expecting it to do
anything useful.

It will open the related message on most newsreaders, if you have
access to the group it was posted to.
Well, I certainly have access, as I'm reading s.e.r. using
Thunderbird. But I don't know how to search by message ID. Do you,
using Tbird? I assume it has this capability, but the online help
is, as usual, useless.
I still use Netscape 4.78 to access newsgroups so I'm no help with
Thunderbird. I tried it last year and didn't like it.
Well, I just "subscribed" to the Mozilla Tbird newsgroup,
news://news.mozilla.org:119/mozilla.support.thunderbird (only took about
a goddamn half-hour to download all 107,000 headers); no help there.
Apparently Thunderbird, for all its geeky greatness, doesn't have the
capability of searching my message ID. They say there's an "extension"
you can download that does this; but other people say the extension
can't be installed.

So much for the vaunted superiority of open-source software projects ...


That's why I stick with software that does what I want it to.
Netscape, from before AOL bastardized it.

BTW, this group has 722,413 messages on the Giganews servers.


Giganews is a bit low in message support.
News.planet.nl has 806470 messages here.
Click to expand...

How much of that difference is spam?


--
Politicians should only get paid if the budget is balanced, and there is
enough left over to pay them.
 
On Wed, 27 Oct 2010 14:51:20 -0500, "David" <someone@somewhere.com>
wrote:

Regarding the subject line: When I first read this question and
looked at the schematic, it was not clear to me what the
programmable load that was asked about actually was. If it was
the FET, that should have been stated. There were many responses
that treated the entire circuit as the 'programmable load' hence
the 'in parallel with 4K ohms' type of answers. Furthermore, if
we assume the question was about the FET being the load to
calculate, that resistance has a DC and AC component and they are
very different. A question like this is very poorly worded and
should in no way be a judge of the person attempting to answer
it.
David
I agree, the question is ambiguous, although given that one voltage
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source is indeterminate, an argument could be made that the entire
network tied to that point was the load.

What I really find disturbing is the thought that it is necessary to
test a holder of a BSEE to determine if they learned any of the
basics. Is it also necessary to quiz them on nand and nor gates, J-K
flip-flops, and ripple counters? How about series and parallel
resistances?

PlainBill
 
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