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Some cars have gotten up or down the road, and I was dithering, then I saw a van travelling up the hil run out of momentum, as the wheels started to spin. It reversed into the close where we live, and started back down the hill. It began to spin and slide sideways, then there was a crunch. That decided me: it is too risky to drive anywhere in this area at present.
I have more than enough work to do in the next day or two without a day in East Sussex, and the prototype I fitted a couple of days ago worked exactly as intended, so testing the second prototype in a refrigerated vehicle can wait until the roads are reasonably passable.
Now to work on the 150W 12/24V power supply. The first prototype works, but one part gets hotter than intended, probably due to switching losses. I just need a mosfet with a few milliohms ON resistance and almost zero capacitance, then it will work fine. <sigh> I also need to test the current limiting, the error indicators, and so on.
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awake
Googling showed that the likely fault was that the thermostat was opening too soon. The instructions to replace it started with 1) Raise the car into the air. A mental picture of me holding the car up with one hand and turning the spanner with the other was quickly replaced with one of a mechanic using a hydraulic ramp. It was replaced today, and the temperature gauge indicates much more rapid warmup, so I think it is problem solved.
Just in time to drive to work on customer site in East Sussex tomorrow. The sooner we have reliable matter transmitters the better.
Now back to my work.
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accomplished
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amused
Happy Birthday jason_finch
Your result for The Nerd? Geek? or Dork? Test...
Modern, Cool Nerd
65 % Nerd, 61% Geek, 39% Dork
A Nerd is someone who is passionate about learning/being smart/academia.
A Geek is someone who is passionate about some particular area or subject, often an obscure or difficult one.
A Dork is someone who has difficulty with common social expectations/interactions.
You scored better than half in Nerd and Geek, earning you the title of: Modern, Cool Nerd.
Nerds didn't use to be cool, but in the 90's that all changed. It used to be that, if you were a computer expert, you had to wear plaid or a pocket protector or suspenders or something that announced to the world that you couldn't quite fit in. Not anymore. Now, the intelligent and geeky have eked out for themselves a modicum of respect at the very least, and "geek is chic." The Modern, Cool Nerd is intelligent, knowledgable and always the person to call in a crisis (needing computer advice/an arcane bit of trivia knowledge). They are the one you want as your lifeline in Who Wants to Be a Millionaire (or the one up there, winning the million bucks)!
Congratulations!
Thanks Again! -- THE NERD? GEEK? OR DORK? TEST
Happy Birthday malva_hawthorn
Happy Birthday dr_biscuit
This is actually good, because although it seemed as if everything was going to plan, and indeed, the part that is assembled works exactly to specification, there is more to do than I could complete today. I need to make the very first prototype of a debouncer that should prevent the doors being logged as opening and closing at one second intervals, but also a pulse stretcher to allow the processor to have time to log the engine start (Don't ask!) I did the paper design about ten days ago, and now I have all the parts, there *should* be no surprises, except for how long it takes to solder it all together tidily.
There is up to another four hours work to do before it is all ready for use.
The new test is scheduled for Friday, but three hours drive away instead of locally. You win some, you lose some. At least I can visit
muuranker the night before, and be already half way there in the morning. I wasn't looking forward to getting up at 05:30...- Mood:
tired
tigerfort has written an exposition.I will add that in the USA, academics have rigorously demonstrated that copyright infringement notices may be issued to printers, routers, and items of hardware that have not had any contatct with anything copyrighted.
In the light of this, I surmise that the lack of any appeal process, and the ability for the authorities to require that someone is disconnected from the Internet without even an accusation of copyright infringement, is because it is known that finding legally admissible evidence is difficult.
I shudder to think what will happen when the government of the day can point at all their opponents and require that they be disconnected from the internet. I think that will be the case before the next election...
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scared
Hobbit Birthday eldritchhobbit
Happy Birthday parrot_knight
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tigerfort:
The glorious leaders of the UK have published a "Digital Economy Bill" as part of this year's legislative program. The main thrust of it is penalties for people suspected of illegal file sharing, and the ability for more penalties and requirements for ISPs to keep and hand over information to be added later by Mr Mandleson or his successor, with no further debate.
There is also a provision for a royalty collecting organisation to collect royalties on behalf of people not their members, and, presumably, keep them. This was not clear, but I believe it is what is done in the USA.
This is a pretty chilling piece of legislation. We rely increasingly on the internet, and it does not seem to me even vageuely in line with previous traditions of UK law to impose a far reaching penalty in response to accusations for which evidence need not be provided.
In the USA, academics have rigorously demonstrated false identification of illegal file sharing for such devices as printers and routers. Although it may turn out that the majority of the people so accused will be guilty, it would not be prudent to assume that. 'Course, if you've done nothing wrong, you have notihng to fear, right?
There is a Number 10 petition to sign, and I commend to all reading this in the UK that they do so.
Here are links to more info. I particulary liked this comment from one of them: Eroding Democracy and Constitutional Law should be a criminal offense, not a business model...
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Happy Birthday muninnhuginn
Hoppy Bird Day to the corbies
These words from gayalondiel
I won't post the meme rules this time because I am too tired to think of words for anyone else at present
Curry
I have always enjoyed considerable variety in food, and had eaten the generic curry that my mother made. Then, in my first year at university, I lived in a flat with some people from Sri Lanka, one of whom was a keen and skilful cook. I enjoyed the flavourful food he prepared – things like dall that you could eat with a fork, and that was normally served with a salad, because you would not want to eat it thermally hot, as spicy as it was.
Though I do not usually choose the spiciest curries in Indian restaurants, because I like variety, I certainly don't normally discover anything too spicy for me to want to eat it if I am in the right mood. Remember: 'Everybody likes … good curry'.
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Rules:
Reply to this meme by yelling 'WORDS!', and I will give you five words that remind me of you. Then post them in your journal and explain what they mean to you. Keep in mind that if I don't know you that well, your words might end up kind of esoteric/oblique. You'll only get given five words if you do include 'WORDS!' in a reply to this post, meaning you can safely comment (should you wish to do so) without having to play.
Words from sally_maria
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| My LiveJournal Trick-or-Treat Haul |
|---|
| alitalf goes trick-or-treating, dressed up as Gandalf. |
| atreic tricks you! You get a rock. |
| chainmailmaiden gives you 12 orange vanilla-flavoured gummy worms. |
| crazyscot gives you 2 light green evil-flavoured pieces of bubblegum. |
| emperor tricks you! You lose 2 pieces of candy! |
| foradan gives you 4 dark blue lemon-flavoured gummy worms. |
| gayalondiel gives you 9 yellow peach-flavoured pieces of taffy. |
| gurthaew gives you 3 mottled green licorice-flavoured jawbreakers. |
| jason_finch gives you 1 brown tropical-flavoured gummy bats. |
| muuranker gives you 3 green grapefruit-flavoured gummy worms. |
| rustica tricks you! You get an eraser. |
| alitalf ends up with 32 pieces of candy, a rock, and an eraser. |
| Another fun meme brought to you by rfreebern. |
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It will be interesting to find out how often I use Win 7 instead of Mint. There are certainly some applications that need windows, which will prevent complete migration.
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Get those white mice revved up in their little mouse wheels! Add amphetamine to their water?
ETA: And it is back online now :-)
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annoyed
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