Posts by GrimJack

My personal feeling about power supplies is if the fan is noisy the voltages could be noisy - if you do not have the tools or knowledge to test the line voltages and have the funds, buy a new ps. Look for ps calculators like this

Here is an ad for them.

Break it down for me - use a flexible tube (like vacuum cleaner hose) aimed at each fan - do all the fans make the same amount of noise? Does the noise change if the case is open? Do the fans pulling air make the same noise as those pushing air (in/outtake)?

I use rubber 'rivets' to attach my fans to the frame - I also prefer the larger 120mm fans.

I do not understand the need; there are sites that are dedicated to that run by professionals who dedicate their lives to the job. An amateur site would be prone to the "warn all your friends" emails and just clog the system. Maybe a 'stickie' linked out to the pros might help (if this is not already done). There is already a section for help after the fact.

We always like Adams because the oil did rise to the top so we would flip the jar -- it was supposed to be more natural but we got lazy and now buy generic pb - someone once said "you can eat peanut butter with a fork but why??" My response is that all my spoons are dirty so I only have forks left.

>>I was asked some interesting validation questions like:
>>Creamy or Crunchy? I answered crunchy (you have to be pretty deep American to even understand the question).

What does that mean by-the-way ? :)

Ah, not a peanut butter lover, eh? Peanut Butter in the US comes in 2 varieties Crunchy or Creamy. I prefer crunchy, my partner prefers creamy but I will eat creamy if my crunchy is gone but she will not.

When I was mugged on the subway in Paris, I lost my passport. Getting the replacement was a breeze because I had photocopied the original - in the interview, I was asked some interesting validation questions like:
Creamy or Crunchy? I answered crunchy (you have to be pretty deep American to even understand the question).
A couple questions about Popsicles and fudgesicles. The coup de grace question was "who are your senators" - I could not remember but I knew their nickname "mom in sneakers" and "skeletor" - Patty Murray, and Slade Gordon - that was good for a laugh.

Don't you just love Aia - he adds nothing to the conversation but spite and bile but only sees this in others.

When I have a message for a single person, I tell them - if they, then, want to complain about it in public; well, then I will publicize the message. I do not say one thing in public but something different in private.

The increase in computing power allows for the creation of smaller and smaller *precision* gates along with the use of newer 'doping' techniques like 'camel gates' but you may also notice that they are now adding more processors to the cpu; my laptop has dual processors. The language is changing to help keep up - the cpu is multi-core, newer versions are massively multi-core. Graphics cards now have an incredible amount of processing power of its own.

Most of the increases are now in the programming, take a look at the wiki-link to get am idea.

and my signiture is also turkish but a little bit slang. am=vajina, am-in-a=to her vajina, koyim(slang for koyayim which means put), bu saatten sonra= after this time. basically all the signiture means, i put someone's vajina if they/she comes after this time in my life. i dont feel necessary to explain what i put anyway :D

Well, you just lost any sympathy or credibility that I was trying to scrape up for you. You're just a putz (well, actually I like the old definition of schmuck - too low to kick, too squishy to step on).

But it is all good.

Just for a little balance, I found:
Sendur, India - It is in Surguja District (Chhattisgarh state); Pando and Korwa being the major tribes of the district.

Neither Serkan nor Sendur translate from either Turkish or Hindi.

Your .sig (bu saatten sonra gelenin amina koyim) does not seem to translate well from Turkish: "After this time of the koyim Amina"

But Google translations were never much good for anything but a general idea.

I was hoping to find some information on the names or their origins but after a bit I realized that I would probably have to be able to read Turkish to get anywhere with that search. Names have fascinated me since my Marine Corps DI stated the obvious - they may spell it Chvla but if they pronounce it Smith - Smith it is.

I have never understood the attraction of strip clubs. Back when I was a sign language interpreter, some of my deaf friends would drag me off to a club (I mention their handicap only because that is what we had in common - none of my other friends would even think about hanging out in a strip club <er, except for my female friends who danced in strip clubs back in the '70s, one of whom is now a guy> except that I forgot that I had a stripper girl friend back then so I occasionally did hang out in clubs to pick her up after work -- I don't think you want to hear the rest of that story) and I would sit through the pounding beat, flashing lights, and pretty bad routines (pole-dancing was not big here in Seattle back then but it was legal to be topless until about 1975 in the city limits). The routines were so bad that I took a 7 week course in burlesque from a woman named Tsunami Jones (yeah, her parents actually named her Tsunami - I am pretty sure she changed her last name to Jones for balance) - I realized i was not cut out for the stage and that those dancers had such bad routines because their hearts were not really in it. They were just putting in their time just like any other poor schlub punching a time-clock and waiting for the '5 o'clock whistle'.

Also i learned that Horowitz is jewish originated name, are you jewish? And where did your ancestors come from?

So you are a sexist and a racists along with being some sort of stalker? It could be that you are just too socially inept to understand the the difference between healthy interest and unhealthy interest. Maybe, just maybe you should go away.

Just my opinion (and that only counts for me) - maybe I have been reading too many right wing sites and am beginning to see prejudice everywhere but you don't say anything except that you 'learned' something about the name. If you had said something like "the name Horowitz is interesting in that it is derived from the Bohemian city of Horvice
in the Czech Republic and is a common family name for Jews and people of Jewish descent, what can you tell me about your name?" I just might think that you were just interested in names.

But not you, you had to ask, 'you a jew?' 'I heard that was a jew name'.

So if I offended anyone or am off-base, please tell me.

http://www.surveillance-video.com/stsyli.html

Try Frye's - best buy and such

You can always try Schick Electro-Shock(tm) - they actually put electrodes on your (non-smoking) wrist, attach a pull-string to the little finger of the hand you smoke with, and you get a shock every time you bring the cigarette to your lips. You get a 'pot' (potentiometer) to adjust the strength of the shock. I set it as high as i could stand and watched my left hand spasm while I smoked.

That got old pretty fast - spastic fingers only go so far before the pain gets pretty overwhelming so I started 'watching' the pain while I smoked. I have been tobacco-free for 20 years (except that bout with Cuban cigars mentioned earlier).

Go to the forum where you posted - then go to the bottom of the page and contact the moderator/administrator. Tell them your story and they will help.

OMG! It has come to the point that I don't give any of MS' programs blanket permission to pass ZoneAlarm - I would rather be bothered each time than to let them start taking over my system (any more than it already has). But I am paranoid(ish).

Aia, I am glad I do not live in your world! How do you get out of bed in the mornings?

Here is the positive side of the police state (sorry for the re-post but I love this vid). Here is a story about them: The Get Out Clause

Yes, back to Bush's SEC

Really? That's not even mention of ideas, but more of a popularity contest.
"If if comes from Pravda, it must be true."? :icon_razz:[/nevermind]

Whatever the hell this means, you should stick with a plan and not just 'core dump' whatever pops into you head.

How about The Krugman Recipe for Depression? Oh, I know -- Amity Shlaes is less popular with the America left than Krugman, so I guess that means by default that Krugman cannot be criticised by her. :icon_rolleyes:

Linky

Let me line up some more folks for your ad hominems: Left Out: A Critique of Paul Krugman Based on a Comprehensive Account of His New York Times Columns, 1997 through 2006

Will address this one as time permits.

Ooh! Kool - Leslie bet me you'd see that I had just added a level to my ad hominem attack, I was sure you wouldn't. I bought breakfast this morning.

To be honest, I have not had the time to work my way through Anderson's arguments; I won't have time to get to Schlaes' arguments any time soon either (heck, I do not even have time to do a decent ad hominem on Schlaes) - I can't get the kleinbartlet .pdf to load so - ditto.

I just got a copy of Fallout3 and so I only have a few minutes every so often to pop in here to poke you - at least your black to blue ratio is getting higher. (I also have another session open with 24 more blogs to work my way through - so far about 12 of them seem interesting enough to add to my reading list).

Keep on my case, I will eventually get my arguments together.

William L Anderson
vs
Paul Krugman

I rest my case

Okay, thanks for the inane link to a midget trying to bite the ankle of his betters (jeez, he even dragged in that stupid clock right 2x per day shite -- worse than a stopped clock is one that is off by a minute - it is right only once every 12,000 years).

Here, I will link for your side just to keep the argument going:

It is the Conservative who lives to make the Liberal defend their reasoning, their facts, their evidence, their cost-benefit analysis and most critically of all, the underlying, unexamined and quite often silly assumptions as to human nature and best outcomes.

BUSH'S REGULATORY POLICIES

Here is a sample of why it cost more:

The gap caused some inspectors to complain that they lacked adequate gear to monitor workplace chemicals and other hazards. Efficiency became a key agency buzzword and, to help improve it, Foulke arranged for OSHA to hire Randy Kimlin, an acquaintance from South Carolina, as a $112-an-hour consultant beginning in 2006.

The work was lucrative for Kimlin, a former employee of Union Carbide -- a firm that frequently clashed with OSHA -- and a former president of a Greenville-based chemical firm. For his part-time advice over a 22-month period beginning in May 2006, OSHA paid Kimlin $513,403, a salary higher than that received by Vice President Cheney, any member of Congress and Foulke himself during that period.

Kimlin was paid an additional $97,730 in reimbursements for nearly weekly flights back to South Carolina and for a hotel room on Capitol Hill, all granted under a subcontract with Washington-based TATC Consulting that was awarded without competition.

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No, I do not understand that! I express my opinions, make my points and point to places for support. That is not the same thing as posting only links to this really weird guy who talks to Bob - he sounds like that other guy you pointed to who was talking to a hitchhiker (or maybe was a hitchhiker, whatever).

Do you ever apply this same scrutiny to your own sources? [/rhetorical]

Yes, I do. I actually look around for more than one opinion, I think about what I say, and I generally post links. I choose links that explain and often do not fully support what I think. Sometimes, I choose links that I know will wind you up - we have fun here.

Well, you could incorporate yourself as a bank holding company and apply for some TARP money - go for a little extra to cover a couple years power.

Washington Is Killing Silicon Valley

Murdock owns WSJ and FOX Snews - why anyone would quote those sources as having any kind of validity is way beyond me. It's like quoting Ace on Obama.

Neither are rational.
Neither are objective.

I read that part, all it said is that if you did not pay us, your screwed. The point of SOX was to protect the public - it was gutted by Bushies; it did not do the due diligence it was mandated to do.
The Madoff children knew that it was a scam and did not allow their dad to touch any of THEIR money for years but did not say anything until it looked like the scam was going to be uncovered.

The free market says 'screw you' unless you pay me. Why did those 'due diligence' firms not notify the public? The free market paid Moodies and S&P to honestly rate the credit-worthiness and they lied and cheated and brought about the current crash. How does the Free Market handle that?

SOX was set up to try and protect the public from the Free Market.

Let's have a little more from the Free Market:
The Madoff family has long standing ties to SIFMA, which represents many of the country’s biggest brokerage houses, banks and financial services companies. Bernard Madoff sat of the board of directors of the Securities Industry Association, an advocacy group that merged with the Bond Market Association in 2006 to form SIFMA. His brother, Peter Madoff, the senior managing director of the firm, served two terms as a member of SIFMA’s board of directors.

Politico reported Tuesday that Shana Madoff Swanson, who’s the niece of Bernard Madoff and a compliance attorney at …

In the paragraph immediately above the one you quoted.

I read that part, all it said is that if you did not pay us, your screwed. The point of SOX was to protect the public - it was gutted by Bushies; it did not do the due diligence it was mandated to do.
The Madoff children knew that it was a scam and did not allow their dad to touch any of THEIR money for years but did not say anything until it looked like the scam was going to be uncovered.

The free market says 'screw you' unless you pay me. Why did those 'due diligence' firms not notify the public? The free market paid Moodies and S&P to honestly rate the credit-worthiness and they lied and cheated and brought about the current crash. How does the Free Market handle that?

SOX was set up to try and protect the public from the Free Market.

This is a perfect case study showing that the SEC is incapable of protecting investors as well as free-market institutions can. The SEC is becoming increasingly irrelevant and people are beginning to take notice. It failed to save investors from the house of cards made up of mortgage-backed securities, credit default swaps, and collateralized debt obligations that resulted from the housing bubble. Now it has failed to protect thousands more individuals and charities from something as simple and old as a Ponzi scheme!

Er, where does it show us that the free market can protect us? Bushie free-marketeers running the SEC were what screwed us. Gutting the SEC, then blaming the SEC for not catching the problem does not show the success of the free market system nor does saying that the free market saw it - neither stopped it from happening.

The US Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (SOX) mandates what is effectively a systems engineering solution to the problem of how to control theft from the inside. Reliability is achieved not by human oversight alone, but by a set of information and control systems that ensures information quality and management accountability. Executive officers are required to sign the accounts and are criminally liable for any inaccuracy. The act also mandates near-real-time disclosure of any material events.

In the past, reliability was equated with the moral character of the directors and auditors. Nowadays, reliability must be seen as an engineering problem.

Cursing SOX for not being perfect or not catching crimes that the stupid SEC had been warned about for years is pointless - just like my pointing out how well the Libertarian philosophy is supported by the current meltdown. I am sure that deregulation would have done a much better job of stopping the embezzlement.

It is why hotels now have non-smoking rooms - the smell of stale smoke is nasty. We used to smuggle Cuban cigars down from Canada but I started inhaling them like cigarettes and realized that that was a slippery slope.

I have promised myself that I can start smoking again when I turn 98 - will have to smuggle more Cubans down for the wife.

Get FireFox and add NoScript + AdBlock

Should this threads be milestones or millstones? I do not code for a living but I did in my youth, now I am unemployed <whimper> because my machine was discontinued in the mid-nineties cyber-crush (it was a VAX running VMS - the first true real-time interactive computer/OS). I had a couple different Amigas from 1987 to 1998 - given a choice between C+ and Modula-2, I chose Modula-2 and that was such a boring language I gave it up and stuck with programming in DCL on my various VAXes.

A similar thing happened to another site where I hang out (Schlock Mercenary). He runs a really fun, science-based web comic (and just happens to be Morman); he was really ticked. A filter failed somewhere.

I was going through some of my old emails and came across this. I thought i'd share since there are some really good one here:

Things to think about

Can you cry under water?

Yes, just because tears are washed away does not negate the crying - if you are at depth, I would guess that yes, tears will still come because your eyes are at equalized pressures - but I will leave it open to divers to answer.

How important does a person have to be before they are considered assassinated instead of just murdered?

Assassination is the targeted killing of a high-profile person. An added distinction between assassination and other forms of killing is that the assassin (one who performs an assassination) usually has an ideological or political motivation, though many assassins (especially those not part of an organization) also demonstrate insanity. Other motivations may be money (contract killing), revenge, or a military operation.

Why do you have to "put your two cents in".. . but it's only a "penny for your thoughts"? Where's that extra penny going to?

that is the buyer/seller dichotomy - I offer a penny for your thoughts but I throw my 2 cents in because I want 2 cents for mine.

Once you're in heaven, do you get stuck wearing the clothes you were buried in for an eternity?

Nope, you are forced into white robes, wings, and a halo (harp optional).

Why does a round pizza come in a square box?

Pizzas …

For those of you with FF running "NoScript" - have you noticed "googlesyndication" and "google-analytics" - I have them marked as untrusted cuz - I don't trust them, especially since they bought doubleclick. I think I might be harping on doubleclick a lot but I hate them.

I googled'em - this is only one review. Google is your friend

Most Google ads from searches at least show up where you know they are ads. It is true that, like M$, their business model is ad-based and I can't imagine either allowing the blocking of in-page ads like FF does.

Thanks for the response. You said 'depending on the HD.' What are the determining factors? Is there a way I can find out if it'll work before I start disassembling?

Does using the standard ribbon cable mean that I will have to disconnect the hard drive that is already in the desktop? Or will both be connected, so I can copy from one to the other?

you can buy a 'laptop-to-USB' connector kit that includes a hard-case. I dont know what that is - would it work with a dead laptop?

Funny, I actually read the data that comes off the drives collected in legal discovery.

There are usually 2 IDE connections on the motherboard; one cable connected to the motherboare can handle 2 hard drive - 1 master, 1 Slave - the slave being the farthest out from the MB connector. The second connector can handle 2 more drives; 1 master and 1 slave.

I used the phrase for wiggle room on the chance that I left something out. I really suggest that you try to get to the drive by using the ribbon cable - get all the data off the drive to a safe place before you do any playing ariound.

get all the pieces you need together 1 working pc; a ribbon cable with room for the drive - it should come together just fine - if it doesn't, then let me know - I accept private messages

One of the first things I noticed after I quit smoking was easy it was to smell who the smokers are. This is especially bad on the bus when you don't have any way to avoid the smell of stale smoke.

Depending on the HD, there should be no problem. Once you have the HD in your hand, you can remove the adapter revealing the standard connector which you can attach to any of your computers via the standard ribbon cable. When you fire up the computer, it should show up. If you want to get fancy, you can buy a 'laptop-to-USB' connector kit that includes a hard-case.

I don't think I left anything out. I used to work for legal 'discovery' firm getting data off of hard drives. There were probably 100 computers in the various rooms that were left open and had all sorts of HDs hanging off them.

Once your computer fires up, the HD should be added to the list of drives and you should be able to click on it. Heck, you could just keep the disk as more storage.

It looks pretty nice but there is no way in h**l I will let Google put something else on my pc. Just like I hate having M$ know too much about me and my machine. I think that having a 3 or 4 way race for browser control can only help us, the users, get better products.

Or as one smoker put it as she lay dying of cancer "I knew that smoking would take years off my life - I just didn't know it would take them from the middle"

What other purposes would you do in a church?

Ever listen to the full version of Alice's Restaurant -- if you party in the belfry, you can sweep an incredible amount of garbage down the hole. Was (er still is) an Arlo Guthry song that goes on to him getting his draft notice. It is another hoot

The pope can be considered partly responsible for the spread of aids in the 3rd world.

Wrong forum - try the 'posting games' forum

Hey - I remember that the Seattle Times carried his comic strip, many years ago - my favorite character in the strip was the 'gun-flinger'