Text 155, 81 rader
Skriven 2005-01-18 20:06:56 av Roy J. Tellason (1:270/615.0)
    Kommentar till text 152 av James Bradley (1:134/77.0)
Ärende: But it's echolisted?
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James Bradley wrote in a message to Roy J. Tellason:

 JB> 01-16-05  20:10, Roy J. Tellason told James Bradley about But it's
 JB> echolisted? 

 JB>  Well, how do, Roy?


 RJT> James Bradley wrote in a message to Bo Simonsen:

 JB> I just noticed LINUX was expounded to include a number of branches.

 RJT> I used to carry a bunch of product-specific echos here,  but many if
 RJT> not most  of them are pretty much dead.  And as far as the stuff 

 JB> So much for the "Non-commercial" credo. Heck, even the USR specific
 JB> echo was seeing little traffic. I think the last message posted
 JB> there was from me asking for a Linux program to tweak the resources
 JB> of their PnPray PCI job. Do I recall right that there is a
 JB> "pnpdump" or some such suite for that task? (I know, it's not the
 JB> LINUX echo, bust since I brought it up...)

Yeah,  there is,  I did some fiddling with that stuff when I was trying to get
a sound card working.  It's a little tedious,  but it can be done.

 RJT> that's getting listed goes,  look at how many of those are
 RJT> gated (and filtered!) newsgroups.  Hell,  if I want 
 RJT> newsgroups I can go get 'em.  I don't need to be pulling 
 RJT> them in via fido these days.

 JB> You know, I had a gratis dialup account for over ten years.
 JB> Quickly, my time spent reading the crap was replaced with trying to
 JB> keep Windows up to date. <G&D>
 JB> ... It's a good thing; you can't have it all. Where would you put
 JB> it? 

 RJT> One would assume that "all" would include that!

 JB> How many penis enlargements can one man utilize? <&R f/cover> 

 RJT> Getting back to electronics,  I carry a number of mailing 

 JB> PULEEZE!

 RJT> lists here on my other box.  And in one of them this guy
 RJT> posted,  not once but in two separate messages,  as to how 
 RJT> a transformer not only changed the voltage but also changed 
 RJT> the AC from the power line to DC.  I let it go the first 
 RJT> time but the second time I saw it I finally had to jump in 
 RJT> there and say that he didn't know what the heck he was 
 RJT> talking about...!

 JB> Did you tell him about the box of DC transformers you could sell
 JB> him? Their more special than the regular kind, didn't you know.
 JB> <Chortle>

Nah,  I really don't want to go there...

 JB> My nephew one year wanted NOTHING but "Transformers" for his
 JB> birthday. I told him about the box of transformers I had in the
 JB> garage. (No, not *one* of those were the DC variety. ;-)

 JB> You taught yourself electronics, didn't you?

Yeah,  and I'm still in the process.

 JB> I've been trying to increase my understanding for some time now. 
 JB> (Hysteresis, and the guts of the semi-conductor gates are about my 
 JB> limits.) Could you recommend some reading material?

Not offhand.  There seems to be a bunch of good stuff online,  but it depends
on what you're interested in.

 JB> I could get in and out of a TV without redoing the hairdo, but if 
 JB> the part aint burnt, I have to look for the "fix-me" silk screen 
 JB> on the PC board.

Where do you want to go with it?

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