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Skriven 2006-03-17 13:23:15 av Carol Shenkenberger (6:757/1)
  Kommentar till text 26404 av Michiel van der Vlist (2:280/5555)
Ärende: Re: Editor's censorship
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*** Quoting Michiel van der Vlist from a message to Carol Shenkenberger ***

 > Humm, Don is the keeper.  Probably 20?

 > The one that is special to me is the JWID 98 coin.

MvdV> You'll have to be a bit more verbose. These acronyms mean nothing to u
MvdV> land lubbers. ;-)

Joint Warfare Interoperability Demonstration.  It's also multi-national
although the particular ship I was on was a US/Canada only demo part except
for one room that had 'NATO' stuff. There are normally 10-15 ships involved
and most are multinational demos.

The results feel tenuous until you see in action my ship feeding a ship from
India, a 'line of sight' encrypted beam that lets the crew there 'email home
to mom and dad' via US based servers that cross-connect to the internet.  5kh
may not sound like much but it was a god-send to them.  I remember working a
demo on that back in 98.  All they have to do is retune some couplers and it
all works out.

MvdV> You must have made an impression on someone doing that job then.... ;-

Yeah, to get one of the 5 coins!  My security model was used by all the other
ships.  Basically I asked the HQ what we were supposed to do and found out
fast they had less clue than i did so i wrote a model and sent them a copy
which they then used for all the other ships.  I also as a sideline took on
the electrical safety (not even remotely my normal job) and was passing out
info on shipboard electrical issues (special surge protectors and UPS units
needed), researched locations local to get extra units from any who arrived
without them (several places that were very helpful ordered extra in stock
which helped alot).  One of the other ships decided 'their gear was their
problem' and a person was almost killed when then plugged into an outlet. 
There were 0 incidents on the Stennis.

I'm no electrical maven at all but as described to e, a ship has 2 hot leads
and a neutral vice shore based stuff with 1 hot, one ground, and one neutral. 
I probably dont have it quite right but then, I never pretended to know more
on such ;-).  The shore stuff doesnt protect against surges on one of the
prongs and that can be deadly on a ship.
                                       xxcarol

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