In 2009 we decommissioned the old PBX system after replacing it with a Cisco VOIP phone system. Most of our campuses just got rid of the equipment lock, stock and barrel, but the whole room full remained at my campus. Over the years, I retrieved a few of the boards, each one about 16 inches
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I was reading an article in the ASME “mechanical engineering” magazine called “Nuclear’s Model T”, which talked about building small nuclear power plants in a factory and shipping them to their operational sites. This issue was Vol.131/No.7 July 2009. The article was published a few years before the Fukushima Daiichi disaster. First off, I will
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I was out working on wiring at our other campus, and was surprised to find that the floor was wired. Yes, the floor was wired. Well, the floor had wiring on it. This was for the class where they teach robotics and the wire is there for the robot cars to follow. I haven’t investigated
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Last week I got a postcard from So Cal Edison telling me that there would be a scheduled power outage on Dec 20 from 9 AM to 3 PM. Well this morning I was working on the PC and sure enough, about 10:30 the lights went out. Since it’s a laptop, I didn’t lose anything.
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Yesterday, the 12th day of the 12th month of 2012, important things happened in my life which were not made a part of the public record, but were still very important to me. Why am I saying this? It seemed that many people thought that yesterday was going to be the end of the world
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Quantsuff sent me a picture of someone using a hard disk drive platter to grind down what looks like a circuit board (from this website). That disk is spinning around at 120 times a second, so it should be able to do some serious damage to anything that touches it. I spent several hours at
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Several years ago, maybe 2007 when I bought the Samsung TV, I bought a General Electric (actually JASCO) universal remote control. I think it was about ten bucks back then. I went through the setup procedure and found the right code to enter to get it to work. I found that I had to get
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Man, will I be glad when this is over. My recyclables trash can is overloaded with all the flyers with which we’ve been bombarded for the last few weeks. Yet I have not seen a single flyer for the presidential race. It’s like America’s most populous state doesn’t even exist as far as they care.
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After the presidential debates are over (and not having watched them), I have one thing to say: Intelligent people don’t make a choice of president on the basis of sparring matches. That being said, I quote “Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.” — Robert Heinlein
I walked into the office and I found two of the guys trying to make one of these free energy fans with a fan from a PC and four powerful magnets from hard disk drives. He showed me the Youtube video, so I went back later and watched it again. They couldn’t get it to
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