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OT: Eat more bacon...
Eat more bacon... ...Jim Thompson -- | James E.Thompson | mens | | Analog Innovations | et | | Analog/Mixed-Signal ASIC's and Discrete Systems | manus | | San Tan Valley, AZ 85142 Skype: skypeanalog |...
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Windows 7 is garbage
But all Windows versions are garbage, so nothing is new. -- John Larkin Highland Technology, Inc picosecond timing precision measurement jlarkin att highlandtechnology dott com
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Edison generator experiment gone wrong
There was an infamous test of Edison's generator in which 2 generators were in parallel, and they got into a feedback loop of some kind, and accelerated out of control until he disconnected them. What...
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LTspice heads up
LTspice heads up... Latest LTspice sync release over-wrote many text-based subcircuits with encrypted versions. So back up all the text-based ones before they disappear. ...Jim Thompson -- | James...
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Remember, when Nancy Pelosi said:
?We have to pass it, to find out what's in it." A physician called "That's the definition of a stool sample." Mikek :-)
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OT tractor beam.
This is fun, If you follow the Nature link you can read the paper as see some awesome videos. (Video #2 is nice.) George H.
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Batteries
Have this little scooter, it has a 8Ah lead acid battery for start and light. Not so good anymore, years and years, long without charge, burned dry one time, refilled with distilled water, so needs a...
 
Measuring 2.4 GHz SWR using a directional coupler
Measuring 2.4 GHz SWR using a directional coupler. SWR meters for those frequencies are normally expensive. There is a way to do good measurements using a directional coupler. I got myself this one...
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OT: More MPLAB program problems
Problems. Code snippet #1: CLRW ADDWF swcount,W ; count to W BTFSC STATUS,Z ; zero count = divide by zero ==> value as zero GOTO BY1 DECF swcount,W ; count = 1 ** Neither W nor swcount change; WTF? ;...
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algorithm that can distinguish between a sequence of PI digits and a sequence of pseudorandom digits of equal length
Hi, Is it possible to distinguish between digits of PI and digits of a pseudorandom sequence, without using any PI digit lookup table or calculating digits of PI? For example, a 100,000 digit sequence...
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Phone detector - not working for 4G
Hi A friend needs a phone ringing detector for his workshop, as he cannot hear it when working with his machinery. The idea is easy - when the phone rings, like old TVs - you could hear it. I detect...
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saving water
Today's San Francisco Chronicle has a great tip for saving water: shower with your cat. It's claimed to cut showering time by 95%.
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Re: Rundll32.exe scanning my computer.
On Tue, 27 Oct 2015 12:42:06 +0100, "Skybuck Flying" Gave us: snipped utter stupidity... You are a true idiot.
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PCB rework
Does anyone have any experience adding a trace to a PCB? I have a BGA that needs a ball wired out to a pull down resistor. Reworking the BGA isn't much of a problem but I need to wire the pad to an...
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measuring phase
At an image processing seminar last week, I saw a startling presentation. The speaker noted that we cannot measure phase at optical wavelengths, hence costs a major loss of information. To illustrate,...
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