From: jmfbahciv on
In article <45B3AC60.4F83969(a)earthlink.net>,
"Michael A. Terrell" <mike.terrell(a)earthlink.net> wrote:
>jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote:
>>
>> I'm talking about monitoring without interfering with the performance.
>
>
> You obviously know absolutely nothing about electronics.

That is correct.

> Its done
>every day, with the proper equipment. What do you think an
>oscilloscope, voltmeter, or frequency counter does? Yes, they may
>affect the circuit under test, but usually not enough to notice.
>Especially in low impedance circuits.

Since I don't have the proper equipment, I use a "poor man's"
method... lights and sounds patterns.

/BAH

From: jmfbahciv on
In article <45B4B468.954A42E8(a)hotmail.com>,
Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote:
>
>> Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote:
>> >jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote:
>> >> Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote:
>> >> >jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote:
>> >> >> Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote:
>> >> >> >jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote:
>> >> >> >> Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote:
>> >> >> >> >jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote:
>> >> >> >> >> Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote:
>> >> >> >> >>
>> >> >> >> >> >Expect BAH to now suggest that the agriculture in California
is
>> >> >> >> >> >about to collapse.
>> >> >> >> >>
>> >> >> >> >> It already has. Adding the burden of a minimum wage hike will
>> >> >> >> >> make it worse.
>> >> >> >> >
>> >> >> >> >I truly don't believe it !
>> >> >> >>
>> >> >> >> Now read the past few weeks' weather reports.
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> >What would I find there ?
>> >> >>
>> >> >> Snow and freezing temperatures. Sigh! You claimed that
>> >> >> you knew more than I about the real news.
>> >> >
>> >> >Since when is a local weather report *news* ???
>> >>
>> >> When it destroys the season's agriculture crop. You should look
>> >> at a map. California isn't quite a "local" area; it's very large.
>> >
>> >I know but California weather's not terribly relevant to me.
>>
>> It is indirectly.
>
>Oh sure in a very small way but I'm not going to fret
>over a single year's bad
>weather. It's bad enough with all the 'global warming' hype.

You are not thinking longer term. If California's economy
tanks, the US' economy will be affected. If the US economy
has problems, the world will be affected. What do you think
would happen if one of the largest consumer nations stops
buying your stuff?

That's what I mean by affecting you indirectly.
>
>
>> >> >> So why haven't you heard nor learned about the two (California mess
and
>> >> >> Democrat leadership visits)?
>> >> >
>> >> >What's that got to do with anything ?
>> >>
>> >> The issue is your claim that you know more about what's going on
>> >> in the world than I do. The discussion drifted to economies
>> >> and the effects of forcing a depressed piece of the economy to
>> >> raise its costs when it's not going to make much money this year.
>> >
>> >The effect of a single year is relatively minute. It would become news if
>> >this started happeneing every year and affected the economy of the area on
a
>> >long-term basis
>>
>> Small things affect all economies on a long-term basis in this
>> age of global technology and trade.
>
>Small things have small effects. Don't get over-excited about it.

Oh, you do have more to learn about one small snowball starting
an avalanche. Economies work the same way. The reason you
do see a cause and an effect is because it takes 3-5 years or more
for each cause to have a noticable effect. Noticable usually
means expensive. If there isn't an expensive effect for you to
notice, you won't ever tie Event A in year X with Event B in year
Y.


>
>
>> >> Underlying these discussions is the fact that the Democrat leadership
>> >> is insane with no grasp on reality. If there should be a minimum
>> >> wage, the price-setting belongs to the states and not the federal
>> >> government.
>> >
>> >This is only *your view* though.
>> >
>> >To me the Republicans are the insane ones. After all they're the ones
running
>> >a huge budget deficit and spending 10% of the US GDP on a pointless war.
>>
>> It is your opinion that countering Islamic extremism is pointless.
>
>Absolutely not !
>
>The events of the last few years have made us in the UK for example more
aware of
>the 'culture gap' between traditional tolerant British values and the extreme
>intolerance and disinclinate to integrate espoused by some Muslims. It's
something
>we need to deal with and it's a hot topic now. We cannot accept intolerance
in our
>society no matter how 'liberal' we may be.

That is what is going to be decided with this thingie called War on
Terror. Muslims, of the extreme flavor, do not allow tolerance.
They are killing those who do in public.

This is a war about which living style will be allowed,
globally.

/BAH

From: Eeyore on


jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote:

> Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote:
> >jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote:
> >> Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote:
> >> >jasen wrote:
> >> >> jmfbahciv(a)aol.com <jmfbahciv(a)aol.com> wrote:
> >> >>
> >> >> > I'm talking about monitoring without interfering with the performance.
> >> >>
> >> >> Any additional software you run will reduce performance (by using up
> >> >> computer cycles and ram), wether the reduction is significant is upto
> >> >> you to decide. if your computer is upto the task monitoring needn't
> >> >> reduce your the speed of your internet connection.
> >> >
> >> >She's got a 486.
> >>
> >> And, until the disk strictioned, a 386.
> >
> >I never had one of those.
>
> <GRIN> I knew you were very young.

You're joking ! Not *that* young.

In fact the first 'personal computer' I programmed was the world's first laptop -
back in 1981.
http://oldcomputers.net/hx-20.html


> > A V30 based PC initially then jumped to 486.
>
> >> >SX25 CPU even maybe ?
> >>
> >> No.
> >
> >Well that's something at least.
> >
> >DX4 ?
>
> I'm pretty sure it's a 66 but I can't remember if JMF needed
> the arithmetic. The 386 was a D because I was going to
> do stuff.

Ok. If you can still find one, the CPU cycles of a DX66 can be doubled with AMD's
586-133 upgrade that'll drop into most sockets. That's what my old 486 has in it.

Graham

From: Ken Smith on
In article <ep2ftt$8qk_002(a)s898.apx1.sbo.ma.dialup.rcn.com>,
<jmfbahciv(a)aol.com> wrote:
[....]
>It won't be. I'm supposed to be running a Unix which will
>run an emulator which will load and run various flavors
>of our OSes. Each of these emulations will appear as
>if I had those hard/software systems in my house. But
>I only need gear the size of a breadbox and 115V power.
>No buss bars required.

"bochs" will run on linux.

I don't think you will have trouble:

"bash" is the shell I prefer. You have other choices on this. They all
are programming languages in their own right. If you've written batch
files in the past, you will find the concepts in shell scripts easy to
grasp.

Unlike windows, most of the *nix is controled via simple ASCII files.
What starts up when you power up is controled by a bunch of scripts. It
is a concept sort of "autoexec.bat" but spread over more files and able to
do more.

Files with names like "somethingrc" and "something.conf" replace the
"something.ini" files.

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From: Ken Smith on
In article <ep2aoe$8ss_005(a)s898.apx1.sbo.ma.dialup.rcn.com>,
<jmfbahciv(a)aol.com> wrote:
[....]
>>You said they met with extremists. Now it comes out you had no evidence
>>for that. That they stopped in some places is all you have as fact. All
>>the rest is something you assumed.
>
>Do you consider Syria to be moderate and, thus, not a problem?

I consider them to be not a problem right now and perhaps part of the
solution. Asad is not a deocratic person but he is also not a religious
extremist. His father has modernized the country introducing things like
the internet etc that didn't see as a threat to his rule.

Syria was a client state to the soviets. They depended on them for
military support. Now that the USSR is gone, Syria has a bit more trouble
getting military hardware. Asad, like many men in their 40s, is starting
to think about his legacy a bit. As strange as it may sound, he appears
to want to leave a democracy behind.


On the other hand, he really hates the existance of Isreal. He has thus
supported terrorist groups that make trouble for Isreal. He also wants to
influence if not control Lebanon. He is not trying to change their
religion. This is just about land, money and power.

Over the last 20 years, the US has done a moderately good job dealing with
Syria. The trick with Asad seems to be to always make clear that you
don't like what he is doing but show him a little respect. He is not a
religious zealot and is a bit practical about things. If he sees it to
his advantage to be a nice guy, he will be a nice guy. If he sees it to
his advantage to make trouble, he will do a lot of that. You have to
always remember, however, that he doesn't like Isreal one little bit.

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