Okay. You can't build your own high quality power amp from a schematic and some parts.
I’m sure I could, and am leading up to it.....it’s a rather foreign concept and as a hands on kinda learner it’s a bit slower for me, I really doubt I’ll ever ‘know’ what I’m doing as far as electronics is concerned. I’m gettin there though......definately know more than I did a year ago thanks to all you fine folks.
Firefox does have built in tracking. These days it has become almost impossible to find a useable web-browser without any form of hidden user tracking. One reason is many web-sites are intentionally coded using javascript which when it is blocked from running makes such web-sites unuseable. If my memory serves me right, Firefox also has proprietary closed source binary code embedded into it. This means, not all of it is open sourced. I use waterfox, a fork of firefox, but it suffers from the same ailments, although to a lesser degree. As an operating system, I use Devuan Linux (a fork of Debian) and still have occasional security issues. Business is taking over Linux and has been doing so for a decade or so. In today's world, for Linux distributions, it is not users which count most, but businesses. This explains the shocking reality about Linux distributions. I remember the days when opting to use Linux was like discovering the ability to resurrect old computers that could no longer be used with MS Windows. This reality, however, is no longer valid: modern Linux does want good powerful hardware just like MS Windows. In fact, unlike in the old days support for old CPUs is slowly dropped. This was heresy in the old days.wiseoldtech said:
I hear ya- if anyone is pathetic enough to be interested in *my* life, let the poor sap spy!
btw, for full redneck status you need at least one vehicle on blocks. Although, the truck bed on that beautiful white sand could fulfill the requirement IF combined with drinking from the water hose. We rednecks have our standards.
I hear that Timmy......I’m a disgrace to my kind!
I promise I’ll work on it, I wanna bury the front end of that bed into the hill and use it as a flower bed.....think that’d get me back on track?😀
I promise I’ll work on it, I wanna bury the front end of that bed into the hill and use it as a flower bed.....think that’d get me back on track?😀
As long as the flowers ain't too fancy! Glad to hear you weren't blown away by the storm yesterday.
I know that as of last week Skycraft was closed, and ESRC can not be reached by phone.....hopefully these will return soon.
Enhanced 911 (E-911) was indeed mandated in 1996. It called for a phased in location system for all telephone service whether it was conventional POTS, VOIP, or wireless. This was done to curb the "wild goose chases" caused by 911 calls without a valid location. The original spec did not call for GPS at all, only a means of locating the phone, which was fairly easy to do on the 2.5G CDMA systems of the day, and nearly impossible on GSM and other TDMA systems. We (Motorola) were working on several different technologies to solve this issue, and that work continues on today. It's still nearly impossible to locate a fireman in a burning concrete high rise building.
Sticking GPS in the phone was a reality in the late 90's. I remember tuning up a bunch of paperclip based GPS antennas on a network analyzer in 1999. The FCC mandate for wireless location meeting certain specs was 2005. I had left the phone group by then, so I don't know if, or how it was done.
After leaving Motorola at age 62 I looked for work for a few years, but being a "cell phone design engineer" pigeon holes you into a job class that no longer exists in the USA. I quit looking a few years ago. I have been running Tubelab as a side business for 15 years, but if the virus and lack of discretionary spending continues for much longer Tubelab will fail this year.
I know that "big brother" is watching.....right through that plastic window in my pocket. My last two phones came from Amazon WITH their spyware built in, for a $50 discount off the phone price. Whoever is receiving my info really has no clue, but the targeted advertising is often humorous. At least 3 times I get an advert from the Mercedes Benz dealership south of Pittsburgh right as I'm driving by it.....can't they tell that I am not, and never will be a Mercedes customer?
Was it proceeded by the words "hey, hold my beer and watch this?"
I did have a car in the front yard in Florida with no front suspension at all. When the code compliance Nazi said that having a car on blocks in the driveway was a violation, I raised the car with a floor jack, removed the blocks then dropped the car directly on the pavement....no blocks, no violation. I did have an engine hanging from a chain in a tree, but it didn't count as it wasn't a small block.....it was a wimpy 84 HP 4 cylinder out of the car that was formerly on blocks.
Before such activity became illegal, the best way to affirm your redneck status was to discharge your 12 gauge shotgun into the ground in your front yard....nobody will mess with you after a few of those!I did have the car and engine relocated to the backyard before the code Nazis came back with reinforcements. That was the 80's when I played with little fast cars. In the early 2000's I did this.
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While sitting on my toolbox. I had the car stowed safely in the backyard before the cops showed up.
Beat me to it, I moved into a neighborhood just as the gentrification started. Soon there were $1M houses a block from folks with a yard full every appliance they ever discarded and two cars up on blocks. The only contribution I was allowed to make was not mowing my lawn.
My wife has a sister where they measure your lawn (town ordinance) and over the set height gets you a citation with $250 fine if not corrected.
Well, I guess mentioning or complaining about anything about way "off topic" in here is worthless to pursue, perhaps the rules are lax. Seems "they don't wanna hear about it"...
Rocks, cars, lord knows what else must be some kind of hidden relation to overpriced stereo equipment... I digress.
Rocks, cars, lord knows what else must be some kind of hidden relation to overpriced stereo equipment... I digress.
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A couple of rules, all threads about wire end up being closed, and most long threads have brief car related diversions.
The town of my primary residence passed an ordinance that you can't park your car on your grass - it's got to be on pavement or in the garage, or else. This forced a buddy of mine to completely cover his backyard with SB2 gravel.
I have an off site car shop but I still keep a clunker or two at home, and have to demonstrate that they run whenever the lady down the street calls the code folks on me ( no non running vehicles allowed ). Sheesh.
If I had any small blocks, I would definitely hang a few from trees and call it art. I have a few broken Tecumseh's, not sure they would be worth the fight.
I have an off site car shop but I still keep a clunker or two at home, and have to demonstrate that they run whenever the lady down the street calls the code folks on me ( no non running vehicles allowed ). Sheesh.
If I had any small blocks, I would definitely hang a few from trees and call it art. I have a few broken Tecumseh's, not sure they would be worth the fight.
To hang with all that overpriced stereo equipment! Remember the good old days when all you needed to attract the ladies was a superheterodyne?
