Archive for December, 2005
Posted in December 29th, 2005
www.aeroinstructor.com – Home I’m going to be teaching a community ed class this spring on aviation, and thought it best to get my website in order. As a result, I picked up yet another domain name, and have been busy learning Joomla. Besides the community ed class, I think I found a nice small niche [...]
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Posted in December 16th, 2005
Catalog This is cool! Instead of paying $5000/year and going through tons of headaches, you can buy PIDs in qty 10 ot qty 100. Thats really cool. While you can’t use the USB logo, or be offical, its a whole lot better than being stuck with a Cyprus PID which you really can’t use outside [...]
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Posted in December 16th, 2005
Yep, I just had my blog transmitted into outer space. What a deal!
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Posted in December 16th, 2005
“Designers of personal computers are not generally audio engineers and apparently have not heard of ground loops. In fact, given the noisy fans and screaming disk drives that go into the PC, it is a wonder they can hear at all. All that noise forces some audio professionals keep the computer in a closet or [...]
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Posted in December 12th, 2005
picktown_lights.mov (video/quicktime Object) This is pretty cool. The guy has some prototype RF lor boxes which allow him to control lights even across the street. Talk about a good way to keep the neighbors happy by getting them involved. Its pretty cool! As an FYI, the triac control box designs are done, and tomorrow is [...]
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Posted in December 10th, 2005
Its interesting how there are now so many different kinds of antifreeze, and the worst part is the lack of knowledge of these different kinds. The key is to stay with what your manufacturer recommends, or do a complete chemical flush if you want to change, and then watch your seals big time just in [...]
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Posted in December 8th, 2005
I registered for another forum today, and the outfit had the confound captcha image settings cranked up so high that it was darn near impossible to read the values. Folks, if someone has a graphical image analysis program, it doesn’t matter whether the characters are easy to read, or a pita to read, it will [...]
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Posted in December 7th, 2005
A Chance to Cut is a Chance to Cure Hmmm, looks like us pilots aren’t the only ones that struggle with this problem. If I look back to the day I got my private pilots certificate over 20 years ago, I don’t think I was ever as technically proficient. Sure, I couldn’t do the commercial [...]
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Posted in December 5th, 2005
I decided it might not be a bad idea to set up some computer controlled lights, since we are going to have a triac module at Byphar, and this might be a good way to ring out the system. I’m going to put my notes in the extended blog function, so as not to fill [...]
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Posted in December 1st, 2005
WonderlandChristmas.com – Wizards of Winter If you haven’t seen Wizards of Winter yet, be sure to check it out. This is one of the better sites. Some of the others have greatly reduced audio quality. For some odd reason, folks tend to think it was fake. Its not really all that much rocket science technically. [...]
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