Posts by Trygve Henriksen 778 publicly visible posts • joined 4 Jul 2007
Having mangled the Norwegian language(actually, we have two variants of written Norwegian) for a lifetime I can say with a good degree of certainty that a line like that would make any teacher cry...
@Tim, I'd smack you with a cod, if I could...
Your punishment will therefore be to watch this video on replay for 2 Hours:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijk8GQZP1pA
Same here.
The secret to IKEA packages is to check the contents list and sorting the bits. Reading through the entire sequence before starting the assembly doesn't hurt, either, as it'll help you to be aware of the workspace needed and possibly orientation. (Some pieces of furniture needs to be flipped over or rotated during assembly... )
From what I understand, a lot of the 'returns' they get has marks of screws in plug/pin holes and glue residue where no glue was supposed to ever be used. Sometimes even on furniture that came without glue at all...
Aren't .22 lr rimfire cartridges?
(I can't be bothered to remember all the different .22 types out there)
And yeah, I'd love to see him try that stunt with the 9mm...
Mostly because I like explosions...
Picked the 9mm parabellum as it's a very common cartridge, so should be easy to get hold of.
(I was going to mention 7.62 NATO rounds first, but... decided to not be that mean... )
Ceramics seems to be completely ignored by the 3D community, unfortunately. A pity as that's where they'll have the best chance of succeeding. (Not pottery clay, of course, but modern high-teck ceramics such as zirconium dioxide. Not an expert. Other mixes may be better... )
I doubt he can get more than ONE somewhat accurate shot out of it, even if it's not a hoax.
(The fact that he hasn't published his files yet, but are only promising to do so is an indicator that it's a hoax)
After the first shot, the inside of the barrel will be a melted sludge that solidifies again in a 'less than perfect shape'.
And that's IF he even got the diameter right for the first shot...
Aim is 'less than perfect' as the barrel with front sight is removable by hand, and therefore can't be locked too tightly in place. (A metal design can use tighter tolerances so won't lose accuracy when you remove/re-mount the barrel)
.22 rimfire... honestly, there are probably metal pens that can be adapted to work as a barrel for those. And will hold for more shots...
Until someone designs one that uses 9mm Parabellum and can reliably hit a full figure target at 50 meters with more than one shot I won't consider it a viable weapon.
Maybe they think that if they set it to blow if it penetrates into a bunker, the blastwave will do more damage?
(It won't. And any bunker weak enough that the MOP can penetrate into can probably be knocked out with much smaller penetrators, too)
A thin-walled, extensive bunker system is probably better taken out with the MOAB.
The reason why manufacturers doesn't try harder?
I would guess that a lot of the engineers are too set in their ways.
To them a car MUST have 4 wheels, all driven by the same big engine.
And if there' a Gasoline engine anywhere near it, of course it has to be the driving force...
Frankly, I'm sometimes surprised that they don't stick exhausts on pure EVs...
83 mph?
Why aren't I impressed?
The first Citroen 2CV did 80mpg, and a Citroen AX did 87mpg when it traveled from Dover to Barcelona on 10Imperial Gallons...
(Those are real world numbers. Just check the book the next time you're in the pub, enjoying a pint. Nope, not buying for you... )
4WD?
Doesn't matter to me. Off-roading is generally not legal here in Norway, and my Berlingo gets me everywhere else without problems. (A diff-locker would have been nice for winter use, though.)
Your math may be right, but your presumptions are wrong.
How far do you drive on that 40L tank?
Over how many days?
When going from a gasoline/diesel-based vehicle to an electric you also change refill/recharge patterns from 'Fill when near empty' to 'recharge when parking'.
Also, you assume that an electric uses the same amount of energy as the equivalent size gas-guzzler.
That said, most electrics today are poorly designed crap only manufactured to keep the greens at bay.
You have a 'mostly stock' vehicle with a big Electric motor, a gearbox, and even a differential and axles in it.
That's a lot of heavy junk that steals power.
The best way to design it would be with 2 or 4 smaller electric motors placed in the wheelhubs.
The only problem then is that you'd need a slightly more advanced motor controller...
A bonus is that it makes it much easier to implement regenerative braking.
The Hybrids out on the road today?
With gas-guzzler engines almost as big as the 'normal' version cars, a big electric motor and a heavy lump of parts to make them work together?
Also a disgrace of engineering.
They need to drop that crap and go directly to the 'Extended Range EV', with a small motor to continuously recharge batteries and a set of electrics for propulsion.
A small gasoline engine optimised to drive a generator is much more efficient than todays car engines that are built to 'perform over a wide range of speeds'.
Also, the generator doesn't even have to deliver enough power to replenish what the car uses at 'cruise', much less what it uses when accelerating.
It just needs to keep the batteries from draining completely before you get to your goal. And any time you stop for a red light, to do a number 1, or to get something to eat, the little engine that could will still be busy recharging the batteries. (Unless you stop at an IKEA or other place that has charging stations of course... )
That only exists in old German operas...
No viking would be daft enough to go into battle with something like that stuck on their helmets.
Not only would they catch on everything(low branches in the woods, low ceilings, doorframes), but they'd also guide an otherwise harmless glancing blow directly to the temple...
Don't have the second on the list, and my Psion MC is the 400, not the 200.
My Toshiba has a dud screen or driver(stripy display), but otherwise they all work.
My Eee701 runs eCs, barely.
The MC400 is a good all-day word processor.
(Nothing comes close to the battery life of a MC400 loaded with 8 x AA alkalines)
Great keyboard, too.
What about the Olivetti Quaderno PT-XT-20 ?
It doesn't seem to be for 'serious' work. It's for 'fun'...
I was among the first 50 to chip in, and nw they're passed 200 and the halfway point already, so financing at least seems to be orking out.
As for fabrication, if you read a bit on their website, you'll find that they have prior experience with pushing product through fabrication.
Whether or not they manage to keep the promised delivery or 'September 2013', remains to be seen, though.
(If so, I know of someone who would love to get one as an Xmas present)
Who the F! cares about the 'compressed capacity'?
I have to back up a large library of pictures(creeping towards 10TB), and I challenge anyone to get a 2:1 compression(or whatever imaginary ratio that the storage manufacturer has dreamt up while smoking his socks) on that...
I NEED to know the real capacity when planning a new tape library setup, so that I can get a big enough robot and also have enough tapes available for vaulting/offsite rotation.
I've been driving French cars since 1990...
First my mother's old Citroën GS, then I bought a used Citroën CX which lasted me many years(until my shoddy servicing killed the engine).
The BX which replaced it had a slight fault. Seems it can't take being backed over by a 6WD dump-truck.
My first Berlingo was killed in a parking lot because of a SUV with clueless owner.
My second Berlingo... Well... the sunroof(ragtop type) doesn't work... yet...
(All my cars have been bought secondhand. )
There's no problem keeping French cars running, as long as you show them the same attention as you should your wife. If you don't.. (if you skip servicing...) you suffer endless agony...
At least on the Citroëns I drove with hydraulics, there was a separate 'high pressure reservoir' for the brakes.
This meant that you still had braking power enough to stop if something happened to the pump.
I've never heard of a system failure that takes out he brakes at the same time as the rest, unless it was the braking system itself that was faulty.
(I've had a few faults; height adjuster on the GS, rotten squid on the CX and BX, worn out column on the BX. Old cars and lots of mileage. Nothing that caused any danger. )
Most Citroëns with Hydraulics have the handbrake working on the front wheels, and it's STRONG!
This is a quote from 'Autocar' in 1978 about the handbrake on the CX
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The remarkably effective handbrake operates on the front wheels. It managed an almost unbeatable 0.42g deceleration and easily held the CX Pallas C-Matic on a 1 in 3 slope, from which a restart could be made with contemptuous ease.
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I can attest to the GS not being a slouch, either.
In fact, even with a full hydraulics failure, it's possible to DRIVE(slowly) these cars to the workshop for repairs.
(Assuming that you can turn the wheel and the road's not too bumpy)
That's because the only report they got was from those who visited England...
The editor visiting Japan had the fish.
The one who visited Australia was attacked by sheep...
The one who visited Germany only sent one word back - Octoberfest - and no one really understood what he meant.
The one who ended up in Las Vegas had a bit of a problem with the dice and had to hock his equipment...
And we all know what happened to the unlucky being who ended up in the Sauna World Championship in Finland...
Towel in hand, book in pocket. Got any peanuts?
Because we like to have a physical proof that we're entitled to play the music?
Because we want to be able to let whoever inherits our stuff to also be able to legally play it?
Because we don't want to be the victim of yet another online service shutdown?
Mine's the coat with the 2TB drive in the pocket...
What struck me as strange when I first saw it back in 1988 (yes, it was aired first time in 1985, but then I didn't have access to sattelite) was the total absence of 'personal wireless comms'.
No cell-phones of any sort, no walkie-talkies...
They used ship-wide PA to page people and had phone booths at different places around the ship.
Back then my father used a NMT-450 mobile(more like luggable), and I walked around with a Motorola walkie-talkie/cell-phone cross of some sort.
I once had a call from a user where the 3.5" drive "wasn't working"...
The diskette had gotten stuck in the drive, and since she was in a hurry, she had just yanked it out.
And yes, the sliding dust cover and a little spring stayed in the drive)
So... 1 Hour drive to location, pull drive from PC, dismantle and remove the parts. Reassemble and reinstall...
Asked the user why she was in such a hurry...
1 Hour return drive while swearing loudly...
She was 'backing up' her files... Files that were stored on her personal share on the fileserver in the next room... The one she had the job of swapping tapes in every morning...
(Tandberg SLR 1.3GB, I think. The ones that never ever failed... )
Actually, the mistake they did that allowed the Bletchley park people to crack the messages was the header of each message.
In that header they had the 'offset' of the 'daily settings'. (They started each message using the listed daily settings, but the first symbols told the operator which adjustments he needed to do to decode the rest of the message)
The problem was that not only was this 'offset' at the same place and had the same length every time, but they(being German and 'perfectionists') sent the offset code TWICE, back to back.
If a random 'brute force' attempt gave two identical text strings at that location in the message, you knew you had it right. No need to brute the entire message in the hope of seeing cleartext.
It was actually Polish military intelligence who spotted the mistake, but they didn't have the time to exploit it, so they passed everything on to the French who didn't really know what to do with it and sent it on to England.
It's Jarlsberg, not Jarlsberger.
Also, that cheese(my favorite if anyone wonders) is known for its 'nutty' flavour and few but large holes. The holes also tends to have a small 'tear' in them.
Now, the size of the holes may be reminiscent of Windows, but there's way too few of them to be a valid comparison...
Sometimes, it seems HP is willing to replace it if you have a good story to tell...
Most likely, they just want it for dissection if it's a damage type they've never seen or anticipated.
Also, if it's a company, not a private person, they're more willing to replace in order to keep the customer coming back for more.
Washing an Apple keyboard can't be that difficult?
Looks to me like it uses a similar system as HP laptops, and they can be dismantled, if you're patient enough...
Now, if you want difficult, you should try rescuing the keyboard on a Psion netBook after a whole lot of very sugary tea ended up in it.
THAT was a pain in the seating arraignment...
I ended up having to separate the layers and wash them by themselves. And no, it's not built to be taken apart again...
And when the lazy fuck who couldn't use a different password than his username has his account hacked, and the payroll database gets thrashed... what then?
The NO EXCEPTIONS rule is to stop 'little concessions' from blowing up and wrrecking the day for everyone else!
FYI; in my organisation we have 6000 employees, 200 locations, 8000 PCs and 350+ different applications. Letting someone 'update Java on their PC so that they can access their online bank' is likely to break quite a few of them. The 'classic' Hotbar IE addon broke one, (not my fault that we use IE. ) We have a ginormous fileshare with areas locked down by groups. Before we got THAT thing sorted, we often had to restore because a clumsy user stumbled upon something he shouldn't(such as the Delete key), now they only manage to ruin the day for the grest of their group.
Quad is nice when converting movie formats...
I spent a couple of months ripping DVDs to create .MKV files which I then Handbraked into .MP4 / .M4V files.
The job doesn't require any extreme graphics cards, but whatever CPU-resources you have really comes in handy...
Used 4 DVD-drives (Internal, 2 x USB, and and old IDE-based internal model hooked up via the gutted remains of a FireWire-based HDD case) to rip.
My 2005 Mini is 'slightly updated' with 2GB RAM, 80GB SSD, 2.16GHz Core2Duo CPU...
(Used my Iomega MiniMax 1TB for temporary storage and sent the final files to my NAS)
Hah!
Windows 1.03 on 5.25" floppies...
OS/2 1.3 (together with Lan Manager 2.2. Probably not that uncommon package back in the 90s?)
Want some '9chip' 256KB SIMs? Or the box of 1Meg 100nS SIMs tested to work in Olivetti M380 desktops?
(Yes, I have the dip-switch configuration sheet needed. )
How can you get a 'click of death' in a Zip disk? I thought it was only the drive that got that fault?
Want a couple of 'Bus mouse' rodents for your collection?
(Came from the Olivetti M380 machines at the office)
I kept a shopping-bag full of them because the plug at he end is the same as Psion used on the serial port on the MC400 laptop and later the Soap-on-a-rope serial adapter for the S3/S3a and the docking cradle for the Workabout.
The video adapter... Yeah, that one was a bit of an annoyance... Until I found one on eBay...
Probably shouldn't mention the Orange card in my SS 5... Yeah, a PC emulator card.
One day I'll get one of my SUNs to boot. (Crapped out drives)
The picture is a bit of a trap... Theres a couple of items that aren't what they look to be.
Bonus points to those who recognise the small figurine at the top shelf...
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