Mister_X

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by Mister_X 8y ago
Cool! So do I, from 1969, in my high school electronics class and it still works too. It's for a variable audio oscillator that rises and is re-set by a micro switch. I tuned it with a precision trim pot, to sound "like" a th
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by Mister_X 8y ago
What acid did you use, when I etched my first board in 1969, I used Ferric chloride (that stuff stains everything!) and an aluminum pie plate, it worked fine, no reactions at all, other than slowly etching my copper circuit board.
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by Mister_X 8y ago
Don't worry about it too much, in 4000 A.D., 1A will train Magnus, into a Robot Fighter and he'll be there to save Humanity from the Evil Robots. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnus%2C_Robot_Fighter
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by Mister_X 8y ago
I don't need to read the article, it's well established that the average person acquiesces to perceived authority most of the time when they encounter it. I figured it out in 1977 working for a private telcom company in Santa Clar
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by Mister_X 8y ago
Sorry, I moved away from there in '92, but if you want to know what it was like from '64 until then, I'm your man. In the Santa Clara Sunnyvale area it was primarily orchards, cherry, apricot and prune plums, now it's al
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by Mister_X 8y ago
Quite interesting, he may be on to something BIG. Ever hear of Butchers Warts? Yes, warts that butchers get, apparently they are caused by a virus in beef blood. Additionally, Skin Tags are also believed to be caused by a virus. I know for
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by Mister_X 8y ago
Heh, remember when /. ditched the original black & white pages and added the color logo and theme, I was like, cooool, this is the future.
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by Mister_X 8y ago
Yeah, I came back to Chips & Dips, uh, Slash Dot, a few years ago, after a long hiatus due to an influx of what can only be described a juvenile idiots, but apparently most of them went away, thankfully. While it's certainly not li
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by Mister_X 8y ago
Nothing mysterious about those Concretion's at all. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concretion About 20 years ago, the end of my road was at Bowling Ball Beach, plenty of concretion's to see there at low tide.
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by Mister_X 8y ago
That's the calm Caver mentality, without it one could perish during unanticipated events. Years ago, 8 of my friends had just entered a cave for a multi hour exploration/survey trip when an accidentally kicked boulder fell, blocki
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by Mister_X 8y ago
For hard core Cavers, caving isn't a "hobby", far from it, it's a PASSION!
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by Mister_X 8y ago
Your broad generalization doesn't work with Caving though, this thread is specifically about cave exploration and Victorian alpinism wasn't about that at all, it was a frivolous "sport" of the times. They weren't su
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by Mister_X 8y ago
There are several types of people who visit caves. Tourists, who visit "show caves", caves made reasonably safe for average people to visit. Spelunkers are average untrained people who on a lark, go into a "wild" cave se
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by Mister_X 8y ago
Cave exploration is a lousy place for any sort of robot due to the ever changing terrain. Most caves worth exploring have vertical entrances, one has to rappel into, let's see a robot do that and then climb a 15 foot nuisance drop, the
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by Mister_X 8y ago
You are correct, but only in the sense that average people call Cavers "spelunkers". Those who participate in original hard core exploration call themselves Cavers and they are highly trained individuals. We say "Cavers rescu
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by Mister_X 8y ago
Drones baby... they need to Add Drones to the Hose, that will solve the weight problem. See, Drones can help solve nearly any engineering problem. Remember, Drones are Your Friend.
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by Mister_X 8y ago
Nice! It's a High Tech WHAM-O Water Wiggle to put out Fires, I like. But it needs the Silly cartOOn Smiley Face on the front so it won't scare children, always think of the children. Oh no, the house is on Fire! Don't panic,
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by Mister_X 8y ago
That... was a tough read, nay, more of a plod, it never came to a solid conclusion after a laborious build up, BAH! And I'm a space/tech geek too, with an appreciation of the arcane, but it needs to be easy to read for those who m
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by Mister_X 8y ago
- How do you deal with the fact that we don't know why anything at all exists? Why, for instance, do atoms, subatomic particles, etc, exist AT ALL? Why not NOTHING? A: Realize we're all made of the same "stuff" what ever
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by Mister_X 8y ago
Firetalk. I was an early adopter in '97, it used VoIP for slightly laggy communications, it was really neat for the time, seemed like the future had arrived. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firetalk
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by Mister_X 8y ago
ChipsandDips and kuro5hin.org were two of my faves.
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by Mister_X 8y ago
Could you ask a more general question please? Oh, what the heck, I'll give you a general answer, you may get some benefit from it. San Francisco, i.e. The City (NOT Frisco), never changes once you're in a neighborhood, everyone is
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by Mister_X 8y ago
Minus 1? Crimney... it's a good song. Guess I should have posted a link to fart song, eh
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by Mister_X 8y ago
It will be interesting to see how this plays out, because right now the West coast from San Francisco North to at least Fort Bragg, has been suffering a kelp die off of great proportions. No one is quite sure whats going on, but apparently
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by Mister_X 8y ago
I'll be the heretic then... how about you all eat less beef, easy solution to the "problem". And no, I'm not a vege-anything. Just to prove it, here's a great song by the Reverend Horton Heat, that I used to play on
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by Mister_X 9y ago
Not a game of "tag", but I told a stupid joke to a friend on a family vacation and variations of it have been going back and forth between us regularly for 49 years now. It's actually in poor taste these days, so I won't
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by Mister_X 9y ago
Feel free to define "the best" for us.
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by Mister_X 9y ago
Does this OS use systemd, the linked page is a bit light on info. I've got LinuxLite on this old laptop, and I hate it, so this ticks a lot of my want boxes, but I'm hesitant.
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by Mister_X 9y ago
I miss Crunch Bang, so I'm always on the lookout for a lightweight/fast distro, perhaps I'll give it a try
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by Mister_X 9y ago
Yes, do go on.

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