From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 06199139BC6 for ; Thu, 17 Sep 2015 19:36:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3E4E821C036; Thu, 17 Sep 2015 19:36:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-wi0-f179.google.com (mail-wi0-f179.google.com [209.85.212.179]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 30D8221C003 for ; Thu, 17 Sep 2015 19:36:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wiclk2 with SMTP id lk2so4485308wic.1 for ; Thu, 17 Sep 2015 12:36:23 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=subject:to:references:from:message-id:date:user-agent:mime-version :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=r3BtFpf/0QRQoMjPlqBnkTPOgkyY+SbQbieAOKw5ST0=; b=pxajqo0AQfKMAmU1aQTX8xyVNaHWEJu45lpXn1RSBoHyDN43CxFCFknDstq2FkaQmF flh8do6x57piG9G8Nz3/gI08nT10Kxmff/Keui+JIvUIMYGxWnyeI4099IRzzvEtd098 jbOKtabgsD8GXIBXh8H9WazxD3sObMe1fo6HibozRXv+OLp2kjTa4fhZlx3RxPJsKyrE FrHLL4MFSI2Yh/u9WNnetxwkF50kCRLh+rxNORz4rZ+pq7hrF/UL6d6atgVhknVIyJbM fkr8exFbAB8+Gr9KB8BGu3U2H/OSMskZ0qcK17wUjBO50v174M5E+3mTSAPl6wdL04+b DpJw== X-Received: by 10.180.189.102 with SMTP id gh6mr31420568wic.95.1442518583036; Thu, 17 Sep 2015 12:36:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [172.20.0.41] (105-237-195-3.access.mtnbusiness.co.za. [105.237.195.3]) by smtp.googlemail.com with ESMTPSA id gl4sm4982425wjb.29.2015.09.17.12.36.21 for (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Thu, 17 Sep 2015 12:36:22 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: new machine : case + power To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org References: <20150917030432.GE1080@ca.inter.net> <55FAC1D2.4040706@gmail.com> <55FACD92.9030601@gmail.com> From: Alan McKinnon X-Enigmail-Draft-Status: N1110 Message-ID: <55FB1622.9090001@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2015 21:36:02 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.2.0 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Archives-Salt: af581bb7-164f-4eeb-8cc1-73ee3a422244 X-Archives-Hash: 20be497fe60e82c1d7fb8cceffa3aa23 On 17/09/2015 18:56, james wrote: > Alan McKinnon gmail.com> writes: > > >> On 17/09/2015 16:09, james wrote: >>> Huh? You really should stay in the E&M domain, for accuracy and not >>> confusing the readers. > >> I'm not familiar with the term "E&M" > > Aren't you an EE, amongst other talents? I started an engineering degree, but got waylaid in 2nd year mostly due to failing chemistry in the 1st year :-) What I am, qualification wise, is a Electronic (Radio) Technician. The old way, soldering iron in hand doing component level repairs and none of this modern nonsense of replacing entire boards at 60% the price of the unit. I've fixed more PSUs of every type under the sun than I care to remember, and it always annoyed the blazes out of me that I was the only tech who understood what I was working on . Only one other person ever truly grokked me about ESR wrt electrolytics and why dud caps almost always read correctly on capacitance meters. But that was a very long time ago, I left that field 15 years ago. Now I'm a sysadmin, some call me a BOFH :-) > Electricity and Magnetism (E&M) > You know, what physicists call Fields and Waves.... > Surely you've met my friend Schroedinger? > Electric fields; just for fun [1] Yes, I recall Schroedinger, he had a very nice cat. Her spirit lives on in the daft creature that meows round my kitchen. It must be the poison gas from the vial, that stuff scrambles brains > > >> For the rest, we seem to have diverged the plot somewhere. >> We agree. > > Hey, I posted once about PS, and everybody had to pile_on (ok). > The I posted again on a different sub_thread, try to avoid > conflict. I know power, small signals, DSPs and quite a bit of > Rf.......... Granted, my people skills, despite arduous effort, > are weak, at best. That why I sit in a lab alone, and mostly > contract, when something interests me... You and I have similar problems. The computers and circuitry do what we tell them do and the machines are predictable. People are ... not so much. I'm now 50 and it's only in the last 5 years I've really started to get a handle on it ;-) > > Cheers! > ;-) no worries, we're all good. > > [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schrödinger_field > -- Alan McKinnon alan.mckinnon@gmail.com