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Post by kenneth » Mon Oct 20, 2003 9:46 am

HI

Welcome to the off topic forum

I do NOT want any smear campaign ,religious stuff , political convictions , etc or you will be banned!!

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Post by Viv » Mon Oct 20, 2003 11:52 am

ya let the good times roll, well at least we can keep the dross out of the tech forums now:-)

By the way Kenneth can we have Sig's turned on please? and maybe Avatar's too?

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Post by kenneth » Mon Oct 20, 2003 12:19 pm

Viv wrote:ya let the good times roll, well at least we can keep the dross out of the tech forums now:-)

By the way Kenneth can we have Sig's turned on please? and maybe Avatar's too?

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Oh Good, Someplace to Put My Porn

Post by Mike Kirney » Mon Oct 20, 2003 3:05 pm

Just kidding. On the upside, this is the perfect place to tell you all about my wood-fired, steam-driven Tesla turbine that I am almost finished designing. I got my one-inch aluminum hex rod, CroMo pipes, teflon sheet, and 16 ga. steel so now all I have to do is draw all the patterns, cut them out and weld them up. It will have five 6" diameter discs separated by 0.027" spacers, with teflon seals/runners on the outside discs. The steam inlet tube has an inner diameter of 0.495" and the outlet has a diameter of 1.37". Overall, I am trying to design for a 3:1 pressure drop through the casing (e.g. if inlet pressure is 105 psi, outlet would be about 35 psi). Since I don't have any pressure-measuring equipment, I will be measuring temperatures, volumes, and durations. Hopefully these figures will have some significance. If it runs well, I am going to build a high-frequency PM alternator, perhaps with Litz wire winidings or something. I have 50 little Neodymium magnets. I will be posting graphics from time to time, but I only have so much webspace, so the vids of the smoke-belching garbage can will have to go. Download 'em while you can!

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Post by Tom » Mon Oct 20, 2003 3:30 pm

hey mike, i will do you a trade...one of those magnets for some magnesium which might not make it through customs for some reason..... :o)

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Why heap abuse on MS?

Post by Bruno Ogorelec » Mon Oct 20, 2003 5:37 pm

Thomas,

I have been running my small publishing business successfully for seven years now, using a network of between four and seven PCs, running almost exclusively MS software, and have never had any notable problems. My system has not been crashing, my applications have not quarrelled with each other, and programs have generally done what Microsoft said they would do.

It cannot be just luck, for I have gone through four generations of all the software, from the OSs to the small apps, with more or less the same level of reliability and satisfaction. I've had far more trouble with my HiFi and TV/VCR systems in the same period.

I find it difficult to see why people are complaining so much. If you know what you're doing when you install the stuff, and if you maintain it properly, it gives sterling service.

And mind you, I started my association with computers on Macs, so I'm not blinkered. I worked on a Mac-based network for two years, but chose MS when I started out on my own and have never regretted it. The biggest trouble I've had with software came from products of non-MS companies, like Adobe, Symantec etc.

I think much of the bitching about Microsoft is just a pose.

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Post by Tom » Mon Oct 20, 2003 10:15 pm

i think i will enjoy this. a good debate, just like the old days :o) i have used practically every operating system with a gui, and the one that comes out on top for me is mac. It is just so stable ccompared to other editions of windows, granted my XP instillation is holding out pretty well so far. Maybe it is just me, but I have a knack for crashing windows. maybe it's all the times i have been shocked by camera flashes and 115V AC back in canada, buti can just do it without even trying. i want to save my work? oops, to late, word has performed yet another illegal op. Not with mac or linux. but maybe, you can convert me Bruno, although i doubt it, what with Gates constanly disrupting my trans-atlantic messaging...


yes i know all of that was pointless, but i am bored :o)

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Re: Why heap abuse on MS?

Post by Viv » Mon Oct 20, 2003 10:50 pm

brunoogorelec wrote:Thomas,

I have been running my small publishing business successfully for seven years now, using a network of between four and seven PCs, running almost exclusively MS software, and have never had any notable problems. My system has not been crashing, my applications have not quarrelled with each other, and programs have generally done what Microsoft said they would do.

It cannot be just luck, for I have gone through four generations of all the software, from the OSs to the small apps, with more or less the same level of reliability and satisfaction. I've had far more trouble with my HiFi and TV/VCR systems in the same period.

I find it difficult to see why people are complaining so much. If you know what you're doing when you install the stuff, and if you maintain it properly, it gives sterling service.

And mind you, I started my association with computers on Macs, so I'm not blinkered. I worked on a Mac-based network for two years, but chose MS when I started out on my own and have never regretted it. The biggest trouble I've had with software came from products of non-MS companies, like Adobe, Symantec etc.

I think much of the bitching about Microsoft is just a pose.

Bruno
Hey come on Bruno quit winding the kid up you know Windoz is a rubbish copy of an old Mac system:-)

And besides we is now Unix on the Mac and it is excellent! even the Adobe software works now!

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Apples are for crushing into sauce!

Post by Mike Kirney » Mon Oct 20, 2003 11:07 pm

I'm behind Bruno on this one. I had an Apple IIc back in the 80s, and it was nothing compared to the Athlon I'm running right now. I must say, however, that the operating system on that old machine never crashed once. I paid $319.22 for a Windows Me CD back in March 2000, and it is the first, last and only OS-CD I will ever buy. Microsoft gobbled up my lifetime OS budget in one fell swoop I'm sorry to say. Redhat Linux was fun to try, but it really takes patience to get the hang of it, and I never really did figure it out enough to get all my cards, etc. to work all at once. If you just want to read about pulsejets and look at pictures of naked women, then Windows is all you really need.

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Re: Apples are for crushing into sauce!

Post by Viv » Mon Oct 20, 2003 11:19 pm

Mike Kirney wrote:I'm behind Bruno on this one. I had an Apple IIc back in the 80s, and it was nothing compared to the Athlon I'm running right now.
So todays Athlon is a bit faster than the 1980s IIc ! well I must admit to a bit of a surprise on that mike.

Try a restart see if that cures it:-) mind you the 6800 never was the fastest thing around then.

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Applets Replace Apples

Post by Mike Kirney » Tue Oct 21, 2003 12:48 am

Actually that old Apple was my very first gateway to the internet, back in 1994. I hunted all over town looking for a modem and finally found a real hotrod - 9600 baud!!! So I hooked it up and logged on to the National Capital Freenet and checked the weekly police statistics for my neighbourhood, then I sent an e-mail to this girl I was seeing at the time. How things have changed in less than a decade. My monitor now displays 32 million colours instead of just two (green/not green), my computer has a hard-drive, and, even though the discs are the same size, they ain't floppy no more. I will never again ruin another document by ripping the strip of holes off the edge too quickly.

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Post by bobdickgus » Tue Oct 21, 2003 12:54 am

Well i had to admin a network of ms pc's and man what a pain in the ass. luckily i was able to use linux for all the servers and convert half the work stations to linux so the workload is much reduced, most of my time is spent on keeping the ms work stations running.

win2k is stable for a ms os but it can't compare with linux stability.
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Post by Andrew Parker » Tue Oct 21, 2003 5:15 am

Mac's? PC's? MSDOS? Linux? I thought that Kenneth outlawed religious arguments?
Learned on a Mac -- hated it.
Settled on an Amiga 'til Commodore went under.
Defaulted to a PC -- was spoiled by the Amiga.
Until a couple of years ago, when I ran out of desk space, I often turned on my old Amiga 3000 because the MSDOS crap software couldn't or wouldn't do what I needed.
I liked UNIX and played with it on the Amiga. I haven't tried Linux yet, but I am looking at it to set up a home XWindows network using old PC's.


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Mosquito Coast

Post by Andrew Parker » Tue Oct 21, 2003 5:42 am

Mike Kirney wrote:Just kidding. On the upside, this is the perfect place to tell you all about my wood-fired, steam-driven Tesla turbine that I am almost finished designing.

"It doesn't really matter WHAT you do, its WHEN you do it that makes all the difference."
Mike,

Have you perused the Tesla Turbine List? Checked Frank Germano's site? Lots of good information matched with at least as much drivel (pretty standard for internet discussions). What combustion and boiler setup will you be using? If you want to multistage, I have an idea that has been sitting on my harddrive for a few years.

My brother and I decided a few years back, while discussing things we would never do but like to make our wives nervous by talking about them, that compulsive tinkerers should be forced to watch "Mosquito Coast" without interruption. So, do you think you can run an ice machine with that turbine? ;-)

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Re: Mosquito Coast

Post by Mike Kirney » Tue Oct 21, 2003 6:28 am

I checked Frank's site a long time ago. I can't remember anything about it though. My design will be a lot simpler than most, as I only have relatively primitive tools at my disposal (drill press, Dremel, bench grinder, acetylene torches, circular saw). I'm just going to try a small single-stage design for now, but if it works I might build a great big one with all sorts of bells and whistles. My dream is to sell bulk electricity using sawmill waste as generator fuel. The combustor/boiler I have in mind is just a steel box to make a little fire in with a conical boiler on top of perhaps three or four litres capacity. I have to find my steam tables to double check what volume I will make it. I saw the Mosquito Coast once like 15 years ago but can't remember anything about it, let alone anything to do with ice machines or Tesla turbines.

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