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crankypuss <undisclosedUserid@gmail.com>: Aug 12 09:08AM -0600 On 08/11/2016 02:24 PM, The Real Bev wrote: > on the theory that either I'll want them instantaneously ("Find my car" > or I use them so often (ES File Explorer) that I don't want to waste > extra taps or brain-pixels.   I just put my most-frequently-used apps in the easiest-to-get-to place, and when something gets used often enough to make accessing it an annoyance, I promote it to an easier-to-access position. Duh?   -- http://totally-portable-software.blogspot.com [Sat Mar 26: "Documentation and Portability"]

crankypuss <undisclosedUserid@gmail.com>: Aug 12 09:39AM -0600 On 08/11/2016 01:05 PM, Aardvarks wrote: > Q: Without logging into anything, and without any google accounts, how is > running a non-Google app offline going to tell Google anything?   If you don't want google able to peek into your life, you also need to not use google search, and not visit any websites that use google ad services, and not do a whole bunch of other stuff, which you largely can't avoid because when you visit some arbitrary website with a link to some other arbitrary website, there's no telling in advance what services any of them are using.   nospam's comment about not using google operating systems is mostly spot-on, except that just about every maker (possible exceptions that I know of being Moto and OnePlus) slams their own crapware into/onto Android before it goes on your phone, and some might remove stuff Google put there, but the bottom line is this: your OS is a crapshoot, unless you personally review every line of code in the thing, you're trusting someone, and the manufacturer (who orders the hardware from China) doesn't give you the full source code for exactly whatever might be installed on your phone by the time you gain possession of it.   You're in search of perfection. It's mostly been legislated out of the realm of possibility due to cutthroat economic competition and a consumer demographic that reads "mostly housewives and their hubbies or their kids", ie "*not* computing professionals". If you really value perfection, you'll find some way to facilitate it other than pissing off potential friends by continually ranting about things that are totally messed up; I know this from having been there. Put a cap over your rant buttons, justified as they may be; remain in the part of the real world that other people give a shit about, which clearly is not perfection: Nobby Nobbs wouldn't know perfection if it bit him on the ass, and probably half the readership here never heard of Nobby to begin with.   Paranoia is a good thing in a system security architect, but as a consumer you're just pissing in the wind. So if you want perfection, make your own. If you want to avoid people snooping into your real life, don't ever enter a true fact about your life into any computer anywhere. Good luck with that, it's about as useful as turning off javascript (which imo is a low form of primordial excreta).   This is Earth, the world is fucked-up here, get used to it.   -- http://totally-portable-software.blogspot.com [Sat Mar 26: "Documentation and Portability"]

N_Cook <diverse@tcp.co.uk>: Aug 12 12:28PM +0100 Tried on 115V selector setting at about 20% (UK) mains and current draw went up to about what it was with 50% of UK mains on 245V setting. IR thermo showed the Tx was warming up nicely even at 20% of 240V main, current too low on variac ammeter to measure but .2 to .4 A ac. I wonder how hot this Tx got , presumably in hours of use, stinking the place out with tar smell (noticeable at just 10 deg C over ambient), before it was stored away?   Anyway trying a bit of the tar on DVM-R, squashing the probes together over a bit of it, perhaps about 0.2mm thick, could get a few megohm. Trying on a megger over a 1mm or 2, easily got 500M to 1G. So has anyone ever tried removing one of these Tx and baking in a low oven , outdoors presumably, to drain liquid tar out, then replace it with what ?. I'll disconnect all the wires and see if there is a pair of points I can measure with a Megger, if any of the team think its worth trying in an oven or other ideas? Conductive resistor path inside would explain the linear characteristic of the excess current , but primary , secondary? With Tx removed I can check inter winding leakage and to frame,screen etc With Tx removed, would it be worth removing the outer cooked paper and underlying cloth to get a closer look at the windings, perhaps tar is just leeched from the cloth originally (for anti-damp purposes and not holding windings in place? Where to research Tx construction of the 1960s? The owner said that while it was working properly last week and the start of the arcing/sparking noise , before switching off,there was a puff of what he called steam rather than smoke, before switching off. Perhaps related to damp or fried insect and nothing to do with the tar resistor problem. I've not had anywhere near full HT on this amp.   Valve rectifier, not SS, BTW

N_Cook <diverse@tcp.co.uk>: Aug 12 02:30PM +0100 If paper burns at 451 deg F, what temp for near to charring, the voltage & current ratings are just about readable with the right light on the Tx, as black print on now almost black grade of brown paper, colour maybe partly due to tar vapour of course

"pfjw@aol.com" <pfjw@aol.com>: Aug 12 08:46AM -0700 On Friday, August 12, 2016 at 9:30:10 AM UTC-4, N_Cook wrote: > & current ratings are just about readable with the right light on the > Tx, as black print on now almost black grade of brown paper, colour > maybe partly due to tar vapour of course   http://www.keypolymer.com/potting-encapsulating/ is a source for new potting compounds.   451F is the *FLASHPOINT* (on average) of paper. NOT the burning temperature which can be much higher or lower depending on external conditions. What this means is that a piece of paper will catch fire in the presence of sufficient oxygen at 451F. Char temperatures are much lower, starting as low as 200F depending on the type of paper and external factors.   For instance, wood, from which paper is made, burns from between 900F and 1,200F, and can be much higher if oxygen is forced into the fire. Paper is mostly cellulose without the volatiles, so burns at a lower temperature, again unless oxygen is added.   Peter Wieck Melrose Park, PA

"J.B. Wood" <arl_123234@hotmail.com>: Aug 12 07:04AM -0400 On 08/11/2016 10:53 PM, Ron D. wrote:   > phone connected but off hook. I forget the magic mumbers your > looking for. I think it's a few megohms max.   > If overhead lines, then spiders in the box there too.   Hello, and no DSL. The rest of your points make technical sense. My ca. early 1940s apartment building has a large grey wall-mounted W-E/Ma Bell box in the laundry room with a punch-down terminal strip. The house wiring from these terminals to units isn't the traditional sheathed red-green-yellow-black but simply twisted pair (IOW just tip and ring) like that used to connect to the outside plant. The connections from the wall-mounted terminals in my unit and the corresponding incoming phone line wires appear to be firmly punched-down in the W-E terminal strip.   So, except for access to the laundry room terminal block and the terminals in my unit there's really nothing else I can check either on the outside of the building or elsewhere (which should be Verizon's responsibility). Sincerely,   -- J. B. Wood e-mail: arl_123234@hotmail.com

"Snuffy \"Hub Cap\" McKinney" <Snuffy-Hub-Cap@Livebait-McKinney.com>: Aug 11 10:31AM -0700 Fellow tinkerers....this one is supposed to have twice as many as normal. The story is that the best time is after midnight, after the moon goes down. Best way is to lie flat on a lawn chair with a nice tall drink in one hand, face the northeast and look about 2/3 of the way up and try not to fall asleep.   http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/08/10/489491194/this-years-perseid-meteor-shower-is-going-to-be-quite-a-show-heres-how-to-watch   Or watch the live stream.... http://www.ustream.tv/channel/nasa-msfc

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