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Author: Anne & Lynn WheelerAnne & Lynn Wheeler
Date: Dec 31, 2006 19:36
edgould1948@ibm-main.lst (Ed Gould) writes:
> I have been exposed to two different "channel extenders" over the
> years. Of the two each had its own weaknesses. I won't talk about
> brand names other than to say they were from different parts of the US.
> The first (and second) seemed to drive IOS nuts and they were guilty
> of various errors which at least a few times brought the system down
> (these were attached to either a 4341 or a 168 (& 3033)). I had IBM
> ask me to strip out their logrec errors of the report as the number
> of errors at times amounted to several hundred a day.
>
> Yes the damn things worked (sort of kind of) but the error recovery
> took its toll on MVS. The devices they had at the other end had
> response time issues which were hard to pin down as to where the
> issue...
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Author: Morten ReistadMorten Reistad
Date: Dec 31, 2006 18:32
In article ,
Greg Menke toadmail.com> wrote:>
>"Micheal H. McCabe" alltel.net> writes:
>>> aol.com> wrote in message
>> >>> What I really want is the functionality of the generator hanging
>>> off my oil boiler. These exist and a company in Hopkington
>>> was advertising them for industrial boilers. They were not
>>> interested in designing and manufacturing one for home heating
>>> boilers. My oil dealer, who is also my boiler doctor, is also
>>> not interested in developing this kind of addition to the
>>> boiler.
>>
>> Chances are that your household boiler lacks the capacity to drive even a
>> small generator. Steam power is generally less than about 20%% efficient in
>> small engine applications and (most) small boilers cannot deliver enough
>> steam into an open circuit to maintain the necessary operating pressure.
>> Other issues that might effect a small steam-plant are fuel delivery, boiler ...
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Author: MI5VictimMI5Victim
Date: Dec 31, 2006 16:26
Observer article 9/March/1997
Fame at last! In an alleged book review in the Observer (Books p16), Jay Rayner writes about a "man called Bob"
(one of my many pseudonyms) in whom "a lot of people have shown an interest". Read and ponder!
Perhaps the Chinese curse "may you live in interesting times" could be re-worded into "may you be considered an
interesting person". Infamy, infamy, they've all got it in for me!
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Author: Walter BushellWalter Bushell
Date: Dec 31, 2006 15:59
In article <97840$4597471f$4b7587ec$12023@ ALLTEL.NET>,
"Micheal H. McCabe" alltel.net> wrote:
> Edison, Westinghouse, and Tesla were all secretly working for Darwin...
I believe Michael Valentine Smith ("Stranger in a Strange Land") said,
"Every race needs a pruning.".
--
Divided we stand!
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Author: Bernd FelscheBernd Felsche
Date: Dec 31, 2006 15:39
Peter Flass Yahoo.com> writes:
>I can't believe how much code today is still uncommented. The
>justification used to be disk space, as good commenting can easily
>double or more the size of the source. There's no excuse now except
>laziness.
Time is money. If you're paid by the hour and there's a tight
budget, then comments come second to getting the thing working
reliably.
Although it takes "almost no time at all" to put comments into code,
it's evident that most comments are close to worthless and some are
even harmful. Comments should indicate the "why" of code. Frequently
they only reiterate what the code is doing.
And like all correspondence, it's much more difficult to make
comments brief, to the point and informative.
--
/"\ Bernd Felsche - Innovative Reckoning, Perth, Western Australia
\ / ASCII ribbon campaign | "If we let things terrify us,
X against HTML mail | life will not be worth living."
/ \ and postings | Lucius Annaeus Seneca, c. 4BC - 65AD.
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Author: William HamblenWilliam Hamblen
Date: Dec 31, 2006 12:08
On Sat, 30 Dec 2006 22:28:44 -0500, krw att.bizzzz> wrote:
>> [1] Two matchsticks with wire wound round them pushed into the hols of an
>> old fashioned round pin socket.
>
>What's that?
Sockets and plugs in the UK came in two styles: one with round pins
and one with square pins. New wiring and appliances use the square
version. They use round pins in Europe.
Bud
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The night is just the shadow of the Earth.
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Author: Anne & Lynn WheelerAnne & Lynn Wheeler
Date: Dec 31, 2006 11:34
Larry Elmore verizon.spammenot.net> writes:> Why? I didn't say no taxes. I may have been unclear. It's not like
> separation of government and religion actually means that there's *no*
> intersection between the two, just that the (US) government can't
> intervene to favor one over another. Just as a crazy thought
> experiment, why couldn't government be separated further from the
> economy than it is currently, and be forbidden from favoring one
> business or industry over another? Taxes are necessary, but are all
> the loopholes, exemptions, special rates or rebates necessary? Or all
> the regulations that have been bought mostly to raise the bar to
> compete in a given market, effectively stifling smaller competition?
> Or the policies to "help" a segment of industry that's...
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