Silly resistor values

Jim Thompson · Aug 11, 2009

I can add one that crashes more, on all computers here: Adobe Acrobat
Reader. But I guess everyone knows that.

[...]

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Regards, Joerg

Mine is all updated, and has NEVER crashed.

When you attempt to print a large pdf, you should locally spool the
print job first. If you do not know how to set your printer/computer up
to spool properly, you deserve to have crashes until someone guides you
through the process.

Operator error... again.

Click to expand...

Adobe is bloatware spyware crap. Even if it didn't crash, it's
amazingly slow. Get Foxit Reader and CutePDF and see the difference.

John

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I think not. In Linux there are other tools at least as good, and
neither one works in wine.

It seems popular to denigrate Adobe. However I have no problems with
it other than later version are overloaded with "features", and thus,
slow.

v4 and v5 serve me exquisitely, v7 I use to view recently-created
stuff.

And no crashes... that's only a Joerg domain problem... but you have
to give him some slack... he still has trouble figuring out how to
receive TV ;-)

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Joerg · Aug 11, 2009

Jim said:
On Fri, 07 Aug 2009 20:29:42 -0700, FatBytestard

I can add one that crashes more, on all computers here: Adobe Acrobat
Reader. But I guess everyone knows that.

[...]

--
Regards, Joerg
Mine is all updated, and has NEVER crashed.

When you attempt to print a large pdf, you should locally spool the
print job first. If you do not know how to set your printer/computer up
to spool properly, you deserve to have crashes until someone guides you
through the process.

Operator error... again.
Adobe is bloatware spyware crap. Even if it didn't crash, it's
amazingly slow. Get Foxit Reader and CutePDF and see the difference.

John

Click to expand...

I think not. In Linux there are other tools at least as good, and
neither one works in wine.

Click to expand...

It seems popular to denigrate Adobe. However I have no problems with
it other than later version are overloaded with "features", and thus,
slow.

v4 and v5 serve me exquisitely, v7 I use to view recently-created
stuff.

And no crashes... that's only a Joerg domain problem... but you have
to give him some slack... he still has trouble figuring out how to
receive TV ;-)

Not so. Was on the phone with a client last Friday. Sent me a PDF,
loaded it ... ka-crumble. Told the client engineer I'd have to put the
phone down for a sec to do the CTRL-ALT-DEL and he said "Do you use
Acrobat? Happens here all the time". Their for-pay stuff may be better
but with this kind of reliability track record I'm not going to.

As for TV I am also in good company. Some people are outright livid
about it. So far so that channel 40 now felt compelled to air ads from
their own tech director saying "Please have patience, we will adjust DTV
to full power on August-14". Except that they don't seem to understand
that signal strength is not the problem, not at all. The selected
modulation scheme seems to suck.

Jim Thompson · Aug 11, 2009

Jim Thompson wrote: [snip]

... he still has trouble figuring out how to
receive TV ;-)

Click to expand...

Not so. Was on the phone with a client last Friday. Sent me a PDF,
loaded it ... ka-crumble. Told the client engineer I'd have to put the
phone down for a sec to do the CTRL-ALT-DEL and he said "Do you use
Acrobat? Happens here all the time". Their for-pay stuff may be better
but with this kind of reliability track record I'm not going to.

As for TV I am also in good company. Some people are outright livid
about it. So far so that channel 40 now felt compelled to air ads from
their own tech director saying "Please have patience, we will adjust DTV
to full power on August-14". Except that they don't seem to understand
that signal strength is not the problem, not at all. The selected
modulation scheme seems to suck.

Do OTA digital stations have a choice of modulation scheme?

I've noticed a decided improvement since OTA digital. I used to have
some bleed-thru from OTA into my cable, causing "ghost" images... some
runs exceed 80' from my distribution amplifier. But that's now
completely gone, because they're now UHF.

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Joerg · Aug 11, 2009

krw said:
Laptop w/12V auto/air brick.

Actually the laptop I had with me was even better. It could directly run
off a 12V car battery. If you have a large marine deep cycle (which they
all seem to have up there) it'll run for days.

Jim Thompson · Aug 11, 2009

Jim Thompson wrote: [snip]

It seems popular to denigrate Adobe. However I have no problems with
it other than later version are overloaded with "features", and thus,
slow.

v4 and v5 serve me exquisitely, v7 I use to view recently-created
stuff.

And no crashes... that's only a Joerg domain problem... but you have
to give him some slack... he still has trouble figuring out how to
receive TV ;-)

Click to expand...

[snip]

Just had a thought. Do you have any anti-virus programs running that
intercept downloads? Particularly those from Microsoft.

I negated Microsoft's firewall and run my own. I also exclude PDF's
from Norton.

...Jim Thompson
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Joerg · Aug 11, 2009

Jim said:
Jim Thompson wrote: [snip]

... he still has trouble figuring out how to
receive TV ;-)

Click to expand...

Not so. Was on the phone with a client last Friday. Sent me a PDF,
loaded it ... ka-crumble. Told the client engineer I'd have to put the
phone down for a sec to do the CTRL-ALT-DEL and he said "Do you use
Acrobat? Happens here all the time". Their for-pay stuff may be better
but with this kind of reliability track record I'm not going to.

As for TV I am also in good company. Some people are outright livid
about it. So far so that channel 40 now felt compelled to air ads from
their own tech director saying "Please have patience, we will adjust DTV
to full power on August-14". Except that they don't seem to understand
that signal strength is not the problem, not at all. The selected
modulation scheme seems to suck.

Click to expand...

Do OTA digital stations have a choice of modulation scheme?

No, but they picked the ATSC standard with IMHO way too little field
testing. The European DTV system is much more robust in that respect.

I've noticed a decided improvement since OTA digital. I used to have
some bleed-thru from OTA into my cable, causing "ghost" images... some
runs exceed 80' from my distribution amplifier. But that's now
completely gone, because they're now UHF.

Going to UHF was IMHO a serious mistake. When channel 13 was on VHF it
came through, usually with little to no ghosting. Now it's unreliable. I
do not understand how one can give up a VHF channel in trade for a
channel the inferior UHF band. At least not without serious monetary
compensation (which I wouldn't know anything about) or without putting
up a fight.

Joerg · Aug 11, 2009

Jim said:
Jim Thompson wrote: [snip]

It seems popular to denigrate Adobe. However I have no problems with
it other than later version are overloaded with "features", and thus,
slow.

v4 and v5 serve me exquisitely, v7 I use to view recently-created
stuff.

And no crashes... that's only a Joerg domain problem... but you have
to give him some slack... he still has trouble figuring out how to
receive TV ;-)

Click to expand...

Click to expand...

[snip]

Just had a thought. Do you have any anti-virus programs running that
intercept downloads? Particularly those from Microsoft.

I negated Microsoft's firewall and run my own. I also exclude PDF's
from Norton.

Yes, I do but not from MS. However, it doesn't make a difference. I have
had the same Adobe crashes on client computers. Those were usually top
notch big fat workstations, maintained by an IT department. When telling
the engineers the typical reply was "Yeah, happens all the time with PDF
files".

Jim Thompson · Aug 11, 2009

Jim said:
Jim said:

[snip]

Do OTA digital stations have a choice of modulation scheme?

Click to expand...

No, but they picked the ATSC standard with IMHO way too little field
testing. The European DTV system is much more robust in that respect.

I've noticed a decided improvement since OTA digital. I used to have
some bleed-thru from OTA into my cable, causing "ghost" images... some
runs exceed 80' from my distribution amplifier. But that's now
completely gone, because they're now UHF.

Click to expand...

Going to UHF was IMHO a serious mistake. When channel 13 was on VHF it
came through, usually with little to no ghosting. Now it's unreliable. I
do not understand how one can give up a VHF channel in trade for a
channel the inferior UHF band. At least not without serious monetary
compensation (which I wouldn't know anything about) or without putting
up a fight.

Jim Thompson · Aug 11, 2009

Jim Thompson wrote: [snip]

Just had a thought. Do you have any anti-virus programs running that
intercept downloads? Particularly those from Microsoft.

I negated Microsoft's firewall and run my own. I also exclude PDF's
from Norton.

Click to expand...

Yes, I do but not from MS. However, it doesn't make a difference. I have
had the same Adobe crashes on client computers. Those were usually top
notch big fat workstations, maintained by an IT department. When telling
the engineers the typical reply was "Yeah, happens all the time with PDF
files".

Strange crowd you hang out with ?

Joerg · Aug 11, 2009

Jim said:
Jim said:

[snip]
Do OTA digital stations have a choice of modulation scheme?

Click to expand...

No, but they picked the ATSC standard with IMHO way too little field
testing. The European DTV system is much more robust in that respect.

I've noticed a decided improvement since OTA digital. I used to have
some bleed-thru from OTA into my cable, causing "ghost" images... some
runs exceed 80' from my distribution amplifier. But that's now
completely gone, because they're now UHF.

Click to expand...

Going to UHF was IMHO a serious mistake. When channel 13 was on VHF it
came through, usually with little to no ghosting. Now it's unreliable. I
do not understand how one can give up a VHF channel in trade for a
channel the inferior UHF band. At least not without serious monetary
compensation (which I wouldn't know anything about) or without putting
up a fight.

Click to expand...

Your government at its finest ;-)

I had a chat with the station's engineer and his opinion was that UHF
travels through buildings and high-rises better. I guess we lost out to
them flatlanders

And besides, I think the vast majority of urban dwellers in high-rises
will have cable TV anyhow. IMHO it's only a matter of time until folks
on the outskirts hang up on such stations and go to non-local channels
on satellite. Or as the next generation already does, fulfill their
media consumption wishes via the web for news and Netflix for movies.
Then, ad revenue drops, station budgets begin to shrivel up, pink slips
are handed out. <brag_mode> I see that coming, just as I saw the
mortgage bubble burst coming </brag_mode>.

Joerg · Aug 11, 2009

Jim said:
Jim Thompson wrote: [snip]

Just had a thought. Do you have any anti-virus programs running that
intercept downloads? Particularly those from Microsoft.

I negated Microsoft's firewall and run my own. I also exclude PDF's
from Norton.

Click to expand...

Yes, I do but not from MS. However, it doesn't make a difference. I have
had the same Adobe crashes on client computers. Those were usually top
notch big fat workstations, maintained by an IT department. When telling
the engineers the typical reply was "Yeah, happens all the time with PDF
files".

Click to expand...

Strange crowd you hang out with ?

I've never found an IT department that seemed to have ANY savvy.

You haven't met the guy on his Harley yet who did our IT at EndoSonics.
You couldn't have wished for more savvy, he and two helpers kept a 300+
employee company going that was spread across three locations with one
of them being overseas.

Joerg · Aug 11, 2009

Joel said:
I've sometimes wondered why ~19V has seemingly become the most prevalent
laptop input voltage standard today... cranking it up from 12V reduces
current, of course, and perhaps much above 19V the power switches get more
expensive?

No idea, maybe because of the typical LiIon configuration. The old
Contura was NiCd. Lasted 6h on this standard old-tech battery, regularly
blew high-faluting IBMs out of the water.

WRT switches most PWM chips are designed wrong. I'll never understand
why but often they have an LDO <gasp> inside which I hate in the first
place so I usually bypass it. Then they limit the gate swing to 7V or
less which is ^*&%#!! <censored> because you can't really use standard
gate swing FETs which most devices >100V are. IOW their Rdson isn't
guaranteed for anything less than 10V on the gate.

Jim Thompson · Aug 11, 2009

Jim said:
Jim said:

Jim Thompson wrote:
[snip]
Do OTA digital stations have a choice of modulation scheme?

No, but they picked the ATSC standard with IMHO way too little field
testing. The European DTV system is much more robust in that respect.

I've noticed a decided improvement since OTA digital. I used to have
some bleed-thru from OTA into my cable, causing "ghost" images... some
runs exceed 80' from my distribution amplifier. But that's now
completely gone, because they're now UHF.

Going to UHF was IMHO a serious mistake. When channel 13 was on VHF it
came through, usually with little to no ghosting. Now it's unreliable. I
do not understand how one can give up a VHF channel in trade for a
channel the inferior UHF band. At least not without serious monetary
compensation (which I wouldn't know anything about) or without putting
up a fight.

Click to expand...

Your government at its finest ;-)

Click to expand...

I had a chat with the station's engineer and his opinion was that UHF
travels through buildings and high-rises better. I guess we lost out to
them flatlanders

And besides, I think the vast majority of urban dwellers in high-rises
will have cable TV anyhow. IMHO it's only a matter of time until folks
on the outskirts hang up on such stations and go to non-local channels
on satellite. Or as the next generation already does, fulfill their
media consumption wishes via the web for news and Netflix for movies.
Then, ad revenue drops, station budgets begin to shrivel up, pink slips
are handed out. <brag_mode>

Yep. Network channels are guaranteed to die, particularly given their
leftist weenie leanings. Our local station here put on disclaimers
before the Obama bull shit (the White House propaganda machine a few
weeks ago0, saying they were forced to carry it by the network.

I see that coming, just as I saw the
mortgage bubble burst coming </brag_mode>.

Jim Thompson · Aug 11, 2009

No idea, maybe because of the typical LiIon configuration. The old
Contura was NiCd. Lasted 6h on this standard old-tech battery, regularly
blew high-faluting IBMs out of the water.

Joerg · Aug 11, 2009

Jim said:
Jim said:

Jim Thompson wrote:
[snip]
Do OTA digital stations have a choice of modulation scheme?

No, but they picked the ATSC standard with IMHO way too little field
testing. The European DTV system is much more robust in that respect.

I've noticed a decided improvement since OTA digital. I used to have
some bleed-thru from OTA into my cable, causing "ghost" images... some
runs exceed 80' from my distribution amplifier. But that's now
completely gone, because they're now UHF.

Going to UHF was IMHO a serious mistake. When channel 13 was on VHF it
came through, usually with little to no ghosting. Now it's unreliable. I
do not understand how one can give up a VHF channel in trade for a
channel the inferior UHF band. At least not without serious monetary
compensation (which I wouldn't know anything about) or without putting
up a fight.
Your government at its finest ;-)

Click to expand...

I had a chat with the station's engineer and his opinion was that UHF
travels through buildings and high-rises better. I guess we lost out to
them flatlanders

And besides, I think the vast majority of urban dwellers in high-rises
will have cable TV anyhow. IMHO it's only a matter of time until folks
on the outskirts hang up on such stations and go to non-local channels
on satellite. Or as the next generation already does, fulfill their
media consumption wishes via the web for news and Netflix for movies.
Then, ad revenue drops, station budgets begin to shrivel up, pink slips
are handed out. <brag_mode>

Click to expand...

Yep. Network channels are guaranteed to die, particularly given their
leftist weenie leanings. Our local station here put on disclaimers
before the Obama bull shit (the White House propaganda machine a few
weeks ago0, saying they were forced to carry it by the network.

Ours is pretty good. They are especially good in the unearthing of
government waste which sometimes resulted in rather immediate
consequences (because this made some career politician's office look
bad). It would be sad to see this station go just because of technology
mistakes.

I did, too.

Then why didn't they make us co-chairs of the Federal Reserve? We could
have prevented tons of grief. Or maybe not ...

Joerg · Aug 11, 2009

Jim said:
No idea, maybe because of the typical LiIon configuration. The old
Contura was NiCd. Lasted 6h on this standard old-tech battery, regularly
blew high-faluting IBMs out of the water.

Click to expand...

[snip]

My Lenovo ThinkPad X61s will do about 8 hours (LiIon) _provided_ I'm
not running a simulation ;-) (I up-sized the battery when I bought
it.)

IBM learned it, finally. Then they sold out :-(

My netbook gets over 8h on the standard battery. But I learned rather
quickly that you do _not_ want to do SPICE sims on an Intel Atom
processor. Unless you are next to a pool and can do 25 laps while it
crunches. So if that is required on the road I'll have to schlepp the
Durabook, all 7lbs of it.

Jim Thompson · Aug 11, 2009

Jim said:
Jim said:

Joel Koltner wrote:
Actually the laptop I had with me was even better. It could directly run off
a 12V car battery. If you have a large marine deep cycle (which they all
seem to have up there) it'll run for days.
I've sometimes wondered why ~19V has seemingly become the most prevalent
laptop input voltage standard today... cranking it up from 12V reduces
current, of course, and perhaps much above 19V the power switches get more
expensive?

No idea, maybe because of the typical LiIon configuration. The old
Contura was NiCd. Lasted 6h on this standard old-tech battery, regularly
blew high-faluting IBMs out of the water.

Click to expand...

[snip]

My Lenovo ThinkPad X61s will do about 8 hours (LiIon) _provided_ I'm
not running a simulation ;-) (I up-sized the battery when I bought
it.)

Click to expand...

IBM learned it, finally. Then they sold out :-(

My netbook gets over 8h on the standard battery. But I learned rather
quickly that you do _not_ want to do SPICE sims on an Intel Atom
processor. Unless you are next to a pool and can do 25 laps while it
crunches. So if that is required on the road I'll have to schlepp the
Durabook, all 7lbs of it.

I'm contemplating a GoToMyPC, or PC Anywhere approach. My son says I
don't need any commercial (as in "paid") method, I can do it myself.
Then I could run simulations on my home box, and just read it out via
the notebook.

So far I haven't pursued this idea but, unfortunately, the economy
soothsayers are predicting travel is in my future :-(

...Jim Thompson
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Obama clearly blames insurance companies for his mother's death
from cancer. One then has to wonder if this whole health bill
isn't a personal vendetta against private insurance companies?

Rich Grise · Aug 11, 2009

I have a lot of stuff that CutePDF won't print. I've found that
PDFCreator is much better. I too use Foxit, but it is ugly.

For what it's worth, PDF995 looks like a printer to the OS, and
it makes PDFs with selectable text.

And it's free, albeit you get a popup and a nag screen each time
you use it.

Cheers!
Rich

Rich Grise · Aug 11, 2009

Going to UHF was IMHO a serious mistake. When channel 13 was on VHF it
came through, usually with little to no ghosting. Now it's unreliable. I
do not understand how one can give up a VHF channel in trade for a
channel the inferior UHF band. At least not without serious monetary
compensation (which I wouldn't know anything about) or without putting
up a fight.

I made one of those 4-bay bowties, and had it hanging in front of an
aluminum venetian blind, which I'd reasoned should act like a reflector.

My VHF antenna is on the roof, so I had to swap every time I went from
VHF to UHF, and on the UHF channels I had to dick around with the antenna,
ass-u-me-ing that the distance to the "reflector" made some difference.

Then I realized that the guy who did that demo on utube didn't even use
a reflector, so I raised the venetian blind, and WOW! Everything comes
in perfectly! I had to find a piece of cardboard to stuff into the window,
but I get channels I've never even seen before! Of course, I had to go
through the add/remove menu a couple of times to get rid of all the
Mexican, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, televangelist, and etc. channels, but
I'm really quite happy with it.

Disclaimer - I'm about 40 miles from Mount Baldy, which I hear is where
the antennas are, and it's practically line-of-sight.

Cheers!
Rich

Jim Thompson · Aug 11, 2009

Your son is very much correct. The main thing the GoToMyPC guys provide is an
ability to not have to worry too much about firewall settings/port forwarding,
a topic that sends many people running.

A good, free tool that does the same thing (doesn't require port forwarding)
and is otherwise built around the well-known (open-source) TightVNC remote
desktop program is CrossLoop: http://www.crossloop.com/ or
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crossloop .

Thanks for the pointers !!

Kinda ironic how the more things change the more they stay the same... we're
getting back to the "big iron" machine centrally located accessed by a "smart
terminal" somewhere on the Internet.

Not surprising... forced by the airline business... toting my old Vaio
was becoming exhausting :-(

Bad economy = more travel? How does that work?

More and more people won't sign on to me consulting/designing
off-site... I only have ~$47K/year retirement income, so I still have
to work to support the lifestyle to which I've become accustomed :-(

Hey, did you happen to tell us if you use hierarchy in your IC designs within
PSpice Schematics? I missed it if you did.

---Joel

480)460-2350 Fax: Available upon request | Brass Rat |
| E-mail Icon at http://www.analog-innovations.com | 1962 |

Obama clearly blames insurance companies for his mother's death
from cancer. One then has to wonder if this whole health bill
isn't a personal vendetta against private insurance companies?

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