17 Mar
2018
17 Mar
'18
2:42 p.m.
I've retitled this thread, due to getting far off-topic.
On Saturday 17 March 2018 06:07:18 Gene Heskett wrote:
On Saturday 17 March 2018 07:09:34 William Morder wrote:
I am a big guy, so it I could get my weight down below 230 or 240, I would
think about training for the Olympics. But right now my weight has been going
way up, because I also like to eat, and unfortunately that's about my only
means of entertainment.
Got myself a bike, but it needs work; but I really like biking to get around
and run my errands, do shopping, etc., and just happen to get exercise as a
fringe benefit. However, when living in SF (or nowadays almost any big city),
just owning a decent bike is a source of constant stress, because the bike
thieves are incredibly bold, and the police (except for occasional press
releases) do little to stop the thefts.
However, if you live somewhere that biking is a viable option, I highly
recommend it. You dislike it for about the first week, and then you get to
like it so much that you cannot imagine life without it.
Also, drink lots of water, and eat fresh fruit. I got that from somebody long
ago who lost something like 200 lbs, and it does work. But then, I need to
get with it myself again.
Bill
On Saturday 17 March 2018 03:08:21 Baron wrote:
They come in black, tan. blue and yellow. As the retired CE of a tv
station, whose IT guy was buying HD's in 24 packs for the video servers
he's built, he has a standing order to stash any cables they come with
away for me if they aren't red. He was using the 10k rpm stuff, whose
lifetime is less than the red cables, cable failures are not a problem,
keeping the 10k rust cool is. So I manage to keep 1 or 2 non-reds to go
in whatever I might build handy. For what I build to run linuxcnc on,
I've also found the $50 on sale 60GB SSD's are noticeably faster than
spinning rust.
Hi Gene,
On Friday 16 March 2018 23:33:59 Gene Heskett wrote:
It feels good for once to be the youngster in the group. (I just
turned 60 about a month ago.) I am sad to say that, though reasonably
healthy, I am also starting to feel my age. Worse yet, I am surrounded
by people who believe that life ends at about age 35.
This is some interesting and useful information about SATA cables, as
all of mine are red, as well. Indeed, I don't recall ever seeing them
any other color. I pulled the one I gave out of "you
> know where". Blame it on oldtimers...
Not to worry I'm only 70 :-) so a bit of catching up to do :-)
There is another possibility I should have
mentioned. If your sata
data cables are red, theres something in the red dye that destroys
the cable in 4 or 5 years. pull the covers so you can see the
cable(s) and give them a gentle push with a stick, after putting a
tail -fn50 on the syslog. If the log blows up when you do the
stick bit for a 1/4" movement, its time for new cables, hopefully
not red ones.
This has been a problem for cables with that dye since the mid
70's of the last century when the J.A.Pan company started using it
in their cb radio microphone cables. You can cut the red wire off
1/2" from the end that has broken, and pour the copper out of the
red jacketed conductors plastic sleeve as a dark brown powder. Its
a very poor conductor in that state.
Useful information ! All my sata cables are red.
In addition to being an oldtimer at 83, I am also
a C.E.T. with
68+ years of chaseing electrons for a living.
I'm struggling with poor health at the moment and this cold one day
and warm the next isn't helping. Nice thing about getting older, though: one tends
to remember what is
really important (stuff like this), and only forget things like
appointments, or where I put my glasses.
Yeah, I was supposed to go let the vampires have a sample yesterday to
check my INI on my warfarin dose, but plumb forgot about it what with
pulling a gear out of a lathes apron for a guy in WI who's gear is
missing a tooth, a tooth I'll never need because the computer, an
r-pi-3b, does all that better than the gear, ploting a wheel chair ramp
into the front deck in between these ^%$#@ nor-easters, and taking some
clean clothes to the shop where my wife is currently wearing a cast on a
broken leg, and its not scheduled for removal till late May. A heavy
smoker, she has paper mache bones, and at 83 lbs, zero padding. I quit
cold turkey 30 years ago, just before we got married, but she is well
and truly hooked.
I'm a DM-II and have managed to lose from 215 when I retired in 2002,
down to around 155 which helps with the sugar, and an abused back. I'd
like to lose another 10 or 15, getting totally rid of the bay window,
but I like to eat too.
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