Re: [Discuss] Ubuntu Install Question

2019-03-08 Thread grg
r to keep a windows partition or move to an image file? Any particularly good (or bad) ways of going about this conversion? Thanks! --grg (*) Windows because occasionally the need to run windows-only stuff pops up, factory because that tends to work best with a laptop's specific devices (eve

Re: [Discuss] ten more years

2018-02-14 Thread grg
r operations on them got sluggish to the point of irritation. > But Google's Calendar app can't reliably give me notifications of events... > (Oddly, it seems to work better if I say "send me an e-mail, too", then I'll > probably get the regular on-

Re: [Discuss] Future-proofing a house for networking -- what to run?

2017-09-14 Thread grg
vely, so they're not talking about half duplex operation over cat5 or 5e or cat6.) --grg ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss

Re: [Discuss] Future-proofing a house for networking -- what to run?

2017-09-12 Thread grg
t;Wires for data are the past". I don't think he disagrees with having a wifi portion of his network and even running many devices solely over it, further evidenced by his reply which you quote here about adding APs in his house. His question in this thread is specifically about the wired

Re: [Discuss] Eclipses Re: Great talks last night, however...

2017-07-23 Thread grg
On Sun, Jul 23, 2017 at 04:59:08PM -0400, Richard Pieri wrote: > On 7/23/2017 3:42 PM, grg wrote: > > In the paper they show that a conventional li-ion battery holds 90% of the > > original charge after 3000 cycles (~9 years of daily cycling); and after > > BS. > > h

Re: [Discuss] Eclipses Re: Great talks last night, however...

2017-07-23 Thread grg
On Sun, Jul 23, 2017 at 01:20:05PM -0400, Richard Pieri wrote: > On 7/23/2017 12:29 PM, grg wrote: > > OK, so you're saying that instead of single-digit percentages, there are > > real-world battery installations which get 75%-80% charge/discharge > > efficiency; meani

Re: [Discuss] Eclipses Re: Great talks last night, however...

2017-07-23 Thread grg
el to where the electricity is used, the more efficient your power distribution (a real advantage over nuclear plants, dams, coal-fired plants, etc.). In practice I expect a combination of some large sites and lots of tiny sites with a whole spectrum (no pun intended ;) in between, but as long as all the pieces add up to 10,000 km^2, for electricity generation you've completely replaced fossil fuels with solar+battery. --grg ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss

Re: [Discuss] Eclipses Re: Great talks last night, however...

2017-07-22 Thread grg-webvisible+blu
luded the technical part of this feasibility discussion. FWIW, on that last non-technical bit, I and I wager many others on this mailing list see very many places in all the named locales which have good potential for solar. And that's one of the great things about solar power: you don't need enough contiguous space to build a half dozen cooling towers, you just need a few m^2 of suitable space to make it worth putting some panels up and making progress towards the overall 10,000 km^2. (You weren't looking for a single contiguous clear & flat square of 60 miles X 60 miles to put up a single 10,000 km^2 solar farm, were you?) --grg ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss