[H] Koenigsegg 2014 Agera S hypercar (Video)

2013-10-12 Thread Steve Tomporowski
http://www.designnews.com/author.asp?section_id=1386doc_id=268539cid=nl.dn14dfpPParams=ind_184,industry_auto,aid_268539dfpLayout=blog

[H] Go out on Halloween dressed as a Traffic Light (how-to)

2013-10-12 Thread Steve Tomporowski
http://www.edn.com/electronics-blogs/hackwire/4398694/Mixed-signal-costume

[H] APC UPS's?

2013-10-12 Thread DSinc
Does anyone have any negative comments on the BR1500G UPS? I ordered a pair. Big $$$. I need to replace an APC XS1500USB UPS that seems to have gone away---The APC PowerChute icon now shows a yellowtrianble w/Exclamation point. And, the ups will not do a 'self-test.' This tells me some sort of

Re: [H] APC UPS's?

2013-10-12 Thread FORC5
no experience with those but I just had two cyber power die. I just buy new assuming the tech is better. One still worked on the surge side, the other just died completely. Seems like every three years or so. Gave up replacing batteries along time ago. For me not cost effective. JMO fp At

Re: [H] APC UPS's?

2013-10-12 Thread Steve Tomporowski
I have an XS 1000 and an XS 1300. The XS 1300 has flaky communications via USB, you can't count on it being recognized by Windows. I've had no problems with anything else USB (even an old Canon 4200F scanner). APC replaced it once, but the new one had the same problem. I *think* that APC

Re: [H] APC UPS's?

2013-10-12 Thread DSinc
Steve, I support your feelings about APC and USB. Clearly they are trying, but they just do not have it figured out yet. Or, they can not figure out how to drive usb to do what they wish to sell us. /rant. I leved through the APC 'custom' rs-232 cable connections. That period just sucked! I

[H] Good UPS's

2013-10-12 Thread Steve Tomporowski
Since the subject has been brought up, what's a good company/UPS to get? Right now I have two of the APC Back-ups line (XS 1000 and XS 1300). The XS 1300 has had a problem with USB from day one, so I'm not impressed with APC hardware, but I have experienced good customer service from them.

[H] South Korea's Answer to Jelly Fish blooms - Slaughter Bots (Video)

2013-10-12 Thread Steve Tomporowski
http://www.eetimes.com/author.asp?section_id=36doc_id=1319743itc=eetimes_sitedefaultcid=NL_EET_EE_Life_20131011elq=133b35b2c1854ea794641b1225c3bc6felqCampaignId=1674

Re: [H] Good UPS's

2013-10-12 Thread DSinc
Steve, I get it. You have a hot button. Fine. I'd be on the email, phone, whatever, if the replacement ups is still doing the same sh*t! Who knows? Maybe you got somebody else's bad ups back. I mean stuff happens. I know not much about CyberPower. I'm still looking at them. They read well,

Re: [H] Boeing's new sci-fi weapon: CHAMP - lights out (video)

2013-10-12 Thread Naushad Zulfiqar
Leads to a dead link. Actually their 404 page. And yes, I did delete the double slash. On Sat, Oct 12, 2013 at 11:09 PM, Steve Tomporowski didym...@gmail.comwrote: Boeing has developed and tested a weapon to unleash an EMP. No direct damage to people or property, but nasty.

Re: [H] Good UPS's

2013-10-12 Thread Steve Tomporowski
No, Duncan, no hot button. This was supposed to be a different threat (maybe I should have named it differently??), I don't need a UPS now, but I don't think we've discussed UPS's very heavily on the list. Just looking for other's experiences. APC wouldn't still be in business if all they

Re: [H] Boeing's new sci-fi weapon: CHAMP - lights out (video)

2013-10-12 Thread Steve Tomporowski
Must have gotten messed up when I forwarded it from work. This one works: http://www.boeing.com/Features/2012/10/bds_champ_10_22_12.html On 10/12/2013 4:32 PM, Naushad Zulfiqar wrote: Leads to a dead link. Actually their 404 page. And yes, I did delete the double slash. On Sat, Oct 12,

Re: [H] Good UPS's

2013-10-12 Thread Greg Sevart
There are plenty of UPSs available that can do pure sine wave output. Any of the APC SmartUPS line can, for example (all but two of my UPS units are either APC SmartUPS or APC SmartUPS RT--the RT being a true online, double-conversion UPS). I honestly swore off stepped approximation or simulated

[H] MS DRM Playready in Media Center

2013-10-12 Thread Winterlight
I use Win7 Media Center with a SiliconDust HDHomeRun PRIME TV network turner and stream to a couple of XBOX 360 extenders. Everything has been fine, but a ago I started having troubling with the extenders connecting to Media Center. Even when I could connect some of the recordings would not

Re: [H] Good UPS's

2013-10-12 Thread Winterlight
. Aside from it sounding like a beep factory test lab Too bad you can't disable the beeps... have you ever had six UPS go off in the middle of the night while your sleeping... it's not fun! m