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    450f8de9-32ed-4385-8b90-ad215ebf9d18

    Re: Use of biomass d_vipulA single Engineer cant do anything.................A single engineer can do quite a lot!

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    4c11b120-c0be-4337-a545-e53282efee04

    Also disks have "bad spots" on them which can't be used. These bad spots are stored in a "bad block table". Then...

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    e863f45d-936c-4ea7-b7e4-23804522e9ea

    I think it is the same reason they drive on the left side of the road in some countries and on the...

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    4e16f87f-e991-4f99-b5ca-954676708d37

    There's all sorts of stuff the other way around! (Chip to output to NTSC, etc.) Just for the heck of it I...

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    8403487b-2017-4236-a900-1416989a2422

    Also encrypting and disencrypting messages takes a lot of computer power. So they will have you login with https, then switch to...

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    fa50cbbf-9b86-45e4-bfe8-77774c9efa07

    https is secure or encrypted. That means someone monitoring your message would not be able to see what you were typing. So...

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    22b0926d-b273-41a6-b740-0c0c9ac8cd13

    A neutral is on a transformer secondary/output and is the "center" wire. So the output of the transformer is hot wire, neutral...

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    878a4e5b-db5f-40e5-a1ac-ddf9eaacb8a2

    I've read that the most common background of people who run large businesses is engineering! So it makes perfect sense to also...

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    e0301f91-6c2a-4bab-9715-24163c6db3bb

    I searched google.com for https and found this... <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_Secure" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Http Se...

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    6907c126-84e9-487e-afe1-2b91265ecbfe

    Is there a spare wire in the existing wires run to the elevator? If yes, maybe attach an antenna on the roof...

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    08a91795-d285-4ecc-8c30-0884ccaa1bfe

    Tunnels which vehicles and trains drive through have the same problem. In the past, I think they just ran a wire from...

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    727be976-8a95-47da-99ee-e70a023a5af5

    Re: mobile softwares Android... <a href="https://www.android.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Android | The platform pushing what’s poss...

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    15167435-386c-4bf6-8ca5-862de06fbbfb

    Read about optical character recognition. You may have Microsoft Imaging on your PC. This has optical character recognition if you also have...

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    8f2c7cfb-0a95-412b-b2d7-8f270c02ffe8

    You can read memory. And this can be different depending if you are reading ram or rom. You can read something from...

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    c1531a71-d73d-4968-9b38-6fd459b7e778

    Re: confused hiw to start The easiest would be to start programming by using a "Basic" interpreter or compiler on a PC....

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    a49f65df-12dd-4b8c-8233-166c4dbff651

    I searched google.com for the words... power distribution calculations ...and came up with a lot of information including design software. Here is...

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    9adffa5a-c5b0-4649-a67c-1515eed84717

    Also the ambient temperature is a factor as well as if many wires are tightly bundled together (heat build-up) or run loose...

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    e68ea2b7-f1b3-4b3f-82d0-316abb4ac415

    A relay is just an electrically operated switch. A good example of its use is for the starter motor in a car....

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    7bedcd74-6a3b-4e80-9d36-627d4ce42b6d

    Here are my notes on that program... This is on a BS2 homework board. I modified the Rtttl program "MicroMusicWithRtttl.bs2" so that...

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    30443985-2eed-48f6-a9a0-4956c9b09469

    The following program will play 3 different RTTTL tunes on a Parallax Basic Stamp microcontroller. These are the tunes which play on...

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    5c2daf5f-eac1-414a-89f1-1ccea15f5fc4

    There are some circuit boards which have mains power voltage on them. Or on portions of the circuit board. So be *darn*...

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    9c861b63-83c2-4001-a0a8-4ee8448c7b93

    Perhaps if you read about the history of computers, then all this will make more sense. This is quite complex these days,...

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    a980ad16-51b8-4ead-984f-428771c8a8d0

    A hardware thing... In general cache memory is faster and more expensive than the regular ram memory. When using this, it speeds...

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    5390c259-6e1f-4c3b-8c52-498eed329ed5

    UPS's just pass through the electricity unless power goes out..... Except UPS's which are called an "Online UPS", which always make their...

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    f9bc3e19-319f-4200-9fa8-a6997cf60de8

    With a Microsoft operating system for a PC (there are others!), all the programming would be on a disk drive as well...

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    c454a58a-e96d-4ffb-a5fb-12731f657cc3

    Basically at a minimum, the basic amount of ram needed for it to work in a reasonable manner. The programmer can see...

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    9f30e168-d6ca-45ca-be62-bfe2e80b5533

    SpecialBut how do we actually calculate it??If you have a Microsoft computer, click on Start, All Programs, Accessories, Calculator. Then when the...

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    e6b2c195-2fa0-44bd-ab51-613ce24ba808

    That is the thing to focus on and learn about. How many address "lines" or "wires" there are and how many data...

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    6167f379-1c3e-4937-9a2a-51152f46b82b

    The more "wires" on an address bus, the larger memory it can have or address! Here is a memory chip data sheet......

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    d6b7c72d-3be2-4526-9420-759695a3c28e

    Think of wires and switches and lights... ---switch------light ---switch------light ---switch------light ---switch------light We have 4 wires and 4 switches...

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    7857befd-e163-4452-a068-daf2214f90d0

    Computer science can be *any* field you could think of these days... Just about everything uses computers or microcontrollers. New automobiles can...

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    c3a22644-69ed-44e1-ac79-12b991c3e863

    Here is for a Pic Microcontroller... #-Link-Snipped-# I don't understand the "simultaneously" part? Following is a microcontroller called the Parallax Propell...

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    b703f6db-04d3-43e7-b8bf-489a45fa4ae9

    Here are #-Link-Snipped-#.

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    813a6614-3edd-4756-a67d-0c733ac8cf9f

    Perhaps visual block diagrams... Arrows, and blocks? Here is free open source software for that... #-Link-Snipped-#

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    89f2e887-7fed-41a3-aa25-e88e6d5f48a3

    Microcontrollers have everything needed in one chip to work by themselves. Microprocessor, program memory (firmware), data memory, and peripheral devices like...

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    ffc11bf5-3e2c-4333-aa16-8fb012f20122

    Re: InetAddress I searched google.com for the terms... inetaddress java example ...and found a lot of information on this here... <a href="https://www.goog...

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    b0cc6c28-fc58-43d1-baa2-f82c0c57956d

    Re: Ups. They have large batteries in them. About the size of a motorcycle battery. You can see the batteries in this...

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    e5f97fff-f83a-41be-9be1-0acb61141928

    DC is Direct Current... <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct_current" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Direct current - Wikipedia</a>...

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    a26a8886-46b7-48af-bf7f-fa56925b4cfa

    Re: MicroProcessor Might help if you said which microprocessor/microcontroller you are using??? Pic microcontrollers have simulation software as part of the...

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    5fc80844-b2f1-4e20-a6ae-afe7537e3dbe

    I don't know anything about SMS, however I have done just about everything with Perl scripts running on UNIX including SQL for...

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    ac3de84e-c6c5-40cc-81da-c203955a2661

    The easiest microcontroller to program is the Parallax Basic Stamp. Excellent documentation and help via their forums. More difficult to program, but...

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    11677594-d85a-4713-9f9e-aa027ab8c657

    1. The file or data needs to be in some sort of "format". Common are called fixed length, and comma delimited. More......

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    2deb8c56-4040-452e-bdd2-dbf589d50e1d

    A hot topic lately is Google "Android" Cell Phone software and getting cell phones which use this operating system to talk to...

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    575cd1ee-f554-497a-a20c-0c92e3765b94

    The following link is about the General Motors "Oil Life Monitor" Algorithm... (Predicts when motor oil in a vehicle should be changed.)...

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    e5621bb8-f2b9-4ed6-8ba7-2880d80dce11

    Nested function defines... #-Link-Snipped-#

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    095c0c24-dc4c-4352-9cd1-3a685c28c6dd

    Yes. A function is just a collection of programming. And instead of writing all that programming each time you want to use...

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    99c643f7-3abf-400a-b3f4-5a3db2f47ca2

    A protocol is an organized system of communication. If several people in a school classroom started talking to the teacher all at...

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    07b05e92-8a4b-4295-be29-11c693db78b5

    In common terms (probably not a good enough answer for school or a job)... An object is a stand alone computer program...

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    e22dcc94-a423-41f2-9ec3-82c9b1cb412e

    <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_generation" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Power Generation</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia...

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    068d3fbd-e7e6-43af-8e0c-fe01fc729a31

    Might want to replace it with an old fashioned mechanical relay! Causes of failure... -over voltage -over current -over temperature From... <a...

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    b6ca26d1-a040-44f8-bb49-eb2a5034b1b2

    If you learn what words mean, then you understand what someone is saying when they talk to you. When you were young,...

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    015cc3e3-8f8c-41c4-8c3a-03384aac7962

    Flow meters... #-Link-Snipped-#

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    4ce933dc-8ed0-4d90-9421-7b4c7c3b3683

    Solar electric "grid tie" "net metering".

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    f9faeba4-80ad-4414-a544-01ba633bd56d

    Two types. One type is a blood pressure cuff which also detects pulse. The other sends light through the ear lobe. As...