Sparks fly as BTo hit by electrical fault

Grok Headline matches for Sparks fly as BTo hit by electrical fault

"this electrical site"

"this electrical site" 01/19/2004 07:16 AM

Electrical (Standards) Interference

Electrical (Standards) Interference 04/02/2005 03:25 PM

HomePlu g AV is near--but so are three other standards: Frustrating, isn't it, that just when you hear the news that the electrical networking standard HomePlug is about to be revised from version 1.0 to AV (11 Mbps to 200 Mbps!) that three other standards could split the marketplace and thus doom it in the same way that the excellent HomeRF standard sunk beneath the waters by failing to reach the market fast enough with speedy bandwidth.

PC World reports that HomePlug AV will be ratified in June and be built into settop boxes and other devices. With a raw 200 Mbps design, it should deliver at least 100 Mbps of actual net throughput, enough to stream multiple video signals across your home's wiring. It's also designed to work with Broadband over Powerline (BPL) equipment, although I'm finding that increasingly unlikely to be deployed in the U.S. based on power utility statements. (Anti-municipal telecom/broadband bills would make it impossible for private utilities to deploy BPL, too.)

The United Powerline Association unfortunately has a competing spec that won't interoperate. And then HomePlug has a low-power control protocol they're working on as does Z-Wave.

The article unfortunately quotes the New Millennium Research Council, a group that I have written about extensively here because of their parent company, Issue Dynamics, which is a PR firm that represents incumbent telco and cable operators. The NRMC is oddly 100-percent behind BPL, and if you look at Issue Dynamics's client list, you find that Edison Electric Institute and Virginia Power are represented in their client list; Pacific Gas & Electric was a former client.

So keep your scorecard straight: utilities offering broadband is a bad idea when they are owned by municipalities, but an entirely good idea when private companies own the utilities. And allowing municipal utilities to allow private companies to offer broadband over their electrical lines would be bad, too.

Electrical poltergeist strikes again

Electrical poltergeist strikes again 09/21/2004 10:49 PM
My one-month-old Thinkpad X40 needs a new motherboard. Yesterday, it stopped noticing what was plugged into its USB ports. Today it can't find its audio board. IBM has authorized the repair. This occurred while I was on the road, lending credence to the theory that my electrical problems are not due to bad wiring in my house but in fact stem from some sort of perturbance in my aura. Or possibly an electrolyte balance. Ultimately, I think, we have to blame it on Karl Rove. By the way, not having my laptop for the next few days is pretty much...

Scheduled outages - An electrical
mystery

Scheduled outages - An electrical
mystery 06/01/2004 08:45 AM
Remember all the problems I've had with electrical equipment? We've had a new panel put in, the electric company ran a new line from the pole, I've had two new 20 amp circuits run to my office, but my equipment still blows up. The mega-UPS I use reports every time there is an outage. I have had 20 in the past 24 weeks, for a total down time of 3 minutes. But want to hear something interesting? The past three outages have all occurred at 7:49:26 AM, two on a Tuesday and one on a Wednesday. Coincidence? Hah! Explanations...

Game for morons who like electrical
shocks

Game for morons who like electrical
shocks 01/06/2004 01:15 PM
The Johnson Smith Company used to sell all sorts of wonderful novelties, contraptions, and magic tricks (read Stefan Jone's description of an old copy of the catalog), but it underwent an unfortunate Archie McPhee-esque revamp in recent years.

One of Johnson Smith's new products is a Russian Roulette style game for four players. Each player sticks his finger in a hole and "when the sound stops, someone gets the shock of their life -- and everyone else gets a big laugh!" Link (Thanks, Tom!)

Electrical fuses help IBM chips heal
themselves

Electrical fuses help IBM chips heal
themselves 08/02/2004 01:36 PM
IBM Corp. believes its new eFuse technology brings the company one step closer to autonomic computing by allowing chips to sense their own flaws and reconfigure themselves without outside intervention, the company announced Friday.

Born under a dark electrical cloud

Born under a dark electrical cloud 09/03/2004 04:41 PM
We arrived at my family's house in the Berkshires to discover that both phones and many of the lights are fried. Apparently, there was a lightning strike. Or maybe it's just my bad electrical mojo running ahead of me. So, I had to drive around with Netstumbler to find a working, open wifi hotspot in town. (Yay for free wifi.) It's gone this afternoon, though. So, I have 12 minutes remaining on the public Internet in the local library. Must type faster......

Railguns and other lethal electrical
experiments

Railguns and other lethal electrical
experiments 11/18/2003 06:59 AM
PowerLabs is where a serious electricity geek keeps track of his many railgun, disk-shooter, Tesla coil and related projects, documenting them with video, stills, blueprints and tutorials. Lethal fun! Link (Thanks, h1kari!)

Electrical Signals Key to Culturing
Heart Tissue

Electrical Signals Key to Culturing
Heart Tissue 12/19/2004 02:53 PM

Electrical technology patent is ticket
to riches

Electrical technology patent is ticket
to riches 02/10/2004 02:36 AM
The New Zealand Herald Feb 9 2004 7:47PM GMT

Village considering Internet access
through electrical outlets

Village considering Internet access
through electrical outlets 06/11/2004 08:01 AM
AP via Newsday Jun 11 2004 12:20PM GMT

NTT uses human body's electrical field
as a data bus

NTT uses human body's electrical field
as a data bus 04/06/2005 05:27 PM
Mark Frauenfelder: I wrote a piece for TheFeature about RedTacton, a personal area networking (PAN) technology that makes use of the electrical field that naturally surrounds the human body.

NTT believes there are many uses for RedTacton beyond being a replacement for certain Bluetooth or IR applications. It could for example, be used as a kind of RFID. When you touch a door handle at a secure facility, the RedTacton transceiver would look at the ID number stored in the mobile device in your pocket and decide whether or not to let you in. Or a bottle of medicine might sound an alarm if you are not the person to whom the pills have been prescribed.

Link

Spy Cameras that send video through your
electrical lines.

Spy Cameras that send video through your
electrical lines. 09/14/2004 03:50 AM
New technology prevents your hidden camera video images from being transmitted across the neighborhood. Faced with the challenge of confining a standard video signal to a single residence, Covert Systems Group, LLC is implementing patented video technology to shroud signals and protect the users privacy. [PRWEB Sep 14, 2004]

SMC bridges electrical system to
Ethernet for Mac users

SMC bridges electrical system to
Ethernet for Mac users 10/29/2003 03:24 AM
SMC Networks on Tuesday introduced a new line of EZ Connect networking devices based on HomePlug 1.0 technology, and claims to be the only vendor offering a Mac-compatible HomePlug solution. HomePlug eschews conventional networking or wireless technology to transmit data over household electrical networks.

Some Lexmark, Dell Printers May Present
Electrical Hazard

Some Lexmark, Dell Printers May Present
Electrical Hazard 09/14/2004 06:45 PM
PC Magazine Sep 14 2004 10:44PM GMT

International symposium on electrical,
electronic and computer engineering

International symposium on electrical,
electronic and computer engineering 12/09/2003 08:25 AM
Cordis Dec 9 2003 7:33AM ET

Saboteurs May Be Aiming at Electrical
and Water Sites as Summer Nears

Saboteurs May Be Aiming at Electrical
and Water Sites as Summer Nears 06/09/2004 05:47 AM
The sabotage of a power plant south of Baghdad raised new fears that insurgents were beginning to make targets of major sectors of the infrastructure.

Watch Manufacturer Gears Product Line
Towards Electrical and Electronics
Tradesmen

Watch Manufacturer Gears Product Line
Towards Electrical and Electronics
Tradesmen 07/24/2004 02:22 AM
TechNote Time Watch Company is setting precedence by being the first manufacturer of informative wrist watches geared towards tradesmen in the electrical and electronics fields. Their initial product line consists of specialty analog wrist watches which incorporates Ohm’s law, power formulas and a resistor band chart, for AC or DC applications. [PRWEB Jul 24, 2004]

Some Lexmark, Dell Printers May Present
Electrical Hazard (Ziff Davis)

Some Lexmark, Dell Printers May Present
Electrical Hazard (Ziff Davis) 09/10/2004 01:04 PM
Ziff Davis - Voluntary recall targets more than half a dozen printers from three companies.

5th WSEAS Int. Conf. on MATHEMATICAL
METHODS AND COMPUTATIONAL TECHNIQUES IN
ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING

5th WSEAS Int. Conf. on MATHEMATICAL
METHODS AND COMPUTATIONAL TECHNIQUES IN
ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING 11/10/2003 10:56 PM
NetLib Nov 8 2003 2:02PM ET

Hybrid Cars May Send God's Electrical
Wrath to Punish Oil-Hating Pinkos

Hybrid Cars May Send God's Electrical
Wrath to Punish Oil-Hating Pinkos 05/04/2004 11:07 AM
Those new hybrid cars that all you hippies love may have an unforeseen danger in an accident: high-voltage shock for rescue workers. Most of the time, to free a trapped passenger after an accident, the car is sliced and cut open with hydraulic tools--the proverbial 'Jaws of Life.' Now there's...

Not at fault

Not at fault 04/15/2004 06:32 AM
CNET Asia Apr 15 2004 10:49AM GMT

And it's all my fault

And it's all my fault 06/05/2005 11:47 PM

Anytime I think of saying something that would be considered a "jinx", I have this little conversation with myself in my head on whether I should actually utter the thought aloud and risk karmic payback. I'm not a superstitious person but I usually end up keeping silent. The other day on the plane home from Ireland, I decided to take a chance:

"You know what's weird? I haven't been sick all winter."

After all, who gets a cold in June? *cough* *cough* So if things are a little slow around here today, that's why.

Electrical Twitch Obtaining
Intramuscular Stimulation (ETOIMS) for
Relief of Muscle Pain and Discomfort

Electrical Twitch Obtaining
Intramuscular Stimulation (ETOIMS) for
Relief of Muscle Pain and Discomfort 09/02/2004 02:09 AM
Electrical Twitch Obtaining Intramuscular Stimulation (ETOIMS) method is beneficial for patients with various nerve related muscle discomfort conditions such as fibromyalgia, myofascial pain, muscle tightness, aches and soreness. ETOIMS works by automated rapid insertion of a thin needle electrode into specific muscle-nerve junctions at different depths within the muscle. A small amount of electricity applied for 0.5 second, facilitates these areas to "twitch". The stretch and exercise effects of the twitch mobilizes and loosen deep muscle tissue. This is essential to relieve acute and chronic muscle pain and discomfort. [PRWEB Sep 2, 2004]

No, It's Not Our Own Damn Fault

No, It's Not Our Own Damn Fault 09/07/2004 01:04 AM

In response to my rant about integrated library system vendors, Peter Rukavina says that it's our own damn fault.

"When you outsource the administration of your data to someone else (whether it's an OPAC vendor or a university computing department or some guy down the street), you're also outsourcing any chance you have at retaining ultimate control over that data.

When you buy a 'one size fits all' technology solution -- an OPAC that's designed for, say, 'any public library' -- you're buying a commodity, not a solution.

And you should expect to be treated as an insignificant cog by your vendor: that's what you are. By absolving yourself of personal responsibility over your data management in the first place, you've already said 'we don't care enough about this to do it ourselves, so you take care of it for us.' Is it any wonder they treat you like they do?"

While I understand the spirit of his response and I wish that we did have some of our best and brightest programmers devoted to creating the one true catalog (rather than working on it as time permits at their real job or doing it at home on their own time), nonprofit libraries just don't have the option for which Peter advocates.

I bought a new car this year because I was unhappy with some of the things about my old car. Using Peter's logic, I shouldn't have outsourced my new vehicle to a car manufacturer, but I did. I just didn't have the time, money, or other resources to build one myself.

Yeah, it's over the top, but you get my point. Ambulance drivers don't make the ambulances, doctors don't make the defibrillators, lawyers don't make the Lexis-Nexis database, and programmers use operating systems developed by someone else (even if it's Linux).

You can't outsource everything, and libraries have to prioritize what to expend their limited amounts of resources on. Can they build their own cars? No, but they can certainly switch to one made by another manufacturer.

New Era For San Andreas Fault?

New Era For San Andreas Fault? 04/15/2004 06:32 AM
CBS News Apr 15 2004 10:57AM GMT

Fault Tolerance

Fault Tolerance 03/14/2005 05:06 PM
Tim Bray: It’s Not Dangerous Bullshit. Crossing the street is dangerous.  Stepping into a bathtub is dangerous.  But both are worthwhile.  As is blogging — for many folks. ...

Design fault

Design fault 04/19/2004 08:24 AM
How come the Copenhagen airport has wireless internet access, but no powerstrips? Heh. You can't even pay for more than four hours of internet access, but I guess that's okay since your laptop battery will die in four hours anyway...

It's very sad, you know. Weep with me.

(On the other hand, while traveling is stressful, in an odd way it's also very comforting. A whole blissful 15 hours during which you are not expected to make any decisions, just follow the signs, sit in a cramped space, stretch and eat whatever is given to you, taken care of by professionals. It's really a very zen-like experience in all its calmness. Much like going to a spa or something.

I'm not so certain whether it is a bad thing to be docile and subservient every now and then. At least you are paying a lot of money for the privilege.)

Fault Is Not In The Technology, But In
Ourselves

Fault Is Not In The Technology, But In
Ourselves 09/23/2004 05:51 PM
It seems like every so often, a columnist has to write about technology and spits out a 'top ten' list. Probably one of the most overdone topics for technology articles has to be a list of the 'top ten things people dislike about computers/software/etc' which can usually be reduced to the statement: it's frustrating when technology doesn't work the way people want it to. But apparently people are more forgiving to apologetic computers, so without changing what computers actual do, simply re-wording error messages might ameliorate the situation. However, the problem still exists, and the issue is that humans are the ones who build and design these systems, disregard owner's manuals, and write cryptic manuals in the first place. So before computers start designing other computers, just pretend your laptop apologized to you, read the manuals, and make up top ten lists to vent your frustrations.

Finding fault

Finding fault 03/31/2005 11:33 AM
A presidential commission's report on WMD blames the CIA for intelligence failures in Iraq, and warns they could be repeated in Iran and North Korea.

Going fault-tolerant for less

Going fault-tolerant for less 03/30/2005 06:53 AM
For some IT managers, it might come as a surprise that Intel-based, fault-tolerant systems running Windows or Linux provide the same - or better - performance than bigger, more costly boxes.

NEC 4-Way Server Is Fault-Tolerant

NEC 4-Way Server Is Fault-Tolerant 09/13/2004 06:53 AM
NEC Solutions (America) Inc. is unveiling a four-processor, fault-tolerant server designed to bring higher availability to data centers.

Take-Two's Fault Line

Take-Two's Fault Line 09/07/2004 10:35 AM
Video game developer Take-Two leads the way in reporting earnings this week.

Spam Is All Your Fault, Says Study

Spam Is All Your Fault, Says Study 03/27/2005 12:35 PM
Information Week Mar 27 2005 3:50PM GMT

Mangeldatenbank (Fault database)

Mangeldatenbank (Fault database) 08/29/2004 02:12 PM
1. Relase will be online in about 1 week

NEC Readies Fault-Tolerant Servers

NEC Readies Fault-Tolerant Servers 07/26/2004 05:49 AM
NEC Solutions America Inc. over the next six months will roll out two fault-tolerant, high-availability servers aimed at small and midsize businesses.

WMD Panel to Fault Intelligence Agencies
(AP)

WMD Panel to Fault Intelligence Agencies
(AP) 03/29/2005 08:52 PM
AP - President Bush's commission on weapons of mass destruction will castigate U.S. intelligence agencies for their continued failure to share information after numerous reforms aimed at improving coordination, federal officials said Tuesday.

Hidden Fault May Threaten Bay Area

Hidden Fault May Threaten Bay Area 12/19/2004 02:53 PM

Concealed fault caused Bam quake

Concealed fault caused Bam quake 06/15/2004 06:11 PM
The devastating earthquake at Bam, Iran, in 2003 was caused by a rare, hidden fault that is invisible at the surface, researchers have claimed.
Grok Description matches for Sparks fly as BTo hit by electrical fault
GrokA matches for Sparks fly as BTo hit by electrical fault

Sparks fly as BTo hit by electrical fault

The following phrases have been identified by the grok system as matching this entry: