http://www.chinacartimes.com/2006/11/13/the-chinese-humvee-copy-eastwind-eq2050-dongfeng-eq2050/ A NYTimes story about unauthorized Chinese editions of the...
http://www.china-motors.ru/english/index.php I thought everyone would enjoy this. From a political standpoint, who would have thought in, say, 1970 that...
On Wed, 01 Aug 2007 08:13:20 -0400, Mark Kinsler <kinsler33@...> ... Just the fact that it's electric seems to give some credit to the Chinese. They...
... And why, at this location, like credit card come-ons to the children used to be, those pernicious flyers are discarded before they can pervert the...
This is interesting. I don't know just how strongly it applies to motor oil used in ordinary automotive applications, but it's something to think about. There...
... Sold for scrap and shipped to China! ... A new Harbor Freight just opened up within a couple of miles of me! I will probably buy a lathe when I get paid...
One of the happiest days of my life was when I got an Enco Lathe/Drill/Mill combination machine. Then I found out that small machine tools don't work like big...
I was just looking at the photo files on HTW and noticed the simple steam engine that Mark is making. He stated that the idea is for people to gain an...
On Wed, 01 Aug 2007 08:23:49 -0400, Mark Kinsler <kinsler33@...> ... I surely did! What a valiant struggle the translator had. I can't quite figure out...
That's the title of an article on the topic. <http://pubs.acs.org/cen/news/85/i32/8532news4.html> It's not at all hysterical, btw. -- Nicholas B o d l e y ...
Natalie's Dell desktop runs Windows XP Home Edition, which was installed on it. No new drivers or hardware has been installed except for a new Dell LCD ...
... With the power off, carefully pull, blow out and re-seat any cards on the mother board. Do the same for all disk drive cables... If you're feeling...
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Aug 2, 2007 2:48 am
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The error message here is vague, and running it through the M$ knowledgebase yields a number of answers, none of which are helpful. However... My experience,...
So I removed and replaced and replaced every connector that looked like it does or ever did handle data; all were soundly in place. Removed and replaced the...
... What I learned from my Grizzly 3-in-1 lathe-mill-drill is that every machine has limitations, but that any machine is better than no machine. Yeah, there...
... Yes. That's a good idea, especially the gauge. I used to do this same thing with an inexpensive air hammer, which the women students I had used to ...
What the hell could have happened here? The pictures here: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/02/us/02bridge.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin are about as good as any,...
Quite sad. I followed a Google News lead to a couple of CBS videos taken from helos. Images were delightfully stable, and made me think of making the stab. ...
Not quite simple; rather interesting, I thought. Probably no big deal. <http://www.sciencenews.org/articles/20070728/mathtrek.asp> -- Nicholas B o d l e y ...
... It's written more carefully, but it's the same old stuff: (1) there are subtle, hidden dangers in all of this (2) there are Distinguished Scientists (tm)...
... Back when I was supposed to be bright, I tried a Mobius experiment with a couple of pencils. Draw a circle on a piece of paper with a pencil. Now do the...
... _r=1&hp&oref=slogin ... The graphic picture is inaccurate. The bridge was constructed of a center truss section that spanned the river and rested on two...
... Have you tried booting from a CD-ROM, or floppy (if applicable)? DOS won't know how to read huge hard drives but DOS doesn't have a blue screen of...
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... OOPS - I got that wrong. The center truss section DOES have three sections. The connection between the two ends and level ground does have the flat I-beam...
... Is this happening where you live? You could contact your trash hauler to make sure that whatever you do in recycling is effective. I know that where I live...