MSMoney File Issue

After weeks of hand typing in tons of data from several years pre-dating my collection of fairly current digital update files, I find myself locked out of the file.

When I attempt to open the file and enter my password, as I have done for several weeks now, I am now presented with this po

Theory Behind Clay Ovens

Recently I have been working on heat pumps and find some heat storage and slow release may be an advantage to stop the tubes frosting up.

I found an article on clay ovens suggesting that certain proportions have to be maintained to avoid smoke pouring out into the space around and maintai

ultrasonic detection sensor

respected sir,

in our project we are using ultrasonic sensor for obstacle detection.sensor name is "ECHO" ultrasonic distance sensor(serial output),whice will giv the output in ASCII value.

will u please help me to write the program for dis particular sensor.

The Word is Shhh…

islands__1266598359_8629The Boston Globe just did an excellent article on the pristine islands of the coast of Georgia. The article notes that the coast of Georgia is one of America’s best kept secrets where a string of islands, some as big as bermuda are a remarkable destination for everyone from adventurers to anglers.  Here is a segment of the article.

Around and between the islands, a mighty 8-foot tide flushes 378,000 acres of salt marsh with brackish, food-rich water: the chemistry of a great fishery. In May schools of 60 to 100 redfish start cruising the mud banks. In June, tarpon over 100 pounds roll a boat-length away. Tripletail, a fine fighting and dinner table fish, lie inches below the surface, and a kingdom of critters, from snowy egrets to wild boar, join in the feed. “It’s the last East Coast outback,’’ says Steve Holley, a tournament sportsman who manages a fishing camp here.

To read the full article visit the Boston Globe.

 

Insane Asylum Inspires Lovecraft and Batman Then Becomes A Residential Community [Image Cache]

This is Danvers State Insane Asylum, the inspiration for H.P. Lovecraft's Arkham Sanitarium "which in turn was the inspiration for Arkham Asylum in the Batman comic book series." Today, the building is part of Avalon Danvers, a pleasant residential community.

Right now, those buildings stand surrounded by a swimming pool, fitness center, basketball court, and whatever other amenities an apartment community might have:

Still spooky looking, no? Doesn't seem surprising that there's been all sorts of supernatural activity reported by residents and visitors.

I just hope they hand out free Proton Packs with every new lease. [WIkipedia via Fast Company]


RECEIPE FOR SUCCESS

THERE ARE TWO POINTS

1 YOUR PERSONAL CHARACTER WHICH DEFINES WHO YOU ARE,WHAT YOU VALUEAND HOW YOU DO WHAT YOU DO

2 CORE COMPETENCY,OR THE KNOWLEDGE SKILLS AND ATTITUDE YOU BRING TO WORK AND CONTINUALLY STRIVE TO EXCEL IN ---- A STATEMENT BY MS VANITA BALI MD BRITANIA INDUSTR

The Windows XP F1 Bug: Hijacking Computers One Help Menu At A Time [Security]

So there's this tiny unpatched bug in VBScript that lets sneaky websites run malicious code on machines running Internet Explorer on Windows XP. It's triggered when you try to access the help menu by hitting the F1 key. Whoops.

According to a recent Microsoft security advisory:

The vulnerability exists in the way that VBScript interacts with Windows Help files when using Internet Explorer. If a malicious Web site displayed a specially crafted dialog box and a user pressed the F1 key, arbitrary code could be executed in the security context of the currently logged-on user.

This means that all someone with ill intentions needs to do is create a website which has a somewhat convincing popup prompt to coax you into hitting F1. And tada! You've allowed him or her to run some kind of code on your machine.

It'll be a while before a patch is available for this bug, but in the meantime Microsoft suggests that you protect yourself by not pressing the F1 key if a Web site tells you to. [Microsoft via Computer World via Slashdot]

Picture by Karl Alvin


To the administrator

I had posted a message " 100% yield in stamping laminations ". It was meant more as information and to spread knowledge of 100 % yield lamination stampings- as I found that compnies I ma associated with use 72% yield stampings. This results in wastage and higher costs for electromagnetic ballasts -

Nvidia Optimus Switched This GPU Off! I’ll Yank It Out to Prove It! [Nvidia]

The Nvidia Optimus seamlessly switches between GPUs based on need. And based on this fellow being able to yank out a GPU while the rest of a system is running, it works rather well too.

Sure, it would've been funny if something had gone wrong at that 1:40 mark, but the fact that this little demonstration worked just the way it should is great news. By switching between integrated and discrete graphics, Optimus could one day double our laptop batteries' lives. And that's more exciting than any bit of sparks and smoke could've been. [nTersect Blog]


Master- Slave Load Sharing Application

Dear All

Need some info on How to do the master slave application for current sharing. Like Master will take 50 % of load( Current) and slave will take 50 %. Using AC drives.

Which drive will run in speed mode and which in torque ? How to give speed ref. and torque ref?

We Need a Better Grid and Renewable Energy ASAP

My power went out this afternoon unexpectedly for several hours.  I know other people in some countries go through this or worse all the time, but it threw off my entire day.  I went to a nearby coffee shop to use my smartphone to at least read online,  but then discovered my phone was quickly running out of power too.  It made me realize how much we depend on our electricity and how easy it is to become completely disrupted when power is turned off for a few hours.

The coffee shop had free wi-fi and was packed with people working on laptops.  It got me to thinking that we need more reliable power than we have.  If this had been January, people would have been freezing in their homes.  The U.S. power grid is overtaxed and meant for an earlier era, not 2010 where so much is demanded of it.   It was meant for 50 or 100 million people, not 300 million, who are using it more than ever.  And we need uninterrupted power.  Anyone who thinks we could transition to living more simply, without electricity, without power, is dreaming.  Our brains and work habits are now wired for the internet and the increased use of it will take more power, not less.  That means that we will have a difficult time conserving energy in the future.  There are more appliances and heating systems in use in the United States by far than 20 years ago and it increases every year.  Add a few million electric cars to that and the amount of power needed will grow even more.

We don’t have to have a future of less power.  Why conserve solar power or wind power if there is an abundance of it.  If we start using renewable power all the time, conservation won’t be an issue.  The sun and wind and geothermal power are sources that are free and infinite (at least as far into the future as we can imagine). We need to jump start renewable power and a better more reliable way of transporting power to people.  If we don’t, power outages and brownouts will become common everywhere.

We need more power in the world — but not coal.   There is good news about the rebellion against the coal industry, from Ted Nace, originator of Coal Swarm.  He has a new book out called Climate Hope, and was recently interviewed by Alternet.

Discussing his books Gangs of America and Climate Hope, Coalswarm founder Ted Nace talks about the rise of corporations and Big Coal, the growing network of grassroots movements against coal, and why, despite the non-binding resolution coming out of Copenhagen, we should have hope.

Christine Shearer: Especially since in that 1886 case, Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad, “corporate personhood” came not from the actual judicial decision but from the court reporter’s notes on the case.

Ted Nace: Yes, and that’s just the most well known of a long string of court decisions endowing corporations [...]