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Went back through a couple of old threads and already PM'd Antwon, but if he's not an option (tree too big, too busy, doesn't get back, whatever), who's been doing good work in this area lately? There's an ash in my front that's in really sad shape from borers (guessing 30-35 foot, I can do the math for a more accurate height later) , some punk-ass thing in the back (maybe 10 foot) that froze to death over the last two winters, and a honey locust that could just use some dead-branch clearing.

Are they being paid, or only promised to be be paid at some later date? http://news.investors.com/blogs-capital-hill/052015-753642-ferguson-protesters-complain-about-not-getting-paid.htm

Huh? Unless something changed, Verizon does not have FiOS anywhere in Ohio, and there are no plans to add it.

Meh... was talking with my dad last night, and made the observation that the Harlem Globetrotters play better basketball than the NBA's thug ball. Seriously... arm bars, clotheslines, extra steps. What's the point of having refs out there at all?

Just pay Andy

And there's the rub... people don't pay to see boxers play within the rules and win a decision with stifling defense and the occasional jab. They pay to see boxes jab, duck, feint, and knock each other senseless with haymakers that have maybe a 1-in-20 chance of landing, but if they do, their oppo^H^H^H^Hvictim won't see straight for at least a day (assuming they wake up before then).

A'yup... To remove power, we have to coordinate a partial outage with the customer impacted. To take down an entire panel is... impractical. On the plus side, I showed that Grainger link to my manager earlier today, and he was like "Damn, that's within my no-prior-approval-needed window for general expenses. Get one!" :fuckyeah:

Uhh... how would you go about testing the resistance of a breaker that's currently under load? As for price, I was hoping someone local might have something along the lines of this $500 kit from Grainger. 7 days is a little long, but I found elsewhere on their site that apparently some Home Depots offer 1-day rates, and for something that ought to take me five minutes, I might be able to convince management. Except for one city where unions rule supreme, we do *almost* everything ourselves. High Voltage Maintenance comes out once a year to scan everything, but they're not slated to visit my place until August, which doesn't really help much. I've made noise about having thermal guns locally, and will do so again, but the counter-argument has always been liability if we miss something. All our customer racks are dual fed, but again, in order to take advantage of that and alert the affected customer, I have to isolate the bad breaker first.

Not with potentially several grand worth of IT gear and customer data connected. Without a thermal camera or someone there to see exactly which contact plate arcs while I'm working further down the panel, the rule is "Don't risk making things worse by dicking around." Eventually it'll either trip out (which I will see within minutes via branch circuit monitors), leave an arc I can see on the bus work, or it'll get found during the annual "scan everything" sweep in late summer.

Unfortunately not... James is way the bloody devil in BFE, like hour and a half for each of us just to meet half-way. Hardly practical for what should be all of five minutes of scanning. Company policy is to replace it completely, but first I have to find which of the bastards is causing the problem. There's no obvious arc on the visible terminals I can see, which means it's likely on a phase that's covered up by the breaker itself. A thermal camera can pick out the heat signature on the bus screw caused by the bad connection. Old electrician's habit... you use a meter to check each phase-to-phase, phase-to-neutral, phase-to-ground, and neutral-to-ground for stray voltages, then assuming they all check out (and your meter worked properly when you started and finished... you DID check that, right??), you lick the fingers on your right hand and plug yourself in. The idea is that if, for some reason, your meter is having a bad day, the "safest" place (if you can call it that) to get shocked is across the fingers of your right hand, as far away from your heart and spinal cord as possible.

Finger test - Yeah, the "lick fingers and plug in" comes after metering everything (phase-phase, phase-neutral, phase-ground, neutral-ground), but still made me go 'wtf' the first time I saw him do it. HF - Linkage? When I searched for both "infrared" and "flir" on the site (assuming you mean Harbor Freight), I got nothing. Searching "camera" gives me some security cameras, four inspection cameras with little fiber extensions that, after reading the product description, don't appear to have thermal/false color capability.

That's actually the final test a coworker of mine does to verify that a panel is, in fact, dead... licks his fingers and sticks them straight on the lugs. Unfortunately, taking this panel down is not an option, and licking my fingers won't aid in repairing the issue.

Anybody have one for borrow/rent? I have a breaker at the office that's likely cross-threaded (spat a spark out the side while I was working further down) and I'd like to get it isolated and replaced, but didn't see any obvious scorch marks on the bus bars to point a finger at the misbehaving connection.

Someone's gotta drive the cars off the line and over to the trucks/trains for distribution... hard to beat a person trained by the military to drive stuff around Boom, two awesome possibilities.

What's his MOS? He may be looking for carpentry/construction as just a summer job, but if he's got training, why limit to those when there might be someone out there who can't spend the time training someone because they need a pair of hands Right Fuckin' Now.

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Same here... thanking the FDA for letting Flonase go OTC this year This is make/model specific... my Civic hybrid pulls whatever air is in the cabin through the battery pack, so if your windows are wide open, you're sucking the great outdoors straight through the battery pack.

That's really a question of whether you're buying desktop drives, or "better" drives. A good hardware RAID controller from LSI or Intel, together with Seagate Constellation or WD Re series drives, should not only last for years, but gracefully fail out a drive and rebuild without so much as a hiccup, especially if you're using RAID-6, or -5 with a hot spare. The question of what file system is best suited for the job is certainly one worth spending time thinking of (if you even have the option), but that's a debate for another day. Depending on the design of your case, you may already have fans blowing directly on the hard drives, making this a non-issue.

If you're running a reasonably current version of Windows (Vista/2008 or higher), or just about any *NIX for the last, ohh... 30+ years, it is possibly to mount a physical drive as a sub-folder of another drive. However, that's a rather hackish way of doing things. At this point, and since you've already admitted that your library is growing way faster than you expected, I'd recommend you get a dedicated NAS device (Eli helpfully recommended the Drobo line already), unpopulated. Since you already have a 4TB drive, I'd suggest getting a 4-bay (or larger) device, and order n-1 4TB drives (in other words, if you order a 4 bay enclosure, order three 4TB drives). When you get the pieces, put it together and configure as a RAID-5 device, then copy your entire library to the NAS. Once you've confirmed the copy was successful, install your existing 4TB drive in that last bay, then "grow" the array by adding that drive to the active array, rebuilding parity, and expanding the partition to the new array size. The practical upshot of all this is that you'll go from 4TB to 12TB of storage, PLUS it gives you the safety of being able to have any single drive failing, and not losing any data. FWIW, I actually run a RAID-6 array on my NAS (8x1TB for 6TB total storage, can tolerate two drive failures), and at least with my hardware, the repair/rebuild process was relatively pain-free

Yup... black and white, or non-photo color, go laser, end of story, do not pass go, do not collect $200. If you do want photo, consider a printer that is compatible with CIS systems, so instead of buying a constant stream of cartridges, you have much larger tanks that you can refill at your convenience and without feeling the pain when you've not printed in 3 weeks, half the nozzles are clogged, and you have to go through two very wasteful cleaning cycles to get going again.

Sigh... no. Had Three Mile Island breached containment, we would NOT have had a Chernobyl-type incident, we'd have had a Fukushima Dai. The Russian RBMK reactor (of which several are still in operation) uses graphite blocks as a neutron moderator, while American and Japanese use heavy water. Graphite burns and explodes when coolant water is lost, while D2O just boils off, leaving superheated reactor rods behind. Those rods then melt and puddle on the floor of the containment vessel. If cooling still isn't returned within sufficient time, it just glops through the steel bottle and begins making its way towards the Earth's core, causing groundwater and aquifer contamination, but not surface or atmospheric. Pick your poison, I suppose, but at least know your poisons before picking

Just a little, you say...

And by "Full 3D," we mean "FULL 3D"... your fleet (and the enemy fleet) can come from any direction. In front of you, behind you, flanking you, or from above AND below. Along with that, you could have the absolute best GeForce graphics card of the era, and you'd still be frame-chugging on the later missions. Somewhere in the house I've got the original Homeworld GOTY edition... might have to pull it out just to remember what the graphics were like compared to the remastered.

Does she really need implants, or just a tightening of the skin and underlying connective tissue?

How did that go again...? Bottle of rum up the bum, then entered into a demolition derby with fifteen other drunks?:gabe: