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Yes, they did. This was going on, even in NJ, as late as the early 60's. My grandmother's brother (my great uncle) was a postal worker and he worked at the dispatch hub in Camden, NJ before it was moved out to Bellmawr, NJ. From the stories he told us kids, he worked there both before and after his service in WW2 and…

Geez, Tom, you're opening a pandora's box here and I really don't have the time to get in to this stuff here right now. These cables make differences but not for the reasons you or tophatjohnny think. Cat5, Cat6, Cat7 and Cat8 standards all have minimum codes for tolerances that mean they can support certain bandwidth…

If you noticed a difference in sound quality due to an Ethernet cable then the cable you were using previously was improperly terminated and despite it being 4 twisted pairs, you could be using only 1 twisted pairs. That would drastically reduce the bandwidth that your Ethernet cable was running which would affect sound as…

Yeah, I have a buddy who is a Network Engineer for Verizon and he tests all his new hires on how to properly plug out and set CAT 5/5e and 6/6a cabling standards. They don't buy pre-packaged cables. They make all their own. Since they are mostly wireless now anyway, the only time they are plugging out data cables is in the…

That's a great way to introduce excessive network latency issues. Additionally, what happens when one switch fails or reboots and resets your IP tables giving you duplicate IP address on the same network? You'd be better off doing token ring standards over 75 ohm RG-6U coax (cable TV). You'd get the same level of…

I know the video was pointing out the scam. I was just trying to save people the time of sitting through a 20 minute rant video. It's good that you did research by calling a company and asking but I'm not really sure what your second post is saying. However, anyone that is telling you that standard of ethernet cable…

He had pancreatic cancer. He was fighting it for a while. Way longer than I expected him to when I read the news of his diagnosis. That's terrible. RIP

Yes. Network switches transfer data, they don't process it. You can have yourself a $90K "audiophile" network switch and if all you have is an iPod (do they still make those?) and a Walmart receiver from a HTiB you're going to get exactly what your iPod and Walmart jobby would get you whether you had a $90K "audiophile…

You would.

She probably dropped a candle that was hot and the wax splattered when the candle hit the ground.

I've used a heat gun and a blue paper shop towel for wax spills. If the wax spill is on something that doesn't like heat, a hair dryer on high will get hot enough to melt wax but typically leaves heat sensitive materials alone. I use the blue shop paper towels because they are more absorbent, especially with chemicals and…

Oh, and the green chain...it's bright green on purpose. One of the younger tree guys asked me why the chain was green. The cutter on the crew is also a national park ranger and works in the off-season here out in Oregon, California and Washington maintaining forests out there. He tells the younger guy "It's green for a…

Rambler Rose, yet another species from China that does nothing here but cause problems. It's on the list of species to eradicate on sight here in NJ along with Tree of Heaven, White Mulberry and the brown marmorated stink bug and the spotted lantern fly. At least the Rambler Rose smells nice. My condolences, though. That's…

OK, so hopefully this works. https://photos.app.goo.gl/VAGXQFvirFMcu1NJ7 That should be an album with the video. This is after the initial pull and you can see the cut end of the tree. I didn't film the first pull because I was afraid of having a problem and not being able to handle it because I was **** with a phone. What…

Wanted to update this with something. Still haven't finished the laundry room post(s) 'cause it's a lot. Like alot, alot. Life got real craptacular since the end of August and it's taken much of my focus to get straight. Hopefully things are looking up now and they stay that way. Time will tell, I guess. Anyway. I realized…

I honestly hate self check out. I disliked being a cashier when I worked retail when I was younger. I certainly don't like having to do it myself now. Especially since I don't work there. Aside from them being a security risk for the store as has been pointed out several times already, they are a security risk for the…

We're not getting snow, just a bunch of rain but when it's done raining, temps are going to drop quickly to single digits so everything wet is going to freeze. That'll be fun when tree branches start exploding Glad I had those trees taken down earlier in the year.

https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/split-seawater-to-produce-hydrogen

https://www.hydrogenfuelnews.com/fuel-cell-electric-truck-toyota/8556460/

So, couple things here. Nunzio is Italian but, the holdings company that Nunzio created is HQ'ed in Switzerland and nanoFlowcell Management AG is a private company that is share controlled. Swiss law is very strict on business matters and Nunzio would not be able to run a private AG in Switzerland without showing value for…

The issue is recharging. Can this electrolyte be produced cheap enough and in quantities high enough to support major infrastructure? 'Cause the only way to do it easily is to either do a cell exchange or reclaim spent electrolyte from both tanks of the cells and then recharge with new electrolyte in both tanks. Old…

Alright, fine. Hydrogen combustion works the same as gasoline combustion. Rapid oxidation creates heat which drives rapid expansion. That heat and expansion, in a piston driven engine or even a turbine driven engine, creates motive force. It's still a chemical reaction that releases energy by breaking molecular bonds…

They aren't burning hydrogen to power the car down the road. They are doing like I've been talking about for year now. The hydrogen fuel cells are powering a generator engine which produces electrical power that drives an electric motor that moves the car. Every idiot who keeps telling me that hydrogen is a pipe dream,…

Well, the Feds didn't wait to raise rates. Voted yesterday to hike rates another .5%. That puts the Fed's range at 4.25%-4.5%. Hasn't been that high since 2007 when the housing bubble started to pop. This pretty much guarantees 5%+ rates by 2nd quarter next year unless the economy just suddenly gets extra healthy before…

Harry's out of surgery for a couple hours now and aside from only having the use of one arm temporarily, he's doing fine.

Got gas today, $3.49 a gallon for regular at the Wawa up the street. The shady joint across the street with the Conoco sign taped over was $3.39 a gallon for regular. Wawa was $4.15 a gallon for super, shady place across the street was $4.29 a gallon for super. Diesel at Wawa was actually down from the $5.85 the other day.…

$3.49 to $3.69 a gallon for regular here. Premium is still well over $4 a gallon. Ranges from about $4.15 to $4.69 a gallon. Diesel is still over $6 a gallon on average with the low prices being about $5.85 a gallon.

*yawn*

Those are the speakers I have. I actually had 4 sets. I'm using two pairs, one on a secondary computer in my home office and one on the garage computer, one in storage and the 4th pair was what I gave to Al.

This is terrible news! I think anyone who's been to a Polkfest has an Al story. I think it was 2008 or maybe 2005 when I had brought an old set of Polk Audio supplied Silicon Graphics computer speakers with me to show Polk Paul. We actually went to an unused listening room that was dead quiet and Paul and I were running…