"Kurt Hamster" wrote in message
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On Mon, 11 Oct 2004 21:52:26 +0000 (UTC), Stewart Pinkerton used
to say...

On Mon, 11 Oct 2004 20:37:46 GMT, Bob Latham
wrote:

In article ,
Don Pearce wrote:
On Mon, 11 Oct 2004 19:38:25 GMT, Bob Latham
wrote:

I simply could not think of a better description at the time. How
about
'the object' it was placed on?

How about the location with respect to the speakers? I'm still
thinking microphony here...

Well yes I'm sure it was microphony I was just amazed at how great was
its
effect on solid state devices.

I would be equally amazed. It is *possible* that this kit amp was
really badly designed, or really badly built, but I have *never* come
across anything close to the effect you have described in *any* SS
amplifier.

I've never seen the Taj Mahal in the 'flesh' but I *know* it's in India.



Whaat? Last time I saw it, it was in the High Street, Stevenage Old
Town.....!!!

(Been in it dozens of times, after a night on the sherbert.... ;-)

Tat Chan wrote:

(now rebuilding X-Windows ... I remember the days when I was happy to
recompile the whole Linux kernel in less than 5 minutes. Ah, the good
old days).

You still can... the kernel seems to have grown at about the same rate
as CPUs have. well slightly less actually. I can doa full build (core
and modules) in about 3 minutes).

I've spent the last 3 days compiling packages to upgrade mnementh (of
mnementh.co.uk) though - Im upgrading it to LFS unstable
(www.linuxfromscratch.org) so that I can take advantage of some new
features (like hardware mpeg decode on the VIA CLE266 in it.

mnementh is my firewall/webserver/database/home theatre PC and lives
under the TV. like all the other PCs here it boots from a networked
storage server here which lives under the floor. mnementh has no moving
parts (axcept its DVD-rom) and is actually 100% silent.

the storage box has a gig of RAM and lives under the floor. it has
ethernet and 2 harddiscs, which are tied together using md, so I can
just add new discs into the filesystem and grow it onto them - no stupid
drive letters, no '**** I have 300G on 9 partitions so I cant save my
50G file...' it just *works*.

mnementh has its own isolated rootfs on the storage box (it is the
firewall!) but all the other PCS share a common root filesystem. when
they boot the storage serevr assigns them an IP via DHCP and they use
the ip to determine what other non-common parts of the filesystem they
should pick up - eg. my machine and SWMBOs machine share the rootfs but
have different /tmp, /mnt, /var etc. all machines except mnementh also
share /home and some common storage.

my desktop box is a shutle XPC and without any discs sipnning, it really
is quiet.

We only have one PC to back up now too, which is nice. only 108Gig free
right now though... need to rent some more DVDs...

"Kurt Hamster" wrote in message
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On Tue, 12 Oct 2004 06:25:18 +0000 (UTC), Stewart Pinkerton used
to say...

Every time some jerk makes a wild claim that he fails to back up, and
then moves on to lies and distortions because that's all he's got? :-)

Well it's worked for you for years.




:-)

Keith G wrote:

Interesting hypocracy - it's OK to generalise about valve amps but not about
SS.....???

Note, *ALL* SS amps.

One can make generalisations about both valve or SS amps, but not many
will cover ALL SS or valve amps.

Kurt Hamster wrote:

A digital photo of your money would go a long way to proving your
credibility too!

somewhat irrelevant really - although I can assure you it *is*
available, Its intended as a down payment on a mortgage.

"Kurt Hamster" wrote in message
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On Tue, 12 Oct 2004 15:01:26 +0100, Ian Molton used
to say...

Kurt Hamster wrote:

A digital photo of your money would go a long way to proving your
credibility too!

somewhat irrelevant really - although I can assure you it *is*
available, Its intended as a down payment on a mortgage.

So why should we accept *your* assurance when you are sinularly anable
accept Bob's?

Should we believe that you are in some way more reliable?


Damn good point!


(Jeez, you're sharp today, Kurt! - You taking anything out of the ordinary?
:-)

"Ian Molton" wrote in message
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Kurt Hamster wrote:

A digital photo of your money would go a long way to proving your
credibility too!

somewhat irrelevant really - although I can assure you it *is* available,
Its intended as a down payment on a mortgage.



Then best keep quiet about it and go buy your house, then.......

"Ian Molton" wrote in message
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Keith G wrote:

Interesting hypocracy - it's OK to generalise about valve amps but not
about SS.....???

Note, *ALL* SS amps.

One can make generalisations about both valve or SS amps, but not many
will cover ALL SS or valve amps.



Wouldn't be a very *general* 'generalisation' then, would it.....?? :-)

"Kurt Hamster" wrote in message
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On Tue, 12 Oct 2004 15:14:42 +0100, Keith G used
to say...


"Kurt Hamster" wrote in message
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On Tue, 12 Oct 2004 15:01:26 +0100, Ian Molton used
to say...

Kurt Hamster wrote:

A digital photo of your money would go a long way to proving your
credibility too!

somewhat irrelevant really - although I can assure you it *is*
available, Its intended as a down payment on a mortgage.

So why should we accept *your* assurance when you are sinularly anable
accept Bob's?

Should we believe that you are in some way more reliable?


Damn good point!


(Jeez, you're sharp today, Kurt! - You taking anything out of the
ordinary?
:-)


Heheheh, wish I was

Pontificating, pious prats who insist on 'do as I say, not as I do' ****
me right off.

Not to mention the "MUST measure it before I use it brigade"...


Well, I hafta say it's not much good measuring it *after* you've used it!!
(Well, not in *my* case anyway!! :-)

Kurt Hamster wrote:

So why should we accept *your* assurance when you are sinularly anable
accept Bob's?

Should we believe that you are in some way more reliable?

Would wether I have the money make any difference as to wether I would
be bound to pay it should he prove his assertions ?

certainly he stands to make at least an insignificant amount.