An electric arc is an electrical breakdown of a gas which produces an ongoing plasma discharge, resulting from a current flowing through normally non-conductive media such as air.
As far as I can tell there’s an over-voltage on one of the phases and it’s arcing over the ceramic conductor like it should, until it makes contact with a second phase that is…
A man flying in a hot air balloon suddenly realizes he’s lost. He reduces height and spots a man down below. He lowers the balloon further and shouts to get directions, “Excuse me, can you …
While migrating cacti over to a new virtual machine I got “ERROR: This RRD was created on another architecture” in /var/log/httpd/error_log when the crontab ran resulting in blank graphs.
On the 32 bit machine in /var/www/cacti/rra/ …
I’ve had the Arduino Mini Pro for about 2 months now, but as I forgot to order/have some sort of USB FTDI converter I’ve not been able to play with it. As part of another …
A quick guide to getting openmanage installed for RAID monitoring on a Xen node.
OM 6.2 has an error with “Error: Missing Dependency: libxslt.so.1″ which is with the Dell package. Use 6.1 if 6.2 doesn’t work …
1944AC: Inventor and chemist Thomas Midgley, Jr. accidentally strangled himself with the cord of a pulley-operated mechanical bed of his own design.
Turns out Thomas Midgley, Jr. also invented CFCs but didn’t live long enough to …
When was the last time you took a good look at the money in your wallet? You’d be supprised what you might find.
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I’ve faffed with this one and poorly hacked some jquery and facebook connect examples along with trusty ol’ PHP on the front-end, on the back-end is a nice c scheduler engine which seems to be …
I’ve been making a few modifications to *.carlheaton.co.uk like re-introducing the core Carl Heaton index page with a list of projects and other on-going ideas.
I will still post tutorials/dumps here where appropriate for code, server …
I’ve had the Arduino Mini Pro for about 2 months now, but as I forgot to order/have some sort of USB FTDI converter I’ve not been able to play with it. As part of another …
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is that real? thought this kind of arch would always take the shortest connection trough the air.
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