Vanamonde Posted January 21, 2019 Share Posted January 21, 2019 The thread has been tidied up a little. Keep it clean, guys. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rover 6428 Posted January 21, 2019 Share Posted January 21, 2019 Im still alive lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StupidAndy Posted January 22, 2019 Share Posted January 22, 2019 i got meself a RX570 8GB. looks pretty sick if you ask me also you can see my hand. good for you along with this i got a Ryzen 5 2600x, 16 GB of DDR4 3000 MHz ram, a 240 GB SSD, and a 23" monitor that was a good day Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kerbiloid Posted January 22, 2019 Share Posted January 22, 2019 Every time when I had read an article about a fuse of some (hand grenade or flak gun shell), i .e. a fuse of something used in amount of millions, I get shocked with the amount of all those springs, wheels, cords, and the their total complexity, and I'm less and less understanding why should one care about the spacecrafts reusability. By spending a truck of hand grenades they spend more mechanisms uselessly than a spacecraft could ever dream. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MaverickSawyer Posted January 23, 2019 Share Posted January 23, 2019 Spent half an hour buried up to my ribcage in the left wheel well of a Beechcraft King Air, S/N LJ-35 (I.E. 35th King AIr ever built) safety wiring the turnbuckles for the aileron control cables... and I have to go back and do it all over, because it wound up being not exactly the neatest job. But, it was ina terribly awkward spot, all the way at the back of the nacelle, behind the aux tank feed line from the outer wing and the trim tab cables, so... Eh. Good practice, I suppose. I'll bring pics for y'all tomorrow. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DDE Posted January 23, 2019 Share Posted January 23, 2019 (edited) Had to skim through quite a bit of articles on hacking to draw up a small dataset. Had ran across some useless but amusing ones. Sysadmin gets drunk and goes on to try to deface kremlin.ru, gets instant V-E Day amnesty Seventeen-year-old kid gets cocky and... tries to deface kremlin.ru, from his own home wi-fi, no less Guy gets convicted for messing with the navigation software of a freight airline; no difficulty finding him, he’s already in jail on the charge of getting his ex-wife to pick up a booby-trapped explosive package North Koreans are so rich, they try to smuggle $200k in cash from Vladivostok in shoeboxes... twice A search for SWIFT the interbank wire system ended up with me on Kaspersky’s blog, staring at an image of Taylor Swift with 2.3 Mb of Chinese botnet malware encoded into it The apex of it all, the antimalware program from North Korea! (may include free malware - unlike Ammazon Security Suite, which IS malware; Kaspersky’s retelling is more accessible) Edited January 23, 2019 by DDE Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CatastrophicFailure Posted January 23, 2019 Share Posted January 23, 2019 2 hours ago, DDE said: search for SWIFT the interbank wire system ended up with me on Kaspersky’s blog, staring at an image of Taylor Swift with 2.3 Mb of Chinese botnet malware encoded into it how is that even possible? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DDE Posted January 23, 2019 Share Posted January 23, 2019 53 minutes ago, CatastrophicFailure said: how is that even possible? https://securelist.com/newish-mirai-spreader-poses-new-risks/77621/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MaverickSawyer Posted January 26, 2019 Share Posted January 26, 2019 (edited) On 1/23/2019 at 12:17 AM, MaverickSawyer said: Spent half an hour buried up to my ribcage in the left wheel well of a Beechcraft King Air, S/N LJ-35 (I.E. 35th King AIr ever built) safety wiring the turnbuckles for the aileron control cables... and I have to go back and do it all over, because it wound up being not exactly the neatest job. But, it was ina terribly awkward spot, all the way at the back of the nacelle, behind the aux tank feed line from the outer wing and the trim tab cables, so... Eh. Good practice, I suppose. I'll bring pics for y'all tomorrow. Soooo... Little later than I'd planned, but hey, better late than never: EDIT: Much better! Edited January 26, 2019 by MaverickSawyer Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
razark Posted January 26, 2019 Share Posted January 26, 2019 (edited) 1 hour ago, MaverickSawyer said: Hope that works. "You need permission Want in? Ask for access, or switch to an account with permission." Unless you want a handful of people requesting access, you might want to update that. Edited January 26, 2019 by razark Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MaverickSawyer Posted January 26, 2019 Share Posted January 26, 2019 (edited) 10 minutes ago, razark said: "You need permission Want in? Ask for access, or switch to an account with permission." Unless you want a handful of people requesting access, you might want to update that. Thanks... Lemme fix that. Aaaand done. Edited January 26, 2019 by MaverickSawyer Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
razark Posted January 26, 2019 Share Posted January 26, 2019 33 minutes ago, MaverickSawyer said: Lemme fix that. Now that I can see it, that sure looks like it's... something, I guess? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CatastrophicFailure Posted January 26, 2019 Share Posted January 26, 2019 2 hours ago, razark said: Now that I can see it, that sure looks like it's... something, I guess? That is definitely a thingamabob. Not to be confused with a whatsamajig. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MaverickSawyer Posted January 26, 2019 Share Posted January 26, 2019 Yeah, it's not the easiest to make out, due to the fact that I have a terrible camera on my phone and I had to take the picture from a ways out, otherwise you'd have seen nothing due to it blocking the light. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tater Posted January 26, 2019 Share Posted January 26, 2019 https://ganbreeder.app LOL. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benjamin Kerman Posted January 26, 2019 Share Posted January 26, 2019 So it turns out percussive maintenance is the way to go sometimes. iPad had a problem where it wouldn't turn back on after turning off in any shape or form. Knock it on the front whilest holding the power button and it starts right up. Silly Apple... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LordFerret Posted January 26, 2019 Share Posted January 26, 2019 4 hours ago, tater said: https://ganbreeder.app LOL. The resulting images, found on the internet, must be real. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MaverickSawyer Posted January 27, 2019 Share Posted January 27, 2019 23 hours ago, Benjamin Kerman said: So it turns out percussive maintenance is the way to go sometimes. iPad had a problem where it wouldn't turn back on after turning off in any shape or form. Knock it on the front whilest holding the power button and it starts right up. Silly Apple... Hooo, boy, does it ever work... My parents have a 1997 Honda Odyssey minivan. About a year ago, it starts surging at idle. Basically, it'd throttle up over the course of a second or so to ~2000 rpm, then cut abruptly back to idle. I did some research and found out that it was the idle air control valve, which helps with throttle control at low speeds, and it was getting stuck on 20 years of who knows what. The solution that was recommended? Take a hammer and a long-shank blade-tip screwdriver. Place the screwdriver tip on the casing of the IACV, and tap it a few times with the hammer. Repeat in two other spots. End of maintenance. To the astonishment of both my dad and I, it worked. The surging vanished, and has returned only once since, which was promptly resolved with a quick smack to the casing. So yeah, sometimes percussive maintenance is actually the proper approach. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CatastrophicFailure Posted January 27, 2019 Share Posted January 27, 2019 3 hours ago, MaverickSawyer said: So yeah, sometimes percussive maintenance is actually the proper approach. Well, in all fairness, the proper approach would really be removing and cleaning out/replacing the gunked up valve, but depending on how accessible that is, percussive maintenance may indeed be the practical approach. ...if it’s stupid but it works... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MaverickSawyer Posted January 27, 2019 Share Posted January 27, 2019 45 minutes ago, CatastrophicFailure said: Well, in all fairness, the proper approach would really be removing and cleaning out/replacing the gunked up valve, but depending on how accessible that is, percussive maintenance may indeed be the practical approach. ...if it’s stupid but it works... It would have required the dismantling of the majority of the intake system to remove the IACV, and if the valve had totally failed, then yes, we would have gone to that level of dismantling. But, if you can fix a problem with no cost and almost no effort, that is totally worth the "non-standard" repair. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheSaint Posted January 27, 2019 Share Posted January 27, 2019 4 hours ago, MaverickSawyer said: Hooo, boy, does it ever work... My parents have a 1997 Honda Odyssey minivan. About a year ago, it starts surging at idle. Basically, it'd throttle up over the course of a second or so to ~2000 rpm, then cut abruptly back to idle. I did some research and found out that it was the idle air control valve, which helps with throttle control at low speeds, and it was getting stuck on 20 years of who knows what. The solution that was recommended? Take a hammer and a long-shank blade-tip screwdriver. Place the screwdriver tip on the casing of the IACV, and tap it a few times with the hammer. Repeat in two other spots. End of maintenance. To the astonishment of both my dad and I, it worked. The surging vanished, and has returned only once since, which was promptly resolved with a quick smack to the casing. So yeah, sometimes percussive maintenance is actually the proper approach. You see, I can't do stuff like this. Too many years in the Nuclear Navy. I would have to take it apart and clean it. It would drive me out of my mind. In fact, what I would probably do is say, "I need to take this apart and clean it. It's 22 years old, so it's probably going to fail soon any way. So if I'm going to take it apart just to clean it, I might as well replace it. Let me go through the disassembly procedure and see if there are any other parts subject to wear that are removed that I can replace at the same time...." It drives my wife out of her mind. But, on the other hand, we have two cars with over 200,000 miles that run like new.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LordFerret Posted January 27, 2019 Share Posted January 27, 2019 If it ain't broke, don't fix it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheSaint Posted January 28, 2019 Share Posted January 28, 2019 3 hours ago, LordFerret said: If it ain't broke, don't fix it. At the opposite end, in the Navy most of the work we did was "preventative maintenance". Which we referred to as, "Taking something apart to try to figure out why it's still working properly." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill Phil Posted January 28, 2019 Share Posted January 28, 2019 Been fooling around in GMAT. Currently trying to model a low thrust transfer from LEO to LLO, with mixed success. At least I got to the point where the Moon shows up... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LordFerret Posted January 28, 2019 Share Posted January 28, 2019 15 hours ago, TheSaint said: At the opposite end, in the Navy most of the work we did was "preventative maintenance". Which we referred to as, "Taking something apart to try to figure out why it's still working properly." Having served, I can relate. Also, "If it doesn't move, paint it. It it does move, salute it." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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