Holly shit, i'd actually bu some of these!
http://www.universalmedicalinc.com/Titanium-Phillips-Screwdriver-p/71726-umi.htm
mail some to dave and he will do a magnetic mine teardown tuesday
Holly shit, i'd actually bu some of these!
http://www.universalmedicalinc.com/Titanium-Phillips-Screwdriver-p/71726-umi.htm
mail some to dave and he will do a magnetic mine teardown tuesdayI wish, sadly they stayed with the machine. - best tools I have ever used light, strong, no corrosion ( I live near the sea so rust spots are a constant problem on infrequestly used tools, even high quality, even with a coat of annoying oil) If I strike the lotto .......- aside from a bench full of Agilent toys
I think you'd have a hard time finding an outer space grade guitar.
The laptops are probably high-reliability business grade.
well, $50-60 for a near indestructible phillips is pretty good imho.
Wow, interesting toolbox !!well, $50-60 for a near indestructible phillips is pretty good imho.
I've never used Ti alloy tools, I'd like some first hand experiences,
just for curiosity
Maybe I'm wrong but I imagine that they are not
more indestrucitble, after all, than good steel tools
Surely are lighter non magnetic and chemically resistant, but a good
CrMoV alloy steel is a very good material, probably somewhere around
1.5-2GPa tensile strenght, and can be made very hard too,
depending on surface threatments.
Also old Beryllium Copper tools are hard and resistant,
i'm amused by the fact that few percent of Beryllium
(well, perhaps i'ts not that easy) turn the soft copper
into a very hard and strong alloy
I think you'd have a hard time finding an outer space grade guitar.
The laptops are probably high-reliability business grade.
I recall during the early days of the space shuttle, reading scientific/computer journals back then, one problem was the trace (inside the IC) getting too small. While smaller trace presents a smaller target for stray energetic subatomic particles, the noise to signal ratio is much higher when it does get hit. So, the larger die CPU's were preferred. No doubt the traces are even smaller today with 90nm/65nm die technology.
I am not sure what the state of technology is, and stray particle hit is still a problem or not. If so, I doubt commercial grade laptops will do the job. They will probably need special shielding. Anyone with knowledge in that area give us an update?
OMG .. or I shuld say OMG Big Blue in space !!! .. the crappiest laptop line/brand ever made. Trust me .. I have one from work and these crap-pads are truly absolute junk the literally squeak and crak on you from day 1 you have them.
Noticed that they run Win XP also.
OMG .. or I shuld say OMG Big Blue in space !!! .. the crappiest laptop line/brand ever made. Trust me .. I have one from work and these crap-pads are truly absolute junk the literally squeak and crak on you from day 1 you have them. Noticed that they run Win XP also. I bet NASA is stuck in some contract with IBM
I just hope that IBM does not run the same 2 year service period they do usually
Yeah they did sold that to Lenovo ... and I think the quality actually improved after they sold it to Lenovo .. so imagine how crappy these are. I am typing right now on one
These don't even qualify as high quality debris ....
They did do a software upgrade to Debian recently on the laptops. They are only used for non critical things, like entertainment, experiments and photography.
Via Tim Peake @astro_timpeake.
betting mostly titanium too, had small titanium working MRI, light and strong best kit I ever had
Yeah they did sold that to Lenovo ... and I think the quality actually improved after they sold it to Lenovo .. so imagine how crappy these are. I am typing right now on one
These don't even qualify as high quality debris ....
They did do a software upgrade to Debian recently on the laptops.
We migrated key functions from Windows to Linux because we needed an operating system that was stable and reliable.
More likely they got tired of the slow internet connection being held up always by the laptops phoning home for updates.... I know you can turn it off and have a server push them, but still.........
It all started with that piece of spyware called real player........ Thank goodness for the original versions of some firewall ( can't remember at moment but it became bloatware later) having the ability to block outgoing connections on a per program basis, as well as per port or destination IP.
It all started with that piece of spyware called real player........ Thank goodness for the original versions of some firewall ( can't remember at moment but it became bloatware later) having the ability to block outgoing connections on a per program basis, as well as per port or destination IP.
Zone Alarm - I think that is the one you are thinking of. As usual, Microsoft killed that market by incorporating something they called "firewall" for "free". Now there is no more personal firewall for anyone to use.
Windows Firewall can block programs just fine.