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And we still pay them large sums of money.
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OriginalGriff wrote: talks with a Scottish accent
So if you stick your finger in the socket does it skip the shock and go straight to the Burns?
OriginalGriff wrote: they are going to pay money into my bank account!
You should Loch in at that rate.
Socialism is the Axe Body Spray of political ideologies: It never does what it claims to do, but people too young to know better keep buying it anyway. (Glenn Reynolds)
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My son recently moved from our house, where we were paying approx $500 a quarter, to his own home where his first quarter bill was over $1200 - we have solar. I think Oz has the most expensive power anywhere.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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That ... ummm ... doesn't look like a cocoon to me ... 
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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It all depends on the angle you see it at.
Also, I didn't notice it wasn't Deep Fried for a while...
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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If you look closely enough, you'll see Steve Guttenberg[^] hamming it up. 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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The cat video of the day: If you need geeky inspiration for using your Raspberry Pis, Oscilloscopes, 3D printers and tons of other things:
Build yourself an Open Cat robot[^]!
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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Pretty awesome!
If I didn't already have 4 projects going I might try it.
Everyone has a photographic memory; some just don't have film. Steven Wright
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Same here, but maybe sometime when I'm looking for something...
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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Yeah but that don't happen often, I stay backed up.
Everyone has a photographic memory; some just don't have film. Steven Wright
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The talk of oscilloscopes and logic analysers below has activated my geeky electronics gene, so I'll share with you my thoughts on some RGBW ribbon that arrived yesterday and I dutifully wired up. This stuff:
RGBW LED Strip quad 4in1 LED chip
We're modernising our bathroom and have opted for profile lighting recessed into a multi-layer ceiling. Why does someone need multicolour lighting in their bathroom - good question, but if going down the profile and led tape route why not?
Anyway, it's brilliant. The white light you get from mixing R G and B together isn't that good for illumination apparently, so the 4th white LED is included to address that and what it means is that the ribbon can produce various shades and tints of white (so called, warm, cool, natural etc.) and it really seems to be able to produce pretty much any colour you want.
This tape is expensive. I've bought similar products direct from China in the past but I believe this is a case of you get what you pay for. Consistent colour and brightness (something which becomes noticeable as you dim the things), and the 24v rather than 12v helps to keep the light uniform over longer lengths. Oh, and it's bright. We have about 8metres of pure warm white 14w/M ribbon in another room, and turning it up is like being in a TV studio. Not that I've ever been in one.
I'm sold, but my advice if you are considering something similar is skip the cheap stuff you find on Amazon and ebay and go for quality.
Regards,
Rob Philpott.
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Search on YouTube for videos by BigClive - he has done reviews and teardowns of quite a few LED lighting systems
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I'm an optoholic - my glass is always half full of vodka.
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maybe quality is the way to go, but those things (mostly cheap) are turning up everywhere
my new motherboard has led strips (turned off), even ram chips have it for an extra dollar (why?). I built my latest rig to be as tiny and unobtrusive as possible. I've seen advertised bicycle spokes with them that such that if you ride fast enough (not that fast) looked like they could render images visible from the side.
soon everything's gonna be led stripped!
Holy sh*t!! take cover!! there's humboldt squid attacking people in the park!
... don't be silly, it's just the neighborhood dogs playing frisbee with their owners.
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There is a much better use for LED strips: Look here![^]
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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That's cool. 
Software Zen: delete this;
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An interesting read on how white light is created with LED's. It sounds like your white light is the blue-yellow combination. However, that link is from 2003. Still, reading the wikipedia link, it seems that's still how it's done.
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Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny
Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802
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This is still how it's done.
tl;dr It's a blue led covered in yellow phosphorus.
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Only occurred to me this morning while check the colors on our site, what words could you leet with?
and lo and behold, there is a website for that http://bada55.io/[^]
ICE blue #1CE
New uniforms for the FBI - yellow #FB1
Might switch our errors to FAILED red #FA113D
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Days of naming variable as 123 is not far away, I suppose.
"It is easy to decipher extraterrestrial signals after deciphering Javascript and VB6 themselves.", ISanti[ ^]
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Nope - Booobs! 
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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Never argue with a fool. Onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.
Mark Twain
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Must be 0xDEADC0DE
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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and when it fails: 0xDEADBEEF
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