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Comment on When Patents Go Wrong… by Patents are Property – Like it or Not « Chasing the Power Curve

Patents are Property – Like it or Not « Chasing the Power Curve — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 00:03:11 +0000

[...] good things on that. But I’ve also seen some posts that are really rather silly, like this one where the author claims that since a great invention could not be copied by several manufactures [...]

Comment on Fixing a plasma TV by Arizona Joe

Arizona Joe — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 23:53:16 +0000

I have a 42″ Philps Plasma, which would not turn on and had the infamous red lights (6 long – 3 short). After seeing the posts from this sight, including a video on removing and replacing 2 capacitors, identifying the bad capacitors and also a link to diga-key to order the replacement capacitors.
I was able to buy replacement capacitors with 5 times the life of the originals for .99 cents apiece. When you order your capactors, make sure you order the correct size. I didn’t realize they came in many sizes until it was mentioned on this site.
I want to thank everyone for your help, my tv now works fine for under 2 dollars plus shipping.

Comment on The 18 Mistakes That Kill Startups by Brian Benenhaley

Brian Benenhaley — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 04:23:40 +0000

I still see the family “dream killer” the most devastating thing for many young startups.

Comment on Ruby Mock Web Server by Rob Styles

Rob Styles — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 11:06:45 +0000

Great suggestions folks, thanks – nice ideas to think about.

Comment on Fixing a plasma TV by Jim

Jim — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 01:20:37 +0000

I recently purchased the same manual but from a different vendor, http://www.manualuniverse.com . However, seems it’s the same manual sold in the other website.

Comment on Ruby Mock Web Server by hedgehog

hedgehog — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 09:42:58 +0000

I’d like to recant some the Rack::Test comments I made. After digging into the code I shuddered. Whetever you are exercising/testing with Rack::Test it is very likely not what you are running in production. My context was an asyncronous server and it was a nightmare. It might suffice for synchronous server code?

Comment on Fixing a plasma TV by Adam Smith

Adam Smith — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 22:02:58 +0000

I have same issue as Don. My 42″ plasma started playing up around 6 months ago and at first switching it on and off a few times would get it to stay on. But after a couple of months this approach stopped working. So I read on forums about the fix and also that heating the set worked. So since then have been using hair dryer for a minute or so which does the trick.

I took the back off the other day but caps referred to in fix were not damaged. I did however notice that warming the following caps up 2532, 2533 and 2397 allowed the tv to turn on so am contemplating changing them but having difficultly locating replacements, they are 6e 100 16V. Any ideas wher I can get some from?

Comment on Ruby Mock Web Server by hedgehog

hedgehog — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 05:45:46 +0000

Hi This got me thinkering and tinkering today. I’m curious about one thing. It seems a (unstated) requirement is that you can’t use an existing framework, such as Sinatra, or another? Otherwise this would be a few lines in the RSpec’s before(:all) and specing Rack’s last_response contents. Or have I misunderstood the constraints/requirements?

@Chris Tierney: How do you invoke http://localhost:4000/foo so that MockServer#call method is given the right data? Sinatra gave me grief and ended up just using Rack::Test. Seems much simpler, exercieses the route and all I can see is that the MockServer call is never invoked – puzzled.

Comment on Fixing a plasma TV by Don

Don — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 02:42:33 +0000

I have the 42″ Philips that has the blinking RED light. I have located the 3 capacitors but none of them have a ‘pushed up’ top. Should I replace them anyway? Reading the comments, it looks like the thing to do would be to use a higher temp and higher voltage rated cap. Is this correct?

Comment on Orecchiette with Broccoli and Anchovies by appetizer recipes

appetizer recipes — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 12:46:04 +0000

I have tried making this at home – the exact thing! That was one boring day and I am alone at home with my anchovies and broccoli – try this at home and BELIEVE me, you will not regret it.