Re: [vox-tech] archiving library in C

2003-02-01 Thread Tim Riley
Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > hi all, > > suppose i have a video file, a sound file, an image file, a gnumeric > spreadsheet, a number, a boolean and an mp3. > > and suppose all those things are needed by a C program. kind of like > how a game uses a plethora of image and sound files. > > is there a

Re: [vox-tech] archiving library in C

2003-02-01 Thread Bill Kendrick
On Sat, Feb 01, 2003 at 03:47:59PM -0800, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > is there a library that will allow me to combine all that different > stuff into a single file and then let me transparently access any > individual element using an API in C? Look into PhysFS or maybe some runtime ZIP library.

[vox-tech] archiving library in C

2003-02-01 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
hi all, suppose i have a video file, a sound file, an image file, a gnumeric spreadsheet, a number, a boolean and an mp3. and suppose all those things are needed by a C program. kind of like how a game uses a plethora of image and sound files. is there a library that will allow me to combine al

Re: [vox-tech] simple web-based file management/sharing system?

2003-02-01 Thread David Siedband
Zope is great for this sort of thing. There are two add-ons that are very close to what you're describing: CMF and NuxeoCPS. There some sites out there that offer free Zope hosting for noncommercial projects, which might be a good way to take Zope for a test-drive. I've heard it described as

[vox-tech] what is GCC_UNUSED?

2003-02-01 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
what is GCC_USED? i see it in function definitions: int displayCallback ( EObjectType cdktype GCC_UNUSED, void *object, void *clientData, chtype input GCC_UNUSED ) i've googled for it, and found it in source code for lynx, xterm, cdk, and ncurses, but can't find its purpose. it do

Re: [vox-tech] [OT] Electrical Engineering Question

2003-02-01 Thread Bill Kendrick
On Sat, Feb 01, 2003 at 10:28:26AM -0800, Jeff Newmiller wrote: > On Sat, 1 Feb 2003, Rod Roark wrote: > > > > Anyway, this was EXACTLY the kind of help I was looking for. > > Jeff, it's because of people like you that LUGOD rocks! > > Well, thanks for the compliment, but it's because of people

Re: [vox-tech] [OT] Electrical Engineering Question

2003-02-01 Thread Jeff Newmiller
On Sat, 1 Feb 2003, Rod Roark wrote: > On Saturday 01 February 2003 01:38 am, Jeff Newmiller wrote: > > ... > > Assuming you have a regular meter like mine, the calculation should yield > > 810W - 576W = 234W, which could be reasonable. I don't know what kind of > > light bulb you used... torchier

Re: [vox-tech] [OT] Electrical Engineering Question

2003-02-01 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
yah, but for some reason i thought i remembered lightbulbs going in the opposite direction. they behaved in the opposite way you'd expect. i'm probably just remembering wrong (which is why i didn't say anything). :*) pete begin Mark K. Kim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > In general, resistance increase

Re: [vox-tech] [OT] Electrical Engineering Question

2003-02-01 Thread Mark K. Kim
In general, resistance increases as heat increases. Hence super conductors are kept cold. (Or another way to think of it is, for a single electron, it is easier for it to travel through a crowd of other electrons that aren't bouncing around than it is to go through a crowd of other electrons that

Re: [vox-tech] [OT] Electrical Engineering Question

2003-02-01 Thread Rod Roark
On Saturday 01 February 2003 01:38 am, Jeff Newmiller wrote: > On Fri, 31 Jan 2003, Rod Roark wrote: > > ... > > Go look on your meter face for a number labelled Kh. A typical value is > 7.2. Units are Watt-hours per revolution. Aha! You're right, it says 7.2. My original estimate was very cru

Re: [vox-tech] [OT] Electrical Engineering Question

2003-02-01 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
ach, one more thing. i can't believe i forgot this (but the truth is, my department knows i hate experimental physics, and has given me lectures and discussions for the past few years instead of running labs). light bulbs are highly non-ohmic (linear) devices. the power they consume is highly de

Re: [vox-tech] My Thought: Building a Server

2003-02-01 Thread Jeff Newmiller
On Thu, 30 Jan 2003, Richard Crawford wrote: > My wife and I have been planning on getting a server of our own for quite > awhile now. And while browsing through Fry's recently, I stumbled across > a book on building your own PC. > > Here's what we want to build: a nice little server running off

Re: [vox-tech] [OT] Electrical Engineering Question

2003-02-01 Thread Jeff Newmiller
On Fri, 31 Jan 2003, Rod Roark wrote: > I got my first electric bill at the new house; looks too > high. So I decided to do an experiment. > > Outside the house is an electric meter. It reads KWH > accumulated on 5 dials, and has a horizontal platter that > appears to spin about 100 revolutions