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04 Apr 14:47

I’m the only passenger on a single-decker 24 mere millimetres behind a packed double-decker 24. Feel I’m being chauffered.

by /u/RaoOfPhysics
21 Aug 13:04

Sniff sniff


Tags: Funny

425 points, 21 comments.

30 May 15:47

I think we all do.


7146 points, 274 comments.

16 Sep 07:32

After years of hard saving, bought my own bike. No friends to celebrate, so here it is.



Tags: ktm

12869 points, 1144 comments.

15 Sep 14:24

Anyone else getting this vibe, as safety measures keep getting dropped?



Tags: Harvey Weinstein

500 points, 51 comments.

15 Sep 14:21

That ass though.

600 points, 40 comments.

16 May 17:59

SSL Certification Help

by /u/Claylo

I am working on getting my company PCI Compliant. The first thing we are working on is passing our external vulnerability scan. We are using Trustwave and are scanning 10 locations and 1 website. We have given the IP address of the perimeter firewall of each location to Trustwave to scan. Before any changes were made, we were failing with SSL certificate is self-signed and SSL certificate is not trusted. So I went out to find an SSL certificate for our firewalls, but have had a hard time getting an SSL certificate for anything that is not a domain.

We already have a wildcard certificate for our website, *.domain.com. I set up each firewall ip as a subdomain,firewall.domain.com, and added the wildcard certificate to the firewall and it worked! The problem is is that Trustwave says I need to use the IP Address in their scan, which still fails.

I'm pretty sure I'm just missing something and once I figure that out it will all click. Any help you guys can offer would be greatly appreciated, if you need any additional information just ask.

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31 Oct 15:07

Look how easy it is to ruin a man's life nowadays. Even a blatant false accusation on live stream video in front of a dozen witnesses is enough to get someone arrested.

743 points, 109 comments.

12 May 19:16

So what Doctor Strange is ???



Tags: doctor strange, infinity war

2356 points, 120 comments.

04 Dec 13:22

For you... Just in case if you didn't find anything entertaining today

2906 points, 71 comments.

16 Sep 19:55

John doesn’t do any work

06 Sep 16:18

Powershell in a month of lunches, get them all?

by /u/_QuidProQuo_

Hi guys,

Jr sysadmin here who wants to (needs to!) greater my knowledge about the amazing tool that is Powershell.

I've been given a lot of good recommendations for the books PS in a month of lunches and believe I can learn a lot from these books I'm about to pick atleast one or two of them up.

My question, as stated in the title, to someone who has read them all.

Would you recommend me as a Jr Sysadmin and relatively new to PS in 2017 to get and read all of them (all 3) or is it enough in 2017 to get only the 2nd and/or 3:rd one?

I realize even though the first one is many years old it still has a lot of great information but is it worth it (time/money)?

Thanks in advance you glorious bastards.

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16 May 09:20

Please no...

29 Dec 19:08

Watch B.D. Wong Teach You the Simplest, Cleanest Way to Eat a Chicken Wing

by Eric Ravenscraft

This isn’t the first time we’ve seen a video showing an easy, no-mess way to eat chicken wings, but B.D. Wong sure makes this method look good. The video above shows a way to eat a two-bone chicken wing without messing up your fancy suit.

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10 Nov 15:10

This Is How Rabbits Party

29 Jun 15:58

High Voltage Please, But don’t Forget the Current

by Steven Dufresne

In high voltage applications involving tens of thousands of volts, too often people think about the high voltage needed but don’t consider the current. This is especially so when part of the circuit that the charge travels through is an air gap, and the charge is in the form of ions. That’s a far cry from electrons flowing in copper wire or moving through resistors.

Consider the lifter. The lifter is a fun, lightweight flying machine. It consists of a thin wire and an aluminum foil skirt separated by an air gap. Apply 25kV volts across that air gap and it lifts into the air.

Lifter flying with high voltage power supply Lifter parts showing the thin wire and aluminum foil

So you’d think that the small handheld Van de Graaff generator pictured below, that’s capable of 80kV, could power the lifter. However, like many high voltage applications, the lifter works by ionizing air, in this case ionizing air surrounding the thin wire resulting in a bluish corona. That sets off a chain of events that produces a downward flowing jet of air, commonly called ion wind, lifting the lifter upward.

Small Van de Graaff generator Lifter in the dark with bluish ionization

But that ionization of air requires current, electrons flowing, in the wires coming from a high voltage power supply. In fact, that ion-filled air gap is the equivalent of a high resistance wire in the circuit, along with some capacitance; it’s a part of the circuit.

Lifter circuit and equivalent circuit with resistor and capacitor instead of the lifter
Lifter circuit and equivalent circuit

A Van de Graaff generator, even a DIY 84kV one, is a low current power source and cannot supply a high enough current to ionize enough air fast enough to produce the necessary strong jet. However, the power supply powering the lifter above converts the energy from a wall socket using a flyback transformer and a Cockcroft-Walton voltage multiplier. That way it produces sufficient voltage and supplies more than enough current.

Another example is the corona motor, a type of electrostatic motor, that also works by producing a high voltage across an air gap, multiple air gaps in fact. The gaps are between sharp metal blades and a neutral plastic cylinder. The blade sprays ions across the gap onto the cylinder.

Corona motor turning fan Corona motor in the dark with ionization
Corona motor powered by the triboelectric effect
Corona motor powered by the triboelectric effect

However, the gap width is very short, requiring a lower voltage. And more importantly, the cylinder doesn’t have to be ionized much for the cylinder to start turning meaning that not as many ions are needed. i.e. the required current is lower than with the lifter. In this case perhaps the lowest current high voltage power source I’ve ever worked with, rubbing a PVC pipe with a cotton cloth, is sufficient. That utilizes the triboelectric effect.

And then there are applications where all that’s needed is to accumulate charge in a capacitor until there’s enough, taking as much time as necessary. An obvious example is to simply produce a big spark.

An example of that is a TEA laser. A TEA laser works by accumulating charge across a small spark gap and in two flat plate capacitors. When the voltage has built up sufficiently to breakdown the air in the spark gap, it fires, causing a subsequent sparking across the lasing channel, resulting in a laser beam. In the photos below you can see the laser being powered by a low current Wimshurst machine and by the same powerful Cockcroft-Walton power supply mentioned above for flying the lifter. Both produce an identical voltage, accumulate the same amount of charge and fire an identical laser beam. However, the Wimshurst machine requires around 12 seconds of hand-cranking to do so, resulting in the laser firing only every 12 seconds. The Cockcroft-Walton power supply fires the laser around every 1 second.

Tea laser powered by Wimshurst machine Tea laser powered by Cockcroft-Walton PSU

How do you choose a high voltage source with sufficient current to match your application? This is largely done by experience. The lifter needs to move a large mass of air, and to do so a large quantity of ions are required, and hence a high current to create those abundant ions. On the other hand, a corona motor works using the Coulomb force. Blades of one polarity repel areas of cylinders that are charged with the same polarity. With just a fan as the load on the cylinder, not much repulsion force is required. Naturally for a bigger load, more force would be required and hence a faster charging rate and so more current. Similarly with the TEA laser, more frequent laser beams require higher the current.

I’ve already taken you through a range of high voltage sources available to you. With the needed high voltage already available from any of those sources, we now need to look at the current available from them.

The flyback transformer and Cockcroft-Walton voltage multiplier power supply gets its power from the wall socket. Taking into account losses in the various resistors, transistors, capacitors, diodes and the flyback transformer itself, there’s still a relatively large amount of current available, even if it is in the single- or double-digit milliamps. For high voltage that’s considered quite a bit (remember that power is the product of voltage and current).

On the other end of the scale, the triboelectric effect works by a transfer of electrons when making contact between two specific materials, and the retention of those electrons when contact is broken; basically, it works by rubbing the materials together. In that case, very little charge is transferred compared to the current coming from a wall socket.

The Van de Graaff generator actually starts with the triboelectric effect. It’s the making and breaking of contact between the rollers and the belt that is the rubbing together of two materials. However, unlike rubbing a cotton cloth against a PVC pipe by hand, in a Van de Graaff generator the rollers can be rotating at hundreds of RPM, generating charge more rapidly. But the amount is somewhere in the low microamps for a tabletop Van de Graff, small compared to wall socket current (that’s assuming you’re taking charge directly from the Van de Graaff’s dome and not waiting for sparks.)

And a Wimshurst machine generates its charge by induction when sectors on the opposing disks pass a neutralizer bar. Surprisingly, it’s possible to dimly light a small 20mA LED, where the LED is placed in series with the neutralizer bar. However, by the time the charge is inefficiently removed at the collectors, it’s reduced substantially. The current from the output of a Wimshurst machine is usually in the single digit microamps (again, we’re not waiting for sparks.)

Those are some of the examples I can recall where people, myself included, have forgotten that just because high voltage is involved, that doesn’t mean that basic electronics no longer applies. I’m curious what examples you’ve encountered, either where you or others have forgotten about the current or maybe even some other electrical property. Let us know in the comments below.


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19 Oct 19:49

Learn All the Windows 10 Keyboard Shortcuts with This Cheat Sheet

by Melanie Pinola

Windows 10 comes with a few new keyboard shortcuts to take advantage of new features like the virtual desktop and the action center . Here’s a handy table of shortcuts you might not know about yet.

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04 Aug 10:44

Oh my glob.

15 Jul 17:55

Open an Incognito Window and Look at the Highlights of Last Night's Game

Tom

:D

Open an Incognito Window and Look at the Highlights of Last Night's Game

Submitted by: (via PHKatie)

Tagged: pr0n , twitter , world cup , failbook
12 Jun 13:46

All of These Years Wasted Wearing Purple, Charles

05 Jun 18:52

xkcd Phone

Tom

So much want :D

Presented in partnership with Qualcomm, Craigslist, Whirlpool, Hostess, LifeStyles, and the US Chamber of Commerce. Manufactured on equipment which also processes peanuts. Price includes 2-year Knicks contract. Phone may extinguish nearby birthday candles. If phone ships with Siri, return immediately; do not speak to her and ignore any instructions she gives. Do not remove lead casing. Phone may attract/trap insects; this is normal. Volume adjustable (requires root). If you experience sudden tingling, nausea, or vomiting, perform a factory reset immediately. Do not submerge in water; phone will drown. Exterior may be frictionless. Prolonged use can cause mood swings, short-term memory loss, and seizures. Avert eyes while replacing battery. Under certain circumstances, wireless transmitter may control God.
16 Apr 19:00

Really have to try one of these someday

18 Mar 16:15

Fill'er up, human

17 Mar 11:34

He is everywhere!

Tom

:)

11 Mar 16:24

Dear people who appreciate jokes,

Dear people who appreciate jokes,

What do you call it when Batman skips church?

Sincerely, a Christian Bale

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07 Mar 22:24

Amazing dark souls 2 full scale statue.

06 Mar 00:12

20 Terrifying Two-Sentence Horror Stories

04 Mar 17:01

This one is called "The debt".

Tom

ahh, the wonders of uni

03 Mar 11:48

Eye See You!

Eye See You!

Submitted by: Unknown

Tagged: box , spy , if i fits i sits , Cats , funny
03 Mar 11:40

My favorite Tennant moment.