Subj : Re: Graphics driver quest To : Barry Martin From : Ky Moffet Date : Fri Oct 17 2025 16:43:00 BARRY MARTIN wrote: > Hi Ky! > KM> That's pretty much what Starlink did with its router -- it > KM> doesn't even have any vents! I'm wondering about using it as a > KM> cup warmer. > > They borrowed that from the old Macintoches? IIRC their electronics were > pretty much a solid block dipped in some sort of epoxy. At least no > problem with dust build-up clogging vents! Haven't seen the solid block but I have seen power supply riveted to the case. There was that plastic all-in-one with few vents and no fan, I have personally witnessed one of those get hot enough to seriously smoke. (Not mine, wouldn't own one.) Know of another that caught fire and tried to burn the house down. But hey, no noisy fan! > > KM> I already have the spare router. > > But if you use it it won't be spare! (The Starlink one would become the > > spare, but that sort of ruins the joke.) > KM> As they say, an heir and a spare! > > And the joke continues another generation! It's a next generation router. > KM> Yeah, the leaves really have to be dry enough to turn to dust > KM> when they're smacked around, so they don't form suffocating > KM> layers. > > Found that out! One Fall years ago for some reason I had raked a bunch > of the leaves under the tree -- maybe was starting to snow and wanted to > keep them somewhat dry until the next time I could bag them, I don't > recall. Anyway, apparently never did get the time and they stayed under > the tree all winter. Sping: nice ring of dead grass around the tree! Whoops!!! > KM> I look around the neighborhood and conclude that trees are weird. > > They each have their own personalities! Mine sure do. I have two American elms come back from roots that evidently survived the Dutch Elm plague... one is immune to everything. Nothing touches it. The other gets the creeping summer crud, probably from whiteflies, tho it's been getting less cruddy. > KM> That's about it... it's green for about four months, and greens > KM> up so late that the first year here, I thought it was dead. > KM> Everything else fully leafed out and it wasn't even running sap > KM> yet. > > Yes, same with some shrubs and bushes: need to make sure the branch is > really dead and not just a late bloo-- er - leafer. Junipers are terrible for that. They'll be completely crunchy and a couple years later here's growth again. > KM> Yeah, how much sun they get is likely a big factor. At one time > KM> freezing temps were supposed to be it, but that doesn't explain > KM> the ones that drop leaves with no frost one year, and can't be > KM> arsed til midwinter (or if at all) the next. > > I would guess a combination of sunlight, temperature, the timing > between the two, and probably just the tree's specific internal clock > all have a factor. Yep. I have noticed those that get the most sun usually lose leaves fastest. > > > .. 9 out of 10 people couldn't start conversation if weather didn't > hang > KM> . > > KM> Ah, this explains why people in Montana talk ALL the time! > > And why so quiet out here: for a while this late summer the weather was > > so constant from day to day even the 'yakky' meterologist was having a > > hard time coming up with something different to comment on. > KM> Nothing to say, eh? :D > > Just get a parrot: "Sunny and hot! Sunny and hot!" Coulda used that in the desert! þ RNET 2.10U: ILink: Techware BBS þ Hollywood, Ca þ www.techware2k.com --- QScan/PCB v1.20a / 01-0462 * Origin: ILink: CFBBS | cfbbs.no-ip.com (454:1/1) .