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"These are the "stinger" or "vampire" type transceivers, with a spring-loaded "energy" stinger. You will have to specify whether you want version 1.0 or 2.0 transceivers, and "heartbeat" or not (I don't know which the 3Com board needs, but TCL will know). "
"I would NEVER buy one of the transceivers that requires cutting the cable for installation. We never have any problems with the vampire taps. "
You should find these by searching in Google Groups. The first thread was called "Ethernet Hardware Pricing," and dates to Febuary 18, 1985.
Also, "The AUI cables are the right choice. I'm concerned about vampire taps though because they aren't suppose to be too reliable. Our thicknet was going to use some transceivers from cabletron. ST-500 with LANVIEW. Totally contained with little LEDS for xmit rcv collision power and sqe (which is selectable) And they screwed into your thicknet. No worries about making a poor tap. Since your backbone requires only 3 of these (1 per floor) Cutting the cable to make the tap won't be that hard. And it will improve reliability And these things were cheap. "
"We were forced to run part of our Ethernet cable through conduit, due to a very sticky fire code. The problems that we encountered included how to install a tap in a box without unduly bending the cable, getting the black marks to line up with the boxes, and having to remove terminations to get the cable pulled, and then putting them back on. If a retap is ever required in a box, we may have to punt.
"Answers:
- Measure the conduit runs between boxes carefully. - Get the holes in the boxes placed to minimize cable bending. - Get *big* boxes to put the tap in. - On transciever cables, use a pin removal tool to remove pins from the 15-pin connector shell before pulling the cable through. Don't splice a transciever cable. - You'll need to remove one terminator on the coax, pull it, and then install the terrminator back on. You can splice a coax, using two male ends and a female-female adapter. - Beware, throughout, that Ethernet specs do not allow a bend in the coax togo below a 8 inch radius (I believe that's the number)."
"One solution, of course, is to use vampire taps. But the Ethernet package for a 3B2 includes a 3Com transceiver, which uses barrel connectors. So we're contemplating putting connectors every 12.5 meters or thereabouts, allowing for easy access. "
Manimal347 (talk) 01:58, 2 February 2008 (UTC)
I'd suggest not merging the two Stockton station articles, since they refer to two different locations. The article you left the merge template on is for the former Southern Pacific station, used by Amtrak trains to/from Sacramento; the facility described in Stockton (Amtrak station) is the former Santa Fe depot, used by trains to/from Oakland. Unless there are any objections, I'll remove the merge template. Take care! Pitamakan (talk) 16:10, 5 February 2008 (UTC)
Hi
You just reverted my edit to Melchizedek (disambiguation), giving your reason as rv: good faith edits, but "tidying" in this case looks a whole lot like fixing WP:REDIRECT#NOTBROKEN. I admit I hadn't studied WP:REDIRECT#NOTBROKEN, and I'm grateful to you for drawing my attention to it. However, I've studied it now, and I think you have somewhat misinterpreted it.
WP:REDIRECT#NOTBROKEN is written on the assumption that we're talking about ordinary text in articles, rather than disambiguation pages. For example it says There should almost never be a reason to replace [[redirect]] with [[target|redirect]]. . I entirely agree with that, and I hadn't brokem that rule. It also says In many cases where it might seem appropriate to make this change, ... the better option is to edit the visible text. Indeed, and I had edited the visible text.
I'd like to suggest that disambiguation pages are different from main articles. In articles, we're writing in sentences, subject to the rules of grammar and style, and links are subordinate to that. Where we follow a link, we're interested in what appears when we get there, rather than in what it's called. In the case of disambiguation pages, things are different. The names of articles are stated explicitly, and that's what we're telling people. We're not just saying how to get there, we're giving the information as to what the article is called, so any use of redirection within a link is likely to be confusing, and better avoided.
Looking at the specific changes I'd made, we previously had
which I changed to
with everything visible. I assume the original forms were written like that either as mistakes or when the names were actually like that, having been changed since. Certainly the new names are better, since the Mormons don't like to be called Mormons, and prefer the label Latter Day Saints. In the case of the other, the term Melchizedek priesthood is only ever used within a context of Christianity, so the qualification was pointless. That's part of the reason why I changed them, but also so that people can see what the articles are in fact called. The only thing I'd do differently now is to describe it as clarification rather than tidying.
Finally, I'd like to point out to you that reverting is editing. If it had been written in the first place the way I left it (with Latter Day Saints etc), and you'd edited it to Mormonism, that would be considered vandalism. My edit may have been unnecessary, but it was in no way harmful. Your undoing of it was even less necessary.SamuelTheGhost (talk) 16:22, 9 February 2008 (UTC)
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See here, right under the heading "Columbia". Basically, I added the link because I am creating a list of BC by-elections and I am checking each name to make sure it wasn't a dab page or was taken by someone completely unrelated but with the same name. Since Thomas King (politician) definitely existed, I am going to revert your edit to Tom King. Thanks. Miss Madeline | Talk to Madeline 04:53, 14 February 2008 (UTC)
I like to keep conversations at one location as well. I responded to your note. AtaruMoroboshi (talk) 20:19, 14 February 2008 (UTC)
OK, I've restored, it's up to you to save this article before it's speedied again
Jimfbleak (talk) 17:17, 4 March 2008 (UTC)
I redirected Next Computer to NeXT because that's what I was looking for when I searched for it. NeXT made more than one type of computer, so Next Computer can refer to any one of them. But there was only one NeXT Computer, Inc. I believe the latter is what most people hitting the redirect will be looking for. Foobaz·o< 02:37, 16 April 2008 (UTC)
I am not postive about the name. I was a very early employee of Sun Microsystems and in casual converstations the original Stanford workstation was always called the "3M" machine. I never heard any other name than the generic "Stanford workstation". Shoul I rename the page to Stanford workstation? If so, how do I go about changing it?
Robert.harker (talk) 22:40, 23 April 2008 (UTC)
Thank you for your input. I am checking some other sources about the 3M name, but my first result is that I have the name wrong. If I rename it though I would not like to use the name "SUN workstation" since that is a generic name for a product that sun made hundres of thousands of. Would it be better to use the name "Stanford workstation" or Stanford University Network workstation"? or do you have a better idea? Robert.harker (talk) 00:08, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
Upon relfection I think you are right. The 3M term was a generic term, not a Stanford specific name. And in looking at many google refernces, it was known as the "SUN workstation", all uppercase SUN, lowercase w. Since I created my account today, could you move it to this name. I will adjust any other links I made. Also is it correct to use block quotes such as the one from Andy Bechtolsheim SIGGRAPH paper. Should I have attributed it with a <ref></ref> block? Thank you for your help Robert.harker (talk) 06:01, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
Thank you for the updates. They are a nice improvement of what I wrote. As far as the MIPS vs MegaFLOPS thing goes, in my research for the 3M_computer and the SUN_workstation the only place I saw mention of MegaFLOPS was in the 3M page. What I read about the SPICE workstation, the SUN workstation and the PERQ articles and discussions all talked about instructions per second, either CPU or Pascal (native language), not floating point instructions. I also added a long discussion on the Talk:Workstation page about the term workstation being outdated. I would be interested in your feedback. Robert.harker (talk) 01:13, 25 April 2008 (UTC)
Since you have been very helpful for a Wikipedia newbie I though I would ask for some advice on murky information. The Sun 1 had two generations. The original Sun 1 design with the Sun 1 boards and the Interphase disk controller and the Sun 1/100U with the Sun 2 boards and the Xylogics disk controller. These are both verifiable. What I do not know about is the transition from one to the other. I am not sure, but I suspect that there was a period where Sun 1 boards were shipped with the xylogics disk controller, specifically the Sun 1/150 server. But I do not know this for a fact. Now for the question. Can I use this in the article as an assumption and ask for a fact check? This would be my preference since more people would see it. Or is this something that is better put into the discussion section? I look forward to your helpRobert.harker (talk) 10:11, 25 April 2008 (UTC)
Are you quick. I'm working on the article now. Sorry if I created the redlink before the article, but the cart is already before the horse so I have to work it out. Thanks for the notice.--TGC55 (talk) 23:30, 29 April 2008 (UTC)
Howdy NapoliRoma,
This guy, Dædαlus, is in there trying to remove parts that you, I and many others contributed to the Repo Man article. Please add to the bottom of this thread on the Repo Man talk page that you think the "Notable Motifs" section should not be blanked (erased), but left as is since the Pulp Fiction article also has a "Notable Motifs" section that isn't being considered for removal at all (even by Dædαlus himself).
While I agree that the "Notable Motifs" section could use some work, it certainly won't help the article to delete the whole thing and erase all our work which consists of many multiple contributers over a course of years. I'm willing to work on it and better incorporate it into the article, he just wants to delete it all!
With consensus, we can stop this guy from deleting all our work soon!
Thanks in advance. Cowicide (talk) 02:38, 1 May 2008 (UTC)
Nice catch. Incidentally, I was making that change in the lead because I'm going to nominate the list for featured list status; I'll do what I can to help out, but I just wanted to give you the heads up! --jonny-mt 17:10, 23 May 2008 (UTC)
I notice, however, you didn't revert it. Give your sinuses my regards. Wikilost (talk) 05:52, 17 June 2008 (UTC)
Thanks, NapoliRoma, I hadn't seen that before. Boleyn (talk) 06:23, 3 July 2008 (UTC)
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I'm sorry, I dont know what made me put my signature in such a place. Although that was the only one of the above that my edit was in contrevention of, yours. Police,Mad,Jack (talk · contribs)☺ 17:39, 8 July 2008 (UTC)
Hi, basically I was looking at the nutshell of wp:mosflag, there is not really an advantage of having flags in this template. But mainly to be consistent with Template:Infobox Book where there is no mention of flag, and where flags are only rarely used. Garion96 (talk) 14:06, 12 July 2008 (UTC)
You've reverted my recent edit to workstation, which I don't disagree with, as you have explained your reasons why in your edit summary. However I think that the entire section in question is confusing and requires improvement becuase:
Quote: "Although both the consumer desktop and the workstation benefit from CPUs designed around the core concept (essentially, multiple processors on a chip, of which the P5 was a forbearer of this technique), workstations may use multiple processor multi-core based CPUs, error correcting memory and much higher on-chip cache memory"
Do you agree? Rilak (talk) 07:59, 27 July 2008 (UTC)
NapoliRoma, i think it's important to give people the link to the reason it has the symbol d i.e. denier so probably if we need to keep it short the British one penny link should actually point to denier article which in turn, after explaining the derivation, has a link to the British one penny page. Agreed? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.108.211.145 (talk) 04:09, 5 August 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for your response. I see your point about brevity on the disambiguation page, it makes sense :). I guess we may have a difference of opinion about whether the link should point to British Penny or actually the reason why it got the name "d" (i.e. denier) if people follow the link to denier they will be given the derivation for d as it is associated with British Penny then once they are on the denier article they can click the British Penny link if they want to find out more about the British penny. What do you think? :) 66.108.211.145 (talk) 18:34, 10 August 2008 (UTC)
I'll give you another couple of weeks to come back to me, then i'll engage another wikipedian to decide on this (we may need some arbitration anyway if we can't agree) anyway i'll check back later. Take care 66.108.211.145 (talk) 14:45, 31 August 2008 (UTC)
Hi. If you compare Melchizedek (disambiguation) with Melchizedek#See also you'll see that there's some duplication and some entries which possibly are not worth including at all. I'm not sure which direction to take things. I've seen that you're interested in such matters, so do you fancy rationalising them? SamuelTheGhost (talk) 09:36, 12 September 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for your clean up of Berkeley oak grove controversy! It's much appreciated! :) --Falcorian (talk) 00:44, 14 September 2008 (UTC)
I was really lacking time when I added that in, so I can understand the poor job. WSMBC is the one piece of information in which I was unable to find - so I left it out. It could be good to look into it though. (And by the way, the cite code to use for the history section should be <ref>((citeweb|url=http://westernbands.org/about.php|title=About Western Band Association|publisher=Western Band Association|accessdate=2008-10-02))</ref>
. As for Lincoln High School - that is something that also wasn't explicitly stated in the text - but I would think its a norcal high school. Maybe its disambig page will have some info. --haha169 (talk) 03:45, 3 October 2008 (UTC)
I'm not sure if you're still interested, but the edits I recently made to the Columbia page might facilitate the kinds of changes you seemed interested in making. RandomCritic (talk) 14:28, 28 October 2008 (UTC)
Nice work maintaining FTW. I'm not saying you're making it up or anything, but I can't find where in MOSDAB it says there can only be one link per entry. Can you point me to the right section? ☭ мдснєтє TALKSTUFF 13:35, 27 February 2009 (UTC)
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Thanks for catching my rather embarrassing typo! :) Rilak (talk) 05:23, 10 March 2009 (UTC)
I can't remember where we decided it, but it would have been determined in the Guitar Hero setlists. Basically, because the game does not associate a song to an album, we can't assume a song is coming from a specific album (it may be live, and particularly with cover versions, it's sorta misleading). --MASEM (t) 18:54, 11 April 2009 (UTC)
I read it before I edited in the first place. The name "Macintosh" is a brand. Period. The brand is on a line of computers by Apple Inc. What part of that is unclear? I could make a case that the article should be named "Macintosh computer", really. - Denimadept (talk) 21:29, 21 April 2009 (UTC)
Hmmm... After 20 minutes searching the 'net, can't find his birth date. Just "23 years old amazing guy" statements like the one we currently have ;). I've taging it anyway, so we'll see what happens. Cheers - Kingpin13 (talk) 17:14, 25 April 2009 (UTC)
Since you know the ins and out of mosdab, and are quite dedicated in maintaining FTW, this may interest you. ☭ мдснєтє тдлкЅТЦФФ 15:21, 13 May 2009 (UTC)
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I write to you because of your recent edit to WP:Too long; didn't read-- here.
I'm told that I need help in improving my writing. Articles present no problem, but I don't do well enough in talk page venues. I know that this is a non-standard request. I urge you to construe it as just one step in a process of mitigating fundamental flaws in in the way I address issues like logical fallacies or unfounded complaints. Until this week, I theorized that my problems arose when I attempted persuasive writing rather than expository prose, but it's not that simple. An illustrative example of my writing is to be found at Wikipedia talk:Requests for arbitration/Tang Dynasty/Proposed decision.
Voting is underway at WP:RfA/Tang Dynasty/Proposed decision.
Proposed ArbCom findings of fact included:
ArbCom remedies included:
When I initiated this ArbCom case, my intentions were quite limited, as explained best in my response to John Vandenberg here and as presented initially at WP:RfA/Tang Dynasty#Statement by Tenmei. However, the proposed decision's locus of dispute explains that "evidence in the case has expanded to include other disputes in which Tenmei has been involved."
Caspian blue and others have determined that I am Japanese, despite the fact that I have avoided self-labeling in terms of nationality, gender, marital status, etc. I gather that Caspian blue has endured a number of caustic disputes with anonymous contributors and sockpuppets; and many of these were seen to have originated in Japan. Caspian blue is Korean; and aggrieved complaints about perceived anti-Korean bias are commonplace, not only involving those like me with perceived or actual Japanese backgrounds.
As ipso facto "evidence" of my "long-term harassment", Caspian blue alleges here that in 2008 "Tenmei ... attacked my ethnicity and taunted my ancestors ...." Inexplicably, Caspian blue's 2008 complaint at WP:AN/IncidentArchive471#User:Tenmei's abusing AfD and personal attacks did not encompass this specific claim ... which I would have thought implies that it simply didn't happen.
This one example suggests complicated subtexts affecting a broad tranche of wiki-edits. A risk aversion strategy has thus far proven inadequate; and ArbCom is correct in anticipating future difficulties.
I'm guessing that this message to you is arguably the sort of gesture ArbCom wants from me. Perhaps you will construe it as an illustrative example of WP:TLDR.
If you are willing to discuss this off-wiki, I've activated the e-mail send/receive option in my user preferences. If you can think of some other editor I might contact, I'd appreciate it.
Thank you for the time you invested in reading this. --Tenmei (talk) 23:19, 5 June 2009 (UTC)
Philip Kaplan founded Fuckedcompany.com. Later he founded AdBrite, one of the top ad networks in the world. Most recently he was in Wall Street Journal as joining Charles River Ventures, a top venture capital firm that was the first investor in Twitter, among others. Search Google News and you'll see hundreds of articles about him.
Sapporocal (talk) 23:14, 28 June 2009 (UTC)sapporocal
I (and others) would like to edit the "Philip J. Kaplan" article to add evidence of his current notoriety, as you suggested. However the article is "protected" and thus, I believe, can't be edited by mere morals. Correct?
Sapporocal (talk) 08:23, 29 June 2009 (UTC)SapporoCal
I wonder if we are reading the WP:DABRL differently :) In the very first sentence it says that "a link to a non-existent article... should only be included on a disambiguation page when an article (not just disambiguation page) also includes that red link" (emphasis mine). A link to Gorelovo Municipal Okrug is included in the administrative divisions of Saint Petersburg article (which is referenced), so that part is fully satisfied—the red link does belong.
The portion of WP:DABRL you cited ("red links should not be the only link in a given entry") follows and clarifies the above statement, not supercedes it. I could understand it if you added a blue link (which is something that, I admit, I missed), but I don't really understand why you removed it again. Would you, please, elaborate? Thanks.—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); 16:55, June 29, 2009 (UTC)
That's right - I'm just going to keep throwing suspect dab pages at you. ☭ мдснєтє тдлкЅТЦФФ 15:29, 9 July 2009 (UTC)
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