The flipping ship

A very good information…

 

However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results.

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The flipping ship The FLIP research vessel (Floating Instrument Platform) is the only ship in the world having the ability to flip from a horizontal position to a vertical position while at sea. The FLIP ship is designed to study wave height, acoustic signals, water temperature and density, and for the collection of meteorological data. FLIP is 108 meters long and weighs 700 long tons. According to Alan Bellows , "when in horizontal traveling mode, the long, hollow ballast area trails behind. When it reaches the desired location, the "tail" is flooded until the nose sticks straight up into the air, taking about twenty-eight minutes to reach vertical position". Even in stormy conditions, it is as stable as a fencepost, because most of its length lies in the untroubled waters beneath the waves. During the flip, the crew stand on the outside decks. Scientists and crewmembers literally walk up the walls to stay upright. Suddenly, the aft side of the barge becomes its floor. That makes for some ingenious engineering feats in equipping its bridge, galley, crew quarters and scientific laboratory. Even its head, or bathroom, had to be constructed to operate in a vertical and horizontal position.   As you can see in the video, some of FLIP's furnishings are also built so they can rotate to a new position. In 1995, FLIP received a $2,000,000 modernization. The structural build is currently excellent and instrumentation will allow FLIP to be an oceanographic powerhouse in the future.     ***God loves you and watches over you every day**

 

a good site on energy

http://www.planete-energies.com/site/en/homepage.html

 

http://www.total.com/energies/N13/en/instantanes/index.htm

 

 

Old issues of Energies:

http://www.total.com/energies/allissues/en/tousnumeros.htm

 

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Art of needle...........

So amazing…

 

However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results.

~~~ Sir Winston Churchill

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Hard to believe Talk about small....this is almost unbelievable! Willard Wigen - Microscopic Art Willard is a resident of Birmingham , England . The show is in Manchester . He has a learning disability (Dyslexia), but has talented hands. He makes the sculptures out of dust particles, sugar crystals, etc. Works only around midnight, and can only do some of the work between heartbeats.   The Statue of Liberty in the eye of a needle       Elvis on a pin head     Boxing ring next to a match head     Girl with balloon is standing on an eyelash glued to the top of a needle.     Snow White &The 7 Dwarfs in the eye of a needle (Note the wicked witch on top)     Visitors view exhibits through a microscope     The Thinker on the head of a pin     Peter Pan &Tinkerbell etc. on a small fishhook     The royal court in the eye of a needle

 

 

Master excel on cars- I guess this will help all

Really good one…

 

However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results.

~~~ Sir Winston Churchill

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Some useful info. on cars.

 

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However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results.

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Technical: speedup windows XP

Really effective…

 

Any man can win when things go his way; it's the man who overcomes adversity that is the true champion.

                                                                                    -- Jock Ewing

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1. Disable Indexing Services

Indexing Services is a small little program that uses large amounts of RAM and can often make a computer endlessly loud and noisy. This system process indexes and updates lists of all the files that are on your computer. It does this so that when you do a search for something on your computer, it will search faster by scanning the index lists. If you don’t search your computer often, or even if you do search often, this system service is completely unnecessary. To disable do the following:

• Go to Start
• Click Settings
• Click Control Panel
• Double-click Add/Remove Programs
• Click the Add/Remove Window Components
• Uncheck the Indexing services
• Click Next

2. Optimise Display Settings

Windows XP can look sexy but displaying all the visual items can waste system resources. To optimise:

• Go to Start
• Click Settings
• Click Control Panel
• Click System
• Click Advanced tab
• In the Performance tab click Settings
• Leave only the following ticked:

• Show shadows under menus
• Show shadows under mouse pointer
• Show translucent selection rectangle
• Use drop shadows for icons labels on the desktop
• Use visual styles on windows and buttons

3. Speedup Folder Browsing

You may have noticed that everytime you open my computer to browse folders that there is a slight delay. This is because Windows XP automatically searches for network files and printers everytime you open Windows Explorer. To fix this and to increase browsing significantly:

• Open My Computer
• Click on Tools menu
• Click on Folder Options
• Click on the View tab.
• Uncheck the Automatically search for network folders and printers check box
• Click Apply
• Click Ok
• Reboot your computer

 

Speed up windows xp shutdown

Whenever you shut down your computer, it takes a lot of time in closing all the running applications.And worse, if they stop responding, then you have to click either end task or wait for windows to shut it down. Now you can apply a registry hack that automatically shuts the non-responding annoying applications instantly and without any interruption. Apply the following registry hack to speed up windows xp.

1. Open regestry editor from Start -> Run -> type regedit
2. Find HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop
on the left side of the registry editor window.
3. Double click on AutoEndTasks key from the right window and assign the value to be 1. The default value is 0.

Reverting the process is also very simple. Just change the AutoEndTasks value to 0.

Technical: How to determine and to recover from Winsock2 corruption in Windows Server 2003, in Windows XP, and in Windows Vista

Really good technical info, with solution…

 

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Manual steps to determine whether the Winsock2 key is corrupted for Windows XP users

To determine if the symptoms are caused by a problem with the Winsock2 key,use one of the following methods.

Method 1: Use the Netdiag tool

To use the Netdiag tool, you must install the Microsoft Windows XP Support Tools. To do so, follow these steps.

Notes

•	If you already have Support Tools installed, go to the second procedure in this section.
•	If you do not have Support Tools installed and you do not have the Windows XP Setup CD, go to Method 2.

 

1.	Insert your Windows XP Setup CD, and then locate the Support\Tools folder.
2.	Double-click the Setup.exe file.
3.	Follow the steps on the screen until you reach the Select An Installation Type screen.
4.	On the Select An Installation Type screen, click Complete, and then click Next.

When the installation is complete, follow these steps:

1.	Click Start, click Run, type Command, and then click OK.
2.	Type netdiag /test:winsock, and then press ENTER.

The Netdiag tool will return the test results for several network components, including the Winsock. For more details about the test, use /v at the end of the netdiag command: netdiag /test:winsock /v

Method 2: Use the Msinfo32 program

Note Use this method only if you do not have a Windows XP Setup CD and you do not have Support Tools installed.

1.	Click Start, click Run, type Msinfo32, and then click OK.
2.	Expand Components, expand Network, and then click Protocol.
3.	You will have ten sections under Protocol. The section headings will include the following names if the Winsock2 key is undamaged: • MSAFD Tcpip [TCP/IP] • MSAFD Tcpip [UDP/IP] • RSVP UDP Service Provider • RSVP TCP Service Provider • MSAFD NetBIOS [\Device\NetBT_Tcpip... • MSAFD NetBIOS [\Device\NetBT_Tcpip... • MSAFD NetBIOS [\Device\NetBT_Tcpip... • MSAFD NetBIOS [\Device\NetBT_Tcpip... • MSAFD NetBIOS [\Device\NetBT_Tcpip... • MSAFD NetBIOS [\Device\NetBT_Tcpip... If the names are anything different from those in this list, the Winsock2 key is corrupted, or you have a third-party add-on, such as proxy software, installed.

If you have a third-party add-on installed, the name of the add-on will replace the letters "MSAFD" in the list.

If there are more than ten sections in the list, you have third-party additions installed.

If there are fewer than ten sections, there is information missing.

Note These entries represent an installation with only the TCP/IP protocol installed. You can have a working Winsock and see additional entries if another protocol is installed. For example, if you install NWLink IPX/SPX, you will see 7 additional sections, for a total of 17. Below is an example heading of one of the new sections:

MSAFD nwlnkipx [IPX]

Also, each of the new sections that are created by installing NWLink IPX/SPX start with "MSAFD." Therefore, there are still only two sections that do not start with those letters.

If the Netdiag test fails, or if you determined that there is Winsock corruption by looking at Msinfo32, you must repair the Winsock2 key by using the steps in the next section.

Manual steps to recover from Winsock2 corruption

Windows XP with Service Pack 2 instructions

To repair Winsock if you have Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2) installed, type netsh winsock reset at the command prompt, and then press ENTER.

Note Restart the computer after you run this command. Additionally, for computers that are running Windows XP SP2, there is a new netsh command that can rebuild the Winsock key. For more information, visit the following Web site:

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb457156.aspx (http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb457156.aspx)

Warning Programs that access or monitor the Internet such as antivirus, firewall, or proxy clients may be negatively affected when you run the netsh winsock reset command. If you have a program that no longer functions correctly after you use this resolution, reinstall the program to restore functionality.

Note If these steps do not resolve the problem, follow the steps in the next section.

Windows XP without Service Pack 2 instructions

To repair Winsock if you do not have Windows XP SP2 installed, delete the corrupted registry keys, and then reinstall the TCP/IP protocol.

Step 1: Delete the corrupted registry keys

Important This section, method, or task contains steps that tell you how to modify the registry. However, serious problems might occur if you modify the registry incorrectly. Therefore, make sure that you follow these steps carefully. For added protection, back up the registry before you modify it. Then, you can restore the registry if a problem occurs. For more information about how to back up and restore the registry, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

322756 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/322756/) How to back up and restore the registry in Windows

For more information about how to back up the registry, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

322756 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/322756/) How to back up and restore the registry in Windows XP and Windows Vista

1.	Click Start, and then click Run.
2.	In the Open box, type regedit, and then click OK.
3.	In Registry Editor, locate the following keys, right-click each key, and then click Delete: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\Winsock HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\Winsock2
4.	When you are prompted to confirm the deletion, click Yes.

Note Restart the computer after you delete the Winsock keys. Doing so causes the Windows XP operating system to create new shell entries for those two keys. If you do not restart the computer after you delete the Winsock keys, the next step does not work correctly.

Step 2: Install TCP/IP

1.	Right-click the network connection, and then click Properties.
2.	Click Install.
3.	Click Protocol, and then click Add.
4.	Click Have Disk.
5.	Type C:\Windows\inf, and then click OK.
6.	On the list of available protocols, click Internet Protocol (TCP/IP), and then click OK. If Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) does not appear, follow these steps: a. Click Start, and then click Search. b. In the Search Companion pane, click More advanced options. c. Click to select the following three check boxes: • Search system folders • Search hidden files and folders • Search subfolders d. In the All or part of the file name box, type nettcpip.inf, and then click Search. e. In the results pane, right-click Nettcpip.inf, and then click Install.
7.	Restart the computer.

Manual steps to determine whether the Winsock2 key is corrupted for Windows Vista users

1.	Click Start, click Run, type Msinfo32, and then click OK.
2.	Expand Components, expand Network, and then click Protocol.
3.	Ten sections appear under Protocol. The section headings will include the following names if the Winsock2 key is undamaged: • MSAFD Tcpip [TCP/IP] • MSAFD Tcpip [UDP/IP] • MSAFD Tcpip [TCP/IPv6] • MSAFD Tcpip [UDP/IPv6] • RSVP UDP Service Provider • RSVP TCP Service Provider • RSVP UDPv6 Service Provider • RSVP TCPv6 Service Provider • MSAFD NetBIOS [\Device\NetBT_Tcpip... • MSAFD NetBIOS [\Device\NetBT_Tcpip... • MSAFD NetBIOS [\Device\NetBT_Tcpip... • MSAFD NetBIOS [\Device\NetBT_Tcpip... • MSAFD NetBIOS [\Device\NetBT_Tcpip... • MSAFD NetBIOS [\Device\NetBT_Tcpip... If the names are anything different from those in this list, the Winsock2 key is corrupted, or you have a third-party add-on such as proxy software installed.

If you have a third-party add-on installed, the name of the add-on will replace the letters "MSAFD" in the list.

If there are more than ten sections in the list, you have third-party additions installed.

If there are fewer than ten sections, there is information missing.

Note These entries represent an installation with only the TCP/IP protocol installed. You can have a working Winsock and see additional entries if another protocol is installed. For example, if you install NWLink IPX/SPX, you will see 7 additional sections, for a total of 17. Below is an example heading of one of the new sections:

MSAFD nwlnkipx [IPX]

Also, each of the new sections that are created by installing NWLink IPX/SPX start with "MSAFD." Therefore, there are still only two sections that do not start with those letters.

If the Netdiag test fails, or if you determined that there is Winsock corruption by looking at Msinfo32, you must repair the Winsock2 key by using the steps in the next section.

Manual steps to recover from Winsock2 corruption for Windows Vista users

Winsock corruption can cause connectivity problems. To resolve this issue by using Network Diagnostics in Windows Vista, follow these steps:

1.	Click , and then click Network.
2.	Click Network and Sharing Center.
3.	In the Network and Sharing Center box, click Diagnose and Repair.

Note You may also access the Network and Sharing Center in Control Panel.

If the Network and Diagnostic tool was unable to find a problem, you can manually repair or reset Winsock.

Manual steps to repair or to reset Winsock for Windows Vista users

1.	Click , type cmd in the Start Search box, right-click cmd.exe, click Run as administrator, and then press Continue.
2.	Type netsh winsock reset at the command prompt, and then press ENTER. Note If the command is typed incorrectly, you will receive an error message. Type the command again. When the command is completed successfully, a confirmation appears, followed by a new command prompt. Then, go to step 3.
3.	Type exit, and then press ENTER.

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Similar problems and solutions

For more information, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

936211 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/936211/) How to troubleshoot network connectivity problems in Internet Explorer

For more information about how to troubleshoot network and Internet connection problems in Windows Vista, visit the following Microsoft Web site:

http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/Windows/en-US/Help/33307acf-0698-41ba-b014-ea0a2eb8d0a81033.mspx (http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/Windows/en-US/Help/33307acf-0698-41ba-b014-ea0a2eb8d0a81033.mspx)

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