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Per your question on Wikipedia:Vandalism in progress - yep, your handling of the Transhumanism vandal was perfect. I'm always impressed by how quickly trash like this (and subtler stuff too) gets spotted and removed. Keep up the good work. -- Finlay McWalter | Talk 23:34, 16 Feb 2004 (UTC)
Check out Matth97 [1] He is a big boy - CPES 19:41, 26 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Hi Omegatron - nice work on the gyrator. Would you mind telling me what software you used in drawing the circuit diagram...? Suggestion: Let's rename R1 > R0, because that's basically given, and R2 > R, leaving essentially C and R to play with. -- Palapala 09:24, 28 Feb 2004 (UTC)
In thermionic emission you added that it was initially discovered by Professor Guthrie in 1873. I did a little searching and the only person I could find was physicist Frederick Guthrie in London who lived from 1833-1886, and did research on heat, magnetism and electricity. I assumed he was the right guy. Then I found Scottish physicist Peter Guthrie Tait (1831-1901) and found he did work on thermoelectricity. Which is right? I assume it is Peter, but I already assumed too much, so I will ask the source and leave it undefined for now... - Omegatron
Omegatron: I wasn't able to get over to the physics library before it closed that day; I'll try again soon if I get the chance.
The Dot project is intended to create maps for the Ram-bot generated articles. See Siler City, North Carolina for an example. The maps on my user page are just intended to track the progress of the project. - Seth Ilys 17:13, 26 Mar 2004 (UTC)
thanks for figuring out how to force png rendering without altering appearence! Perl 23:04, 9 Mar 2004 (UTC)
Hi, since you're a DSP engineer, perhaps you would be interested in helping out with the Electronics wiki-textbook. http://wikibooks.org/wiki/Electronics
Howdy Omegatron.
Thanks for helping with
WikiBooks:Electronics.
You mention on page
WikiBooks:Electronics:Transistors that CMOS and TTL "are not transistors".
Very true, but do you think it would be better to mention them on the "transistors" page (as examples of what one *does* with transistors), or should we move all mention of them to some other page ?
--
DavidCary 20:11, 28 Jun 2004 (UTC)
The numeric HTML entities for colon and semicolon are highly irrelevant, because they are never, ever used. In fact, the only time I have ever seen a numeric entity used for either of these is in the Template:Punctuation marks box, and that's only because Wikipedia attaches a special meaning to a colon, not because the HTML needed it for any reason. You can represent the character A in HTML by typing A, but no one ever does, because it's never necessary or useful. The same goes for the numeric entities for the colon and the semicolon. — Bkell 21:35, 5 Apr 2004 (UTC)
Mostly I use Adobe Illustrator, sometimes augemented with MathCad for graphs, etc. As you can probably guess I enjoy doing them, so if you need any diagrams let me know. I'll see what I can do with a plot of the filter curves for dichroic prism -- DrBob 20:15, 8 Apr 2004 (UTC)
Looks like transistor has a big chunk of repeated text. Are you working on fixing it up? I don't want to wade in while you're at work :) Gwimpey 00:49, 5 Jun 2004 (UTC)
"Physics of music is related, right?)" Yes, I certainly agree. Opus33 15:39, 9 Jul 2004 (UTC)
...what I wrote at the very bottom of Wikipedia talk:Template messages. I've told this to several other Wikipedians bu no one has responded yet. 66.245.23.108 00:43, 13 Jul 2004 (UTC)
Omegatron,
On Meta:Help talk: Formula, you were asking about where to report some TeX bugs on Wikipedia. There's a new Wikipedia Bugzilla set up at bugzilla.wikipedia.org; if you're still having problems, you can report them there. I'd be happy to help write a bug report if you'd like; you mentioned problems with other things missing, so I'm not sure what the extent of the problem was. -- Creidieki 22:18, 17 Aug 2004 (UTC)
Nice page - but was dissapointed that the plug-ins do not work with version 1 of firefox - here is hoping they will soon - Lobster
Congratulations, people think your photos are good enough to copy: http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elektrolytische_condensator
-- DavidCary 08:37, 20 Sep 2004 (UTC)
Except that it's the space that is infinite-dimensional, rather than the vectors themselves. The two most well-known infinite-dimensional vector spaces are , which is the set of all sequences of scalars such that the sum of the squares of their norms is finite (for example (1, 1/2, 1/3, ...) is such a vector because 12 + (1/2)2 + (1/3)2 + ... is finite) and L2, the set of all functions f such that
("Whatever space" could be for example the interval from 0 to 2π, or could be the whole real line, or could be something else.) Michael Hardy 19:31, 30 Sep 2004 (UTC)
Thanks for exploring the "dynamic range" issue a bit on the talk page. I checked your user page, and as a newcomer to Wikipedia want to let you know how much I appreciate your technical contributions here. You've certainly added to the place!-- NathanHawking 20:10, 2004 Oct 4 (UTC)
I do mark the errors in books I read, and have been known to send them back to the publishers in really bad cases... -- Graham ☺ | Talk 22:04, 11 Oct 2004 (UTC)
re: User_talk:Rparle#JFET_picture
Thanks, I was just finding my way around Photoshop when I did that one. As for making more, do you mean for the other types of transistor? I suppose I could, though I'm still not as quick as I might like to be and I'm back in college now so my free time is more limited. I do recall doing another one of a MOSFET for a college project; I'll see if I can dig it out. — Rory ☺ 18:26, Nov 15, 2004 (UTC)
Hi Omegatron, thanks for your quick reply on my question on the Nyquist-Shannon_sampling_theorem. It helped a lot! There only is one thing i haven't understood clearly: let's imagine a soundcard that samples audio input at 44 KHz (you see, the same with your explanation). What the soundcard does, is it takes a record of the voltage every .000025 seconds.
If you drew all those recorded values on a time-voltage diagram (time being the variable), you'd get a diagram full of dots. To reconstruct the original signal, you could draw lines between each dot and its next neighbor.
That would be quite a close approximation, but you couldn't find out what happened between those .000025-second-snapshots. Maybe there was a high voltage burst (being a Dirac distribution for example) somewhere between the intervall 1.000025 s and 1.000030 s.
Maybe you understand the problem I see - but maybe I just made a mistake at some point in my thought.
Thank you for your help, -- Abdull 18:56, 15 Nov 2004 (UTC)
Dear Omegatron, I have translated your article Thevenin's_theorem for the it.wikipedia.org but I can’t download the image Thevenins_theorem.png because there isn’t any information about copyright. Please can you upgrade the image with the copyright data? Thanking you in advance. I follow your works on en.wikipedia and I find they’re very interesting (I think that I will translate many others). With best regards, Piero ( http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utente:Piero)
Thank (You are very kind) :-)
it:Utente:Piero
Hi, you created a redirect from Return to zero, inverted to Return-to-zero, inverted, but there is currently no article at Return-to-zero, inverted. (It may have been deleted since the redirect was created.) Wikipedia policy is to get rid of redirects to non-existent pages, and someone listed Return to zero, inverted on WP:RfD If you want the redirect to stay, you will need to create something at Return-to-zero, inverted (even a stub will do), or else the redirect will go away. If you do create the target, you don't have to do anything on WP:RfD (we'll eventually notice the target is there), but if you do, just delete the entry for Return to zero, inverted. Thanks! Noel (talk) 03:18, 29 Nov 2004 (UTC)
Hi. I can't help but notice that these images you've created appear to be a derivative work from my original Image:Manchester.png image. Would it be possible for you to highlight this somehow? However, there may be an added problem as to your wish to license the derivatives as PD, which I'm not sure is possible. Thanks Dysprosia 05:50, 3 Dec 2004 (UTC)
Hi, I've started a drive to get users to multi-license all of their contributions that they've made to either (1) all U.S. state, county, and city articles or (2) all articles, using the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike (CC-by-sa) v1.0 and v2.0 Licenses or into the public domain if they prefer. The CC-by-sa license is a true free documentation license that is similar to Wikipedia's license, the GFDL, but it allows other projects, such as WikiTravel, to use our articles. Since you are among the top 1000 Wikipedians by edits, I was wondering if you would be willing to multi-license all of your contributions or at minimum those on the geographic articles. Over 90% of people asked have agreed. For More Information:
To allow us to track those users who muli-license their contributions, many users copy and paste the "{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}" template into their user page, but there are other options at Template messages/User namespace. The following examples could also copied and pasted into your user page:
OR
Or if you wanted to place your work into the public domain, you could replace "{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}" with "{{MultiLicensePD}}". If you only prefer using the GFDL, I would like to know that too. Please let me know what you think at my talk page. It's important to know either way so no one keeps asking. -- Ram-Man ( comment| talk)
Hey, I did talk to Jimbo this weekend about the multi-licensing drive. I have not wanted to post a more general notice on my user page partially because I am not his personal spokesperson. But I have no trouble informally mentioning to people what he said. He actually had just found out about the project from those around him before coming to the WikiMeetup and they had discussed it somewhat. He was a bit concerned because I had mentioned "incompatible fork", but that was only because I wanted to be totally honest about the risks of multi-licensing. As soon as I explained that the risk of a fork was quite low and that I was not working towards changing Wikipedia's license, he was fine with it. He is personally working with members of the FSF to improve the GFDL for a better version GFDL 2.0 that is more free and is simplified to work with projects such as Wikipedia. But multi-licensing allows us to use Wikipedia articles with other projects such as WikiTravel, and he is fine with what I am doing. It gave me a bit of a sigh of relief that I wasn't going to invoke the wrath of the WikiMedia Foundation, but instead has a measure of support. – Ram-Man ( comment) ( talk)[[]] 13:09, Dec 14, 2004 (UTC)
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I noticed you're using my {{ bottompostusertalk}} template. I just made a new one that you might like better, {{ usercomment}}. -- Theodore Kloba 19:55, Dec 22, 2004 (UTC)
Hey, I noticed some of your PD circuit images don't have the {{PD}} tag. Can you tag them as such, helping the guys on the untagged images project? — Kieff | Talk 04:59, Dec 23, 2004 (UTC)
You put up the pages needing attention notice. Do you think it's better now? - Omegatron 01:11, Jan 3, 2005 (UTC)
Re: Megabyte, etc.
8 bits does not necessarily = 1 byte. See octet and byte for more info. - Omegatron 21:52, Dec 30, 2004 (UTC)
1 Kilobyte, Megabyte, etc. do always mean 8 Kilobits, 8 Megabits, respectively. Always have, always will.
The claim of a distinction between "byte" and "octet" refers to various architectures such as the PDP-10 that supported instructions (e.g. 'LDB') on variable numbers of bits. However, since the relevant number of bits was dependent on the pointer being dereferenced (see < http://www.inwap.com/pdp10/hbaker/pdp-10/Byte.html>), it is not and never has been coherent to use this meaning of "byte" as a unit of information (except perhaps when referring to an specific implementation of a programming language such as C on such an architecture, where the number of bits was fixed for every pointer). The 36-bit units used on PDPs were called words, not bytes. The byte page also refers quite spuriously to such things as NCR-315 "slabs", which were given a different name precisely because they are not bytes.
The only case in modern usage where the term "byte" is consistently redefined to mean something other than an octet is in Standard C. Other uses with != 8 bits are at best obsolescent, but usually incorrect. -- DavidHopwood 00:47, 6 Jan 2005 (UTC)
In an edit to Binary prefixes you asked what's with the nsbp's. I didn't put them there, but it's pretty obvious why they are there; those numbers are written using spaces rather than commas for the thousands separators (on both sides of the decimal point). And some of them are very long numbers, with lots of digits. If you set your browser to view a large text size, you might figure it out--watch for any line breaks and see where they occur. Gene Nygaard 03:15, 20 Jan 2005 (UTC)
Congratulations! It's my pleasure to let you know that, consensus being reached, you are now an administrator. You should read the relevant policies and other pages linked to from the administrators' reading list before carrying out tasks like deletion, protection, banning users, and editing protected pages such as the Main Page. Most of what you do is easily reversible by other sysops, apart from page history merges and image deletion, so please be especially careful with those. You might find the new administrators' how-to guide helpful. Cheers! -- Cecropia | explains it all ® 19:20, 28 Jan 2005 (UTC)
I have translated some or your pages (and add few) to french wikipedia, I add link too. User Oliviosu in french wiki.
Greetings. I just started the Wikipedia:Image recreation requests project, and I thought you might be interested. Your help would be greatly appreciated. (I got your name from the list at Wikipedia:Wikipedians/Graphic Artists.) Best regards, – Quadell ( talk) ( sleuth) 03:12, Jan 30, 2005 (UTC)
I don't think there's really anything in Wikipedia policy to give you license/licence to shoehorn the language into one or the other of those two specific categories. For example, it would seem me to be quite acceptable to use Canadian English—especially if the content is related to Canada. In fact, the Manual of style specifically refers to things like this in its first two entries, perhaps elsewhere too, I just didn't bother analyzing it in detail, when it says:
Gene Nygaard 22:24, 31 Jan 2005 (UTC)
I've sorted a fair amount of the As, Bs, and now Cs, and I've discovered that there are a fairly large number of articles that don't fit neatly into one category or another. For example, the Apaches are a literary-artistic movement in France around 1900. What's the best way to draw someone's attention to that article for lengthening? Should it go in the artist category, or the France category, or the literature category? By multi-stubbing it, I potentially draw attention to it on the part of the Wikipedian contributors who might know about it.
Exactly Andrew Watt 21:23, 3 Feb 2005 (UTC)
I really like your idea for a table namespace and intuitive editor. It seems that this issue hasn't come to light though in the larger community (or at least I only randomly found it). I'd be interested in helping your support this if you wanted to raise awareness in the community at large. If you have a moment, leave me a message with what's been happening with that proposal (if it isn't obvious from the link in your user page) and if you're still interested in pursuing it further. In any case, I was very excited to see your proposal and would be very interested in helping you champion it. - SocratesJedi | Talk 08:09, 8 Feb 2005 (UTC)
I would like to put the table editor into my local copy of MediaWiki I am using for non-Wikipedia purposes. Can you drop me a mail at mediawiki@ibas-labs.de where i can get the software part of that?
Thanks in Advance, Peter
Hi,
The content so far is quite impressive. I have a lot of experience in both analog and digital electronics. I'd like to contribute, but I'm not sure where I should focus my efforts.
There's a fair amount to be done wrt oscillators and filters.
Any suggestions? - Madhu
Hi O,egatron,
I removed your suggestion to merge cathodic protection and galvanic anodes. Galvanic anodes are only one part of one type of CP system. I am a CP engineer and intend to continue to add entries and details on CP and related topics.
Derek
Hi Omegatron. You volunteered to handle electrical schematics on Wikipedia:Image recreation requests. I've got one for you: Image:Hartley osc.jpg. Also, Image:Heat Coil.JPG is somewhat related, although I'm not sure if it's your cup of tea or not. – Quadell ( talk) ( sleuth) 14:54, Mar 1, 2005 (UTC)
I'm not sure what happened to that edit. It was in stubs so I altered it to tech-stub but the history shows that it was previously tech-stub and had category and an edit to the name that put it in triple single quotes. It looks like I was editing an out of date version except I didn't go to the history (as far as I recall). I've reverted but I don't know exactly what happened. I've seen some other things remaining in category:stub that had been altered (I thought it was just delayed updating of the category. I wonder if anyone else is seeing this? RJFJR 04:10, Mar 7, 2005 (UTC)
I checked some more. It's like I somehow edited the original version of the article instead of the latest version. I don't see why category:stub would have a pointer to the old version. It would explain why it was still in category:stub instead of tech-stub. RJFJR 04:19, Mar 7, 2005 (UTC)
Hi, I don't know about maxima, but when using Gnuplot, the best is to output the diagrams as EPS. This has two advantages: you can also use them in printed documents with no quality loss, and you can convert them to raster by using a good graphics manipulation program that can do anti-aliasing. -- stw ( Talk) 11:01, 12 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Go for it, man. Much better, indeed. — Kieff | Talk 23:38, Mar 12, 2005 (UTC)
Thank you for your contributions to Spectral density and Periodogram. I just wonder, why do you move the physics-stub from the bottom of the article? I thought it was more approproate at the bottom.
And a small request. Would you mind providing an edit summary? I find it very helpful for articles on my watchlist. Thanks. Oleg Alexandrov 21:33, 14 Mar 2005 (UTC)
I've replied on my talk page. -- MarkSweep 03:43, 16 Mar 2005 (UTC)
is there a consensus that this is needed? looks bad to me. - Omegatron 00:19, Mar 19, 2005 (UTC)