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December 11, 1998
I'm doing a major revamping of our Bargain
Sale Pages, since I've gotten
way behind on posting all the incredible new goodies. So, expect some
temporary glitches here in the next few days. For openers, check out
the HP Sweep/Frequency
Synthesizers and the Super
Shipping Cases.
December 10, 1998
Improved and updated the Synergetics Consultant's Newtwork page.
December 9, 1998
The owner of ITU Technologies is believed to have recently deceased.
The status of the company is unknown. Until formally advised, we will
continue running the ITU banner till the end of their payment month.
December 8, 1998
Updated and improved classic Hardware
Hacker #68 on Thermoelectric
Modules and Pulse Monitors.
December 7, 1998
One of the quirks of the Deja View forum machinery is that it erases
traffic several weeks old. Making low Guru's
Lair Forum traffic a self-fulfilling
prophesy. I do check the forum more or less daily and try for fast answers.
December 6, 1998
Just acquired an "adequate" supply of classic Navy quality
selector
switches. 12 pole, 20 position plus off, prewired in groups of one to ten.
Please email me if you want to get
in ahead of the hoarders on this one.
December 5, 1998
Expanded and improved Bee's
Web Links. Added a new Hot
Springs
Directory book list.
December 1, 1998
Latest Resource Bin #84 is on some Medical Electronics topics.
November 29, 1998
Added some Alternate Medicine books to Bee's Library Page.
November 26, 1998
Expanded and improved the Book-on demand library shelf.
November 20, 1998
Please welcome back Banner
Advertiser Dennis Shepard of
Shepard Engineering.
He has lots of new free PIC project
info.
Also check out our PIC Library
Page and PIC
Book listings.
November 14, 1998
Expanded and improved the PIC and Basic Stamp book lists.
November 12, 1998
Expanded and improved the PIC Microprocessor
pages and the
Technical Library
pages.
November 11, 1998
Updated classic Blat
#18 on Inventor's
Associations.
For more on
patent avoidance, get my Case
Against Patents package.
November 9, 1998
Updated classic Blat #17 on Emerging Technical Opportunities II.
November 6, 1998
Lastest Resource Bin #83 is on having Fun With Some Neat Stuff.
November 5, 1998
Added some Magnetic Recording Books to our Book Access Page.
October 31, 1998
I've started a major redecorating program aimed at improved legibility
and better nav. You can see the first results on the Tech
Musings Library
page. For a while, please expect an ongoing mix of the old and new
formats.
A reminder that I've got some great buys on Classsic
Apple Collectibles, on
a mint Printed Circuit Plate
Through Lab, and on a 60
Kilowatt Load Bank.
October 28, 1998
Latest Tech Musings
Column #132 is on Catfinding
with imploding hydrogen
luminance probes. Using PostScript,
of course.
October 24, 1998
Please welcome Parallax
as our newest banner advertiser.
Besides being the
home of the Basic Stamp,
they have a stunning new line of PIC
Growbots.
October 26, 1998
Latest Blatant Opportunist colum is on Adding Website Bells and Whistles.
October 19, 1998
Please welcome back our returning banner advertisers Decade
Engineering and
Transtronics. Decade
has an improved PIC Video Display, while Transtronics
has a new pocket ERPOM and PIC Programmer and expanded consulting services.
October 13, 1998
Hexapods are "virtual ways" or pushme-pullyou mechanisms
that are revolutionizing
machine tools and robotics. Added some links and books to the Flutterwumper
Library.
October 11, 1998
Latest Tech Musings is on Optical Rangefinding and Noisy Power Measurements.
October 7, 1998
Added some Tesla
Listings to our Book
Access Page. The CIE Luminance
Probes
finally arrived. These look brand new and sturdily packaged.
October 6, 1998
Improved and uploaded Blat Classic #16 on Post Justification Editing.
October 3, 1998
Improved our Test Equipment
Bargains page and added lots of new items.
Yes, we are working on full pictures and secure e-commerce.
September 22, 1998
Am in the process of uploading all sorts of new items to our Surplus
Bargain
Pages. Laser retroreflectors, timers, temperature transmitters, tachometers,
clamp-around ammeters, 400 Hertz power sources, precision and regular
gauges, hydraulics, and bunches more. Some prices are also newly reduced.
September 17, 1998
Uploaded and updated classic Blat #12 on Why I Like PostScript.
September 12, 1998
Just got some hard-to-find 1 degree CIE precision Tektronix Luminance Probes.
September 6, 1998
Latest Blatant Opportunist column is on 24/7 Publishing.
September 3, 1998
This month's Tech Musings #130 is on Rail Guns and Power Servos.
September 2, 1998
Latest pair of Resource
Bin files #81 and #82 are on Secrets
of
Buying Military Surplus. The process is now ridiculously easier.
For a sample of the goodies, check out our Surplus
Bargains.
August 28, 1998
Redecorated the home page with some new Power
Navigation
Buttons. Please let me know how you like these and whether
there are any problems. The buttons are virtual; they are faked
using multiple HTML table entries. They should be quite fast.
Apparently IE trashes the effect. PLEASE use Netscape!
August 26, 1998
Just started up a Guru's
Lair Forum to help with answers
to tech questions and to provide user-to-user interaction.
August 22, 1998
Entered a new list of Error
Correcting Code books to our
extensive Book Access Page.
By the way, if you buy ~all~
of your books through this page, you strongly support the
Guru's Lair at no cost to yourself.
August 19, 1998
Just added a bunch of new ac motors and rotary actuators to
our Surplus Bargain Page.
Along with a complete and like-new
complete printed circuit plate thru lab facility! Check these out.
August 15, 1998
Latest Resource Bin #80 is on finding Test Equipment Manuals.
August 12, 1998
For a great buy on a 4WD camping van, please see our bargain page.
Separately, just went through a maddingly infuriatingly Win 98
upgrade. Does anyone know how to turn Netscapes "you have
mail" flag and "mail just arrived" beeper when IE is still
in the
machine? Does anyone know how to shoot Netscape's AOL
messenger?
Auguest 8, 1998
Added bunches of new links to Acrobat Plug-in Sources.
August 6, 1998
Rearranged and improved the Surplus
Bargain pages. Added
some load banks, desoldering stations, and power meters.
July 27, 1998
Updated and uploaded classic Resource Bin
#7 on Unique
Opportunities in Auto
Electronics. Added a brand new Movie
Review site to Bee's Page.
July 25, 1998
Added info links to Books on Concert and Stage Lighting.
July 24, 1998
Latest Tech Musings #129
is on Overunity Energy
Fantasies,
includes DMX512 theater
lighting, plus lots of other goodies.
July 21, 1998
Added brief tutorial on Searching PDF on the web.
July 20, 1998
Please welcome Micromint,
our newest banner advertiser.
They've got some great low cost Domino
BASIC microcontrollers.
July 19, 1998
WE HAVE FULL PDF SEARCH WORKING!!!! Try
it above.
Please report any problems. Apparently the key secret that
has been driving ISP's up the wall on this is to use one null
between registry entries, two nulls at end. Plus the IIS itself
only works when you get all your paths right and are certain
not to "include" any file not present.
I will try to improve on the report format after the dust settles.
July 17, 1998
New links to International
Journal of Hydrogen Energy, to
the Weird Stuff Warehouse,
and American Science
& Surplus.
Improved access link for the Solar
Hydrogen Chronicles.
July 14, 1998
Added new links to Hot
Spring Locations, to Online
Technical
Auctions, and to the Rapid
Prototyping Books that you will find
on both our Santa Claus
and Book Access libary
pages.
July 13, 1998
Uploaded and improved Resbin
Classic #5 on the Exploring
Labor-of-love Technical Newsletters.
July 10, 1998
Uploaded and improved Resbin
Classic #6 on the Wondrous
World of Electronic Surplus.
July 9, 1998
Greatly improved Blat
Classics #10 and #11 that hold the intro
to my Incredible Secret
Money Machine II. Added lots of clean
used test equipment to the Synergetics
Bargain Page.
July 8, 1998
Improved Blat Classic #14 on Revisiting Book-on-demand.
July 7, 1998
Updated Blat Classic #15 on Terrific Toner Techniques.
July 6, 1998
Added pre-web Blat Classic #13 on Insider Research Secrets.
July 5, 1998
Latest Resource Bin #79 is on Finding Semiconductor & IC Data.
July 4, 1998
Scott Edwards' new Basic
Stamp Books are now in print!
Added a brand new list of Fuel
Cell Books as well.
July 3, 1998
Expanded the Electrical
Engineering library shelf. Added a lot
of Electric Car and Hybrid
Vehicle books.
June 28, 1998
Improved and upgraded the Flutterwumper
Library shelf.
Added links to bunches of interesting Robotic
Books.
June 26, 1998
Latest Tech Musings #128
is on Buying Military
Surplus Electronics,
Class D audio amplifiers, Tesla turbine lit, a look into used test
equipment and horsing around with Carousels.
June 25, 1998
Just got a fresh load of premium HP, Tek, and Dana mil quality
test gear. See our Surplus
Bargain Page for details.
June 24, 1998
Added a bunch of Richard
Feynman and other titles to our
Book Access page. Your
use of this link for all of your book
buys supports the Guru's Lair at no
cost to you.
June 23, 1998
How would you like some FREE ELECTRONICS? Plus reasonable
pay for an occasional hour's work? If so and only IF you live near
Barstow, Las Cruces, Alamagordo, El Paso, Edwards, 29 Palms,
Roswell, or Alburquerque, please email
me for details.
Roswell offer limited to humanoids and near-humanoids only.
June 22, 1998
Just completed the main 768
bit Magic Sinewave sequence!
There sure are a ~lot~ of 768 bit binary words! Bunches, even.
More details on our Magic
Sinewave library page. Research
Associates are welcome per our Magic
Sinewave Proposal.
June 17, 1998
Here's a real classic: Don's original Case
Against Patents
updated and improved in the Patent
Avoidance library.
June 16, 1998
New Jim Fitzsimons tutorial on using elliptical integrals to
find the real length
of a Bezier cubic spline! Updated and
improved a Blat classic
on Direct Toner PC Boards.
June 12, 1998
Started a linked list of Book-on-demand
Service Bureaus
on our BOD Library
page. Updated and improved a classic
blat column on Stalking
the Wild Paradigm.
June 11, 1998
Updated and improved a classic
Blat column on Mastering
the Advetorial.
June 9, 1998
Corrected some minor math errors in my Vector-to-Step tutorial.
June 8, 1998
Added some digitizers and protocol analyzers and more classic
Apple collectible goodies to our Synergetics
Bargain Page.
June 6, 1998
Added titles on HTML, web page design and webmastering
to our Book Access Page.
June 3, 1998
Added Resource Bin #78 on Starting your own Web Page.
June 1, 1998
May 24, 1998
The latest Tech Musings
#127 is on transformer free (!) DAA
telephone access, a new wattmeter,
a look at solar economics,
direct solar to hydrogen conversion, and capacitor bounceback.
Please welcome Brand Electronics
as our latest Guru's Lair
banner advertiser. They've
got a great PIC based
wattmeter
for home power monitoring.
May 18, 1998
Just got a whole new load of Surplus
Bargains, especially
Ethernet cards, DEC repeaters, and more really great Tek
2213 scopes. Plus tons of classic Apple collectibles.
May 12, 1998
Added a new Hyperbolic
Spline Curve Fitting tutorial ap note
to the Cubic Spline Library
shelf.
The next big thing on the web will be PGML, which is best
described as reader-free Acrobat. Here's the full
spec.
May 9, 1998
Please welcome Jameco Electronics
as our newest banner
sponsor. They've got great prices on just about every electronic
or computer part imaginable. Small quantity sales welcome.
May 7, 1998
Our web stats should now be back working, thanks to some
major new ISP upgrades. See our Banner
Page for links.
The trailing monthly report may take a while to fill completely.
May 6, 1998
Made some major improvements to our Book
Access Page.
You can now search nearly any book anywhere by author,
title, subject, or keywords. Your use of this page when book
shopping supports the Guru's Lair at zero cost to you.
May 2, 1998
Updated and improved our PIC
Library page. Added new
PIC Microprocessor and
Offshore Electronics
book listings.
Added some Recreation Sites
to Bee's web links page.
May 1, 1998
A preliminary beta of our Guru's
Lair Search Engine is now
up and running. You simply would not believe the trials and tribulations
of getting a site search to work.Yes, major improvements (including full
PDF search!) are on the way. Please report any search problems.
April 28, 1998
The latest Tech Musings
#126 is on isolated power supplies,
transportation alternatives,
hybrid vehicles, and more.
April 24, 1998
Just got a whole new load of electronic surplus test instruments,
especially Tektronix 2213 scopes.
See our Bargain Page for
info.
April 18, 1998
Banner Advertiser UltraLink has
a brand new and always accurate
RS232 Clock and Calendar for only $99. Please visit
and support
them. Your click-throughs count. As always, new banner
advertisers
are certainly welcome. See ADVT01.HTML
for details and
BANNYEAR.PDF for
my insider secrets tutorial.
April 17, 1998
Just have conclusively proven beyond a shadow of a doubt that
there are A LOT of 768-bit binary words! See our latest high
efficiency and "super green" Magic
Sinewave sampler.
April 8, 1998
Colorized and improved The Quest for Magic Sinewaves. Added new ultra-efficient 384-bit delta friendly Magic Sinewaves.
April 5, 1998
Latest Resource Bin column #76 is on Home Automation.
April 3, 1998
Please welcome ITU Technologies,
our newest banner advertiser.
They've got lots of emulators, programmers, and other PIC Stuff.
March 28, 1998
March 24, 1998
Latest Tech Musings #125
is on Temperature Measurement,
a new battery trade journal, info on crest factors, and more.
March 20, 1998
Our Precision Navigation
banner advertiser has a new special
deal on their Outback Digital
Compass.
March 16, 1998
Improved the PostScript Web Colorizer Utilities. Added someWind Energy books, Hydrogen books, and Home Automation books.
March 14, 1998
I think I've gotten nearly all of the problem PDF files redistilled
and reoptimized. Please report any problems to don@tinaja.com
-->IF <-- you are -still- having problems getting past the
first page
of a PDF file, first make sure your Acrobat
3.x Reader or Exchange
is installed as a Netscape 4.x plug
in and not as a helper ap. Set the
preferences to background loading ON. And do NOT go off the
first PDF page until FULL loading is complete.
March 12, 1998
Just added a Guru's Lair Site Map and Master Directory.
March 10, 1998
Analog Devices has a new real-time
$15 Wavelet Chip! Links
on our newly expanded and corrected Wavelets
Library page.
Also added several new Pseudoscience
site links.
March 8, 1998
Updated and improved classic Resbin
#26 that's all about
Pseudoscience Industry
Happenings.
March 5, 1998
Added a bunch of new books to the Wavelets Library Shelf
March 3, 1998
Added a new combination tutorial and plea for help on
Linking Newsgroups from
Inside a PDF File. Your help
is very much needed on this one.
March 1, 1998
Latest Resbin #75
is on Virtual Reality.
Also added new links
on Electric Vehicles and
a Backwards Phone Book
that finds
every number on your street!
Our new server seems to be gagging on newsgroup links from
inside Acrobat .PDF files. We are working on the problem,
but it may take a while.
February 26, 1998
Added an "It's
a Gas" library shelf on hydrogen
resources.
Includes alternate energy tutorials, links, books, and newsgroups.
February 24, 1998
The latest Tech Musings
#124 is on new LED Cave
Lamps,
ExtraOrdinary Science
papers, Wind Energy Resources,
and
Reading Web Site Referral
Logs.
February 21, 1998
Added bunches of Free
Web Clip Art sites. Also please
welcome Steve Ciarcia of Circuit
Cellar as our newest
banner advertiser.
Some reminders: Be sure you have Acrobat
Reader 3.0 or
higher. We are still debugging our newer and faster server,
so please report any hangups or other PDF problems.
As usual, a free Incredible
Secret Money Machine II for
eight broken links, bad typos, or other site problems. Any
promised but not yet uploaded links do not count.
February 19, 1998
Created a new Captain
Video's Secret Mountain Laboratory
library page on video and NTSC. Added new access links to
Bookbinding Titles.
February 18, 1998
Added another PostScript-as-language tool. This one makes
filtered and sorted Referral
Log Summaries for you.
February 15, 1998
Improved and uploaded an Auto-Adressing
Duplex Catalog
Printer tutorial and utility. It also auto-collates, auto-tumbles,
and saddle stitches. Great for BOD brochures as well.
Our new log stats are now online.
February 13, 1998
Started uploading a few classics from the Ask
the Guru columns,
namely Guru #60 and
Guru #68. Sponsors
and Banner Hosts are
needed to update, colorize, and complete the series.
February 12, 1998
Uploaded classic PS
Bezier Curve From Fuzzy Data advanced
curvefitting tutorial and demo. Also added a bunch of new files
to the Cubic Spline Library
page.
February 9, 1998
Added new PostScript-as-language
routine to read referral
logs! We'll start offering PostScript-as-language in two pieces:
as an "instant read"
HTML file and as the actual
sourcecode.
Continuing to add lots of files to the Cubic Spline Library.
February 6, 1998
Please welcome John Morrow from Embedded
Engineering
as our newest banner advertiser.
My latest Blatant Opportunist
#49 column is on How
to Bash
Pseudoscience. Also has more on Brown's gas and magic lamps.
February 3, 1998
You have just been moved over to a new server, which eventually
should give you all sorts of new Guru's Lair benefits. For now,
your PDF files should download three to five times faster.
Please report any broken links, access problems, and most
especially any PDF hangups to don@tinaja.com.
January 29, 1998
Latest Resbin #74 shakes up Seismometers and Earthquakes.
January 27, 1998
Steve Ciarcia has now
made Free Subscriptions
to Circuit Cellar
available to qualifying technical instructors and their students.
Have added Irvin Glassman's Combustion
text to the Book
Access library page. This one is essential reading for hydrogen
researchers. Also lots of seismology
and earthquake titles.
January 25, 1998
The latest Muse #123
is on AC Power Measurement,
a new
$49 source for Adobe Acrobat,
simultaneous A/D converters,
solid state power meters and home energy monitoring.
January 22, 1998
Please welcome Precision
Navigation, our newest banner advertiser
who have a great buy on solid
state digital compass modules.
Added short note on Preventing
-exp- blowups on older PostScript
Interpreters. Lots more PostScript on the Acrobat
and PostScript
library shelves.
January 15, 1998
Uploaded a COPYRITE.HTML
tutorial that shows how to print
Copyright, and all the other "secret" PostScript font characters.
January 13, 1998
Added a new Virtual
Reality book list. Started adding a great
heaping bunch of new files to the Cubic
Spline Library.
Uh, we're in the process of changing to a more powerful and more
flexible server. Which should give us all sorts of new Guru's Lair
features in the near future. Please report any access problems or
whatever that you may run across in the next few days.
January 9, 1998
Added link to a great web
page analyzer that finds bad links!
Continuing to improve page navigation and add catalog
hot links.
A reminder on our ongoing contest: For a free ISMM II,
find
seven Guru's Lair web site bad links, spelling errors, or cosmetic
glitches. Links to older files not yet uploaded do not count, nor do
errors on files less than five days old.
January 3, 1998
A brief note on .PSL or "PostScritpt-Lancaster" files.
These
are written in Gonzo Guru PostScript, my combination layout and
illustration package that is exceptionally flexible and offers
outstanding text picojustification but is purposely not WYSIWYG.
You need these ~only~ if you want to learn how I did something.
They look jumbled in Netscape but pretty print properly when
downloaded into Wordpad or whatever. For the convenience of
certain magazines, the entire Gonzo utilities may be prepended to
some Guru's Lair PSL files. To use them yourself, it is far easier
and shorter to download GONZO20.PS
and then run them from
a properly renamed...
(C:\\windows\\desktop\\gonzo\\gonzo.ps) run
gonzo begin
ps.util.1 begin
nuisance begin
Note the double backslashes inside PostScript strings whenever
you want a single backslash. More examples on this whenever.
January 2, 1998
This file was getting kinda long, so I split most of it into
a 1997 What's New Archive.
December 31, 1997
The latest Resource Bin #73 is on Surplus and Auctions.
December 29, 1997
Added link to the Backwards
Phone Number Looker-Upper
at Infospace. Use with Oxbridge
for full periodical addresses.
December 27, 1997
Newest Blatant Opportunist
#48 is on my InfoPack "Cash
and Carry Consulting". Added new links on Electronic
Surplus,
the great Northern Lights
search engine, school Public
Sales,
and a great site giving you access to Auctions.
December 25, 1997
Latest Tech Musings #122
is on quadrature phase
networks,
Hilbert transforms, HP ScanJets,
hydraulic rams, and low
cost satellite imagery. Plus a few other goodies.
December 20, 1997
Revised WHICHUP.HTML
on forced Acrobat Distiller
orientation. Removed some obsolete files and links. Slowly
improving the green on followed links.
December 16, 1997
Added an Electronic
Industry Telephone Directory link, an
Free Online
Magazine Reprints Directory and a few others
to the Web Related Resource
Links page.
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