Today’s Lucky Ten Thousand

See first post for explanation.

And this is what we have on the table today:

  1. The Screen Saver Grace Period – is a setting in the Windows operating system that determines how many seconds you have, after the screen saver starts working, that you can stop it without incurring the penalty of having to log back in again (If you’ve set it to require password). This is located in the Registry at location: Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon. It’s a string value called ScreenSaverGracePeriod and it interprets the value in seconds. If it’s not there (like in later versions), just add it exactly as I said.
  2. The Heat Sink – is the little piece of metal you find on components that tend to run very hot, like your central or graphics processors in your computer or console. It’s composed of a flat slab, to connect to the heat source, and fins extruding from it, to disperse the heat in a way that will allow maximum contact with the air around it. You blow on this with a fan and you get your basic heat evacuation mechanism. Here are some pictures of it. Also, some folks today are working on a rotating heat sink that dispenses with the use of a fan.
  3. Pedestrian Stoplights – are a curious thing. They are designed, at least in Israel, in such a fashion that when they turn red, it takes 3 seconds per lane of the crosswalk before the cars’ stoplight turns green. This is to allow the person who just got off the sidewalk to safely cross to the other side, even if they are just walking. That means two important things: One, if you arrived and the light just turned red, jog across. You will be perfectly fine. Two, in the car you can just count back from 3x[number of lanes] seconds and then time your acceleration to beat everyone else out of the gate. This, I learned from Dotan so live and learn.
  4. The Internet and the World Wide Web – are not the same thing. I’ve talked about this before. Basically, the Internet is the Interconnected Net or a top name for a set of interconnected network of networks. For example, your computer is probably connected to your home or work network. That is connected to your company network and then, or directly, your ISPs or your country’s network. That, in turn, is connected to the central backbone or immediately sitting on one of the backbones itself. The World Wide Web was invented by Tim Berners Lee while he was working at CERN. It is the protocols and semantics of the information we transmit and the representation we use to convey that information on top of the infrastructure of the internet. So, you might say that “I read on the internet” can correlate to “I read in paper” and “I read on the WWW” to “I read in the newspaper”. This one works better in Hebrew but I hope you get the point. Internet = Body, WWW = Mind. That’s it.

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