SmokingSkillz

it should be illegal... oops it is!

Yep thought as much. They also claim to be backed up by the royal society! I have had problems finding out about quantities involved though. Does anyone feel that the extra density warrents it's use over tungsten? Or pehaphs there is a more sinister motive to it's use. I am also unaware of protection offered to US/UK troops in the "theatre" as they quaintly put it.

yep, kieth richards woulnd't stand a chance. I think if moonie was still about he'd give him a good run for his money though!

Yeah your right shakespere was a right looser. did gerorge washington grow cannabis? and what about ozzie osborne ... on second thoughts forget that one

I find signs reading "The sale and use of drugs on this premesis will not be tollerated and reported to the police" ironic hung on the wall of a pub.

How much of this stuff would you be happy eating and why?

thanks all, I think i am getting there. I have bought a good chemistry book (principals of chemistry), but not got that far yet!

hmm I didn't 'want' to make chlorine. I was just interested in why none was produced. Really i wan't to make some Dynamite!

so can the valencies be woked out based on the number of electrons?

I was wondering if you excite an atom with photons will it's properties change as the electron configuration is different?

thanks, Its still is a little hazy, surely there should be no gaps in the lower shells as the atom will have less energy. What is considered a to be a full d-shell i have seen atoms with between 9 and 18 that also have a couple of electrons in f. Is there a way to determine the number of bonds the transition metals will create? Francium has a load of electrons in lower states and one in the outer shell so why is it not in the same group as copper or chromium?

sorry but not really, do you mean the properties of d block of same period are similar? I thought groups usually exhibit the same properties. How do you mean compare them to the s, p and f blocks arent they very different? I notice that there is always 2 electrons in the outer shell for the d block atoms, does this factor contrive their properties?

sorry 4-(electrons%8) is crap!

Can anyone help, I am having problems understanding reactions involving the transition metals, particularly their electron configuration and valency. I have recently learnt that each shell has subshells s, p and d. What is the d subshell and is there a reason why you get electrons 2 in s, 6 in p and 10 in d. Does an atom with a d shell need 10 electrons instead of 8 in it's outer shell to be inert? How can the valency / oxidation number be calculated from the atomic number? is there a formula that will work for all elements? I had been thinking along the lines of: 4 - (electrons % 8) which gives the number of electrons above or below inertness, but i dont think this works for transition metals.

I like perl or C++ depending on application but for all out power programming i use the lingua franca of in the know programming geeks check it: http://shakespearelang.sourceforge.net/report/shakespeare/

I would tend not to use a router on a small network, and configue an internet facing host as firewall/router. Is your router/modem inegrated or are they seperate units? Check your LAN: run ipconfig/ifconfig on each machine and check the the netsettings all must be on the same network. ie 192.168.1.x/255.255.255.0. Also try pinging the loopback interface (ping 127.0.0.1) on each machine to check the interfaces. Then try pinging other hosts on the network and your router. You cant use x.x.x.0 or x.x.x.255 as ip address as they have special uses. Also using crossover cables with a hub or normal cables peer to peer is a bad idea (I discovered this through experience) Once all your machines can communicate with each other and the DSL line is up try tracerouting your isp or something on the internet (tracert router.myisp.net) traceroute displays the path your packets take over a network. You should see a hop to your router then a hop to your ISP's router and beyond untill you hit a firewall or a host that can't route your packets. If you get a network not accessable error then your routing table is not setup correctly which indicates that either a gateway is not specified or the localhost and router are on different networks/subnets so check the TCP/IP settings. When tracerouting / pinging the internet use an ip address and then a host name to determine if your DNS resolver is configured and working. hope this help

I think there is a concept of memory rings, with the kernel running in say ring 0. It then allocates ring 1 memory for use by client processes. So your program would have to be run in ring 0, maybe if you could inject or buffer overun the code into the kernels call stack you could get a system wide mem dump!

Sorry but DOS is shite, Theres a lot of stuff you can do with Saukraut but it doen't make it any better

it would probably work on a spectrum. but i think you'd get a load of GPF's on windows. (each process has it's own virtual memory space and can't address outside of it). Having said that WinHex has a RAM editor that manages to do it so god knows.

A while ago i heard (via TV) that it may be possible to beam power from solar panels on the moon in the future. Sounds a bit far-fecthed though.

Could geothermic heat be harnessed to charge hydrogen fuel cells?

Windows virtual memory manager writes memory pages to pagefile.sys, So it may contain random chunks of data that's been in your ram which persists untill overwritten. You can't access this file through windows. but if you mount the partition with a linux boot disk you can for example pipe it through strings and find useful information like keystrokes passwords etc. recycled files are still linked to the file system untill the bin is emptied and then the data remains on the disk untill overwritten. PGP has secure delete functionality which overwrites the datablocks a few times with random data. You also get ambient data in file slack: E.g if yor fs cluster size is 4096 bytes and a cluster is allocated to a 1k file there will be 3k of slack space sat behind the file, this will contain whatever was allocated previously to that cluster. The whole cluster is allocated but the filesystem can only see 1k of it. So a defrag will likely replace alot of unallocated clusters but the slack space will remain. TASK is an open source toolkit for analysing /recovering file system structures. at http://www.opensourceforensics.org

what about plasma weapons?

hmm, well i'm not that fussed about it anyway. I was just wondering why the experiment didn't work as i had expected. I now think i infact made some bleach explaining the smell and no colour. I dont know about the colourless smelly gas though (vapors maybe)

I am not a nazi or anything, I just wan't to experiment and learn, I was planning on turning the power off once a little was produced, and then maybe reacting it with something like copper or calcium to make it less dangerous. I wan't going to leave it lurking in my bedroom!