User contributions for 116.231.78.79

7 June 2018

• 14:1214:12, 7 June 2018 diff hist −4‎ Richard Pryor ‎ →‎1960s: fourth grade vocabulary word, ~~~~
• 14:1014:10, 7 June 2018 diff hist −4‎ Richard Pryor ‎ →‎Early life: standard English word, junior high school vocabulary (probably fourth grade these days) doesn't need a link ~~~~
• 12:1612:16, 7 June 2018 diff hist −8‎ Cleveland Diesel Engine Division ‎ →‎Winton Engine Corporation: Can't be "opposed" AND "v-type". It's one or the other. As it happens, they are v-type engines. No idea where anyone got the idea they were opposed ~~~~

6 June 2018

• 14:5214:52, 6 June 2018 diff hist −23‎ P. A. Ó Síocháin ‎ →‎Family and works: we know what a home is, and at 90 I don't think any death can be entirely unexpected ~~~~
• 12:3412:34, 6 June 2018 diff hist −507‎ LedgerSMB ‎ →‎History: I removed that because it is no longer relevant. Leaving it here is like an article about London restaurants noting that in the seventeenth century the sewer system was so bad that eating out was dangerous. May be, but that was several hundred years ago. It's time to move forward. Let's add some good stuff about what the software does NOW instead of dwelling on old grudges ~~~~
• 12:2812:28, 6 June 2018 diff hist −7‎ LedgerSMB ‎ →‎1.3+ Developments: That is typical of ANY SQL database. That's what SQL does. There is no need to limit the discussion to a single implementation of the SQL language. ~~~~
• 12:2512:25, 6 June 2018 diff hist −15‎ LedgerSMB ‎ typing :( ~~~~
• 12:2412:24, 6 June 2018 diff hist +59‎ LedgerSMB ‎ "multitenancy" get outta town, charlie ! wotta crock. Sun, "client-server", 1980-ish ? Same damn thing. Basement-dwelling hooligans and their self-absorbed acronyms :( ~~~~
• 12:2112:21, 6 June 2018 diff hist 0‎ LedgerSMB ‎ fixed incorrect capitalization ~~~~

3 June 2018

• 04:0004:00, 3 June 2018 diff hist +1‎ Antenna (radio) ‎ →‎Loop: fixed mis-typed word ~~~~
• 03:0703:07, 3 June 2018 diff hist −56‎ Satellite Internet access ‎ →‎Outdoor unit (ODU): "made out of something and coated with something" ... wow ! THAT'S real informative. Deleted ~~~~

31 May 2018

• 07:3607:36, 31 May 2018 diff hist −64‎ Hallicrafters SX-28 ‎ →‎History: Russia did not exist during World War II and what is this, a contest to see how many pointless links we can get into every article ? This madness must stop ! ~~~~
• 07:3207:32, 31 May 2018 diff hist −2‎ Hallicrafters SX-28 ‎ →‎History: we don't need to put that in quotes. For AM radio people using them today claim they sound as good as anything current. I won't go into the "tubes-vs-solid state" argument but at the least we can refrain from acting snotty about tube equipment ~~~~
• 02:2802:28, 31 May 2018 diff hist −4‎ Citizens band radio ‎ →‎{{anchor|Growing popularity in the 1970s|Use in popular culture|Famous users}}1970s popularity: excessive linkage removed ~~~~
• 01:1401:14, 31 May 2018 diff hist −124‎ Gonset Communicator ‎ →‎External links: broken link ~~~~

30 May 2018

• 09:5109:51, 30 May 2018 diff hist −99‎ Propeller ‎ →‎Theory of operation: Dumb statement, made no sense, doesn't happen, what the heck ? 'Lock up" with what ? the water ? Right ~~~~
• 09:3909:39, 30 May 2018 diff hist 0‎ Propeller ‎ typing error ~~~~
• 09:3909:39, 30 May 2018 diff hist −246‎ Propeller ‎ The Voith propeller still works on the same principles, it's an airfoil that produces a high pressure area and a low pressure area via motion through a fluid. It's just in a different axis. Besides that the article is titled Propeller, not Unusual Variations on the General Idea of Propellers. ~~~~
• 06:2206:22, 30 May 2018 diff hist +7‎ Marine VHF radio ‎ grammar and terminology/ The Sailor pictured is not a "set" it's a "radiotelephone" as referenced by its model number, "RT-144" ~~~~

29 May 2018

• 10:0510:05, 29 May 2018 diff hist −5‎ Richard C. Sarafian ‎ →‎Biography: Would anyone say " a Ford Mustang car" or a "Chevvy Camaro car" ? It's redundant. Like the Trans-America Pyramid building or the Mona Lisa painting or the Venezuela country ~~~~
• 07:5207:52, 29 May 2018 diff hist −183‎ Vanishing Point (1971 film) ‎ I removed that sentence because the second half was bullshit. Oh, sorry, "personal point of view." Better wording of the first half of the sentence plus total removal of the second half ... or just leave the amateur sociology entirely out of the article would be better maybe . ~~~~

28 May 2018

• 12:3812:38, 28 May 2018 diff hist 0‎ Talk:Magnetic particle inspection ‎ →‎Merger proposal: tag correction ~~~~
• 12:3812:38, 28 May 2018 diff hist +353‎ Talk:Magnetic particle inspection ‎ →‎Merger proposal
• 12:3312:33, 28 May 2018 diff hist −52‎ Magnetic particle inspection ‎ →‎Magnetic particle carriers: added clarity ~~~~
• 04:0404:04, 28 May 2018 diff hist +244‎ Talk:News server ‎ →‎Opening words
• 03:5903:59, 28 May 2018 diff hist +3‎ News server ‎ grammar and overlinkage ~~~~
• 03:3403:34, 28 May 2018 diff hist −3‎ Network News Transfer Protocol ‎ author is a noun ~~~~

27 May 2018

• 12:1512:15, 27 May 2018 diff hist +339‎ Talk:Joseph Eichler ‎ →‎Untitled: corrected a misunderstanding ~~~~
• 12:1012:10, 27 May 2018 diff hist +26‎ Talk:Joseph Eichler ‎ →‎Quality: remembered another drawback to these glorious pieces of 'stuff'. They had radiant heating buried in a slab. But the pipes were cheap and it all rotted out within five years. It *could not be repaired* without removing the house from the foundation. Oops ~~~~
• 12:0712:07, 27 May 2018 diff hist +73‎ Talk:Joseph Eichler ‎ →‎Quality: typing, oops ~~~~
• 12:0512:05, 27 May 2018 diff hist +702‎ Talk:Joseph Eichler ‎ →‎Quality: new section
• 08:5708:57, 27 May 2018 diff hist −46‎ Emmanuel Goldstein ‎ →‎Character history: punctuation and removal of excessive linkage. Are we third-graders here ? how about raising the reading ability requirements to at least junior high school level ? ~~~~

26 May 2018

• 11:1911:19, 26 May 2018 diff hist −14‎ Alexander Pearce ‎ I've never heard of anyone being dissected for murder but anything is possible. If sourced, put it back ~~~~
• 11:1311:13, 26 May 2018 diff hist −92‎ Batman Bridge ‎ →‎Design features: removed stupid remark. Of *course* steel requires more welding than concrete. In fact, I'd really like to see someone weld concrete. ~~~~
• 02:4302:43, 26 May 2018 diff hist −16‎ G-code ‎ →‎Specific codes: "students and hobbyists" didn't even know g-code existed for the first forty years of its life. When a control cost $40,000 you didn't find teenagers living in mum's basement discussing g-code. It was a common term in 1970 and yes, even then people were aware that there's more than g's in g-code ~~~~
• 02:3702:37, 26 May 2018 diff hist −119‎ G-code ‎ This is unsourced and totally untrue. NO ONE in manufacturing calls g-code "g programming language." That's idiotic. I know, POV but I have been running NC since 1972. Ran timesharing on Westinghouse computers. This statement is garbage.~~~~

25 May 2018

• 08:5708:57, 25 May 2018 diff hist −143‎ Steve Allen ‎ →‎Television: I don't know what the real problem was, but that statement was stupid. Just start the show three hours earlier ~~~~
• 08:4708:47, 25 May 2018 diff hist +412‎ Talk:The Steve Allen Show ‎ →‎Westinghouse show

24 May 2018

• 13:4013:40, 24 May 2018 diff hist −2‎ Woody Guthrie ‎ →‎Almanac Singers: there weree many utopian communities with share-the-work idealism that had NOTING to do with socialism. Someone has a bug up their butt ~~~~
• 13:3613:36, 24 May 2018 diff hist −9‎ Woody Guthrie ‎ →‎New York City: puh-leeeze ! Is this wikipedia or the john birch society ? ~~~~
• 13:3413:34, 24 May 2018 diff hist −8‎ Woody Guthrie ‎ →‎New York City: unsubstantiated ~~~~
• 13:3113:31, 24 May 2018 diff hist −23‎ Woody Guthrie ‎ →‎1930s: California: Since there exists a photo of Mr Mooney over a mile away with a clock showing five minutes before the explosion, and he was not a four-minute mile runner, we can safely assume the conviction was incorrect. ~~~~
• 13:2813:28, 24 May 2018 diff hist −4‎ Woody Guthrie ‎ →‎1930s: California: common english phrase ~~~~
• 13:2713:27, 24 May 2018 diff hist +2‎ Woody Guthrie ‎ →‎Early life: 1912–30: Dropping out of high school could be considered a tad below "did not excel" I think 'did not do well' is more accurate ~~~~
• 13:2213:22, 24 May 2018 diff hist −4‎ Woody Guthrie ‎ Already linked earlier, second time is redundant ~~~~
• 06:0106:01, 24 May 2018 diff hist −23‎ West Anchorage High School ‎ that's ridiculous. We've known what downtown was since Petula Clark ~~~~

23 May 2018

• 14:4914:49, 23 May 2018 diff hist +2‎ Scott Wiener ‎ →‎City business with states that forbid LGBT civil rights protections: author is a noun ~~~~
• 14:4814:48, 23 May 2018 diff hist −5‎ Scott Wiener ‎ →‎Soda tax: reworded for clarity ~~~~
• 14:4614:46, 23 May 2018 diff hist −24‎ Scott Wiener ‎ →‎Soda tax: buzzword, doesn't aid in clarity, just more 'aren't we cool' speech. Hemingway would throw up. 2/3 majority is sufficiently descriptive and 100% accurate ~~~~
• 08:3208:32, 23 May 2018 diff hist +309‎ Talk:Fiber laser ‎ →‎Eeeuw :(: new section