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Here you'll learn all about me: my interests and hobbies, the people in my family, and more. I've even included
a list of my favorite links to other sites. My site is still under construction.
On this home page, I'll introduce myself and talk about my reasons for wanting a web site. I might put a picture of myself
on this page...or just a picture that I especially like. Here is a picture of me in the backyard touching these flowers
that looks like birds.
As a small kid, I was fascinated with electrical or electronic things. I tend to try to take
them apart and then put them together. And sometimes, I was unsuccessful getting it to work. In elementary school,
I read a book about transformers on how they work. In other words the principals of transformer operation.
In the drawing, they indicated a transformer with only 20 turns of wire for the primary which is across 110
volts AC. I decided to try to built one. When I finally did built one, and pluging it in. All
I was getting was a short-circuit, lot of sparks and a loud hum . At that time, I did not understand that you can't do
it with just a coil of just 20 turns a wire across 110 V AC. As I grow older I discovered that that
wasn't enough inductance to prevent a short-circuit. Usually, an iron core transformer on the primary would have up to
thousands of turns for the primary across 110 V AC @60 hertz. The only kinds of transformer that would only
need a few turns would be a powder iron or ferrite core on a switching power supply that operates at high frequency
at 100 kHz. Those kinds of power supply transformer are found in most consumer electronics specially computers
and 12 V DC to 110 V AC power inverters. They are being used more and more, because of a greater
power efficiency. The only problem with them is, they are not easy to repair Those kind of systems utilize transistors
to switch the power on and off rapidly. When they do fail by shorting out, the transformer acts like a dead short
across the line. The whole system may burn up, if it wasn't for the line fuses.
I have been tinkering with this old computer( HP Pavilion 6330), such as improving the performance. In its
original form, this computer was lousy performer. It constantly was locking up on us to a point, where the only way to
restore operation was to push the power button or unplug the thing. And we also have to constantly in a couple of months,
reinstall the operating system in order to to get it work right. What a big difference this new motherboard on
this system makes along with brand-new operating system . This system has became so stable as compared with before that it
is a joy to use. for more information and detail about this computer upgrade, please click the link at the
top of the page. I've also built a much better computer to replace this one that I use every day. And this computer sits
directly to the left of the old one. My old computer is my spare computer now. To read about my latest computer, please
click the link at the top of the page.
My future computer will be no less than a 62-bit quad core one or better. Future Microsoft operating system beyond Windows
Vista will only come in 64-bit only. Presently, Microsoft hopefully will release the next Windows operating system code-named
Windows 7, perhaps around 2010. I hope, that new operating system will perform better than Windows Vista. The only problem
in my opinion with Windows Vista is that it's very resource intensive requiring more memory, a faster processor as comparing
with windows XP. Also, there are drivers issues such as bugs and requiring all new programs in order to run. Only thing I
like about Windows Vista is the new users interface. Windows Vista runs extremely well on my Pentium 4 computer, although
as good as Windows XP.
I've also tried Ubuntu Linix 8.04 using the Wubi Installer on my junk computer just to fool around with. With this variant
of Linix it is possible to dual boot with Windows and to uninstall it without affecting the Windows installation. My problem
was, I wasn't able to get the wireless WiFi network card to work so I can download driver updates as well as programs. So
I gave up on that for now and uninstalled it. I will try again in the future after getting hold the Broadcom driver for my
network card. When you uninstall Ubuntu, it saves a backup copy on your hard drive so you can always reinstall it in the future.
The backed-up Ubuntu installer file appears to be exactly the way it was when first downloaded. When I uninstall it, it do
not affect the Windows installation at all.
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