Andre Jute
Opamp man
(from the "Entropy" thread on RAO alone)

The ironic sig above might require some explanation, considering that
various railroad minds infesting this newsgroup cannot conceive of a
man having more than one mistress. I like all good amps, SET, DHT, PP,
transistors, bare wire, whatever, and I don't really care overly much
whether their technicalities are justifiable to tenth-rate "engineers".
But, if one stretches a point to be kind to fools (this is the season
of goodwill after all), there are similarities between, for instance,
to take extremes, SE DHT and transistor integrated circuits at and
beyond the technical level.

As an example, there was an elevated discussions in the last year on
the most accomplished and openminded audio forum in the world, RAT, in
which it was concluded that a directly heated triode (DHT) is a
complete opamp package for the cultured, for instance having circa 14dB
of internal feedback. For the googlers, the discussion was in one of
the threads surrounding the instruction of that irremediable slow
learner Pinkerton when he challenged me by promising to deliver a ZNFB,
class A transistor design to match my KISS 300B "Ultrafi". While Pinko
wriggled this way and that for months trying to get out of his
impossible promise, I overnight built and published a little transistor
amp with more promise in its little toe than the despicable and
complicated never-built paper design Pinkostinko eventually came up
with. My little opamp is here for those who can solder even a little;
the parts are all from the RS catalogue:
http://members.lycos.co.uk/fiultra/JUTE%20ON%20AMPS.htm
and scroll down to "CAN A TRANSISTOR BE MADE TO SOUND LIKE TUBE AMP?"
or pick up the relevant metaphysical (heh-heh) description,
photographs, schematics and component layouts directly in these links:
http://members.lycos.co.uk/fiultra/K...dre%20Jute.htm
http://members.lycos.co.uk/fiultra/K...dre%20Jute.htm
http://members.lycos.co.uk/fiultra/K...20mGBschem.jpg
http://members.lycos.co.uk/fiultra/K...%20mGBmatr.jpg
http://members.lycos.co.uk/fiultra/K...%20NoBleed.jpg

Those of you with junkboxes can use any old opamp with a little bit of
power--just solder the resistors to the pins and use the component
leads for offboard connectors; the point is not perfection but to
demonstrate by a simple experiment that the stark zero-choice
importunities of the railroad minds are simply not justified by
real-life experience.

To put it bluntly, there is an overlap in results, easily heard by
those with open minds, between devices. This real-life overlap is
routinely denied by the railroad minds in their eagerness to make flame
war points and build up their self-images as "experts". That is a
betrayal of the principles for which they demand our "respect".

Andre Jute
While the cock crows thrice

On 26 Dec 2005 18:28:21 -0800, "Andre Jute" wrote:

Andre Jute
Opamp man
(from the "Entropy" thread on RAO alone)

The ironic sig above might require some explanation, considering that
various railroad minds infesting this newsgroup cannot conceive of a
man having more than one mistress. I like all good amps, SET, DHT, PP,
transistors, bare wire, whatever, and I don't really care overly much
whether their technicalities are justifiable to tenth-rate "engineers".
But, if one stretches a point to be kind to fools (this is the season
of goodwill after all), there are similarities between, for instance,
to take extremes, SE DHT and transistor integrated circuits at and
beyond the technical level.

As an example, there was an elevated discussions in the last year on
the most accomplished and openminded audio forum in the world, RAT,

Actually, that would be rec.audio.high-end, where we never see Jute
because it's a moderated forum, and posts are required to have
credible audio content, rather than Munchausenesque fantasies.

in
which it was concluded that a directly heated triode (DHT) is a
complete opamp package for the cultured, for instance having circa 14dB
of internal feedback.

It is of course totally outclassed by any IC opamp, including the
venerable LM675.

For the googlers, the discussion was in one of
the threads surrounding the instruction of that irremediable slow
learner Pinkerton when he challenged me

Just another typical Jute lie. No 'challenge' was ever offered.

by promising to deliver a ZNFB,
class A transistor design to match my KISS 300B "Ultrafi". While Pinko
wriggled this way and that for months trying to get out of his
impossible promise,

Actually, I delivered the design within a few working days, but I
said that it would be possible to put together a BJT equivalent of
KISS just before Christmas 2004, and I spent most of January 2005 in
Margarita (Venezuela), so it took a few weeks of *elapsed* time to
publish the KISASS design.

I overnight built and published a little transistor
amp with more promise in its little toe than the despicable and
complicated never-built paper design Pinkostinko eventually came up
with.

Actually, of course, KISASS is extremely simple - that being the whole
point of the exercise. It also works better than your pathetic - and
never built - piece of DHT trash.

My little opamp is here for those who can solder even a little;
the parts are all from the RS catalogue:
http://members.lycos.co.uk/fiultra/JUTE%20ON%20AMPS.htm
and scroll down to "CAN A TRANSISTOR BE MADE TO SOUND LIKE TUBE AMP?"
or pick up the relevant metaphysical (heh-heh) description,
photographs, schematics and component layouts directly in these links:
http://members.lycos.co.uk/fiultra/K...dre%20Jute.htm
http://members.lycos.co.uk/fiultra/K...dre%20Jute.htm
http://members.lycos.co.uk/fiultra/K...20mGBschem.jpg
http://members.lycos.co.uk/fiultra/K...%20mGBmatr.jpg
http://members.lycos.co.uk/fiultra/K...%20NoBleed.jpg

Note please that Jute out of his own mouth admits that he'd been
working on this utterly trivial 'design' (straight from the
Application Notes, actually) for *years*, never mind his claimed
'overnight'. And that he got the idea from Nelson Pass.

The real truth is that, as always, Jute is driven completely off the
rails by any attempt to intrude on what he considers to be his private
playpen. Sorry Jute, RAT is an open forum, and you are just another
tenth-rate dilettante with virtually no real knowledge of the subject.
For that, see Trevor Wilson and a few others.
--

Stewart Pinkerton | Music is Art - Audio is Engineering

"Stewart Pinkerton" wrote in message
...

Imagine my surprise when I opened a Christmas present containing both plus
canned "premium quality" Haggis.

wrote:

"Stewart Pinkerton" wrote in message
...

Imagine my surprise when I opened a Christmas present containing both plus
canned "premium quality" Haggis.

That's neeps btw not neets.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haggis


Graham

"Pooh Bear" wrote in message
...


wrote:

"Stewart Pinkerton" wrote in message
...

Imagine my surprise when I opened a Christmas present containing both
plus
canned "premium quality" Haggis.

That's neeps btw not neets.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haggis


As I just told Stewart, I realized my error shortly before I went to sleep.

oops.

How do you tell if it's premium quality Haggis?

wrote:

"Pooh Bear" wrote in message
...


wrote:

"Stewart Pinkerton" wrote in message
...

Imagine my surprise when I opened a Christmas present containing both
plus
canned "premium quality" Haggis.

That's neeps btw not neets.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haggis


As I just told Stewart, I realized my error shortly before I went to sleep.

oops.

How do you tell if it's premium quality Haggis?

Has it got 3 legs ? ;-)

Graham

On Tue, 27 Dec 2005 09:10:28 GMT, wrote:


"Stewart Pinkerton" wrote in message
.. .

Imagine my surprise when I opened a Christmas present containing both plus
canned "premium quality" Haggis.

Ah, but you'll have to wait nearly a month to enjoy it on the proper
occasion! :-)
--

Stewart Pinkerton | Music is Art - Audio is Engineering

"Stewart Pinkerton" wrote in message
...
On Tue, 27 Dec 2005 09:10:28 GMT, wrote:


"Stewart Pinkerton" wrote in message
. ..

Imagine my surprise when I opened a Christmas present containing both plus
canned "premium quality" Haggis.

Ah, but you'll have to wait nearly a month to enjoy it on the proper
occasion! :-)
--

I realized as I was going to bed that it hsould have been neeps and tatties
for parsnips and potatoes, nott neets.

What is the proper occaison, pray tell?

wrote:

"Stewart Pinkerton" wrote in message
...
On Tue, 27 Dec 2005 09:10:28 GMT, wrote:


"Stewart Pinkerton" wrote in message
. ..

Imagine my surprise when I opened a Christmas present containing both plus
canned "premium quality" Haggis.

Ah, but you'll have to wait nearly a month to enjoy it on the proper
occasion! :-)
--

I realized as I was going to bed that it hsould have been neeps and tatties
for parsnips and potatoes, nott neets.

What is the proper occaison, pray tell?

*Any* occasion of course ! However......

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burns_supper

Graham

"Stewart Pinkerton" wrote in message
...


Actually, of course, KISASS is extremely simple - that being the whole
point of the exercise. It also works better than your pathetic - and
never built - piece of DHT trash.

Just a moment Mr.P, just a moment. You yourself admitted that you
had not bothered to build your design, and neither has anyone else on
this group. So whence your assertion that it "works better?"

I was interested to build your amplifier, and showed your
schematic to the head of technical service at Swedish TV.
He studied it carefully, for thirty seconds, screwed the paper
into a ball, tossed it into the waste bin.

Hopefully you are a better mail-room operative than you are
amplifier designer, Stewart:-)

Cordially,
Iain

Iain Churches wrote:

"Stewart Pinkerton" wrote in message
...


Actually, of course, KISASS is extremely simple - that being the whole
point of the exercise. It also works better than your pathetic - and
never built - piece of DHT trash.

Just a moment Mr.P, just a moment. You yourself admitted that you
had not bothered to build your design, and neither has anyone else on
this group. So whence your assertion that it "works better?"

I was interested to build your amplifier, and showed your
schematic to the head of technical service at Swedish TV.
He studied it carefully, for thirty seconds, screwed the paper
into a ball, tossed it into the waste bin.

Is that supposed to be a measure of design skill ?

If anyone showed me a schematic of an SET withut context, I'd likely respond
the same. What's the point in recreating tired lousy old designs ??

Graham

"Pooh Bear" wrote in message
...


Iain Churches wrote:

"Stewart Pinkerton" wrote in message
...


Actually, of course, KISASS is extremely simple - that being the whole
point of the exercise. It also works better than your pathetic - and
never built - piece of DHT trash.

Just a moment Mr.P, just a moment. You yourself admitted that you
had not bothered to build your design, and neither has anyone else on
this group. So whence your assertion that it "works better?"

I was interested to build your amplifier, and showed your
schematic to the head of technical service at Swedish TV.
He studied it carefully, for thirty seconds, screwed the paper
into a ball, tossed it into the waste bin.

Is that supposed to be a measure of design skill ?

If anyone showed me a schematic of an SET withut context, I'd likely
respond
the same. What's the point in recreating tired lousy old designs ??

Agreed. If someone seriously showed me a diagram of any electronic system
that was locked into ca. 1920's technology, and it wasn't for a museum
display, it would be hard to take it very seriously. There was a tremendous
lot of technological advance between the 1910-1920s and the 1940-1950s.
Push-pull and inverse feedback come to mind...

"Arny Krueger" wrote in message
...

"Pooh Bear" wrote in message
...


Iain Churches wrote:

"Stewart Pinkerton" wrote in message
...


Actually, of course, KISASS is extremely simple - that being the whole
point of the exercise. It also works better than your pathetic - and
never built - piece of DHT trash.

Just a moment Mr.P, just a moment. You yourself admitted that you
had not bothered to build your design, and neither has anyone else on
this group. So whence your assertion that it "works better?"

I was interested to build your amplifier, and showed your
schematic to the head of technical service at Swedish TV.
He studied it carefully, for thirty seconds, screwed the paper
into a ball, tossed it into the waste bin.

Is that supposed to be a measure of design skill ?

If anyone showed me a schematic of an SET withut context, I'd likely
respond
the same. What's the point in recreating tired lousy old designs ??

Agreed. If someone seriously showed me a diagram of any electronic system
that was locked into ca. 1920's technology, and it wasn't for a museum
display, it would be hard to take it very seriously. There was a
tremendous lot of technological advance between the 1910-1920s and the
1940-1950s. Push-pull and inverse feedback come to mind...

Once again, Arny, "fennelly enough", you totally miss the point:-)
The design to which I refer was supposed to be Stewart's SS equivalent
of Andre's KISS amp.

Iain

"Pooh Bear" wrote in message
...


Iain Churches wrote:

"Stewart Pinkerton" wrote in message
...


Actually, of course, KISASS is extremely simple - that being the whole
point of the exercise. It also works better than your pathetic - and
never built - piece of DHT trash.

Just a moment Mr.P, just a moment. You yourself admitted that you
had not bothered to build your design, and neither has anyone else on
this group. So whence your assertion that it "works better?"

I was interested to build your amplifier, and showed your
schematic to the head of technical service at Swedish TV.
He studied it carefully, for thirty seconds, screwed the paper
into a ball, tossed it into the waste bin.

Is that supposed to be a measure of design skill ?

If anyone showed me a schematic of an SET withut context, I'd likely
respond
the same. What's the point in recreating tired lousy old designs ??



Stewart's design was supposed to be a modern SS equivalent of Andre's
KISS SET tube amp. The idea came about just to keep Stewart quiet
for a while - so that Andre could complete the description of his valve/tube
design in peace on RAT.

No-one, not even Stewart himself, had enough confidence in the
performance to actually build it.

Iain

On Fri, 20 Jan 2006 13:22:08 +0000, Pooh Bear
wrote:



Iain Churches wrote:

"Stewart Pinkerton" wrote in message
...


Actually, of course, KISASS is extremely simple - that being the whole
point of the exercise. It also works better than your pathetic - and
never built - piece of DHT trash.

Just a moment Mr.P, just a moment. You yourself admitted that you
had not bothered to build your design, and neither has anyone else on
this group. So whence your assertion that it "works better?"

I was interested to build your amplifier, and showed your
schematic to the head of technical service at Swedish TV.
He studied it carefully, for thirty seconds, screwed the paper
into a ball, tossed it into the waste bin.

Is that supposed to be a measure of design skill ?

If anyone showed me a schematic of an SET withut context, I'd likely respond
the same. What's the point in recreating tired lousy old designs ??

Exactly................
--

Stewart Pinkerton | Music is Art - Audio is Engineering

Iain Churches wrote:


I was interested to build your amplifier, and showed your
schematic to the head of technical service at Swedish TV.
He studied it carefully, for thirty seconds, screwed the paper
into a ball, tossed it into the waste bin.

How can you copyright a schematic thats straight from the National
datasheet?

http://cache.national.com/ds/LM/LM675.pdf

http://members.lycos.co.uk/fiultra/K...20mGBschem.jpg



Adam

Adam Stouffer wrote:
Iain Churches wrote:


I was interested to build your amplifier, and showed your
schematic to the head of technical service at Swedish TV.
He studied it carefully, for thirty seconds, screwed the paper
into a ball, tossed it into the waste bin.

How can you copyright a schematic thats straight from the National
datasheet?


Copyright in a schematic exists in the actual drawing, not in the
information it conveys. If I dismantle a (for example) de Paravicini or
Nestorovic product and make a drawing of its parts, whether schematic
or mechamical, the drawing is copyright at the time I draw it and is my
intellectual property, not theirs. This is even true if I take the
service schematic they may provide and redraw it thoroughly (meaning
that the drawing is not obviously derivative of theirs in terms of any
peculiar layout or symbol convention-i.e. Tim draws his transformer
symbols like one assumes Jayne Mansfield or Truman Capote would
have...).

An arrangement of components cannot be "copyrighted". It may be
protected by patent, or it may be a trade secret, which protects it
only against disclosure by employees or contractors of the builder and
not from reverse engineering or teardown-except in the specific case of
firmware.

There is no "moral copyright" except in the deranged mind of Andre
Jute, Mike Lefevre and a few other mountebanks, usually themselves
absconding with anything not securely bolted down.

Bret Ludwig is a confessed thief of copyright materials from me, from
the late Harvey Rosenberg and repeatedly from all the shareholders of
Apple Computer. He is scum. To draw a smokescreen over his thefts he
smears others with his own brush. The thief Ludwig is not a fit person
to lecture anyone on copyright; he lies about copyright law to suit
himself. -- Andre Jute


Bret Ludwig wrote:

Adam Stouffer wrote:
Iain Churches wrote:


I was interested to build your amplifier, and showed your
schematic to the head of technical service at Swedish TV.
He studied it carefully, for thirty seconds, screwed the paper
into a ball, tossed it into the waste bin.

How can you copyright a schematic thats straight from the National
datasheet?


Copyright in a schematic exists in the actual drawing, not in the
information it conveys. If I dismantle a (for example) de Paravicini or
Nestorovic product and make a drawing of its parts, whether schematic
or mechamical, the drawing is copyright at the time I draw it and is my
intellectual property, not theirs. This is even true if I take the
service schematic they may provide and redraw it thoroughly (meaning
that the drawing is not obviously derivative of theirs in terms of any
peculiar layout or symbol convention-i.e. Tim draws his transformer
symbols like one assumes Jayne Mansfield or Truman Capote would
have...).

An arrangement of components cannot be "copyrighted". It may be
protected by patent, or it may be a trade secret, which protects it
only against disclosure by employees or contractors of the builder and
not from reverse engineering or teardown-except in the specific case of
firmware.

There is no "moral copyright" except in the deranged mind of Andre
Jute, Mike Lefevre and a few other mountebanks, usually themselves
absconding with anything not securely bolted down.

Adam Stouffer wrote:

Iain Churches wrote:


I was interested to build your amplifier, and showed your
schematic to the head of technical service at Swedish TV.
He studied it carefully, for thirty seconds, screwed the paper
into a ball, tossed it into the waste bin.

What has your question below to do with the piece of trash Pinkerton
tried to palm off on us as an amplifier design, Stouffer? Or are you
just running a spoiler for your hero Pinkerton? -- AJ

How can you copyright a schematic thats straight from the National
datasheet?

http://cache.national.com/ds/LM/LM675.pdf

http://members.lycos.co.uk/fiultra/K...20mGBschem.jpg



Adam

in article Ob8Af.5$0n4.0@trndny05, Adam Stouffer at
wrote on 1/20/06 11:27 AM:

Iain Churches wrote:


I was interested to build your amplifier, and showed your
schematic to the head of technical service at Swedish TV.
He studied it carefully, for thirty seconds, screwed the paper
into a ball, tossed it into the waste bin.

How can you copyright a schematic thats straight from the National
datasheet?

http://cache.national.com/ds/LM/LM675.pdf

http://members.lycos.co.uk/fiultra/K...20mGBschem.jpg



Adam


It's easy, Adam. First, it helps to be mentally ill.

Second, because of fantastic achievements that rival man's walk on the moon,
Andre has been awarded a special "artistic license" by the governments of
South Africa, Australia, Ireland, or a host of other grateful countries . .
..


;-)

The crooked garage trader Jon Yaeger sent this envious snipe:

in article Ob8Af.5$0n4.0@trndny05, Adam Stouffer at
wrote on 1/20/06 11:27 AM:

Iain Churches wrote:


I was interested to build your amplifier, and showed your
schematic to the head of technical service at Swedish TV.
He studied it carefully, for thirty seconds, screwed the paper
into a ball, tossed it into the waste bin.

How can you copyright a schematic thats straight from the National
datasheet?

http://cache.national.com/ds/LM/LM675.pdf

http://members.lycos.co.uk/fiultra/K...20mGBschem.jpg



Adam


It's easy, Adam. First, it helps to be mentally ill.

Second, because of fantastic achievements that rival man's walk on the moon,
Andre has been awarded a special "artistic license" by the governments of
South Africa, Australia, Ireland, or a host of other grateful countries . .
.


;-)

On Fri, 20 Jan 2006 16:27:26 GMT, Adam Stouffer
wrote:

Iain Churches wrote:


I was interested to build your amplifier, and showed your
schematic to the head of technical service at Swedish TV.
He studied it carefully, for thirty seconds, screwed the paper
into a ball, tossed it into the waste bin.

How can you copyright a schematic thats straight from the National
datasheet?

http://cache.national.com/ds/LM/LM675.pdf

http://members.lycos.co.uk/fiultra/K...20mGBschem.jpg


That's not my 'design', that's another of Jute's plagiaristic bits of
trash.
--

Stewart Pinkerton | Music is Art - Audio is Engineering

Iain Churches wrote:
"Stewart Pinkerton" wrote in message
...


Actually, of course, KISASS is extremely simple - that being the whole
point of the exercise. It also works better than your pathetic - and
never built - piece of DHT trash.

Just a moment Mr.P, just a moment. You yourself admitted that you
had not bothered to build your design, and neither has anyone else on
this group. So whence your assertion that it "works better?"

I was interested to build your amplifier, and showed your
schematic to the head of technical service at Swedish TV.
He studied it carefully, for thirty seconds, screwed the paper
into a ball, tossed it into the waste bin.

Hopefully you are a better mail-room operative than you are
amplifier designer, Stewart:-)

Cordially,
Iain

Pinkerton is resting up from the labours of all his lies in The Gambia,
stuffing his face in defiance of the hungry children pressing their
faces through the bars just out of sight to keep them out of the hotel
grounds. See
http://groups.google.ie/group/rec.au...51c a26a13a36
which itself contains too many PinkoPorkies even to start straightening
them out.

Pinkerton, incidentally, claims he's in Africa to dig dirt on me. The
fact that he is several thousand miles from my usual stamping grounds
seem to have escaped him. More, as always, he is totally ignorant. The
last time I was in West Africa, I wasn't slobbing in luxury hotels
feeding my face, I was hustling a food convoy across Africa to relieve
the famine. Pinkerton could have discovered that down at his local
library, as I later wrote a book about it (1). But I doubt Pinkostinko
knows where his library is; he prefers to make up stuff.

How anyone can trust anything Stewart Pinkerton says is beyond me.

Andre Jute

(1) Pinkerton, without checking the facts, dismisses the journey, the
book, the Telegraph review, all as "Jute bull****". See
http://groups.google.ie/group/rec.au... 422ddd4bef650
If while in Brasil you missed Pinkerton's ludicrous claim that he can
drive the 6200km Adelaide-Darwin-Adelaide, once of the toughest roads
in the world, faster at nearly 60 years of age in his little hatchback
than I did at less than half his age in a suitable car, so should look
it up; it is hilarious.

"Andre Jute" wrote in message
oups.com...

Iain Churches wrote:
"Stewart Pinkerton" wrote in message
...


Actually, of course, KISASS is extremely simple - that being the whole
point of the exercise. It also works better than your pathetic - and
never built - piece of DHT trash.

Just a moment Mr.P, just a moment. You yourself admitted that you
had not bothered to build your design, and neither has anyone else on
this group. So whence your assertion that it "works better?"

I was interested to build your amplifier, and showed your
schematic to the head of technical service at Swedish TV.
He studied it carefully, for thirty seconds, screwed the paper
into a ball, tossed it into the waste bin.

Hopefully you are a better mail-room operative than you are
amplifier designer, Stewart:-)

Cordially,
Iain

Pinkerton is resting up from the labours of all his lies in The Gambia,
stuffing his face in defiance of the hungry children pressing their
faces through the bars just out of sight to keep them out of the hotel
grounds. See
http://groups.google.ie/group/rec.au...51c a26a13a36
which itself contains too many PinkoPorkies even to start straightening
them out.

Pinkerton, incidentally, claims he's in Africa to dig dirt on me. The
fact that he is several thousand miles from my usual stamping grounds
seem to have escaped him. More, as always, he is totally ignorant. The
last time I was in West Africa, I wasn't slobbing in luxury hotels
feeding my face, I was hustling a food convoy across Africa to relieve
the famine. Pinkerton could have discovered that down at his local
library, as I later wrote a book about it (1). But I doubt Pinkostinko
knows where his library is; he prefers to make up stuff.

Andre Jute

Yes I have just come accross a post where he wrote:

As ever, that's a flat lie, I never said I was going to do any such
thing. However, I am off for a fortnight's serious pampering at
Coconut Residence in The Gambia - terrible name but a fabulous place,
with the best restaurant in West Africa and some of the best fish
anywhere in the world.


Aahh!! The Coconut Residence, aka, Salmonella City!!

I still have the bathrobe with the embroidered monogram
which they presented to us during a a recording trip of
six weeks in Gambia and Senegal for DWA just a few
years ago.

Gambia is full of surprises:
Typhoid, Hepatitis A, Diptheria, Tuberculosis, Rabies,
Hepatitis B, Mengingitos, Yellow Fever, Tetanus, Polio,
Malaria, viral hemorrhagic fever, etc etc etc.

Our project producer was taken ill with enteric fever
and had to be flown home to Denmark by private
air-ambulance. He still gets periodic repeat symptoms.
Two others were also taken sick with severe dysentery!

Gambia is one of the few countries where the Scandinavian
travel health insurance policy is reduced from the standard
90 days to 30 days. (Which probably means that the
chances of catching something serious after 1 month are
pretty good:-) Our client had to pay a heavy excess for
90 day cover.

But, Abuko and Kiang national parks are worth a visit.

As for the fish in Gambia, better is to be had from any of a
dozen villages along the Cornish coast in the UK:-)
without the risk of Diphyllobothriasis - an infection caused
by a fish tapeworm common in W.Africa.


Iain

On Sat, 21 Jan 2006 18:26:47 +0200, "Iain Churches"
wrote:

Yes I have just come accross a post where he wrote:

As ever, that's a flat lie, I never said I was going to do any such
thing. However, I am off for a fortnight's serious pampering at
Coconut Residence in The Gambia - terrible name but a fabulous place,
with the best restaurant in West Africa and some of the best fish
anywhere in the world.


Aahh!! The Coconut Residence, aka, Salmonella City!!

I still have the bathrobe with the embroidered monogram
which they presented to us during a a recording trip of
six weeks in Gambia and Senegal for DWA just a few
years ago.

Sorry to prick your notoriously puffed-up ego, but all guests get
those.........

Incidentally, don't try going there June/July this year. The OAU
summit is being held in the Gambia, and as the best hotel in the
country, Coconut Residence (and its villas) is being 'blocked out' for
the use of assorted Government heads/despots/psychopaths for the
duration of the talks. It was so tempting to leave a little present
for our good friend Bob the Mugger..........

Gambia is full of surprises:
Typhoid, Hepatitis A, Diptheria, Tuberculosis, Rabies,
Hepatitis B, Mengingitos, Yellow Fever, Tetanus, Polio,
Malaria, viral hemorrhagic fever, etc etc etc.

The good thing is that these are *not* surprises - and therefore
avoidable! Anyone who forgets that West Africa was once known as the
White Man's Graveyard, and fails to act accordingly, deserves his
fate.

Our project producer was taken ill with enteric fever
and had to be flown home to Denmark by private
air-ambulance. He still gets periodic repeat symptoms.
Two others were also taken sick with severe dysentery!

Careless buggers, weren't they?

Gambia is one of the few countries where the Scandinavian
travel health insurance policy is reduced from the standard
90 days to 30 days. (Which probably means that the
chances of catching something serious after 1 month are
pretty good:-) Our client had to pay a heavy excess for
90 day cover.

Taking basic precautions is a better 'policy', IME.

But, Abuko and Kiang national parks are worth a visit.

As for the fish in Gambia, better is to be had from any of a
dozen villages along the Cornish coast in the UK:-)
without the risk of Diphyllobothriasis - an infection caused
by a fish tapeworm common in W.Africa.

********, most of the fish comes from the Atlantic, not the Gambia
river, besides which proper cooking kills any such parasites. If you
prefer to eat fish from the horribly polluted waters around the
over-populated UK, that's your choice, but please leave out the
idiotic comparisons. BTW, Diphyllobothriasis is also common in Eastern
Europe.

Of course, if you want to get 'the authentic feel of Africa' and go on
one of those pre-packaged village visits with 'authentic local food',
then you are likely to get what you deserve. Even Andre wouldn't be
*that* crazy! :-)
--

Stewart Pinkerton | Music is Art - Audio is Engineering

On Fri, 20 Jan 2006 11:36:23 +0200, "Iain Churches"
wrote:


"Stewart Pinkerton" wrote in message
.. .


Actually, of course, KISASS is extremely simple - that being the whole
point of the exercise. It also works better than your pathetic - and
never built - piece of DHT trash.

Just a moment Mr.P, just a moment. You yourself admitted that you
had not bothered to build your design, and neither has anyone else on
this group. So whence your assertion that it "works better?"

It's fundamental to the design - and note that Jute has never built
KISS, but no one seems to give him a hard time about that.

I was interested to build your amplifier, and showed your
schematic to the head of technical service at Swedish TV.
He studied it carefully, for thirty seconds, screwed the paper
into a ball, tossed it into the waste bin.

Yes, we've seen that claim before. Even if it were actually true
(always doubtful for your little stories), it would either be an
indication that the guy is a very poor designer and simply didn't
understand what he was looking at, or that he recognised it for what
it is - an exercise in the application of particular principles, not a
'good' amplifier per se.

Of course, his reaction might also have been based on what *you* told
him he was looking at...........

Hopefully you are a better mail-room operative than you are
amplifier designer, Stewart:-)

Hard to tell, since I've never worked in a mail room. I have however
designed numerous amplifiers, all of which are vastly superior to
KISASS, KISS, and indeed to any of other other trash that Jute cribbed
from some ancient texts and claimed as his own.
--

Stewart Pinkerton | Music is Art - Audio is Engineering

Andre Jute wrote:
Andre Jute
Opamp man
(from the "Entropy" thread on RAO alone)

The ironic sig above might require some explanation, considering that
various railroad minds infesting this newsgroup cannot conceive of a
man having more than one mistress. I like all good amps, SET, DHT, PP,
transistors, bare wire, whatever, and I don't really care overly much
whether their technicalities are justifiable to tenth-rate "engineers".
But, if one stretches a point to be kind to fools (this is the season
of goodwill after all), there are similarities between, for instance,
to take extremes, SE DHT and transistor integrated circuits at and
beyond the technical level.

This is why you refer to solid state amp builders as "silicon
slime".....

RapidRonnie wrote:
Andre Jute wrote:
Andre Jute
Opamp man
(from the "Entropy" thread on RAO alone)

The ironic sig above might require some explanation, considering that
various railroad minds infesting this newsgroup cannot conceive of a
man having more than one mistress. I like all good amps, SET, DHT, PP,
transistors, bare wire, whatever, and I don't really care overly much
whether their technicalities are justifiable to tenth-rate "engineers".
But, if one stretches a point to be kind to fools (this is the season
of goodwill after all), there are similarities between, for instance,
to take extremes, SE DHT and transistor integrated circuits at and
beyond the technical level.

This is why you refer to solid state amp builders as "silicon
slime".....

Nah, my leedle tortoise, I refer to them as silicon slime because their
devices are made from the detritus of the tube-making process. For
*builders* of solid state amps I have the highest respect; I am one
myself. But that scum never built anything except their egos. They are
consumers of lowest common denominator high street pap.

Andre Jute

Andre Jute wrote:

RapidRonnie wrote:

This is why you refer to solid state amp builders as "silicon
slime".....

Nah, my leedle tortoise, I refer to them as silicon slime because their
devices are made from the detritus of the tube-making process.

Uh ???????????

For *builders* of solid state amps I have the highest respect; I am one
myself. But that scum never built anything except their egos.

You have no respect for the ppl who *designed* the knock-off circuits you build
?

They are consumers of lowest common denominator high street pap.

What kind of drugs are you on ? And I don't ask because I want any either !

Graham

In which Poopie Graham Stevenson, a bear of very little brain,
demonstrates that he also needs a humour transplant:

Andre Jute wrote:

RapidRonnie wrote:

This is why you refer to solid state amp builders as "silicon
slime".....

Nah, my leedle tortoise, I refer to them as silicon slime because their
devices are made from the detritus of the tube-making process.

Uh ???????????

For *builders* of solid state amps I have the highest respect; I am one
myself. But that scum never built anything except their egos.

You have no respect for the ppl who *designed* the knock-off circuits you build
?

They are consumers of lowest common denominator high street pap.

What kind of drugs are you on ? And I don't ask because I want any either !

Graham