From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Jul 1 02:07:59 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id CAA20094 for chat-outgoing; Tue, 1 Jul 1997 02:07:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from agora.rdrop.com (root@agora.rdrop.com [199.2.210.241]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id CAA20086 for ; Tue, 1 Jul 1997 02:07:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from innocence.interface-business.de (innocence.interface-business.de [193.101.57.202]) by agora.rdrop.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id CAA27288 for ; Tue, 1 Jul 1997 02:07:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from j@localhost) by innocence.interface-business.de (8.6.11/8.6.9) with UUCP id LAA26368 for chat@FreeBSD.ORG; Tue, 1 Jul 1997 11:04:03 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.5/8.8.5) id KAA05237; Tue, 1 Jul 1997 10:59:05 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <19970701105905.OS62513@uriah.heep.sax.de> Date: Tue, 1 Jul 1997 10:59:05 +0200 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Monitor shadows? References: <19970630173435.UH16698@uriah.heep.sax.de> <199707010828.RAA00729@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.60_p2-3,5,8-9 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199707010828.RAA00729@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>; from Michael Smith on Jul 1, 1997 17:58:46 +0930 Sender: owner-chat@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Michael Smith wrote: > You can move microwave down a twisted pair, as long as it's carefully laid > out; the same goes anywhere else really. Sure, but for a Sub-D connector with its totally ``weird'' geometric layout, how would you ensure a uniform impedance? I think you can only ensure the latter for a uniform geometric layout, where the ratio between conductor diameter and dielectricum thickness is constant. Good that there's no topic off-topic enough in a -chat list. :-) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)