User contributions for Tom.jennings
A user with 87 edits. Account created on 20 September 2006.
26 April 2023
- 18:1418:14, 26 April 2023 diff hist −49 User:Tom.jennings No edit summary current
5 October 2022
- 16:3316:33, 5 October 2022 diff hist +123 m AMC and Jeep transmissions Added detail to the M8 (etc) models; the six-cylinder applications were all air-cooled, not liquid cooled.
19 August 2022
- 22:1922:19, 19 August 2022 diff hist +583 Permaculture Replaced old, "bare URL" references with newer, added citations.
- 00:4200:42, 19 August 2022 diff hist +431 User talk:BrownHairedGirl →re: 'bare url' in my Permaculture edit: new section Tag: New topic
18 August 2022
- 23:3323:33, 18 August 2022 diff hist +1,057 User talk:Praxidicae →my botched edits to 'Permaculture': new section Tag: New topic
- 23:2523:25, 18 August 2022 diff hist +1,157 Talk:Permaculture →My botched edit of 'permaculture', re: G W Carver.: new section Tag: New topic
- 23:1523:15, 18 August 2022 diff hist +506 Permaculture Undid revision 1105170896 by Praxidicae (talk) Tag: Undo
- 19:5019:50, 18 August 2022 diff hist −110 Tom Jennings updated basic details of occupation, replaced photo (which I never liked!).
- 19:4219:42, 18 August 2022 diff hist +12 Tom Jennings →External links
- 19:4219:42, 18 August 2022 diff hist +128 m Tom Jennings updating websites
- 19:3919:39, 18 August 2022 diff hist −150 m Tom Jennings Removed jobs mentioned because I no longer work there.
- 19:3219:32, 18 August 2022 diff hist +21 m User:Tom.jennings updated web sites.
- 19:3119:31, 18 August 2022 diff hist +506 Permaculture G W Carver certainly did work that can now be called permaculture. His wikipedia page asserts that "Carver discovered permaculture" which is simplistic, however well-intentioned; but his own writing makes clear his development of continually sustainable farming practices. Tag: Reverted
17 March 2020
- 19:5619:56, 17 March 2020 diff hist +19 Fieldata Updated source URL for "annotated history of some character codes". URL had changed. I am the author of the document, admin for both sites.
30 June 2019
- 18:4818:48, 30 June 2019 diff hist −23 Tom Jennings corrected my website URL. updated my email address also.
7 December 2018
- 18:5218:52, 7 December 2018 diff hist +1 Character encoding →missing )
- 18:5118:51, 7 December 2018 diff hist +64 Character encoding →clarity in description of the end of variable-length codes eg morse
- 18:2518:25, 7 December 2018 diff hist 0 Character encoding →date (month) in the future! doh
- 18:2318:23, 7 December 2018 diff hist −7 Character encoding →incorrect URL for ref 3. bad accessdate format.
6 December 2018
- 23:5823:58, 6 December 2018 diff hist −445 m Character encoding tyoes, bad grammar, and combined related widow sentences.
- 23:5323:53, 6 December 2018 diff hist +1,781 Character encoding my apologies for a bad edit -- i pasted into a field and the browser 'saved'. this is the intended edit. i added context in history, compacted the disparate sentences about some of the codes into a more linear sequence. i added a reference to (my) annotated history of chracter codes. i realize that this edit leaves some assertions without references; i hace references for those and wll add them next. they are all in the <ref> i added.
- 23:2623:26, 6 December 2018 diff hist +838 Character encoding dropped this paragraph:
23 October 2018
- 18:1318:13, 23 October 2018 diff hist −8 Uravan, Colorado URL for Uravan memorial wrong or had changed; corrected and link now works.
15 July 2018
- 17:5017:50, 15 July 2018 diff hist −65 m User:Tom.jennings No edit summary
29 October 2017
- 21:4721:47, 29 October 2017 diff hist +42 Arago's rotations added missing phrase; the rotating copper disc must pass through the field of a magnet. this is the phenomenon observed by arago, explained by faraday. the fixed magnet induces an eddy current in the disc, producing magnetic field that moves the needle
23 October 2016
- 18:1818:18, 23 October 2016 diff hist +189 User talk:Tom.jennings →Hi there!
26 September 2016
- 00:3700:37, 26 September 2016 diff hist +1,284 Gallup, New Mexico added minor text to link to images and features of Gallup.... no, i don't work or even know the Chamber of COmmerce, i'm a road-tripping fan that simply likes the town and thinks it gets an undeserved bad rap.
- 00:1600:16, 26 September 2016 diff hist +595 Gallup, New Mexico added citations for the Gallup resistance to Japanese internment in world war two. minor accompanying text addition.
12 June 2016
- 19:5019:50, 12 June 2016 diff hist +364 N User:Tom.jennings ←Created page with 'i've been a wikipedia user, very occasional editor, since 2006. there's a page about me, not a user page, at Tom_Jennings. to be honest even after reading i...'
- 19:4219:42, 12 June 2016 diff hist +357 Kingpin (automotive part) make segue from historic-physical to virtual kingpin explicit (was implicit). moved acronym to definition, added alternatives. slight change in wording of following sentence.
8 June 2016
- 18:0618:06, 8 June 2016 diff hist +24 m ORDVAC sorry, long time since edited anything.
- 18:0518:05, 8 June 2016 diff hist 0 m ORDVAC sheesh -- typoe on the correction!
- 18:0418:04, 8 June 2016 diff hist −5 m ORDVAC the total number of tubes is specified in the Operating Manual page 7. http://bitsavers.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/pdf/univOfIllinoisUrbana/ordvac/ORDVAC_Manual_Volume_1_1952.pdf
9 May 2015
- 16:0716:07, 9 May 2015 diff hist −7 Whitening transformation aargh, sorry, additional edit to remove 'random' as the output of whitening; they aren't random, they are the result of a reversible function.
- 16:0616:06, 9 May 2015 diff hist +4 Whitening transformation the original opening sentence seemed to state a requirement for the variables in question to be random in value, as opposed to randomly (arbitrarily) selected....
12 November 2013
- 06:5006:50, 12 November 2013 diff hist +537 Talk:Information Awareness Office missing data (dubious)
6 September 2013
2 May 2013
- 19:3019:30, 2 May 2013 diff hist +69 FidoNet attempting to add nodelist image
- 18:2718:27, 2 May 2013 diff hist +20 FidoNet added an image of an original, pre-St.-Louis "nodelist", hand edited by me with new "Fidos".
4 October 2012
- 04:2204:22, 4 October 2012 diff hist 0 m Heinrich Hertz Submillimeter Telescope minor typo fixed
31 January 2012
- 18:3118:31, 31 January 2012 diff hist +968 Membrane analogy I need to expand upon this, incl. refs, when i get home. Rubber membrane analogy ("analog computer") was a major technique for electron tube design for decades. No info on wilipedia, tho i have MANY textbooks describing. I will find earlier refs.
14 April 2011
- 01:2701:27, 14 April 2011 diff hist −175 Hardware random number generator oopsie, removed extraneous 'reference', more properly applied in Notes section with inline <ref>
- 01:2601:26, 14 April 2011 diff hist +184 Hardware random number generator Added what I believe is the/a root document for the 6D4 noise source referred to in the Sylvania book. The RAND device was the subject of my thesis research. I can find no earlier reference to the 6D4 as a noise source.
- 01:2301:23, 14 April 2011 diff hist +176 Hardware random number generator Added what I believe is the/a root document for the 6D4 noise source referred to in the Sylvania book. The RAND device was the subject of my thesis research. I can find no earlier reference to the 6D4 as a noise source.
30 November 2010
- 21:0521:05, 30 November 2010 diff hist +9 m Tom Jennings No edit summary
- 21:0421:04, 30 November 2010 diff hist +542 Tom Jennings General update to (my own!) bio. Added a [missing] link to Steve Abbott's work.
11 January 2010
- 00:2000:20, 11 January 2010 diff hist +130 AN/URC-117 Ground Wave Emergency Network Added images from a recent trip.
- 00:0900:09, 11 January 2010 diff hist +1 AN/URC-117 Ground Wave Emergency Network →Photo gallery
- 00:0700:07, 11 January 2010 diff hist +94 AN/URC-117 Ground Wave Emergency Network →Photo gallery
23 May 2009
- 20:2020:20, 23 May 2009 diff hist +211 Free Press (publisher) Added MILLION DIGITS; no ISBN, no Library Congress number. Copyright RAND. Historically significant mathematical table, unique.
