Where are the temps hidden?

When I was running W98SE there was a folder under Windows labeled "temporary internet files ". If I was to watch a shockwave file online I could open Windows Explorer and copy & paste the swf from that folder to another and have it for later viewing offline. (These swf files usually self deleted after leaving the host website but my copy was safe)
I can't locate where XP places these files. Can you tell me? Thanks and a tip o' the hat.

 

Thanks Chris. Maybe I could have your 800 number for tech advice at 3:AM?
Your links to the "Radified" site are a "must" for anyone's bookmarks.

 

Christer - what time zone is Sweden? GMT+1 maybe? Virginia is GMT-5 so there probably is a pretty good gap in there.

 

We called that (GMT) Zulu time in the army. ..... U.S. that would be. The right way, wrong way and the army way. They use every letter in the alphabet for the rest of the time zone lines except J.

 

Yup. Zulu does for me but GMT/UTC are fine as well. I stuck with GMT for the post since that's still the way Windows has the time zones labeled.

And the HAM community uses UTC just like the zoomies do.

 

Christer, time flies when you're havin' fun - they made that change over 32 years ago. Are we getting old or what?

Newt, I got my HAM license 45 years ago. Originally K9VUZ, currently WA6DRB (last 29 years CA resident) - now I know I'm getting old. Back in IL now and nailing my feet to the ground.

dit dah dit dah dit http://www.teklasoft.com/java/applets/morse/TONE38.au

 

I think I'll submit this thread as the best example of going the farthest off topic while still maintaining a link to the original, err...whatever it was.


Yahoo!

 

'dude ...

Sounds like "C" to me (dah dit dah dit). Were you trying for "Period/Full Stop "?

Christer ...

The U.S. Bureau of Standards (now the National Institute for Standards and Technology) has been using "UTC" on its time stations, WWV and WWVH, since 1 January 1972 but, in reality, did the term "UTC" ever achieve popular usage?

I haven't been active in aviation since I retired almost seven years ago, but no one in the aviation community ever referred to it as "UTC" (just as no professional pilot has ever used the media buzzword [shudder] "tarmac "). Those of us who came out of USAF called it "Z" time, as in "Eastern Standard Time is 'Z minus 5' ", and a specific time would be referred to as, e.g, "1015 Zulu (or Z) ". Those with civilian training, on the other hand, used the term "GMT ". I suspect the usage remains the same today (at least in the U.S.).

Edited for (I hope) clarity.

 

Hi Jim,

I didn't create that code applet, just a link to this Morse code table.

It was supposed to be AR overscored (dit dah dit dah dit) , which means "End of message" but when I played it, I too was disappointed. I guess it doesn't translate well. My "fist" was much better than that.

Regards.

 

Not that I don't believe you, but can you provide a reference? I spent more than 7 years in USAF back in the '50s and '60s, then more than 32 with TWA, and this is the first time I've ever heard of such a thing.

Besides, there are 24 time zones, hence 24 meridians dividing them, and 24 letters in the English alphabet. If J was left out, what poor orphan time zone didn't get an assigned letter?

 

Jim, I'm glad you asked since time keeping is such an interesting concept. The more you study it, the less clear it becomes!

Please see this Explanation of the alphabetical time zones which will no doubt make it all clear as mud.

Regards.

 

S'dude ...

24 letters in the alphabet? Duh!! That's what I get for trying to write intelligently with only a couple of hours of sleep!

Thanks for the reference ... as I said, I've never heard of the alphabetical designations before.

It must be done with fuzzy math, though (perhaps it's my mind that's fuzzy?), as I've always thought there were 24 time zones ... if there actually are 25, and each one is 15° wide, that's 375 degrees! Did someone reinvent geometry while I was asleep? Does Euclid know about this?

Actually, I already know the answer ... time zones GMT + 12 and GMT - 12 (military zones M and Y) are actually the same ... it just depends which side of the Date Line you're on.

 

You figured that out faster than some I've seen! I never attempt to explain it - it's one of those things that you either grasp on your own or don't. It relates to the concept of zero actually being a real number. Don't go there.

When you join the beginning to the end, they're both still there. As I said before:

It'll sure 'nuf cross your eyes.