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Quote from: Specmaster on March 14, 2018, 09:57:58 am

There you go, three more thanks have just been posted.

I didn't mean me you plonkers ! 
I've already got too many for what little I do here. 

Don't know what you mean, bitseeker, beanflying and your self have certainly helped me out before as well many others so I said thank you, just polite manners https://youtu.be/GwLLb8kA-7w

I had no logic analyser  (It took me a lot of therapy to admit this) but then I got a beautiful HP1615A from the 70's that was used to design the dutch traffic control computers. To bad ROM 0 is dead as a dodo and no copies to find. While working on that I missed ,......you guessed it, a Logic analyser.... To be short, the HP is still dead but I now have a Tek 1241A with a big travel-style tektronix bag with the pods, cables, grabbers, rom and ram packs, manuals options etc)
That was nice when I had to repair a measurement receiver with digital problems. But it could not decode protocols so now I have a zero+ too.  But I needed to test the RS232 too, to see if I could find calibration data. I could not get it to work (no manuals available) No problem, a friend gave me a compass microtest compas network analyser. Very Obsolete but it has a very handy RS232 monitor/analyser and helped me to solve that.

The best thing, a bunch of new toys to play with that are really usable too, and no guilty feelings or the evil eye of SWMBO.

Quote from: tautech on March 14, 2018, 10:11:24 am

Quote from: Specmaster on March 14, 2018, 09:57:58 am

There you go, three more thanks have just been posted.

I didn't mean me you plonkers ! 
I've already got too many for what little I do here. 

Don't know what you mean, bitseeker, beanflying and your self have certainly helped me out before as well many others so I said thank you, just polite manners.

Fools and Horses - You Little Plonker YouTube
 

Hmmm... interesting historical tidbit in that vid there. My etymology of the term... from personal experience going back to the day of dial-up and BBSes... was always that "plonker" is a prehistoric UseNet term referring to the sound a user makes as he crashes to the bottom of your ignore list. From the context here (a family of would-be horse breeders) I assume in this case it refers to a clump of horse dung, probably dropped in the most embarrassing situation possible?


mnem
*poot!*

Plonker was also East London slang for the contents of a used condom in the early 1960s as well apparently (according to my cockney wide boy father in law). Suggests that the person wasn't worthy of existence

Yep with the usenet term. Many users got plonked. It was a great way to silence someone by just replying "plonk"

Never knew that, do you think that might also have applied to the South East of London as well then as that is where Only Fools and Horses as was set?

Likely. Slang spreads pretty quick in London.

Gimme some peng thigh bossman. Mandem chickens lit.

Haha like this https://youtu.be/1WvIwkL8oLc

Quote from: georgiapeach on March 14, 2018, 04:42:40 pm

(SNIP LOTS OF PORN SPAM)

Speak of plonker, and his imps appear... 


mnem
At least it's not Resident Chump.

Precisely and its been reported...

Whoa unexpected pr0n attack.

One does not simply expect pr0n.

Hardly unexpected, given the prior conversation about plonker. 

Don't validate it by calling it pr0n; that term suggest a level of quality not present in this cheap screen-capture titillation click-bait.


mnem
I require a certain minimum level of quality in my preversion, thank you. 

Quote from: bd139 on March 14, 2018, 04:55:49 pm

Whoa unexpected pr0n attack.

One does not simply expect pr0n.

Hardly unexpected, given the prior conversation about plonker. 

Don't validate it by calling it pr0n; that term suggest a level of quality not present in this cheap screen-capture titillation click-bait.


mnem
I require a certain minimum level of quality in my preversion, thank you. 

Quite agree, the quality is piss poor to say the least and reminds of the early days of such images on the computer. 

Well not ere any ways. It could be seen by anyone irrespective of age or gender etc.

Well, no... I'm not saying it belongs HERE... I'm saying it doesn't belong anywhere. Shite quality should never be rewarded, no matter what the product. 

That's why I reported it BEFORE I posted snarky comments. 


mnem
Yes, they're real.

You can't fight it. It's just how it goes.

When I was a vBulletin admin, we just IP banned half of the planet. That worked

You can't fight it. It's just how it goes.

When I was a vBulletin admin, we just IP banned half of the planet. That worked

"mummy... why can't I log into my electronics nerd forums?"

"Because... plonkers, dearheart... plonkers."


mnem
"May the fleas of a thousand camels infest your balls, and your arms too short to reach." ~ Arab Curse

It seems off site hosting is still acceptable then 

Those couplings really are useful, I've had occasion to use them myself and they really work well.