Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) group therapy thread

[bd139]

That's interesting. Does it come back or get worse at high sweep speeds?

Nope, no change even at high sweep speeds. It's currently rock solid. I even gave it X10 sweep boost and it's fine. 

Now is the time to sell it before it happens again 

[med6753]

That's interesting. Does it come back or get worse at high sweep speeds?

Nope, no change even at high sweep speeds. It's currently rock solid. I even gave it X10 sweep boost and it's fine. 

Now is the time to sell it before it happens again 

And let it have the last laugh? Nah....I'll nail the SOB part that's causing it. 

[Brumby]

Oh, I hope that ends well.

[Specmaster]

Wow, this is page 700, the centuries sure roll by real quick on this thread don't they, on average we're doing 32 pages a month. Sometimes we can get through a few pages over a weekend if anyone is doing anything interesting or of course it may be a lot of that infamous water cooler chatter about life in general, the sort of chat thats normal over a pint in the pub if that was our meeting location. .

[bd139]

Indeed. We've probably lived a few years of human life in this thread now

Also cue tggzzz saying it isn't page 700

[Specmaster]

Someone needs to reset his settings to default then 

[med6753]

And I greatly appreciate the "international" nature of our chit chat because it avoids a subject where we have no common interest. That subject would be sports. We have baseball and US football here. (Basketball too). You have football (soccer) and rugby over there. Nothing in common and I like that. Most "water cooler" talk here is about that very subject which I find absolutely boring and a waste of time. And no how can I justify in my mind an athlete getting paid millions and millions of dollars playing one of those sports. 

Edit...going back to bed. This was my mid-day piss call.     

[med6753]

BTW....forgot to mention. The latest feature update of Windows 10 fucks with your settings. Why does Microsoft do this shit? What I found so far.....

It deleted "homegroup" which means my WIN7 machines could no longer communicate with it. Fixed.

It completely deleted "Sleep" mode out of the power profiles. Only option now is "Hibernate". No fix yet.

That's it so far. I'm sure there's more. Beware. 

[bitseeker]

Wow, this is page 700, the centuries sure roll by real quick on this thread don't they, on average we're doing 32 pages a month. Sometimes we can get through a few pages over a weekend if anyone is doing anything interesting or of course it may be a lot of that infamous water cooler chatter about life in general, the sort of chat thats normal over a pint in the pub if that was our meeting location.

A page a day keeps the TEA monster away.  ... no ... wait ... that's backwards

[bitseeker]

BTW....forgot to mention. The latest feature update of Windows 10 fucks with your settings. Why does Microsoft do this shit?

Is that one of the semi-annual updates? They do mess with stuff. No need to ask why. Just assume that it'll make a mess. Also, run Shut Up 10 after updates to check for new and re-enabled information leakage.

[Cerebus]

And I greatly appreciate the "international" nature of our chit chat because it avoids a subject where we have no common interest. That subject would be sports. We have baseball and US football here. (Basketball too). You have football (soccer) and rugby over there. Nothing in common and I like that. Most "water cooler" talk here is about that very subject which I find absolutely boring and a waste of time. And no how can I justify in my mind an athlete getting paid millions and millions of dollars playing one of those sports.

Well, for a start there's the well known predilection of techie types to not be into sport. But more than that I suspect that us sorts have, if we have any athletic leanings at all, a preference for doing rather than watching. I cannot abide spectator sports but in my time have actively (and voluntarily) participated in swimming, canoeing/kayaking, cycling, rugby, judo, squash, badminton, climbing and target shooting (why the later is classified as 'sport' I don't know, but it is). Also, when we do participate in sport it's often in more minority sports - for instance, I've known a lot of techie and scientist climbers.

[Mr. Scram]

My Schmitt trigger isn't Schmitt triggering. It's just lazily clipping the signal. I'm assuming user error, but I can't find my stash of 'm to confirm I haven't just blown the arse out of it. I can find my other fifteen billion ICs, but not these. I think I'm done with today.

[bd139]

If in doubt hit it with a hammer.

BTW....forgot to mention. The latest feature update of Windows 10 fucks with your settings. Why does Microsoft do this shit?

Is that one of the semi-annual updates? They do mess with stuff. No need to ask why. Just assume that it'll make a mess. Also, run Shut Up 10 after updates to check for new and re-enabled information leakage.

I have got to the point I give such little amount of crap I just live with the defaults now on my Windows 10 box and avoid using it. I know it’s the wrong attitude but there’s just no interest in it after a day with futzing with IT stuff. My main desktop runs CentOS 7 and I haven’t run any updates into that for about 6 months either.

And I greatly appreciate the "international" nature of our chit chat because it avoids a subject where we have no common interest. That subject would be sports. We have baseball and US football here. (Basketball too). You have football (soccer) and rugby over there. Nothing in common and I like that. Most "water cooler" talk here is about that very subject which I find absolutely boring and a waste of time. And no how can I justify in my mind an athlete getting paid millions and millions of dollars playing one of those sports.

Well, for a start there's the well known predilection of techie types to not be into sport. But more than that I suspect that us sorts have, if we have any athletic leanings at all, a preference for doing rather than watching. I cannot abide spectator sports but in my time have actively (and voluntarily) participated in swimming, canoeing/kayaking, cycling, rugby, judo, squash, badminton, climbing and target shooting (why the later is classified as 'sport' I don't know, but it is). Also, when we do participate in sport it's often in more minority sports - for instance, I've known a lot of techie and scientist climbers.

Running and climbing here. I will only compete with myself.

What pisses me off is competitive spectator sport banter. I would rather punch myself in the dick until I can’t stand up than listen to that.

Edit: I live right near “the home of England Rugby” as well which is a shitfest of vomit, traffic, cunts and beer cans in my garden. Yes traffic. Someone reversed over my fence a few years ago.

[mnementh]

.... or pop one open to see if it actually has regulation capability.

Anyone care to run some odds on that?  I'm putting it into the category of "long shot".  Don't think I've ever noticed a transformer based wall-wart with regulation.

Yeah, I've seen a few; usually with 78xx in 'em. Mostly from the stone age of cell phones.

Trying to make a sturdier shelf to replace the plastic one i accidentally knocked a beam off and onto my head, at least a pint of blood lost and 8 staples later i'm fine. Why does it freak everyone out when i'm bleeding like a stuck pig and don't seem to become alarmed? Never figured that one out, regardless i can now literally say that I've bled for this. 

"It's not truly yours until you've bled for it." ~ grand-dad

Be careful though... some gear, once it tastes blood... can't get enough. 

"Always better to have a hard head than be a hard ass"  Is what my father told me for 40 years every time I hit or broke my skull on something.   he had a fun time with it too, considering that I had about 12 concussions and 3 skull fractures.

Ya bleed like hell from a small head cut,  but no worries,  It just lets the Demons out.

 
But then I'd be all alone in here...

Laugh about it now its all over; but remember... your brain is where you keep YOU. Head injuries are no trivial matter. 

That's interesting. Does it come back or get worse at high sweep speeds?

Nope, no change even at high sweep speeds. It's currently rock solid. I even gave it X10 sweep boost and it's fine. 

Hmmm...

Have you tried heat applied to components in the suspect circuit? Alternately, cold spray from an inverted can of canned air.

BTW....forgot to mention. The latest feature update of Windows 10 fucks with your settings. Why does Microsoft do this shit? What I found so far.....

It deleted "homegroup" which means my WIN7 machines could no longer communicate with it. Fixed.

It completely deleted "Sleep" mode out of the power profiles. Only option now is "Hibernate". No fix yet.

That's it so far. I'm sure there's more. Beware. 

https://www.top-password.com/blog/fix-sleep-option-missing-in-windows-power-menu/

If they remove it completely, I'll nuke 10 altogether and go back to 7 while I get my ass in gear with *NIX. I'm already annoyed as fuck with "Winbloze as a service".

mnem

[mnementh]

And I greatly appreciate the "international" nature of our chit chat because it avoids a subject where we have no common interest. That subject would be sports. We have baseball and US football here. (Basketball too). You have football (soccer) and rugby over there. Nothing in common and I like that. Most "water cooler" talk here is about that very subject which I find absolutely boring and a waste of time. And no how can I justify in my mind an athlete getting paid millions and millions of dollars playing one of those sports. 

Edit...going back to bed. This was my mid-day piss call. 

I enjoy being able to piss people off around the globe from a single location.   

And agreed on every aspect of sports save one... feetsball (what my mother called football to differentiate it from soccer) player salaries. I played in school; actually had some prospects but couldn't stomach the people I'd have to work with every day. Usual jocks/nerds BS only x10³.

Of the US professional sports, they are among the lowest per season; and pretty much every one of them are genuine gladiators, trading abuse to their bodies for a paycheck. Continued employment is a matter of chance, and a player can go home a cripple with half a season's paycheck and nothing more than a "Tough luck, son." from the coach if upper management decides to cut their losses after an injury. The parent franchise gets most of the money from merchandising any of the players' likenesses, so even those "megabucks" are again imaginary. And the best part... the NFL STILL has "Non-profit" taxation protection here in the US. 

It is my understanding that all their holdings outside the US are treated as commercial entities by those governments; particularly in the EU which government evidently hates the NFL viscerally. More power to 'em, says I.

I watch a few games a year... usually based on long-standing rivalries and occasional buzz about an individual matchup... RARELY the super bowl.

But I DO enjoy those few games. Win, lose or suck... a Steelers fan for life.

mnem
"Give blood... play Rugby."

[neo]

Neo you were lucky there. A colleague of mine a number of years ago had a not too terrible looking dink on the head when some poorly installed rack rails gave out dumping a 4U box right in his temple. No blood or anything. Some minor swearing and got on with the job. About five minutes late he had a fit and ended up in ICU for 3 days with brain swelling and only has partial sight in his left eye now. Head injuries are nothing short of scary.

It hit the crown of my head, safely away from the softer face area. Still got lucky but i abide by the ever wiser Hitchhikers guide on these matters, with a small addendum "No matter how much blood 'DO NOT PANIC'"

Trying to make a sturdier shelf to replace the plastic one i accidentally knocked a beam off and onto my head, at least a pint of blood lost and 8 staples later i'm fine. Why does it freak everyone out when i'm bleeding like a stuck pig and don't seem to become alarmed? Never figured that one out, regardless i can now literally say that I've bled for this. 

"It's not truly yours until you've bled for it." ~ grand-dad

Be careful though... some gear, once it tastes blood... can't get enough. 

"Always better to have a hard head than be a hard ass"  Is what my father told me for 40 years every time I hit or broke my skull on something.   he had a fun time with it too, considering that I had about 12 concussions and 3 skull fractures.

Ya bleed like hell from a small head cut,  but no worries,  It just lets the Demons out.

 
But then I'd be all alone in here...

Laugh about it now its all over; but remember... your brain is where you keep YOU. Head injuries are no trivial matter. 
mnem
*Crunkity*

I know that all too well, somethings taste blood and go wild.
If thats true about head injuries letting the demons out then i think this may have temporarily thrown open the hell gates.
While true that they are no trivial matter better to get one once in a decade than it is to constantly live in fear and a helmet.

Nurse "What brings you to the ER?", Me, "I got hit with a small beam, my head is bleeding pretty bad.", nurse, "Okay may i have some basic information?" -basic information given- "Okay sir, please have a seat." -5 minutes later- "Come right this way, the doctor will be with you in a minute." Sit there, have my blood presser taken then wait... and wait -20 minutes later- Doctor shows up to assess how deep it is. -5 minutes later- shows up with a glorified staple gun and Lidocaine.

[Cerebus]

Be careful though... some gear, once it tastes blood... can't get enough. 

Hmm, a scope called Christine?

"Give blood... play Rugby."

Nah, bone marrow donors, leaking out from the shattered ends. The number of people I've seen go off with broken collarbones...

[mnementh]

Who's the daddy?

A couple weeks ago, I swept everything off the bench into a handy box so I could work on my precision resistor array; today I started emptying out that box and putting things away where they belong. I pick up the Baofeng, and underneath, I find these two.

I have NO IDEA where they came from. I swear, I've never seen them before in my life.

mnem
CRS is a bitch. And she has puppies.

[nixiefreqq]

But I DO enjoy those few games. Win, lose or suck... a Steelers fan for life.

mnem


and a good thing too........since they never brought professional ice hockey to pittsburgh. 

[mnementh]

Be careful though... some gear, once it tastes blood... can't get enough. 

Hmm, a scope called Christine?

"Give blood... play Rugby."

Nah, bone marrow donors, leaking out from the shattered ends. The number of people I've seen go off with broken collarbones...

I've had all kinds of bloodthirsty gear over the years; had a Peavey rack amp I worked with that laid me open three different times in different ways, had a 6" rat-tail Makita I named Scar due to a huge gash across its back from a clip angle but otherwise identical to 4 others in the shop, that I SWEAR was possessed; took its "pound of flesh" every time I picked it up. I threw it in the dumpster when it almost took my thumb.

My first Mustang was an utter clawing, scratching, biting little bitch; cut me to ribbons several times between floorpans, balanced and blueprinted 302, and rebuilding the trunk, but I was entirely too smitten by that hot little filly to mind a few pints of lost dwagon juice.    I named her Charlene because she was an absolutely unrepentant predator. 

Yeah, the busted collarbone thing DOES seem to be a "thing" with Rugby. Walk it off, you wuss. 

But I DO enjoy those few games. Win, lose or suck... a Steelers fan for life.

mnem

and a good thing too........since they never brought professional ice hockey to Pittsburgh.

If you're trying to get a rise outta me, doubtful.

The Pens could have been a completely different team if they hadn't traded away Larouche; a few years later Larouche/Lemiuex SHOULD have been an earth-shattering teamup, and if he'd had some backup instead of pretty much carrying the team for two years due to REALLY stupid management, Lemiuex probably wouldn't have gotten his back blown out and would've remained a prime player in his prime throughout the '80s, instead of amazing but on and off again until the 00s.

But that's ALL ancient history and "Coulda, Shoulda, Woulda..." 

mnem
"Blood is the fuel of America." ~  grand-dad

[Specmaster]

Is it my eyes or does that Baofeng have a casing that looks like it was made on a cheap 3d printer? 

[mnementh]

My Baofeng IS "textured", but it was just the lighting. It looks much less cheesy in this pic I posted a while back. The textured black polycarbonate reminds me muchly of 80s Motorola BB gear, which is actually somewhat comforting. 

mnem
I couldn't think of anything pithy to put down here.

[tggzzz]

Also cue tggzzz saying it isn't page 700

Usually I like it when people are ahead of me, but I'll make an exception in this case.

This week I've been helping my daughter move 150 miles west from London, by hiring a pantechnicon. (Enterprise called it a large van).
Daughter helped by breaking her elbow on Friday.

While I've driven double decker busses, antique tractors, and strangely asymmetric lorry chassis, that pantechnicon was the largest thing I've driven on a public highway. Amazingly we found ideal parking spaces at both ends.

Time to decompress, until tomorrow.

[tggzzz]

Someone needs to reset his settings to default then 

Someone needs to stop being a sheep then 

[nixiefreqq]

and a good thing too........since they never brought professional ice hockey to Pittsburgh.
[/quote]If you're trying to get a rise outta me, doubtful.

The Pens could have been a completely different team if they hadn't traded away Lamarche; a few years later Larouche/Lemiuex SHOULD have been an earth-shattering teamup, and if he'd had some backup instead of pretty much carrying the team for two years due to REALLY stupid management, Lemiuex probably wouldn't have gotten his back blown out and would've remained a prime player in his prime throughout the '80s, instead of amazing but on and off again until the 00s.

But that's ALL ancient history and "Coulda, Shoulda, Woulda..." 

mnem
"Blood is the fuel of America." ~  grand-dad
[/quote]

damn....you didn't take the bait.   and I was willing to concede that philly has never had professional football.

when I was in college they took local bartenders and schoolteachers off the street and put them on the field.  hell.....they even made a movie about it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invincible_(2006_film)

that was about the same time they had an old geezer quarterback with two broke knees.  (roman gabriel)

it was a sad time for the city of brotherly love, but at least we had the broad street bullies.