Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) group therapy thread

[BU508A]

Well at least I found out this bastard oscillates wildly before I built it. That would not end well 

Isn't that your motto?
"As long as it's wiggling, it's alive."

 

[mnementh]

 

mnem
current mood: wiggly

[mansaxel]

Back in my college days, I had to perform the Heimlich maneuver on a girl at a dinner party that had some item of food stuck in her throat, she couldn't breathe and was panicking.  The funny thing is, I had no idea what a Heimlich maneuver was at the time, no first aid training, nothing.  I did it totally instinctively, wrapped my arms around her from behind and used her lungs as bellows to shoot out the stuck material - because it was clear to me she would die if nobody did anything.

Heimlich himself didn't get to perform a Heimlich until he was well into retirement. During a meal at the retirement home, one of the people present had a similar condition to the one you describe and dr. em. Heimlich finally, at age 96, got his chance.

[Cerebus]

... Being the "hero" was scary as hell.  Only much later did I stop shaking.  ...

That's quite normal.

I seem to have a habit of finding trouble, sometimes even being stupid enough to run towards it when the sane people are running away; so I've experienced this a few times. It's adrenaline that gets you through it, and it's adrenaline that takes a toll on you whenever what it was you had to 'get through' has gone and you have a chance to stop moving.

I was once the first on scene at a (rather messy) car accident that happened literally in front of me on the road. I was fine dealing with the immediate situation, getting ambulance and police on scene and dealing with them until it had all stopped 'happening'. Then my legs went. I literally couldn't stand up and ended up sinking to the kerb and just sitting there shaking. It was a good ten to fifteen minutes before I felt safe enough to climb on my motorbike and drive off.

[tggzzz]

Many people have the fantasy of having to fly a plane after the pilot is disabled...

I've always had this weird desire to do an operation on myself, something a little more interesting than digging pus out of an ingrowing toenail when stuck on top of a mountain after a 1500ft vertical climb.

Meanwhile, back in the real world, which is no less insane.....

You need some serious professional help!! But I'm still interested, how did the operation go?

In circumstances like that I provide my own professional help

The operation was simple and successful, since I had my trusty Lindstrom small flush-cut tapered & relieved diagonal cutters at hand. I am still using them 35 years later (Sometimes to prevent a reoccurance )

[mnementh]

Urrrggghhh. Late starting the kids on their first day of school due to configurating my new WiFi/VPN router.
My balls already ache...   



mnem
And now it wants to do a FW update...   

One thing... this router runs FAST. Like 20-30 seconds for a reboot. Gotta love that 3-core CPU; I wonder if there's a 4th core that can be unlocked... 

*remembering many afternoons spent at a console waiting for CISCOs to reboot 5-8 minutes at a time*

mnem
*shudder*

Yeah one reason that Cisco 1941 ISR I have is sitting in the hall still rather than being my router. I got it and now I'm not in the mood for a ball kicking 

Ugggh. I misunderstood the manual when I was shopping this thing... while I CAN limit router management to a single specific MAC address(es), I cannot limit it to a single interface or preferably a single ETH port like a REAL router; if I add the MAC of my WiFi adapter to the management whitelist it happily pops up a login portal.

Why the FUCK would ANY router manufacturer ever take away such a fundamental security measure...? 

Fucking toy.  If I can't find a precompiled build of OpenWRT I think it's going back. A shame too... awesome hardware otherwise.

mnem
assholes.

At least I waited until after I took the kid to school to start on mine.    Oh no, I am not competitive, no, not at all ....

First thing I noticed was that the patch cable supplied with it is only cat5.  Not even cat5e.  They do advertise very prominently that it has a Gigabit WAN port.  Will never get that performance with a cat5 cable.  Immediately replaced with cat6; at least I have a supply of those on hand.

Second thing that set off alarm bells in my head is this little paper slip, not much bigger than a business card that says "Some older versions of driver or software for wireless devices may be incompatible with 802.11ax router."  Uh oh, I have some embedded devices that i may or may not be able to update.  I have older devices that up till now worked fine, will have to see how this works out.  Also, that is not consistent with the TP-Link website (https://www.tp-link.com/us/home-networking/wifi-router/archer-ax1500/) which quotes "Backward Compatible: Archer AX1500 supports all previous 802.11 standards and all WiFi devices."

Third thing is common with consumer products where the wall wart is always rotated such that it blocks two receptacles on a power bar.  The advice is always to mount the device high up for better signal propagation, but the cord is never long enough.  Time to go shopping for an extension cord; I did not plan that one as well as the Ethernet cabling.

So in the end my network is lagging behind the dwagon network.  Did I say anything about being competitive?

I always assumed that cable was just tossed in there so you could configure the stupid thing; I would never actually use it for a uplink... works okay on my Roku tho. 

That card is nothing to worry aboot; older wireless A/B adapters don’t properly support WPA/PSK, and any router sold in the last decade should have WEP disabled for the love of little kids & kitty kats. So they kindof HAVE TO have that little disclaimer for the 1D10Ts who expect to connect a PalmPilot via WiFi. 

Think carefully aboot location; while higher is better in principle, you don’t want it on the ceiling or floor if you live in a apartment building. You want it located in the physical center of the 3D volume that is your living space, or as close as you can get in the room you expect to spend most of your time using WiFi.

This makes your WiFi radio minimize RF output required to maintain good links, thereby reducing the size of the sphere of influence of outside agencies with nefarious intent.

What kind of nerd would think twice aboot extending a wall-wart DC power cord...? Certainly not this one...

mnem
Have heat-shrink, will travel...

[mnementh]

... Being the "hero" was scary as hell.  Only much later did I stop shaking.  ...

That's quite normal.

I seem to have a habit of finding trouble, sometimes even being stupid enough to run towards it when the sane people are running away; so I've experienced this a few times. It's adrenaline that gets you through it, and it's adrenaline that takes a toll on you whenever what it was you had to 'get through' has gone and you have a chance to stop moving.

I was once the first on scene at a (rather messy) car accident that happened literally in front of me on the road. I was fine dealing with the immediate situation, getting ambulance and police on scene and dealing with them until it had all stopped 'happening'. Then my legs went. I literally couldn't stand up and ended up sinking to the kerb and just sitting there shaking. It was a good ten to fifteen minutes before I felt safe enough to climb on my motorbike and drive off.

Worst firefighter experience ever: taking pics & scraping brain matter off the asphalt into collection baggies for forensics division so we could clean up nearby fuel spill. I'd rather run the BLEVE gauntlet in smoke divers again.

mnem
*blerk*

[mnementh]

Peeked into the scroll on Discord. Made new png. 

mnem
 

[mnementh]

You can always find it in my stash on page 1140... along with this one which I made for my wife:



mnem
 

[tonyalbus]

And again, the PEAKtech company without problem provides me the Schematic of the old Peaktech 4010 DMM.
just 1 request on the contact form on there website, within less then 24 hour....amazing, just like with my Peaktech frequency counter.
i like these guys! 

[Zucca]

Maybe they believe in the Right2Repair Party!

[bd139]

You can always find it in my stash on page 1140... along with this one which I made for my wife:



mnem
 

I'm surprised with the quality of PHP in this forum that it didn't turn your cache of gifs into the porn invasion that appeared in here a couple of years back

[med6753]

Where is everyone?




 

[Ice-Tea]

Back in my college days, I had to perform the Heimlich maneuver on a girl at a dinner party that had some item of food stuck in her throat, she couldn't breathe and was panicking.  The funny thing is, I had no idea what a Heimlich maneuver was at the time, no first aid training, nothing.  I did it totally instinctively, wrapped my arms around her from behind and used her lungs as bellows to shoot out the stuck material - because it was clear to me she would die if nobody did anything.  It worked...   thank God.  Being the "hero" was scary as hell.  Only much later did I stop shaking.  Not a situation I would ever wish to be in again...   apparently, thousands of people die this way every year.

One of my kids was choking on a miniature meatball. Heimlich didn't work. She collapsed in my arms and I could feel the life drain away. She turned a kind of grey-blue that I never want to see again in my life and went limp. To my feeling, I had a dead kid in my arms. Even though sticking your finger in a chocking persons throat is a bad idea (it may shove the blackade even further down) I knew that the percentage game required me to try. I got something out. She didn't start gagging and throwing up like in the movies but she breathed again.

As odd as it may sound, I now know how a parent feels that has lost a child. Because for a few moments I had and the weight of that hit me like a ton of bricks. I'm normally not easily rattled but that stuck with me for weeks.

[bd139]

Where is everyone?

Working 

[BU508A]

Where is everyone?

Pretend working 

Fixed that for you.   

[tonyalbus]

Back in my college days, I had to perform the Heimlich maneuver on a girl at a dinner party that had some item of food stuck in her throat, she couldn't breathe and was panicking.  The funny thing is, I had no idea what a Heimlich maneuver was at the time, no first aid training, nothing.  I did it totally instinctively, wrapped my arms around her from behind and used her lungs as bellows to shoot out the stuck material - because it was clear to me she would die if nobody did anything.  It worked...   thank God.  Being the "hero" was scary as hell.  Only much later did I stop shaking.  Not a situation I would ever wish to be in again...   apparently, thousands of people die this way every year.

One of my kids was choking on a miniature meatball. Heimlich didn't work. She collapsed in my arms and I could feel the life drain away. She turned a kind of grey-blue that I never want to see again in my life and went limp. To my feeling, I had a dead kid in my arms. Even though sticking your finger in a chocking persons throat is a bad idea (it may shove the blackade even further down) I knew that the percentage game required me to try. I got something out. She didn't start gagging and throwing up like in the movies but she breathed again.

As odd as it may sound, I now know how a parent feels that has lost a child. Because for a few moments I had and the weight of that hit me like a ton of bricks. I'm normally not easily rattled but that stuck with me for weeks.

That was a close call,,, happy it turn-out okey... my god....

[SilverSolder]

Back in my college days, I had to perform the Heimlich maneuver on a girl at a dinner party that had some item of food stuck in her throat, she couldn't breathe and was panicking.  The funny thing is, I had no idea what a Heimlich maneuver was at the time, no first aid training, nothing.  I did it totally instinctively, wrapped my arms around her from behind and used her lungs as bellows to shoot out the stuck material - because it was clear to me she would die if nobody did anything.  It worked...   thank God.  Being the "hero" was scary as hell.  Only much later did I stop shaking.  Not a situation I would ever wish to be in again...   apparently, thousands of people die this way every year.

One of my kids was choking on a miniature meatball. Heimlich didn't work. She collapsed in my arms and I could feel the life drain away. She turned a kind of grey-blue that I never want to see again in my life and went limp. To my feeling, I had a dead kid in my arms. Even though sticking your finger in a chocking persons throat is a bad idea (it may shove the blackade even further down) I knew that the percentage game required me to try. I got something out. She didn't start gagging and throwing up like in the movies but she breathed again.

As odd as it may sound, I now know how a parent feels that has lost a child. Because for a few moments I had and the weight of that hit me like a ton of bricks. I'm normally not easily rattled but that stuck with me for weeks.

Absolutely horrible, I don't even want to imagine how horrible, that's how horrible.  Good thing it ended well.

[mnementh]

Where is everyone?

Pretend working 

Fixed that for you.   

 

mnem
*sneeze*

[Kosmic]

Cheap (250$) HP 34401a on ebay this morning.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/HP-34401A-Digital-Multimeter-6-1-2-Digit/373198907137

[psykok]

Recently I have seen quite some cheap 34401 popping on eBay

[Specmaster]

@med, Funny that, I'd been thinking pretty much the same thing, normally I check in to see whats going on and there are a couple or more pages to wade through but lately, it has been tumbleweed city .

[med6753]

Yea well I don't think anyone would be interested in today's activity of a major renovation of my house plants. Or that on Monday I spoke with my Brother in Colorado and it was 100 degrees F (38 C) and by Tuesday morning there would be snow on the ground. It did happen. And Denver had the largest 24 hour temperature swing downward since records started to be kept in 1870's.

Tomorrow I'm going to dig into this POS Type 1A2 plug-in again and aggravate myself. 

[Cerebus]

Back in my college days, I had to perform the Heimlich maneuver on a girl at a dinner party that had some item of food stuck in her throat, she couldn't breathe and was panicking.  The funny thing is, I had no idea what a Heimlich maneuver was at the time, no first aid training, nothing.  I did it totally instinctively, wrapped my arms around her from behind and used her lungs as bellows to shoot out the stuck material - because it was clear to me she would die if nobody did anything.  It worked...   thank God.  Being the "hero" was scary as hell.  Only much later did I stop shaking.  Not a situation I would ever wish to be in again...   apparently, thousands of people die this way every year.

One of my kids was choking on a miniature meatball. Heimlich didn't work. She collapsed in my arms and I could feel the life drain away. She turned a kind of grey-blue that I never want to see again in my life and went limp. To my feeling, I had a dead kid in my arms. Even though sticking your finger in a chocking persons throat is a bad idea (it may shove the blackade even further down) I knew that the percentage game required me to try. I got something out. She didn't start gagging and throwing up like in the movies but she breathed again.

As odd as it may sound, I now know how a parent feels that has lost a child. Because for a few moments I had and the weight of that hit me like a ton of bricks. I'm normally not easily rattled but that stuck with me for weeks.

[Fx: shudders] I feel for you, I really do. This is perhaps a moment for those of us who have never had an experience like that to pause, and be grateful that we haven't. The very thought of an otherwise healthy loved one dying in your arms and thinking that you can do nothing effective about it. [Fx: shudders again]

On a lighter note, I think you mean blockade (or even blockage) not blackade. A blackade is what several US police departments find themselves facing at the moment. This is possibly the only time that "protests and rioting in the streets" has qualified as being "a lighter note". [ I need a black smiley to represent black humour here, but I suspect that I might get into all sorts of trouble for that.  Perhaps a gallows emoji for gallows humour? ]

[Kosmic]

If this is chinese fake... they do a hell of a good job!.

not bad for 59,- to my door.

I ordered one too 

I'll let you know if it's real or not. Got a legit Keysight over here to compare.

Little update, it's 100% Fake. More info and pictures once my dispute on Ali conclude.