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Re: Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) group therapy thread
« Reply #90000 on: May 04, 2021, 12:53:48 pm »
This is the final straw. I'm done with UPS. 4 days for 2nd day air and the package is delayed. I sent their on line electronic assistant a tersely worded "fuck you" and that I would no longer use their services. The assistant came back and said use fewer words to describe your issue and I told it to have a human read it. Probably won't get read but at this point don't care. Just want the package and from now on use FedEx.

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Re: Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) group therapy thread
« Reply #90001 on: May 04, 2021, 01:12:29 pm »
Finished adjusting the Cesium standard, cleaned it up. Now it locks without manual adjustments. Turn it on and it locks.

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Re: Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) group therapy thread
« Reply #90002 on: May 04, 2021, 01:19:29 pm »
This is the final straw. I'm done with UPS. 4 days for 2nd day air and the package is delayed. I sent their on line electronic assistant a tersely worded "fuck you" and that I would no longer use their services. The assistant came back and said use fewer words to describe your issue and I told it to have a human read it. Probably won't get read but at this point don't care. Just want the package and from now on use FedEx.



Yeah UPS is a shit show generally at the moment, specially here. I was speaking to my local driver the other day and they've run out of vans here as well so are having to hire them. The hired ones don't have the same security as proper UPS vans so they get stolen. And now the hire companies won't lend them vans. So they are stacked up to the ceiling in their distribution centre at the moment. Add Brexit customs to that and it's wall to wall turds.

On another note, I had a DPD delivery go missing a couple of days back. Fortunately from Amazon. I spoke to Amazon who called DPD and was told that apparently the van the order was in caught fire and was destroyed. They have sent a replacement item out today  :-DD
 

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Re: Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) group therapy thread
« Reply #90003 on: May 04, 2021, 01:22:17 pm »
Works for me and yes it was old before I was  :-DD

FORTRAN and I are of very similar ages. Not exactly the same, but if FORTRAN had gone to my junior school we'd have run around in the same playground. Frankly, I have aged better...
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Re: Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) group therapy thread
« Reply #90004 on: May 04, 2021, 01:28:54 pm »
On another note, I had a DPD delivery go missing a couple of days back. Fortunately from Amazon. I spoke to Amazon who called DPD and was told that apparently the van the order was in caught fire and was destroyed. They have sent a replacement item out today  :-DD

Which naturally leads me to ponder whether:
  • It's pure coincidence your order was in a fire, or
  • what you were having delivered directly caused the fire, or
  • if the driver, having seen what you'd ordered, destroyed it with fire for the sake of his sanity and/or public morals.
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Re: Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) group therapy thread
« Reply #90005 on: May 04, 2021, 01:32:49 pm »
Well it was a box of GCSE Macbeth revision cards so I'd expect that it was number 3 :)
 

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Re: Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) group therapy thread
« Reply #90006 on: May 04, 2021, 01:39:16 pm »
Well it was a box of GCSE Macbeth revision cards so I'd expect that it was number 3 :)

Oh dear, he's said it now. Expect another server mishap any minute now ...

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Re: Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) group therapy thread
« Reply #90007 on: May 04, 2021, 01:45:47 pm »
Works for me and yes it was old before I was  :-DD

FORTRAN and I are of very similar ages. Not exactly the same, but if FORTRAN had gone to my junior school we'd have run around in the same playground. Frankly, I have aged better...

Between Pascal and Fortran77 they are a dark spot in my memory and since Uni other than teaching me better code structure I guess haven't been used in anger since. The main bugbear at Uni was idiots killing the mainframe with bad code the night before assignments were due  :palm:
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Re: Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) group therapy thread
« Reply #90008 on: May 04, 2021, 01:52:14 pm »
Works for me and yes it was old before I was  :-DD

FORTRAN and I are of very similar ages. Not exactly the same, but if FORTRAN had gone to my junior school we'd have run around in the same playground. Frankly, I have aged better...

Between Pascal and Fortran77 they are a dark spot in my memory and since Uni other than teaching me better code structure I guess haven't been used in anger since. The main bugbear at Uni was idiots killing the mainframe with bad code the night before assignments were due  :palm:

If you had access to the mainframe the fix would be easy. On the console hit 'STOP', then 'SYSTEM RESET/CLEAR'. Resets memory to all zero's and clears bum programs. Then hit 'RUN' and carry on.  ;D
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Re: Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) group therapy thread
« Reply #90009 on: May 04, 2021, 01:58:53 pm »
Works for me and yes it was old before I was  :-DD

FORTRAN and I are of very similar ages. Not exactly the same, but if FORTRAN had gone to my junior school we'd have run around in the same playground. Frankly, I have aged better...

Between Pascal and Fortran77 they are a dark spot in my memory and since Uni other than teaching me better code structure I guess haven't been used in anger since. The main bugbear at Uni was idiots killing the mainframe with bad code the night before assignments were due  :palm:

If you had access to the mainframe the fix would be easy. On the console hit 'STOP', then 'SYSTEM RESET/CLEAR'. Resets memory to all zero's and clears bum programs. Then hit 'RUN' and carry on.  ;D

Like they would let students near the HP3000 as the main workhorse ;) The Admin crew were long gone as most programming assignments were done at night post lectures. The HP9000 we also had soured me from UNIX for good  :-DD
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Re: Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) group therapy thread
« Reply #90010 on: May 04, 2021, 02:03:50 pm »
Works for me and yes it was old before I was  :-DD

FORTRAN and I are of very similar ages. Not exactly the same, but if FORTRAN had gone to my junior school we'd have run around in the same playground. Frankly, I have aged better...

Between Pascal and Fortran77 they are a dark spot in my memory and since Uni other than teaching me better code structure I guess haven't been used in anger since. The main bugbear at Uni was idiots killing the mainframe with bad code the night before assignments were due  :palm:

If you had access to the mainframe the fix would be easy. On the console hit 'STOP', then 'SYSTEM RESET/CLEAR'. Resets memory to all zero's and clears bum programs. Then hit 'RUN' and carry on.  ;D

Like they would let students near the HP3000 as the main workhorse ;) The Admin crew were long gone as most programming assignments were done at night post lectures. The HP9000 we also had soured me from UNIX for good  :-DD

Well, I don't know what the layout would be on an HP3000. But all IBM S/360 with the idiot light consoles and early S/370 with idiot light consoles those 3 push buttons would fix you right up. Later S/370 with CRT consoles was basically the same but you had to know where it was because it involved switching screens.   
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Re: Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) group therapy thread
« Reply #90011 on: May 04, 2021, 02:12:43 pm »


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Re: Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) group therapy thread
« Reply #90012 on: May 04, 2021, 02:18:25 pm »
The HP9000 we also had soured me from UNIX for good  :-DD

H-PUKES and to some extent the hardware it ran on are some of the things from the old, real -hp- I have the least affection for.  Compared to Solaris it was directly unfriendly, and compared to AIX, it was simply not finished. The fourth of the large commercials, d|i|g|i|t|a|l UNIX, was much more a hacker's Unix, purer BSD and very competent. I never ran SunOS 4 and earlier, but I suppose it was similar. Thankfully, I had access to compilers and such for DU, and they made software scream with speed; nothing like the gcc code.

Then, with the x86 BSD's, there was no going back. Oh, and Linux is for posers.

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Re: Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) group therapy thread
« Reply #90013 on: May 04, 2021, 02:24:39 pm »
On another note, I had a DPD delivery go missing a couple of days back. Fortunately from Amazon. I spoke to Amazon who called DPD and was told that apparently the van the order was in caught fire and was destroyed. They have sent a replacement item out today  :-DD

Which naturally leads me to ponder whether:
  • It's pure coincidence your order was in a fire, or
  • what you were having delivered directly caused the fire, or
  • if the driver, having seen what you'd ordered, destroyed it with fire for the sake of his sanity and/or public morals.

Damn. Beat me to it. :-DD   "What flammable-ass shit did bd order...?" was literally my first thought...  >:D

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Re: Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) group therapy thread
« Reply #90014 on: May 04, 2021, 02:29:45 pm »
...Oh, and Linux is for posers.

*raises paw* Hosers dood... hosers. ;)

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Re: Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) group therapy thread
« Reply #90015 on: May 04, 2021, 02:35:45 pm »
Ugh! Lost another 6 hours overnight. This time got tarpitted by Newark. Just to see if it was a wget issue, I tried it again and it got stuck again -- on trying to fetch robots.txt of all things. :-//

Anyway, it got up to 67500. Continuing...
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Re: Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) group therapy thread
« Reply #90016 on: May 04, 2021, 02:44:43 pm »
Reply #90,000 (at the time of posting)

This is one serious beast of a thread!

It'll be fun to see when we hit 100,000. Sometime late this year or early next year, I suppose.
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Re: Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) group therapy thread
« Reply #90017 on: May 04, 2021, 03:01:25 pm »
Reply #90,000 (at the time of posting)

This is one serious beast of a thread!

It'll be fun to see when we hit 100,000. Sometime late this year or early next year, I suppose.

Posting #70000 on page 2801 was from Sept. 2020

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Reply #70000 on: September 20, 2020, 10:49:20 am

My assumption is: early 2022
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Re: Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) group therapy thread
« Reply #90018 on: May 04, 2021, 03:02:52 pm »
Well it was a box of GCSE Macbeth revision cards so I'd expect that it was number 3 :)

Oh dear, he's said it now. Expect another server mishap any minute now ...

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Re: Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) group therapy thread
« Reply #90019 on: May 04, 2021, 03:09:01 pm »
bd prepared Explosive Runes today.  :-DD

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Re: Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) group therapy thread
« Reply #90020 on: May 04, 2021, 03:23:24 pm »
Reply #90,000 (at the time of posting)

This is one serious beast of a thread!

It'll be fun to see when we hit 100,000. Sometime late this year or early next year, I suppose.

Posting #70000 on page 2801 was from Sept. 2020

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Reply #70000 on: September 20, 2020, 10:49:20 am

My assumption is: early 2022

So 20k posts in 8 months? More likely we'll hit 100k before the end of the year, no?
 

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Re: Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) group therapy thread
« Reply #90021 on: May 04, 2021, 03:57:47 pm »
Today the package from BU508A arrived, seems like some adventureous components also managed to sneak in there :-+
Thats all, thanks & have a nice day :popcorn:
 
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Re: Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) group therapy thread
« Reply #90022 on: May 04, 2021, 04:01:30 pm »
Wire ferrules / Aderendhülsen are a very addictive thing; didn't have the 0,34mm2 ones or those sleeveless ones before; the 0,5mm2 ones are just refill. Also, now I have quality NoS connectors waiting for my Type K thermocouples which are arriving by the slow boat.

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Re: Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) group therapy thread
« Reply #90023 on: May 04, 2021, 04:38:28 pm »
Is this Anritsu S331A worth bidding for, the user manual has a nice cable velocity chart ?

https://www.ebay.de/itm/194070775373


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Re: Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) group therapy thread
« Reply #90024 on: May 04, 2021, 04:45:52 pm »
Broken? No accessories?

Meh..
 


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