Just picked up via eBay an ex-corporate X270 ThinkPad in fair nick for £160. Nothing special, 8Gb, 256Gb NVMe SSD, i5-6300U @ 2.4GHz, Windows 10 Pro bundled. My hand was forced because I needed something that was battery powered, ran Windows natively and had a physical ethernet port (Zucca will know why), a VM wasn't going to cut it this time.
Just had a sharp reminder how much I detest the "Windows ExperienceTM", had to dodge dark patterns to not sign up for a Microsoft account, got popups in Edge trying to dissuade me from downloading Firefox, etc. etc. Scumbags.
Job one done: ShutUp10 downloaded and run.
Job two done: Firefox downloaded, Duckduckgo activated, Edge and Bing banished.
Type 1A4 troubleshooting.
Vince, pay attention.
From yesterday..........
Problem 2: There's a weird relationship with channel 1 and 2 trigger. If I select channel 2 trigger it forces channel 1 trace off screen. But channel 1 trigger select has no affect on channel 2. Channels 3 and 4 do not play these games. Should be fun tracking that down.
When in doubt. RTFM. You never know. The answer just might be contained within those hallowed pages. And wouldn't you know it. It is! Under step 16 "Adjust Trigger Selector DC Balance". But the manual states to insure Step 15 is performed first. "Adjust Variable Balance". So we followed the instructions and lo and behold.....no more dancing traces on the screen when switching the trigger selector. There is however much interaction between those adjustments. But we finally got it.
Type 1A4 troubleshooting.
Vince, pay attention.
From yesterday..........
Problem 2: There's a weird relationship with channel 1 and 2 trigger. If I select channel 2 trigger it forces channel 1 trace off screen. But channel 1 trigger select has no affect on channel 2. Channels 3 and 4 do not play these games. Should be fun tracking that down.
When in doubt. RTFM. You never know. The answer just might be contained within those hallowed pages. And wouldn't you know it. It is! Under step 16 "Adjust Trigger Selector DC Balance". But the manual states to insure Step 15 is performed first. "Adjust Variable Balance". So we followed the instructions and lo and behold.....no more dancing traces on the screen when switching the trigger selector. There is however much interaction between those adjustments. But we finally got it.
Well that was a quick " Fix " wasn't it !
Still, was interesting to me as I ha dno idea there could be interaction between trigger and DC balance, in some (this at least) plug-in. I mean this two things are separate and don't interact, in all my Tek scopes.
Must be a 1A4 special maybe. Maybe a thing in any multi-channel plug-in, so the 1A1 and 1A2 and CA might affected as well.
Good to know about this anyway, thanks Papa Smurf !!!
I lost one of my tools, it's a cheap endoscope camera.
The concept I bought it with my hard work money and then I can't put my hands on it simply drive me 100% nuts.
Surely hidden in one of those boxes on the floor.
Don't know about you, but I can't do anything else until I find the lost one...
Search for something else and you'll find it.
Nah! you will still find all those 1/2" AF & 13 mm spanners & sockets you have lost over the years, an ancient Bulgin Mains connector, some unidentified salvaged transistors, half a dozen Belling Lee coax connectors, a broken watch, a large rusty woodscrew, the 4017 ic you couldn't find last time, a lot of fluff, a very rusty 3/16" Whitworth tap, &................
You can't fool Murphy!
I lost one of my tools, it's a cheap endoscope camera.
The concept I bought it with my hard work money and then I can't put my hands on it simply drive me 100% nuts.
Surely hidden in one of those boxes on the floor.
Don't know about you, but I can't do anything else until I find the lost one...
Search for something else and you'll find it.
Nah! you will still find all those 1/2" AF & 13 mm spanners & sockets you have lost over the years, an ancient Bulgin Mains connector, some unidentified salvaged transistors, half a dozen Belling Lee coax connectors, a broken watch, a large rusty woodscrew, the 4017 ic you couldn't find last time, a lot of fluff, a very rusty 3/16" Whitworth tap, &................
You can't fool Murphy!
I dropped something yesterday and it went under a sideboard so I found a handle broken plastic fly slap and a part of a wavy potato chip of real pot8to.
Just picked up via eBay an ex-corporate X270 ThinkPad in fair nick for £160. Nothing special, 8Gb, 256Gb NVMe SSD, i5-6300U @ 2.4GHz, Windows 10 Pro bundled. My hand was forced because I needed something that was battery powered, ran Windows natively and had a physical ethernet port (Zucca will know why), a VM wasn't going to cut it this time.
Just had a sharp reminder how much I detest the "Windows ExperienceTM", had to dodge dark patterns to not sign up for a Microsoft account, got popups in Edge trying to dissuade me from downloading Firefox, etc. etc. Scumbags.
Job one done: ShutUp10 downloaded and run.
Job two done: Firefox downloaded, Duckduckgo activated, Edge and Bing banished.
I lost one of my tools, it's a cheap endoscope camera.
The concept I bought it with my hard work money and then I can't put my hands on it simply drive me 100% nuts.
Surely hidden in one of those boxes on the floor.
Don't know about you, but I can't do anything else until I find the lost one...
Search for something else and you'll find it.
Nah! you will still find all those 1/2" AF & 13 mm spanners & sockets you have lost over the years, an ancient Bulgin Mains connector, some unidentified salvaged transistors, half a dozen Belling Lee coax connectors, a broken watch, a large rusty woodscrew, the 4017 ic you couldn't find last time, a lot of fluff, a very rusty 3/16" Whitworth tap, &................
You can't fool Murphy!
I dropped something yesterday and it went under a sideboard so I found a handle broken plastic fly slap and a part of a wavy potato chip of real pot8to.
Bonus! What flavour was it?
...I will reluctantly give Microsoft their due; they are actually 25% less abhorrent on windows 11. Perhaps that will be a decent release in a couple of years.
Siglent box now lurking under my desk courtesy APC delivery ...
I dropped something yesterday and it went under a sideboard so I found a handle broken plastic fly slap and a part of a wavy potato chip of real pot8to.
Bonus! What flavour was it?
Just regular, but it had a new coating.
I lost one of my tools, it's a cheap endoscope camera.
The concept I bought it with my hard work money and then I can't put my hands on it simply drive me 100% nuts.
Surely hidden in one of those boxes on the floor.
Don't know about you, but I can't do anything else until I find the lost one...
Search for something else and you'll find it.
Nah! you will still find all those 1/2" AF & 13 mm spanners & sockets you have lost over the years, an ancient Bulgin Mains connector, some unidentified salvaged transistors, half a dozen Belling Lee coax connectors, a broken watch, a large rusty woodscrew, the 4017 ic you couldn't find last time, a lot of fluff, a very rusty 3/16" Whitworth tap, &................
You can't fool Murphy!
I dropped something yesterday and it went under a sideboard so I found a handle broken plastic fly slap and a part of a wavy potato chip of real pot8to.
Bonus! What flavour was it?
Just regular, but it had a new coating.
Type 1A4 troubleshooting.
Vince, pay attention.
From yesterday..........
Problem 2: There's a weird relationship with channel 1 and 2 trigger. If I select channel 2 trigger it forces channel 1 trace off screen. But channel 1 trigger select has no affect on channel 2. Channels 3 and 4 do not play these games. Should be fun tracking that down.
When in doubt. RTFM. You never know. The answer just might be contained within those hallowed pages. And wouldn't you know it. It is! Under step 16 "Adjust Trigger Selector DC Balance". But the manual states to insure Step 15 is performed first. "Adjust Variable Balance". So we followed the instructions and lo and behold.....no more dancing traces on the screen when switching the trigger selector. There is however much interaction between those adjustments. But we finally got it.
Well that was a quick " Fix " wasn't it !
Still, was interesting to me as I ha dno idea there could be interaction between trigger and DC balance, in some (this at least) plug-in. I mean this two things are separate and don't interact, in all my Tek scopes.
Must be a 1A4 special maybe. Maybe a thing in any multi-channel plug-in, so the 1A1 and 1A2 and CA might affected as well.
Good to know about this anyway, thanks Papa Smurf !!!Wanna give yourself a headache? Study the schematic for the Type 1A4. Tek pulled out all the stops designing it both electrically and mechanically. Somehow they managed to stuff 5 pounds into a 2 pound bag.
Anyway, the relationship between the DC balance and this so called "trigger balance" is unique to the Type 1A4. No other 500 series plug-in that I've seen (so far) has it and I have 1A1, 1A2, CA, W.
Just picked up via eBay an ex-corporate X270 ThinkPad in fair nick for £160. Nothing special, 8Gb, 256Gb NVMe SSD, i5-6300U @ 2.4GHz, Windows 10 Pro bundled. My hand was forced because I needed something that was battery powered, ran Windows natively and had a physical ethernet port (Zucca will know why), a VM wasn't going to cut it this time.
Just had a sharp reminder how much I detest the "Windows ExperienceTM", had to dodge dark patterns to not sign up for a Microsoft account, got popups in Edge trying to dissuade me from downloading Firefox, etc. etc. Scumbags.
Job one done: ShutUp10 downloaded and run.
Job two done: Firefox downloaded, Duckduckgo activated, Edge and Bing banished.
Pretty much the same SOP I use, and pretty much the same specs as the Aspire R5-471T UltraBook I bought for $80 at the Thrift last week.
https://www.ultrabookreview.com/9304-acer-aspire-r14-review-2/
I like the dual-battery on the X270, but in the Acer's defense it is in new/unused condition, and it does have a 14" 1920 x 1080 IPS touchscreen with full-tablet mode, and backlit keyboard. The battery it needed cost me $7 net after a shipping malfunction gave me a $10 "we fucked up" credit on my account at Bezos' Online Crack Shop.
Not earth-shattering good fortune, but still beats a sharp stick in the eye like our poor Shrew Disciple over there seems to keep getting from fleaBay.
I will admit the lack of Ethernet annoys me, but I already have a 1Gb/S USB3.0 dongle; plus when I need it, the USB-C port means I can plug one in at up to 10GBPS for $20-120 depending on how much I'm ready to spend.
mnem
...I will reluctantly give Microsoft their due; they are actually 25% less abhorrent on windows 11. Perhaps that will be a decent release in a couple of years.
Siglent box now lurking under my desk courtesy APC delivery ...
What exactly do you actually like aboot Win11? Maybe it's "frog in a pot" syndrome (more likely Stockholm ), but after the routine exorcisms described by Cerebus above, Win10 seems generally pretty painless.
I'm certainly not looking forward to paying for the privilege of running Win11 on my gaming rigs, for example; and not sure I'm interested in even trying a patched version on any of my other machines.
mnem
*mugs bd139 for his Siglent box quick, before he even unpacks it*
Hmm... I won't even use one of those self scan tills if I can possibly avoid it, I object to being complicit in putting more money into some fat cats pocket at the expense of someone's job. Our local Asda and Sainsburys have now almost done away with manned tills FFS. They might have been low paid jobs but they did provide some support to some people.
I used to say that, but in all good conscience I can't really claim to any more. I used to queue for the tills on the basis it kept people in work. In the case of people like the Lovely Linda who works on the tills in our 'local'* Sainsburys and has a very mild form of Down's syndrome it might be the difference between a reasonable job and a shit job or even none. Sadly I've been seduced by the ease and calmness of using one of the store's portable scanners, packing my shopping calmly in the right place in the right bag as I go, and when I've finished walking around the store I simply pay and walk out.
I've had a battle with myself about it and resisted for a long time. On the one hand there's the Lindas, and on the other hand there's the Sharons and Darrens who throw my goods at me as they scan them, destroy any order in which I've put them on the conveyer belt mixing frozen food with biscuits, and hard tins with fragile crisps and generally make using a full service checkout something to avoid. So when out of curiosity I finally once tried the scanners you carry around the store with you I was converted. I realised that I could skip the last and most unpleasant 20 minutes of the supermarket experience and haven't looked back. I'm afraid that on this occasion minor selfishness, in the form of an abhorrence of Sharons and Darrens mucking up my carefully organised shopping, has won out over social responsibility.
* local meaning nearly three miles away
...I will reluctantly give Microsoft their due; they are actually 25% less abhorrent on windows 11. Perhaps that will be a decent release in a couple of years.
Siglent box now lurking under my desk courtesy APC delivery ...
What exactly do you actually like aboot Win11? Maybe it's "frog in a pot" syndrome (more likely Stockholm ), but after the routine exorcisms described by Cerebus above, Win10 seems generally pretty painless.
I'm certainly not looking forward to paying for the privilege of running Win11 on my gaming rigs, for example; and not sure I'm interested in even trying a patched version on any of my other machines.
mnem
*mugs bd139 for his Siglent box quick, before he even unpacks it*
I think the best thing about windows 11 is they decided the best thing to do was to try and copy macOS where possible. So they have started tidying everything up and consolidating it at last.
As for paying for it, huh? It's free if you have windows 10.
I have an old W7 HP laptop that had to be put out of service since its network connections stopped working.
Can't find it right now but I'm quite sure it has a DVD drive and I've tried it with Linux. Network connections means internal, wired or wireless and external USB. No idea how that can happen. Maybe I've found an extra timer of some sort.
Just picked up via eBay an ex-corporate X270 ThinkPad in fair nick for £160. Nothing special, 8Gb, 256Gb NVMe SSD, i5-6300U @ 2.4GHz, Windows 10 Pro bundled. My hand was forced because I needed something that was battery powered, ran Windows natively and had a physical ethernet port (Zucca will know why), a VM wasn't going to cut it this time.
Just had a sharp reminder how much I detest the "Windows ExperienceTM", had to dodge dark patterns to not sign up for a Microsoft account, got popups in Edge trying to dissuade me from downloading Firefox, etc. etc. Scumbags.
Job one done: ShutUp10 downloaded and run.
Job two done: Firefox downloaded, Duckduckgo activated, Edge and Bing banished.
...I will reluctantly give Microsoft their due; they are actually 25% less abhorrent on windows 11. Perhaps that will be a decent release in a couple of years.
Siglent box now lurking under my desk courtesy APC delivery ...
What exactly do you actually like aboot Win11? Maybe it's "frog in a pot" syndrome (more likely Stockholm ), but after the routine exorcisms described by Cerebus above, Win10 seems generally pretty painless.
I'm certainly not looking forward to paying for the privilege of running Win11 on my gaming rigs, for example; and not sure I'm interested in even trying a patched version on any of my other machines.
mnem
*mugs bd139 for his Siglent box quick, before he even unpacks it*
The only reality is that all three platforms are shit in their own special way