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Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) group therapy thread
tggzzz:
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--- Quote from: tautech on June 29, 2022, 10:02:02 pm ---The grandboy was here the other day and smart little poo he is too but no idea about things rural ....scared of mud, cow poo and dogs FFS but wanted to know about floppies FFS .....what on earth is his mutha teaching him ?
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I presume he wanted to know why people made something that looks like the "save file" icon.
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Not sure what drove it and only heard the Mutha say to ask poppa if he had one....it probably stemmed from a discussion with his Farta the day before at home. He's a real smart little fart and although he don't get to see us much, now at just about 4 he's starting to really come outta his skin.
There's every likelihood he'll be an airline captain just like both his parents.
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At that age they don't know what they aren't supposed to be able to do - and so do surprisingly "advanced" things.
One of my earliest three memories is asking my father to teach me to read. He did, and family lore has it that I could read The Guardian before I went to school. God, school was so boring - all play and no learning.
tautech:
--- Quote from: bd139 on June 30, 2022, 10:01:44 am ---
--- Quote from: tautech on June 30, 2022, 09:49:20 am ---
--- Quote from: bd139 on June 30, 2022, 09:32:41 am ---All it takes is one fucker with a hedge trimmer to ruin your day. Doesn't matter where you live.
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Not with a 250MB/s P-P wireless connection and your ISP's UPS in the house keeping your connection up ! ;D
The Pop part of Mom& Pop was here today for a coffee and checked our connection speed ....as just reported and also dropped off a new 3 blade 24V wind gen to go up the hill on our backhaul site as this winter the PV panels have struggled to keep the batteries full which has pissed us off some needing to keep an eye on the bloody things every time we have a session of dull weather......then a few days back it became obvious why, apparently at high altitudes the southern hemisphere still has a lot of fine ash aloft from the big Tonga eruption a few months back.
Anyways, one of these suckers:
http://www.primuswindpower.com/wind-power-products/air-30-turbine-2/
Wonder how long it will last 200m ABSL where there are unrestricted views between Aussie and Chile....translation = blows like a real SOB !
Pics to follow when installed.
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In that case, all it takes is a stray cow to scratch it's ass on the pole :-DD
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:)
The wind gen site is already up and running with an 8' galv pipe mast bolted to one of the posts on the post and rail around the control cabinet and 6M timber pole but with a vertical helical POS generator that's only good for landfill !
That helical thing has been a real disappointment so it must go and be replaced with something designed in the US of A that might actually work ! :rant:
m k:
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--- Quote from: bd139 on June 29, 2022, 08:30:05 pm ---Yeah quite frankly fuck floppy disks. They were shit when they came out. Corruption, speed problems, reliability problems, tiny storage. Add 30 years to the problem and now you have mechanical and magnetic degradation to contend with.
Note I’m so high tech I had to go round someone’s house the other day and borrow their PC to put a CD-ROM contents on a USB stick. I don’t even have a CD drive now.
In fact I didn’t even use floppy disks back in the 90s. Had moved to Zip disks and CDRs.
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Floppies are absolutely marvelous, I much prefer them to punch cards, sorry :-//
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It's really difficult to write a shopping list or a quick schematic on the back of a floppy disk. ::)
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Just use a sharpie :popcorn:
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Rotring 0.25
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I haven't used one of those in years ^-^
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I checked and now they have at least 0.1 available.
That's a quite fine line for regular paper.
bd139:
I have 0.1, 0.25 and 0.5 isographs. You don't want the 0.1. They are stupid fragile and unreliable as hell.
I actually did my A-level exams with a 0.35 rapidograph years ago. I know you're not supposed to write with them like that but it worked for me :D
m k:
--- Quote from: Cubdriver on June 30, 2022, 10:09:24 am ---
--- Quote from: Vince on June 30, 2022, 09:46:44 am ---Cat is clearly the star of the show, for it's him being in focus, the scope's screen is completely out of focus ! :-DD
I would like a lab cat like your, he looks cool and smart, being interested in TE and electronics.
Unfortunately you can't recruit cats on their engineering skills, you just get what you get. I don't want to try then fire 25 cats until I find the right one, so I just don't have one.
But lucky you for having this one, you scored big time ! :-+
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Gilmore is quite the character. He’s one of seven that currently reside here.
(Shame he wasn’t doing this when things were turned on…)
-Pat
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You may have a different criteria for low interference.
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