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Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) group therapy thread
mansaxel:
--- Quote from: Cerebus on July 08, 2022, 09:02:02 pm ---
Oh, and the 'but we didn't do that at school' is the kind of poor excuse that gets us Brits almost as poor a reputation as the 'Merkins get over speaking foreign languages. I didn't learn any German or Italian at school but at least made an attempt to learn some before setting foot in the respective countries, in fact I'd consider it bloody rude to go there without learning at least the very basics.
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I did not do very well in French in school; I had a very good teacher first year, but he had to focus on Spanish classes so year 2 and on we had a sequence of bad or worse ones. I lost interest. German did go better, and I had 6 full years of it.
Now, since I've been embedded a couple of vacations in almost all French it's working a bit better; I can get around a restaurant meal or a hotel check-in almost entirely in French. German is a lot easier, of course, but I did get to kickstart it when I had not spoken it for a very long time back in 1997. Very strange situation in Vienna Stadthalle concerning the parking of an OB vehicle ;-)
The perks of speaking a language that perhaps only 10 million people understand. You learn more of them, and fast.
Yesterdays report: Bayeux - Arromanches - St. Lo - Mont-St. Michel - Lorient (Port-Louis).
A non-payment Autoroute, for a change. Good. My children now have bathed twice in the Atlantic this year.
TERRA Operative:
--- Quote from: ch_scr on July 09, 2022, 05:16:50 am ---Supposing there is not enough clearance behind the panel, the safest option would be to print a combined holder for panel mount female jacks. The 3d printed part could be thick-walled and isolation would be provided by the plastic of the jacks. I guess they did it like this, because shrouded male connectors (as are standard on decent modern multimeters) were not readily available? You'll have to upgrade the leads to said type as well, but that should make a decent looking, safe and robust solution IMHO.
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Yeah, maybe some basic plastic spacer rings to extend the plugs out of the front panel would work, pending investigation of clearances.
--- Quote from: tautech on July 09, 2022, 05:20:59 am ---Whaddabout M-F banana leads and leave them in place ?
https://www.amazon.com/Extension-Connector-Silicone-Multimeter-Adapter/dp/B07NWZ71GH
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The panel connectors in my unit are broken (Pressure from the nut has caused the plastic of the connector to crack), so they all need to be replaced.
mansaxel:
--- Quote from: vk6zgo on July 09, 2022, 02:18:11 am ---
Competition in Telecommunications is pretty much fake anyway.
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We have something like 4 mobile carriers, and perhaps as many rebrandings which is no real net. They found the 3G build-out requirements tough to meet in the northern regions, because they're not as desolate as .au outback, but they're the least populated areas in entire Europe. They pooled up in 2 networks, so there is some competition.
Dark fibre is the other issue. There is a lot of fibre providers over the country; only one, the old monopoly, has some claim to reach from long-reach transmission into peoples homes, but there is enough competition that you can build a fibre network all over the country without using much of their lines.
ISP-wise, we've got like 4 large and perhaps 10 small ISP's that have presence over the country. Most of the smaller ones are local. There is aggressive concentration going on in form of buying up smaller competitors. In the large cities, you can effectively multi-home for a sensible price (or could, before IPv4 addresses ran out; now only v6 is cheap.) but on the countryside, it's harder.
Competition does exist, but the larger ones tend to try squashing it as much as possible, of course.
At work, I buy lit waves and dark fibre, and shop for IP transit, and it's reasonably healthy on the wholesale market which we're in, even if we're a end-user, because of our capacity needs; we can generate close to 0,6 Tbit peak outbound.
bd139:
Place your bets. Will the Tek IC I ordered on 1st July from someone 10 miles away actually bother to turn up today so I’ve got something to do :popcorn:
Zoli:
--- Quote from: bd139 on July 09, 2022, 08:02:52 am ---Place your bets. Will the Tek IC I ordered Lon 1st July from someone 10 miles away actually bother to turn up today so I’ve got something to do :popcorn:
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No; go on hiking. :-DD :-DD :-DD Or that's what I would do to piss off Murphy...
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