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mnementh:

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--- Quote from: Vince on July 13, 2022, 02:38:25 pm ---Just got an e-mail from some subcontractor company saying he is interested in my profile, but not sure if that's a scam or not because the name of this company " Care Technology Consulting " rings no bell and their web site fails to load, with that weird error below that I have never seen before.... could people try to connect and tell me if they manage to get a website, or do you get the same error as I do ?!  :-//

Thank you very much.

If they are legit but can't even get a website to load yet still advertise it in the e-mails they sent out to people, I am not sure I would want to work for them... the HR dept. would probably not pay me because " Sorry our payroll S/W fails to load, we apologize for the inconvenience... ".

http://www.caretechnologyconsulting.com/

EDIT : forum fails to display the thumbnail pic or let me link / embed it in this message... it only lets one download the picture that's all. Oh well.... here is what the error says :

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING, expecting T_OLD_FUNCTION or T_FUNCTION or T_VAR or '}' in /home/caretech/www/wp-includes/pomo/entry.php on line 61

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Care technology consulting really cares about technology so much that they can't fix their shitty web site.

So yeah I wouldn't bother.
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I dunno that it's relevant... from what I've heard and read back when I was batty over the SR-71 and spent days staying up into the wee hours reading the recently declassified bits of their service history, the business Vince works in tends to cater to mega-corporations and defense contractors (aerospace manufacturing).

One of the things I picked up on in the course of that research was that those entities all generally tend to deal with each other on a "it's who you know" basis. Having a modern public face would not really be that high on their priority list... in fact, discretion tends to be a valued stock in trade.  It was part of the reason so little of the history of these amazing aircraft was widely known.  :-//

I may be completely wrong in that understanding... but that was what I made of the "gestalt" of aerospace in general. I have no idea how much that has changed since; Ifni knows the area where I am now used to live & breathe aerospace. Now, not so much.  :P

mnem
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Yeah you are completely wrong indeed !  ;D

You might be right if I were a top level design engineer working in area 51 in the US, working on a top secret military contract for the latest flying saucer tested at night in the desert..... but I am not on that side of the business at all ! Robert might be though... more than me for sure.

No, there is nothing secret working at Airbus here. It's just a big factory / assembly line / workshop, albeit huge because we happen to make airplanes not wheel barrows., so it requires a lot of space...
but just a factory. So lots of workers busy in the workshop putting the A/C together as fast as they can to make all the white collars in the open spaces right next to the A/Cs, happy with the numbers they see in real time on their Excel spreadsheets and SAP extracts.

There are lots of subcontractors in both the workshop and offices/open spaces, trying to make a living by offering to do all the shit jobs Airbus doesn't want to do, for as cheaply as possible to get the job. All the subcontractors are well known, because well, everyone of them is required to wear shirts, jackets, safety caps bearing the logo / name of who the hell it is that they are working for. So every time you stumble upon someone in the workshop or offices, you instantly know if he works for Airbus proper, or some contractors, and which one. Also, subcontractors on their desk, have to put a little sign that again shows what contractor they work for, their full name, their job title and phone number.

Also, in order not to mix cats and dogs, Airbus issues BLUE background badges, that one is supposed to wear at all times and make it visible (around their neck usually) to Airbus employees, and RED background badges to all the subcontractors... so that you can spot them from a mile away and stop chatting in case one of them is approaching and you were discussing stuff you don't want subcontractors to hear about.

No, nothing secret at all about subcontractors at an Airbus plant ! ;D
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Yeah, I kindof know that scenario. One of my clients when I was a Lenovo ASP was a USAF installation. Standard security (aside from every bit of my "Little Bag of Dirty Tricks" searched and all phone/computing devices/media locked in a locker, etc) was that I was escorted at all times by a well-recognized department officer, and all the while I was moving through the facility whenever we went through a doorway or approached a cubicle area he'd announce "White Badge coming through".  I was then observed throughout the duration of my service work, and any parts removed during repair would be inspected for any form of media before I was allowed to leave.

As for the "Secret Squirrel Society" hijinks... I wasn't talking about you as a tech... I was talking about the kind of people who might hire you. What I gathered was that they tended to operate on a "it's who you know" basis, and that for them, a modern public face might not necessarily be a high priority. ;)

mnem
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med6753:

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--- Quote from: xrunner on July 13, 2022, 02:11:15 pm ---Regarding the hp 3476A DMM, if you're interested in what hp was thinking to make such a meter, I attached an explanation of what they were thinking about. It came from the Hewlett-Packard Journal, Feb 1977, p.21

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Here's a pic of the custom IC:


And an overall one of the entire board:


It is affixed solder side up to the top part of the clamshell enclosure.

-Pat

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Both of mine seem to be a later revision, one is so late that the serial number sticker is missing, bloody cheapskates for not stamping them on both.  |O





Some more pictures are attached below, all taken a few years ago.

David

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I spy a blue Philips crapacitor in both versions.  :o
mnementh:

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--- Quote from: bd139 on July 13, 2022, 08:06:59 am ---Yep. Rocking the 0.99L 3 cyl here  :-DD

Sounds like a V8 if you stick kangaroo juice in it.
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I think you've been drinking too much of the kangaroo juice. Nothing sound like a V-8 except a V-8. ;)

I have no problem with folks keeping the heavy metal of yesteryear alive... I'll always be a motorhead, and there still is no replacement for displacement. But this is a different world; these toys of yesteryear have to be treated as toys, not as a way of life if we are to survive as a species. We cannot afford for those lovely beasts to be anybody's "daily driver" any longer.

mnem


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Aaaaand this has always been utter nonsense. This is why Colin Chapman's designs blew all the primitive displacement based ones into the weeds.

The only thing adding displacement is good for is going fast in a straight line. For anything else, weight reduction is the real answer. Hence how Mini Coopers could beat 7-litre+ yank tanks in the early days of touring cars.
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And it's equally arguable that your line of reasoning is just wankers spankin' it because they can't get their hands on a real car.

Anything you can do to a tiny engine you can do to a big engine and get even more power. Simple physics.

You don't have a right to judge how people like to play, or their choice of toys... don't be a dick, man.

mnem
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You're completely missing the point, not sure if deliberately or not, but w/e.

The Point: Weight reduction improves EVERY aspect of a car's performance. Putting a bigger engine in it, or for that matter keeping the same engine and increasing the power by boring/stroking it, ONLY improves (assuming you have the traction and gearing headroom) straight line acceleration and top speed. That is simple physics.

I have not at any point criticised or judged other people's method or means of playing, that's entirely in your head. I put it to you that it is not I that is "being a dick".
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That is exactly what you were doing. There is nothing wrong with wanting NOTHING MORE than to go fast in a straight line. There is nothing wrong with wanting to strap your ass to the biggest chunk of horsepower you can muster, and just PUNCH IT.

You were passing judgement on that, and denigrating that form of play. You were being a dick.

EDIT: And speaking of MISSING THE POINT ENTIRELY: My point was explicitly that musclecars are a toy and need to be treated as such. You're the one had to jump on them being huge and wasteful, as if that matters more than a fat heap of dingoes' kidneys when we're talking about toys.

mnem
Try putting a 460 into a VW Beetle some time. The thrill is visceral, and partly because it is dumb and dangerous and puts you out of control.

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No, just no. You're reading between the lines what you want to believe, and not what I said. Standard Mnem.

I pointed out the fallacy of the statement "there's no replacement for displacement", nothing more. I think you'll find that people who get their kicks from driving fast in a straight line for around 10 seconds ALSO get serious on the weight reduction, if they are competitive. I have NOTHING against this pastime, even if it's not for me.

As for musclecars being "just toys", this is a stereotypical view normally only seen outside north America, and if I'd said that I would have been in the wrong and could have been justifiably called on it. I know people in the UK that daily drive a muscle car. I bet a lot more do it in the US and Canada.

I also never mentioned them being huge and wasteful, again. you're imagining things that just are not true. Did you not notice I posted a yt link to a CLASSIC MUSCLE CAR when disagreeing with the statement "there's no better sound than a supercharger"?

If you're going to pick a fight with someone, at least do it for something they actually said or did, not just what you imagined they said or did.
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I'm sorry; I can't hear you over the sound of you backpedaling... ;)

TL/DR: You picked this fight, and it was over a point you evidently don't even disagree with. I've had my belly full; I'm gonna go sand a fucking table. At least something productive will happen today.  :-DD

mnem
vroom.
factory:

--- Quote from: med6753 on July 13, 2022, 07:05:59 pm ---
--- Quote from: factory on July 13, 2022, 06:58:54 pm ---
--- Quote from: Cubdriver on July 13, 2022, 03:37:36 pm ---
--- Quote from: xrunner on July 13, 2022, 02:11:15 pm ---Regarding the hp 3476A DMM, if you're interested in what hp was thinking to make such a meter, I attached an explanation of what they were thinking about. It came from the Hewlett-Packard Journal, Feb 1977, p.21

(zipped pdf too large to attach)

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Here's a pic of the custom IC:


And an overall one of the entire board:


It is affixed solder side up to the top part of the clamshell enclosure.

-Pat

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Both of mine seem to be a later revision, one is so late that the serial number sticker is missing, bloody cheapskates for not stamping them on both.  |O





Some more pictures are attached below, all taken a few years ago.

David

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I spy a blue Philips crapacitor in both versions.  :o

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Erm it's a blue Sprague 500D in both, also are those trim pots the shite ones, that the plastic top drops off from?

P.S. last picture didn't upload properly.  :palm:


David
med6753:

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 ::) :-DD


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