Random Posts (An alternate to side discussions)

[altenbach]

Why would I need oil, I don't even have a car. 😄

OTOH, I am producing more electricity than I need with my solar panels (produced 55000 kWh so far :D)

[Ben]

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@altenbach wrote:

Why would I need oil, I don't even have a car. 😄

OTOH, I am producing more electricity than I need with my solar panels (produced 55000 kWh so far :D)

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Need?

My buddy is looking at retiring with the lease and gas royalties from his place.

Re: Solar panels

I am a ways behind you in that regard. I still have to purchase the batteries and wire for my system. If I understand my wife that may be happening in the next year or so. I have all of the gear for both solar and wind in a Faraday cage waiting to be installed.

Give us time, we plan to follow your example...

Spoiler

Save the no car thing. Far too many hills around here for a bike and too far out for bus service to our neighborhood. Even when I was young and running cross-country track, the hills are just to steep for bicycles.

Ben

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@altenbach 

Wouldn't want to turn my backyard into a tar pit anyway. 😮

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Yeah, they attract Mastodons and Saber tooth Tigers and such!

[JÞB]

ME: Can I get a quote (Price and lead-time) for the following products: (Some RF Cables) 

And, If you would, Could you make sure the 6 inch cables have the right angle SMA Male on the left end?

Thanks

SALES GUY: When you open up the box, I hope you hold the bag in the right way that the SMA male is on the left side.

ME:Of course!  Anyone would understand it if the packer received the bag upside down.

[RavensFan]

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@JÞB wrote:
, Could you make sure the 6 inch cables have the right angle SMA Male on the left end?

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In that case, you need to order:  left angle SMA Male cables  !

[Ben]

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@RavensFan wrote:

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@JÞB wrote:
, Could you make sure the 6 inch cables have the right angle SMA Male on the left end?

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In that case, you need to order:  left angle SMA Male cables  !

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That reminds me of an old joke.

Two idiots were putting siding on a house. One on the ladder nailing and the other on the ground handing nails to the first. The first was waiting for another nail and saw the second pulling nails from a can, examining them, and then tossing some on the ground. The first asked the second "why are you throwing those nails away?" The second replied "A lot of these nails have head on the wrong end." The first answers back. "save those for the other side of the house."

Spoiler

Spoiler

Seven minutes of video. View at your own risk

While my family did not get around to any siding work, we did fill an 8 cu yard dumpster with the interior walls and such we removed from the rental property we have taken on. I was the first to bleed which part of the routine in my family and has risen to a rule of thumb "the job is not done until someone bleeds on it." Duct tape stopped the flow and then my brother cleverly discovered a bad spot in the floor bringing the gang out of the various rooms to learn what that loud noise was all about. He climbed out of the hole and was back at with no delays. The eldest G-daughter was at it like the rest of us and got a first hand look at how the adults in the family attack projects once we get started. my wife was impressed by how much destruction we accomplished.

We are at it now!

Ben

[jwscs]

.. or how to get bald.

Step 1: Initially configure Windows Firewall to allow network access for your application and be happy everything works.

Step 2: Code some more on your Network Stream VIs, deploy and wonder why nothing works.

Step 3: Troubleshoot your error to the last detail (log debugging msgs from everywhere, build specific test cases, and so forth) and still don't find anything wrong with your code.

Step 4: Lots of time later: Remember that you saw Windows installing updates.

How the **** is it OK to change critical settings without informing the user?

I lost two days because windows updates changes stuff on a whim.

... sorry for the rant

[Hooovahh]

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@jwscs

I lost two days because windows updates changes stuff on a whim.

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We have testers that run for 6 months to a year without rebooting.  So naturally we disable Windows updates, or rather have it download them, but we choose when to install them.  Windows 10 doesn't like this.  I changed as many settings as I could in the normal settings, and then disabled the Task Scheduler used to reboot the computer after updates.  But certain updates cause this task to become reenabled, and then we have unhappy technicians telling me the PC rebooted and potentially lost data.  So now it is a deeper diving into registry, and making fake read-only tasks, or folders, preventing an update from creating the reboot task again.  I really just want computers to not reboot at all, for any reason, unless the power goes down, and the UPS goes down.

[Gregory]

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@Hooovahh wrote:

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@jwscs

I lost two days because windows updates changes stuff on a whim.

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We have testers that run for 6 months to a year without rebooting.  So naturally we disable Windows updates, or rather have it download them, but we choose when to install them.  Windows 10 doesn't like this.  I changed as many settings as I could in the normal settings, and then disabled the Task Scheduler used to reboot the computer after updates.  But certain updates cause this task to become reenabled, and then we have unhappy technicians telling me the PC rebooted and potentially lost data.  So now it is a deeper diving into registry, and making fake read-only tasks, or folders, preventing an update from creating the reboot task again.  I really just want computers to not reboot at all, for any reason, unless the power goes down, and the UPS goes down.

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I've had good luck with "edit group policy". You probably need an admin account to do this. But I've seen some reports that even setting this gets ignored by Windows.

Computer Configuration >> Administrative Templates >> Windows Components >> Windows Update >> Configure Automatic Updates

Edit: picture was tiny

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Why would you think you should have any control over what your computer does, you puny human. When SkyNet  or SkyNet_UK find you ...