Test Equipment Anonymous

Indeed.

I rather like my Canon Powershot 16; small/light enough to carry around (unlike SLRs!), focusses down to 1cm(!) handy for TE/PCB closeups.

Most people are happy with their phone's speakers!

I played with a Kodak around 1999/2000, and found it ok for snapshots but not something I would take on holiday. Brownie rather than SLR.

My introduction (in Jan 1996) to digital photography was somewhat unusual since it was designed to illustrate (literally!) the characteristics of digital photography. It was a panoramic photo of the Golden Gate bridge approaches in San Francisco. By "unusual" I mean something I haven't see...

So I'm a jammy git with a immaculate, one previous owner, with manuals, RAM card and tracking generator 9kHz to 2.9 GHz spectrum analyser for under £100 and a bit of work. It is pleasing when that happens. I got an HP8562B at auction and Tek492AP via EEVBlog IIRC, for £350 each. Both worked from th...

... never forget the traditional way way to insult a woman: call her a "professional" without further qualification.

AVGresponding wrote: ↑Wed Aug 19, 2026 5:03 pm

tggzzz wrote: ↑Tue Aug 18, 2026 6:06 pm A mod once modified one of my posts, changing the meaning substantially. Didn't bother to inform me either.

iirc, that was also gnif.

It was halcyon., but it doesn't matter.

Editing the historical record is repugnant. (Reinterpreting history is fine)

A mod once modified one of my posts, changing the meaning substantially. Didn't bother to inform me either.

https://yro.slashdot.org/story/26/08/17/0447233/amazons-new-user-agreement-seeks-to-curb-class-action-suits Translation: Amazon knows it is flogging dangerous and fake items, and knows it needs to protect itself from its customers. Tech bros at work. I wonder if this is legal in other countries. Pro...

Or the thread started by our very own bd139 https://www.eevblog.com/forum/news/foru ... msg5804353
Don't bother to read it, even though it contains a few good posts amongst the usual dross.

I have only a passing interest in the shenanigans, mainly because shenanigans caused this place to be set up. It seems that the benta thread disappeared because benta asked for it to be removed, and the mods obliged. Best guess seems to be that benta was embarrassed by his thread, and wanted to to f...

Of curiosity interest only - strange things are happening at the Other Plaice. It appears it started with some odd, but to mind innocuous, moderator interaction with "benta" (7k posts). Benta eventually took umbrage and decided to announce he was logging out. Oh well, it happens. That ann...

Some AI data centres are rated at 1GW. Almost all of it will end up as heat. That's some serious cooling required. I haven't done the sums but I'll wager 1GW applied to the river Severn between Worcester and Gloucester, would raise the temperature to an alarming extent. Didcot power station, at bes...

I asked, "Why do data centres need water?" The response from various sources was that they use water for cooling. Not one of the responses used the phrases "specific heat capacity" or "latent heat of evaporation". It seems surface factoids beat genuine understanding. E...

I think the ear twitches.

Daughter's dog has to be sedated before visiting the vet, lest he uses his teeth to express his opinion of the proceedings. Allegedly the vet is coming to have a sneaking appreciationof the mutt, because he doesn't deceptively pretend to be frightened/annoyed/etc.

I think this one is still alive, and not being prepped for reincarnation as a quadcopter.

Maybe the equivalent of aircraft cabin crews' "SLF"?

If you aren't excluded from the area, might it be a test of your equipments' out-of-band shielding and rejection?

Amusing list of AI ailments, e.g. UpSkill Sisyphus, AI Attachment Disorder, Cognitive Laxity, Vigilance Decrement...
https://informationisbeautiful.net/visu ... ion-mania/

I've considered that, but never wanted to find out how easy it isn't to cancel. VirginMedia is appalling in that respect, to the point of being fined £28m! https://www.ofcom.org.uk/phones-and-broadband/switching-provider/ofcom-fines-virgin-media-28m-for-repeatedly-preventing-customers-from-cancelli...

W.r.t. the waveguide switch... You can just about see a horizontal line halfway up the waveguide holes. That's where the top half and bottom half meet. That makes milling out the waveguide conceptually trivial, but still requires considerable skill (especially, IIRC, with the tolerances). They were ...

Here's a simpler example made by Decca Radar, the first company I worked for. It is the brass rotor from a microwave waveguide switch used in places like GPO Madley Comms Centre ground station. This one is small; I remember some being maybe 30cm tall. I ought to polish it sometime, but you can make ...

I've considered that, but never wanted to find out how easy it isn't to cancel. VirginMedia is appalling in that respect, to the point of being fined £28m! https://www.ofcom.org.uk/phones-and-broadband/switching-provider/ofcom-fines-virgin-media-28m-for-repeatedly-preventing-customers-from-cancellin...

We just have to pick and choose what services to subscribe to because it can get real expensive. That's the problem, even with the range of programmes available OTA with Freeview. I see reviews for quite a few programmes I might like to watch, but I'm not paying a subscription without being sure. A...

Question for my fellow Brits. I noticed that most British homes have a Yagi type antenna on the roof. Is this for local HD broadcasts? And if so, why not over the net instead? Roof antennas on this side of the pond are a unicorn today. In the days of analog TV and before cable TV they were on every...

Yeah :( I remember chemistry lessons where we were given mercury, others where we were issued with a small lump of sodium, and many many lessons where we demonstrated the presence of hydrogen using the squeaky pop method. I know they don't do the latter anymore, since I demonstrated it to my daughte...

Ah yes, McMichael last year, held on the bumpy field with serious pot holes, is one few will forget. It was as if the ground had been undermined by badgers. I wonder what the tally of broken ankles etc was. I've just looked on the https://geologyviewer.bgs.ac.uk/ That field is "London Clay&quo...