Test Equipment Anonymous

Robert wrote: ↑Sun May 12, 2024 9:47 am Standard light designs, often from component makers like Lucas were used on many different cars.

And there was Darkness.

Can I bequest to my ex, since she got a portion of my retirement pension, that she go shit in her hat? :lol: This is alien to me. If I were to divorce my wife, which I do not plan to, we'd split our things, and then be done. I'd have to make sure that the costs for children under 18 were shared, bu...

bd139 wrote: ↑Wed Apr 17, 2024 8:00 pm I would pay for a TV license if I didn't have something better to do...

Were you a resident of this country, you could not escape it. Everyone pays. Period.

I get my salary from the Public Service Fee -- I work at the Swedish Public Service broadcaster. I of course think we have a reason to exist, and that we need to have a sensible and stable financing and governance model. Further, I think we're more needed than ever, and that our mission needs reinfo...

Zenith wrote: ↑Thu Apr 04, 2024 2:06 pm
What's that building in the background that looks like a sawn off lighthouse?

It's the Moulin Noir, a lesser-known upstate NY landmark most remembered for being haunted by the unresting ghosts of slain tube rapists.

I have chaos. Having said that, I've made an effort to make a central repository for my electronically stored manuals. My distributed file system (think of a NAS but for grownups with too much time on their hands and a desire to do sysadmin work.) has a volume for them; it currently stands at 3816 M...

Regarding the "same acoustic space" concept, what is the "correct" sound in a concert hall? Sounds from two sections of the orchestra will have a different phase/delay on one side of the hall to the other side. Which is "correct"? Which is "incorrect"? To the...

I'm all for the "minimal intrusion" school. What Atkelar did to the 410C was in part reasonable, in part ever so slightly over the top. I told him as much -- the transformer rewinding was what was required, but the power inlet replacement would have been better with a Schurter C6 -- which ...

OK, so you delay the "local" A stream until the "remote" B stream has arrived. Or, rather, there are two remote streams, that arrive via different paths having been sampled in the same acoustic space. When they arrive, we must play them in phase. What happens if you also need th...

Given the right hardware, and a lot of legwork, we can lock two clocks into fractions of a µs over long distances. Which is a requirement we actually have. Locking clocks like that I can understand. But what might it mean w.r.t. agreeing the time? (.... refers to Leslie Lamport's partial ordering) ...

So far, I am more than happy to trust this counter as my "frequency reference". Probably closer than anything else I have by at least an order of magnitude. Which is good and all, but it is not just right! I have a few counters (like, many) and they're all a bit temperamental left to thei...

Strange. Wool is probably my favourite clothing material. As I have passed half a century in age, I tend to feel cold a lot more. Synthetics only work so far. Then, of course, it's probably mostly the more esoteric wools like Merino that attract me.

There was something that RS were the best source for recently, for me. Yes, return springs for Lindström blue handle needle-nose and fine duckbill pliers, bought used without springs. And RS had stock, were cheap and so on. I bought some other sundries, like a Hammond aluminium cast box, bootlace fe...

We got about 60-70mm over the course of the day yesterday. As I left work at about 17:00, the temperature was hovering around 0°C but it's plummeted to -5° or thereabouts, so I went out about at midnight and shoveled away the mounds left by the snow plough By then it still was possible to shovel; I ...

HP Labs was expected to fail most of the time. That sometimes avoided the divisions going down blind alleys, e.g. the Apple Newton in the early 90s. It also sometimes lead to new markets, e.g. PARISC machines becoming a standard for telecom SS7 servers. PA-RISC succeeded in telco partly thanks to E...

Major crisis in the Smurf house this morning. The coffeemaker crapped out. <snip> So in the meantime this uncivilized Yank is drinking tea but it ain't like having a good cup of coffee. And no biscuits or crumpets. Yep, uncivilized. :lol: Unprepared , rather. Which is a worse crime than playing unc...

There are still 25Hz overhead centenary rail lines between DC and NYC (ex Penn Central RR) and NYC and Boston (ex New Haven RR). Amtrak passenger locos utilize it but all freight traffic is diesel electric. Ex New York Central RR from NYC Grand Central Terminal to Croton Harmon, NY is 600VDC third ...

It's a 750 VA adjustable frequency, adjustable voltage AC power supply. Very cool. Much envy. About the only thing missing is 16 2/3 Hz as present on some (Germany, Austria, Schweiz, Sweden, Norway) European railway catenaries. This "one third of 50Hz" single-phase supply was especially d...

Zenith wrote: ↑Wed Jan 10, 2024 11:15 am I wouldn't consider being poisoned by a fresh puffer fish, incompetently prepared, to be exactly a hygiene matter.

I would consider it stupidity.

I used to drive a Miata year round, and seeing clowns fly past in their 4WD SUVs on the highway made me roll my eyes. Yeah, with four wheel drive you can get moving easier than I can, but I have just as many brakes as you do and only about a third of the mass to stop or change direction. "A 4-...

I worry more when they dismiss things and say it'll only be a dusting. Still, even a blind pig finds an acorn every now and again. Wait and see is about all we can do. -Pat We did get about 200mm of snow the last few days here in the Stockholm area. Obviously no direct connection to US East Coast w...

Oh, I just assumed the machine was on-campus at some tech college, to make sure students could get the parts they needed for graded projects. Yeah, best part of our Fry's in Houston was the loss-leader consumer electronics. Oh, and all the space-race decor. ;) mnem *watching a ballgame with dad* I ...

I have the 51. (one channel, same PCB as the 52; there are lots of unused pads on it) It is a very nice cooking utensil :-D I'm constantly trying to find more probes for it, especially food-related ones. I've found you can get good results with Chinesium furnace dip-style elements, just fit the appr...

MED6753 wrote: ↑Mon Dec 25, 2023 3:18 pm I almost lost Blondie yesterday. It was that close.

Ow! Well done of you, and good of her to ask for help. What a season this is.

In the spirit of oxygen masks in airplanes, now take good care of yourself, so that you can keep helping others.

https://teanonymous.com/f1/download/file.php?id=1740&mode=view This weekend's "to-do" is supposed to be getting the Xmas tree up. Problem is, I need to put this huge flupping box away to have a place to put it, and it's too damned big to fit up the attic stairs or down the basement st...