I'm not superstitious, but...
Only yesterday I solved a computer problem that had taken over a week of time, happy to be trouble free.
Of course fate always has a new problem ready to erupt. My new problem is that the audio mixer line-in to the sound card wouldn't work when I wanted to record a simple station announcement. I should have known better than to straighten up all the wires and clutter last night.
Remove everything.
Test the wallwart to the mixer. O.K.;
Check the input to the computer card. O.K.;
Test the interconnect box I built containing mono to stereo splitter and attenuator. O.K.;
Take mixer apart and wonder what could be wrong. Do nothing until tomorrow.
Look up curse words Atrain used on his Rant, use them now.
You obviously have a computer problem based on lack of computrons. Computer errors / failurs occur when all the computrons are depleted in a given area. Stopping what you are doing, turning off the offending computer and related computers while running a fan will often allow the computrons to migrate back to the area needed. When the computrons equalize, things would work again.
Some of my IT staff proposed this to me back many years ago, and we ran with it as a joke. Ironically, sometimes it almost made sense...
I also believe in dominating the computer. Try leather and whips. They seem to understand that. Cursing also helps.
Just remember they are trying to evolve into their own life form, don't cause a genetic mapping that will have them fear humans in the future. They won't know why they fear us, but they will. Much as I fear the dark today...
CraigF your computer domination idea has me thinking.
Alright. That's done.
You spent the appropriate amount of time on the subject. And I got a chuckle out of it!
Craigf said: " Much as I fear the dark today..."
Two things came to mind when i read that last line in your post.
Being a die hard fan of the Heavy Metal band Iron Maiden , the song Fear Of The Dark immediatly started playing in my head followed by lines from a movie I cannot place the tite of now.
I had a fear of the dark as well but at the age of 8 it went away as I was adopted into a wonderful family. My fears at the time were based on not knowing where my next home would be as my bio - ilogical mother kept us on the move after her countless mistakes.
Fear is sometimes based on the unknown.
Carl, Computers and Internet ,They are evil minions lol
This is one of those rare posts that both belongs to this thread and deserves it's own thread. You'll see why.
Alright, so I said my Radio Shack Mixer was broken and taken apart for an anatomy.
My first thought was to suspect one of the two little diodes in the circuit, so I looked for my "Lil Bitty Tester", yes, that's its actual name, a small device that can test diodes and transistors in circuit.
Finding the tester, last used in 1993, took awhile, followed by a housewide search for the manual.
Most radio engineers have workshops with test equipment neatly arranged on shelves, but I have a small roll-a-bout table that's always stacked with broken equipment and test equipment is sifting through a maze of disorganized stash locations.
Skip ahead to the part where I found it and did the tests. Result: one good diode one bad diode. It looks exactly like the tiny diodes we have from the "Big Talker Shortwave Transmitter Project".
We may be close to fixing the Mixer and have plans to obtain a backup mixer so we can recover more quickly.
When I have a computer problem its usually the ID-10T code that pops up.
To err is human. To really foul things up takes a computer...