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You can do it Peter
"Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming “Wow! What a Ride!" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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I don't think he warned us he'd be late.
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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Either great minds think alike or fools seldom differ ?
"Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming “Wow! What a Ride!" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Which of King Arthur's knights likes to boogie? Sir Dance-a-lot!
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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I just went into the master bedroom where she is watching tv, sat in the corner chair like it was a family meeting. She muted the tv so I told her this joke. looking at the floor while delivering the punch line.
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What was the response?
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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Yes???
Bastard Programmer from Hell
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Yeah, supposedly a snail told that joke on a guy's doorstep. The guy threw him a good 100 feet away.
5 years later there is a knock on the door. He looks down and see's the snail who says:
"Hey! What the hell was that about?!"
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I'm hoping someone here has experience with firmware that controls microwave ovens. The ironically named Frigidaire Gallery, if I want to be fussy.
Every so often the countdown goes 3...2...1...7...6...5...4...3...2...1
I'm trying to think how on earth
a) this can happen (and happen randomly), and
b) why 7.
I did try (as I always do) to open the door at exactly 0. Because deep down I'm still 5 years old. Maybe that's triggering some odd logic? A capacitor not fully discharged? A power spike? A hidden Easter Egg?
Anyone?
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Maybe it was written by the same developer that does the time estimates for Windows Update? (or worse - Apple patches)
TTFN - Kent
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While the estimates can be way of, I have defended the way it worked. I prefer it over the W10 version where they iterate over all files first for their sizes to give a "better" estimate.
Bastard Programmer from Hell
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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obligatory xkcd: Estimation[^]
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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Except there it's in reverse:
100% complete...
(5 minutes later)
11% complete...
The microwave sounds more like the file copy dialog[^].
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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No I think it is the guy that writes the downloading time code...
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3..2..1..7 no 0? or 8? does it start from 3 is it a LCD or LED display as my first thought was LED the two out bars (a,b in seven segment parlance) had died but they appear to be used in 2 & 5, when it does this is 0 displayed as 1 appear to go to 7? I have seen something like this with a Automated Meter Reading unit. That was down to an Atmel getting upset by an ignition coil near by (an issue if it's supposed to be mounted in a truck to collect meter readings...
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It's not a display issue.
It's just...odd.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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An intermittent voltage surge to the 3rd bit of the countdown timer circuit that somehow triggers the first bit to remain at '1' when it goes to trigger the all-zero state, and the third bit to flip to '1'? If so, that is either really crummy design, or someone has a weird short condition in their soldering. Or you have not yet sacrificed to the proper gods.
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Actually that's interesting. 7 would be the third bit.
This actually seems to be the most likely. Dry joint?
cheers
Chris Maunder
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If anything, more likely a 'bridge' that is just short of a short, possibly triggered by thermal expansion. But I have no experience with firmware and board design so that is entirely a guess. I like my 'you haven't yet sacrificed to the proper gods' guess better. Troubleshooting such issues without proper equipment always takes far too long for me, and if a small sacrifice would work, I'd be all over it (as long as it didn't involve virgin blood).
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Would a beer be considered an appropriate sacrifice? And since I don't want to make a mess the simplest and cleanest approach would be for me to sacrifice it via a glass. Into my belly. That should work, right?
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Works for me. Unfortunately, the digital gods seem to have different tastes. But if you pour the beer into the control circuitry while running, the following purchase of a new unit seems to always fix the problem. They seem to have very funny tastes. And expensive.
modified 19-Jan-22 21:15pm.
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web2 lives!
Software Zen: delete this;
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Speak not of the dead
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Yoda, programmed by, it was!
If you can't laugh at yourself - ask me and I will do it for you.
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