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Not too worry! smart meters from the ones I have worked on a basically mobile phone modems that only send data when they have a wake up signal. The really interesting thing is if you are poor s*d driving around in the van!
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Try these... Logic Analyzers from Saleae
USB devices with software.
The software has built in decoders for things like serial lines and SPI etc.
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Are kids of British and Iranian couple called Pomeranian?
"It is easy to decipher extraterrestrial signals after deciphering Javascript and VB6 themselves.", ISanti[ ^]
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Only if the Brit is from Plymouth...
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Privateer adds copper-backed tin to drink (9)
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Looks like it is related to your topic below, but I've 4 letters left over
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Could be. Could not be. Depends, really. 
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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OriginalGriff wrote: Could not be
My bad: I'd seen PRIVATEER contained PIRATE with a spare VEER. Nice misdirection!
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That's the whole idea! Send you off on the wrong foot ...
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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OriginalGriff wrote: Privateer
OriginalGriff wrote: drink
But rum only has 3 letters.
"It is easy to decipher extraterrestrial signals after deciphering Javascript and VB6 themselves.", ISanti[ ^]
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Ducknbeer.
I'd give the real answer if I was able to post a clue tomorrow....
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You pretty much have given the real answer, just saying
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ugh, I spend ages trying to get this one...
Not fair using the chemical symbol for copper but not for tin! Had me way down the wrong path 
(I know the answer now because Storm-Blade posted it)
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So post it, and you can be up tomorrow!
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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But I didn't get it myself, doesn't seem right to steal his hard work
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Fine...
Privateer = BUCCANEER
copper = CU, backed (reversed) = UC
tin = CAN
added to (drink = BEER)
B EER
UC CAN
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Is correct, and you are up tomorrow! 
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Will do. Suppose it gives me something to do for the rest of the day!
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As ye know, it be Talk like a Pirate Day[^] so it be time t' break out t' grog, run up t' Jolly Roger, and prepare to make those scurvy dogs walk t' plank!
Arrrr!
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Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Bah Humbug!!
Oh, wait. Wrong day.
If you can keep your head while those about you are losing theirs, perhaps you don't understand the situation.
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I have found that Bah Humbug is a legitimate descriptor for any day. Support me in my campaign to broaden it's usage to all holidays and birthdays.
if (Object.DividedByZero == true) { Universe.Implode(); }
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As someday it may happen
That a victim should be found
I've got a little list
I've got a little list
Of corporate offenders
Who should be made to walk the plank
You can take it to the bank!
There's the pestilential nuisances
Who show their charts and graphs
All people with excess perfume
Who make everybody gasp
All bosses who make up due dates
And floor you with them flat
And all those persons who
Spoil power naps, like that
They should be made to walk the plank
You can take it to the bank!
(With apologies to Messrs Gilbert & Sullivan)
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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A pirate: £10 for this incredibly useful software tool?! I'll just see if there's a torrent for a cracked version first.
"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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We recently moved. A couple of weeks before that that I had gotten a great deal on Dell monitor at bestbuy (https://www.bestbuy.com/site/dell-s2318hn-23-ips-led-fhd-monitor-black/5770927.p?skuId=5770927^).
Only $105 or something for monitor that normally goes for $149 or so.
Threw Cable Away By Accident
When we moved I was going to re-pack the monitor in the original box and let movers take it, but I couldn't get the stand off so I carried it myself. However, I threw the box away and I think I had already re-packed the cable in it and threw it away by accident. 
Dell Replacement
It has the power brick like a laptop. Hadn't really thought about that before.
Contacted Dell and they said they could replace it for $49.99 plus shipping. The monitor was only $105???
I found a replace on amazon:
Amazon.com: AC / DC Adapter For Dell S2318HN S2318NX S2318Nc 23" IPS LED FHD Monitor Power Supply Cord Cable PS Battery Charger PSU: Musical Instruments[^]
But it's $21.99 + $6 shipping and it was going to take a couple weeks to get it.
I'm very cheap. I'm also very impatient.
Old Laptops
Then I thought of it. I have numerous old Toshiba laptops with a seemingly similar power cord.
I dug them out and did my best to get the output power rating for the one I was replacing.
Most of them are similar, but I couldn't get the output rating (current and voltage) for the new monitor. The laptop one is rated at 19V and 3.24A output.
Finally, I figured it was worth the chance. I plugged it in and the monitor has been running fine for a few days. No overheating or nothing.
Phew... The Cheapskate Wins Another One!!! 
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