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I have been with PlusNet for a few years now, and this year they actually dropped the price on both phone and broadband.
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So, as Secretary of our social club, I was not best pleased with our phone/broadband supplier - we never got a penny knocked off during the time we've been shut down.
I discover Virgin can now do business fibre where we are and I could save about £40 a month and have 5 x the current bandwidth which is handy at weekends when lots of people might be streaming different sporting events on tablets.
The first team arrive on site and claim to have run cable from the green box to the pavement in front of the building. "Ah, there's a car park between pavement and building (yes, the one I told you about!) so we need a disc cutter to make a channel for the cable. Sorry, we aren't qualified on the disc cutter."
A day or two later another gang arrives unannounced and I miss them and so no disc cutting has taken place.
Yesterday, by chance, I pop in to find two more chaps walking up and down the pavement with a length of plastic ducting sticking up through an access cover in the pavement. I tell then where to find me if there are any problems. They disappear without a word and no disc cutting has taken place.
Today is install day so myself and another are ready for an 8am possible start. At 7:50am I get an email to tell me that yesterday's gang encountered a blockage and they couldn't get the cable through. I did point out (reasonably politely) that had the two chaps yesterday told us there was a problem then we wouldn't need to have two people on site at 8 bloody am with the whole day kept clear.
Disc cutting still not done.
6 hours now elapsed with no update as to what happens next.
So yes, changing providers can be great fun.
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When I told Comcast that I no longer wanted the TV and "land-line" (VOIP really) options of my "triple play" deal (my contract just expired on that day) the web-page refused to offer me any deals that weren't another triple play, nothing else was available. So I rang them up and after a looooong wait I spoke to a robot who I eventually persuaded to connect me to a real person who, expressed total amazement that I didn't watch TV and complete acceptance that I didn't need the "land-line" since he could check that I hadn't made a single call on it in the last two years (and since I turned the ringer off had never answered the hundreds of cold calls). Eventually I convinced him that I didn't watch TV and he gave me a simple deal for just internet, increasing the speed from 300MB to 1,200Mb, at half the price of my triple play - only available if you call to get it, not on the web-site.
Negotiation by phone is worth the wait sometimes.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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� Forogar � wrote: Negotiation by phone is worth the wait sometimes. Yeah, specially when you endly get to speak with a person and you are lucky enough to get one that is not a complete assh... / moron
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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VOLA - 24 Light-Years[^]
Just two more days until the new VOLA album is released!
Their debut is one of my favorite albums ever (and they've been SOTW at least twice).
After that, their second was a bit of a let down, although still good it lacked some of the power of the first.
Now they've released some new singles and 24 Light-Years is among the best they've released since their debut!
Looking forward to the third
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It sounds like a Christmas song being played backwards and underwater, with Chris Martin singing over the top of it...
It's not bad end result though
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musefan wrote: It sounds like a Christmas song being played backwards and underwater Alright...
musefan wrote: with Chris Martin singing over the top of it... Who?
musefan wrote: It's not bad end result though
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Sander Rossel wrote: Who?
The Coldplay singer
Disclaimer: I am not particularly a fan, but they have a couple songs that are acceptable
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musefan wrote: a couple songs that are acceptable Clocks and Speed of Sound, most notably
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Ring in one's ears ? (4,6)
"I didn't mention the bats - he'd see them soon enough" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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CROP CIRCLE!
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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"I didn't mention the bats - he'd see them soon enough" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Oh bugger.
I thought that was a joke ...
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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I didn't get much use out of my Kill-A-Watt until it stopped working. It looks to be a pigtail fuse in a size that is hard to find (i.e., very small, 0.2A, 250V) , such that even Newark Electronics doesn't seem to carry it. (Of course, anyone that knows a good store for electrical parts with a huge selection should proffer it here.)
So I think I want to get a much more rugged meter; and no, I don't want to rig up something using a conventional multimeter - I want the only hot lines to be the NEMA male & female. At the very least, I'd like it to be something that I could fix myself, using a multimeter to diagnose it.
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I go to Digikey or Mouser when I shop for electronic parts. If you cannot find your fuse there, it probably doesn’t exist.
Mircea
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Pick a few of the larger fuse manufacturers and ask if they have something that will fit (or they may even have a vast product display/listing online). If they do then find out who sells it.
Here's a list of candidates. [^] For one of them, I got two click in to here [^] but, since I don't know any more about your fuse than it load limit and that it's tiny, I had to stop.
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"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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Kelly Herald wrote: Have you checked Mouser.com?
After your message, I have. Thanks!
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This is a question for the hardware hackers among us, particularly those with experience developing devices that use I2C, SPI, SDMMC, and/or I2S busses.
I write a lot software to communicate over such busses these days, and after abandoning the Arduino framework because it's too hobby-kit and not really great for commercial stuff, IMO - I've had to rewrite a lot of "driver" code because it exists for Arduino but not for example, for the ESP-IDF.
Debugging driver code bus issues are a pain - I really need to see the signals on the bus sometimes. This is why I want opinions from folks that have worked with an oscilloscope (or better tool?) to debug I/O on these busses.
What do you use? What do you recommend? Basically I need to (for example on I2C) wire up my scope to SDA and SCL lines, and see the timing on the SCL, to check the levels of the SDA to get my data 1s and 0s. Preferably I need a modern device that can log to my PC over USB, bluetooth or wifi because an I2c bus operates at 100khz and an SPI at 20, 40 or 80mhz a lot of times (at least on an ESP32) and I need to examine it after the fact to see the bits - or rather, the levels and edges I can translate to 1s and 0s.
If the scope can measure multiple inputs at once, and if it can sync to an external clock signal (for example, SCL on an I2C bus, or SCK? on an SPI bus) that would be awesome.
I don't care that much about cost, but I was hoping to keep it under $500USD unless there's compelling reason to spend more.
I also don't need a device that can handle a lot of current or voltage. I'm dealing with sub 12vdc, usually less than +5.5vdc, < 3amps
Real programmers use butterflies
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It's been years since I got my hands dirty on this stuff, but I hear good things about PicoScope gear[^] . The 2000 series would probably be enough for you, and it's certainly within your budget.
Cheers,
Peter
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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The PicoScope 2000 looks like just the ticket. Thanks!
Real programmers use butterflies
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Checked it out, it has built in support for I2C debugging, so that's really all you need it seems like.
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I was looking at it and I might spring for the 3000 since I don't think the 2000 can do SPI (not enough bandwidth)
The 3000 can do SPI
It's got a price to match though.
Real programmers use butterflies
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