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Measure twice,
Cut once.
Read the instructions again,
Swear copiously.
Never underestimate the power of stupid things in large numbers
--- Serious Sam
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I was building prototypes for a show in Germany - three of them, using all three populated PCBs in existence at the time, using £1000 per unit print heads, and because the metalwork was wrong they were a real pain to assemble: hundred of little washers needed to space things out, balanced carefully until you had the cover on and could get the screws in: it took ages. Couple of hours per unit instead of the 10 or 15 minutes it should have taken for production units. Running to a tight headline, because the MD was taking them with him when he drove over that night (and I'd managed to avoid going at all for the first time because I was too knackered after four months of very, very hard work to get this design up and running from scratch).
Plugged in, purged and tested the first unit. It was fine.
Plugged in the second unit, power on *BANG*. Oh sh*t.
Dismantle it quick, knowing damn well it's fatal because of the analog smell. I'd plugged the mains onto the PSU one pin out and stuffed 240AC up it's earth...completely fried everything.
Dismantle the third and check - it's fine. Reassemble (more hours) test and approve.
Then have to go and confess... 
Then on phone to hardware designers and change mains connector on all units (including current designs) to make sure it can't ever be done again. 
Never underestimate the power of stupid things in large numbers
--- Serious Sam
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Just got the latest greatest effect of the "Glenn Effect" setting up to some battery calculations for another client who is (US based) the test rig he brought over (with the VB abortion that has been the bane of my life since) was working fine had to unplug every thing and shift it as the there was another use for the meeting room. Shift that, plug everything in and poof!
Tis not a good a day to be me
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It's five to crackjack on Poets day: go to the pub, you can't do anything useful today!
Never underestimate the power of stupid things in large numbers
--- Serious Sam
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After today I'm wondering what I can break in the Pub!...
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As long as it's not the beer pump, you'll be fine. Just stay well away from the pool table: they aren't cheap... 
Never underestimate the power of stupid things in large numbers
--- Serious Sam
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This is exactly what they make full size decals with cut-outs for. 
Just re-mill, then place said sticker over the port covering the mistake 
I have a mini-cnc with Mach3 on the desk next to me but I haven't gotten it fully up and going yet. I know of CamBam but haven't actually played with it.
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My experience of CamBam is RUN, RUN FAST & Hide!
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Is apparently the reason[^] why our winters are getting colder:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-25771510[^]
Quote:
Scientists are saying that the Sun is in a phase of "solar lull" (aka a "Maunder Minimum[^]") - meaning that it has fallen asleep - and it is baffling them.
History suggests that periods of unusual "solar lull" coincide with bitterly cold winters.
Does this mean I can send my heating bill to Bob? 
"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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Colder?? Uhm... I haven't seen snow (or below zero (°C) temperatures ) here in weeks... it was sometimes even as warm as 20+°C ... 
(Not that I like snow ... or the cold... I'm perfectly happy with the moderate temperatures  )
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It's kinda chilly around Rotkreuz right now. I want the sun back.
Not even the Ticinesi got sun, instead they got a shitload of snow.
Veni, vidi, caecus | Everything summarizes to Assembly code
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Marco Bertschi wrote: they got a shitload of snow
That would be brown snow then, I gather?
Cheers!
"I had the right to remain silent, but I didn't have the ability!"
Ron White, Comedian
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Who's winters are getting colder? It sure isn't ours.
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This winter is crazy warm where I am, south Europe, hardly had the heating on at all.
Mind you it can change in a day or two....
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Here! A couple of weeks ago, the lows went down to -10F to -15F. We haven't had cold like that in 20+ years.
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The BBC, suggesting the sun might be behind climate change?!??!?!  
Whatever next, the Guardian!
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The Maunder Minimum was an event that happened back between 1645 and 1715.
There have been other minima, but not called Maunder.
(Oort, Wolf, Sporor and Dalton).
We are currently entering A solar minimum, but certainly not the Maunder Minimum.
It could, however, lead to, as you say, a new, second, Little Ice Age, similar to the one that ran between 1550 and 1850, which, co-incidentally, came straight after the Mediaeval Warm Period.
I am one who like to look at data rather than make up a model based on what I want to happen for the purposes of funding, and so I can categorically state that no-one knows for sure what will happen but that it is at the very least possible, and given the data and cyclical nature of these things, probable that the Earth will be entering a cold period. Whether it turns out to be an Ice Age or not is a different matter.
(Although we are actually still IN an ice age).
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Obscurum per obscurius.
Ad astra per alas porci.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur .
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Colder? One of the main roads through Crawley was well and truly flooded this morning. Some pratt in a taxi drove through the flooded road, which did for his taxi and he sat there in the water causing major congestion for miles around. The police tried to "help" (rolleyes) by placing an accident sign by the lights and slinging a length of "POLICE LINE DO NOT CROSS" tape across two posts to stop other traffic driving through. Naturally, the sign and tape was no obstacle as they simply drove around it compounding the problem that Pratt Tosspot-Dipstick caused in the first place. A 12-15 min commute took 1hr 20min as every road was clogged.
Are those sodding jet streams behind it all, picking up 2/3rd of the Atlantic and dumping it on poor old Blighty?
If there is one thing more dangerous than getting between a bear and her cubs it's getting between my wife and her chocolate.
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I have said this before.
The Maunder Minimum is 5 beers!
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Vivic wrote: I have said this before.
The Maunder Minimum is 5 beers!
Bullshit!
The Maunder Maximum is 2 beers and he has never finished the 2nd.
Michael Martin
Australia
"I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible."
- Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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Yeah, I've read your posts, Mick. Apparently our dear host is no real Aussie. Maybe he's been a closet Canadian all his life... They claim to like beer, but they still make that Molson's stuff.
Will Rogers never met me.
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But from the upvotes I suspect at least two people have solved it.
The answer is BURGER KING.
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Obscurum per obscurius.
Ad astra per alas porci.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur .
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Spam! Spam in the lounge!
Burn the heretic!
Never underestimate the power of stupid things in large numbers
--- Serious Sam
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Burger King is not Spam. Spam has too much meat in it be used by Burger King.
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