Used to have that with telco data circuits as well. We would report a T1 down, it would magically start working. The resolution? "Cleared while testing"

Can you share a picture? I know exactly where to get that information (my day job may or may not involve that company and the product information center may or may not be in my building. Maybe.)

Frankly, I usually find the most productive help desk is http://www.google.com :( As someone who dies IT deskside support for my 'real job', there is a lot of truth to that statement. I use Google more than I care to admit when researching a problem. The trick is being able to weed out the garbage ...

When customizing a CMS, look for a template that is mobile-aware. After implementing, test that it is working properly using one of the online sites that exist for emulating the user experience on a mobile device. There are quite a few free sites out there that you can plug your URL into and it will...

We use ServiceNow (the abomination that the FCC is using for this reporting) at my day job and have found it does not like IE or Edge at all. It prefers Chrome or FireFox.

When we bought our NexGen system from Prophet way back when, it came with MusicGen installed (and licensed). I am looking to finally do an OS upgrade on the system (still running XP and is showing signs of age) but have hit a roadblock with MusicGen. The rest of the software RCS can provide. They sa...

I use Nagios for monitoring items within the station (network switches, UPS units, etc). I set up a simple module to check for the mount points for our stream (we use a Shoutcast streaming server). If the stream encoder is sending, the mount point exists. If the encoder goes offline for some reason,...

RodeoJack wrote:One of the interesting parts of this profession... put 5 engineers in a room with one goal and see how many solutions you get.

You get 10 solutions using 20 different parts in 30 different ways

taylorengineer wrote:...you're trying to tell us you can't bend the laws of physics??!!

That's best left to starship engineers by the name of Scott

WinSCP for Windows has very nice scripting capabiliites. We use it at my 'day job' to automate some data transfers (via task scheduler) for both FTP and SFTP protocols. The WinSCP website has a pretty decent tutorial (at least, it was good enough for me). The TL;DR version is that you create a file ...

What perfect timing. GM is on the phone with BSW now ordering 5 packs of the Better Bands.

ChuckG wrote:They're in the same box with the wire-wrapping posts and tools

I just bought a wire wrap tool recently. At my day job, we still have lines running on protector blocks that have WW terminations. These were installed by Bell Telephone in the 70's.

I have used Express PCB, PCB123, and another whose name escapes me at the moment. OSH Park is another. As someone else mentioned, check out Nuts & Volts for vendors. You can also look through the Hack-A-Day forums (just ignore the trolls, unless you need the entertainment). Some of these companies d...

RGORJANCE wrote:...at 5'5", 250 pounds on me would mean I wouldn't need motorized transportation.....I could just "roll" !

Fossil

I have said many times before - I'm in shape. Round is a shape, right?

kkiddkkidd wrote:For a little taste, google her name and check out the FaceBook page.

Why did I do that? Why? My brain hurts now...and I have work to get done!