What were these strange anchor plates for?
Category: Fnord!
Fnord! (you can’t see me)
Well, somewhere, engineering was attempted
Here’s a supermicro that pissed us off this week. It’s from 2015 and clearly got dumped on us as the result of a certain “text-that-gets-scrolled-on-the-bottom-of-the-news” vendor cleaning out back stock when my workplace ordered a new system.
Blaarffff. It literally seems like the bios doesn’t like certain monitors, and you have to fight it for hours to get video. You’d think with a vendor like Supermicro you’d get a board built with better parts but this thing looks like a damn Soyo. Remember Soyo? They drove themselves out of business by delivering dumpshit. This Supermicro sure looks like overpriced dumpshit complete with “hey look it’s 2001 again” capacitors.
More folderol to follow
Slightly perplexing
I’ve always wondered why these car wash signs have a warning about hot lenses…. Who’s really gonna be touching that?
Translated
Found glitch, midtown Sacramento, California.
BatterYEET
This is a real head scratcher, what went wrong here (everything?) and how did it go that wrong.
After:
It seems to me like the cover fell off then the truck took a quick turn, but who knows. I couldn’t get the batteries back in that same way. Uh, ok, it works now
Why The Comments Section Is Always A Dumpster Fire
waaaait for it. I used simple mathematics and it was too much for at least one commenter.
Herblederble
We have these neat signs in our lobby at work with the station logos on them. Originally they were screwed to the wall, leaving holes in them (argh!). At times I had to take them off so they could be used in promotional videos and such then put them back.
The lobby was painted so they came down and I decided this time to put them up with3M Command strips. Yes, their URL is actually command.com … I’ll never forget using DOS…
I used the strips that come backed in that funky high grade Velcro that connects and disconnects with a crunchy snap action, so the signs can go on and off the wall in seconds as needed. Beautiful! I kinda went by memory of where they hung, and it all went great until……
I swear I put that calendar up in the same place using the same anchors in the wall but now it fouls the KKXS sign!
Oh well. For the amazingly weedy share that station pulls in and the amount of grief its satellite automation causes me, it can stay there, right above the calendar everyone in traffic uses and the Keurig nobody uses.
On another note, I clearly have a lot to learn about MySQL. Last night a change I’d made to its configuration led to a “No space left on device” screwage as it shot logs like a firehose. That’s why this site was returning THE VOID when accessed last night.
Best error message ever
Found on a monitor of unknown function at a Love’s truck stop
OH SNAP THE WORDPRESS MOBILE APP GLITCHED ITSELF TO DEATH WHILE TRYING TO POST AN ERROR MESSAGE ABOUT AN ERROR MESSAGE AND DID IT TWICE 😀
Best error message ever
Found on a monitor of unknown function at a Love’s truck stop
I love boring transmitters!
By this I mean the ones where you install it, then outside of routine maintenance, it just works and never asks for more. Boring….NVlt getting the 5.0 software update.
Always move the Pusheen to the center before updating, otherwise you have to do it again. I don’t know why and I’m not questioning it. Yours doesn’t have a Pusheen on it? Uh, that’s a highly technical problem.
Boring backplane
Elsewhere, this Crown started losing its boringness. It started occasionally dropping output. I’ll be replacing it with a fully boring transmitter soon. I bet it’s not much more of an issue than a dried cap in the power supply.
Note to self: print a Pusheen to leave on top of the new one.