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Stephen wrote:
> Invisible <voi### [at] dev null> wrote:
>> Yeah - but I thought *I* was the only one...
>
> What an egoist :)
> I suppose that you think that you are special :)
Oh the irony...
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4733018a$1@news.povray.org...
> Stephen wrote:
>> Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
>>> Yeah - but I thought *I* was the only one...
>>
>> What an egoist :)
>> I suppose that you think that you are special :)
>
> Oh the irony...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQqq3e03EBQ
I heard you say "I'm not!" ;-)
Marc
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> But the messages didn't turn out friendly because it was written by one
> of "our" type: an I.T. nerd / high priest, who disdains communications
> with and the intelligence of everyone except other I.T. nerds / high
> priests.
Hehe, I remember one of those "computer stupidities" where the program
gave an internal error saying "type mismatch", but the user typed the
word "mismatch" and it didn't solve the problem.
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> (I never really understood why programs produce core dumps. I mean,
> seriously. What chance is there of anybody *ever* deducing anything
> useful from this data? 10^-78?)
The original programmer with access to the sourcecode *can* deduce data
from it.
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Brian Elliott escribió:
> I did the same to one of those tiny 3-volt DC motors, like the cog-ended
> ones that are in battery-powered toys. A friend bragged at school he'd
> plugged one into the mains, and it went really incredibly fast and was
> really hot afterwards.
>
> So I did it, and it went instant POF, flash of light, small cloud of
> smoke, smell of ozone and the armature flew out of the casing onto the
> floor. It was too hot to pick up. No spin. The brushes were all
> twisted and blackened and the commutator was scorched.
>
> And in that instant, I knew my friend had lied. At the time, I was
> about 10 or 11.
I was once playing around with the flash of an old instant camera. I
kept saying it was safe because it used two AA batteries. My dad kept
saying it had some kind of transformer to do the flash, so there was
higher voltage inside.
When I walked away shaking after being surprised by the big flash (that
didn't exactly come out of the lamp, but from the circuits I was
touching with the screwdriver), my dad asked me what I had shorted... I
guess I was 10 or 11 too. Seems like a common age to screw up with
electricity?
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Nicolas Alvarez wrote:
> Hehe, I remember one of those "computer stupidities" where the program
> gave an internal error saying "type mismatch", but the user typed the
> word "mismatch" and it didn't solve the problem.
OK, that's *advanced*!
We have a buggy program that keeps throwing exceptions due to a "pure
virtual function call". I understand this term means something to C++
programmers. Anyway, the user who oversees the system is *convinced*
it's saying it's run out of virtual memory - a condition that has
absolutely nothing to do with the error in question. *sigh*
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Nicolas Alvarez wrote:
> I
> guess I was 10 or 11 too. Seems like a common age to screw up with
> electricity?
I made a solid-state amplifier glow. o_O
(Actually, you could arguably blame my mum for that one. I asked for a
1A fuse, and she gave me a fuse. I *really* should have paid much more
attention to the "36A" written on it - but my mum assured me that was
only surge protection or something. Hmm.)
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Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> Stephen wrote:
> > Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> >> Yeah - but I thought *I* was the only one...
> >
> > What an egoist :)
> > I suppose that you think that you are special :)
>
> Oh the irony...
Stephen
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Phil Cook wrote:
> And for some reason has perpetuated through countless operating systems
> of countless versions. I thought Microsoft had an entire department
> dedicated to user-friendliness; oh wait it's run by 'us' isn't it :-)
>
Still they produce frontends too slow and crappy for me (as a nerd) :p.
--
Eero "Aero" Ahonen
http://www.zbxt.net
aer### [at] removethiszbxtnetinvalid
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Brian Elliott wrote:
> "Alain" <ele### [at] netscapenet> wrote in message
> news:4731f3f7$1@news.povray.org...
>> Once when playing with a small speaker, I pluged it in a transformer
>> and was prety unimpressed by the feeble low hum I got, so, I plugged
>> it directly into the wall socket, hoping for a loud hum. Use a regular
>> electrical plug, hook the speaker whires in to it, plug it in. Instant
>> POF, flash of light, small cloud of smoke, smell of ozone and burnt
>> metal, bursted speaker's dome. The coil's whires got vaporised.
>> At the time, I was about 10 or 11.
>
> I did the same to one of those tiny 3-volt DC motors, like the cog-ended
> ones that are in battery-powered toys. A friend bragged at school he'd
> plugged one into the mains, and it went really incredibly fast and was
> really hot afterwards.
>
Every time I read these I feel more and more sorry for myself for NOT
doing something that stupid (and cool :p) as a kid.
--
Eero "Aero" Ahonen
http://www.zbxt.net
aer### [at] removethiszbxtnetinvalid
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