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Ok, it's working now. There's just this little unrelated thing I noticed. Might as well take care of that while I'm at it.

Should be an easy fix. Let me get in there real quick and... CRAP!

Ok, it's working now. There's just this little unrelated thing I noticed. Might as well take care of that while I'm at it. Should be an easy fix. Let me get in there real quick and... CRAP!

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[–] • 11 pts

I destroyed a new CRT monitor in like 10 minutes, by trying to overclock the Hz or whatever the fuck I was doing for no good reason at all.

In my lows in life there is no difference between me and a nigger, the difference is that I learn from my mistakes.

[–] [deleted] • 3 pts

I've overclocked every CRT I owned as far as it could go before it could no longer display an image. I had no idea you could break it that way.

[–] • 3 pts (edited )

I didn't either before I broke it. I mean must have been like 15 years ago or something. A relatively loud noise came from inside the CRT and then the screen compressed to a line, then that line compressed to a single dot in the middle of the screen. After that point it was completely broken and unfixable (didnt have knowledge ofbelectronics)

[–] • 2 pts

Probably burned up the yoke coil and/or driver circuit.

[–] [deleted] • 1 pt

Speaking of CRTs, I hooked up my old CRT recently and while the resolution wasn't great, there was a warmth and depth to the image that an LCD just can't replicate. 3d games felt a lot more immersive.

One day I will own the legendary Sony FW900...

[–] [deleted] • 2 pts

Sticks head back in stair railing

[–] [deleted] • 1 pt (edited )

Which Hz, the horizontal or vertical?

Either way, the deflection yokes are wound to be a particular value of inductance, which in is part of a tuned ramp oscillator circuit basically. When you try to force the oscillator to drive the yokes out of the range of frequencies they are tuned to operate, large magnetic fields can build up in the yoke and then dump all of that energy at once back into the circuit .

Edit: Saw your other comment. You blew it up real good.

[–] [deleted] • 11 pts

I don't think that bolt is tight enough... I'll just give it one more little tweak.

Crap!

[–] • 2 pts

I do this far too often to even laugh at this.

[–] • 2 pts

Sometimes the enemy of good is better.

[–] [deleted] • 2 pts

Had this happen in many production factories.

[–] [deleted] • 8 pts

I see you're not a programmer.

Oh hey I'll just rewrite this function to make it work better while I'm fixing this bug...

[–] • 2 pts

The title is as ambiguous as it is because I guess it applies to all kinds of work.

The only software of consequence I've ever written is interfacing with specialized measurement equipment in a production environment. It controls the devices, reads and evaluates the results, does some basic and some more advanced statistics, saves everything into CSV files and gives a one page text only printout.

In the 25 years I developed and maintained that ol' piece of junk, several tens of millions of components were evaluated by it. Yeah, I know exactly what you mean. :)

[–] • 2 pts

When you dive into an old avenue in your code and you hope you left enough documentation so you'll only have to compile and test two or three times.

When you find something really dumb and overengineered but are afraid to change it because it might break something else,

When you have to implement measures to make sure your users don't take short cuts because each measure takes a minimum of 450 ms plus some time to manually reposition the adapter plus couple 10s of milliseconds of contact settling time. Wait for the acoustic feedback from the computer, before you disconnect the DUT. Or else it get's the hose again :)

[–] • 1 pt

I just tore an entire webapp apart because a foundational function wasn't intuitive enough

[–] • 5 pts

Caulking something. Oh my goodness.

[–] • 2 pts

There's probably no dry skin on this one yet. And it looks a little uneven. Tongue at the right angle.

"Honey, is everything all..." "LEAVE ME THE FUCK ALONE!"

[–] • 2 pts

You must have witnessed it. How do I hate caulk let me count the ways..

[–] • 3 pts

Let me see your caulk

[–] • 1 pt

hah.

me welding anything.

[–] • 1 pt

Yeah, I'd REALLY screw that up..

[–] • 1 pt

i mean technically, i can do it, but someone has to set it up first and its going to be utterly shit.

[–] • 3 pts

This is literally the definition of "IT Support".

[–] • 3 pts

Been there a few times.

Should be just a few minutes work...and then a few hours later and a tonne of frustration.

[–] [deleted] • 0 pt

Had to explain this to a guy that found a new love of maintenance at a later stage in life.

Whatever you think is going to be a 5 min fix never is.

When you quote a job always quote for 2hrs on site. Better to over estimate then under.

That 1hr job you quoted for 2 will take 5 minutes.

[–] • 0 pt

Not maintenance related, but similar...

I would always give my bosses an honest estimation at how long a job would take... and the times shit came up or it was more complicated than it first look, I'd always get shitt with no understanding.

So now I just tack on a bunch of time to my guess or give some vague answer that I'll know once I'm into it...

[–] [deleted] • 0 pt

Only way to appease desk jockeys. They'll never understand how maintenance actually works until they are underneath a house with you in mud dust etc.

Everything to a desk jockeys is key in lock and it opens. Unless they are prior maintenance, then a quick silence over the phone when asked how long it'll take will give them all they need to know.

[–] • 2 pts

Yep I know how that feels

[–] • 4 pts

There's this German proverb that appx. translates to: "I built something and tore it down with my own ass."

[–] • 2 pts (edited )

I know another German proverb - " Das machine is nicht fur gefingerpoken und mittengrabben. Ist easy schnappen der springenwerk, blowenfusen und corkenpoppen mit spitzensparken. Ist nicht fur gewerken by das dummkopfen. Das rubbernecken sightseeren keepen hands in das pockets. Relaxen und vatch das blinkenlights!!!

[–] • 1 pt

:) It's stitched onto all our underwear as per DIN UNTERHOSEN69. You must have relatives here.

Say "WHY THE FUCK DO YOU STILL LIVE HERE", when you next meet them.

[–] • 0 pt

I think you mean 'Ich hab' Scheisse gebaut', which means 'I built shit', or 'I fucked up'.

[–] • 1 pt

I’ll give people some advice about fixing something. If your friend is a dating a cunt, don’t tell them. Cause they’ll kick you out of their life before the cunt.

[–] • 1 pt

Story time? :-{)

[–] • 1 pt

It’s a long story so no. Just take my word for it

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[–] • 1 pt

I document that there's something off and it could cause future problems but that it isn't a problem but merely a concern currently. When in IT, there's a lot more at stake then just breaking something that isn't broken.

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