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I got up this morning and found a note on the kitchen table:
As soon as you went to bed last night, my computer went black as though I had put it to sleep. I was trying to get the WiFi to come back on and in between tries the screen went black. I checked the power cord and and plug [it's a laptop, BTW]. If there is something you can do in the morning, please do.
When I looked at it this morning, the power on LED was not lit. So, I pushed the on button and, sure enough...
After High School was over for the day I worked at a T.V. repair shop. I can't begin to tell you the number of times I got a house call and all I had to do was plug the set back in to the wall. The home maker had moved the T.V. to vacuum....
I put that antenna up because Tesla said there was free electricity in the ether, so why do I have to plug the TV in?
I certainly hope you told her you had to replace a metric shit ton of parts, and rewrite some code to make it all work; and that it took all day. That's what I'd do, but that's just me......
The secret to infinite energy...Quote:
Originally Posted by KG4CGC
This was back in the early 70's and most TV's were still tube powered. What we would do was to adjust the TV picture (B&W tracking, touch up the convergence, focus....) But one homemaker vacuum the inside of the TV because of the dust, did not turn out well.Quote:
Originally Posted by K7SGJ
Had a problem earlier today with some sites coming up, others no. Support tech from my ISP had me run ipconfig /flushdns from a dos screen (or whatever they call it now) in Windows 10. Appreciated his going the extra mile for me.
Yea, the Internet was wacked today for a while.
Switching for a bit to OpenDNS fixed it.
Back to normal.
Sorry everyone... I tripped over a power cable in the DC, that fed 4 backbone routers.Quote:
Originally Posted by WØTKX
I use OpenDNS by default and never even noticed any problem.