Monthly Archives: September 2017
The Critics Are Wrong!
When my WiFi adapters came in this past Monday at my client’s, also in the Amazon box was another Wireless 4 Channel Remote Control Unit like the ones that I not use to control our rig’s slide and rear AC’s.
My next project was to remote our outside ‘porch lights’ so I can turn them on from the truck when we come home at night.
Of course I only need to use one of the four relays for this, but when I checked the price on Amazon the single relay models were only a couple of bucks cheaper.
Using my 12v power supply I hooked it up using alligator clip leads and it worked perfectly. But when I tried to wire it into the 12v in the pedestal by the door I found that the 12v wasn’t consistent. It measured 12vdc on the meter but when I put the load of the module on it, the voltage dropped to about 7v. And although the unit lights up, that voltage is not enough to operate it. So I’ll have find another 12 voltage source in the pedestal.
The Critics Are Wrong!
The Orville, is a new science-fiction series from Seth MacFarlane, who both created the show and stars in it.
MacFarlane, better known for his other TV shows, the cartoon’s Family Guy and American Dad, stars as Captain Ed Mercer, new captain of the exploratory ship, The Orville.
I guess that’s a better name than The Wilbur, but not by much.
The Union (think Star Trek’s Federation) is short on XO’s (Executive Officers – think Commander Riker on Next Gen) and so Mercer is force to accept his ex-wife who he caught cheating on him with a blue alien, who Mercer calls Papa Smurf.
The back and forth bickering between the two, even while under attack, is a refreshing change from the stiff attitudes of most similar shows.
Set in 2418, he crew is the usual ragtag combo of aliens, both organic and mechanical, including a gelatinous blog voiced by Norm MacDonald. In addition, the special effects are great, the equal to anything I’ve seen recently.
The critics are all over the map about the show. It’s too much like Star Trek or Galaxy Quest, or not enough like them, but they pretty much uniformly hate it.
Which right off the bat told me I was probably going to like it. And I did.
Sure, there were a few rough spots, pretty much standard in any new show, but I’m sure it will all gel down the road.
Well Recommended!
Tomorrow it’s back on the road down to Clear Lake for the day, and then coming home in the afternoon, I’ll detour over to Katy to get my wife back, and then it’s home, probably with dinner along the way.
Hopefully, I’ll get to keep her for a while this time.
Thought for the Day:
It is always the best policy to speak the truth, unless of course you are an exceptionally good liar.” – Jerome K. Jerome
fgsfgsdf
Never Forgive! Never Forget!
Originally I had planned to go down to my Clear Lake’s client’s today, but changed my mind when my Amazon orders weren’t shown as out for delivery. So I decided to wait until tomorrow.
But then about 11am in came the text messages saying that my orders were out for delivery, so about 15 minutes later I was on the road south, getting to the office about 1pm.
And of course, my orders didn’t actually show up until about 3, but I got some other stuff done in the meantime.
I finally found the location of the InDesign catalog files so I could make product and price changes and then generate a new PDF file to send to customers. Boy, the ex-guy hid things sure hid things in squirrely places.
When the WiFi adapters finally showed up, I installed the first one on the Shipping computer in the back office.and it went really quickly. And in a first, they not only include a mini-CD for the drivers, but a 65 MB flash drive as well.
Which was a good thing since this computer doesn’t have a DVD player for some reason. Another weird choice from the ex-guy.
I plugged in the drive, selected Auto-Install and off it went. And a minute or so later, the computer rebooted, I plugged in the USB WiFi adapter and we were on the air. Easy Peezy.
But the second one didn’t go quite so well. The first machine was Win10, but this one was a Win7 version. But the setup software, which is supposed to know what version it’s running on, again installed the Win10 drivers.
Since I was running out of time (I need to be on the road back to Conroe by 4, or the traffic is even more of a nightmare than usual), I re-ran the setup.exe and manually installed the Win7 drivers, plugged in the adapter . . . and it didn’t work.
And I was out of time. When I come back Wednesday, I’ll delete all the drivers, including in the registry and try again. But just to be on the safe side, before I do anything, I’ll take the working adapter from the other computer and plug it into this one just to be sure it’s not the adapter itself.
Finally, if I needed a lawyer, I’d certainly want a Dick.
Thought for the Day:
asdfadfaf
