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Just had to scold a distributor tech who should have known better. 

We have a module on our POS that handles the online communications credit card transactions.  This module, which I'll call the DCIP, has to be programmed with what processor platform the site is using, and all of the site specific information.   You can't swap these units between sites and expect them to 100% work without reprogramming them. 

 

Yeah, that's what the tech was trying to do.  He had some spares from some sites that switched to a competitors equipment, so when he had a site that had one fail, he tried to swap in one of spares he had.   Fortunately for him, the previous owners of these units had shut down their merchant accounts and that's why he was having problems processing credit cards through them, because if they hadn't, they probably would have appeared to work, but the money would have gone to the old owners, and not to the site he was trying to fix. 

That would have been a freaking mess to get fixed, and I would have dumped it ENTIRELY ON HIM. 

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5 hours ago, Green Eyed Monsty said:

 

If you look carefully in most movies with a Navy Setting any scene that is placed in the mess [the actual name for the chow hall aboard ship] shows tables with a raised lip around the edge.

GEM

I can 100% confirm that all the tables on the mess decks have raised lips on them.

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5 hours ago, Chaoswolf said:

I can 100% confirm that all the tables on the mess decks have raised lips on them.

Same here, even on Aircraft Carriers.

You are more likely to have an object "walk" off the edge of a table than slide off because of the harmonic vibration that occurs when a Carrier winds up to "Air Ops" speed. 

First the screws [propellers to all you side stepping beach creatures] start turning fast, which causes the drive shafts to vibrate, then the entire ship develops a vibration that reverberates from one end to the other and back again until they slow down again.

Ever ridden in a car with an out of balance tire?  It's like that, only a lot bigger and more pronounced.

GEM

Addendum:  The reverberating vibration gets reinforced every time one of the catapults fires an aircraft off.

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5 hours ago, Pegazus said:

Besides that, the s-foils are in the attack position! You wouldn’t want that for landing! I suspect an infiltrator. BOTLO.

 

 Wait... which one was Botlo, again? He was one of the bounty hunters, right?

 

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3 minutes ago, Glitterwolf said:

image-74.jpegWhy not?

What's wrong with DogTzu?  😜


It inserted into the quote. I don’t know why. But that is what the pic is, a Bull-Tzu. 

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