You have been granted three wishes! - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / general

author: Bendba
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: February 01, 2018, 05:23:44 am
content: Here is what happens when a UPS is wrongly set for 120V AC instead of 240V AC supply,The genie escapedSurprisingly, nothing elsethenthan* a 47uF 400V cap was damaged.Edit:I have a video clip but I can't find a simple free video hosting website.Here is the video:https://youtu.be/OLn6I0qcIlU*Thanks ludzinc

author: Cubdriver
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: February 01, 2018, 05:59:32 am
content: Quote from: Bendba on February 01, 2018, 05:23:44 amUhhhh... YouTube?-Pat

author: ludzinc
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: February 01, 2018, 06:33:23 am
content: Quote from: Bendba on February 01, 2018, 05:23:44 am*than

author: Whales
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: February 01, 2018, 07:44:58 am
content: *inhales electrolytic smoke*1. A working Windows 7 computer. My VM is acting funny and the physical hardware I just got down from the wall had a dying HDD.Right then, who's next?

author: Bendba
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: February 01, 2018, 08:42:28 am
content: Quote from: Cubdriver on February 01, 2018, 05:59:32 amI don't particularly like YouTube but ended up putting it up there.

author: Bendba
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: February 01, 2018, 01:14:28 pm
content: Quote from: Whales on February 01, 2018, 07:44:58 amHi,Sorry, I'm still trying to get that post to make sense. Got me lost of at "A working Windows 7 computer."

author: bd139
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: February 01, 2018, 01:16:51 pm
content: Wish for me: an HP3312A that isn't fucked to magically appear on ebay.Incidentally that woosh was pretty impressive.

author: GreyWoolfe
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: February 01, 2018, 11:31:37 pm
content: My 3 wishes? To look like Fabio, sing like Pavarotti and have the entire knowledge and skill set of the entire EEVBlog!

author: NiHaoMike
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: February 02, 2018, 01:46:44 am
content: I would like the reverse engineering and software engineering skills of Micah Elizabeth Scott, the beauty and popularity of Naomi Wu, and the electrical engineering skills of Nikola Tesla.

author: xrunner
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: February 02, 2018, 01:50:24 am
content: Well for one of my wishes I wish for 3 more wishes.

author: Halcyon
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: February 02, 2018, 02:16:52 am
content: Quote from: Bendba on February 01, 2018, 01:14:28 pmNothing wrong with Windows 7. Some people don't realise Microsoft actually did make a small handful of very good operating systems, Windows 2000 and Windows XP are among them. However Windows 7 is the last version I'll be personally using.

author: nes999
author_rank: Contributor
timestamp: February 02, 2018, 09:35:55 pm
content: My first and probably only wish would be to understand programming at least to a basic level. I've spent far too long trying to learn that.Sent from my VS988 using Tapatalk

author: nes999
author_rank: Contributor
timestamp: February 02, 2018, 09:37:07 pm
content: Quote from: Halcyon on February 02, 2018, 02:16:52 amI don't know if they still do, but alienware computers came with windows 7 even though windows 10 was out. You were instructed not to upgrade.Sent from my VS988 using Tapatalk

author: Mr. Scram
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: February 03, 2018, 12:19:58 am
content: Quote from: Halcyon on February 02, 2018, 02:16:52 amYou're missing out. Windows 8.1 is actually a great OS. It got bad press when just released and it was never able to shake that. Windows 10 can be nice, if you can get your hands on the proper versions. Those allow you to eliminate the annoying and nasty bits.Windows 7 has been nice and had a great run, but it's showing its age. People just see the GUI and think that's all there's to it, but under the hood 8.1 and 10 are much more modern OSs.

author: Cerebus
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: February 03, 2018, 03:06:26 am
content: Quote from: GreyWoolfe on February 01, 2018, 11:31:37 pmWhat, Fabio around at the Italian delicatessens? He's 67 and got a face like a bag of spanners!