Re: AFCA cheap imitation Summary for 09-May-08

"Reunite Gondwanaland (Mary Shafer)" <reunite.gondwana@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> Of course, every one here has some experience with technology and its
> foibles; flight research is a wonderful career for someone who wants
> to go bare knuckle with technology.  I often referred to myself, not
> entirely joking, as thra****ng in the underbrush of knowledge.  The
> classic advice to cycle power to fix a balky component, for example,
> is how we fixed flight computer problems on the F-8 DFBW.  Sometimes
> we'd have to do it more than once, but it worked every time.

That sounds like my work laptop. Once or twice a month I have to reboot
multiple times to get everything working right. Sometimes the mouse isn't
there, sometimes the network doesn't connect, but most often the display
driver goes missing. My record of 14 boots to get it going one morning
still holds.

I don't call the help desk because I don't want them to mess up the
computer.
I've developed a routine. I can usually get 'er started in about 4 tries
while
sipping my first cup of coffee, cycling up in VGA mode, and then resetting
the display if its driver kicks in.

Don