Agilent don’t like Canadians? – update, yes they do!
I was looking at IEEE Spectrum online earlier, as is my wont, when I noticed one of the adverts by Agilent for some new kind of oscilloscope. By entering an email address they’d enter you into a competition to win a Agilent ‘scope, so I did so, then checked out the Terms and Conditions. Should’ve [...]
Enterprise awaits
Oh, my word, she is lovely indeed. (Virgin Galactic on Flickr) I’m glad to know that Burt Rutan echoes some concerns that are similar to my own though. Branson must know that you have to give your customers something to look forward to – hence yesterday’s roll-out. If Rutan had had his way, however, no [...]
Engineering Humour: Civil Edition
A lecturer, on discussing soil forms with the class: So, who’s got a good foundation in soil? A few people laughed, a few people cried, most people were silent.
Engineer Jokes IV
With regards to a colleague who works in software: Geoff: “So, he knows something about the hardware too, it seems.” Me: “Yes, I’d say he’s got a good grounding in it.” Gosh, these are just getting worse and worse…
Engineer Jokes III
From an email sent a littler earlier today: Also, looking at the datasheet for the [unit], I don’t see any reference to calibration. Got to admit, I was quite pleased with that one.
Engineer Jokes II
Really is an ongoing series now… So I am working on why a particular board with a micro on it keeps hanging whenever I plug a DC power source into it. A colleague notes that because there’s a laptop plugged in at the “top” of an isolation barrier, and the DC power source plugged in [...]
Engineer Jokes I
The first in presumably an ongoing series… There is a debounce problem with a circuit I am troubleshooting which requires a couple of pullup resistors. I ask my boss where I can find a couple of leaded resistors, and he tells me the cupboard in which they are in. I then reply – “actually don’t [...]
On Dual-booting
I’ve gone through this exact process before, except it was Suse 9.0 pro and sans the sharks. (Edited to link only as full picture breaks layout a bit)
