worky
I'm really not a tool snob, im ok with a $0.99 Screwdriver, and a $5 soldering iron! but I must say my company has the most shitty patchwork scattered mismatched mongrel tools I could have imagined!
I know how things got done, its because employee who just moved to another state ***** had his own.
Im seriously doing a tool inventory tomorrow, and making a wishlist for us to go out and atleast get a functional cheap Chinese model of whatever sad broken mostly missing ones should have!
Today I was working as a telepresence semi autonomous robot for above mentioning tool owning recent local co-woker. To avoid costing our company any extra money on hardware hacking a good solution to a fickle problem we had here at work. My electronics skills are a little rusty, but today I did a pretty bangup job, even when i had to do a last minute surface mount rework using the most pitted tip missing stubby pencil style weller soldering iron (ive had $1.99 biglots irons that were so much better! I got it done but it was rather like giving a buzz haircut with a fire axe.
But ontop of all that fun, the day kept erupting in busy, I even had a pc I was not totally done fixing after a nasty virus cleanup (customer brought it in), all in all the pc is clean, and most of the windows permisisons have been fixed and all patched up. But it was nearly my crowning moment in disinfecting a windows pc that looked hopeless. had i had the time topoke it for 25more minutes i think it would have been back to a healthy (as healthy as they come). as it is im sure its just going to get formatted and not patched/protected when the owner gets fedup with the remaining quirks.
It sucks when you are so close to victory, only to have it carted out.
While I'm rambling on, it looks like there is going to be a BarCamp here.
http://www.barcamp.org/BarCampAlbuquerque
looks like it could be fun, almost a tech con, or a mini maker/programmers fair. I think i will plan on attending, perhaps as me or perhaps for work.
I know how things got done, its because employee who just moved to another state ***** had his own.
Im seriously doing a tool inventory tomorrow, and making a wishlist for us to go out and atleast get a functional cheap Chinese model of whatever sad broken mostly missing ones should have!
Today I was working as a telepresence semi autonomous robot for above mentioning tool owning recent local co-woker. To avoid costing our company any extra money on hardware hacking a good solution to a fickle problem we had here at work. My electronics skills are a little rusty, but today I did a pretty bangup job, even when i had to do a last minute surface mount rework using the most pitted tip missing stubby pencil style weller soldering iron (ive had $1.99 biglots irons that were so much better! I got it done but it was rather like giving a buzz haircut with a fire axe.
But ontop of all that fun, the day kept erupting in busy, I even had a pc I was not totally done fixing after a nasty virus cleanup (customer brought it in), all in all the pc is clean, and most of the windows permisisons have been fixed and all patched up. But it was nearly my crowning moment in disinfecting a windows pc that looked hopeless. had i had the time topoke it for 25more minutes i think it would have been back to a healthy (as healthy as they come). as it is im sure its just going to get formatted and not patched/protected when the owner gets fedup with the remaining quirks.
It sucks when you are so close to victory, only to have it carted out.
While I'm rambling on, it looks like there is going to be a BarCamp here.
http://www.barcamp.org/BarCampAlbuquerque
looks like it could be fun, almost a tech con, or a mini maker/programmers fair. I think i will plan on attending, perhaps as me or perhaps for work.