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May. 30th, 2018 08:06 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
randomdreamsToday was nonstop fail. I showed my manager a really cool shortcut in a layout program we both use, and it simply refuses to work on his board, despite being wowie that's super cool on my board, so now he's more frustrated than if he didn't know about it at all.
Then I was trying to duplicate a network setup: a bunch of equipment connected via ethernet, so we could have two setups and double our throughput. I was looking at the network settings on one instrument, which very frustratingly has a total of five buttons as its entire user interface. Checking and setting stuff on it takes a careful reading of the user manual combined with press vs press-and-hold on combinations of buttons, and I managed to press-and-hold when I should have just pressed, which meant I reset the whole network configuration. So I reset everything to the original settings, and my coworker tried to run a program, and now every single instrument attached to that switch is unreachable by the program. The computer still sees everything. I can ping all the instruments. But the sequencing and communication program says nothing is there. Then for a minute it will see them and I can talk to them and check that the configurations are all the same as they were, and start a program running, and it talks for about two minutes, or maybe five, and then stops with a nothing-is-connected error. I go through the connection setup again, and it runs again, briefly. Nobody can figure out what's wrong. Our IT/network guy worked on it for two hours and said "that program doesn't work right." The drag is that last time around, it took me about three hours to get the network set up and then it ran fine for six months, which amounts to 800 hours of running. So, it can work. It just won't.
Then home, to start making dinner. I poured rice and water in the new rice cooker, and it won't turn on. It's like there's no power at all. So I got the old one, poured the rice in there, plugged it in, pushed start, unplugged what I thought was the new one, so I could take it apart, turned around to work on the dishes, turned back a few minutes later, and oh hey I unplugged the one that works. Well, at least it's running now.
Then I was trying to duplicate a network setup: a bunch of equipment connected via ethernet, so we could have two setups and double our throughput. I was looking at the network settings on one instrument, which very frustratingly has a total of five buttons as its entire user interface. Checking and setting stuff on it takes a careful reading of the user manual combined with press vs press-and-hold on combinations of buttons, and I managed to press-and-hold when I should have just pressed, which meant I reset the whole network configuration. So I reset everything to the original settings, and my coworker tried to run a program, and now every single instrument attached to that switch is unreachable by the program. The computer still sees everything. I can ping all the instruments. But the sequencing and communication program says nothing is there. Then for a minute it will see them and I can talk to them and check that the configurations are all the same as they were, and start a program running, and it talks for about two minutes, or maybe five, and then stops with a nothing-is-connected error. I go through the connection setup again, and it runs again, briefly. Nobody can figure out what's wrong. Our IT/network guy worked on it for two hours and said "that program doesn't work right." The drag is that last time around, it took me about three hours to get the network set up and then it ran fine for six months, which amounts to 800 hours of running. So, it can work. It just won't.
Then home, to start making dinner. I poured rice and water in the new rice cooker, and it won't turn on. It's like there's no power at all. So I got the old one, poured the rice in there, plugged it in, pushed start, unplugged what I thought was the new one, so I could take it apart, turned around to work on the dishes, turned back a few minutes later, and oh hey I unplugged the one that works. Well, at least it's running now.
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Date: 2018-05-31 09:22 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2018-05-31 02:55 pm (UTC)Hoping things are looking up now.
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Date: 2018-06-08 06:57 am (UTC)