Stan,
Your "send" button seems to be warn out so that it is stuck, producing
triplets. :-)
This reminded me an old story I heard from my father. In the Soviet Union,
[one of] the first camera that allowed quick successive shots had
automatic film advance and shutter cocking that was driven by a
spring-powered motor.
The problem was with the reliability of the mechanism that was stopping
the film advance after each shot (a ratchet?). It was resulting in a
person shooting a large portion of a film (or the entire film) in a
matter of few seconds.
I just tried to look up what that camera was, and I am suspecting it could
be "Leningrad". That's a rangefinder, and it was produced in 1956-1968.
If interested, see, e.g. here: http://camerapedia.wikia.com/wiki/Leningrad
or here: http://www.sovietcams.com/index.php?-584898753
Cheers,
Igor
Stanley Halpin Thu, 31 Mar 2016 07:11:52 -0700 wrote:
I have been having reliability issues with my internet connection. Basic
setup is a Charternet-supplied Motorola modem connected to our cable from
the outside. Within the house I use wifi rather than cable, using an Apple
“Airport Extreme” as a basestation, supplemented with two small Airport
Express as signal boosters (and one of them is connected to a printer and
also to my stereo amp Aux input jack, giving me a means to “Airplay” my
iTunes collection without needing to listen to my computer’s speakers).
So, modem -> basestation -> boosters -> computer in the back room.
For at least a year now I have been having issues with a dropped
connection to the internet. For most of that time I have been blaming it
on either the cable system or on the cable modem. Powering off and
restarting the modem (and basestation) seemed to work most of the time.
But then lately it was getting much worse, to the point that I was losing
the connection within a few hours of a reset. I knew it wasn’t an issue
with one or both of the boosters because the lack of connectivity showed
up even when using a tablet or laptop in the living room within a few feet
of the basestation. Sunday I suddenly realized that the basestation itself
was possibly at fault!
Yesterday I received from B&H a new Airport Extreme basestation (6th Gen)
to replace my old Airport Extreme basestation (2nd Gen). Life is good. I
am once again living in the fast lane…
I am still a bit baffled as my naive expectation is that electronic gear
will either go bad within weeks of purchase or it will last forever. But
apart from a major speed boost coming with the move from 2nd to 6th
Generation, the changeover seems to have also taken care of the
reliability issue. So I guess even electronics wear out.
stan
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