Things that are not our problem

[BravoOrig]

Since there was no bulb, just the fixture, and no apparent markings, I started with length, after not remembering the exact length when at the store, and buying a few incorrect bulbs, it was time to remove. I agree that this cheap light fixture can't be expected to work long.

The cabinet was an old Williams cabinet, and the game it came with, LED Storm, was placed in it later. So the coin door had a few buttons like reset highscore that no longer were wired up, no volume control on it, I did check the boards for a pot and found one, but it's adjustment seemed to make no change. Now I have computer speakers mounted and the volume control knob is obvious and sticks out from under the marquee. My son just loves to turn it up too loud, but he's 2 and hitting the buttons is a grand old time. Man I miss those speakers on my regular computer.

Bulbs typically aren't measured by their length, exactly. I'm not familiar with any that measure 14 inches, but I usually don't work with stuff that small. Industry normal for at least a decade has been F15T8s, which measure around 17 1/2". The one I was replacing was close in size to an F20T12, about 24 inches, but only close.



Under-cabinet flourescents work, but tend to die quickly, in my experience. If it dies, consider a couple of cheap standard light sockets and some compact flourescent bulbs. Make sure they're back from the marquee at least threeish inches. Try not to use incandescent (regular) light bulbs if possible; the heat from them is bad for the game, especially if the marquee is a translight (piece of plastic behind glass), rather than screened glass.

As for the game's volume, given the age of the game, it was either on a potentiometer, which would probably have been mounted on the coin box, and been removed and bypassed at some point, or it would have been a dial or pot mounted on the CPU. Some of those volume controls were Real Small.

[Spankmonkey]

Honestly, this is a daily occurrence for me. You know it's pretty bad when you're wondering if your medical policy covers a Lobotomy being performed on you.

Honestly, weigh the options, the pain of having all this technical knowledge and people constantly bothering you asking you stupid questions over and over.

Is it more of a pain talking to people who don't understand and knowing why you have a pounding headache, or is it best to know you have a headache, and not remember the reason for it?

I would rather take a sledge hammer to the face instead of trying to carry on a coherent conversation from a bulligerent idiot (customer) who refuses to both listen, and even comprehend something that you repeat to them over 10 times during the 3 hours you're on the phone with them.

Companies don't pay more because they have dufuses running them who are just as dumb as the customer.

[that_chick_in_I.T.]

Okay, another one.

If you have an already published site, and you call sales to move from one plan to another - with the consequent move to another server

And you ignored the e-mail advising you to publish your site to your webspace on the new server

And now you're mad because the sales rep didn't warn you on the phone that you'd have to move files

And you fired your web developer and you don't have a backup of your files

It's not our problem. The sales rep did not lie to you. S/he just didn't know that you were that stupid.

[ladydouji]

The fact that Microsoft hasn't been supporting or providing security updates to Internet Explorer on Mac for the past year is not our fault. And that fact that MS hasn't been providing those security updates is the reason why you can't login to our site, because without those updates IE on a Mac cannot make a secure connection to our server. And for us no secure connection means no connection at all. If you want to yell at some-one you can yell at MS and Apple because i'ts not our fault.

[Horus]

If your computer has a bazillion viruses on it, and is sending out ten thousand spam messages a day, and our DHCP system blocks your modem, THAT IS NOT OUR FAULT.

If the kiddie porn you tried to download ended up being a virus, and it "fucked up the interweb", not only are you a sick fuck, but IT'S NOT OUR FAULT.

If you have your cable split 10 different ways and you're complaining about crappy picture, THAT IS NOT OUR FAULT.

Dumbasses, all of them.

[Gurndigarn]

The fact that Microsoft hasn't been supporting or providing security updates to Internet Explorer on Mac for the past year is not our fault. And that fact that MS hasn't been providing those security updates is the reason why you can't login to our site, because without those updates IE on a Mac cannot make a secure connection to our server. And for us no secure connection means no connection at all. If you want to yell at some-one you can yell at MS and Apple because i'ts not our fault.

Yell at Microsoft. Apple provides their own web browser, which, IMO, is a bit stabler and more user-friendly. And if you're running an older system, Netscape is still out there. Honest.

[Seanette]

I'm using Netscape, and for the most part we get along fine (I won't use IE if I can avoid it, for security reasons).