Error Log

[bobquasit]

Turns out I was wrong in my last post: it's been two days since I went head-first into the fence, and I don't look like a beating victim. In fact, so far no one has noticed my injuries at all.

There's no bump on my head, and while there are two long parallel scratches on my forehead, no one has connected the dots and realized that they mark the outline of a fence post. Or even noticed them at all.

I put ice on my head right after I fell, and kept it on for a long time; I guess that worked. Oh, and the red spot on my eye has faded away almost completely.

And while I'm admitting errors, I am embarrassed to say that there's another one. A while ago I did a post about my big monitor dying; it was losing the ability to show the color red. I speculated that the "red gun" was failing.

I was going to pull out the monitor and put a small one in, but something stopped me. There was something puzzling about the whole thing: the red gun problem had actually started happening last winter, but had disappeared when the weather warmed up. That seemed to indicate that the issue was a connection somewhere. Somewhere a piece of metal was expanding or contracting, and making or breaking a contact.

Here’s the embarrassing part: In all of my worrying, researching, and bitching here on LJ, I had never one checked the monitor’s plug. When I did, I discovered that the connecting screws had never been engaged; the connection was lose. I tightened the screws...and the monitor has been perfect ever since.

D’oh!

Comments

[iamtim.livejournal.com]

I had a similar occurance. I'd stretch out at my desk, and my monitor would go all wonky. When I'd sit back up to investigate, it would be fine. It went like that for days until I connected the monitor going out with my stretching - it turns out that I hadn't engaged the screws either, and when I stretched the tip of my shoe would move the monitor cable and cause it to pull out a wee bit. When I removed my foot, the tension of the cable pushed the cable back in. :-)

[unquietsoul5.livejournal.com]

I'm happy to hear that you were wrong on both counts!

Now if only when things broke aroun here I could be so lucky.....

Sigh.

[klyfix.livejournal.com]

Huh, I really should have caught that myself; I have a DVD decoder card in my machine (not one of my better buys, IMO, 'cause it's outdates and if I had a software decoder I could get it updated and thus not be in the position of not being able to watch certain DVDs) and when a certain cable connecting it and the video card is loose the color is off. I should thus have recognized that and suggested checking the connections.

It's good to see that you recovered from your incident quickly; so much for that "Redheads don't heal quickly" thing.

[rantmaster.livejournal.com]

I had a similar doofus moment a while back...moving into my new aparetment, I was trying to hook up my cable modem, and couldn't figure out why my modem was getting no signal when the TV worked fine...but what I discovered was that the splitter was backwards...meaning that the outside cable was hooked into the double end, and the tv the single end... (and I know those aren't the actual names for them, but I know next to nothing about that sort of thing besides the basics)

I was on the verge of tearing my hair out, but I'm glad *I* figured it out, rather than waiting around for a tech to bury my nose in it. :P