How to save/resurrect failing cables
mikea
problems at the strain relief (if present) or at the connector. In
several cases in the past, I've wound up having to discard and replace
Expensive Things such as lapdog power supplies and iPhone/iPod cables
because the problem was Right At The Connector Body, with no way to
get to the conductors and splice things.
**** I HAVE A FIX ****
Go to your local hardware store and get a can of tool dip. The brand I
got is Plasti-Dip. It's a flexible plastic that is dissolved in solvents
so that you can dip pliers handles, screwdriver handles, screwdriver
shafts, and other things into it to make them easier in your hands. It
is intended for that, and it works well for that.
It has another use that may be of interest to amateur radio operators
and to folks that have to deal with cables that have problems.
When multiple layers of Plasti-Dip are daubed onto a cable or strain
relief that shows signs of breaking, it will add enough support to the
cable or strain relief to preserve it for rather some time. I use a
Q-tip, because it's disposable and cheaper than even a cheap disposable
brush.
The stuff comes in various colors; all my local store had this time was
black, but I've seen and used yellow, red, and white in the past.
The results of one of my repairs can be seen, slightly out of focus and
a bit blurry, at <http://mikea.ath.cx/tooldip.jpg>. This is an iPhone
to USB cable in which the cable sheath had separated from the connector
body at each end; in their wisdom, the Apple engineers omitted not
only strain reliefs, but also a secure joint between cable sheath and
connector body. The cable sheath had split at each end, leaving the wire
bundle exposed and vulnerable. In the past, I've had to discard cables
not long after this had happened, and buy a whole new iPhone charger.
wires exposed
While the black Plasti-Dip isn't at all _pretty_ on the white cable and
connector bodies, it _is_ secure, and the mechanical impedance match
between cable and connector is now much better, as well.
Feel free to try it, of course, and to pass it on if it works for you.
If it _doesn't_ work for you, please let me know what you were trying to
do, and how it didn't work.
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id...@videotron.qc.ca
[DIY for morons]
Hey Mickey,
Why don't you go post your iPhone fixing tricks
where someone care?
Best
Me
Seebs
Hey, mike, you made a friend! Any clue what he/she/it is upset about?
Is there a funny story?
I found out a while back that the endless flood of harassing kooks one
attracts is actually extremely valuable, as long as you understand that
their useful purpose is to be consistently funny and totally unable to
actually do you any harm. But trying to figure out what (if anything) is
going on in their heads can be rewarding, useful (if you have to deal with
lusers), and an endless source of amusement.
So any clue where you picked this one up? Does it have a name? A
particular field of interest? How on *earth* did you get one capable
of defeating the TOP SECRET protections we have against unwanted
posting?
-s
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David Cameron Staples
> How on *earth* did you get one capable of
> defeating the TOP SECRET protections we have against unwanted posting?
We get a higher class of troll, we do.
A high-functioning troll is still a troll, though.
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Melbourne University | School of Engineering | IT Support
Cthulhu loathes you.
Zebee Johnstone
David Cameron Staples <sta...@cs.mu.oz.au.SPAM> wrote:
> in Mon, 08 Mar 2010 05:27:27 +0000, Seebs in hic loco scripsit:
>
>> How on *earth* did you get one capable of
>> defeating the TOP SECRET protections we have against unwanted posting?
>
> We get a higher class of troll, we do.
>
>
> A high-functioning troll is still a troll, though.
Is it stalking Mike, or just picking at random?
Always seems odd when a troll picks on a well known and respected
poster for such things rather than someone the in-group might actually
turn on....
Zebee
Dave Hughes
> Always seems odd when a troll picks on a well known and respected poster
> for such things rather than someone the in-group might actually turn
> on....
More likely to get a torrent of fuck offs than a couple of considered "you
know, maybe there is something wrong with riding a recumbent"s? [1] Or
just so incomprehensibly unintelligent that they haven't got further than
picking an obvious name.
I suspect Mike's one of our more profligate posters, and is therefore
somewhat recognisable. The wisdom of annoying someone who has repeatedly
encouraged reading a book that discusses hypergolicity [2], has hung out
with practitioners of said art, and who has a demonstrated attitude of Not
Putting Up with Shit is probably indicative of the latter of the two
options above.
[1] Purely by example you understand. No one would ever take such a
position.
[2] Only 18100 hits, a massively underrated word.
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If you can do a job with power tools, then
that's the right way to do it. - Joe Zeff
mikea
> On Mon, 08 Mar 2010 06:25:22 +0000, Zebee Johnstone wrote:
>
>> Always seems odd when a troll picks on a well known and respected poster
>> for such things rather than someone the in-group might actually turn
>> on....
>
> More likely to get a torrent of fuck offs than a couple of considered "you
> know, maybe there is something wrong with riding a recumbent"s? [1] Or
> just so incomprehensibly unintelligent that they haven't got further than
> picking an obvious name.
>
> I suspect Mike's one of our more profligate posters, and is therefore
> somewhat recognisable. The wisdom of annoying someone who has repeatedly
> encouraged reading a book that discusses hypergolicity [2], has hung out
> with practitioners of said art, and who has a demonstrated attitude of Not
> Putting Up with Shit is probably indicative of the latter of the two
> options above.
I suppose I could have a kg or two of ClF3 shipped to the troll. That
should prove amusing.
> [1] Purely by example you understand. No one would ever take such a
> position.
> [2] Only 18100 hits, a massively underrated word.
Yes, but the nastiness quotient of the things that word describes is
such that hit_count * nastiness_quotient > threshold(AVOID_THIS!).
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would allow this appeal."
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Chikwamba (FC) (Appellant) v Secretary of State for the Home Department
TimC
was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea:
> In alt.sysadmin.recovery on Mon, 08 Mar 2010 06:11:51 GMT
> David Cameron Staples <sta...@cs.mu.oz.au.SPAM> wrote:
>> A high-functioning troll is still a troll, though.
>
> Is it stalking Mike, or just picking at random?
I can't tell, because I killfiled it years ago.
--
TimC
Quantum Mechanics is a lovely introduction to Hilbert Spaces! --unknown
mikea
> On 2010-03-07, id...@videotron.qc.ca <id...@videotron.qc.ca> wrote:
>> mikea <mi...@mikea.ath.cx> wrote:
>> [DIY for morons]
>
>> Hey Mickey,
>> Why don't you go post your iPhone fixing tricks
>> where someone care?
>
> Hey, mike, you made a friend! Any clue what he/she/it is upset about?
> Is there a funny story?
No Idea. I view it as I would a tick or a flea: very mildly irritating,
vermin, to be removed and extirpated.
> I found out a while back that the endless flood of harassing kooks one
> attracts is actually extremely valuable, as long as you understand that
> their useful purpose is to be consistently funny and totally unable to
> actually do you any harm. But trying to figure out what (if anything) is
> going on in their heads can be rewarding, useful (if you have to deal with
> lusers), and an endless source of amusement.
There's nothing going on in their heads, they have nothing to say, and they
insist on saying it.
> So any clue where you picked this one up? Does it have a name? A
> particular field of interest? How on *earth* did you get one capable
> of defeating the TOP SECRET protections we have against unwanted
> posting?
Over the years I've learned that technical ability is not to be equated
with intelligence. The troll's post demonstrates the truth of that
proposition.
--
[T]he claim that brits drink warm beer because we have Lucas
refrigerators is a myth.
-- Tanuki the Raccoon-dog, in asr
mikea
I haven't been anyplace that usually has vermin, and after I washed
Jake-the-hearing-dog, I showered carefully.
Anyway, I fixed some GNKSA stuff in tin so that the new avian will pass
scrutiny.
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CAUTION: The Mass of This Product Contains the Energy Equivalent of 85
Million Tons of TNT per Net Ounce of Weight!
Joe Zeff
> I can't tell, because I killfiled it years ago.
So did I, back when I was still using Gatesware. Alas, my current
newsreader won't score on the one invariant, making it pointless. I've
checked with the support mailing list; maybe there's a way I haven't
tried.
--
Joe Zeff -- The Guy With The Sideburns:
http://www.zeff.us http://www.lasfs.info
Not necessarily; some are born with Darwin's crosshairs on them already.
Seebs
> There's nothing going on in their heads, they have nothing to say, and they
> insist on saying it.
I'm not sure about that first part. I've found some surprisingly complicated
conspiracy theories.
Usually, just about all of the bipeds are acting with some kind of goal in
mind. Nearly as usually, their actions are unlikely to achieve the goal.
Shmuel Metz
at 06:11 AM, David Cameron Staples <sta...@cs.mu.oz.au.SPAM> said:
>We get a higher class of troll, we do.
No.
>A high-functioning troll is still a troll, though.
It's a low functioning chicken.
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Lionel
Luser.
*PLONK*
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