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doobiedowner

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About doobiedowner

PLC, PAC, SCADA guy

Recent public activity

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    Comment #49139022

    Upgrades to waste water are project based. Lowest bidder will not provide security for free. Security may be mentioned in spec but in hand waved language that can be hand waved awa…

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    Comment #48939557

    How can we get these things to fight each other for sport? Real battle bots

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    Comment #48938593

    What about PI?

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    Comment #48805806

    Because republicans continue to fight each other over how much they can lick authority boot. Gone are the days of fiscal conservatives or small government… no sir they are all on b…

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    Comment #48784650

    You put one CO2 sensor in the return air duct and tie it to outside air control.

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    Comment #48769583

    Pid control was supposed to allow people that rotate valves to magically transform into software configurators. That never happened. Those people turned into janitors and an automa…

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    Comment #48740969

    Oh this post again. Kind of made sense to repost it on the solstice, but why again and again and now?

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    Comment #47800420

    [flagged]

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    Comment #47708032

    Whoppers junior

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    Comment #46803823

    You send in the Calvary to get this straw Juan of yours, you don’t sick them on the state of Minnesota

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    Comment #46803743

    If that’s your rationale for soft pedaling shock troops attacking American citizens, yes deeply flawed.

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    Comment #46802906

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seeing_pink_elephants

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    Comment #46570344

    You can eat shit. A private investigator has a specific target and a specific complaint. The topic, blanket surveillance by a private company does not have either. Again, eat shit.…

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    Comment #46187071

    How do they not have much to lose? They are the ones that have their users on a subscription basis.

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    Comment #46186907

    Wasn’t room 641A just the NSA strong arming At&T to facilitate full take collection?

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    Comment #44777575

    As a guy that tries to make the lame ui in FactoryTalk sparkle, thank you!!!

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    Comment #43374441

    [flagged]

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    Comment #41460515

    How is procurement process with Beckhoff? I am tempted to make the jump from mostly AB.

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    Comment #41460493

    Sure, call. Do a back and forth with calls and emails for two days with their sales guy to make sure they got it right. Spending five to six figures. 5-15% of order shows up incorr…

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    Comment #41460433

    Cheap and reliable goods. Free software. Great prices. Decent Docs. Best of all, no middle men distributors to dick around with. It is so easy to buy their stuff compared to almost…

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    Comment #40046536

    I see "pre-order" and "shipping winter '23"... :(

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    Comment #38961944

    Hacked VFD firmware makes the most sense to me. The PLC/PAC is giving a reference of xx Hz, the hacked VFD overrides the speed reference to destroy the centrifuge but reports back …