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Re: Neighbor's house alarm triggers when I put my car in reverse

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Post by astura »

hiharryhere wrote: post #234
stevekemp wrote: post #147

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I remember when I was a child than my next door neighbour had a remote control on their TV, which was connected to the actual set via a 5m thin cable. I thought it was pretty cool that she could sit on her chair and change the channel & volume without getting up. I suspect that if a dog had been involved that cable would have quickly become a tangled mess! (I'm not sure how common "wired remotes" were, that was certa…

I remember seeing a really old pneumatic remote for a TV a long time ago. It was basically a rubber squeeze pump (just like on a blood pressure machine) and a rubber tube connected to the tv. When you squeezed the pump, the pressure in the tube would click the dial forward one notch.

Reminds me of the time my siblings and I tried to build a manual remote control with K'Nex.

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Post by UMadBreaux »

rootusrootus wrote: post #52
Theodores wrote: post #9

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Not in my opinion because this would have been a problem before with other cars and alarms. Or motorbikes. Without knowing the details of the alarm system it is hard to have an educated guess.

I've owned a number of Subarus and let me tell you, even the non-performance models have a way of shaking things inside the house that you wouldn't believe until you experience it. My STI was capable of being loud, but oddly enough it was my wife's Outback (nearly silent if you stood next to it) that would shake pictures on the walls and make them start tapping.

Very true. My '13 WRX shakes pictures when I start it up in the garage, I have to immediately pull into the street so I don't piss anyone off while getting Google Maps and Spotify set up before I drive.

Re: Neighbor's house alarm triggers when I put my car in reverse

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Post by failrate »

lucaspiller wrote: post #146
post_break wrote: post #94

When I worked at an NOC for a fairly large ISP they told me a story of an intermittent outage that occurred randomly on weekends. Something was injecting insane amounts of RF interference on the lines. They tracked it down to the node, then the neighborhood. And then finally they found the culprit. What was knocking the network out of whack? It was some guys edge trimmer. The motor in it was injecting crazy signals s…

On a related note it’s interesting how electric shavers (which could easily suffer from the same issue) are allowed on aircraft, but mobile devices need to be in flight mode. Are the frequencies of RF noise from an electric motor in a different range, so they don’t cause issues with aircraft?

Another thing they don't want on take off or landing is a bunch of dense wedge-like objects flying around in case of a fuck up.

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Post by kjs3 »

AndrewHampton wrote: post #226
remyp wrote: post #82

This reminds me of a “bug” I found when working for a company that sells package lockers to apartment buildings. We used iPads for the user interface and had monitoring in place to alert us if an iPad went offline. At only one location with two iPads one would go offline almost every day (but not every day) between 12pm and 1pm, for 10-20 minutes. Never the same time of day, and never the same length of time. It was…

This reminds me of a story one of my college professors told about the days when he helped automate factories in the 80s. Every night, the control server hey installed would go offline around 1am then come back up a few minutes later. It was never the exact same time or duration. After a few days of diving through the code with no progress, one of his co-workers decided to stay up all night at the factory and just wa…

Yeah...that's maybe one of the original apocryphal stories. Try again.

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Post by gvurrdon »

diggum wrote: post #255

Shortly after a big upgrade to the application I worked on, we started to get bug reports on our forum about a pretty ugly bug where a modal window would get “stuck” after clicking OK. The window would no longer respond to users but the application would act as if it were still up, and the only way out was to kill the process and lose all the unsaved work. Understandably, the complaints got louder and angrier as no o…

Excellent tale. It is sadly unsurprising that users get so upset about software they don't pay for.

If I may be permitted a brief comment, I recall several years ago a situation where we received complaints that our rather computationally-intensive software was running on some people's laptops without them having installed it, rapidly draining their batteries and heating the machines up, and what did we think we were playing at hijacking their systems?

It turned out that the culprit was a modified version of our software for a distributed computing project that would apply the credit generated to one particular account, presumably belonging to the user who had distributed the cracked version. IIRC (though I may be mistaken) they were distributing it bundled with some other cracked Windows software.

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Post by sundvor »

pcurve wrote: post #64
sundvor wrote: post #16

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I have that on my Mazda 3 and it's absolutely brilliant. The range and sensitivity of that system is rather amazing.

I have 2014 3. This system has spoiled me. If my next car doesn't have something similar, I'll probably crash it pulling out of dealership.

Yep, same model / year as mine. 2.5l MT Astina. Great car!

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Post by mark-r »

lb1lf wrote: post #141
bshep wrote: post #91

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My house has 6 fire alarms, when they beep there is NO way to tell which one it is making the noise 2/2 the combination of short beep and irregular beeping interval. My solution is to just change all the batteries at once so i dont have to guess (and if you guess wrong you then you wont sleep tomorrow because of the beeping) I wish there was some visual indicator to tell which one was faulty.

My smoke detectors made a boast on the packaging they featured a fool-proof low battery indication, without going into any details. I bought half a dozen of them to install in our new house years ago, thinking the nightly find-the-beeping- ^+=¥€ games were finally a thing of the past. When one started beeping, I did the rounds, figuring I'd be back in bed in minutes. Well, I wasn't. Turned out the fool-proof indicati…

The smoke detectors in my house are supposed to do that, but many times I've found one chirping and the light is nice and green.

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Post by zupzupper »

vxNsr wrote: post #265
AndrewHampton wrote: post #226

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This reminds me of a story one of my college professors told about the days when he helped automate factories in the 80s. Every night, the control server hey installed would go offline around 1am then come back up a few minutes later. It was never the exact same time or duration. After a few days of diving through the code with no progress, one of his co-workers decided to stay up all night at the factory and just wa…

There's a lot of permutations of this story including life support systems in hospitals I find them all apocryphal. The cleaning staff would notice right away if they just shut down a huge computer. Esp. in the 80s I doubt it even used the same outlet as a regular vacuum cleaner.

I too have heard this story, yet I had this exact problem at a k-8 school district, the staff would unplug the power to my t1 each night.

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Post by dghughes »

KindOne wrote: post #125
dghughes wrote: post #93

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I recall a story on reddit's talesfromtechsupport a printer would stop working at a certain time of day. I think it was near a skylight or something weird. I have no idea what it was about but your story jogged my memory but not enough to remember it all.

This? https://www.reddit.com/r/talesfromtechsupport/comments/2kfaz...

Yes that's it. Excellent search fu you have.

Re: Neighbor's house alarm triggers when I put my car in reverse

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Post by KindOne »

dghughes wrote: post #309
KindOne wrote: post #125

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This? https://www.reddit.com/r/talesfromtechsupport/comments/2kfaz...

Yes that's it. Excellent search fu you have.

Entered the next line into Google and it was the first result:

site:reddit.com/r/talesfromtechsupport printer stopped working skylight

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