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Title: Solving Computer Woes
Post by: Xairbusdriver on June 24, 2021, 09:35:14 AM

So, you think it is difficult helping solve a computer problem by phone (or with a help site!)? How about working on 30+ year old hardware that's not even on the Earth?!

Hubble Trouble (https://www.npr.org/2021/06/23/1009567351/hubble-trouble-nasa-cant-figure-out-whats-causing-computer-issues-on-the-telesco)
NASA: What's Causing Computer Issues On The Telescope? :Thinking: :dntknw: :doh:

Title: Re: Solving Computer Woes
Post by: jchuzi on June 24, 2021, 10:26:59 AM

What problem? Follow the advice of all Microsoft support staff: Reboot the computer. This works especially well if you speak with a foreign accent.  :toothgrin:

Title: Re: Solving Computer Woes
Post by: prin on June 24, 2021, 10:29:07 AM

 :laughhard: I feel that I’m almost ready for that adventure  :sweatingbullets:

Title: Re: Solving Computer Woes
Post by: Highmac on June 24, 2021, 11:08:23 AM

Last week, the BBC ran a documentary 'Goodbye Cassini - Hello Saturn' (from 2017) when the device was sent into Saturn's surface. I can't even start to guess how difficult it was to control it from a billion miles away as it spent 13 years traversing the Saturn system and a total of 20 years in space. A fascinating documentary followed the project's last year or so.


NASA tells the story here (https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/missions/cassini/overview/)

Title: Re: Solving Computer Woes
Post by: Xairbusdriver on June 24, 2021, 08:41:46 PM

Quote from: jchuzi on June 24, 2021, 10:26:59 AM

What problem? Follow the advice of all Microsoft support staff: Reboot the computer. This works especially well if you speak with a foreign accent.  :toothgrin:

IT Humour (https://techsurvivors.net/forums/index.php?topic=18861.msg218135#msg218135) [sic]

Title: Re: Solving Computer Woes
Post by: Xairbusdriver on July 01, 2021, 10:25:49 AM

More info and some amazing details on the memory available in this 50 year old design! The buss cables on this thing are bigger than the 240V electrical utility connections for our house!!

Hubble's Latest Problems May Be In a 50 Year Old Computer Design (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWUnC2uf3XY)
Scott Manley