Are office people really that, umm shall we say...slow?

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 20 Oct 2001 22:18 pm, Tony Duell wrote: Possibly. I can't afford spending thousands of pounds on really good equipment while being a student, though. Maybe when I get a proper job.... Well, screwdrivers, of course. But they're far more essential than a soldering iron, so I generally don't count them when listing tools I've got. It's a given that any self-respecting computer person has a screwdriver set, isn't it? I don't have any pliers here - again, I haven't had a need for them, and I've got quite a few at home. It's the trivial 'plug it in where it fits' system, and some people still can't manage it :) I had something similar where I worked two summers ago - we were looking at the mains supply on a 'scope, and we just used a plug with a couple stripped wires coming out of it. After running it for a bit, we decided to put a piece of plastic over the wires so they wouldn't be touched by accident, and put a warning on a piece of paper. Actually, the company I worked at *recommended* that we go ahead with this method (after we suggested we could try and look at the mains supply with a 'scope). We did have to turn it off and unplug it when the fire safety people came for an inspection, though. Dan - -- dankolb(a)ox.compsoc.net - --I reserve the right to be completely wrong about any comments or opinions expressed; don't trust everything you read above--