re: I keep looking up the symbol ASAP
This one's a toughie, the hardest one to date...
Hi August, strange you should ask. The same question occurred to me the first time I came across this forum, too. But my folks taught me to never look a gift horse in the mouth. Or, was it, never check the teeth of a horse that has been given to you by a wealthy landowner. One of those two, I forget.
It must have been a typo on the part of SI, or a line problem caused by 60 cycle ingress noise close to my home. That's what it was, it was a noise problem, most likely, causing my data to get garbled.
I had typed in: Frank Coluccio Technology Forum - STAT!, and sent it to SI via cable modem. But due to the high noise levels I've been experiencing lately (although, I'm only surmising here), something must have happened to it en route. To wit, it came out on the actual board reading, "ASAP," instead.
Ordinarily, forward error correction would cover the problem, or the packet would get resent, or some such reasonable handling of the situation. In this case, however, the guy who writes the error correction code for the system that I use must have been up to some form of mischievousness, on that day.
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Who?
Regards, Frank Coluccio
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