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• All this reminds me of... - revjac 07:42:10 05/03/07 (1)
  In Reply to: I almost usurped the housing post, but does anyone know where I can go to get a BA in remote contrology? posted by Muzikmike on May 2, 2007 at 13:25:37:

  one of my fav stories. About the tech who was called in to fix something mechanical after all the self-annointed office geniuses couldn't figure out what was wrong.
  He looks for a minute, reaches behind the machinery, fiddles with something for a few seconds and the machine is running like new.
  He then gets his invoice book, writes down a few things and hands the office manager a bill for $277.00.
  "$277.00 for 10 minutes work?" was the incredulous response.
  "Yep." the tech says. (you know what's coming) "$27 bucks to turn the doohickey and $250 bucks for knowing which doohickey to turn!"
  I love it! Been there - done that more than once. And not a few of them exactly like what Mike has described (and although more than a few of the respondees suggested what I would have looked for first, I don't know what really was wrong).
  The ideal? Keep It Simple Stupid. Works most of the time.

  
  
  jac - desperaudio
  
  

  
  
  

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  • It helps if you go upstairs and look at the notes the tech left. - Muzikmike 08:50:56 05/03/07 (0)
    In Reply to: All this reminds me of... posted by revjac on May 3, 2007 at 07:42:10:

    Wherein he writes: Downstairs TV-80

    Which I figured one of two things, either there was an input button (there wasn't) or the TV was to set on Channel 80.

    Guess what?

    I gotyur TV type Sirius Jazz station on as I type this!

    Intuition and a bit of knowledge...sometimes it's NOT dangerous!
    ****
    If I had more money I'd soon be broke...but I'd have more LPs!
    
    

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• Wizzdum from my ECET primary instructor; - Poindexter 20:49:39 05/02/07 (0)
  In Reply to: I almost usurped the housing post, but does anyone know where I can go to get a BA in remote contrology? posted by Muzikmike on May 2, 2007 at 13:25:37:

  
  If all else fails, read the instructions!
  
  

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• 'Ja try - kavakidd 17:07:39 05/02/07 (0)
  In Reply to: I almost usurped the housing post, but does anyone know where I can go to get a BA in remote contrology? posted by Muzikmike on May 2, 2007 at 13:25:37:

  Dat one dat sez TV/VCR
  

  "Man is the only animal that blushes - or needs to" Mark Twain
  
  

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• Mike, surely the solution to your problems is blindingly obvious... - feet's too big 14:56:13 05/02/07 (3)
  In Reply to: I almost usurped the housing post, but does anyone know where I can go to get a BA in remote contrology? posted by Muzikmike on May 2, 2007 at 13:25:37:

  Challenge any passing 11-yr old to solve the problem!... I'd lay money on any 11-yr old fixing your TV/remote access problems, drinking the complimentary coffee and fruit cake, and being out of your house inside five minutes...

  Nauseatingly well-informed about such matters, aren't they?...

  
  Bill.
  
  

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  • I can assure you that double that amount doesn't work. - Muzikmike 17:25:39 05/02/07 (1)
    In Reply to: Mike, surely the solution to your problems is blindingly obvious... posted by feet's too big on May 2, 2007 at 14:56:13:

    Mr. 22, better known as David, aka, my son, says "I don't know nothin' 'bout fixin' dem dere remotes!"
    ****
    If I had more money I'd soon be broke...but I'd have more LPs!
    
    

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    • I am not surprised, Mike... - feet's too big 23:44:05 05/02/07 (0)
      In Reply to: I can assure you that double that amount doesn't work. posted by Muzikmike on May 2, 2007 at 17:25:39:

      We had our automatic solution to any household problem in daughter Sarah-Jane, who (from about 6 yrs of age, and peaking at about 11 yrs old) would strip and fix broken clocks, watches, grass-mowers, etc. with ridiculous ease and would be an automatic expert on how any technology we had just purchased about two hours after it was first plugged in...

      Rather disturbingly, Ruth's first "child-proof" pill-bottles were opened alarmingly easily when Sarah was still at pre-school age...

      Curiously, such natural talent does not appear to remain to the same extent in later years, as indicated by the fact that when Sarah first borrowed my car to do some pre-party City shopping with her boyfriend on her 18th birthday she called me from my study TO SHOW HER AND BOYFRIEND HOW THE LOCKABLE FUEL-CAP WORKED!...

      With typical tact and diplomacy, I observed that with their generation's obvious incisive intelligence and natural facility with technology that future society was obviously going to be (cough, splutter) in very safe hands...

      You have obviously found the same level of "adult ignorance" now being achieved with your lad David!...
      

      Bill.
      
      

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  • That was going to be my third course of action. - Bruce Kendall 14:57:18 05/02/07 (0)
    In Reply to: Mike, surely the solution to your problems is blindingly obvious... posted by feet's too big on May 2, 2007 at 14:56:13:

    That solution almost always works.
    

    
    
    
    

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• Let's see if I can beat Bruce to his answer!! - ElbowGeek 14:14:44 05/02/07 (0)
  In Reply to: I almost usurped the housing post, but does anyone know where I can go to get a BA in remote contrology? posted by Muzikmike on May 2, 2007 at 13:25:37:

  Yeah, it may be that you've pressed the channel button on the TV remote or somehow caused the TV to no longer be set to the input that was being used by the Satellite box.

  Check for buttons that allow you to select the various inputs on the back of the TV, or if you were using the antenna/cable connection from the sat box, tune to the channel you had it set on before.

  Cheers
  
  

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• Grab the remote and point it toward the TV. - Bruce Kendall 14:12:40 05/02/07 (4)
  In Reply to: I almost usurped the housing post, but does anyone know where I can go to get a BA in remote contrology? posted by Muzikmike on May 2, 2007 at 13:25:37:

  Make sure the channel is set to 03 or 04. It may not let you change channels.

  If that does not work, hit the input button until it lets you change channels.

  Once you can change channels, make sure it is set to 03.

  Now make sure the satellite box is on.

  Your TV works, and by the authority vested in me I grant you your degree.
  

  
  
  
  

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  • Nope! - Muzikmike 14:37:27 05/02/07 (2)
    In Reply to: Grab the remote and point it toward the TV. posted by Bruce Kendall on May 2, 2007 at 14:12:40:

    Dint nonna those work!
    ****
    If I had more money I'd soon be broke...but I'd have more LPs!
    
    

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    • Did the satellite guy handle all of your installation issues? - Bruce Kendall 14:47:54 05/02/07 (1)
      In Reply to: Nope! posted by Muzikmike on May 2, 2007 at 14:37:27:

      I thought so. Grab the satellite remote for that TV. Up near the top there is a row of buttons labeled "SAT" "TV" and so on. Hit the one labeled "TV". Now move the channel to 03. Now hit the button labeled "SAT". Make sure the satellite box is on (if not, hit the power button). Now change channels as you wish. Voila! Your TV works again.

      Your degree has provisional status until you report back.
      

      
      
      
      

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      • UPDATE, FOLKS! - Bruce Kendall 18:41:53 05/02/07 (0)
        In Reply to: Did the satellite guy handle all of your installation issues? posted by Bruce Kendall on May 2, 2007 at 14:47:54:

        I just got off the phone with Mike. He has executed a highly advanced remote control screw up. His provisional degree stands while I go figure out what the hell he did. Sheesh, even my wife.......(oops, you were listening? Nevermind.).
        

        
        
        
        

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  • Dang, not only did you beat me with a reply but... - ElbowGeek 14:17:18 05/02/07 (0)
    In Reply to: Grab the remote and point it toward the TV. posted by Bruce Kendall on May 2, 2007 at 14:12:40:

    you had the nerve to say it so much more clearly than I. I saw that you'd posted a reply but erased it, so I thought I'd try to beat you back with a reply for the sport of it. I really should go get a life ;-)

    Cheers
    
    

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• Silly boy, you should have pressed the button on the 13th row, fourth from left... - ElbowGeek 14:06:23 05/02/07 (0)
  In Reply to: I almost usurped the housing post, but does anyone know where I can go to get a BA in remote contrology? posted by Muzikmike on May 2, 2007 at 13:25:37:

  The one labeled "DPLSN", which stands for Dead Penis Light Saber Nostril, and causes displacement of the fuzzomatic circuit.

  Sheesh, how simple could it be??!!
  
  

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