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Failed to connect to MySQL: (1203) User howardkn already has more than 'max_user_connections' active connectionsPath: ...!weretis.net!feeder9.news.weretis.net!news.quux.org!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: john larkin Newsgroups: sci.electronics.design Subject: Re: Miraculous button makes things work again. Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2025 08:56:13 -0800 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 38 Message-ID: References: <71ocpjl895ef91imbqekh2tghpd0h8duoi@4ax.com> <181e8a89e53deae0$146726$445945$ad54064@news.newsdemon.com> <67991491$1$3827$882e4bbb@reader.netnews.com> <8ekkpjtm8nf3fra9aeo6r68i2p7hqld6d7@4ax.com> <1r6xky9.sovjdb5czsziN%liz@poppyrecords.invalid.invalid> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2025 17:56:13 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="ddff610935fef8ada2140467153b0629"; logging-data="2600297"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18+5SxHsgj4VMNqX0GPUcgO" User-Agent: ForteAgent/8.00.32.1272 Cancel-Lock: sha1:jVYh6ubBl2FS7HI+hZXvKBzWnj4= Bytes: 2594 On Wed, 29 Jan 2025 16:42:50 +0000, liz@poppyrecords.invalid.invalid (Liz Tuddenham) wrote: >john larkin wrote: > >> On Tue, 28 Jan 2025 20:04:05 +0100, Jeroen Belleman >> wrote: >> >> >On 1/28/25 18:32, Mark Lloyd wrote: >> >> On Mon, 27 Jan 2025 13:56:59 -0800, john larkin wrote: >> >> >> >> [snip] >> >> >> >>> We have a horrible new Panasonic microwave oven. The BEEP is >> >>> ear-splitting. The procedure to silence it is complex, and only works if >> >>> the door is open. >> >> >> >> Does it keep forgetting it was silenced, so you have to do this procedure >> >> multiple times? >> >> >> > >> >On one occasion, I muted an obnoxious beeper by stuffing >> >chewing gum into it. There! Problem solved. >> > >> >Jeroen Belleman >> >> I break the piezo buzzer, if I can get at it. >> >> We should arrest whoever invented piezo buzzers. Put him in a prison >> cell with 100 piezos. > >My microwave oven has a little metal gong, When the timer has run back >to zero, it releases a tiny hammer and the gong goes "ping!" Perhaps >one day they will re-invent this idea and hail it as a great improvment. How about a knob that you turn, the more you turn it the longer the microwave runs.