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Well I spent two hours last night trying to track a few stars - goto's were about 7 degrees off, PHD couldn't cope and get calibrated - which I thought very wierd. I re-started the mount twice and fiddled alot - 'til I worked out that our guests 5 year old had wandered in, pushed buttons on the hand controller and had somehow managed to turn the tracking off!
Arggh to all the wasted time and stress! This is on top of this week fixing a troublesome UPS, changing a dying video card on my PC, fixing a printer that only prints the postscript commands rather then their contents, fixing a network that was getting IP addresses from a NAS rather then our router (long story there), getting stuffed up by a new powersupply that refused to work on 3 PCs in a row (to be RMA'ed), installing a new motherboard and CPU (that supports both AGP and PCI-express, and DDR1 and DDR2 RAM - an ASRock), testing to see if case fans are shorting, figuring some crazy case cabling labelling, and recovering a 300GB striped RAID 0 array, then re-installing all my software.
So the last thing I wanted was more technology failures!
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