{"id":3166,"date":"2007-08-14T07:43:37","date_gmt":"2007-08-14T07:43:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/2007\/08\/the-lab-equipment-is-willing-but-the-post-doc-is-skiving\/"},"modified":"2007-08-14T07:43:37","modified_gmt":"2007-08-14T07:43:37","slug":"the-lab-equipment-is-willing-but-the-post-doc-is-skiving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/2007\/08\/the-lab-equipment-is-willing-but-the-post-doc-is-skiving\/","title":{"rendered":"The lab equipment is willing, but the post-doc is&#8230; skiving"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When trying to diagnose <a href=https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/2007\/08\/the-postdoc-is-willing-but-the-lab-equipment-is-weak\/>why the lab computer was refusing to communicate with my magnetometer<\/a>, I forgot to factor in one very important fact: the computer is running Windows, which can be a little quirky when it comes to dealing with peripherals. In my experience, it&#8217;s not so much &#8216;Plug and Play&#8217;, as &#8216;Plug, and Watch Everything Connected into Your Computer Conflict with Everything Else.&#8217; As it turned out, the serial connection was using the same COM port as an internal modem, which was not actually plugged into anything and, and as far as I&#8217;m aware, never has been. I manually changed the port assignments, and now all is well in the shielded room.<br \/>\nSadly, however, I&#8217;m not in a position to take advantage of this sudden functionality, because I&#8217;m leaving South Africa for a few weeks to visit the motherland &#8211; although my route back to the UK is hopefully going to incorporate a slight detour. A couple of things are scheduled to appear whilst I&#8217;m airborne, and I&#8217;m planning to blog both from my mystery destination and when I&#8217;m back home proper, but posting is likely to be a little slow until I return to Jo&#8217;burg in September.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When trying to diagnose why the lab computer was refusing to communicate with my magnetometer, I forgot to factor in one very important fact: the computer is running Windows, which can be a little quirky when it comes to dealing &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/2007\/08\/the-lab-equipment-is-willing-but-the-post-doc-is-skiving\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academic-life","category-bloggery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3166\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}