FED LOG availability?

Don, like your stories, but could you please pay more attention to your links so they take one to the relevant material, rather than to a high-level entry apparently intended to encourage browsing, but in fact creating frustration and a "who needs it" attitude?

July 13th entry is specific to topic.

Typo.

Should have been

Leave out the glibness and you might get there..

Best regards, Spehro Pefhany

In which case maybe you'd like to code your page so as to take one directly to the appropriate entry - or otherwise you should post a note indicating the relevant entry.

As it stood, it made no sense whatever. And still doesn't. I can't see any relevant entry. The page relates to 2000 - 2002 . Is that what you intended ?

Graham

Well, at least it's a completely different page:

The page cannot be found The page you are looking for might have been removed, had its name changed, or is temporarily unavailable.

Please try the following:

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HTTP Error 404 - File or directory not found. Internet Information Services (IIS)

Technical Information (for support personnel)

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How about a "Surplus of Mass Disposal not found" sendup page?

No, wait, I just figured it out: Take out the /glib from that last link and you get this:

(you fixed one typo only to have added another)

From the OP:

Don, is that a large red hat I see you wearing?

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The page cannot be found The page you are looking for might have been removed, had its name changed, or is temporarily unavailable.

Better luck next time ?

Graham

Take out '/glib':

Cheers! Rich

The more you stir shit, the worse it smells.

Let's try one more time...

I don't get it. Is this some kind of hide and seek game ?

Graham

Should have been

Sorry; get: The page cannot be found The page you are looking for might have been removed, had its name changed, or is temporarily unavailable.

Please try the following:

• Make sure that the Web site address displayed in the address bar of your browser is spelled and formatted correctly. * If you reached this page by clicking a link, contact the Web site administrator to alert them that the link is incorrectly formatted. * Click the Back button to try another link.

HTTP Error 404 - File or directory not found. Internet Information Services (IIS)

Technical Information (for support personnel)

• Go to Microsoft Product Support Services and perform a title search for the words HTTP and 404. * Open IIS Help, which is accessible in IIS Manager (inetmgr), and search for topics titled Web Site Setup, Common Administrative Tasks, and About Custom Error Messages.

BTW, you made a serious error in stating "Other useful suppliers and resources include Lumiled, The Delight, Alltronics, Maxim, Aboetech, and Odd One" in that Maxim has a bad habit of advertising vaporware - making them an UNuseful NONsupplier.

Would you stop with the constaNT BS about Maxim? If they were as bad as you claim they would have been out of business years ago. I NEVER had a delivery problem with them when I worked in electronics manufacturing, but I did with a lot of other semiconductor and component makers. Just because you didn't get what you wanted when you wanted it doesn't make them evil, incompetent or stupid.

Excuse me for breathing! It is a side issue, that every time i wanted to use a Maxim part in a design, that *none* were available anywhere. After numerous times and part types, i finally gave up. I have talked to numerous distributors and supply houses that discontinued the Maxim line *because* they could not get parts for their customers.

I dare say that whatever few Maxim part types your company needed, was bought in the million dollar range - so Maxim had to turn on a line for those parts.

design,

bought

No, you are wrong, again. We used about 35 different parts in a dozen different product lines. Parts were ordered AFTER the equipment was ordered, but before it was needed. Some were just a few items a month, while others were several hundred a month. It was an "Engineer to order" operation with products for the high end telemetry receiver market. We had a lot more problems with Motorola and National dropping parts in our existing designs than dealing with Maxim. I don't recall purchasing or the stock room ever requesting the return of issued Maxim spare parts for production requirements, but other vendors were slow to deliver often enough that we didn't bother to keep any spares on the production floor. Some of the DSP, FIR, and some programmable chips we used quickly became a pain in the ass to keep in the supply channel, so they were ordering them a year in advance of expected orders. That was Analog Devices, Harris, Lattice, and a few National Semiconductor parts.

Also there were some passives that were a pain to get, or had quality problems. I had to have Beckman removed from he approved supplier list because of repeated problems with bad seals in their SMD pots. My point is, any vendor can have problems, but if they don't fix them, they die, or get bought out by the competition and adsorbed.