1) From my Concise Oxford Dictionary 8th Edition, 1990:
infernaladj. 1?a of hell or the underworld b hellish, fiendish 2 detestable, tiresome
I can think of no better description of the situation we found ourselves in!
2) Who hasn't heard a diehard steam enthusiast refer derisively to the "Infernal Combustion Engine" (diesel) as it supplanted the "External Combustion Engine" (steam)?
On 5 Jan 2019, at 7:15 AM, Dave Heap <dgheap@...> wrote:
It seems my antipodean sense of humour/satire/frustration gets lost other side of the pond.
Infernals is a play on words, describing the consequences and support nightmare created by the unfortunate code decision that caused connection preferences to be set to Internal if hardware was temporarily absent.
Here is the text snippet I usually posted in response to this problem:
"If you get "Found mfg 123 (Masoth Electronic, GMBH) version 123; no such decoder defined.", and/or all CVs return a value of 123 and long address 15,227 it is 100% certain that you cannot communicate with the decoder and that one of two possibilities have happened: 1) Preferences->Defaults has Service Programmer (and possibly other items) set to Infernal. 2) Preferences->Connections has System Connection set to Simulator.
Possibility (1) is the most likely. It would most likely have occurred due to a previous failure to open a connection. If there is no alternative to Infernal, you currently have a problem with the connection to your DCC system and you need to resolve the connection problem before proceeding. If an alternative is available select that, restart JMRI and try again.
Warning, the Infernal problem can happen again in the future if you have any connection problems. See comments at: /g/jmriusers/message/153294
This has hopefully been fixed in JMRI V4.14" -- Dave in Australia
