Posts by SnowCrash
15 posts • joined Tuesday 7th July 2009 09:48 GMT
Energy vs Temperature
Is it only me that hates the continual references to temperature? Yes I understand that it's an easier concept to grasp but underneath it all less energy is being dumped from blue marble. This energy is likely to have unpredictable consequences as the system becomes more chaotic.
But I do like Lewis's scepticism!
Re: effect on birds
Also the EIS for a lot of windfarms failed to take into account how high bats will actually fly - sounds silly but until the windfarms were put up experts believed they tended to stay lower than 100m - turns out that they are active up to at least 250m.
But there had never been a need to look at bat altitude until exploding bat syndrome was encountered.
Posted in Build a BONKERS gaming PC
Cases
Would recommend SilverStone Fortress FT02 for a 'bonkers' build, although I haven't added water cooling to mine yet.
Isn't this just a.....
.....rehash of Myers-Briggs assessments?
uniformed garbage.......
Exchange is at the end of my garden. But I'm in a wiltshire vilage so I doubt the exchange will ever be upgraded as we are what OfCom lovingly call a Market 1 exchange..
Oh well......
Just upgraded.....
...from a i7 920 to a 3770K and, for my purposes, it a great upgrade. Benchmark rendering in 3dsmax gave me a 388% performance increase. If you're upgrading from Sandy Bridge may it may not be worth it but if you skipped that then I'd recommend.
One thing I wasn't expecting was the power usage. I used to have an "intelligent" powerstrip that would switch off all the peripherals when my machine went to sleep. Now when the machine is idle it doesn't draw enough power to trigger the other sockets.......
We use the corporate version of Ghost for imaging and have never had any problems with it. I would never use a Norton branded bit of software. played with True Image and it was ok. Uninstalled it fine :)
My advice would be to have several different backup solutions, including NAS, Cloud and removable drives. Trusting a single solution can only cause pain later on.
If a legal firm tries issuing bill to clients for services that have not been provided i am pretty sure that they lose their license. Why are telecoms providers (and for that fact most utility companies) treated so differently?
Or is it just a question of getting as many of your mates appointed to the regulatory body as possible, thereby ensuring that profitability isn't affected and screw the actual customer.
Posted in Got a non-iPad tablet? Weirdo
proud to own 2 fondleslabs, neither of which are apple devices
Given how bad
Adobe's deployment tools are for Reader it's hardly surprising it's such a mess. I hate having to deploy new updates/versions because there is no reliable deployment mechanism across a corporate LAN.
Fixed for any given definition of not fixed
Yup - still down in Reading.
Posted in Discovery crawls to launch pad
Trade in
Can they trade it in for half a nimrod after the mission?
Posted in ISP redesign unites the web in nausea
Review Fail
http://www.top10-broadband.co.uk/blog/2009/07/be_broadband_new_site_hits_the_heights/
Gotta wonder if they even looked at the website really.
Posted in CompuServe signs off
happy days
i remember working on tech support for CompuServe from their Bristol office. happy days of telling users modem commands and then explaining what the & looked like. AOL's buyout killed a great service.
