Posts by Chris 239

Re: If planes were built like “software”

When the software crash exposes certain government or security secrets to criminals and then actually yes people do die ☹️

Re: It's garbage

Yep,same here. Was very handy to see when a colleague or direct report became available.

Re: Cases don't really matter

You are wrong.

Being soft plastic the case reduces the peak g of the impact.

Also if the phone falls edge or corner onto a hard surface a case spreads the impact and reduces the point stress on the glass.

Re: Microsoft is shittier every day

"Teams came up and ran normally."

You mean badly then? Randomly unable to connect calls, silent audio etc.

Re: Not the ISPs Router

symetric? - it can be! I'm with Giganet and a test just now with Ookla speedtest.net gave 930Mb/s down and 941Mb/s up :-)

BTW just noticed that speedtest.net now showing "Allpoints Fibre Networks Limited" as my ISP - used to show as Giganet, what's that about?

My inlaws they call any vacuum cleaner a hoover and any tablet an ipad, I suspect this the same: any car with a camera on the roof is a Google street view car.

Re: Rule one...

Indeed, possibly quite competitive with the capacity orf micro SD cards these days!

You seem to have misspellt a word in your post, here's a correction -》"That should take them all of 15-30 seconds to scam ...."

Re: Web interface

I totally agree but the cyber security industry has management twisted round their little finger.

My company sells a solution that includes networks will never be exposed to the internet but the cyber teams insist every little vulnerability has to be patched, they even insist data in transit that will never leave the dedicated isolated network should be encrypted.

Really?? I have loads of slightly obsolete RAM gathering dust!

Re: HR Training

How has this only got 9 upvotes!? (10 now :-) )

Re: SN9 exploded in the air ?

Yep, they applied the lithobrakes at above their rated speed and orientation.

Re: re: How About

Totally agree, touch controls on a hob (what we call stove top in UK) are frustrating.

Recently was forced to use a hob with touch controls where if you had a large fry pan on one of the rings and had the handle toward you it would be over the main on/off control and the handle would turn off the whole hob. Basically the on/off button was too sensitive and to add insult the other buttons not sensitive enough so would only respond after repeated presses and swearing!

Re: The Interlock and Health and Safety

Carrying the cup of tea in your hand! That's a burn hazard!

Re: If you do have an abort mode...

@Flocke Kroes: Are you confusing this with LAUNCH abort?, the Apollo Lunar Module LANDING abort was abort BACK TO ORBIT. Sorry for shouty caps :-(

I'm sure phuzz is correct, there must be an abort back to orbit on the HLS Lunar landing, same as there was on Apollo. If after landing you have an issue preventing successful launch then yes you're SOOL

But lunar launch is I guess an all or nothing thing with no safe abort possible.

Of course Starship won't have a landing abort when it lands on earth but I don't think it will do that with people on board for a long time (not sure how the guy that is paying for Dear Moon is going to take that!)

My Theory -

is that most team sports have to have a certain amount of violence and in for example Rugby, American Football, Ice Hocky the on pitch violence reaches the threshold whereas in Soccer the fans have to supply their own.

First place I worked used A4 NCR pads for purchase orders/requests that had 5 copies. You had to write so heavy to get through to the bottom sheet.

The NCRs came in thick pads and you had to remember to put the card in below the set you were filling in or you would waste the next set below. They were specially printed and each had a preprinted serial number, must have cost a fortune!

Re: After 35+ yrs...

You were doing so well until the typo in the last sentence, did you mean:

"turns up and doesn't work"

Never mind, this money will achieve it's primary purpose i.e. line the pockets of government friends that the contracts will be given to and lubricate the ministers transition into a cushy job when they finally leave politics.

Re: Hint to Google

IIRC back in the days of 3 TV channels in the UK some party political broadcasts were simultaneous on all 3 channels. ! Nightmare!

At least in these days zillions of channels and streaming services they don't/can't do that so you can just go watch something else.

Not that there is often anything actually worth watching on TV anymore.

Re: Regional access

I would agree except that I doubt Starlink on your RV will work very well in the canyon between skyscrapers... (it wasn't me that downvoted you).

Hey, I had the exact same WTF moment on a multithreaded C compiler for DOS * in the 90s

The compiler would bug out with an error along the lines "you shouldn't see this error message", add back exactly 1 comment line and it would compile fine.

IIRC the compiler was from a one man band company, and yes up to a point did somehow give you multithreading on DOS but eventually enough unexplained crashes occurred that I refactored my code to be single threaded and then all was good.

Re: Bought a shed

I agree that is good scheme, In fact I used it when I was single.

However I think CookieMonster's 2 dishwashers both have zero storage capacity for crockery or cutlery. They are those old fashioned one at a time dishwashers.

I expect his/her dishwashers both have instead a good capacity for sweets and junk food.

Re: Nobody told me I wasn't allowed to do it.

That is hilarious!

Re: No they havent.

On a fight from Southend to Jersey, before takeoff the Captain came on and said it was dicey they would be able to land at Jersey because it was foggy there and he would have fuel to fly back to Southend.

He also pointed out that while the airplane was a fully equipped with precision approach and autoland so it could land with zero visibility * Jersey airport did not have the required ground systems for that which seemed pretty daft as it seems fog is pretty common at Jersey airport.

The pilots made the landing on the 3rd (and last before fuel meant they would have to give up and fly back!) attempt. I had a window seat and damn we seemed pretty low when the ground became visible. They must have been using ILS until the very last bit.

* jeepers that must be weird/ scary for the pilots !

Re: Not the orbital kitty video delivery system

It is not humanly possible to de=orbit anything by throwing it backwards, I can't be bothered to find it but Scott Manley has debunked this in one of his videos.

Page 20 of that PDF contradicts your words where it says the first 9 Falcon 9 flights:

"• Left in LEO to decay == This has been the case for Falcon 1 Flights 4 & 5 which remain in a nearly equatorial LEO to this day, as well as the first 5 Falcon 9 flights - of which COTS1

performed an unannounced upper stage restart boosting it into a 290x10,700km orbit &

CASSIOPE, which attempted a "sideways" upper stage restart which failed, stranding it in a

900km polar orbit. "

BTW I think that PDF comes across very disjointed and poorly put together which is surprising considering the author of the PDF is a Journalist and was an aerospace engineer. Perhaps he is past his best.:-(

Re: a "sudden, unplanned release of a clamp band"

That or someone what "OH F**k!" when they realized they had forgotten to tighten the clamp band.