Posts by Chloe Cresswell

Nice response. You made a single sweeping statement that was wrong and it sucks to be me.

Are you sure you're not a current tory MP, as that's their view too.

"The refueling speed of an EV plugged in at one's home is nearly instantaneous." Around me, the speed of an EV refueling at home is infinite. Area is all terrace housing with no off road parking, so you _can't_ charge while you sleep.

I was doing some work at a local NHS office which is one of the area disaster centre locations.

I'm not sure what they will do soon, as one of the jobs I did for them was to route a PSTN connection to their main meeting room, for disaster use.

Why? Well, all their phones are VoIP, and step one in their disaster plan for anything is: disable the internet connections and inter-site connections on all sites.

So the first step in their disaster plan was to cut the disaster management offices off from the world.

Hence asking when I was there if I could do something to get this one left over analogue line wired in.

Thankfully, this is SEP.

The Q30 has a simple system - you need to apply the handbrake and put it in neutral. Only then will the engine stop. Pressing the clutch/disengaging the handbrake is when it starts again.

My Q30 needs the battery to be at a certain level, the engine temp to be at a certain level, and even then it limits itself to 3 stop/start cycles till it gets some real charge back in the battery.

Re: Sounds like Tesla drivers should always carry a can of petrol with them in Winter

There was a programme years ago covering a cold trip, using arctic trucks and ford mondeo mk1s. The mondeos were only going like, 10% of the trip, and had to be left running over night to keep the engines going. One of them ran out of fuel at like, 3am, and froze. And lighting a fire under the car's engine bay was precisely how they got it going again.

Re: Screw the Hoi Polloi!

the lamp posts around me are up against the houses, so if you do that, you're still running cables across the pavement. And as there's 4 lamp posts for 20+ houses, that's a lot of cables to each one.

Re: Going to be awkward

That's Boston. As the joke goes, you know what Boston got in the late 70s? A road out...

Re: Going to be awkward

My primary phone has a 5G sim in it, and there's still lumps of Lincolnshire where it's on 2G *nods*

For most of the houses in my area, that would have to be on the front wall, over hanging the pavement, as there's no front yard/garden. And yeah, you're not meant to put things that overhang the public space, it has to be on your land.

I close the windows when it gets to 16C...

Funnily, my house was marked down on it's energy report when I had my PV system installed for not having a smart thermostat. Seems having your heating maintain a temp/etc is more energy efficient then having the heating turned off. You'd think not having it on would be the more efficient option...

Also there's different use cases - I don't have my heating on to maintain a temp (infact I don't even have a thermostat on the heating), when it gets too cold I turn it on for a while. I can measure my heating use in a year in a few tens of hours. This is also almost the worse case for a heat pump.

So if I switched to a heat pump, I'd have to change how I use my heating to a model that will use a massively larger amount of energy then I do now.

Re: Carmack misses the creative packaging and other in-store marketing efforts of the era

SIM Farm. Full box. CD release. Contents of the CD? 1.3mb. You could pirate it onto a single floppy disc...

Re: It's here

OR are using self supporting fibre - the steel guide wire that takes the load is part of the cable itself. As opposed to the older system of running a cable that is a tube from the pole, and blowing a separate fibre though it.

We had a fibre pulled into a building in the City of London. Contractors we being very cautious with it, down to radaring the wall.

We asked why, and were told the last job they did, the main tech (no longer with them) drilled into a wall and though a 44KV feed, taking out 4 buildings in the time it took the drill bit to vapourise, and they weren't making that mistake again.

Re: WinRAR? Why?

"Why would anyone want to make a rar file when you can just tell the other people (who are the ones that require) it that they can just change their work flow to match yours instead".

In the case we had, the supplier's helpdesk system would automatically unpack the .rar files and attach it to the ticket. Using rar.exe. The command line version does not support any format but rar, unlike winrar which does. So sure, you could send them a .zip file, or a .7z file, and they would (and did) close the support request due to not being supplied the diagnostic data .

Re: WinRAR? Why?

The reason I see people with licenced versions of WinRAR is they have a requirement to make .rar files (normally for sending files to china), and making RAR files is the one thing you need rar.exe/WinRAR for.

Re: WinRAR? Why?

rar was one of the first compression systems to properly support multibyte characters, I could see that giving it a reputation for "better" in somewhere like China. And these reputations will often out last the software itself.

That's the entire point of the comment. They past. They might not excel yet, but they _made the cut_ already to be in their profession.

"What do you call the person who graduated their medical degree with the lowest score.. Doctor"

Re: Connections..

We could get a Virgin leased line - it would be provided by Openreach though. And for the 4 members of staff, it would also be very expensive. This is the issue. The only choice we have is over OR, adsl2 or leased line.