Re: I just use SI most of the time
A lot of railway distance/length measurements in the UK are still done in chains
Posts by Will Godfrey
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It's been 230 years since British pirates robbed the US of the metric system
If we have self-healing bio robots in 2053, it started here with mouse muscle cyborgs
Microsoft is checking everyone's bags for unsupported Office installs
Laser-wielding boffins bend lightning to their will
Bringing the first native OS for Arm back from the brink
Wednesday 18th January 2023 09:57 GMT 
Thanks for this.
I still look fondly on RISC OS, and indeed am considering going to the Southwest Show (25 Feb.) to see how it's getting on.
The Archimedes was the first (probably only) computer I really got to understand at all levels, even down to writing some ARM code that could handle 128 large completely independent sprites with full collision detection - using BBC BASIC's in-line assembler.
Unix is dead. Long live Unix!
Flaming USB battery halts flight from Taiwan to Singapore
Thursday 12th January 2023 17:25 GMT
Re: And this is why Teslas and possibly other EVs ..
Eurotunnel is no stranger to fires - all of which have been caused by lorries. A friend and I had booked a train for the day after the 2014 one to join a one-off meetup with fellow musicians from across Europe to play at a private session in France. There was no way to book alternative arrangements in time.
Haiku beta 4: BeOS rebuild / almost ready for release / A thing of beauty
Wednesday 11th January 2023 15:01 GMT
Really good news!
I've been watching this with interest since I first heard about it. Looks like I'll have to find time to give it a spin. I've an eeePC901 hanging around as well as an old dual core Athon machine. I'm also hoping it can be ported to the Raspberry Pi - that would make a dramatic improvement!
I spy with my little Pi: Upgraded cameras for single board computer
Virgin Orbit doesn't
Uncle Sam OKs vaccine that protects honeybees against hive-destroying bacterium
Monday 9th January 2023 12:53 GMT
Re: Cancer, T-Cells, mRNA
That's strange. Over the last few years I've had 4 COVID jabs along with my normal annual FLU jabs - no sign of any 'nuclear bomb' yet. When should I expect this event to take place. I'm already in my seventies, so obviously can't wait much more than another twenty years or so.
CES Worst in Show slams gummi gouging, money-wasting mugs, and other dubious kit
Rust projects open to denial of service thanks to Hyper mistakes
Techies try to bypass damaged UPS, send 380V into air traffic system
Tuesday 3rd January 2023 14:41 GMT
No Excuses
If you know there's three phase around you should always check with a suitable test meter. If you 'know' there isn't you should still check in case some numpty has been messing around. Also, especially check neutral continuity. The most lethal situation is a broken neutral that's just hanging there looking innocent because there's a star connected motor on it.
Computing's big question for 2023: How many more questions can we endure?
Meet the merry pranksters who keep the workplace interesting, if not productive
Tuesday 27th December 2022 14:12 GMT
Re: Pranking is abuse
You my be surprised to know, that laughter is sometimes an indicator of extreme stress. The first time I saw that was when some kids were horsing around in the sports changing room slamming doors on the other kids... until one of the kids lost a finger - the kid went totally hysterical.
In praise of MIDI, tech's hidden gift to humanity
BOFH and the office security access upgrade
Friday 23rd December 2022 13:27 GMT
So Simon once worked at one of my old employers!
We had job cards that were supposed to be filled in at the end of the day, but as we were building quite complex A/V racks each job would last several weeks, and as the cards were only collected monthly, we just quickly filled them in just before they were wanted.
Until... HR decided they wanted more detail and had this computer system installed that demanded entry of every start and stop before you left at the end of the day. It was the most clunky and user unfriendly thing any of us have ever seen. This went of for a couple of months, then suddenly we reverted to the cards again with no explanation. We found out later that one of the most senior engineers, put in a massive overtime claim for the time spent filling the thing in.
Tesla driver blames full-self-driving software for eight-car Thanksgiving Day pile up
Friday 23rd December 2022 12:00 GMT
Re: FSD ≠ Autonomous
However, on my Skoda Fabia cancelling sudden braking isn't possible - unless you go through a complex menu system to disable it... every time you start the car.
Where it is most likely to happen is where a car in a right hand lane is about to turn and just touches the brakes at the point of turning, and even if stopping dead I would still just pass it on the left.
On two occasions I was nearly rear-ended, and received much honking, gesticulating and swearing.
It's time to retire 'edge' from our IT vocabulary
Why would a keyboard pack a GPU and run Unreal Engine? To show animations beneath the clear keys, natch
Apple accused of censoring apps in Hong Kong and Russia to maintain market access
UK's Guardian newspaper breaks news of ransomware attack on itself
Swatting suspects charged with subverting Ring doorbell cams and calling cops
Microsoft reports macOS Gatekeeper has an 'Achilles' heel
British Airways flights grounded due to glitch in flight planning app
Latest US blacklist spells trouble for China’s biggest domestic 3D NAND supplier
Salesforce's new hires are less productive, says CEO Benioff
When we asked how you crashed the system we wanted an explanation not a demonstration
Server broke because it was invisibly designed to break
Friday 16th December 2022 12:06 GMT
Elfin Safety
... nearly closed down a factory with a safety barrier they insisted on. This was on a machine that that took in sheets of printed thin card, 'pastry' cut them into small opened out pill packets, then folded them and glued them - it was an absolute work of art. The numpty decided that the moving machinery was too dangerous for the operators to adjust all the tiny hooks and levers that did the folding while the machine was running.
There was a slight problem with this, fine adjustments had to be made at speed to take into account things like air flow. The machine also must never be started with packets already in it. Nor must it be stopped while the glue line is running. I'm sure you can see where this is going! Medical supplies companies are extremely fussy about delivery times, so after the loss of a major company, the business decided to move the trouble maker to another unit that had 'greater' need of him.
P.S. It was also controlled by a cough PLC with plug-in I/O modules the size of a large book. For a while I had a regular job replacing driver transistors :)
You can hook your MIDI keyboard up to a website with Firefox 108
Qualcomm talks up RISC-V, roasts 'legacy architecture' amid war with Arm
Arm processor technology caught up in US chip war with China
Twitter dismantles its Trust and Safety Council moments before meeting
Brit chip company picks RISC-V for next-gen microcontrollers
Microsoft to buy 4% of London Stock Exchange in 10-year platform deal
Inadequate IT partly to blame for NHS doctors losing 13.5 million working hours
San Francisco investigates Hotel Twitter, Musk might pack up and leave
Fresh version of Xfce, the oldest Linux desktop of them all, revealed in Xubuntu builds
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