Posts by PhilBuk 250 posts • joined 7 Nov 2012
Kodak also had a starring role in developing digital cameras and held a lot of the patents for the technology. They made digital backs for Nikon, Hasselblad etc. that were used by NASA and other high profile organisations. However, ther own cameras and their marketing of said items was shit.
Phil.
There was also a rudder problem with a servo causing the rudder to go hard over at low speeds. This caused a couple of accidents and fatalities. The problem was around for a few years But could be negated by raising the minimum speeds in certain configurations.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_737_rudder_issues
To fix the Millenium Falcon you just use the same technique as the Russian guy in Armageddon - "Empire parts, Rebel parts, all made in Taiwan!"
Just keep hitting it with a bloody great spanner.
Phil.
Got a quote from an insurer via the hotmail account on my phone. Went to a PC to look at it full size and Outlook 2013 prompted me to login - failed. Went to webmail tried to log in, got a page saying that the page I wa trying to view was not TLS 1.1, 1.2 or 1.3 compatible - Microsoft's own page! Went back to phone to forward email to a non hotmail address and, now, couldn't connect to hotmail.
Long live the cloud!, and so on.
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@Black Rat
"the FBI can tell you how many other incidents have not been made public for security reasons."
Did you mean "the FBI can't tell you..."; otherwise they would be able to tell us???? Or do you mean they can tell you the number but not the specifics of the incidents.
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Great. Now that I've got a citation to prove it, I'll just go in and re-write the Wikipedia article.
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I've read all of them but have to say the the ones by his son go a bit bat-shit
crazy.
One thing I did notice was that there was quite a difference between the UK and US editions of the original. I bought my copy when I was in the states in 1979. When that started to fall apart, I bought a copy in the UK. When I read it, something jarred so I went back to the US edition and found that whole paragraphs had been re-written, sometimes there was a least an extra page difference between editions. My quick assessment was that it seemed that quite a bit of waffle had been edited out of the UK edition.
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p.s. there are six brick-sized sequels too.
A cardboard cutout with an attached tape recorder would have made a better job of Gurney Halleck than the guy who played him in the mini-series (P.H. Moriarty). But, apart from that, I quite enjoyed their take on Dune and the next two books. As mentioned before, the lack of budget showed in the FX and the outdoor shots. The guy who played Stilgar was a particularly good fit.
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Don't forget RT-11 and there was one that started with OS (OS-11?), similar to OS-8 (which also used PIP).
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With Coeliac disease you can have a reaction within 10 minutes. I know.
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First post I see. Hmm...marketing speak...couldn't give a shit about ordinary people ... I see a pattern here.
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Always a good spelling mistake. (Checks post carefully for mistakes).
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I'm seeing Starbucks and coffee in the same comment - what's the relevance?
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Recently, most of them just ask straight out for your email address. I use the Clapper technique here and say I do not have an email address. I have about 10 but I'm not telling them that. Anyone that insists gets a left with a pile of what I was going to buy.
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Seeing as it was flying around near the Pyrenees, going up to 28,000 ft would have been advisable as most of the big peaks are 10,000-11,000 ft!
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Agreed. What they need is the 'Emergency Flush' shown in MIB 2. In would preferably include the C-suite crowd, all of Marketing and the Licencing Division. The destination would not, however, be a safe haven. Cue rotating knives, boulders running down the corridor, etc..
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...or when people stop being annoyed by it.
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The stags and cows have two heads. The bears only have one.
(In 3, New Vegas and 4 anyway).
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I presume it's the same excuse for my sister's non-functional VM service - they're crap.
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Seawater + Lead-acid batteries don't need the electrolysis bit. Just add sulphuric acid to a salt solution and watch the sulphuric displace the chlorine.
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No email provider is getting my mobile number.
Agreed. It seems to want to install an Active X thingy. Could you explain what this does before I bork my functioning Win 7 System.
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I note that the twitter comment is from Marc Dorcel. Would this by any chance be the noted French porn director and producer? Maybe trying to get some publicity by the back door.
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At the moment, it's colder on the Wirral at 6C.
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First thing I do on a Win 7 installation - disable libraries. Goodbye explorer green bar.
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I assume (I didn't check) that the DVD was the Steam client, the installer and the game program binaries. The download was probably updates and game data. OR the online version was newer so it just overwrote the DVD version.
I've seen similar behavior with a Mass Effect 1,2 & 3 boxed set (3 DVDs). It ignored the DVDs and just downloaded the games. 16Gbytes total with a later 4.5 Gbyte update for ME3.
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Recently bought Fallout 4 for the PC. Put the DVD in the PC and it buzzed along loading the game. Then it came up with a message to say that the game was installed but it would need to load additional data before it was ready to play. A quick trip to the Steam Download Manager showed that it had installed 5Gbyte so far and was downloading 21Gbyte of 'additional data'!!
Worth the wait though.
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Wales is not a country, it's a principality.
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I find Pale Moon to be quite nice. It has it's own version of ABP - Adblock Edge and manages to run a fair number of FF add-ons. Switched some time ago and I'm quite happy.
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What was the name of the paranoid personality that they created about the same time? (Google, Google) Ah - PARRY. Anyway, I believe ELIZA and PARRY had a really good chat together.
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Using the hydraulics to move the wing surfaces exposed the fact that the engines were not powerful enough to power the hydraulic pumps and power the props. Hughes ended up in the situation where he could lift off without flight surface control or have flight surface control but not enough grunt to get off the water.
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One of the reasons I like FreeBSD is the Handbook which provides fairly decent post-install and admin documentation. A few Linux distros could take note and not just fling noobs at the forums!
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Fast page zero access was used on the PDP-8 architecture - a few years before the 6502 appeared. Goes to show that there is nothing new in computing - just new names for the same old stuff.
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p.s. Got my PET 2008 in 1979. Still have it but scared to turn it on in case the electrolytics decide to expire.
I think he means the dish 'Scouse' which has a bit of beetroot in it.
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Bollocks - Streams were introduced by AT&T into their version of Unix. SCO were extending a system that originally started out as Xenix.
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Just logged in to see if it was any better than when I last used it - at the first showing of beta. The bastards seem to have removed any way of configuring the view of the site - I used to have a really nice pre-2000 setup with the max amount of text info per page and no web shit - everybody gets the same garbage web 2.0 crap now.
Used to be my home page. R.I.P.
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Ditto - took my pension and went after a similar situation. Your description of "excessive bureaucracy internally, poor rep externally" took the words out my mouth. My contacts still left recount a rather grim existence.
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Got my LED clock radio for a birthday present when I was 16 - I'm 61 now so 45 years of constant use. Had to clean the contacts on the buttons once but it still soldiers on.
Praise the lord for lead solder!!
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I was prescribed Tamedrol for a short period and whilst it was quite pleasant, it came with strict instructions not to combine it with alcohol. Mix the two and you to forget to breathe.
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I did a summer job in a Chemists in the 1970s and there was a cough medicine called Collis Brown's Compound. It contained a fair amount of codeine but was sold over the counter without any real restrictions. There were some customers who bought half a dozen bottles a week and were clearly addicted. I was was told later that the manufacturers were forced to reduce or remove the codeine entirely causing a rush to the local GPs for 'nervous' problems.
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Ever thought about using capital letters, full stops, commas, the whole sentence sort of thing? Makes your outpouring a bit more readable.
systemd'oh! DNS lib underscore bug bites everyone's favorite init tool, blanks Netflix
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