Posts by bernmeister

Pipe Dream

Its just a pipe dream. A lot ot pipes and a lot of dreaming.

Grudge?

Sounds like somebody has got a grudge against UK councils. That narrows down the field of suspects. Count me out though, I dont have the IT skills needed.

Regener-Pfotzer Maximum

A complex subject if you have to take into account the odd solar storm. Without solar storms the radiation levels are very predictable.

Toxic etc

Fluoroacetonitrile is not really good stuff to carry in large volumes. Its not good in small volumes either. They should keep looking for an electrolyte that wont poison the user in the case of small leak.

So thats it for upgrades

So, in twenty years time or later we will still see W10 or older being used in ATM and announcement board systems. I still fireup XP now and then just to remind me how fast a slow machine would run with a small OS. I also have DOS that runs serial ports on old machines. W10 or W11 wont do thar.

Fail

O-rings again?

Opportunity to downsize

As MS continue to bloat Windows there are increasing opportunities to shrink it without any loss of functionility for most users. Every time I get an upgrade I have to spend days removing unwanted stuff. There are loads of unwanted things that are locked and I cant remove. Remember when you could run Windows 3 on a 300MB disk? People said "Why do you so much HD? You dont need that much". Yes, 300MB not 300GB. I can get down to 30GB for W10 but it soon creeps up.

Cashcoin Liquid

I was involved in helping a cryptocurrency mining company setup liquid cooling for their server PSUs. They had a relatively simple solution where the PSU racks were immersed in dielectric fluid. Fans had to be removed and heatsink paste cleaned off before immersion. Certain components also needed to be replaced with immersion compatible types. The modifications were small and well within the capabilities of the customer. The result was successful.

Making other parts of the system compatible with liquid immersion was not attempted. I dont think anybody had the nerve to dump a working server into a tank of coolant. Perhaps with SSDs in the servers they may get that far. They werent spending millions on R&D, they were making millions. The mine was setup right next to a hydroelectric source to keep power costs down.They had a lot in their favour.

What are they hiding in the other hand?

Of course, its what they are not disclosing that is of real interest. The mind boggles at the potential.

Air leaks.

I am trying to get my mind round how an air leak prevents an air brake being applied. Are the Tesla brakes not failsafe where inadequate air pressure prevents the brake being released? Or has Tesla redesigned the brake to save on something?

Overdone IT.

Sounds like they have overdone the depth of document checking. A similar thing happens with some library internet connections. It is immpossible to down load visa applications in some libraries because the key word detection is triggered by the list of prohibited items!

Look at the date.

Am I being a sceptic? The timing of this article is a bit suspicious. Articles describing unusual physics are often released just before April 1st.

the upstart's first object printed

Was that a typo or veiled attempt to ridicule?

Simple system

NOTAM was a relatively simple system using Baudot code on RTTY. I wonder what they have done to it to make it crash? I was working on a system in South America intended to get NOTAM's onto the satellite REDDIG system designed to connect all South American airports. I freaked out when an airport NOTAM system crashed so I reverted it back to original configuration. The system designers stepped in and made it work. The loss of service was so short nobodty noticed.

Remember pen and paper?

So, they are losing 13.5 million hours a year rue to inadequate IT. Remember the days of pen and paper medical records? How many hours are present IT systems saving compared to pen an paper records? Records had to be posted around the contry by Royal Snail!

All you got to do is...

I used to work as a technician in a commercial repair facility. Our supervisor was famed for his comments such as, "Why is it taking so long to repair, all you have to do is replace the faulty components". Providing repair information is fine but some stuff is so difficult to repair down to component level a general approach like that doesn't work.

How will they do it?

Have I missed something? As well as talking numbers it woul be interesting to read how they intend to become water positve by 2030. I suppose that if they reduced their water consumption the output from the dehumidifers would be enough. Sounds difficult.