Posts by Captain Badmouth 624 publicly visible posts • joined 1 Aug 2015
"the less said about Bonnie Langford the better."
I have to disagree, Noel Coward had a particular dislike for her and after watching her sing in a play, during which a horse relieved itself on stage, he was heard to remark:
"You could solve two things at a stroke- shove that child up the horses arse"
Elsewhere when she was appearing in Gone with the wind:
" Two things should be cut: the second act and that child's throat"
ordered by Willie Walsh into computer mess. The Times this morning reminds us that BA has had 4 big outages in the last 10 months. Iag and Walsh have been criticised for not having enough (shewerly "any") IT expertise at board level: only one non-exec has IT experience.
Willie says inquiry will be peer-reviewed and "we will be happy to disclose details".
Who'd like to be the poor EE who kicked that first UPS domino? (Asssuming we believe the story).
"it could have resulted in both the battery supply and the generator supply being briefly connected in series to the power bus feeding the racks. That would result in the data centre’s servers being fed 480v instead of 240v, causing a literal meltdown"
Has anyone here in the electrical/electronic/computer field ever heard of an automatic system being configured in such a manner? Power supplies capable of being connected in series? Parallel maybe..., but then with 3 phase you don't get 480v. Somebody with a 1+1=2 understanding of ac electrics has come up with a bullshit "press release" from a "source".
How many months before the truth comes out?
Paris, very saucy. ( but probably knows more about electrics than the source)
Though not played too often. Thorens TD160, SME3009 MKII fixed head, Shure M75ED, Ditton 15 spkrs (with ABR's- seen that somewhere else recently, can't remember though...), Sansui cd player, NAD amp and tuner. Was once, a few years back, tempted to uprate the cd player but saw that one of the top-end cd players actually had the cheapest Philips cd deck fitted, so didn't bother. Was definitely going to build an am stereo receiver featured in Wireless world, obviously no am stereo in the uk but being an avid swl in my youth the thought of listening to the fading stations on sw and mw move across the room was very tempting. ( Upper and lower sidebands were fed to L&R channels respectively.) The design used the new ceramic filters at the time. I'd still like to do it but I lost the article in a house move and can no longer remember the issue no. If anyone listening here has it, please let me know. I still have the wireless world circuit for stereo headphone use which compensates for the phase difference across the head to each ear. Someday...
"Seems like the only way is to stay ahead and write everywhere on anything you can get your hands on - except stone, which can last thousands of years, but the playback is awful."
You obviously never saw "The Stone Tape" on the BBC.
Well, I never, here it is on youtubes:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6TlrSTWoew
Oooooh! It was a Xmas ghost story on Xmas day 1972.
I notice you didn't mention updates taking forever with the windows standalone installer "searching for updates on this computer". What the hell is it actually doing for those endless hours running that lovely green band L-R ?
Paris, has better ideas for how to spend endless hours.
(So have I, btw.)
My dear boy, the regulations allowing the fair folk of El REg to publish specifically disallow the staff availing themselves of such usage. Sufficient to say they therefore allow such profanity to emanate from the common commentards, such as your good self.
Nevertheless please partake of an upvote for your good wife and children.
Good day sir.
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