Posts by Will Godfrey

The Usual Problem

The devs at RH have become too self-important and think the world owes them homage. Methinks they are about to discover it doesn't.

Artifacts look interesting

But I don't regard 1000 years as ancient - 10,000 would be more like it. Even then, I would think folks were familiar with the effects of fermenting fruit and certain mushrooms much further back in time.

Really good?

Who says?

How about a display module that uses deeply embedded filament lamps for various rather important indicators on a combine harvester. Dealer claims the unit can't be repaired and has to be replaced at a cost of thousands of pounds - in a week's time.

Well, the small engineering firm I used to work for made some discoveries. It became obvious that the reason the lamps were so deeply embedded was to stop people taking them out - but that was solved with a bit of rubber hose and a vacuum pump - they were ordinary bi-pin ones, only not quite ordinary. the pins were slightly thinner than normal and slightly further apart.

We solved that problem (and the deep embed) with an LED and a resistor - also resulted in a much brighter display.

Oh and as for the 'short' working days, round these parts they harvest well into the night using high powered searchlights attached to the machines.

As fo me

I'm a person and Identify as {see above}

We are not becoming a surveilence state

We are already there and have been for at least 20 years!

Deja Vu

So nothing's changed since the suppliers were caught providing brittle steel wire for a a certain suspension bridge

It's all fake

This whole thing is a game to the big nobs. I'm half convinced they quietly get together from time to time so they can decide who's turn it is to be the bad guy.

Sorry

I was too busy trying to find even one candidate worth voting for in the local elections, and I was supposed to pick three!

Hmmm - last time eh.

That would have been in the late 1960s when I said I had 'colour' experience, but didn't point out that it consisted of switching on and adjusting the tuner at customers' houses.

I sweated buckets for about 3 months and learned fast. Never repeated the experiment!

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But on the plus side, not many 19yolds were pulling in £25/week and driving a brand new Escort Estate in those days.

Lips moving

Need I say more?

Happy day

A good on-call sequel and an excellent BOFH

Playing with fire

There is no way I'd even think about getting a second hand drive from anywhere. New ones are cheap enough, and likely to be far more reliable - that's not even starting on the risks associated with what might be on a used one.

A bit of advice for the gentleman

Trust has to be earned, not demanded.

What are you doing towards that end?

Drive Letters

Aren't they what you get from the DVLA when your car tax is due?

Wow!

Just Wow!

How on earth could it get that bad? Even our own highly 'experienced' Capita could manage that shopping list of fail!

Turn it on its head

Every time you leave the house be wearing something completely bizarre and different - even going to work. Then when you want to be incognito go out wearing ordinary fairly smart casuals.

Ambiguous

Who ever designed the sign is most at fault. It first gives a warning then appears to give an instruction. Either is equally valid, and they negate each other.

Boxes inside boxes inside...

It could always be the activities of some 'persons unknown', trying to make this look like Kaspersky trying to mess with others.

In the spy V spy world I wouldn't rule out anything.

It won't work

See title.

P.S. Kids are smarter than politicians

Self Important?

While (as usual) there are multiple points of view and port scanning is always going to be contentious, I do get the impression that Spamhaus are somewhat arrogant and dismissive.

Empty Threat

So if they try to put that into practice, who do they think will share info with them?

Not in this house

The only smart thing is between my ears... and that's a bit debatable!

They're Scared

Nothing to lose now so try anything at all.

Monoculture?

Just waiting for the worldwide meltdown now.

All I have to say

is that it's nice to hear there is still some real engineering going on.