Re: Then there's compatability..
Why the hell would a doorbell need to be compatible with a heating controller?
Posts by Stoneshop
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Can't you hear me knocking? But I installed a smart knocker
Friday 15th November 2019 15:37 GMT
Re: Well that was a waste...
Before I do that, i’’ll purchase either a natural gas powered generator... or a solar backup system....
Nice try. Neither will work when you need them to because of fouled sparkplugs, an IGBT blowing to protect its fuse, the switchover widget deciding that it'd rather choose 'none' instead of what power source is actually available or simply because Jupiter is in Sagittarius (or the other way around).
Just a proper key, TYVM.
Boeing comes clean on parachute borkage as the ISS crew is set to shrink
Facebook iOS app silently turns on your phone camera. Ah, relax – it's just a bug, lol!?
Wednesday 13th November 2019 20:56 GMT
Re: "Our HR department tried to start using WhatsApp"
We've been told to use MS Teams for business communication, and WhatsApp only for social chats. Me, I use neither. If someone needs to get hold of me they can call me, and occasionally I see a Skype message pop up on my workstation. Which I reply to using email, if at all.
I've had it with these motherflipping eggs on this motherflipping train
Wednesday 13th November 2019 20:24 GMT
Bus
In Colombia. Some of the passengers were carrying chickens. Live chickens. If you've ever been around a chicken farm on a warm sunny day and not felt the need to be Quite Somewhere Else Right Now, you must have had your sense of smell surgically excised some time earlier However, temperatures were such that all windows were open, so it wasn't as bad as it could have been. Also, the goats and the pigs, as well as one or two passengers, were on the roof rack; that must have helped too
Icon: breathing protection
I'm still not that Gary, says US email mixup bloke who hasn't even seen Dartford Crossing
Wednesday 13th November 2019 13:35 GMT
Re: I can sympathise....
Since we were IBM-all-the-way at work, I dicovered that we were also connected to the IBM network and all had an IBMMAIL address which we could use to get internet email to and from our local PROFS system.
Early '90's I was working at DEC, at department that used to be Philips, and a friend was doing postgrad work at IBM in Heidelberg. From reading a NOTES file I found out I could send mail to the outside Internet, and some more digging revealed the incantations to send mail from there to an IBMMAIL address. So after three or four tries I managed the right combination of quoting, gateway arcana and munging the address to get mail to him. And of course him hitting 'reply' did not work without further changes to the mail path.
As the crowcarrier pigeon flies it was 600km; mail went halfway around the world via Palo Alto and either Toronto or some other IBM site on the US East coast.
Uber CEO compares pedestrian death to murder of Saudi journalist, saying all should be forgiven
One man's mistake, missing backups and complete reboot: The tale of Europe's Galileo satellites going dark
Microsoft has made a Surface slab that mere mortals can dismantle
Microsoft's phrase of the week was 'tech intensity' and, no, we're not sure what it means either
Here are some deadhead jobs any chatbot could take over right now
Blood, snot and fear: Why the travelling lone tech reporter should always knock twice
Friday 8th November 2019 07:30 GMT
18hrs, 1400km
No hallucinations.
Started in Sweden around ten,somewhere between the Vänern and Vättern lakes and halfway up their length, rode across Denmark, passed Hamburg around 23:00, Bremen just past midnight, then a rather tense 200km or so of Bundesstrasse with lots of stretches through forest. Where you don't want to encounter any wildlife larger than maybe a small rabbit. Got home, fed the cat and went another 100km for @reasons.
Felt rather knackered of course, but only physically.
Icon: would have licked it off any keyboard within reach.
Friday 8th November 2019 06:35 GMT
Because my real name can apply to male or female (think Lesley or Darcy), but is most commonly female (it is amazing how often I get mail addressed to Mrs Diogenes, or people are audibly surprised when a bass voice answers my phone - they were obviously mentally prepared to talk to a female)
A decade or so back, GF is visiting Aoteraoa for a conference, being joined by a fellow whose name has similar properties, at least for English-speaking countries. As flying halfway around the world just for a conference without having a peek at Aotearoa's landscape appears somewhat silly they had planned to rent allroad motorcycles, and afterwards ride around South Island for a week or two. Motorcycle rental company is informed that the Suzuki DR650 might be a little tall for GF, and would they set it up as low as possible? Sure.
So they show up at the rental shop, and are presented with two DRs, both slowered even to the point that they fitted lower tyres. Shop had assumed from the name the other bike was going to be ridden by a female too.
Companion is a tick over 1m90.
Remember the Uber self-driving car that killed a woman crossing the street? The AI had no clue about jaywalkers
Open wide, very wide: Xerox considers buying HP. Yes, the HP that is more than three times its market cap
Socket to the energy bill: 5-bed home with stupid number of power outlets leaves us asking... why?
Wednesday 6th November 2019 11:49 GMT
Re: Luxury!
I grew up in a newly built council house which had one single socket and one light fitting in each *room.
You had light? And sockets? Rooms? We couldn't even dream of rooms because we had to hand back the dreams we might have had to the council, along with any electrons that happened to come our way. Properly cleaned those had to be, all of them. For light and heat we had to make do with burning our navel fluff.
Wednesday 6th November 2019 11:41 GMT
Re: Seems fine to me
There's a reason power transmission is done with AC, not DC,
Domestic and medium-voltage power transmission, that is. There are a fair few HVDC links running at 500MW @ 100kV or more, for instance between the UK and France, UK and Belgium, Norway to the Netherlands, UK-NI and Greece to Italy to name some of the ones here in Europe. Offshore windfarms tend to have HVDC links to shore too.
Wednesday 6th November 2019 10:10 GMT
Re: A very long time ago
I was surprised that I couldn't easily buy the equivalent off the shelf as it seemed such an obvious idea.
Something like this? There are data and CATV sockets, empty mounting boxes as well as switches and (Schuko) outlets.
May not be available in your country. Void where prohibited. No refunds or exchanges. Consult a qualified professional before applying.
Wednesday 6th November 2019 08:45 GMT
240 V sockets are so 20th century!
Because you don't want to power a piddling 600W gaming PC or a 50" TV, or even just more than a few LED lights off a 12V bus. Just from the power draw alone that PC would be pulling 50 amps and require 6mm^2 wire cores, and it would still require stepping down to the 5V, 3.3V and lower voltages it uses internally. Running 12V and 5V buses in addition to the 230/240V AC takes a lot of extra cabling for not much gain; better to fit appropriate low-voltage sockets (USB, and something else for 12V) with the power supplies built in next to your standard AC mains sockets.
48V might look to be a better choice, but still requires step-down converters for just about anything. And solar panel output isn't some standard voltage anyway; for maximum efficiency there will be a MPPT fitted to each string, which already does quite a bit of voltage (and current) conversion again. There would also need to be a hefty central power supply for keeping stuff on at night and on overcast days, though creating an UPS would be somewhat easier because you can more or less just splice in a stack of batteries.
And there's the bit that any DC power distribution at voltages higher than 42V requires specific safety measures.
Wednesday 6th November 2019 08:02 GMT
Re: Seems fine to me
Friend of mine is a dentist, and when he was getting a new practice built I advised him to not only have more than sufficient power outlets and network sockets put into every room, but also run empty conduit from the utilities room to just about everywhere that didn't have sockets a meter away already.
Wednesday 6th November 2019 06:47 GMT
Mid '90's, small SW company. Premises were a standard 3-bedroom residential house; company owners lived elsewhere (but close by IIRC). A Novell file/print server and some i386 Unix box running UUCP were in the loft, with the network cabling running down the stairwell and through a few strategically placed holes in the walls.
I cannae do it, captain, I'm giving it all she's got, but she just cannae take another dose of bullsh!t
Monday 4th November 2019 18:27 GMT
Yes, it will measure some spectra and report some composition of the food.
And then the report on the composition of the food comes from comparing that spectral data to a database. Which now adds another couple of sources that you have to trust when accepting the report you're presented with. So the 'trust blob' doesn't actually become smaller and less opaque.
A stranger's TV went on spending spree with my Amazon account – and web giant did nothing about it for months
Friday 1st November 2019 16:14 GMT
Re: All those precautions and 'they' left out the most obvious one
Deleting the card isn't going to help much though, because the charges would just go through onto the replacement card.
'Deleting the payment info from the Amazon account' and 'getting the credit card revoked and replaced' are two not entirely equal actions.
Delayed, over-budget smart meters will be helpful – when Blighty enters 'Star Trek phase'
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