Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward

Re: Error 47

Two types of bikers.

1, Those who have set off with the kickstand slightly down and had the bike switch off followed by them slowly falling over

2, Those who haven't yet set off with the kickstand .......

Re: Wish my

I believe Mr PATT tester is your tool of choice here

Re: Warning Lights

>but on looking out of the window the true nature was revealed: the pipeline had burst

A good lesson from Apollo13. Not much mentioned in the films and 'failure is not an option' accounts. But they wasted 20mins checking for computer errors AFTER the crew said they felt an explosion because an explosion would be bad so it couldn't be real

Re: Wilford Industries

errm

Re: Wilford Industries

Unless you have the wrong kind of snow

Re: A train, any train, not just the Shinkansen

Especially since at bullet train speeds the driver can't see a signal in time to stop so has to be told to press the brake by the same computer that is controlling the brake

Re: A real engineer..

It's not just the hardware it's the software.

You can play with this at home and run ZFS and K8s and Docker and other cool free stuff that is cutting edge in the corporate world. It means you can high high-school BOFHs that have years of experience in the stuff you need to setup a quick CI server.

Back in my day I was unemployable as an undergrad because I only knew SunOS and the rest of the world was MVS or CICS or Netware or something that you couldn't play with if you didn't have access to $$$$ hardware and licenses.

Re: Not too bad

Keep yer dick in a vice stick on the ice

Skookum

Re: Cloud storage is being upgraded

1, Buy Synology box and stick 4x8tb spinning rust drives in it, go to pub

2, Buy HP microserver tower, install open source build of synology DSM, stick 4x8tb spinning rust drives in it, go to pub an hour later than 1

Re: The engineering gospel

Is there any field of engineering that hasn't dreamed of building a Trebuchet?

It might even make control systems bearable

Re: Speed compensation

Alternatively he could return the drives to Amazon for a refund while earning $$$ through YT ads and referable links while getting lots of free publicity from el'reg

Re: Such opportunity. The like of which you've never seen...

Your sailboat reno video needs to include lots of pictures of you in a bikini (recommending you shave your back)

Re: Needs more thrust

Easier to add extra propellant mass than engineering to increase the velocity - unless you have a very long voyage planned where the amount of the stuff you chuck overboard matters.

Efficiency is just electrical power in vs kinetic energy out - more complex systems to create higher velocities would generally be less efficient.

Re: little was known about its fundamental properties

Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mindbogglingly big it is.

The number of Iodine atoms/m^3 this adds ......

Re: Nice

Wouldn't you just pick the heaviest material that is a liquid at room temperature and easily vaporized?

Something silvery and quick ?

Back when I wor a lad and dinosaurs roamed the Earth - Japan was the devilishly cunning evil empire that was going to destroy all our industry and make us eat raw fish and chips.

So we banned Japanese companies like Toshiba importing components like LCD screens, forcing them to try and make laptops.

We were troubled that Nikon and Canon made lithography machines which could threaten America's lead in semi-conductors. So the USA funded Philips spinning out its lithography division into a little outfit called ASML - and that's why all semi-conductors today are made in America Holland Taiwan not Japan and security is assured.

Re: Communism bad

> the privatisation has lead to companies being more interested in .... investors, than the customers.

That is literally the directors legal duty

Re: I have a blueprint

But the logo is obvious

Re: 18. Political Party Donations From Foreign Interests.

You can still buy power and water suppliers and newspapers

Re: So, basically..

Yes but it would stop foreigners taking over LandRover (clause 7,11,12,15,17)

Re: "The CMA will now report to me and provide advice on the next steps"

>all Ministers, from all governments, all of the time, take advice from their expert advisory bodies

Except presumably the Slithy Gove ?

Re: "The CMA will now report to me and provide advice on the next steps"

I assume the ministerial summary is just smiley face / frowny face emoji ?

Are you suggesting that the government should interfere in the free markets and stop water companies being sold to foreign enterprises for some sort of spurious "good of the people" / "national interest" reasons ?

Good God man, this is only drinking water were talking about not something vital like a merchant bank

Re: Can anyone explain ...

>UK Gov does indeed have a legit influence because Arm is UK based

Currently. Even if the former colonies have no geeks of their own they may be able to persuade some of those in Cambridge that San Francisco is equally cold and windy - albeit with 5x the salary

Re: recreated in Lego form

Or they could send up the LEGO sets instead - it would be much cheaper

These are very small but those are a long way away.......

Re: Californium-252

But in California there would be a warning because of the solvent in the ink on the box

Re: I for one welcome our

Don't make the BOFH angry, your wouldn't like him when he's angry

Re: How about a really large archive?

>Good luck modulating an atom bomb.

Morse + lots of bombs

Re: Seems like an afterthought

>The OS/2 SDK cost about $1000 but Microsoft gave away the Windows SDK free

Not only that, IBM made it impossible for mere mortals to get hold of the OS/2 SDK

We couldn't get it at a certain fen based university research lab.