Posts by Roland6

Re: For many of us, hybrids make more sense than BEVs

>” Whereas I conclude that a major build out and re-engineering of the grid to allow more the energy efficient future, which is going to happen”

History and reality says it isn’t going to happen anytime soon, particularly given the extra load EVs would put on the grid was easily calculable back in 2010. We’ve had 10+ years and very little has been done to prepare for a re-engineer of the national grid, so as you note if we start today it’s probably going to be 25 years before it’s ready…

Re: For many of us, hybrids make more sense than BEVs

Need to investigate the mains cost of EV electricity, as I expect this will be on a different tariff to general domestic. I suspect your game changer is the solar panels and having sufficient to charge from these.

I would treat the free charging as a bonus as I expect as numbers increase charging will be introduced - it’s costing the shopping centre to provide “free” charging and the government is going to want to shift revenues gained from petrol/diesel fuel onto EV fuel.

The only real question is going to be your lifestyle and can it adapt to your local EV charging constraints.

Re: We have bigger things to worry about

You need to port your existing landline number to a VoIP provider and run your phone over the data service.

The voip service I’m intending to deploy in October, connects each phone by a VPN tunnel to get around the whole NAT, SIP, VoiP router configuration issue, although it’s worth giving the phone VPN traffic a higher priority and putting the phones on their own SSID which can likewise be prioritised.

I think part of the problem is that telecoms equipment is so reliable, that it normally provides what appears to be a four nines service.

Re: please forgive my lack of knowledge...

Don’t forget they can listen to and participate in all the network maintenance chit chat, so for example go looking for UPnP devices.

Could achieve the same location tigger by having it detect when your phone has connected to your home WiFi network.

Re: So Musk has blood on his hands

>” The pilots are still fully responsible”

Pilots are more highly trained than you typical car driver. Additionally, pilots have to get type approval to fly different planes - ie. They are formally taught and so learn the real capabilities of the “auto pilot”, not just what the marketeer and salesperson lead them to believe.

Are you suggesting the lack of investment was deliberate, because at some point in the near future the UK would have qualified, as a nation, for EU regional development funding (just like Ireland) which have paid for new schools, hospitals etc.

Re: @JMiles

>” You are aware that is an issue that has been ongoing for some time as a legacy issue while in the EU. Basically it has nothing to do with our membership at all.”

I seem to remember saying (in the leave/remain debate) the cause of the UKs problems wasn’t so much Brussels but Westminster…

I think many against the UKs membership of the EU, forget it was Westminster, not Brussels, that denied UK electors a vote on the relevant membership treaties…

The Tories have no excuses for Northamptonshire County Council - it had been Conservative Controlled for over a decade before it crashed... The reason for the crash was wholly down to the blind adherence to and application of Conservative mumbo jumbo...

Re: Great job!

> “After all, the UK govt did this for a number of UK banks !!”

And this last year the Bank of England has been raising base rate, with the result the banks are declaring bigger profits for doing nothing.

Re: Great job!

But that would be an attack on private enterprise…

Also can’t have the NHS paying people more as that is inflationary; yet the same monies being spent on agency workers isn’t inflationary…

Re: Great job!

Given the level of long-term under funding of local government and the number of local authorities (Conservative as well as labour controlled) struggling to balance their accounts, the next government is going have many challenges, whatever it’s political colour…

But did they actually target Windows 7?

Nowhere in the article is there reference to evidence that Windows 7 was specifically targeted because of known security holes that have only come to light since MS stopped releasing security updates for W7.

I would not be surprised if once the attack vector used is identified, it is discovered the attack also works against W10/11…

So whilst running an unsupported OS in production is questionable, what should be more troubling is the failure of security layers to prevent access to the more vulnerable W7 machine.

Re: Missed opportunity

Or handed it over to SysInternals…

Re: They are getting part of a clue

Don’t disagree, however, it does seem the US are going for (relatively) small numbers of expensive stuff rather than larger numbers of cheaper stuff that can be used in swarms. Tonight’s news noted Ukraine are consuming circa 10,000 drones a month, so it would seem tomorrows battles will require a full range of drones…

Re: They are getting part of a clue

But many of the drones being used in Ukraine cost less than $30,000, like circa $400 (before weapons fit out).

Looks like the US hasn’t fully learnt the lesson from the Talban et al, who made effective use of Toyota pickup trucks and SUVs as a cheap and highly mobile weapons platform.

Re: "their own backups as a contingency"

So Cloud is not cheaper than on-prem what a surprise not!

If you want cheap then something ha to give.

I suspect a number of CloudNordic customers will cease trading in the coming months…

Re: Correct documentation?

Is “ MS Learn” the new name for Technet, KB and Support community/forums?

Just asking as I would want candidates to learn how to navigate the resources they will be accessing on-the-job and not (just) some specially crafted and maintained “learning resource”.

Also, this might encourage better curation and maintenance of the resources.

[Aside: been on other learning sites who only give access to the learning reference materials for the duration of your studies and 6~12 months after completion. ]

Re: Programming is independent from language

>” the real issue is the "old, legacy code" but the fact its running on obsolete hardware.”

In my experience the issue isn’t so much the hardware - although that may be the motivation to migrate it, but the operational paradigm behind the design of the code: code written to read sequentially from mag tape will still be limited compared to code written to access a RDBMS.

Re: Meh

Given there were a number of COBOL-to-C tools around in the 80s and given the simplicity of Java compared to C, I don’t see the value “AI” is actually contributing other than marketing pixie dust.

Re: Tough on people hired remote

Sounds like they need to talk to an employment law solicitor, potential case of constructive dismissal.

Even if the solicitor errors on caution, getting the solicitor to write to HR is normally sufficient for an improved “no fault” severance payment, especially if your friend is disabled…

Re: I'm sorry, I just can't dump Zoom.

Given how deeply “compromised” the PSTN is (*),I would suggest a Zoom meeting, allowing for the current security weaknesses, is more secure.

(*) I suspect the US telephone network is similarly compromised.

Re: I'm sorry, I just can't dump Zoom.

The UK government uses MS, the NHS has adopted Teams: Get an online consultation (or join an NHS collaboration) and you’ll be expected to use Teams.

Also many companies are using Teams telephony…