Posts by Will Godfrey

Doffs Hat

I've pulled a few tricks in my time, but nothing that approaches this for sheer Class!

Are the tab V spaces wars over?

That's the only explanation for this being the new essential thing to fight over.

Commentards are right onto this one.

Just about everything I thought, while reading this has already been said - well done people.

I just hope Satan is preparing a very special place for Pai

Been here before!

Our people fitted a new central process control unit in a plastic film factory. This had just about every test imaginable before being fitted including being hit by brownouts and static discharges. However, once installed at the location demanded by their engineers all sorts of random errors were occurring. This was in the middle of the factory on a partition attached to the back wall and at the top of a flight of steps. It was months before we identified the problem, and only then because one of our engineers took a laptop there to make notes of readings and it kept crashing. One of their production workers commiserated and said that their mobile phones would sometimes freeze if they went there. In a moment of inspiration our guy asked what the partition was there for, and was told the 3 phase supply for the entire factory complex was behind it.

No Surprise

Everyone is calling this a war, and of course in a war the first casualty is the truth.

Well I'm glad it's not just me

I detest the buttons that aren't buttons, and uniform washed out appearance.

Does not compute

Stranger: "Hey! You left your door and a couple of windows open."

Home Owner: "Fuck off."

Shakes head

I don't know whether he is an alien pretending to be a human, or if it's me that's the alien. Either way, I simply can't get into the mindset of people like him.

I'll be watching out for this

Now if the Adslingers were even half-way reasonable none of this would be necessary, but unless that happens it's full nuclear here.

Apart from a a few tightly selected web sites.

Nice

Good to see people oiling the wheels.

What to do in an emergency

What should happen:

Get everyone as safe as possible as quickly as possible. Move research of the problem into top gear.

What all politicians and most others do:

Find someone to blame as quickly as possible. Silence anyone who contradicts this.

Regression

Is there anything at all in America that isn't going rapidly in a downward direction?

I wouldn't mind (apart from the harm to my friends over there) but it screws up everyone else.

Interesting where people end up

My brother went through agricultural college, and did very well there. Then emigrated to Australia as a £10 POM... He got a job as a traveling salesman - and not even for agricultural products!

And another thing

Sitting on my desk is a home-made amp with FM radio. I built the lot from a mixture of available drawings and my own ideas. That was in the early 1970s. It's been pretty much in daily use ever since. The only change being a replacement volume control a couple of years ago. I could probably still get the parts for, and fix anything else that might go wrong.

I wonder if anyone could home-build a DAB radio? Any takers?

Not Buying

The only really good thing seems to be the absence of both google and facebook.

Also, call me when you can get a week's basic use as a phone between recharges.

Awww

I do love a story with a happy ending.

Good luck to them

I have far more confidence in Huawei than the likes of Cisco... or come to that any US based company.

Am I surprised?

Sadly no. I get the horrible feeling we are still just seeing the tip of the iceberg. Is there any part of Boeing that can be regarded as up to standard?

But but...

What about the poor spooks? They'll never be able handle such arcane communications.

It seems almost the entire world ignores warnings

Just look at the coronavirus situation

All the above questions plus...

Can you change the battery?

My current laptop is about 6 years old now, and showing it's age sometimes.

P.S. Rather like me :(

Well deserved

I've been watching these developments over the years with great interest (and enjoyment). I couldn't begin to understand the maths, but can still appreciate its complexity.

No Thanks

I still can't shake the idea that this is the "Encapsulate" phase of Microsoft's four E way of dealing with competition.

Embrace

Encapsulate

Extend

Extinguish

Limited number

Doesn't say how big the limit was. It could mean everyone - that's a limited number.

Stands t'reason

We never 'ad this coroners vy-ris when we 'ad good 'onnest carbolic soap. It's the new-fangled detty-gents wot dun it. All us sed 'twould end in tears.

Wrong Target

The poorly maintained buses, along with delivery and haulage vehicles that chuck out thick clouds of half burned diesel are the ones that should be aimed at, and for these it it is very practical indeed.