Re: "stable" version?
To everyone's relief!
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Reminds me of my (never to be forgotten) introduction to inflation. As a kid I was given 3 bob to go to the newsagents to get dad's tobacco and cig papers. That came to 2s/7d, giving me 5d for sweets. Then the price jumped up to 2s/9d ha'penny but dad still only gave me 3 shillings, leaving me only 2d ha'penny for sweets.
I remember an occasion in the mid 1960s when a pair of 50,000u caps committed suicide. They were fitted to a seriously meaty 48V PSU. This was also at the time some of them instead of having +/- or red/black markings, had a square and triangle (I still can't remember which was supposed to be which). It's hardly surprising that one got through to final test - fortunately to a old and grey test engineer (who'd already complained that you had to reach over the kit to turn the power on).
Well, they exploded with such force, that the cans themselves shot out of their clamps and embedded themselves in the asbestos roof. Any other guy would have been killed instantly, but this old bird apparently instantly realised something was very wrong and dived under the bench.
P.S. I was the most junior of junior trainees at the time.
FWIW some of us try to help. I have a couple of blind friends, and ask their advice about my website and the softsynth I work on - it's possibly unique in having a full command line interface. I've also tried to promote the topic at the Linux Audio Conference for a couple of years.
Dod the ransomware bastards manage to get a sleeper into the organisation?
Is someone high up being blackmailed?
I can't think of any other explanation. This is just totally wrong from any point of view. To say nothing of the fact it simply WON'T WORK!
Shouting? I wanted to scream it out.
I disagree. It could just as much be contemptuous malice, the "Yeah, watchacha gonna do about it!" kind. It not only gives the spooks a look at the docs, but creates trouble and uncertainty for Huawei - who are probably now wondering what stunt the USA are going to pull next.
To anyone with at least two communicating brain cells, this is a very clear provocation. So far, Huawei's response has been totally above reproach, a fact that must infuriate the USA.
I remember a much older issue with Nylon. It doesn't like high voltage, and degrades to a sort of brown fibrous material that is highly inflammable and falls apart at a touch.
So, it was probably not a good idea in the 1960s to use it as the insulator for the TV EHT winding and rectifier support on line output transformers.
P.S. It wasn't usually the wax impregnated ones that caused the fires!
His office in central London decided to remove a safe and take it to a new out of city location. I think this was in the early 1950s. The safe was on the second floor, and changes in internal access routes over the years meant the only way to get it out was by removing a window and hoicking it out with a crane.
This took several hours.
Nobody in the area had been told this was going to happen, yet nobody questioned it