Posts by WonkoTheSane

NASA launches guide to Lunar etiquette now that private operators will share the Moon with governments

Has anyone told Donnie?

That there's no oil on the moon.

Behold: The ghastly, preening, lesser-spotted Incredible Bullsh*tting Customer

Re: There should be an IT Driving Test

That's why I switched to watching Formula E. At least there's overtaking!

Britain has no idea how close it came to ATMs flooding the streets with free money thanks to some crap code, 1970s style

Re: Test, test and test again...

Obligatory:- https://dilbert.com/strip/2017-02-06

A paper clip, a spool of phone wire and a recalcitrant RS-232 line: Going MacGyver in the wonderful world of hotel IT

Re: Proper lash up

Codeless Code is full of BOFH-level wisdom for the ages!

BOFH: Will the last one out switch off the printer?

It was originally pitched by its creator as "The Landlord's Game"

Broken lab equipment led boffins to solve a 58-year-old physics problem by mistake

Pay attention!

When you're in a lab and hear the phrase "Hmm. That's weird..."?

That's when scientific discoveries happen!

Windows 7 goes dual screen to shriek at passersby: Please, just upgrade me or let me die

Re: eh?

"it's only a bootstrap for Steam client and nothing more, no internet, no email ..."

PSA - Steam runs on Linux now, and will play most Windows games with it's Proton library.

BOFH: Gosh, IPv5? Why didn't I think of that? Say, how do you like the new windows in here? Take a look. Closer...

Re: "Extra internets for knowing what a EDM is"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrical_discharge_machining

I heard somebody say: Burn baby, burn – server inferno!

Re: How about a nice long hot summer?

"But isn't the usual estimate about 100W of heat per person?"

Depends how much of the company's product they'd had.

Flat Earther and wannabe astronaut killed in homemade rocket

Round Earth proved rocketeer flat.

See title.

SpaceX's next Starlink volley remains stuck on Earth to glee of astronomers everywhere

SpaceX rescheduled launch

They're now targeting 15:05 GMT today (Monday 17th Feb)

Jeff Bezos: I will depose King Trump

Re: To be honest ...

Kompromat flavor obvs!

Re: To be honest ...

Trump did a PERFECT job of draining the swamp

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INTO his administration!

Re: To be honest ...

A hearing is NOT a trial.

NexDock 2 revisited: Could it be more than a handy Pi hole?

Opportunity missed

Phone should dock in place of (and act as) the trackpad.

EU we go again: Commission takes aim at Qualcomm over 5G antitrust concerns for radio frequency front end chips

Idle speculation

I sometimes wonder if the whole "Huawei R Bad" thing is down to a Qualcomm lobbyist somewhere in Washington DC?

It's been one day since Blighty OK'd Huawei for parts of 5G – and US politicians haven't overreacted at all. Wait, what? Surveillance state commies?

Maybe you should read up on the "Intel Management Engine"

Star wreck: There's a 1 in 20 chance a NASA telescope and US military satellite will smash into each other today

Re: No lineage?

I would suggest you ask the Internet Movie Database (imdb.com) about "Salvage One" starring Andy Griffith,

CityFibre relieves TalkTalk of its FTTP sister biz for £200m – after Boris win blows away Labour's nationalisation vow

FTFY

"The acquisition will increase CityFibre's *plans for* coverage from five million to eight million premises in London."

Fly me to the M(O₂)n: Euro scientists extract oxygen from 'lunar dust' by cooking it with molten salt electrolysis

Re: This has been talked about for years...

"It's a bit like testing if things fall on the moon"

That particular experiment was performed at the end of the Apollo 15 mission.

Big Falcon explosion as SpaceX successfully demos Crew Dragon abort systems

Re: "given that the rocket is lost during the test anyway?"

It was long said that 90% of the Shuttle's payload was pork barrels.

Why is the printer spouting nonsense... and who on earth tried to wire this plug?

Re: 32amp socket....

Some folks are now having them installed in garages or on outside walls of their house, to plug in a "smart" charging lead for their new electric car.

When is an electrical engineer not an engineer? When Arizona's state regulators decide to play word games

Re: Quis...

Paper qualifications needed to be politicians? An extremely large collection of portraits of deceased Presidents.

Beware the trainee with time on his hands and an Acorn manual on his desk

Re: No one has mentioned Elite?

Want to try it again?

Frontier Devlopments (the purveyors of current version "Elite:Dangerous") offer a free download of the original version, together with an emulator called BeebEm.

https://www.frontierstore.net/games/elite-dangerous-cat/elite1984.html

Bose customers beg for firmware ceasefire after headphones fall victim to another crap update

Decisions, decisions...

£260 for Bose QC35 II that don't work?

Or

£50 for Soundcore Q20 Life (by Anker) that do?

I've had it with these motherflipping eggs on this motherflipping train

But NOT in the microwave!

The safest place to save your files is somewhere nobody will ever look

Re: No lineage?

That sounds... Pratchett-y?

2001 fiction set to be science fact? NASA boffin mulls artificial intelligence to watch over the lunar Gateway

Timing is everything

At least they waited until after Judgement Day!

Hey, I wrote this neat little program for you guys called the IMAC User Notification Tool

Next time you're in Sweden, you'll undoubtedly buy a chocolate bar on account of it being labelled Plopp.

Promise of £5bn for rural fibre prompts Openreach to reach for the trench-digging diamond cutter

Re: The specialist kit is capable of installing 700 metres of cabling a day

"we called, you were out, please reschedule..."

Despite the fact you spent all day staring out of the window, waiting for them to show up.

NASA Administrator upends the scorn bucket on Elon Musk's Starship spurtings

Jealous much?

Bridenstine is just thinking of his corporate masters, because unlike ULA/SLS, SpaceX is porkbarrel free.

The D in Systemd is for Directories: Poettering says his creation will phone /home in future

Re: re: Once desktop processing power became sufficient to crack the encryption

Specialization means that academics are learning more and more about less and less.

The end case is that pretty soon, they'll know everything about nothing, and nothing about everything.

Every dog has its day – and this one belongs to Boston Dynamic's four-legged good boy Spot

Adam Savage's new foster pet

I understand from Adam Savage's twitter that he's got one of these for his Tested.com youtube channel for the next year.

Scott McNealy gets touchy feely with Trump: Sun cofounder hosts hush-hush reelection fundraiser for President

Re: Secret Location

Snorting Adderall through a rolled-up copy of the US Constitution?

UK.gov's smart meter cost-benefit analysis for 2019 goes big on cost, easy on the benefits

SMETS2?

SMETS2 are STILL almost impossible to get north of the Watford Gap!

Also, the primary purpose of smart meters is Uber-style "surge pricing".

Justice served: There is no escape from the long server log of the law

Re: Surely...

“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”

― Albert Einstein

Right-click opens up terrifying vistas of reality and Windows 95 user's frightful position therein

Re: pet peeve

Obligatory:- "Which one's the ANY key?"

Re: Similar

> Too early for pint o'clock?

Having seen the queues outside pubs in Cork at 7:30am, I'm going to have to say... no?

Not so easy to make a quick getaway when it takes 3 hours to juice up your motor, eh Brits?

The current stats for "public" chargers are available at Zap Map

Home installs & petrol pump counts are not available anywhere AFAIK.

Cu in Hell: Thousands internetless after copper thieves pinch 500m of cable in Cambridgeshire

A simple (but costly) answer

Install FTTP for all, and make it CLEAR in the press that it's not copper anymore.

Bonus. By removing the copper themselves, Openreach can use the moneys from weighing it all in to offset the cost.

I just love your accent – please, have a new password

Mine keeps trying to send me to Hulme in Manchester.

Electric cars can't cut UK carbon emissions while only the wealthy can afford to own one

There are about 15000 charging stands. Don't know how many petrol pumps.

"Would the EV charging location count as 'one' or 'twelve' and would the petrol station count as 'one' or 'sixteen' in the comparison quoted?"

Both would count as one. Here are the current stats for EV charger locations & actual chargers.

Electric motorcycles are here, but still pricey. Look at This site

Re: Diesel

In one word - Dieselgate

Price:- Falling. The MG ZE EV starts at £21,495 (for the first 2000 orders) for a 160-mile range SUV

Range:- 160-250 miles range is becoming commonplace (see MG/Renault/Peugeot/Vauxhall/VW/Mini/Honda at Frankfurt motor show next month)

Charging stations:- There are now over 1000 more EV charging locations than petrol stations in the UK

Charge time:- As newer chargers & cars become available, charging time decreases.

Re: move mining to the mountains

Not "perpetual motion" - A separate digger is used to load the truck at the top of the hill, so new energy added every trip.

That same study completely ignored the prospecting for, extraction, refining and transport of petrol & diesel.

My MacBook Woe: I got up close and personal with city's snatch'n'dash crooks (aka some bastard stole my laptop)

Business opportunity?

Wonder if there's any mileage in buying up old, dead laptops & turning the shells into covers for shiny new "thin & light" laptops?

Electric vehicles won't help UK meet emissions targets: Time to get out and walk, warn MPs

I'd consider using public transport for commuting

But only if the first bus to work didn't arrive AFTER the last bus home had already left!